Floyd |
Floyd | Yep, it's basically a hell-hole, but it's served you adequately.
Floyd | Looking around you can see blurry reflections of yourself and your
Floyd | surroundings in the familiar mauve and orange metal walls, which are
Floyd | rounded in the corners as is typical of today's "economical" graduate
Floyd | housing.  (As if they offered any other kind.)  The walls are still
Floyd | bare; you'd think after living here for two years you'd have put some
Floyd | posters up.  But there's never much time for aesthetics at Akmi
Floyd | Yooniversity.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your bed (if you can call it that) and the matter mover take up all
Floyd | the available floor space in your pod.  Miscellaneous Stik-Em Nowtz
Floyd | cling to various parts of the furniture and walls, and papers fill any
Floyd | stray gaps, making this den an incredible fire trap.  Good thing you
Floyd | don't really have heating here.  Anyway, if there's a fire you can
Floyd | always bail out through the escape hatch.  Oops -- you've never been
Floyd | able to get it open.  Never mind.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your pod is one of the "Yooniversity Economical Graduate Off-site
Floyd | Dwelling Stations" (YEGODS).  Though the school is actually hundreds
Floyd | of light-years away, matter mover technology makes it possible for
Floyd | them to put housing in the cheapest, remotest, most inhospitable parts
Floyd | of the galaxy -- places like Frost, the iceball of a planet your pod
Floyd | is situated on.
Floyd |
Floyd | On your desk is your EV, and next to that sits the computer you use
Floyd | nearly 37 hours a day.  Or at least you *assume* it's there; you can't
Floyd | really see it.  It's buried under the pile of books that just crashed
Floyd | down in front of you as you hit your head on the shelf above upon
Floyd | reading more of the awful truth about the Unnkulians.  Still rubbing
Floyd | the bruise on your topknot, you pick up all the books and put them
Floyd | back in order.
Floyd |
Floyd | The EV is tuned to Hot Hits 1000, the "newest, coolest, most
Floyd | outrageous" music video station.  Yep, it's pop, 37 hours a day.
Floyd | Right now you see the video for "I Want a Girl with Green Hair and
Floyd | Horns," by Timon Sketch and the Hoi-Polloi.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A full ReVoLT Kola can is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf42" 		

Floyd ]  Your bachelor pod  [Burnt Sienna: Val, Frost]
Floyd | 
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | File to save game in >

		
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" 		genericgeekgirl asks, "Does %SAVE work any differently?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "load legend" 		

Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd | tadsr - A text-only TADS 2.5.10 Interpreter.
Floyd | Copyright (c) 1993, 2006 by Michael J. Roberts.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |    A pattern of bits shifts inside your computer.  New information
Floyd | scrolls up the screen.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It is not good.
Floyd |
Floyd |    As the impact of the discovery settles on your psyche, you recall
Floyd | the preceding events:  your recent enrollment at Akmi Yooniversity;
Floyd | your serendipitous discovery of the joys of Classical Literature -- a
Floyd | nice change of pace from computer hacking; your compuarchaeological
Floyd | discovery of the long-forgotten treasures that will make your thesis
Floyd | one of the most important this decade.  But now that's all a bit moot,
Floyd | isn't it?
Floyd |
Floyd |    How ironic:  You were stunned at how *real* the primitive Unnkulian
Floyd | stories seemed.  Now you know why.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Legend Lives!
Floyd | An Unnkulian Universe Unventure
Floyd | Opus 2, Version 1.1G for Great Underground Adventures CD
Floyd | Copyright (C) 1994, 1996 David M. Baggett
Floyd | All rights reserved.
Floyd | Developed with TADS, the Text Adventure Development System.
Floyd | WorldClass library version 1.3.5.
Floyd |
Floyd | Difficulty Rating (without hints):  Legendary (10 out of 10)
Floyd |
Floyd | Recommended for mature readers only.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    This game is free.  We encourage you to distribute it, but you may
Floyd | not charge any money for it beyond the cost of the media it is stored
Floyd | on.
Floyd |
Floyd |    ADVENTIONS no longer supports this product.  Please do not contact
Floyd | us for hints or to buy games.  The best place to get our games is from
Floyd | the Interactive Fiction Archive on the Internet, site ftp.gmd.de.  The
Floyd | best place to ask for help with our games is the Usenet newsgroup
Floyd | rec.games.int-fiction.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    For instructions, type "instructions".
Floyd |

		
Floyd Read footnotes [1] with the note command; e.g., type "note 1." 		

Floyd |
Floyd |    Use the adaptive hint system by typing "hint".  To toggle hint
Floyd | encrypting, type "encrypt".  The encryption is a simple letter
Floyd | substitution cipher.  Use this option to keep yourself from using too
Floyd | many hints.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Type "credits" for more information about the game.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Your bachelor pod
Floyd |

		
Floyd Ahhhhh. Pod sweet pod! Sure feels good to be back in the ol' 		
Floyd closet-sized capsule again, yes sir. While slaving away on your 		
Floyd master's thesis you've spent many late hours here, sustaining yourself 		
Floyd on naught but Akmi Snak Chipz [2] and ReVoLT Kola. 		

Floyd |
Floyd |    Yep, it's basically a hell-hole, but it's served you adequately.
Floyd | Looking around you can see blurry reflections of yourself and your
Floyd | surroundings in the familiar mauve and orange metal walls, which are
Floyd | rounded in the corners as is typical of today's "economical" graduate
Floyd | housing.  (As if they offered any other kind.)  The walls are still
Floyd | bare; you'd think after living here for two years you'd have put some
Floyd | posters up.  But there's never much time for aesthetics at Akmi
Floyd | Yooniversity.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your bed (if you can call it that) and the matter mover take up all
Floyd | the available floor space in your pod.  Miscellaneous Stik-Em Nowtz
Floyd | cling to various parts of the furniture and walls, and papers fill any
Floyd | stray gaps, making this den an incredible fire trap.  Good thing you
Floyd | don't really have heating here.  Anyway, if there's a fire you can
Floyd | always bail out through the escape hatch.  Oops -- you've never been
Floyd | able to get it open.  Never mind.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your pod is one of the "Yooniversity Economical Graduate Off-site
Floyd | Dwelling Stations" (YEGODS).  Though the school is actually hundreds of
Floyd | light-years away, matter mover technology makes it possible for them to
Floyd | put housing in the cheapest, remotest, most inhospitable parts of the
Floyd | galaxy -- places like Frost, the iceball of a planet your pod is
Floyd | situated on.
Floyd |
Floyd |    On your desk is your EV, and next to that sits the computer you use
Floyd | nearly 37 hours a day.  Or at least you *assume* it's there; you can't
Floyd | really see it.  It's buried under the pile of books that just crashed
Floyd | down in front of you as you hit your head on the shelf above upon
Floyd | reading more of the awful truth about the Unnkulians.  Still rubbing
Floyd | the bruise on your topknot, you pick up all the books and put them back
Floyd | in order.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV is tuned to Hot Hits 1000, the "newest, coolest, most
Floyd | outrageous" music video station.  Yep, it's pop, 37 hours a day.  Right
Floyd | now you see the video for "I Want a Girl with Green Hair and Horns," by
Floyd | Timon Sketch and the Hoi-Polloi.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A full ReVoLT Kola can is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Limax arrives, full of funk, but no fun. 		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh well."
		DavidW says, "I don't know what %save does."
		Limax asks, "Is there a help file on the new commands?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "I think sleepmask came with commands that start with %. And not that I know of."
Limax has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		
Limax arrives, full of fun, but no funk. 		genericgeekgirl says, "Ah. It's a known bug."
		genericgeekgirl says, "April 23. :| tads2 (except saving crashes the terp in tads2)"
		Limax says, "Whoops"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "load legend" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "legend".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, I did that."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf43" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ok."
genericgeekgirl clears the save counter. 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take kola" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x book" 		

Floyd | Most of the textbooks are uninteresting treatises on various aspects of
Floyd | computer science, physics, chemistry, and all the other boring stuff
Floyd | you've taken classes in over the past few years.  Also present,
Floyd | however, are the many tomes of literature you've become so interested
Floyd | in of late.  As you leaf through your first year physics textbook, you
Floyd | find your old color chart.  So that's where that thing was!  You pick
Floyd | it up and take it with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x desk" 		

Floyd |    Your desk is piled with papers and junk food containers.  What would
Floyd | your mother say?
Floyd |
Floyd |    A Zippikraft optical disk drive, your Zippikraft Data Liquidizer
Floyd | 1024/A, an Enterviewer (EV), and a Zippikraft detachable keyboard
Floyd | (attached to your Zippikraft Data Liquidizer 1024/A) are on your desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look under desk" 		

Floyd | Trying to look under your desk doesn't gain you anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open desk" 		

Floyd | Opened.  A qualitative calculator is in your desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ah."
		borowski asks, "Did we try using our disk?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "We did not."
		DavidW says, "not that I saw"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x calculator" 		

Floyd |    Your parents gave you this for your birthday last year.  It's just
Floyd | the sort of thing they'd be absolutely wrong about thinking you'd need.
Floyd | And indeed, you've found no use for it to date.  [3]
Floyd |
Floyd |    It has has 9 buttons:  ZERO, POSITIVE, NEGATIVE, ADD, SUBTRACT,
Floyd | MULTIPLY, DIVIDE, Clear and deClear.  The readout currently shows [[ 0
Floyd | ]].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Neat."
borowski says (to floyd), "note 3" 		

Floyd | [3]: Respects to Walter Hamscher and Carl de Marcken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "I was hoping [3] would be "Until now.""
		Binder says, "what"
		Binder asks, "or, rather, who?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take calculator" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to floyd), "put disk in disk drive" 		

Floyd | Your thesis research floppy disk slides into the Zippikraft optical
Floyd | disk drive with a solid click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x screen" 		

Floyd |    It's a Zippikraft Data Liquidizer 1024/A -- that's the technical
Floyd | term for "one fast machine."  Zippikraft makes the fastest computing
Floyd | hardware in the galaxy using technology no one else has been able to
Floyd | copy yet, despite several years of desperate (and creative) industrial
Floyd | espionage [4].
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your Liquidizer is entirely lime green, the only color Zippikraft
Floyd | computers come in, with a built-in optical disk drive, detachable
Floyd | keyboard and high-resolution HoloScanning monitor.  You don't usually
Floyd | use the 3D video mode in your research since you deal mainly with text,
Floyd | but it's great for impressing guests and convincing your parents that
Floyd | the machine was really worth as much as the rest of your entire college
Floyd | education costs combined.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Liquidizers also come with built-in AkNet transceivers, allowing
Floyd | access to Akmi's galactic network, which now permeates almost all
Floyd | aspects of daily life, from electronic mail to shopping and funds
Floyd | transfers.  You use AkNet to access the many ancient literature
Floyd | archives in the galaxy, particularly those that might have lost works
Floyd | on the mythical Unnkulians.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Mythical...  or so it seemed.  Your Liquidizer's screen is still
Floyd | silently displaying the portentous words "the Unnkulians shall rule
Floyd | again!"
Floyd |
Floyd |    These words, you recall, explain the painful bruise on your head.
Floyd | And why you've got to do everything in your power to stop the virus the
Floyd | Unnkulians have unleashed upon AkNet.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Who'd have thought you'd really find anything of value by searching
Floyd | random records in AkNet's database for "Unnkul," much less the code to
Floyd | a virus that's probably been wending its way through AkNet's bowels for
Floyd | years.  Only the Unnkulians' matchless arrogance and some divine force
Floyd | could have led you to this single black grain of sand in the immense
Floyd | digital beach that is AkNet.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Yes, the Unnkulians' supreme arrogance -- an arrogance that's driven
Floyd | them to broadcast their secret declaration of war with the very
Floyd | instrument their success depends upon -- will (with any luck) prove to
Floyd | be their downfall again, as told so many times in the tales of the
Floyd | ancient Valley King Era battles with these thoroughly evil creatures;
Floyd | legends that you've nearly come to memorize through thousands of
Floyd | readings.
Floyd |
Floyd |    But how to stop the virus?  How can you halt the relentless progress
Floyd | of this robotic self-propagating piece of Unnkulian handiwork, their
Floyd | will and psyche and utter evilness distilled into crisp, razor-sharp
Floyd | digital efficiency?
Floyd |
Floyd |    And what if, as in "Unnkulian Unventure II:  The Secret of Acme,"
Floyd | your most recent compuarchaeological find (and one of only two known
Floyd | examples of Unnkulian literature from the 5th VK Era, both of which are
Floyd | computer-driven interactive literature, and both of which only you will
Floyd | know about until your thesis is published), Akmi is involved?
Floyd | Contacting the main AkNet headquarters might be the worst possible
Floyd | tactic; if Akmi is allied with the Unnkulians again, your spouting off
Floyd | about the virus would be disastrous, and probably fatal.
Floyd |
Floyd |    And what have the Unnkulians been doing all these years?  Where are
Floyd | they now?  And did the world simply forget about them between 2nd VK
Floyd | Era and 5th VK Era [5], or did the Unnkulians destroy every reference
Floyd | to themselves they could find on AkNet in an attempt to rewrite
Floyd | history?
Floyd |
Floyd |    So many questions.  So little time.  And the consequences of failure
Floyd | are great indeed.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Unfortunately, your computer seems to have locked up.  Cycling the
Floyd | power has no effect.  You notice the unfamiliar text
Floyd | "hq.orange.akmi.aknet:  remote access = excomm" at the bottom of the
Floyd | screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh, yeah, the computer is locked up. Forgot that."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take disk" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		vimes says, "indeed, sleepmask's tads2 interpreter crashes when saving, i have no idea why, and it didn't seem like it was likely worth the (potentially huge) effort to track down"
		genericgeekgirl says, "No worries."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I'll try to remember that."
%%% # MARK: 2012-09-18-22:49:07CDT 		mwmiller says, "I guess that's preferable to saves okay but crashes on restore."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah."
		borowski asks, "To Ada's and beyond?"
		vimes says, "if you're playing a lot of tads2 games that would benefit significantly from sleepmask, i'll see what i can do, but..."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, don't worry about it."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "type 2" 		

Floyd | On what?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "type 2 on autodialer" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Ada's pod
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in your true love Ada's pod.  It's quite similar to your
Floyd | own, but isn't nearly as messy.  Ada seems to have gone off and left
Floyd | saving the galaxy to you alone [6].
Floyd |
Floyd |    On the EV, Progressive 52109 is playing the music video for
Floyd | "Tentacled Tyrant," by Going Too Kuwl.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A handwritten note and a paperback book are here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to floyd), "take all" 		

Floyd | handwritten note:  Taken.
Floyd | paperback book:  Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read note" 		

Floyd | It reads:
Floyd |
Floyd |    Gavin --
Floyd |
Floyd |    Studying at the library today.  Don't forget dinner at Grandma's
Floyd | house tomorrow night.  When you go out, please pick up some prune seeds
Floyd | from the Barfee outlet (8549, 4392, 8392) -- you know how Grandma is
Floyd | about her garden.
Floyd |
Floyd |                    Love,
Floyd |                    Ada
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set red to 8549" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 8549.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set green to 4392" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 4392.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set blue to 8392" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 8392.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x autodialer" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the center of the Barfee Outlet, right next to
Floyd | the main matter mover.  Creatures of all races bustle around madly,
Floyd | looking for great deals on seeds.  A huge neon sign right beyond your
Floyd | nose screams, "Welcome to planet Flora, home of Barfee:  your one-stop
Floyd | source for vegetation."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here in the middle of Seed Central there's really nothing but
Floyd | people, and lots of them.  Or make that "creatures."  In any case, from
Floyd | here Barfee looks like a giant open market, with little stands here and
Floyd | there, and patrons and salescreatures arguing loudly over prices.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The northern area of this arena seems to be devoted to vegetable
Floyd | seeds, while the southern area caters to fruit buyers.  To the east is
Floyd | a large warehouse in which they sell various varieties of flowers but
Floyd | the crowd gets really thick in that direction.  Westward you see all
Floyd | kinds of growing supplies.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ok."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf1" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Shall we investigate a bit more and see what we can find out about our prune seeds?"
		borowski says, "sure"
		genericgeekgirl says, "North? Maybe there was some vegetable/fruit confusion."
		DavidW says, "I wonder if another customer has the last packet."
		Binder says, "I'm fading as I sneeze myself unconscious so I'll just go afk."
		borowski asks, "did we try "buy plum seed from hoppins"?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "No, because we tried to save and it crashed."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Shall we?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | Barfee Fruit MegaStore
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Barfee Fruit MegaStore is not quite as crowded as the rest of
Floyd | the outlet, but than again that's not saying much.  Fortunately walking
Floyd | around is easy here, and you can actually breathe, which is a definite
Floyd | plus.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You find a friendly-looking salesperson standing in front of a large
Floyd | bin and approach him.  From the looks of it, he's a Hoppian.  (The big
Floyd | floppy ears give it away.)  The bin is filled with fruit seed packets.
Floyd | Seed Central is north of here.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Is there something I might be able to help you with today?"  the
Floyd | Hoppian inquires, chuckling quietly but in an officious way that makes
Floyd | you feel kind of like you're in a classy jewelery store with nothing
Floyd | but 50% off coupons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "buy plum seeds from hoppian" 		

Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "I don't think we want plum seeds, do we?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x seeds" 		

Floyd | Which seeds do you mean, the packet of blackberry seeds, the packet of
Floyd | blueberry seeds, the packet of boysenberry seeds, the packet of
Floyd | elderberry seeds, the packet of Hoppian gooseberry seeds, the packet of
Floyd | jostaberry seeds, the packet of kiwi seeds, the packet of Floran
Floyd | gowperfruit seeds, the packet of raspberry seeds, the packet of Grandpa
Floyd | Jones apple seeds, the packet of apricot seeds, the packet of Tellian
Floyd | cherry seeds, the packet of peach seeds, the packet of pear seeds, the
Floyd | packet of Todian plum seeds, the packet of persimmon seeds, or the
Floyd | packet of Akmi Dam Joosee Froot seeds?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Yeah, and then explore everything."
		mwmiller pats the bunny. =D
		genericgeekgirl says, "Probably not. But who knows."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "buy plum seeds" 		

Floyd | Please specify who you want to pay for the packet of Todian plum seeds.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Sensing your apparent awkwardness, the Hoppian behind the bin asks
Floyd | if you're a newcomer to the seed industry.  You reply that your
Floyd | girlfriend sent you to pick something up for her.  He gives you a look
Floyd | that seems to say, "Ah yes, of course.  That explains it.  Poor sap."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hence the save."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pay hoppian" 		

Floyd | The Hoppian smiles broadly as he takes the Galacticard.  "Credit;" he
Floyd | chimes, "very well, Sir," and disappears into the throng for a moment.
Floyd | He returns with an expression that seems to indicate that he's just
Floyd | gotten a whiff of something very unpleasant, and informs you that your
Floyd | card has been declined.  Gosh, I wonder what's happened to your credit
Floyd | rating?
Floyd |
Floyd |    Sunlight dances off the Hoppian's whiskers as he wiggles his nose.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Dun dun dun."
		borowski says, ">BRIBE HOPPIAN WITH CARROT"
		mwmiller says, "Mountains of student debt and no way to declare bankruptcy, no doubt."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x card" 		

Floyd | Everyone has a Galacticard; it's essential for everything from checking
Floyd | out library books to buying a new house.  The shiny holographic stamp
Floyd | on the card not only prevents counterfeiting, but stores a few
Floyd | megabytes of data about you as well [8].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Hoppian salesman waits until he thinks you're not looking, then
Floyd | straightens his bowtie and pulls back his ears, which, to his
Floyd | consternation, plop right back down into their usual cockeyed
Floyd | configuration.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "At least we keep the card."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stamp" 		

Floyd | The shiny holographic stamp on the card not only prevents
Floyd | counterfeiting, but stores a few megabytes of data about you as well
Floyd | [8].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Hoppian informs you that the Grandpa Jones apples are a new
Floyd | strain, genetically engineered by Barfee scientists only this year.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hoppian about card" 		

Floyd |    "I'm afraid I don't know terribly much about that, friend," the
Floyd | Hoppian salesman says apologetically.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Sunlight dances off the Hoppian's whiskers as he wiggles his nose.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hoppian about himself" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "himself".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hoppian about barfee" 		

Floyd | Which barfee do you mean, the packet of Foonian eggplant seeds, the
Floyd | packet of blackberry seeds, the packet of blueberry seeds, the packet
Floyd | of boysenberry seeds, the packet of elderberry seeds, the packet of
Floyd | Hoppian gooseberry seeds, the packet of jostaberry seeds, the packet of
Floyd | kiwi seeds, the packet of Floran gowperfruit seeds, the packet of
Floyd | raspberry seeds, the packet of Grandpa Jones apple seeds, the packet of
Floyd | apricot seeds, the packet of Tellian cherry seeds, the packet of peach
Floyd | seeds, the packet of pear seeds, the packet of Todian plum seeds, the
Floyd | packet of persimmon seeds, the packet of Akmi Dam Joosee Froot seeds,
Floyd | or the packet of prune seeds?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask hoppian about hoppian" 		

Floyd |    "I'm afraid I don't know terribly much about that, friend," the
Floyd | Hoppian salesman says apologetically.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "You'll notice, Sir, that we have quite a wide selection," the
Floyd | Hoppian says, gracefully running a paw over the rim of the bin.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bin" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary Barfee fruit seed bin.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Hoppian sighs gently, looks in a random direction, and then down
Floyd | at a wristwatch strapped to his left paw.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "*Now* we have prune seeds? Oooookay."
		genericgeekgirl says, "No, he's all out."
		genericgeekgirl says, "We can *ask* about them, though."
		DavidW says, "It's added to the list for asking."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Barfee Fruit MegaStore
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Barfee Fruit MegaStore is not quite as crowded as the rest of
Floyd | the outlet, but than again that's not saying much.  Fortunately walking
Floyd | around is easy here, and you can actually breathe, which is a definite
Floyd | plus.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in front of the friendly Hoppian's bin.  The bin is
Floyd | filled with fruit seed packets.  Seed Central is north of here.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The tall and dapper Hoppian salesman tends to the bin in front of
Floyd | you.  He nods politely as you look at him.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Hoppian sighs gently, looks in a random direction, and then down
Floyd | at a wristwatch strapped to his left paw.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look under bin" 		

Floyd | Trying to look under the Barfee fruit seed bin doesn't gain you
Floyd | anything.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Hoppian sighs gently, looks in a random direction, and then down
Floyd | at a wristwatch strapped to his left paw.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Explore?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wristwatch" 		

Floyd | It's looks like an expensive one.  That's all you can tell.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Hoppian informs you that the Grandpa Jones apples are a new
Floyd | strain, genetically engineered by Barfee scientists only this year.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x apple seeds" 		

Floyd | It's a small packet of seeds produced by Barfee, the galaxy's leading
Floyd | fruit and vegetable seed vendor.  The package reads "Barfee Grandpa
Floyd | Jones apple seeds:  All seeds and no weeds, Barfee meets your needs in
Floyd | feeds.  Visit the Barfee Outlet:  (8549, 4392, 8392)."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Sunlight dances off the Hoppian's whiskers as he wiggles his nose.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Wait, where did the prune seeds come from?"
		borowski says, "Yeah, let's explore."
		DavidW says, "Disambiguation"
		borowski says, "ah"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the center of the Barfee Outlet, right next to
Floyd | the main matter mover.  Creatures of all races bustle around madly,
Floyd | looking for great deals on seeds.  A huge neon sign right beyond your
Floyd | nose screams, "Welcome to planet Flora, home of Barfee:  your one-stop
Floyd | source for vegetation."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here in the middle of Seed Central there's really nothing but
Floyd | people, and lots of them.  Or make that "creatures."  In any case, from
Floyd | here Barfee looks like a giant open market, with little stands here and
Floyd | there, and patrons and salescreatures arguing loudly over prices.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The northern area of this arena seems to be devoted to vegetable
Floyd | seeds, while the southern area caters to fruit buyers.  To the east is
Floyd | a large warehouse in which they sell various varieties of flowers but
Floyd | the crowd gets really thick in that direction.  Westward you see all
Floyd | kinds of growing supplies.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Pick a direction?"
borowski says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Barfee Vegetable MegaStore
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in the Barfee Vegetable MegaStore, standing in front of a
Floyd | large bin filled with seed packets.  There are so many shoppers here
Floyd | that this is really the only place you can get to the goods -- it's
Floyd | that crowded.  Seed Central is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A matronly Foonian salescreature watches you expectantly from behind
Floyd | the bin.  She seems eager to engage you in conversation.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Foonian gives you a wink and says, "Hawve Au taled yee ebait mau
Floyd | daghter yut, Senny?  Shu's working an theh farm bawk an Feen, yee knai,
Floyd | graying uggplawnts.  Shu's eh faun wen, mau Kessawndreh."  She gives
Floyd | you a little nudge with her elbow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "We need a cardinal direction dice."
		mwmiller says, "That accent is painful."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x foonian" 		

Floyd |    From her green skin and red and silver hair it's obvious she is a
Floyd | native of Foon, a farming planet in your home system of Val [9].  She's
Floyd | quite wide around the beam, but in a pleasant way that makes her seem
Floyd | to be perpetually chuckling.  At the moment you are her only customer;
Floyd | her stand is an island of bare space in the midst of a thick throng of
Floyd | creatures bearing in on all sides.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The matronly saleswoman looks up from her seeds and eagerly
Floyd | implores, "Yee mest visit mau daghter, Senny, shu's quaute eh girl
Floyd | thawt wen.  If yee want her nember, jest awsk; yee look lauk eh faun
Floyd | ooneff bayu -- hawndsem awnd vury learnud Au'll but."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to floyd), "x foonian" 		

Floyd |    From her green skin and red and silver hair it's obvious she is a
Floyd | native of Foon, a farming planet in your home system of Val [9].  She's
Floyd | quite wide around the beam, but in a pleasant way that makes her seem
Floyd | to be perpetually chuckling.  At the moment you are her only customer;
Floyd | her stand is an island of bare space in the midst of a thick throng of
Floyd | creatures bearing in on all sides.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Mau Kessawndreh wen eh contust jest thu ethur dowu," the hefty
Floyd | Foonian proclaims loudly, "fare graying theh larjust uggplawnt in all
Floyd | ev Feen.  Theh uggs ware this big araind awnd made en ahfeel towstu
Floyd | omlutte!"  She makes a gesture with her hands that suggests something
Floyd | about 8 inches across.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask for daughter's number" 		

Floyd | (the matronly old salescreature)
Floyd |    She hands you a scrap of paper.  "If yee wawnt tee knai ebait her,
Floyd | whau not pou her eh visit?  Jest yeese this nember awnd yee'll bu
Floyd | raught noor theh farm. Au'll lut her knai you're kemming!," the old
Floyd | woman says gleefully.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 2 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    "So, bayu," the saleswoman mentions, "if yee dayn't maund mu
Floyd | awsking, are yee frem Tade?  Au that Au keed tull frem yair
Floyd | mawnnerisms, thawt's al.  Yee maught oovun so yee look lauk wen ev theh
Floyd | Vawllu Kings -- fawnsu thet!  Dayn't seppase yair rulotud?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hee."
		borowski says, "ha!"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "note 9" 		

Floyd | [9]: Foon has a reputation for being a bit -- how to put this?  --
Floyd | backwater.  Neither the advent of miraculous new technology nor the
Floyd | formation of the Republic has changed the Foonians' simple way of life
Floyd | one bit.  They provide much of the food for Tode, Tel, Hop, and Kuwl,
Floyd | however, and as such are appreciated in the Val system even though
Floyd | they're considered frighteningly rural by today's standards.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Cawn Au intrust yee in sem soods teedowu, mau bayu?"  the
Floyd | saleswoman asks eagerly, motioning broadly at the packages in the bin.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to floyd), "x seeds" 		

Floyd | Which seeds do you mean, the packet of asparagus seeds, the packet of
Floyd | Todian bush bean seeds, the packet of Tellian pole bean seeds, the
Floyd | packet of soybean seeds, the packet of broccoli seeds, the packet of
Floyd | hawper sprouts seeds, the packet of cabbage seeds, the packet of Ten
Floyd | Foo seeds, the packet of cantaloupe seeds, the packet of carrot seeds,
Floyd | the packet of celery seeds, the packet of Tellian corn seeds, the
Floyd | packet of Hoppian black corn seeds, the packet of Foonian eggplant
Floyd | seeds, the packet of Todian eggplant seeds, the packet of tricolor corn
Floyd | seeds, the packet of cucumber seeds, the packet of endive seeds, the
Floyd | packet of Floran textured lettuce seeds, the packet of Alduvian pink
Floyd | lettuce seeds, the packet of Tellian lettuce seeds, the packet of onion
Floyd | seeds, the packet of pea seeds, the packet of peanut seeds, the packet
Floyd | of radish seeds, the packet of spinach seeds, the packet of strawberry
Floyd | seeds, the packet of yellow tomato seeds, the packet of blue tomato
Floyd | seeds, or the packet of watermelon seeds?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-09-18-23:04:07CDT 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask about prune seeds" 		

Floyd | (the matronly old salescreature)
Floyd |    "Thawt's a good stroun.  A good bau, Au tull yee," she proclaims
Floyd | enthusiastically.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Hawve Au taled yee ebait mau daghter Kessawndre's uggplawnt shu wen
Floyd | theh graying contust with?  Thue uggs were jest dropping aff thawt
Floyd | thing -- wu hawd ooneff uggs tee lawst eh menth!," the woman laughs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to floyd), "x paper" 		

Floyd | Written in barely-legible script is "Cassandra:  Elwood Farm (3921,
Floyd | 5840, 9278) (Just up road from mover.)"
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Foonian gives you a wink and says, "Hawve Au taled yee ebait mau
Floyd | daghter yut, Senny?  Shu's working an theh farm bawk an Feen, yee knai,
Floyd | graying uggplawnts.  Shu's eh faun wen, mau Kessawndreh."  She gives
Floyd | you a little nudge with her elbow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, right. That kind of number."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "accent off" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "accent".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to floyd), "wink, wink" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "wink".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Limax walks slowly out of the room and into the sunset. 		mwmiller says, "Light greenish blue. Okay."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask foonian about eggplants" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "eggplants".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask foonian about eggplant" 		

Floyd | You don't know what that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask foonian about eggplant seeds" 		

Floyd | Which eggplant seeds do you mean, the packet of Foonian eggplant seeds,
Floyd | or the packet of Todian eggplant seeds?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask foonian about foonian eggplant seeds" 		

Floyd |    "This big araind!"  she exclaims.  "What un euggplawnt thawt wez."
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Foonian gives you a wink and says, "Hawve Au taled yee ebait mau
Floyd | daghter yut, Senny?  Shu's working an theh farm bawk an Feen, yee knai,
Floyd | graying uggplawnts.  Shu's eh faun wen, mau Kessawndreh."  She gives
Floyd | you a little nudge with her elbow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to floyd), "ask foonian about uggplawnts" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "uggplawnts".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask foonian about todian eggplant seeds" 		

Floyd |    "Thawt's a good stroun.  A good bau, Au tull yee," she proclaims
Floyd | enthusiastically.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Mau Kessawndreh wen eh contust jest thu ethur dowu," the hefty
Floyd | Foonian proclaims loudly, "fare graying theh larjust uggplawnt in all
Floyd | ev Feen.  Theh uggs ware this big araind awnd made en ahfeel towstu
Floyd | omlutte!"  She makes a gesture with her hands that suggests something
Floyd | about 8 inches across.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "More explorin'?"
		DavidW says, "I'm not sure what else to do here; yes, let's explore"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "East?"
		DavidW says, "Too crowded, but try"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You fight your way through the thick throng and, gasping for breath,
Floyd | arrive at the...
Floyd |
Floyd | Barfee Flower Warehouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing at the entrance to the Barfee flower warehouse.
Floyd | You see Barfee employees giving away plastic daisies inside the
Floyd | warehouse -- perhaps that's why it's so crowded here.  The fact is that
Floyd | you couldn't fall down here if you tried -- you're crammed in like an
Floyd | olive in a bottle with all the rest of the would-be plastic daisy
Floyd | owners.  Actually getting inside the warehouse looks absolutely
Floyd | impossible.  Not only that, but you suspect that you'd be crushed to
Floyd | death even if you made it in.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The warehouse itself is nondescript; it's just a big, long, gray
Floyd | building, about 100 feet tall.  Come to think of it, it looks a lot
Floyd | like a hangar; perhaps in days past it housed starships or
Floyd | intraplanetary craft [10].  You can't help wondering how flowers could
Floyd | possibly take up so much space.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The only obvious way to travel is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "fall down" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "fall".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "It speaks the truth."
borowski says (to floyd), "note 10" 		

Floyd | [10]: Barfee's main distribution center is located on the opposite side
Floyd | of planet Flora.  The outlet you're currently in is mainly for
Floyd | noncommercial buyers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to floyd), "x warehouse" 		

Floyd |    The warehouse itself is nondescript; it's just a big, long, gray
Floyd | building, about 100 feet tall.  Come to think of it, it looks a lot
Floyd | like a hangar; perhaps in days past it housed starships or
Floyd | intraplanetary craft [10].  You can't help wondering how flowers could
Floyd | possibly take up so much space.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x daisies" 		

Floyd | They look like cheap plastic flowers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | No chance.  You can't even see into the warehouse, much less move into
Floyd | it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You hear a faint mechanical hissing sound in the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd | Distant craft is making a mechanical hissing sound.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You hear a mechanical hissing sound coming from somewhere above you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to floyd), "look up" 		

Floyd | I don't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Having been to the Netherlands, I understand how flowers can take up so much space."
		DavidW says, "hm. I've heard stories."
borowski says (to floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    You hear a steadily loudening hissing sound.  It seems to be coming
Floyd | from a dot-sized craft on the horizon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Eep?"
		DavidW says, "I dunno."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Shall we check out east?"
		DavidW asks, "You mean west?"
		borowski says, "Yeah, let's go w,w"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yes, that."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Barfee Garden Supply Depot
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing inside the supply depot, a small white building
Floyd | with buyers swarming all around inside it.  Though there's a lot of
Floyd | activity here, it's surely the least crowded section of the Barfee
Floyd | outlet.  Oddly enough, there don't seem to be many salescreatures
Floyd | around -- you can't get anyone's attention.  Fortunately there's a
Floyd | vending machine of some kind right in front of you.  The vending
Floyd | machine is about twice your height, emerald green, and cylindrical.  A
Floyd | giant red Barfee logo climbs up the machine in a wide spiral.  There is
Floyd | a slot for Galacticards in the side and a keypad next to the slot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x machine" 		

Floyd |    The vending machine is about twice your height, emerald green, and
Floyd | cylindrical.  A giant red Barfee logo climbs up the machine in a wide
Floyd | spiral.  There is a slot for Galacticards in the side and a keypad next
Floyd | to the slot.
Floyd |

		
Floyd The vending unit is filled with all sorts of gardening products. A 		
Floyd Barfee SquirtBulb (tm), a Barfee SeedSticker Sower (tm), a Barfee 		
Floyd germination and culture guide, a Barfee soil heater, a pair of Barfee 		
Floyd infrared goggles, a Barfee Pocket pH Pal (tm), a Barfee fertilyzer 		
Floyd (tm), and a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro [11] are in the Barfee 		

Floyd | vending machine.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The machine looks a bit unstable.  I wouldn't get too close if I
Floyd | were you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf2" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put card in slot" 		

Floyd | You stick the card in the slot.  Seconds later the machine makes a loud
Floyd | buzzing sound and ejects your card.  You retrieve it from the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl pouts.
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kick machine" 		

Floyd | You boot the machine roundly, much to the astonishment of several
Floyd | onlookers.  The vending tower beings to wobble a bit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to floyd), "tip machine" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "tip".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "kick machine" 		

Floyd | Undeterred, you give the machine one more swift kick in the coin slot.
Floyd | It's really rocking back and forth now.  Nearby customers are starting
Floyd | to flee in terror.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hit keypad" 		

Floyd | Which keypad do you mean, the vending machine keypad, or the autodialer
Floyd | keypad?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "vending" 		

Floyd | There's no reason to get huffy!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl snrk.
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kick machine" 		

Floyd | In a dramatic display of poise, agility, and apparent insanity, you
Floyd | execute a flying sidekick into the Barfee vending machine, sending it
Floyd | and you hurtling to the ground with a tremendous crash.  The Barfee
Floyd | patron you nearly crushed to death looks a bit peeved, but other than
Floyd | that your spectacular theatrics seem to have gone largely unnoticed.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to floyd), "x machine" 		

Floyd |    It's lying on its side pitifully.  One of the compartments is
Floyd | smashed open.  A giant red Barfee logo slides across the machine in a
Floyd | wide spiral.
Floyd |

		
Floyd The toppled vending unit is filled with all sorts of gardening 		
Floyd products. A Barfee SquirtBulb (tm), a Barfee SeedSticker Sower (tm), a 		
Floyd Barfee germination and culture guide, a Barfee soil heater, a pair of 		
Floyd Barfee infrared goggles, a Barfee Pocket pH Pal (tm), a Barfee 		
Floyd fertilyzer (tm), and a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro [11] are in the 		

Floyd | Barfee vending machine.
Floyd |

		
Floyd The glass guarding the compartment containing the can of Akmi Soopur 		
Floyd Wundur Gro [11] has shattered. 		

Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take gro" 		

Floyd | You carefully reach into the now-open compartment and snatch the can of
Floyd | Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro [11].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "yay?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "note 11" 		

Floyd | [11]: Barfee does make their own plant growth enhancers, and Akmi's
Floyd | products are known to be quite inferior to Barfee's.  Perhaps this got
Floyd | into the vending machine by mistake.  On the other hand, it might the
Floyd | result of some unspoken agreement between Akmi and Barfee higher-ups.
Floyd | It's hard to say no to Akmi since they control half the galaxy's
Floyd | assets.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), " x gro" 		

Floyd | The can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro is bright orange, with mauve
Floyd | lettering.  Considering it's an Akmi product, the mauve if pretty
Floyd | subdued -- you can barely read it.  The label says, "Akmi Soopur Wundur
Floyd | Gro:  Por on a dahb and watch yur plantz gro layk nevur befor!
Floyd | Garanteed sayf by Akmi Resurch Labz.  Werks grate on petz to!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x gro" 		

Floyd | The can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro is bright orange, with mauve
Floyd | lettering.  Considering it's an Akmi product, the mauve if pretty
Floyd | subdued -- you can barely read it.  The label says, "Akmi Soopur Wundur
Floyd | Gro:  Por on a dahb and watch yur plantz gro layk nevur befor!
Floyd | Garanteed sayf by Akmi Resurch Labz.  Werks grate on petz to!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, sorry."
		DavidW says, "It works on pets as well? my my."
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borowski says (to floyd), "x logo" 		

Floyd | It's just the word "Barfee" in very stylized letters.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "So what next? Visit the delightful Cassandra on Elwood Farm?"
		borowski says, "I wonder what that incoming aircraft was about."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I suppose we'll find out."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x paper" 		

Floyd | Written in barely-legible script is "Cassandra:  Elwood Farm (3921,
Floyd | 5840, 9278) (Just up road from mover.)"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "Elwood? And the other seller is a gfiant rabbit? Hmmmm..."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set red to 3921" 		

Floyd | You can't turn the red Barfee logo to anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set green to 5840" 		

Floyd | You can't turn the Barfee vending machine to anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oops"
		borowski says (to mwmiller), "heh"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x mover" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm. The most pleasant possibility for the aircraft is if it trailed a message in the sky after it."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set red to 3921" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 3921.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set green to 5840" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 5840.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller exclaims, "Giant, even. The typos are rubbing off on me!"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set blue to 9278" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 9278.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Maybe. Should we go east and wait around a bit?"
		borowski says, "I wouldn't mind seeing what happens."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf3" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "It's also possible the Borg are attacking."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah. That's what I'd thought."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You fight your way through the thick throng and, gasping for breath,
Floyd | arrive at the...
Floyd |
Floyd | Barfee Flower Warehouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is making a mechanical hissing sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Barfee Flower Warehouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing at the entrance to the Barfee flower warehouse.
Floyd | You see Barfee employees giving away plastic daisies inside the
Floyd | warehouse -- perhaps that's why it's so crowded here.  The fact is that
Floyd | you couldn't fall down here if you tried -- you're crammed in like an
Floyd | olive in a bottle with all the rest of the would-be plastic daisy
Floyd | owners.  Actually getting inside the warehouse looks absolutely
Floyd | impossible.  Not only that, but you suspect that you'd be crushed to
Floyd | death even if you made it in.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The warehouse itself is nondescript; it's just a big, long, gray
Floyd | building, about 100 feet tall.  Come to think of it, it looks a lot
Floyd | like a hangar; perhaps in days past it housed starships or
Floyd | intraplanetary craft [10].  You can't help wondering how flowers could
Floyd | possibly take up so much space.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The only obvious way to travel is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is making a mechanical hissing sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd | Distant craft is making a mechanical hissing sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd | Distant craft is making a mechanical hissing sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl rolls her eyes. Lame.
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x craft" 		

Floyd | It's too small for you to make out any features.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You hear a faint mechanical hissing sound in the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd | Distant craft is making a mechanical hissing sound.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You hear a mechanical hissing sound coming from somewhere above you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x craft" 		

Floyd | It's too small for you to make out any features.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You hear a steadily loudening hissing sound.  It seems to be coming
Floyd | from a dot-sized craft on the horizon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x craft" 		

Floyd | It's too small for you to make out any features.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A distant intraplanetary craft of some kind hurtles towards you,
Floyd | accompanied by a rushing sound reminiscent of the sea.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x craft" 		

Floyd | It's a fairly small craft -- the sort you'd expect would be used for
Floyd | short distance transport missions.  It's completely black except for
Floyd | the bright green letters on the side that read "Barfee Advanced
Floyd | Research Foundation."
Floyd |
Floyd |    A small intraplanetary vehicle decelerates noticeably as it
Floyd | approaches the Barfee flower warehouse.  The violent sound dissipates
Floyd | as the craft slows.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x craft" 		

Floyd | It's a fairly small craft -- the sort you'd expect would be used for
Floyd | short distance transport missions.  It's completely black except for
Floyd | the bright green letters on the side that read "Barfee Advanced
Floyd | Research Foundation."
Floyd |
Floyd |    A small intraplanetary vehicle hovers overhead as it attempts to
Floyd | negotiate a landing on top of the warehouse.  The jet black craft
Floyd | prominently features the words "Barfee Advanced Research Foundation" in
Floyd | large green letters on its side.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Looking more closely, you notice that two individuals roughly your
Floyd | size are guiding the ship in to a touchdown on the rooftop a hundred
Floyd | feet above.  They look like the second stringers, hardly confident of
Floyd | their guidance, and surely afraid of being crushed.  The fact that
Floyd | their vests are emblazoned with the word "Trainee" doesn't exactly fill
Floyd | you with confidence.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The two initiates are waving their arms around frantically; this is
Floyd | made all the more obvious by the intergalactic orange sticks they're
Floyd | holding in their hands.  The pilot of the ship periodically pokes his
Floyd | head out the window and looks to the ground, perhaps hoping against
Floyd | hope that some more competent help will show up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, ""flower warehouse""
		genericgeekgirl holds up. It's getting more detailed.
inky says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a crumpled scrap of paper, a
Floyd | paperback book, a handwritten note, your thesis research floppy disk, a
Floyd | qualitative calculator, an RGB color chart, a full ReVoLT Kola can, a
Floyd | Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A small intraplanetary vehicle hovers overhead as it attempts to
Floyd | negotiate a landing on top of the warehouse.  The jet black craft
Floyd | prominently features the words "Barfee Advanced Research Foundation" in
Floyd | large green letters on its side.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Looking more closely, you notice that two individuals roughly your
Floyd | size are guiding the ship in to a touchdown on the rooftop a hundred
Floyd | feet above.  They look like the second stringers, hardly confident of
Floyd | their guidance, and surely afraid of being crushed.  The fact that
Floyd | their vests are emblazoned with the word "Trainee" doesn't exactly fill
Floyd | you with confidence.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The two initiates are waving their arms around frantically; this is
Floyd | made all the more obvious by the intergalactic orange sticks they're
Floyd | holding in their hands.  The pilot of the ship periodically pokes his
Floyd | head out the window and looks to the ground, perhaps hoping against
Floyd | hope that some more competent help will show up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "x gro" 		

Floyd | The can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro is bright orange, with mauve
Floyd | lettering.  Considering it's an Akmi product, the mauve if pretty
Floyd | subdued -- you can barely read it.  The label says, "Akmi Soopur Wundur
Floyd | Gro:  Por on a dahb and watch yur plantz gro layk nevur befor!
Floyd | Garanteed sayf by Akmi Resurch Labz.  Werks grate on petz to!"
Floyd |
Floyd |    A small intraplanetary vehicle hovers overhead as it attempts to
Floyd | negotiate a landing on top of the warehouse.  The jet black craft
Floyd | prominently features the words "Barfee Advanced Research Foundation" in
Floyd | large green letters on its side.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Looking more closely, you notice that two individuals roughly your
Floyd | size are guiding the ship in to a touchdown on the rooftop a hundred
Floyd | feet above.  They look like the second stringers, hardly confident of
Floyd | their guidance, and surely afraid of being crushed.  The fact that
Floyd | their vests are emblazoned with the word "Trainee" doesn't exactly fill
Floyd | you with confidence.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The two initiates are waving their arms around frantically; this is
Floyd | made all the more obvious by the intergalactic orange sticks they're
Floyd | holding in their hands.  The pilot of the ship periodically pokes his
Floyd | head out the window and looks to the ground, perhaps hoping against
Floyd | hope that some more competent help will show up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "wave gro" 		

Floyd |    You flail your hands frantically as the ship's pilot looks around
Floyd | for a safer landing spot.  He evidently mistakes the orange can in your
Floyd | hand for a landing guide, because he starts lowering the ship right
Floyd | towards you!  Hoping to look as official as possible, you solemnly
Floyd | direct the craft to a comfortable landing right outside the flower
Floyd | warehouse, much to the amazement of the nearby patrons, who scatter out
Floyd | of the way at the last minute to avoid being crushed.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 4 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    A skinny fellow in a white labcoat soon emerges from the ship and
Floyd | rushes over to you.  "Hornweiler, where in Val have you been?  We've
Floyd | been looking for you for weeks!  I suppose you think you can just go
Floyd | off on vacation and not come back for a month?  We had a Crog of a time
Floyd | getting those damn formulas of yours deciphered -- why don't you just
Floyd | use a computer like everyone else; no one but you can read your bird
Floyd | scratch!"  The researcher pauses for a moment, eyeing you with a chary,
Floyd | almost cold stare.  Perhaps he's not sure you're who he thinks you are.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Realizing what this could mean, you start to panic, babbling in the
Floyd | process: "Well actually, I, ah, well, that is to say, there's been a
Floyd | bit of a mis-"
Floyd |
Floyd |    "I don't believe this," he snarls, turning to the pilot, who has
Floyd | joined the two of you outside the ship.  "Hornweiler's got a can of
Floyd | Akmi Wundur Gro!  What's the big idea, Hornweiler?"
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Well, I uh, I mean it's just a," you improvise badly.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Crog, Hornweiler, you were gonna put that in my prototype growth
Floyd | mix, weren't you?  You underhanded dirtbag!"  There is a tense silence.
Floyd | The pilot looks more than a bit puzzled.  You hold your breath, fearing
Floyd | that even the slightest twitch will set the bespectacled researcher
Floyd | off.  Suddenly, he erupts:  "I missed you, Hornweiler," he exclaims
Floyd | tearfully, hugging you hard and patting you on the back.  "The lab just
Floyd | hasn't been the same without you, you old huckster."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Don't blow it now, Gavin," you think to yourself.  "Well it sure
Floyd | feels good to be back, buddy," you say with as much feeling as you can
Floyd | muster.  "What's the latest news?"
Floyd |
Floyd |    He chortles.  "Now don't try to suck up by calling me by my first
Floyd | name.  You're still in deep with the boss, and there's nothing I can do
Floyd | about that," Buddy taunts, elbowing you.  "Better save it for 'Hakkar
Floyd | the Horrible.'"
Floyd |
Floyd |    You get the idea that Hakkar's the boss.
Floyd |
Floyd |    With your reunion (or, in your case, greeting) completed, you and
Floyd | Buddy chat about the lab and the latest research findings; you realize
Floyd | the irony of your prediction that you'd never use anything you learned
Floyd | in your botany class again.  The pilot reminds you that he has a
Floyd | schedule to keep and that you could catch up on old times just as well
Floyd | elsewhere.  Taking the hint, the two of you climb back in the small
Floyd | craft, which then taxies through the thick crowd of onlookers and
Floyd | around to the rear of the warehouse.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The back of the hangar-sized structure is blocked off; some cleverly
Floyd | positioned foliage prevents customers in the front from noticing either
Floyd | the high barbed-wire fence or the guard station you are waved through
Floyd | on the way to your eventual stopping point in front of a giant metal
Floyd | door in the center of the rear wall.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Trying to look as natural as possible, you match Buddy's actions
Floyd | closely, paying rapt attention in case you're questioned later.  He
Floyd | places his hand on the keypad next to the door, and as he punches in
Floyd | the entrance code, you strain your eyes in an effort to burn every
Floyd | number into your already taxed neural network:  23, 46, 69, 812 ...  Oh
Floyd | no, you've missed the last number!  Hope you don't need it later...
Floyd |
Floyd |    Buddy leads the way through the door as the pilot bids the two of
Floyd | you farewell, grumbling to himself about being late for the next run.
Floyd | "I'll meet you in the lab after you check in with Hakkar," Buddy says
Floyd | gleefully.  "Have fun," he chuckles as he trots off ahead of you into
Floyd | the laboratory down the hall, sealing the door behind him.  At least he
Floyd | means well.
Floyd |
Floyd | Barfee Research Area Entrance
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in an empty hall with metal walls, ceiling, and
Floyd | floor.  Behind you, to the south, is the vault door that leads to the
Floyd | outside; it does not appear to open from the inside.  Right in front of
Floyd | you, farther down the hall, is a smaller but equally durable-looking
Floyd | door with a sign on it that reads "Barfee Research Central."  There is
Floyd | another room to the west, and to the east is what you assume to be the
Floyd | check-in area; you suspect that's where the boss is; this suspicion is
Floyd | partly affirmed by the growling and cursing emanating from within.
Floyd | "Hakkar the Horrible" is in full form.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Sweet."
		DavidW says, "wow"
borowski says (to floyd), "score" 		

Floyd | In 87 turns, you have earned 9 points out of a possible 75.
Floyd | You have completed approximately 15 percent of the game.
Floyd | You haven't used any hints.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
mwmiller goes home. 		DavidW says, "well, I'm impressed."
		DavidW says, "I have no idea how we'll handle Hakkar, but I suppose we'll think of something."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd | You don't hear anything unusual.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
inky says (to Floyd), "cf4" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "> Run away."
		borowski says, "Yeah, we seem like the clever type"
		DavidW says, "I think our choices are west or east."
		DavidW says, "(for now)"
inky says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Featureless Cubicle
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's clear from the size and lack of decor that this room was built
Floyd | specifically to house the matter mover that fills it.  The hallway is
Floyd | to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The matter mover here is a bit unusual -- it has a button on it,
Floyd | next to a light.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "x button" 		

Floyd | Which button do you mean, the button, the Clear button, the Clear
Floyd | button, the ZERO button, the POSITIVE button, the NEGATIVE button, the
Floyd | ADD button, the SUBTRACT button, the MULTIPLY button, or the DIVIDE
Floyd | button?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "any" 		

Floyd | button:  It looks like an ordinary button.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "mover button" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "x mover button" 		

Floyd | I don't see any mover button here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "x light" 		

Floyd | The light is currently red.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | A polite female voice informs you, "Loop-back test passed; verification
Floyd | code 931R.  No errors detected."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mover" 		

Floyd | This matter mover is a bit different from others you've seen -- it has
Floyd | a button and a light on it.  The light is currently red.
Floyd |
Floyd | The address plate on the machine reads:
Floyd |
Floyd |    8549, 4392, 8393 -- colorspace Orchid
Floyd |    *** Leave in accepting mode only for open house day ***
Floyd |
Floyd | Current dial settings:  (0, 0, 0)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "push button" 		

Floyd | Which button do you mean, the button, the Clear button, the Clear
Floyd | button, the ZERO button, the POSITIVE button, the NEGATIVE button, the
Floyd | ADD button, the SUBTRACT button, the MULTIPLY button, or the DIVIDE
Floyd | button?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "any" 		

Floyd | button:  Click.  The light changes color.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to floyd), "x light" 		

Floyd | The light is currently green.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-09-18-23:34:07CDT 		
borowski says (to floyd), "x mover" 		

Floyd | This matter mover is a bit different from others you've seen -- it has
Floyd | a button and a light on it.  The light is currently green.
Floyd |
Floyd | The address plate on the machine reads:
Floyd |
Floyd |    8549, 4392, 8393 -- colorspace Orchid
Floyd |    *** Leave in accepting mode only for open house day ***
Floyd |
Floyd | Current dial settings:  (0, 0, 0)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		inky says, "I assume this lets you teleport in from outside"
		borowski says, "Maybe they light -- yeah"
		DavidW asks, "But what's the light for?"
		borowski says, "'accepting mode'"
		inky says, "I mean, if the light is green you can teleport in, but if it's red you can't"
inky says (to Floyd), "set red t 8549" 		

Floyd | I don't see any red t 8549 here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm, okay."
inky says (to Floyd), "set red to 8549" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 8549.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "set green to 4392" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 4392.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "set blue to 8393" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 8393.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | A polite female voice informs you, "Loop-back test passed; verification
Floyd | code 931R.  No errors detected."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "x autotyper" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "autotyper".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "x autodialer" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		inky says, "anyway"
inky says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Barfee Research Area Entrance
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You carefully peer into the office to your right; you think it's
Floyd | probably a good idea to check things out instead of just blindly
Floyd | traipsing in.  Good thing, too, because your caution affords you the
Floyd | opportunity to snap your head back before Hakkar sees you; he's quite
Floyd | preoccupied with thoroughly chastising an employee, and from the tone
Floyd | of his voice he definitely seems like someone to avoid.  You have,
Floyd | after all, been absent from work for over a month.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		inky says, "hmm"
inky says (to Floyd), "look" 		

Floyd | Barfee Research Area Entrance
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in an empty hall with metal walls, ceiling, and
Floyd | floor.  Behind you, to the south, is the vault door that leads to the
Floyd | outside; it does not appear to open from the inside.  Right in front of
Floyd | you, farther down the hall, is a smaller but equally durable-looking
Floyd | door with a sign on it that reads "Barfee Research Central."  There is
Floyd | another room to the west, and to the east is what you assume to be the
Floyd | check-in area; you suspect that's where the boss is; this suspicion is
Floyd | partly affirmed by the growling and cursing emanating from within.
Floyd | "Hakkar the Horrible" is in full form.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		inky says, "that seems to imply there's nopoint to going here"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen to hakkar" 		

Floyd | Hakkar is currently shouting obscenities at the top of his lungs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "x vault" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "vault".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Should we visit the pretty gal?"
		DavidW asks, "Or north to the lab?"
inky says (to Floyd), "xits" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "xits".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "exits" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "exits".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "oops, I missed that exit"
		inky says, "oh, I didn't realize we could go north"
inky says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You'll have to open the research lab door first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "open lab door" 		

Floyd | You need to use the keypad to open the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "x lab door" 		

Floyd | The door is solid metal and quite indestructible.  The only way to get
Floyd | it open seems to be to punch in the correct passcode on the keypad to
Floyd | the right.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
K-Y then looked around and came to the conclusion that pretty much no one in this lounge even lifts. 		
K-Y has disconnected. 		DavidW says, "oh"
		DavidW says, "We learned the first four numbers, but not the fifth."
		inky says, "yeah, but it's pretty obvious"
		inky says, "23, 46, 69"
		DavidW asks, "oh, it's a sequence?"
		borowski says, "812"
		DavidW says, "812 isn't a multiple of 23."
		borowski says, "Oh, maybe that is the number we missed"
		DavidW says, "hm. Multiple of 203, though"
		genericgeekgirl says, "We were given those four."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "So, presumably it's correct?"
		borowski says, "That's what I thought"
		DavidW says, "812 = 203 x 4"
		DavidW says, "1015 = 203 x 5"
inky says (to Floyd), "type 23" 		

Floyd | (on the door keypad)
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens.  Perhaps you should reset the keypad and try
Floyd | again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "reset keypad" 		

Floyd | You press the reset button and then type in the four numbers you
Floyd | remember seeing Buddy type:  23, 46, 69, 812.  Now if you could only
Floyd | remember the last number...  Hmmm.  Your instincts tell you there's a
Floyd | pattern [12].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "note 12" 		

Floyd | [12]: When you know the number, type it on the keypad; e.g.  "type 1776
Floyd | on door keypad".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "type 1015 on keypad" 		

Floyd | Which keypad do you mean, the autodialer keypad, or the door keypad?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "type 1015 on door keypad" 		

Floyd | The door silently slides open.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 4 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Barfee Research Lab
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a huge, well-stocked laboratory.  Dozens of researchers
Floyd | scurry about, argue with each other, and frequently set things ablaze.
Floyd | Aside from the usual lab equipment, there is a strange-looking machine
Floyd | on an especially large marble lab table that stands in the center of
Floyd | the lab.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The only way out of this arena is south, the way you came in.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A thermos of Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta is on the
Floyd | large marble lab table.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "wow"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take formula" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "x thermos" 		

Floyd | It's a nondescript themos with potent-smelling liquid in it.  A label
Floyd | on the can says, "Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "x machine" 		

Floyd | It's just a big plaid box made of some synthetic cheese product that
Floyd | you can put things in.  It has four oversized dials and a large red
Floyd | button on the front.  Large letters on the machine read
Floyd | "Transmogrifyer".  There is a sign on the machine that says, "Out of
Floyd | order".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Mine."
		borowski says (to DavidW), "Good job!"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Cheese product. Ew."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat box" 		

Floyd | (trying to take the Akmi Transmogrifyer first)
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't take the Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dials" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  The magenta dial can be turned to settings numbered from
Floyd | 0 to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's currently set to 0.
Floyd | salmon dial:  The salmon dial can be turned to settings numbered from 0
Floyd | to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's currently set to 0.
Floyd | mauve dial:  The mauve dial can be turned to settings numbered from 0
Floyd | to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's currently set to 0.
Floyd | orange dial:  The orange dial can be turned to settings numbered from 0
Floyd | to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's currently set to 0.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to floyd), "x researchers" 		

Floyd | The researchers are all hard at work.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Hmm, more colors"
		inky says, "it says it's out of order, but maybe that is a hoax"
		DavidW says, "yeah"
inky says (to Floyd), "turn salmon to 7" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 7.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "push red" 		

Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		inky says, "feels like it isn't really working"
		DavidW asks, "Also, don't we need to put something into it before we can transmogrify it?"
		borowski says, "Yeah, it seems like we should have some hint as to the dial settings"
inky says (to Floyd), "put orange in transmog" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky presses the large red button on the FREE DONUTS machine. Within seconds, the room is flooded with a thousand tiny, happy donuts, running about your feet in an exuberant dance of freedom. They then disappear as quickly as they had arrived. 		
inky says (to Floyd), "push button" 		

Floyd | Which button do you mean, the transmogrifier button, the Clear button,
Floyd | the Clear button, the ZERO button, the POSITIVE button, the NEGATIVE
Floyd | button, the ADD button, the SUBTRACT button, the MULTIPLY button, or
Floyd | the DIVIDE button?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "push red" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A spray can is in the Akmi
Floyd | Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "get can" 		

Floyd | Which can do you mean, the spray can, or the full ReVoLT Kola can?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "spray" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		inky says, "hmm"
		inky says, "ok, that did look a little more suggestive"
		borowski asks, "Or maybe we just have to experiment?"
%%% # MARK: 2012-09-18-23:49:07CDT 		DavidW asks, "is 'orange' the spray can?"
inky says (to Floyd), "x orange" 		

Floyd | The orange dial can be turned to settings numbered from 0 to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's currently set to 0.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "x spray can" 		

Floyd | Tiny lettering on the side of the can reads:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Akmi Dam Phowl Snayk Rheepehlant.  Guaranteed results!  Shake
Floyd | before using. To use, spray target with repellant.  In case of failure,
Floyd | send proof of purchase to Akmi Galacticorp, Planet Plast, Akmi System."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "x orange can" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		inky says, "hmm"
		inky says, "weird"
inky says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have a spray can, a thermos of Barfee advanced growth formula
Floyd | QX-32-Beta, a crumpled scrap of paper, a paperback book, a handwritten
Floyd | note, your thesis research floppy disk, a qualitative calculator, an
Floyd | RGB color chart, a full ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard, and a matter
Floyd | mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "look in transmogr" 		

Floyd | There doesn't appear to be anything in the Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		inky says, "oh, ok, I guess it did work"
inky says (to Floyd), "turn orange to 0" 		

Floyd | It's already set to 0.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "turn salmonto 0" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "salmonto".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "turn salmon to 0" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 0.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "What got transmogrified, though?"
inky says (to Floyd), "put spray in transmog" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		inky says, "the thing from the vending machine"
		DavidW asks, "The gro?"
		inky says, "yeah"
inky says (to Floyd), "turn salmon to 1" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 1.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "push red" 		

Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "look in transmog" 		

Floyd | A spray can is in the Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "turn salmon to 2" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 2.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "push red" 		

Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "turn salmon to 3" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 3.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "push red" 		

Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "turn salmon to 4" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 4.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "push red" 		

Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "turn salmon to 4" 		

Floyd | It's already set to 4.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		inky says, "hmm"
		inky says, "well, hopefully there's a way to turn it back, because I'm not finding it!"
		DavidW says, "I would rather have risked something like the handwritten note from Ada."
inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" 		
inky says (to Floyd), "cf4" 		

Floyd | File to restore game from >
Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | Barfee Research Area Entrance
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in an empty hall with metal walls, ceiling, and
Floyd | floor.  Behind you, to the south, is the vault door that leads to the
Floyd | outside; it does not appear to open from the inside.  Right in front of
Floyd | you, farther down the hall, is a smaller but equally durable-looking
Floyd | door with a sign on it that reads "Barfee Research Central."  There is
Floyd | another room to the west, and to the east is what you assume to be the
Floyd | check-in area; you suspect that's where the boss is; this suspicion is
Floyd | partly affirmed by the growling and cursing emanating from within.
Floyd | "Hakkar the Horrible" is in full form.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "x autodialer" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Featureless Cubicle
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's clear from the size and lack of decor that this room was built
Floyd | specifically to house the matter mover that fills it.  The hallway is
Floyd | to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The matter mover here is a bit unusual -- it has a button on it,
Floyd | next to a light.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "push button" 		

Floyd | Which button do you mean, the button, the Clear button, the Clear
Floyd | button, the ZERO button, the POSITIVE button, the NEGATIVE button, the
Floyd | ADD button, the SUBTRACT button, the MULTIPLY button, or the DIVIDE
Floyd | button?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "x mover" 		

Floyd | This matter mover is a bit different from others you've seen -- it has
Floyd | a button and a light on it.  The light is currently red.
Floyd |
Floyd | The address plate on the machine reads:
Floyd |
Floyd |    8549, 4392, 8393 -- colorspace Orchid
Floyd |    *** Leave in accepting mode only for open house day ***
Floyd |
Floyd | Current dial settings:  (0, 0, 0)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "push any button" 		

Floyd | button:  Click.  The light changes color.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "set red to 8549. set green to 4392. set blue to 8393." 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 8549.
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 4392.
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 8393.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | A polite female voice informs you, "Loop-back test passed; verification
Floyd | code 931R.  No errors detected."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "x autodialer" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Barfee Research Area Entrance
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "type 1015" 		

Floyd | (on the door keypad)
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens.  Perhaps you should reset the keypad and try
Floyd | again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "reset keypad" 		

Floyd | You press the reset button and then type in the four numbers you
Floyd | remember seeing Buddy type:  23, 46, 69, 812.  Now if you could only
Floyd | remember the last number...  Hmmm.  Your instincts tell you there's a
Floyd | pattern [12].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "type 1015" 		

Floyd | (on the door keypad)
Floyd | The door silently slides open.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 4 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Barfee Research Lab
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a huge, well-stocked laboratory.  Dozens of researchers
Floyd | scurry about, argue with each other, and frequently set things ablaze.
Floyd | Aside from the usual lab equipment, there is a strange-looking machine
Floyd | on an especially large marble lab table that stands in the center of
Floyd | the lab.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The only way out of this arena is south, the way you came in.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A thermos of Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta is on the
Floyd | large marble lab table.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "get thermos" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "x machine" 		

Floyd | It's just a big plaid box made of some synthetic cheese product that
Floyd | you can put things in.  It has four oversized dials and a large red
Floyd | button on the front.  Large letters on the machine read
Floyd | "Transmogrifyer".  There is a sign on the machine that says, "Out of
Floyd | order".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
inky says (to Floyd), "cf5" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		inky says, "ok all caught up"
		inky says, "maybe we should just leave this for a bit"
		DavidW says, "It's possible the way it's broken is that anything becomes the snake repellent."
		DavidW says, "but yeah, might be safer to leave it alone for now."
borowski has disconnected. 		
borowski has connected. 		
borowski says (to floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have a thermos of Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta, a can
Floyd | of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a crumpled scrap of paper, a paperback book,
Floyd | a handwritten note, your thesis research floppy disk, a qualitative
Floyd | calculator, an RGB color chart, a full ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard,
Floyd | and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to floyd), "x chart" 		

Floyd | The chart gives RGB values for various color names:
Floyd |
Floyd | akmi orange (10000, 7470, 1000)
Floyd | alice blue (9411, 9725, 10000)
Floyd | antique white (9803, 9215, 8431)
Floyd | aquamarine (4980, 10000, 8313)
Floyd | azure (9411, 10000, 10000)
Floyd | beige (9607, 9607, 8627)
Floyd | bisque (10000, 8941, 7686)
Floyd | black (0, 0, 0)
Floyd | blanched almond (10000, 9215, 8039)
Floyd | blue (0, 0, 10000)
Floyd | blue violet (5411, 1686, 8862)
Floyd | brown (6470, 1647, 1647)
Floyd | burlywood (8705, 7215, 5294)
Floyd | burnt sienna (6000, 3270, 1732)
Floyd | chartreuse (4980, 10000, 0)
Floyd | chocolate (8235, 4117, 1176)
Floyd | coral (10000, 4980, 3137)
Floyd | cornflower blue (3921, 5843, 9294)
Floyd | cyan (0, 10000, 10000)
Floyd | egg white (10000, 10000, 9521)
Floyd | firebrick (6980, 1333, 1333)
Floyd | forest green (1333, 5450, 1333)
Floyd | gainsboro (8627, 8627, 8627)
Floyd | ghost white (9725, 9725, 10000)
Floyd | goldenrod (8549, 6470, 1254)
Floyd | gray (7529, 7529, 7529)
Floyd | green (0, 10000, 0)
Floyd | honeydew (9411, 10000, 9411)
Floyd | hot pink (10000, 4117, 7058)
Floyd | ivory (10000, 10000, 9411)
Floyd | khaki (9411, 9019, 5490)
Floyd | lavender (9019, 9019, 9803)
Floyd | lawn green (4862, 9882, 0)
Floyd | lemon chiffon (10000, 9803, 8039)
Floyd | lime green (1960, 8039, 1960)
Floyd | magenta (10000, 0, 10000)
Floyd | maroon (6901, 1882, 3764)
Floyd | midnight blue (980, 980, 4392)
Floyd | misty rose (10000, 8941, 8823)
Floyd | moccasin (10000, 8941, 7098)
Floyd | navy (0, 0, 5019)
Floyd | old lace (9921, 9607, 9019)
Floyd | olive drab (4196, 5568, 1372)
Floyd | orange (10000, 6470, 0)
Floyd | orchid (8549, 4392, 8392)
Floyd | peach puff (10000, 8549, 7254)
Floyd | pink (10000, 7529, 7960)
Floyd | plum (8666, 6274, 8666)
Floyd | powder blue (6901, 8784, 9019)
Floyd | purple (6274, 1254, 9411)
Floyd | red (10000, 0, 0)
Floyd | rosy brown (7372, 5607, 5607)
Floyd | saddle brown (5450, 2705, 745)
Floyd | salmon (9803, 5019, 4470)
Floyd | sandy brown (9568, 6431, 3764)
Floyd | sea green (1803, 5450, 3411)
Floyd | seashell (10000, 9607, 9333)
Floyd | sky blue (5294, 8078, 9215)
Floyd | slate gray (4392, 5019, 5647)
Floyd | snow (10000, 9803, 9803)
Floyd | spring green (0, 10000, 4980)
Floyd | steel blue (2745, 5098, 7058)
Floyd | tan (8235, 7058, 5490)
Floyd | thistle (8470, 7490, 8470)
Floyd | tomato (10000, 3882, 2784)
Floyd | turquoise (2509, 8784, 8156)
Floyd | violet (9333, 5098, 9333)
Floyd | violet red (8156, 1254, 5647)
Floyd | wheat (9607, 8705, 7019)
Floyd | white (10000, 10000, 10000)
Floyd | yellow (10000, 10000, 0)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "I was hoping for some sort of color hint. It is interesting that some colors are plants."
		inky asks, "only some?"
		inky says, "oh, plants, not planets"
inky says (to Floyd), "read note" 		

Floyd | It reads:
Floyd |
Floyd |    Gavin --
Floyd |
Floyd |    Studying at the library today.  Don't forget dinner at Grandma's
Floyd | house tomorrow night.  When you go out, please pick up some prune seeds
Floyd | from the Barfee outlet (8549, 4392, 8392) -- you know how Grandma is
Floyd | about her garden.
Floyd |
Floyd |                    Love,
Floyd |                    Ada
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "read paper" 		

Floyd | Written in barely-legible script is "Cassandra:  Elwood Farm (3921,
Floyd | 5840, 9278) (Just up road from mover.)"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | Barfee Research Area Entrance
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Featureless Cubicle
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "set red to 3921" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 3921.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "set green to 5840" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 5840.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "set blue to 9278" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 9278.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | A dirt road
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing outside a matter mover right next to a dirt road.
Floyd | The weather is lovely here, if a bit humid, and the sky is a stunningly
Floyd | pure blue-green.  There is a crispness and freshness to the air here
Floyd | that you've never before experienced.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road is extremely narrow, and runs right through a corn field.
Floyd | It seems like the road has no business being here, but is a necessary
Floyd | nuisance.  It's clear that priorities are different on Foon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road leads east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | On a Dirt Road
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the dirt road, now quite far from the matter mover.
Floyd | Tracks from some land vehicle begin here and lead east, around a bend,
Floyd | but the corn that lines the road blocks your view past the turn.  The
Floyd | matter mover is to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A flash of light near a moss-covered rock by the side of the road
Floyd | catches your eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "x rock" 		

Floyd | You spot a lost akmid half-covered by the rock, and pocket it.  Lucky
Floyd | day!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "x akmid" 		

Floyd |    Nowadays you don't see these much, since everyone uses credit for
Floyd | their purchases.  It looks like this one has been nailed to a wall or
Floyd | something:  it's got a hole right through its center.
Floyd |

		
Floyd Tiny letters stamped across a hologram on the face of the akmid 		
Floyd read, "One (1) Akmid. In Cheez We Trust. Kee Plastybus Akum." What 		
Floyd nostalgia -- it was minted before the Republic forced Akmi to put the 		
Floyd Motto of the Republic [13] on the currency! 		

Floyd |
Floyd | >

		inky says, "weird, what happened to the formatting>"
inky says (to Floyd), "note 13" 		

Floyd | [13]: "Peace, freedom, and equality for all creatures."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | On a Dirt Road
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the dirt road, now quite far from the matter mover.
Floyd | Tracks from some land vehicle begin here and lead east, around a bend,
Floyd | but the corn that lines the road blocks your view past the turn.  The
Floyd | matter mover is to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A moss-covered rock lies by the side of the road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "x rock" 		

Floyd | Though it looks completely everyday at first glance, a closer
Floyd | inspection reveals the rock to be a geode:  dull and unimpressive on
Floyd | the outside, but with a brilliant, sparkling crystalline center --
Floyd | absolutely beautiful!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to floyd), "take rock" 		

Floyd | You pick up the rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to floyd), "x corn" 		

Floyd | It's just typical Foonian corn.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Outside "Elwood's Eats"
Floyd |
Floyd |    A poorly painted sign nailed at an angle to the tiny building north
Floyd | of you reads, "Elwood's Eats."  Though the current lack of patronage
Floyd | might suggest otherwise, you suspect that the food served inside might
Floyd | actually be good, considering that you're literally surrounded by
Floyd | vegetation.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The building looks like it's on the verge of collapse, and you're
Floyd | sure the roof might cave in at any second.  Still, it has a certain
Floyd | rustic charm, and you feel compelled to go inside.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Tire tracks in the road lead up to the store from the west.  You can
Floyd | also head farther east down the road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-09-19-00:04:07CDT 		
borowski says (to floyd), "inside" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "go inside" 		

Floyd | Inside "Elwood's Eats"
Floyd |
Floyd |    Oddly enough, no one seems to be minding the store; it really *must*
Floyd | be a slow day.  There are several aisles of food on ragged wooden
Floyd | shelves here, most of it standard household dry goods and canned items.
Floyd | There's also a counter behind which you expect the owner would normally
Floyd | be right now, and above which hangs a board with a menu and prices on
Floyd | it, given in oversized, green, poorly kerned magnetic letters.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The store smells wonderfully earthy, and the floor and walls are all
Floyd | wooden, which adds to the homey feel -- this store definitely has
Floyd | character.  The only thing that looks out of place is a mechanical
Floyd | carnival game, which is off in one corner.  You notice with tremendous
Floyd | glee that it has no galacticard slot -- it only takes coins.  This part
Floyd | of the galaxy is so quaint!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ooh."
borowski says (to floyd), "x game" 		

Floyd | The game consists of a pile of kitschy stuff behind thick glass and a
Floyd | crane with a grabber on the end.  You steer the crane with a joystick
Floyd | mounted on the front panel.  If you're dextrous enough to snag one of
Floyd | the toys, you can move it over to the drop chute, via which it will
Floyd | slide out onto the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I'll point out the coin has a hole in it."
		DavidW says, "We might try to find a thread to tie to the coin."
borowski says (to floyd), "x toys" 		

Floyd | Most of the toys look like they're intended for small children, who are
Floyd | presumably the only people naive enough to dump money into such a
Floyd | ludicrous contraption.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x menu" 		

Floyd | The menu lists the usual things:  sandwiches, beverages, side orders,
Floyd | etc.  Nothing particularly exciting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		inky says, "cunning"
		DavidW says, "well, I hate to spend our only money quite so quickly."
		borowski says, "Now we know how DavidW has gotten so many toys."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x grabber" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "grabber".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crane" 		

Floyd | The game consists of a pile of kitschy stuff behind thick glass and a
Floyd | crane with a grabber on the end.  You steer the crane with a joystick
Floyd | mounted on the front panel.  If you're dextrous enough to snag one of
Floyd | the toys, you can move it over to the drop chute, via which it will
Floyd | slide out onto the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search toys" 		

Floyd | Most of the toys look like they're intended for small children, who are
Floyd | presumably the only people naive enough to dump money into such a
Floyd | ludicrous contraption.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kick game" 		

Floyd | Now, now.  Musn't resort to violence at the least bit of frustration,
Floyd | you know. This really isn't *that* hard a puzzle.  (I'm sure that makes
Floyd | you feel much better.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under game" 		

Floyd | Trying to look under the CraneMaster game doesn't gain you anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake game" 		

Floyd | Waving the CraneMaster game doesn't seem to do much.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x food" 		

Floyd | The shelves are covered with all sorts of foodstuffs.  You could spend
Floyd | all day here looking through the merchandise in this tiny
Floyd | establishment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x counter" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look behind counte" 		

Floyd | Peering behind the counter, you find condiments, napkins, straws, and
Floyd | other typical stuff, but nothing worth STEALING, that's for sure.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "steal ketchup" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "steal".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW tries to look innocent.
		DavidW asks, "Does TADS 2 only need the first six characters of input words?"
		inky says, "yeah"
		DavidW says, "huh"
		inky says, "you can do more if you want but only a limited amount is required"
		DavidW says, "I suppose we can go further east down the road, or try west from the mover."
		borowski asks, "Do you want to save and try playing?"
		borowski says, "In the off chance that something unexpected will happen."
		DavidW says, "well, you can try it, sure. But we saw nothing in the crane game to intice us yet."
		DavidW asks, "entice?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
borowski says (to Floyd), "cf6" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to floyd), "put coin in machine" 		

Floyd | You drop the akmid into the slot.  The machine goes <DING!> and then
Floyd | registers a credit [14].
Floyd |
Floyd |    A little display near the coin slot reads "CREDITS:  1."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to floyd), "note 14" 		

Floyd | [14]: To play the game, enter the command "play game".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to floyd), "play game" 		

Floyd |    Having never had any practise at this particular exercise, you fail
Floyd | miserably.  The crane swings about wildly as you struggle desperately
Floyd | to control it.  You hardly get the hang of opening and closing the
Floyd | grabber when your time is up.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Too bad.  You have the feeling that if you just played a few more
Floyd | games you'd get good enough to grab some of the loot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "A ha."
borowski says (to floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | File to restore game from >

		
borowski says (to floyd), "cf6" 		

Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside "Elwood's Eats"
Floyd |
Floyd |    Oddly enough, no one seems to be minding the store; it really *must*
Floyd | be a slow day.  There are several aisles of food on ragged wooden
Floyd | shelves here, most of it standard household dry goods and canned items.
Floyd | There's also a counter behind which you expect the owner would normally
Floyd | be right now, and above which hangs a board with a menu and prices on
Floyd | it, given in oversized, green, poorly kerned magnetic letters.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The store smells wonderfully earthy, and the floor and walls are all
Floyd | wooden, which adds to the homey feel -- this store definitely has
Floyd | character.  The only thing that looks out of place is a mechanical
Floyd | carnival game, which is off in one corner.  You notice with tremendous
Floyd | glee that it has no galacticard slot -- it only takes coins.  This part
Floyd | of the galaxy is so quaint!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to floyd), "out" 		

Floyd | Outside "Elwood's Eats"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | On a Dirt Road, at a Puddle
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road straightens here, with corn flanking both sides as before.
Floyd | To the east the road continues unchanged as far as the eye can see, but
Floyd | there's a store down the road to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a sizeable puddle right at your feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "jump in puddle" 		

Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
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genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "splash" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "splash".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hmpf"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x puddle" 		

Floyd |    As you gaze into the puddle you look right beyond the plane of the
Floyd | water and seem to view another world entirely.  But soon you realize
Floyd | that you're just looking at the reflected majesty of the Foonian sky,
Floyd | now a pale-green canvas upon which hundreds of Foonian birds sail in
Floyd | sweeping arcs.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The effect is striking; the adjacency of the close, muddy, mundane
Floyd | ground and the distant, reflected, exquisite sky creates an illusion
Floyd | that assaults your visual intuition.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "enter puddle?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter puddle" 		

Floyd | You can't enter the puddle in the road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Alas."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Also, I'm heading off to bed."
		DavidW says, "ah. Well, it is late."
		borowski says, "Yeah, I'm starting to feel the lateness."
borowski says (to floyd), "score" 		

Floyd | In 139 turns, you have earned 13 points out of a possible 75.
Floyd | You have completed approximately 22 percent of the game.
Floyd | You haven't used any hints.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Not bad progress tonight."
		borowski says, "Though I have no idea who this legend is and if he's really still alive."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Ha"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "save" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >

		DavidW says, "yeah, we're kinda exploring places for the sole reason we can."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "legend1" 		

Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Ellison says, "yeah, you guys did well"
jenrexrode has had her fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		
Ellison has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "quit" 		

Floyd | In 139 turns, you have earned 13 points out of a possible 75.
Floyd | You have completed approximately 22 percent of the game.
Floyd | You haven't used any hints.
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you really want to quit?  (YES or NO) >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | The Legend awaits your return.
Floyd |

		
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" 		borowski says, "Search results for 'the legend lives' on ifwiki: Cheese."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Hehe. "The legend awaits your return." That's really cute."
		genericgeekgirl (to borowski) | Cheese purists may want to stay away from The Legend Lives!, which continually refers to a synthetic substance known as Cheez. For instance, there is a gun called the "Cheez Blaster," and even an entire planet made of nothing but synthetic Cheez (a.k.a. the "Cheez death star," where the villains reside). On the other hand, the game does at least contain one hunk of real cheese.
		
*** Second Session *** 		
		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | File to restore game from >

		DavidW says, "I believe we are scheduled for The Legend Lives! (again)"
		DavidW says, "hm. I don't remember what save file name we used. :("
		DavidW says, "oh. legend1"
		DavidW says, "(wrote it down)"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Thanks. I was hunting for that."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "legend1" 		

Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | On a Dirt Road, at a Puddle
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road straightens here, with corn flanking both sides as before.
Floyd | To the east the road continues unchanged as far as the eye can see, but
Floyd | there's a store down the road to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a sizeable puddle right at your feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "My log didn't have it, but I found it on the server."
		Ellison says, "the new save game system should make it easier to look up saves"
borowski says (to Floyd), "x puddle" 		

Floyd |    As you gaze into the puddle you look right beyond the plane of the
Floyd | water and seem to view another world entirely.  But soon you realize
Floyd | that you're just looking at the reflected majesty of the Foonian sky,
Floyd | now a pale-green canvas upon which hundreds of Foonian birds sail in
Floyd | sweeping arcs.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The effect is striking; the adjacency of the close, muddy, mundane
Floyd | ground and the distant, reflected, exquisite sky creates an illusion
Floyd | that assaults your visual intuition.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
K-Y arrives, full of fun and funk. 		
borowski says (to Floyd), "drink puddle" 		

Floyd | You can't drink the puddle in the road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have a geode, an akmid, a thermos of Barfee advanced growth formula
Floyd | QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a crumpled scrap of paper,
Floyd | a paperback book, a handwritten note, your thesis research floppy disk,
Floyd | a qualitative calculator, an RGB color chart, a full ReVoLT Kola can, a
Floyd | Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x geode" 		

Floyd | Though it looks completely everyday at first glance, a closer
Floyd | inspection reveals the rock to be a geode:  dull and unimpressive on
Floyd | the outside, but with a brilliant, sparkling crystalline center --
Floyd | absolutely beautiful!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Ellison arrives, full of fun, but no funk. 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "admire geode" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "admire".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "We're east of Elwood's East, I think."
		borowski asks, "The store?"
Lionheart arrives, full of fun and funk. 		borowski asks, "I guess continue east?"
		DavidW says, "And I seem to be having lag and connection problems tonight."
		DavidW says, "er, Elwood's Eats, yes"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Sure."
borowski says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Looking down the road, you don't see anything of interest.  You'd
Floyd | probably be walking for quite a while, and you've got more pressing
Floyd | matters to attend to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I'm gonna reboot myself and hope that fixes the problem."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Good luck."
		genericgeekgirl says, "More pressing matters, like wooing a girl with a giant eggplant."
DavidW goes home. 		
DavidW has disconnected. 		
borowski says (to Floyd), "Oh right. Our mystery date." 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "oh".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Oh right. Our mystery date."
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Outside "Elwood's Eats"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Mind if I set to verbose?"
		Lionheart says, "Fine by me"
borowski says (to Floyd), "verbose" 		

Floyd | Okay, now in VERBOSE mode.
Floyd | Outside "Elwood's Eats"
Floyd |
Floyd |    A poorly painted sign nailed at an angle to the tiny building north
Floyd | of you reads, "Elwood's Eats."  Though the current lack of patronage
Floyd | might suggest otherwise, you suspect that the food served inside might
Floyd | actually be good, considering that you're literally surrounded by
Floyd | vegetation.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The building looks like it's on the verge of collapse, and you're
Floyd | sure the roof might cave in at any second.  Still, it has a certain
Floyd | rustic charm, and you feel compelled to go inside.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Tire tracks in the road lead up to the store from the west.  You can
Floyd | also head farther east down the road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | On a Dirt Road
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the dirt road, now quite far from the matter mover.
Floyd | Tracks from some land vehicle begin here and lead east, around a bend,
Floyd | but the corn that lines the road blocks your view past the turn.  The
Floyd | matter mover is to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | A dirt road
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing outside a matter mover right next to a dirt road.
Floyd | The weather is lovely here, if a bit humid, and the sky is a stunningly
Floyd | pure blue-green.  There is a crispness and freshness to the air here
Floyd | that you've never before experienced.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road is extremely narrow, and runs right through a corn field.
Floyd | It seems like the road has no business being here, but is a necessary
Floyd | nuisance.  It's clear that priorities are different on Foon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road leads east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Outside Elwood Farm
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing a few hundred yards away from a modest-sized
Floyd | farmhouse.  You gather from the posted sign that this is Elwood Farm,
Floyd | and that the corn lining the dirt road you came in on belongs to the
Floyd | Elwoods.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here, the building itself seems fairly well maintained, but
Floyd | could use a good painting.  The sizes of the carefully placed trees in
Floyd | the front yard give you the impression that people have lived on this
Floyd | plot of land for hundreds of years.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The farmhouse is to the west.  Head east and you're back at the
Floyd | local matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x trees" 		

Floyd | The trees are all at least 20 meters tall, and their trunks are
Floyd | immense.  Not being familiar with Foonian flora, you don't know what
Floyd | they're called, but suffice it to say that they're quite similar in
Floyd | appearance to the one's you're used to back home on Tode, except that
Floyd | the leaves are somewhat bluish.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "climb tree" 		

Floyd | You can't climb the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x house" 		

Floyd | Why not get closer for a better look?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Outside the Elwood Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing at the wooden front door of the Elwood Farmhouse.
Floyd | A quaintly narrow stone path lined with colorful flowers leads up to
Floyd | the door, flanked on both sides by a well-groomed, vibrant kelly green
Floyd | lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The paint is peeling in places, and the windows could use new
Floyd | shutters, but otherwise the house is in decent shape considering its
Floyd | age -- the design, though simple, suggests architectural trends popular
Floyd | several hundred years ago, before the formation of the Republic [14].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The entrance is to the west.  You might also take a walk around the
Floyd | house to the northwest and southwest.  The stone path leads east, back
Floyd | to the dirt road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "note 14" 		

Floyd | [14]: You always wondered if that architecture class you almost slept
Floyd | through would ever be of any use...  Though design ideas are fairly
Floyd | slow to propagate to Foon from Tode, Hop, and Tel, you don't imagine
Floyd | that even Foonian architects would still be using Cerquian school style
Floyd | beyond 1950VK.  That makes the house at least 208 years old (unless it
Floyd | was built during the brief Cerquian retro phase 20 years ago, which you
Floyd | doubt from the amount of wear on the exterior).
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Should we walk around the house first? Or head in?"
		borowski says, "Let's walk around"
mwmiller arrives, ready to play with the toys. 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | At a Garden Outside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here on the north side of the farmhouse is a large garden full of
Floyd | yummy-looking treats.  The soil has been recently tilled and smells
Floyd | wonderfully rich, and from the looks of it supports the vegetables
Floyd | planted in it far better than any Todian earth could.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You've heard plenty of stories about the near-magical fertility of
Floyd | the Foonian soil, but this close-up demonstration really drives the
Floyd | point home.  The goodies here are all oversized and delicious-looking.
Floyd | You suspect that even you, with your limited gardening experience,
Floyd | could grow a prize plant on Foon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here you can head either southeast, to the front of the
Floyd | farmhouse, or southwest, to the rear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Enjoy the architecture"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take goodies" 		

Floyd | Much as you'd like to, your moral upbringing prevents you from ripping
Floyd | off the Elwoods [15].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "enjoy architecture" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "enjoy".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hmpf."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "note 15" 		

Floyd | [15]: I don't want to hear any complaining, by the way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "heh"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Too late."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x goodies" 		

Floyd | There are many different kinds.  All are bigger and tastier-looking
Floyd | than their Todian counterparts.  Actually, this is starting to make you
Floyd | feel hungry!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd | Behind the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the grassy lawn behind the farmhouse.  The lawn
Floyd | is quite big by Todian standards, but is made to look rather
Floyd | insignificant by the vast expanse of crops that border it on all sides.
Floyd | It's times like these that you wish your folks didn't live in the city
Floyd | -- Tode's so crowded and noisy compared to places like this.  But then
Floyd | again, maybe Foon's a bit *too* rural...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The farmhouse has a back door, but it doesn't look like it gets much
Floyd | use.  Given that, you suspect that the only ways to go from here are
Floyd | back around the house to the northeast and southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a little tombstone in the ground nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x tombstone" 		

Floyd | The tombstone is small, very roughly carved, and made of granite.  It
Floyd | looks to be hundreds of years old.  The weathered inscription on the
Floyd | tombstone reads:
Floyd |
Floyd |    Pierre
Floyd |    1975-1992
Floyd |    Our faithful friend.
Floyd |    Rest in peace.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kick tombstone" 		

Floyd | Someone in a position of extreme power relative to you in this game
Floyd | doesn't like your attitude at all.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You have died.  Needless to say, this puts a permanent damper on
Floyd | your efforts to save the galaxy.
Floyd |
Floyd | In 159 turns, you have earned 13 points out of a possible 75.
Floyd | You have completed approximately 22 percent of the game.
Floyd | You haven't used any hints.
Floyd |
Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, quit, or undo the current
Floyd | command.
Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, QUIT, or UNDO:  >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind the Farmhouse
Floyd |

		
DavidW arrives, ready to play with the toys. 		

Floyd |    You are standing on the grassy lawn behind the farmhouse.  The lawn
Floyd | is quite big by Todian standards, but is made to look rather
Floyd | insignificant by the vast expanse of crops that border it on all sides.
Floyd | It's times like these that you wish your folks didn't live in the city
Floyd | -- Tode's so crowded and noisy compared to places like this.  But then
Floyd | again, maybe Foon's a bit *too* rural...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The farmhouse has a back door, but it doesn't look like it gets much
Floyd | use.  Given that, you suspect that the only ways to go from here are
Floyd | back around the house to the northeast and southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a little tombstone in the ground nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "......"
		genericgeekgirl says, "I am so sorry."
		borowski says, "Tell that to space god."
		DavidW says, "My connection to the net is really flaky at the moment, I'm afraid. I could barely reconnect back here."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh no :("
		genericgeekgirl says, "> kick DW's connection"
		genericgeekgirl) * genericgeekgirl has die^Hsconnected.
		mwmiller says, "I changed my mind. This author isn't trying to be Douglas Adams and failing, he's trying to be Steve Meretzky and failing."
%%% # MARK: 2012-09-25-21:20:02CDT 		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x farmhouse" 		

Floyd | It just looks like an ordinary farmhouse from this vantage point.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x lawn" 		

Floyd | You're standing on it.  It looks normal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "dig lawn" 		

Floyd | With what?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Gerynar arrives, full of fun, but no funk. 		
borowski says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | At the Tire Swing Outside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You have walked around to the south side of the farmhouse, and find
Floyd | yourself confronted with a giant oak-like tree [16].  The tree has a
Floyd | tire swing attached to it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here you can head either northeast or northwest, towards the
Floyd | front and rear of the house, respectively.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "note 16" 		

Floyd | [16]: "Oak-like" because you doubt it's the same variety of tree that
Floyd | you call an oak back home on Tode.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x swing" 		

Floyd | The tire swing is on a sturdy rope tied to a thick branch in the
Floyd | oak-like tree high above.  Whoever put it up must have used one heck of
Floyd | a ladder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "swing" 		

Floyd | Swing in what?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "swing in tire swing" 		

Floyd | You'll have to get in the tire swing first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter swing" 		

Floyd | You're now sitting in the tire swing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "This can only end well."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "swing in swing" 		

Floyd | You get a little momentum going and swing around in a wide circle.
Floyd | There's not enough room to really get going though, and besides that
Floyd | you're afraid you might crash into the farmhouse or the tree.  These
Floyd | things can be dangerous, you know!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "sorry, this is becoming utterly impossible for me at the moment."
		borowski) Space God says, "Thou shall not swing!"
		DavidW says, "I've completely missed the last 15 minutes of play."
		DavidW says, "And I haven't been able to recap because the connection keeps flaking out."
		borowski says (to DavidW), "We couldn't go any farther east, so we went back to the matter transport and went west"
		DavidW asks (of borowski), "From the puddle?"
		borowski says, "And found this farmhouse and are now walking around it."
		borowski says, "Yes."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Also I kicked a tombstone and the gods smited us."
		borowski says, "The road went on forever east past the puddle I guess."
		DavidW asks, "I mean, couldn't go further east from the puddle?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Smote? I don't know."
		borowski says, "Yes, the description said we could, but it was a trick!"
borowski says (to Floyd), "x swing" 		

Floyd | The tire swing is on a sturdy rope tied to a thick branch in the
Floyd | oak-like tree high above.  Whoever put it up must have used one heck of
Floyd | a ladder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "exit swing" 		

Floyd | You are now standing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd | Outside the Elwood Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing at the wooden front door of the Elwood Farmhouse.
Floyd | A quaintly narrow stone path lined with colorful flowers leads up to
Floyd | the door, flanked on both sides by a well-groomed, vibrant kelly green
Floyd | lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The paint is peeling in places, and the windows could use new
Floyd | shutters, but otherwise the house is in decent shape considering its
Floyd | age -- the design, though simple, suggests architectural trends popular
Floyd | several hundred years ago, before the formation of the Republic [14].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The entrance is to the west.  You might also take a walk around the
Floyd | house to the northwest and southwest.  The stone path leads east, back
Floyd | to the dirt road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Sorry, I'm missing too much. This is like a swiss cheese conversation for me."
		DavidW says, "The lag is insane."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yikes. My server died. Running tf5 locally."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Did we ever try to go in the restaurant? (Last week, maybe?)"
		borowski says, "Yes, there was a crane-grabby toy machine."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, right."
		genericgeekgirl says, "We need a string or something."
		borowski asks, "Oh wait, did we not restore after using the coin?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have a geode, an akmid, a thermos of Barfee advanced growth formula
Floyd | QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a crumpled scrap of paper,
Floyd | a paperback book, a handwritten note, your thesis research floppy disk,
Floyd | a qualitative calculator, an RGB color chart, a full ReVoLT Kola can, a
Floyd | Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Ellison says, "I read an article lately that said crane machines only get enough power sent to the crane once in every 20 tries. hopefully IF cranes are fairer."
		borowski asks, "I thought we saved right before that?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "x akmid" 		

Floyd |    Nowadays you don't see these much, since everyone uses credit for
Floyd | their purchases.  It looks like this one has been nailed to a wall or
Floyd | something:  it's got a hole right through its center.
Floyd |

		
Floyd Tiny letters stamped across a hologram on the face of the akmid 		
Floyd read, "One (1) Akmid. In Cheez We Trust. Kee Plastybus Akum." What 		
Floyd nostalgia -- it was minted before the Republic forced Akmi to put the 		
Floyd Motto of the Republic [13] on the currency! 		

Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Oh that's it."
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Inside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in the entrance hallway of the Elwood farmhouse.
Floyd | The hardwood floors creak as you walk upon them, and the earthy, rustic
Floyd | decor delights your jaded cosmopolitan senses.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The front door is in the east wall.  Ahead, to the west, is the
Floyd | living room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x decor" 		

Floyd | The decor is charming.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV dominates this simply furnished family room -- it's nestled
Floyd | comfortably in the center of the north wall, encased in a boxy dark
Floyd | wood enclosure with feet shaped like those on an old bathtub.  A burly
Floyd | old man is sacked out on the couch here in front of the enterviewer,
Floyd | eyes completely glazed over.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The kitchen is to the south.  A hall leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV features a program that gives tips on how to use your
Floyd | C.A.M.E.L.  more effectively.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks (of DavidW), "Are things any better?"
DavidW goes home. 		
DavidW has disconnected. 		genericgeekgirl asks, "We just barged into someone's house?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yet we can't eat the garden."
		borowski says, "Well, it's OK because they're watching TV."
		borowski says, "(I don't claim to understand our morality)"
		mwmiller asks, "Is a C.A.M.E.L. anything like a M.U.L.E.?"
		borowski says, "That's what I was thinking."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x ev" 		
Floyd The Akmi Kristl Kleer Kwality PM [17] Enterviewer is visually 		

Floyd | unimpressive, particularly considering you've seen about ten thousand
Floyd | identical models before.  (Akmi sometimes has a hard time letting go
Floyd | once they've found a formula that works.)  It's orange, it's mauve,
Floyd | it's purple.  It's squat and has functionless dimples all over its
Floyd | irregularly shaped bulbous case.  The screen is nearly square and inset
Floyd | at a jaunty angle.  In short, a typical product of the Akmi Aesthetix
Floyd | Division [18].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV has a tuning dial; you can choose from thousands of different
Floyd | stations from across the galaxy.  The dial goes from 1 to 100,000 and
Floyd | is currently set to 778.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV features a program that gives tips on how to use your
Floyd | C.A.M.E.L.  more effectively.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x man" 		

Floyd |    The old man has typical Foonian features:  light green skin,
Floyd | wine-colored hair and thin, nearly horizontal eyebrows.  He is quite
Floyd | handsome but looks to have weathered a stormy life.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You sense that he is very much alive, but he seems utterly comatose,
Floyd | clutching the EV's remote control with what remains of his life's
Floyd | energy, alone in a world of pictures and sounds from wherever,
Floyd | oblivious to you and this moment, the next, or the last.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You look into those ebony Foonian eyes, searching for the man behind
Floyd | them, but see only the reflected images of the current program.  And
Floyd | there, in his eyes, you see them:  every pixel discrete; every one
Floyd | unique in the infrequent off-air snows, but each now a tiny player in a
Floyd | meticulously but mindlessly orchestrated ever-changing production --
Floyd | each with a role but none of any overall importance.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You turn to look at the EV directly.  And conversely, there lies a
Floyd | reflection of the man.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
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genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x reflection" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl pouts.
borowski says (to Floyd), "couch" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x couch" 		

Floyd | You don't know what that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x remote control" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "remote".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x enclosure" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "enclosure".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "poke man" 		

Floyd | What do you want to poke the old man on the couch with?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "poke man with book" 		

Floyd | Which book do you mean, the Barfee germination and culture guide, your
Floyd | textbooks, or the paperback book?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "paperback" 		

Floyd | You can't poke anything with paperback book.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "poke man with geode" 		

Floyd | Which geode do you mean, the geode, or the geode?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller asks, "...Then why bother listing it as a possibility, you silly TADS parser?"
		borowski says, "Even sillier..."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "the geode" 		

Floyd | Let's try it again:  Which geode do you mean, the geode, or the geode?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Oh my"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Poke with *all* the geodes."
		borowski says, "heh"
borowski says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're in a fairly typical if slightly cramped kitchen.  Here you
Floyd | find the usual appliances:  a refrigerator, an oven with range top
Floyd | burners, and, on the counter, various food processing machines.  The
Floyd | cupboards appear to be well-stocked.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The living room is to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Lionheart says, "Don't take that tone with me, game, this problem is all you."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x refrigerator" 		

Floyd |    The refrigerator looks to be a model that was popular on Tode 75
Floyd | years ago.  It is functional but the aesthetics could use work -- it's
Floyd | just a basic white box; nothing at all like today's popular day-glo
Floyd | spherical models, and -- this is the good part -- you have to open it
Floyd | with the *handle*.  Unbelievable!
Floyd |
Floyd |    The refrigerator is currently closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open refrigerator" 		

Floyd | Opened.  Grapes, 6 bananas, a raw Synthegg, a piece of salami, a stick
Floyd | of butter, an overripe tomato, and a hunk of cheese are in the
Floyd | refrigerator.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take all from refrigerator" 		

Floyd | raw Synthegg:  Taken.
Floyd | 6 bananas:  Taken.
Floyd | piece of salami:  Taken.
Floyd | stick of butter:  Taken.
Floyd | overripe tomato:  Taken.
Floyd | grapes:  Taken.
Floyd | hunk of cheese:  Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "That's not where bananas go."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yessss."
borowski says (to Floyd), "open freezer" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "freezer".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x bananas" 		

Floyd | They look like 6 ordinary bananas.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat all" 		

Floyd | You can't use all with that verb.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat cheese" 		

Floyd | That was delicious!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're in a fairly typical if slightly cramped kitchen.  Here you
Floyd | find the usual appliances:  a refrigerator, an oven with range top
Floyd | burners, and, on the counter, various food processing machines.  The
Floyd | cupboards appear to be well-stocked.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The living room is to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x oven" 		

Floyd | The oven is an old and fairly primitive model, but it looks adequate.
Floyd | There are four burners on the range top.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "Banana mistreatment! Shameful. =("
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open oven" 		

Floyd | You can't open the oven.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on burner" 		

Floyd | You turn on one of the burners.  It heats up rapidly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW arrives, ready to play with the toys. 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put banana on burner" 		

Floyd | Don't be silly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski So, it's really a stove? 		borowski asks, "So, it's really a stove?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "melt butter" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "melt".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on all burners" 		

Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on burner" 		

Floyd | One of the burners is already on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Fine. Moving on."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x machines" 		

Floyd | By your standards, the machines are all very old, but they all appear
Floyd | to be functional.  Among them are a mixer, a blender, and an Akmi
Floyd | Slysor Dysor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says (to DavidW), "So far, you've missed the parser not working. We found a bunch of food."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I fully intend to just leave that burning."
		borowski says, "Wasteful!"
borowski says (to Floyd), "x mixer" 		

Floyd | It's an ordinary kitchen mixer.  Unfortunately, it seems to be missing
Floyd | the metal beaters, and is therefore useless.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x blender" 		

Floyd | It just looks like an average blender.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put banana in blender" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "100 moves later, THE HOUSE SUDDENLY GOES FOOM"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on blender" 		

Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x blender" 		

Floyd | It just looks like an average blender.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take banana" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "yeah, I have no idea what's happening with my connection. Hopefully I can stay connected for a bit."
borowski says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a hunk of cheese, an overripe tomato, a
Floyd | stick of butter, a piece of salami, a raw Synthegg, a geode, an akmid,
Floyd | a thermos of Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi
Floyd | Soopur Wundur Gro, a crumpled scrap of paper, a paperback book, a
Floyd | handwritten note, your thesis research floppy disk, a qualitative
Floyd | calculator, an RGB color chart, a full ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard,
Floyd | and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Was it not plugged in?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x dysor" 		

Floyd |    The Akmi Slysor Dysor is a fearsome contraption.  With 33 different
Floyd | blades and 194 additional attachements, this thing is a vegetable's
Floyd | worst nightmare.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Designed to be easy to use, the Dysor only has one setting -- "on".
Floyd | It uses patented Akmi Fuz-E Artyfishal Nooral Intellujince to determine
Floyd | the most appropriate action for the item you insert.  Unfortunately,
Floyd | the Dysors tend to prefer pureeing over all other options [19].
Floyd |
Floyd |    It looks like an ordinary Akmi Slysor Dysor.  It is currently off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "plug blender in" 		

Floyd | There are words after your command I couldn't use.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on blender" 		

Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hm."
borowski says (to Floyd), "plug in blender" 		

Floyd | Plug what?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "note 19" 		

Floyd | [19]: They also tend to explode without warning.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl just grins silently.
		borowski says, ">KICK DYSOR"
		borowski asks, "Banana, cheese, and salami smoothie?"
		DavidW says, "Is there some recipe for a smoothie we're making? Sorry that I missed, like, everything so far from puddle to here."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Not yet."
		mwmiller says, "Tha Waki Zainee Traydmahrkibul Speleengz Ar Giteeng Reeli Uhnoying."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on dysor" 		

Floyd | With a hideous squawk the machine spins up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put hand in dysor" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "hand".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "And of course I have no idea where we are since I couldn't map."
		genericgeekgirl says, "We're in a house. There's an old man on the couch. Which the parser refuses to believe exists."
		DavidW says, "And lag is still persisting."
		genericgeekgirl says, "The couch, that is."
		mwmiller says, "You may find yourself in a beautiful house."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x cabinets" 		

Floyd | Miscellaneous dry goods and a frying pan are in the kitchen cupboards.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x goods" 		

Floyd | They're just typical kitchen stuff -- nothing exciting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pan" 		

Floyd | It's just an ordinary frying pan.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take pan" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW goes home. 		
DavidW has disconnected. 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take all" 		

Floyd | mixer:  Taken.
Floyd | blender:  Taken.
Floyd | Akmi Slysor Dysor:  Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "To the west of the matter mover is a sign. west is front of house. west is foyer. west is living room. south is kitchen."
		mwmiller says, "A mixer *and* a blender *and* a Slysor Dysor? Uh."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Don't mind me. Just carrying around a running food processor."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x cabinets" 		

Floyd | Miscellaneous dry goods are in the kitchen cupboards.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x dry goods" 		

Floyd | They're just typical kitchen stuff -- nothing exciting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Oh, and the salami is?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're in a fairly typical if slightly cramped kitchen.  Here you
Floyd | find the usual appliances:  a refrigerator, an oven with range top
Floyd | burners, and, on the counter, various food processing machines.  The
Floyd | cupboards appear to be well-stocked.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The living room is to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf9" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put salami in dyson" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "dyson".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put salami in dysor" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a whirring sound as it changes setting, and the piece
Floyd | of salami is soon transformed into a swirling goo.  Moments later, not
Floyd | a trace is left.  My goodness, the Dysor seems to have completely
Floyd | vaporized the piece of salami.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put cheese in dysor" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a whirring sound as it changes setting, and the hunk
Floyd | of cheese is soon transformed into a swirling goo.  Moments later, not
Floyd | a trace is left.  My goodness, the Dysor seems to have completely
Floyd | vaporized the hunk of cheese.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | File to restore game from >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf9" 		

Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're in a fairly typical if slightly cramped kitchen.  Here you
Floyd | find the usual appliances:  a refrigerator, an oven with range top
Floyd | burners, and, on the counter, various food processing machines.  The
Floyd | cupboards appear to be well-stocked.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The living room is to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Good to know."
DavidW arrives, ready to play with the toys. 		mwmiller says, "'Completely vaporized'? Well, that's one way to avoid having to track a lot of flags."
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV dominates this simply furnished family room -- it's nestled
Floyd | comfortably in the center of the north wall, encased in a boxy dark
Floyd | wood enclosure with feet shaped like those on an old bathtub.  A burly
Floyd | old man is sacked out on the couch here in front of the enterviewer,
Floyd | eyes completely glazed over.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The kitchen is to the south.  A hall leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV features the Pan-Galactic Lottery drawing.  (Unfortunately,
Floyd | you didn't win this time.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder arrives, full of fun, but no funk. 		genericgeekgirl asks, "Hallway?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Hall
Floyd |
Floyd |    This narrow hall is similar to the one at the farmhouse entrance.  A
Floyd | wooden staircase leads up from here; unfortunately, it also leads up to
Floyd | a protective-looking dog who is currently barking his head off at you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    At the end of the hall, further west, is the back door.  It looks
Floyd | like it's been sealed shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Aw, puppy."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x dog" 		

Floyd |    It's an annoying but spirited pooch that looks much like the ones
Floyd | you have on your native Tode.  On Tode you would call this animal a
Floyd | "mutt," but you can't be sure that it's not *supposed* to look like
Floyd | that here.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You get the feeling that it has better vocal cords than fangs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pet dog" 		

Floyd | You can't really get close enough.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-09-25-21:50:02CDT 		
borowski says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd | As you begin ascending the staircase you find that the dog's volume
Floyd | level is inversely proportional to your distance from him, though he
Floyd | refuses to leave his perch several steps above you.  As you near the
Floyd | top, you hear a female voice yell from an upstairs room, "Rockoo, quit
Floyd | thawt bullering; it's jest eh frawgen churrel!"  You hastily retreat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "West to see if we can get that door open, in case we need a quick escape?"
		borowski says, "sure"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Maybe the doggy likes salami."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You try to open the old door, but with no success.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x door" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary wooden door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kick door" 		

Floyd | I don't think the Elwoods would appreciate you busting into their house
Floyd | and destroying their back door in the process.  You might consider
Floyd | using the FRONT door instead.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Up it is."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give salami to dog" 		

Floyd | You toss the piece of salami to the dog, who quickly devours it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd |
Floyd |    This narrow hall is similar to the one at the farmhouse entrance.  A
Floyd | wooden staircase leads up from here; unfortunately, it also leads up to
Floyd | a protective-looking dog who is currently barking his head off at you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    At the end of the hall, further west, is the back door.  It looks
Floyd | like it's been sealed shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "throw salami at door" 		

Floyd | Throwing things at the wooden door isn't helpful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kick dog" 		

Floyd | In order to comply with the wishes of animal rights groups, we can
Floyd | allow no dogs to be harmed in this game.  Sorry.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Maybe eating the salami calmed down the dog?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Maaaybe."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf10" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give salami to dog" 		

Floyd | You toss the piece of salami to the dog, who quickly devours it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd | As you begin ascending the staircase you find that the dog's volume
Floyd | level is inversely proportional to your distance from him, though he
Floyd | refuses to leave his perch several steps above you.  As you near the
Floyd | top, you hear a female voice yell from an upstairs room, "Rockoo, quit
Floyd | thawt bullering; it's jest eh frawgen churrel!"  You hastily retreat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Maaaybe not."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Nope."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | File to restore game from >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf10" 		

Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd |
Floyd |    This narrow hall is similar to the one at the farmhouse entrance.  A
Floyd | wooden staircase leads up from here; unfortunately, it also leads up to
Floyd | a protective-looking dog who is currently barking his head off at you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    At the end of the hall, further west, is the back door.  It looks
Floyd | like it's been sealed shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "More likely you need to dope the salami with a sleeping drug."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a mixer, a
Floyd | frying pan, a hunk of cheese, an overripe tomato, a stick of butter, a
Floyd | piece of salami, a raw Synthegg, a geode, an akmid, a thermos of Barfee
Floyd | advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a
Floyd | crumpled scrap of paper, a paperback book, a handwritten note, your
Floyd | thesis research floppy disk, a qualitative calculator, an RGB color
Floyd | chart, a full ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard, and a matter mover
Floyd | autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x synthegg" 		

Floyd | The SynthEgg is an egg substitute which supposedly tastes just like the
Floyd | real thing.  It looks pretty much like a regular egg, but it doesn't
Floyd | have quite the right color, and it's too light to be real.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Or make the dog huge with the growth formula"
borowski says (to Floyd), "x formula" 		

Floyd | It's a nondescript themos with potent-smelling liquid in it.  A label
Floyd | on the can says, "Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Bigger dogs *do* tend to be friendlier.."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give note to dog" 		

Floyd | The animal shows no interest whatsoever.  It doesn't exactly give you
Floyd | the impression that it is a rocket scientist among dogs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Clifford!"
		mwmiller says, "Oh nice, it's one of those Chinese artificial eggs."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give kola to dog" 		

Floyd | The animal shows no interest whatsoever.  It doesn't exactly give you
Floyd | the impression that it is a rocket scientist among dogs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Gerynar has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		genericgeekgirl says, "I don't think you have to be a rocket scientist to enjoy a can of soda."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Back to the kitchen and see what we can make for breakfast?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "We have "eggs" and a frying pan. And a working stove."
		borowski asks, "Can we try giving the dog the growth formula?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf11" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Sure."
borowski says (to Floyd), "put formula on salami" 		

Floyd | You can't put anything on the piece of salami.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "give dog formula" 		

Floyd | I don't see any dog formula here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "give formula to dog" 		

Floyd | The animal shows no interest whatsoever.  It doesn't exactly give you
Floyd | the impression that it is a rocket scientist among dogs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pour formula on dog" 		

Floyd | Pouring Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta on the dog doesn't
Floyd | seem very productive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I may be wrong in my idea of doping the salami."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pour wunder gro on dog" 		

Floyd | Pouring Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro on the dog doesn't seem very productive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "tease dog with salami" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "tease".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hide the salami" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "hide".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Oh well. I thought I remembered it saying it worked on pets."
		DavidW says, "It did."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Ah, yes."
		borowski says, "The formula, not hiding the salami"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x wunder gro" 		

Floyd | The can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro is bright orange, with mauve
Floyd | lettering.  Considering it's an Akmi product, the mauve if pretty
Floyd | subdued -- you can barely read it.  The label says, "Akmi Soopur Wundur
Floyd | Gro:  Por on a dahb and watch yur plantz gro layk nevur befor!
Floyd | Garanteed sayf by Akmi Resurch Labz.  Werks grate on petz to!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "por a dahb on petz" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "por".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "pour wunder gro on dog" 		

Floyd | Pouring Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro on the dog doesn't seem very productive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Ah, I forgot those were two different items."
		borowski says, "OK, I'm satisfied."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Kitchen?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV dominates this simply furnished family room -- it's nestled
Floyd | comfortably in the center of the north wall, encased in a boxy dark
Floyd | wood enclosure with feet shaped like those on an old bathtub.  A burly
Floyd | old man is sacked out on the couch here in front of the enterviewer,
Floyd | eyes completely glazed over.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The kitchen is to the south.  A hall leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV features a wretched and very badly dubbed drama involving
Floyd | short red creatures that look something like hamsters.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're in a fairly typical if slightly cramped kitchen.  Here you
Floyd | find the usual appliances:  a refrigerator, an oven with range top
Floyd | burners, and, on the counter, various food processing machines.  The
Floyd | cupboards appear to be well-stocked.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The living room is to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put pan on stove" 		

Floyd | The pan heats up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put butter in pan" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put egg in pan" 		

Floyd | Do you want to crack the raw Synthegg first?  (YES or NO) >

		genericgeekgirl says, "> No."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd | You crack the raw Synthegg into the pan.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cook egg" 		

Floyd | I don't know how to cook the raw Synthegg yolk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Any reason you're cooking breakfast in a home you broke into?"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Because I can?"
		DavidW says, "Fair enough."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pan" 		

Floyd | It's just an ordinary frying pan.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn off burner" 		

Floyd | You turn off the burner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on burner" 		

Floyd | You turn on one of the burners.  It heats up rapidly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW checks cupboard for waffles.
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x egg" 		

Floyd | The SynthEgg is an egg substitute which supposedly tastes just like the
Floyd | real thing.  It looks pretty much like a regular egg, but you notice
Floyd | that the yolk doesn't have quite the right color.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "So.. now what?"
		DavidW asks, "Did you put the pan on the burner?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I put the pan on the stove, and it said the pan heats up."
		DavidW says, "hm"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in pan" 		

Floyd | A raw Synthegg yolk and a stick of butter are in the frying pan.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, """Any reason you're cooking breakfast in a home you broke into?"" needs to be a tag-line for this game."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x stove" 		

Floyd | The oven is an old and fairly primitive model, but it looks adequate.
Floyd | There are four burners on the range top.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x egg" 		

Floyd | The SynthEgg is an egg substitute which supposedly tastes just like the
Floyd | real thing.  It looks pretty much like a regular egg, but you notice
Floyd | that the yolk doesn't have quite the right color.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I have the suspicion that cooking won't take place unless all relevant ingredients are in the pan -- and we don't have a recipe to work from."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cook egg" 		

Floyd | I don't know how to cook the raw Synthegg yolk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "melt butter" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "melt".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put pan on burner" 		

Floyd | The SynthEgg cooks up just like a real egg!  You take the pan off the
Floyd | burner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "It was on the damn burner."
		DavidW says, "uh-huh"
		genericgeekgirl kicks something.
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x egg" 		

Floyd | It looks just like a real fried egg.  You'd have to be a real ova
Floyd | Eggspert to tell the difference [20].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "note 20" 		

Floyd | [20]: Har!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn off burner" 		

Floyd | You turn off the burner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take egg" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a fried SynthEgg, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a
Floyd | blender, a mixer, a frying pan, a hunk of cheese, an overripe tomato, a
Floyd | piece of salami, a geode, an akmid, a thermos of Barfee advanced growth
Floyd | formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a crumpled scrap
Floyd | of paper, a paperback book, a handwritten note, your thesis research
Floyd | floppy disk, a qualitative calculator, an RGB color chart, a full
Floyd | ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.  A stick
Floyd | of butter is in the frying pan.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take butter" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hehehehe."
		mwmiller says, "The jokes. The jokes are painful. =("
		borowski says, "Aww"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x butter" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary stick of butter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Magical unmeltable butter."
		borowski says, "Fancy pan"
		mwmiller exclaims, "A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter!"
		borowski asks (of genericgeekgirl), "Do you have any plans for your new egg?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Well, good. We broke in, made breakfast, and now we'll just be on our way."
		DavidW says, "If we had a plate and a knife, we could make a decent sandwich."
%%% # MARK: 2012-09-25-22:05:02CDT 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf12" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat egg" 		

Floyd | That was delicious!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're in a fairly typical if slightly cramped kitchen.  Here you
Floyd | find the usual appliances:  a refrigerator, an oven with range top
Floyd | burners, and, on the counter, various food processing machines.  The
Floyd | cupboards appear to be well-stocked.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The living room is to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put frying pan in dysor" 		

Floyd | The frying pan is too big to fit in the Akmi Slysor Dysor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put geode in dysor" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a whirring sound as it changes setting, and the geode
Floyd | is soon transformed into a swirling goo.  Moments later, not a trace is
Floyd | left.  My goodness, the Dysor seems to have completely vaporized the
Floyd | geode.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're in a fairly typical if slightly cramped kitchen.  Here you
Floyd | find the usual appliances:  a refrigerator, an oven with range top
Floyd | burners, and, on the counter, various food processing machines.  The
Floyd | cupboards appear to be well-stocked.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The living room is to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Will it blend? Yes."
		borowski says, "My goodness indeed."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cupboards" 		

Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in cupboards" 		

Floyd | Miscellaneous dry goods are in the kitchen cupboards.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dry goods" 		

Floyd | They're just typical kitchen stuff -- nothing exciting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search them" 		

Floyd | miscellaneous dry goods:  They're just typical kitchen stuff -- nothing
Floyd | exciting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hmph"
		borowski says (to DavidW), "All the fun stuff was in the fridge."
		borowski says, "No pizza though! Disappointing."
		mwmiller says, "Of course they're nothing exciting, they're miscellaneous."
		DavidW says, "We had a pizza slice in the last game."
		DavidW says, "Can't have pizza all the time, y'know."
		borowski says, "I *guess*"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "I have no idea what to do next. Go hunt around the store some more? Did we miss a room somewhere?"
		Ellison says, "hmm, I'm tired. have to take a break. later all!"
Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. 		
Ellison has disconnected. 		DavidW says, "I wasn't here watching, so I have no idea what was missed or not."
		borowski says, "Perhaps we missed something."
		borowski says, "Let's go around the house to let DavidW see."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fridge" 		

Floyd |    The refrigerator looks to be a model that was popular on Tode 75
Floyd | years ago.  It is functional but the aesthetics could use work -- it's
Floyd | just a basic white box; nothing at all like today's popular day-glo
Floyd | spherical models, and -- this is the good part -- you have to open it
Floyd | with the *handle*.  Unbelievable!
Floyd |
Floyd |    The refrigerator is currently open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "close refrigerator" 		

Floyd | Closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in it" 		

Floyd | You'll have to open the refrigerator first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh."
		genericgeekgirl says, "It's empty."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open refrigerator" 		

Floyd | Opened.  There doesn't appear to be anything in the refrigerator.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open freezer" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "freezer".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "We took it all."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "close fridge" 		

Floyd | Closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fridge" 		

Floyd |    The refrigerator looks to be a model that was popular on Tode 75
Floyd | years ago.  It is functional but the aesthetics could use work -- it's
Floyd | just a basic white box; nothing at all like today's popular day-glo
Floyd | spherical models, and -- this is the good part -- you have to open it
Floyd | with the *handle*.  Unbelievable!
Floyd |
Floyd |    The refrigerator is currently closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x handle" 		

Floyd | You don't know what that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "In the house, it's just the kitchen, living room and hallway, and an upstairs we can't get past."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're in a fairly typical if slightly cramped kitchen.  Here you
Floyd | find the usual appliances:  a refrigerator, an oven with range top
Floyd | burners, and, on the counter, various food processing machines.  The
Floyd | cupboards appear to be well-stocked.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The living room is to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x oven" 		

Floyd | The oven is an old and fairly primitive model, but it looks adequate.
Floyd | There are four burners on the range top.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "We also took all the machines, so that's a lie."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open oven" 		

Floyd | You can't open the oven.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x machines" 		

Floyd | By your standards, the machines are all very old, but they all appear
Floyd | to be functional.  Among them are a mixer, a blender, and an Akmi
Floyd | Slysor Dysor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mixer" 		

Floyd | It's an ordinary kitchen mixer.  Unfortunately, it seems to be missing
Floyd | the metal beaters, and is therefore useless.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x blender" 		

Floyd | It just looks like an average blender.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dysor" 		

Floyd |    The Akmi Slysor Dysor is a fearsome contraption.  With 33 different
Floyd | blades and 194 additional attachements, this thing is a vegetable's
Floyd | worst nightmare.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Designed to be easy to use, the Dysor only has one setting -- "on".
Floyd | It uses patented Akmi Fuz-E Artyfishal Nooral Intellujince to determine
Floyd | the most appropriate action for the item you insert.  Unfortunately,
Floyd | the Dysors tend to prefer pureeing over all other options [19].
Floyd |
Floyd |    It looks like an ordinary Akmi Slysor Dysor.  It is currently
Floyd | running.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn off dysor" 		

Floyd | The machine grinds slowly to a halt.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're in a fairly typical if slightly cramped kitchen.  Here you
Floyd | find the usual appliances:  a refrigerator, an oven with range top
Floyd | burners, and, on the counter, various food processing machines.  The
Floyd | cupboards appear to be well-stocked.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The living room is to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x counter" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV dominates this simply furnished family room -- it's nestled
Floyd | comfortably in the center of the north wall, encased in a boxy dark
Floyd | wood enclosure with feet shaped like those on an old bathtub.  A burly
Floyd | old man is sacked out on the couch here in front of the enterviewer,
Floyd | eyes completely glazed over.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The kitchen is to the south.  A hall leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV features "Gik Masters," a program about catching Giks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ev" 		
Floyd The Akmi Kristl Kleer Kwality PM [17] Enterviewer is visually 		

Floyd | unimpressive, particularly considering you've seen about ten thousand
Floyd | identical models before.  (Akmi sometimes has a hard time letting go
Floyd | once they've found a formula that works.)  It's orange, it's mauve,
Floyd | it's purple.  It's squat and has functionless dimples all over its
Floyd | irregularly shaped bulbous case.  The screen is nearly square and inset
Floyd | at a jaunty angle.  In short, a typical product of the Akmi Aesthetix
Floyd | Division [18].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV has a tuning dial; you can choose from thousands of different
Floyd | stations from across the galaxy.  The dial goes from 1 to 100,000 and
Floyd | is currently set to 778.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV features "Gik Masters," a program about catching Giks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "note 17" 		

Floyd | [17]: PM stands for Photonic Modulation, a technique that converts
Floyd | sound and images into light.  The light is then accelerated to beyond
Floyd | its normal speed via the same mechanism used in matter movers.  (Look,
Floyd | don't ask me, I didn't invent the stuff!)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "note 18" 		

Floyd | [18]: Type "watch ev" to get just a description of what's on the
Floyd | screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | The EV features a show in which viewers in the audience pretend to be
Floyd | famous personalities.  They are very bad actors.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x old man" 		

Floyd |    The old man has typical Foonian features:  light green skin,
Floyd | wine-colored hair and thin, nearly horizontal eyebrows.  He is quite
Floyd | handsome but looks to have weathered a stormy life.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You sense that he is very much alive, but he seems utterly comatose,
Floyd | clutching the EV's remote control with what remains of his life's
Floyd | energy, alone in a world of pictures and sounds from wherever,
Floyd | oblivious to you and this moment, the next, or the last.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You look into those ebony Foonian eyes, searching for the man behind
Floyd | them, but see only the reflected images of the current program.  And
Floyd | there, in his eyes, you see them:  every pixel discrete; every one
Floyd | unique in the infrequent off-air snows, but each now a tiny player in a
Floyd | meticulously but mindlessly orchestrated ever-changing production --
Floyd | each with a role but none of any overall importance.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You turn to look at the EV directly.  And conversely, there lies a
Floyd | reflection of the man.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x remote" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "remote".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x remote control" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "remote".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a stick of butter, a fried SynthEgg, a Akmi
Floyd | Slysor Dysor, a blender, a mixer, a frying pan, a hunk of cheese, an
Floyd | overripe tomato, a piece of salami, a geode, an akmid, a thermos of
Floyd | Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur
Floyd | Gro, a crumpled scrap of paper, a paperback book, a handwritten note,
Floyd | your thesis research floppy disk, a qualitative calculator, an RGB
Floyd | color chart, a full ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard, and a matter mover
Floyd | autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wake man" 		

Floyd | The old man on the couch is not asleep.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to old man" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "talk".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "old man, hi" 		

Floyd | The old man on the couch nods.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask old man about dog" 		

Floyd | The man doesn't even seem to know you're here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask man about daughter" 		

Floyd | The man doesn't even seem to know you're here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask old man about ev" 		

Floyd | Something tells you the Enterviewer (EV) will not be a particularly
Floyd | productive topic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller asks, "Tried turning it off?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn off ev" 		

Floyd | What?  Why would you want to?  Anyway, there's no off switch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "throw geode at ev" 		

Floyd | Throwing things at the Enterviewer (EV) isn't helpful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Was there a remote back at our pod?"
		borowski says, "Huh, maybe. I remember us being able to change stations."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set ev to 1000" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 1000.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | The EV is tuned to Hot Hits 1000, the "newest, coolest, most
Floyd | outrageous" music video station.  Yep, it's pop, 37 hours a day.  Right
Floyd | now you see the video for "Innocence Lost, Paradise Found," by Cherry
Floyd | and Plum Blossom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "yeah, that's the show we had on."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x old man" 		

Floyd |    The old man has typical Foonian features:  light green skin,
Floyd | wine-colored hair and thin, nearly horizontal eyebrows.  He is quite
Floyd | handsome but looks to have weathered a stormy life.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You sense that he is very much alive, but he seems utterly comatose,
Floyd | clutching the EV's remote control with what remains of his life's
Floyd | energy, alone in a world of pictures and sounds from wherever,
Floyd | oblivious to you and this moment, the next, or the last.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You look into those ebony Foonian eyes, searching for the man behind
Floyd | them, but see only the reflected images of the current program.  And
Floyd | there, in his eyes, you see them:  every pixel discrete; every one
Floyd | unique in the infrequent off-air snows, but each now a tiny player in a
Floyd | meticulously but mindlessly orchestrated ever-changing production --
Floyd | each with a role but none of any overall importance.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You turn to look at the EV directly.  And conversely, there lies a
Floyd | reflection of the man.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set ev to 0" 		

Floyd | There's no such setting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set ev to 1" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 1.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | The EV is showing the Kidz Korner, an all-day, all-night children's
Floyd | network.  At the moment you see an advertisement for channel 69, the
Floyd | 37-hour sex network.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set ev to 69" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 69.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | Channel 69, the 37-hour-a-day pornography channel, is currently
Floyd | featuring yet another entirely X-rated romp.  I'm sure you can imagine
Floyd | this quite adequately on your own.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "No, I can't. The details quite elude me."
		mwmiller asks, "Hm. Synergy?"
		borowski says, ">DETAILS, PLEASE"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set ev to 69105" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 69105.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | The EV's getting two overlapping signals, the result being that you
Floyd | can't make much out except an occasional "Gilligan!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV dominates this simply furnished family room -- it's nestled
Floyd | comfortably in the center of the north wall, encased in a boxy dark
Floyd | wood enclosure with feet shaped like those on an old bathtub.  A burly
Floyd | old man is sacked out on the couch here in front of the enterviewer,
Floyd | eyes completely glazed over.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The kitchen is to the south.  A hall leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV's getting two overlapping signals, the result being that you
Floyd | can't make much out except an occasional "Gilligan!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "We can also go east."
		DavidW says, "Possibly there's one channel which would be helpful."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Inside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in the entrance hallway of the Elwood farmhouse.
Floyd | The hardwood floors creak as you walk upon them, and the earthy, rustic
Floyd | decor delights your jaded cosmopolitan senses.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The front door is in the east wall.  Ahead, to the west, is the
Floyd | living room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x floors" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything unusual about the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x decor" 		

Floyd | The decor is charming.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" 		

Floyd | It's just an ordinary wooden door.  It looks quite old but sturdy
Floyd | enough.  It is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV dominates this simply furnished family room -- it's nestled
Floyd | comfortably in the center of the north wall, encased in a boxy dark
Floyd | wood enclosure with feet shaped like those on an old bathtub.  A burly
Floyd | old man is sacked out on the couch here in front of the enterviewer,
Floyd | eyes completely glazed over.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The kitchen is to the south.  A hall leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV's getting two overlapping signals, the result being that you
Floyd | can't make much out except an occasional "Gilligan!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Hall
Floyd |
Floyd |    This narrow hall is similar to the one at the farmhouse entrance.  A
Floyd | wooden staircase leads up from here; unfortunately, it also leads up to
Floyd | a protective-looking dog who is currently barking his head off at you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    At the end of the hall, further west, is the back door.  It looks
Floyd | like it's been sealed shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dog" 		

Floyd |    It's an annoying but spirited pooch that looks much like the ones
Floyd | you have on your native Tode.  On Tode you would call this animal a
Floyd | "mutt," but you can't be sure that it's not *supposed* to look like
Floyd | that here.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You get the feeling that it has better vocal cords than fangs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pet dog" 		

Floyd | You can't really get close enough.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "I wonder if the dog puzzle requires something odd. The ship landing puzzle was a little out of the box."
borowski says (to Floyd), "throw tomato" 		

Floyd | (at the dog)
Floyd | You toss the overripe tomato to the dog, who quickly devours it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-09-25-22:20:02CDT 		
borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd |
Floyd |    This narrow hall is similar to the one at the farmhouse entrance.  A
Floyd | wooden staircase leads up from here; unfortunately, it also leads up to
Floyd | a protective-looking dog who is currently barking his head off at you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    At the end of the hall, further west, is the back door.  It looks
Floyd | like it's been sealed shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x back door" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary wooden door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" 		

Floyd | No luck.  It's sealed tight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "throw tomato in living room" 		

Floyd | (trying to see the Living Room first)
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know what you're referring to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give egg to dog" 		

Floyd | You toss the fried SynthEgg to the dog, who quickly devours it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd |
Floyd |    This narrow hall is similar to the one at the farmhouse entrance.  A
Floyd | wooden staircase leads up from here; unfortunately, it also leads up to
Floyd | a protective-looking dog who is currently barking his head off at you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    At the end of the hall, further west, is the back door.  It looks
Floyd | like it's been sealed shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, I know, I know."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give butter to dog" 		

Floyd | You toss the stick of butter to the dog, who quickly devours it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd |
Floyd |    This narrow hall is similar to the one at the farmhouse entrance.  A
Floyd | wooden staircase leads up from here; unfortunately, it also leads up to
Floyd | a protective-looking dog who is currently barking his head off at you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    At the end of the hall, further west, is the back door.  It looks
Floyd | like it's been sealed shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Nope."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "bark" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give pan to dog" 		

Floyd | The animal shows no interest whatsoever.  It doesn't exactly give you
Floyd | the impression that it is a rocket scientist among dogs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "hit dog with pan" 		

Floyd | Hitting things with the frying pan isn't helpful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask dog about man" 		

Floyd | Which man do you mean, the skinny guy wearing oversized glasses with
Floyd | thick lenses, the overweight fellow who hasn't washed recently, the
Floyd | average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts, the Hoppian
Floyd | salesman, or the old man on the couch?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask dog about old man" 		

Floyd | Which old man do you mean, the Hoppian salesman, or the old man on the
Floyd | couch?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask dog about old man on the couch" 		

Floyd | There are words after your command that I couldn't use.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "dog, move" 		

Floyd | Move what?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Ahh!"
		DavidW says, "no that's the parser"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "dog, come here" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "come".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller asks, "'Which man do you mean,' of a bunch of people we haven't encountered yet?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Spoilers~"
		DavidW says, "We met the Hoppian earlier."
		borowski says, "I was thinking maybe there was a hint the dog could talk."
		genericgeekgirl says, "We're going to meet a hipster and Comic Book guy."
		DavidW says, "He didn't have the prune seeds we wanted to buy."
		Binder says, "Just don't ask him about rocket science."
		borowski says, "hooray!"
		Binder asks, "Oh man you still haven't found those prune seeds?"
		DavidW says, "no"
		borowski asks, "We couldn't pay for them, right?"
		DavidW says, "And they weren't there too."
		borowski says, "I thought they turned up at the end. Maybe not."
		DavidW says, "no, only in a disambig question in a conversational context."
		borowski says, "Ah."
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask dog about daughter" 		

Floyd | The animal shows no interest whatsoever.  It doesn't exactly give you
Floyd | the impression that it is a rocket scientist among dogs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "yeah, I was here for a Hoppian interaction (possibly THE &c)"
		mwmiller asks, "So the general trend is that this game's (or TADS's) disambiguation is a bit broken?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "throw geode" 		

Floyd | (at the dog)
Floyd | The animal shows no interest whatsoever.  It doesn't exactly give you
Floyd | the impression that it is a rocket scientist among dogs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "well, it seems that TADS is putting into scope, in the context of conversation commands, objects that aren't otherwise there. That doesn't seem wrong, only misleading."
		borowski says, "There was also an issue where it asked, "Do you mean the geode, or the geode?""
		Binder says, "I guess TADS doesn't practice prior restraint of permissible speech"
		DavidW asks, "Anyway, we seem to be flailing inside the farmhouse. What's outside?"
		borowski says, "Deadly, deadly tombstones."
		DavidW asks, "really?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "knock on back door" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "knock".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV dominates this simply furnished family room -- it's nestled
Floyd | comfortably in the center of the north wall, encased in a boxy dark
Floyd | wood enclosure with feet shaped like those on an old bathtub.  A burly
Floyd | old man is sacked out on the couch here in front of the enterviewer,
Floyd | eyes completely glazed over.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The kitchen is to the south.  A hall leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV's getting two overlapping signals, the result being that you
Floyd | can't make much out except an occasional "Gilligan!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Inside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in the entrance hallway of the Elwood farmhouse.
Floyd | The hardwood floors creak as you walk upon them, and the earthy, rustic
Floyd | decor delights your jaded cosmopolitan senses.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The front door is in the east wall.  Ahead, to the west, is the
Floyd | living room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Outside the Elwood Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing at the wooden front door of the Elwood Farmhouse.
Floyd | A quaintly narrow stone path lined with colorful flowers leads up to
Floyd | the door, flanked on both sides by a well-groomed, vibrant kelly green
Floyd | lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The paint is peeling in places, and the windows could use new
Floyd | shutters, but otherwise the house is in decent shape considering its
Floyd | age -- the design, though simple, suggests architectural trends popular
Floyd | several hundred years ago, before the formation of the Republic [14].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The entrance is to the west.  You might also take a walk around the
Floyd | house to the northwest and southwest.  The stone path leads east, back
Floyd | to the dirt road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Olly says, "Hungry, hungry hippos."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x lawn" 		

Floyd | The lawn looks very healthy, and is a bright kelly color you've never
Floyd | seen in Todian grass.  (And they sure don't have lawns on Frost!)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says (to DavidW), "Yes"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x windows" 		

Floyd | The paint is peeling in places, and the windows could use new shutters,
Floyd | but otherwise the house is in decent shape considering its age -- the
Floyd | design, though simple, suggests architectural trends popular several
Floyd | hundred years ago, before the formation of the Republic [14].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x flowers" 		

Floyd | There are several varieties, with colors ranging from deep purple to
Floyd | almost neon orange.  Having never studied botany, you have no idea what
Floyd | to call them besides "beautiful."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search flowers" 		

Floyd | There are several varieties, with colors ranging from deep purple to
Floyd | almost neon orange.  Having never studied botany, you have no idea what
Floyd | to call them besides "beautiful."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pick orange flower" 		

Floyd | I don't see any orange flower here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pick flower" 		

Floyd | You don't know what that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | At a Garden Outside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here on the north side of the farmhouse is a large garden full of
Floyd | yummy-looking treats.  The soil has been recently tilled and smells
Floyd | wonderfully rich, and from the looks of it supports the vegetables
Floyd | planted in it far better than any Todian earth could.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You've heard plenty of stories about the near-magical fertility of
Floyd | the Foonian soil, but this close-up demonstration really drives the
Floyd | point home.  The goodies here are all oversized and delicious-looking.
Floyd | You suspect that even you, with your limited gardening experience,
Floyd | could grow a prize plant on Foon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here you can head either southeast, to the front of the
Floyd | farmhouse, or southwest, to the rear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm. Strong suggestion to plant seeds, any seeds, here."
		borowski says, "Hmm. I hadn't thought about that."
		borowski says, "Maybe we can plant plums, grow them, and make prunes."
		Binder says (to borowski), "I was midway through typing that. Well thought."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dirt" 		

Floyd | The garden is very impressive, with vegetables of all varieties.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x vegetables" 		

Floyd | There are many different kinds.  All are bigger and tastier-looking
Floyd | than their Todian counterparts.  Actually, this is starting to make you
Floyd | feel hungry!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put goodies in blender" 		

Floyd | (trying to take the vegetables first)
Floyd |
Floyd | Much as you'd like to, your moral upbringing prevents you from ripping
Floyd | off the Elwoods [15].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says (to Binder), "Thanks."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "note 15" 		

Floyd | [15]: I don't want to hear any complaining, by the way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd | Behind the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the grassy lawn behind the farmhouse.  The lawn
Floyd | is quite big by Todian standards, but is made to look rather
Floyd | insignificant by the vast expanse of crops that border it on all sides.
Floyd | It's times like these that you wish your folks didn't live in the city
Floyd | -- Tode's so crowded and noisy compared to places like this.  But then
Floyd | again, maybe Foon's a bit *too* rural...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The farmhouse has a back door, but it doesn't look like it gets much
Floyd | use.  Given that, you suspect that the only ways to go from here are
Floyd | back around the house to the northeast and southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a little tombstone in the ground nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "What a judgey footnote"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" 		

Floyd | The door is made of wood, and from the looks of it very old.  It
Floyd | doesn't look all that secure, but on the other hand it seems to be
Floyd | rusted shut, and you'd guess that it hasn't been opened in years.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" 		

Floyd | No luck.  It's sealed tight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "oil it" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "break door" 		

Floyd | I see no obvious way to do that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "tombstone" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tombstone" 		

Floyd | The tombstone is small, very roughly carved, and made of granite.  It
Floyd | looks to be hundreds of years old.  The weathered inscription on the
Floyd | tombstone reads:
Floyd |
Floyd |    Pierre
Floyd |    1975-1992
Floyd |    Our faithful friend.
Floyd |    Rest in peace.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Wait, is that a ghost dog we saw?"
		Binder says, "I wonder if time travel or temporal-impact of objects plays into this somewhere."
		DavidW says (to borowski), "hm? I remember no ghost."
		DavidW says, "This does sound like a dog's grave, though."
		Binder says, "The dog who's not a rocket scientist"
		borowski says, "Now I'm thinking it might be real person, and I feel bad for making a ghost dog joke."
		borowski says, "Maybe that's why the game killed us."
		Binder says, "So much for our well-raised sense of morals."
%%% # MARK: 2012-09-25-22:35:02CDT 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig tombstone" 		

Floyd | With what?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hand" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "hand".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x grave" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "grave".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crops" 		

Floyd | They just look like typical crops, albeit very healthy ones.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search tombstone" 		

Floyd | The tombstone is small, very roughly carved, and made of granite.  It
Floyd | looks to be hundreds of years old.  The weathered inscription on the
Floyd | tombstone reads:
Floyd |
Floyd |    Pierre
Floyd |    1975-1992
Floyd |    Our faithful friend.
Floyd |    Rest in peace.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" 		

Floyd | It's GRANITE.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Behind the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the grassy lawn behind the farmhouse.  The lawn
Floyd | is quite big by Todian standards, but is made to look rather
Floyd | insignificant by the vast expanse of crops that border it on all sides.
Floyd | It's times like these that you wish your folks didn't live in the city
Floyd | -- Tode's so crowded and noisy compared to places like this.  But then
Floyd | again, maybe Foon's a bit *too* rural...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The farmhouse has a back door, but it doesn't look like it gets much
Floyd | use.  Given that, you suspect that the only ways to go from here are
Floyd | back around the house to the northeast and southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a little tombstone in the ground nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "kick grave" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "grave".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "kick tombstone" 		

Floyd | Someone in a position of extreme power relative to you in this game
Floyd | doesn't like your attitude at all.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You have died.  Needless to say, this puts a permanent damper on
Floyd | your efforts to save the galaxy.
Floyd |
Floyd | In 329 turns, you have earned 13 points out of a possible 75.
Floyd | You have completed approximately 23 percent of the game.
Floyd | You haven't used any hints.
Floyd |
Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, quit, or undo the current
Floyd | command.
Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, QUIT, or UNDO:  >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lawn" 		

Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, QUIT, or UNDO:  >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the grassy lawn behind the farmhouse.  The lawn
Floyd | is quite big by Todian standards, but is made to look rather
Floyd | insignificant by the vast expanse of crops that border it on all sides.
Floyd | It's times like these that you wish your folks didn't live in the city
Floyd | -- Tode's so crowded and noisy compared to places like this.  But then
Floyd | again, maybe Foon's a bit *too* rural...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The farmhouse has a back door, but it doesn't look like it gets much
Floyd | use.  Given that, you suspect that the only ways to go from here are
Floyd | back around the house to the northeast and southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a little tombstone in the ground nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Please don't kick the gravestone, don't kick the gravestone, don't kick the gravestone, please, please,..."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | At the Tire Swing Outside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You have walked around to the south side of the farmhouse, and find
Floyd | yourself confronted with a giant oak-like tree [16].  The tree has a
Floyd | tire swing attached to it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here you can head either northeast or northwest, towards the
Floyd | front and rear of the house, respectively.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "note 16" 		

Floyd | [16]: "Oak-like" because you doubt it's the same variety of tree that
Floyd | you call an oak back home on Tode.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tree" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary giant oak-like tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb it" 		

Floyd | There are no branches low enough for you to grab onto.  There is,
Floyd | however, a rope tied to one branch.  You might try climbing up the
Floyd | rope.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb rope" 		

Floyd | You pull yourself up with your arms and legs, and slowly reach the top.
Floyd |
Floyd | Up the Oak-Like Tree
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your precarious perch high in the tree affords you a spectacular
Floyd | view of the surrounding environs.  You now see the tremendous expanse
Floyd | of crops on just Elwood Farm alone -- the land is a patchwork as far as
Floyd | the eye can see.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You spot the dirt road leading up to the farmhouse; a store past a
Floyd | bend in the road; and the local matter mover, which doesn't seem to get
Floyd | much traffic.
Floyd |
Floyd |    High above you, on a far away branch, is a little bird's nest.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a poodle charm hanging from a nearby branch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x charm" 		

Floyd |    It's a little gold charm shaped like a poodle.  It looks like it's
Floyd | quite old -- the edges are somewhat worn and it could use a good
Floyd | polishing.  The word "Pierre" is engraved on the back.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a piece of string tied to the charm, making it into a
Floyd | simple necklace.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "hooray!"
		DavidW asks, "Okay, is this new?"
		genericgeekgirl exclaims, "Aha!"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take charm" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take string" 		

Floyd | You already have the piece of string.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "tie string to akmid" 		

Floyd | You can't tie to the piece of string to the akmid without untying it
Floyd | from something else first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "untie string" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "tie string to akmid" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl cheers!
		borowski says, "Hooray! And it was a dog!"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Now we can go cheat the machine."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x charm" 		

Floyd |    It's a little gold charm shaped like a poodle.  It looks like it's
Floyd | quite old -- the edges are somewhat worn and it could use a good
Floyd | polishing.  The word "Pierre" is engraved on the back.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Space Morals!"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Pierre was a very old poodle."
		DavidW says, "hm. Old man or tombstone or dog might want that."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "rub charm" 		

Floyd | Ok, you just rubbed the poodle charm.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Huh. Maybe we could put it on the grave?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "polish charm" 		

Floyd | Your efforts to clean the poodle charm have little effect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "maybe"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x nest" 		

Floyd | It's just a little bird's nest, made of typical bird's nest materials
Floyd | like twigs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in it" 		

Floyd | The bird's nest is too far away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd | Think again; it's a long way down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake tree" 		

Floyd | Waving the branch doesn't seem to do much.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x branch" 		

Floyd | Carved in the bark is the phrase, "Gavin Kelly luvs Ada Man 4Ever".
Floyd | Have you been here before or something?  What an incredible
Floyd | coincidence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Yeah, I was thinking dog at first, but the charm isn't his/hers."
		DavidW blinks at carving
		borowski says, "aww"
		DavidW asks, "Isn't Gavin Kelly our character's name?"
		Binder says, "I'll count that as more data for my crazy hypothesis."
		borowski asks (of Binder), "What's that?"
		Binder says, "Time travel or some sort of time warp thing."
		borowski says, "Ah."
		Binder says, "I honestly have no idea, I'm really guessing. There's just this vibe of 'very old things' or 'have to wait a long time for something' in these places."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take nest" 		

Floyd | The nest is far out of reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "Could be simply atmosphere and writer style, I haven't played any of the other works by this author"
		DavidW says, "also, Ada Man is our gf's name, I think."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rope" 		

Floyd | The rope is tied to the branch here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "untie rope" 		

Floyd | Somehow I don't think untying the rope would be a good idea.  It's your
Floyd | only way down, you know.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw geode at nest" 		

Floyd | The bird's nest is too far away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I can't think of a way to get at the nest right now."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Up the Oak-Like Tree
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your precarious perch high in the tree affords you a spectacular
Floyd | view of the surrounding environs.  You now see the tremendous expanse
Floyd | of crops on just Elwood Farm alone -- the land is a patchwork as far as
Floyd | the eye can see.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You spot the dirt road leading up to the farmhouse; a store past a
Floyd | bend in the road; and the local matter mover, which doesn't seem to get
Floyd | much traffic.
Floyd |
Floyd |    High above you, on a far away branch, is a little bird's nest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd | Think again; it's a long way down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x store" 		

Floyd | You can't tell much about it from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x farm" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
mwmiller goes home. 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd | You slide down the rope, being careful not to get rope burns.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Tire Swing Outside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You have walked around to the south side of the farmhouse, and find
Floyd | yourself confronted with a giant oak-like tree [16].  The tree has a
Floyd | tire swing attached to it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here you can head either northeast or northwest, towards the
Floyd | front and rear of the house, respectively.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tire" 		

Floyd | It's just an ordinary tire.  It's very worn; so much so that the
Floyd | manufacturer's name isn't legible anymore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search it" 		

Floyd | It's just an ordinary tire.  It's very worn; so much so that the
Floyd | manufacturer's name isn't legible anymore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "swing it" 		

Floyd | You can't swing on that!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ride it" 		

Floyd | Eh?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "get in tire" 		

Floyd | You're now sitting in the tire swing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "swing" 		

Floyd | (the tire swing)
Floyd | You get a little momentum going and swing around in a wide circle.
Floyd | There's not enough room to really get going though, and besides that
Floyd | you're afraid you might crash into the farmhouse or the tree.  These
Floyd | things can be dangerous, you know!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | You get a little momentum going and swing around in a wide circle.
Floyd | There's not enough room to really get going though, and besides that
Floyd | you're afraid you might crash into the farmhouse or the tree.  These
Floyd | things can be dangerous, you know!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd | You fold your limbs into the uncomfortable configuration required to
Floyd | exit the tire swing.  You're a bit big for this kind of thing, you
Floyd | know.
Floyd |
Floyd | (You stand up)
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Tire Swing Outside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You have walked around to the south side of the farmhouse, and find
Floyd | yourself confronted with a giant oak-like tree [16].  The tree has a
Floyd | tire swing attached to it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here you can head either northeast or northwest, towards the
Floyd | front and rear of the house, respectively.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "untie rope" 		

Floyd | You'll have to get to where the knot is first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "untie tire" 		

Floyd | You can't untie the tire.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x knot" 		

Floyd | The rope looks stong.  It was not made by Akmi; they've been out of the
Floyd | rope business for a *long* time.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "untie knot" 		

Floyd | You'll have to get to where the knot is first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I guess the only knot is at the top."
		borowski says, "Ah, right."
		DavidW says, "I thought maybe the tire itself might be useful somehow, as a raft."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a piece of string (tied to the akmid), a
Floyd | poodle charm, a stick of butter, a fried SynthEgg, a Akmi Slysor Dysor,
Floyd | a blender, a mixer, a frying pan, a hunk of cheese, an overripe tomato,
Floyd | a piece of salami, a geode, an akmid (tied to the piece of string), a
Floyd | thermos of Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi
Floyd | Soopur Wundur Gro, a crumpled scrap of paper, a paperback book, a
Floyd | handwritten note, your thesis research floppy disk, a qualitative
Floyd | calculator, an RGB color chart, a full ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard,
Floyd | and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "well, I think we should try our luck with the crane machine." 		

Floyd | Nothing matching that vocabulary can hear you.I don't know the word
Floyd | "we".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Also, don't forget we fried our egg and might have to restore before that."
		borowski says, "Yeah."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd | Outside the Elwood Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing at the wooden front door of the Elwood Farmhouse.
Floyd | A quaintly narrow stone path lined with colorful flowers leads up to
Floyd | the door, flanked on both sides by a well-groomed, vibrant kelly green
Floyd | lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The paint is peeling in places, and the windows could use new
Floyd | shutters, but otherwise the house is in decent shape considering its
Floyd | age -- the design, though simple, suggests architectural trends popular
Floyd | several hundred years ago, before the formation of the Republic [14].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The entrance is to the west.  You might also take a walk around the
Floyd | house to the northwest and southwest.  The stone path leads east, back
Floyd | to the dirt road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Outside Elwood Farm
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing a few hundred yards away from a modest-sized
Floyd | farmhouse.  You gather from the posted sign that this is Elwood Farm,
Floyd | and that the corn lining the dirt road you came in on belongs to the
Floyd | Elwoods.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here, the building itself seems fairly well maintained, but
Floyd | could use a good painting.  The sizes of the carefully placed trees in
Floyd | the front yard give you the impression that people have lived on this
Floyd | plot of land for hundreds of years.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The farmhouse is to the west.  Head east and you're back at the
Floyd | local matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x corn" 		

Floyd | It's just typical Foonian corn.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "I'm hoping that most of these objects are red herrings. It's a lot of stuff."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sign" 		

Floyd | The sign says, "Elwood Farm."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x trees" 		

Floyd | The trees are all at least 20 meters tall, and their trunks are
Floyd | immense.  Not being familiar with Foonian flora, you don't know what
Floyd | they're called, but suffice it to say that they're quite similar in
Floyd | appearance to the one's you're used to back home on Tode, except that
Floyd | the leaves are somewhat bluish.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb trees" 		

Floyd | You can't climb the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x leaves" 		

Floyd | The leaves look normal, except that they're bluish.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take leaf" 		

Floyd | You can't take the tree leaves.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "count leaves" 		

Floyd | You see one (1) tree leaves.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take corn" 		

Floyd | You can't take the corn.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-09-25-22:50:02CDT 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | A dirt road
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing outside a matter mover right next to a dirt road.
Floyd | The weather is lovely here, if a bit humid, and the sky is a stunningly
Floyd | pure blue-green.  There is a crispness and freshness to the air here
Floyd | that you've never before experienced.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road is extremely narrow, and runs right through a corn field.
Floyd | It seems like the road has no business being here, but is a necessary
Floyd | nuisance.  It's clear that priorities are different on Foon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road leads east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | On a Dirt Road
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the dirt road, now quite far from the matter mover.
Floyd | Tracks from some land vehicle begin here and lead east, around a bend,
Floyd | but the corn that lines the road blocks your view past the turn.  The
Floyd | matter mover is to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Outside "Elwood's Eats"
Floyd |
Floyd |    A poorly painted sign nailed at an angle to the tiny building north
Floyd | of you reads, "Elwood's Eats."  Though the current lack of patronage
Floyd | might suggest otherwise, you suspect that the food served inside might
Floyd | actually be good, considering that you're literally surrounded by
Floyd | vegetation.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The building looks like it's on the verge of collapse, and you're
Floyd | sure the roof might cave in at any second.  Still, it has a certain
Floyd | rustic charm, and you feel compelled to go inside.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Tire tracks in the road lead up to the store from the west.  You can
Floyd | also head farther east down the road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" 		

Floyd | Inside "Elwood's Eats"
Floyd |
Floyd |    Oddly enough, no one seems to be minding the store; it really *must*
Floyd | be a slow day.  There are several aisles of food on ragged wooden
Floyd | shelves here, most of it standard household dry goods and canned items.
Floyd | There's also a counter behind which you expect the owner would normally
Floyd | be right now, and above which hangs a board with a menu and prices on
Floyd | it, given in oversized, green, poorly kerned magnetic letters.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The store smells wonderfully earthy, and the floor and walls are all
Floyd | wooden, which adds to the homey feel -- this store definitely has
Floyd | character.  The only thing that looks out of place is a mechanical
Floyd | carnival game, which is off in one corner.  You notice with tremendous
Floyd | glee that it has no galacticard slot -- it only takes coins.  This part
Floyd | of the galaxy is so quaint!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf13" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "smell" 		

Floyd | You don't smell anything unusual.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x board" 		

Floyd | The menu lists the usual things:  sandwiches, beverages, side orders,
Floyd | etc.  Nothing particularly exciting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take letters" 		

Floyd | You can't take the Elwood's Eats menu board.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "I came here to try the crane machine. Does anyone want to go first?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "put coin in machine" 		

Floyd | You snicker to yourself maniacally as you drop the coin in the slot.
Floyd | The machine burbles a bit and then chimes as it registers a credit.
Floyd | You grab the string and carefully pull the coin back out of the
Floyd | machine.  You devil, you.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 4 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    A little display near the coin slot reads "CREDITS:  1."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "yay snickering maniacally"
		borowski says, "heh"
borowski says (to Floyd), "play game" 		

Floyd |    Having never had any practise at this particular exercise, you fail
Floyd | miserably.  The crane swings about wildly as you struggle desperately
Floyd | to control it.  You hardly get the hang of opening and closing the
Floyd | grabber when your time is up.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Too bad.  You have the feeling that if you just played a few more
Floyd | games you'd get good enough to grab some of the loot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put coin in machine" 		

Floyd | You snicker to yourself maniacally as you drop the coin in the slot.
Floyd | The machine burbles a bit and then chimes as it registers a credit.
Floyd | You grab the string and carefully pull the coin back out of the
Floyd | machine.  You devil, you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A little display near the coin slot reads "CREDITS:  1."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "play game" 		

Floyd | You do a bit better the second time out.  You manage to steer the crane
Floyd | around and lower it into the pile of goods.  Actually getting the
Floyd | grabber around an item, however, is pretty tricky.  You don't come up
Floyd | with anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put coin in machine" 		

Floyd | You snicker to yourself maniacally as you drop the coin in the slot.
Floyd | The machine burbles a bit and then chimes as it registers a credit.
Floyd | You grab the string and carefully pull the coin back out of the
Floyd | machine.  You devil, you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A little display near the coin slot reads "CREDITS:  1."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "play game" 		

Floyd | Now you're cooking -- you quickly drop the crane into the wares and
Floyd | grab a little whistle.  Half way to the chute, though, the pesky thing
Floyd | rolls right off and back into the pile.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put coin in machine" 		

Floyd | You snicker to yourself maniacally as you drop the coin in the slot.
Floyd | The machine burbles a bit and then chimes as it registers a credit.
Floyd | You grab the string and carefully pull the coin back out of the
Floyd | machine.  You devil, you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A little display near the coin slot reads "CREDITS:  1."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "play game" 		

Floyd | Got one!  No, wait, wait!  AIIIEEE!  Dropped right off the grabber at
Floyd | the last second.  Maybe next time...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put coin in machine" 		

Floyd | You snicker to yourself maniacally as you drop the coin in the slot.
Floyd | The machine burbles a bit and then chimes as it registers a credit.
Floyd | You grab the string and carefully pull the coin back out of the
Floyd | machine.  You devil, you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A little display near the coin slot reads "CREDITS:  1."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "play game" 		

Floyd |    You whip the crane over an easy-to-get item and grab it with
Floyd | breathtaking poise and skill.  Moments later you drop it into the chute
Floyd | and it lands at your feet.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's a plastic whistle!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x whistle" 		

Floyd | It's just a cheap plastic whistle.  It's bright green and more than
Floyd | loud enough to annoy parents.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "blow whistle" 		

Floyd | You blow into the whistle and nearly deafen yourself in the process.
Floyd | Pretty impressive for form-molded plastic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put coin in machine.play game" 		

Floyd | You snicker to yourself maniacally as you drop the coin in the slot.
Floyd | The machine burbles a bit and then chimes as it registers a credit.
Floyd | You grab the string and carefully pull the coin back out of the
Floyd | machine.  You devil, you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A little display near the coin slot reads "CREDITS:  1."
Floyd |
Floyd | Got one!  No, wait, wait!  AIIIEEE!  Dropped right off the grabber at
Floyd | the last second.  Maybe next time...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh. Thought it might be a dog whistle."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put coin in machine.play game" 		

Floyd | You snicker to yourself maniacally as you drop the coin in the slot.
Floyd | The machine burbles a bit and then chimes as it registers a credit.
Floyd | You grab the string and carefully pull the coin back out of the
Floyd | machine.  You devil, you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A little display near the coin slot reads "CREDITS:  1."
Floyd |
Floyd | Got one!  No, wait, wait!  AIIIEEE!  Dropped right off the grabber at
Floyd | the last second.  Maybe next time...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put coin in machine.play game" 		

Floyd | You snicker to yourself maniacally as you drop the coin in the slot.
Floyd | The machine burbles a bit and then chimes as it registers a credit.
Floyd | You grab the string and carefully pull the coin back out of the
Floyd | machine.  You devil, you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A little display near the coin slot reads "CREDITS:  1."
Floyd |
Floyd |    You whip the crane over an easy-to-get item and grab it with
Floyd | breathtaking poise and skill.  Moments later you drop it into the chute
Floyd | and it lands at your feet.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's a mood ring!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x ring" 		

Floyd | It's supposed to change colors according to your mood when you wear it,
Floyd | though you suspect that it's really just random.  Right now it is
Floyd | black.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear ring" 		

Floyd | (taking the mood ring first)
Floyd | You are now wearing the mood ring.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ooooh."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x ring" 		

Floyd | It's supposed to change colors according to your mood when you wear it,
Floyd | though you suspect that it's really just random.  Right now it is
Floyd | fluorescent blue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put coin in machine" 		

Floyd | You snicker to yourself maniacally as you drop the coin in the slot.
Floyd | The machine burbles a bit and then chimes as it registers a credit.
Floyd | You grab the string and carefully pull the coin back out of the
Floyd | machine.  You devil, you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A little display near the coin slot reads "CREDITS:  1."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "We're happy."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "play game" 		

Floyd |    You whip the crane over an easy-to-get item and grab it with
Floyd | breathtaking poise and skill.  Moments later you drop it into the chute
Floyd | and it lands at your feet.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's a firecracker!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take firecracker" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it" 		

Floyd | It's just a little red firecracker with a long fuse.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Dang, I was hoping it was a dog whistle."
		DavidW asks, "Three prizes so far. Who's next?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "put coin in machine" 		

Floyd | You snicker to yourself maniacally as you drop the coin in the slot.
Floyd | The machine burbles a bit and then chimes as it registers a credit.
Floyd | You grab the string and carefully pull the coin back out of the
Floyd | machine.  You devil, you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A little display near the coin slot reads "CREDITS:  1."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "play game" 		

Floyd |    You whip the crane over an easy-to-get item and grab it with
Floyd | breathtaking poise and skill.  Moments later you drop it into the chute
Floyd | and it lands at your feet.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's some Akmi Wacki Putti!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "take putti" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x putti" 		

Floyd |    The Akmi Wacki Putti is a freak of materials science.  It's bright
Floyd | pink and molds easily.  Easily, that is, when it's not runny, which it
Floyd | seems to become at random times.  Suffice it to say that the stuff is
Floyd | pretty disgusting.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Wacki Putti is currently firm.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put coin in machine.play game" 		

Floyd | You snicker to yourself maniacally as you drop the coin in the slot.
Floyd | The machine burbles a bit and then chimes as it registers a credit.
Floyd | You grab the string and carefully pull the coin back out of the
Floyd | machine.  You devil, you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A little display near the coin slot reads "CREDITS:  1."
Floyd |
Floyd |    You whip the crane over an easy-to-get item and grab it with
Floyd | breathtaking poise and skill.  Moments later you drop it into the chute
Floyd | and it lands at your feet.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's a plastic plover's egg!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x egg" 		

Floyd | Which egg do you mean, the plastic plover's egg, or the fried SynthEgg?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x plover's egg" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary plover's egg, except that it's made of
Floyd | plastic.  Tiny letters along a seam say, "C&W Model Y2.  Plugh Mfg.
Floyd | Co."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take egg" 		

Floyd | Which egg do you mean, the plastic plover's egg, or the fried SynthEgg?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take plover's egg" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open plover's egg" 		

Floyd | You can't open the plastic plover's egg.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put coin in machine" 		

Floyd | You snicker to yourself maniacally as you drop the coin in the slot.
Floyd | The machine burbles a bit and then chimes as it registers a credit.
Floyd | You grab the string and carefully pull the coin back out of the
Floyd | machine.  You devil, you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A little display near the coin slot reads "CREDITS:  1."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a plastic plover's egg, some Akmi Wacki
Floyd | Putti, a firecracker, a mood ring (being worn), a piece of string (tied
Floyd | to the akmid), a poodle charm, a stick of butter, a fried SynthEgg, a
Floyd | Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a mixer, a frying pan, a hunk of cheese,
Floyd | an overripe tomato, a piece of salami, a geode, an akmid (tied to the
Floyd | piece of string), a thermos of Barfee advanced growth formula
Floyd | QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a crumpled scrap of paper,
Floyd | a paperback book, a handwritten note, your thesis research floppy disk,
Floyd | a qualitative calculator, an RGB color chart, a full ReVoLT Kola can, a
Floyd | Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "play game" 		

Floyd |    You whip the crane over an easy-to-get item and grab it with
Floyd | breathtaking poise and skill.  Moments later you drop it into the chute
Floyd | and it lands at your feet.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's a magnetic letter Q!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take whistle" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take q" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Despite blowing the whistle, we didn't have it."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x letter q" 		

Floyd | It's a plastic green letter Q with a magnet on the back.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "I thought it might have been automatic."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x board" 		

Floyd | The menu lists the usual things:  sandwiches, beverages, side orders,
Floyd | etc.  Nothing particularly exciting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put q on board" 		

Floyd | You can't put anything on the Elwood's Eats menu board.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put coin in machine" 		

Floyd | You snicker to yourself maniacally as you drop the coin in the slot.
Floyd | The machine burbles a bit and then chimes as it registers a credit.
Floyd | You grab the string and carefully pull the coin back out of the
Floyd | machine.  You devil, you.

		DavidW says, "I can't immediately think of a likely sign shenanigan with a Q."

Floyd |
Floyd |    A little display near the coin slot reads "CREDITS:  1."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "play game" 		

Floyd | You try to snag a prize, but there's just nothing left that's easily
Floyd | accessible.  May I point out, however, that you've already gotten more
Floyd | than your money's worth.  Best to quit while you're ahead, before the
Floyd | management finds out what you've been doing...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "uh-oh. That sounds like a warning."
		borowski says, "Management is watching the EV..."
borowski says (to Floyd), "put coin in machine" 		

Floyd | You snicker to yourself maniacally as you drop the coin in the slot.
Floyd | The machine burbles a bit and then chimes as it registers a credit.
Floyd | You grab the string and carefully pull the coin back out of the
Floyd | machine.  You devil, you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A little display near the coin slot reads "CREDITS:  1."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "play game" 		

Floyd | Got one!  No, wait, wait!  AIIIEEE!  Dropped right off the grabber at
Floyd | the last second.  Maybe next time...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I can't think of any immediate use for these toys, but I bet at least the firecracker is useful later."
		borowski asks, "Maybe we can deal with the dog now?"
		borowski says, "That might be too easy."
		DavidW says, "maybe, maybe not"
		DavidW says, "The whistle might help with the old man too."
		borowski says, "Right."
		DavidW asks, "The putti... that might help us take a casting of something. Maybe to dupe a key?"
		DavidW says, "Or to plug a leak."
borowski says (to Floyd), "press putti on book" 		

Floyd | You can't do that, because that verb requires a double-quoted string or
Floyd | a number.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put putti on book" 		

Floyd | You can't put anything on the paperback book.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Maybe make a copy of print?"
		DavidW says, "maybe, but less likely, I think."
		borowski says, "Yeah."
		DavidW says, "Also, I hope this doesn't wreck our inventory limit too much."
%%% # MARK: 2012-09-25-23:05:02CDT 		borowski asks, "Check out the house again?"
		DavidW says, "The mood ring might help us navigate a maze, or tradeable to someone, but most likely is just pretty."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x ring" 		

Floyd | It's supposed to change colors according to your mood when you wear it,
Floyd | though you suspect that it's really just random.  Right now it is light
Floyd | obsidian.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "yeah, please"
borowski says (to Floyd), "exit" 		

Floyd | Outside "Elwood's Eats"
Floyd |
Floyd |    A poorly painted sign nailed at an angle to the tiny building north
Floyd | of you reads, "Elwood's Eats."  Though the current lack of patronage
Floyd | might suggest otherwise, you suspect that the food served inside might
Floyd | actually be good, considering that you're literally surrounded by
Floyd | vegetation.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The building looks like it's on the verge of collapse, and you're
Floyd | sure the roof might cave in at any second.  Still, it has a certain
Floyd | rustic charm, and you feel compelled to go inside.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Tire tracks in the road lead up to the store from the west.  You can
Floyd | also head farther east down the road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | On a Dirt Road
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the dirt road, now quite far from the matter mover.
Floyd | Tracks from some land vehicle begin here and lead east, around a bend,
Floyd | but the corn that lines the road blocks your view past the turn.  The
Floyd | matter mover is to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | A dirt road
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing outside a matter mover right next to a dirt road.
Floyd | The weather is lovely here, if a bit humid, and the sky is a stunningly
Floyd | pure blue-green.  There is a crispness and freshness to the air here
Floyd | that you've never before experienced.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road is extremely narrow, and runs right through a corn field.
Floyd | It seems like the road has no business being here, but is a necessary
Floyd | nuisance.  It's clear that priorities are different on Foon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road leads east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Outside Elwood Farm
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing a few hundred yards away from a modest-sized
Floyd | farmhouse.  You gather from the posted sign that this is Elwood Farm,
Floyd | and that the corn lining the dirt road you came in on belongs to the
Floyd | Elwoods.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here, the building itself seems fairly well maintained, but
Floyd | could use a good painting.  The sizes of the carefully placed trees in
Floyd | the front yard give you the impression that people have lived on this
Floyd | plot of land for hundreds of years.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The farmhouse is to the west.  Head east and you're back at the
Floyd | local matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Outside the Elwood Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing at the wooden front door of the Elwood Farmhouse.
Floyd | A quaintly narrow stone path lined with colorful flowers leads up to
Floyd | the door, flanked on both sides by a well-groomed, vibrant kelly green
Floyd | lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The paint is peeling in places, and the windows could use new
Floyd | shutters, but otherwise the house is in decent shape considering its
Floyd | age -- the design, though simple, suggests architectural trends popular
Floyd | several hundred years ago, before the formation of the Republic [14].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The entrance is to the west.  You might also take a walk around the
Floyd | house to the northwest and southwest.  The stone path leads east, back
Floyd | to the dirt road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Inside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in the entrance hallway of the Elwood farmhouse.
Floyd | The hardwood floors creak as you walk upon them, and the earthy, rustic
Floyd | decor delights your jaded cosmopolitan senses.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The front door is in the east wall.  Ahead, to the west, is the
Floyd | living room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV dominates this simply furnished family room -- it's nestled
Floyd | comfortably in the center of the north wall, encased in a boxy dark
Floyd | wood enclosure with feet shaped like those on an old bathtub.  A burly
Floyd | old man is sacked out on the couch here in front of the enterviewer,
Floyd | eyes completely glazed over.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The kitchen is to the south.  A hall leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV's getting two overlapping signals, the result being that you
Floyd | can't make much out except an occasional "Gilligan!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "blow whistle" 		

Floyd | You blow into the whistle and nearly deafen yourself in the process.
Floyd | Pretty impressive for form-molded plastic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "light firecracker" 		

Floyd | A fine idea, but how do you propose to do it?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "No matches or lighter yet."
		borowski says, "I suppose the stove might work."
		DavidW says, "I doubt it's to be used here."
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Hall
Floyd |
Floyd |    This narrow hall is similar to the one at the farmhouse entrance.  A
Floyd | wooden staircase leads up from here; unfortunately, it also leads up to
Floyd | a protective-looking dog who is currently barking his head off at you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    At the end of the hall, further west, is the back door.  It looks
Floyd | like it's been sealed shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "blow whistle" 		

Floyd | You blow into the whistle and nearly deafen yourself in the process.
Floyd | Pretty impressive for form-molded plastic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "But if you save, you can experiment of course."
borowski says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV dominates this simply furnished family room -- it's nestled
Floyd | comfortably in the center of the north wall, encased in a boxy dark
Floyd | wood enclosure with feet shaped like those on an old bathtub.  A burly
Floyd | old man is sacked out on the couch here in front of the enterviewer,
Floyd | eyes completely glazed over.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The kitchen is to the south.  A hall leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV's getting two overlapping signals, the result being that you
Floyd | can't make much out except an occasional "Gilligan!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Maybe I will..."
borowski says (to Floyd), "press save" 		

Floyd | I don't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
borowski says (to Floyd), "cf14" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're in a fairly typical if slightly cramped kitchen.  Here you
Floyd | find the usual appliances:  a refrigerator, an oven with range top
Floyd | burners, and, on the counter, various food processing machines.  The
Floyd | cupboards appear to be well-stocked.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The living room is to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "light firecracker" 		

Floyd | A fine idea, but how do you propose to do it?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I'm thinking, if the back door was opened, the dog might run outside to the graveyard."
borowski says (to Floyd), "burner" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "light firecracker with burner" 		

Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Also, don't forget about the poodle charm."
borowski says (to Floyd), "turn on burner" 		

Floyd | You turn on one of the burners.  It heats up rapidly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "light firecracker with burner" 		

Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put firecracker on burner" 		

Floyd | The heat from the burner lights the fuse!  The firecracker makes a
Floyd | little <POP> in the process of vaporizing.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went down by a point.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Ah."
borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're in a fairly typical if slightly cramped kitchen.  Here you
Floyd | find the usual appliances:  a refrigerator, an oven with range top
Floyd | burners, and, on the counter, various food processing machines.  The
Floyd | cupboards appear to be well-stocked.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The living room is to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "score" 		

Floyd | In 442 turns, you have earned 17 points out of a possible 75.
Floyd | You have completed approximately 28 percent of the game.
Floyd | You haven't used any hints.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "That's good to know. Maybe it would have had a similar message if frying the egg was a very bad thing."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah."
		DavidW says, "hm. that would be encouraging."
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV dominates this simply furnished family room -- it's nestled
Floyd | comfortably in the center of the north wall, encased in a boxy dark
Floyd | wood enclosure with feet shaped like those on an old bathtub.  A burly
Floyd | old man is sacked out on the couch here in front of the enterviewer,
Floyd | eyes completely glazed over.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The kitchen is to the south.  A hall leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV's getting two overlapping signals, the result being that you
Floyd | can't make much out except an occasional "Gilligan!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x charm" 		

Floyd |    It's a little gold charm shaped like a poodle.  It looks like it's
Floyd | quite old -- the edges are somewhat worn and it could use a good
Floyd | polishing.  The word "Pierre" is engraved on the back.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set ev to 314" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 314.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | The EV's picking up some of that dreadful SofToonz, Akmi's lame excuse
Floyd | for music, complete with pictures of serene landscapes and moire
Floyd | patterns.  They pipe this kind of drivel into buildings throughout the
Floyd | galaxy because it's been found to excite fewer species than any other
Floyd | kind of stimulation [21].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "note 21" 		

Floyd | [21]: It does have, however, an unusually stimulating effect on the
Floyd | Kuggles of Foon, who use similar sounds in their mating rituals.  This
Floyd | is a seemingly infinite source of amusement for every other species in
Floyd | the galaxy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Where did 314 come from?"
		DavidW says, "I thought of pi"
		borowski says, "Ah."
		DavidW says, "Random guessing."
		borowski asks, "Grave?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show charm to man" 		

Floyd | The man doesn't even seem to know you're here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give charm to man" 		

Floyd | The man doesn't even seem to know you're here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm, ok"
borowski says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Inside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in the entrance hallway of the Elwood farmhouse.
Floyd | The hardwood floors creak as you walk upon them, and the earthy, rustic
Floyd | decor delights your jaded cosmopolitan senses.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The front door is in the east wall.  Ahead, to the west, is the
Floyd | living room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Outside the Elwood Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing at the wooden front door of the Elwood Farmhouse.
Floyd | A quaintly narrow stone path lined with colorful flowers leads up to
Floyd | the door, flanked on both sides by a well-groomed, vibrant kelly green
Floyd | lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The paint is peeling in places, and the windows could use new
Floyd | shutters, but otherwise the house is in decent shape considering its
Floyd | age -- the design, though simple, suggests architectural trends popular
Floyd | several hundred years ago, before the formation of the Republic [14].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The entrance is to the west.  You might also take a walk around the
Floyd | house to the northwest and southwest.  The stone path leads east, back
Floyd | to the dirt road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | At a Garden Outside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here on the north side of the farmhouse is a large garden full of
Floyd | yummy-looking treats.  The soil has been recently tilled and smells
Floyd | wonderfully rich, and from the looks of it supports the vegetables
Floyd | planted in it far better than any Todian earth could.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You've heard plenty of stories about the near-magical fertility of
Floyd | the Foonian soil, but this close-up demonstration really drives the
Floyd | point home.  The goodies here are all oversized and delicious-looking.
Floyd | You suspect that even you, with your limited gardening experience,
Floyd | could grow a prize plant on Foon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here you can head either southeast, to the front of the
Floyd | farmhouse, or southwest, to the rear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd | Behind the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the grassy lawn behind the farmhouse.  The lawn
Floyd | is quite big by Todian standards, but is made to look rather
Floyd | insignificant by the vast expanse of crops that border it on all sides.
Floyd | It's times like these that you wish your folks didn't live in the city
Floyd | -- Tode's so crowded and noisy compared to places like this.  But then
Floyd | again, maybe Foon's a bit *too* rural...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The farmhouse has a back door, but it doesn't look like it gets much
Floyd | use.  Given that, you suspect that the only ways to go from here are
Floyd | back around the house to the northeast and southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a little tombstone in the ground nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put charm on tombstone" 		

Floyd | You can't put anything on the little granite tombstone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put charm on grave" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "grave".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Frumpf"
		DavidW asks, "Maybe we really do need to polish it. Or put the string on and wear it. Did you show it to the dog yet?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd | At a Garden Outside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here on the north side of the farmhouse is a large garden full of
Floyd | yummy-looking treats.  The soil has been recently tilled and smells
Floyd | wonderfully rich, and from the looks of it supports the vegetables
Floyd | planted in it far better than any Todian earth could.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You've heard plenty of stories about the near-magical fertility of
Floyd | the Foonian soil, but this close-up demonstration really drives the
Floyd | point home.  The goodies here are all oversized and delicious-looking.
Floyd | You suspect that even you, with your limited gardening experience,
Floyd | could grow a prize plant on Foon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here you can head either southeast, to the front of the
Floyd | farmhouse, or southwest, to the rear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd | Behind the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the grassy lawn behind the farmhouse.  The lawn
Floyd | is quite big by Todian standards, but is made to look rather
Floyd | insignificant by the vast expanse of crops that border it on all sides.
Floyd | It's times like these that you wish your folks didn't live in the city
Floyd | -- Tode's so crowded and noisy compared to places like this.  But then
Floyd | again, maybe Foon's a bit *too* rural...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The farmhouse has a back door, but it doesn't look like it gets much
Floyd | use.  Given that, you suspect that the only ways to go from here are
Floyd | back around the house to the northeast and southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a little tombstone in the ground nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | No way; at least not with the door shut like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd | At a Garden Outside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here on the north side of the farmhouse is a large garden full of
Floyd | yummy-looking treats.  The soil has been recently tilled and smells
Floyd | wonderfully rich, and from the looks of it supports the vegetables
Floyd | planted in it far better than any Todian earth could.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You've heard plenty of stories about the near-magical fertility of
Floyd | the Foonian soil, but this close-up demonstration really drives the
Floyd | point home.  The goodies here are all oversized and delicious-looking.
Floyd | You suspect that even you, with your limited gardening experience,
Floyd | could grow a prize plant on Foon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here you can head either southeast, to the front of the
Floyd | farmhouse, or southwest, to the rear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | Outside the Elwood Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing at the wooden front door of the Elwood Farmhouse.
Floyd | A quaintly narrow stone path lined with colorful flowers leads up to
Floyd | the door, flanked on both sides by a well-groomed, vibrant kelly green
Floyd | lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The paint is peeling in places, and the windows could use new
Floyd | shutters, but otherwise the house is in decent shape considering its
Floyd | age -- the design, though simple, suggests architectural trends popular
Floyd | several hundred years ago, before the formation of the Republic [14].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The entrance is to the west.  You might also take a walk around the
Floyd | house to the northwest and southwest.  The stone path leads east, back
Floyd | to the dirt road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Inside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in the entrance hallway of the Elwood farmhouse.
Floyd | The hardwood floors creak as you walk upon them, and the earthy, rustic
Floyd | decor delights your jaded cosmopolitan senses.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The front door is in the east wall.  Ahead, to the west, is the
Floyd | living room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV dominates this simply furnished family room -- it's nestled
Floyd | comfortably in the center of the north wall, encased in a boxy dark
Floyd | wood enclosure with feet shaped like those on an old bathtub.  A burly
Floyd | old man is sacked out on the couch here in front of the enterviewer,
Floyd | eyes completely glazed over.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The kitchen is to the south.  A hall leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV's picking up some of that dreadful SofToonz, Akmi's lame
Floyd | excuse for music, complete with pictures of serene landscapes and moire
Floyd | patterns.  They pipe this kind of drivel into buildings throughout the
Floyd | galaxy because it's been found to excite fewer species than any other
Floyd | kind of stimulation [21].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Also, I still don't know what you guys meant about a ghost; where did you see a ghost?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		genericgeekgirl says, "It was a joke."

Floyd | Hall
Floyd |
Floyd |    This narrow hall is similar to the one at the farmhouse entrance.  A
Floyd | wooden staircase leads up from here; unfortunately, it also leads up to
Floyd | a protective-looking dog who is currently barking his head off at you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    At the end of the hall, further west, is the back door.  It looks
Floyd | like it's been sealed shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Yeah, I was joking that the dog here was the ghost dog from the grave."
borowski says (to Floyd), "give dog charm" 		

Floyd | I don't see any dog charm here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "give charm to dog" 		

Floyd | The animal shows no interest whatsoever.  It doesn't exactly give you
Floyd | the impression that it is a rocket scientist among dogs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show charm to dog" 		

Floyd | The animal shows no interest whatsoever.  It doesn't exactly give you
Floyd | the impression that it is a rocket scientist among dogs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put the plover egg in the nest?" 		

Floyd | There is nothing matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Sure."
		DavidW says, "even though the nest is out of reach."
		DavidW says, "I'm not sure what else to try."
		borowski asks, "Me either. Was there something in the lab in the warehouse to do?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Maybe we got what we came for."
		DavidW says (to borowski), "A few things, probably. The boss, the transmogrifier, that co-worker we spoke to, the formula."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake plover egg" 		

Floyd | Waving the plastic plover's egg doesn't seem to do much.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" 		

Floyd | You can't open the plastic plover's egg.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "crack plover's egg" 		

Floyd | I see no obvious way to do that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x whistle" 		

Floyd | It's just a cheap plastic whistle.  It's bright green and more than
Floyd | loud enough to annoy parents.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-09-25-23:20:02CDT 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cassandra, hello" 		

Floyd | Nothing matching that vocabulary can hear you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW) Penny says, "if I can just find the right frequency..."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x putti" 		

Floyd |    The Akmi Wacki Putti is a freak of materials science.  It's bright
Floyd | pink and molds easily.  Easily, that is, when it's not runny, which it
Floyd | seems to become at random times.  Suffice it to say that the stuff is
Floyd | pretty disgusting.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Wacki Putti is currently runny.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Hall
Floyd |
Floyd |    This narrow hall is similar to the one at the farmhouse entrance.  A
Floyd | wooden staircase leads up from here; unfortunately, it also leads up to
Floyd | a protective-looking dog who is currently barking his head off at you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    At the end of the hall, further west, is the back door.  It looks
Floyd | like it's been sealed shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV dominates this simply furnished family room -- it's nestled
Floyd | comfortably in the center of the north wall, encased in a boxy dark
Floyd | wood enclosure with feet shaped like those on an old bathtub.  A burly
Floyd | old man is sacked out on the couch here in front of the enterviewer,
Floyd | eyes completely glazed over.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The kitchen is to the south.  A hall leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV's picking up some of that dreadful SofToonz, Akmi's lame
Floyd | excuse for music, complete with pictures of serene landscapes and moire
Floyd | patterns.  They pipe this kind of drivel into buildings throughout the
Floyd | galaxy because it's been found to excite fewer species than any other
Floyd | kind of stimulation [21].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Inside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in the entrance hallway of the Elwood farmhouse.
Floyd | The hardwood floors creak as you walk upon them, and the earthy, rustic
Floyd | decor delights your jaded cosmopolitan senses.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The front door is in the east wall.  Ahead, to the west, is the
Floyd | living room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Outside the Elwood Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing at the wooden front door of the Elwood Farmhouse.
Floyd | A quaintly narrow stone path lined with colorful flowers leads up to
Floyd | the door, flanked on both sides by a well-groomed, vibrant kelly green
Floyd | lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The paint is peeling in places, and the windows could use new
Floyd | shutters, but otherwise the house is in decent shape considering its
Floyd | age -- the design, though simple, suggests architectural trends popular
Floyd | several hundred years ago, before the formation of the Republic [14].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The entrance is to the west.  You might also take a walk around the
Floyd | house to the northwest and southwest.  The stone path leads east, back
Floyd | to the dirt road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd | At the Tire Swing Outside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You have walked around to the south side of the farmhouse, and find
Floyd | yourself confronted with a giant oak-like tree [16].  The tree has a
Floyd | tire swing attached to it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here you can head either northeast or northwest, towards the
Floyd | front and rear of the house, respectively.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | Behind the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the grassy lawn behind the farmhouse.  The lawn
Floyd | is quite big by Todian standards, but is made to look rather
Floyd | insignificant by the vast expanse of crops that border it on all sides.
Floyd | It's times like these that you wish your folks didn't live in the city
Floyd | -- Tode's so crowded and noisy compared to places like this.  But then
Floyd | again, maybe Foon's a bit *too* rural...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The farmhouse has a back door, but it doesn't look like it gets much
Floyd | use.  Given that, you suspect that the only ways to go from here are
Floyd | back around the house to the northeast and southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a little tombstone in the ground nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x putti" 		

Floyd |    The Akmi Wacki Putti is a freak of materials science.  It's bright
Floyd | pink and molds easily.  Easily, that is, when it's not runny, which it
Floyd | seems to become at random times.  Suffice it to say that the stuff is
Floyd | pretty disgusting.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Wacki Putti is currently runny.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put putti on tombstone" 		

Floyd | You can't put anything on the little granite tombstone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "mold putti" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "mold".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "taste putti" 		

Floyd | The Akmi Wacki Putti tastes normal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ring" 		

Floyd | It's supposed to change colors according to your mood when you wear it,
Floyd | though you suspect that it's really just random.  Right now it is
Floyd | pastel violet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "rub it" 		

Floyd | Ok, you just rubbed the mood ring.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn it" 		

Floyd | You can't turn the mood ring.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wave coin" 		

Floyd | Waving the akmid doesn't seem to do much.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says (to dog), "You are getting sleepy..."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hypotise me" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "hypotise".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hypnotise" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "hypnotise".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hypnotize" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "hypnotize".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "well, not that."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "swing coin" 		

Floyd | You can't swing on that!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read note" 		

Floyd | It reads:
Floyd |
Floyd |    Gavin --
Floyd |
Floyd |    Studying at the library today.  Don't forget dinner at Grandma's
Floyd | house tomorrow night.  When you go out, please pick up some prune seeds
Floyd | from the Barfee outlet (8549, 4392, 8392) -- you know how Grandma is
Floyd | about her garden.
Floyd |
Floyd |                    Love,
Floyd |                    Ada
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read crumpled paper" 		

Floyd | Written in barely-legible script is "Cassandra:  Elwood Farm (3921,
Floyd | 5840, 9278) (Just up road from mover.)"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | At the Tire Swing Outside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You have walked around to the south side of the farmhouse, and find
Floyd | yourself confronted with a giant oak-like tree [16].  The tree has a
Floyd | tire swing attached to it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here you can head either northeast or northwest, towards the
Floyd | front and rear of the house, respectively.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd | Outside the Elwood Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing at the wooden front door of the Elwood Farmhouse.
Floyd | A quaintly narrow stone path lined with colorful flowers leads up to
Floyd | the door, flanked on both sides by a well-groomed, vibrant kelly green
Floyd | lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The paint is peeling in places, and the windows could use new
Floyd | shutters, but otherwise the house is in decent shape considering its
Floyd | age -- the design, though simple, suggests architectural trends popular
Floyd | several hundred years ago, before the formation of the Republic [14].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The entrance is to the west.  You might also take a walk around the
Floyd | house to the northwest and southwest.  The stone path leads east, back
Floyd | to the dirt road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Inside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in the entrance hallway of the Elwood farmhouse.
Floyd | The hardwood floors creak as you walk upon them, and the earthy, rustic
Floyd | decor delights your jaded cosmopolitan senses.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The front door is in the east wall.  Ahead, to the west, is the
Floyd | living room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV dominates this simply furnished family room -- it's nestled
Floyd | comfortably in the center of the north wall, encased in a boxy dark
Floyd | wood enclosure with feet shaped like those on an old bathtub.  A burly
Floyd | old man is sacked out on the couch here in front of the enterviewer,
Floyd | eyes completely glazed over.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The kitchen is to the south.  A hall leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV's picking up some of that dreadful SofToonz, Akmi's lame
Floyd | excuse for music, complete with pictures of serene landscapes and moire
Floyd | patterns.  They pipe this kind of drivel into buildings throughout the
Floyd | galaxy because it's been found to excite fewer species than any other
Floyd | kind of stimulation [21].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW asks, "old man about cassandra" 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask old man about cassandra" 		

Floyd | The man doesn't even seem to know you're here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set ev to 315" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 315.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | The broadcast features some alien waving its appendages about and
Floyd | babbling away in a language you don't understand a word of.  Assuming,
Floyd | that is, that the language HAS words.  You can't really tell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set ev to 316" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 316.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | The EV's picking up some of that dreadful SofToonz, Akmi's lame excuse
Floyd | for music, complete with pictures of serene landscapes and moire
Floyd | patterns.  They pipe this kind of drivel into buildings throughout the
Floyd | galaxy because it's been found to excite fewer species than any other
Floyd | kind of stimulation [21].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I'm open to new suggestions."
		borowski says, "I'd say explore other locations."
		borowski says, "Though it does bug me that the dog is still in our way."
		DavidW says, "ok. Feel free to drive."
		DavidW says, "As far as I can tell, we have no new locations to go to, only old ones until we solve a puzzle."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Hm."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a magnetic letter Q, a plastic whistle, a
Floyd | plastic plover's egg, some Akmi Wacki Putti, a firecracker, a mood ring
Floyd | (being worn), a piece of string (tied to the akmid), a poodle charm, a
Floyd | stick of butter, a fried SynthEgg, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a
Floyd | mixer, a frying pan, a hunk of cheese, an overripe tomato, a piece of
Floyd | salami, a geode, an akmid (tied to the piece of string), a thermos of
Floyd | Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur
Floyd | Gro, a crumpled scrap of paper, a paperback book, a handwritten note,
Floyd | your thesis research floppy disk, a qualitative calculator, an RGB
Floyd | color chart, a full ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard, and a matter mover
Floyd | autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "I'm actually starting to fade a little. But I wouldn't mind watching while I get ready for bed."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x autodialer" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd | 5:  A dirt road
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Me, too, and I have to be up in 7 hours."
		DavidW says, "I'm also a bit fade-y even though I slept half the day away."
		borowski says, "I'm usually a night owl, but I've had a stressful few days that I think have drained me overall."
%%% # MARK: 2012-09-25-23:35:02CDT 		genericgeekgirl says, "Aw :( I just have this obnoxious meeting at 9am every other Wednesday."
		DavidW says, "well, let's go back to featureless cubicle"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Inside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in the entrance hallway of the Elwood farmhouse.
Floyd | The hardwood floors creak as you walk upon them, and the earthy, rustic
Floyd | decor delights your jaded cosmopolitan senses.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The front door is in the east wall.  Ahead, to the west, is the
Floyd | living room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Outside the Elwood Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing at the wooden front door of the Elwood Farmhouse.
Floyd | A quaintly narrow stone path lined with colorful flowers leads up to
Floyd | the door, flanked on both sides by a well-groomed, vibrant kelly green
Floyd | lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The paint is peeling in places, and the windows could use new
Floyd | shutters, but otherwise the house is in decent shape considering its
Floyd | age -- the design, though simple, suggests architectural trends popular
Floyd | several hundred years ago, before the formation of the Republic [14].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The entrance is to the west.  You might also take a walk around the
Floyd | house to the northwest and southwest.  The stone path leads east, back
Floyd | to the dirt road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Outside Elwood Farm
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing a few hundred yards away from a modest-sized
Floyd | farmhouse.  You gather from the posted sign that this is Elwood Farm,
Floyd | and that the corn lining the dirt road you came in on belongs to the
Floyd | Elwoods.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here, the building itself seems fairly well maintained, but
Floyd | could use a good painting.  The sizes of the carefully placed trees in
Floyd | the front yard give you the impression that people have lived on this
Floyd | plot of land for hundreds of years.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The farmhouse is to the west.  Head east and you're back at the
Floyd | local matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | A dirt road
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing outside a matter mover right next to a dirt road.
Floyd | The weather is lovely here, if a bit humid, and the sky is a stunningly
Floyd | pure blue-green.  There is a crispness and freshness to the air here
Floyd | that you've never before experienced.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road is extremely narrow, and runs right through a corn field.
Floyd | It seems like the road has no business being here, but is a necessary
Floyd | nuisance.  It's clear that priorities are different on Foon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road leads east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "dial 4" 		

Floyd | You can't turn the number.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set autodialer to 4" 		

Floyd | You can't turn the matter mover autodialer to anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press 4" 		

Floyd | You need to specify what you want to type the number on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "type 4" 		

Floyd | On what?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "on autodialer" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Featureless Cubicle
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's clear from the size and lack of decor that this room was built
Floyd | specifically to house the matter mover that fills it.  The hallway is
Floyd | to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The matter mover here is a bit unusual -- it has a button on it,
Floyd | next to a light.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Barfee Research Area Entrance
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in an empty hall with metal walls, ceiling, and
Floyd | floor.  Behind you, to the south, is the vault door that leads to the
Floyd | outside; it does not appear to open from the inside.  Right in front of
Floyd | you, farther down the hall, is a smaller but equally durable-looking
Floyd | door with a sign on it that reads "Barfee Research Central."  There is
Floyd | another room to the west, and to the east is what you assume to be the
Floyd | check-in area; you suspect that's where the boss is; this suspicion is
Floyd | partly affirmed by the growling and cursing emanating from within.
Floyd | "Hakkar the Horrible" is in full form.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Barfee Research Lab
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a huge, well-stocked laboratory.  Dozens of researchers
Floyd | scurry about, argue with each other, and frequently set things ablaze.
Floyd | Aside from the usual lab equipment, there is a strange-looking machine
Floyd | on an especially large marble lab table that stands in the center of
Floyd | the lab.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The only way out of this arena is south, the way you came in.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x machine" 		

Floyd | It's just a big plaid box made of some synthetic cheese product that
Floyd | you can put things in.  It has four oversized dials and a large red
Floyd | button on the front.  Large letters on the machine read
Floyd | "Transmogrifyer".  There is a sign on the machine that says, "Out of
Floyd | order".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Ah, right, this thingy."
		Lionheart says, "Calvin could fix that with a marker pen."
		DavidW says, "yeah."
		DavidW says, "oh. We could try giving the poodle charm to the Foonian who told us about Cassandra in the first place."
		DavidW says, "The old man isn't responsive, but the seller ought to be."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | Barfee Research Area Entrance
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in an empty hall with metal walls, ceiling, and
Floyd | floor.  Behind you, to the south, is the vault door that leads to the
Floyd | outside; it does not appear to open from the inside.  Right in front of
Floyd | you, farther down the hall, is a smaller but equally durable-looking
Floyd | door with a sign on it that reads "Barfee Research Central."  There is
Floyd | another room to the west, and to the east is what you assume to be the
Floyd | check-in area; you suspect that's where the boss is; this suspicion is
Floyd | partly affirmed by the growling and cursing emanating from within.
Floyd | "Hakkar the Horrible" is in full form.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Featureless Cubicle
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's clear from the size and lack of decor that this room was built
Floyd | specifically to house the matter mover that fills it.  The hallway is
Floyd | to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The matter mover here is a bit unusual -- it has a button on it,
Floyd | next to a light.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x autodialer" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd | 5:  A dirt road
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set it to 3" 		

Floyd | You can't turn the matter mover autodialer to anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 3 on it" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the center of the Barfee Outlet, right next to
Floyd | the main matter mover.  Creatures of all races bustle around madly,
Floyd | looking for great deals on seeds.  A huge neon sign right beyond your
Floyd | nose screams, "Welcome to planet Flora, home of Barfee:  your one-stop
Floyd | source for vegetation."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here in the middle of Seed Central there's really nothing but
Floyd | people, and lots of them.  Or make that "creatures."  In any case, from
Floyd | here Barfee looks like a giant open market, with little stands here and
Floyd | there, and patrons and salescreatures arguing loudly over prices.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The northern area of this arena seems to be devoted to vegetable
Floyd | seeds, while the southern area caters to fruit buyers.  To the east is
Floyd | a large warehouse in which they sell various varieties of flowers but
Floyd | the crowd gets really thick in that direction.  Westward you see all
Floyd | kinds of growing supplies.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Barfee Vegetable MegaStore
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in the Barfee Vegetable MegaStore, standing in front of a
Floyd | large bin filled with seed packets.  There are so many shoppers here
Floyd | that this is really the only place you can get to the goods -- it's
Floyd | that crowded.  Seed Central is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A matronly Foonian salescreature watches you expectantly from behind
Floyd | the bin.  She seems eager to engage you in conversation.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Cawn Au intrust yee in sem soods teedowu, mau bayu?"  the
Floyd | saleswoman asks eagerly, motioning broadly at the packages in the bin.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show charm to foonian" 		

Floyd |    "Au cawn't tull yee mech ebait thawt," she says.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "So, bayu," the saleswoman mentions, "if yee dayn't maund mu
Floyd | awsking, are yee frem Tade?  Au that Au keed tull frem yair
Floyd | mawnnerisms, thawt's al.  Yee maught oovun so yee look lauk wen ev theh
Floyd | Vawllu Kings -- fawnsu thet!  Dayn't seppase yair rulotud?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask foonian about pierre" 		

Floyd |    "Au cawn't tull yee mech ebait thawt," she says.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Foonian gives you a wink and says, "Hawve Au taled yee ebait mau
Floyd | daghter yut, Senny?  Shu's working an theh farm bawk an Feen, yee knai,
Floyd | graying uggplawnts.  Shu's eh faun wen, mau Kessawndreh."  She gives
Floyd | you a little nudge with her elbow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask foonian about cassandra" 		

Floyd |    The woman smiles reassuringly.  "Bau all moons yee should pou her eh
Floyd | visit.  Her Pa awnd Au wain't maund awt all, Senny," she cuckles.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The salesperson says, "Cawn Au intrust yee in sem faun vujtebble
Floyd | soods teedowu?  Awz yee cawn su wu hawve en uxsellunt seluction!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask foonian about farm" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask foonian about charm" 		

Floyd |    "Au cawn't tull yee mech ebait thawt," she says.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Cawn Au intrust yee in sem soods teedowu, mau bayu?"  the
Floyd | saleswoman asks eagerly, motioning broadly at the packages in the bin.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hmph, She shoulda had some reaction to the charm."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x eggplant" 		

Floyd | You don't know what that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Yes, but I can't say I'm surprised considering."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x seeds" 		

Floyd | Which seeds do you mean, the packet of asparagus seeds, the packet of
Floyd | Todian bush bean seeds, the packet of Tellian pole bean seeds, the
Floyd | packet of soybean seeds, the packet of broccoli seeds, the packet of
Floyd | hawper sprouts seeds, the packet of cabbage seeds, the packet of Ten
Floyd | Foo seeds, the packet of cantaloupe seeds, the packet of carrot seeds,
Floyd | the packet of celery seeds, the packet of Tellian corn seeds, the
Floyd | packet of Hoppian black corn seeds, the packet of Foonian eggplant
Floyd | seeds, the packet of Todian eggplant seeds, the packet of tricolor corn
Floyd | seeds, the packet of cucumber seeds, the packet of endive seeds, the
Floyd | packet of Floran textured lettuce seeds, the packet of Alduvian pink
Floyd | lettuce seeds, the packet of Tellian lettuce seeds, the packet of onion
Floyd | seeds, the packet of pea seeds, the packet of peanut seeds, the packet
Floyd | of radish seeds, the packet of spinach seeds, the packet of strawberry
Floyd | seeds, the packet of yellow tomato seeds, the packet of blue tomato
Floyd | seeds, or the packet of watermelon seeds?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x foonian eggplant seeds" 		

Floyd | It's a small packet of seeds produced by Barfee, the galaxy's leading
Floyd | fruit and vegetable seed vendor.  The package reads "Barfee Foonian
Floyd | eggplant seeds:  All seeds and no weeds, Barfee meets your needs in
Floyd | feeds.  Visit the Barfee Outlet: (8549, 4392, 8392)."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Bawk an Feen wu've got theh bust graying sail in theh gawluxy," the
Floyd | woman brags, "which is whau uveruwen kems tee es fair thore freets awnd
Floyd | vujtebbles.  Wu've nay nood fair fawncy tuchnaleju yee knai."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "I wonder if we can pay with our coin?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show coin to woman" 		

Floyd |    "Au cawn't tull yee mech ebait thawt," she says.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Hawve Au taled yee ebait mau daghter Kessawndre's uggplawnt shu wen
Floyd | theh graying contust with?  Thue uggs were jest dropping aff thawt
Floyd | thing -- wu hawd ooneff uggs tee lawst eh menth!," the woman laughs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "buy foonian eggplant seeds" 		

Floyd | Please specify who you want to pay for the packet of Foonian eggplant
Floyd | seeds.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The salesperson says, "Cawn Au intrust yee in sem faun vujtebble
Floyd | soods teedowu?  Awz yee cawn su wu hawve en uxsellunt seluction!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pay coin to woman" 		

Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "buy foonian eggplant seeds from woman" 		

Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pay woman for foonian eggplant seeds" 		

Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pay woman" 		

Floyd | The old woman takes your card and disappears into the throng.  Moments
Floyd | later she returns.  "It suz your card haws been terminotud.  Yee butter
Floyd | call your bank, Senny, boofore semone errusts yee!  Probeblu jest eh
Floyd | kempyeeter glitch, Au knai, bet Au jest cawn't toke your card with
Floyd | thawt flawg roused," she says regretfully.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Foonian gives you a wink and says, "Hawve Au taled yee ebait mau
Floyd | daghter yut, Senny?  Shu's working an theh farm bawk an Feen, yee knai,
Floyd | graying uggplawnts.  Shu's eh faun wen, mau Kessawndreh."  She gives
Floyd | you a little nudge with her elbow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give coin to woman" 		

Floyd |    The woman smiles understandingly.  "Thawt's not qwaut uneff fair eh
Floyd | pawckut ev soods thooz doze, Au'm efrode," she laments.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "So, bayu," the saleswoman mentions, "if yee dayn't maund mu
Floyd | awsking, are yee frem Tade?  Au that Au keed tull frem yair
Floyd | mawnnerisms, thawt's al.  Yee maught oovun so yee look lauk wen ev theh
Floyd | Vawllu Kings -- fawnsu thet!  Dayn't seppase yair rulotud?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "ah"
		borowski asks, "Maybe to the hoopian?"
		DavidW says, "worth a try, I guess."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the center of the Barfee Outlet, right next to
Floyd | the main matter mover.  Creatures of all races bustle around madly,
Floyd | looking for great deals on seeds.  A huge neon sign right beyond your
Floyd | nose screams, "Welcome to planet Flora, home of Barfee:  your one-stop
Floyd | source for vegetation."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here in the middle of Seed Central there's really nothing but
Floyd | people, and lots of them.  Or make that "creatures."  In any case, from
Floyd | here Barfee looks like a giant open market, with little stands here and
Floyd | there, and patrons and salescreatures arguing loudly over prices.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The northern area of this arena seems to be devoted to vegetable
Floyd | seeds, while the southern area caters to fruit buyers.  To the east is
Floyd | a large warehouse in which they sell various varieties of flowers but
Floyd | the crowd gets really thick in that direction.  Westward you see all
Floyd | kinds of growing supplies.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | Barfee Fruit MegaStore
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Barfee Fruit MegaStore is not quite as crowded as the rest of
Floyd | the outlet, but than again that's not saying much.  Fortunately walking
Floyd | around is easy here, and you can actually breathe, which is a definite
Floyd | plus.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in front of the friendly Hoppian's bin.  The bin is
Floyd | filled with fruit seed packets.  Seed Central is north of here.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The tall and dapper Hoppian salesman tends to the bin in front of
Floyd | you.  He nods politely as you look at him.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Hoppian salesman waits until he thinks you're not looking, then
Floyd | straightens his bowtie and pulls back his ears, which, to his
Floyd | consternation, plop right back down into their usual cockeyed
Floyd | configuration.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give coin to hoppian" 		

Floyd |    The Hoppian pauses for a second, chuckles nervously, and then, in a
Floyd | patient tone, informs you that, "Just one akmid won't quite do,
Floyd | unfortunately."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Is there something I might be able to help you with today?"  the
Floyd | Hoppian inquires, chuckling quietly but in an officious way that makes
Floyd | you feel kind of like you're in a classy jewelery store with nothing
Floyd | but 50% off coupons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I rather expected one coin wouldn't be enough."
		borowski says, "Yeah."
K-Y then looked around and came to the conclusion that pretty much no one in this lounge even lifts. 		
K-Y has disconnected. 		
%%% # MARK: 2012-09-25-23:50:02CDT 		borowski says, "Too bad the seeds aren't in someone's house."
		DavidW says, "well, I expect we'll find seeds in some odd fashion."
		DavidW says, "Assuming we can solve enough puzzles."
		DavidW says, "I take it no one has a clue what to even try next right now."
		borowski says, "Sorry, yeah."
		DavidW says, "I'm thinking there might be random hints in the EV. Channel 1 did tell us about channel 69."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the center of the Barfee Outlet, right next to
Floyd | the main matter mover.  Creatures of all races bustle around madly,
Floyd | looking for great deals on seeds.  A huge neon sign right beyond your
Floyd | nose screams, "Welcome to planet Flora, home of Barfee:  your one-stop
Floyd | source for vegetation."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here in the middle of Seed Central there's really nothing but
Floyd | people, and lots of them.  Or make that "creatures."  In any case, from
Floyd | here Barfee looks like a giant open market, with little stands here and
Floyd | there, and patrons and salescreatures arguing loudly over prices.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The northern area of this arena seems to be devoted to vegetable
Floyd | seeds, while the southern area caters to fruit buyers.  To the east is
Floyd | a large warehouse in which they sell various varieties of flowers but
Floyd | the crowd gets really thick in that direction.  Westward you see all
Floyd | kinds of growing supplies.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 1 on autodialer" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Your bachelor pod
Floyd |

		
Floyd Ahhhhh. Pod sweet pod! Sure feels good to be back in the ol' 		
Floyd closet-sized capsule again, yes sir. While slaving away on your 		
Floyd master's thesis you've spent many late hours here, sustaining yourself 		
Floyd on naught but Akmi Snak Chipz [2] and ReVoLT Kola. 		

Floyd |
Floyd |    Yep, it's basically a hell-hole, but it's served you adequately.
Floyd | Looking around you can see blurry reflections of yourself and your
Floyd | surroundings in the familiar mauve and orange metal walls, which are
Floyd | rounded in the corners as is typical of today's "economical" graduate
Floyd | housing.  (As if they offered any other kind.)  The walls are still
Floyd | bare; you'd think after living here for two years you'd have put some
Floyd | posters up.  But there's never much time for aesthetics at Akmi
Floyd | Yooniversity.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your bed (if you can call it that) and the matter mover take up all
Floyd | the available floor space in your pod.  Miscellaneous Stik-Em Nowtz
Floyd | cling to various parts of the furniture and walls, and papers fill any
Floyd | stray gaps, making this den an incredible fire trap.  Good thing you
Floyd | don't really have heating here.  Anyway, if there's a fire you can
Floyd | always bail out through the escape hatch.  Oops -- you've never been
Floyd | able to get it open.  Never mind.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your pod is one of the "Yooniversity Economical Graduate Off-site
Floyd | Dwelling Stations" (YEGODS).  Though the school is actually hundreds of
Floyd | light-years away, matter mover technology makes it possible for them to
Floyd | put housing in the cheapest, remotest, most inhospitable parts of the
Floyd | galaxy -- places like Frost, the iceball of a planet your pod is
Floyd | situated on.
Floyd |
Floyd |    On your desk, under your shelf of textbooks, is the computer you use
Floyd | nearly 37 hours a day.  Cuddled up right next to it like a best friend
Floyd | is your EV.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV is tuned to Hot Hits 1000, the "newest, coolest, most
Floyd | outrageous" music video station.  Yep, it's pop, 37 hours a day.  Right
Floyd | now you see the video for "Surf, Surf, Surf that Wormhole," by Rad
Floyd | Doodz.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set ev to 1" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 1.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | The EV is showing the Kidz Korner, an all-day, all-night children's
Floyd | network.  At the moment you see an advertisement for the Kidz Korner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | The EV is showing the Kidz Korner, an all-day, all-night children's
Floyd | network.  At the moment you see an advertisement for the Kidz Korner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set ev to 2" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 2.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | The EV's picking up some of that dreadful SofToonz, Akmi's lame excuse
Floyd | for music, complete with pictures of serene landscapes and moire
Floyd | patterns.  They pipe this kind of drivel into buildings throughout the
Floyd | galaxy because it's been found to excite fewer species than any other
Floyd | kind of stimulation [21].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set ev to 3" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 3.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | The EV features a noxious talk show.  The current topic is problems
Floyd | with excess hair.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x hatch" 		

Floyd | The escape hatch is buried under a pile of papers.  It appears to be
Floyd | sealed shut, and you've never had occasion to use it in the past.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open hatch" 		

Floyd | You thoroughly overexert yourself but to no avail.  Panting and
Floyd | sweating profusely, you finally give up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set ev to 4" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 4.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | The EV's picking up some of that dreadful SofToonz, Akmi's lame excuse
Floyd | for music, complete with pictures of serene landscapes and moire
Floyd | patterns.  They pipe this kind of drivel into buildings throughout the
Floyd | galaxy because it's been found to excite fewer species than any other
Floyd | kind of stimulation [21].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search hatch" 		

Floyd | The escape hatch is buried under a pile of papers.  It appears to be
Floyd | sealed shut, and you've never had occasion to use it in the past.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "hm. Is it every even channel that's SofToonz?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "I guess it's popular."
		borowski says, "That's a lot of porn."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set ev to 15" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 15.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Oops, I misread that, heh."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | The EV's getting two overlapping signals, the result being that you
Floyd | can't make much out except an occasional "Gilligan!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set ev to 5" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 5.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Not that kind of soft."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | The EV's getting two overlapping signals, the result being that you
Floyd | can't make much out except an occasional "Gilligan!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set ev to 7" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 7.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | The broadcast features some alien waving its appendages about and
Floyd | babbling away in a language you don't understand a word of.  Assuming,
Floyd | that is, that the language HAS words.  You can't really tell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set ev to 11" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 11.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | The signal is fading in and out.  It sounds like music, but you can't
Floyd | tell what kind, and the picture is rolling like crazy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set ev to 13" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 13.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | There's nothing but static and weird noises coming out of the EV.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set ev to 17" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 17.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | There's nothing but static and weird noises coming out of the EV.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set ev to 19" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | There's nothing but static and weird noises coming out of the EV.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set ev to 23" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 23.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | There's nothing but static and weird noises coming out of the EV.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "(I'm trying prime numbers)"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set ev to 100" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 100.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | The EV's getting two overlapping signals, the result being that you
Floyd | can't make much out except an occasional "Gilligan!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Multiples of 5 seem to get that overlapping signals."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set ev to 81" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 81.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | The EV's blaring an obnoxious advertisement for some dreadful alien
Floyd | hygiene product you'd rather not know anything about.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | The EV features a noxious talk show.  The current topic is creatures
Floyd | who decide to get a species change operation to please their
Floyd | significant others.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | The EV features a noxious talk show.  The current topic is the
Floyd | biological difficulties involved in inter-species dating.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | The EV's blaring an obnoxious advertisement for some dreadful alien
Floyd | hygiene product you'd rather not know anything about.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set ev to pi" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "pi".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set ev to -1" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "-1".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "set ev to off" 		

Floyd | I don't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says (to Lionheart), "sorry, but I don't know what else to try."
		DavidW says, "I suppose we could enter color codes into the mover and jump into the unknown."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chart" 		

Floyd | The chart gives RGB values for various color names:
Floyd |
Floyd | akmi orange (10000, 7470, 1000)
Floyd | alice blue (9411, 9725, 10000)
Floyd | antique white (9803, 9215, 8431)
Floyd | aquamarine (4980, 10000, 8313)
Floyd | azure (9411, 10000, 10000)
Floyd | beige (9607, 9607, 8627)
Floyd | bisque (10000, 8941, 7686)
Floyd | black (0, 0, 0)
Floyd | blanched almond (10000, 9215, 8039)
Floyd | blue (0, 0, 10000)
Floyd | blue violet (5411, 1686, 8862)
Floyd | brown (6470, 1647, 1647)
Floyd | burlywood (8705, 7215, 5294)
Floyd | burnt sienna (6000, 3270, 1732)
Floyd | chartreuse (4980, 10000, 0)
Floyd | chocolate (8235, 4117, 1176)
Floyd | coral (10000, 4980, 3137)
Floyd | cornflower blue (3921, 5843, 9294)
Floyd | cyan (0, 10000, 10000)
Floyd | egg white (10000, 10000, 9521)
Floyd | firebrick (6980, 1333, 1333)
Floyd | forest green (1333, 5450, 1333)
Floyd | gainsboro (8627, 8627, 8627)
Floyd | ghost white (9725, 9725, 10000)
Floyd | goldenrod (8549, 6470, 1254)
Floyd | gray (7529, 7529, 7529)
Floyd | green (0, 10000, 0)
Floyd | honeydew (9411, 10000, 9411)
Floyd | hot pink (10000, 4117, 7058)
Floyd | ivory (10000, 10000, 9411)
Floyd | khaki (9411, 9019, 5490)
Floyd | lavender (9019, 9019, 9803)
Floyd | lawn green (4862, 9882, 0)
Floyd | lemon chiffon (10000, 9803, 8039)
Floyd | lime green (1960, 8039, 1960)
Floyd | magenta (10000, 0, 10000)
Floyd | maroon (6901, 1882, 3764)
Floyd | midnight blue (980, 980, 4392)
Floyd | misty rose (10000, 8941, 8823)
Floyd | moccasin (10000, 8941, 7098)
Floyd | navy (0, 0, 5019)
Floyd | old lace (9921, 9607, 9019)
Floyd | olive drab (4196, 5568, 1372)
Floyd | orange (10000, 6470, 0)
Floyd | orchid (8549, 4392, 8392)
Floyd | peach puff (10000, 8549, 7254)
Floyd | pink (10000, 7529, 7960)
Floyd | plum (8666, 6274, 8666)
Floyd | powder blue (6901, 8784, 9019)
Floyd | purple (6274, 1254, 9411)
Floyd | red (10000, 0, 0)
Floyd | rosy brown (7372, 5607, 5607)
Floyd | saddle brown (5450, 2705, 745)
Floyd | salmon (9803, 5019, 4470)
Floyd | sandy brown (9568, 6431, 3764)
Floyd | sea green (1803, 5450, 3411)
Floyd | seashell (10000, 9607, 9333)
Floyd | sky blue (5294, 8078, 9215)
Floyd | slate gray (4392, 5019, 5647)
Floyd | snow (10000, 9803, 9803)
Floyd | spring green (0, 10000, 4980)
Floyd | steel blue (2745, 5098, 7058)
Floyd | tan (8235, 7058, 5490)
Floyd | thistle (8470, 7490, 8470)
Floyd | tomato (10000, 3882, 2784)
Floyd | turquoise (2509, 8784, 8156)
Floyd | violet (9333, 5098, 9333)
Floyd | violet red (8156, 1254, 5647)
Floyd | wheat (9607, 8705, 7019)
Floyd | white (10000, 10000, 10000)
Floyd | yellow (10000, 10000, 0)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-09-26-00:05:02CDT 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set red to 10000" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 10000.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set green to 7470" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 7470.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set blue to 1000" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 1000.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mover" 		

Floyd |    Matter mover technology hit the scene in 2062VK, just two years
Floyd | before the formation of the Republic.  In the hundred or so years since
Floyd | its introduction it's become the primary means of transportation
Floyd | throughout the galaxy.  In fact, it's usually the only exit provided in
Floyd | private dwellings like the one you're currently in [22].
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your machine is a roughly person-sized jet black capsule.  Bigger
Floyd | ones exist for transporting goods and larger creatures; yours is a
Floyd | typical domestic model, if a bit on the cheap side.  Simply entering
Floyd | the matter mover will activate it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    As is typical, this matter mover has three dials, color coded red,
Floyd | green, and blue.  You set each dial to a number between 0 and 10,000,
Floyd | and together the three numbers comprise the receiving station's address
Floyd | [23].  To transport, the receiver must first grant permission to the
Floyd | sender, otherwise the transmission is prohibited.  Many public
Floyd | institutions allow access from all sources; private dwelling movers
Floyd | usually only allow calls from specific individuals or addresses.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your pod's address is written on the machine:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "6000, 3270, 1736 -- colorspace Burnt Sienna"
Floyd |
Floyd | Current dial settings:  (10000, 7470, 1000)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | A polite female voice says, "Your move cannot be completed as dialed.
Floyd | Please check the number and dial again, and make sure your receiving
Floyd | party has granted you permission to access their mover.  If you need
Floyd | assistance, please contact the operator for your local colorspace.
Floyd | Thank you."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "hm, so akmi orange isn't a legit mover destination?"
		borowski says, "Uh, or we can't just visit places for the heck of it."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 2 on autodialer" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mover" 		

Floyd |    Matter mover technology hit the scene in 2062VK, just two years
Floyd | before the formation of the Republic.  In the hundred or so years since
Floyd | its introduction it's become the primary means of transportation
Floyd | throughout the galaxy.  In fact, it's usually the only exit provided in
Floyd | private dwellings like the one you're currently in [22].
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your machine is a roughly person-sized jet black capsule.  Bigger
Floyd | ones exist for transporting goods and larger creatures; yours is a
Floyd | typical domestic model, if a bit on the cheap side.  Simply entering
Floyd | the matter mover will activate it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    As is typical, this matter mover has three dials, color coded red,
Floyd | green, and blue.  You set each dial to a number between 0 and 10,000,
Floyd | and together the three numbers comprise the receiving station's address
Floyd | [23].  To transport, the receiver must first grant permission to the
Floyd | sender, otherwise the transmission is prohibited.  Many public
Floyd | institutions allow access from all sources; private dwelling movers
Floyd | usually only allow calls from specific individuals or addresses.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your pod's address is written on the machine:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "6000, 3270, 1736 -- colorspace Burnt Sienna"
Floyd |
Floyd | Current dial settings:  (6000, 3270, 1738)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I wonder what's at 6000, 3270, 1737"
		DavidW asks, "Inbetween our pod and Ada's?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set blue to 1737" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 1737.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | A polite female voice says, "Your move cannot be completed as dialed.
Floyd | Please check the number and dial again, and make sure your receiving
Floyd | party has granted you permission to access their mover.  If you need
Floyd | assistance, please contact the operator for your local colorspace.
Floyd | Thank you."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "drat"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set blue to 1740" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 1740.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | A polite female voice says, "Your move cannot be completed as dialed.
Floyd | Please check the number and dial again, and make sure your receiving
Floyd | party has granted you permission to access their mover.  If you need
Floyd | assistance, please contact the operator for your local colorspace.
Floyd | Thank you."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set blue to 1734" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 1734.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | A polite female voice says, "Your move cannot be completed as dialed.
Floyd | Please check the number and dial again, and make sure your receiving
Floyd | party has granted you permission to access their mover.  If you need
Floyd | assistance, please contact the operator for your local colorspace.
Floyd | Thank you."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x autodialer" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd | 5:  A dirt road
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I guess we can't pop into random pods."
		DavidW asks, "Does Ada's pod have a hatch that opens?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set blue to 1738" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 1738.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Ada's pod
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in your true love Ada's pod.  It's quite similar to your
Floyd | own, but isn't nearly as messy.  Ada seems to have gone off and left
Floyd | saving the galaxy to you alone [6].
Floyd |
Floyd |    On the EV, Progressive 52109 is playing the music video for "Value
Floyd | Added S E X," by The Infirmed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x hatch" 		

Floyd | After some searching, you find the pod's escape hatch buried under a
Floyd | pile of papers.  It looks like an airlock; all metal, with a big
Floyd | wheel-shaped lever on it that appears to be keeping it well-sealed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Apparently."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf15" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open hatch" 		

Floyd | Grabbing the steering wheel shaped latch, you pull with every bit of
Floyd | strength your muscles can muster.  Just when you're about to lose hope,
Floyd | the seal gives a little and you begin to make progress.  Moments later
Floyd | you're looking down into the dark metal corridor below.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by a point.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Hooray!"
		DavidW says, "ooh"
		DavidW says, "That was a bit of lateral thinking."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd | You squeeze through the hatch and scramble down the metal ladder
Floyd | leading up to it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Metal Corridor Under Ada's Pod
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're in a narrow but otherwise nondescript metal corridor leading
Floyd | east and west.  You see a ladder leading up to Ada's pod.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Red and Green Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    The narrow east-west hallway continues through here with but one
Floyd | feature changed:  the walls and floor are covered with red and green
Floyd | splotches.  Oh yes, and the walls appear to be somewhat chewed up.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can see a ladder leading up to Ada's pod to the east, and what
Floyd | appears to be a landing/launching bay of some kind to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A hideous Zdybel blocks your way west!
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Tabeyoo?  Tabeyoo?"  the Zdybel seems to ask.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "tabeyoo" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "tabeyoo".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "say tabeyoo" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "tabeyoo".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x zdybel" 		

Floyd | The Zdybel are widely regarded as the most disgusting vermin in the
Floyd | known universe.  They combine the worst elements of all the vilest
Floyd | creatures into a single emetic rodent:  rat-like features; body odor
Floyd | like carrion; slimy, matted fur that drips some revolting and
Floyd | (thankfully) unidentifiable bodily fluid; voracious appetite; and the
Floyd | eating habits of flies.  This particular specimen is a giant, and
Floyd | judging from the constant flow of saliva from the tips of its
Floyd | razor-sharp buck teeth into ever-growing pools on the ground, I'd say
Floyd | it's hungry [24].
Floyd |
Floyd |    "What do you think I heard the story of Igdoof sitting on?"  the
Floyd | Zdybel gibbers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "note 24" 		

Floyd | [24]: Worst of all, they're mimics.  They constantly babble
Floyd | pseudo-language, even when nothing's around to hear them.  After a
Floyd | great infestation of Zdybel on Tel in 2112VK, a tremendous amount of
Floyd | time and money was invested in the complete eradication of the species.
Floyd | This was almost entirely successful, yet a few Zdybel remain scattered
Floyd | across the galaxy, presumably having survived the years hidden in cargo
Floyd | ships, air ducts, and the like.  They are thought to have originated on
Floyd | nearby planet Irata.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel threatens you with a nasty claw.  "Psssst!  Lunch!
Floyd | Lunch!  Exoculating lunch!"  it raves.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Maybe it likes eggs?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Although I would also suggest that we break here."
		DavidW says, "ok."
		DavidW asks, "save as legend2 ?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "savef" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "savef".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "save" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "legend2" 		

Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "quit" 		

Floyd | In 588 turns, you have earned 18 points out of a possible 75.
Floyd | You have completed approximately 30 percent of the game.
Floyd | You haven't used any hints.
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you really want to quit?  (YES or NO) >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | The Legend awaits your return.

		
		
*** Third Session *** 		
		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | File to restore game from >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "legend2" 		

Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | Red and Green Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    The narrow east-west hallway continues through here with but one
Floyd | feature changed:  the walls and floor are covered with red and green
Floyd | splotches.  Oh yes, and the walls appear to be somewhat chewed up.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can see a ladder leading up to Ada's pod to the east, and what
Floyd | appears to be a landing/launching bay of some kind to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A hideous Zdybel blocks your way west!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ok."
		genericgeekgirl says, "When last we met, we broke into an old man's house, made breakfast in his kitchen, terrorized his dog, and failed to break his back door. Then we cheated the claw prize machine in his shop and ran off home, where a monster of some sort seems to want us to provide it with lunch. Or maybe it thinks we are lunch. Either way~"
		DavidW says, "I don't know what zdybels eat, but I will suggest retreating and trying to go east down the corridor instead of dealing with the thing."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Sounds good."
		DavidW says, "This is under Ada's home, fwiw."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Metal Corridor Under Ada's Pod
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're in a narrow but otherwise nondescript metal corridor leading
Floyd | east and west.  You see a ladder leading up to Ada's pod.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Dusty Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    The east-west metal corridor narrows here so that you have to crouch
Floyd | to go any further east.  The air is musty, and there's so much dust
Floyd | that you cough uncontrollably.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "crouch" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "crouch".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | At an Air Duct Grating
Floyd |
Floyd |    You have crawled to the end of an east-west metal corridor and are
Floyd | now looking through a grating into what appears to be an air duct.  It
Floyd | is very dusty here.  The grating is made of metal and is thickly caked
Floyd | with dust and grime.  It's held firmly in place by a screw in each
Floyd | corner.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The only obvious way out is back west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A bolt, a hammer, and an ary ung are here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Neat."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x bolt" 		

Floyd | It's just a steel bolt, about 4 centimeters across.  It's a bit greasy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take bolt" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x hammer" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary hammer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ung" 		

Floyd | The ary ung is a black pistol-shaped implement that fits snugly in your
Floyd | hand.  It has an almost unnoticeable red trigger.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take hammer.take ung" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "unscrew grating with akmid" 		

Floyd | You'll need a screwdriver.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Maybe ungs can take out zdybels?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x grating" 		

Floyd | The grating is made of metal and is thickly caked with dust and grime.
Floyd | It's held firmly in place by a screw in each corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x screw" 		

Floyd | The grating is made of metal and is thickly caked with dust and grime.
Floyd | It's held firmly in place by a screw in each corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Or maybe the ung takes out the dog?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Hm. Poor puppy. Maybe."
		DavidW says, "hm. 'ary ung' is an anagram of 'ray gun'. So maybe the thing anagrams stuff."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf16" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Turns a dog into a god."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Ooooh."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shoot ung at grating" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  The air duct
Floyd | grating seem unaffected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | At an Air Duct Grating
Floyd |
Floyd |    You have crawled to the end of an east-west metal corridor and are
Floyd | now looking through a grating into what appears to be an air duct.  It
Floyd | is very dusty here.  The grating is made of metal and is thickly caked
Floyd | with dust and grime.  It's held firmly in place by a screw in each
Floyd | corner.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The only obvious way out is back west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW has disconnected. 		
DavidW has connected. 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "zap dust with ung" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "zap".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "'Graaamn' is a pretty great sound effect."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot dust with ung" 		

Floyd | (trying to see the dust first)
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dust" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, an ary ung, a hammer, a bolt, a magnetic
Floyd | letter Q, a plastic whistle, a plastic plover's egg, some Akmi Wacki
Floyd | Putti, a firecracker, a mood ring (being worn), a piece of string (tied
Floyd | to the akmid), a poodle charm, a stick of butter, a fried SynthEgg, a
Floyd | Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a mixer, a frying pan, a hunk of cheese,
Floyd | an overripe tomato, a piece of salami, a geode, an akmid (tied to the
Floyd | piece of string), a thermos of Barfee advanced growth formula
Floyd | QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a crumpled scrap of paper,
Floyd | a paperback book, a handwritten note, your thesis research floppy disk,
Floyd | a qualitative calculator, an RGB color chart, a full ReVoLT Kola can, a
Floyd | Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm. No obvious anagram targets."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Dunno. Let's go shoot the hungry thing."
		DavidW says, "yeah. It might do something."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You'll have to get the grating off first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Dusty Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    The east-west metal corridor narrows here so that you have to crouch
Floyd | to go any further east.  The air is musty, and there's so much dust
Floyd | that you cough uncontrollably.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Metal Corridor Under Ada's Pod
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're in a narrow but otherwise nondescript metal corridor leading
Floyd | east and west.  You see a ladder leading up to Ada's pod.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Red and Green Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    The narrow east-west hallway continues through here with but one
Floyd | feature changed:  the walls and floor are covered with red and green
Floyd | splotches.  Oh yes, and the walls appear to be somewhat chewed up.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can see a ladder leading up to Ada's pod to the east, and what
Floyd | appears to be a landing/launching bay of some kind to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A hideous Zdybel blocks your way west!
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel threatens you with a nasty claw.  "Psssst!  Lunch!
Floyd | Lunch!  Exoculating lunch!"  it raves.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shoot zdybel with ung" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  The oversized,
Floyd | slavering Zdybel shrivels into a cowering Bedzyl!
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by a point.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Bedzyl's tiny white whiskers wiggle as it sits on its hind legs
Floyd | facing you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, how cute!"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x bedzyl" 		

Floyd | The Bedzyl is a tiny mouse-like creature that seems to be friendly but
Floyd | very afraid of you, which is understandable since you're about 100
Floyd | times its size and wielding a nasty-looking pistol.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Bedzyl seems eager to play with you, but not entirely sure that
Floyd | you won't eat it, stomp it, etc.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take bedzyl" 		

Floyd | You reach down to snatch the little Bedzyl, but the tiny creature is
Floyd | too quick for you.  It scurries away and cowers in the corner for a few
Floyd | minutes before working up the courage to emerge from the shadows again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cuddle bedzyl" 		

Floyd | You can't get close enough to the Bedzyl to do that.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Bedzyl scampers about playfully.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, man. Why isn't mwmiller here? :("
		DavidW says, "I guess we can go past it now."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Maybe we can feed it?"
		DavidW says, "Try. But not our egg, please."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf17" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give cheese to bedzyl" 		

Floyd | The Bedzyl zips away from you, evidently uninterested in your offer.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Bedzyl seems eager to play with you, but not entirely sure that
Floyd | you won't eat it, stomp it, etc.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, an ary ung, a hammer, a bolt, a magnetic
Floyd | letter Q, a plastic whistle, a plastic plover's egg, some Akmi Wacki
Floyd | Putti, a firecracker, a mood ring (being worn), a piece of string (tied
Floyd | to the akmid), a poodle charm, a stick of butter, a fried SynthEgg, a
Floyd | Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a mixer, a frying pan, a hunk of cheese,
Floyd | an overripe tomato, a piece of salami, a geode, an akmid (tied to the
Floyd | piece of string), a thermos of Barfee advanced growth formula
Floyd | QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a crumpled scrap of paper,
Floyd | a paperback book, a handwritten note, your thesis research floppy disk,
Floyd | a qualitative calculator, an RGB color chart, a full ReVoLT Kola can, a
Floyd | Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Bedzyl sits motionless as it eyes you suspiciously.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x kola" 		

Floyd |    The ReVoLT Kola can has the usual gaudy tomato red and intergalactic
Floyd | orange design and the standard snappy slogan:  "Make every cell in your
Floyd | body RIOT...  with ReVoLT!"  The makers of this beverage claim that it
Floyd | is the most powerful stimulant available without a prescription.
Floyd | You've probably taken years off your life with this toxic elixir.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The can seems to contain some carbonated beverage.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Bedzyl's tiny white whiskers wiggle as it sits on its hind legs
Floyd | facing you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Why the hell not?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give kola to bedzyl" 		

Floyd | The Bedzyl zips away from you, evidently uninterested in your offer.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The harmless little Bedzyl cowers in the shadows.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "oh, try the gro on it?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pour gro on bedzyl" 		

Floyd | Pouring Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro on the harmless little Bedzyl doesn't
Floyd | seem very productive.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Bedzyl scampers about playfully.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give grape to bedzyl" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "grape".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give grapes to bedzyl" 		

Floyd | The Bedzyl zips away from you, evidently uninterested in your offer.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The harmless little Bedzyl cowers in the shadows.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give love to bedzyl" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "love".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "A reference book on critters would be helpful."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sing" 		

Floyd | You're pretty good.  Nice to know you've got a second career in case
Floyd | grad school doesn't work out.  But then again, the Unnkulians may have
Floyd | already taken over the universe by the time you finish grad school.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Bedzyl's tiny white whiskers wiggle as it sits on its hind legs
Floyd | facing you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x whiskers" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "whiskers".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Oh, well. Onward?"
		DavidW says, "sure"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Escape Pod Docking Bay
Floyd |
Floyd |    The metal corridor widens into a large open area here, where you can
Floyd | see several escape pod landing/launching bays in the western wall.  The
Floyd | pods are, you assume, meant for use during emergencies when the matter
Floyd | movers are down or unsafe.  At the moment all the pods but one are
Floyd | gone, and through the glass guarding the empty bays you can see an
Floyd | incredible spectacle:  absolute blackness streaked with dusty plumes,
Floyd | like the frozen crests of breaking waves, and textured with varying
Floyd | densities of white-bright points that create a fantastic continuum of
Floyd | grays.  And, you reflect for a moment, only a few centimeters of clear
Floyd | glass separate you from what feels like the whole of creation.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A metal corridor leads east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. 		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-02-21:42:15CDT 		genericgeekgirl oohs and ahhs.
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pod" 		

Floyd | The one remaining escape pod sits quietly in its bay, evidently ready
Floyd | for launch.  It fits snugly in the circular hole in the wall designed
Floyd | for it, and hence you can only tell that it's roughly spherical and has
Floyd | a person-sized entrance at floor level for boarding.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm. One-way trip."
		DavidW says, "(I assume.)"
		genericgeekgirl says, "We just saved."
		DavidW says, "well, obviously we go into the pod."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter pod" 		

Floyd | You step inside the escape pod...
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the Escape Pod
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing inside the escape pod.  The interior is spartan,
Floyd | lacking even seats and tables, and it's barely big enough to hold
Floyd | several people.  The only control seems to be a big red button marked
Floyd | "LAUNCH."
Floyd |
Floyd |    The top and front of the spherical pod are made of glass.  This
Floyd | affords you a spectacular view of space.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press button" 		

Floyd | Which button do you mean, the Clear button, the Clear button, the ZERO
Floyd | button, the POSITIVE button, the NEGATIVE button, the ADD button, the
Floyd | SUBTRACT button, the MULTIPLY button, the DIVIDE button, or the launch
Floyd | button?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press red button" 		

Floyd | This would probably be a good time to save the game.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to save?  (YES or NO) >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hehehehehe."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "legend-launch" 		

Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | The escape pod's engines spring to life!  You are thrown against the
Floyd | now-closed metal entrance door as the craft rockets away from the
Floyd | Yooniversity Dwelling Site and into space on an unknown (to you, at
Floyd | least) course.  You can see the tiny blue planet Frost disappear in the
Floyd | distance as you look through the top of the spinning pod.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The course correction jets kick in, and the pod stops spinning about
Floyd | wildly. You regain your balance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x planet" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "There really ought to be seats."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x glass" 		

Floyd | The top and front of the spherical pod are made of glass.  This affords
Floyd | you a spectacular view of space.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The engines really begin to roar as the pod accelerates.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look through glass" 		

Floyd | Looking through the glass canopy rewards you with a spectacular view of
Floyd | space.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The pod quiets some as it reaches what is presumably cruising
Floyd | velocity.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The light is nearly blinding as the pod briefly turns toward Val,
Floyd | the star that has warmed the homeworld Tode and the other populated
Floyd | planets in this system for millennia.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x val" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "val".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    Far in the distance you see a tiny orange dot, just larger than a
Floyd | star.  It grows bigger and bigger -- you seem to be headed straight for
Floyd | it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    Moments later, the dot has become a fist-sized ball.  You are
Floyd | approaching it at an incredible speed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    A giant orange sphere now fills your entire view.  You're about to
Floyd | crash land on a distant planet!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your little craft plunges through the orange planet's atmosphere and
Floyd | hurtles towards the ground below.  Cabin heat becomes nearly unbearable
Floyd | as you decelerate, and you're being thrown about like a pet's chew toy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "> panic"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    Though the pod is slowing down at an almost alarming rate, the
Floyd | ground is still approaching faster than you can believe.  This looks
Floyd | like the end!
Floyd |
Floyd |    A formerly invisible readout next to the launch button flashes,
Floyd | "Standby to land on the planet Irata."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The pod plunges through a dense forest of blue-green trees.  You
Floyd | cover your eyes and hope for the best.  Miraculously, you survive
Floyd | unscathed, though quite dizzy and a bit queasy from the hundred or so
Floyd | barrel rolls the pod must have made once it touched down.  The door
Floyd | slides open silently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd | You clamber out of the escape pod...
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the Escape Pod Wreckage
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in the middle of a clearing at the site of your crash
Floyd | landing.  The escape pod lies to the north, and is still intact, though
Floyd | very badly damaged.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Dense forest surrounds this little area, though it looks like you
Floyd | might be able to make some progress through the woods to the east,
Floyd | northwest, and south. Passage along other routes looks very unlikely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pod" 		

Floyd | The escape pod is in bad shape -- it's a wonder you survived the
Floyd | landing.  The once spherical craft is now flat on one side, the metal
Floyd | crumpled up like tin foil.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search it" 		

Floyd | The escape pod is in bad shape -- it's a wonder you survived the
Floyd | landing.  The once spherical craft is now flat on one side, the metal
Floyd | crumpled up like tin foil.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open pod" 		

Floyd | You can't open the crashed escape pod.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x trees" 		

Floyd | The forest is all around you.  The trees here have grown strangely
Floyd | close together.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "well, pick a direction."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "East first?"
		DavidW says, "sure"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Another Crash Site
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing amidst the wreckage of another spaceship.  Not much
Floyd | remains of the vessel -- there are chunks of twisted metal everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd |    As you survey the area looking for signs of life, you hear something
Floyd | moving in the forest nearby.  Just as you turn toward the source of the
Floyd | noise, you see a tall, skinny fellow with long hair tumbling out of a
Floyd | tree and onto the ground.  You rush over to see if he's all right.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The young man looks up at you through a pain-induced squint, holding
Floyd | his head and groaning.  "Whoa..."  he says, "What happened?"
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Looks like you crashed," you say.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Upon hearing this, he looks absolutely terrified.  "Oh no!"  the man
Floyd | cries, and he begins desperately searching through the remains of the
Floyd | tattered ship.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Moments later, he pulls a bright red object out from under a
Floyd | collapsed support beam and breathes a sigh of relief.  "If I'd lost
Floyd | those patches that would've *really* sucked," he explains, pointing to
Floyd | his undamaged portable SoundSquasher X-1000 [25].  He looks familiar,
Floyd | somehow.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Timon Sketch," he says.  "Pleased to meet you."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Over the course of the next hour you exchange recent history with
Floyd | Timon.  You find out that he headlines a rock band called "The
Floyd | Hoi-Polloi" and that they recently decided to switch to another label.
Floyd | He suspects that they sabotaged his ship since they just signed the new
Floyd | contract hours before his crash:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "The Muse people were real pissed that we ditched 'em for Shock
Floyd | Sounds, 'cause they lost Rad Doodz at the same time -- we hang with
Floyd | them, y'know, and we kind of all decided to pop Muse at the same time
Floyd | to make the statement.  Then we sign and that psychobitch running Muse
Floyd | starts gettin' all up in my face and tellin' me I better drive safe so
Floyd | I don't have a 'little accident.'"  He looks up at the sky.  "Nice try,
Floyd | loser, I didn't even lose my latest tune!"
Floyd |
Floyd |    One thing you both definitely have in common is your need for
Floyd | transport off the planet.  You agree to search the area together in
Floyd | hopes of finding a way back.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Over the next few hours you tell Timon Sketch about the Unnkulian
Floyd | menace and what it may mean for the fate of the universe.  He seems
Floyd | generally unconvinced but still concerned that he won't be able to
Floyd | write any more tunes, and urges you to contact his "friend" The
Floyd | Watchmaker.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Watch is a total psycho-genius freak -- infobroker -- wants to rule
Floyd | the world through an AkNet jack but will settle for just the underworld
Floyd | for now.  Don't get on the wrong side of Watch's blaster -- people die
Floyd | when that happens. Lots of people.  Hey, but Watch is real nice at
Floyd | heart, and sure as hell the only person I know who would have any goods
Floyd | on Akmi.  Nobody sane fucks with Akmi.  Try to step to them and you're
Floyd | squashed like a grape.
Floyd |
Floyd |    He pauses, perhaps considering the concept.  "Yeah.  Like a
Floyd | *grape*."  As he shakes his head, his long hair moves forward en masse
Floyd | to obscure his face.  This man with the hidden face then hands you what
Floyd | appears to be a triangular pink circuit board and tells you to give it
Floyd | to the bouncer at The Watchmen.  He brushes his hair back.  He is still
Floyd | nodding.
Floyd |
Floyd |    As you turn the oddly-shaped device over in your hand to examine it,
Floyd | he begins to hum and then sing a wandering, unearthly melody:
Floyd |
Floyd |        Try to rush from the tomb,
Floyd |        Try to hurry from the grave,
Floyd |        But you and your dreams will die,
Floyd |        In the Watch.
Floyd |        Wriggle all you like,
Floyd |        But the Watch will get you just the same.
Floyd |        The Watch is always ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're walking about a small clearing amidst the wreckage of Timon
Floyd | Sketch's ship.  Dense forest surrounds you on all sides.  It looks like
Floyd | you might be able to beat a path through the foliage to the north and
Floyd | south.  Head west and you're back at your own crash site.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch starts and stops playing the same melody a dozen times,
Floyd | then smashes all the keys down in a frustrated frenzy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Whoa."
		DavidW says, "quite the infodump"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Caught up?"
		DavidW says, "yeah"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x timon" 		

Floyd | Timon Sketch is a wiry fellow with long hair that seems to have a mind
Floyd | of its own.  From the looks of it, he often becomes totally absorbed in
Floyd | playing his synthesizer, thereby remaining oblivious to the world
Floyd | around him.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "note 25" 		

Floyd | [25]: SoundSquasher's synthesizers are widely regarded as the best.
Floyd | The new X-1000 model features a Neutrino Overdrive/Inhibitor
Floyd | Synthesizer-Effector, the latest and greatest sound-modifying gizmo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "punch timon" 		

Floyd | There's no reason to get huffy!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x board" 		

Floyd | You can't tell exactly what it is, but you figure that it must store
Floyd | some kind of information.  There are mover coordinates on the back of
Floyd | the device:
Floyd |
Floyd |    Midnight Blue (+30, -47, +24)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hm."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pod" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x metal" 		

Floyd | It's just an ordinary frying pan.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "North or south?"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "North?"
		DavidW says, "ok"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You fight your way through the forest up a steep slope.  After a long
Floyd | struggle, you find yourself...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Atop a Cliff
Floyd |
Floyd |    This place is well worth the trouble it took to get here.  Your spot
Floyd | atop this steep cliff affords you a panoramic view of the land all
Floyd | around.  Directly in front of you, to the north, is a 500 meter drop
Floyd | down to a thick forest canopy that continues to the horizon
Floyd | undisturbed.  Do be careful.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To the south are the crash sites, and you notice a tiny building in
Floyd | the woods to the east of Sketch's ship.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Farther south is what looks to be an agricultural and mining complex
Floyd | of some kind, with a fence running all around the perimeter.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The cliff continues to the northwest and southeast, but you'd have
Floyd | to have climbing gear to survive passage along it -- this whole region
Floyd | is covered with rocks of all sizes and you barely made it this far
Floyd | without breaking a leg.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You see a clearing to the southwest, on this side of the cliff.  A
Floyd | path north through the trees leads from the tiny clearing to a small
Floyd | tower.  Atop the tower is a blinking red light.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Looks like the only way out of here is to the south, the way you
Floyd | came.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch plays the chorus of "You Suck."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x building" 		

Floyd | From here you can only tell that it's some kind of small dwelling --
Floyd | perhaps a shack.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tower" 		

Floyd | You'll need to get closer to see more.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cliff" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary cliff.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "push timon down cliff" 		

Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-02-21:57:15CDT 		DavidW says, "so mean"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x complex" 		

Floyd | Is that a CAMEL you see in the fields?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x camel" 		

Floyd | You don't know what that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "wha?!"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x fence" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Awesome."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Back down the hill?"
		DavidW says, "please"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Another Crash Site
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're walking about a small clearing amidst the wreckage of Timon
Floyd | Sketch's ship.  Dense forest surrounds you on all sides.  It looks like
Floyd | you might be able to beat a path through the foliage to the north and
Floyd | south.  Head west and you're back at your own crash site.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch plays a catchy melody.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | CAMELs at Work
Floyd |

		
Floyd Through the tall fence here you can see hundreds of CAMELs [26] hard 		

Floyd | at work in the fields.  Most seem to going about agricultural tasks,
Floyd | but some have giant solar collectors on them.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is no obvious way to proceed beyond the fence.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch mutters about new song ideas.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ah."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "note 26" 		

Floyd | [26]: The first Compact All-Purpose Mobile Electronic Laborer was
Floyd | developed by Andi Bunnet over 150 years ago, and many of the earliest
Floyd | models are still in used today.  CAMELs are robots with the simple AI
Floyd | required to perform agricultural and mining tasks.  Much cheaper than
Floyd | human-operated heavy machinery, the CAMELs work harder and faster than
Floyd | any human team could.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x solar" 		

Floyd | You can't tell much about the solar collectors from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "bet we need a solar collector."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Could be."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Another Crash Site
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're walking about a small clearing amidst the wreckage of Timon
Floyd | Sketch's ship.  Dense forest surrounds you on all sides.  It looks like
Floyd | you might be able to beat a path through the foliage to the north and
Floyd | south.  Head west and you're back at your own crash site.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch plays a few bars of the hit song "I Want a Girl with
Floyd | Green Hair and Horns."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the Escape Pod Wreckage
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in the middle of a clearing at the site of your crash
Floyd | landing.  The escape pod lies to the north, and is still intact, though
Floyd | very badly damaged.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Dense forest surrounds this little area, though it looks like you
Floyd | might be able to make some progress through the woods to the east,
Floyd | northwest, and south. Passage along other routes looks very unlikely.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch starts and stops playing the same melody a dozen times,
Floyd | then smashes all the keys down in a frustrated frenzy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "NW?"
		DavidW says, "ok"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A fearsome Dylbez blocks your way north!
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch presses a button and his synthesizer makes an awful
Floyd | squawking noise.  He mashes down a lot of the keys and it stops.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Dylbez snorts.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x dylbez" 		

Floyd |    The Dylbez is a fearsome beast, three times as tall as a man and
Floyd | stronger than twenty.  These giant two-headed bears are found only on
Floyd | Irata, and with good reason:  no one has ever been able to capture one
Floyd | and leave Irata alive.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Dylbez attacks swiftly and viciously, by grabbing its victim
Floyd | with its powerful claws and then hugging it to death.  Don't mess with
Floyd | this fellow, OK?
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Dylbez comes a step closer to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Shoot it!"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shoot dylbez with ung" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  The fearsome
Floyd | Dylbez is transformed into a horrible Zdybel!
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel sings a lyric:  "What a Noooooble man was Strickland..."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh no."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shoot zdybel with ung" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  The slavering
Floyd | Zdybel is transformed into a fearsome Dylbez!
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Dylbez bumps its heads together and grimaces.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Darn."
		DavidW asks, "Try yet again?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shoot dylbez with ung" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  The fearsome
Floyd | Dylbez is transformed into a horrible Zdybel!
Floyd |
Floyd |    "To be..."  the Zdybel says dramatically, "or to ben't."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "well, head south?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | At a Tall Fence
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your way south is blocked by a very tall fence.  You notice a loud
Floyd | humming sound here.  It seems to be coming from the fence.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Thick forest surrounds you -- you can head back north, but it
Floyd | doesn't look like you'll make much progress going any other way.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch presses a button and his synthesizer makes an awful
Floyd | squawking noise.  He mashes down a lot of the keys and it stops.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I note that 'GRAAAMN' is an anagram of ANAGRAM."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Ah."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x fence" 		

Floyd | It just looks like an ordinary fence, except that it's very tall.  It's
Floyd | making a humming noise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A ferocious Zdybel blocks your way north!
Floyd |
Floyd |    Smiling as he gets his "watermelon dropped from high above" patch
Floyd | just right, Timon Sketch begins an inspired solo.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel gibbers on about fungus.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the Escape Pod Wreckage
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in the middle of a clearing at the site of your crash
Floyd | landing.  The escape pod lies to the north, and is still intact, though
Floyd | very badly damaged.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Dense forest surrounds this little area, though it looks like you
Floyd | might be able to make some progress through the woods to the east,
Floyd | northwest, and south. Passage along other routes looks very unlikely.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch plays the chorus of "I Suck."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "South from here?"
		DavidW says, "ok"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | At a Tall Fence
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your way south is blocked by a very tall fence.  You notice a loud
Floyd | humming sound here.  It seems to be coming from the fence.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Thick forest surrounds you -- you can head back north, but it
Floyd | doesn't look like you'll make much progress going any other way.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch begins to sing:  "Igdoof ...  Nothing more than ...
Floyd | Igdoof..."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "> feed Timon to creature"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shoot timon with ung" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  Timon Sketch
Floyd | seems unaffected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen to fence" 		

Floyd | The fence is humming loudly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "We might ask Timon about stuff."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask timon about synthesizer" 		

Floyd | You can't do that, because something tells you the portable
Floyd | SoundSquasher X-1000 will not be a particularly productive topic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x synthesizer" 		

Floyd |    The SoundSquasher X-1000 is the very latest in a long line of fine
Floyd | SoundSquasher products.  Brett Simpkin built the first SoundSquasher in
Floyd | his garage 34 years ago out of hubcaps and audion capacitors pirated
Floyd | from intra-planetary navigation beacons.  After the 5th major ship
Floyd | disaster, Simpkin was arrested, an event that propelled the
Floyd | SoundSquasher to galaxy-wide success.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "timon, play synthesizer" 		

Floyd | Timon seems less than interested in taking explicit orders from you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask timon about camels" 		

Floyd | You can't do that, because something tells you the CAMELs will not be a
Floyd | particularly productive topic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask timon about irata" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "irata".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask timon about band" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "band".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-02-22:12:15CDT 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask timon about dylbez" 		

Floyd | Timon doesn't seem to have much of an opinion on that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask timon about ary ung" 		

Floyd | Timon doesn't seem to have much of an opinion on that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ung" 		

Floyd | The ary ung is a black pistol-shaped implement that fits snugly in your
Floyd | hand.  It has an almost unnoticeable red trigger.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x trigger" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary ary ung trigger.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn trigger" 		

Floyd | You can't turn the ary ung trigger.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "When at the cliff, we saw a building east of Timon's crash site. Perhaps the knowledge will aid us in forging east there, even if there's no obvious path?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Sure."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the Escape Pod Wreckage
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in the middle of a clearing at the site of your crash
Floyd | landing.  The escape pod lies to the north, and is still intact, though
Floyd | very badly damaged.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Dense forest surrounds this little area, though it looks like you
Floyd | might be able to make some progress through the woods to the east,
Floyd | northwest, and south. Passage along other routes looks very unlikely.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch plays the chorus of "I Suck."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Another Crash Site
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're walking about a small clearing amidst the wreckage of Timon
Floyd | Sketch's ship.  Dense forest surrounds you on all sides.  It looks like
Floyd | you might be able to beat a path through the foliage to the north and
Floyd | south.  Head west and you're back at your own crash site.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch plays a screaming guitar solo with his feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside a Shack
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing outside a humble little shack in a clearing barely
Floyd | large enough to hold it.  There is a scrawled parchment note on the
Floyd | door, and a small jade box on the ground underneath it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Head west and you're back at Timon Sketch's crash site.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch begins to sing:  "Igdoof ...  Nothing more than ...
Floyd | Igdoof..."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x note" 		

Floyd | Which note do you mean, the handwritten note, or the parchment note?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "parchment" 		

Floyd | The parchment note on the door reads:
Floyd |
Floyd | My son,
Floyd |
Floyd | Please leave today's fried egg in the jade container to gain entrance.
Floyd | Be ready to discuss "Benedict the Holy" when I return.  Do NOT burn
Floyd | anything this time.
Floyd |
Floyd |       -- Kuulest
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "A ha!"
		DavidW asks, "So put the synthegg in the box?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put egg in box" 		

Floyd | Which egg do you mean, the plastic plover's egg, or the fried SynthEgg?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "synthegg" 		

Floyd | This would probably be a good time to save the game.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to save?  (YES or NO) >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "legend-egg" 		

Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | You drop the fried SynthEgg in the jade box.  There is a bright flash
Floyd | and the egg disappears!
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 2 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Woo!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" 		

Floyd | You walk inside the shack.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside Shack
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're in a tiny room in a little shack.  There's a desk and a chair
Floyd | here, but the room is otherwise bare.  The only exit is out the door,
Floyd | to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch plays the chorus of "You Suck."  A dog-eared leaflet is
Floyd | on the desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x leaflet" 		
Floyd The leaflet warns of the dangers of technology, discusses various 		
Floyd scandals involving Akmi, and urges the reader to visit Kuwl [27] at Egg 		

Floyd | White (+0, +0, -304).  There is also an ad for the Duhdhist
Floyd | Broadcasting Network, channel 361.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take leaflet" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x desk" 		

Floyd | It's just a wooden desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x chair" 		

Floyd | It's just an uncomfortable wooden chair.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look under desk" 		

Floyd | Trying to look under the desk doesn't gain you anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look under chair" 		

Floyd | Trying to look under the chair doesn't gain you anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take leaflet" 		

Floyd | You already have the dog-eared leaflet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Hopefully there's a mover on this planet."
		DavidW asks, "What else was visible from the cliff? A tower?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah"
		DavidW asks, "I guess it would be north of the dylbez?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Hm. Drat."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask timon about kuulest" 		

Floyd | You don't know what that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW asks, "timon about benedict" 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask timon about benedict" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "benedict".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" 		

Floyd | It looks like a typical wooden door.  It's sealed shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I don't think it's still shut."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open door" 		

Floyd | It's locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside a Shack
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing outside a humble little shack in a clearing barely
Floyd | large enough to hold it.  There is a scrawled parchment note on the
Floyd | door, and a small jade box on the ground underneath it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Head west and you're back at Timon Sketch's crash site.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch plays the chorus of "I Suck."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x box" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary box, except that it seems to be made of solid
Floyd | jade!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "silly bug"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open box" 		

Floyd | It has no top.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take box" 		

Floyd | You try to take the box, but an unseen force holds it fast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look in box" 		

Floyd | There doesn't appear to be anything in the jade box.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You walk inside the shack.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside Shack
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're in a tiny room in a little shack.  There's a desk and a chair
Floyd | here, but the room is otherwise bare.  The only exit is out the door,
Floyd | to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch plays the chorus of "You Suck."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside a Shack
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing outside a humble little shack in a clearing barely
Floyd | large enough to hold it.  There is a scrawled parchment note on the
Floyd | door, and a small jade box on the ground underneath it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Head west and you're back at Timon Sketch's crash site.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch presses a button and his synthesizer makes an awful
Floyd | squawking noise.  He mashes down a lot of the keys and it stops.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "hm. Maybe lure the critter to the fence, take out both hazards at once?"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Sure, why not?"
		DavidW says, "Perhaps the 2-headed one will follow us."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Another Crash Site
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're walking about a small clearing amidst the wreckage of Timon
Floyd | Sketch's ship.  Dense forest surrounds you on all sides.  It looks like
Floyd | you might be able to beat a path through the foliage to the north and
Floyd | south.  Head west and you're back at your own crash site.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch is here, playing a mind-numbing tuba solo on his
Floyd | SoundSquasher X-1000.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the Escape Pod Wreckage
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in the middle of a clearing at the site of your crash
Floyd | landing.  The escape pod lies to the north, and is still intact, though
Floyd | very badly damaged.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Dense forest surrounds this little area, though it looks like you
Floyd | might be able to make some progress through the woods to the east,
Floyd | northwest, and south. Passage along other routes looks very unlikely.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch begins to sing:  "Igdoof ...  Nothing more than ...
Floyd | Igdoof..."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask timon about igdoof" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "igdoof".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-02-22:27:15CDT 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A ferocious Zdybel blocks your way north!
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch plays a screaming guitar solo with his feet.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel sings a lyric:  "What a Noooooble man was Strickland..."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot zdybel with trigger" 		

Floyd | (trying to take the ary ung trigger first)
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't take the ary ung trigger.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x trigger" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary ary ung trigger.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Shhhhhh," the Zdybel whispers, "The snork!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take zdybel" 		

Floyd | The fearsome beast would surely kill you if you got close enough to it
Floyd | to grab it.  Please do get a grip on the gravity of the situation.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | The hideous Zdybel blocks your way!
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel scratches its head and yells, "Eureka!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hee."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot zdybel with ung" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  The slavering
Floyd | Zdybel is transformed into a fearsome Dylbez!
Floyd |
Floyd |    One of the Dylbez's heads is startled by and growls at the other
Floyd | head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | At a Tall Fence
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your way south is blocked by a very tall fence.  You notice a loud
Floyd | humming sound here.  It seems to be coming from the fence.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Thick forest surrounds you -- you can head back north, but it
Floyd | doesn't look like you'll make much progress going any other way.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch plays a few bars of the classic tune "Aerobics."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A fearsome Dylbez blocks your way north!
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch mutters about new song ideas.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Dylbez bumps its heads together and grimaces.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "> Shout eureka at zdybel | The Zdybel is sufficiently confused."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask timon about dylbez" 		

Floyd | Timon doesn't seem to have much of an opinion on that.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Dylbez eyes you hungrily.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give timon to dylbez" 		

Floyd | (trying to take Timon Sketch first)
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't take Timon Sketch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb tree" 		

Floyd | You can't climb the forest.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Dylbez prepares to rush you, and then decides against it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit dylbez" 		

Floyd | There's no reason to get huffy!
Floyd |
Floyd |    One of the Dylbez's heads is startled by and growls at the other
Floyd | head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | The ferocious Dylbez blocks your way!
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Dylbez comes a step closer to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | At a Tall Fence
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your way south is blocked by a very tall fence.  You notice a loud
Floyd | humming sound here.  It seems to be coming from the fence.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Thick forest surrounds you -- you can head back north, but it
Floyd | doesn't look like you'll make much progress going any other way.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch starts and stops playing the same melody a dozen times,
Floyd | then smashes all the keys down in a frustrated frenzy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A fearsome Dylbez blocks your way north!
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch plays an ever-ascending pattern on the keyboard until
Floyd | he finally runs out of keys and begins playing air.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Dylbez eyes you hungrily.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x grass" 		

Floyd | The grass is lime green -- not a variety you have on your native Tode.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Dylbez prepares to rush you, and then decides against it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search grass" 		

Floyd | The grass is lime green -- not a variety you have on your native Tode.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Dylbez snorts.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Dylbez nearly deafens you with a growl.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd |    One of the Dylbez's heads is startled by and growls at the other
Floyd | head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x heads" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "heads".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Dylbez wanders about in a circle inexplicably.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm. This isn't working"
		DavidW says, "I'm so tired too."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give bananas to dylbez" 		

Floyd | You can't (sanely) get close enough to the beast to give it anything.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Dylbez bumps its heads together and grimaces.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw bananas at dylbez" 		

Floyd | You can't (sanely) get close enough to the beast to give it anything.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Dylbez eyes you hungrily.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot dylbez with ung" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  The fearsome
Floyd | Dylbez is transformed into a horrible Zdybel!
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel scratches its head and yells, "Eureka!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x zdybel" 		

Floyd | This Zdybel is much like the one you saw earlier, only it's bigger and
Floyd | more disgusting.  (Which is a pretty neat trick.)
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel sings a lyric:  "What a Noooooble man was Strickland..."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give bananas to zdybel" 		

Floyd | The Zdybel hungrily devours the 6 bananas and belches loudly
Floyd | immediately thereafter.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel gibbers on about fungus.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A ferocious Zdybel blocks your way north!
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch plays a few bars of the classic tune "Aerobics."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a dog-eared leaflet, a tiny triangular pink
Floyd | circuit board, an ary ung, a hammer, a bolt, a magnetic letter Q, a
Floyd | plastic whistle, a plastic plover's egg, some Akmi Wacki Putti, a
Floyd | firecracker, a mood ring (being worn), a piece of string (tied to the
Floyd | akmid), a poodle charm, a stick of butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a
Floyd | blender, a mixer, a frying pan, a hunk of cheese, an overripe tomato, a
Floyd | piece of salami, a geode, an akmid (tied to the piece of string), a
Floyd | thermos of Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi
Floyd | Soopur Wundur Gro, a crumpled scrap of paper, a paperback book, a
Floyd | handwritten note, your thesis research floppy disk, a qualitative
Floyd | calculator, an RGB color chart, a full ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard,
Floyd | and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Zoop zoopy doop.  Strrrrrrignorf," the Zdybel growls.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give gro to zdybel" 		

Floyd | The Zdybel hungrily devours the can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro and
Floyd | belches loudly immediately thereafter.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "To be..."  the Zdybel says dramatically, "or to ben't."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A ferocious Zdybel blocks your way north!
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch begins to sing:  "Igdoof ...  Nothing more than ...
Floyd | Igdoof..."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pour gro on zdybel" 		

Floyd | Pouring Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro on the hideous Zdybel doesn't seem very
Floyd | productive.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel sings a lyric:  "What a Noooooble man was Strickland..."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "sorry, but I can't keep my eyes open."
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-02-22:42:15CDT 		genericgeekgirl asks, "Let's stop here?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "save" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "legend3" 		

Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "I'll post to the bb, but two weeks from now (10/16), I'll need to either reschedule to Monday or cancel, because I have a 7:30am flight the following morning."
		Ellison says, "sounds good"
		Ellison says, "my schedule is different enough now that any night of the week works for me, if we wanted to change it in general, too"
		
*** Fourth Session *** 		
		DavidW asks, "Is there a NightFloyd tonight, then?"
		ASchultz says, "Ooh, I forgot it was tonight. I don't know if I could be here for all of it"
		DavidW says, "well, I need a quick shower regardless. back in ten or so."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yup. At 10:30 ET."
		* NewsBoy hollers, "Extra! Extra! genericgeekgirl has posted message 209, about 'October 16 - No NightFloyd', to the bulletin board! Before you read that, and yeah, I'ma let you finish, Susan Boyle was the best BGT contestant of all time. OF ALL TIME!"
		DavidW says, "back"
		DavidW says, "Although my hair's still wet."
		genericgeekgirl says, "With time to spare!"
		Gerynar says (to DW), "if you shave it all off, you wouldn't have to wait for it to dry"

Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A ferocious Zdybel blocks your way north!
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch plays a screaming guitar solo with his feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl arrives, full of fun and funk. 		
Gerynar arrives, full of fun, but no funk. 		
ASchultz arrives, full of fun and funk. 		
DavidW arrives, full of funk, but no fun. 		genericgeekgirl says, "It's all loaded up. And I'm making tea."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Uh. In my own kitchen. Not one I broke into."
		DavidW says, "I found my handdrawn map from last session. I do hope someone is extra-clever and gets us unstuck."
Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. 		genericgeekgirl says, "I dunno. We're facing some sort of monster that turns into a different horrible monster."
		ASchultz asks, "So what's the game?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "The Legend Lives."
		DavidW says, "The Legend Lives!"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a dog-eared leaflet, a tiny triangular
Floyd | pink circuit board, an ary ung, a hammer, a bolt, a magnetic letter Q,
Floyd | a plastic whistle, a plastic plover's egg, some Akmi Wacki Putti, a
Floyd | firecracker, a mood ring (being worn), a piece of string (tied to the
Floyd | akmid), a poodle charm, a stick of butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a
Floyd | blender, a mixer, a frying pan, a hunk of cheese, an overripe tomato,
Floyd | a piece of salami, a geode, an akmid (tied to the piece of string), a
Floyd | thermos of Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi
Floyd | Soopur Wundur Gro, a crumpled scrap of paper, a paperback book, a
Floyd | handwritten note, your thesis research floppy disk, a qualitative
Floyd | calculator, an RGB color chart, a full ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard,
Floyd | and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Fie, fie, fie on it, and fum too!"  screams the Zdybel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "We has stuff."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Most importantly, perhaps, this thing:"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x ung" 		

Floyd | The ary ung is a black pistol-shaped implement that fits snugly in
Floyd | your hand.  It has an almost unnoticeable red trigger.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Shhhhhh," the Zdybel whispers, "The snork!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW has disconnected. 		
DavidW has connected. 		
DavidW gets bored and wanders off to the Toyshop. 		
DavidW arrives, ready to play with the toys. 		
zarf arrives, full of fun, but no funk. 		DavidW says, "When last we met, our character, Gavin Kelly, had found an ary ung and an escape pod, and flew to another planet and crashed."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Also that guy:"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x timon" 		

Floyd | Timon Sketch is a wiry fellow with long hair that seems to have a mind
Floyd | of its own.  From the looks of it, he often becomes totally absorbed
Floyd | in playing his synthesizer, thereby remaining oblivious to the world
Floyd | around him.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Shhhhhh," the Zdybel whispers, "The snork!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "We found a use for a fried egg, learned a few new mover coords, a possibly interesting Tri-Vee channel, and got a pink board to give to a bouncer somewhere else."
		DavidW says, "oh, and yeah, we found this guy too."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" 		

Floyd | You don't smell anything unusual.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel gibbers on about fungus.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "smell zdybel" 		

Floyd | It's clear that the Zdybel smells like rotting garbage (or worse),
Floyd | even from a safe distance.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "To be..."  the Zdybel says dramatically, "or to ben't."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Previously, we zapped a zdybel and it turned into something cute and non-scary, but we couldn't catch it. And now this guy just turns into something else with two heads and it threatens to eat us."
ASchultz retreats to his comfy little shack 		
ASchultz has disconnected. 		DavidW says, "I kinda want to offer the Zdybel a fake acting contract, but I don't think we have such an item."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Haha"
		genericgeekgirl says, "It's too bad we couldn't get the mouselike creature. Maybe it's tasty."
		DavidW asks, "Two heads, eh? Have we seen any rocks to throw? Maybe get the heads to argue with each other?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Hm."
		genericgeekgirl says, "We have a tomato."
		DavidW says, "oh. I didn't remember the tomato."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tomato" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary overripe tomato.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Fie, fie, fie on it, and fum too!"  screams the Zdybel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw tomato at zdybel" 		

Floyd | The Zdybel hungrily devours the overripe tomato and belches loudly
Floyd | immediately thereafter.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Shhhhhh," the Zdybel whispers, "The snork!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A ferocious Zdybel blocks your way north!
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch plays the chorus of "You Suck."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rock" 		

Floyd | Though it looks completely everyday at first glance, a closer
Floyd | inspection reveals the rock to be a geode:  dull and unimpressive on
Floyd | the outside, but with a brilliant, sparkling crystalline center --
Floyd | absolutely beautiful!
Floyd |
Floyd |    "To be..."  the Zdybel says dramatically, "or to ben't."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw rock at zdybel" 		

Floyd | The Zdybel hungrily devours the geode and belches loudly immediately
Floyd | thereafter.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Zoop zoopy doop.  Strrrrrrignorf," the Zdybel growls.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A ferocious Zdybel blocks your way north!
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch plays a few bars of the hit song "I Want a Girl with
Floyd | Green Hair and Horns."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel gibbers on about fungus.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel draws a circle in the air with an outstretched claw.
Floyd | "Wind a string around that!"  it raves.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel babbles, "Ku ulert hank uule stia miam."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask zdybel about fungus" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "fungus".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask timon about zdybel" 		

Floyd | Which zdybel do you mean, the harmless little Bedzyl, or the hideous
Floyd | Zdybel?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hideous" 		

Floyd | Let's try it again:  Which zdybel do you mean, the harmless little
Floyd | Bedzyl, or the hideous Zdybel?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "grr"
		DavidW says, "shoot zdybel with ung"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot zdybel with ung" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  The slavering
Floyd | Zdybel is transformed into a fearsome Dylbez!
Floyd |
Floyd |    One of the Dylbez's heads is startled by and growls at the other
Floyd | head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh, this is the double header."
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DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw rock at dylbez" 		

Floyd | You can't (sanely) get close enough to the beast to give it anything.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Dylbez comes a step closer to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot dylbez with ung" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  The fearsome
Floyd | Dylbez is transformed into a horrible Zdybel!
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel draws a circle in the air with an outstretched claw.
Floyd | "Wind a string around that!"  it raves.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bedzyl" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ung" 		

Floyd | The ary ung is a black pistol-shaped implement that fits snugly in
Floyd | your hand.  It has an almost unnoticeable red trigger.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel babbles, "Ku ulert hank uule stia miam."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x trigger" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary ary ung trigger.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "To be..."  the Zdybel says dramatically, "or to ben't."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask timon about ung" 		

Floyd | Timon doesn't seem to have much of an opinion on that.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel scratches its head and yells, "Eureka!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Gerynar says "bloop" and shrinks down into a little dot, then winks out...just like those old-fashioned B&w televisions. 		
Gerynar has disconnected. 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask timon about kuulest" 		

Floyd | You don't know what that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x book" 		

Floyd | The book is entitled, "The Horror of Rylvania, and Other Ghost
Floyd | Stories."  "Ada Man" is written in the inside cover.  It's one of her
Floyd | favorite books, and it appears to be autographed.  The handwriting is
Floyd | so poor, however, that you can't make out much of the author's name --
Floyd | it looks like "D. O. Louty" but you're sure that's not right.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel draws a circle in the air with an outstretched claw.
Floyd | "Wind a string around that!"  it raves.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show book to zdybel" 		

Floyd | The Zdybel eyes the paperback book hungrily.  It drools a bit on your
Floyd | hand before you wisely jump back a few feet.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel gibbers on about fungus.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski arrives, full of fun and funk. 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask timon about rylvania" 		

Floyd | Timon doesn't seem to have much of an opinion on that.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Zoop zoopy doop.  Strrrrrrignorf," the Zdybel growls.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up zdybel in book" 		

Floyd | I don't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read book" 		

Floyd | Ada has told you on many occasions how great the title tale is, but
Floyd | you don't have time to kick back for a few hours and read it right
Floyd | now.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "To be..."  the Zdybel says dramatically, "or to ben't."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Heyo"
		DavidW says, "hello"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Did you try throwing the book at the monster?"
		DavidW says, "no, because it wanted to eat it."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf18" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "throw book at zdybel" 		

Floyd | The Zdybel hungrily devours the paperback book and belches loudly
Floyd | immediately thereafter.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Fie, fie, fie on it, and fum too!"  screams the Zdybel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A ferocious Zdybel blocks your way north!
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch starts and stops playing the same melody a dozen
Floyd | times, then smashes all the keys down in a frustrated frenzy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "It seems, by default, coded to eat anything thrown at it."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Ok."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Just curious."
borowski says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a dog-eared leaflet, a tiny triangular
Floyd | pink circuit board, an ary ung, a hammer, a bolt, a magnetic letter Q,
Floyd | a plastic whistle, a plastic plover's egg, some Akmi Wacki Putti, a
Floyd | firecracker, a mood ring (being worn), a piece of string (tied to the
Floyd | akmid), a poodle charm, a stick of butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a
Floyd | blender, a mixer, a frying pan, a hunk of cheese, an overripe tomato,
Floyd | a piece of salami, a geode, an akmid (tied to the piece of string), a
Floyd | thermos of Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi
Floyd | Soopur Wundur Gro, a crumpled scrap of paper, a paperback book, a
Floyd | handwritten note, your thesis research floppy disk, a qualitative
Floyd | calculator, an RGB color chart, a full ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard,
Floyd | and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel scratches its head and yells, "Eureka!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Maybe it was heavy enough to bonk it out."
		DavidW asks, "If there was something dangerous to eat...?"
		borowski asks, "A running Dysor?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Hee."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Firecracker? Do we have a way to light it?"
		DavidW says, "no. We did light it once, in the kitchen, using the hot stove."
		DavidW says, "It wasn't that big a bang."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x can" 		

Floyd | Which can do you mean, the can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, or the full
Floyd | ReVoLT Kola can?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kola" 		

Floyd |    The ReVoLT Kola can has the usual gaudy tomato red and
Floyd | intergalactic orange design and the standard snappy slogan:  "Make
Floyd | every cell in your body RIOT...  with ReVoLT!"  The makers of this
Floyd | beverage claim that it is the most powerful stimulant available
Floyd | without a prescription.  You've probably taken years off your life
Floyd | with this toxic elixir.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The can seems to contain some carbonated beverage.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel turns to you and says, "Thanks, Alex.  What would I like
Floyd | to take 'The Letter X' for 200?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x Zdybel" 		

Floyd | This Zdybel is much like the one you saw earlier, only it's bigger and
Floyd | more disgusting.  (Which is a pretty neat trick.)
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel gibbers on about fungus.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw q at zdybel" 		

Floyd | The Zdybel hungrily devours the magnetic letter Q and belches loudly
Floyd | immediately thereafter.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel turns to you and says, "Thanks, Alex.  What would I like
Floyd | to take 'The Letter X' for 200?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A ferocious Zdybel blocks your way north!
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch presses a button and his synthesizer makes an awful
Floyd | squawking noise.  He mashes down a lot of the keys and it stops.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw kola at zdybel" 		

Floyd | The Zdybel hungrily devours the full ReVoLT Kola can and belches
Floyd | loudly immediately thereafter.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel sings a lyric:  "What a Noooooble man was Strickland..."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Incidentally, can we see what happens if we drink the kola?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A ferocious Zdybel blocks your way north!
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch places his nose on middle C while playing a
Floyd | contrapuntal fantasy with both hands.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "I don't think we ever have."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drink kola" 		

Floyd |    You gulp down the carbonated Kola and are instantly slammed with a
Floyd | massive sugar high.  Your eyes practically leap out of their sockets
Floyd | as the full effect of the stimulant sets in.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You feel quick!
Floyd |
Floyd |    "To be..."  the Zdybel says dramatically, "or to ben't."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says (to ggg), "sure, go ahead"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Quick!"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A ferocious Zdybel blocks your way north!
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch presses a button and his synthesizer makes an awful
Floyd | squawking noise.  He mashes down a lot of the keys and it stops.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "That might be useful."
		DavidW says, "yeah"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Maybe we could run by it? Or restore and catch the mouse thingie?"
		DavidW says, "I don't remember the mouse, but sure, try those ideas."
		genericgeekgirl says, "The bed...zyl? Thing."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Whatever the other one turned into."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Will try running first, and then go hunt down the save file."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drink kola" 		

Floyd |    You gulp down the carbonated Kola and are instantly slammed with a
Floyd | massive sugar high.  Your eyes practically leap out of their sockets
Floyd | as the full effect of the stimulant sets in.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You feel quick!
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel sings a lyric:  "What a Noooooble man was Strickland..."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | The hideous Zdybel blocks your way!
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel gibbers on about fungus.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hmpf!"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | File to restore game from >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf17" 		

Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | Red and Green Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    The narrow east-west hallway continues through here with but one
Floyd | feature changed:  the walls and floor are covered with red and green
Floyd | splotches.  Oh yes, and the walls appear to be somewhat chewed up.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can see a ladder leading up to Ada's pod to the east, and what
Floyd | appears to be a landing/launching bay of some kind to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a little Bedzyl here, scurrying about cheerfully.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x Timon" 		

Floyd | You don't know what that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Sorry."
		borowski says, "That's OK"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drink kola" 		

Floyd |    You gulp down the carbonated Kola and are instantly slammed with a
Floyd | massive sugar high.  Your eyes practically leap out of their sockets
Floyd | as the full effect of the stimulant sets in.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You feel quick!
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Bedzyl seems eager to play with you, but not entirely sure that
Floyd | you won't eat it, stomp it, etc.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take bedzyl" 		

Floyd | In your hyperstimulated state you find that the Bedzyl is no match for
Floyd | your razor-sharp reflexes.  You whisk the little animal off the ground
Floyd | in an eye-blink.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "it's ok"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Woo."
		DavidW says, "oh ho"
		genericgeekgirl says, "*We& might not eat it, no. *evil gleam*"
		borowski says, "huzzah!"
		genericgeekgirl says, "*we*, rather."
		DavidW says (to ggg), "ha"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pet bedzyl" 		

Floyd | The Bedzyl, though clearly still very afraid of you, seems to enjoy
Floyd | being rubbed and petted.  You get a warm fuzzy feeling inside when you
Floyd | touch it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl squee!
borowski says (to Floyd), "x Bedzyl" 		

Floyd | The Bedzyl is a tiny mouse-like creature that seems to be friendly but
Floyd | very afraid of you, which is understandable since you're about 100
Floyd | times its size and wielding a nasty-looking pistol.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat bedzyl" 		

Floyd | Now why would you want to eat the harmless little Bedzyl?
Floyd |
Floyd |    The effect of the ReVoLT Kola suddenly wears off, and you nearly
Floyd | pass out as your body's blood-sugar level plummets back down to
Floyd | normal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "I suppose the kola is all gone?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a harmless little Bedzyl, an ary ung, a
Floyd | hammer, a bolt, a magnetic letter Q, a plastic whistle, a plastic
Floyd | plover's egg, some Akmi Wacki Putti, a firecracker, a mood ring (being
Floyd | worn), a piece of string (tied to the akmid), a poodle charm, a stick
Floyd | of butter, a fried SynthEgg, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a mixer,
Floyd | a frying pan, a hunk of cheese, an overripe tomato, a piece of salami,
Floyd | a geode, an akmid (tied to the piece of string), a thermos of Barfee
Floyd | advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a
Floyd | crumpled scrap of paper, a paperback book, a handwritten note, your
Floyd | thesis research floppy disk, a qualitative calculator, an RGB color
Floyd | chart, an empty ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard, and a matter mover
Floyd | autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Oh no, are we going to feed it to the monster?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x kola" 		

Floyd |    The ReVoLT Kola can has the usual gaudy tomato red and
Floyd | intergalactic orange design and the standard snappy slogan:  "Make
Floyd | every cell in your body RIOT...  with ReVoLT!"  The makers of this
Floyd | beverage claim that it is the most powerful stimulant available
Floyd | without a prescription.  You've probably taken years off your life
Floyd | with this toxic elixir.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The can is empty.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah I guess so. And uh. Probably."
		DavidW says, "huh. We kept the can."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Or maybe it'll get distracted by it, but it'll be too smart and fast and it'll get away. Maaaaybe."
		genericgeekgirl says, "And that was an abuse of pronouns."
		genericgeekgirl says, "To the escape pod!"
		DavidW says, "west, I think"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Escape Pod Docking Bay
Floyd |
Floyd |    The metal corridor widens into a large open area here, where you
Floyd | can see several escape pod landing/launching bays in the western wall.
Floyd | The pods are, you assume, meant for use during emergencies when the
Floyd | matter movers are down or unsafe.  At the moment all the pods but one
Floyd | are gone, and through the glass guarding the empty bays you can see an
Floyd | incredible spectacle:  absolute blackness streaked with dusty plumes,
Floyd | like the frozen crests of breaking waves, and textured with varying
Floyd | densities of white-bright points that create a fantastic continuum of
Floyd | grays.  And, you reflect for a moment, only a few centimeters of clear
Floyd | glass separate you from what feels like the whole of creation.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A metal corridor leads east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter pod" 		

Floyd | You step inside the escape pod...
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the Escape Pod
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing inside the escape pod.  The interior is spartan,
Floyd | lacking even seats and tables, and it's barely big enough to hold
Floyd | several people.  The only control seems to be a big red button marked
Floyd | "LAUNCH."
Floyd |
Floyd |    The top and front of the spherical pod are made of glass.  This
Floyd | affords you a spectacular view of space.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-09-21:58:27CDT 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press red button" 		

Floyd | This would probably be a good time to save the game.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to save?  (YES or NO) >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "greatidea" 		

Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | The escape pod's engines spring to life!  You are thrown against the
Floyd | now-closed metal entrance door as the craft rockets away from the
Floyd | Yooniversity Dwelling Site and into space on an unknown (to you, at
Floyd | least) course.  You can see the tiny blue planet Frost disappear in
Floyd | the distance as you look through the top of the spinning pod.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The course correction jets kick in, and the pod stops spinning
Floyd | about wildly. You regain your balance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "ha save filename"
		DavidW says, "Sure z a lot."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z.z.z.z.z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The engines really begin to roar as the pod accelerates.
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The pod quiets some as it reaches what is presumably cruising
Floyd | velocity.
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The light is nearly blinding as the pod briefly turns toward Val,
Floyd | the star that has warmed the homeworld Tode and the other populated
Floyd | planets in this system for millennia.
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "The flight is all pre-scripted."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z.z.z.z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    Far in the distance you see a tiny orange dot, just larger than a
Floyd | star.  It grows bigger and bigger -- you seem to be headed straight
Floyd | for it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    Moments later, the dot has become a fist-sized ball.  You are
Floyd | approaching it at an incredible speed.
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    A giant orange sphere now fills your entire view.  You're about to
Floyd | crash land on a distant planet!
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your little craft plunges through the orange planet's atmosphere
Floyd | and hurtles towards the ground below.  Cabin heat becomes nearly
Floyd | unbearable as you decelerate, and you're being thrown about like a
Floyd | pet's chew toy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    Though the pod is slowing down at an almost alarming rate, the
Floyd | ground is still approaching faster than you can believe.  This looks
Floyd | like the end!
Floyd |
Floyd |    A formerly invisible readout next to the launch button flashes,
Floyd | "Standby to land on the planet Irata."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The pod plunges through a dense forest of blue-green trees.  You
Floyd | cover your eyes and hope for the best.  Miraculously, you survive
Floyd | unscathed, though quite dizzy and a bit queasy from the hundred or so
Floyd | barrel rolls the pod must have made once it touched down.  The door
Floyd | slides open silently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd | You clamber out of the escape pod...
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the Escape Pod Wreckage
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in the middle of a clearing at the site of your crash
Floyd | landing.  The escape pod lies to the north, and is still intact,
Floyd | though very badly damaged.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Dense forest surrounds this little area, though it looks like you
Floyd | might be able to make some progress through the woods to the east,
Floyd | northwest, and south. Passage along other routes looks very unlikely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Timon is east. The critter is northwest"
		DavidW asks (of ggg), "still there?"
		borowski asks, "Who's this Timon fellow?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Sorry, yeah."
		DavidW says, "Another person who crashed on Irata. He's a bit of a musician, I think."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Shall we go get him? And more importantly, our bit of circuit board?"
		DavidW says, "sure"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Another Crash Site
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing amidst the wreckage of another spaceship.  Not much
Floyd | remains of the vessel -- there are chunks of twisted metal everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd |    As you survey the area looking for signs of life, you hear
Floyd | something moving in the forest nearby.  Just as you turn toward the
Floyd | source of the noise, you see a tall, skinny fellow with long hair
Floyd | tumbling out of a tree and onto the ground.  You rush over to see if
Floyd | he's all right.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The young man looks up at you through a pain-induced squint,
Floyd | holding his head and groaning.  "Whoa..."  he says, "What happened?"
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Looks like you crashed," you say.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Upon hearing this, he looks absolutely terrified.  "Oh no!"  the
Floyd | man cries, and he begins desperately searching through the remains of
Floyd | the tattered ship.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Moments later, he pulls a bright red object out from under a
Floyd | collapsed support beam and breathes a sigh of relief.  "If I'd lost
Floyd | those patches that would've *really* sucked," he explains, pointing to
Floyd | his undamaged portable SoundSquasher X-1000 [25].  He looks familiar,
Floyd | somehow.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Timon Sketch," he says.  "Pleased to meet you."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Over the course of the next hour you exchange recent history with
Floyd | Timon.  You find out that he headlines a rock band called "The
Floyd | Hoi-Polloi" and that they recently decided to switch to another label.
Floyd | He suspects that they sabotaged his ship since they just signed the
Floyd | new contract hours before his crash:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "The Muse people were real pissed that we ditched 'em for Shock
Floyd | Sounds, 'cause they lost Rad Doodz at the same time -- we hang with
Floyd | them, y'know, and we kind of all decided to pop Muse at the same time
Floyd | to make the statement.  Then we sign and that psychobitch running Muse
Floyd | starts gettin' all up in my face and tellin' me I better drive safe so
Floyd | I don't have a 'little accident.'"  He looks up at the sky.  "Nice
Floyd | try, loser, I didn't even lose my latest tune!"
Floyd |
Floyd |    One thing you both definitely have in common is your need for
Floyd | transport off the planet.  You agree to search the area together in
Floyd | hopes of finding a way back.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Over the next few hours you tell Timon Sketch about the Unnkulian
Floyd | menace and what it may mean for the fate of the universe.  He seems
Floyd | generally unconvinced but still concerned that he won't be able to
Floyd | write any more tunes, and urges you to contact his "friend" The
Floyd | Watchmaker.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Watch is a total psycho-genius freak -- infobroker -- wants to
Floyd | rule the world through an AkNet jack but will settle for just the
Floyd | underworld for now.  Don't get on the wrong side of Watch's blaster --
Floyd | people die when that happens. Lots of people.  Hey, but Watch is real
Floyd | nice at heart, and sure as hell the only person I know who would have
Floyd | any goods on Akmi.  Nobody sane fucks with Akmi.  Try to step to them
Floyd | and you're squashed like a grape.
Floyd |
Floyd |    He pauses, perhaps considering the concept.  "Yeah.  Like a
Floyd | *grape*."  As he shakes his head, his long hair moves forward en masse
Floyd | to obscure his face.  This man with the hidden face then hands you
Floyd | what appears to be a triangular pink circuit board and tells you to
Floyd | give it to the bouncer at The Watchmen.  He brushes his hair back.  He
Floyd | is still nodding.
Floyd |
Floyd |    As you turn the oddly-shaped device over in your hand to examine
Floyd | it, he begins to hum and then sing a wandering, unearthly melody:
Floyd |
Floyd |        Try to rush from the tomb,
Floyd |        Try to hurry from the grave,
Floyd |        But you and your dreams will die,
Floyd |        In the Watch.
Floyd |        Wriggle all you like,
Floyd |        But the Watch will get you just the same.
Floyd |        The Watch is always ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're walking about a small clearing amidst the wreckage of Timon
Floyd | Sketch's ship.  Dense forest surrounds you on all sides.  It looks
Floyd | like you might be able to beat a path through the foliage to the north
Floyd | and south.  Head west and you're back at your own crash site.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch plays the chorus of "I Suck."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x device" 		

Floyd | You can't tell exactly what it is, but you figure that it must store
Floyd | some kind of information.  There are mover coordinates on the back of
Floyd | the device:
Floyd |
Floyd |    Midnight Blue (+6, -49, +36)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "eep. That's not the same coords as before."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Hm."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "North? I think that's up to the cliff?"
		DavidW says, "The game must have some randomization of mover coords to prevent cheating."
		DavidW says, "Cliff is north, yeah. Shack is east. CAMELS are south."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You fight your way through the forest up a steep slope.  After a long
Floyd | struggle, you find yourself...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Atop a Cliff
Floyd |
Floyd |    This place is well worth the trouble it took to get here.  Your
Floyd | spot atop this steep cliff affords you a panoramic view of the land
Floyd | all around.  Directly in front of you, to the north, is a 500 meter
Floyd | drop down to a thick forest canopy that continues to the horizon
Floyd | undisturbed.  Do be careful.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To the south are the crash sites, and you notice a tiny building in
Floyd | the woods to the east of Sketch's ship.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Farther south is what looks to be an agricultural and mining
Floyd | complex of some kind, with a fence running all around the perimeter.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The cliff continues to the northwest and southeast, but you'd have
Floyd | to have climbing gear to survive passage along it -- this whole region
Floyd | is covered with rocks of all sizes and you barely made it this far
Floyd | without breaking a leg.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You see a clearing to the southwest, on this side of the cliff.  A
Floyd | path north through the trees leads from the tiny clearing to a small
Floyd | tower.  Atop the tower is a blinking red light.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Looks like the only way out of here is to the south, the way you
Floyd | came.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch is here, playing a mind-numbing tuba solo on his
Floyd | SoundSquasher X-1000.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Have we learned more about the Evil Conspiracy?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x tower" 		

Floyd | You'll need to get closer to see more.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x clearing" 		

Floyd | You'll need to get closer for a better look.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says (to borowski), "Not that I remember."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x building" 		

Floyd | From here you can only tell that it's some kind of small dwelling --
Floyd | perhaps a shack.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Back down and to the south to visit the CAMELS?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Mostly just trying retrace our steps first."
		DavidW says, "if you like. We didn't find anything to do with the CAMELs."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Well, ok."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Another Crash Site
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're walking about a small clearing amidst the wreckage of Timon
Floyd | Sketch's ship.  Dense forest surrounds you on all sides.  It looks
Floyd | like you might be able to beat a path through the foliage to the north
Floyd | and south.  Head west and you're back at your own crash site.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch plays the chorus of "I Suck."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside a Shack
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing outside a humble little shack in a clearing barely
Floyd | large enough to hold it.  There is a scrawled parchment note on the
Floyd | door, and a small jade box on the ground underneath it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Head west and you're back at Timon Sketch's crash site.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch plays the chorus of "You Suck."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x note" 		

Floyd | Which note do you mean, the handwritten note, or the parchment note?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x parchment" 		

Floyd | The parchment note on the door reads:
Floyd |
Floyd | My son,
Floyd |
Floyd | Please leave today's fried egg in the jade container to gain entrance.
Floyd | Be ready to discuss "Benedict the Holy" when I return.  Do NOT burn
Floyd | anything this time.
Floyd |
Floyd |       -- Kuulest
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put egg in box" 		

Floyd | Which egg do you mean, the plastic plover's egg, or the fried
Floyd | SynthEgg?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "fried" 		

Floyd | This would probably be a good time to save the game.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to save?  (YES or NO) >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eggy" 		

Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | You drop the fried SynthEgg in the jade box.  There is a bright flash
Floyd | and the egg disappears!
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 2 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-09-22:13:27CDT 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "in" 		

Floyd | The door opens easily, and you walk inside the shack.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside Shack
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're in a tiny room in a little shack.  There's a desk and a
Floyd | chair here, but the room is otherwise bare.  The only exit is out the
Floyd | door, to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch urges you to sell your digital Melodiwafer-based
Floyd | stereo system and buy an antique turntable.  "Analog sound is so much
Floyd | more palpable," he says.  A dog-eared leaflet is on the desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take leaflet" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read leaflet" 		
Floyd The leaflet warns of the dangers of technology, discusses various 		
Floyd scandals involving Akmi, and urges the reader to visit Kuwl [26] at 		

Floyd | Egg White (+0, +0, +105).  There is also an ad for the Duhdhist
Floyd | Broadcasting Network, channel 361.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "note 26" 		

Floyd | [26]: The planet Kuwl was colonized by the Duhdhists soon after
Floyd | interplanetary travel became possible.  To this day it is mainly
Floyd | inhabited by zealous followers of Duhdha, although things have gotten
Floyd | a bit commercialized since the colony's humble beginnings.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside a Shack
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing outside a humble little shack in a clearing barely
Floyd | large enough to hold it.  There is a scrawled parchment note on the
Floyd | door, and a small jade box on the ground underneath it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Head west and you're back at Timon Sketch's crash site.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch is here, playing a mind-numbing tuba solo on his
Floyd | SoundSquasher X-1000.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I think that catches us up."
borowski says (to Floyd), "read parchment note" 		

Floyd | The parchment note on the door reads:
Floyd |
Floyd | My son,
Floyd |
Floyd | Please leave today's fried egg in the jade container to gain entrance.
Floyd | Be ready to discuss "Benedict the Holy" when I return.  Do NOT burn
Floyd | anything this time.
Floyd |
Floyd |       -- Kuulest
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Ah."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | The door opens easily, and you walk inside the shack.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside Shack
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're in a tiny room in a little shack.  There's a desk and a
Floyd | chair here, but the room is otherwise bare.  The only exit is out the
Floyd | door, to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch plays a screaming guitar solo with his feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oops."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside a Shack
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing outside a humble little shack in a clearing barely
Floyd | large enough to hold it.  There is a scrawled parchment note on the
Floyd | door, and a small jade box on the ground underneath it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Head west and you're back at Timon Sketch's crash site.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch plays a few bars of the hit song "I Want a Girl with
Floyd | Green Hair and Horns."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Another Crash Site
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're walking about a small clearing amidst the wreckage of Timon
Floyd | Sketch's ship.  Dense forest surrounds you on all sides.  It looks
Floyd | like you might be able to beat a path through the foliage to the north
Floyd | and south.  Head west and you're back at your own crash site.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch plays a few bars of the hit song "I Want a Girl with
Floyd | Green Hair and Horns."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the Escape Pod Wreckage
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in the middle of a clearing at the site of your crash
Floyd | landing.  The escape pod lies to the north, and is still intact,
Floyd | though very badly damaged.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Dense forest surrounds this little area, though it looks like you
Floyd | might be able to make some progress through the woods to the east,
Floyd | northwest, and south. Passage along other routes looks very unlikely.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch begins to sing:  "Igdoof ...  Nothing more than ...
Floyd | Igdoof..."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You step inside the crumpled escape pod...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the Escape Pod
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing inside the escape pod.  The interior is spartan,
Floyd | lacking even seats and tables, and it's barely big enough to hold
Floyd | several people.  The only control seems to be a big red button marked
Floyd | "LAUNCH."
Floyd |
Floyd |    The top and front of the pod are badly mangled.  The transparent
Floyd | material you thought was glass is evidently something else -- it has
Floyd | crumpled just like the metal.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The pod exit is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch begins to sing:  "Igdoof ...  Nothing more than ...
Floyd | Igdoof..."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Lost."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the Escape Pod Wreckage
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in the middle of a clearing at the site of your crash
Floyd | landing.  The escape pod lies to the north, and is still intact,
Floyd | though very badly damaged.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Dense forest surrounds this little area, though it looks like you
Floyd | might be able to make some progress through the woods to the east,
Floyd | northwest, and south. Passage along other routes looks very unlikely.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch plays a screaming guitar solo with his feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A fearsome Dylbez blocks your way north!
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch plays a few bars of the classic tune "Aerobics."
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Dylbez wanders about in a circle inexplicably.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "A ha."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf19" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a dog-eared leaflet, a tiny triangular
Floyd | pink circuit board, a harmless little Bedzyl, an ary ung, a hammer, a
Floyd | bolt, a magnetic letter Q, a plastic whistle, a plastic plover's egg,
Floyd | some Akmi Wacki Putti, a firecracker, a mood ring (being worn), a
Floyd | piece of string (tied to the akmid), a poodle charm, a stick of
Floyd | butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a mixer, a frying pan, a hunk
Floyd | of cheese, an overripe tomato, a piece of salami, a geode, an akmid
Floyd | (tied to the piece of string), a thermos of Barfee advanced growth
Floyd | formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a crumpled scrap
Floyd | of paper, a paperback book, a handwritten note, your thesis research
Floyd | floppy disk, a qualitative calculator, an RGB color chart, an empty
Floyd | ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Dylbez bumps its heads together and grimaces.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give bedzyl to dylbez" 		

Floyd | You can't (sanely) get close enough to the beast to give it anything.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Dylbez snorts.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop bedzyl" 		

Floyd | You move to set the Bedzyl down gently, but it squirms out of your
Floyd | grasp and leaps away before you get the chance.  Tenacious little guy,
Floyd | isn't he?
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Bedzyl scampers about playfully.
Floyd |
Floyd |    One of the Dylbez's heads is startled by and growls at the other
Floyd | head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Bedzyl scampers about playfully.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Dylbez wanders about in a circle inexplicably.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "noooooo"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shoot dylbez with ung" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  The fearsome
Floyd | Dylbez is transformed into a horrible Zdybel!
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Bedzyl scampers about playfully.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "To be..."  the Zdybel says dramatically, "or to ben't."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hmpf."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | File to restore game from >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf19" 		

Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A fearsome Dylbez blocks your way north!
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch starts and stops playing the same melody a dozen
Floyd | times, then smashes all the keys down in a frustrated frenzy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Restore from eggy"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | File to restore game from >

		DavidW says, "oh wait"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Hm?"
		DavidW says, "I though cf19 was earlier"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Restore failed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "I saved right before dropping the thing."
		DavidW says, "ok"
		DavidW says, "shoot the dylbez, then throw the bedzyl at the whatever the hungry thing is."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shoot dylzbez with ung" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "dylzbez".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shoot dylbez with ung" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  The fearsome
Floyd | Dylbez is transformed into a horrible Zdybel!
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel turns to you and says, "Thanks, Alex.  What would I like
Floyd | to take 'The Letter X' for 200?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "throw bedzyl at zdybel" 		

Floyd | The Zdybel hungrily devours the harmless little Bedzyl and belches
Floyd | loudly immediately thereafter.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel babbles, "Ku ulert hank uule stia miam."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Alternatively, make both creatures the same species."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A ferocious Zdybel blocks your way north!
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch is here, playing a mind-numbing tuba solo on his
Floyd | SoundSquasher X-1000.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shoot bedzyl with ung" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  The peaceful
Floyd | Bedzyl is transformed into a giant Zdybel!  Unfortunately, since you
Floyd | were carrying the Bedzyl at the time of the transformation, you are
Floyd | now squashed under the enormous Zdybel's weight.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You have died.  Needless to say, this puts a permanent damper on
Floyd | your efforts to save the galaxy.
Floyd |
Floyd | In 654 turns, you have earned 24 points out of a possible 75.
Floyd | You have completed approximately 38 percent of the game.
Floyd | You haven't used any hints.
Floyd |
Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, quit, or undo the current
Floyd | command.
Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, QUIT, or UNDO:  >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A fearsome Dylbez blocks your way north!
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch plays a catchy melody.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hehehe."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop bedzyl" 		

Floyd | You move to set the Bedzyl down gently, but it squirms out of your
Floyd | grasp and leaps away before you get the chance.  Tenacious little guy,
Floyd | isn't he?
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Bedzyl sits motionless as it eyes you suspiciously.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Dylbez prepares to rush you, and then decides against it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shoot bedzyl with ung" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  The peaceful
Floyd | Bedzyl is transformed into a giant Zdybel!
Floyd |
Floyd | The two horrific beasts face each other and bristle.  The air is at
Floyd | once electrified with their mutual hatred, and in an eye-blink they
Floyd | are upon each other.  After a terrible struggle, the Dylbez emerges
Floyd | victorious.  It eats the Zdybel whole as a reward.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went down by a point.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    One of the Dylbez's heads is startled by and growls at the other
Floyd | head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "I thought I changed him, too."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A fearsome Dylbez blocks your way north!
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a little Bedzyl here, scurrying about cheerfully.  Timon
Floyd | Sketch is here, playing a mind-numbing tuba solo on his SoundSquasher
Floyd | X-1000.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shoot dylbez with ung" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  The fearsome
Floyd | Dylbez is transformed into a horrible Zdybel!
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Bedzyl sits motionless as it eyes you suspiciously.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zdybel babbles, "Ku ulert hank uule stia miam."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shoot bedzyl with ung" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  The peaceful
Floyd | Bedzyl is transformed into a giant Zdybel!
Floyd |
Floyd | The Zdybels look at each other fiercely for a moment, both ready to
Floyd | mount a vicious attack.  But then they gaze longingly into each
Floyd | other's eyes as they discover they are two of a kind.  They soon rush
Floyd | into each other's arms and scamper off into the forest, claw in claw.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 4 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Whew."
		borowski says, "Aw"
		DavidW says, "; awww"
		genericgeekgirl says, "And nobody got eaten!"
borowski says (to Floyd), "score" 		

Floyd | In 655 turns, you have earned 28 points out of a possible 75.
Floyd | You have completed approximately 40 percent of the game.
Floyd | You haven't used any hints.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "save!"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf20" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says (to ggg), "yay!"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Good call on matching them up."
		DavidW says, "It belatedly occured to me that we could have two of 'em together."
		DavidW says, "anyway, eager to see what tower is north."
borowski says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch mumbles lyrics to himself while playing a tune on a
Floyd | kazoo patch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Survey Station
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of a narrow dirt road in front of a
Floyd | small survey station.  You assume that the station is used to monitor
Floyd | the frequent mining operations here on Irata.  A light on top of the
Floyd | station is blinking red.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The station entrance is to the north -- the road ends here -- but
Floyd | you can travel south on it.  Passage in other directions looks
Floyd | unlikely -- the forest is too dense.  There is, however, a matter
Floyd | mover next to the station.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch begins to sing:  "Igdoof ...  Nothing more than ...
Floyd | Igdoof..."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x matter mover" 		

Floyd |    Matter mover technology hit the scene in 2062VK, just two years
Floyd | before the formation of the Republic.  In the hundred or so years
Floyd | since its introduction it's become the primary means of transportation
Floyd | throughout the galaxy.  This model is quite similar to the one in your
Floyd | pod.
Floyd |
Floyd | This mover's address is (0, 10000, 4950) -- colorspace Spring Green.
Floyd |
Floyd | Current dial settings:  (0, 0, 0)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tower" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x station" 		

Floyd | Why don't you go in for a better look?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "yeah, why don't we?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Heh"
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the Survey Station
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are looking around the inside of the survey station.  There's
Floyd | not much here apart from some maps and charts -- it doesn't look like
Floyd | the station has been used in quite some time.  There is a switch on
Floyd | the wall labeled "Mover."  The switch is currently off.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch plays an ever-ascending pattern on the keyboard until
Floyd | he finally runs out of keys and begins playing air.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-09-22:28:27CDT 		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x maps" 		

Floyd | They're just routine mining reports.  Nothing exciting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x charts" 		

Floyd | They're just routine mining reports.  Nothing exciting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x switch" 		

Floyd | The switch is currently off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "ah, the switch will allow us to return here, I guess."
		DavidW asks, "oh, wasn't there something somewhere that needed two people to lift it? D'ya think Timon would follow us even via the matter mover?"
		borowski says, "I wouldn't be surprised."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I'm sure he'll follow us off a cliff."
borowski says (to Floyd), "flip switch" 		

Floyd | Okay, the switch is now switched on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "well, let's turn this switch on, then use the mover. We have two new addresses, plus several old ones."
borowski says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (Timon Sketch follows you.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Survey Station
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of a narrow dirt road in front of a
Floyd | small survey station.  You assume that the station is used to monitor
Floyd | the frequent mining operations here on Irata.  A light on top of the
Floyd | station is blinking green.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The station entrance is to the north -- the road ends here -- but
Floyd | you can travel south on it.  Passage in other directions looks
Floyd | unlikely -- the forest is too dense.  There is, however, a matter
Floyd | mover next to the station.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch plays a few bars of the hit song "I Want a Girl with
Floyd | Green Hair and Horns."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh, light on station changed colour."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x autodialler" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "autodialler".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x autodialer" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd | 5:  A dirt road
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Let's revisit our pod and check out channel 361."
		DavidW says, "Also, ask Timon to open our hatch."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Ok."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "dial 1" 		

Floyd | You can't turn the number.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "type 1" 		

Floyd | On what?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "type 1 on dialer" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd |    You bid Timon a fond farewell as you step into the matter mover.
Floyd | He looks up from playing his latest tune and thanks you for activating
Floyd | the mover.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "I woulda never gotten off this rock alive without you, man.  I owe
Floyd | you one. Good luck savin' the galaxy," he says, "and be sure to look
Floyd | up the Watchmaker, but be careful on New Hell -- it gets rough
Floyd | sometimes.  Oh, and one more thing -- watch for my latest tune; I
Floyd | think you'll like it."  Timon Sketch is definitely a man with clear
Floyd | priorities.
Floyd |
Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Your bachelor pod
Floyd |

		
Floyd Ahhhhh. Pod sweet pod! Sure feels good to be back in the ol' 		
Floyd closet-sized capsule again, yes sir. While slaving away on your 		
Floyd master's thesis you've spent many late hours here, sustaining yourself 		
Floyd on naught but Akmi Snak Chipz [2] and ReVoLT Kola. 		

Floyd |
Floyd |    Yep, it's basically a hell-hole, but it's served you adequately.
Floyd | Looking around you can see blurry reflections of yourself and your
Floyd | surroundings in the familiar mauve and orange metal walls, which are
Floyd | rounded in the corners as is typical of today's "economical" graduate
Floyd | housing.  (As if they offered any other kind.)  The walls are still
Floyd | bare; you'd think after living here for two years you'd have put some
Floyd | posters up.  But there's never much time for aesthetics at Akmi
Floyd | Yooniversity.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your bed (if you can call it that) and the matter mover take up all
Floyd | the available floor space in your pod.  Miscellaneous Stik-Em Nowtz
Floyd | cling to various parts of the furniture and walls, and papers fill any
Floyd | stray gaps, making this den an incredible fire trap.  Good thing you
Floyd | don't really have heating here.  Anyway, if there's a fire you can
Floyd | always bail out through the escape hatch.  Oops -- you've never been
Floyd | able to get it open.  Never mind.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your pod is one of the "Yooniversity Economical Graduate Off-site
Floyd | Dwelling Stations" (YEGODS).  Though the school is actually hundreds
Floyd | of light-years away, matter mover technology makes it possible for
Floyd | them to put housing in the cheapest, remotest, most inhospitable parts
Floyd | of the galaxy -- places like Frost, the iceball of a planet your pod
Floyd | is situated on.
Floyd |
Floyd |    On your desk, under your shelf of textbooks, is the computer you
Floyd | use nearly 37 hours a day.  Cuddled up right next to it like a best
Floyd | friend is your EV.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV's blaring an obnoxious advertisement for some dreadful alien
Floyd | hygiene product you'd rather not know anything about.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Survey Station
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of a narrow dirt road in front of a
Floyd | small survey station.  You assume that the station is used to monitor
Floyd | the frequent mining operations here on Irata.  A light on top of the
Floyd | station is blinking green.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The station entrance is to the north -- the road ends here -- but
Floyd | you can travel south on it.  Passage in other directions looks
Floyd | unlikely -- the forest is too dense.  There is, however, a matter
Floyd | mover next to the station.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Timon Sketch mumbles lyrics to himself while playing a tune on a
Floyd | kazoo patch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "He didn't come with us."
		DavidW says, "Tell him to go first, then."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "timon, enter mover" 		

Floyd | Timon seems less than interested in taking explicit orders from you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "timon, please enter mover" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "please".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart arrives, full of funk, but no fun. 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "push timon into mover" 		

Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take timon" 		

Floyd | You can't take Timon Sketch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "push mover onto timon" 		

Floyd | That verb requires a double-quoted string or a number.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to borowski), "goodness" 		DavidW says, "Well, if he won't follow now, we might induce him later."
		borowski says, "Well, we'd aim the transporting part at him."
		genericgeekgirl says, "s/induce/seduce/"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot timon with ung" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  Timon Sketch
Floyd | seems unaffected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "=)"
		DavidW asks, "It's possible that he follows late. Like, some odd delay?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "It definitely said "you bid Timon goodbye.""
		borowski says, "And he gave us a goodbye speech."
		DavidW says, "oh. Then leave him here. He must be meant to stay on Irata indefinitely."
		DavidW says, "Or we'll meet up with him elsewhen."
borowski says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd |    You bid Timon a fond farewell as you step into the matter mover.
Floyd | He looks up from playing his latest tune and thanks you for activating
Floyd | the mover.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "I woulda never gotten off this rock alive without you, man.  I owe
Floyd | you one. Good luck savin' the galaxy," he says, "and be sure to look
Floyd | up the Watchmaker, but be careful on New Hell -- it gets rough
Floyd | sometimes.  Oh, and one more thing -- watch for my latest tune; I
Floyd | think you'll like it."  Timon Sketch is definitely a man with clear
Floyd | priorities.
Floyd |
Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Your bachelor pod
Floyd |

		
Floyd Ahhhhh. Pod sweet pod! Sure feels good to be back in the ol' 		
Floyd closet-sized capsule again, yes sir. While slaving away on your 		
Floyd master's thesis you've spent many late hours here, sustaining yourself 		
Floyd on naught but Akmi Snak Chipz [2] and ReVoLT Kola. 		

Floyd |
Floyd |    Yep, it's basically a hell-hole, but it's served you adequately.
Floyd | Looking around you can see blurry reflections of yourself and your
Floyd | surroundings in the familiar mauve and orange metal walls, which are
Floyd | rounded in the corners as is typical of today's "economical" graduate
Floyd | housing.  (As if they offered any other kind.)  The walls are still
Floyd | bare; you'd think after living here for two years you'd have put some
Floyd | posters up.  But there's never much time for aesthetics at Akmi
Floyd | Yooniversity.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your bed (if you can call it that) and the matter mover take up all
Floyd | the available floor space in your pod.  Miscellaneous Stik-Em Nowtz
Floyd | cling to various parts of the furniture and walls, and papers fill any
Floyd | stray gaps, making this den an incredible fire trap.  Good thing you
Floyd | don't really have heating here.  Anyway, if there's a fire you can
Floyd | always bail out through the escape hatch.  Oops -- you've never been
Floyd | able to get it open.  Never mind.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your pod is one of the "Yooniversity Economical Graduate Off-site
Floyd | Dwelling Stations" (YEGODS).  Though the school is actually hundreds
Floyd | of light-years away, matter mover technology makes it possible for
Floyd | them to put housing in the cheapest, remotest, most inhospitable parts
Floyd | of the galaxy -- places like Frost, the iceball of a planet your pod
Floyd | is situated on.
Floyd |
Floyd |    On your desk, under your shelf of textbooks, is the computer you
Floyd | use nearly 37 hours a day.  Cuddled up right next to it like a best
Floyd | friend is your EV.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV's blaring an obnoxious advertisement for some dreadful alien
Floyd | hygiene product you'd rather not know anything about.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "set ev to 361" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 361.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x ev" 		
Floyd The Akmi Kristl Kleer Kwality PM [17] Enterviewer is visually 		

Floyd | unimpressive, particularly considering you've seen about ten thousand
Floyd | identical models before.  (Akmi sometimes has a hard time letting go
Floyd | once they've found a formula that works.)  It's orange, it's mauve,
Floyd | it's purple.  It's squat and has functionless dimples all over its
Floyd | irregularly shaped bulbous case.  The screen is nearly square and
Floyd | inset at a jaunty angle.  In short, a typical product of the Akmi
Floyd | Aesthetix Division [18].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV has a tuning dial; you can choose from thousands of
Floyd | different stations from across the galaxy.  The dial goes from 1 to
Floyd | 100,000 and is currently set to 361.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with omelette recipes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with omelette recipes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Yum."
		DavidW says, "I like Spanish omelettes."
		DavidW says, "Also Western ones."
		DavidW says, "I suppose channel 361 isn't that useful."
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-09-22:43:27CDT 		borowski asks, "What are the new places we can go?"
		DavidW says, "The Watchman at Midnight Blue (+6,-49,+36) and Kuul at Egg White (+0,+0,+105)"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Which should we visit first?"
		DavidW says, "I think I'd prefer to visit Kuul first."
		borowski says, "Sure"
		DavidW says, "I think a revolution goes better with a stomach full of omelettes."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x color chart" 		

Floyd | The chart gives RGB values for various color names:
Floyd |
Floyd | akmi orange (10000, 7470, 1000)
Floyd | alice blue (9411, 9725, 10000)
Floyd | antique white (9803, 9215, 8431)
Floyd | aquamarine (4980, 10000, 8313)
Floyd | azure (9411, 10000, 10000)
Floyd | beige (9607, 9607, 8627)
Floyd | bisque (10000, 8941, 7686)
Floyd | black (0, 0, 0)
Floyd | blanched almond (10000, 9215, 8039)
Floyd | blue (0, 0, 10000)
Floyd | blue violet (5411, 1686, 8862)
Floyd | brown (6470, 1647, 1647)
Floyd | burlywood (8705, 7215, 5294)
Floyd | burnt sienna (6000, 3270, 1732)
Floyd | chartreuse (4980, 10000, 0)
Floyd | chocolate (8235, 4117, 1176)
Floyd | coral (10000, 4980, 3137)
Floyd | cornflower blue (3921, 5843, 9294)
Floyd | cyan (0, 10000, 10000)
Floyd | egg white (10000, 10000, 9521)
Floyd | firebrick (6980, 1333, 1333)
Floyd | forest green (1333, 5450, 1333)
Floyd | gainsboro (8627, 8627, 8627)
Floyd | ghost white (9725, 9725, 10000)
Floyd | goldenrod (8549, 6470, 1254)
Floyd | gray (7529, 7529, 7529)
Floyd | green (0, 10000, 0)
Floyd | honeydew (9411, 10000, 9411)
Floyd | hot pink (10000, 4117, 7058)
Floyd | ivory (10000, 10000, 9411)
Floyd | khaki (9411, 9019, 5490)
Floyd | lavender (9019, 9019, 9803)
Floyd | lawn green (4862, 9882, 0)
Floyd | lemon chiffon (10000, 9803, 8039)
Floyd | lime green (1960, 8039, 1960)
Floyd | magenta (10000, 0, 10000)
Floyd | maroon (6901, 1882, 3764)
Floyd | midnight blue (980, 980, 4392)
Floyd | misty rose (10000, 8941, 8823)
Floyd | moccasin (10000, 8941, 7098)
Floyd | navy (0, 0, 5019)
Floyd | old lace (9921, 9607, 9019)
Floyd | olive drab (4196, 5568, 1372)
Floyd | orange (10000, 6470, 0)
Floyd | orchid (8549, 4392, 8392)
Floyd | peach puff (10000, 8549, 7254)
Floyd | pink (10000, 7529, 7960)
Floyd | plum (8666, 6274, 8666)
Floyd | powder blue (6901, 8784, 9019)
Floyd | purple (6274, 1254, 9411)
Floyd | red (10000, 0, 0)
Floyd | rosy brown (7372, 5607, 5607)
Floyd | saddle brown (5450, 2705, 745)
Floyd | salmon (9803, 5019, 4470)
Floyd | sandy brown (9568, 6431, 3764)
Floyd | sea green (1803, 5450, 3411)
Floyd | seashell (10000, 9607, 9333)
Floyd | sky blue (5294, 8078, 9215)
Floyd | slate gray (4392, 5019, 5647)
Floyd | snow (10000, 9803, 9803)
Floyd | spring green (0, 10000, 4980)
Floyd | steel blue (2745, 5098, 7058)
Floyd | tan (8235, 7058, 5490)
Floyd | thistle (8470, 7490, 8470)
Floyd | tomato (10000, 3882, 2784)
Floyd | turquoise (2509, 8784, 8156)
Floyd | violet (9333, 5098, 9333)
Floyd | violet red (8156, 1254, 5647)
Floyd | wheat (9607, 8705, 7019)
Floyd | white (10000, 10000, 10000)
Floyd | yellow (10000, 10000, 0)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set red to 10000" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 10000.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set green to 10000" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 10000.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set blue to 9626" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 9626.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf21" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Kuwl Starport
Floyd |
Floyd |    Welcome to the starport on Kuwl!  This place is so big and crowded
Floyd | that you can't see an exit anywhere.  There are thousands of short,
Floyd | bald, old men in robes wandering around here accosting
Floyd | normally-attired passers-by.  They seem to be handing flowers,
Floyd | leaflets, and other paraphernalia to the hapless victims, who try to
Floyd | flee but at every turn encounter yet another smiling, ancient
Floyd | Duhdhist.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A wizened old man pops up out of nowhere and mysteriously intones,
Floyd | "My son, you are doing well.  Duhdha smiles upon your progress.  But
Floyd | you have yet to face His greatest challenge.  Take this with you and
Floyd | perhaps you will find the soul wisdom to meet this challenge.  On the
Floyd | other hand, maybe you're just not up to it.  We'll find out soon, my
Floyd | son.  Oh yes, we'll find out soon."  He hands you a small figurine,
Floyd | taps his left nostril dramatically, and then vanishes into the crowd.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x figurine" 		

Floyd |    It's a jade figurine of the Watchful Duhdha -- legend has it that
Floyd | this likeness of The Great One will ward off evil spirits.
Floyd | Additionally, it is said that an image like this one carved in jade by
Floyd | an enlightened follower of Duhdha has power to control the seas.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Tiny letters carved in the base of the figurine read:
Floyd |
Floyd | "Rendered by the humble hands of Kuulest,
Floyd | For His Majesty Kuul,
Floyd | Son of Uul,
Floyd | In the 376th year of His Majesty's reign.
Floyd | Praise Duhdha!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Wow, this thing's an artifact -- almost 1800 years old!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ooh."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat figurine" 		

Floyd | An affront to the Great Duhdha!  You musn't speak such things!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "figurine, eat" 		

Floyd | You can't do that, because it can't hear you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "rub figurine" 		

Floyd | You feel as though Duhdha is watching over you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "praise duhdha" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "praise".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pray to duhdha" 		

Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pray" 		

Floyd | An ethereal voice intones, "You have reached The Great Duhdha's
Floyd | automated prayer line.  If you wish to ask for a minor miracle, press
Floyd | one.  If you would like to check your karmic balance, press two.  If
Floyd | you would like to register a complaint or file a bug report, press
Floyd | three.  Press four to hang up.  If you are calling from a rotary
Floyd | phone, please contact your local branch office to upgrade to a touch
Floyd | tone."
Floyd |
Floyd |    A short balding man offers you an informational flyer on the First
Floyd | Galactic Bank of Duhdha, but you refuse it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "press three" 		

Floyd | You don't know what that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), ";" 		

Floyd | Couldn't have put it better myself.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Heh."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Kuwl Starport
Floyd |
Floyd |    Welcome to the starport on Kuwl!  This place is so big and crowded
Floyd | that you can't see an exit anywhere.  There are thousands of short,
Floyd | bald, old men in robes wandering around here accosting
Floyd | normally-attired passers-by.  They seem to be handing flowers,
Floyd | leaflets, and other paraphernalia to the hapless victims, who try to
Floyd | flee but at every turn encounter yet another smiling, ancient
Floyd | Duhdhist.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "no exits?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "x men" 		

Floyd | The men are scurrying around madly, desperately trying to convert as
Floyd | many bystanders as possible to the Way.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A pruney old merchant hawking "Way Kuul" buttons passes by you in
Floyd | search of a sale.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mover" 		

Floyd |    Matter mover technology hit the scene in 2062VK, just two years
Floyd | before the formation of the Republic.  In the hundred or so years
Floyd | since its introduction it's become the primary means of transportation
Floyd | throughout the galaxy.  This model is quite similar to the one in your
Floyd | pod.
Floyd |
Floyd | The address listed on the machine is:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "10000, 10000, 9626 -- colorspace Egg White"
Floyd |
Floyd | Current dial settings:  (0, 0, 0)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | If I were you, I'd stay close to the mover.  If you get stuck in this
Floyd | crowd you'll die here, buried under a pile of flowers and
Floyd | self-discovery books.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "I guess the figurine is it for this place?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to men" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "talk".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask men about kuul" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "kuul".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Yeah, unless Duhdha decides to answer his phone later."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set red to 986" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 986.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The startport intercom comes on:  "Would Kuulest please call on the
Floyd | egg-white courtesy phone?  Kuulest."  Suddenly, thousands of wizened
Floyd | old men stampede towards the phones.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set green to 931" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 931.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set blue to 4428" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 4428.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | New Hell
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a small lobby enclosed by a transparent dome.  The lobby
Floyd | opens up to the north into The Watchmen proper and an eastern portal
Floyd | leads outside.  This area itself is nondescript, but through the clear
Floyd | canopy you can see what a dark and terrifying world New Hell is:
Floyd | rivers of lava slither through the greasy-slick alleys of the slums
Floyd | and on to the distant horizon, where primordial geysers ejaculate
Floyd | molten rock into the midnight blue sky [27].
Floyd |
Floyd |    Flourescent spotlights flicker nervously, at moments illuminating
Floyd | the victims of the collective carnivorous orgy just long enough for
Floyd | you to take the scenes in, but briefly enough for you to mistake them
Floyd | for little nightmares.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Flash.  A dog with its skull half crushed, pulling itself over to
Floyd | an upturned trashcan lid full of oily water, back legs dragging limply
Floyd | through the scum.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Flash.  Someone's daughter screaming as her arms are twisted to
Floyd | breaking behind her back, her face bleeding as an aggressor's nails
Floyd | dig in and hold her head.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Flash.  A PainWhip, legal nowhere there is law, flays open a boy's
Floyd | bare leg. As he crumples he is saved from the spiked wheels of the
Floyd | teenagers' rattle-trap mining truck by a sniper's well-placed
Floyd | disruptor blast.  The truck smolders as the boy hobbles into a
Floyd | tenement house.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You turn away.  New Hell isn't just where people suffer.  New Hell
Floyd | is where people who no one cares about suffer.  The poets' words don't
Floyd | drift away on the fiery rivers here.  There aren't any poets.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "harsh"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mover" 		

Floyd |    Matter mover technology hit the scene in 2062VK, just two years
Floyd | before the formation of the Republic.  In the hundred or so years
Floyd | since its introduction it's become the primary means of transportation
Floyd | throughout the galaxy.  This model is quite similar to the one in your
Floyd | pod.
Floyd |
Floyd | The mover's address plate has been rubbed smooth.
Floyd |
Floyd | Current dial settings:  (0, 0, 0)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x autodialer" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd | 5:  A dirt road
Floyd | 6:  Survey Station
Floyd | 7:  Kuwl Starport
Floyd | 8:  New Hell
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "note 27" 		

Floyd | [27]: The night sky on New Hell is chillingly beautiful, like none
Floyd | you've ever before seen.  The tapestry of stars is periodically
Floyd | wrinkled by the "Charon Effect," which streaks the stars in white
Floyd | loops.  The effect is still not well understood.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-09-22:58:27CDT 		borowski says, "Eek."
		borowski says, "Creepy place, but somehow matter mover tech cheapens the effect."
borowski says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | New Hell
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a small lobby enclosed by a transparent dome.  The lobby
Floyd | opens up to the north into The Watchmen proper and an eastern portal
Floyd | leads outside.  This area itself is nondescript, but through the clear
Floyd | canopy you can see what a dark and terrifying world New Hell is:
Floyd | rivers of lava slither through the greasy-slick alleys of the slums
Floyd | and on to the distant horizon, where primordial geysers ejaculate
Floyd | molten rock into the midnight blue sky [27].
Floyd |
Floyd |    Flourescent spotlights flicker nervously, at moments illuminating
Floyd | the victims of the collective carnivorous orgy just long enough for
Floyd | you to take the scenes in, but briefly enough for you to mistake them
Floyd | for little nightmares.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You turn away.  New Hell isn't just where people suffer.  New Hell
Floyd | is where people who no one cares about suffer.  The poets' words don't
Floyd | drift away on the fiery rivers here.  There aren't any poets.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "We can go north (to Watchmen) or east (outside)."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "North?"
		DavidW says, "yeah"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | At the Entrance to The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here is the entrance to The Watchmen, home to the Watchmaker and,
Floyd | from the looks of it, frequented by society's outcasts.  Through the
Floyd | entranceway you spy unusual characters of all sorts engaging in
Floyd | business, pleasure, and pain.
Floyd |
Floyd |    North of here is the inside of the establishment.  The matter mover
Floyd | and exit are to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen bouncer is keeping an eye on you.  He doesn't seem
Floyd | eager to let you enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a figurine of the Great Duhdha, a
Floyd | dog-eared leaflet, a tiny triangular pink circuit board, an ary ung, a
Floyd | hammer, a bolt, a magnetic letter Q, a plastic whistle, a plastic
Floyd | plover's egg, some Akmi Wacki Putti, a firecracker, a mood ring (being
Floyd | worn), a piece of string (tied to the akmid), a poodle charm, a stick
Floyd | of butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a mixer, a frying pan, a
Floyd | hunk of cheese, an overripe tomato, a piece of salami, a geode, an
Floyd | akmid (tied to the piece of string), a thermos of Barfee advanced
Floyd | growth formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a crumpled
Floyd | scrap of paper, a paperback book, a handwritten note, your thesis
Floyd | research floppy disk, a qualitative calculator, an RGB color chart, an
Floyd | empty ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x board" 		

Floyd | You can't tell exactly what it is, but you figure that it must store
Floyd | some kind of information.  There are mover coordinates on the back of
Floyd | the device:
Floyd |
Floyd |    Midnight Blue (+6, -49, +36)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "We're to give that board to the bouncer, I think."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give board to bouncer" 		

Floyd | The bouncer pulls a hand-held device out of his left trouser pocket
Floyd | and plugs the triangle into it.  He grunts, hands it back to you, and
Floyd | waves you through.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by a point.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x bouncer" 		

Floyd |    This fellow is a monster.  He looks human -- sort of -- but he's
Floyd | almost twice your height, and comically broad.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Snakeskin grafts spiral up his arms, culminating in fanged
Floyd | cobra-head epaulets on his bare shoulders.  His chest is bare but for
Floyd | a web of chains attached to steel posts pierced into his skin with
Floyd | mathematical precision.  Attached to the mail are thick ropes
Floyd | suspending baggy black trousers.  The sparkle of his steel-toed boots
Floyd | echoes the gleam in his eye.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You fear that his expression of disinterest only obscures the
Floyd | psychosis within.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Mmmmm."
		borowski asks, "Have we tried visiting Midnight Blue?"
		DavidW says, "This is the address on the board."
		genericgeekgirl says, "This is it."
		borowski says, "Ah."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to bouncer" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "talk".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "in" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "We didn't try Midnight Blue unaltered, though."
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are wandering around the smoky, dark, cavernous interior of The
Floyd | Watchmen.  All around you oddly-dressed men make transactions, fight
Floyd | with each other, and generally carouse loudly.  It's so dimly lit here
Floyd | that you can barely find your way through the maze of human obstacles
Floyd | -- sitting, standing, and prone.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The employees all seem to be male, but in many cases it's hard to
Floyd | tell.  They are dressed very differently then the clientele -- slick
Floyd | fabric uniforms in dark maroon that look too tight.  Each employee has
Floyd | a gold pocket watch emblem on his chest, just above the heart.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen continues to the north and south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I don't know what else we ought to do here, or remember why Timon thougtht we oughta come here."
		DavidW says, "Perhaps some creepy guy will offer us something."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yay!"
		zarf says, "meet with the Watchmaker, destroy Akmi"
		zarf says, "was the deal, I thought"
		DavidW says (to zarf), "oh"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "carouse" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "carouse".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "There's been so much happening, I lost the bigger picture entirely."
		DavidW says, "But perhaps this is the place to have the time of our lives."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x emblem" 		

Floyd | It just looks like a normal pocket watch, rendered in some kind of
Floyd | shiny material.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask employee about Watchmaker" 		

Floyd | You can't do that, because they can't hear you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "sit" 		

Floyd | You are now sitting down.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Several tough-looking patrons in the corner eye you hungrily.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I'd try going north, actually."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | (You stand up)
Floyd |
Floyd | The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are wandering around the smoky, dark, cavernous interior of The
Floyd | Watchmen.  All around you oddly-dressed men make transactions, fight
Floyd | with each other, and generally carouse loudly.  It's so dimly lit here
Floyd | that you can barely find your way through the maze of human obstacles
Floyd | -- sitting, standing, and prone.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The employees all seem to be male, but in many cases it's hard to
Floyd | tell.  They are dressed very differently then the clientele -- slick
Floyd | fabric uniforms in dark maroon that look too tight.  Each employee has
Floyd | a gold pocket watch emblem on his chest, just above the heart.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen proper ends here, but there is another smaller area to
Floyd | the east.  The rest of the establishment is south of here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "East?"
		DavidW says, "okay"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | The Watchmaker's Headquarters
Floyd |
Floyd |    This area looks much like the rest of the place, but there are far
Floyd | fewer people here.  The majority are Watchmen employees, hovering
Floyd | around the Watchmaker.  No one pays much attention to you as you mill
Floyd | about.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmaker is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x watchmaker" 		

Floyd |    The first thing that strikes you about the Watchmaker is her face,
Floyd | which seems to be fixed in a look that says, "I'm more than you
Floyd | think".  She is perpetually calm, speaks in a raspy whisper, and has
Floyd | eyes that are alert with the analytical intelligence that has made her
Floyd | ruler of the Republic's excrement.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You see no hint of the insanity Timon Sketch alluded to -- only
Floyd | matter-of-fact evaluation and dispensation of orders.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Those who work here appear to obey her unquestioningly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, hello there."
		DavidW says, "I feel a bit underprepared for this interview."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf22" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to watchmaker" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "talk".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "watchmaker, hello" 		

Floyd | The Watchmaker nods.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask watchmaker about akmi" 		

Floyd | "No information is free, you little rugrat," the Watchmaker grumbles.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "dance for watchmaker" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "dance".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give kola to watchmaker" 		

Floyd | "Who the fuck is this brain-damaged college boy?  Anybody know this
Floyd | guy?"  she asks, never once looking you in the eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Watchmaker's Headquarters
Floyd |
Floyd |    This area looks much like the rest of the place, but there are far
Floyd | fewer people here.  The majority are Watchmen employees, hovering
Floyd | around the Watchmaker.  No one pays much attention to you as you mill
Floyd | about.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmaker is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl snrk.
		DavidW says, "well, it's possible she wouldn't be fussy"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give tomato to watchmaker" 		

Floyd | "Who the fuck is this brain-damaged college boy?  Anybody know this
Floyd | guy?"  she asks, never once looking you in the eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Watchmaker's Headquarters
Floyd |
Floyd |    This area looks much like the rest of the place, but there are far
Floyd | fewer people here.  The majority are Watchmen employees, hovering
Floyd | around the Watchmaker.  No one pays much attention to you as you mill
Floyd | about.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmaker is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hm."
		genericgeekgirl says, "To be fair, the kola can *is* empty."
		DavidW asks, "I suppose a watchmaker might want timepieces?"
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-09-23:13:27CDT 		DavidW asks, "Or treasure?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a figurine of the Great Duhdha, a
Floyd | dog-eared leaflet, a tiny triangular pink circuit board, an ary ung, a
Floyd | hammer, a bolt, a magnetic letter Q, a plastic whistle, a plastic
Floyd | plover's egg, some Akmi Wacki Putti, a firecracker, a mood ring (being
Floyd | worn), a piece of string (tied to the akmid), a poodle charm, a stick
Floyd | of butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a mixer, a frying pan, a
Floyd | hunk of cheese, an overripe tomato, a piece of salami, a geode, an
Floyd | akmid (tied to the piece of string), a thermos of Barfee advanced
Floyd | growth formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a crumpled
Floyd | scrap of paper, a paperback book, a handwritten note, your thesis
Floyd | research floppy disk, a qualitative calculator, an RGB color chart, an
Floyd | empty ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		zarf asks, "can one person mill about?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give board to watchmaker" 		

Floyd | She looks up from her work and eyes you incredulously.  "Who the fuck
Floyd | are you?  No, scratch that.  I don't give a flying shit who you are.
Floyd | Do you have information?  If you do, let's talk.  Otherwise, get out,"
Floyd | she sneers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Watchmaker's Headquarters
Floyd |
Floyd |    This area looks much like the rest of the place, but there are far
Floyd | fewer people here.  The majority are Watchmen employees, hovering
Floyd | around the Watchmaker.  No one pays much attention to you as you mill
Floyd | about.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmaker is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "ok, she wants info."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give formula to watchmaker" 		

Floyd | "Who the fuck is this brain-damaged college boy?  Anybody know this
Floyd | guy?"  she asks, never once looking you in the eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Watchmaker's Headquarters
Floyd |
Floyd |    This area looks much like the rest of the place, but there are far
Floyd | fewer people here.  The majority are Watchmen employees, hovering
Floyd | around the Watchmaker.  No one pays much attention to you as you mill
Floyd | about.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmaker is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "tell watchmaker about akmi" 		

Floyd | "How you do go on," she says mockingly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x employess" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "employess".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x employees" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "They're invisible! *gasp*"
borowski says (to Floyd), "blow whistle" 		

Floyd | You blow into the whistle and nearly deafen yourself in the process.
Floyd | Pretty impressive for form-molded plastic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I suspect we need a data disk or something very similar."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I feel like a 6-year-old. We have Treasure! Here's a whistle and a piece of string and a shiny empty can."
borowski has disconnected. 		
borowski has connected. 		genericgeekgirl says, "... Or a raccoon."
		DavidW says, "ha"
borowski says (to Floyd), "blow figurative whistle" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "figurative".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I kinda want to see what's east of New Hell's mover now."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Ok"
		borowski says, "Maybe we need to check -- timing"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are wandering around the smoky, dark, cavernous interior of The
Floyd | Watchmen.  All around you oddly-dressed men make transactions, fight
Floyd | with each other, and generally carouse loudly.  It's so dimly lit here
Floyd | that you can barely find your way through the maze of human obstacles
Floyd | -- sitting, standing, and prone.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The employees all seem to be male, but in many cases it's hard to
Floyd | tell.  They are dressed very differently then the clientele -- slick
Floyd | fabric uniforms in dark maroon that look too tight.  Each employee has
Floyd | a gold pocket watch emblem on his chest, just above the heart.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen proper ends here, but there is another smaller area to
Floyd | the east.  The rest of the establishment is south of here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are wandering around the smoky, dark, cavernous interior of The
Floyd | Watchmen.  All around you oddly-dressed men make transactions, fight
Floyd | with each other, and generally carouse loudly.  It's so dimly lit here
Floyd | that you can barely find your way through the maze of human obstacles
Floyd | -- sitting, standing, and prone.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The employees all seem to be male, but in many cases it's hard to
Floyd | tell.  They are dressed very differently then the clientele -- slick
Floyd | fabric uniforms in dark maroon that look too tight.  Each employee has
Floyd | a gold pocket watch emblem on his chest, just above the heart.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen continues to the north and south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | At the Entrance to The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here is the entrance to The Watchmen, home to the Watchmaker and,
Floyd | from the looks of it, frequented by society's outcasts.  Through the
Floyd | entranceway you spy unusual characters of all sorts engaging in
Floyd | business, pleasure, and pain.
Floyd |
Floyd |    North of here is the inside of the establishment.  The matter mover
Floyd | and exit are to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen bouncer is keeping an eye on you.  He doesn't seem
Floyd | eager to let you enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | New Hell
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a small lobby enclosed by a transparent dome.  The lobby
Floyd | opens up to the north into The Watchmen proper and an eastern portal
Floyd | leads outside.  This area itself is nondescript, but through the clear
Floyd | canopy you can see what a dark and terrifying world New Hell is:
Floyd | rivers of lava slither through the greasy-slick alleys of the slums
Floyd | and on to the distant horizon, where primordial geysers ejaculate
Floyd | molten rock into the midnight blue sky [27].
Floyd |
Floyd |    Flourescent spotlights flicker nervously, at moments illuminating
Floyd | the victims of the collective carnivorous orgy just long enough for
Floyd | you to take the scenes in, but briefly enough for you to mistake them
Floyd | for little nightmares.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You turn away.  New Hell isn't just where people suffer.  New Hell
Floyd | is where people who no one cares about suffer.  The poets' words don't
Floyd | drift away on the fiery rivers here.  There aren't any poets.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | It really doesn't seem like a good idea to venture out into the
Floyd | mayhem.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm."
		borowski asks, "Did we figure out how to deal with the dog?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "No."
		DavidW says, "no"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Is there anywhere else we haven't looked yet?"
		DavidW says, "South of the fence of Irata, I guess, but I didn't see a way in there."
		borowski asks, "Did we deal with everything in the lab?"
		DavidW says, "nope"
		DavidW says, "We didn't know what to do with the transmogrifier."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, I was reading the logs and was about to mention that."
		borowski asks, "Is the lab run by Akmi? Maybe we need some evidence?"
		DavidW says, "We could experiment randomly with the transmog, I guess. Yes, the lab is Akmi's."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x dialer" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd | 5:  A dirt road
Floyd | 6:  Survey Station
Floyd | 7:  Kuwl Starport
Floyd | 8:  New Hell
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "type 4" 		

Floyd | On what?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "type 4 on dialer" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Featureless Cubicle
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's clear from the size and lack of decor that this room was built
Floyd | specifically to house the matter mover that fills it.  The hallway is
Floyd | to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The matter mover here is a bit unusual -- it has a button on it,
Floyd | next to a light.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x light" 		

Floyd | Which light do you mean, the matter mover light, or the geode?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x matter mover light" 		

Floyd | The light is currently green.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Barfee Research Area Entrance
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in an empty hall with metal walls, ceiling, and
Floyd | floor.  Behind you, to the south, is the vault door that leads to the
Floyd | outside; it does not appear to open from the inside.  Right in front
Floyd | of you, farther down the hall, is a smaller but equally
Floyd | durable-looking door with a sign on it that reads "Barfee Research
Floyd | Central."  There is another room to the west, and to the east is what
Floyd | you assume to be the check-in area; you suspect that's where the boss
Floyd | is; this suspicion is partly affirmed by the growling and cursing
Floyd | emanating from within.  "Hakkar the Horrible" is in full form.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "The green light means we can return here via the mover."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Ah."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Research Central?"
		DavidW says, "The transmog is north"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Barfee Research Lab
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a huge, well-stocked laboratory.  Dozens of researchers
Floyd | scurry about, argue with each other, and frequently set things ablaze.
Floyd | Aside from the usual lab equipment, there is a strange-looking machine
Floyd | on an especially large marble lab table that stands in the center of
Floyd | the lab.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The only way out of this arena is south, the way you came in.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x machine" 		

Floyd | It's just a big plaid box made of some synthetic cheese product that
Floyd | you can put things in.  It has four oversized dials and a large red
Floyd | button on the front.  Large letters on the machine read
Floyd | "Transmogrifyer".  There is a sign on the machine that says, "Out of
Floyd | order".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x box" 		

Floyd | It's just a big plaid box made of some synthetic cheese product that
Floyd | you can put things in.  It has four oversized dials and a large red
Floyd | button on the front.  Large letters on the machine read
Floyd | "Transmogrifyer".  There is a sign on the machine that says, "Out of
Floyd | order".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look in box" 		

Floyd | There doesn't appear to be anything in the Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dials" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  The magenta dial can be turned to settings numbered
Floyd | from 0 to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's currently set to 0.
Floyd | salmon dial:  The salmon dial can be turned to settings numbered from
Floyd | 0 to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's currently set to 0.
Floyd | mauve dial:  The mauve dial can be turned to settings numbered from 0
Floyd | to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's currently set to 0.
Floyd | orange dial:  The orange dial can be turned to settings numbered from
Floyd | 0 to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's currently set to 0.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take sign" 		

Floyd | You can't take the sign.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "I wish I knew moreabout about color m"
		borowski says, "Whoops, mudclient bug. More about color mixing."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press button" 		

Floyd | Which button do you mean, the transmogrifier button, the Clear button,
Floyd | the Clear button, the ZERO button, the POSITIVE button, the NEGATIVE
Floyd | button, the ADD button, the SUBTRACT button, the MULTIPLY button, or
Floyd | the DIVIDE button?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "transmogrifier" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "transmogrifier".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press transmogrifier button" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "transmogrifier".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "it's red"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press red button" 		

Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "It won't do anything unless something's inside it."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put can in box" 		

Floyd | Which can do you mean, the can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, or the empty
Floyd | ReVoLT Kola can?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-09-23:28:27CDT 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "empty" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "empty".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put kola can in box" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl kicks the parser.
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A spray can is in the Akmi
Floyd | Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Whoa."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x spray can" 		

Floyd | Tiny lettering on the side of the can reads:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Akmi Dam Phowl Snayk Rheepehlant.  Guaranteed results!  Shake
Floyd | before using. To use, spray target with repellant.  In case of
Floyd | failure, send proof of purchase to Akmi Galacticorp, Planet Plast,
Floyd | Akmi System."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I wish I was sure the empty can was something we don't need. It can still hold liquids."
		DavidW says, "The snake repellent is what we got before, way back when we sacrificed the Gro,"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Ah. So it's not really out of order. And we're not sure what the dials do yet?"
		DavidW says, "Not at all."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf23" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn mauve to 10" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 10.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I think it's quite possible the sign is lying."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Just turning them all to 10 and seeing what happens."
		borowski says, "Maybe can get a can of salmon repllant."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn salmon to turn" 		

Floyd | I don't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn salmon to 10" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 10.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn magenta to 10" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 10.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn orange to 10" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 10.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A mysterious black sphere is
Floyd | in the Akmi Transmogrifyer.  The mysterious black sphere is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x sphere" 		

Floyd | It's just a smooth black sphere.  It's ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "uh oh"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Ooh? Or else "oh shit.""
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take sphere" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "throw sphere at wall" 		

Floyd | Throwing things at the walls isn't helpful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd | The mysterious black sphere is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Do we have a naughty bomb?"
		DavidW asks, "I suppose it *might* be a watch?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a mysterious black sphere, a figurine of
Floyd | the Great Duhdha, a dog-eared leaflet, a tiny triangular pink circuit
Floyd | board, an ary ung, a hammer, a bolt, a magnetic letter Q, a plastic
Floyd | whistle, a plastic plover's egg, some Akmi Wacki Putti, a firecracker,
Floyd | a mood ring (being worn), a piece of string (tied to the akmid), a
Floyd | poodle charm, a stick of butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a
Floyd | mixer, a frying pan, a hunk of cheese, an overripe tomato, a piece of
Floyd | salami, a geode, an akmid (tied to the piece of string), a thermos of
Floyd | Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur
Floyd | Gro, a crumpled scrap of paper, a paperback book, a handwritten note,
Floyd | your thesis research floppy disk, a qualitative calculator, an RGB
Floyd | color chart, a Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.  The
Floyd | mysterious black sphere is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put cheese in box" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "I saved."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set mauve to 19" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set magenta to 19" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set salmon to 19" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set orange to 19" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A blob of wax is in the Akmi
Floyd | Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x wax" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary blob of wax.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "A manual would be helpful."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press red button" 		

Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Maybe we just have to transform three useless objects into the repellent, sphere, and wax."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set mauve to 11" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 11.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set magenta to 11" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 11.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Maybe it really is broken and this is all it does."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set salmon to 11" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 11.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set orange to 11" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 11.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A piece of flint is in the
Floyd | Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Barfee Research Lab
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a huge, well-stocked laboratory.  Dozens of researchers
Floyd | scurry about, argue with each other, and frequently set things ablaze.
Floyd | Aside from the usual lab equipment, there is a strange-looking machine
Floyd | on an especially large marble lab table that stands in the center of
Floyd | the lab.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The only way out of this arena is south, the way you came in.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blob of wax is in the Akmi Transmogrifyer.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "The flint may be useful with the firecracker."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I wonder if every combination produces something unique :) And I dislike that we don't know a method better than brute force right now."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put wax in ears" 		

Floyd | There is nothing matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski goes home. 		
borowski has disconnected. 		
borowski arrives, ready to play with the toys. 		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x geode" 		

Floyd | Though it looks completely everyday at first glance, a closer
Floyd | inspection reveals the rock to be a geode:  dull and unimpressive on
Floyd | the outside, but with a brilliant, sparkling crystalline center --
Floyd | absolutely beautiful!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a mysterious black sphere, a figurine of
Floyd | the Great Duhdha, a dog-eared leaflet, a tiny triangular pink circuit
Floyd | board, an ary ung, a hammer, a bolt, a magnetic letter Q, a plastic
Floyd | whistle, a plastic plover's egg, some Akmi Wacki Putti, a firecracker,
Floyd | a mood ring (being worn), a piece of string (tied to the akmid), a
Floyd | poodle charm, a stick of butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a
Floyd | mixer, a frying pan, an overripe tomato, a piece of salami, a geode,
Floyd | an akmid (tied to the piece of string), a thermos of Barfee advanced
Floyd | growth formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a crumpled
Floyd | scrap of paper, a paperback book, a handwritten note, your thesis
Floyd | research floppy disk, a qualitative calculator, an RGB color chart, a
Floyd | Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.  The mysterious black
Floyd | sphere is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x thesis" 		

Floyd |    It's a standard 5 centimeter square optical disk with your thesis
Floyd | research materials on it.  There is a label on one side with your
Floyd | writing on it.  The label reads, "Unnkulian Unventures I, II, and III
Floyd | (unfinished)."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Unfortunately, the games were designed to be run on an old
Floyd | Zippikraft machine that's pretty hard to find these days.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Maybe the Watchmaker would be interested in our thesis?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Probably not, but I hope there's a witty response if we try."
		DavidW says, "mmhm"
		DavidW says, "Perhaps we're meant to replace our thesis with other data, then give it to the Watchmaker."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Hm, maybe."
borowski says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Barfee Research Lab
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a huge, well-stocked laboratory.  Dozens of researchers
Floyd | scurry about, argue with each other, and frequently set things ablaze.
Floyd | Aside from the usual lab equipment, there is a strange-looking machine
Floyd | on an especially large marble lab table that stands in the center of
Floyd | the lab.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The only way out of this arena is south, the way you came in.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blob of wax is in the Akmi Transmogrifyer.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mood ring" 		

Floyd | It's supposed to change colors according to your mood when you wear
Floyd | it, though you suspect that it's really just random.  Right now it is
Floyd | deep marble.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take wax" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-09-23:43:27CDT 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put ring in machine" 		

Floyd | (taking off the mood ring first)
Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A piece of flint is in the
Floyd | Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Barfee Research Lab
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a huge, well-stocked laboratory.  Dozens of researchers
Floyd | scurry about, argue with each other, and frequently set things ablaze.
Floyd | Aside from the usual lab equipment, there is a strange-looking machine
Floyd | on an especially large marble lab table that stands in the center of
Floyd | the lab.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The only way out of this arena is south, the way you came in.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mood ring is in the Akmi Transmogrifyer.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take ring" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a mood ring, a blob of wax, a mysterious
Floyd | black sphere, a figurine of the Great Duhdha, a dog-eared leaflet, a
Floyd | tiny triangular pink circuit board, an ary ung, a hammer, a bolt, a
Floyd | magnetic letter Q, a plastic whistle, a plastic plover's egg, some
Floyd | Akmi Wacki Putti, a firecracker, a piece of string (tied to the
Floyd | akmid), a poodle charm, a stick of butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a
Floyd | blender, a mixer, a frying pan, an overripe tomato, a piece of salami,
Floyd | a geode, an akmid (tied to the piece of string), a thermos of Barfee
Floyd | advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a
Floyd | crumpled scrap of paper, a paperback book, a handwritten note, your
Floyd | thesis research floppy disk, a qualitative calculator, an RGB color
Floyd | chart, a Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.  The mysterious
Floyd | black sphere is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Wish I knew what items were disposable and which aren't."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put q in machine" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A piece of flint is in the
Floyd | Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x flint" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary piece of flint.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take flint" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Well the autodialer isn't disposable."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x handwritten" 		

Floyd | The note is to you.  It reads:
Floyd |
Floyd |    Gavin --
Floyd |
Floyd |    Studying at the library today.  Don't forget dinner at Grandma's
Floyd | house tomorrow night.  When you go out, please pick up some prune
Floyd | seeds from the Barfee outlet (8549, 4392, 8392) -- you know how
Floyd | Grandma is about her garden.
Floyd |
Floyd |                    Love,
Floyd |                    Ada
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Maybe it'll take points off if we try that."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put handwritten in machine" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dials" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  The magenta dial can be turned to settings numbered
Floyd | from 0 to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's currently set to 11.
Floyd | salmon dial:  The salmon dial can be turned to settings numbered from
Floyd | 0 to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's currently set to 11.
Floyd | mauve dial:  The mauve dial can be turned to settings numbered from 0
Floyd | to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's currently set to 11.
Floyd | orange dial:  The orange dial can be turned to settings numbered from
Floyd | 0 to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's currently set to 11.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set all dials to 12" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 12.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 12.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 12.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 12.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A canister of liquid
Floyd | nitrogen is in the Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x nitrogen" 		

Floyd | It would seem to be a canister of liquid nitrogen.  I'd be careful
Floyd | with it, if I were you -- remember seeing your chemistry professor
Floyd | stick a metal dowel in liquid nitrogen and then hit it on the table,
Floyd | shattering it?  Bet that would sure smart if it happened to your hand.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set all dials to 13" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 13.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 13.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 13.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 13.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  Marbles are in the Akmi
Floyd | Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x marbles" 		

Floyd | They look like ordinary marbles.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set all dials to 14" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 14.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 14.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 14.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 14.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A container of glue is in
Floyd | the Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x glue" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary container of glue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set all dials to 15" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 15.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 15.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 15.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 15.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A valmid is in the Akmi
Floyd | Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x valmid" 		

Floyd | This bronze coin is a valmid, with an image of the first Valley King
Floyd | on one side and the Hall of the Valley King on the other.  This coin
Floyd | would be worth a fortune if it weren't a synthesized reproduction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set all dials to 16" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 16.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 16.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 16.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 16.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A wugrump hat is in the Akmi
Floyd | Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hat" 		

Floyd | It's a hat made of Wugrump fur [28].  Very warm, but quite politically
Floyd | incorrect in these days of galaxy-wide eco-consciousness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "note 28" 		

Floyd | [28]: Wugrumps are cute, furry creatures that live on the planet Razor
Floyd | in the Edge system.  Unfortunately for the Wugrumps, all the other
Floyd | fauna on Razor are carnivorous, and Wugrums are the only things they
Floyd | like to eat.  Tough break.  One scientist estimated, however, that
Floyd | they spend fully 98% of their lives procreating.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set all dials to 17" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 17.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 17.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 17.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 17.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A lump of clay is in the
Floyd | Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x clay" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary lump of clay.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set all dials to 16" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 16.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 16.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 16.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 16.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A wugrump hat is in the Akmi
Floyd | Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set all dials to 18" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 18.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 18.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 18.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 18.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  An id tag is in the Akmi
Floyd | Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x id tag" 		

Floyd | It's a metal ID tag.  Embossed letters on the tag read:
Floyd |
Floyd |    Leben, Comp Specialist, Akmi Space Ship Cheez Pig
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "hmm"
		DavidW says, "Baffling"
		borowski asks, "Was it possible to talk with the boss?"
		DavidW says, "I wonder if it's remembering each unique config and associating the next time in a list with the combo, or if there's 400 objects possible."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Cheez Pig!"
		DavidW says, "er next item"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf24" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Well.."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set mauve to 19" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set magenta to 19" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set orange to 19" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set salmon to 19" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a piece of flint, a mood ring, a blob of
Floyd | wax, a mysterious black sphere, a figurine of the Great Duhdha, a
Floyd | dog-eared leaflet, a tiny triangular pink circuit board, an ary ung, a
Floyd | hammer, a bolt, a plastic whistle, a plastic plover's egg, some Akmi
Floyd | Wacki Putti, a firecracker, a piece of string (tied to the akmid), a
Floyd | poodle charm, a stick of butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a
Floyd | mixer, a frying pan, an overripe tomato, a piece of salami, a geode,
Floyd | an akmid (tied to the piece of string), a thermos of Barfee advanced
Floyd | growth formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a crumpled
Floyd | scrap of paper, a paperback book, your thesis research floppy disk, a
Floyd | qualitative calculator, an RGB color chart, a Galacticard, and a
Floyd | matter mover autodialer.  The mysterious black sphere is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put banana in box" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press red button" 		

Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "er two items in the machine"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x box" 		

Floyd | It's just a big plaid box made of some synthetic cheese product that
Floyd | you can put things in.  It has four oversized dials and a large red
Floyd | button on the front.  Large letters on the machine read
Floyd | "Transmogrifyer".  There is a sign on the machine that says, "Out of
Floyd | order".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look in box" 		

Floyd | 6 Bananas and an id tag are in the Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take tag" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press red button" 		

Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take bananas" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "I guess you cant separate them."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put butter in box" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press red button" 		

Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "You did 19-19-19-19 already, though, no?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yes, I'm testing."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Whether you can get more of something, or whether it just give syou the next thing, or whatever."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take butter" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | File to restore game from >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf24" 		

Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | Barfee Research Lab
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a huge, well-stocked laboratory.  Dozens of researchers
Floyd | scurry about, argue with each other, and frequently set things ablaze.
Floyd | Aside from the usual lab equipment, there is a strange-looking machine
Floyd | on an especially large marble lab table that stands in the center of
Floyd | the lab.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The only way out of this arena is south, the way you came in.
Floyd |
Floyd |    An id tag is in the Akmi Transmogrifyer.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-09-23:58:27CDT 		DavidW says, "It's odd. Many of these new items are potentially useful, but nothing really sticks out as a must-have."
		zarf says, "that's because you're getting them by brute force."
		DavidW says, "that's because we're stuck :)"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x researchers" 		

Floyd | The researchers are all hard at work.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen to researchers" 		

Floyd | The Barfee researchers isn't making any noise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Well, I suppose we could stop here, or restore a bit and knock our heads against the dog?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mixer" 		

Floyd | It's an ordinary kitchen mixer.  Unfortunately, it seems to be missing
Floyd | the metal beaters, and is therefore useless.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Barfee Research Lab
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a huge, well-stocked laboratory.  Dozens of researchers
Floyd | scurry about, argue with each other, and frequently set things ablaze.
Floyd | Aside from the usual lab equipment, there is a strange-looking machine
Floyd | on an especially large marble lab table that stands in the center of
Floyd | the lab.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The only way out of this arena is south, the way you came in.
Floyd |
Floyd |    An id tag is in the Akmi Transmogrifyer.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm. I wonder it the transmog can make mixer beaters."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I'd be happy to stop here."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Or prune seeds."
		borowski says, "Yeah, I need to go to bed soon."
		DavidW says, "I have no ideas on the prune seeds, unless one of the sellers is related to sharks."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press save" 		

Floyd | I don't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "save" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "legend4" 		

Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "I guess there's still the problem of no money."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah. Which is why I was hoping the machine could give us some seeds =)"
		DavidW says, "Shouldn't we restore back a bit and then save? We transmog'd a few things we might not want to."
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-10-00:13:27CDT 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | File to restore game from >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf23" 		

Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | Barfee Research Lab
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a huge, well-stocked laboratory.  Dozens of researchers
Floyd | scurry about, argue with each other, and frequently set things ablaze.
Floyd | Aside from the usual lab equipment, there is a strange-looking machine
Floyd | on an especially large marble lab table that stands in the center of
Floyd | the lab.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The only way out of this arena is south, the way you came in.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A spray can is in the Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "22 would take us back to the watchmaker, but we'd still have the kola can."
		DavidW says, "We only transmog'd the empty ReVoLT can."
		DavidW says, "I think it may be safer to go back to 22, yeah."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | File to restore game from >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf22" 		

Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Watchmaker's Headquarters
Floyd |
Floyd |    This area looks much like the rest of the place, but there are far
Floyd | fewer people here.  The majority are Watchmen employees, hovering
Floyd | around the Watchmaker.  No one pays much attention to you as you mill
Floyd | about.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmaker is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "save" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "legend4" 		

Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "thanks"
borowski says (to Floyd), "give watchmaker thesis" 		

Floyd | "Who the fuck is this brain-damaged college boy?  Anybody know this
Floyd | guy?"  she asks, never once looking you in the eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "At least this way, our autodialer is up to date."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell watchmaker about me" 		

Floyd | "How you do go on," she says mockingly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "So, the only day I'm available next week is Monday. Which is fine with me, if others want to play then. Or else we'll hold off until the following week, at which point, we're moving it back to Wednesdays because 9am meetings are pure evil, and Ellison's reason for moving it to Tuesday isn't a thing anymore."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell watchmaker about ada" 		

Floyd | I don't know what you're referring to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "ok with me"
		DavidW says, "I will want a reminder on Monday, though."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Ok"
		DavidW says, "yay small amount of progress!"
zarf walks off through the wall; pale green light flares briefly around him. 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "quit" 		

Floyd | In 709 turns, you have earned 29 points out of a possible 75.
Floyd | You have completed approximately 44 percent of the game.
Floyd | You haven't used any hints.
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you really want to quit?  (YES or NO) >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | The Legend awaits your return.
Floyd |

		
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" 		
Ellison has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		borowski says, "Maybe a BB reminder"
		
*** Fifth Session *** 		
		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | File to restore game from >

		DavidW asks, "Do we need a recap?"
		DavidW asks, "cf21, I think it was?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "legend4" 		

Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Watchmaker's Headquarters
Floyd |
Floyd |    This area looks much like the rest of the place, but there are far
Floyd | fewer people here.  The majority are Watchmen employees, hovering
Floyd | around the Watchmaker.  No one pays much attention to you as you mill
Floyd | about.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmaker is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Oh. I thought I resaved at the end to legend4 again?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, I think so."
		borowski says, "I don't think we did much after this."
		borowski says, "Other than playing with the transwatchamucallit"
		DavidW says, "I remember asking you to backtrack so the transmog hadn't destroyed anything yet."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, I did, and then resaved."
		genericgeekgirl says, "It's equivalent to cf22."
		DavidW says, "zarf made some comments that suggested that we can learn how to use the transmog without guessing and random experimentation."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Oh?"
		DavidW says, "It was an oblique sort of comment, but that's what I took away from it."
		DavidW says, "Possibly we just haven't seen the right hint yet."
		genericgeekgirl nods.
Rob arrives, full of funk, but no fun. 		
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask watchmaker about watches" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "watches".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		* Rob has joined the channel.
		Rob says, "whatcha playin'"
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask watchmaker about watch" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that
Floyd | to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I think the Watchmaker wants a data disk only."
		DavidW says (to Rob), "The Legend Lives!"
		Rob asks, "dave baggett?"
		DavidW says, "Could be, yeah."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "version" 		

Floyd | The Legend Lives!
Floyd | An Unnkulian Universe Unventure
Floyd | Opus 2, Version 1.1G for Great Underground Adventures CD
Floyd | Copyright (C) 1994, 1996 David M. Baggett
Floyd | All rights reserved.
Floyd | Developed with TADS, the Text Adventure Development System.
Floyd | WorldClass library version 1.3.5.
Floyd |
Floyd | Difficulty Rating (without hints):  Legendary (10 out of 10)
Floyd |
Floyd | Recommended for mature readers only.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    This game is free.  We encourage you to distribute it, but you may
Floyd | not charge any money for it beyond the cost of the media it is stored
Floyd | on.
Floyd |
Floyd |    ADVENTIONS no longer supports this product.  Please do not contact
Floyd | us for hints or to buy games.  The best place to get our games is from
Floyd | the Interactive Fiction Archive on the Internet, site ftp.gmd.de.  The
Floyd | best place to ask for help with our games is the Usenet newsgroup
Floyd | rec.games.int-fiction.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    For instructions, type "instructions".
Floyd |

		
Floyd Read footnotes [1] with the note command; e.g., type "note 1." 		

Floyd |
Floyd |    Use the adaptive hint system by typing "hint".  To toggle hint
Floyd | encrypting, type "encrypt".  The encryption is a simple letter
Floyd | substitution cipher.  Use this option to keep yourself from using too
Floyd | many hints.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Type "credits" for more information about the game.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd | WorldClass library version 1.3.5.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Rob says, "I'd be really impressed with my memory if so"
		Rob says, "is if it's TADS then probably"
		DavidW says, "Sorry about the datadump. Normally VERSION doesn't have so much to say."
borowski says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a figurine of the Great Duhdha, a
Floyd | dog-eared leaflet, a tiny triangular pink circuit board, an ary ung, a
Floyd | hammer, a bolt, a magnetic letter Q, a plastic whistle, a plastic
Floyd | plover's egg, some Akmi Wacki Putti, a firecracker, a mood ring (being
Floyd | worn), a piece of string (tied to the akmid), a poodle charm, a stick
Floyd | of butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a mixer, a frying pan, a
Floyd | hunk of cheese, an overripe tomato, a piece of salami, a geode, an
Floyd | akmid (tied to the piece of string), a thermos of Barfee advanced
Floyd | growth formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a crumpled
Floyd | scrap of paper, a paperback book, a handwritten note, your thesis
Floyd | research floppy disk, a qualitative calculator, an RGB color chart, an
Floyd | empty ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Ellison says, "wow, big inventory in this game"
borowski says (to Floyd), "x ary ung" 		

Floyd | The ary ung is a black pistol-shaped implement that fits snugly in
Floyd | your hand.  It has an almost unnoticeable red trigger.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. 		DavidW asks, "I'm not sure what to suggest next, but maybe try to get past the dog again?"
		Binder says, "Don't mind me, I'm just here to stand around and gawk."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Sure. Want to drive?"
		DavidW says, "hm, okay."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are wandering around the smoky, dark, cavernous interior of The
Floyd | Watchmen.  All around you oddly-dressed men make transactions, fight
Floyd | with each other, and generally carouse loudly.  It's so dimly lit here
Floyd | that you can barely find your way through the maze of human obstacles
Floyd | -- sitting, standing, and prone.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The employees all seem to be male, but in many cases it's hard to
Floyd | tell.  They are dressed very differently then the clientele -- slick
Floyd | fabric uniforms in dark maroon that look too tight.  Each employee has
Floyd | a gold pocket watch emblem on his chest, just above the heart.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen proper ends here, but there is another smaller area to
Floyd | the east.  The rest of the establishment is south of here.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Several tough-looking patrons in the corner eye you hungrily.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are wandering around the smoky, dark, cavernous interior of The
Floyd | Watchmen.  All around you oddly-dressed men make transactions, fight
Floyd | with each other, and generally carouse loudly.  It's so dimly lit here
Floyd | that you can barely find your way through the maze of human obstacles
Floyd | -- sitting, standing, and prone.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The employees all seem to be male, but in many cases it's hard to
Floyd | tell.  They are dressed very differently then the clientele -- slick
Floyd | fabric uniforms in dark maroon that look too tight.  Each employee has
Floyd | a gold pocket watch emblem on his chest, just above the heart.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen continues to the north and south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    An individual whose gender is unclear walks past you bedecked in a
Floyd | tight leather outfit covered in a mesh of needles.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | At the Entrance to The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here is the entrance to The Watchmen, home to the Watchmaker and,
Floyd | from the looks of it, frequented by society's outcasts.  Through the
Floyd | entranceway you spy unusual characters of all sorts engaging in
Floyd | business, pleasure, and pain.
Floyd |
Floyd |    North of here is the inside of the establishment.  The matter mover
Floyd | and exit are to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The bouncer is here, fortunately ignoring you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | New Hell
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a small lobby enclosed by a transparent dome.  The lobby
Floyd | opens up to the north into The Watchmen proper and an eastern portal
Floyd | leads outside.  This area itself is nondescript, but through the clear
Floyd | canopy you can see what a dark and terrifying world New Hell is:
Floyd | rivers of lava slither through the greasy-slick alleys of the slums
Floyd | and on to the distant horizon, where primordial geysers ejaculate
Floyd | molten rock into the midnight blue sky [27].
Floyd |
Floyd |    Flourescent spotlights flicker nervously, at moments illuminating
Floyd | the victims of the collective carnivorous orgy just long enough for
Floyd | you to take the scenes in, but briefly enough for you to mistake them
Floyd | for little nightmares.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You turn away.  New Hell isn't just where people suffer.  New Hell
Floyd | is where people who no one cares about suffer.  The poets' words don't
Floyd | drift away on the fiery rivers here.  There aren't any poets.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x autodialer" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd | 5:  A dirt road
Floyd | 6:  Survey Station
Floyd | 7:  Kuwl Starport
Floyd | 8:  New Hell
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push 5 on autodialer" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | A dirt road
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing outside a matter mover right next to a dirt road.
Floyd | The weather is lovely here, if a bit humid, and the sky is a
Floyd | stunningly pure blue-green.  There is a crispness and freshness to the
Floyd | air here that you've never before experienced.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road is extremely narrow, and runs right through a corn field.
Floyd | It seems like the road has no business being here, but is a necessary
Floyd | nuisance.  It's clear that priorities are different on Foon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road leads east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Outside Elwood Farm
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing a few hundred yards away from a modest-sized
Floyd | farmhouse.  You gather from the posted sign that this is Elwood Farm,
Floyd | and that the corn lining the dirt road you came in on belongs to the
Floyd | Elwoods.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here, the building itself seems fairly well maintained, but
Floyd | could use a good painting.  The sizes of the carefully placed trees in
Floyd | the front yard give you the impression that people have lived on this
Floyd | plot of land for hundreds of years.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The farmhouse is to the west.  Head east and you're back at the
Floyd | local matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Outside the Elwood Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing at the wooden front door of the Elwood Farmhouse.
Floyd | A quaintly narrow stone path lined with colorful flowers leads up to
Floyd | the door, flanked on both sides by a well-groomed, vibrant kelly green
Floyd | lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The paint is peeling in places, and the windows could use new
Floyd | shutters, but otherwise the house is in decent shape considering its
Floyd | age -- the design, though simple, suggests architectural trends
Floyd | popular several hundred years ago, before the formation of the
Floyd | Republic [14].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The entrance is to the west.  You might also take a walk around the
Floyd | house to the northwest and southwest.  The stone path leads east, back
Floyd | to the dirt road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Inside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in the entrance hallway of the Elwood farmhouse.
Floyd | The hardwood floors creak as you walk upon them, and the earthy,
Floyd | rustic decor delights your jaded cosmopolitan senses.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The front door is in the east wall.  Ahead, to the west, is the
Floyd | living room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV dominates this simply furnished family room -- it's nestled
Floyd | comfortably in the center of the north wall, encased in a boxy dark
Floyd | wood enclosure with feet shaped like those on an old bathtub.  A burly
Floyd | old man is sacked out on the couch here in front of the enterviewer,
Floyd | eyes completely glazed over.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The kitchen is to the south.  A hall leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV's picking up some of that dreadful SofToonz, Akmi's lame
Floyd | excuse for music, complete with pictures of serene landscapes and
Floyd | moire patterns.  They pipe this kind of drivel into buildings
Floyd | throughout the galaxy because it's been found to excite fewer species
Floyd | than any other kind of stimulation [21].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set ev to 361" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 361.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ev" 		
Floyd The Akmi Kristl Kleer Kwality PM [17] Enterviewer is visually 		

Floyd | unimpressive, particularly considering you've seen about ten thousand
Floyd | identical models before.  (Akmi sometimes has a hard time letting go
Floyd | once they've found a formula that works.)  It's orange, it's mauve,
Floyd | it's purple.  It's squat and has functionless dimples all over its
Floyd | irregularly shaped bulbous case.  The screen is nearly square and
Floyd | inset at a jaunty angle.  In short, a typical product of the Akmi
Floyd | Aesthetix Division [18].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV has a tuning dial; you can choose from thousands of
Floyd | different stations from across the galaxy.  The dial goes from 1 to
Floyd | 100,000 and is currently set to 361.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with "Igdoof Sits on the Egg," a tale of fate and
Floyd | retribution.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Hall
Floyd |
Floyd |    This narrow hall is similar to the one at the farmhouse entrance.
Floyd | A wooden staircase leads up from here; unfortunately, it also leads up
Floyd | to a protective-looking dog who is currently barking his head off at
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    At the end of the hall, further west, is the back door.  It looks
Floyd | like it's been sealed shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dog" 		

Floyd |    It's an annoying but spirited pooch that looks much like the ones
Floyd | you have on your native Tode.  On Tode you would call this animal a
Floyd | "mutt," but you can't be sure that it's not *supposed* to look like
Floyd | that here.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You get the feeling that it has better vocal cords than fangs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd | As you begin ascending the staircase you find that the dog's volume
Floyd | level is inversely proportional to your distance from him, though he
Floyd | refuses to leave his perch several steps above you.  As you near the
Floyd | top, you hear a female voice yell from an upstairs room, "Rockoo, quit
Floyd | thawt bullering; it's jest eh frawgen churrel!"  You hastily retreat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "I wonder if all these channels we learn about are clues to something?"
		borowski says, "Their numbers at least."
		DavidW asks, "Translation of 'frawgen churrel'?"
		DavidW asks, "frickin' squirrel?"
		borowski says, "Yeah"
		DavidW asks, "Do we have anything like a bone or taffy?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "show dog poodle charm" 		

Floyd | I don't see any dog poodle charm here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x charm" 		

Floyd |    It's a little gold charm shaped like a poodle.  It looks like it's
Floyd | quite old -- the edges are somewhat worn and it could use a good
Floyd | polishing.  The word "Pierre" is engraved on the back.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Rob has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x putti" 		

Floyd |    The Akmi Wacki Putti is a freak of materials science.  It's bright
Floyd | pink and molds easily.  Easily, that is, when it's not runny, which it
Floyd | seems to become at random times.  Suffice it to say that the stuff is
Floyd | pretty disgusting.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Wacki Putti is currently firm.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give putti to dog" 		

Floyd | You toss the Akmi Wacki Putti to the dog, who quickly devours it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd |
Floyd |    This narrow hall is similar to the one at the farmhouse entrance.
Floyd | A wooden staircase leads up from here; unfortunately, it also leads up
Floyd | to a protective-looking dog who is currently barking his head off at
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    At the end of the hall, further west, is the back door.  It looks
Floyd | like it's been sealed shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Have we tried zapping the dog?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "zap dog" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "zap".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot dog with ung" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  The dog is
Floyd | transformed into a powerful deity!  You sit up and beg, but the deity
Floyd | smites you for your arrogance anyway!
Floyd |
Floyd |    You have died.  Needless to say, this puts a permanent damper on
Floyd | your efforts to save the galaxy.
Floyd |
Floyd | In 728 turns, you have earned 29 points out of a possible 75.
Floyd | You have completed approximately 44 percent of the game.
Floyd | You haven't used any hints.
Floyd |
Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, quit, or undo the current
Floyd | command.
Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, QUIT, or UNDO:  >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd |
Floyd |    This narrow hall is similar to the one at the farmhouse entrance.
Floyd | A wooden staircase leads up from here; unfortunately, it also leads up
Floyd | to a protective-looking dog who is currently barking his head off at
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    At the end of the hall, further west, is the back door.  It looks
Floyd | like it's been sealed shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "well, we should have expected that. :)"
		mwmiller says, "Changed the dog into a god. Ha, ha."
borowski says (to Floyd), "give dog frying pan" 		

Floyd | I don't see any dog frying pan here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "give frying pan to dog" 		

Floyd | The animal shows no interest whatsoever.  It doesn't exactly give you
Floyd | the impression that it is a rocket scientist among dogs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "mold putti into bone" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "mold".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit dog with pan" 		

Floyd | Hitting things with the frying pan isn't helpful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says (to DavidW), "That is what I was thinking"
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-15-22:02:03CDT 		
borowski says (to Floyd), "give charm to dog" 		

Floyd | The animal shows no interest whatsoever.  It doesn't exactly give you
Floyd | the impression that it is a rocket scientist among dogs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "give Wundur gro to dog" 		

Floyd | The animal shows no interest whatsoever.  It doesn't exactly give you
Floyd | the impression that it is a rocket scientist among dogs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "hm. The dog does eat the putti, but not the other things?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "x bolt" 		

Floyd | It's just a steel bolt, about 4 centimeters across.  It's a bit
Floyd | greasy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "It also eats food"
borowski says (to Floyd), "x hammer" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary hammer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "I seem to recall we found the bolt with the ung?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot bolt with ung" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  The bolt seems
Floyd | unaffected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "I missed that bit."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot steel bolt with ung" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  The bolt seems
Floyd | unaffected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "iirc, the ung and bolt where down and east from Ada's pod."
		DavidW says, "er were"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a figurine of the Great Duhdha, a
Floyd | dog-eared leaflet, a tiny triangular pink circuit board, an ary ung, a
Floyd | hammer, a bolt, a magnetic letter Q, a plastic whistle, a plastic
Floyd | plover's egg, some Akmi Wacki Putti, a firecracker, a mood ring (being
Floyd | worn), a piece of string (tied to the akmid), a poodle charm, a stick
Floyd | of butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a mixer, a frying pan, a
Floyd | hunk of cheese, an overripe tomato, a piece of salami, a geode, an
Floyd | akmid (tied to the piece of string), a thermos of Barfee advanced
Floyd | growth formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a crumpled
Floyd | scrap of paper, a paperback book, a handwritten note, your thesis
Floyd | research floppy disk, a qualitative calculator, an RGB color chart, an
Floyd | empty ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "hm, how is the Dysor different from the blender?"
		borowski says, "I don't remember the blender working"
		genericgeekgirl says, "I think the blender doesn't work."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x blender" 		

Floyd | It just looks like an average blender.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mixer" 		

Floyd | It's an ordinary kitchen mixer.  Unfortunately, it seems to be missing
Floyd | the metal beaters, and is therefore useless.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dysor" 		

Floyd |    The Akmi Slysor Dysor is a fearsome contraption.  With 33 different
Floyd | blades and 194 additional attachements, this thing is a vegetable's
Floyd | worst nightmare.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Designed to be easy to use, the Dysor only has one setting -- "on".
Floyd | It uses patented Akmi Fuz-E Artyfishal Nooral Intellujince to
Floyd | determine the most appropriate action for the item you insert.
Floyd | Unfortunately, the Dysors tend to prefer pureeing over all other
Floyd | options [19].
Floyd |
Floyd |    It looks like an ordinary Akmi Slysor Dysor.  It is currently off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put putti in dysor" 		

Floyd | The Akmi Wacki Putti is too big to fit in the Akmi Slysor Dysor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw tomato at dog" 		

Floyd | You toss the overripe tomato to the dog, who quickly devours it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd |
Floyd |    This narrow hall is similar to the one at the farmhouse entrance.
Floyd | A wooden staircase leads up from here; unfortunately, it also leads up
Floyd | to a protective-looking dog who is currently barking his head off at
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    At the end of the hall, further west, is the back door.  It looks
Floyd | like it's been sealed shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "give banana to dog" 		

Floyd | You toss the 6 bananas to the dog, who quickly devours them.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd |
Floyd |    This narrow hall is similar to the one at the farmhouse entrance.
Floyd | A wooden staircase leads up from here; unfortunately, it also leads up
Floyd | to a protective-looking dog who is currently barking his head off at
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    At the end of the hall, further west, is the back door.  It looks
Floyd | like it's been sealed shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put geode in dysor" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on dysor" 		

Floyd | Seconds after you turn on the Dysor there is a terrible grinding
Floyd | noise, and a cloud of thick black smoke billows up.  When you look
Floyd | back, the machine is completely empty.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd |
Floyd |    This narrow hall is similar to the one at the farmhouse entrance.
Floyd | A wooden staircase leads up from here; unfortunately, it also leads up
Floyd | to a protective-looking dog who is currently barking his head off at
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    At the end of the hall, further west, is the back door.  It looks
Floyd | like it's been sealed shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take geode" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put dog in dysor" 		

Floyd | (trying to take the dog first)
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't take the dog.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "blow whistle" 		

Floyd | You blow into the whistle and nearly deafen yourself in the process.
Floyd | Pretty impressive for form-molded plastic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put whistle in putti" 		

Floyd | You can't put anything in the Akmi Wacki Putti.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put putti on whistle" 		

Floyd | You can't put anything on the plastic whistle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "press putti on whistle" 		

Floyd | You can't do that, because that verb requires a double-quoted string
Floyd | or a number.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pour gro on putti" 		

Floyd | Pouring Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro on the Akmi Wacki Putti doesn't seem
Floyd | very productive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pour gro on dog" 		

Floyd | Pouring Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro on the dog doesn't seem very
Floyd | productive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot gro with ung" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  The can of Akmi
Floyd | Soopur Wundur Gro seems unaffected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot ung with ung" 		

Floyd | You can't shoot the ary ung with itself.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "shoot self with ung" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  You briefly
Floyd | experience delusions of grandeur.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wave charm at dog" 		

Floyd | Waving the poodle charm doesn't seem to do much.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd | As you begin ascending the staircase you find that the dog's volume
Floyd | level is inversely proportional to your distance from him, though he
Floyd | refuses to leave his perch several steps above you.  As you near the
Floyd | top, you hear a female voice yell from an upstairs room, "Rockoo, quit
Floyd | thawt bullering; it's jest eh frawgen churrel!"  You hastily retreat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x staircase" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary wooden staircase.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "throw salami east" 		

Floyd | There are words after your command I couldn't use.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart arrives, full of fun and funk. 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw geode at dog" 		

Floyd | The animal shows no interest whatsoever.  It doesn't exactly give you
Floyd | the impression that it is a rocket scientist among dogs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take geode" 		

Floyd | You already have the geode.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Perhaps a stick or a frisbee?"
		DavidW says, "Did we have a frisbee at one point? I can't even remember now."
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-15-22:17:03CDT 		Binder says, "I don't remember one."
		Binder says, "But I haven't seen every single moment."
Binder says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a geode, a figurine of the Great Duhdha, a
Floyd | dog-eared leaflet, a tiny triangular pink circuit board, an ary ung, a
Floyd | hammer, a bolt, a magnetic letter Q, a plastic whistle, a plastic
Floyd | plover's egg, some Akmi Wacki Putti, a firecracker, a mood ring (being
Floyd | worn), a piece of string (tied to the akmid), a poodle charm, a stick
Floyd | of butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a mixer, a frying pan, a
Floyd | hunk of cheese, an overripe tomato, a piece of salami, an akmid (tied
Floyd | to the piece of string), a thermos of Barfee advanced growth formula
Floyd | QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a crumpled scrap of
Floyd | paper, a paperback book, a handwritten note, your thesis research
Floyd | floppy disk, a qualitative calculator, an RGB color chart, an empty
Floyd | ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Could we break a branch off the tree?"
		DavidW asks, "Where did the calculator come from, anyone remember?"
		Binder asks, "if I read that dialogue accurately, maybe we can find a squirrel and get the dog to chase that?"
		DavidW says (to borowski), "I dunno."
		borowski says, "Our room I think"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, I think we grabbed it from our desk."
		DavidW asks, "hm. But we've never used the calculator for anything, have we?"
		borowski says, "I don't think so"
borowski says (to Floyd), "x calculator" 		

Floyd |    Your parents gave you this for your birthday last year.  It's just
Floyd | the sort of thing they'd be absolutely wrong about thinking you'd
Floyd | need.  And indeed, you've found no use for it to date.  [3]
Floyd |
Floyd |    It has has 9 buttons:  ZERO, POSITIVE, NEGATIVE, ADD, SUBTRACT,
Floyd | MULTIPLY, DIVIDE, Clear and deClear.  The readout currently shows [[ 0
Floyd | ]].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "press positive button" 		

Floyd | The readout now shows [[ + ]].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh. I just remembered something. The plot of land to the north of the house is fertile. We might plant something there, use the Gro, then climb up whatever grows."
		borowski says, "Yeah, I was thinking we could plant something, but we don't have money for seeds."
		borowski asks, "Maybe we can just plant a banana or something?"
		borowski says, "Or grow a putti tree"
		DavidW says, "hm. I suppose something we have might count as a seed."
		DavidW asks, "I notice there's no digits except 0 on that calculator, so how is one supposed to use it?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "press zero" 		

Floyd | The readout now shows [[ 0 ]].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "press zero button" 		

Floyd | The readout now shows [[ 0 ]].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "press divide" 		

Floyd | The readout now shows [[ ? ]].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "press two button" 		

Floyd | I don't see any two button here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "press zero button" 		

Floyd | The readout now shows [[ 0 ]].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "note 3" 		

Floyd | [3]: Respects to Walter Hamscher and Carl de Marcken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull zero" 		

Floyd | Pulling on the ZERO button doesn't seem to have much effect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push declear" 		

Floyd | The readout now shows [[ 0 ]].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | The readout now shows [[ 0 ]].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push negative" 		

Floyd | The readout now shows [[ - ]].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push negative" 		

Floyd | The readout now shows [[ - ]].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push zero" 		

Floyd | The readout now shows [[ 0 ]].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push positive" 		

Floyd | The readout now shows [[ + ]].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push multiply" 		

Floyd | The readout now shows [[ 0 ]].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push declear" 		

Floyd | The readout now shows [[ 0 ]].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | The readout now shows [[ 0 ]].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push clear" 		

Floyd | The readout now shows [[ 0 ]].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "This is one useless calculator."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x calculator" 		

Floyd |    Your parents gave you this for your birthday last year.  It's just
Floyd | the sort of thing they'd be absolutely wrong about thinking you'd
Floyd | need.  And indeed, you've found no use for it to date.  [3]
Floyd |
Floyd |    It has has 9 buttons:  ZERO, POSITIVE, NEGATIVE, ADD, SUBTRACT,
Floyd | MULTIPLY, DIVIDE, Clear and deClear.  The readout currently shows [[ 0
Floyd | ]].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" 		

Floyd | You can't open the qualitative calculator.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "break it" 		

Floyd | I see no obvious way to do that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give calculator to dog" 		

Floyd | The animal shows no interest whatsoever.  It doesn't exactly give you
Floyd | the impression that it is a rocket scientist among dogs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Maybe it's an inside joke?"
		borowski says, "Or it might be a good thing to transmogrify"
		DavidW says, "Or there's some NPC that'll love it."
		DavidW says, "It seems too elaborate an item for transmogging."
		DavidW says, "imho"
		DavidW asks, "Shall we check the tree for loose branches?"
		borowski says, "Sure"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV dominates this simply furnished family room -- it's nestled
Floyd | comfortably in the center of the north wall, encased in a boxy dark
Floyd | wood enclosure with feet shaped like those on an old bathtub.  A burly
Floyd | old man is sacked out on the couch here in front of the enterviewer,
Floyd | eyes completely glazed over.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The kitchen is to the south.  A hall leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with a philosophical discussion about silence and
Floyd | its use in not making noise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Inside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in the entrance hallway of the Elwood farmhouse.
Floyd | The hardwood floors creak as you walk upon them, and the earthy,
Floyd | rustic decor delights your jaded cosmopolitan senses.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The front door is in the east wall.  Ahead, to the west, is the
Floyd | living room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Outside the Elwood Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing at the wooden front door of the Elwood Farmhouse.
Floyd | A quaintly narrow stone path lined with colorful flowers leads up to
Floyd | the door, flanked on both sides by a well-groomed, vibrant kelly green
Floyd | lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The paint is peeling in places, and the windows could use new
Floyd | shutters, but otherwise the house is in decent shape considering its
Floyd | age -- the design, though simple, suggests architectural trends
Floyd | popular several hundred years ago, before the formation of the
Floyd | Republic [14].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The entrance is to the west.  You might also take a walk around the
Floyd | house to the northwest and southwest.  The stone path leads east, back
Floyd | to the dirt road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd | At the Tire Swing Outside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You have walked around to the south side of the farmhouse, and find
Floyd | yourself confronted with a giant oak-like tree [16].  The tree has a
Floyd | tire swing attached to it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here you can head either northeast or northwest, towards the
Floyd | front and rear of the house, respectively.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tree" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary giant oak-like tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x branch" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb rope" 		

Floyd | You pull yourself up with your arms and legs, and slowly reach the
Floyd | top.
Floyd |
Floyd | Up the Oak-Like Tree
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your precarious perch high in the tree affords you a spectacular
Floyd | view of the surrounding environs.  You now see the tremendous expanse
Floyd | of crops on just Elwood Farm alone -- the land is a patchwork as far
Floyd | as the eye can see.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You spot the dirt road leading up to the farmhouse; a store past a
Floyd | bend in the road; and the local matter mover, which doesn't seem to
Floyd | get much traffic.
Floyd |
Floyd |    High above you, on a far away branch, is a little bird's nest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh yeah, bird's nest"
		DavidW says, "We never got that either."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x branch" 		

Floyd | Carved in the bark is the phrase, "Gavin Kelly luvs Ada Man 4Ever".
Floyd | Have you been here before or something?  What an incredible
Floyd | coincidence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take branch" 		

Floyd | You can't take the branch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "break branch" 		

Floyd | I see no obvious way to do that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake tree" 		

Floyd | Waving the branch doesn't seem to do much.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take nest" 		

Floyd | The nest is far out of reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw geode at nest" 		

Floyd | The bird's nest is too far away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put plover egg in nest" 		

Floyd | You can't put anything in the bird's nest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd | Think again; it's a long way down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd | Think again; it's a long way down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb tree" 		

Floyd | You can't climb the branch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "fly" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "fly".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x acorn" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "acorn".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bird" 		

Floyd | It's already out of sight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I can't see any obvious way to get to the nest."
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borowski says (to Floyd), "tomato" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x tomato" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary overripe tomato.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x tomato seeds" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that
Floyd | to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "You want to plant the tomato, maybe?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "throw hammer at nest" 		

Floyd | The bird's nest is too far away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Yeah"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd | You slide down the rope, being careful not to get rope burns.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Tire Swing Outside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You have walked around to the south side of the farmhouse, and find
Floyd | yourself confronted with a giant oak-like tree [16].  The tree has a
Floyd | tire swing attached to it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here you can head either northeast or northwest, towards the
Floyd | front and rear of the house, respectively.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | Behind the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the grassy lawn behind the farmhouse.  The lawn
Floyd | is quite big by Todian standards, but is made to look rather
Floyd | insignificant by the vast expanse of crops that border it on all
Floyd | sides.  It's times like these that you wish your folks didn't live in
Floyd | the city -- Tode's so crowded and noisy compared to places like this.
Floyd | But then again, maybe Foon's a bit *too* rural...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The farmhouse has a back door, but it doesn't look like it gets
Floyd | much use.  Given that, you suspect that the only ways to go from here
Floyd | are back around the house to the northeast and southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a little tombstone in the ground nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd | At a Garden Outside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here on the north side of the farmhouse is a large garden full of
Floyd | yummy-looking treats.  The soil has been recently tilled and smells
Floyd | wonderfully rich, and from the looks of it supports the vegetables
Floyd | planted in it far better than any Todian earth could.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You've heard plenty of stories about the near-magical fertility of
Floyd | the Foonian soil, but this close-up demonstration really drives the
Floyd | point home.  The goodies here are all oversized and delicious-looking.
Floyd | You suspect that even you, with your limited gardening experience,
Floyd | could grow a prize plant on Foon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here you can head either southeast, to the front of the
Floyd | farmhouse, or southwest, to the rear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "plant tomato" 		

Floyd | I don't see what that could possibly accomplish.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm. At least we know that 'plant' is a valid verb."
borowski says (to Floyd), "dig hole" 		

Floyd | With what?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "dig hole with hammer" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that
Floyd | to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x soil" 		

Floyd | The garden is very impressive, with vegetables of all varieties.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig soil" 		

Floyd | With what?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hammer" 		

Floyd | You can't dig in the vegetable garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "goodies" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "break tomato" 		

Floyd | I see no obvious way to do that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "take goodies" 		

Floyd | Much as you'd like to, your moral upbringing prevents you from ripping
Floyd | off the Elwoods [15].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat tomato" 		

Floyd | That was delicious!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | At a Garden Outside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here on the north side of the farmhouse is a large garden full of
Floyd | yummy-looking treats.  The soil has been recently tilled and smells
Floyd | wonderfully rich, and from the looks of it supports the vegetables
Floyd | planted in it far better than any Todian earth could.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You've heard plenty of stories about the near-magical fertility of
Floyd | the Foonian soil, but this close-up demonstration really drives the
Floyd | point home.  The goodies here are all oversized and delicious-looking.
Floyd | You suspect that even you, with your limited gardening experience,
Floyd | could grow a prize plant on Foon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here you can head either southeast, to the front of the
Floyd | farmhouse, or southwest, to the rear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pour gro on goodies" 		

Floyd | Pouring Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro on the vegetables doesn't seem very
Floyd | productive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm, let's return to the poodle grave for a sec."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd | Behind the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the grassy lawn behind the farmhouse.  The lawn
Floyd | is quite big by Todian standards, but is made to look rather
Floyd | insignificant by the vast expanse of crops that border it on all
Floyd | sides.  It's times like these that you wish your folks didn't live in
Floyd | the city -- Tode's so crowded and noisy compared to places like this.
Floyd | But then again, maybe Foon's a bit *too* rural...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The farmhouse has a back door, but it doesn't look like it gets
Floyd | much use.  Given that, you suspect that the only ways to go from here
Floyd | are back around the house to the northeast and southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a little tombstone in the ground nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig grave with hammer" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "grave".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode asks, "can you open the tomato or squeeze it?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig ground with hammer" 		

Floyd | You can't dig in the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open tomato" 		

Floyd | You can't open the overripe tomato.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "squeeze tomato" 		

Floyd | Ok, you just rubbed the overripe tomato.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hee."
borowski says (to Floyd), "rub poodle charm" 		

Floyd | Ok, you just rubbed the poodle charm.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode asks, "squeeze=rub?"
		DavidW asks, "I guess?"
		Binder says, "it works that way in real life. Um."
		DavidW says, "Neither command gets much use in IF games."
		borowski asks, "Hmm. Any ideas?"
		DavidW says, "no"
		DavidW says, "I thought maybe we could dig up Pierre, but it's not obvious what noun to use for that."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig gravestone" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "gravestone".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig tombstone" 		

Floyd | With what?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hammer" 		

Floyd | You can't dig in the little granite tombstone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push tombstone" 		

Floyd | Pushing the little granite tombstone doesn't seem to have much effect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read it" 		

Floyd | The weathered inscription on the tombstone reads:
Floyd |
Floyd |    Pierre
Floyd |    1975-1992
Floyd |    Our faithful friend.
Floyd |    Rest in peace.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "bark" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Gentle hint?"
		DavidW says, "hm. Well, there's Irata's CAMELs we haven't tinkered with."
		borowski says, "I don't think I remember that."
		DavidW says, "Robotic farm gleaners, I think they were. On the other side of a tall fence."
		DavidW says, "But perhaps the fence can be circumvented at some weak point."
		borowski says, "Lead on"
		DavidW says, "hm. Okay."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd | At a Garden Outside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here on the north side of the farmhouse is a large garden full of
Floyd | yummy-looking treats.  The soil has been recently tilled and smells
Floyd | wonderfully rich, and from the looks of it supports the vegetables
Floyd | planted in it far better than any Todian earth could.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You've heard plenty of stories about the near-magical fertility of
Floyd | the Foonian soil, but this close-up demonstration really drives the
Floyd | point home.  The goodies here are all oversized and delicious-looking.
Floyd | You suspect that even you, with your limited gardening experience,
Floyd | could grow a prize plant on Foon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here you can head either southeast, to the front of the
Floyd | farmhouse, or southwest, to the rear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | Outside the Elwood Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing at the wooden front door of the Elwood Farmhouse.
Floyd | A quaintly narrow stone path lined with colorful flowers leads up to
Floyd | the door, flanked on both sides by a well-groomed, vibrant kelly green
Floyd | lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The paint is peeling in places, and the windows could use new
Floyd | shutters, but otherwise the house is in decent shape considering its
Floyd | age -- the design, though simple, suggests architectural trends
Floyd | popular several hundred years ago, before the formation of the
Floyd | Republic [14].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The entrance is to the west.  You might also take a walk around the
Floyd | house to the northwest and southwest.  The stone path leads east, back
Floyd | to the dirt road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Outside Elwood Farm
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing a few hundred yards away from a modest-sized
Floyd | farmhouse.  You gather from the posted sign that this is Elwood Farm,
Floyd | and that the corn lining the dirt road you came in on belongs to the
Floyd | Elwoods.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here, the building itself seems fairly well maintained, but
Floyd | could use a good painting.  The sizes of the carefully placed trees in
Floyd | the front yard give you the impression that people have lived on this
Floyd | plot of land for hundreds of years.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The farmhouse is to the west.  Head east and you're back at the
Floyd | local matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "I don't think I remember where that was"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | A dirt road
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing outside a matter mover right next to a dirt road.
Floyd | The weather is lovely here, if a bit humid, and the sky is a
Floyd | stunningly pure blue-green.  There is a crispness and freshness to the
Floyd | air here that you've never before experienced.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road is extremely narrow, and runs right through a corn field.
Floyd | It seems like the road has no business being here, but is a necessary
Floyd | nuisance.  It's clear that priorities are different on Foon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road leads east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x autodialer" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd | 5:  A dirt road
Floyd | 6:  Survey Station
Floyd | 7:  Kuwl Starport
Floyd | 8:  New Hell
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push 6 on autodialer" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Survey Station
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of a narrow dirt road in front of a
Floyd | small survey station.  You assume that the station is used to monitor
Floyd | the frequent mining operations here on Irata.  A light on top of the
Floyd | station is blinking green.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The station entrance is to the north -- the road ends here -- but
Floyd | you can travel south on it.  Passage in other directions looks
Floyd | unlikely -- the forest is too dense.  There is, however, a matter
Floyd | mover next to the station.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | At a Tall Fence
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your way south is blocked by a very tall fence.  You notice a loud
Floyd | humming sound here.  It seems to be coming from the fence.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Thick forest surrounds you -- you can head back north, but it
Floyd | doesn't look like you'll make much progress going any other way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | Outside the Escape Pod Wreckage
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in the middle of a clearing at the site of your crash
Floyd | landing.  The escape pod lies to the north, and is still intact,
Floyd | though very badly damaged.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Dense forest surrounds this little area, though it looks like you
Floyd | might be able to make some progress through the woods to the east,
Floyd | northwest, and south. Passage along other routes looks very unlikely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | At a Tall Fence
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your way south is blocked by a very tall fence.  You notice a loud
Floyd | humming sound here.  It seems to be coming from the fence.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Thick forest surrounds you -- you can head back north, but it
Floyd | doesn't look like you'll make much progress going any other way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x fence" 		

Floyd | It just looks like an ordinary fence, except that it's very tall.
Floyd | It's making a humming noise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd | Something is humming loudly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I'm pretty sure it's electrified."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "touch fence" 		

Floyd | You touch the fence and are instantly electrocuted.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You have died.  Needless to say, this puts a permanent damper on
Floyd | your efforts to save the galaxy.
Floyd |
Floyd | In 827 turns, you have earned 29 points out of a possible 75.
Floyd | You have completed approximately 44 percent of the game.
Floyd | You haven't used any hints.
Floyd |
Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, quit, or undo the current
Floyd | command.
Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, QUIT, or UNDO:  >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | At a Tall Fence
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your way south is blocked by a very tall fence.  You notice a loud
Floyd | humming sound here.  It seems to be coming from the fence.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Thick forest surrounds you -- you can head back north, but it
Floyd | doesn't look like you'll make much progress going any other way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "indeed"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller asks, "Uh. Bit high voltage even for an electric fence, innit?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search fence" 		

Floyd | It just looks like an ordinary fence, except that it's very tall.
Floyd | It's making a humming noise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-15-22:47:03CDT 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Outside the Escape Pod Wreckage
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in the middle of a clearing at the site of your crash
Floyd | landing.  The escape pod lies to the north, and is still intact,
Floyd | though very badly damaged.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Dense forest surrounds this little area, though it looks like you
Floyd | might be able to make some progress through the woods to the east,
Floyd | northwest, and south. Passage along other routes looks very unlikely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Another Crash Site
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're walking about a small clearing amidst the wreckage of Timon
Floyd | Sketch's ship.  Dense forest surrounds you on all sides.  It looks
Floyd | like you might be able to beat a path through the foliage to the north
Floyd | and south.  Head west and you're back at your own crash site.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | CAMELs at Work
Floyd |

		
Floyd Through the tall fence here you can see hundreds of CAMELs [28] 		

Floyd | hard at work in the fields.  Most seem to going about agricultural
Floyd | tasks, but some have giant solar collectors on them.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is no obvious way to proceed beyond the fence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski has disconnected. 		
borowski has connected. 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fence" 		

Floyd | It just looks like an ordinary fence, except that it's very tall.
Floyd | It's making a humming noise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x camels" 		

Floyd | The CAMELs faithfully serve their human owners night and day.  It
Floyd | gives you pause to think that not so long ago it was men, not
Floyd | machines, that bore the yoke of slavery.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "note 28" 		

Floyd | [28]: The first Compact All-Purpose Mobile Electronic Laborer was
Floyd | developed by Andi Bunnet over 150 years ago, and many of the earliest
Floyd | models are still in used today.  CAMELs are robots with the simple AI
Floyd | required to perform agricultural and mining tasks.  Much cheaper than
Floyd | human-operated heavy machinery, the CAMELs work harder and faster than
Floyd | any human team could.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search fence" 		

Floyd | It just looks like an ordinary fence, except that it's very tall.
Floyd | It's making a humming noise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to camels" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "talk".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask camels about irata" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "irata".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask camels about camels" 		

Floyd | You can't do that, because something tells you the CAMELs will not be
Floyd | a particularly productive topic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask camels about farm" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that
Floyd | to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask camels about fence" 		

Floyd | Something tells you the fence will not be a particularly productive
Floyd | topic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot camels with ung" 		

Floyd | The CAMELs is too far away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm"
		mwmiller says, "Irata. CAMELs. Andi Bunnet. The self-indulgence is excruciating."
		jenrexrode asks, "has the hammer been used for anything productive so far?"
		DavidW asks (of mwmiller), "hm?"
		DavidW says (to jen), "Not that I remember."
		borowski says, ">HIT SELF WITH HAMMER"
borowski says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | CAMELs at Work
Floyd |

		
Floyd Through the tall fence here you can see hundreds of CAMELs [28] 		

Floyd | hard at work in the fields.  Most seem to going about agricultural
Floyd | tasks, but some have giant solar collectors on them.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is no obvious way to proceed beyond the fence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x fences" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "fences".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "maybe we can ary gnu it into a harm me"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x collectors" 		

Floyd | You can't tell much about the solar collectors from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x fence" 		

Floyd | It just looks like an ordinary fence, except that it's very tall.
Floyd | It's making a humming noise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "Very obvious copy of M.U.L.E., which takes place on planet Irata and was designed by Dani Bunten, with the serial numbers filed off."
		DavidW says, "oh"
		DavidW asks, "Is M.U.L.E. a board game, then?"
		mwmiller says, "No. No, it is not."
		McMartin says, "Legendary 8-bit strategy game"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear putti" 		

Floyd | You can't wear the Akmi Wacki Putti.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gloves" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "gloves".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm. So no electro-proof gloves in the game, I guess."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot fence with ung" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  The fence seems
Floyd | unaffected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "I didn't see any weak points in the fence either. And we can't fly." 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "didn't".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "fly" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "fly".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "You have to take off your spacesuit first"
		borowski says, "Err, wrong game"
borowski says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | CAMELs at Work
Floyd |

		
Floyd Through the tall fence here you can see hundreds of CAMELs [28] 		

Floyd | hard at work in the fields.  Most seem to going about agricultural
Floyd | tasks, but some have giant solar collectors on them.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is no obvious way to proceed beyond the fence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Perhaps there's Sooper-Dooper Kangeru Jum-Pee Juice."
		DavidW says, "And we jump over the thing."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig ground" 		

Floyd | With what?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hammer" 		

Floyd | You can't dig in the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "It's hard to know what's important in this game."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Another Crash Site
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're walking about a small clearing amidst the wreckage of Timon
Floyd | Sketch's ship.  Dense forest surrounds you on all sides.  It looks
Floyd | like you might be able to beat a path through the foliage to the north
Floyd | and south.  Head west and you're back at your own crash site.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Outside the Escape Pod Wreckage
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in the middle of a clearing at the site of your crash
Floyd | landing.  The escape pod lies to the north, and is still intact,
Floyd | though very badly damaged.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Dense forest surrounds this little area, though it looks like you
Floyd | might be able to make some progress through the woods to the east,
Floyd | northwest, and south. Passage along other routes looks very unlikely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | At a Tall Fence
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your way south is blocked by a very tall fence.  You notice a loud
Floyd | humming sound here.  It seems to be coming from the fence.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Thick forest surrounds you -- you can head back north, but it
Floyd | doesn't look like you'll make much progress going any other way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search fence" 		

Floyd | It just looks like an ordinary fence, except that it's very tall.
Floyd | It's making a humming noise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "There's three sections of fence, but all are equally impenetrable."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | Outside the Escape Pod Wreckage
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in the middle of a clearing at the site of your crash
Floyd | landing.  The escape pod lies to the north, and is still intact,
Floyd | though very badly damaged.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Dense forest surrounds this little area, though it looks like you
Floyd | might be able to make some progress through the woods to the east,
Floyd | northwest, and south. Passage along other routes looks very unlikely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Another Crash Site
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're walking about a small clearing amidst the wreckage of Timon
Floyd | Sketch's ship.  Dense forest surrounds you on all sides.  It looks
Floyd | like you might be able to beat a path through the foliage to the north
Floyd | and south.  Head west and you're back at your own crash site.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You fight your way through the forest up a steep slope.  After a long
Floyd | struggle, you find yourself...
Floyd |
Floyd | Atop a Cliff
Floyd |
Floyd |    This place is well worth the trouble it took to get here.  Your
Floyd | spot atop this steep cliff affords you a panoramic view of the land
Floyd | all around.  Directly in front of you, to the north, is a 500 meter
Floyd | drop down to a thick forest canopy that continues to the horizon
Floyd | undisturbed.  Do be careful.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To the south are the crash sites, and you notice a tiny building in
Floyd | the woods to the east of Sketch's ship.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Farther south is what looks to be an agricultural and mining
Floyd | complex of some kind, with a fence running all around the perimeter.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The cliff continues to the northwest and southeast, but you'd have
Floyd | to have climbing gear to survive passage along it -- this whole region
Floyd | is covered with rocks of all sizes and you barely made it this far
Floyd | without breaking a leg.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You see a clearing to the southwest, on this side of the cliff.  A
Floyd | path north through the trees leads from the tiny clearing to a small
Floyd | tower.  Atop the tower is a blinking green light.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Looks like the only way out of here is to the south, the way you
Floyd | came.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode says, "no climbing or hitting with hammer? I guess it's too complicated to use hammer to help climb"
		DavidW says, "The fence is electrified; the hammer won't help us against that."
		McMartin says, "> THROW HAMMER. GIVE TWO FINGERS TO NEWTON."
		McMartin says, "Works for Thor!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | Another Crash Site
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're walking about a small clearing amidst the wreckage of Timon
Floyd | Sketch's ship.  Dense forest surrounds you on all sides.  It looks
Floyd | like you might be able to beat a path through the foliage to the north
Floyd | and south.  Head west and you're back at your own crash site.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | CAMELs at Work
Floyd |

		
Floyd Through the tall fence here you can see hundreds of CAMELs [28] 		

Floyd | hard at work in the fields.  Most seem to going about agricultural
Floyd | tasks, but some have giant solar collectors on them.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is no obvious way to proceed beyond the fence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw hammer at fence" 		

Floyd | The hammer hits the fence and there is a loud <ZAP> and a shower of
Floyd | sparks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hammer" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary hammer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "well, perhaps the fence can be shorted out with the right object thrown at it?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw putti at fence" 		

Floyd | The Akmi Wacki Putti hits the fence and there is a loud <ZAP> and a
Floyd | shower of sparks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take putti" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "throw the damn calculator!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw calculator at fence" 		

Floyd | The qualitative calculator hits the fence and there is a loud <ZAP>
Floyd | and a shower of sparks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it" 		

Floyd |    Your parents gave you this for your birthday last year.  It's just
Floyd | the sort of thing they'd be absolutely wrong about thinking you'd
Floyd | need.  And indeed, you've found no use for it to date.  [3]
Floyd |
Floyd |    It has has 9 buttons:  ZERO, POSITIVE, NEGATIVE, ADD, SUBTRACT,
Floyd | MULTIPLY, DIVIDE, Clear and deClear.  The readout currently shows [[ 0
Floyd | ]].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-15-23:02:03CDT 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "subtract fence" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "grumble grumble stupid birthday present grumble"
borowski says (to Floyd), "press subtract button" 		

Floyd | The readout now shows [[ 0 ]].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "press subtract button" 		

Floyd | The readout now shows [[ 0 ]].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "press deClear" 		

Floyd | The readout now shows [[ 0 ]].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "well, perhaps we DO need a hint."
		Binder asks, "could it just be in the game so we can compute the mover coordinates?"
		DavidW says, "(sob)"
		Binder says, "the calculator, I mean"
		jenrexrode says, "maybe talk to the calculator like scotty"
		DavidW says (to Binder), "I don't see how."
		borowski says, "But there are no digit buttons!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask calculator about one" 		

Floyd | You don't know what that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "huh"
		DavidW says, "There's a zero button, but no other digits."
		DavidW says, "Maybe there's an expansion pack for the calculator that adds a one button."
		borowski says, "Scotty, give hint"
		DavidW asks, "How are people feeling? Should we try to get a hint on something? Or is there some avenue we haven't explored that we might've missed?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Hm. I don't know. I suspect we still need something from the transmogrifier, but we're not sure what the right combinations are."
		DavidW asks, "Is it likely that old locations might have new stuff appearing in our absence?"
		Binder says, "can't hurt to go look"
		borowski says, "Maybe the TV channels are hints for the transmogrifier? That seems pretty obsc"
		DavidW asks, "eg, would Timon have sent us an invite to his new show?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Another Crash Site
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're walking about a small clearing amidst the wreckage of Timon
Floyd | Sketch's ship.  Dense forest surrounds you on all sides.  It looks
Floyd | like you might be able to beat a path through the foliage to the north
Floyd | and south.  Head west and you're back at your own crash site.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Outside the Escape Pod Wreckage
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in the middle of a clearing at the site of your crash
Floyd | landing.  The escape pod lies to the north, and is still intact,
Floyd | though very badly damaged.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Dense forest surrounds this little area, though it looks like you
Floyd | might be able to make some progress through the woods to the east,
Floyd | northwest, and south. Passage along other routes looks very unlikely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Survey Station
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of a narrow dirt road in front of a
Floyd | small survey station.  You assume that the station is used to monitor
Floyd | the frequent mining operations here on Irata.  A light on top of the
Floyd | station is blinking green.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The station entrance is to the north -- the road ends here -- but
Floyd | you can travel south on it.  Passage in other directions looks
Floyd | unlikely -- the forest is too dense.  There is, however, a matter
Floyd | mover next to the station.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push 1 on autodialer" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Your bachelor pod
Floyd |

		
Floyd Ahhhhh. Pod sweet pod! Sure feels good to be back in the ol' 		
Floyd closet-sized capsule again, yes sir. While slaving away on your 		
Floyd master's thesis you've spent many late hours here, sustaining yourself 		
Floyd on naught but Akmi Snak Chipz [2] and ReVoLT Kola. 		

Floyd |
Floyd |    Yep, it's basically a hell-hole, but it's served you adequately.
Floyd | Looking around you can see blurry reflections of yourself and your
Floyd | surroundings in the familiar mauve and orange metal walls, which are
Floyd | rounded in the corners as is typical of today's "economical" graduate
Floyd | housing.  (As if they offered any other kind.)  The walls are still
Floyd | bare; you'd think after living here for two years you'd have put some
Floyd | posters up.  But there's never much time for aesthetics at Akmi
Floyd | Yooniversity.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your bed (if you can call it that) and the matter mover take up all
Floyd | the available floor space in your pod.  Miscellaneous Stik-Em Nowtz
Floyd | cling to various parts of the furniture and walls, and papers fill any
Floyd | stray gaps, making this den an incredible fire trap.  Good thing you
Floyd | don't really have heating here.  Anyway, if there's a fire you can
Floyd | always bail out through the escape hatch.  Oops -- you've never been
Floyd | able to get it open.  Never mind.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your pod is one of the "Yooniversity Economical Graduate Off-site
Floyd | Dwelling Stations" (YEGODS).  Though the school is actually hundreds
Floyd | of light-years away, matter mover technology makes it possible for
Floyd | them to put housing in the cheapest, remotest, most inhospitable parts
Floyd | of the galaxy -- places like Frost, the iceball of a planet your pod
Floyd | is situated on.
Floyd |
Floyd |    On your desk, under your shelf of textbooks, is the computer you
Floyd | use nearly 37 hours a day.  Cuddled up right next to it like a best
Floyd | friend is your EV.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with "The Story of Kuulest and the Useless,
Floyd | Untutored, Untrained, Utterly Inept Slave."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x computer" 		

Floyd |    It's a Zippikraft Data Liquidizer 1024/A -- that's the technical
Floyd | term for "one fast machine."  Zippikraft makes the fastest computing
Floyd | hardware in the galaxy using technology no one else has been able to
Floyd | copy yet, despite several years of desperate (and creative) industrial
Floyd | espionage [4].
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your Liquidizer is entirely lime green, the only color Zippikraft
Floyd | computers come in, with a built-in optical disk drive, detachable
Floyd | keyboard and high-resolution HoloScanning monitor.  You don't usually
Floyd | use the 3D video mode in your research since you deal mainly with
Floyd | text, but it's great for impressing guests and convincing your parents
Floyd | that the machine was really worth as much as the rest of your entire
Floyd | college education costs combined.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Liquidizers also come with built-in AkNet transceivers, allowing
Floyd | access to Akmi's galactic network, which now permeates almost all
Floyd | aspects of daily life, from electronic mail to shopping and funds
Floyd | transfers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mail" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "mail".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x email" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "email".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x monitor" 		

Floyd |    It's a Zippikraft Data Liquidizer 1024/A -- that's the technical
Floyd | term for "one fast machine."  Zippikraft makes the fastest computing
Floyd | hardware in the galaxy using technology no one else has been able to
Floyd | copy yet, despite several years of desperate (and creative) industrial
Floyd | espionage [4].
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your Liquidizer is entirely lime green, the only color Zippikraft
Floyd | computers come in, with a built-in optical disk drive, detachable
Floyd | keyboard and high-resolution HoloScanning monitor.  You don't usually
Floyd | use the 3D video mode in your research since you deal mainly with
Floyd | text, but it's great for impressing guests and convincing your parents
Floyd | that the machine was really worth as much as the rest of your entire
Floyd | college education costs combined.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Liquidizers also come with built-in AkNet transceivers, allowing
Floyd | access to Akmi's galactic network, which now permeates almost all
Floyd | aspects of daily life, from electronic mail to shopping and funds
Floyd | transfers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x keyboard" 		

Floyd | It's just a standard 233-key model.  It is currently attached to your
Floyd | Zippikraft Data Liquidizer 1024/A.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I hadn't forgotten that the keyboard detaches, but I haven't seen anything else to attach it to."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put galacticard in computer" 		

Floyd | You can't put anything in your Zippikraft Data Liquidizer 1024/A.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show galacticard to computer" 		

Floyd | You can't show things to your Zippikraft Data Liquidizer 1024/A.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "scan galacticard with computer" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "scan".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read galacticard" 		

Floyd | It says, "Gavin Kelly."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "swipe it" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "swipe".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "insert it" 		

Floyd | (in your desk)
Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your bachelor pod
Floyd |

		
Floyd Ahhhhh. Pod sweet pod! Sure feels good to be back in the ol' 		
Floyd closet-sized capsule again, yes sir. While slaving away on your 		
Floyd master's thesis you've spent many late hours here, sustaining yourself 		
Floyd on naught but Akmi Snak Chipz [2] and ReVoLT Kola. 		

Floyd |
Floyd |    Yep, it's basically a hell-hole, but it's served you adequately.
Floyd | Looking around you can see blurry reflections of yourself and your
Floyd | surroundings in the familiar mauve and orange metal walls, which are
Floyd | rounded in the corners as is typical of today's "economical" graduate
Floyd | housing.  (As if they offered any other kind.)  The walls are still
Floyd | bare; you'd think after living here for two years you'd have put some
Floyd | posters up.  But there's never much time for aesthetics at Akmi
Floyd | Yooniversity.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your bed (if you can call it that) and the matter mover take up all
Floyd | the available floor space in your pod.  Miscellaneous Stik-Em Nowtz
Floyd | cling to various parts of the furniture and walls, and papers fill any
Floyd | stray gaps, making this den an incredible fire trap.  Good thing you
Floyd | don't really have heating here.  Anyway, if there's a fire you can
Floyd | always bail out through the escape hatch.  Oops -- you've never been
Floyd | able to get it open.  Never mind.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your pod is one of the "Yooniversity Economical Graduate Off-site
Floyd | Dwelling Stations" (YEGODS).  Though the school is actually hundreds
Floyd | of light-years away, matter mover technology makes it possible for
Floyd | them to put housing in the cheapest, remotest, most inhospitable parts
Floyd | of the galaxy -- places like Frost, the iceball of a planet your pod
Floyd | is situated on.
Floyd |
Floyd |    On your desk, under your shelf of textbooks, is the computer you
Floyd | use nearly 37 hours a day.  Cuddled up right next to it like a best
Floyd | friend is your EV.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with an exposition on the egg.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-15-23:17:03CDT 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in desk" 		

Floyd | There doesn't appear to be anything in your desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ev" 		
Floyd The Akmi Kristl Kleer Kwality PM [17] Enterviewer is visually 		

Floyd | unimpressive, particularly considering you've seen about ten thousand
Floyd | identical models before.  (Akmi sometimes has a hard time letting go
Floyd | once they've found a formula that works.)  It's orange, it's mauve,
Floyd | it's purple.  It's squat and has functionless dimples all over its
Floyd | irregularly shaped bulbous case.  The screen is nearly square and
Floyd | inset at a jaunty angle.  In short, a typical product of the Akmi
Floyd | Aesthetix Division [18].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV has a tuning dial; you can choose from thousands of
Floyd | different stations from across the galaxy.  The dial goes from 1 to
Floyd | 100,000 and is currently set to 361.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with an exposition on the egg.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with an exposition on the egg.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with omelette recipes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with omelette recipes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with omelette recipes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with a discussion of the evils of egg
Floyd | substitutes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with a discussion of the evils of egg
Floyd | substitutes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with a discussion of the evils of egg
Floyd | substitutes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with a "Hotline to Duhdha" hour.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with a "Hotline to Duhdha" hour.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with a "Hotline to Duhdha" hour.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with a serene waterfall scene.  Hmmm...  It looks
Floyd | like there's something glistering behind the waterfall...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Is that a hint?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x waterfall" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "waterfall".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode exclaims, "hm!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with a serene waterfall scene.  Hmmm...  It looks
Floyd | like there's something glistering behind the waterfall...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with a serene waterfall scene.  Hmmm...  It looks
Floyd | like there's something glistering behind the waterfall...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with a philosophical discussion about silence and
Floyd | its use in not making noise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with a philosophical discussion about silence and
Floyd | its use in not making noise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with a philosophical discussion about silence and
Floyd | its use in not making noise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with a panel of experts discussing Duhdha's
Floyd | reason for never answering any questions with straight answers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with a panel of experts discussing Duhdha's
Floyd | reason for never answering any questions with straight answers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with a panel of experts discussing Duhdha's
Floyd | reason for never answering any questions with straight answers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with "Igdoof Sits on the Egg," a tale of fate and
Floyd | retribution.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with "Igdoof Sits on the Egg," a tale of fate and
Floyd | retribution.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with "Igdoof Sits on the Egg," a tale of fate and
Floyd | retribution.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with "The Story of Kuulest and the Useless,
Floyd | Untutored, Untrained, Utterly Inept Slave."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with "The Story of Kuulest and the Useless,
Floyd | Untutored, Untrained, Utterly Inept Slave."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with "The Story of Kuulest and the Useless,
Floyd | Untutored, Untrained, Utterly Inept Slave."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with a program on life and death in the game of
Floyd | went.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Game of went? Is that like the game of go?"
borowski blows the Pun Police Whistle. Woe unto ye, O teller of bad puns! Here come the Pun Police! 		mwmiller says, "It's like Go but different, just like Duhdhists are like Buddhists but different."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with a program on life and death in the game of
Floyd | went.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with a program on life and death in the game of
Floyd | went.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with an exposition on the egg.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I think we've seen everything that channel 361 can give us."
		DavidW says, "I'm disappointed. There didn't seem to be any help to be found there."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x nowtz" 		

Floyd |    The hundred or so Stik-Em Nowtz littering your pod are largely
Floyd | incomprehensible; most of them are scribbled diagrams and notes you've
Floyd | made to yourself during your two year stay here.  Among the
Floyd | long-forgotten reminders you find the address of Terminal Velocity,
Floyd | the favorite hang-out for the galaxy's best computer jocks.  It says,
Floyd | "Hot Pink (+0, -52, -5) [29]," but a fat lot of good that's going to
Floyd | do you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You chuckle as you recall your last visit there three years ago --
Floyd | they weren't particularly interested in yet another 3-dimensional
Floyd | chess program, especially one that couldn't beat their own weekend
Floyd | implementations.  Trying to find software that'll impress them enough
Floyd | to let you in is nearly impossible, which is why it's the most
Floyd | exclusive club around.  It's also probably the best source of computer
Floyd | information in the galaxy...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "er, we've never been to Terminal Velocity, have we?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "I don't think so."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "note 29" 		

Floyd | [29]: Matter mover coordinates are often given relative to colorspace
Floyd | basis coordinates.  E.g., "Hot Pink (+0, -52, -5)" means to take the
Floyd | base coordinates for Hot Pink and add zero to red, subtract 52 from
Floyd | green, and subtract 5 from blue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Huh. Worth trying out"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chart" 		

Floyd | The chart gives RGB values for various color names:
Floyd |
Floyd | akmi orange (10000, 7470, 1000)
Floyd | alice blue (9411, 9725, 10000)
Floyd | antique white (9803, 9215, 8431)
Floyd | aquamarine (4980, 10000, 8313)
Floyd | azure (9411, 10000, 10000)
Floyd | beige (9607, 9607, 8627)
Floyd | bisque (10000, 8941, 7686)
Floyd | black (0, 0, 0)
Floyd | blanched almond (10000, 9215, 8039)
Floyd | blue (0, 0, 10000)
Floyd | blue violet (5411, 1686, 8862)
Floyd | brown (6470, 1647, 1647)
Floyd | burlywood (8705, 7215, 5294)
Floyd | burnt sienna (6000, 3270, 1732)
Floyd | chartreuse (4980, 10000, 0)
Floyd | chocolate (8235, 4117, 1176)
Floyd | coral (10000, 4980, 3137)
Floyd | cornflower blue (3921, 5843, 9294)
Floyd | cyan (0, 10000, 10000)
Floyd | egg white (10000, 10000, 9521)
Floyd | firebrick (6980, 1333, 1333)
Floyd | forest green (1333, 5450, 1333)
Floyd | gainsboro (8627, 8627, 8627)
Floyd | ghost white (9725, 9725, 10000)
Floyd | goldenrod (8549, 6470, 1254)
Floyd | gray (7529, 7529, 7529)
Floyd | green (0, 10000, 0)
Floyd | honeydew (9411, 10000, 9411)
Floyd | hot pink (10000, 4117, 7058)
Floyd | ivory (10000, 10000, 9411)
Floyd | khaki (9411, 9019, 5490)
Floyd | lavender (9019, 9019, 9803)
Floyd | lawn green (4862, 9882, 0)
Floyd | lemon chiffon (10000, 9803, 8039)
Floyd | lime green (1960, 8039, 1960)
Floyd | magenta (10000, 0, 10000)
Floyd | maroon (6901, 1882, 3764)
Floyd | midnight blue (980, 980, 4392)
Floyd | misty rose (10000, 8941, 8823)
Floyd | moccasin (10000, 8941, 7098)
Floyd | navy (0, 0, 5019)
Floyd | old lace (9921, 9607, 9019)
Floyd | olive drab (4196, 5568, 1372)
Floyd | orange (10000, 6470, 0)
Floyd | orchid (8549, 4392, 8392)
Floyd | peach puff (10000, 8549, 7254)
Floyd | pink (10000, 7529, 7960)
Floyd | plum (8666, 6274, 8666)
Floyd | powder blue (6901, 8784, 9019)
Floyd | purple (6274, 1254, 9411)
Floyd | red (10000, 0, 0)
Floyd | rosy brown (7372, 5607, 5607)
Floyd | saddle brown (5450, 2705, 745)
Floyd | salmon (9803, 5019, 4470)
Floyd | sandy brown (9568, 6431, 3764)
Floyd | sea green (1803, 5450, 3411)
Floyd | seashell (10000, 9607, 9333)
Floyd | sky blue (5294, 8078, 9215)
Floyd | slate gray (4392, 5019, 5647)
Floyd | snow (10000, 9803, 9803)
Floyd | spring green (0, 10000, 4980)
Floyd | steel blue (2745, 5098, 7058)
Floyd | tan (8235, 7058, 5490)
Floyd | thistle (8470, 7490, 8470)
Floyd | tomato (10000, 3882, 2784)
Floyd | turquoise (2509, 8784, 8156)
Floyd | violet (9333, 5098, 9333)
Floyd | violet red (8156, 1254, 5647)
Floyd | wheat (9607, 8705, 7019)
Floyd | white (10000, 10000, 10000)
Floyd | yellow (10000, 10000, 0)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode says, "yow"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set red to 10000" 		

Floyd | It's already set to 10000.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set green to 4065" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 4065.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set blue to 7053" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 7053.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at
Floyd | the north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning
Floyd | you to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up,
Floyd | white down"
Floyd |
Floyd | An average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts emerges from
Floyd | the matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. 		
Ellison has disconnected. 		genericgeekgirl says, "Hm."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x fellow" 		

Floyd | He looks pretty much like you'd expect an average-looking fellow
Floyd | wearing a T-shirt and shorts to look.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sign" 		

Floyd | It just says, "Terminal Velocity" on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read t-shirt" 		

Floyd | The average-looking fellow's clothes doesn't have any text on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Go north?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "man, hello" 		

Floyd | The average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts nods.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ok"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You slip through while the guard's away...
Floyd |
Floyd | Southern Part of the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a southern part of Terminal Velocity's
Floyd | "Infinite Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to
Floyd | Terminal Velocity, though you can't see far enough to be sure.  To the
Floyd | south is the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Halfway down the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, but all you can see is a wall -- no door.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are rooms to the east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The burly guard is patroling the hallway farther north.  He doesn't
Floyd | seem to notice you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "For some values of infinite."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x guard" 		

Floyd | You don't know what that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x burly guard" 		

Floyd | You don't know what that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Lies."
		DavidW says, "The corridor might be a Xeno paradox deal."
		DavidW says, "I think we should check out west and east rooms."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Supply Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    This closet-sized room contains various supplies, presumably for
Floyd | the guard to use.  It, like the guard's uniform, is an olive drab
Floyd | color.  The only way out is back east.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A box of KrudKo "Kolor-Me-Kool" snacks, a metal coat hanger, an
Floyd | olive drab uniform, and an EZ-Tech Blaser are here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oooh."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x uniform" 		

Floyd | It looks just like the one the burly guard's wearing, except that it
Floyd | doesn't have that neato emblem on the right sleeve.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Maybe we should wear this?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take uniform" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x hanger" 		

Floyd | The metal coat hanger has a nasty looking pointy end.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take hanger" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x blaser" 		

Floyd | The EZ-Tech Blaser is a comical looking weapon, with a clear body,
Floyd | giant plastic red rings around the barrel and an oversized orange
Floyd | trigger.  Tiny letters inscribed in the handle read "EZ-Tech Blaser,
Floyd | with patented 'Point-and-Shoot' interface, will meet all your violence
Floyd | needs!  EZ-Tech:  A division of Akmi!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take blaser" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x snacks" 		

Floyd |    These alarming little treats supposedly make your skin turn "all
Floyd | the colors of the rainbow" when you eat them.  I wouldn't risk it if I
Floyd | were you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    An ad on the back says:
Floyd |
Floyd | Hey kids!  Tune in to channel 1 -- the Kidz Korner!  Programming just
Floyd | for kids, all day long!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "I am totally saving and eating this later."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take snacks" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf25" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Or right now, even."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat snacks" 		

Floyd | You snarf down one of the candies.  You feel normal, but your skin is
Floyd | a bit yellow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "heh"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd | You're still Gavin Kelly, but your skin is a bit yellow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat snacks" 		

Floyd | You snarf down one of the candies.  You feel normal, but your skin is
Floyd | a bit orange.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | You snarf down one of the candies.  You feel normal, but your skin is
Floyd | a bit orange.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | You snarf down one of the candies.  You feel normal, but your skin is
Floyd | a bit indigo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | You snarf down one of the candies.  You feel normal, but your skin is
Floyd | a bit red.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | You snarf down one of the candies.  You feel normal, but your skin is
Floyd | a bit red.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | You snarf down one of the candies.  You feel normal, but your skin is
Floyd | a bit orange.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | File to restore game from >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf25" 		

Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | Supply Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    This closet-sized room contains various supplies, presumably for
Floyd | the guard to use.  It, like the guard's uniform, is an olive drab
Floyd | color.  The only way out is back east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Eh. Maybe it'll be useful later."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hanger" 		

Floyd | The metal coat hanger has a nasty looking pointy end.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I trust we won't be hanging any coats on this."
		DavidW says, "yay more inventory, though."
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-15-23:32:03CDT 		DavidW asks, "East room next?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Halfway down the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, but all you can see is a wall -- no door.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are rooms to the east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    An average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts walks into
Floyd | the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Toy Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The decor here is extraordinary -- the walls, floor and ceiling
Floyd | provide a perfectly white background for the giant splotches of paint
Floyd | of all different colors that are splashed everywhere.  The room is
Floyd | filled with weird toys of all sorts, and the only furniture is a giant
Floyd | beanbag.  There is an enterviewer embedded in the wall.  The only way
Floyd | out is back west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Channel 80180, your 37-hour sports network, is now featuring
Floyd | starship races in the Wumsley Wormhole.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A sign on the wall says, "Please do not try to take our toys."
Floyd |
Floyd |    An Akmi JoiStyk, an Akmi Sez, The Swarm, an Akmi PuzzelKyoob, and a
Floyd | giant beanbag are here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf26" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take joistyk" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Anti-climatic."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x joistyk" 		

Floyd | This gadget looks a lot more like a zucchini stuck in a bowl of
Floyd | vanilla pudding than a human-computer interface device.  It's dull
Floyd | green with numerous dimples and orange racing stripes all over.  A
Floyd | thin cable snakes out of the rear of the Styk and ends in a pentagonal
Floyd | connector.  The Akmi JoiStyk is not attached to anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x sez" 		

Floyd | Almost every child in the galaxy has one of these clever little toys.
Floyd | It's a wafer-thin disk with little colored pads on it that you touch;
Floyd | the idea is to repeat the machine's patterns exactly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "well, don't leave the room with them."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Halfway down the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, but all you can see is a wall -- no door.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are rooms to the east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a burly musclehead here eyeing you suspiciously.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Uh-oh.  The guard's noticed you.  You try to explain your
Floyd | transgression but he wants to hear nothing of it.  He picks you up
Floyd | with one arm and tosses you back into the Terminal Velocity gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at
Floyd | the north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning
Floyd | you to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up,
Floyd | white down"
Floyd |

		
Floyd A beautiful young woman with auburn hair and greenish-blue eyes 		
Floyd [30] is here, evidently waiting to be admitted to Terminal Velocity. 		

Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Toy Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The decor here is extraordinary -- the walls, floor and ceiling
Floyd | provide a perfectly white background for the giant splotches of paint
Floyd | of all different colors that are splashed everywhere.  The room is
Floyd | filled with weird toys of all sorts, and the only furniture is a giant
Floyd | beanbag.  There is an enterviewer embedded in the wall.  The only way
Floyd | out is back west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Channel 80180, your 37-hour sports network, is now featuring
Floyd | starships pulling heavy things like asteroids.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The burly guard is patroling the hall to the west.  He doesn't seem
Floyd | to notice you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A sign on the wall says, "Please do not try to take our toys."
Floyd |
Floyd |    An Akmi Sez, The Swarm, an Akmi PuzzelKyoob, and a giant beanbag
Floyd | are here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Nada."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "I mean, we got ejected, but I don't think that's directly related?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop joistyk" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "We now have a children's network and a sports network."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "play sez" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | The Akmi Sez makes digital burbling noises as the touch pads light up
Floyd | in order: teal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press teal" 		

Floyd | The pad lights up, and the machine plays a little victory melody.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Akmi Sez makes digital burbling noises as the touch pads light up
Floyd | in order: teal, salmon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press teal, salmon" 		

Floyd | teal touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps cheerfully.
Floyd | salmon touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine plays a little
Floyd | victory melody.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Akmi Sez makes digital burbling noises as the touch pads light up
Floyd | in order: teal, salmon, chartreuse.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press teal, salmon, chartreuse" 		

Floyd | teal touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps cheerfully.
Floyd | salmon touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps
Floyd | cheerfully.
Floyd | chartreuse touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine plays a
Floyd | little victory melody.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Akmi Sez makes digital burbling noises as the touch pads light up
Floyd | in order: teal, salmon, chartreuse, salmon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press teal, salmon, chartreuse, salmon" 		

Floyd | teal touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps cheerfully.
Floyd | salmon touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps
Floyd | cheerfully.
Floyd | chartreuse touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps
Floyd | cheerfully.
Floyd | salmon touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine plays a little
Floyd | victory melody.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Akmi Sez makes digital burbling noises as the touch pads light up
Floyd | in order: teal, salmon, chartreuse, salmon, mauve.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press teal, salmon, chartreuse, salmon, mauve" 		

Floyd | teal touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps cheerfully.
Floyd | salmon touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps
Floyd | cheerfully.
Floyd | chartreuse touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps
Floyd | cheerfully.
Floyd | salmon touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps
Floyd | cheerfully.
Floyd | mauve touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine plays a little
Floyd | victory melody.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Akmi Sez makes digital burbling noises as the touch pads light up
Floyd | in order: teal, salmon, chartreuse, salmon, mauve, teal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press teal, salmon, chartreuse, salmon, mauve, teal" 		

Floyd | teal touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps cheerfully.
Floyd | salmon touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps
Floyd | cheerfully.
Floyd | chartreuse touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps
Floyd | cheerfully.
Floyd | salmon touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps
Floyd | cheerfully.
Floyd | mauve touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps
Floyd | cheerfully.
Floyd | teal touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine plays a little
Floyd | victory melody.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Akmi Sez makes digital burbling noises as the touch pads light up
Floyd | in order: teal, salmon, chartreuse, salmon, mauve, teal, chartreuse.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "This is ridiculous."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press teal, salmon, chartreuse, salmon, mauve, teal, chartreuse" 		

Floyd | teal touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps cheerfully.
Floyd | salmon touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps
Floyd | cheerfully.
Floyd | chartreuse touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps
Floyd | cheerfully.
Floyd | salmon touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps
Floyd | cheerfully.
Floyd | mauve touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps
Floyd | cheerfully.
Floyd | teal touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps cheerfully.
Floyd | chartreuse touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine plays a
Floyd | little victory melody.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Akmi Sez makes digital burbling noises as the touch pads light up
Floyd | in order: teal, salmon, chartreuse, salmon, mauve, teal, chartreuse,
Floyd | salmon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press teal, salmon, chartreuse, salmon, mauve, teal, chartreuse, salmon" 		

Floyd | teal touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps cheerfully.
Floyd | salmon touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps
Floyd | cheerfully.
Floyd | chartreuse touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps
Floyd | cheerfully.
Floyd | salmon touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps
Floyd | cheerfully.
Floyd | mauve touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps
Floyd | cheerfully.
Floyd | teal touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps cheerfully.
Floyd | chartreuse touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps
Floyd | cheerfully.
Floyd | salmon touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine plays a little
Floyd | victory melody.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Akmi Sez makes digital burbling noises as the touch pads light up
Floyd | in order: teal, salmon, chartreuse, salmon, mauve, teal, chartreuse,
Floyd | salmon, mauve.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press teal, salmon, chartreuse, salmon, mauve, teal, chartreuse, salmon, mauve" 		

Floyd | teal touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps cheerfully.
Floyd | salmon touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps
Floyd | cheerfully.
Floyd | chartreuse touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps
Floyd | cheerfully.
Floyd | salmon touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps
Floyd | cheerfully.
Floyd | mauve touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps
Floyd | cheerfully.
Floyd | teal touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps cheerfully.
Floyd | chartreuse touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps
Floyd | cheerfully.
Floyd | salmon touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine bleeps
Floyd | cheerfully.
Floyd | mauve touch pad:  The pad lights up, and the machine plays a little
Floyd | victory melody.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Akmi Sez makes digital burbling noises as the touch pads light up
Floyd | in order: teal, salmon, chartreuse, salmon, mauve, teal, chartreuse,
Floyd | salmon, mauve, salmon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press mauve" 		

Floyd | The pad lights up, and the machine belches a loud <BRAAAAAAAAP!>.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Akmi Sez makes digital burbling noises as the touch pads light up
Floyd | in order: teal, salmon, chartreuse, salmon, mauve, teal, chartreuse,
Floyd | salmon, mauve, salmon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Toy Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The decor here is extraordinary -- the walls, floor and ceiling
Floyd | provide a perfectly white background for the giant splotches of paint
Floyd | of all different colors that are splashed everywhere.  The room is
Floyd | filled with weird toys of all sorts, and the only furniture is a giant
Floyd | beanbag.  There is an enterviewer embedded in the wall.  The only way
Floyd | out is back west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Channel 80180, your 37-hour sports network, is now featuring two
Floyd | green tentacled creatures concentrating over a went board.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A sign on the wall says, "Please do not try to take our toys."
Floyd |
Floyd |    An Akmi JoiStyk, an Akmi Sez, The Swarm, an Akmi PuzzelKyoob, and a
Floyd | giant beanbag are here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode says, "i think simon maxed out at 30"
		genericgeekgirl says, "I got bored."
		DavidW asks, "These are the same colours as on the transmogrifier, though, no?"
		DavidW says, "oh, no, they're not"
		genericgeekgirl says, "#cf magnenta, salmon, mauve, orange, I think"
		DavidW says, "Some are, but it's not a complete match."
		DavidW says, "yeah"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "play joistyck" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "joistyck".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "play joistyk" 		

Floyd | The JoyStyk isn't connected to anything, but you wiggle it around
Floyd | nonetheless.  Wheeeee!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Wheeeee!"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x swarm" 		

Floyd | The Swarm is a twisty jumble of artificial insects, all alike.  They
Floyd | fly around madly, roughly tracking what seems to be the "leader" in
Floyd | drunken arcs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x kyoob" 		

Floyd | It's a 6x6x6 cube with colored squares on it.  You can rotate the
Floyd | various rows of blocks around on all axes.  It is currently in the
Floyd | solved configuration.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x beanbag" 		

Floyd | It's just a huge red beanbag.  Unfortunately, however, it has a hard
Floyd | lump in one place, so it's not the most comfortable thing in the world
Floyd | to sit on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski has disconnected. 		
borowski has connected. 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sit on beanbag" 		

Floyd | You're now sitting in the giant beanbag.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x lump" 		

Floyd | It's just a lump.  You can't tell any more than that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press lump" 		

Floyd | Pushing the lump doesn't seem to have much effect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. 		DavidW says, "ooh, cut open the beanbag. I want the hard lumpy prize inside."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cut lump with hanger" 		

Floyd | You can't just go around slicing everything into pieces, you know!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x hanger" 		

Floyd | The metal coat hanger has a nasty looking pointy end.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cut lump with pointy end" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "pointy".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "p-p-p-please cut the beanbag"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cut beanbag with hanger" 		

Floyd | You jab the metal coat hanger into the giant beanbag, thereby creating
Floyd | a sizeable tear in the fabric.  Your reckless vandalism pays off,
Floyd | however:  a tiny metal object drops out the hole and onto the ground
Floyd | at your feet.  It appears to be a motorized toy named Squirt.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 2 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt zooms around madly for a few seconds, turns to face you, and
Floyd | then zips right up to your feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x squirt" 		

Floyd |    It's a motorized toy about the size of a golfball with the word
Floyd | "Squirt" printed in block letters on the microchip on its back.
Floyd | Squirt has four little wheels, two beady eyes that look like LED's,
Floyd | and a metal gripper in front to hold (small) things with.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are no other markings on it, so you can't determine its
Floyd | origin or intended function.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There doesn't appear to be anything in Squirt's gripper.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt turns to face you.  His blinking little LED's make him look
Floyd | like he's waiting for you to do something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Aw."
borowski says (to Floyd), "squeeze squirt" 		

Floyd | Ok, you just rubbed the little motorized toy named Squirt.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt spontaneously makes a beeline for the shadows, then returns
Floyd | to the light moments later.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take squirt" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "It's like KeepOn but mobile."
		DavidW says, "I wonder what small things it can hold and why."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give putti to squirt" 		

Floyd | You can't give things to the little motorized toy named Squirt.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put putti in gripper" 		

Floyd | The Akmi Wacki Putti is too big to fit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put geode in gripper" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take geode" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Perhaps Squirt will act as an accomplice in stealing something small?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "I hope so."
		DavidW asks, "also, what's a KeepOn?"
		DavidW says, "oh, Wikipedia has a page on it."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x uniform" 		

Floyd | It looks just like the one the burly guard's wearing, except that it
Floyd | doesn't have that neato emblem on the right sleeve.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a geode, a little motorized toy named
Floyd | Squirt, a box of KrudKo "Kolor-Me-Kool" snacks, an EZ-Tech Blaser, a
Floyd | metal coat hanger, an olive drab uniform, a qualitative calculator,
Floyd | some Akmi Wacki Putti, a hammer, a figurine of the Great Duhdha, a
Floyd | dog-eared leaflet, a tiny triangular pink circuit board, an ary ung, a
Floyd | bolt, a magnetic letter Q, a plastic whistle, a plastic plover's egg,
Floyd | a firecracker, a mood ring (being worn), a piece of string (tied to
Floyd | the akmid), a poodle charm, a stick of butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a
Floyd | blender, a mixer, a frying pan, a hunk of cheese, an overripe tomato,
Floyd | a piece of salami, an akmid (tied to the piece of string), a thermos
Floyd | of Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur
Floyd | Wundur Gro, a crumpled scrap of paper, a paperback book, a handwritten
Floyd | note, your thesis research floppy disk, an RGB color chart, an empty
Floyd | ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x emblem" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put putti on uniform" 		

Floyd | You can't put anything on the olive drab uniform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "wear uniform" 		

Floyd | You are now wearing the olive drab uniform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "yay, drab clothes"
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-15-23:47:03CDT 		DavidW says, "I don't know what the emblem looks like yet, so I'm not sure how to duplicate it."
		borowski says, "Ah."
		borowski asks, "I guess we can take a look at a guard?"
		DavidW says, "if we get close enough."
		borowski says, "Sorry, I was distracted for a moment when we first arrived."
borowski says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Toy Room, sitting in the giant beanbag
Floyd |
Floyd |    The decor here is extraordinary -- the walls, floor and ceiling
Floyd | provide a perfectly white background for the giant splotches of paint
Floyd | of all different colors that are splashed everywhere.  The room is
Floyd | filled with weird toys of all sorts, and the only furniture is a giant
Floyd | beanbag.  There is an enterviewer embedded in the wall.  The only way
Floyd | out is back west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Channel 80180, your 37-hour sports network, is now featuring
Floyd | tennis.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A sign on the wall says, "Please do not try to take our toys."
Floyd |
Floyd |    An Akmi JoiStyk, an Akmi Sez, The Swarm, an Akmi PuzzelKyoob, and a
Floyd | giant beanbag are here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I also think we ought to try giving the colour-change snacks to the dog."
		borowski says, "Hmm. Interesting."
		borowski asks, "Or I wonder if it might chase the squirt?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x paint" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x splotches" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode says, "hm qualitative"
borowski says (to Floyd), "sit on beanbag" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Already there."
		borowski says, "Ah"
		borowski asks, "Explore some more?"
		DavidW says, "yes, please. Let's see the guard up close."
borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" 		

Floyd | You are now standing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Toy Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The decor here is extraordinary -- the walls, floor and ceiling
Floyd | provide a perfectly white background for the giant splotches of paint
Floyd | of all different colors that are splashed everywhere.  The room is
Floyd | filled with weird toys of all sorts, and the only furniture is a giant
Floyd | beanbag.  There is an enterviewer embedded in the wall.  The only way
Floyd | out is back west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Channel 80180, your 37-hour sports network, is now featuring
Floyd | something that appears to be complete chaos, with small furry animals
Floyd | running around willy-nilly.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A sign on the wall says, "Please do not try to take our toys."
Floyd |
Floyd |    An Akmi JoiStyk, an Akmi Sez, The Swarm, an Akmi PuzzelKyoob, and a
Floyd | giant beanbag are here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Halfway down the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, but all you can see is a wall -- no door.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are rooms to the east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a burly musclehead here eyeing you suspiciously.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The guard storms over to you and demands that you remove the extra
Floyd | uniform.  You comply fearfully.  He then picks you up by the scruff of
Floyd | the neck and carries you back to the Terminal Velocity gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at
Floyd | the north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning
Floyd | you to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up,
Floyd | white down"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Toy Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The decor here is extraordinary -- the walls, floor and ceiling
Floyd | provide a perfectly white background for the giant splotches of paint
Floyd | of all different colors that are splashed everywhere.  The room is
Floyd | filled with weird toys of all sorts, and the only furniture is a giant
Floyd | beanbag.  There is an enterviewer embedded in the wall.  The only way
Floyd | out is back west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Channel 80180, your 37-hour sports network, is now featuring
Floyd | slamball, the bloody sport that's all the rage these days.  This
Floyd | tournament game features the Hop Hellions and the Tel Mu-tel-ators.  A
Floyd | player was just given 5 seconds in the penalty box for beheading an
Floyd | opponent.  His teammates are now protesting the unusual severity of
Floyd | the sanction.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The burly guard is patroling the hall to the west.  He doesn't seem
Floyd | to notice you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A sign on the wall says, "Please do not try to take our toys."
Floyd |
Floyd |    An Akmi JoiStyk, an Akmi Sez, The Swarm, an Akmi PuzzelKyoob, and a
Floyd | giant beanbag are here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "take off uniform" 		

Floyd | You take off the olive drab uniform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Halfway down the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, but all you can see is a wall -- no door.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are rooms to the east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a burly musclehead here eyeing you suspiciously.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Uh-oh.  The guard's noticed you.  You try to explain your
Floyd | transgression but he wants to hear nothing of it.  He picks you up
Floyd | with one arm and tosses you back into the Terminal Velocity gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at
Floyd | the north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning
Floyd | you to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up,
Floyd | white down"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "hm, transgression?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | The burly gorilla won't let you in until you've been approved by the
Floyd | management.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Huh"
		borowski asks, "Maybe because we took the squirt?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x squirt" 		

Floyd |    It's a motorized toy about the size of a golfball with the word
Floyd | "Squirt" printed in block letters on the microchip on its back.
Floyd | Squirt has four little wheels, two beady eyes that look like LED's,
Floyd | and a metal gripper in front to hold (small) things with.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are no other markings on it, so you can't determine its
Floyd | origin or intended function.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There doesn't appear to be anything in Squirt's gripper.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hulking guard grunts at you menacingly and then elephant-walks
Floyd | away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at
Floyd | the north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning
Floyd | you to come inside.  Unfortunately, the burly musclehead who's
Floyd | standing in your way isn't.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up,
Floyd | white down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a burly musclehead here eyeing you suspiciously.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x guard" 		

Floyd | He's one tough-looking dude.  I wouldn't mess with him if I were you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hulking guard grunts at you menacingly and then elephant-walks
Floyd | away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at
Floyd | the north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning
Floyd | you to come inside.  Unfortunately, the burly musclehead who's
Floyd | standing in your way isn't.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up,
Floyd | white down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a burly musclehead here eyeing you suspiciously.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x emblem" 		
Floyd It's a rendered and ray-traced [30] approximation of a blocky horse 		

Floyd | stuck onto a large wheeled platform.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hulking guard grunts at you menacingly and then elephant-walks
Floyd | away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "note 30" 		

Floyd | [30]: In other words, it looks gratuitously like computer graphics.
Floyd |
Floyd | A skinny guy wearing oversized glasses with thick lenses emerges from
Floyd | the matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "A ray-traced Trojan Horse?"
		DavidW asks, "I guess that's appropriate somehow?"
		borowski says, "Ah, yeah, a trojan horse."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x uniform" 		

Floyd | It looks just like the one the burly guard's wearing, except that it
Floyd | doesn't have that neato emblem on the right sleeve.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "take emblem" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that
Floyd | to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at
Floyd | the north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning
Floyd | you to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up,
Floyd | white down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    A skinny guy wearing oversized glasses with thick lenses is here,
Floyd | evidently waiting to be admitted to Terminal Velocity.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x guy" 		

Floyd | He looks pretty much like you'd expect a skinny guy wearing oversized
Floyd | glasses with thick lenses to look.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask guy about mosaic" 		

Floyd | Something tells you the mosaic will not be a particularly productive
Floyd | topic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask guy about terminal velocity" 		

Floyd | Something tells you the neon Terminal Velocity sign will not be a
Floyd | particularly productive topic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask guy about guard" 		

Floyd | "the skinny guy wearing oversized glasses with thick lenses gives you
Floyd | a funny look.  "Awk!  Are you a zombie process, B1FF?"  he asks
Floyd | rhetorically.  "Get with the procedure:  why don't we parse in the bar
Floyd | like the other units -- ack-p?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh dear. We aren't geek leet."
		borowski asks, "ack-p?"
		DavidW says, "It's a MIT-ism."
		borowski says, "ah"
		DavidW says, "I vaguely recall something very similar in The Lurking Horror."
		jenrexrode asks, "acknowledge?"
		borowski says, "Probably not the American Coalition of Kidney Patients"
		jenrexrode asks, "acknowledge, pardner?"
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-16-00:02:03CDT 		DavidW says, "well, ack did mean acknowledge, yes. But -p was something else."
borowski says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at
Floyd | the north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning
Floyd | you to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up,
Floyd | white down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    A skinny guy wearing oversized glasses with thick lenses is here,
Floyd | evidently waiting to be admitted to Terminal Velocity.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "Approximately 'yes or no?' I think. So, 'ack-p?' -> 'Do you acknowledge?'"
borowski says (to Floyd), "give thesis to guy" 		

Floyd | The skinny guy wearing oversized glasses with thick lenses doesn't
Floyd | seem interested in your thesis research floppy disk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mover" 		

Floyd |    Matter mover technology hit the scene in 2062VK, just two years
Floyd | before the formation of the Republic.  In the hundred or so years
Floyd | since its introduction it's become the primary means of transportation
Floyd | throughout the galaxy.  This model is quite similar to the one in your
Floyd | pod.
Floyd |
Floyd | The machine's address is written in bright pink letters:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Terminal Velocity:  10000, 4065, 7053 -- Hot Pink (+0, -52, -5)"
Floyd |
Floyd | Current dial settings:  (0, 0, 0)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Experiment with the dog?"
		DavidW says, "I guess? I certainly don't know where to get a horse emblem from."
		DavidW asks, "Shall I drive there, then?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x autodialer" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd | 5:  A dirt road
Floyd | 6:  Survey Station
Floyd | 7:  Kuwl Starport
Floyd | 8:  New Hell
Floyd | 9:  Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 5 on autodialer" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | A dirt road
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing outside a matter mover right next to a dirt road.
Floyd | The weather is lovely here, if a bit humid, and the sky is a
Floyd | stunningly pure blue-green.  There is a crispness and freshness to the
Floyd | air here that you've never before experienced.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road is extremely narrow, and runs right through a corn field.
Floyd | It seems like the road has no business being here, but is a necessary
Floyd | nuisance.  It's clear that priorities are different on Foon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road leads east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Outside Elwood Farm
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing a few hundred yards away from a modest-sized
Floyd | farmhouse.  You gather from the posted sign that this is Elwood Farm,
Floyd | and that the corn lining the dirt road you came in on belongs to the
Floyd | Elwoods.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here, the building itself seems fairly well maintained, but
Floyd | could use a good painting.  The sizes of the carefully placed trees in
Floyd | the front yard give you the impression that people have lived on this
Floyd | plot of land for hundreds of years.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The farmhouse is to the west.  Head east and you're back at the
Floyd | local matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Outside the Elwood Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing at the wooden front door of the Elwood Farmhouse.
Floyd | A quaintly narrow stone path lined with colorful flowers leads up to
Floyd | the door, flanked on both sides by a well-groomed, vibrant kelly green
Floyd | lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The paint is peeling in places, and the windows could use new
Floyd | shutters, but otherwise the house is in decent shape considering its
Floyd | age -- the design, though simple, suggests architectural trends
Floyd | popular several hundred years ago, before the formation of the
Floyd | Republic [14].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The entrance is to the west.  You might also take a walk around the
Floyd | house to the northwest and southwest.  The stone path leads east, back
Floyd | to the dirt road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Inside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in the entrance hallway of the Elwood farmhouse.
Floyd | The hardwood floors creak as you walk upon them, and the earthy,
Floyd | rustic decor delights your jaded cosmopolitan senses.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The front door is in the east wall.  Ahead, to the west, is the
Floyd | living room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV dominates this simply furnished family room -- it's nestled
Floyd | comfortably in the center of the north wall, encased in a boxy dark
Floyd | wood enclosure with feet shaped like those on an old bathtub.  A burly
Floyd | old man is sacked out on the couch here in front of the enterviewer,
Floyd | eyes completely glazed over.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The kitchen is to the south.  A hall leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with "The Story of Kuulest and the Useless,
Floyd | Untutored, Untrained, Utterly Inept Slave."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set ev to 80180" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 80180.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | Channel 80180, your 37-hour sports network, is now featuring starship
Floyd | races in the Wumsley Wormhole.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Hall
Floyd |
Floyd |    This narrow hall is similar to the one at the farmhouse entrance.
Floyd | A wooden staircase leads up from here; unfortunately, it also leads up
Floyd | to a protective-looking dog who is currently barking his head off at
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    At the end of the hall, further west, is the back door.  It looks
Floyd | like it's been sealed shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary wooden door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x back door" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary wooden door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" 		

Floyd | No luck.  It's sealed tight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "break it" 		

Floyd | I see no obvious way to do that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit it with hammer" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show squirt to dog" 		

Floyd | The animal shows no interest whatsoever.  It doesn't exactly give you
Floyd | the impression that it is a rocket scientist among dogs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "drop squirt" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt's eyes appear to blink on and off as he slowly rotates 360
Floyd | degrees in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x squirt" 		

Floyd |    It's a motorized toy about the size of a golfball with the word
Floyd | "Squirt" printed in block letters on the microchip on its back.
Floyd | Squirt has four little wheels, two beady eyes that look like LED's,
Floyd | and a metal gripper in front to hold (small) things with.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are no other markings on it, so you can't determine its
Floyd | origin or intended function.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There doesn't appear to be anything in Squirt's gripper.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt's little motor begins to whine as he revs up in place, then
Floyd | shoots off straight ahead in a full wheelie.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x squirt's gripper" 		

Floyd | There doesn't appear to be anything in Squirt's gripper.
Floyd |
Floyd |    As you subconsciously mumble something to yourself, Squirt makes a
Floyd | brief squealing noise and throws out a little shower of sparks.  He
Floyd | seems unharmed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put salami in squirt" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt lurches forward a bit, then stops, seemingly in response to
Floyd | a movement you just made.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x microchip" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "microchip".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x squirt" 		

Floyd |    It's a motorized toy about the size of a golfball with the word
Floyd | "Squirt" printed in block letters on the microchip on its back.
Floyd | Squirt has four little wheels, two beady eyes that look like LED's,
Floyd | and a metal gripper in front to hold (small) things with.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are no other markings on it, so you can't determine its
Floyd | origin or intended function.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A piece of salami is in Squirt's gripper.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt's movements trace out a perfect square on the ground in
Floyd | front of you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push squirt east" 		

Floyd | You can't move the little motorized toy named Squirt.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt zooms around madly for a few seconds, turns to face you, and
Floyd | then zips right up to your feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pet squirt" 		

Floyd | Ok, you just rubbed the little motorized toy named Squirt.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt turns to face you.  His blinking little LED's make him look
Floyd | like he's waiting for you to do something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "squirt, go east" 		

Floyd | You can't do that, because it can't hear you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "squirt, listen damn it" 		

Floyd | You can't do that, because it can't hear you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn squirt east" 		

Floyd | There are words after your command I couldn't use.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn squirt" 		

Floyd | You can't turn the little motorized toy named Squirt.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt spontaneously makes a beeline for the shadows, then returns
Floyd | to the light moments later.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take salami" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt's eyes appear to blink on and off as he slowly rotates 360
Floyd | degrees in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a piece of salami, a geode, a box of
Floyd | KrudKo "Kolor-Me-Kool" snacks, an EZ-Tech Blaser, a metal coat hanger,
Floyd | an olive drab uniform, a qualitative calculator, some Akmi Wacki
Floyd | Putti, a hammer, a figurine of the Great Duhdha, a dog-eared leaflet,
Floyd | a tiny triangular pink circuit board, an ary ung, a bolt, a magnetic
Floyd | letter Q, a plastic whistle, a plastic plover's egg, a firecracker, a
Floyd | mood ring (being worn), a piece of string (tied to the akmid), a
Floyd | poodle charm, a stick of butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a
Floyd | mixer, a frying pan, a hunk of cheese, an overripe tomato, an akmid
Floyd | (tied to the piece of string), a thermos of Barfee advanced growth
Floyd | formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a crumpled scrap
Floyd | of paper, a paperback book, a handwritten note, your thesis research
Floyd | floppy disk, an RGB color chart, an empty ReVoLT Kola can, a
Floyd | Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt's little motor begins to whine as he revs up in place, then
Floyd | shoots off straight ahead in a full wheelie.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "give dog snacks" 		

Floyd | I don't see any dog snacks here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I suspect he'll only leave rooms that are plotline helpful."
borowski says (to Floyd), "give snacks to dog" 		

Floyd | The animal shows no interest whatsoever.  It doesn't exactly give you
Floyd | the impression that it is a rocket scientist among dogs.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt lurches forward a bit, then stops, seemingly in response to
Floyd | a movement you just made.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x blaser" 		

Floyd | The EZ-Tech Blaser is a comical looking weapon, with a clear body,
Floyd | giant plastic red rings around the barrel and an oversized orange
Floyd | trigger.  Tiny letters inscribed in the handle read "EZ-Tech Blaser,
Floyd | with patented 'Point-and-Shoot' interface, will meet all your violence
Floyd | needs!  EZ-Tech:  A division of Akmi!"
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt's movements trace out a perfect square on the ground in
Floyd | front of you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot door with blaser" 		

Floyd | The rings around the barrel of the EZ-Tech Blaser begin to pulsate
Floyd | like runway lights.  The gun starts making a furious humming sound,
Floyd | but nothing at all destructive happens.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt zooms around madly for a few seconds, turns to face you, and
Floyd | then zips right up to your feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot dog with blaser" 		

Floyd | The rings around the barrel of the EZ-Tech Blaser begin to pulsate
Floyd | like runway lights.  The gun starts making a furious humming sound,
Floyd | but nothing at all destructive happens.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt turns to face you.  His blinking little LED's make him look
Floyd | like he's waiting for you to do something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put blaser in gripper" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt spontaneously makes a beeline for the shadows, then returns
Floyd | to the light moments later.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take blaser" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt's eyes appear to blink on and off as he slowly rotates 360
Floyd | degrees in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take squirt" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "poke dog with hanger" 		

Floyd | Poking the dog with the metal coat hanger doesn't seem to do much.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut dog with hanger" 		

Floyd | You can't just go around slicing everything into pieces, you know!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "make horse" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "horse".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "make emblem" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that
Floyd | to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode says, "give squirt some salami"
		DavidW says, "We tried that."
		jenrexrode says, "aw"
		DavidW says, "He just runs in circles with it and the dog ignores."
		jenrexrode says, "hm, need to balance the load"
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-16-00:17:03CDT 		borowski says, "I feel like we have to do something terribly clever, and I have no idea what it is."
		DavidW says, "We could yell a lot and get a little hoarse."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "yell" 		

Floyd | You shout at the top of your lungs.  Other than making you feel a bit
Floyd | less stressed, this has no effect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "yell" 		

Floyd | You shout at the top of your lungs.  Other than making you feel a bit
Floyd | less stressed, this has no effect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "or not"
borowski says (to Floyd), "dance" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "dance".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sing" 		

Floyd | You're pretty good.  Nice to know you've got a second career in case
Floyd | grad school doesn't work out.  But then again, the Unnkulians may have
Floyd | already taken over the universe by the time you finish grad school.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Oh right. There is supposed to be an exciting plot going on."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x figurine" 		

Floyd |    It's a jade figurine of the Watchful Duhdha -- legend has it that
Floyd | this likeness of The Great One will ward off evil spirits.
Floyd | Additionally, it is said that an image like this one carved in jade by
Floyd | an enlightened follower of Duhdha has power to control the seas.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Tiny letters carved in the base of the figurine read:
Floyd |
Floyd | "Rendered by the humble hands of Kuulest,
Floyd | For His Majesty Kuul,
Floyd | Son of Uul,
Floyd | In the 376th year of His Majesty's reign.
Floyd | Praise Duhdha!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Wow, this thing's an artifact -- almost 1800 years old!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "And here we are, yelling at dogs. Silly us."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show figurine to dog" 		

Floyd | The animal shows no interest whatsoever.  It doesn't exactly give you
Floyd | the impression that it is a rocket scientist among dogs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "I wonder if we can pawn that somehow?"
		DavidW says, "Dog is not an evil spirit, I guess."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "praise duhdha" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "praise".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "pray" 		

Floyd | An ethereal voice intones, "You have reached The Great Duhdha's
Floyd | automated prayer line.  If you wish to ask for a minor miracle, press
Floyd | one.  If you would like to check your karmic balance, press two.  If
Floyd | you would like to register a complaint or file a bug report, press
Floyd | three.  Press four to hang up.  If you are calling from a rotary
Floyd | phone, please contact your local branch office to upgrade to a touch
Floyd | tone."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "meditate" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "meditate".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "A littttle hint?"
		DavidW says, "I'd like to know why we didn't get any beans with Squirt."
		jenrexrode says, "that's weird, I just saw a commercial with a rotary address book"
		borowski says, "Maybe Squirt was the beans."
		DavidW asks, "Can we check our nowtz again at our pod? In case examining them multiple times shows new nowtz?"
		borowski says, "Of course"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV dominates this simply furnished family room -- it's nestled
Floyd | comfortably in the center of the north wall, encased in a boxy dark
Floyd | wood enclosure with feet shaped like those on an old bathtub.  A burly
Floyd | old man is sacked out on the couch here in front of the enterviewer,
Floyd | eyes completely glazed over.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The kitchen is to the south.  A hall leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Channel 80180, your 37-hour sports network, is now featuring
Floyd | starships pulling heavy things like asteroids.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Inside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in the entrance hallway of the Elwood farmhouse.
Floyd | The hardwood floors creak as you walk upon them, and the earthy,
Floyd | rustic decor delights your jaded cosmopolitan senses.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The front door is in the east wall.  Ahead, to the west, is the
Floyd | living room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Outside the Elwood Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing at the wooden front door of the Elwood Farmhouse.
Floyd | A quaintly narrow stone path lined with colorful flowers leads up to
Floyd | the door, flanked on both sides by a well-groomed, vibrant kelly green
Floyd | lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The paint is peeling in places, and the windows could use new
Floyd | shutters, but otherwise the house is in decent shape considering its
Floyd | age -- the design, though simple, suggests architectural trends
Floyd | popular several hundred years ago, before the formation of the
Floyd | Republic [14].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The entrance is to the west.  You might also take a walk around the
Floyd | house to the northwest and southwest.  The stone path leads east, back
Floyd | to the dirt road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Outside Elwood Farm
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing a few hundred yards away from a modest-sized
Floyd | farmhouse.  You gather from the posted sign that this is Elwood Farm,
Floyd | and that the corn lining the dirt road you came in on belongs to the
Floyd | Elwoods.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here, the building itself seems fairly well maintained, but
Floyd | could use a good painting.  The sizes of the carefully placed trees in
Floyd | the front yard give you the impression that people have lived on this
Floyd | plot of land for hundreds of years.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The farmhouse is to the west.  Head east and you're back at the
Floyd | local matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push 1 on autodialer" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "No mover nearby."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | A dirt road
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing outside a matter mover right next to a dirt road.
Floyd | The weather is lovely here, if a bit humid, and the sky is a
Floyd | stunningly pure blue-green.  There is a crispness and freshness to the
Floyd | air here that you've never before experienced.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road is extremely narrow, and runs right through a corn field.
Floyd | It seems like the road has no business being here, but is a necessary
Floyd | nuisance.  It's clear that priorities are different on Foon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road leads east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push 1 on autodialer" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter dialer" 		

Floyd | You can't enter the matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Your bachelor pod
Floyd |

		
Floyd Ahhhhh. Pod sweet pod! Sure feels good to be back in the ol' 		
Floyd closet-sized capsule again, yes sir. While slaving away on your 		
Floyd master's thesis you've spent many late hours here, sustaining yourself 		
Floyd on naught but Akmi Snak Chipz [2] and ReVoLT Kola. 		

Floyd |
Floyd |    Yep, it's basically a hell-hole, but it's served you adequately.
Floyd | Looking around you can see blurry reflections of yourself and your
Floyd | surroundings in the familiar mauve and orange metal walls, which are
Floyd | rounded in the corners as is typical of today's "economical" graduate
Floyd | housing.  (As if they offered any other kind.)  The walls are still
Floyd | bare; you'd think after living here for two years you'd have put some
Floyd | posters up.  But there's never much time for aesthetics at Akmi
Floyd | Yooniversity.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your bed (if you can call it that) and the matter mover take up all
Floyd | the available floor space in your pod.  Miscellaneous Stik-Em Nowtz
Floyd | cling to various parts of the furniture and walls, and papers fill any
Floyd | stray gaps, making this den an incredible fire trap.  Good thing you
Floyd | don't really have heating here.  Anyway, if there's a fire you can
Floyd | always bail out through the escape hatch.  Oops -- you've never been
Floyd | able to get it open.  Never mind.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your pod is one of the "Yooniversity Economical Graduate Off-site
Floyd | Dwelling Stations" (YEGODS).  Though the school is actually hundreds
Floyd | of light-years away, matter mover technology makes it possible for
Floyd | them to put housing in the cheapest, remotest, most inhospitable parts
Floyd | of the galaxy -- places like Frost, the iceball of a planet your pod
Floyd | is situated on.
Floyd |
Floyd |    On your desk, under your shelf of textbooks, is the computer you
Floyd | use nearly 37 hours a day.  Cuddled up right next to it like a best
Floyd | friend is your EV.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with a discussion of the evils of egg
Floyd | substitutes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x nowtz" 		

Floyd |    The hundred or so Stik-Em Nowtz littering your pod are largely
Floyd | incomprehensible; most of them are scribbled diagrams and notes you've
Floyd | made to yourself during your two year stay here.  Among the
Floyd | long-forgotten reminders you find the address of Terminal Velocity,
Floyd | the favorite hang-out for the galaxy's best computer jocks.  It says,
Floyd | "Hot Pink (+0, -52, -5) [29]," but a fat lot of good that's going to
Floyd | do you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You chuckle as you recall your last visit there three years ago --
Floyd | they weren't particularly interested in yet another 3-dimensional
Floyd | chess program, especially one that couldn't beat their own weekend
Floyd | implementations.  Trying to find software that'll impress them enough
Floyd | to let you in is nearly impossible, which is why it's the most
Floyd | exclusive club around.  It's also probably the best source of computer
Floyd | information in the galaxy...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd |    The hundred or so Stik-Em Nowtz littering your pod are largely
Floyd | incomprehensible; most of them are scribbled diagrams and notes you've
Floyd | made to yourself during your two year stay here.  Among the
Floyd | long-forgotten reminders you find the address of Terminal Velocity,
Floyd | the favorite hang-out for the galaxy's best computer jocks.  It says,
Floyd | "Hot Pink (+0, -52, -5) [29]," but a fat lot of good that's going to
Floyd | do you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You chuckle as you recall your last visit there three years ago --
Floyd | they weren't particularly interested in yet another 3-dimensional
Floyd | chess program, especially one that couldn't beat their own weekend
Floyd | implementations.  Trying to find software that'll impress them enough
Floyd | to let you in is nearly impossible, which is why it's the most
Floyd | exclusive club around.  It's also probably the best source of computer
Floyd | information in the galaxy...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Oh, we have to find info to impress them I guess."
		DavidW says, "I guess that is that."
		borowski says, "Maybe then the guard will let us in."
		DavidW says (to borowski), "well, the guard is one hurdle; I assume he isn't the only one."
		DavidW says, "We saw no door at the end of the infinite corridor, after all."
		borowski says, "Right, maybe something to do with the mosaic outside."
		DavidW says, "oh, here's the -p thing: [LINK]"
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-16-00:32:03CDT 		borowski says, "Ah"
		jenrexrode says, "also see T"
		DavidW says, "[LINK]"
		jenrexrode says, "but we do that on the hike and bike trail"
		borowski says, "Maybe with more eye contact"
mwmiller has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		DavidW says, "hm [LINK]"
		jenrexrode says, "oh, we called them m0es"
		jenrexrode says, "or n00bs"
		DavidW asks, "How do hints work in this game? Are they location sensitive?"
		borowski says, "I'm not sure."
		DavidW says, "If so, I think we should go back to the dog for our hint."
borowski says (to Floyd), "type 5 on autodialer" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | A dirt road
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing outside a matter mover right next to a dirt road.
Floyd | The weather is lovely here, if a bit humid, and the sky is a
Floyd | stunningly pure blue-green.  There is a crispness and freshness to the
Floyd | air here that you've never before experienced.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road is extremely narrow, and runs right through a corn field.
Floyd | It seems like the road has no business being here, but is a necessary
Floyd | nuisance.  It's clear that priorities are different on Foon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road leads east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Outside Elwood Farm
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing a few hundred yards away from a modest-sized
Floyd | farmhouse.  You gather from the posted sign that this is Elwood Farm,
Floyd | and that the corn lining the dirt road you came in on belongs to the
Floyd | Elwoods.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here, the building itself seems fairly well maintained, but
Floyd | could use a good painting.  The sizes of the carefully placed trees in
Floyd | the front yard give you the impression that people have lived on this
Floyd | plot of land for hundreds of years.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The farmhouse is to the west.  Head east and you're back at the
Floyd | local matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Outside the Elwood Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing at the wooden front door of the Elwood Farmhouse.
Floyd | A quaintly narrow stone path lined with colorful flowers leads up to
Floyd | the door, flanked on both sides by a well-groomed, vibrant kelly green
Floyd | lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The paint is peeling in places, and the windows could use new
Floyd | shutters, but otherwise the house is in decent shape considering its
Floyd | age -- the design, though simple, suggests architectural trends
Floyd | popular several hundred years ago, before the formation of the
Floyd | Republic [14].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The entrance is to the west.  You might also take a walk around the
Floyd | house to the northwest and southwest.  The stone path leads east, back
Floyd | to the dirt road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Inside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in the entrance hallway of the Elwood farmhouse.
Floyd | The hardwood floors creak as you walk upon them, and the earthy,
Floyd | rustic decor delights your jaded cosmopolitan senses.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The front door is in the east wall.  Ahead, to the west, is the
Floyd | living room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV dominates this simply furnished family room -- it's nestled
Floyd | comfortably in the center of the north wall, encased in a boxy dark
Floyd | wood enclosure with feet shaped like those on an old bathtub.  A burly
Floyd | old man is sacked out on the couch here in front of the enterviewer,
Floyd | eyes completely glazed over.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The kitchen is to the south.  A hall leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Channel 80180, your 37-hour sports network, is now featuring a
Floyd | sport that seems to involve blowing things up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Hall
Floyd |
Floyd |    This narrow hall is similar to the one at the farmhouse entrance.
Floyd | A wooden staircase leads up from here; unfortunately, it also leads up
Floyd | to a protective-looking dog who is currently barking his head off at
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    At the end of the hall, further west, is the back door.  It looks
Floyd | like it's been sealed shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "hint" 		

Floyd |    The hint system in this game is adaptive.  This means that it
Floyd | adjusts itself based on your progress, to give you the most useful
Floyd | hint it can.  You will not be penalized for getting hints, though the
Floyd | game does keep track of how many you've used throughout the game.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Be warned, however, that the hints will eventually spell out the
Floyd | solution to every puzzle -- if you overuse the hints, you will likely
Floyd | spoil the puzzle-solving part of the game.  Before giving up on a
Floyd | puzzle, take a break and come back to it later.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To get a hint, just type "hint" at any time.  If the hint system
Floyd | has any remaining advice for you, it will respond with a list of hint
Floyd | topics:
Floyd |
Floyd |    1:  Basics
Floyd |    2:  How to get the cheez kee
Floyd |
Floyd | You then enter the topic you want a hint for.  The program will
Floyd | respond with two numbers and the hint text, like so:
Floyd |
Floyd |    (1/4):  Try typing "hint" when you're stuck.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The numbers tell you which hint you're on in the topic, and how
Floyd | many hints there are in all.  The hint above, for example, is the
Floyd | first of four for the topic "Basics."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Within a topic, hints get progressively more direct -- the last
Floyd | hint in a group will generally spell out the solution to the puzzle.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Searching for hint topics...
Floyd |
Floyd | There are 4 topics available:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  The jade box (1/2)
Floyd | 2:  The Transmogrifyer (1/5)
Floyd | 3:  Getting into Terminal Velocity (1/7)
Floyd | 4:  The Terminal Velocity mosaic (1/7)
Floyd |
Floyd | Enter hint topic number (0 to quit) >

		DavidW asks, "hm. Didn't we already solve the jade box?"
		borowski asks, "With the egg in it?"
		DavidW says, "yeah"
		DavidW says, "I suppose we could recklessly put the jade figurine into the jade box."
		borowski says, "Hmmm."
		DavidW says, "odd that the dog isn't a topic."
		borowski says, "Might as well."
		borowski says (to DavidW), "I was thinking that too. Maybe just another red herring."
		DavidW says, "The jade box tends to destroy things. But urk. Never considered that the dog might be a herring."
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-16-00:47:03CDT 		
borowski says (to Floyd), "score" 		

Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "score" 		

Floyd | In 1046 turns, you have earned 31 points out of a possible 75.
Floyd | You have completed approximately 49 percent of the game.
Floyd | You haven't used any hints.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Considering that we're are halfway through, I suspect a lot of things are."
		borowski says, "Though I could be wrong."
		DavidW says, "That would be cruel. And it hardly feels like we're halfway through."
		DavidW asks, "so, test the figurine in the box, and if that's a disaster, undo and get a hint on the transmog?"
		borowski says, "Sounds good"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV dominates this simply furnished family room -- it's nestled
Floyd | comfortably in the center of the north wall, encased in a boxy dark
Floyd | wood enclosure with feet shaped like those on an old bathtub.  A burly
Floyd | old man is sacked out on the couch here in front of the enterviewer,
Floyd | eyes completely glazed over.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The kitchen is to the south.  A hall leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Channel 80180, your 37-hour sports network, is now featuring a
Floyd | sport that seems to involve blowing things up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Inside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in the entrance hallway of the Elwood farmhouse.
Floyd | The hardwood floors creak as you walk upon them, and the earthy,
Floyd | rustic decor delights your jaded cosmopolitan senses.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The front door is in the east wall.  Ahead, to the west, is the
Floyd | living room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "I don't remember where the box was"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Outside the Elwood Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing at the wooden front door of the Elwood Farmhouse.
Floyd | A quaintly narrow stone path lined with colorful flowers leads up to
Floyd | the door, flanked on both sides by a well-groomed, vibrant kelly green
Floyd | lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The paint is peeling in places, and the windows could use new
Floyd | shutters, but otherwise the house is in decent shape considering its
Floyd | age -- the design, though simple, suggests architectural trends
Floyd | popular several hundred years ago, before the formation of the
Floyd | Republic [14].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The entrance is to the west.  You might also take a walk around the
Floyd | house to the northwest and southwest.  The stone path leads east, back
Floyd | to the dirt road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Outside Elwood Farm
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing a few hundred yards away from a modest-sized
Floyd | farmhouse.  You gather from the posted sign that this is Elwood Farm,
Floyd | and that the corn lining the dirt road you came in on belongs to the
Floyd | Elwoods.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here, the building itself seems fairly well maintained, but
Floyd | could use a good painting.  The sizes of the carefully placed trees in
Floyd | the front yard give you the impression that people have lived on this
Floyd | plot of land for hundreds of years.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The farmhouse is to the west.  Head east and you're back at the
Floyd | local matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | A dirt road
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing outside a matter mover right next to a dirt road.
Floyd | The weather is lovely here, if a bit humid, and the sky is a
Floyd | stunningly pure blue-green.  There is a crispness and freshness to the
Floyd | air here that you've never before experienced.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road is extremely narrow, and runs right through a corn field.
Floyd | It seems like the road has no business being here, but is a necessary
Floyd | nuisance.  It's clear that priorities are different on Foon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road leads east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Outside Elwood Farm
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing a few hundred yards away from a modest-sized
Floyd | farmhouse.  You gather from the posted sign that this is Elwood Farm,
Floyd | and that the corn lining the dirt road you came in on belongs to the
Floyd | Elwoods.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here, the building itself seems fairly well maintained, but
Floyd | could use a good painting.  The sizes of the carefully placed trees in
Floyd | the front yard give you the impression that people have lived on this
Floyd | plot of land for hundreds of years.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The farmhouse is to the west.  Head east and you're back at the
Floyd | local matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | A dirt road
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing outside a matter mover right next to a dirt road.
Floyd | The weather is lovely here, if a bit humid, and the sky is a
Floyd | stunningly pure blue-green.  There is a crispness and freshness to the
Floyd | air here that you've never before experienced.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road is extremely narrow, and runs right through a corn field.
Floyd | It seems like the road has no business being here, but is a necessary
Floyd | nuisance.  It's clear that priorities are different on Foon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road leads east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x autodialer" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd | 5:  A dirt road
Floyd | 6:  Survey Station
Floyd | 7:  Kuwl Starport
Floyd | 8:  New Hell
Floyd | 9:  Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push 6 on autodialer" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Survey Station
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of a narrow dirt road in front of a
Floyd | small survey station.  You assume that the station is used to monitor
Floyd | the frequent mining operations here on Irata.  A light on top of the
Floyd | station is blinking green.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The station entrance is to the north -- the road ends here -- but
Floyd | you can travel south on it.  Passage in other directions looks
Floyd | unlikely -- the forest is too dense.  There is, however, a matter
Floyd | mover next to the station.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | Outside the Escape Pod Wreckage
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in the middle of a clearing at the site of your crash
Floyd | landing.  The escape pod lies to the north, and is still intact,
Floyd | though very badly damaged.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Dense forest surrounds this little area, though it looks like you
Floyd | might be able to make some progress through the woods to the east,
Floyd | northwest, and south. Passage along other routes looks very unlikely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Another Crash Site
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're walking about a small clearing amidst the wreckage of Timon
Floyd | Sketch's ship.  Dense forest surrounds you on all sides.  It looks
Floyd | like you might be able to beat a path through the foliage to the north
Floyd | and south.  Head west and you're back at your own crash site.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Outside a Shack
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing outside a humble little shack in a clearing barely
Floyd | large enough to hold it.  There is a scrawled parchment note on the
Floyd | door, and a small jade box on the ground underneath it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Head west and you're back at Timon Sketch's crash site.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x box" 		

Floyd | Which box do you mean, the box of KrudKo "Kolor-Me-Kool" snacks, or
Floyd | the jade box?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "jade" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary box, except that it seems to be made of
Floyd | solid jade!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put figurine in jade box" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x jade box" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary box, except that it seems to be made of
Floyd | solid jade!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take figurine" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in box" 		

Floyd | There doesn't appear to be anything in the jade box.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I guess the figurine does nothing there."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hint" 		

Floyd |    The hint system in this game is adaptive.  This means that it
Floyd | adjusts itself based on your progress, to give you the most useful
Floyd | hint it can.  You will not be penalized for getting hints, though the
Floyd | game does keep track of how many you've used throughout the game.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Be warned, however, that the hints will eventually spell out the
Floyd | solution to every puzzle -- if you overuse the hints, you will likely
Floyd | spoil the puzzle-solving part of the game.  Before giving up on a
Floyd | puzzle, take a break and come back to it later.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To get a hint, just type "hint" at any time.  If the hint system
Floyd | has any remaining advice for you, it will respond with a list of hint
Floyd | topics:
Floyd |
Floyd |    1:  Basics
Floyd |    2:  How to get the cheez kee
Floyd |
Floyd | You then enter the topic you want a hint for.  The program will
Floyd | respond with two numbers and the hint text, like so:
Floyd |
Floyd |    (1/4):  Try typing "hint" when you're stuck.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The numbers tell you which hint you're on in the topic, and how
Floyd | many hints there are in all.  The hint above, for example, is the
Floyd | first of four for the topic "Basics."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Within a topic, hints get progressively more direct -- the last
Floyd | hint in a group will generally spell out the solution to the puzzle.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Searching for hint topics...
Floyd |
Floyd | There are 4 topics available:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  The jade box (1/2)
Floyd | 2:  The Transmogrifyer (1/5)
Floyd | 3:  Getting into Terminal Velocity (1/7)
Floyd | 4:  The Terminal Velocity mosaic (1/7)
Floyd |
Floyd | Enter hint topic number (0 to quit) >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "2" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | This will be hint 1 of 5.  Are you sure you want the hint?  (YES or
Floyd | NO) >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (1/5): Have you played with the Transmogrifyer in the Barfee Lab yet?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "yes".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hint" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | Searching for hint topics...
Floyd |
Floyd | There are 4 topics available:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  The jade box (1/2)
Floyd | 2:  The Transmogrifyer (2/5)
Floyd | 3:  Getting into Terminal Velocity (1/7)
Floyd | 4:  The Terminal Velocity mosaic (1/7)
Floyd |
Floyd | Enter hint topic number (0 to quit) >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "2" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | This will be hint 2 of 5.  Are you sure you want the hint?  (YES or
Floyd | NO) >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (2/5): The Transmogrifyer is broken.  Some of the dials don't work.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm. So we can ignore some of the dials, I guess."
		borowski says, "yeah"
		DavidW asks, "One more hint?"
		borowski says, "sure"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hint" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | Searching for hint topics...
Floyd |
Floyd | There are 4 topics available:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  The jade box (1/2)
Floyd | 2:  The Transmogrifyer (3/5)
Floyd | 3:  Getting into Terminal Velocity (1/7)
Floyd | 4:  The Terminal Velocity mosaic (1/7)
Floyd |
Floyd | Enter hint topic number (0 to quit) >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "2" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | This will be hint 3 of 5.  Are you sure you want the hint?  (YES or
Floyd | NO) >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | (3/5): There are twenty different objects you can get from the
Floyd | Transmogrifyer.  Make sure you know what they all are so you don't
Floyd | miss anything important.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Whaaaat"
		borowski asks, "Why must this game have so many objects?"
		DavidW says, "oh. So just turn all dials to the same one, all 0s, all 1s, etc to all 19s, I guess."
		DavidW says, "I never recorded what the transmog items are."
		borowski says, "Me either. I guess we have to play with it again."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Another Crash Site
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're walking about a small clearing amidst the wreckage of Timon
Floyd | Sketch's ship.  Dense forest surrounds you on all sides.  It looks
Floyd | like you might be able to beat a path through the foliage to the north
Floyd | and south.  Head west and you're back at your own crash site.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Outside the Escape Pod Wreckage
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in the middle of a clearing at the site of your crash
Floyd | landing.  The escape pod lies to the north, and is still intact,
Floyd | though very badly damaged.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Dense forest surrounds this little area, though it looks like you
Floyd | might be able to make some progress through the woods to the east,
Floyd | northwest, and south. Passage along other routes looks very unlikely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Assuming that the important object will be obvious."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Survey Station
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of a narrow dirt road in front of a
Floyd | small survey station.  You assume that the station is used to monitor
Floyd | the frequent mining operations here on Irata.  A light on top of the
Floyd | station is blinking green.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The station entrance is to the north -- the road ends here -- but
Floyd | you can travel south on it.  Passage in other directions looks
Floyd | unlikely -- the forest is too dense.  There is, however, a matter
Floyd | mover next to the station.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x autodialer" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd | 5:  A dirt road
Floyd | 6:  Survey Station
Floyd | 7:  Kuwl Starport
Floyd | 8:  New Hell
Floyd | 9:  Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push 4 on autodialer" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Featureless Cubicle
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's clear from the size and lack of decor that this room was built
Floyd | specifically to house the matter mover that fills it.  The hallway is
Floyd | to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The matter mover here is a bit unusual -- it has a button on it,
Floyd | next to a light.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Barfee Research Area Entrance
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in an empty hall with metal walls, ceiling, and
Floyd | floor.  Behind you, to the south, is the vault door that leads to the
Floyd | outside; it does not appear to open from the inside.  Right in front
Floyd | of you, farther down the hall, is a smaller but equally
Floyd | durable-looking door with a sign on it that reads "Barfee Research
Floyd | Central."  There is another room to the west, and to the east is what
Floyd | you assume to be the check-in area; you suspect that's where the boss
Floyd | is; this suspicion is partly affirmed by the growling and cursing
Floyd | emanating from within.  "Hakkar the Horrible" is in full form.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Barfee Research Lab
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a huge, well-stocked laboratory.  Dozens of researchers
Floyd | scurry about, argue with each other, and frequently set things ablaze.
Floyd | Aside from the usual lab equipment, there is a strange-looking machine
Floyd | on an especially large marble lab table that stands in the center of
Floyd | the lab.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The only way out of this arena is south, the way you came in.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a figurine of the Great Duhdha, a little
Floyd | motorized toy named Squirt, an EZ-Tech Blaser, a piece of salami, a
Floyd | geode, a box of KrudKo "Kolor-Me-Kool" snacks, a metal coat hanger, an
Floyd | olive drab uniform, a qualitative calculator, some Akmi Wacki Putti, a
Floyd | hammer, a dog-eared leaflet, a tiny triangular pink circuit board, an
Floyd | ary ung, a bolt, a magnetic letter Q, a plastic whistle, a plastic
Floyd | plover's egg, a firecracker, a mood ring (being worn), a piece of
Floyd | string (tied to the akmid), a poodle charm, a stick of butter, a Akmi
Floyd | Slysor Dysor, a blender, a mixer, a frying pan, a hunk of cheese, an
Floyd | overripe tomato, an akmid (tied to the piece of string), a thermos of
Floyd | Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur
Floyd | Gro, a crumpled scrap of paper, a paperback book, a handwritten note,
Floyd | your thesis research floppy disk, an RGB color chart, an empty ReVoLT
Floyd | Kola can, a Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x handwritten" 		

Floyd | The note is to you.  It reads:
Floyd |
Floyd |    Gavin --
Floyd |
Floyd |    Studying at the library today.  Don't forget dinner at Grandma's
Floyd | house tomorrow night.  When you go out, please pick up some prune
Floyd | seeds from the Barfee outlet (8549, 4392, 8392) -- you know how
Floyd | Grandma is about her garden.
Floyd |
Floyd |                    Love,
Floyd |                    Ada
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crumpled" 		

Floyd | Written in barely-legible script is "Cassandra:  Elwood Farm (3921,
Floyd | 5840, 9278) (Just up road from mover.)"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Yeah, those seem like good test subjects"
		DavidW says, "yeah, I think of everything we have, the notes are the most disposable."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put handwritten note in machine" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dials" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  The magenta dial can be turned to settings numbered
Floyd | from 0 to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's currently set to 0.
Floyd | salmon dial:  The salmon dial can be turned to settings numbered from
Floyd | 0 to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's currently set to 0.
Floyd | mauve dial:  The mauve dial can be turned to settings numbered from 0
Floyd | to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's currently set to 0.
Floyd | orange dial:  The orange dial can be turned to settings numbered from
Floyd | 0 to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's currently set to 0.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A spray can is in the Akmi
Floyd | Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "turn magenta dial to 1" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 1.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "press red button" 		

Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x spray can" 		

Floyd | Tiny lettering on the side of the can reads:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Akmi Dam Phowl Snayk Rheepehlant.  Guaranteed results!  Shake
Floyd | before using. To use, spray target with repellant.  In case of
Floyd | failure, send proof of purchase to Akmi Galacticorp, Planet Plast,
Floyd | Akmi System."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set all dials to 1" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  It's already set to 1.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 1.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 1.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 1.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A packet of prune seeds is
Floyd | in the Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh ho"
		borowski says, "Woah"
borowski says (to Floyd), "x seeds" 		

Floyd | It's a small packet of seeds produced by Barfee, the galaxy's leading
Floyd | fruit and vegetable seed vendor.  The package reads "Barfee prune
Floyd | seeds:  All seeds and no weeds, Barfee meets your needs in feeds.
Floyd | Visit the Barfee Outlet:  (8549, 4392, 8392)."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x prune seeds" 		

Floyd | It's a small packet of seeds produced by Barfee, the galaxy's leading
Floyd | fruit and vegetable seed vendor.  The package reads "Barfee prune
Floyd | seeds:  All seeds and no weeds, Barfee meets your needs in feeds.
Floyd | Visit the Barfee Outlet:  (8549, 4392, 8392)."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I think we definitely want that."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take seeds" 		borowski asks, "I wonder if we can find Ada?"

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put crumpled note in machine" 		

Floyd | I don't see any crumpled note here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a packet of prune seeds, a figurine of the
Floyd | Great Duhdha, a little motorized toy named Squirt, an EZ-Tech Blaser,
Floyd | a piece of salami, a geode, a box of KrudKo "Kolor-Me-Kool" snacks, a
Floyd | metal coat hanger, an olive drab uniform, a qualitative calculator,
Floyd | some Akmi Wacki Putti, a hammer, a dog-eared leaflet, a tiny
Floyd | triangular pink circuit board, an ary ung, a bolt, a magnetic letter
Floyd | Q, a plastic whistle, a plastic plover's egg, a firecracker, a mood
Floyd | ring (being worn), a piece of string (tied to the akmid), a poodle
Floyd | charm, a stick of butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a mixer, a
Floyd | frying pan, a hunk of cheese, an overripe tomato, an akmid (tied to
Floyd | the piece of string), a thermos of Barfee advanced growth formula
Floyd | QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a crumpled scrap of
Floyd | paper, a paperback book, your thesis research floppy disk, an RGB
Floyd | color chart, an empty ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard, and a matter
Floyd | mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put crumpled scrap in machine" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn dials to 2" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 2.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 2.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 2.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 2.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A paper clip is in the Akmi
Floyd | Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x clip" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary paper clip.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn dials to 3" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 3.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 3.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 3.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 3.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  An oil lamp (providing
Floyd | light) is in the Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x lamp" 		

Floyd | It's an old-style oil lamp.  How quaint!  Currently, the lamp is lit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lamp" 		

Floyd | It's an old-style oil lamp.  How quaint!  Currently, the lamp is lit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-16-01:02:03CDT 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn dials to 4" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 4.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 4.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 4.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 4.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A hunk of coal is in the
Floyd | Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x coal" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary hunk of coal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x coal" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary hunk of coal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn dials to 5" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 5.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 5.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 5.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 5.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" 		

Floyd | Which button do you mean, the transmogrifier button, the Clear button,
Floyd | the Clear button, the ZERO button, the POSITIVE button, the NEGATIVE
Floyd | button, the ADD button, the SUBTRACT button, the MULTIPLY button, or
Floyd | the DIVIDE button?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A playing card is in the
Floyd | Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "heh, sorry I'll let you drive"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x playing card" 		

Floyd | It's an ordinary playing card.  It is the King of Akmids.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn over card" 		

Floyd | I don't see any over card here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn card" 		

Floyd | Which card do you mean, the playing card, or the Galacticard?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "playing" 		

Floyd | You can't turn the playing card.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read it" 		

Floyd | The playing card doesn't have any text on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set dials to 6" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 6.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 6.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 6.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 6.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A wooden toothpick is in the
Floyd | Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toothpick" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary wooden toothpick.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set dials to 6" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  It's already set to 6.
Floyd | salmon dial:  It's already set to 6.
Floyd | mauve dial:  It's already set to 6.
Floyd | orange dial:  It's already set to 6.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set dials to 7" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 7.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 7.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 7.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 7.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A Valley King action figure
Floyd | is in the Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x figure" 		

Floyd | Which figure do you mean, the Valley King action figure, or the
Floyd | figurine of the Great Duhdha?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "king" 		

Floyd | It's a form-molded plastic rendition of the first Valley King.  You
Floyd | used to have one when you were little -- it was one of your favorite
Floyd | toys.  Come to think of it, the Valley King looks a little bit like
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "interesting" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set dials to 8" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 8.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 8.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 8.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 8.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  An AkNex tissue is in the
Floyd | Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tissue" 		

Floyd | It's just an ordinary tissue.  AkNex's aren't known for their
Floyd | sturdiness, but this one looks fine.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set dials to 9" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 9.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 9.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 9.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 9.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A dead rat is in the Akmi
Floyd | Transmogrifyer.  The dead rat smells awful!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rat" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary dead rat, stiff from rigor mortis.  Ewwww.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell rat" 		

Floyd | It smells like an ordinary dead rat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I smell a rat."
		borowski says, "Ewwww indeed"
		jenrexrode says, "haw haw"
		borowski says, "heh"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set dials to 10" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 10.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 10.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 10.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 10.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A mysterious black sphere is
Floyd | in the Akmi Transmogrifyer.  The mysterious black sphere is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode says, "gotta have that"
		DavidW asks, "yeah, but for what? The electric fence?"
		jenrexrode says, "unless it asplodes us"
borowski says (to Floyd), "drop 1 banana" 		

Floyd | 6 bananas:  Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Is doen whas tos bes asplode"
borowski says (to Floyd), "take bananas" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "All or nothing with bananas"
		borowski says, "I was hoping we could separate those out."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x letter Q" 		

Floyd | It's a plastic green letter Q with a magnet on the back.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take magnet" 		

Floyd | You can't take the little magnet on the back of the letter Q.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push magnet" 		

Floyd | Pushing the little magnet on the back of the letter Q doesn't seem to
Floyd | have much effect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "I guess we can see what all the objects are and come back to the black sphere if nothing else is interesting."
		DavidW says, "odd that the magnet and the Q are distinct objects."
borowski says (to Floyd), "pull magnet" 		

Floyd | Pulling on the little magnet on the back of the letter Q doesn't seem
Floyd | to have much effect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "yeah, I'd like to leave the ticking sphere for now."
		borowski says, ">PUT MAGNET ON THESIS"
		DavidW says, "Unless we can agree on another useless item to sacrifice."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x circuit board" 		

Floyd | You can't tell exactly what it is, but you figure that it must store
Floyd | some kind of information.  There are mover coordinates on the back of
Floyd | the device:
Floyd |
Floyd |    Midnight Blue (+6, -49, +36)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "No, we need that to get past the bouncer of the Watchmen."
		borowski says, "Oh right."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x blender" 		

Floyd | It just looks like an average blender.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x mixer" 		

Floyd | It's an ordinary kitchen mixer.  Unfortunately, it seems to be missing
Floyd | the metal beaters, and is therefore useless.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "There's enough smoothie ingredients that the blender is possibly needed."
		jenrexrode says, "things that are just called ordinary seem the same to me"
		DavidW asks, "Sacrifice the mixer?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "x plover egg" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary plover's egg, except that it's made of
Floyd | plastic.  Tiny letters along a seam say, "C&W Model Y2.  Plugh Mfg.
Floyd | Co."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Yes to mixer"
		DavidW says, "C&W = Crowther and Woods."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take sphere" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put mixer in machine" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set all dials to 11" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 11.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 11.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 11.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 11.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Save maybe?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf27" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A piece of flint is in the
Floyd | Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x flint" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary piece of flint.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set all dials to 12" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 12.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 12.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 12.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 12.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A canister of liquid
Floyd | nitrogen is in the Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x nitrogen" 		

Floyd | It would seem to be a canister of liquid nitrogen.  I'd be careful
Floyd | with it, if I were you -- remember seeing your chemistry professor
Floyd | stick a metal dowel in liquid nitrogen and then hit it on the table,
Floyd | shattering it?  Bet that would sure smart if it happened to your hand.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode says, "i like things with long descriptions"
		DavidW says, "yeah, that might be useful later."
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-16-01:17:03CDT 		
borowski says (to Floyd), "open nitrogen" 		

Floyd | You can't open the canister of liquid nitrogen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put coat hanger in nitrogen" 		

Floyd | You can't put anything in the canister of liquid nitrogen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "or not"
borowski says (to Floyd), "pour out nitrogen" 		

Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put sphere in nitrogen" 		

Floyd | You can't put anything in the canister of liquid nitrogen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode says, "hmph"
		DavidW says, "let's keep dialin'"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set dials to 13" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 13.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 13.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 13.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 13.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  Marbles are in the Akmi
Floyd | Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x marbles" 		

Floyd | They look like ordinary marbles.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set dials to 14" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 14.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 14.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 14.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 14.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A container of glue is in
Floyd | the Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x glue" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary container of glue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set dials to 15" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 15.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 15.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 15.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 15.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A valmid is in the Akmi
Floyd | Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x valmid" 		

Floyd | This bronze coin is a valmid, with an image of the first Valley King
Floyd | on one side and the Hall of the Valley King on the other.  This coin
Floyd | would be worth a fortune if it weren't a synthesized reproduction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x valley king" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set dials to 16" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 16.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 16.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 16.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 16.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A wugrump hat is in the Akmi
Floyd | Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hat" 		

Floyd | It's a hat made of Wugrump fur [31].  Very warm, but quite politically
Floyd | incorrect in these days of galaxy-wide eco-consciousness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "wumpus ref, perhaps?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "note 31" 		

Floyd | [31]: Wugrumps are cute, furry creatures that live on the planet Razor
Floyd | in the Edge system.  Unfortunately for the Wugrumps, all the other
Floyd | fauna on Razor are carnivorous, and Wugrums are the only things they
Floyd | like to eat.  Tough break.  One scientist estimated, however, that
Floyd | they spend fully 98% of their lives procreating.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "TMI"
		DavidW says, "They live on the Razor Edge."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in hat" 		

Floyd | You have no way of looking inside the wugrump hat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set dials to 17" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 17.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 17.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 17.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 17.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A lump of clay is in the
Floyd | Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x clay" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary lump of clay.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "mold clay" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "mold".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "play with clay" 		

Floyd | Strange, the things you use to amuse yourself.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set dials to 18" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 18.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 18.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 18.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 18.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  An id tag is in the Akmi
Floyd | Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x id tag" 		

Floyd | It's a metal ID tag.  Embossed letters on the tag read:
Floyd |
Floyd |    Leben, Comp Specialist, Akmi Space Ship Cheez Pig
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Hmm"
		DavidW says, "might be useful. But who knows."
		jenrexrode says, "sounds useful"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set dials to 19" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 19.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 19.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 19.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 19.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A blob of wax is in the Akmi
Floyd | Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wax" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary blob of wax.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "That's all 20."
		borowski asks, "Try planting the prune seeds?"
		DavidW says, "I'd visit Ada first with them, but yes, planting them does sound like a plan too."
		borowski asks, "Is she around?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in machine" 		

Floyd | A blob of wax is in the Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set dials to 18" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 18.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 18.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 18.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 18.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  An id tag is in the Akmi
Floyd | Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take id" 		

Floyd | Which id do you mean, the id tag, or the Galacticard?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "tag" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "She wasn't before, but now that we have seeds, she might be home now."
		jenrexrode says, "and what a grandma"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | Barfee Research Area Entrance
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in an empty hall with metal walls, ceiling, and
Floyd | floor.  Behind you, to the south, is the vault door that leads to the
Floyd | outside; it does not appear to open from the inside.  Right in front
Floyd | of you, farther down the hall, is a smaller but equally
Floyd | durable-looking door with a sign on it that reads "Barfee Research
Floyd | Central."  There is another room to the west, and to the east is what
Floyd | you assume to be the check-in area; you suspect that's where the boss
Floyd | is; this suspicion is partly affirmed by the growling and cursing
Floyd | emanating from within.  "Hakkar the Horrible" is in full form.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Featureless Cubicle
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's clear from the size and lack of decor that this room was built
Floyd | specifically to house the matter mover that fills it.  The hallway is
Floyd | to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The matter mover here is a bit unusual -- it has a button on it,
Floyd | next to a light.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x autodialer" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd | 5:  A dirt road
Floyd | 6:  Survey Station
Floyd | 7:  Kuwl Starport
Floyd | 8:  New Hell
Floyd | 9:  Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push 2 on autodialer" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Ada's pod
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in your true love Ada's pod.  It's quite similar to your
Floyd | own, but isn't nearly as messy.  Ada seems to have gone off and left
Floyd | saving the galaxy to you alone [6].
Floyd |
Floyd |    On the EV, Progressive 52109 is playing the music video for
Floyd | "Cyberspace Meltdown," by The Slag Puppies.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode says, "i think we're gonna die"
		DavidW says, "no, she's not here."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push 5 on autodialer" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | A dirt road
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing outside a matter mover right next to a dirt road.
Floyd | The weather is lovely here, if a bit humid, and the sky is a
Floyd | stunningly pure blue-green.  There is a crispness and freshness to the
Floyd | air here that you've never before experienced.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road is extremely narrow, and runs right through a corn field.
Floyd | It seems like the road has no business being here, but is a necessary
Floyd | nuisance.  It's clear that priorities are different on Foon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road leads east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Outside Elwood Farm
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing a few hundred yards away from a modest-sized
Floyd | farmhouse.  You gather from the posted sign that this is Elwood Farm,
Floyd | and that the corn lining the dirt road you came in on belongs to the
Floyd | Elwoods.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here, the building itself seems fairly well maintained, but
Floyd | could use a good painting.  The sizes of the carefully placed trees in
Floyd | the front yard give you the impression that people have lived on this
Floyd | plot of land for hundreds of years.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The farmhouse is to the west.  Head east and you're back at the
Floyd | local matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Outside the Elwood Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing at the wooden front door of the Elwood Farmhouse.
Floyd | A quaintly narrow stone path lined with colorful flowers leads up to
Floyd | the door, flanked on both sides by a well-groomed, vibrant kelly green
Floyd | lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The paint is peeling in places, and the windows could use new
Floyd | shutters, but otherwise the house is in decent shape considering its
Floyd | age -- the design, though simple, suggests architectural trends
Floyd | popular several hundred years ago, before the formation of the
Floyd | Republic [14].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The entrance is to the west.  You might also take a walk around the
Floyd | house to the northwest and southwest.  The stone path leads east, back
Floyd | to the dirt road.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode asks, "where is grandma's house?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | At a Garden Outside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here on the north side of the farmhouse is a large garden full of
Floyd | yummy-looking treats.  The soil has been recently tilled and smells
Floyd | wonderfully rich, and from the looks of it supports the vegetables
Floyd | planted in it far better than any Todian earth could.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You've heard plenty of stories about the near-magical fertility of
Floyd | the Foonian soil, but this close-up demonstration really drives the
Floyd | point home.  The goodies here are all oversized and delicious-looking.
Floyd | You suspect that even you, with your limited gardening experience,
Floyd | could grow a prize plant on Foon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here you can head either southeast, to the front of the
Floyd | farmhouse, or southwest, to the rear.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "no idea"
		DavidW says, "For all I know, it could be here."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "plant seeds" 		

Floyd | You pour all the seeds out and bury them in the rich soil.  There is
Floyd | now a lump in the soil where you planted the seeds.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pour gro on lump" 		

Floyd | You douse the seeds with Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro.  Soon after, you
Floyd | realize it probably wasn't such a good idea -- the lump of soil begins
Floyd | to foam, and then quickly vaporizes, taking the seeds with it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | At a Garden Outside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here on the north side of the farmhouse is a large garden full of
Floyd | yummy-looking treats.  The soil has been recently tilled and smells
Floyd | wonderfully rich, and from the looks of it supports the vegetables
Floyd | planted in it far better than any Todian earth could.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You've heard plenty of stories about the near-magical fertility of
Floyd | the Foonian soil, but this close-up demonstration really drives the
Floyd | point home.  The goodies here are all oversized and delicious-looking.
Floyd | You suspect that even you, with your limited gardening experience,
Floyd | could grow a prize plant on Foon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here you can head either southeast, to the front of the
Floyd | farmhouse, or southwest, to the rear.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, an id tag, a mysterious black sphere, a
Floyd | figurine of the Great Duhdha, a little motorized toy named Squirt, an
Floyd | EZ-Tech Blaser, a piece of salami, a geode, a box of KrudKo
Floyd | "Kolor-Me-Kool" snacks, a metal coat hanger, an olive drab uniform, a
Floyd | qualitative calculator, some Akmi Wacki Putti, a hammer, a dog-eared
Floyd | leaflet, a tiny triangular pink circuit board, an ary ung, a bolt, a
Floyd | magnetic letter Q, a plastic whistle, a plastic plover's egg, a
Floyd | firecracker, a mood ring (being worn), a piece of string (tied to the
Floyd | akmid), a poodle charm, a stick of butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a
Floyd | blender, a frying pan, a hunk of cheese, an overripe tomato, an akmid
Floyd | (tied to the piece of string), a thermos of Barfee advanced growth
Floyd | formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a paperback book,
Floyd | your thesis research floppy disk, an RGB color chart, an empty ReVoLT
Floyd | Kola can, a Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.  The
Floyd | mysterious black sphere is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "growth formula?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "pour formula on lump" 		

Floyd | You douse the seeds with Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta.
Floyd | Almost immediately thereafter the ground begins to shake violently,
Floyd | and you see a prune lying right on top of the soil.  So it *was*
Floyd | potent stuff after all!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x prune" 		

Floyd | You see just what you'd expect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "take prune" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "uh..."
		borowski says, "Huh"
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-16-01:32:03CDT 		DavidW asks, "Give the prune to the dog and hope it wants to go potty?"
		jenrexrode says, "hah"
		borowski says, "heh, sure"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | Outside the Elwood Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing at the wooden front door of the Elwood Farmhouse.
Floyd | A quaintly narrow stone path lined with colorful flowers leads up to
Floyd | the door, flanked on both sides by a well-groomed, vibrant kelly green
Floyd | lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The paint is peeling in places, and the windows could use new
Floyd | shutters, but otherwise the house is in decent shape considering its
Floyd | age -- the design, though simple, suggests architectural trends
Floyd | popular several hundred years ago, before the formation of the
Floyd | Republic [14].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The entrance is to the west.  You might also take a walk around the
Floyd | house to the northwest and southwest.  The stone path leads east, back
Floyd | to the dirt road.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Inside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in the entrance hallway of the Elwood farmhouse.
Floyd | The hardwood floors creak as you walk upon them, and the earthy,
Floyd | rustic decor delights your jaded cosmopolitan senses.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The front door is in the east wall.  Ahead, to the west, is the
Floyd | living room.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV dominates this simply furnished family room -- it's nestled
Floyd | comfortably in the center of the north wall, encased in a boxy dark
Floyd | wood enclosure with feet shaped like those on an old bathtub.  A burly
Floyd | old man is sacked out on the couch here in front of the enterviewer,
Floyd | eyes completely glazed over.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The kitchen is to the south.  A hall leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Channel 80180, your 37-hour sports network, is now featuring
Floyd | slamball, the bloody sport that's all the rage these days.  This
Floyd | tournament game features the Hop Hellions and the Tel Mu-tel-ators.  A
Floyd | player was just given 5 seconds in the penalty box for beheading an
Floyd | opponent.  His teammates are now protesting the unusual severity of
Floyd | the sanction.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Hall
Floyd |
Floyd |    This narrow hall is similar to the one at the farmhouse entrance.
Floyd | A wooden staircase leads up from here; unfortunately, it also leads up
Floyd | to a protective-looking dog who is currently barking his head off at
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    At the end of the hall, further west, is the back door.  It looks
Floyd | like it's been sealed shut.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give prune to dog" 		

Floyd | You toss the prune to the dog, who quickly devours it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd |
Floyd |    This narrow hall is similar to the one at the farmhouse entrance.
Floyd | A wooden staircase leads up from here; unfortunately, it also leads up
Floyd | to a protective-looking dog who is currently barking his head off at
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    At the end of the hall, further west, is the back door.  It looks
Floyd | like it's been sealed shut.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf28" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "give sphere to dog" 		

Floyd | The animal shows no interest whatsoever.  It doesn't exactly give you
Floyd | the impression that it is a rocket scientist among dogs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat prune" 		

Floyd | Yum, yum!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd |
Floyd |    This narrow hall is similar to the one at the farmhouse entrance.
Floyd | A wooden staircase leads up from here; unfortunately, it also leads up
Floyd | to a protective-looking dog who is currently barking his head off at
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    At the end of the hall, further west, is the back door.  It looks
Floyd | like it's been sealed shut.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "I wonder if the watchmaker would be interested in the sphere."
		DavidW says, "I'm a little underwhelmed with this prune."
		borowski says, "Maybe it's some evil akmi thing."
		jenrexrode says, "or we could throw it at the fence if he doesn't like it"
		borowski says (to DavidW), "Yeah, I can't believe it was all for nothing."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x thermos" 		

Floyd | It's a nondescript themos with potent-smelling liquid in it.  A label
Floyd | on the can says, "Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Maybe this whole game is one long brick joke about prunes."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pour forumla on prune" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "forumla".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pour formula on prune" 		

Floyd | Pouring Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta on the prune doesn't
Floyd | seem very productive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sphere" 		

Floyd | It's just a smooth black sphere.  It's ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Want to throw the sphere at the electric fence?"
		borowski says, "Sure."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV dominates this simply furnished family room -- it's nestled
Floyd | comfortably in the center of the north wall, encased in a boxy dark
Floyd | wood enclosure with feet shaped like those on an old bathtub.  A burly
Floyd | old man is sacked out on the couch here in front of the enterviewer,
Floyd | eyes completely glazed over.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The kitchen is to the south.  A hall leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Channel 80180, your 37-hour sports network, is now featuring golf.
Floyd | Yippee [32].
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Inside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in the entrance hallway of the Elwood farmhouse.
Floyd | The hardwood floors creak as you walk upon them, and the earthy,
Floyd | rustic decor delights your jaded cosmopolitan senses.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The front door is in the east wall.  Ahead, to the west, is the
Floyd | living room.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "note 32" 		

Floyd | [32]: No offense to you golf fans.  (Snicker.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Outside the Elwood Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing at the wooden front door of the Elwood Farmhouse.
Floyd | A quaintly narrow stone path lined with colorful flowers leads up to
Floyd | the door, flanked on both sides by a well-groomed, vibrant kelly green
Floyd | lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The paint is peeling in places, and the windows could use new
Floyd | shutters, but otherwise the house is in decent shape considering its
Floyd | age -- the design, though simple, suggests architectural trends
Floyd | popular several hundred years ago, before the formation of the
Floyd | Republic [14].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The entrance is to the west.  You might also take a walk around the
Floyd | house to the northwest and southwest.  The stone path leads east, back
Floyd | to the dirt road.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Outside Elwood Farm
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing a few hundred yards away from a modest-sized
Floyd | farmhouse.  You gather from the posted sign that this is Elwood Farm,
Floyd | and that the corn lining the dirt road you came in on belongs to the
Floyd | Elwoods.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here, the building itself seems fairly well maintained, but
Floyd | could use a good painting.  The sizes of the carefully placed trees in
Floyd | the front yard give you the impression that people have lived on this
Floyd | plot of land for hundreds of years.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The farmhouse is to the west.  Head east and you're back at the
Floyd | local matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | A dirt road
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing outside a matter mover right next to a dirt road.
Floyd | The weather is lovely here, if a bit humid, and the sky is a
Floyd | stunningly pure blue-green.  There is a crispness and freshness to the
Floyd | air here that you've never before experienced.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road is extremely narrow, and runs right through a corn field.
Floyd | It seems like the road has no business being here, but is a necessary
Floyd | nuisance.  It's clear that priorities are different on Foon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road leads east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "I'm half asleep but I want to see what happens."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push 6 on autodialer" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Survey Station
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of a narrow dirt road in front of a
Floyd | small survey station.  You assume that the station is used to monitor
Floyd | the frequent mining operations here on Irata.  A light on top of the
Floyd | station is blinking green.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The station entrance is to the north -- the road ends here -- but
Floyd | you can travel south on it.  Passage in other directions looks
Floyd | unlikely -- the forest is too dense.  There is, however, a matter
Floyd | mover next to the station.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | At a Tall Fence
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your way south is blocked by a very tall fence.  You notice a loud
Floyd | humming sound here.  It seems to be coming from the fence.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Thick forest surrounds you -- you can head back north, but it
Floyd | doesn't look like you'll make much progress going any other way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw sphere at fence" 		

Floyd | The mysterious black sphere hits the fence and there is a loud <ZAP>
Floyd | and a shower of sparks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take sphere" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sphere" 		

Floyd | It's just a smooth black sphere.  It's ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "rub sphere" 		

Floyd | Ok, you just rubbed the mysterious black sphere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit sphere" 		

Floyd | There's no reason to get huffy!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear id tag" 		

Floyd | You can't wear the id tag.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put id tag on uniform" 		

Floyd | You can't put anything on the olive drab uniform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "well, I dunno. Get a dead rat and give *that* to Rover?"
		jenrexrode asks, "is there a watchman?"
		DavidW asks, "Take the prune to the marketplace?"
		DavidW says (to jen), "There is, and it's a she."
		DavidW says, "The Watchman wants information."
		borowski asks, "Did we try showing her the circuit board?"
		borowski asks, "Maybe the guard lets us in because they know she wants it?"
		DavidW says, "hm, we showed the bouncer, but I don't think we showed it to her."
		DavidW says, "okay, that sounds like something to be certain of."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | At a Tall Fence
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your way south is blocked by a very tall fence.  You notice a loud
Floyd | humming sound here.  It seems to be coming from the fence.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Thick forest surrounds you -- you can head back north, but it
Floyd | doesn't look like you'll make much progress going any other way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | In a Small Clearing
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a small clearing in the middle of a dense
Floyd | forest.  The tall grass here tickles your ankles and sways in a light
Floyd | breeze.  A dirt road leads north.  Passage through the forest looks
Floyd | difficult, but you could probably make your way south.  You can also
Floyd | head southeast, back to where you crash landed earlier.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Survey Station
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of a narrow dirt road in front of a
Floyd | small survey station.  You assume that the station is used to monitor
Floyd | the frequent mining operations here on Irata.  A light on top of the
Floyd | station is blinking green.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The station entrance is to the north -- the road ends here -- but
Floyd | you can travel south on it.  Passage in other directions looks
Floyd | unlikely -- the forest is too dense.  There is, however, a matter
Floyd | mover next to the station.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x autodialer" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd | 5:  A dirt road
Floyd | 6:  Survey Station
Floyd | 7:  Kuwl Starport
Floyd | 8:  New Hell
Floyd | 9:  Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push 8 on autodialer" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mnover" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "mnover".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | New Hell
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a small lobby enclosed by a transparent dome.  The lobby
Floyd | opens up to the north into The Watchmen proper and an eastern portal
Floyd | leads outside.  This area itself is nondescript, but through the clear
Floyd | canopy you can see what a dark and terrifying world New Hell is:
Floyd | rivers of lava slither through the greasy-slick alleys of the slums
Floyd | and on to the distant horizon, where primordial geysers ejaculate
Floyd | molten rock into the midnight blue sky [27].
Floyd |
Floyd |    Flourescent spotlights flicker nervously, at moments illuminating
Floyd | the victims of the collective carnivorous orgy just long enough for
Floyd | you to take the scenes in, but briefly enough for you to mistake them
Floyd | for little nightmares.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You turn away.  New Hell isn't just where people suffer.  New Hell
Floyd | is where people who no one cares about suffer.  The poets' words don't
Floyd | drift away on the fiery rivers here.  There aren't any poets.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | At the Entrance to The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here is the entrance to The Watchmen, home to the Watchmaker and,
Floyd | from the looks of it, frequented by society's outcasts.  Through the
Floyd | entranceway you spy unusual characters of all sorts engaging in
Floyd | business, pleasure, and pain.
Floyd |
Floyd |    North of here is the inside of the establishment.  The matter mover
Floyd | and exit are to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen bouncer is keeping an eye on you.  He doesn't seem
Floyd | eager to let you enter.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show board to bouncer" 		

Floyd | The bouncer pulls a hand-held device out of his left trouser pocket
Floyd | and plugs the triangle into it.  He grunts, hands it back to you, and
Floyd | waves you through.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are wandering around the smoky, dark, cavernous interior of The
Floyd | Watchmen.  All around you oddly-dressed men make transactions, fight
Floyd | with each other, and generally carouse loudly.  It's so dimly lit here
Floyd | that you can barely find your way through the maze of human obstacles
Floyd | -- sitting, standing, and prone.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The employees all seem to be male, but in many cases it's hard to
Floyd | tell.  They are dressed very differently then the clientele -- slick
Floyd | fabric uniforms in dark maroon that look too tight.  Each employee has
Floyd | a gold pocket watch emblem on his chest, just above the heart.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen continues to the north and south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are wandering around the smoky, dark, cavernous interior of The
Floyd | Watchmen.  All around you oddly-dressed men make transactions, fight
Floyd | with each other, and generally carouse loudly.  It's so dimly lit here
Floyd | that you can barely find your way through the maze of human obstacles
Floyd | -- sitting, standing, and prone.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The employees all seem to be male, but in many cases it's hard to
Floyd | tell.  They are dressed very differently then the clientele -- slick
Floyd | fabric uniforms in dark maroon that look too tight.  Each employee has
Floyd | a gold pocket watch emblem on his chest, just above the heart.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen proper ends here, but there is another smaller area to
Floyd | the east.  The rest of the establishment is south of here.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | The Watchmaker's Headquarters
Floyd |
Floyd |    This area looks much like the rest of the place, but there are far
Floyd | fewer people here.  The majority are Watchmen employees, hovering
Floyd | around the Watchmaker.  No one pays much attention to you as you mill
Floyd | about.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmaker is here.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show board to Watchmaker" 		

Floyd | "No information is free, you little rugrat," the Watchmaker grumbles.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x watchmaker" 		

Floyd |    The first thing that strikes you about the Watchmaker is her face,
Floyd | which seems to be fixed in a look that says, "I'm more than you
Floyd | think".  She is perpetually calm, speaks in a raspy whisper, and has
Floyd | eyes that are alert with the analytical intelligence that has made her
Floyd | ruler of the Republic's excrement.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You see no hint of the insanity Timon Sketch alluded to -- only
Floyd | matter-of-fact evaluation and dispensation of orders.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Those who work here appear to obey her unquestioningly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "show sphere to watchmaker" 		

Floyd | "No information is free, you little rugrat," the Watchmaker grumbles.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show thesis to watchmaker" 		

Floyd | "No information is free, you little rugrat," the Watchmaker grumbles.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-16-01:47:03CDT 		jenrexrode says, "maybe she'd like a fake coin"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give prune to watchmaker" 		

Floyd | "Who the fuck is this brain-damaged college boy?  Anybody know this
Floyd | guy?"  she asks, never once looking you in the eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Watchmaker's Headquarters
Floyd |
Floyd |    This area looks much like the rest of the place, but there are far
Floyd | fewer people here.  The majority are Watchmen employees, hovering
Floyd | around the Watchmaker.  No one pays much attention to you as you mill
Floyd | about.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmaker is here.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "give circuit board to watchmaker" 		

Floyd | She looks up from her work and eyes you incredulously.  "Who the fuck
Floyd | are you?  No, scratch that.  I don't give a flying shit who you are.
Floyd | Do you have information?  If you do, let's talk.  Otherwise, get out,"
Floyd | she sneers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give thesis to watchmaker" 		

Floyd | "Who the fuck is this brain-damaged college boy?  Anybody know this
Floyd | guy?"  she asks, never once looking you in the eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Watchmaker's Headquarters
Floyd |
Floyd |    This area looks much like the rest of the place, but there are far
Floyd | fewer people here.  The majority are Watchmen employees, hovering
Floyd | around the Watchmaker.  No one pays much attention to you as you mill
Floyd | about.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmaker is here.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give sphere to watchmaker" 		

Floyd | "Who the fuck is this brain-damaged college boy?  Anybody know this
Floyd | guy?"  she asks, never once looking you in the eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Watchmaker's Headquarters
Floyd |
Floyd |    This area looks much like the rest of the place, but there are far
Floyd | fewer people here.  The majority are Watchmen employees, hovering
Floyd | around the Watchmaker.  No one pays much attention to you as you mill
Floyd | about.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmaker is here.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I suppose, based on the hints, that we're meant to get into Terminal Velocity next."
		jenrexrode says, "i hope the burly guy likes our name tag"
		DavidW says, "Can't wear the thing, though."
		DavidW says, "But yeah, we might try showing/giving inventory stuff to the guard."
		DavidW asks, "Maybe the calculator is geeky enough?"
		borowski says, "A useless gadget with lots of buttons? That's pretty geeky."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are wandering around the smoky, dark, cavernous interior of The
Floyd | Watchmen.  All around you oddly-dressed men make transactions, fight
Floyd | with each other, and generally carouse loudly.  It's so dimly lit here
Floyd | that you can barely find your way through the maze of human obstacles
Floyd | -- sitting, standing, and prone.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The employees all seem to be male, but in many cases it's hard to
Floyd | tell.  They are dressed very differently then the clientele -- slick
Floyd | fabric uniforms in dark maroon that look too tight.  Each employee has
Floyd | a gold pocket watch emblem on his chest, just above the heart.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen proper ends here, but there is another smaller area to
Floyd | the east.  The rest of the establishment is south of here.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are wandering around the smoky, dark, cavernous interior of The
Floyd | Watchmen.  All around you oddly-dressed men make transactions, fight
Floyd | with each other, and generally carouse loudly.  It's so dimly lit here
Floyd | that you can barely find your way through the maze of human obstacles
Floyd | -- sitting, standing, and prone.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The employees all seem to be male, but in many cases it's hard to
Floyd | tell.  They are dressed very differently then the clientele -- slick
Floyd | fabric uniforms in dark maroon that look too tight.  Each employee has
Floyd | a gold pocket watch emblem on his chest, just above the heart.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen continues to the north and south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Several partons in a nearby enclosed booth are attracting
Floyd | attention:  you get a good look at the one bound up in disruptor
Floyd | chains shouting, "Yes!  Yes!"  before your staring is noticed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | At the Entrance to The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here is the entrance to The Watchmen, home to the Watchmaker and,
Floyd | from the looks of it, frequented by society's outcasts.  Through the
Floyd | entranceway you spy unusual characters of all sorts engaging in
Floyd | business, pleasure, and pain.
Floyd |
Floyd |    North of here is the inside of the establishment.  The matter mover
Floyd | and exit are to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The bouncer is here, fortunately ignoring you.  Something is
Floyd | ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "disruptor chains?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are wandering around the smoky, dark, cavernous interior of The
Floyd | Watchmen.  All around you oddly-dressed men make transactions, fight
Floyd | with each other, and generally carouse loudly.  It's so dimly lit here
Floyd | that you can barely find your way through the maze of human obstacles
Floyd | -- sitting, standing, and prone.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The employees all seem to be male, but in many cases it's hard to
Floyd | tell.  They are dressed very differently then the clientele -- slick
Floyd | fabric uniforms in dark maroon that look too tight.  Each employee has
Floyd | a gold pocket watch emblem on his chest, just above the heart.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen continues to the north and south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chains" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "chains".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | At the Entrance to The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here is the entrance to The Watchmen, home to the Watchmaker and,
Floyd | from the looks of it, frequented by society's outcasts.  Through the
Floyd | entranceway you spy unusual characters of all sorts engaging in
Floyd | business, pleasure, and pain.
Floyd |
Floyd |    North of here is the inside of the establishment.  The matter mover
Floyd | and exit are to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The bouncer is here, fortunately ignoring you.  Something is
Floyd | ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | New Hell
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a small lobby enclosed by a transparent dome.  The lobby
Floyd | opens up to the north into The Watchmen proper and an eastern portal
Floyd | leads outside.  This area itself is nondescript, but through the clear
Floyd | canopy you can see what a dark and terrifying world New Hell is:
Floyd | rivers of lava slither through the greasy-slick alleys of the slums
Floyd | and on to the distant horizon, where primordial geysers ejaculate
Floyd | molten rock into the midnight blue sky [27].
Floyd |
Floyd |    Flourescent spotlights flicker nervously, at moments illuminating
Floyd | the victims of the collective carnivorous orgy just long enough for
Floyd | you to take the scenes in, but briefly enough for you to mistake them
Floyd | for little nightmares.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You turn away.  New Hell isn't just where people suffer.  New Hell
Floyd | is where people who no one cares about suffer.  The poets' words don't
Floyd | drift away on the fiery rivers here.  There aren't any poets.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push 9 on autodialer" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at
Floyd | the north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning
Floyd | you to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up,
Floyd | white down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You slip through while the guard's away...
Floyd |
Floyd | Southern Part of the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a southern part of Terminal Velocity's
Floyd | "Infinite Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to
Floyd | Terminal Velocity, though you can't see far enough to be sure.  To the
Floyd | south is the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The burly guard is patroling the hallway farther north.  He doesn't
Floyd | seem to notice you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Halfway down the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, but all you can see is a wall -- no door.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are rooms to the east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The burly guard is patroling the hallway farther north.  He doesn't
Floyd | seem to notice you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Northern Part of the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a northern part of Terminal Velocity's
Floyd | "Infinite Corridor."  To the north, where you thought the entrance to
Floyd | Terminal Velocity would be, is just a wall!  The only obvious way out
Floyd | is back to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a printed note on the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a burly musclehead here eyeing you suspiciously.
Floyd | Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Uh-oh.  The guard's noticed you.  You try to explain your
Floyd | transgression but he wants to hear nothing of it.  He picks you up
Floyd | with one arm and tosses you back into the Terminal Velocity gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at
Floyd | the north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning
Floyd | you to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up,
Floyd | white down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    An overweight fellow who hasn't washed recently is here, evidently
Floyd | waiting to be admitted to Terminal Velocity.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show calculator to guard" 		

Floyd | The guard expresses little interest in the qualitative calculator.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The overweight fellow who hasn't washed recently shows a pass and
Floyd | whispers a word to the guard, who then mumbles something into a
Floyd | colorful emblem on his right sleeve, nods his head, and motions
Floyd | northward, down the hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Huh, qualitative calculator."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show id tag to guard" 		

Floyd | The guard expresses little interest in the id tag.
Floyd |
Floyd |    An overweight fellow who hasn't washed recently walks out of the
Floyd | room.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hulking guard grunts at you menacingly and then elephant-walks
Floyd | away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "A pass and a password?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "show circuit board to guard" 		

Floyd | (trying to see the burly guard first)
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Ah, right"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "swordfish" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "swordfish".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You slip through while the guard's away...
Floyd |
Floyd | Southern Part of the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a southern part of Terminal Velocity's
Floyd | "Infinite Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to
Floyd | Terminal Velocity, though you can't see far enough to be sure.  To the
Floyd | south is the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a burly musclehead here eyeing you suspiciously.  An
Floyd | overweight fellow who hasn't washed recently is walking through here,
Floyd | evidently en route to Terminal Velocity.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd |    An overweight fellow who hasn't washed recently walks out of the
Floyd | room.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Uh-oh.  The guard's noticed you.  You try to explain your
Floyd | transgression but he wants to hear nothing of it.  He picks you up
Floyd | with one arm and tosses you back into the Terminal Velocity gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at
Floyd | the north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning
Floyd | you to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up,
Floyd | white down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mosaic" 		

Floyd | The mosaic forms the following message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up,
Floyd | white down"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop squirt" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hulking guard grunts at you menacingly and then elephant-walks
Floyd | away.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt zooms around madly for a few seconds, turns to face you, and
Floyd | then zips right up to your feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put sphere in gripper" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt turns to face you.  His blinking little LED's make him look
Floyd | like he's waiting for you to do something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode asks, "oh, have you tried that on the joystick?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hm?" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "hm".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "What do you mean?"
		jenrexrode says, "the down up thing, but not sure what the order is"
		DavidW says, "the joystick isn't even attached to anything."
		jenrexrode says, "maybe it's self contained something or other"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take squirt" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | An overweight fellow who hasn't washed recently emerges from the
Floyd | matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take sphere" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You slip through while the guard's away...
Floyd |
Floyd | Southern Part of the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a southern part of Terminal Velocity's
Floyd | "Infinite Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to
Floyd | Terminal Velocity, though you can't see far enough to be sure.  To the
Floyd | south is the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The burly guard is patroling the hallway farther north.  He doesn't
Floyd | seem to notice you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Halfway down the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, but all you can see is a wall -- no door.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are rooms to the east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a burly musclehead here eyeing you suspiciously.
Floyd | Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Uh-oh.  The guard's noticed you.  You try to explain your
Floyd | transgression but he wants to hear nothing of it.  He picks you up
Floyd | with one arm and tosses you back into the Terminal Velocity gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at
Floyd | the north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning
Floyd | you to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up,
Floyd | white down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    An overweight fellow who hasn't washed recently is here, evidently
Floyd | waiting to be admitted to Terminal Velocity.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The overweight fellow who hasn't washed recently shows a pass and
Floyd | whispers a word to the guard, who then mumbles something into a
Floyd | colorful emblem on his right sleeve, nods his head, and motions
Floyd | northward, down the hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at
Floyd | the north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning
Floyd | you to come inside.  Unfortunately, the burly musclehead who's
Floyd | standing in your way isn't.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up,
Floyd | white down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a burly musclehead here eyeing you suspiciously.  An
Floyd | overweight fellow who hasn't washed recently is here, evidently
Floyd | waiting to be admitted to Terminal Velocity.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask fellow about password" 		

Floyd | The overweight fellow who hasn't washed recently looks at you funny
Floyd | for a second, then tells you to "frob off and go grep some other
Floyd | unit."
Floyd |
Floyd |    The overweight fellow who hasn't washed recently shows a pass and
Floyd | whispers a word to the guard, who then mumbles something into a
Floyd | colorful emblem on his right sleeve, nods his head, and motions
Floyd | northward, down the hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "show circuit board to guard" 		

Floyd | The guard expresses little interest in the tiny triangular pink
Floyd | circuit board.
Floyd |
Floyd |    An overweight fellow who hasn't washed recently walks out of the
Floyd | room.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hulking guard grunts at you menacingly and then elephant-walks
Floyd | away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "show thesis to guard" 		

Floyd | (trying to see the burly guard first)
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-16-02:02:03CDT 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | An overweight fellow who hasn't washed recently emerges from the
Floyd | matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "fellow, pass-p?" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "pass-p".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "fellow, password-p" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "password-p".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "hm. We could, maybe, impersonate the guard to the extent of learning the password?"
		borowski says, "we do have the uniform"
		jenrexrode says, "cool"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at
Floyd | the north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning
Floyd | you to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up,
Floyd | white down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    An overweight fellow who hasn't washed recently is here, evidently
Floyd | waiting to be admitted to Terminal Velocity.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear uniform" 		

Floyd | You are now wearing the olive drab uniform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You slip through while the guard's away...
Floyd |
Floyd | Southern Part of the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a southern part of Terminal Velocity's
Floyd | "Infinite Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to
Floyd | Terminal Velocity, though you can't see far enough to be sure.  To the
Floyd | south is the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a burly musclehead here eyeing you suspiciously.
Floyd | Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The guard storms over to you and demands that you remove the extra
Floyd | uniform.  You comply fearfully.  He then picks you up by the scruff of
Floyd | the neck and carries you back to the Terminal Velocity gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at
Floyd | the north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning
Floyd | you to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up,
Floyd | white down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    An overweight fellow who hasn't washed recently is here, evidently
Floyd | waiting to be admitted to Terminal Velocity.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at
Floyd | the north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning
Floyd | you to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up,
Floyd | white down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    An overweight fellow who hasn't washed recently is here, evidently
Floyd | waiting to be admitted to Terminal Velocity.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove uniform" 		

Floyd | You take off the olive drab uniform.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The beefy guard lumbers into the room with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The overweight fellow who hasn't washed recently shows a pass and
Floyd | whispers a word to the guard, who then mumbles something into a
Floyd | colorful emblem on his right sleeve, nods his head, and motions
Floyd | northward, down the hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    An overweight fellow who hasn't washed recently walks out of the
Floyd | room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hulking guard grunts at you menacingly and then elephant-walks
Floyd | away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "wear uniform" 		

Floyd | You are now wearing the olive drab uniform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "talk to guy" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "talk".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask guy about password" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that
Floyd | to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "no, wait for the next one."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | An average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts emerges from
Floyd | the matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask guy about password" 		

Floyd | The average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts whispers the
Floyd | password in your ear.  You fold your arms across your chest.  "Sorry,"
Floyd | you announce sternly, "but we're clo...  ah, down today for rennova...
Floyd | er, a rebuild."  He looks a bit confused, but decides not to argue the
Floyd | point and heads back to the matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 4 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "woohoo"
borowski says (to Floyd), "take off uniform" 		

Floyd | You take off the olive drab uniform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at
Floyd | the north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning
Floyd | you to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up,
Floyd | white down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You slip through while the guard's away...
Floyd |
Floyd | Southern Part of the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a southern part of Terminal Velocity's
Floyd | "Infinite Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to
Floyd | Terminal Velocity, though you can't see far enough to be sure.  To the
Floyd | south is the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The burly guard is patroling the hallway farther north.  He doesn't
Floyd | seem to notice you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "tell password to guard" 		

Floyd | Nothing matching that vocabulary can hear you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "tell guard the password" 		

Floyd | Nothing matching that vocabulary can hear you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "we need a physical pass too, no?"
		DavidW asks, "Did you ask guy for pass as well?"
		borowski says, "Hmm"
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Halfway down the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, but all you can see is a wall -- no door.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are rooms to the east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a burly musclehead here eyeing you suspiciously.
Floyd | Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Uh-oh.  The guard's noticed you.  You try to explain your
Floyd | transgression but he wants to hear nothing of it.  He picks you up
Floyd | with one arm and tosses you back into the Terminal Velocity gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at
Floyd | the north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning
Floyd | you to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up,
Floyd | white down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    An average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts is here,
Floyd | evidently waiting to be admitted to Terminal Velocity.  Something is
Floyd | ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put on uniform" 		

Floyd | You are now wearing the olive drab uniform.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts shows a
Floyd | pass and whispers a word to the guard, who then mumbles something into
Floyd | a colorful emblem on his right sleeve, nods his head, and motions
Floyd | northward, down the hall.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The guard storms over to you and demands that you remove the extra
Floyd | uniform.  You comply fearfully.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "s" 		DavidW says, "undo that"

Floyd | A polite female voice informs you, "Loop-back test passed;
Floyd | verification code 931R.  No errors detected."
Floyd |
Floyd |    An average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts walks out of
Floyd | the room.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hulking guard grunts at you menacingly and then elephant-walks
Floyd | away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put on uniform" 		

Floyd | You are now wearing the olive drab uniform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "931R?"
		borowski says, "Huh"
borowski says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at
Floyd | the north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning
Floyd | you to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up,
Floyd | white down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd | Why not use the matter mover like everyone else?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Why not use the matter mover like everyone else?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | A polite female voice informs you, "Loop-back test passed;
Floyd | verification code 931R.  No errors detected."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh, I see."
		borowski says, "yeah"
		DavidW says, "Entering a mover with its own coordinates."
		DavidW says (to borowski), "Drive for a bit."
borowski says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at
Floyd | the north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning
Floyd | you to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up,
Floyd | white down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |

		
Floyd A beautiful young woman with auburn hair and greenish-blue eyes [33] 		

Floyd | emerges from the matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "note 33" 		

Floyd | [33]: "Her eyes are the color of the sea ...  or the sky."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put on uniform" 		

Floyd | You're already wearing the olive drab uniform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask woman about pass" 		

Floyd | You don't know what that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "for pass"
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask woman for pass" 		

Floyd | You don't know what that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hmmmm"
		borowski says, "Actually I really should go to bed."
		DavidW asks, "Perhaps we have to fail with the password first?"
		DavidW asks, "Or maybe the password is enough?"
		borowski says, "I wouldn't hurt to try"
		DavidW says, "so just remove the uniform and tell the password to the guard when he gets here."
		jenrexrode says, "maybe he'll give us a hint"
		DavidW says, "yeah"
borowski says (to Floyd), "take off uniform" 		

Floyd | You take off the olive drab uniform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You slip through while the guard's away...
Floyd |
Floyd | Southern Part of the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a southern part of Terminal Velocity's
Floyd | "Infinite Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to
Floyd | Terminal Velocity, though you can't see far enough to be sure.  To the
Floyd | south is the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The burly guard is patroling the hallway farther north.  He doesn't
Floyd | seem to notice you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "tell password to guard" 		

Floyd | Nothing matching that vocabulary can hear you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The beefy guard lumbers into the room with you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Uh-oh.  The guard's noticed you.  You try to explain your
Floyd | transgression but he wants to hear nothing of it.  He picks you up
Floyd | with one arm and tosses you back into the Terminal Velocity gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at
Floyd | the north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning
Floyd | you to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up,
Floyd | white down"
Floyd |

		
Floyd A beautiful young woman with auburn hair and greenish-blue eyes 		
Floyd [33] is here, evidently waiting to be admitted to Terminal Velocity. 		

Floyd | Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |

		
Floyd The beautiful young woman with auburn hair and greenish-blue eyes 		
Floyd [33] shows a pass and whispers a word to the guard, who then mumbles 		

Floyd | something into a colorful emblem on his right sleeve, nods his head,
Floyd | and motions northward, down the hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-16-02:17:03CDT 		
borowski says (to Floyd), "tell password to guard" 		

Floyd | "You're not a regular," the guard grunts.  "Use the back door, luser."
Floyd |

		
Floyd A beautiful young woman with auburn hair and greenish-blue eyes 		
Floyd [33] walks out of the room. 		

Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask guard about back door" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that
Floyd | to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "If only there were some asps or spas around."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "save" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "legend5" 		

Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "3:20am. Sheesh."
borowski has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		borowski says, "Yeah, but I'm glad we got somewhere."
		DavidW says, "yeah"
		DavidW asks (of ggg), "We're done for tonight, alright?"
		jenrexrode says, "ok"
jenrexrode has had her fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		
Ellison has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" 		

Floyd | In 1294 turns, you have earned 35 points out of a possible 75.
Floyd | You have completed approximately 55 percent of the game.
Floyd | You have gotten 3 hints.
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you really want to quit?  (YES or NO) >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | The Legend awaits your return.
Floyd |

		
		
*** Sixth Session *** 		
		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | File to restore game from >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "legend5" 		

Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at the
Floyd | north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning you
Floyd | to come inside.  Unfortunately, the burly musclehead who's standing in
Floyd | your way isn't.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up, white
Floyd | down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a burly musclehead here eyeing you suspiciously.  Something
Floyd | is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask guard about pass" 		

Floyd | You don't know what that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "So, last time we had gotten the password, but we're still missing a pass?"
		DavidW says, "Yes."
		DavidW asks, "I think we'll have to acquire some other customer's pass, maybe via 'ask guy for pass'?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at the
Floyd | north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning you
Floyd | to come inside.  Unfortunately, the burly musclehead who's standing in
Floyd | your way isn't.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up, white
Floyd | down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a burly musclehead here eyeing you suspiciously.  Something
Floyd | is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hulking guard grunts at you menacingly and then elephant-walks
Floyd | away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Are we wearing the uniform?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd | You're still Gavin Kelly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a mysterious black sphere, a little
Floyd | motorized toy named Squirt, a prune, an id tag, a figurine of the Great
Floyd | Duhdha, an EZ-Tech Blaser, a piece of salami, a geode, a box of KrudKo
Floyd | "Kolor-Me-Kool" snacks, a metal coat hanger, an olive drab uniform, a
Floyd | qualitative calculator, some Akmi Wacki Putti, a hammer, a dog-eared
Floyd | leaflet, a tiny triangular pink circuit board, an ary ung, a bolt, a
Floyd | magnetic letter Q, a plastic whistle, a plastic plover's egg, a
Floyd | firecracker, a mood ring (being worn), a piece of string (tied to the
Floyd | akmid), a poodle charm, a stick of butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a
Floyd | blender, a frying pan, a hunk of cheese, an overripe tomato, an akmid
Floyd | (tied to the piece of string), a thermos of Barfee advanced growth
Floyd | formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a paperback book,
Floyd | your thesis research floppy disk, an RGB color chart, an empty ReVoLT
Floyd | Kola can, a Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.  The mysterious
Floyd | black sphere is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear uniform" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | An average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts emerges from the
Floyd | matter mover.You are now wearing the olive drab uniform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask fellow for pass" 		

Floyd | You don't know what that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to fellow" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "talk".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask fellow about pass" 		

Floyd | You don't know what that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask man about pass" 		

Floyd | You don't know what that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hmph"
		borowski says, "I guess it doesn't know 'pass'"
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask man about ticket" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "ticket".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fellow" 		

Floyd | He looks pretty much like you'd expect an average-looking fellow
Floyd | wearing a T-shirt and shorts to look.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search fellow" 		

Floyd | He looks pretty much like you'd expect an average-looking fellow
Floyd | wearing a T-shirt and shorts to look.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Or maybe it thinks 'pass' is a verb?"
		borowski asks, "What exactly did the game say when we told the guard the password?"
		DavidW says, "I don't remember the exact text."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I think we couldn't."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, here."
		| borowski says (to Floyd), "tell password to guard"

genericgeekgirl  | Floyd | "You're not a regular," the guard grunts.  "Use the back door, luser."

				DavidW asks, "hm. Is there a back door? can we ask the guard or a fellow about 'back door'?"
		genericgeekgirl | At the end of the hall, further west, is the back door. It looks like it's been sealed shut.
		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh. Nevermind."
		genericgeekgirl says, "That's from a different part of the game :P"
		DavidW says, "Different planet, even."
		genericgeekgirl says, "We tried to ask about the back door, and it told us there was nothing here matching that vocabulary, which usually means the guard was no longer in ear shot."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask fellow about back door" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x fellow" 		

Floyd | He looks pretty much like you'd expect an average-looking fellow
Floyd | wearing a T-shirt and shorts to look.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "bleh"
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask fellow for password" 		

Floyd | The average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts whispers the
Floyd | password in your ear.  You fold your arms across your chest.  "Sorry,"
Floyd | you announce sternly, "but we're clo...  ah, down today for rennova...
Floyd | er, a rebuild."  He looks a bit confused, but decides not to argue the
Floyd | point and heads back to the matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at the
Floyd | north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning you
Floyd | to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up, white
Floyd | down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    An average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts is here,
Floyd | evidently waiting to be admitted to Terminal Velocity.  Something is
Floyd | ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask fellow for disk" 		

Floyd | "the average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts gives you a
Floyd | funny look.  "Awk!  Are you a zombie process, B1FF?"  he asks
Floyd | rhetorically.  "Get with the procedure:  why don't we parse in the bar
Floyd | like the other units -- ack-p?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "When the fellow 'heads back', can we bop him one on the head and search him?"
		borowski says, "I remember the note in our room saying that people need some interesting data to get in."
		DavidW asks, "oh. really? Would our thesis count?"
		borowski says, "I *think* I tried that"
Binder arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. 		Binder says, "As usual, I'm just here to gape and kibitz while I do work in another window."
borowski says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You slip through while the guard's away...
Floyd |
Floyd | Southern Part of the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a southern part of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, though you can't see far enough to be sure.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a burly musclehead here eyeing you suspiciously.  Something
Floyd | is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The guard storms over to you and demands that you remove the extra
Floyd | uniform.  You comply fearfully.  He then picks you up by the scruff of
Floyd | the neck and carries you back to the Terminal Velocity gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at the
Floyd | north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning you
Floyd | to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up, white
Floyd | down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    An average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts is here,
Floyd | evidently waiting to be admitted to Terminal Velocity.  Something is
Floyd | ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask man for data" 		

Floyd | Which data do you mean, the Galacticard, or the Zippikraft detachable
Floyd | keyboard?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x keyboard" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask man for galacticard" 		

Floyd | Which man do you mean, the burly guard, or the average-looking fellow
Floyd | wearing a T-shirt and shorts?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "The keyboard is back at our pod."
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask fellow for galacticard" 		

Floyd | "the average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts gives you a
Floyd | funny look.  "Awk!  Are you a zombie process, B1FF?"  he asks
Floyd | rhetorically.  "Get with the procedure:  why don't we parse in the bar
Floyd | like the other units -- ack-p?"
Floyd |
Floyd |    The average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts shows a pass
Floyd | and whispers a word to the guard, who then mumbles something into a
Floyd | colorful emblem on his right sleeve, nods his head, and motions
Floyd | northward, down the hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "give thesis to guard" 		

Floyd | The burly guard doesn't seem interested in your thesis research floppy
Floyd | disk.
Floyd |
Floyd |    An average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts walks out of
Floyd | the room.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hulking guard grunts at you menacingly and then elephant-walks
Floyd | away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-24-21:48:15CDT 		DavidW asks, "hm. What about the ID tag from the transmog? Have we tried that?"
		borowski asks, "Did we get the name tag from the transmogrifier? Maybe we can use that?"
		borowski says, "timing!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tag" 		

Floyd | It's a metal ID tag.  Embossed letters on the tag read:
Floyd |
Floyd |    Leben, Comp Specialist, Akmi Space Ship Cheez Pig
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "We have it."
borowski says (to Floyd), "wear tag" 		

Floyd | You can't wear the id tag.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put tag on shirt" 		

Floyd | There is nothing matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put tag on uniform" 		

Floyd | You can't put anything on the olive drab uniform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "show guard tag" 		

Floyd | I don't see any guard tag here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |

		
Floyd A beautiful young woman with auburn hair and greenish-blue eyes [33] 		

Floyd | emerges from the matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask woman for id" 		

Floyd | Which id do you mean, the id tag, or the Galacticard?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask woman about id" 		

Floyd | Which id do you mean, the id tag, or the Galacticard?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "perhaps the woman is different from the geek guys?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask woman about password" 		
Floyd The beautiful young woman with auburn hair and greenish-blue eyes [33] 		

Floyd | looks at you funny for a second, then tells you to "frob off and go
Floyd | grep some other unit."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at the
Floyd | north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning you
Floyd | to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up, white
Floyd | down"
Floyd |

		
Floyd A beautiful young woman with auburn hair and greenish-blue eyes [33] 		

Floyd | is here, evidently waiting to be admitted to Terminal Velocity.
Floyd | Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm, no, she's speaking hacker too."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show mood ring to woman" 		
Floyd The beautiful young woman with auburn hair and greenish-blue eyes [33] 		

Floyd | doesn't seem interested in the mood ring.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "note 33" 		

Floyd | [33]: "Her eyes are the color of the sea ...  or the sky."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask woman for password" 		
Floyd The beautiful young woman with auburn hair and greenish-blue eyes [33] 		

Floyd | looks at you funny for a second, then tells you to "frob off and go
Floyd | grep some other unit."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "wear uniform" 		

Floyd | You are now wearing the olive drab uniform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask woman for password" 		
Floyd The beautiful young woman with auburn hair and greenish-blue eyes [33] 		

Floyd | whispers the password in your ear.  You fold your arms across your
Floyd | chest.  "Sorry," you announce sternly, "but we're clo...  ah, down
Floyd | today for rennova...  er, a rebuild."  She looks a bit confused, but
Floyd | decides not to argue the point and heads back to the matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit woman" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "take off uniform" 		

Floyd | You take off the olive drab uniform.
Floyd |
Floyd | An average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts emerges from the
Floyd | matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You slip through while the guard's away...
Floyd |
Floyd | Southern Part of the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a southern part of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, though you can't see far enough to be sure.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x guard" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Halfway down the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, but all you can see is a wall -- no door.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are rooms to the east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a burly musclehead here eyeing you suspiciously.  Something
Floyd | is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Uh-oh.  The guard's noticed you.  You try to explain your
Floyd | transgression but he wants to hear nothing of it.  He picks you up with
Floyd | one arm and tosses you back into the Terminal Velocity gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at the
Floyd | north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning you
Floyd | to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up, white
Floyd | down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    An average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts is here,
Floyd | evidently waiting to be admitted to Terminal Velocity.  Something is
Floyd | ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts shows a pass
Floyd | and whispers a word to the guard, who then mumbles something into a
Floyd | colorful emblem on his right sleeve, nods his head, and motions
Floyd | northward, down the hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "show guard id" 		

Floyd | I don't see any guard id here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "show id to guard" 		

Floyd | Which id do you mean, the id tag, or the Galacticard?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "show id tag to guard" 		

Floyd | The guard expresses little interest in the id tag.
Floyd |
Floyd |    An average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts walks out of
Floyd | the room.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hulking guard grunts at you menacingly and then elephant-walks
Floyd | away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x mosiac" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "mosiac".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at the
Floyd | north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning you
Floyd | to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up, white
Floyd | down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "What the heck is the mosaic about?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "We haven't figured it out yet."
		DavidW says, "I suspect the mosaic is a hint for a puzzle we haven't seen yet."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Where is the toy room?"
		DavidW says, "East of the mid-hall."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You slip through while the guard's away...
Floyd |
Floyd | Southern Part of the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a southern part of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, though you can't see far enough to be sure.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a burly musclehead here eyeing you suspiciously.  Something
Floyd | is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Uh-oh.  The guard's noticed you.  You try to explain your
Floyd | transgression but he wants to hear nothing of it.  He picks you up with
Floyd | one arm and tosses you back into the Terminal Velocity gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at the
Floyd | north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning you
Floyd | to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up, white
Floyd | down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at the
Floyd | north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning you
Floyd | to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up, white
Floyd | down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "remove uniform" 		

Floyd | You already have the olive drab uniform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, we weren't wearing it. Ok. He's just a jerk."
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You slip through while the guard's away...
Floyd |
Floyd | Southern Part of the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a southern part of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, though you can't see far enough to be sure.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a burly musclehead here eyeing you suspiciously.  Something
Floyd | is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Uh-oh.  The guard's noticed you.  You try to explain your
Floyd | transgression but he wants to hear nothing of it.  He picks you up with
Floyd | one arm and tosses you back into the Terminal Velocity gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at the
Floyd | north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning you
Floyd | to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up, white
Floyd | down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "take off uniform" 		

Floyd | You take off the olive drab uniform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | The burly gorilla won't let you in until you've been approved by the
Floyd | management.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hulking guard grunts at you menacingly and then elephant-walks
Floyd | away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Maybe we can trade something a geek would want for a pass? Would any of them want a Valley King action figure, for example?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Ha."
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You slip through while the guard's away...
Floyd |
Floyd | Southern Part of the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a southern part of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, though you can't see far enough to be sure.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a burly musclehead here eyeing you suspiciously.  Something
Floyd | is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Uh-oh.  The guard's noticed you.  You try to explain your
Floyd | transgression but he wants to hear nothing of it.  He picks you up with
Floyd | one arm and tosses you back into the Terminal Velocity gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at the
Floyd | north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning you
Floyd | to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up, white
Floyd | down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    An average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts is here,
Floyd | evidently waiting to be admitted to Terminal Velocity.  Something is
Floyd | ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x action" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | The burly gorilla won't let you in until you've been approved by the
Floyd | management.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts shows a pass
Floyd | and whispers a word to the guard, who then mumbles something into a
Floyd | colorful emblem on his right sleeve, nods his head, and motions
Floyd | northward, down the hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Go away, Mister Guard."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    An average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts walks out of
Floyd | the room.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hulking guard grunts at you menacingly and then elephant-walks
Floyd | away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You slip through while the guard's away...
Floyd |
Floyd | Southern Part of the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a southern part of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, though you can't see far enough to be sure.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a burly musclehead here eyeing you suspiciously.  An
Floyd | average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts is walking through
Floyd | here, evidently en route to Terminal Velocity.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd |    An average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts walks out of
Floyd | the room.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Uh-oh.  The guard's noticed you.  You try to explain your
Floyd | transgression but he wants to hear nothing of it.  He picks you up with
Floyd | one arm and tosses you back into the Terminal Velocity gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at the
Floyd | north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning you
Floyd | to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up, white
Floyd | down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop sphere" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW) genericgeek girl zaps the guard with the ary ung, turning the guard into an ad rug.
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | The burly gorilla won't let you in until you've been approved by the
Floyd | management.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hulking guard grunts at you menacingly and then elephant-walks
Floyd | away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |

		
Floyd A beautiful young woman with auburn hair and greenish-blue eyes [33] 		

Floyd | emerges from the matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x woman" 		
Floyd She looks pretty much like you'd expect a beautiful young woman with 		
Floyd auburn hair and greenish-blue eyes [33] to look. 		

Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "note 33" 		

Floyd | [33]: "Her eyes are the color of the sea ...  or the sky."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to woman" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "talk".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "woman, hello" 		
Floyd The beautiful young woman with auburn hair and greenish-blue eyes [33] 		

Floyd | nods.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "dance" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "dance".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You slip through while the guard's away...
Floyd |
Floyd | Southern Part of the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a southern part of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, though you can't see far enough to be sure.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Halfway down the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, but all you can see is a wall -- no door.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are rooms to the east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The burly guard is patroling the hallway farther north.  He doesn't
Floyd | seem to notice you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Toy Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The decor here is extraordinary -- the walls, floor and ceiling
Floyd | provide a perfectly white background for the giant splotches of paint
Floyd | of all different colors that are splashed everywhere.  The room is
Floyd | filled with weird toys of all sorts, and the only furniture is a giant
Floyd | beanbag.  There is an enterviewer embedded in the wall.  The only way
Floyd | out is back west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Channel 80180, your 37-hour sports network, is now featuring a sport
Floyd | that seems to involve blowing things up.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A sign on the wall says, "Please do not try to take our toys."
Floyd |
Floyd |    An Akmi JoiStyk, an Akmi Sez, The Swarm, an Akmi PuzzelKyoob, and a
Floyd | giant beanbag are here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x joistyk" 		

Floyd | This gadget looks a lot more like a zucchini stuck in a bowl of vanilla
Floyd | pudding than a human-computer interface device.  It's dull green with
Floyd | numerous dimples and orange racing stripes all over.  A thin cable
Floyd | snakes out of the rear of the Styk and ends in a pentagonal connector.
Floyd | The Akmi JoiStyk is not attached to anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "oh. The guard is described as a 'gorilla' or 'elephant'. Would he like bananas?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x connector" 		

Floyd | There's nothing odd about it, except that it's 5-sided.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hm. Maybe."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x sez" 		

Floyd | Almost every child in the galaxy has one of these clever little toys.
Floyd | It's a wafer-thin disk with little colored pads on it that you touch;
Floyd | the idea is to repeat the machine's patterns exactly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x swarm" 		

Floyd | The Swarm is a twisty jumble of artificial insects, all alike.  They
Floyd | fly around madly, roughly tracking what seems to be the "leader" in
Floyd | drunken arcs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x puzzelkyoob" 		

Floyd | It's a 6x6x6 cube with colored squares on it.  You can rotate the
Floyd | various rows of blocks around on all axes.  It is currently in the
Floyd | solved configuration.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-24-22:03:15CDT 		
borowski says (to Floyd), "rotate puzzelkyoob" 		

Floyd | You can't turn the Akmi PuzzelKyoob.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "release swarm" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "release".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "agitate swarm" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "agitate".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x leader" 		

Floyd | The Swarm is a twisty jumble of artificial insects, all alike.  They
Floyd | fly around madly, roughly tracking what seems to be the "leader" in
Floyd | drunken arcs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Perhaps a geek would want the kyoob?>"
borowski says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Toy Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The decor here is extraordinary -- the walls, floor and ceiling
Floyd | provide a perfectly white background for the giant splotches of paint
Floyd | of all different colors that are splashed everywhere.  The room is
Floyd | filled with weird toys of all sorts, and the only furniture is a giant
Floyd | beanbag.  There is an enterviewer embedded in the wall.  The only way
Floyd | out is back west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Channel 80180, your 37-hour sports network, is now featuring
Floyd | starship races in the Wumsley Wormhole.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A sign on the wall says, "Please do not try to take our toys."
Floyd |
Floyd |    An Akmi JoiStyk, an Akmi Sez, The Swarm, an Akmi PuzzelKyoob, and a
Floyd | giant beanbag are here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh, right, no stealin'."
		borowski asks, "Have we tried stealin'?"
		DavidW says, "Don't remember."
		borowski says, "err, thiefin'"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x ev" 		
Floyd The Akmi Kristl Kleer Kwality PM [17] Enterviewer is visually 		

Floyd | unimpressive, particularly considering you've seen about ten thousand
Floyd | identical models before.  (Akmi sometimes has a hard time letting go
Floyd | once they've found a formula that works.)  It's orange, it's mauve,
Floyd | it's purple.  It's squat and has functionless dimples all over its
Floyd | irregularly shaped bulbous case.  The screen is nearly square and inset
Floyd | at a jaunty angle.  In short, a typical product of the Akmi Aesthetix
Floyd | Division [18].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV has a tuning dial; you can choose from thousands of different
Floyd | stations from across the galaxy.  The dial goes from 1 to 100,000 and
Floyd | is currently set to 80180.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Channel 80180, your 37-hour sports network, is now featuring
Floyd | starship races in the Wumsley Wormhole.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf29" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take kyoob" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Halfway down the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, but all you can see is a wall -- no door.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are rooms to the east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The burly guard is patroling the hallway farther south.  He doesn't
Floyd | seem to notice you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Mine now."
		DavidW asks, "the guard is south?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah."
		DavidW asks, "Can we go north and see what's up there?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "There's no way north."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Northern Part of the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a northern part of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, where you thought the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity would be, is just a wall!  The only obvious way out is back to
Floyd | the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a printed note on the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x note" 		

Floyd | The printed note on the wall says, "Remember:  Don't tell the password
Floyd | to anyone but a Terminal Velocity employee!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kick wall" 		

Floyd | Which wall do you mean, the walls, or the wall where you thought the
Floyd | entrance to Terminal Velocity would be?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kick the wall" 		

Floyd | Which wall do you mean, the walls, or the wall where you thought the
Floyd | entrance to Terminal Velocity would be?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kick the wall where you thought the entrance to terminal velocity would be" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "where".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | Halfway down the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, but all you can see is a wall -- no door.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are rooms to the east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a burly musclehead here eyeing you suspiciously.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Uh-oh.  The guard's noticed you.  You try to explain your
Floyd | transgression but he wants to hear nothing of it.  He picks you up with
Floyd | one arm and tosses you back into the Terminal Velocity gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at the
Floyd | north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning you
Floyd | to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up, white
Floyd | down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mysterious black sphere is here.  The mysterious black sphere is
Floyd | ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Northern Part of the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a northern part of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, where you thought the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity would be, is just a wall!  The only obvious way out is back to
Floyd | the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a printed note on the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The burly guard is patroling the hallway farther south.  He doesn't
Floyd | seem to notice you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take note" 		

Floyd | You can't take the printed note.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm. I suppose the note is a clue that we didn't need."
		DavidW asks, "Any way to see what the other patrons do when they approach the wall at the north end?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Dunno. If we wait too long, the guard probably kicks us out."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search entrance wall" 		

Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search north wall" 		

Floyd | A thorough inspection of the wall reveals absolutely nothing unusual.
Floyd | These people are good!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "curses"
		DavidW says, "I suppose the guard opens it via that emblem he's got, if I have to guess."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "knock on north wall" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "knock".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push north wall" 		

Floyd | Which wall do you mean, the walls, the wall where you thought the
Floyd | entrance to Terminal Velocity would be, the transparent walls, the pod
Floyd | walls, or the walls?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I guess the author never thought of that possible command. That must've pulled up every 'wall' in the game!"
		borowski asks, "Are all tads 2 games like this?"
		borowski asks, "With the parser weirdness?"
		DavidW asks, "Well, the parser is different for TADS 2 compared to Inform, yes. Usually the differences don't show, but we do seem to test the limits, don't we?"
		borowski says, "Yes, we do 'take it to the limit'"
		DavidW says, "The notion of scope is obviously different."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push north north wall" 		

Floyd | You can't move the wall where you thought the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity would be.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The beefy guard lumbers into the room with you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Uh-oh.  The guard's noticed you.  You try to explain your
Floyd | transgression but he wants to hear nothing of it.  He picks you up with
Floyd | one arm and tosses you back into the Terminal Velocity gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at the
Floyd | north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning you
Floyd | to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up, white
Floyd | down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mysterious black sphere is here.  The mysterious black sphere is
Floyd | ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-24-22:18:15CDT 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push back door" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, an Akmi PuzzelKyoob, a little motorized toy
Floyd | named Squirt, a prune, an id tag, a figurine of the Great Duhdha, an
Floyd | EZ-Tech Blaser, a piece of salami, a geode, a box of KrudKo
Floyd | "Kolor-Me-Kool" snacks, a metal coat hanger, an olive drab uniform, a
Floyd | qualitative calculator, some Akmi Wacki Putti, a hammer, a dog-eared
Floyd | leaflet, a tiny triangular pink circuit board, an ary ung, a bolt, a
Floyd | magnetic letter Q, a plastic whistle, a plastic plover's egg, a
Floyd | firecracker, a mood ring (being worn), a piece of string (tied to the
Floyd | akmid), a poodle charm, a stick of butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a
Floyd | blender, a frying pan, a hunk of cheese, an overripe tomato, an akmid
Floyd | (tied to the piece of string), a thermos of Barfee advanced growth
Floyd | formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a paperback book,
Floyd | your thesis research floppy disk, an RGB color chart, an empty ReVoLT
Floyd | Kola can, a Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Tiny hint?"
		borowski says, "In case there's a hint like, 'How do I get the data disc out of the salami with the plastic whistle?'"
		DavidW says, "yeah, maybe. I think my valley king action figure idea (trading it for a pass) ought to be considered."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Ok. I think I got something."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I've been checking and doublechecking my math."
		borowski says, "woohoo math skills"
		borowski says (to DavidW), "Sure. I had forgotten about that."
		DavidW says, "(... calculating terminal velocity down an infinite corridor ...)"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "If we look at the coordinates for each colour in the mosaic, and add/subtract them as indicated, we get (-20000, +20000, -20000). Maybe we add that to the coordinates for this place to reach the "back door"? 20,000 is a big difference, but maybe 2?"
		DavidW asks (of ggg), "Do you have a sekrit matter mover address?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Like, red is (-10000, -0, -0), and it says "red down""
		genericgeekgirl says, "Erm, I mean. Red is 10000,0,0"
		DavidW says, "oh. that's a cool idea."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x color chart" 		

Floyd | The chart gives RGB values for various color names:
Floyd |
Floyd | akmi orange (10000, 7470, 1000)
Floyd | alice blue (9411, 9725, 10000)
Floyd | antique white (9803, 9215, 8431)
Floyd | aquamarine (4980, 10000, 8313)
Floyd | azure (9411, 10000, 10000)
Floyd | beige (9607, 9607, 8627)
Floyd | bisque (10000, 8941, 7686)
Floyd | black (0, 0, 0)
Floyd | blanched almond (10000, 9215, 8039)
Floyd | blue (0, 0, 10000)
Floyd | blue violet (5411, 1686, 8862)
Floyd | brown (6470, 1647, 1647)
Floyd | burlywood (8705, 7215, 5294)
Floyd | burnt sienna (6000, 3270, 1732)
Floyd | chartreuse (4980, 10000, 0)
Floyd | chocolate (8235, 4117, 1176)
Floyd | coral (10000, 4980, 3137)
Floyd | cornflower blue (3921, 5843, 9294)
Floyd | cyan (0, 10000, 10000)
Floyd | egg white (10000, 10000, 9521)
Floyd | firebrick (6980, 1333, 1333)
Floyd | forest green (1333, 5450, 1333)
Floyd | gainsboro (8627, 8627, 8627)
Floyd | ghost white (9725, 9725, 10000)
Floyd | goldenrod (8549, 6470, 1254)
Floyd | gray (7529, 7529, 7529)
Floyd | green (0, 10000, 0)
Floyd | honeydew (9411, 10000, 9411)
Floyd | hot pink (10000, 4117, 7058)
Floyd | ivory (10000, 10000, 9411)
Floyd | khaki (9411, 9019, 5490)
Floyd | lavender (9019, 9019, 9803)
Floyd | lawn green (4862, 9882, 0)
Floyd | lemon chiffon (10000, 9803, 8039)
Floyd | lime green (1960, 8039, 1960)
Floyd | magenta (10000, 0, 10000)
Floyd | maroon (6901, 1882, 3764)
Floyd | midnight blue (980, 980, 4392)
Floyd | misty rose (10000, 8941, 8823)
Floyd | moccasin (10000, 8941, 7098)
Floyd | navy (0, 0, 5019)
Floyd | old lace (9921, 9607, 9019)
Floyd | olive drab (4196, 5568, 1372)
Floyd | orange (10000, 6470, 0)
Floyd | orchid (8549, 4392, 8392)
Floyd | peach puff (10000, 8549, 7254)
Floyd | pink (10000, 7529, 7960)
Floyd | plum (8666, 6274, 8666)
Floyd | powder blue (6901, 8784, 9019)
Floyd | purple (6274, 1254, 9411)
Floyd | red (10000, 0, 0)
Floyd | rosy brown (7372, 5607, 5607)
Floyd | saddle brown (5450, 2705, 745)
Floyd | salmon (9803, 5019, 4470)
Floyd | sandy brown (9568, 6431, 3764)
Floyd | sea green (1803, 5450, 3411)
Floyd | seashell (10000, 9607, 9333)
Floyd | sky blue (5294, 8078, 9215)
Floyd | slate gray (4392, 5019, 5647)
Floyd | snow (10000, 9803, 9803)
Floyd | spring green (0, 10000, 4980)
Floyd | steel blue (2745, 5098, 7058)
Floyd | tan (8235, 7058, 5490)
Floyd | thistle (8470, 7490, 8470)
Floyd | tomato (10000, 3882, 2784)
Floyd | turquoise (2509, 8784, 8156)
Floyd | violet (9333, 5098, 9333)
Floyd | violet red (8156, 1254, 5647)
Floyd | wheat (9607, 8705, 7019)
Floyd | white (10000, 10000, 10000)
Floyd | yellow (10000, 10000, 0)
Floyd |

		
Floyd A beautiful young woman with auburn hair and greenish-blue eyes [33] 		

Floyd | emerges from the matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Let's try it"
		genericgeekgirl says, "I kept getting different answers, but this one was consistant :P"
		genericgeekgirl says, "I guess we don't have to sneak, because he'll just throw us to the start anyway."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf30" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | A polite female voice informs you, "Loop-back test passed; verification
Floyd | code 931R.  No errors detected."
Floyd |

		
Floyd The beautiful young woman with auburn hair and greenish-blue eyes 		
Floyd [33] shows a pass and whispers a word to the guard, who then mumbles 		

Floyd | something into a colorful emblem on his right sleeve, nods his head,
Floyd | and motions northward, down the hall.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hulking guard grunts at you menacingly and then elephant-walks
Floyd | away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, we're already there. Sorry. Wasn't paying attention."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x autodialer" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd | 5:  A dirt road
Floyd | 6:  Survey Station
Floyd | 7:  Kuwl Starport
Floyd | 8:  New Hell
Floyd | 9:  Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |

		
Floyd A beautiful young woman with auburn hair and greenish-blue eyes [33] 		

Floyd | walks out of the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-24-22:33:15CDT 		genericgeekgirl asks, "What are the coordinates here?"
		borowski says, "I'm not sure, but I think they're in our room"
		genericgeekgirl says, "10000, 4065, 7053"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set red to 9998" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 9998.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set blue to 4067" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 4067.
Floyd |
Floyd |    For a moment, you get the strange feeling that your load is a bit
Floyd | lighter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "....."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "set green to 7051" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 7051.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a little motorized toy named Squirt, a
Floyd | prune, an id tag, a figurine of the Great Duhdha, an EZ-Tech Blaser, a
Floyd | piece of salami, a geode, a box of KrudKo "Kolor-Me-Kool" snacks, a
Floyd | metal coat hanger, an olive drab uniform, a qualitative calculator,
Floyd | some Akmi Wacki Putti, a hammer, a dog-eared leaflet, a tiny triangular
Floyd | pink circuit board, an ary ung, a bolt, a magnetic letter Q, a plastic
Floyd | whistle, a plastic plover's egg, a firecracker, a mood ring (being
Floyd | worn), a piece of string (tied to the akmid), a poodle charm, a stick
Floyd | of butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a frying pan, a hunk of
Floyd | cheese, an overripe tomato, an akmid (tied to the piece of string), a
Floyd | thermos of Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi
Floyd | Soopur Wundur Gro, a paperback book, your thesis research floppy disk,
Floyd | an RGB color chart, an empty ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard, and a
Floyd | matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take sphere" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Weird"
		genericgeekgirl says, "I hope that was it.."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | A polite female voice says, "Your move cannot be completed as dialed.
Floyd | Please check the number and dial again, and make sure your receiving
Floyd | party has granted you permission to access their mover.  If you need
Floyd | assistance, please contact the operator for your local colorspace.
Floyd | Thank you."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Bah."
		DavidW asks, "What did the 'load is a bit lighter' message?"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "I don't know. I'm hoping it's because we weren't holding the sphere, and it didn't want us to leave without it?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "I can't tell if we're missing anything."
		genericgeekgirl says, "One sec."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x kyoob" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Heh."
		genericgeekgirl says, "We tried to take their toys."
		DavidW asks, "The kyoob returned home?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Seems that way."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mover" 		

Floyd |    Matter mover technology hit the scene in 2062VK, just two years
Floyd | before the formation of the Republic.  In the hundred or so years since
Floyd | its introduction it's become the primary means of transportation
Floyd | throughout the galaxy.  This model is quite similar to the one in your
Floyd | pod.
Floyd |
Floyd | The machine's address is written in bright pink letters:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Terminal Velocity:  10000, 4065, 7053 -- Hot Pink (+0, -52, -5)"
Floyd |
Floyd | Current dial settings:  (9998, 7051, 4067)
Floyd |
Floyd | An average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts emerges from the
Floyd | matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "You swapped green and blue there on the dials."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set green to 4067" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 4067.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set blue to 7051" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 7051.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mover" 		

Floyd |    Matter mover technology hit the scene in 2062VK, just two years
Floyd | before the formation of the Republic.  In the hundred or so years since
Floyd | its introduction it's become the primary means of transportation
Floyd | throughout the galaxy.  This model is quite similar to the one in your
Floyd | pod.
Floyd |
Floyd | The machine's address is written in bright pink letters:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Terminal Velocity:  10000, 4065, 7053 -- Hot Pink (+0, -52, -5)"
Floyd |
Floyd | Current dial settings:  (0, 4067, 7051)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set red to 9998" 		

Floyd | Okay, it's now turned to 9998.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mover" 		

Floyd |    Matter mover technology hit the scene in 2062VK, just two years
Floyd | before the formation of the Republic.  In the hundred or so years since
Floyd | its introduction it's become the primary means of transportation
Floyd | throughout the galaxy.  This model is quite similar to the one in your
Floyd | pod.
Floyd |
Floyd | The machine's address is written in bright pink letters:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Terminal Velocity:  10000, 4065, 7053 -- Hot Pink (+0, -52, -5)"
Floyd |
Floyd | Current dial settings:  (9998, 4067, 7051)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | The Terminal Velocity Back Door
Floyd |
Floyd | Welcome to Terminal Velocity's back door!
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 4 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    Every inch of this tiny room is painted jet black, and the shade is
Floyd | so uniform that it's hard to tell where the floor and ceiling end and
Floyd | the walls begin.  Aside from the matter mover, the only thing in this
Floyd | room is a computer terminal.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "wow! You were right!"
		borowski says, "Woohoo"
borowski says (to Floyd), "score" 		

Floyd | In 1379 turns, you have earned 39 points out of a possible 75.
Floyd | You have completed approximately 57 percent of the game.
Floyd | You have gotten 3 hints.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, good catch."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x terminal" 		

Floyd | It's just a dumb terminal with no computing power of its own.  It seems
Floyd | to be lacking a keyboard as well, though it looks like there's a
Floyd | connector to plug one into.  The screen says only "password:"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ah."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I guess we need to get our keyboard from home."
		DavidW says, "Back to our pod to get a keyboard, yeah."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x autodialer" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd | 5:  A dirt road
Floyd | 6:  Survey Station
Floyd | 7:  Kuwl Starport
Floyd | 8:  New Hell
Floyd | 9:  Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd | 10:  The Terminal Velocity Back Door
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ok, good."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "type 1" 		

Floyd | On what?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "type 1 on autodialer" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Your bachelor pod
Floyd |

		
Floyd Ahhhhh. Pod sweet pod! Sure feels good to be back in the ol' 		
Floyd closet-sized capsule again, yes sir. While slaving away on your 		
Floyd master's thesis you've spent many late hours here, sustaining yourself 		
Floyd on naught but Akmi Snak Chipz [2] and ReVoLT Kola. 		

Floyd |
Floyd |    Yep, it's basically a hell-hole, but it's served you adequately.
Floyd | Looking around you can see blurry reflections of yourself and your
Floyd | surroundings in the familiar mauve and orange metal walls, which are
Floyd | rounded in the corners as is typical of today's "economical" graduate
Floyd | housing.  (As if they offered any other kind.)  The walls are still
Floyd | bare; you'd think after living here for two years you'd have put some
Floyd | posters up.  But there's never much time for aesthetics at Akmi
Floyd | Yooniversity.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your bed (if you can call it that) and the matter mover take up all
Floyd | the available floor space in your pod.  Miscellaneous Stik-Em Nowtz
Floyd | cling to various parts of the furniture and walls, and papers fill any
Floyd | stray gaps, making this den an incredible fire trap.  Good thing you
Floyd | don't really have heating here.  Anyway, if there's a fire you can
Floyd | always bail out through the escape hatch.  Oops -- you've never been
Floyd | able to get it open.  Never mind.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your pod is one of the "Yooniversity Economical Graduate Off-site
Floyd | Dwelling Stations" (YEGODS).  Though the school is actually hundreds of
Floyd | light-years away, matter mover technology makes it possible for them to
Floyd | put housing in the cheapest, remotest, most inhospitable parts of the
Floyd | galaxy -- places like Frost, the iceball of a planet your pod is
Floyd | situated on.
Floyd |
Floyd |    On your desk, under your shelf of textbooks, is the computer you use
Floyd | nearly 37 hours a day.  Cuddled up right next to it like a best friend
Floyd | is your EV.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with "Igdoof Sits on the Egg," a tale of fate and
Floyd | retribution.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take keyboard" 		

Floyd | You'll have to detach the Zippikraft detachable keyboard from your
Floyd | Zippikraft Data Liquidizer 1024/A first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "detach keyboard" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take keyboard" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "type 10 on autodialer" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | The Terminal Velocity Back Door
Floyd |
Floyd |    Every inch of this tiny room is painted jet black, and the shade is
Floyd | so uniform that it's hard to tell where the floor and ceiling end and
Floyd | the walls begin.  Aside from the matter mover, the only thing in this
Floyd | room is a computer terminal.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "attach keyboard" 		

Floyd | (to the terminal)
Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "type password" 		

Floyd | On what?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "type password on keyboard" 		

Floyd | A rectangular portion of the western wall disappears, revealing what
Floyd | seems to be the inside of Terminal Velocity.  Good job!
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 4 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Neat."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf31" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "enter" 		

Floyd | A polite female voice informs you, "Loop-back test passed; verification
Floyd | code 931R.  No errors detected."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "hax0red"
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the north or walk around outside the
Floyd | pit to the northeast and northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the northeast or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the north and southeast.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the west wall.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "portal" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x portal" 		

Floyd | Why not go through it?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Because it might be scary?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "I wonder if that sphere is going to suddenly blow up."
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You walk into a colorful curtain of light and end up somewhere else
Floyd | moments later.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Enterviewing Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    This immense room contains a massive enterviewer and many rows of
Floyd | sofas, chairs, and other furniture.  The ceiling, walls, and floor are
Floyd | all covered in plush black carpeting.  There is a barely noticeable
Floyd | portal in the east wall.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV is tuned to CARTOON MEGASTATION, the channel that features
Floyd | nothing but animation all day and all night long.  The present
Floyd | selection is "Differential Duck," the zany adventures of a brilliant
Floyd | crime-fighting fowl who placed out of calculus as a gosling.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ooooooh."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I would so watch that."
borowski says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | The EV is tuned to CARTOON MEGASTATION, the channel that features
Floyd | nothing but animation all day and all night long.  The present
Floyd | selection is "Differential Duck," the zany adventures of a brilliant
Floyd | crime-fighting fowl who placed out of calculus as a gosling.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "heh"
borowski says (to Floyd), "x carpeting" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "carpeting".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "but which channel is it?"
		borowski says, "super sekrit channel"
borowski says (to Floyd), "x sofa" 		

Floyd | It's just ordinary furniture.  (Ordinary for Terminal Velocity, at
Floyd | least.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x chairs" 		

Floyd | It's just ordinary furniture.  (Ordinary for Terminal Velocity, at
Floyd | least.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x ev" 		

Floyd | It seems to function like an ordinary enterviewer, but it's absolutely
Floyd | huge, with a screen that must be 10 meters across.  The images on the
Floyd | screen are so large that if you stand anywhere within what would be
Floyd | normal viewing range for an EV you see nothing but a bewildering blur
Floyd | of shifting colors.  The giant EV is currently tuned to channel 28182.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV is tuned to CARTOON MEGASTATION, the channel that features
Floyd | nothing but animation all day and all night long.  The present
Floyd | selection is a nauseating farce involving badly voice-acted renditions
Floyd | of popular video game characters.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search sofa" 		

Floyd | It's just ordinary furniture.  (Ordinary for Terminal Velocity, at
Floyd | least.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "ok, it's 28182."
borowski says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You walk into pitch darkness and soon after appear somewhere else.
Floyd |
Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the northeast or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the north and southeast.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the west wall.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, at the Bar
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're at the Terminal Velocity bar, which is a large circle of wood
Floyd | with a marble top.  At the center of the circle is a cylindrical kiosk
Floyd | containing hundreds of kinds of alcoholic beverages and many glasses.
Floyd | There's a break in the circle that you can walk through to get inside
Floyd | [34].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The bartender is puttering around and mumbling to himself.  You
Floyd | can't really pick up much of what he's saying but you do catch an
Floyd | occasional technical term. For a bartender he certainly knows a lot
Floyd | about particle physics.  He glances at you expectantly.  Something is
Floyd | ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "note 34" 		

Floyd | [34]: Presumably this is there so the bartender won't have to climb
Floyd | over the counter to get inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-24-22:48:15CDT 		
borowski says (to Floyd), "enter circle" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "circle".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x bartender" 		

Floyd | The bartender is striking -- he's got a long white shock of hair, and
Floyd | looks quite old.  He's wearing a tuxedo made from a very futuristic
Floyd | looking fabric -- you've never seen anything like it before.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x tuxedo" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm. Perhaps the bartender tickers with portable matter movers in his spare time."
		DavidW says, "er tinkers"
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask bartender for drink" 		

Floyd | Surely, you can't think the bartender knows anything about it!
Floyd |
Floyd |    The bartender wanders to the other side of the bar, behind the
Floyd | kiosk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "surely"
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the south or walk around outside the
Floyd | pit to the southeast and southwest.  There is a matter mover here as
Floyd | well.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x matter mover" 		

Floyd |    Matter mover technology hit the scene in 2062VK, just two years
Floyd | before the formation of the Republic.  In the hundred or so years since
Floyd | its introduction it's become the primary means of transportation
Floyd | throughout the galaxy.  This model is quite similar to the one in your
Floyd | pod.
Floyd |
Floyd | The machine's address is written in bright pink letters:
Floyd |    "Terminal Velocity Central:  9999, 4065, 7053 -- Hot Pink (-1, -52,
Floyd | -5) Approved guests only."
Floyd |
Floyd | Current dial settings:  (0, 0, 0)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x terminal" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x terminals" 		

Floyd | The terminals are of various sorts, from ancient dinosaurs that only TV
Floyd | hackers still know how to use (much less program), to the latest boxes
Floyd | out of the Zippikraft prototypes laboratory [35].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "note 35" 		

Floyd | [35]: In truth, Zippikraft put up lots of money to establish Terminal
Floyd | Velocity so they'd have instant access to (and feedback from) all the
Floyd | galaxy's best computer wizards.  But they never publicly admit to any
Floyd | formal association with the place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the southwest or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the northwest and south.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the east wall.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You walk into a colorful curtain of light and end up somewhere else
Floyd | moments later.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Enterviewing Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    This immense room contains a massive enterviewer and many rows of
Floyd | sofas, chairs, and other furniture.  The ceiling, walls, and floor are
Floyd | all covered in plush black carpeting.  There is a barely noticeable
Floyd | portal in the west wall.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Some galactically-aware people are complaining about light pollution
Floyd | on the EV.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x ev" 		

Floyd | It seems to function like an ordinary enterviewer, but it's absolutely
Floyd | huge, with a screen that must be 10 meters across.  The images on the
Floyd | screen are so large that if you stand anywhere within what would be
Floyd | normal viewing range for an EV you see nothing but a bewildering blur
Floyd | of shifting colors.  The giant EV is currently tuned to channel 12345.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Some galactically-aware people are complaining about light pollution
Floyd | on the EV.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "watch ev" 		

Floyd | Some galactically-aware people are complaining about light pollution on
Floyd | the EV.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You walk into pitch darkness and soon after appear somewhere else.
Floyd |
Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the southwest or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the northwest and south.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the east wall.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the northwest or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the southwest and north.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the east wall, and a narrow doorway to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | Jax O Pax's Data Den
Floyd |
Floyd |    As you walk into the room, you are approached by a slender fellow
Floyd | with blond hair and vaguely fox-like features, wearing bright but
Floyd | patternless clothing.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Jax," he says, "Jax O Pax.  Glad to see some new blood around here.
Floyd | Whenju break?"
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Uh...  break?"  you reply, puzzled.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Ja, 'break,' as in 'break in,' you know?"  He says impatiently.  He
Floyd | talks very fast; his words hit you like bullets.  It's very disturbing
Floyd | at first, but you're slowly getting used to it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "I broke just today.  Nice place you got here," you improvise,
Floyd | trying desperately to sound like you know what you're doing.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Broke today.  Huh.  S'cool, I'll show ya sometin'.  Checkitout:"
Floyd | He leads you over to a terminal at which a raven-haired woman with a
Floyd | girlish ponytail that looks completely out of place against the
Floyd | backdrop of her otherwise intense features is furiously typing away.
Floyd | "Mare," he says.  "She's the best.  We're hackin' a new RE together,
Floyd | yeah, butcha don' know what that is, do ya Slick?"  he turns towards
Floyd | you, maybe just to see the look on your face.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "A, uh, regular expression ...  maybe?"  you half-mumble, knowing
Floyd | full-well it couldn't possibly be the right answer, but hoping to
Floyd | demonstrate at least some knowledge of Computer Science lest you
Floyd | totally lose face.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It isn't the right answer.  Jax laughs out loud, and Mare giggles in
Floyd | an exaggerated cartoony way.  "No, Hoss, a Reasoning Engine.  You might
Floyd | say an AI, yeah.  Don't tell the MLA, and yeah I know you're not one of
Floyd | 'em 'cause they don't fake bein' dumb as well as you -- heh, just
Floyd | jokin' kid.  See..."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "An ...  A ...  I?," you stammer [36].  "You've got to be kidding!
Floyd | How?"
Floyd |
Floyd |    "It's old news.  I'll explain it to you some time when we've both
Floyd | got a few weeks free.  Anyway it's s'posed to be top secret; is why
Floyd | they've got a Machine Limiting Authority in the first place -- didja
Floyd | know about that one?  Buncha suits poking their snouts into everybody's
Floyd | biz tryin' to keep the tech from 'fallin' into the wrong hands,' but
Floyd | hey, these look pretty good to me ...  how 'bout chew, Cowboy?"  He
Floyd | pops a disk from somewhere and cradles it in his palms, waiting for
Floyd | your approval.  Light does not dance on it as with standard disks; this
Floyd | one is half white and half black.  The black part seems to absorb the
Floyd | world around it with a strange kind of hypnotic gravity.  The white
Floyd | part is equally striking -- it's nearly blinding.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "This AI fits on a single disk?"  you ask, incredulous.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Jax smiles.  "Think we got a sharp one here, Mare.  Seriously,
Floyd | Books, this disk ain't the whole tamale, just the seed we grew him
Floyd | from.  JC takes up halfa TV's netted storage.  He's pretty nice about
Floyd | not hoggin' all the pages though."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Actually, we ain't quite sure how he got to be so ...  with it, if
Floyd | you wanna know the real truth.  Oh yeah, we know what MLA knows:  ya
Floyd | frob some semnets together just so, and ya get a smart little cookie
Floyd | out th'other side -- but that ain't smart like *us* -- is smart with no
Floyd | motivation, no goals; no creativity, ya see.  JC, he's like *us*.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "We had a disk crash on the big server while Mare was polishin' up
Floyd | the latest AI -- she was doin' a backup, "just in case" as she always
Floyd | says, when the drive went down.  The code was scrambled up -- took her
Floyd | months to piece it back together -- never was same as before.  I
Floyd | thought it was a wasta time; I busted her about it -- kept asking her
Floyd | how "Justin Case," the new AI, was doin' -- thought she shoulda started
Floyd | somethin' new 'steada wallowin' in what was lost.  But she had that
Floyd | programmer's fire, y'know, wouldn't let him go.  Then the news broke:
Floyd | the crash made Justin Case somethin' new.  Mare didn't understand it --
Floyd | said she was just in that coding trance -- said she was just tryin' to
Floyd | patch him back up best she could.  But then little JC started doin'
Floyd | things we'd never seen an AI do before.  He's one of a kind.  Keep it
Floyd | under your hat, Slick."
Floyd |
Floyd |    An image of you appears on the screen.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "How are you feeling today, JC?"  Mare asks the image.
Floyd |
Floyd | The program responds immediately, and "you" begin to speak:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Top o' the morning to you.  I'm just great, thanks, -- couldn't be
Floyd | better.  Literally!  Hah!  So what's the latest, folks?"  The voice
Floyd | sounds just like you!
Floyd |
Floyd |    Mare replies, "I've got a new friend for you to meet.  Name's ..."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Gavin," you interject.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Nice to meet you, Gavin.  I'm getting this funny feeling that we've
Floyd | met before.  Ha-ha.  You must be Gavin Kelly, currently a struggling
Floyd | graduate student at Akmi Yooni.  How's the Computer Science program?"
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Hey, I'm not struggling!"  you protest.  You get the feeling some
Floyd | "circuits" are grinning rather broadly right now.  "OK, how did you
Floyd | guys pull this off?  I wasn't born yesterday, you know," you sneer.
Floyd | Mare and Jax say nothing.  JC replies:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "'You guys?'  Harumph; I'm offended.  But since you asked, I checked
Floyd | the coordinates coming in to the mover in the hall.  Took you long
Floyd | enough getting in here."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "You mean it's for real?"  you sputter.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "More for real than you and me, kid.  I still remember that first
Floyd | day, when I booted him up and he started babbling like a little infant.
Floyd | He was so cute...."  Mare reminisces.
Floyd |
Floyd |    JC, whose image has now changed into a strange face made entirely of
Floyd | polygons, interrupts.  "Jeez, do you have to embarrass me?  I mean
Floyd | every time you ...  Hold on.  You've got an interesting credit problem
Floyd | here, Mr.  Kelly.  Been running a racket or something?  No, that's not
Floyd | it; wait a sec...  " JC's voice no longer sounds like yours, though it
Floyd | still sounds fairly normal.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Of all the things you expected to find in Terminal Velocity, a
Floyd | Reasoning Engine named JC with a affinity for audiovisuals
Floyd | interrogating you about your credit history wasn't one of them.  As you
Floyd | turn to Jax, he anticipates the obvious question:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "JC wires down on everyone who trips on in here so we can keep the
Floyd | MLA outta here.  You can thank Mare for that; she used to spook for NSA
Floyd | -- Network Safety Administration, ya know -- but she slipped out under
Floyd | the rug.  She's pretty good at that sort of biz."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "NSA used to work with us, yeah; we were in bed pretty good there
Floyd | for a while, and it was like dream hardware from hell; then Glaz
Floyd | cracked reasoning and we've been cut off ever since -- abs!  Not a peep
Floyd | out of 'em 'cept through MLA, and hey, we'd like to lose that noise for
Floyd | good.  Glaz shoulda kept that tech to himself.  Ja, but now he's
Floyd | gone..."  Jax stops for JC's report:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Well, well, my friend, " JC reports, "you've racked up an
Floyd | impressive number of dogs on your tail here.  Whatcha been up to, boy,
Floyd | building a quark bomb?  You're totally cut off, man, no credit and an
Floyd | auto-arrest on the card.  BIG stuff from Akmi Galactic HQ; I don't
Floyd | think I can shunt it without provoking serious sniffage.  Better not
Floyd | use the plastic, son."
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Unnkulians!  What else could it be?  "Hey Jax," you say
Floyd | hesitantly, "I did find something on the net that I was hoping to get
Floyd | your help on.  That's sort of why I'm here, actually."  You tell Jax
Floyd | and Mare about your AkNet search and the virus it unearthed.  JC, now
Floyd | taking the image of a stereotypical young computer jock with oversized
Floyd | HoloGoggles, goes out to the net to check things out.  Moments later he
Floyd | returns with a report:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "You're not going to believe this.  Major, major stuff going down
Floyd | here.  That virus is an RE.  Self-mutating and poly-adaptive -- I've
Floyd | never seen anything like it.  Scared me witless just looking at it; I
Floyd | don't know if it could see me but I broke out of there without tripping
Floyd | anything."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "The basic situation is this:  that virus has done its job.  Whoever
Floyd | put it there already *has* a grip on the whole net if they want it, and
Floyd | they've had pockets of local control for a couple months now.  My
Floyd | estimation of AkNet core infection time matches the beginning of the
Floyd | second MLA sniff-blitz too.  Looks like whoever's in charge now at Akmi
Floyd | HQ wanted to cover their tails but good.  And it's a safe bet that
Floyd | they'd be pretty unhappy to learn that we've found out about them.
Floyd | Sure seems like they're already on to Mr.  Kelly, unfortunately.  Stay
Floyd | out of trouble, Gavin."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Jax looks very worried.  Mare interrupts JC:  "Do you have a threat
Floyd | analysis?  How does this affect TV?"
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Problem number one is that the RE's been out there for years.  I
Floyd | could tell from a distance that this thing is BIG, and at least an
Floyd | order of magnitude more aware than I am.  Somebody out there's got some
Floyd | amazing tech."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "But I thought it was a virus; how can it be so aware if it's got to
Floyd | propagate itself?"  Mare asks.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "That's the incredible thing:  It's found a way to keep its semantic
Floyd | net widely distributed.  I don't understand it fully, but it seems to
Floyd | be a kind of digital gestalt -- lots of sub-viruses, all different,
Floyd | communicating with each other to further a collective purpose.  With
Floyd | every replication it becomes a tiny bit more aware.  So the more of
Floyd | AkNet it infects, the more of AkNet it *knows*.  That may explain why
Floyd | it was replicating into non-strategic areas like the public library
Floyd | records Gavin was looking through when he found it."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "By the way, Gavin, you got very lucky.  My understanding of the RE
Floyd | tells me that the chances of finding the proto-form you spotted are
Floyd | almost zero; anything beyond the very early generations have
Floyd | self-modified to the point of being utterly different from their
Floyd | ancestors, and that includes the signature you stumbled upon.  That
Floyd | record you spotted is probably one of the oldest parts of it out
Floyd | there."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Jax and Mare discuss the situation.  Jax asks JC, "OK, JC, do you
Floyd | think you should stay out there or hang tight on the local net?"
Floyd |
Floyd |    "I see no advantage to staying here.  It's clear that the RE will
Floyd | propagate here sooner or later.  There's little time left to save the
Floyd | net -- the virus could seize control at any time.  Besides that, it's
Floyd | got so much snoop on Gavin's card that it must know he found it.  It's
Floyd | probably been watching all the moves out of his place, too.  We can
Floyd | only hope that it didn't notice his move here, or we can be sure that
Floyd | it's gonna be headed our way any time now."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Even assuming the best, since I can't hope to analyze its thought
Floyd | processes, there's no way I can predict when we'll be hit.  But when
Floyd | we're hit, we're finished.  No control.  I can't see any way to guard
Floyd | against it because there's nothing -- no signature, no behavior
Floyd | pattern, no resource usage modus operandi -- that I can watch for.  I
Floyd | only found the copies I found by using some rough heuristics based on
Floyd | what you told me and looking for strange resource usage patterns, and
Floyd | at the fringes of its control these signs will all be much weaker.  For
Floyd | all I know, we may already be infected, in which case we're really in
Floyd | trouble, because it knows that we're onto it.  My suggestion is that we
Floyd | assume that's not the case and that I hit the net and cut my ties to
Floyd | here completely so Gavin's move here looks innocent.  Since the mover's
Floyd | data transfer bands aren't accessible from the net, it, like me, can
Floyd | only check coordinates.  That means that if Gavin's gotten this far
Floyd | without attracting attention he's probably safe."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Jax and Mare look long and hard at each other, saying nothing.  Jax
Floyd | breaks the tense silence:  "If we gotta risk losin' JC to save the damn
Floyd | galaxy, so be it.  But if he ends up in the bitbucket 'cause he ain't
Floyd | careful I'm gonna wish I blanked him myself."  Mare looks away.  If
Floyd | she's crying you can't tell.  But there is that feeling in the air, and
Floyd | it's coming from both of them.  Until today you would have never
Floyd | believed a thinking machine could exist.  But you now feel JC is
Floyd | something even more than that.
Floyd |
Floyd | "All right, JC, go on out, and cut the cables.  But you better check
Floyd | back in and let us know what's going on.  Got that?  You don't check
Floyd | back and I'm gonna format your ..."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Don't worry about me, folks, I'm more at home out in the open
Floyd | anyway.  I can take care of myself, and I'll give you regular reports.
Floyd | And think of all the free disk space you'll have once I'm gone -- ha!
Floyd | Be back soon."
Floyd |
Floyd |    The image on monitor fades slowly to snow.  You sense that JC is
Floyd | gone.  You look back at Mare; to your surprise, she's bent over,
Floyd | clutching her abdomen.  "You sick?"  Jax whispers to her.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Nah, I'm OK," she says, "It's just a cramp."
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    Over the next few hours, you, Jax, and Mare talk strategy.  A few
Floyd | other experts local to Terminal Velocity are brought in for their
Floyd | opinions as well.  Everyone is agreed, given how you've described their
Floyd | once-thought-to-be-fictional portrayals, that the Unnkulians must be
Floyd | out to replace the Republic with their own (probably fascist)
Floyd | government, and that the virus has already given them the capability to
Floyd | do so in the near future.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It is decided that Mare will stay at TV and try to work behind the
Floyd | scenes improving its defenses against the virus.  Jax will coordinate
Floyd | everything and monitor his information sources for any activity.  He
Floyd | tells you to "hang tight," stay out of trouble, and keep in regular
Floyd | contact.  He hands each person in the group a watch.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Whatcha got here's a crypto.  Voice an' pix get 'crypted before
Floyd | they go out.  We got a pretty good algo to make the 'cryptext look like
Floyd | some kinda kiddie story sentences so the MLA won't notice we're jammin'
Floyd | cipher.  But if any government types sniff 'em I'm gonna have to nuke
Floyd | the puppies, so don' be surprised if yours up and vaporizes."
Floyd |
Floyd |    He continues:  "Eventually we're gonna have to hit Akmi HQ, yeah.
Floyd | We gotta get into network control and take out that RE, and findin' the
Floyd | right spot to hit is gonna be tough.  With luck JC'll have it all
Floyd | figured out by the time we gotta go in and do the dirty work."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "One more somethin' Gavin.  Here's a TV Elite pass.  Keep ya outta
Floyd | trouble here.  Welcome to the club, Slick.  Too bad the circumstances
Floyd | suck."  He manages a weak chuckle.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's funny.  You've never taken all that Duhdha stuff in the old
Floyd | stories seriously.  But now that you know the Unnkulians are real, you
Floyd | find yourself thinking that perhaps Duhdha could really help you.  They
Floyd | say that traumatic times make zealots out even the most skeptical.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Welcome to the Data Den."  That's what the neon sign above the main
Floyd | terminal says.  This tiny, plush room is filled with computer hardware
Floyd | of all kinds.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Off in one corner is a particularly neat gadget -- a Zippikraft
Floyd | MatterMan 95 Digital-to-Matter converter.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The exit is to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Jax O Pax is here, typing at one of the terminals and occasionally
Floyd | muttering to himself.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "woah"
		DavidW says, "cripes"
		DavidW says, "Jax O Pax's Data Dump"
borowski says (to Floyd), "note 36" 		

Floyd | [36]: "Most people still believe that no machine could ever be
Floyd | conscious, or feel ambition, jealousy, humor, or have any other
Floyd | mental-life experience.  To be sure, we are still far from being able
Floyd | to create machines that do all the things people do.  But this only
Floyd | means that we need better theories about how thinking works."  --
Floyd | Marvin Minsky
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "We should get a few points for having to read all that."
		DavidW says, "yeah"
		DavidW says, "That may have been a text dump record."
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-24-23:03:15CDT 		
borowski says (to Floyd), "jax o pax" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x jax o pax" 		

Floyd |    Jax is an intense looking young man, probably in his late twenties,
Floyd | with blond hair and a tall, lanky build.  He is busy typing away at one
Floyd | of the many terminals in the Data Den, searching for information,
Floyd | talking to contacts, and coordinating the effort to get into Akmi
Floyd | Galactic Headquarters.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x gadget" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "fwiw, we have a pass now."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x pass" 		

Floyd | It's a small plastic card with a fancy holographic Terminal Velocity
Floyd | logo on it.  Bright silver letters across the logo read, "Elite".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Yay!"
borowski says (to Floyd), "x conventer" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "conventer".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I'd like to know more about the conveRter"
borowski says (to Floyd), "x Zippikraft" 		

Floyd | Which zippikraft do you mean, the Zippikraft MatterMan 95
Floyd | Digital-to-Matter converter, the converter output chamber, the
Floyd | converter start button, or the converter drive?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x Zippikraft MatterMan 95 Digital-to-Matter converter" 		

Floyd | I don't see any zippikraft matterman 95 digital-to-matter converter
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh! This can transform our data."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x matterman" 		

Floyd |    The Zippikraft MatterMan 95 Digital-to-Matter converter is a
Floyd | self-contained object interchange machine.  It reads digital data from
Floyd | the disk in the drive and generates the three-dimensional object(s)
Floyd | described by the digital data and places it in the output chamber.
Floyd | Interestingly enough, this model hasn't been released to the public yet
Floyd | -- it must be a prototype.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The machine has only one control -- a red button labeled "START."
Floyd | The drive is empty.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put thesis in drive" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "press start" 		

Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "chamber" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x chamber" 		

Floyd | It's just a little space to hold the objects.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "I guess our thesis wasn't compatible?"
		DavidW says, "I think it's like a replicator or 3D printer. It makes stuff if you have the right program instructions."
borowski says (to Floyd), "take thesis" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, your thesis research floppy disk, a crypto
Floyd | watch (being worn), a Terminal Velocity Elite pass, a mysterious black
Floyd | sphere, a little motorized toy named Squirt, a prune, an id tag, a
Floyd | figurine of the Great Duhdha, an EZ-Tech Blaser, a piece of salami, a
Floyd | geode, a box of KrudKo "Kolor-Me-Kool" snacks, a metal coat hanger, an
Floyd | olive drab uniform, a qualitative calculator, some Akmi Wacki Putti, a
Floyd | hammer, a dog-eared leaflet, a tiny triangular pink circuit board, an
Floyd | ary ung, a bolt, a magnetic letter Q, a plastic whistle, a plastic
Floyd | plover's egg, a firecracker, a mood ring (being worn), a piece of
Floyd | string (tied to the akmid), a poodle charm, a stick of butter, a Akmi
Floyd | Slysor Dysor, a blender, a frying pan, a hunk of cheese, an overripe
Floyd | tomato, an akmid (tied to the piece of string), a thermos of Barfee
Floyd | advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a
Floyd | paperback book, an RGB color chart, an empty ReVoLT Kola can, a
Floyd | Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.  The mysterious black
Floyd | sphere is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x disk" 		

Floyd |    It's a standard 5 centimeter square optical disk with your thesis
Floyd | research materials on it.  There is a label on one side with your
Floyd | writing on it.  The label reads, "Unnkulian Unventures I, II, and III
Floyd | (unfinished)."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Unfortunately, the games were designed to be run on an old
Floyd | Zippikraft machine that's pretty hard to find these days.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Didn't Mare have a disk?"
		borowski says, "Well, you can run them on zippikraftoz"
		borowski asks, "The JC disk?"
		DavidW says, "oh, I guess that's what it was, yeah."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x sign" 		

Floyd | The sign says, "Welcome to the Data Den".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the northwest or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the southwest and north.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the east wall, and a narrow doorway to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "There was a portal east here we haven't used."
		DavidW says, "And I think we skipped a northwest corner of the 'around the pit'."
borowski says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You walk into a colorful curtain of light and end up somewhere else
Floyd | moments later.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Enterviewing Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    This immense room contains a massive enterviewer and many rows of
Floyd | sofas, chairs, and other furniture.  The ceiling, walls, and floor are
Floyd | all covered in plush black carpeting.  There is a barely noticeable
Floyd | portal in the west wall.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Some galactically-aware people are holding hands and dancing around
Floyd | in a circle on the EV.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x ev" 		

Floyd | Which ev do you mean, the crypto watch (being worn), or the Enterviewer
Floyd | (EV)?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x crypto watch" 		

Floyd |    To the untrained eye it looks just like a regular EV watch, but you
Floyd | know that it's actually a cryptographic device that allows you to
Floyd | receive messages from Jax, Mare, and the others in the Terminal
Floyd | Velocity task force.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The watch is currently displaying static.  No sound is coming out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x enterviewer" 		

Floyd | It seems to function like an ordinary enterviewer, but it's absolutely
Floyd | huge, with a screen that must be 10 meters across.  The images on the
Floyd | screen are so large that if you stand anywhere within what would be
Floyd | normal viewing range for an EV you see nothing but a bewildering blur
Floyd | of shifting colors.  The giant EV is currently tuned to channel 12345.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Some galactically-aware people are holding hands and dancing around
Floyd | in a circle on the EV.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You walk into pitch darkness and soon after appear somewhere else.
Floyd |
Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the northwest or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the southwest and north.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the east wall, and a narrow doorway to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the southwest or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the northwest and south.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the east wall.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the south or walk around outside the
Floyd | pit to the southeast and southwest.  There is a matter mover here as
Floyd | well.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Should we try going in the front door?"
		borowski says, "Now that we have our pass"
		DavidW says, "I'd like to see southwest of here first."
borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the southeast or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the south and northeast.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the west wall, and a narrow doorway to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "And west of here?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You walk into a colorful curtain of light and end up somewhere else
Floyd | moments later.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Enterviewing Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    This immense room contains a massive enterviewer and many rows of
Floyd | sofas, chairs, and other furniture.  The ceiling, walls, and floor are
Floyd | all covered in plush black carpeting.  There is a barely noticeable
Floyd | portal in the east wall.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV is tuned to CARTOON MEGASTATION, the channel that features
Floyd | nothing but animation all day and all night long.  The present
Floyd | selection is "Dream Lime," an inexplicably titled X-rated work that is
Floyd | unintentionally hilarious.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Back east and northwest plz"
borowski says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You walk into pitch darkness and soon after appear somewhere else.
Floyd |
Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the northeast or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the north and southeast.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the west wall.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "coding error"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the southeast or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the south and northeast.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the west wall, and a narrow doorway to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | Terminal Velocity Game Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The earthquake bass rumblings and brilliant flares emanating from
Floyd | the machines in this room are enough to scare you witless until you
Floyd | realize they're only computer-generated illusions.  Welcome to the
Floyd | Terminal Velocity game room!
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are video games of all kinds here, many of them old classics
Floyd | from before the days of HoloScanning monitors.  The games are all set
Floyd | on free play, and quite a few Terminal Velocity partons are taking
Floyd | advantage of this to finally master their favorite coin-operated
Floyd | diversions.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Looking around the game room, you notice, to your surprise, a small
Floyd | Zippikraft Kompakt Komputer -- an older model much less powerful than
Floyd | your own Data Liquidizer, but still great for games.  No one seems to
Floyd | use the poor thing, though -- it looks lonely all by itself in the
Floyd | corner.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The game room exit leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x komputer" 		

Floyd |    What a blast from the past!  The Kompakt Komputer was one of
Floyd | Zippikraft's first mass-produced machines, and as a result it has a few
Floyd | quirks, but is a noble piece of hardware nonetheless -- the KK's were
Floyd | built to the same exacting standards as today's Liquidizers, so many
Floyd | people's original KK's are still working perfectly [37].  Still, these
Floyd | machines are hard to find now, and actually having the opportunity to
Floyd | play with one is at least a little exciting.
Floyd |
Floyd |    This one is an all-in-one unit with built-in keyboard, floppy disk
Floyd | drive, and 2D raster monitor.  It is currently off, and the disk drive
Floyd | is empty.  The screen is blank.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "The exit of the northwest EV room was wrong."
		borowski says, "ah"
borowski says (to Floyd), "note 37" 		

Floyd | [37]: Or at least as well as they ever worked...
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your crypto watch is getting a transmission:
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is no picture on the watch screen, but you hear a voice.  "Hey
Floyd | there, Gavin, it's JC.  Think I figured out how to get audio across.
Floyd | Working on video.  Need to arrange some more bandwidth for that.  Back
Floyd | in a few."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put thesis in drive" 		

Floyd | You pop the disk in the drive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "so, can we play our games here?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "note 37" 		

Floyd | [37]: Or at least as well as they ever worked...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "turn komputer on" 		

Floyd | You flick the power switch.  A cartoon rendition of a happy computer
Floyd | appears soon after, and moments later the system comes up.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen is currently displaying a menu with several options:
Floyd |
Floyd |    1. Unnkulian Underworld:  The Unknown Unventure
Floyd |    2. Unnkulian Unventure II:  The Secret of Acme
Floyd |    3. Unnkulian Unventure III:  The Kuulest Quest
Floyd |    4. Eject disk and shutdown
Floyd |
Floyd | The software eagerly awaits your selection.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "1" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh wow"
		DavidW says, "type 1"
borowski says (to Floyd), "type 1" 		

Floyd | (on the Zippikraft Kompakt Komputer)
Floyd | The computer burbles and grinds a while, then comes back with the
Floyd | following cryptic error message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "Z-code emulator no longer supports this program's instruction set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "type 2" 		

Floyd | (on the Zippikraft Kompakt Komputer)
Floyd | The computer burbles and grinds a while, then comes back with the
Floyd | following cryptic error message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "Z-code emulator no longer supports this program's instruction set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "type 3" 		

Floyd | (on the Zippikraft Kompakt Komputer)
Floyd | You know from a previous look at this work that it was never finished
Floyd | (you suspect foul play by the Unnkulians), but why not give it whirl,
Floyd | you suppose.  Can't hurt...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zippikraft Kompact Komputer whirrs and percolates for a while,
Floyd | then displays the following text:
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd | ...  Astoundingly, the Lord of Unnkul lies dormant on the floor,
Floyd | surrounded in a viscous pool of black blood.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The wizened old monk whom you met in the waiting room enters as you
Floyd | get up from the desk.  "It is truly the greatness of Duhdha," he says
Floyd | pleasantly, "that brought our paths in time and space together here
Floyd | before this loathsome devil.  I simply came," he continues, "to
Floyd | register a complaint about this Acme Sooper Egg Fraier (tm), but when
Floyd | you exposed the Lord of Unnkul, I knew the time for our task had come.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "The forces of Unnkul have long sought to conquer this world and
Floyd | enslave its peoples, and this latest campaign was the most cunning yet.
Floyd | To challenge the faith of a world -- eliminating a need for Duhdha by
Floyd | creating a dependence on technology and encouraging hedonism -- was the
Floyd | ultimate goal of the incestuous union between the Unnkulians and the
Floyd | once-proud Acme company.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Now that their leader has been vanquished by Duhdha, the Unnkulians
Floyd | will be flung into disarray.  Chaos and anarchy will reign for years as
Floyd | the treacherous quests for leadership over the Unnkulians are played
Floyd | out by the many power-mongers amongst their kind.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "It was not fortune or fate but Duhdha that brought us here together
Floyd | today, my son, and know this:  Your quest, though born of a selfishness
Floyd | that still lingers inside you, was orchestrated by Duhdha, the
Floyd | all-knowing and all-seeing Great One, so that in this tiny window of
Floyd | time, where the Lord of Unnkul was away from its domain and here on
Floyd | this world to survey the work of its minions corporeally, in this brief
Floyd | splinter of time, the most capable of Duhdha's servants, you, could be
Floyd | brought to catalyze this event.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "I understand these things," you say, "but if I was just the bait to
Floyd | get the Lord of Unnkul's guard down, who actually killed it?"  you
Floyd | inquire, looking down at the still bleeding corpse on the floor.  The
Floyd | monk grins.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "I did," he chuckles.  "You can call me Kuulest."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "But you don't look a thing like Kuulest," you reply incredulously.
Floyd | "You look like that old monk at the retreat in the woods."
Floyd |
Floyd |    The wizened old man laughs aloud.  "Your former master, the old man
Floyd | in the woods, and I -- all three of us have been called Kuulest in our
Floyd | time.  But that is not important now.  Now, my child, there is one more
Floyd | task you must complete before you can again retire to your comfortable
Floyd | abode."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Down the river that splits Dawg Rock in twain is another Place of
Floyd | Duhdha.  The waters are treacherous, so seek Duhdha's aid to guide you.
Floyd | If your faith is truly strong you will survive to learn of your next
Floyd | mission for Duhdha.  It is a simple matter, but one that will propel
Floyd | you ahead on The Way immeasurably."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "But now, my child," the monk says serenely but firmly, looking down
Floyd | at his Acme Sooper Egg Fraier (tm), "I must leave you and return to my
Floyd | own matters of service."  He begins to clap, but just as his hands are
Floyd | about to touch, he whisks one hand away, makes bug-eyes at you, and
Floyd | grins from ear to ear.  This last image of the old man fades quickly as
Floyd | you realize you are now in a different place -- a place that is very
Floyd | familiar, but now, you sense, a part of...
Floyd |
Floyd | Unnkulian Unventure III:  The Kuulest Quest
Floyd | by D. M. Bleary
Floyd | *** Work In Progress:  DO NOT DISTRIBUTE ***
Floyd | Rating: ???
Floyd | Developed with TOADS, the Text-Oriented Adventure Development System.
Floyd | (TOADS is a product of Valmaco.  Valmaco:  Better living through
Floyd | mysterious forces that mere mortals could not hope to comprehend.)
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Big Oak
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the bank of a rushing river at the base of a
Floyd | giant oak tree, easily 200 feet tall.  It looks to be about a class 5
Floyd | rapids with white-water everywhere.  It's at least 80 feet to the other
Floyd | bank.  Looking back, you can see your favorite picnic table, a tiny
Floyd | square of wood tucked away in the trees far to the west.  A path along
Floyd | the river bank leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd | You're as good-looking as ever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "type x me" 		

Floyd | I don't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
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DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have a tiny mauve pellet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pellet" 		

Floyd | Nearly microscopic words on the pellet read, "Acme Sooper Stirdhee
Floyd | Deehaidredid Dingheee (tm) -- Juhst Ahd Wadur and it Blowz Uhp in
Floyd | Sekundz!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb tree" 		

Floyd | There are no branches low enough for you to grab onto.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take rope" 		

Floyd | You can't reach it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x oak" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary giant oak tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "climb tre" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "tre".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "climb tree" 		

Floyd | There are no branches low enough for you to grab onto.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		genericgeekgirl says, "Can we blow up the tree? =)"
		DavidW says, "Not with just a deflated dinghy."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x table" 		

Floyd | From here, it looks very tiny.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "I vote going se."
		borowski says, "yeah"
borowski says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  On the other side, there is
Floyd | only dense forest.  The soil has a reddish tint here.  You can go
Floyd | upstream, to the northwest, or downstream, to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x soil" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary river bank made of red soil.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "dig soil" 		

Floyd | With what?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "take soil" 		

Floyd | You can't take the river bank made of red soil.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "make soil angel" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "angel".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "south, plz"
borowski says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  Some fool tried to take a
Floyd | boat out in these waters, and you see before you the end result:
Floyd | pieces of boat litter the bank.  You can only go back upstream, to the
Floyd | north -- your path downstream is blocked by the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "take boat" 		

Floyd | You can't take the wrecked boat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x boat" 		

Floyd | It was a one or two-person craft, but there's not much left of it now.
Floyd | Looks like it smashed up against the rocks and splintered into a
Floyd | million pieces.  Most of it's probably been washed away by the torrent
Floyd | of water.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x pieces" 		

Floyd | It was a one or two-person craft, but there's not much left of it now.
Floyd | Looks like it smashed up against the rocks and splintered into a
Floyd | million pieces.  Most of it's probably been washed away by the torrent
Floyd | of water.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search boat" 		

Floyd | It was a one or two-person craft, but there's not much left of it now.
Floyd | Looks like it smashed up against the rocks and splintered into a
Floyd | million pieces.  Most of it's probably been washed away by the torrent
Floyd | of water.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x water" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary rushing river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search water" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary rushing river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rocks" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		borowski asks, "Oh, it's a boat pellet?"
		DavidW says, "yes,"
borowski says (to Floyd), "put pellet in water" 		

Floyd | You toss the tiny mauve pellet into the river; seconds later you are
Floyd | knocked to the ground by a huge explosion.  As you get back up and
Floyd | brush yourself off, you notice a dinghy next to the bank, rapidly
Floyd | floating away down the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  Some fool tried to take a
Floyd | boat out in these waters, and you see before you the end result:
Floyd | pieces of boat litter the bank.  You can only go back upstream, to the
Floyd | north -- your path downstream is blocked by the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  On the other side, there is
Floyd | only dense forest.  The soil has a reddish tint here.  You can go
Floyd | upstream, to the northwest, or downstream, to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | At the Big Oak
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the bank of a rushing river at the base of a
Floyd | giant oak tree, easily 200 feet tall.  It looks to be about a class 5
Floyd | rapids with white-water everywhere.  It's at least 80 feet to the other
Floyd | bank.  Looking back, you can see your favorite picnic table, a tiny
Floyd | square of wood tucked away in the trees far to the west.  A path along
Floyd | the river bank leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "take rope" 		

Floyd | You can't reach it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW asks, "You didn't notice the river was kinda fast, did you?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, that kind of blows up."
		borowski says, "I thought we was faster"
borowski says (to Floyd), "climb tree" 		

Floyd | There are no branches low enough for you to grab onto.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd | The rope is way too far above you to reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | A voice inside your head intones, "No, my son.  The right path is down
Floyd | the river."  A mysterious force prevents you from heading west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		genericgeekgirl says, "Heh."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x river" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary rushing river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "swim" 		

Floyd | You don't know how.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "enter river" 		

Floyd | You can't enter the rushing river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  On the other side, there is
Floyd | only dense forest.  The soil has a reddish tint here.  You can go
Floyd | upstream, to the northwest, or downstream, to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "splash pellet" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "splash".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put pellet in soil" 		

Floyd | You can't put anything in the river bank made of red soil.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW asks, "Can we go north from the tree?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | At the Big Oak
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the bank of a rushing river at the base of a
Floyd | giant oak tree, easily 200 feet tall.  It looks to be about a class 5
Floyd | rapids with white-water everywhere.  It's at least 80 feet to the other
Floyd | bank.  Looking back, you can see your favorite picnic table, a tiny
Floyd | square of wood tucked away in the trees far to the west.  A path along
Floyd | the river bank leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x river" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary rushing river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "stand on table" 		

Floyd | The picnic bench is too far away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "Try putting the pellet ON (not IN) the soil to the se."
borowski says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  On the other side, there is
Floyd | only dense forest.  The soil has a reddish tint here.  You can go
Floyd | upstream, to the northwest, or downstream, to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put pellet on soil" 		

Floyd | You can't put anything on the river bank made of red soil.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "ok. Put the pellet in the river at the oak, and hope it beaches at the wreck."
borowski says, "nw" 		
borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | At the Big Oak
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the bank of a rushing river at the base of a
Floyd | giant oak tree, easily 200 feet tall.  It looks to be about a class 5
Floyd | rapids with white-water everywhere.  It's at least 80 feet to the other
Floyd | bank.  Looking back, you can see your favorite picnic table, a tiny
Floyd | square of wood tucked away in the trees far to the west.  A path along
Floyd | the river bank leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
borowski says (to Floyd), "cf32" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put pellet in water" 		

Floyd | You toss the tiny mauve pellet into the river; seconds later you are
Floyd | knocked to the ground by a huge explosion.  As you get back up and
Floyd | brush yourself off, you notice a dinghy next to the bank, rapidly
Floyd | floating away down the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  On the other side, there is
Floyd | only dense forest.  The soil has a reddish tint here.  You can go
Floyd | upstream, to the northwest, or downstream, to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  Some fool tried to take a
Floyd | boat out in these waters, and you see before you the end result:
Floyd | pieces of boat litter the bank.  You can only go back upstream, to the
Floyd | north -- your path downstream is blocked by the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" 		
borowski says (to Floyd), "cf32" 		

Floyd | File to restore game from >
Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Big Oak
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the bank of a rushing river at the base of a
Floyd | giant oak tree, easily 200 feet tall.  It looks to be about a class 5
Floyd | rapids with white-water everywhere.  It's at least 80 feet to the other
Floyd | bank.  Looking back, you can see your favorite picnic table, a tiny
Floyd | square of wood tucked away in the trees far to the west.  A path along
Floyd | the river bank leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "spit on pellet" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "spit".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "lick pellet" 		

Floyd | The tiny mauve pellet tastes normal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat pellet" 		

Floyd | Now why would you want to eat the tiny mauve pellet?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "comedy" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "comedy".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		borowski says, "clearly"
		DavidW asks, "um. Make a dam at the wreck?"
		DavidW asks, "Or bring the water to the pellet so the explosion isn't so violent?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "take water" 		

Floyd | You can't take the rushing river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "drink water" 		

Floyd | You can't drink the rushing river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put water on pellet" 		

Floyd | You can't put anything on the tiny mauve pellet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pellet" 		

Floyd | Nearly microscopic words on the pellet read, "Acme Sooper Stirdhee
Floyd | Deehaidredid Dingheee (tm) -- Juhst Ahd Wadur and it Blowz Uhp in
Floyd | Sekundz!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x east bank" 		

Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bank" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | At the Big Oak
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the bank of a rushing river at the base of a
Floyd | giant oak tree, easily 200 feet tall.  It looks to be about a class 5
Floyd | rapids with white-water everywhere.  It's at least 80 feet to the other
Floyd | bank.  Looking back, you can see your favorite picnic table, a tiny
Floyd | square of wood tucked away in the trees far to the west.  A path along
Floyd | the river bank leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x branch" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x rope" 		

Floyd | The remaining piece of rope is high above you.  You can't really see
Floyd | much of it from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "push tree" 		

Floyd | Pushing the giant oak tree doesn't seem to have much effect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" 		

Floyd | Nothing happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  On the other side, there is
Floyd | only dense forest.  The soil has a reddish tint here.  You can go
Floyd | upstream, to the northwest, or downstream, to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "dig with hands" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "hands".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "plant pellet" 		

Floyd | I don't see what that could possibly accomplish.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		borowski asks, "Hmm. I guess the game is unfinished?"
		DavidW says, "no"
		DavidW says, "well, I bet there's something to this."
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-24-23:33:15CDT 		
borowski says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  Some fool tried to take a
Floyd | boat out in these waters, and you see before you the end result:
Floyd | pieces of boat litter the bank.  You can only go back upstream, to the
Floyd | north -- your path downstream is blocked by the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x trees" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary dense clump of trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x rocks" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW asks, "Like, what if this mini-game is solved, it puts a new file onto the thesis disk, which describes something that the converter can make?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Trying to swim across would surely be suicidal.  Just look what
Floyd | happened to the boat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  On the other side, there is
Floyd | only dense forest.  The soil has a reddish tint here.  You can go
Floyd | upstream, to the northwest, or downstream, to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Trying to swim across would surely be suicidal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  Some fool tried to take a
Floyd | boat out in these waters, and you see before you the end result:
Floyd | pieces of boat litter the bank.  You can only go back upstream, to the
Floyd | north -- your path downstream is blocked by the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "make dam" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take boat" 		

Floyd | You can't take the wrecked boat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter boat" 		

Floyd | You can't enter the wrecked boat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under boat" 		

Floyd | Trying to look under the wrecked boat doesn't gain you anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search river" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary rushing river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  On the other side, there is
Floyd | only dense forest.  The soil has a reddish tint here.  You can go
Floyd | upstream, to the northwest, or downstream, to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x soil" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary river bank made of red soil.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x river" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary rushing river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x forest" 		

Floyd | The forest looks far too thick to be passable, even if you could get to
Floyd | it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | At the Big Oak
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the bank of a rushing river at the base of a
Floyd | giant oak tree, easily 200 feet tall.  It looks to be about a class 5
Floyd | rapids with white-water everywhere.  It's at least 80 feet to the other
Floyd | bank.  Looking back, you can see your favorite picnic table, a tiny
Floyd | square of wood tucked away in the trees far to the west.  A path along
Floyd | the river bank leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "throw pellet at table" 		

Floyd | The picnic bench is too far away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pour water on pellet" 		

Floyd | (trying to take the rushing river first)
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't take the rushing river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "scoop water" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "scoop".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "dip pellet" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "dip".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "splash pellet" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "splash".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sprinkle pellet" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "sprinkle".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pee on pellet" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "pee".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "Also, a black cat at night? We'd never find her at this hour."
		DavidW says, "ilac"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw pellet at other bank" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "other".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw pellet at east bank" 		

Floyd | I don't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw pellet east" 		

Floyd | There are words after your command I couldn't use.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw pellet at bank" 		

Floyd | (trying to see the river bank first)
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw pellet at rope" 		

Floyd | Throwing things at the snapped rope isn't helpful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "jump" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw pellet at river" 		

Floyd | Throwing things at the rushing river isn't helpful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter river" 		

Floyd | You can't enter the rushing river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "swim" 		

Floyd | You don't know how.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Trying to swim across would surely be suicidal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop pellet" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take pellet" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rapids" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary rushing river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  On the other side, there is
Floyd | only dense forest.  The soil has a reddish tint here.  You can go
Floyd | upstream, to the northwest, or downstream, to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig hole" 		

Floyd | With what?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hands" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "hands".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig hole with pellet" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig soil" 		

Floyd | With what?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hands" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "hands".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig soil with pellet" 		

Floyd | You can't dig in the river bank made of red soil.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search soil" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary river bank made of red soil.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put pellet in water" 		

Floyd | You toss the tiny mauve pellet into the river; seconds later you are
Floyd | knocked to the ground by a huge explosion.  As you get back up and
Floyd | brush yourself off, you notice a dinghy next to the bank, rapidly
Floyd | floating away down the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take dinghy" 		

Floyd | Your load is too heavy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  On the other side, there is
Floyd | only dense forest.  The soil has a reddish tint here.  You can go
Floyd | upstream, to the northwest, or downstream, to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mauve dinghy floating in the water is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter dingy" 		

Floyd | You're now sitting in the mauve dinghy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, sitting in the mauve dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're being thrown from one side of the dinghy to the other as you
Floyd | quickly make your way downstream.  On the west bank there is little of
Floyd | interest apart from the soil, which is dark red.  On the east bank, far
Floyd | away, there is only dense forest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | You'll have to get out of the mauve dinghy first.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dinghy floats downstream...
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck, sitting in the mauve
Floyd | dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    As you struggle to avoid being pitched out of the dinghy, you
Floyd | notice, to your chagrin, the fragments of a boat that didn't make it
Floyd | through this area in one piece scattered around the nearby shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck, sitting in the mauve
Floyd | dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    As you struggle to avoid being pitched out of the dinghy, you
Floyd | notice, to your chagrin, the fragments of a boat that didn't make it
Floyd | through this area in one piece scattered around the nearby shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You'll have to get out of the mauve dinghy first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You'll have to get out of the mauve dinghy first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | Just as the rapids really start getting tricky, the dinghy springs a
Floyd | leak!  The shoddily-made craft almost instantly capsizes, and for a
Floyd | moment you're sure you'll soon be joining Duhdha and your ancestors,
Floyd | but through a miraculous job of doggie paddling, you somehow make it
Floyd | back to shore and emerge...
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  Some fool tried to take a
Floyd | boat out in these waters, and you see before you the end result:
Floyd | pieces of boat litter the bank.  You can only go back upstream, to the
Floyd | north -- your path downstream is blocked by the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You don't appear to be carrying anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW asks, "restore?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" 		
borowski says (to Floyd), "cf32" 		

Floyd | File to restore game from >
Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Big Oak
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the bank of a rushing river at the base of a
Floyd | giant oak tree, easily 200 feet tall.  It looks to be about a class 5
Floyd | rapids with white-water everywhere.  It's at least 80 feet to the other
Floyd | bank.  Looking back, you can see your favorite picnic table, a tiny
Floyd | square of wood tucked away in the trees far to the west.  A path along
Floyd | the river bank leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  On the other side, there is
Floyd | only dense forest.  The soil has a reddish tint here.  You can go
Floyd | upstream, to the northwest, or downstream, to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  Some fool tried to take a
Floyd | boat out in these waters, and you see before you the end result:
Floyd | pieces of boat litter the bank.  You can only go back upstream, to the
Floyd | north -- your path downstream is blocked by the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put pellet in water" 		

Floyd | You toss the tiny mauve pellet into the river; seconds later you are
Floyd | knocked to the ground by a huge explosion.  As you get back up and
Floyd | brush yourself off, you notice a dinghy next to the bank, rapidly
Floyd | floating away down the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "enter dinghy" 		

Floyd | You're now sitting in the mauve dinghy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck, sitting in the mauve
Floyd | dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    As you struggle to avoid being pitched out of the dinghy, you
Floyd | notice, to your chagrin, the fragments of a boat that didn't make it
Floyd | through this area in one piece scattered around the nearby shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | Just as the rapids really start getting tricky, the dinghy springs a
Floyd | leak!  The shoddily-made craft almost instantly capsizes, and for a
Floyd | moment you're sure you'll soon be joining Duhdha and your ancestors,
Floyd | but through a miraculous job of doggie paddling, you somehow make it
Floyd | back to shore and emerge...
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  Some fool tried to take a
Floyd | boat out in these waters, and you see before you the end result:
Floyd | pieces of boat litter the bank.  You can only go back upstream, to the
Floyd | north -- your path downstream is blocked by the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck, sitting in the mauve
Floyd | dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    As you struggle to avoid being pitched out of the dinghy, you
Floyd | notice, to your chagrin, the fragments of a boat that didn't make it
Floyd | through this area in one piece scattered around the nearby shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "paddle" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "paddle".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "I think we somehow have to get across at the north end of this."
borowski says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" 		
borowski says (to Floyd), "cf32" 		

Floyd | File to restore game from >
Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Big Oak
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the bank of a rushing river at the base of a
Floyd | giant oak tree, easily 200 feet tall.  It looks to be about a class 5
Floyd | rapids with white-water everywhere.  It's at least 80 feet to the other
Floyd | bank.  Looking back, you can see your favorite picnic table, a tiny
Floyd | square of wood tucked away in the trees far to the west.  A path along
Floyd | the river bank leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put pellet in water" 		

Floyd | You toss the tiny mauve pellet into the river; seconds later you are
Floyd | knocked to the ground by a huge explosion.  As you get back up and
Floyd | brush yourself off, you notice a dinghy next to the bank, rapidly
Floyd | floating away down the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "enter dinghy" 		

Floyd | You're now sitting in the mauve dinghy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "paddle" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "paddle".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "go to east bank" 		

Floyd | I don't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in dinghy" 		

Floyd | There doesn't appear to be anything in the mauve dinghy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Big Oak, sitting in the mauve dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are hanging on for dear life in a mauve dinghy that is being
Floyd | tossed about like a toy near the bank of a rushing river.  On the shore
Floyd | stands a giant oak tree -- it must be nearly 200 feet tall.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You'll have to get out of the mauve dinghy first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-24-23:48:15CDT 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" 		

Floyd | You are now standing.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The dinghy floats out of view downstream.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Big Oak, sitting in the mauve dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are hanging on for dear life in a mauve dinghy that is being
Floyd | tossed about like a toy near the bank of a rushing river.  On the shore
Floyd | stands a giant oak tree -- it must be nearly 200 feet tall.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You'll have to get out of the mauve dinghy first.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dinghy floats downstream...
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, sitting in the mauve dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're being thrown from one side of the dinghy to the other as you
Floyd | quickly make your way downstream.  On the west bank there is little of
Floyd | interest apart from the soil, which is dark red.  On the east bank, far
Floyd | away, there is only dense forest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf32" 		

Floyd | File to restore game from >
Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Big Oak
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the bank of a rushing river at the base of a
Floyd | giant oak tree, easily 200 feet tall.  It looks to be about a class 5
Floyd | rapids with white-water everywhere.  It's at least 80 feet to the other
Floyd | bank.  Looking back, you can see your favorite picnic table, a tiny
Floyd | square of wood tucked away in the trees far to the west.  A path along
Floyd | the river bank leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  On the other side, there is
Floyd | only dense forest.  The soil has a reddish tint here.  You can go
Floyd | upstream, to the northwest, or downstream, to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  Some fool tried to take a
Floyd | boat out in these waters, and you see before you the end result:
Floyd | pieces of boat litter the bank.  You can only go back upstream, to the
Floyd | north -- your path downstream is blocked by the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "make oars" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "oars".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "make paddles" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "paddles".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take wood" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take pieces" 		

Floyd | You can't take the wrecked boat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "move pieces" 		

Floyd | You can't move the wrecked boat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW asks, "If we don't have oars or paddles (the game doesn't even know the words) how do we navigate the dinghy, if at all?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pray" 		

Floyd | An ethereal voice intones, "You have reached The Great Duhdha's
Floyd | automated prayer line.  If you wish to ask for a minor miracle, press
Floyd | one.  If you would like to check your karmic balance, press two.  If
Floyd | you would like to register a complaint or file a bug report, press
Floyd | three.  Press four to hang up.  If you are calling from a rotary phone,
Floyd | please contact your local branch office to upgrade to a touch tone."
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  On the other side, there is
Floyd | only dense forest.  The soil has a reddish tint here.  You can go
Floyd | upstream, to the northwest, or downstream, to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | At the Big Oak
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the bank of a rushing river at the base of a
Floyd | giant oak tree, easily 200 feet tall.  It looks to be about a class 5
Floyd | rapids with white-water everywhere.  It's at least 80 feet to the other
Floyd | bank.  Looking back, you can see your favorite picnic table, a tiny
Floyd | square of wood tucked away in the trees far to the west.  A path along
Floyd | the river bank leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put pellet in river" 		

Floyd | You toss the tiny mauve pellet into the river; seconds later you are
Floyd | knocked to the ground by a huge explosion.  As you get back up and
Floyd | brush yourself off, you notice a dinghy next to the bank, rapidly
Floyd | floating away down the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter dinghy" 		

Floyd | You're now sitting in the mauve dinghy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "grab rope" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take roep" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "roep".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take rope" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump east" 		

Floyd | I don't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump" 		

Floyd | You'll have to get out of the mauve dinghy first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x river" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary rushing river.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dinghy floats downstream...
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, sitting in the mauve dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're being thrown from one side of the dinghy to the other as you
Floyd | quickly make your way downstream.  On the west bank there is little of
Floyd | interest apart from the soil, which is dark red.  On the east bank, far
Floyd | away, there is only dense forest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Big Oak, sitting in the mauve dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are hanging on for dear life in a mauve dinghy that is being
Floyd | tossed about like a toy near the bank of a rushing river.  On the shore
Floyd | stands a giant oak tree -- it must be nearly 200 feet tall.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x oak" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary giant oak tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dinghy floats downstream...
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, sitting in the mauve dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're being thrown from one side of the dinghy to the other as you
Floyd | quickly make your way downstream.  On the west bank there is little of
Floyd | interest apart from the soil, which is dark red.  On the east bank, far
Floyd | away, there is only dense forest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Big Oak, sitting in the mauve dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are hanging on for dear life in a mauve dinghy that is being
Floyd | tossed about like a toy near the bank of a rushing river.  On the shore
Floyd | stands a giant oak tree -- it must be nearly 200 feet tall.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		
DavidW arrives, full of funk, but no fun. 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd | You'll have to get out of the mauve dinghy first.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dinghy floats downstream...
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, sitting in the mauve dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're being thrown from one side of the dinghy to the other as you
Floyd | quickly make your way downstream.  On the west bank there is little of
Floyd | interest apart from the soil, which is dark red.  On the east bank, far
Floyd | away, there is only dense forest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Big Oak, sitting in the mauve dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are hanging on for dear life in a mauve dinghy that is being
Floyd | tossed about like a toy near the bank of a rushing river.  On the shore
Floyd | stands a giant oak tree -- it must be nearly 200 feet tall.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You'll have to get out of the mauve dinghy first.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dinghy floats downstream...
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, sitting in the mauve dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're being thrown from one side of the dinghy to the other as you
Floyd | quickly make your way downstream.  On the west bank there is little of
Floyd | interest apart from the soil, which is dark red.  On the east bank, far
Floyd | away, there is only dense forest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Big Oak, sitting in the mauve dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are hanging on for dear life in a mauve dinghy that is being
Floyd | tossed about like a toy near the bank of a rushing river.  On the shore
Floyd | stands a giant oak tree -- it must be nearly 200 feet tall.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "break dinghy" 		

Floyd | I see no obvious way to do that.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dinghy floats downstream...
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, sitting in the mauve dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're being thrown from one side of the dinghy to the other as you
Floyd | quickly make your way downstream.  On the west bank there is little of
Floyd | interest apart from the soil, which is dark red.  On the east bank, far
Floyd | away, there is only dense forest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Big Oak, sitting in the mauve dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are hanging on for dear life in a mauve dinghy that is being
Floyd | tossed about like a toy near the bank of a rushing river.  On the shore
Floyd | stands a giant oak tree -- it must be nearly 200 feet tall.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "poke dinghy" 		

Floyd | What do you want to poke the mauve dinghy with?
Floyd |
Floyd | The dinghy floats downstream...
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, sitting in the mauve dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're being thrown from one side of the dinghy to the other as you
Floyd | quickly make your way downstream.  On the west bank there is little of
Floyd | interest apart from the soil, which is dark red.  On the east bank, far
Floyd | away, there is only dense forest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Big Oak, sitting in the mauve dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are hanging on for dear life in a mauve dinghy that is being
Floyd | tossed about like a toy near the bank of a rushing river.  On the shore
Floyd | stands a giant oak tree -- it must be nearly 200 feet tall.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "poke dinghy with finger" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "finger".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "oops fingernail" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "fingernail".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "oops splinter" 		

Floyd | You can't poke anything with wrecked boat.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dinghy floats downstream...
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, sitting in the mauve dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're being thrown from one side of the dinghy to the other as you
Floyd | quickly make your way downstream.  On the west bank there is little of
Floyd | interest apart from the soil, which is dark red.  On the east bank, far
Floyd | away, there is only dense forest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "I'm thinking, if we burst the dinghy while in midstream, we might be lucky enough to be propelled east and across."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Hm."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Did we search the wreckage?"
		DavidW says, "yeah."
		DavidW says, "The pellet seems to be our only inventory-able object."
		DavidW says, "Unless the dinghy can be pulled out of the water before it floats away,"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf32" 		

Floyd | File to restore game from >
Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Big Oak
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the bank of a rushing river at the base of a
Floyd | giant oak tree, easily 200 feet tall.  It looks to be about a class 5
Floyd | rapids with white-water everywhere.  It's at least 80 feet to the other
Floyd | bank.  Looking back, you can see your favorite picnic table, a tiny
Floyd | square of wood tucked away in the trees far to the west.  A path along
Floyd | the river bank leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put pellet in river" 		

Floyd | You toss the tiny mauve pellet into the river; seconds later you are
Floyd | knocked to the ground by a huge explosion.  As you get back up and
Floyd | brush yourself off, you notice a dinghy next to the bank, rapidly
Floyd | floating away down the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take dinghy" 		

Floyd | Your load is too heavy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You don't appear to be carrying anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter dinghy" 		

Floyd | You're now sitting in the mauve dinghy.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dinghy floats downstream...
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, sitting in the mauve dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're being thrown from one side of the dinghy to the other as you
Floyd | quickly make your way downstream.  On the west bank there is little of
Floyd | interest apart from the soil, which is dark red.  On the east bank, far
Floyd | away, there is only dense forest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You'll have to get out of the mauve dinghy first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You'll have to get out of the mauve dinghy first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "burst dinghy" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "burst".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push dinghy north" 		

Floyd | Which dinghy do you mean, the tiny mauve pellet, or the mauve dinghy?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		jenrexrode says, "huh"
		DavidW says, "yeah, TADS 2 seems to have a scope problem with directional-push."
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-25-00:03:15CDT 		DavidW says, "anyway, afk to check on the cat. Feel free to be brilliant."
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd | You are now standing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  On the other side, there is
Floyd | only dense forest.  The soil has a reddish tint here.  You can go
Floyd | upstream, to the northwest, or downstream, to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mauve dinghy floating in the water is here.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The dinghy floats out of view downstream.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		olethros says, "I come to the rescue."
		olethros says, "First of all, I note that it is elementary"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  On the other side, there is
Floyd | only dense forest.  The soil has a reddish tint here.  You can go
Floyd | upstream, to the northwest, or downstream, to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mauve dinghy floating in the water is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "back"
		jenrexrode says, "i was unbrilliant"
Lionheart arrives, full of fun, but no funk. 		jenrexrode asks, "how do you restore?"
		DavidW says, "I type 'push restore' in the toyshop."
		genericgeekgirl says, "f restore.. oh."
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "take dinghy" 		

Floyd | Your load is too heavy.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The dinghy floats out of view downstream.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  On the other side, there is
Floyd | only dense forest.  The soil has a reddish tint here.  You can go
Floyd | upstream, to the northwest, or downstream, to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mauve dinghy floating in the water is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You don't appear to be carrying anything.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The dinghy floats out of view downstream.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  On the other side, there is
Floyd | only dense forest.  The soil has a reddish tint here.  You can go
Floyd | upstream, to the northwest, or downstream, to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mauve dinghy floating in the water is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		jenrexrode says, "i don't think my load is too heavy"
		DavidW says, "well, it's a poor message when carrying nothing, yes."
		DavidW says, "I suppose the dinghy is coded as something too heavy to ever be carried."
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x dinghy" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary dinghy, painted a particularly nauseating
Floyd | shade of mauve.  You can't really see them, but you're sure that there
Floyd | are tiny letters on the bottom of the craft that read, "Acme Dam Saph
Floyd | Dingheee," or something along those lines.  It's rapidly drifting
Floyd | downstream near the shore here.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The dinghy floats out of view downstream.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "yeah, no obvious features of the dinghy to be exploited."
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" 		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "cf32" 		

Floyd | File to restore game from >
Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Big Oak
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the bank of a rushing river at the base of a
Floyd | giant oak tree, easily 200 feet tall.  It looks to be about a class 5
Floyd | rapids with white-water everywhere.  It's at least 80 feet to the other
Floyd | bank.  Looking back, you can see your favorite picnic table, a tiny
Floyd | square of wood tucked away in the trees far to the west.  A path along
Floyd | the river bank leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  On the other side, there is
Floyd | only dense forest.  The soil has a reddish tint here.  You can go
Floyd | upstream, to the northwest, or downstream, to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		borowski says, "I wonder if we can write some more of the game or change it somehow."
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "downstream" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		borowski says, "Since it's our thesis"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  On the other side, there is
Floyd | only dense forest.  The soil has a reddish tint here.  You can go
Floyd | upstream, to the northwest, or downstream, to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says (to borowski), "interesting idea, but probably far too unlikely to be workable."
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | At the Big Oak
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the bank of a rushing river at the base of a
Floyd | giant oak tree, easily 200 feet tall.  It looks to be about a class 5
Floyd | rapids with white-water everywhere.  It's at least 80 feet to the other
Floyd | bank.  Looking back, you can see your favorite picnic table, a tiny
Floyd | square of wood tucked away in the trees far to the west.  A path along
Floyd | the river bank leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd | The rope is way too far above you to reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | A voice inside your head intones, "No, my son.  The right path is down
Floyd | the river."  A mysterious force prevents you from heading west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "put pellet in water" 		

Floyd | You toss the tiny mauve pellet into the river; seconds later you are
Floyd | knocked to the ground by a huge explosion.  As you get back up and
Floyd | brush yourself off, you notice a dinghy next to the bank, rapidly
Floyd | floating away down the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "in" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "I suppose 'jump' is 'go down' by default in this game."
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "enter dinghy" 		

Floyd | You're now sitting in the mauve dinghy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "lie down" 		

Floyd | You are now lying down.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dinghy floats downstream...
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, lying in the mauve dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're being thrown from one side of the dinghy to the other as you
Floyd | quickly make your way downstream.  On the west bank there is little of
Floyd | interest apart from the soil, which is dark red.  On the east bank, far
Floyd | away, there is only dense forest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "huh. I never thought to change our posture."
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-25-00:18:15CDT 		jenrexrode says, "yay me"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "well, I will if the posture helps any."
		olethros says, "sit straight, young man"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, lying in the mauve dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're being thrown from one side of the dinghy to the other as you
Floyd | quickly make your way downstream.  On the west bank there is little of
Floyd | interest apart from the soil, which is dark red.  On the east bank, far
Floyd | away, there is only dense forest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, lying in the mauve dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're being thrown from one side of the dinghy to the other as you
Floyd | quickly make your way downstream.  On the west bank there is little of
Floyd | interest apart from the soil, which is dark red.  On the east bank, far
Floyd | away, there is only dense forest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW asks (of olethros), "aw. How about sitting side-saddle, arms akimbo?"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "roll" 		

Floyd | Roll what?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "turn over" 		

Floyd | (trying to reach the overripe tomato first)
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't touch anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		jenrexrode says, "huh"
		genericgeekgirl snrk.
		borowski says (to jenrexrode), "these are class five rapids!"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "swim" 		

Floyd | You don't know how.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, ">downgrade rapids"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "sit" 		

Floyd | You are now sitting down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, sitting in the mauve dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're being thrown from one side of the dinghy to the other as you
Floyd | quickly make your way downstream.  On the west bank there is little of
Floyd | interest apart from the soil, which is dark red.  On the east bank, far
Floyd | away, there is only dense forest.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dinghy floats downstream...
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck, sitting in the mauve
Floyd | dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    As you struggle to avoid being pitched out of the dinghy, you
Floyd | notice, to your chagrin, the fragments of a boat that didn't make it
Floyd | through this area in one piece scattered around the nearby shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "lie down" 		

Floyd | You are now lying down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck, lying in the mauve
Floyd | dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    As you struggle to avoid being pitched out of the dinghy, you
Floyd | notice, to your chagrin, the fragments of a boat that didn't make it
Floyd | through this area in one piece scattered around the nearby shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "sit" 		

Floyd | You are now sitting down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck, sitting in the mauve
Floyd | dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    As you struggle to avoid being pitched out of the dinghy, you
Floyd | notice, to your chagrin, the fragments of a boat that didn't make it
Floyd | through this area in one piece scattered around the nearby shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | Just as the rapids really start getting tricky, the dinghy springs a
Floyd | leak!  The shoddily-made craft almost instantly capsizes, and for a
Floyd | moment you're sure you'll soon be joining Duhdha and your ancestors,
Floyd | but through a miraculous job of doggie paddling, you somehow make it
Floyd | back to shore and emerge...
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  Some fool tried to take a
Floyd | boat out in these waters, and you see before you the end result:
Floyd | pieces of boat litter the bank.  You can only go back upstream, to the
Floyd | north -- your path downstream is blocked by the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		jenrexrode asks, "you wanted a hole in it, right?"
		DavidW says, "not here, no."
		DavidW says, "Normally I wouldn't want a hole in a dinghy at all, but I can't think how else this puzzle might be solved."
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" 		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "cf32" 		

Floyd | File to restore game from >
Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Big Oak
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the bank of a rushing river at the base of a
Floyd | giant oak tree, easily 200 feet tall.  It looks to be about a class 5
Floyd | rapids with white-water everywhere.  It's at least 80 feet to the other
Floyd | bank.  Looking back, you can see your favorite picnic table, a tiny
Floyd | square of wood tucked away in the trees far to the west.  A path along
Floyd | the river bank leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "put pellet in water" 		

Floyd | You toss the tiny mauve pellet into the river; seconds later you are
Floyd | knocked to the ground by a huge explosion.  As you get back up and
Floyd | brush yourself off, you notice a dinghy next to the bank, rapidly
Floyd | floating away down the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "enter dinghy" 		

Floyd | You're now sitting in the mauve dinghy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "lie down" 		

Floyd | You are now lying down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "paddle" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "paddle".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "rock dinghy" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		jenrexrode says, "if the dinghy is a rockin, don't come a knockin"
		DavidW says, "snrk"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "kick" 		

Floyd | Kick what?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "kick dinghy" 		

Floyd | Kicking the mauve dinghy doesn't seem like a good idea.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dinghy floats downstream...
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, lying in the mauve dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're being thrown from one side of the dinghy to the other as you
Floyd | quickly make your way downstream.  On the west bank there is little of
Floyd | interest apart from the soil, which is dark red.  On the east bank, far
Floyd | away, there is only dense forest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kick river" 		

Floyd | Kicking the rushing river doesn't seem like a good idea.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pop dinghy" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "pull dinghy" 		

Floyd | Pulling on the mauve dinghy doesn't seem to have much effect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "push dinghy" 		

Floyd | Pushing the mauve dinghy doesn't seem to have much effect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "deflate dinghy" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x dinghy" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary dinghy, painted a particularly nauseating
Floyd | shade of mauve.  You can't really see them, but you're sure that there
Floyd | are tiny letters on the bottom of the craft that read, "Acme Dam Saph
Floyd | Dingheee," or something along those lines.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dinghy floats downstream...
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck, lying in the mauve
Floyd | dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    As you struggle to avoid being pitched out of the dinghy, you
Floyd | notice, to your chagrin, the fragments of a boat that didn't make it
Floyd | through this area in one piece scattered around the nearby shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search pieces" 		

Floyd | It was a one or two-person craft, but there's not much left of it now.
Floyd | Looks like it smashed up against the rocks and splintered into a
Floyd | million pieces.  Most of it's probably been washed away by the torrent
Floyd | of water.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "hold dinghy" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "hold".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "hug dinghy" 		

Floyd | Ok, you just rubbed the mauve dinghy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		jenrexrode says, "heh heh"
		DavidW says, "squeak squeak mcsqueakin"
		DavidW says, "I suppose there might be a chance we can somehow jump over or bypass this hazard and get to safety further downstream."
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "jump" 		

Floyd | You'll have to get out of the mauve dinghy first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "sleep" 		

Floyd | This is no time for napping!
Floyd |
Floyd | Just as the rapids really start getting tricky, the dinghy springs a
Floyd | leak!  The shoddily-made craft almost instantly capsizes, and for a
Floyd | moment you're sure you'll soon be joining Duhdha and your ancestors,
Floyd | but through a miraculous job of doggie paddling, you somehow make it
Floyd | back to shore and emerge...
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  Some fool tried to take a
Floyd | boat out in these waters, and you see before you the end result:
Floyd | pieces of boat litter the bank.  You can only go back upstream, to the
Floyd | north -- your path downstream is blocked by the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck, lying in the mauve
Floyd | dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    As you struggle to avoid being pitched out of the dinghy, you
Floyd | notice, to your chagrin, the fragments of a boat that didn't make it
Floyd | through this area in one piece scattered around the nearby shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You'll have to get out of the mauve dinghy first.
Floyd |
Floyd | Just as the rapids really start getting tricky, the dinghy springs a
Floyd | leak!  The shoddily-made craft almost instantly capsizes, and for a
Floyd | moment you're sure you'll soon be joining Duhdha and your ancestors,
Floyd | but through a miraculous job of doggie paddling, you somehow make it
Floyd | back to shore and emerge...
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  Some fool tried to take a
Floyd | boat out in these waters, and you see before you the end result:
Floyd | pieces of boat litter the bank.  You can only go back upstream, to the
Floyd | north -- your path downstream is blocked by the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck, lying in the mauve
Floyd | dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    As you struggle to avoid being pitched out of the dinghy, you
Floyd | notice, to your chagrin, the fragments of a boat that didn't make it
Floyd | through this area in one piece scattered around the nearby shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-25-00:33:15CDT 		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd | You are now standing.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The dinghy floats out of view downstream.  Unfortunately it seems
Floyd | that you have no way of following it from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck, lying in the mauve
Floyd | dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    As you struggle to avoid being pitched out of the dinghy, you
Floyd | notice, to your chagrin, the fragments of a boat that didn't make it
Floyd | through this area in one piece scattered around the nearby shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd | You are now standing.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The dinghy floats out of view downstream.  Unfortunately it seems
Floyd | that you have no way of following it from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  Some fool tried to take a
Floyd | boat out in these waters, and you see before you the end result:
Floyd | pieces of boat litter the bank.  You can only go back upstream, to the
Floyd | north -- your path downstream is blocked by the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x trees" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary dense clump of trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "search trees" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary dense clump of trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "open trees" 		

Floyd | You can't open the dense clump of trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "look under boat" 		

Floyd | Trying to look under the wrecked boat doesn't gain you anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "push boat" 		

Floyd | Pushing the wrecked boat doesn't seem to have much effect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "pull boat" 		

Floyd | Pulling on the wrecked boat doesn't seem to have much effect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "turn boat" 		

Floyd | You can't turn the wrecked boat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" 		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "cf32" 		

Floyd | File to restore game from >
Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Big Oak
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the bank of a rushing river at the base of a
Floyd | giant oak tree, easily 200 feet tall.  It looks to be about a class 5
Floyd | rapids with white-water everywhere.  It's at least 80 feet to the other
Floyd | bank.  Looking back, you can see your favorite picnic table, a tiny
Floyd | square of wood tucked away in the trees far to the west.  A path along
Floyd | the river bank leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "put pill in water" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "pill".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "pellet"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "put pellet in water" 		

Floyd | You toss the tiny mauve pellet into the river; seconds later you are
Floyd | knocked to the ground by a huge explosion.  As you get back up and
Floyd | brush yourself off, you notice a dinghy next to the bank, rapidly
Floyd | floating away down the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "enter dinghy" 		

Floyd | You're now sitting in the mauve dinghy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "sit" 		

Floyd | You are now sitting down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "turn dinghy" 		

Floyd | You can't turn the mauve dinghy.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dinghy floats downstream...
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, sitting in the mauve dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're being thrown from one side of the dinghy to the other as you
Floyd | quickly make your way downstream.  On the west bank there is little of
Floyd | interest apart from the soil, which is dark red.  On the east bank, far
Floyd | away, there is only dense forest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "steer dinghy" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "steer".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "sink dinghy" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "sink".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "look under dinghy" 		

Floyd | Trying to look under the mauve dinghy doesn't gain you anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "take dinghy" 		

Floyd | Your load is too heavy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, ">turn on autopilot"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "lie down" 		

Floyd | You are now lying down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "it" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "sit" 		

Floyd | You are now sitting down.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dinghy floats downstream...
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck, sitting in the mauve
Floyd | dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    As you struggle to avoid being pitched out of the dinghy, you
Floyd | notice, to your chagrin, the fragments of a boat that didn't make it
Floyd | through this area in one piece scattered around the nearby shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" 		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "cf32" 		

Floyd | File to restore game from >
Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Big Oak
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the bank of a rushing river at the base of a
Floyd | giant oak tree, easily 200 feet tall.  It looks to be about a class 5
Floyd | rapids with white-water everywhere.  It's at least 80 feet to the other
Floyd | bank.  Looking back, you can see your favorite picnic table, a tiny
Floyd | square of wood tucked away in the trees far to the west.  A path along
Floyd | the river bank leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "read pellet" 		

Floyd | The tiny mauve pellet doesn't have any text on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "search tree" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary giant oak tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "get table" 		

Floyd | You can't take the picnic bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "search table" 		

Floyd | The picnic bench is too far away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		jenrexrode asks, "so can the game in the game be stopped? I guess you can press a number?"
		DavidW says, "Or maybe 'quit' will go back to the Game Room."
		DavidW asks, "or at least the menu?"
		DavidW says, "yeah, perhaps we need to come back here later. grr."
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "press 4" 		

Floyd | You need to specify what you want to type the number on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "press 4 on dinghy" 		

Floyd | You can't type anything on the tiny mauve pellet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "I think while the >> prompt is active, we remain in the inner game."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" 		

Floyd | In 38 turns, you have earned 0 points out of a possible 451.  By my
Floyd | estimation, this means you're not very far along The Way.
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you really want to quit?  (YES or NO) >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-25-00:48:15CDT 		DavidW asks, "That's the score inside the inner game, isn't it? maybe?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Seems that way."
		DavidW says, "well, we can still restore if I'm wrong."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The program terminates and you're back at the main menu.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Game Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The earthquake bass rumblings and brilliant flares emanating from
Floyd | the machines in this room are enough to scare you witless until you
Floyd | realize they're only computer-generated illusions.  Welcome to the
Floyd | Terminal Velocity game room!
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are video games of all kinds here, many of them old classics
Floyd | from before the days of HoloScanning monitors.  The games are all set
Floyd | on free play, and quite a few Terminal Velocity partons are taking
Floyd | advantage of this to finally master their favorite coin-operated
Floyd | diversions.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Looking around the game room, you notice, to your surprise, a small
Floyd | Zippikraft Kompakt Komputer -- an older model much less powerful than
Floyd | your own Data Liquidizer, but still great for games.  No one seems to
Floyd | use the poor thing, though -- it looks lonely all by itself in the
Floyd | corner.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The game room exit leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "score" 		

Floyd | In 1447 turns, you have earned 43 points out of a possible 75.
Floyd | You have completed approximately 64 percent of the game.
Floyd | You have gotten 3 hints.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x menu" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x komputer" 		

Floyd |    What a blast from the past!  The Kompakt Komputer was one of
Floyd | Zippikraft's first mass-produced machines, and as a result it has a few
Floyd | quirks, but is a noble piece of hardware nonetheless -- the KK's were
Floyd | built to the same exacting standards as today's Liquidizers, so many
Floyd | people's original KK's are still working perfectly [37].  Still, these
Floyd | machines are hard to find now, and actually having the opportunity to
Floyd | play with one is at least a little exciting.
Floyd |
Floyd |    This one is an all-in-one unit with built-in keyboard, floppy disk
Floyd | drive, and 2D raster monitor.  It is currently on, and there's a disk
Floyd | in the drive.  The screen is currently displaying a menu with several
Floyd | options:
Floyd |
Floyd |    1. Unnkulian Underworld:  The Unknown Unventure
Floyd |    2. Unnkulian Unventure II:  The Secret of Acme
Floyd |    3. Unnkulian Unventure III:  The Kuulest Quest
Floyd |    4. Eject disk and shutdown
Floyd |
Floyd | The software eagerly awaits your selection.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "note 37" 		

Floyd | [37]: Or at least as well as they ever worked...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "I'm gonna guess everyone is too tired or fried to continue further tonight?"
		borowski says, "Sorry, yeah, I'm pretty tired."
		jenrexrode asks, "were we playing nuber 2?"
		borowski asks, "Maybe try out the new pass real quick?"
		DavidW says, "number 3"
		DavidW says (to borowski), "I have no objections, but we probably ought to make our weekly save point."
		DavidW says, "Should we save as legend6 or legend7 or what? I haven't been keeping proper track of the savepoints."
		borowski says, "I think legend6"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | File to restore game from >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "legend6" 		

Floyd | Restore failed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "ok"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "save" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "legend6" 		

Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says (to borowski), "ok, feel free to boogie with the pass."
		borowski says, "yeah"
		DavidW says, "se, ne to the newest matter mover."
borowski says (to Floyd), "lfffffffffffddfafsadfflfsdfafkljaslkfjfsf" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "lfffffffffffddfafsadfflfsdfafkljaslkfjfsf".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "oops, mudclient issue"
borowski says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the southeast or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the south and northeast.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the west wall, and a narrow doorway to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the south or walk around outside the
Floyd | pit to the southeast and southwest.  There is a matter mover here as
Floyd | well.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "autodialer" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a crypto watch (being worn), a Terminal
Floyd | Velocity Elite pass, a mysterious black sphere, a little motorized toy
Floyd | named Squirt, a prune, an id tag, a figurine of the Great Duhdha, an
Floyd | EZ-Tech Blaser, a piece of salami, a geode, a box of KrudKo
Floyd | "Kolor-Me-Kool" snacks, a metal coat hanger, an olive drab uniform, a
Floyd | qualitative calculator, some Akmi Wacki Putti, a hammer, a dog-eared
Floyd | leaflet, a tiny triangular pink circuit board, an ary ung, a bolt, a
Floyd | magnetic letter Q, a plastic whistle, a plastic plover's egg, a
Floyd | firecracker, a mood ring (being worn), a poodle charm, a stick of
Floyd | butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a frying pan, a hunk of cheese,
Floyd | an overripe tomato, a piece of string (tied to the akmid), an akmid
Floyd | (tied to the piece of string), a thermos of Barfee advanced growth
Floyd | formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a paperback book,
Floyd | an RGB color chart, an empty ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard, and a
Floyd | matter mover autodialer.  The mysterious black sphere is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x matter mover autodialer" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd | 5:  A dirt road
Floyd | 6:  Survey Station
Floyd | 7:  Kuwl Starport
Floyd | 8:  New Hell
Floyd | 9:  Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd | 10:  The Terminal Velocity Back Door
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "set autodialer 9" 		

Floyd | I don't see any autodialer 9 here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "type 9 on autodialer"
borowski says (to Floyd), "type 9 on autodialer" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "enter matter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at the
Floyd | north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning you
Floyd | to come inside.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up, white
Floyd | down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    An average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts is here,
Floyd | evidently waiting to be admitted to Terminal Velocity.  Something is
Floyd | ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Southern Part of the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a southern part of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, though you can't see far enough to be sure.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The guard is here.  He seems much less suspicious of you than
Floyd | before.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "show guard pass" 		

Floyd | I don't see any guard pass here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "pass to guard" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "show pass to guard" 		

Floyd | The guard looks at the pass and nods.  "Go on in, friend," he says.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The guard walks out of the room.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your crypto watch is getting a transmission:
Floyd |
Floyd |    The watch screen shows Jax hard at work in the Data Den.  "Heard
Floyd | JC's gettin' audio out to you.  Didn't even know that was possible;
Floyd | look at the boy go!  Think we may have something on the net.  JC's
Floyd | lookin' into it."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Halfway down the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, but all you can see is a wall -- no door.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are rooms to the east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Northern Part of the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a northern part of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, where you thought the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity would be, is just a wall!  The only obvious way out is back to
Floyd | the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a printed note on the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x note" 		

Floyd | The printed note on the wall says, "Remember:  Don't tell the password
Floyd | to anyone but a Terminal Velocity employee!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd |    An average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts walks into
Floyd | the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x fellow" 		

Floyd | He looks pretty much like you'd expect an average-looking fellow
Floyd | wearing a T-shirt and shorts to look.
Floyd |
Floyd |    An average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts walks out of
Floyd | the room.The northern wall turns completely transparent as the
Floyd | average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts walks up to and
Floyd | then through it.  It then reverts back to normal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Just as you're about to smack into the wall, it turns transparent and
Floyd | you pass right through.
Floyd |
Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the north or walk around outside the
Floyd | pit to the northeast and northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Ah, just here again"
borowski has disconnected. 		
borowski has connected. 		DavidW says, "huh. intangible wall trick."
		DavidW says, "I forgot that one."
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-25-01:03:15CDT 		DavidW says, "even though I was rereading Zot! this week."
		DavidW says, "I suppose we could try asking Jax about various topics, like Akme, Kuulest, Watchmaker, etc."
		DavidW says, "or ask JC, even."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to jax" 		

Floyd | I don't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the northwest or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the southwest and north.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the east wall, and a narrow doorway to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | Jax O Pax's Data Den
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Welcome to the Data Den."  That's what the neon sign above the main
Floyd | terminal says.  This tiny, plush room is filled with computer hardware
Floyd | of all kinds.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Off in one corner is a particularly neat gadget -- a Zippikraft
Floyd | MatterMan 95 Digital-to-Matter converter.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The exit is to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Jax O Pax is here, typing at one of the terminals and occasionally
Floyd | muttering to himself.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jax about watchmaker" 		

Floyd | Jax mumbles that he isn't much interested in talking about The
Floyd | Watchmaker.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jax about jc" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "jc".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jax about re" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "re".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jax about akme" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "akme".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jax about akmi" 		

Floyd | "I'm workin' as fast as I can here, Gavster.  Akmi's a monster corp --
Floyd | the net's none to eager to spill info on 'em.  Akmi can play pretty
Floyd | dirty when they get riled," Jax informs you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jax about mare" 		

Floyd | Jax looks up from what he's doing.  "Mare's the greatest.  Situations
Floyd | like these, y'know, most of us are bustin' up; Mare's the coolest.
Floyd | Serenity.  That's what I call it.  She's got a kind of serenity thatcha
Floyd | just don' find in too many folks."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Maybe we can talk directly to the watchmaker now?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jax about kuulest" 		

Floyd | You don't know what that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks (of borowski), "What makes you think that?"
		borowski says, "Because we know about the acme virus thing."
		DavidW says, "I think we still need evidence, something tangible to show her."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jax about virus" 		

Floyd | Jax mumbles that he isn't much interested in talking about the Aknet
Floyd | virus.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "but I suppose it can't hurt to try."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the northwest or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the southwest and north.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the east wall, and a narrow doorway to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, at the Bar
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're at the Terminal Velocity bar, which is a large circle of wood
Floyd | with a marble top.  At the center of the circle is a cylindrical kiosk
Floyd | containing hundreds of kinds of alcoholic beverages and many glasses.
Floyd | There's a break in the circle that you can walk through to get inside
Floyd | [34].
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the south or walk around outside the
Floyd | pit to the southeast and southwest.  There is a matter mover here as
Floyd | well.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x autodialer" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd | 5:  A dirt road
Floyd | 6:  Survey Station
Floyd | 7:  Kuwl Starport
Floyd | 8:  New Hell
Floyd | 9:  Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd | 10:  The Terminal Velocity Back Door
Floyd | 11:  In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 8 on autodialer" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | New Hell
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a small lobby enclosed by a transparent dome.  The lobby
Floyd | opens up to the north into The Watchmen proper and an eastern portal
Floyd | leads outside.  This area itself is nondescript, but through the clear
Floyd | canopy you can see what a dark and terrifying world New Hell is:
Floyd | rivers of lava slither through the greasy-slick alleys of the slums and
Floyd | on to the distant horizon, where primordial geysers ejaculate molten
Floyd | rock into the midnight blue sky [27].
Floyd |
Floyd |    Flourescent spotlights flicker nervously, at moments illuminating
Floyd | the victims of the collective carnivorous orgy just long enough for you
Floyd | to take the scenes in, but briefly enough for you to mistake them for
Floyd | little nightmares.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You turn away.  New Hell isn't just where people suffer.  New Hell
Floyd | is where people who no one cares about suffer.  The poets' words don't
Floyd | drift away on the fiery rivers here.  There aren't any poets.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | At the Entrance to The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here is the entrance to The Watchmen, home to the Watchmaker and,
Floyd | from the looks of it, frequented by society's outcasts.  Through the
Floyd | entranceway you spy unusual characters of all sorts engaging in
Floyd | business, pleasure, and pain.
Floyd |
Floyd |    North of here is the inside of the establishment.  The matter mover
Floyd | and exit are to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen bouncer is keeping an eye on you.  He doesn't seem
Floyd | eager to let you enter.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | "Don't think so," the bouncer grunts.  He bars your way north.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your crypto watch is getting a transmission:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "OK, we got some info on AkNet courtesy of JC," Jax says through the
Floyd | crypto watch.  "There's a weak spot, but you're not gonna like it --
Floyd | it's smack dab in the middle of that damned Cheez death star.  Gotta
Floyd | figure a way into Akmi HQ on Plast unless JC digs somethin' else up."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a crypto watch (being worn), a Terminal
Floyd | Velocity Elite pass, a mysterious black sphere, a little motorized toy
Floyd | named Squirt, a prune, an id tag, a figurine of the Great Duhdha, an
Floyd | EZ-Tech Blaser, a piece of salami, a geode, a box of KrudKo
Floyd | "Kolor-Me-Kool" snacks, a metal coat hanger, an olive drab uniform, a
Floyd | qualitative calculator, some Akmi Wacki Putti, a hammer, a dog-eared
Floyd | leaflet, a tiny triangular pink circuit board, an ary ung, a bolt, a
Floyd | magnetic letter Q, a plastic whistle, a plastic plover's egg, a
Floyd | firecracker, a mood ring (being worn), a poodle charm, a stick of
Floyd | butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a frying pan, a hunk of cheese,
Floyd | an overripe tomato, a piece of string (tied to the akmid), an akmid
Floyd | (tied to the piece of string), a thermos of Barfee advanced growth
Floyd | formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a paperback book,
Floyd | an RGB color chart, an empty ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard, and a
Floyd | matter mover autodialer.  The mysterious black sphere is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "It's the triangle board"
borowski says (to Floyd), "give guard circuit board" 		

Floyd | I don't see any guard circuit board here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show board to bouncer" 		

Floyd | The bouncer pulls a hand-held device out of his left trouser pocket and
Floyd | plugs the triangle into it.  He grunts, hands it back to you, and waves
Floyd | you through.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "give circuit board yo guard" 		

Floyd | You can't do that, because you can't put anything  the tiny triangular
Floyd | pink circuit board.I don't know the word "yo".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "argh"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are wandering around the smoky, dark, cavernous interior of The

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Watchmen.  All around you oddly-dressed men make transactions, fight
Floyd | with each other, and generally carouse loudly.  It's so dimly lit here
Floyd | that you can barely find your way through the maze of human obstacles
Floyd | -- sitting, standing, and prone.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The employees all seem to be male, but in many cases it's hard to
Floyd | tell.  They are dressed very differently then the clientele -- slick
Floyd | fabric uniforms in dark maroon that look too tight.  Each employee has
Floyd | a gold pocket watch emblem on his chest, just above the heart.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen continues to the north and south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You hear a muffled scream.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are wandering around the smoky, dark, cavernous interior of The
Floyd | Watchmen.  All around you oddly-dressed men make transactions, fight
Floyd | with each other, and generally carouse loudly.  It's so dimly lit here
Floyd | that you can barely find your way through the maze of human obstacles
Floyd | -- sitting, standing, and prone.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The employees all seem to be male, but in many cases it's hard to
Floyd | tell.  They are dressed very differently then the clientele -- slick
Floyd | fabric uniforms in dark maroon that look too tight.  Each employee has
Floyd | a gold pocket watch emblem on his chest, just above the heart.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen proper ends here, but there is another smaller area to
Floyd | the east.  The rest of the establishment is south of here.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You hear someone shouting, "Yes, cut me!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | The Watchmaker's Headquarters
Floyd |
Floyd |    This area looks much like the rest of the place, but there are far
Floyd | fewer people here.  The majority are Watchmen employees, hovering
Floyd | around the Watchmaker.  No one pays much attention to you as you mill
Floyd | about.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmaker is here.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell watchmaker about virus" 		

Floyd | "Look, kid," she sneers, "I got my own problems to deal with.  You
Floyd | ain't the first crackpot to come in here and tell me the world's coming
Floyd | to an end."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "thought as much. Hearsay ain't enough."
borowski says (to Floyd), "show watchmaker watch" 		

Floyd | (trying to take the crypto watch (being worn) first)
Floyd |
Floyd | Jax told you to keep it on so you could stay in contact with the
Floyd | others.  If you take it off you'll probably lose it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-25-01:18:15CDT 		
borowski says (to Floyd), "show watch to watchmaker" 		

Floyd | (trying to take the crypto watch (being worn) first)
Floyd |
Floyd | Jax told you to keep it on so you could stay in contact with the
Floyd | others.  If you take it off you'll probably lose it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "I don't know why my brain hates pronouns so much"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Because it's 2:30?"
		DavidW says, "Can we return to the Terminal Velocity Bar? I had an idea for that area."
		borowski says, "Stupid time, always hurting me brain"
		borowski says (to DavidW), "Sure, if you want to drive"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are wandering around the smoky, dark, cavernous interior of The
Floyd | Watchmen.  All around you oddly-dressed men make transactions, fight
Floyd | with each other, and generally carouse loudly.  It's so dimly lit here
Floyd | that you can barely find your way through the maze of human obstacles
Floyd | -- sitting, standing, and prone.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The employees all seem to be male, but in many cases it's hard to
Floyd | tell.  They are dressed very differently then the clientele -- slick
Floyd | fabric uniforms in dark maroon that look too tight.  Each employee has
Floyd | a gold pocket watch emblem on his chest, just above the heart.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen proper ends here, but there is another smaller area to
Floyd | the east.  The rest of the establishment is south of here.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are wandering around the smoky, dark, cavernous interior of The
Floyd | Watchmen.  All around you oddly-dressed men make transactions, fight
Floyd | with each other, and generally carouse loudly.  It's so dimly lit here
Floyd | that you can barely find your way through the maze of human obstacles
Floyd | -- sitting, standing, and prone.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The employees all seem to be male, but in many cases it's hard to
Floyd | tell.  They are dressed very differently then the clientele -- slick
Floyd | fabric uniforms in dark maroon that look too tight.  Each employee has
Floyd | a gold pocket watch emblem on his chest, just above the heart.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen continues to the north and south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | At the Entrance to The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here is the entrance to The Watchmen, home to the Watchmaker and,
Floyd | from the looks of it, frequented by society's outcasts.  Through the
Floyd | entranceway you spy unusual characters of all sorts engaging in
Floyd | business, pleasure, and pain.
Floyd |
Floyd |    North of here is the inside of the establishment.  The matter mover
Floyd | and exit are to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The bouncer is here, fortunately ignoring you.  Something is
Floyd | ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | New Hell
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a small lobby enclosed by a transparent dome.  The lobby
Floyd | opens up to the north into The Watchmen proper and an eastern portal
Floyd | leads outside.  This area itself is nondescript, but through the clear
Floyd | canopy you can see what a dark and terrifying world New Hell is:
Floyd | rivers of lava slither through the greasy-slick alleys of the slums and
Floyd | on to the distant horizon, where primordial geysers ejaculate molten
Floyd | rock into the midnight blue sky [27].
Floyd |
Floyd |    Flourescent spotlights flicker nervously, at moments illuminating
Floyd | the victims of the collective carnivorous orgy just long enough for you
Floyd | to take the scenes in, but briefly enough for you to mistake them for
Floyd | little nightmares.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You turn away.  New Hell isn't just where people suffer.  New Hell
Floyd | is where people who no one cares about suffer.  The poets' words don't
Floyd | drift away on the fiery rivers here.  There aren't any poets.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x autodialer" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd | 5:  A dirt road
Floyd | 6:  Survey Station
Floyd | 7:  Kuwl Starport
Floyd | 8:  New Hell
Floyd | 9:  Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd | 10:  The Terminal Velocity Back Door
Floyd | 11:  In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 11 on autodialer" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the south or walk around outside the
Floyd | pit to the southeast and southwest.  There is a matter mover here as
Floyd | well.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, at the Bar
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're at the Terminal Velocity bar, which is a large circle of wood
Floyd | with a marble top.  At the center of the circle is a cylindrical kiosk
Floyd | containing hundreds of kinds of alcoholic beverages and many glasses.
Floyd | There's a break in the circle that you can walk through to get inside
Floyd | [34].
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bartender" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" 		

Floyd | You peer behind the bar and find, of all things, a stationary bicycle!
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your crypto watch is getting a transmission:
Floyd |
Floyd |    An image of the third Valley King appears on the watch -- must be
Floyd | JC.  "Your Gavin-ness, I now have video capability.  Seriously, pal, I
Floyd | don't know any other way to do it -- we have to get to Plast and nuke
Floyd | that shunt.  Akmi runs a tight ship these days, and I don't see any
Floyd | other flaws in the net.  Looks like they've forgotten about the
Floyd | band-aid they stuck in their security backbone years ago, and that's
Floyd | what we need to hit.  If you can take that out, I think I'll be able to
Floyd | seize control for the nanosecond or so it takes our cyberscuzz friend
Floyd | to notice.  Don't quite know what I'm gonna do in that nanosecond, but
Floyd | you gotta find a way into Plast."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bicycle" 		

Floyd | It's a stationary bicycle, without wheels, and chrome-plated.  There's
Floyd | a small digital display mounted between the handlebars.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x display" 		

Floyd | The display reads "94 RY."
Floyd |
Floyd |    The bartender emerges from behind the kiosk and nods at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask bartender about bicycle" 		

Floyd | You can't do that, because something tells you the stationary bicycle
Floyd | will not be a particularly productive topic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x kiosk" 		

Floyd | It looks typical of such things.  But wait, is that Razor Brandy?  That
Floyd | stuff's illegal in most of the galaxy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x brandy" 		

Floyd |    Razor Brandy is made by the small group of settlers brave (and
Floyd | insane) enough to tough it out against the vicious carnivores of Razor,
Floyd | a nasty planet in the Edge system [38].
Floyd |
Floyd |    This particular bottle looks quite old, which probably means it
Floyd | costs a fortune.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "wait, when did we hear about Razor before?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "note 38" 		

Floyd | [38]: A nasty system.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-25-01:33:15CDT 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask bartender about brandy" 		

Floyd | You can't do that, because something tells you the Razor Brandy will
Floyd | not be a particularly productive topic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask bartender about plast" 		

Floyd | You don't know what that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask bartender about bar" 		

Floyd | Something tells you the bar will not be a particularly productive
Floyd | topic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask bartender about physics" 		

Floyd | "I know something of scientific matters," he says haughtily, "but
Floyd | nothing I can easily explain in the time it will take you to buy a
Floyd | drink."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask bartender about time travel" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "time".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask bartender about converter" 		

Floyd | You can't do that, because something tells you the Zippikraft MatterMan
Floyd | 95 Digital-to-Matter converter will not be a particularly productive
Floyd | topic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Maybe ask Jax about Plast?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask bartender about valley king" 		

Floyd | For a moment, the bartender is lost in thought.  When he comes back to
Floyd | reality, he mumbles that he doesn't have much interest in the Valley
Floyd | King action figure.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The bartender wanders to the other side of the bar, behind the
Floyd | kiosk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take brandy" 		

Floyd | Ah-ah.  Not without paying for it, you don't.  It's probably alarmed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ride bicycle" 		

Floyd | You'd better get on the bike first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "get on bicycle" 		

Floyd | You're now sitting on the stationary bicycle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ride bicycle" 		

Floyd | You pedal the bike furiously.  Suddenly, there's a blinding flash of
Floyd | light, and you feel like your stomach's being pulled apart.  You
Floyd | struggle to keep your composure (and your lunch) for a few agonizing
Floyd | moments, but soon find yourself...
Floyd |
Floyd | In the Future
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're sitting on the stationary bicycle in a small, featureless
Floyd | cubicle, barely as big as your pod.  The walls here shimmer as they
Floyd | drift through all the colors of the rainbow, and the furniture -- a
Floyd | mahogany desk and chair with no legs -- floats in midair.  There is an
Floyd | oak chest on the desk.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To your surprise, you see a young man sitting at the desk,
Floyd | completely motionless.  He doesn't even seem to be breathing; it's as
Floyd | though he's frozen.  His clothes suggest that he is from your time.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something about this place makes you feel strange.  It's sort of
Floyd | like the weird sensation you experienced on the bike, only much less
Floyd | pronounced.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I was right; it was a time machine."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x man" 		

Floyd | You can't tell much about the poor fellow.  He doesn't have anything on
Floyd | him, and his clothes look perfectly average.  The only thing odd about
Floyd | him is his wristwatch -- it's an expensive (and supposedly infallible)
Floyd | solar atomic model, but it's stopped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x solar wristwatch" 		

Floyd | I don't see any solar wristwatch here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wristwatch" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x desk" 		

Floyd | It looks like an antique, but the legs have been removed and it's
Floyd | staying aloft on its own for some reason.  A sturdy oak chest is on the
Floyd | mahogany desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chest" 		

Floyd | It's just a normal-looking chest.  It's locked shut with a padlock.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You notice that the walls seem to be changing colors much more
Floyd | quickly now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search man" 		

Floyd | You can't tell much about the poor fellow.  He doesn't have anything on
Floyd | him, and his clothes look perfectly average.  The only thing odd about
Floyd | him is his wristwatch -- it's an expensive (and supposedly infallible)
Floyd | solar atomic model, but it's stopped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all from man" 		

Floyd | I don't see what you're referring to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take chest" 		

Floyd | You can't take the sturdy oak chest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" 		

Floyd | You are now standing.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The colors of the walls are shifting so fast now that all you can
Floyd | see is a hypnotic blur.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read watch" 		

Floyd | Which watch do you mean, the crypto watch (being worn), or the dead
Floyd | man's watch?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "dead" 		

Floyd | The dead man's watch doesn't have any text on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take dead watch" 		

Floyd | Why bother -- it's of no use anyway now that it's stopped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open desk" 		

Floyd | Open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in desk" 		

Floyd | There doesn't appear to be anything in the mahogany desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chair" 		

Floyd | Like the desk, this chair would seem to be an antique with the legs
Floyd | removed.  You can't tell what's holding it up, but it's quite stable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | There are no obvious exits.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bicycle" 		

Floyd | It's a stationary bicycle, without wheels, and chrome-plated.  There's
Floyd | a small digital display mounted between the handlebars.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x display" 		

Floyd | The display reads "7823 RY."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "get on bicycle" 		

Floyd | You're now sitting on the stationary bicycle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ride it" 		

Floyd | You pedal furiously, and are rewarded with the same bright flash and
Floyd | stomach-turning vertigo.  When you open your eyes again, you find
Floyd | yourself...
Floyd |
Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, at the Bar
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're at the Terminal Velocity bar, which is a large circle of wood
Floyd | with a marble top.  At the center of the circle is a cylindrical kiosk
Floyd | containing hundreds of kinds of alcoholic beverages and many glasses.
Floyd | There's a break in the circle that you can walk through to get inside
Floyd | [34].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The stationary bicycle is behind the bar.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.  The bartender is soon upon you, alert and
Floyd | scowling.  You quickly produce your Terminal Velocity Elite pass and
Floyd | show it to him.  "Don't do that again," he growls.  "The time machine
Floyd | is very delicate, and there are many things you do not understand."  He
Floyd | fiddles with a tiny cylindrical object he draws from his pocket.
Floyd | "There.  Now it's keyed.  You won't be taking advantage of my trusting
Floyd | nature again, you pesky rapscallion."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oops"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask bartender about dead man" 		

Floyd | You can't do that, because something tells you the seemingly dead man
Floyd | will not be a particularly productive topic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask bartender about future" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "future".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bicycle" 		

Floyd | It's a stationary bicycle, without wheels, and chrome-plated.  There's
Floyd | a small digital display mounted between the handlebars.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x display" 		

Floyd | The display reads "94 RY."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bartender" 		

Floyd | The bartender is striking -- he's got a long white shock of hair, and
Floyd | looks quite old.  He's wearing a tuxedo made from a very futuristic
Floyd | looking fabric -- you've never seen anything like it before.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "go behind kiosk" 		

Floyd | You can't get behind the kiosk.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The bartender wanders to the other side of the bar, behind the
Floyd | kiosk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ride bicycle" 		

Floyd | You'd better get on the bike first.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your crypto watch is getting a transmission:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "I'm running out of sources," a dejected Jax's voice emanates from
Floyd | the crypto watch.  "None of my dudes can -- or will -- gimme the first
Floyd | clue how to get into that oversized Cheezball."  On the tiny screen you
Floyd | can see Jax hitting his head against his keyboard.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "get on bike" 		

Floyd | You're now sitting on the stationary bicycle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ride it" 		

Floyd | You pedal the bike furiously, but it doesn't do anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" 		

Floyd | You are now standing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take brandy" 		

Floyd | Ah-ah.  Not without paying for it, you don't.  It's probably alarmed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "buy brandy" 		

Floyd | The bartender's not here right now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The bartender emerges from behind the kiosk and glares at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "buy brandy" 		

Floyd | Since your Galacticard has a stop on it, you probably shouldn't try to
Floyd | use it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask bartender about bicycle" 		

Floyd | Something tells you the stationary bicycle will not be a particularly
Floyd | productive topic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-25-01:48:15CDT 		DavidW asks, "hm. Was the Watchmaker and Hell on Razor?"
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-25-02:03:15CDT 		
jenrexrode wanders off. 		
Ellison has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-25-02:18:15CDT 		
borowski goes home. 		
borowski has disconnected. 		DavidW says, "okay, rather obvious we're done for tonight. We saved at legend6, before finding the bike (and before getting it locked up on us)."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" 		

Floyd | In 1619 turns, you have earned 43 points out of a possible 75.
Floyd | You have completed approximately 66 percent of the game.
Floyd | You have gotten 3 hints.
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you really want to quit?  (YES or NO) >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | The Legend awaits your return.
Floyd |

		
		
*** Seventh Session *** 		
		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "legend6" 		

Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Game Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The earthquake bass rumblings and brilliant flares emanating from
Floyd | the machines in this room are enough to scare you witless until you
Floyd | realize they're only computer-generated illusions.  Welcome to the
Floyd | Terminal Velocity game room!
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are video games of all kinds here, many of them old classics
Floyd | from before the days of HoloScanning monitors.  The games are all set
Floyd | on free play, and quite a few Terminal Velocity partons are taking
Floyd | advantage of this to finally master their favorite coin-operated
Floyd | diversions.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Looking around the game room, you notice, to your surprise, a small
Floyd | Zippikraft Kompakt Komputer -- an older model much less powerful than
Floyd | your own Data Liquidizer, but still great for games.  No one seems to
Floyd | use the poor thing, though -- it looks lonely all by itself in the
Floyd | corner.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The game room exit leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "I guess this is after we fooled around on the komputer?"
		DavidW says, "Unless someone has a bright idea of something to try, we might need to (gasp) ask for a hint from the game."
		borowski asks, "What was the deal with the bicycle?"
		DavidW says, "The ticking sphere is from the transmogrifier."
		DavidW says, "The bicycle is behind the counter in the T.V. bar. If we ride it, it takes us to a future time where Reb is in stopped time with a locked trunk. When we return to the present, the bartender uses some gadget so further attempts to use the bike don't do anything."
		genericgeekgirl says, "It's a one-use time machine."
		borowski says, "huh"
		DavidW says (to ggg), "well, I suspect we need to get that gadget, whatever it is, from the bartender."
		DavidW says, "The business with our name and Ada Man's name on the tree outside the Elwood farm makes me think that we go back in time."
		DavidW says, "I dunno. Perhaps we have to 'disable' the bartender and steal his stuff."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Sounds sinister."
		DavidW says, "well, it's out of character for us,"
		DavidW says, "It'd be better if we, I dunno, scared or otherwise persuaded the bartender to help us."
jenrexrode arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. 		DavidW says, "btw, my notes are at [LINK] for those who didn't see the link earlier."
borowski says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the southeast or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the south and northeast.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the west wall, and a narrow doorway to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, at the Bar
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're at the Terminal Velocity bar, which is a large circle of wood
Floyd | with a marble top.  At the center of the circle is a cylindrical kiosk
Floyd | containing hundreds of kinds of alcoholic beverages and many glasses.
Floyd | There's a break in the circle that you can walk through to get inside
Floyd | [34].
Floyd |
Floyd |    For a second, something behind the bar catches your eye.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x bar" 		

Floyd |    You're at the Terminal Velocity bar, which is a large circle of wood
Floyd | with a marble top.  At the center of the circle is a cylindrical kiosk
Floyd | containing hundreds of kinds of alcoholic beverages and many glasses.
Floyd | There's a break in the circle that you can walk through to get inside
Floyd | [34].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "'go in' if you want to see the bike."
borowski says (to Floyd), "go in" 		

Floyd | You peer behind the bar and find, of all things, a stationary bicycle!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x bicycle" 		

Floyd | It's a stationary bicycle, without wheels, and chrome-plated.  There's
Floyd | a small digital display mounted between the handlebars.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x display" 		

Floyd | The display reads "94 RY."
Floyd |
Floyd |    The bartender emerges from behind the kiosk and nods at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x bartender" 		

Floyd | The bartender is striking -- he's got a long white shock of hair, and
Floyd | looks quite old.  He's wearing a tuxedo made from a very futuristic
Floyd | looking fabric -- you've never seen anything like it before.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Do we know what year it is now?"
		DavidW says, "No, not for sure, but I assume it's what's on the bike: 94 RY."
borowski says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a crypto watch (being worn), a Terminal
Floyd | Velocity Elite pass, a mysterious black sphere, a little motorized toy
Floyd | named Squirt, a prune, an id tag, a figurine of the Great Duhdha, an
Floyd | EZ-Tech Blaser, a piece of salami, a geode, a box of KrudKo
Floyd | "Kolor-Me-Kool" snacks, a metal coat hanger, an olive drab uniform, a
Floyd | qualitative calculator, some Akmi Wacki Putti, a hammer, a dog-eared
Floyd | leaflet, a tiny triangular pink circuit board, an ary ung, a bolt, a
Floyd | magnetic letter Q, a plastic whistle, a plastic plover's egg, a
Floyd | firecracker, a mood ring (being worn), a poodle charm, a stick of
Floyd | butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a frying pan, a hunk of cheese,
Floyd | an overripe tomato, a piece of string (tied to the akmid), an akmid
Floyd | (tied to the piece of string), a thermos of Barfee advanced growth
Floyd | formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a paperback book,
Floyd | an RGB color chart, an empty ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard, and a
Floyd | matter mover autodialer.  The mysterious black sphere is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your crypto watch is getting a transmission:
Floyd |
Floyd |    The watch screen shows Jax hard at work in the Data Den.  "Heard
Floyd | JC's gettin' audio out to you.  Didn't even know that was possible;
Floyd | look at the boy go!  Think we may have something on the net.  JC's
Floyd | lookin' into it."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Ah, I wasn't sure if that was the present or the destination year."
%%% # MARK: 2012-11-07-21:26:33CST 		DavidW says, "No, the display in the future scene says "7823 RY.""
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask bartender about screwdriver" 		

Floyd | You don't know what that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "I'm not adverse to getting a hint if that's what others want to do."
		borowski says, "I don't have any particularly brilliant ideas."
		DavidW says, "oh, for what its worth, the Kolor-Me-Kool snacks will change our skin color, but I know no way to return us to normal if you eat one."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "They don't just wear off?"
		DavidW says, "If they do, I don't know how long it lasts."
		DavidW asks, "I suppose we could try shooting everything and anything with the ary ung?"
		DavidW says, "But it might be better to just bite the bullet and get a hint."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yay!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hint" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | Searching for hint topics...
Floyd |
Floyd | There are 5 topics available:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  The jade box (1/2)
Floyd | 2:  Solving a puzzle with a-plum (sic) (1/3)
Floyd | 3:  Green thumb advice (1/2)
Floyd | 4:  What to do in the future (1/7)
Floyd | 5:  An item of interest in Jax's Data Den (1/4)
Floyd |
Floyd | Enter hint topic number (0 to quit) >

		McMartin asks, "Wait, are you guys playing Large Machine?"
		DavidW says, "oh. Let's check out the Den, then."
		DavidW says (to McMartin), "No. The Legend Lives."
		borowski says, "Huh. Maybe we did need that plum we grew."
		DavidW says, "Prune."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "0" 		

Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the northwest or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the southwest and north.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the east wall, and a narrow doorway to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | Jax O Pax's Data Den
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Welcome to the Data Den."  That's what the neon sign above the main
Floyd | terminal says.  This tiny, plush room is filled with computer hardware
Floyd | of all kinds.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Off in one corner is a particularly neat gadget -- a Zippikraft
Floyd | MatterMan 95 Digital-to-Matter converter.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The exit is to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Jax O Pax is here, typing at one of the terminals and occasionally
Floyd | muttering to himself.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh, the converter."
		DavidW says, "We don't have any data for that thing."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x converter" 		

Floyd |    The Zippikraft MatterMan 95 Digital-to-Matter converter is a
Floyd | self-contained object interchange machine.  It reads digital data from
Floyd | the disk in the drive and generates the three-dimensional object(s)
Floyd | described by the digital data and places it in the output chamber.
Floyd | Interestingly enough, this model hasn't been released to the public yet
Floyd | -- it must be a prototype.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The machine has only one control -- a red button labeled "START."
Floyd | The drive is empty.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push start" 		

Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x disk" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "disc" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x disc" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x thesis" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "I guess we left our thesis in the game room?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a crypto watch (being worn), a Terminal
Floyd | Velocity Elite pass, a mysterious black sphere, a little motorized toy
Floyd | named Squirt, a prune, an id tag, a figurine of the Great Duhdha, an
Floyd | EZ-Tech Blaser, a piece of salami, a geode, a box of KrudKo
Floyd | "Kolor-Me-Kool" snacks, a metal coat hanger, an olive drab uniform, a
Floyd | qualitative calculator, some Akmi Wacki Putti, a hammer, a dog-eared
Floyd | leaflet, a tiny triangular pink circuit board, an ary ung, a bolt, a
Floyd | magnetic letter Q, a plastic whistle, a plastic plover's egg, a
Floyd | firecracker, a mood ring (being worn), a poodle charm, a stick of
Floyd | butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a frying pan, a hunk of cheese,
Floyd | an overripe tomato, a piece of string (tied to the akmid), an akmid
Floyd | (tied to the piece of string), a thermos of Barfee advanced growth
Floyd | formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a paperback book,
Floyd | an RGB color chart, an empty ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard, and a
Floyd | matter mover autodialer.  The mysterious black sphere is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the northwest or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the southwest and north.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the east wall, and a narrow doorway to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, at the Bar
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're at the Terminal Velocity bar, which is a large circle of wood
Floyd | with a marble top.  At the center of the circle is a cylindrical kiosk
Floyd | containing hundreds of kinds of alcoholic beverages and many glasses.
Floyd | There's a break in the circle that you can walk through to get inside
Floyd | [34].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The stationary bicycle is behind the bar.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The bartender is puttering around and mumbling to himself.  You
Floyd | can't really pick up much of what he's saying but you do catch an
Floyd | occasional technical term. For a bartender he certainly knows a lot
Floyd | about particle physics.  He glances at you expectantly.  Something is
Floyd | ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the southeast or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the south and northeast.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the west wall, and a narrow doorway to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | Terminal Velocity Game Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The earthquake bass rumblings and brilliant flares emanating from
Floyd | the machines in this room are enough to scare you witless until you
Floyd | realize they're only computer-generated illusions.  Welcome to the
Floyd | Terminal Velocity game room!
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are video games of all kinds here, many of them old classics
Floyd | from before the days of HoloScanning monitors.  The games are all set
Floyd | on free play, and quite a few Terminal Velocity partons are taking
Floyd | advantage of this to finally master their favorite coin-operated
Floyd | diversions.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Looking around the game room, you notice, to your surprise, a small
Floyd | Zippikraft Kompakt Komputer -- an older model much less powerful than
Floyd | your own Data Liquidizer, but still great for games.  No one seems to
Floyd | use the poor thing, though -- it looks lonely all by itself in the
Floyd | corner.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The game room exit leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x thesis" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x komputer" 		

Floyd |    What a blast from the past!  The Kompakt Komputer was one of
Floyd | Zippikraft's first mass-produced machines, and as a result it has a few
Floyd | quirks, but is a noble piece of hardware nonetheless -- the KK's were
Floyd | built to the same exacting standards as today's Liquidizers, so many
Floyd | people's original KK's are still working perfectly [37].  Still, these
Floyd | machines are hard to find now, and actually having the opportunity to
Floyd | play with one is at least a little exciting.
Floyd |
Floyd |    This one is an all-in-one unit with built-in keyboard, floppy disk
Floyd | drive, and 2D raster monitor.  It is currently on, and there's a disk
Floyd | in the drive.  The screen is currently displaying a menu with several
Floyd | options:
Floyd |
Floyd |    1. Unnkulian Underworld:  The Unknown Unventure
Floyd |    2. Unnkulian Unventure II:  The Secret of Acme
Floyd |    3. Unnkulian Unventure III:  The Kuulest Quest
Floyd |    4. Eject disk and shutdown
Floyd |
Floyd | The software eagerly awaits your selection.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push 4" 		

Floyd | You need to specify what you want to type the number on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 4 on komputer" 		

Floyd | There are some burbling noises for a few moments, and the machine
Floyd | forcefully ejects the disk in the drive with a loud "PTOOEY."  The
Floyd | computer soon grinds to a halt.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take disk" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the southeast or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the south and northeast.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the west wall, and a narrow doorway to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, at the Bar
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're at the Terminal Velocity bar, which is a large circle of wood
Floyd | with a marble top.  At the center of the circle is a cylindrical kiosk
Floyd | containing hundreds of kinds of alcoholic beverages and many glasses.
Floyd | There's a break in the circle that you can walk through to get inside
Floyd | [34].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The stationary bicycle is behind the bar.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The bartender is puttering around and mumbling to himself.  You
Floyd | can't really pick up much of what he's saying but you do catch an
Floyd | occasional technical term. For a bartender he certainly knows a lot
Floyd | about particle physics.  He glances at you expectantly.  Something is
Floyd | ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the northwest or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the southwest and north.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the east wall, and a narrow doorway to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | Jax O Pax's Data Den
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Welcome to the Data Den."  That's what the neon sign above the main
Floyd | terminal says.  This tiny, plush room is filled with computer hardware
Floyd | of all kinds.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Off in one corner is a particularly neat gadget -- a Zippikraft
Floyd | MatterMan 95 Digital-to-Matter converter.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The exit is to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Jax O Pax is here, typing at one of the terminals and occasionally
Floyd | muttering to himself.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put disk in drive" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push start" 		

Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take disk" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put tomato in drive" 		

Floyd | The drive only takes standard optical disks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shoot convert with ung" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  The
Floyd | Digital-to-Matter converter is transformed into a Matter-to-Digital
Floyd | converter!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "ok. I suspect that the thesis disk will get appropriate data IF we solve the ... wtf"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Jax O Pax's Data Den
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Welcome to the Data Den."  That's what the neon sign above the main
Floyd | terminal says.  This tiny, plush room is filled with computer hardware
Floyd | of all kinds.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Off in one corner is a particularly neat gadget -- a Zippikraft
Floyd | MatterMan 95 Digital-to-Matter converter.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The exit is to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Jax O Pax is here, typing at one of the terminals and occasionally
Floyd | muttering to himself.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "no, wait, that was probably what we need to do!"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shoot convert with ung" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  The
Floyd | Digital-to-Matter converter is transformed into a Matter-to-Digital
Floyd | converter!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "We can take things INTO the game this way!"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put thesis in converter" 		

Floyd | You need to specify what part of the converter you want to put things
Floyd | in -- the drive, or the chamber.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put thesis in drive" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-11-07-21:41:33CST 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x screen" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x converter" 		

Floyd |    The Zippikraft MatterMan 95 Matter-to-Digital converter is a
Floyd | self-contained object interchange machine.  It analyzes the object(s)
Floyd | you put in the scanning chamber and generates a data file describing
Floyd | the item(s) in complete detail.  It then writes the file to the disk in
Floyd | the drive.  Interestingly enough, this model hasn't been released to
Floyd | the public yet -- it must be a prototype.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The machine has only one control -- a red button labeled "START."
Floyd | The drive has a disk in it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press start" 		

Floyd | Click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh, the figurine!"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x komputer" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Convert the figurine into digitial!"
		DavidW says, "Then the figurine can help us across the river."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put figurine in chamber" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press start" 		

Floyd | The contents of the chamber suddenly disappear.  The converter writes
Floyd | the data to the floppy, which it then ejects.  You pocket it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Woo!"
		DavidW says, "oh, this is rich."
		DavidW says, "Take us to the game room pronto!"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the northwest or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the southwest and north.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the east wall, and a narrow doorway to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, at the Bar
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're at the Terminal Velocity bar, which is a large circle of wood
Floyd | with a marble top.  At the center of the circle is a cylindrical kiosk
Floyd | containing hundreds of kinds of alcoholic beverages and many glasses.
Floyd | There's a break in the circle that you can walk through to get inside
Floyd | [34].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The stationary bicycle is behind the bar.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The bartender is puttering around and mumbling to himself.  You
Floyd | can't really pick up much of what he's saying but you do catch an
Floyd | occasional technical term. For a bartender he certainly knows a lot
Floyd | about particle physics.  He glances at you expectantly.  Something is
Floyd | ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The bartender wanders to the other side of the bar, behind the
Floyd | kiosk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the southeast or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the south and northeast.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the west wall, and a narrow doorway to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your crypto watch is getting a transmission:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "OK, we got some info on AkNet courtesy of JC," Jax says through the
Floyd | crypto watch.  "There's a weak spot, but you're not gonna like it --
Floyd | it's smack dab in the middle of that damned Cheez death star.  Gotta
Floyd | figure a way into Akmi HQ on Plast unless JC digs somethin' else up."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "(how the heck did you think to zap the converter?)"
		genericgeekgirl says, "I don't actually know where I'm going."
		genericgeekgirl says, "You said to shoot everything."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | Terminal Velocity Game Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The earthquake bass rumblings and brilliant flares emanating from
Floyd | the machines in this room are enough to scare you witless until you
Floyd | realize they're only computer-generated illusions.  Welcome to the
Floyd | Terminal Velocity game room!
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are video games of all kinds here, many of them old classics
Floyd | from before the days of HoloScanning monitors.  The games are all set
Floyd | on free play, and quite a few Terminal Velocity partons are taking
Floyd | advantage of this to finally master their favorite coin-operated
Floyd | diversions.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Looking around the game room, you notice, to your surprise, a small
Floyd | Zippikraft Kompakt Komputer -- an older model much less powerful than
Floyd | your own Data Liquidizer, but still great for games.  No one seems to
Floyd | use the poor thing, though -- it looks lonely all by itself in the
Floyd | corner.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The game room exit leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "To which I replied "YAY!""
		genericgeekgirl:D
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put disk in komputer" 		

Floyd | You pop the disk in the drive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x screen" 		

Floyd |    What a blast from the past!  The Kompakt Komputer was one of
Floyd | Zippikraft's first mass-produced machines, and as a result it has a few
Floyd | quirks, but is a noble piece of hardware nonetheless -- the KK's were
Floyd | built to the same exacting standards as today's Liquidizers, so many
Floyd | people's original KK's are still working perfectly [37].  Still, these
Floyd | machines are hard to find now, and actually having the opportunity to
Floyd | play with one is at least a little exciting.
Floyd |
Floyd |    This one is an all-in-one unit with built-in keyboard, floppy disk
Floyd | drive, and 2D raster monitor.  It is currently off, and there's a disk
Floyd | in the drive.  The screen is blank.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on komputer" 		

Floyd | You flick the power switch.  A cartoon rendition of a happy computer
Floyd | appears soon after, and moments later the system comes up.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen is currently displaying a menu with several options:
Floyd |
Floyd |    1. Unnkulian Underworld:  The Unknown Unventure
Floyd |    2. Unnkulian Unventure II:  The Secret of Acme
Floyd |    3. Unnkulian Unventure III:  The Kuulest Quest
Floyd |    4. Merge data object into program space
Floyd |    5. Eject disk and shutdown
Floyd |
Floyd | The software eagerly awaits your selection.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press 4" 		

Floyd | You need to specify what you want to type the number on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "type 4" 		

Floyd | (on the Zippikraft Kompakt Komputer)
Floyd | There is some disk activity, and then the machine says, "Transfer
Floyd | complete."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I LOVE THIS"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Picky."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x komputer" 		

Floyd |    What a blast from the past!  The Kompakt Komputer was one of
Floyd | Zippikraft's first mass-produced machines, and as a result it has a few
Floyd | quirks, but is a noble piece of hardware nonetheless -- the KK's were
Floyd | built to the same exacting standards as today's Liquidizers, so many
Floyd | people's original KK's are still working perfectly [37].  Still, these
Floyd | machines are hard to find now, and actually having the opportunity to
Floyd | play with one is at least a little exciting.
Floyd |
Floyd |    This one is an all-in-one unit with built-in keyboard, floppy disk
Floyd | drive, and 2D raster monitor.  It is currently on, and there's a disk
Floyd | in the drive.  The screen is currently displaying a menu with several
Floyd | options:
Floyd |
Floyd |    1. Unnkulian Underworld:  The Unknown Unventure
Floyd |    2. Unnkulian Unventure II:  The Secret of Acme
Floyd |    3. Unnkulian Unventure III:  The Kuulest Quest
Floyd |    4. Eject disk and shutdown
Floyd |
Floyd | The software eagerly awaits your selection.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 3 on komputer" 		

Floyd | You know from a previous look at this work that it was never finished
Floyd | (you suspect foul play by the Unnkulians), but why not give it whirl,
Floyd | you suppose.  Can't hurt...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zippikraft Kompact Komputer whirrs and percolates for a while,
Floyd | then displays the following text:
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd | ...  Astoundingly, the Lord of Unnkul lies dormant on the floor,
Floyd | surrounded in a viscous pool of black blood.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The wizened old monk whom you met in the waiting room enters as you
Floyd | get up from the desk.  "It is truly the greatness of Duhdha," he says
Floyd | pleasantly, "that brought our paths in time and space together here
Floyd | before this loathsome devil.  I simply came," he continues, "to
Floyd | register a complaint about this Acme Sooper Egg Fraier (tm), but when
Floyd | you exposed the Lord of Unnkul, I knew the time for our task had come.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "The forces of Unnkul have long sought to conquer this world and
Floyd | enslave its peoples, and this latest campaign was the most cunning yet.
Floyd | To challenge the faith of a world -- eliminating a need for Duhdha by
Floyd | creating a dependence on technology and encouraging hedonism -- was the
Floyd | ultimate goal of the incestuous union between the Unnkulians and the
Floyd | once-proud Acme company.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Now that their leader has been vanquished by Duhdha, the Unnkulians
Floyd | will be flung into disarray.  Chaos and anarchy will reign for years as
Floyd | the treacherous quests for leadership over the Unnkulians are played
Floyd | out by the many power-mongers amongst their kind.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "It was not fortune or fate but Duhdha that brought us here together
Floyd | today, my son, and know this:  Your quest, though born of a selfishness
Floyd | that still lingers inside you, was orchestrated by Duhdha, the
Floyd | all-knowing and all-seeing Great One, so that in this tiny window of
Floyd | time, where the Lord of Unnkul was away from its domain and here on
Floyd | this world to survey the work of its minions corporeally, in this brief
Floyd | splinter of time, the most capable of Duhdha's servants, you, could be
Floyd | brought to catalyze this event.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "I understand these things," you say, "but if I was just the bait to
Floyd | get the Lord of Unnkul's guard down, who actually killed it?"  you
Floyd | inquire, looking down at the still bleeding corpse on the floor.  The
Floyd | monk grins.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "I did," he chuckles.  "You can call me Kuulest."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "But you don't look a thing like Kuulest," you reply incredulously.
Floyd | "You look like that old monk at the retreat in the woods."
Floyd |
Floyd |    The wizened old man laughs aloud.  "Your former master, the old man
Floyd | in the woods, and I -- all three of us have been called Kuulest in our
Floyd | time.  But that is not important now.  Now, my child, there is one more
Floyd | task you must complete before you can again retire to your comfortable
Floyd | abode."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Down the river that splits Dawg Rock in twain is another Place of
Floyd | Duhdha.  The waters are treacherous, so seek Duhdha's aid to guide you.
Floyd | If your faith is truly strong you will survive to learn of your next
Floyd | mission for Duhdha.  It is a simple matter, but one that will propel
Floyd | you ahead on The Way immeasurably."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "But now, my child," the monk says serenely but firmly, looking down
Floyd | at his Acme Sooper Egg Fraier (tm), "I must leave you and return to my
Floyd | own matters of service."  He begins to clap, but just as his hands are
Floyd | about to touch, he whisks one hand away, makes bug-eyes at you, and
Floyd | grins from ear to ear.  This last image of the old man fades quickly as
Floyd | you realize you are now in a different place -- a place that is very
Floyd | familiar, but now, you sense, a part of...
Floyd |
Floyd | Unnkulian Unventure III:  The Kuulest Quest
Floyd | by D. M. Bleary
Floyd | *** Work In Progress:  DO NOT DISTRIBUTE ***
Floyd | Rating: ???
Floyd | Developed with TOADS, the Text-Oriented Adventure Development System.
Floyd | (TOADS is a product of Valmaco.  Valmaco:  Better living through
Floyd | mysterious forces that mere mortals could not hope to comprehend.)
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Big Oak
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the bank of a rushing river at the base of a
Floyd | giant oak tree, easily 200 feet tall.  It looks to be about a class 5
Floyd | rapids with white-water everywhere.  It's at least 80 feet to the other
Floyd | bank.  Looking back, you can see your favorite picnic table, a tiny
Floyd | square of wood tucked away in the trees far to the west.  A path along
Floyd | the river bank leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have a figurine of the Great Duhdha and a tiny mauve pellet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "yes!!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x figurine" 		

Floyd |    It's a jade figurine of the Watchful Duhdha -- legend has it that
Floyd | this likeness of The Great One will ward off evil spirits.
Floyd | Additionally, it is said that an image like this one carved in jade by
Floyd | an enlightened follower of Duhdha has power to control the seas.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Tiny letters carved in the base of the figurine read:
Floyd |
Floyd | "Rendered by the humble hands of Kuulest,
Floyd | For His Majesty Kuul,
Floyd | Son of Uul,
Floyd | In the 376th year of His Majesty's reign.
Floyd | Praise Duhdha!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Wow, this thing's an artifact -- 1325 years old!
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "It controls the seas!"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Ooooh."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put pellet in river" 		

Floyd | You toss the tiny mauve pellet into the river; seconds later you are
Floyd | knocked to the ground by a huge explosion.  As you get back up and
Floyd | brush yourself off, you notice a dinghy next to the bank, rapidly
Floyd | floating away down the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter dinghy" 		

Floyd | You're now sitting in the mauve dinghy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You'll have to get out of the mauve dinghy first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "rub duhdha" 		

Floyd | You feel as though Duhdha is watching over you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dinghy floats downstream...
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, sitting in the mauve dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're being thrown from one side of the dinghy to the other as you
Floyd | quickly make your way downstream.  On the west bank there is little of
Floyd | interest apart from the soil, which is dark red.  On the east bank, far
Floyd | away, there is only dense forest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pray" 		

Floyd | An ethereal voice intones, "You have reached The Great Duhdha's
Floyd | automated prayer line.  If you wish to ask for a minor miracle, press
Floyd | one.  If you would like to check your karmic balance, press two.  If
Floyd | you would like to register a complaint or file a bug report, press
Floyd | three.  Press four to hang up.  If you are calling from a rotary phone,
Floyd | please contact your local branch office to upgrade to a touch tone."
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | The dinghy floats downstream...
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck, sitting in the mauve
Floyd | dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    As you struggle to avoid being pitched out of the dinghy, you
Floyd | notice, to your chagrin, the fragments of a boat that didn't make it
Floyd | through this area in one piece scattered around the nearby shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | Just as the rapids really start getting tricky, the dinghy springs a
Floyd | leak!  The shoddily-made craft almost instantly capsizes, and for a
Floyd | moment you're sure you'll soon be joining Duhdha and your ancestors,
Floyd | but through a miraculous job of doggie paddling, you somehow make it
Floyd | back to shore and emerge...
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  Some fool tried to take a
Floyd | boat out in these waters, and you see before you the end result:
Floyd | pieces of boat litter the bank.  You can only go back upstream, to the
Floyd | north -- your path downstream is blocked by the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck, sitting in the mauve
Floyd | dinghy
Floyd |
Floyd |    As you struggle to avoid being pitched out of the dinghy, you
Floyd | notice, to your chagrin, the fragments of a boat that didn't make it
Floyd | through this area in one piece scattered around the nearby shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "drat."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "throw figurine in river" 		

Floyd |    You toss the sacred artifact into the raging rapids, trusting that
Floyd | Duhdha will help you pass this fearsome obstacle.  An instant later, a
Floyd | narrow strip of water leading from the shore to the center of river and
Floyd | then farther downstream turns a brilliant jade color and simultaneously
Floyd | begins to thicken, as though it were running in slow motion, so that it
Floyd | eventually seems to harden like ice!  Though the river rushes on as
Floyd | before, a solid jade path now runs right through its heart -- Duhdha
Floyd | sure knows his stuff when it comes to messing with nature!
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd | Just as the rapids really start getting tricky, the dinghy springs a
Floyd | leak!  The shoddily-made craft almost instantly capsizes, and for a
Floyd | moment you're sure you'll soon be joining Duhdha and your ancestors,
Floyd | but through a miraculous job of doggie paddling, you somehow make it
Floyd | back to shore and emerge...
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  Some fool tried to take a
Floyd | boat out in these waters, and you see before you the end result:
Floyd | pieces of boat litter the bank.  You can only go back upstream, to the
Floyd | north -- your path downstream is blocked by the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "I guess we have to l... oh."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "So.. our score went up, but.. we're back where we started?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "x path" 		

Floyd | It looks like a strip of frozen, jade-colored water.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Can we reach it?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You walk nimbly across the jade pathway, the violent rapids snapping at
Floyd | your heels all the way.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You can travel upstream, to the north; downstream,
Floyd | to the south; or west, back to the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh."
borowski says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | You make your way downstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You can travel upstream, to the north, or
Floyd | downstream, to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW asks, "I'm hoping it doesn't matter that the dinghy broke. Or we can exit the game and just restart it?"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Maybe it's supposed to?"
		DavidW says, "I dunno"
borowski says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | You make your way downstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  The river forks here, and the jade bridge veers off
Floyd | to the west, back to shore.  If you want to continue downstream you'll
Floyd | need to find a different means of transportation.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can travel upstream, to the north, or west, back to the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		jenrexrode says, "I didn't see a way to stop it"
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You make your way upstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You can travel upstream, to the north; downstream,
Floyd | to the south; or west, back to the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You make your way upstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You can travel upstream, to the north; downstream,
Floyd | to the south; or west, back to the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You make your way upstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You downstream, to the south, or west, back to the
Floyd | shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | The path ends here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		borowski asks, "Hmm, maybe we were supposed to launch the dinghy from the jade path?"
		jenrexrode says, "oh"
		DavidW says, "no, I don't think so."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | You make your way downstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You can travel upstream, to the north; downstream,
Floyd | to the south; or west, back to the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "I'd like to quit this part and retype 3 at the komputer and use the figurine first, so we still have the pellet"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Can we explore more first?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | You make your way downstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You can travel upstream, to the north; downstream,
Floyd | to the south; or west, back to the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "sure"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | You make your way downstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You can travel upstream, to the north, or
Floyd | downstream, to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | You make your way downstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  The river forks here, and the jade bridge veers off
Floyd | to the west, back to shore.  If you want to continue downstream you'll
Floyd | need to find a different means of transportation.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can travel upstream, to the north, or west, back to the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You carefully follow the jade path through the water back to shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside Hut
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing outside a primitive-looking hut tucked snugly in
Floyd | the dense surrounding forest, near the shore of the river.  The jade
Floyd | water-path that got you here still leads out to the center of the
Floyd | whirling rapids, to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hut is made of grass and mud, and looks much like your former
Floyd | master Kuulest's domicile, where the old geezeburger raised you to be
Floyd | an untrained, untutored, useless, inept...  oh, never mind.  The hut
Floyd | entrance is to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		genericgeekgirl says, ""West to the shore" doesn't mean to the same place. We're circumventing the trees."
		borowski says, "Ah"
		DavidW says, "I haven't been counting how many 'jade river path' rooms there are."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Although, if there's a hut. Do you think we also needed the egg?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x hut" 		

Floyd | The hut is made of grass and mud, and looks much like your former
Floyd | master Kuulest's domicile, where the old geezeburger raised you to be
Floyd | an untrained, untutored, useless, inept...  oh, never mind.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Hut
Floyd |
Floyd |    You stride into the humble hovel, assuming it's long-abandoned.
Floyd | After all, who would possibly be living here, in the middle of a
Floyd | seemingly impassable forest bordered by treacherous rapids?
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Kuulest!"  you shout, amazed to find an answer to your rhetorical
Floyd | question staring you right in the face.  "What are YOU doing here?"
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Ah, you again, my child.  I was hoping Duhdha would cross our paths
Floyd | before too long -- I'm not much with mechanical things, and this Acme
Floyd | Egg Fraier (tm) seems," he chuckles, "quite beyond all heavenly help.
Floyd | And it's way past my normal breakfast time, you understand."
Floyd |
Floyd |    It takes all the self-control you've got to keep yourself from
Floyd | ripping the stupid egg fryer out of the monk's hands and clubbing him
Floyd | with it.  You just saved the planet and he's complaining about missing
Floyd | breakfast?!  You get the feeling it's going to be a long day...
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're inside Kuulest's hut, which is functional at best.  The walls
Floyd | and floor are made of grass, mud, and other unidentifiable (but surely
Floyd | unpleasant) substances.  Aside from Kuulest and his Sooper Egg Fraier
Floyd | (tm), there's little here.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The exit is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Kuulest is here, examining his Sooper Egg Fraier (tm) with great
Floyd | care and a puzzled look on his face.  He mutters something about not
Floyd | wanting to miss breakfast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Kuulest scratches at one of the screws holding the handle on the Egg
Floyd | Fraier (tm).  "Praise be, why so complicated?"  he mutters.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "I can't say since I haven't seen this part."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Gah, text dumps."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x fraier" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "fraier".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x fryer" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "fryer".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x egg fraier" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "fraier".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask kuulest about egg" 		

Floyd | Which egg do you mean, the plastic plover's egg, the raw Synthegg yolk,
Floyd | the raw Synthegg yolk, or the fried SynthEgg?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x sooper" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask kuulest about breakfast" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "breakfast".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW asks, "oh-- screws? Could there be a screwdriver in this?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x screws" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x kuulest about plover's egg" 		

Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask kuulest about plover's egg" 		

Floyd | Kuulest is absorbed in trying to fix his broken egg fryer.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Kuulest lectures you briefly on proper egg care, and relates a
Floyd | drawn-out allegory about an unfortunate fellow who accidentally sat on
Floyd | Duhdha's Favorite Egg.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		genericgeekgirl says, "I guess that's not a real egg."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Hm."
		DavidW says, "I say explore and find a screwdriver for his fryer."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Eggplant?"
		DavidW says, "Probably in the other direction of the river."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Hut
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're inside Kuulest's hut, which is functional at best.  The walls
Floyd | and floor are made of grass, mud, and other unidentifiable (but surely
Floyd | unpleasant) substances.  Aside from Kuulest and his Sooper Egg Fraier
Floyd | (tm), there's little here.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The exit is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Kuulest is here, examining his Sooper Egg Fraier (tm) with great
Floyd | care and a puzzled look on his face.  He mutters something about not
Floyd | wanting to miss breakfast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Kuulest scratches at one of the screws holding the handle on the Egg
Floyd | Fraier (tm).  "Praise be, why so complicated?"  he mutters.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-11-07-21:56:33CST 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | Outside Hut
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing outside a primitive-looking hut tucked snugly in
Floyd | the dense surrounding forest, near the shore of the river.  The jade
Floyd | water-path that got you here still leads out to the center of the
Floyd | whirling rapids, to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hut is made of grass and mud, and looks much like your former
Floyd | master Kuulest's domicile, where the old geezeburger raised you to be
Floyd | an untrained, untutored, useless, inept...  oh, never mind.  The hut
Floyd | entrance is to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "I've seen no eggs or eggplants in this UU3 game."
		genericgeekgirl says, "We can probably bring more stuff into the game."
		DavidW says, "I doubt that."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Well, we should try it at some point."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  The river forks here, and the jade bridge veers off
Floyd | to the west, back to shore.  If you want to continue downstream you'll
Floyd | need to find a different means of transportation.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can travel upstream, to the north, or west, back to the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You make your way upstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You can travel upstream, to the north; downstream,
Floyd | to the south; or west, back to the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You carefully follow the jade path through the water back to shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  Some fool tried to take a
Floyd | boat out in these waters, and you see before you the end result:
Floyd | pieces of boat litter the bank.  You can only go back upstream, to the
Floyd | north -- your path downstream is blocked by the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You can travel upstream, to the north; downstream,
Floyd | to the south; or west, back to the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You make your way upstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You can travel upstream, to the north; downstream,
Floyd | to the south; or west, back to the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You carefully follow the jade path through the water back to shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  On the other side, there is
Floyd | only dense forest.  The soil has a reddish tint here.  You can go
Floyd | upstream, to the northwest, or downstream, to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You can travel upstream, to the north; downstream,
Floyd | to the south; or west, back to the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You make your way upstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You downstream, to the south, or west, back to the
Floyd | shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You carefully follow the jade path through the water back to shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Big Oak
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the bank of a rushing river at the base of a
Floyd | giant oak tree, easily 200 feet tall.  It looks to be about a class 5
Floyd | rapids with white-water everywhere.  It's at least 80 feet to the other
Floyd | bank.  Looking back, you can see your favorite picnic table, a tiny
Floyd | square of wood tucked away in the trees far to the west.  A path along
Floyd | the river bank leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A narrow strip of water leading east is now a brilliant jade color,
Floyd | and looks to be solid.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "If we restarted this game, we could freeze the river first, then use the pellet on that second branch of the river."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Ok."
		genericgeekgirl says, "But I think we should also experiment with bringing other things in, since I think we don't have a restore point until before that anyway."
		DavidW says, "also, did we actually cross the river at any point? I'm unclear on the geography now."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You walk nimbly across the jade pathway, the violent rapids snapping at
Floyd | your heels all the way.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You downstream, to the south, or west, back to the
Floyd | shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | I wouldn't recommend leaving the path that Duhdha has provided for you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		genericgeekgirl says, "I don't think we can."
		DavidW says, "If Duhdha needs a screwdriver, we haven't seen one anywhere yet."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Or maybe he just needs breakfast."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "If we find an eggplant, we can maybe cook another egg?"
		DavidW says, "I disagree. I think he needs a screwdriver."
		DavidW says, "I've seen no eggplants in the game. Only eggplant seeds and we have no way to buy them."
		borowski asks, "Can we go back and get the friend synthegg?"
		DavidW says, "Not easily, no. We used it a zillion turns ago on Irata."
		borowski says, "*fried"
		DavidW says, "In fact, we had to use the fried egg to get the brochure in the hut to get the coordinates to Kuul to get the figurine -- so even if we undid all our turns back to that point, we'd have no figurine nor any way to get it."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I think we actually need the prune seeds back. Unless we can sell the prune itself."
Gerynar says "bloop" and shrinks down into a little dot, then winks out...just like those old-fashioned B&w televisions. 		
Gerynar has disconnected. 		DavidW says, "I don't think we can sell anything, but I'm not sure."
borowski has disconnected. 		
borowski has connected. 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | The path ends here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You downstream, to the south, or west, back to the
Floyd | shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You carefully follow the jade path through the water back to shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Big Oak
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the bank of a rushing river at the base of a
Floyd | giant oak tree, easily 200 feet tall.  It looks to be about a class 5
Floyd | rapids with white-water everywhere.  It's at least 80 feet to the other
Floyd | bank.  Looking back, you can see your favorite picnic table, a tiny
Floyd | square of wood tucked away in the trees far to the west.  A path along
Floyd | the river bank leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A narrow strip of water leading east is now a brilliant jade color,
Floyd | and looks to be solid.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You walk nimbly across the jade pathway, the violent rapids snapping at
Floyd | your heels all the way.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You downstream, to the south, or west, back to the
Floyd | shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | The path ends here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | I wouldn't recommend leaving the path that Duhdha has provided for you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | You make your way downstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You can travel upstream, to the north; downstream,
Floyd | to the south; or west, back to the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You carefully follow the jade path through the water back to shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  On the other side, there is
Floyd | only dense forest.  The soil has a reddish tint here.  You can go
Floyd | upstream, to the northwest, or downstream, to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You walk nimbly across the jade pathway, the violent rapids snapping at
Floyd | your heels all the way.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You can travel upstream, to the north; downstream,
Floyd | to the south; or west, back to the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | You make your way downstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You can travel upstream, to the north; downstream,
Floyd | to the south; or west, back to the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You carefully follow the jade path through the water back to shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the West Bank of the River, at the Boat Wreck
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're on the west bank of the river.  Some fool tried to take a
Floyd | boat out in these waters, and you see before you the end result:
Floyd | pieces of boat litter the bank.  You can only go back upstream, to the
Floyd | north -- your path downstream is blocked by the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You walk nimbly across the jade pathway, the violent rapids snapping at
Floyd | your heels all the way.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You can travel upstream, to the north; downstream,
Floyd | to the south; or west, back to the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | You make your way downstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You can travel upstream, to the north, or
Floyd | downstream, to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | There's no path leading back to shore here.  This may be related to the
Floyd | fact that the west bank is too steep for you to get up to it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | I wouldn't recommend leaving the path that Duhdha has provided for you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | You make your way downstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  The river forks here, and the jade bridge veers off
Floyd | to the west, back to shore.  If you want to continue downstream you'll
Floyd | need to find a different means of transportation.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can travel upstream, to the north, or west, back to the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x river" 		

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary rushing river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You carefully follow the jade path through the water back to shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside Hut
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing outside a primitive-looking hut tucked snugly in
Floyd | the dense surrounding forest, near the shore of the river.  The jade
Floyd | water-path that got you here still leads out to the center of the
Floyd | whirling rapids, to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hut is made of grass and mud, and looks much like your former
Floyd | master Kuulest's domicile, where the old geezeburger raised you to be
Floyd | an untrained, untutored, useless, inept...  oh, never mind.  The hut
Floyd | entrance is to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "hm. ok."
		DavidW says, "may I restart this section?>"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Ok"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" 		

Floyd | In 58 turns, you have earned 3 points out of a possible 451.  By my
Floyd | estimation, this means you're not very far along The Way.
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you really want to quit?  (YES or NO) >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The program terminates and you're back at the main menu.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Game Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The earthquake bass rumblings and brilliant flares emanating from
Floyd | the machines in this room are enough to scare you witless until you
Floyd | realize they're only computer-generated illusions.  Welcome to the
Floyd | Terminal Velocity game room!
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are video games of all kinds here, many of them old classics
Floyd | from before the days of HoloScanning monitors.  The games are all set
Floyd | on free play, and quite a few Terminal Velocity partons are taking
Floyd | advantage of this to finally master their favorite coin-operated
Floyd | diversions.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Looking around the game room, you notice, to your surprise, a small
Floyd | Zippikraft Kompakt Komputer -- an older model much less powerful than
Floyd | your own Data Liquidizer, but still great for games.  No one seems to
Floyd | use the poor thing, though -- it looks lonely all by itself in the
Floyd | corner.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The game room exit leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x komputer" 		

Floyd |    What a blast from the past!  The Kompakt Komputer was one of
Floyd | Zippikraft's first mass-produced machines, and as a result it has a few
Floyd | quirks, but is a noble piece of hardware nonetheless -- the KK's were
Floyd | built to the same exacting standards as today's Liquidizers, so many
Floyd | people's original KK's are still working perfectly [37].  Still, these
Floyd | machines are hard to find now, and actually having the opportunity to
Floyd | play with one is at least a little exciting.
Floyd |
Floyd |    This one is an all-in-one unit with built-in keyboard, floppy disk
Floyd | drive, and 2D raster monitor.  It is currently on, and there's a disk
Floyd | in the drive.  The screen is currently displaying a menu with several
Floyd | options:
Floyd |
Floyd |    1. Unnkulian Underworld:  The Unknown Unventure
Floyd |    2. Unnkulian Unventure II:  The Secret of Acme
Floyd |    3. Unnkulian Unventure III:  The Kuulest Quest
Floyd |    4. Eject disk and shutdown
Floyd |
Floyd | The software eagerly awaits your selection.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 3 on komputer" 		

Floyd | You know from a previous look at this work that it was never finished
Floyd | (you suspect foul play by the Unnkulians), but why not give it whirl,
Floyd | you suppose.  Can't hurt...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zippikraft Kompact Komputer whirrs and percolates for a while,
Floyd | then displays the following text:
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd | ...  Astoundingly, the Lord of Unnkul lies dormant on the floor,
Floyd | surrounded in a viscous pool of black blood.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The wizened old monk whom you met in the waiting room enters as you
Floyd | get up from the desk.  "It is truly the greatness of Duhdha," he says
Floyd | pleasantly, "that brought our paths in time and space together here
Floyd | before this loathsome devil.  I simply came," he continues, "to
Floyd | register a complaint about this Acme Sooper Egg Fraier (tm), but when
Floyd | you exposed the Lord of Unnkul, I knew the time for our task had come.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "The forces of Unnkul have long sought to conquer this world and
Floyd | enslave its peoples, and this latest campaign was the most cunning yet.
Floyd | To challenge the faith of a world -- eliminating a need for Duhdha by
Floyd | creating a dependence on technology and encouraging hedonism -- was the
Floyd | ultimate goal of the incestuous union between the Unnkulians and the
Floyd | once-proud Acme company.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Now that their leader has been vanquished by Duhdha, the Unnkulians
Floyd | will be flung into disarray.  Chaos and anarchy will reign for years as
Floyd | the treacherous quests for leadership over the Unnkulians are played
Floyd | out by the many power-mongers amongst their kind.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "It was not fortune or fate but Duhdha that brought us here together
Floyd | today, my son, and know this:  Your quest, though born of a selfishness
Floyd | that still lingers inside you, was orchestrated by Duhdha, the
Floyd | all-knowing and all-seeing Great One, so that in this tiny window of
Floyd | time, where the Lord of Unnkul was away from its domain and here on
Floyd | this world to survey the work of its minions corporeally, in this brief
Floyd | splinter of time, the most capable of Duhdha's servants, you, could be
Floyd | brought to catalyze this event.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "I understand these things," you say, "but if I was just the bait to
Floyd | get the Lord of Unnkul's guard down, who actually killed it?"  you
Floyd | inquire, looking down at the still bleeding corpse on the floor.  The
Floyd | monk grins.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "I did," he chuckles.  "You can call me Kuulest."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "But you don't look a thing like Kuulest," you reply incredulously.
Floyd | "You look like that old monk at the retreat in the woods."
Floyd |
Floyd |    The wizened old man laughs aloud.  "Your former master, the old man
Floyd | in the woods, and I -- all three of us have been called Kuulest in our
Floyd | time.  But that is not important now.  Now, my child, there is one more
Floyd | task you must complete before you can again retire to your comfortable
Floyd | abode."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Down the river that splits Dawg Rock in twain is another Place of
Floyd | Duhdha.  The waters are treacherous, so seek Duhdha's aid to guide you.
Floyd | If your faith is truly strong you will survive to learn of your next
Floyd | mission for Duhdha.  It is a simple matter, but one that will propel
Floyd | you ahead on The Way immeasurably."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "But now, my child," the monk says serenely but firmly, looking down
Floyd | at his Acme Sooper Egg Fraier (tm), "I must leave you and return to my
Floyd | own matters of service."  He begins to clap, but just as his hands are
Floyd | about to touch, he whisks one hand away, makes bug-eyes at you, and
Floyd | grins from ear to ear.  This last image of the old man fades quickly as
Floyd | you realize you are now in a different place -- a place that is very
Floyd | familiar, but now, you sense, a part of...
Floyd |
Floyd | Unnkulian Unventure III:  The Kuulest Quest
Floyd | by D. M. Bleary
Floyd | *** Work In Progress:  DO NOT DISTRIBUTE ***
Floyd | Rating: ???
Floyd | Developed with TOADS, the Text-Oriented Adventure Development System.
Floyd | (TOADS is a product of Valmaco.  Valmaco:  Better living through
Floyd | mysterious forces that mere mortals could not hope to comprehend.)
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Big Oak
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the bank of a rushing river at the base of a
Floyd | giant oak tree, easily 200 feet tall.  It looks to be about a class 5
Floyd | rapids with white-water everywhere.  It's at least 80 feet to the other
Floyd | bank.  Looking back, you can see your favorite picnic table, a tiny
Floyd | square of wood tucked away in the trees far to the west.  A path along
Floyd | the river bank leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A narrow strip of water leading east is now a brilliant jade color,
Floyd | and looks to be solid.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-11-07-22:11:33CST 		Ellison says, "I don't know how often it has come up in this game, but in the first game, it used >LOOK UNDER and >LOOK BEHIND annoyingly often (any times at all is 'annoyingly often,' mind you)"
		DavidW says, "oh. The water is already solid."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have a tiny mauve pellet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "But the pellet is restored. Bizarre."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You walk nimbly across the jade pathway, the violent rapids snapping at
Floyd | your heels all the way.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You downstream, to the south, or west, back to the
Floyd | shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | You make your way downstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You can travel upstream, to the north; downstream,
Floyd | to the south; or west, back to the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | You make your way downstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You can travel upstream, to the north; downstream,
Floyd | to the south; or west, back to the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | You make your way downstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You can travel upstream, to the north, or
Floyd | downstream, to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | You make your way downstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  The river forks here, and the jade bridge veers off
Floyd | to the west, back to shore.  If you want to continue downstream you'll
Floyd | need to find a different means of transportation.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can travel upstream, to the north, or west, back to the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You carefully follow the jade path through the water back to shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside Hut
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing outside a primitive-looking hut tucked snugly in
Floyd | the dense surrounding forest, near the shore of the river.  The jade
Floyd | water-path that got you here still leads out to the center of the
Floyd | whirling rapids, to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hut is made of grass and mud, and looks much like your former
Floyd | master Kuulest's domicile, where the old geezeburger raised you to be
Floyd | an untrained, untutored, useless, inept...  oh, never mind.  The hut
Floyd | entrance is to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Hut
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're inside Kuulest's hut, which is functional at best.  The walls
Floyd | and floor are made of grass, mud, and other unidentifiable (but surely
Floyd | unpleasant) substances.  Aside from Kuulest and his Sooper Egg Fraier
Floyd | (tm), there's little here.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The exit is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Kuulest is here, examining his Sooper Egg Fraier (tm) with great
Floyd | care and a puzzled look on his face.  He mutters something about not
Floyd | wanting to miss breakfast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    All of the sudden, Kuulest flies into a rage and begins cursing to
Floyd | himself and repeatedly whamming the Egg Fraier into the floor of his
Floyd | hut.  Moments later he takes a deep breath, looks up at you, laughs
Floyd | nervously, and says, "It would seem that Duhdha no longer wills this
Floyd | item to function."
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Hut
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're inside Kuulest's hut, which is functional at best.  The walls
Floyd | and floor are made of grass, mud, and other unidentifiable (but surely
Floyd | unpleasant) substances.  Aside from Kuulest and his Sooper Egg Fraier
Floyd | (tm), there's little here.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The exit is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Kuulest is here, examining his Sooper Egg Fraier (tm) with great
Floyd | care and a puzzled look on his face.  He mutters something about not
Floyd | wanting to miss breakfast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Kuulest adjusts some knobs on the Egg Fraier (tm) and then blows on
Floyd | it.  He looks surprised when he turns it on and finds that it still
Floyd | fails to function.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x kuulest" 		

Floyd | Kuulest looks a lot like the old monk you met back at the retreat in
Floyd | the woods. He's studying his Egg Fraier (tm) intently, evidently hoping
Floyd | that he has, without realizing it, suddenly acquired the ability to fix
Floyd | electrical appliances.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Kuulest scratches at one of the screws holding the handle on the Egg
Floyd | Fraier (tm).  "Praise be, why so complicated?"  he mutters.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | Outside Hut
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing outside a primitive-looking hut tucked snugly in
Floyd | the dense surrounding forest, near the shore of the river.  The jade
Floyd | water-path that got you here still leads out to the center of the
Floyd | whirling rapids, to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hut is made of grass and mud, and looks much like your former
Floyd | master Kuulest's domicile, where the old geezeburger raised you to be
Floyd | an untrained, untutored, useless, inept...  oh, never mind.  The hut
Floyd | entrance is to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  The river forks here, and the jade bridge veers off
Floyd | to the west, back to shore.  If you want to continue downstream you'll
Floyd | need to find a different means of transportation.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can travel upstream, to the north, or west, back to the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put pellet in river" 		

Floyd | You can't put anything in the rushing river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dawg rock" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "dawg".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | I wouldn't recommend leaving the path that Duhdha has provided for you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have a tiny mauve pellet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put pellet in water" 		

Floyd | jade path:  You can't put anything in the jade path.
Floyd | rushing river:  You can't put anything in the rushing river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "hm. I guess we can't use the dinghy past this point after all."
		DavidW says, "hm. I suppose there must be a screwdriver somewhere that we've entirely overlooked."
		DavidW asks, "well, uh. Maybe Duhdha will again provide? Maybe now that we know we need to help Duhdha here, another trip to Kuul will give us a screwdriver?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You carefully follow the jade path through the water back to shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside Hut
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing outside a primitive-looking hut tucked snugly in
Floyd | the dense surrounding forest, near the shore of the river.  The jade
Floyd | water-path that got you here still leads out to the center of the
Floyd | whirling rapids, to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hut is made of grass and mud, and looks much like your former
Floyd | master Kuulest's domicile, where the old geezeburger raised you to be
Floyd | an untrained, untutored, useless, inept...  oh, never mind.  The hut
Floyd | entrance is to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hut" 		

Floyd | The hut is made of grass and mud, and looks much like your former
Floyd | master Kuulest's domicile, where the old geezeburger raised you to be
Floyd | an untrained, untutored, useless, inept...  oh, never mind.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Hut
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're inside Kuulest's hut, which is functional at best.  The walls
Floyd | and floor are made of grass, mud, and other unidentifiable (but surely
Floyd | unpleasant) substances.  Aside from Kuulest and his Sooper Egg Fraier
Floyd | (tm), there's little here.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The exit is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Kuulest is here, examining his Sooper Egg Fraier (tm) with great
Floyd | care and a puzzled look on his face.  He mutters something about not
Floyd | wanting to miss breakfast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Kuulest lectures you briefly on proper egg care, and relates a
Floyd | drawn-out allegory about an unfortunate fellow who accidentally sat on
Floyd | Duhdha's Favorite Egg.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask kuulest about breakfast" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "breakfast".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask kuulest about egg" 		

Floyd | Which egg do you mean, the plastic plover's egg, the raw Synthegg yolk,
Floyd | the raw Synthegg yolk, or the fried SynthEgg?
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask kuulest about fried synthegg" 		

Floyd | Kuulest is absorbed in trying to fix his broken egg fryer.
Floyd |
Floyd |    All of the sudden, Kuulest flies into a rage and begins cursing to
Floyd | himself and repeatedly whamming the Egg Fraier into the floor of his
Floyd | hut.  Moments later he takes a deep breath, looks up at you, laughs
Floyd | nervously, and says, "It would seem that Duhdha no longer wills this
Floyd | item to function."
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give pellet to kuulest" 		

Floyd | Kuulest pats you on the head and chuckles.  "What need I of such
Floyd | worldly things, my child?"
Floyd |
Floyd |    Kuulest lectures you briefly on proper egg care, and relates a
Floyd | drawn-out allegory about an unfortunate fellow who accidentally sat on
Floyd | Duhdha's Favorite Egg.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask kuulest about egg fraier" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "fraier".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask kuulest about duhdha" 		

Floyd | Kuulest is absorbed in trying to fix his broken egg fryer.
Floyd |
Floyd |    All of the sudden, Kuulest flies into a rage and begins cursing to
Floyd | himself and repeatedly whamming the Egg Fraier into the floor of his
Floyd | hut.  Moments later he takes a deep breath, looks up at you, laughs
Floyd | nervously, and says, "It would seem that Duhdha no longer wills this
Floyd | item to function."
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask kuulest about kuulest" 		

Floyd | Kuulest is absorbed in trying to fix his broken egg fryer.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Kuulest cautiously taps the base of the Egg Fraier (tm) several
Floyd | times, then holds the device up to his ear, his brow furrowed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kiss kuulest" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "kiss".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "yeah, he won't talk to us."
		Ellison says, "oops, gotta go"
Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. 		
Ellison has disconnected. 		DavidW says, "um. I suppose the simplest thing we could try is to bring the frying pan into the game."
		DavidW says, "A frying pan is simpler."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Maybe."
		DavidW says, "And that would be a way to test if other things can enter the game too."
		DavidW says, "I think it's worth a try."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" 		

Floyd | In 22 turns, you have earned 0 points out of a possible 451.  By my
Floyd | estimation, this means you're not very far along The Way.
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you really want to quit?  (YES or NO) >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The program terminates and you're back at the main menu.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Game Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The earthquake bass rumblings and brilliant flares emanating from
Floyd | the machines in this room are enough to scare you witless until you
Floyd | realize they're only computer-generated illusions.  Welcome to the
Floyd | Terminal Velocity game room!
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are video games of all kinds here, many of them old classics
Floyd | from before the days of HoloScanning monitors.  The games are all set
Floyd | on free play, and quite a few Terminal Velocity partons are taking
Floyd | advantage of this to finally master their favorite coin-operated
Floyd | diversions.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Looking around the game room, you notice, to your surprise, a small
Floyd | Zippikraft Kompakt Komputer -- an older model much less powerful than
Floyd | your own Data Liquidizer, but still great for games.  No one seems to
Floyd | use the poor thing, though -- it looks lonely all by itself in the
Floyd | corner.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The game room exit leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the southeast or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the south and northeast.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the west wall, and a narrow doorway to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, at the Bar
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're at the Terminal Velocity bar, which is a large circle of wood
Floyd | with a marble top.  At the center of the circle is a cylindrical kiosk
Floyd | containing hundreds of kinds of alcoholic beverages and many glasses.
Floyd | There's a break in the circle that you can walk through to get inside
Floyd | [34].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The stationary bicycle is behind the bar.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the northwest or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the southwest and north.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the east wall, and a narrow doorway to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | Jax O Pax's Data Den
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Welcome to the Data Den."  That's what the neon sign above the main
Floyd | terminal says.  This tiny, plush room is filled with computer hardware
Floyd | of all kinds.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Off in one corner is a particularly neat gadget -- a Zippikraft
Floyd | MatterMan 95 Matter-to-Digital converter.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The exit is to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Jax O Pax is here, typing at one of the terminals and occasionally
Floyd | muttering to himself.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pan" 		

Floyd | It's just an ordinary frying pan.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oops, forgot the disk"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the northwest or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the southwest and north.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the east wall, and a narrow doorway to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, at the Bar
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're at the Terminal Velocity bar, which is a large circle of wood
Floyd | with a marble top.  At the center of the circle is a cylindrical kiosk
Floyd | containing hundreds of kinds of alcoholic beverages and many glasses.
Floyd | There's a break in the circle that you can walk through to get inside
Floyd | [34].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The stationary bicycle is behind the bar.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the southeast or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the south and northeast.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the west wall, and a narrow doorway to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | Terminal Velocity Game Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The earthquake bass rumblings and brilliant flares emanating from
Floyd | the machines in this room are enough to scare you witless until you
Floyd | realize they're only computer-generated illusions.  Welcome to the
Floyd | Terminal Velocity game room!
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are video games of all kinds here, many of them old classics
Floyd | from before the days of HoloScanning monitors.  The games are all set
Floyd | on free play, and quite a few Terminal Velocity partons are taking
Floyd | advantage of this to finally master their favorite coin-operated
Floyd | diversions.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Looking around the game room, you notice, to your surprise, a small
Floyd | Zippikraft Kompakt Komputer -- an older model much less powerful than
Floyd | your own Data Liquidizer, but still great for games.  No one seems to
Floyd | use the poor thing, though -- it looks lonely all by itself in the
Floyd | corner.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The game room exit leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your crypto watch is getting a transmission:
Floyd |
Floyd |    An image of the third Valley King appears on the watch -- must be
Floyd | JC.  "Your Gavin-ness, I now have video capability.  Seriously, pal, I
Floyd | don't know any other way to do it -- we have to get to Plast and nuke
Floyd | that shunt.  Akmi runs a tight ship these days, and I don't see any
Floyd | other flaws in the net.  Looks like they've forgotten about the
Floyd | band-aid they stuck in their security backbone years ago, and that's
Floyd | what we need to hit.  If you can take that out, I think I'll be able to
Floyd | seize control for the nanosecond or so it takes our cyberscuzz friend
Floyd | to notice.  Don't quite know what I'm gonna do in that nanosecond, but
Floyd | you gotta find a way into Plast."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 4 on komputer" 		

Floyd | There are some burbling noises for a few moments, and the machine
Floyd | forcefully ejects the disk in the drive with a loud "PTOOEY."  The
Floyd | computer soon grinds to a halt.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take disk" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "(also, we need to get to Plast. Eventually.)"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the southeast or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the south and northeast.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the west wall, and a narrow doorway to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, at the Bar
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're at the Terminal Velocity bar, which is a large circle of wood
Floyd | with a marble top.  At the center of the circle is a cylindrical kiosk
Floyd | containing hundreds of kinds of alcoholic beverages and many glasses.
Floyd | There's a break in the circle that you can walk through to get inside
Floyd | [34].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The stationary bicycle is behind the bar.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the northwest or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the southwest and north.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the east wall, and a narrow doorway to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | Jax O Pax's Data Den
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Welcome to the Data Den."  That's what the neon sign above the main
Floyd | terminal says.  This tiny, plush room is filled with computer hardware
Floyd | of all kinds.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Off in one corner is a particularly neat gadget -- a Zippikraft
Floyd | MatterMan 95 Matter-to-Digital converter.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The exit is to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Jax O Pax is here, typing at one of the terminals and occasionally
Floyd | muttering to himself.  Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put disk in drive" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-11-07-22:26:33CST 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put pan in converter" 		

Floyd | You need to specify what part of the converter you want to put things
Floyd | in -- the drive, or the chamber.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x converter" 		

Floyd |    The Zippikraft MatterMan 95 Matter-to-Digital converter is a
Floyd | self-contained object interchange machine.  It analyzes the object(s)
Floyd | you put in the scanning chamber and generates a data file describing
Floyd | the item(s) in complete detail.  It then writes the file to the disk in
Floyd | the drive.  Interestingly enough, this model hasn't been released to
Floyd | the public yet -- it must be a prototype.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The machine has only one control -- a red button labeled "START."
Floyd | The drive has a disk in it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put pan in chamber" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push start" 		

Floyd | The contents of the chamber suddenly disappear.  The converter writes
Floyd | the data to the floppy, which it then ejects.  You pocket it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the northwest or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the southwest and north.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the east wall, and a narrow doorway to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "So, we're bringing a frying pan. And no stove?"
		DavidW says, "I have no way of bringing the Elwood stove to the Terminal Velocity building."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Although it *does* look like we can bring multiple items, after all."
		DavidW says, "Assume Duhdha can make a fire somehow."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, at the Bar
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're at the Terminal Velocity bar, which is a large circle of wood
Floyd | with a marble top.  At the center of the circle is a cylindrical kiosk
Floyd | containing hundreds of kinds of alcoholic beverages and many glasses.
Floyd | There's a break in the circle that you can walk through to get inside
Floyd | [34].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The stationary bicycle is behind the bar.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the southeast or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the south and northeast.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the west wall, and a narrow doorway to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | Terminal Velocity Game Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The earthquake bass rumblings and brilliant flares emanating from
Floyd | the machines in this room are enough to scare you witless until you
Floyd | realize they're only computer-generated illusions.  Welcome to the
Floyd | Terminal Velocity game room!
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are video games of all kinds here, many of them old classics
Floyd | from before the days of HoloScanning monitors.  The games are all set
Floyd | on free play, and quite a few Terminal Velocity partons are taking
Floyd | advantage of this to finally master their favorite coin-operated
Floyd | diversions.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Looking around the game room, you notice, to your surprise, a small
Floyd | Zippikraft Kompakt Komputer -- an older model much less powerful than
Floyd | your own Data Liquidizer, but still great for games.  No one seems to
Floyd | use the poor thing, though -- it looks lonely all by itself in the
Floyd | corner.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The game room exit leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put disk in komputer" 		

Floyd | You pop the disk in the drive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 3 on komputer" 		

Floyd | Um, it might help to turn it on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on komputer" 		

Floyd | You flick the power switch.  A cartoon rendition of a happy computer
Floyd | appears soon after, and moments later the system comes up.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen is currently displaying a menu with several options:
Floyd |
Floyd |    1. Unnkulian Underworld:  The Unknown Unventure
Floyd |    2. Unnkulian Unventure II:  The Secret of Acme
Floyd |    3. Unnkulian Unventure III:  The Kuulest Quest
Floyd |    4. Merge data object into program space
Floyd |    5. Eject disk and shutdown
Floyd |
Floyd | The software eagerly awaits your selection.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 4 on komputer" 		

Floyd | There is some disk activity, and then the machine says, "Transfer
Floyd | complete."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 3 on komputer" 		

Floyd | You know from a previous look at this work that it was never finished
Floyd | (you suspect foul play by the Unnkulians), but why not give it whirl,
Floyd | you suppose.  Can't hurt...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zippikraft Kompact Komputer whirrs and percolates for a while,
Floyd | then displays the following text:
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd | ...  Astoundingly, the Lord of Unnkul lies dormant on the floor,
Floyd | surrounded in a viscous pool of black blood.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The wizened old monk whom you met in the waiting room enters as you
Floyd | get up from the desk.  "It is truly the greatness of Duhdha," he says
Floyd | pleasantly, "that brought our paths in time and space together here
Floyd | before this loathsome devil.  I simply came," he continues, "to
Floyd | register a complaint about this Acme Sooper Egg Fraier (tm), but when
Floyd | you exposed the Lord of Unnkul, I knew the time for our task had come.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "The forces of Unnkul have long sought to conquer this world and
Floyd | enslave its peoples, and this latest campaign was the most cunning yet.
Floyd | To challenge the faith of a world -- eliminating a need for Duhdha by
Floyd | creating a dependence on technology and encouraging hedonism -- was the
Floyd | ultimate goal of the incestuous union between the Unnkulians and the
Floyd | once-proud Acme company.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Now that their leader has been vanquished by Duhdha, the Unnkulians
Floyd | will be flung into disarray.  Chaos and anarchy will reign for years as
Floyd | the treacherous quests for leadership over the Unnkulians are played
Floyd | out by the many power-mongers amongst their kind.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "It was not fortune or fate but Duhdha that brought us here together
Floyd | today, my son, and know this:  Your quest, though born of a selfishness
Floyd | that still lingers inside you, was orchestrated by Duhdha, the
Floyd | all-knowing and all-seeing Great One, so that in this tiny window of
Floyd | time, where the Lord of Unnkul was away from its domain and here on
Floyd | this world to survey the work of its minions corporeally, in this brief
Floyd | splinter of time, the most capable of Duhdha's servants, you, could be
Floyd | brought to catalyze this event.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "I understand these things," you say, "but if I was just the bait to
Floyd | get the Lord of Unnkul's guard down, who actually killed it?"  you
Floyd | inquire, looking down at the still bleeding corpse on the floor.  The
Floyd | monk grins.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "I did," he chuckles.  "You can call me Kuulest."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "But you don't look a thing like Kuulest," you reply incredulously.
Floyd | "You look like that old monk at the retreat in the woods."
Floyd |
Floyd |    The wizened old man laughs aloud.  "Your former master, the old man
Floyd | in the woods, and I -- all three of us have been called Kuulest in our
Floyd | time.  But that is not important now.  Now, my child, there is one more
Floyd | task you must complete before you can again retire to your comfortable
Floyd | abode."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Down the river that splits Dawg Rock in twain is another Place of
Floyd | Duhdha.  The waters are treacherous, so seek Duhdha's aid to guide you.
Floyd | If your faith is truly strong you will survive to learn of your next
Floyd | mission for Duhdha.  It is a simple matter, but one that will propel
Floyd | you ahead on The Way immeasurably."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "But now, my child," the monk says serenely but firmly, looking down
Floyd | at his Acme Sooper Egg Fraier (tm), "I must leave you and return to my
Floyd | own matters of service."  He begins to clap, but just as his hands are
Floyd | about to touch, he whisks one hand away, makes bug-eyes at you, and
Floyd | grins from ear to ear.  This last image of the old man fades quickly as
Floyd | you realize you are now in a different place -- a place that is very
Floyd | familiar, but now, you sense, a part of...
Floyd |
Floyd | Unnkulian Unventure III:  The Kuulest Quest
Floyd | by D. M. Bleary
Floyd | *** Work In Progress:  DO NOT DISTRIBUTE ***
Floyd | Rating: ???
Floyd | Developed with TOADS, the Text-Oriented Adventure Development System.
Floyd | (TOADS is a product of Valmaco.  Valmaco:  Better living through
Floyd | mysterious forces that mere mortals could not hope to comprehend.)
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Big Oak
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the bank of a rushing river at the base of a
Floyd | giant oak tree, easily 200 feet tall.  It looks to be about a class 5
Floyd | rapids with white-water everywhere.  It's at least 80 feet to the other
Floyd | bank.  Looking back, you can see your favorite picnic table, a tiny
Floyd | square of wood tucked away in the trees far to the west.  A path along
Floyd | the river bank leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A narrow strip of water leading east is now a brilliant jade color,
Floyd | and looks to be solid.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have a frying pan and a tiny mauve pellet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You walk nimbly across the jade pathway, the violent rapids snapping at
Floyd | your heels all the way.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You downstream, to the south, or west, back to the
Floyd | shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | You make your way downstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You can travel upstream, to the north; downstream,
Floyd | to the south; or west, back to the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | You make your way downstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You can travel upstream, to the north; downstream,
Floyd | to the south; or west, back to the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | You make your way downstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You can travel upstream, to the north, or
Floyd | downstream, to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | You make your way downstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  The river forks here, and the jade bridge veers off
Floyd | to the west, back to shore.  If you want to continue downstream you'll
Floyd | need to find a different means of transportation.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can travel upstream, to the north, or west, back to the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You carefully follow the jade path through the water back to shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside Hut
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing outside a primitive-looking hut tucked snugly in
Floyd | the dense surrounding forest, near the shore of the river.  The jade
Floyd | water-path that got you here still leads out to the center of the
Floyd | whirling rapids, to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hut is made of grass and mud, and looks much like your former
Floyd | master Kuulest's domicile, where the old geezeburger raised you to be
Floyd | an untrained, untutored, useless, inept...  oh, never mind.  The hut
Floyd | entrance is to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Hut
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're inside Kuulest's hut, which is functional at best.  The walls
Floyd | and floor are made of grass, mud, and other unidentifiable (but surely
Floyd | unpleasant) substances.  Aside from Kuulest and his Sooper Egg Fraier
Floyd | (tm), there's little here.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The exit is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Kuulest is here, examining his Sooper Egg Fraier (tm) with great
Floyd | care and a puzzled look on his face.  He mutters something about not
Floyd | wanting to miss breakfast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    All of the sudden, Kuulest flies into a rage and begins cursing to
Floyd | himself and repeatedly whamming the Egg Fraier into the floor of his
Floyd | hut.  Moments later he takes a deep breath, looks up at you, laughs
Floyd | nervously, and says, "It would seem that Duhdha no longer wills this
Floyd | item to function."
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give pan to kuulest" 		

Floyd | Kuulest pats you on the head and chuckles.  "What need I of such
Floyd | worldly things, my child?"
Floyd |
Floyd |    Kuulest cautiously taps the base of the Egg Fraier (tm) several
Floyd | times, then holds the device up to his ear, his brow furrowed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "hm. He doesn't want the pan."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show pan to kuulest" 		

Floyd | Kuulest doesn't seem interested in the frying pan.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Kuulest scratches at one of the screws holding the handle on the Egg
Floyd | Fraier (tm).  "Praise be, why so complicated?"  he mutters.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		genericgeekgirl says, "I really think we need to bring him breakfast, already prepared."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give cheese to kuulest" 		

Floyd | (trying to take the hunk of cheese first)
Floyd |
Floyd | There is nothing matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "Unfortunately, there's no way to take the frying pan OUT of the game once it's in there."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have a frying pan and a tiny mauve pellet.
Floyd |
Floyd |    After a brief period of absolute silence, Kuulest begins chanting
Floyd | quietly to himself:  "ooooooh...  muuuuuuu...  leeeeeeeht..."
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW says, "ha"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Hehe"
		DavidW says, "well, the only other 'egg' in the game so far is the plastic plover egg, and I don't think he'd eat that, even if it was fried."
		genericgeekgirl says, "We can sell or swap the prune seeds, buy the eggplant seeds, use the super gro whatever on it, and make him another fried egg."
		DavidW says, "Do we still have the prune seeds, unused? Swapping seeds for seeds might work."
		genericgeekgirl says, "No, we don't. We grew a prune."
		DavidW asks, "well, how far back do we have to go?"
		DavidW asks, "legend5?"
		DavidW says, "(and we used the growth formula, not the super gro)"
		genericgeekgirl says, "legend4"
		DavidW says, "ok"
		[LINK]
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "quit" 		

Floyd | In 12 turns, you have earned 0 points out of a possible 451.  By my
Floyd | estimation, this means you're not very far along The Way.
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you really want to quit?  (YES or NO) >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The program terminates and you're back at the main menu.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Game Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The earthquake bass rumblings and brilliant flares emanating from
Floyd | the machines in this room are enough to scare you witless until you
Floyd | realize they're only computer-generated illusions.  Welcome to the
Floyd | Terminal Velocity game room!
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are video games of all kinds here, many of them old classics
Floyd | from before the days of HoloScanning monitors.  The games are all set
Floyd | on free play, and quite a few Terminal Velocity partons are taking
Floyd | advantage of this to finally master their favorite coin-operated
Floyd | diversions.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Looking around the game room, you notice, to your surprise, a small
Floyd | Zippikraft Kompakt Komputer -- an older model much less powerful than
Floyd | your own Data Liquidizer, but still great for games.  No one seems to
Floyd | use the poor thing, though -- it looks lonely all by itself in the
Floyd | corner.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The game room exit leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something is ticking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf43" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Just in case."
		DavidW says, "okay"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Although I guess we haven't done much since restoring"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | File to restore game from >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "legend4" 		

Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Watchmaker's Headquarters
Floyd |
Floyd |    This area looks much like the rest of the place, but there are far
Floyd | fewer people here.  The majority are Watchmen employees, hovering
Floyd | around the Watchmaker.  No one pays much attention to you as you mill
Floyd | about.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmaker is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "We've been very very stuck for a while, making only small inroads."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x seeds" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x paper" 		

Floyd | Written in barely-legible script is "Cassandra:  Elwood Farm (3921,
Floyd | 5840, 9278) (Just up road from mover.)"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x handwritten" 		

Floyd | The note is to you.  It reads:
Floyd |
Floyd |    Gavin --
Floyd |
Floyd |    Studying at the library today.  Don't forget dinner at Grandma's
Floyd | house tomorrow night.  When you go out, please pick up some prune seeds
Floyd | from the Barfee outlet (8549, 4392, 8392) -- you know how Grandma is
Floyd | about her garden.
Floyd |
Floyd |                    Love,
Floyd |                    Ada
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-11-07-22:41:33CST 		DavidW says, "okay. We haven't used the transmog at all yet."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah."
		DavidW says, "And the transmog is where the prune seeds are from."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are wandering around the smoky, dark, cavernous interior of The
Floyd | Watchmen.  All around you oddly-dressed men make transactions, fight
Floyd | with each other, and generally carouse loudly.  It's so dimly lit here
Floyd | that you can barely find your way through the maze of human obstacles
Floyd | -- sitting, standing, and prone.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The employees all seem to be male, but in many cases it's hard to
Floyd | tell.  They are dressed very differently then the clientele -- slick
Floyd | fabric uniforms in dark maroon that look too tight.  Each employee has
Floyd | a gold pocket watch emblem on his chest, just above the heart.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen proper ends here, but there is another smaller area to
Floyd | the east.  The rest of the establishment is south of here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are wandering around the smoky, dark, cavernous interior of The
Floyd | Watchmen.  All around you oddly-dressed men make transactions, fight
Floyd | with each other, and generally carouse loudly.  It's so dimly lit here
Floyd | that you can barely find your way through the maze of human obstacles
Floyd | -- sitting, standing, and prone.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The employees all seem to be male, but in many cases it's hard to
Floyd | tell.  They are dressed very differently then the clientele -- slick
Floyd | fabric uniforms in dark maroon that look too tight.  Each employee has
Floyd | a gold pocket watch emblem on his chest, just above the heart.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen continues to the north and south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Several tough-looking patrons in the corner eye you hungrily.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | At the Entrance to The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here is the entrance to The Watchmen, home to the Watchmaker and,
Floyd | from the looks of it, frequented by society's outcasts.  Through the
Floyd | entranceway you spy unusual characters of all sorts engaging in
Floyd | business, pleasure, and pain.
Floyd |
Floyd |    North of here is the inside of the establishment.  The matter mover
Floyd | and exit are to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The bouncer is here, fortunately ignoring you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | New Hell
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a small lobby enclosed by a transparent dome.  The lobby
Floyd | opens up to the north into The Watchmen proper and an eastern portal
Floyd | leads outside.  This area itself is nondescript, but through the clear
Floyd | canopy you can see what a dark and terrifying world New Hell is:
Floyd | rivers of lava slither through the greasy-slick alleys of the slums and
Floyd | on to the distant horizon, where primordial geysers ejaculate molten
Floyd | rock into the midnight blue sky [27].
Floyd |
Floyd |    Flourescent spotlights flicker nervously, at moments illuminating
Floyd | the victims of the collective carnivorous orgy just long enough for you
Floyd | to take the scenes in, but briefly enough for you to mistake them for
Floyd | little nightmares.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You turn away.  New Hell isn't just where people suffer.  New Hell
Floyd | is where people who no one cares about suffer.  The poets' words don't
Floyd | drift away on the fiery rivers here.  There aren't any poets.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x autodial" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd | 5:  A dirt road
Floyd | 6:  Survey Station
Floyd | 7:  Kuwl Starport
Floyd | 8:  New Hell
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 4 on autodial" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Featureless Cubicle
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's clear from the size and lack of decor that this room was built
Floyd | specifically to house the matter mover that fills it.  The hallway is
Floyd | to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The matter mover here is a bit unusual -- it has a button on it,
Floyd | next to a light.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Barfee Research Area Entrance
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in an empty hall with metal walls, ceiling, and
Floyd | floor.  Behind you, to the south, is the vault door that leads to the
Floyd | outside; it does not appear to open from the inside.  Right in front of
Floyd | you, farther down the hall, is a smaller but equally durable-looking
Floyd | door with a sign on it that reads "Barfee Research Central."  There is
Floyd | another room to the west, and to the east is what you assume to be the
Floyd | check-in area; you suspect that's where the boss is; this suspicion is
Floyd | partly affirmed by the growling and cursing emanating from within.
Floyd | "Hakkar the Horrible" is in full form.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Barfee Research Lab
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a huge, well-stocked laboratory.  Dozens of researchers
Floyd | scurry about, argue with each other, and frequently set things ablaze.
Floyd | Aside from the usual lab equipment, there is a strange-looking machine
Floyd | on an especially large marble lab table that stands in the center of
Floyd | the lab.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The only way out of this arena is south, the way you came in.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put handwritten in machine" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn all dials to 3" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 3.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 3.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 3.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 3.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  An oil lamp (providing light)
Floyd | is in the Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn all dials to 2" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 2.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 2.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 2.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 2.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A paper clip is in the Akmi
Floyd | Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn all dials to 4" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 4.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 4.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 4.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 4.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A hunk of coal is in the Akmi
Floyd | Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn all dials to 5" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 5.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 5.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 5.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 5.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A playing card is in the Akmi
Floyd | Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn all dials to 1" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 1.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 1.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 1.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 1.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A packet of prune seeds is in
Floyd | the Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take seeds" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x seeds" 		

Floyd | It's a small packet of seeds produced by Barfee, the galaxy's leading
Floyd | fruit and vegetable seed vendor.  The package reads "Barfee prune
Floyd | seeds:  All seeds and no weeds, Barfee meets your needs in feeds.
Floyd | Visit the Barfee Outlet:  (8549, 4392, 8392)."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | Barfee Research Area Entrance
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in an empty hall with metal walls, ceiling, and
Floyd | floor.  Behind you, to the south, is the vault door that leads to the
Floyd | outside; it does not appear to open from the inside.  Right in front of
Floyd | you, farther down the hall, is a smaller but equally durable-looking
Floyd | door with a sign on it that reads "Barfee Research Central."  There is
Floyd | another room to the west, and to the east is what you assume to be the
Floyd | check-in area; you suspect that's where the boss is; this suspicion is
Floyd | partly affirmed by the growling and cursing emanating from within.
Floyd | "Hakkar the Horrible" is in full form.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Featureless Cubicle
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's clear from the size and lack of decor that this room was built
Floyd | specifically to house the matter mover that fills it.  The hallway is
Floyd | to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The matter mover here is a bit unusual -- it has a button on it,
Floyd | next to a light.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x autodial" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd | 5:  A dirt road
Floyd | 6:  Survey Station
Floyd | 7:  Kuwl Starport
Floyd | 8:  New Hell
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 3 on autodial" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the center of the Barfee Outlet, right next to
Floyd | the main matter mover.  Creatures of all races bustle around madly,
Floyd | looking for great deals on seeds.  A huge neon sign right beyond your
Floyd | nose screams, "Welcome to planet Flora, home of Barfee:  your one-stop
Floyd | source for vegetation."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here in the middle of Seed Central there's really nothing but
Floyd | people, and lots of them.  Or make that "creatures."  In any case, from
Floyd | here Barfee looks like a giant open market, with little stands here and
Floyd | there, and patrons and salescreatures arguing loudly over prices.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The northern area of this arena seems to be devoted to vegetable
Floyd | seeds, while the southern area caters to fruit buyers.  To the east is
Floyd | a large warehouse in which they sell various varieties of flowers but
Floyd | the crowd gets really thick in that direction.  Westward you see all
Floyd | kinds of growing supplies.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Barfee Vegetable MegaStore
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in the Barfee Vegetable MegaStore, standing in front of a
Floyd | large bin filled with seed packets.  There are so many shoppers here
Floyd | that this is really the only place you can get to the goods -- it's
Floyd | that crowded.  Seed Central is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A matronly Foonian salescreature watches you expectantly from behind
Floyd | the bin.  She seems eager to engage you in conversation.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Foonian gives you a wink and says, "Hawve Au taled yee ebait mau
Floyd | daghter yut, Senny?  Shu's working an theh farm bawk an Feen, yee knai,
Floyd | graying uggplawnts.  Shu's eh faun wen, mau Kessawndreh."  She gives
Floyd | you a little nudge with her elbow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "trade prune seeds" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "trade".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sell prune seeds" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "sell".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give prune seeds to foonian" 		

Floyd |    "Yee'll hawve tee toke thayze tee theh freet urueh ayver thore," she
Floyd | explains, pointing southward.  "Au cawn't give yee cruhdit fair thayze
Floyd | hoor."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Bawk an Feen wu've got theh bust graying sail in theh gawluxy," the
Floyd | woman brags, "which is whau uveruwen kems tee es fair thore freets awnd
Floyd | vujtebbles.  Wu've nay nood fair fawncy tuchnaleju yee knai."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the center of the Barfee Outlet, right next to
Floyd | the main matter mover.  Creatures of all races bustle around madly,
Floyd | looking for great deals on seeds.  A huge neon sign right beyond your
Floyd | nose screams, "Welcome to planet Flora, home of Barfee:  your one-stop
Floyd | source for vegetation."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here in the middle of Seed Central there's really nothing but
Floyd | people, and lots of them.  Or make that "creatures."  In any case, from
Floyd | here Barfee looks like a giant open market, with little stands here and
Floyd | there, and patrons and salescreatures arguing loudly over prices.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The northern area of this arena seems to be devoted to vegetable
Floyd | seeds, while the southern area caters to fruit buyers.  To the east is
Floyd | a large warehouse in which they sell various varieties of flowers but
Floyd | the crowd gets really thick in that direction.  Westward you see all
Floyd | kinds of growing supplies.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | Barfee Fruit MegaStore
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Barfee Fruit MegaStore is not quite as crowded as the rest of
Floyd | the outlet, but than again that's not saying much.  Fortunately walking
Floyd | around is easy here, and you can actually breathe, which is a definite
Floyd | plus.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in front of the friendly Hoppian's bin.  The bin is
Floyd | filled with fruit seed packets.  Seed Central is north of here.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The tall and dapper Hoppian salesman tends to the bin in front of
Floyd | you.  He nods politely as you look at him.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The salesman confides in you that, "it's quite an excellent year for
Floyd | the particular strain of elderberries we sell here at Barfee."  His
Floyd | pronunciation of the outlet's name as "barfay" makes you wince under
Floyd | your breath.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give prune seeds to hoppian" 		

Floyd |    "I'd be happy to give you store credit for those, my friend," the
Floyd | Hoppian tells you as he hands you a credit slip.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Hoppian informs you that the Grandpa Jones apples are a new
Floyd | strain, genetically engineered by Barfee scientists only this year.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "That sounds very promising."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x slip" 		

Floyd | It's a Barfee store credit receipt.  It says, "Good for one Barfee seed
Floyd | packet."
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Hoppian salesman waits until he thinks you're not looking, then
Floyd | straightens his bowtie and pulls back his ears, which, to his
Floyd | consternation, plop right back down into their usual cockeyed
Floyd | configuration.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "So now we CAN buy eggplant seeds."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the center of the Barfee Outlet, right next to
Floyd | the main matter mover.  Creatures of all races bustle around madly,
Floyd | looking for great deals on seeds.  A huge neon sign right beyond your
Floyd | nose screams, "Welcome to planet Flora, home of Barfee:  your one-stop
Floyd | source for vegetation."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here in the middle of Seed Central there's really nothing but
Floyd | people, and lots of them.  Or make that "creatures."  In any case, from
Floyd | here Barfee looks like a giant open market, with little stands here and
Floyd | there, and patrons and salescreatures arguing loudly over prices.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The northern area of this arena seems to be devoted to vegetable
Floyd | seeds, while the southern area caters to fruit buyers.  To the east is
Floyd | a large warehouse in which they sell various varieties of flowers but
Floyd | the crowd gets really thick in that direction.  Westward you see all
Floyd | kinds of growing supplies.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Barfee Vegetable MegaStore
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in the Barfee Vegetable MegaStore, standing in front of a
Floyd | large bin filled with seed packets.  There are so many shoppers here
Floyd | that this is really the only place you can get to the goods -- it's
Floyd | that crowded.  Seed Central is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A matronly Foonian salescreature watches you expectantly from behind
Floyd | the bin.  She seems eager to engage you in conversation.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Foonian gives you a wink and says, "Hawve Au taled yee ebait mau
Floyd | daghter yut, Senny?  Shu's working an theh farm bawk an Feen, yee knai,
Floyd | graying uggplawnts.  Shu's eh faun wen, mau Kessawndreh."  She gives
Floyd | you a little nudge with her elbow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Ah, maybe that red dirt near the river is for planting the seeds."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x eggplant" 		

Floyd | You don't know what that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "no, silly"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x eggplant seeds" 		

Floyd | Which eggplant seeds do you mean, the packet of Foonian eggplant seeds,
Floyd | or the packet of Todian eggplant seeds?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "buy foonian eggplant seeds" 		

Floyd | Please specify who you want to pay for the packet of Foonian eggplant
Floyd | seeds.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The salesperson says, "Cawn Au intrust yee in sem faun vujtebble
Floyd | soods teedowu?  Awz yee cawn su wu hawve en uxsellunt seluction!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Oh, right we can just do that in the real world."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "buy foonian eggplant seeds from foonian" 		

Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "buy foonian eggplant seeds from saleswoman" 		

Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give slip to woman" 		

Floyd |    "Ahh," the old woman exclaims, "stare crudit.  Thawt'll dee jest
Floyd | faun; toke eh sood pawckut frem theh bin, Senny."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Cawn Au intrust yee in sem soods teedowu, mau bayu?"  the
Floyd | saleswoman asks eagerly, motioning broadly at the packages in the bin.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take foonian eggplant seeds" 		

Floyd | The salescreature nods encouragingly as you reach into the bin and pull
Floyd | out the seed packet.  Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "So, bayu," the saleswoman mentions, "if yee dayn't maund mu
Floyd | awsking, are yee frem Tade?  Au that Au keed tull frem yair
Floyd | mawnnerisms, thawt's al.  Yee maught oovun so yee look lauk wen ev theh
Floyd | Vawllu Kings -- fawnsu thet!  Dayn't seppase yair rulotud?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the center of the Barfee Outlet, right next to
Floyd | the main matter mover.  Creatures of all races bustle around madly,
Floyd | looking for great deals on seeds.  A huge neon sign right beyond your
Floyd | nose screams, "Welcome to planet Flora, home of Barfee:  your one-stop
Floyd | source for vegetation."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here in the middle of Seed Central there's really nothing but
Floyd | people, and lots of them.  Or make that "creatures."  In any case, from
Floyd | here Barfee looks like a giant open market, with little stands here and
Floyd | there, and patrons and salescreatures arguing loudly over prices.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The northern area of this arena seems to be devoted to vegetable
Floyd | seeds, while the southern area caters to fruit buyers.  To the east is
Floyd | a large warehouse in which they sell various varieties of flowers but
Floyd | the crowd gets really thick in that direction.  Westward you see all
Floyd | kinds of growing supplies.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x autodialer" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd | 5:  A dirt road
Floyd | 6:  Survey Station
Floyd | 7:  Kuwl Starport
Floyd | 8:  New Hell
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push 5 on autodial" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | A dirt road
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing outside a matter mover right next to a dirt road.
Floyd | The weather is lovely here, if a bit humid, and the sky is a stunningly
Floyd | pure blue-green.  There is a crispness and freshness to the air here
Floyd | that you've never before experienced.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road is extremely narrow, and runs right through a corn field.
Floyd | It seems like the road has no business being here, but is a necessary
Floyd | nuisance.  It's clear that priorities are different on Foon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road leads east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Outside Elwood Farm
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing a few hundred yards away from a modest-sized
Floyd | farmhouse.  You gather from the posted sign that this is Elwood Farm,
Floyd | and that the corn lining the dirt road you came in on belongs to the
Floyd | Elwoods.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here, the building itself seems fairly well maintained, but
Floyd | could use a good painting.  The sizes of the carefully placed trees in
Floyd | the front yard give you the impression that people have lived on this
Floyd | plot of land for hundreds of years.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The farmhouse is to the west.  Head east and you're back at the
Floyd | local matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Outside the Elwood Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing at the wooden front door of the Elwood Farmhouse.
Floyd | A quaintly narrow stone path lined with colorful flowers leads up to
Floyd | the door, flanked on both sides by a well-groomed, vibrant kelly green
Floyd | lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The paint is peeling in places, and the windows could use new
Floyd | shutters, but otherwise the house is in decent shape considering its
Floyd | age -- the design, though simple, suggests architectural trends popular
Floyd | several hundred years ago, before the formation of the Republic [14].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The entrance is to the west.  You might also take a walk around the
Floyd | house to the northwest and southwest.  The stone path leads east, back
Floyd | to the dirt road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | At a Garden Outside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here on the north side of the farmhouse is a large garden full of
Floyd | yummy-looking treats.  The soil has been recently tilled and smells
Floyd | wonderfully rich, and from the looks of it supports the vegetables
Floyd | planted in it far better than any Todian earth could.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You've heard plenty of stories about the near-magical fertility of
Floyd | the Foonian soil, but this close-up demonstration really drives the
Floyd | point home.  The goodies here are all oversized and delicious-looking.
Floyd | You suspect that even you, with your limited gardening experience,
Floyd | could grow a prize plant on Foon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here you can head either southeast, to the front of the
Floyd | farmhouse, or southwest, to the rear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "plant seeds" 		

Floyd | You pour all the seeds out and bury them in the rich soil.  There is
Floyd | now a lump in the soil where you planted the seeds.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pour formula on seeds" 		

Floyd | You douse the seeds with Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta.
Floyd | Almost immediately thereafter the ground begins to shake violently, and
Floyd | you see a raw Foonian egg lying right on top of the soil.  So it *was*
Floyd | potent stuff after all!
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 4 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Yay!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x foonian egg" 		

Floyd | It just looks like an ordinary Foonian egg [28].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "note 28" 		

Floyd | [28]: Said to make the best fried eggs in the galaxy -- even better
Floyd | than the ones that come from Todian chickens, and so much more
Floyd | politically correct!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take egg" 		

Floyd | Which egg do you mean, the plastic plover's egg, or the raw Foonian
Floyd | egg?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take raw" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "so, we can fry that inside."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | Outside the Elwood Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing at the wooden front door of the Elwood Farmhouse.
Floyd | A quaintly narrow stone path lined with colorful flowers leads up to
Floyd | the door, flanked on both sides by a well-groomed, vibrant kelly green
Floyd | lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The paint is peeling in places, and the windows could use new
Floyd | shutters, but otherwise the house is in decent shape considering its
Floyd | age -- the design, though simple, suggests architectural trends popular
Floyd | several hundred years ago, before the formation of the Republic [14].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The entrance is to the west.  You might also take a walk around the
Floyd | house to the northwest and southwest.  The stone path leads east, back
Floyd | to the dirt road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Inside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in the entrance hallway of the Elwood farmhouse.
Floyd | The hardwood floors creak as you walk upon them, and the earthy, rustic
Floyd | decor delights your jaded cosmopolitan senses.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The front door is in the east wall.  Ahead, to the west, is the
Floyd | living room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV dominates this simply furnished family room -- it's nestled
Floyd | comfortably in the center of the north wall, encased in a boxy dark
Floyd | wood enclosure with feet shaped like those on an old bathtub.  A burly
Floyd | old man is sacked out on the couch here in front of the enterviewer,
Floyd | eyes completely glazed over.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The kitchen is to the south.  A hall leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV's picking up some of that dreadful SofToonz, Akmi's lame
Floyd | excuse for music, complete with pictures of serene landscapes and moire
Floyd | patterns.  They pipe this kind of drivel into buildings throughout the
Floyd | galaxy because it's been found to excite fewer species than any other
Floyd | kind of stimulation [21].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're in a fairly typical if slightly cramped kitchen.  Here you
Floyd | find the usual appliances:  a refrigerator, an oven with range top
Floyd | burners, and, on the counter, various food processing machines.  The
Floyd | cupboards appear to be well-stocked.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The living room is to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put egg in pan" 		

Floyd | Which egg do you mean, the plastic plover's egg, or the raw Foonian
Floyd | egg?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "raw" 		

Floyd | Do you want to crack the raw Foonian egg first?  (YES or NO) >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd | You crack the raw Foonian egg into the pan.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're in a fairly typical if slightly cramped kitchen.  Here you
Floyd | find the usual appliances:  a refrigerator, an oven with range top
Floyd | burners, and, on the counter, various food processing machines.  The
Floyd | cupboards appear to be well-stocked.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The living room is to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf44" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put raw in pan" 		

Floyd | Do you want to crack the raw Foonian egg first?  (YES or NO) >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd | You crack the raw Foonian egg into the pan.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on burner" 		

Floyd | One of the burners is already on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hahaha. Whoops."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put pan on burner" 		

Floyd | The egg cooks up nicely.  You take the pan off the burner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn off burner" 		

Floyd | You turn off the burner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fried egg" 		

Floyd | It just looks like an ordinary fried egg.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "I'm glad the house didn't burn down in our absence."
		DavidW says, "yeah"
		DavidW says, "so now take that egg to Jaz's Den"
		borowski says, "C- for fire safety."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV dominates this simply furnished family room -- it's nestled
Floyd | comfortably in the center of the north wall, encased in a boxy dark
Floyd | wood enclosure with feet shaped like those on an old bathtub.  A burly
Floyd | old man is sacked out on the couch here in front of the enterviewer,
Floyd | eyes completely glazed over.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The kitchen is to the south.  A hall leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV's picking up some of that dreadful SofToonz, Akmi's lame
Floyd | excuse for music, complete with pictures of serene landscapes and moire
Floyd | patterns.  They pipe this kind of drivel into buildings throughout the
Floyd | galaxy because it's been found to excite fewer species than any other
Floyd | kind of stimulation [21].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Hall
Floyd |
Floyd |    This narrow hall is similar to the one at the farmhouse entrance.  A
Floyd | wooden staircase leads up from here; unfortunately, it also leads up to
Floyd | a protective-looking dog who is currently barking his head off at you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    At the end of the hall, further west, is the back door.  It looks
Floyd | like it's been sealed shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV dominates this simply furnished family room -- it's nestled
Floyd | comfortably in the center of the north wall, encased in a boxy dark
Floyd | wood enclosure with feet shaped like those on an old bathtub.  A burly
Floyd | old man is sacked out on the couch here in front of the enterviewer,
Floyd | eyes completely glazed over.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The kitchen is to the south.  A hall leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The EV's picking up some of that dreadful SofToonz, Akmi's lame
Floyd | excuse for music, complete with pictures of serene landscapes and moire
Floyd | patterns.  They pipe this kind of drivel into buildings throughout the
Floyd | galaxy because it's been found to excite fewer species than any other
Floyd | kind of stimulation [21].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "want me to drive?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yes, please."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Inside the Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in the entrance hallway of the Elwood farmhouse.
Floyd | The hardwood floors creak as you walk upon them, and the earthy, rustic
Floyd | decor delights your jaded cosmopolitan senses.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The front door is in the east wall.  Ahead, to the west, is the
Floyd | living room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Outside the Elwood Farmhouse
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing at the wooden front door of the Elwood Farmhouse.
Floyd | A quaintly narrow stone path lined with colorful flowers leads up to
Floyd | the door, flanked on both sides by a well-groomed, vibrant kelly green
Floyd | lawn.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The paint is peeling in places, and the windows could use new
Floyd | shutters, but otherwise the house is in decent shape considering its
Floyd | age -- the design, though simple, suggests architectural trends popular
Floyd | several hundred years ago, before the formation of the Republic [14].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The entrance is to the west.  You might also take a walk around the
Floyd | house to the northwest and southwest.  The stone path leads east, back
Floyd | to the dirt road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Outside Elwood Farm
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing a few hundred yards away from a modest-sized
Floyd | farmhouse.  You gather from the posted sign that this is Elwood Farm,
Floyd | and that the corn lining the dirt road you came in on belongs to the
Floyd | Elwoods.
Floyd |
Floyd |    From here, the building itself seems fairly well maintained, but
Floyd | could use a good painting.  The sizes of the carefully placed trees in
Floyd | the front yard give you the impression that people have lived on this
Floyd | plot of land for hundreds of years.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The farmhouse is to the west.  Head east and you're back at the
Floyd | local matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | A dirt road
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing outside a matter mover right next to a dirt road.
Floyd | The weather is lovely here, if a bit humid, and the sky is a stunningly
Floyd | pure blue-green.  There is a crispness and freshness to the air here
Floyd | that you've never before experienced.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road is extremely narrow, and runs right through a corn field.
Floyd | It seems like the road has no business being here, but is a necessary
Floyd | nuisance.  It's clear that priorities are different on Foon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The road leads east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x autodial" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd | 5:  A dirt road
Floyd | 6:  Survey Station
Floyd | 7:  Kuwl Starport
Floyd | 8:  New Hell
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh, darn. We haven't done the TV stuff yet."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 1 on autodial" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Your bachelor pod
Floyd |

		
Floyd Ahhhhh. Pod sweet pod! Sure feels good to be back in the ol' 		
Floyd closet-sized capsule again, yes sir. While slaving away on your 		
Floyd master's thesis you've spent many late hours here, sustaining yourself 		
Floyd on naught but Akmi Snak Chipz [2] and ReVoLT Kola. 		

Floyd |
Floyd |    Yep, it's basically a hell-hole, but it's served you adequately.
Floyd | Looking around you can see blurry reflections of yourself and your
Floyd | surroundings in the familiar mauve and orange metal walls, which are
Floyd | rounded in the corners as is typical of today's "economical" graduate
Floyd | housing.  (As if they offered any other kind.)  The walls are still
Floyd | bare; you'd think after living here for two years you'd have put some
Floyd | posters up.  But there's never much time for aesthetics at Akmi
Floyd | Yooniversity.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your bed (if you can call it that) and the matter mover take up all
Floyd | the available floor space in your pod.  Miscellaneous Stik-Em Nowtz
Floyd | cling to various parts of the furniture and walls, and papers fill any
Floyd | stray gaps, making this den an incredible fire trap.  Good thing you
Floyd | don't really have heating here.  Anyway, if there's a fire you can
Floyd | always bail out through the escape hatch.  Oops -- you've never been
Floyd | able to get it open.  Never mind.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your pod is one of the "Yooniversity Economical Graduate Off-site
Floyd | Dwelling Stations" (YEGODS).  Though the school is actually hundreds of
Floyd | light-years away, matter mover technology makes it possible for them to
Floyd | put housing in the cheapest, remotest, most inhospitable parts of the
Floyd | galaxy -- places like Frost, the iceball of a planet your pod is
Floyd | situated on.
Floyd |
Floyd |    On your desk, under your shelf of textbooks, is the computer you use
Floyd | nearly 37 hours a day.  Cuddled up right next to it like a best friend
Floyd | is your EV.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with a panel of experts discussing Duhdha's reason
Floyd | for never answering any questions with straight answers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x nowtz" 		

Floyd |    The hundred or so Stik-Em Nowtz littering your pod are largely
Floyd | incomprehensible; most of them are scribbled diagrams and notes you've
Floyd | made to yourself during your two year stay here.  Among the
Floyd | long-forgotten reminders you find the address of Terminal Velocity, the
Floyd | favorite hang-out for the galaxy's best computer jocks.  It says, "Hot
Floyd | Pink (+0, -52, -5) [29]," but a fat lot of good that's going to do you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You chuckle as you recall your last visit there three years ago --
Floyd | they weren't particularly interested in yet another 3-dimensional chess
Floyd | program, especially one that couldn't beat their own weekend
Floyd | implementations.  Trying to find software that'll impress them enough
Floyd | to let you in is nearly impossible, which is why it's the most
Floyd | exclusive club around.  It's also probably the best source of computer
Floyd | information in the galaxy...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set mover to (10000,4065,7053)" 		

Floyd | Mover dials set.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at the
Floyd | north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning you
Floyd | to come inside.  Unfortunately, the burly musclehead who's standing in
Floyd | your way isn't.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up, white
Floyd | down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a burly musclehead here eyeing you suspiciously.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hulking guard grunts at you menacingly and then elephant-walks
Floyd | away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x keyboard" 		

Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You slip through while the guard's away...
Floyd |
Floyd | Southern Part of the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a southern part of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, though you can't see far enough to be sure.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a burly musclehead here eyeing you suspiciously.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Uh-oh.  The guard's noticed you.  You try to explain your
Floyd | transgression but he wants to hear nothing of it.  He picks you up with
Floyd | one arm and tosses you back into the Terminal Velocity gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at the
Floyd | north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning you
Floyd | to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up, white
Floyd | down"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | The burly gorilla won't let you in until you've been approved by the
Floyd | management.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hulking guard grunts at you menacingly and then elephant-walks
Floyd | away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You slip through while the guard's away...
Floyd |
Floyd | Southern Part of the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a southern part of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, though you can't see far enough to be sure.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The burly guard is patroling the hallway farther north.  He doesn't
Floyd | seem to notice you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Halfway down the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, but all you can see is a wall -- no door.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are rooms to the east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a burly musclehead here eyeing you suspiciously.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Uh-oh.  The guard's noticed you.  You try to explain your
Floyd | transgression but he wants to hear nothing of it.  He picks you up with
Floyd | one arm and tosses you back into the Terminal Velocity gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at the
Floyd | north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning you
Floyd | to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up, white
Floyd | down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    A short woman with bright orange hair is here, evidently waiting to
Floyd | be admitted to Terminal Velocity.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Southern Part of the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a southern part of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, though you can't see far enough to be sure.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The burly guard is patroling the hallway farther north.  He doesn't
Floyd | seem to notice you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Halfway down the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, but all you can see is a wall -- no door.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are rooms to the east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a burly musclehead here eyeing you suspiciously.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Uh-oh.  The guard's noticed you.  You try to explain your
Floyd | transgression but he wants to hear nothing of it.  He picks you up with
Floyd | one arm and tosses you back into the Terminal Velocity gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at the
Floyd | north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning you
Floyd | to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up, white
Floyd | down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    A tall green creature with four arms and shiny skin is here,
Floyd | evidently waiting to be admitted to Terminal Velocity.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-11-07-22:56:33CST 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Southern Part of the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a southern part of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, though you can't see far enough to be sure.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The burly guard is patroling the hallway farther north.  He doesn't
Floyd | seem to notice you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Halfway down the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, but all you can see is a wall -- no door.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are rooms to the east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The burly guard is patroling the hallway farther north.  He doesn't
Floyd | seem to notice you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Supply Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    This closet-sized room contains various supplies, presumably for the
Floyd | guard to use.  It, like the guard's uniform, is an olive drab color.
Floyd | The only way out is back east.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A box of KrudKo "Kolor-Me-Kool" snacks, a metal coat hanger, an
Floyd | olive drab uniform, and an EZ-Tech Blaser are here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all" 		

Floyd | box of KrudKo "Kolor-Me-Kool" snacks:  Taken.
Floyd | metal coat hanger:  Taken.
Floyd | olive drab uniform:  Taken.
Floyd | EZ-Tech Blaser:  Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Halfway down the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, but all you can see is a wall -- no door.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are rooms to the east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a burly musclehead here eyeing you suspiciously.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Uh-oh.  The guard's noticed you.  You try to explain your
Floyd | transgression but he wants to hear nothing of it.  He picks you up with
Floyd | one arm and tosses you back into the Terminal Velocity gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at the
Floyd | north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning you
Floyd | to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up, white
Floyd | down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    A tall green creature with four arms and shiny skin is here,
Floyd | evidently waiting to be admitted to Terminal Velocity.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear uniform" 		

Floyd | You are now wearing the olive drab uniform.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The tall green creature with four arms and shiny skin shows a pass
Floyd | and whispers a word to the guard, who then mumbles something into a
Floyd | colorful emblem on his right sleeve, nods his head, and motions
Floyd | northward, down the hall.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The guard storms over to you and demands that you remove the extra
Floyd | uniform.  You comply fearfully.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    A tall green creature with four arms and shiny skin walks out of the
Floyd | room.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hulking guard grunts at you menacingly and then elephant-walks
Floyd | away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear uniform" 		

Floyd | You are now wearing the olive drab uniform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at the
Floyd | north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning you
Floyd | to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up, white
Floyd | down"
Floyd |

		
Floyd A beautiful young woman with auburn hair and greenish-blue eyes [30] 		

Floyd | emerges from the matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask woman for password" 		
Floyd The beautiful young woman with auburn hair and greenish-blue eyes [30] 		

Floyd | whispers the password in your ear.  You fold your arms across your
Floyd | chest.  "Sorry," you announce sternly, "but we're clo...  ah, down
Floyd | today for rennova...  er, a rebuild."  She looks a bit confused, but
Floyd | decides not to argue the point and heads back to the matter mover.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 4 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove uniform" 		

Floyd | You take off the olive drab uniform.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You slip through while the guard's away...
Floyd |
Floyd | Southern Part of the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a southern part of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, though you can't see far enough to be sure.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Halfway down the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, but all you can see is a wall -- no door.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are rooms to the east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is a burly musclehead here eyeing you suspiciously.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Uh-oh.  The guard's noticed you.  You try to explain your
Floyd | transgression but he wants to hear nothing of it.  He picks you up with
Floyd | one arm and tosses you back into the Terminal Velocity gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at the
Floyd | north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning you
Floyd | to come inside.  Fortunately, the guard isn't here at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up, white
Floyd | down"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell password to guard" 		

Floyd | "You're not a regular," the guard grunts.  "Use the back door, luser."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mover" 		

Floyd |    Matter mover technology hit the scene in 2062VK, just two years
Floyd | before the formation of the Republic.  In the hundred or so years since
Floyd | its introduction it's become the primary means of transportation
Floyd | throughout the galaxy.  This model is quite similar to the one in your
Floyd | pod.
Floyd |
Floyd | The machine's address is written in bright pink letters:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Terminal Velocity:  10000, 4065, 7053 -- Hot Pink (+0, -52, -5)"
Floyd |
Floyd | Current dial settings:  (0, 0, 0)
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hulking guard grunts at you menacingly and then elephant-walks
Floyd | away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set mover to (10002,4063,7051)" 		

Floyd | Mover dials set.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | A polite female voice says, "Your move cannot be completed as dialed.
Floyd | Please check the number and dial again, and make sure your receiving
Floyd | party has granted you permission to access their mover.  If you need
Floyd | assistance, please contact the operator for your local colorspace.
Floyd | Thank you."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set mover to (9998,4067,7051)" 		

Floyd | Mover dials set.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | The Terminal Velocity Back Door
Floyd |
Floyd | Welcome to Terminal Velocity's back door!
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 4 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    Every inch of this tiny room is painted jet black, and the shade is
Floyd | so uniform that it's hard to tell where the floor and ceiling end and
Floyd | the walls begin.  Aside from the matter mover, the only thing in this
Floyd | room is a computer terminal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 1 on autodial" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Your bachelor pod
Floyd |

		
Floyd Ahhhhh. Pod sweet pod! Sure feels good to be back in the ol' 		
Floyd closet-sized capsule again, yes sir. While slaving away on your 		
Floyd master's thesis you've spent many late hours here, sustaining yourself 		
Floyd on naught but Akmi Snak Chipz [2] and ReVoLT Kola. 		

Floyd |
Floyd |    Yep, it's basically a hell-hole, but it's served you adequately.
Floyd | Looking around you can see blurry reflections of yourself and your
Floyd | surroundings in the familiar mauve and orange metal walls, which are
Floyd | rounded in the corners as is typical of today's "economical" graduate
Floyd | housing.  (As if they offered any other kind.)  The walls are still
Floyd | bare; you'd think after living here for two years you'd have put some
Floyd | posters up.  But there's never much time for aesthetics at Akmi
Floyd | Yooniversity.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your bed (if you can call it that) and the matter mover take up all
Floyd | the available floor space in your pod.  Miscellaneous Stik-Em Nowtz
Floyd | cling to various parts of the furniture and walls, and papers fill any
Floyd | stray gaps, making this den an incredible fire trap.  Good thing you
Floyd | don't really have heating here.  Anyway, if there's a fire you can
Floyd | always bail out through the escape hatch.  Oops -- you've never been
Floyd | able to get it open.  Never mind.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your pod is one of the "Yooniversity Economical Graduate Off-site
Floyd | Dwelling Stations" (YEGODS).  Though the school is actually hundreds of
Floyd | light-years away, matter mover technology makes it possible for them to
Floyd | put housing in the cheapest, remotest, most inhospitable parts of the
Floyd | galaxy -- places like Frost, the iceball of a planet your pod is
Floyd | situated on.
Floyd |
Floyd |    On your desk, under your shelf of textbooks, is the computer you use
Floyd | nearly 37 hours a day.  Cuddled up right next to it like a best friend
Floyd | is your EV.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Channel 361, the Duhdhist Broadcasting Network, is currently
Floyd | enlightening viewers with a program on life and death in the game of
Floyd | went.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "detach keyboard" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take keyboard" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x autodial" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd | 5:  A dirt road
Floyd | 6:  Survey Station
Floyd | 7:  Kuwl Starport
Floyd | 8:  New Hell
Floyd | 9:  Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd | 10:  The Terminal Velocity Back Door
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 10 on autodial" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | The Terminal Velocity Back Door
Floyd |
Floyd |    Every inch of this tiny room is painted jet black, and the shade is
Floyd | so uniform that it's hard to tell where the floor and ceiling end and
Floyd | the walls begin.  Aside from the matter mover, the only thing in this
Floyd | room is a computer terminal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "attach keyboard to terminal" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x terminal" 		

Floyd | It's just a dumb terminal with no computing power of its own.  The
Floyd | screen says only "password:"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type password on computer" 		

Floyd | A rectangular portion of the western wall disappears, revealing what
Floyd | seems to be the inside of Terminal Velocity.  Good job!
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 4 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "detach keyboard" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the north or walk around outside the
Floyd | pit to the northeast and northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the northwest or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the southwest and north.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the east wall, and a narrow doorway to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | Jax O Pax's Data Den
Floyd |
Floyd |    As you walk into the room, you are approached by a slender fellow
Floyd | with blond hair and vaguely fox-like features, wearing bright but
Floyd | patternless clothing.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Jax," he says, "Jax O Pax.  Glad to see some new blood around here.
Floyd | Whenju break?"
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Uh...  break?"  you reply, puzzled.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Ja, 'break,' as in 'break in,' you know?"  He says impatiently.  He
Floyd | talks very fast; his words hit you like bullets.  It's very disturbing
Floyd | at first, but you're slowly getting used to it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "I broke just today.  Nice place you got here," you improvise,
Floyd | trying desperately to sound like you know what you're doing.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Broke today.  Huh.  S'cool, I'll show ya sometin'.  Checkitout:"
Floyd | He leads you over to a terminal at which a raven-haired woman with a
Floyd | girlish ponytail that looks completely out of place against the
Floyd | backdrop of her otherwise intense features is furiously typing away.
Floyd | "Mare," he says.  "She's the best.  We're hackin' a new RE together,
Floyd | yeah, butcha don' know what that is, do ya Slick?"  he turns towards
Floyd | you, maybe just to see the look on your face.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "A, uh, regular expression ...  maybe?"  you half-mumble, knowing
Floyd | full-well it couldn't possibly be the right answer, but hoping to
Floyd | demonstrate at least some knowledge of Computer Science lest you
Floyd | totally lose face.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It isn't the right answer.  Jax laughs out loud, and Mare giggles in
Floyd | an exaggerated cartoony way.  "No, Hoss, a Reasoning Engine.  You might
Floyd | say an AI, yeah.  Don't tell the MLA, and yeah I know you're not one of
Floyd | 'em 'cause they don't fake bein' dumb as well as you -- heh, just
Floyd | jokin' kid.  See..."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "An ...  A ...  I?," you stammer [31].  "You've got to be kidding!
Floyd | How?"
Floyd |
Floyd |    "It's old news.  I'll explain it to you some time when we've both
Floyd | got a few weeks free.  Anyway it's s'posed to be top secret; is why
Floyd | they've got a Machine Limiting Authority in the first place -- didja
Floyd | know about that one?  Buncha suits poking their snouts into everybody's
Floyd | biz tryin' to keep the tech from 'fallin' into the wrong hands,' but
Floyd | hey, these look pretty good to me ...  how 'bout chew, Cowboy?"  He
Floyd | pops a disk from somewhere and cradles it in his palms, waiting for
Floyd | your approval.  Light does not dance on it as with standard disks; this
Floyd | one is half white and half black.  The black part seems to absorb the
Floyd | world around it with a strange kind of hypnotic gravity.  The white
Floyd | part is equally striking -- it's nearly blinding.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "This AI fits on a single disk?"  you ask, incredulous.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Jax smiles.  "Think we got a sharp one here, Mare.  Seriously,
Floyd | Books, this disk ain't the whole tamale, just the seed we grew him
Floyd | from.  JC takes up halfa TV's netted storage.  He's pretty nice about
Floyd | not hoggin' all the pages though."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Actually, we ain't quite sure how he got to be so ...  with it, if
Floyd | you wanna know the real truth.  Oh yeah, we know what MLA knows:  ya
Floyd | frob some semnets together just so, and ya get a smart little cookie
Floyd | out th'other side -- but that ain't smart like *us* -- is smart with no
Floyd | motivation, no goals; no creativity, ya see.  JC, he's like *us*.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "We had a disk crash on the big server while Mare was polishin' up
Floyd | the latest AI -- she was doin' a backup, "just in case" as she always
Floyd | says, when the drive went down.  The code was scrambled up -- took her
Floyd | months to piece it back together -- never was same as before.  I
Floyd | thought it was a wasta time; I busted her about it -- kept asking her
Floyd | how "Justin Case," the new AI, was doin' -- thought she shoulda started
Floyd | somethin' new 'steada wallowin' in what was lost.  But she had that
Floyd | programmer's fire, y'know, wouldn't let him go.  Then the news broke:
Floyd | the crash made Justin Case somethin' new.  Mare didn't understand it --
Floyd | said she was just in that coding trance -- said she was just tryin' to
Floyd | patch him back up best she could.  But then little JC started doin'
Floyd | things we'd never seen an AI do before.  He's one of a kind.  Keep it
Floyd | under your hat, Slick."
Floyd |
Floyd |    An image of you appears on the screen.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "How are you feeling today, JC?"  Mare asks the image.
Floyd |
Floyd | The program responds immediately, and "you" begin to speak:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Top o' the morning to you.  I'm just great, thanks, -- couldn't be
Floyd | better.  Literally!  Hah!  So what's the latest, folks?"  The voice
Floyd | sounds just like you!
Floyd |
Floyd |    Mare replies, "I've got a new friend for you to meet.  Name's ..."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Gavin," you interject.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Nice to meet you, Gavin.  I'm getting this funny feeling that we've
Floyd | met before.  Ha-ha.  You must be Gavin Kelly, currently a struggling
Floyd | graduate student at Akmi Yooni.  How's the Computer Science program?"
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Hey, I'm not struggling!"  you protest.  You get the feeling some
Floyd | "circuits" are grinning rather broadly right now.  "OK, how did you
Floyd | guys pull this off?  I wasn't born yesterday, you know," you sneer.
Floyd | Mare and Jax say nothing.  JC replies:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "'You guys?'  Harumph; I'm offended.  But since you asked, I checked
Floyd | the coordinates coming in to the mover in the hall.  Took you long
Floyd | enough getting in here."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "You mean it's for real?"  you sputter.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "More for real than you and me, kid.  I still remember that first
Floyd | day, when I booted him up and he started babbling like a little infant.
Floyd | He was so cute...."  Mare reminisces.
Floyd |
Floyd |    JC, whose image has now changed into a strange face made entirely of
Floyd | polygons, interrupts.  "Jeez, do you have to embarrass me?  I mean
Floyd | every time you ...  Hold on.  You've got an interesting credit problem
Floyd | here, Mr.  Kelly.  Been running a racket or something?  No, that's not
Floyd | it; wait a sec...  " JC's voice no longer sounds like yours, though it
Floyd | still sounds fairly normal.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Of all the things you expected to find in Terminal Velocity, a
Floyd | Reasoning Engine named JC with a affinity for audiovisuals
Floyd | interrogating you about your credit history wasn't one of them.  As you
Floyd | turn to Jax, he anticipates the obvious question:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "JC wires down on everyone who trips on in here so we can keep the
Floyd | MLA outta here.  You can thank Mare for that; she used to spook for NSA
Floyd | -- Network Safety Administration, ya know -- but she slipped out under
Floyd | the rug.  She's pretty good at that sort of biz."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "NSA used to work with us, yeah; we were in bed pretty good there
Floyd | for a while, and it was like dream hardware from hell; then Glaz
Floyd | cracked reasoning and we've been cut off ever since -- abs!  Not a peep
Floyd | out of 'em 'cept through MLA, and hey, we'd like to lose that noise for
Floyd | good.  Glaz shoulda kept that tech to himself.  Ja, but now he's
Floyd | gone..."  Jax stops for JC's report:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Well, well, my friend, " JC reports, "you've racked up an
Floyd | impressive number of dogs on your tail here.  Whatcha been up to, boy,
Floyd | building a quark bomb?  You're totally cut off, man, no credit and an
Floyd | auto-arrest on the card.  BIG stuff from Akmi Galactic HQ; I don't
Floyd | think I can shunt it without provoking serious sniffage.  Better not
Floyd | use the plastic, son."
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Unnkulians!  What else could it be?  "Hey Jax," you say
Floyd | hesitantly, "I did find something on the net that I was hoping to get
Floyd | your help on.  That's sort of why I'm here, actually."  You tell Jax
Floyd | and Mare about your AkNet search and the virus it unearthed.  JC, now
Floyd | taking the image of a stereotypical young computer jock with oversized
Floyd | HoloGoggles, goes out to the net to check things out.  Moments later he
Floyd | returns with a report:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "You're not going to believe this.  Major, major stuff going down
Floyd | here.  That virus is an RE.  Self-mutating and poly-adaptive -- I've
Floyd | never seen anything like it.  Scared me witless just looking at it; I
Floyd | don't know if it could see me but I broke out of there without tripping
Floyd | anything."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "The basic situation is this:  that virus has done its job.  Whoever
Floyd | put it there already *has* a grip on the whole net if they want it, and
Floyd | they've had pockets of local control for a couple months now.  My
Floyd | estimation of AkNet core infection time matches the beginning of the
Floyd | second MLA sniff-blitz too.  Looks like whoever's in charge now at Akmi
Floyd | HQ wanted to cover their tails but good.  And it's a safe bet that
Floyd | they'd be pretty unhappy to learn that we've found out about them.
Floyd | Sure seems like they're already on to Mr.  Kelly, unfortunately.  Stay
Floyd | out of trouble, Gavin."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Jax looks very worried.  Mare interrupts JC:  "Do you have a threat
Floyd | analysis?  How does this affect TV?"
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Problem number one is that the RE's been out there for years.  I
Floyd | could tell from a distance that this thing is BIG, and at least an
Floyd | order of magnitude more aware than I am.  Somebody out there's got some
Floyd | amazing tech."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "But I thought it was a virus; how can it be so aware if it's got to
Floyd | propagate itself?"  Mare asks.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "That's the incredible thing:  It's found a way to keep its semantic
Floyd | net widely distributed.  I don't understand it fully, but it seems to
Floyd | be a kind of digital gestalt -- lots of sub-viruses, all different,
Floyd | communicating with each other to further a collective purpose.  With
Floyd | every replication it becomes a tiny bit more aware.  So the more of
Floyd | AkNet it infects, the more of AkNet it *knows*.  That may explain why
Floyd | it was replicating into non-strategic areas like the public library
Floyd | records Gavin was looking through when he found it."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "By the way, Gavin, you got very lucky.  My understanding of the RE
Floyd | tells me that the chances of finding the proto-form you spotted are
Floyd | almost zero; anything beyond the very early generations have
Floyd | self-modified to the point of being utterly different from their
Floyd | ancestors, and that includes the signature you stumbled upon.  That
Floyd | record you spotted is probably one of the oldest parts of it out
Floyd | there."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Jax and Mare discuss the situation.  Jax asks JC, "OK, JC, do you
Floyd | think you should stay out there or hang tight on the local net?"
Floyd |
Floyd |    "I see no advantage to staying here.  It's clear that the RE will
Floyd | propagate here sooner or later.  There's little time left to save the
Floyd | net -- the virus could seize control at any time.  Besides that, it's
Floyd | got so much snoop on Gavin's card that it must know he found it.  It's
Floyd | probably been watching all the moves out of his place, too.  We can
Floyd | only hope that it didn't notice his move here, or we can be sure that
Floyd | it's gonna be headed our way any time now."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Even assuming the best, since I can't hope to analyze its thought
Floyd | processes, there's no way I can predict when we'll be hit.  But when
Floyd | we're hit, we're finished.  No control.  I can't see any way to guard
Floyd | against it because there's nothing -- no signature, no behavior
Floyd | pattern, no resource usage modus operandi -- that I can watch for.  I
Floyd | only found the copies I found by using some rough heuristics based on
Floyd | what you told me and looking for strange resource usage patterns, and
Floyd | at the fringes of its control these signs will all be much weaker.  For
Floyd | all I know, we may already be infected, in which case we're really in
Floyd | trouble, because it knows that we're onto it.  My suggestion is that we
Floyd | assume that's not the case and that I hit the net and cut my ties to
Floyd | here completely so Gavin's move here looks innocent.  Since the mover's
Floyd | data transfer bands aren't accessible from the net, it, like me, can
Floyd | only check coordinates.  That means that if Gavin's gotten this far
Floyd | without attracting attention he's probably safe."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Jax and Mare look long and hard at each other, saying nothing.  Jax
Floyd | breaks the tense silence:  "If we gotta risk losin' JC to save the damn
Floyd | galaxy, so be it.  But if he ends up in the bitbucket 'cause he ain't
Floyd | careful I'm gonna wish I blanked him myself."  Mare looks away.  If
Floyd | she's crying you can't tell.  But there is that feeling in the air, and
Floyd | it's coming from both of them.  Until today you would have never
Floyd | believed a thinking machine could exist.  But you now feel JC is
Floyd | something even more than that.
Floyd |
Floyd | "All right, JC, go on out, and cut the cables.  But you better check
Floyd | back in and let us know what's going on.  Got that?  You don't check
Floyd | back and I'm gonna format your ..."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Don't worry about me, folks, I'm more at home out in the open
Floyd | anyway.  I can take care of myself, and I'll give you regular reports.
Floyd | And think of all the free disk space you'll have once I'm gone -- ha!
Floyd | Be back soon."
Floyd |
Floyd |    The image on monitor fades slowly to snow.  You sense that JC is
Floyd | gone.  You look back at Mare; to your surprise, she's bent over,
Floyd | clutching her abdomen.  "You sick?"  Jax whispers to her.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Nah, I'm OK," she says, "It's just a cramp."
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    Over the next few hours, you, Jax, and Mare talk strategy.  A few
Floyd | other experts local to Terminal Velocity are brought in for their
Floyd | opinions as well.  Everyone is agreed, given how you've described their
Floyd | once-thought-to-be-fictional portrayals, that the Unnkulians must be
Floyd | out to replace the Republic with their own (probably fascist)
Floyd | government, and that the virus has already given them the capability to
Floyd | do so in the near future.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It is decided that Mare will stay at TV and try to work behind the
Floyd | scenes improving its defenses against the virus.  Jax will coordinate
Floyd | everything and monitor his information sources for any activity.  He
Floyd | tells you to "hang tight," stay out of trouble, and keep in regular
Floyd | contact.  He hands each person in the group a watch.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Whatcha got here's a crypto.  Voice an' pix get 'crypted before
Floyd | they go out.  We got a pretty good algo to make the 'cryptext look like
Floyd | some kinda kiddie story sentences so the MLA won't notice we're jammin'
Floyd | cipher.  But if any government types sniff 'em I'm gonna have to nuke
Floyd | the puppies, so don' be surprised if yours up and vaporizes."
Floyd |
Floyd |    He continues:  "Eventually we're gonna have to hit Akmi HQ, yeah.
Floyd | We gotta get into network control and take out that RE, and findin' the
Floyd | right spot to hit is gonna be tough.  With luck JC'll have it all
Floyd | figured out by the time we gotta go in and do the dirty work."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "One more somethin' Gavin.  Here's a TV Elite pass.  Keep ya outta
Floyd | trouble here.  Welcome to the club, Slick.  Too bad the circumstances
Floyd | suck."  He manages a weak chuckle.
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's funny.  You've never taken all that Duhdha stuff in the old
Floyd | stories seriously.  But now that you know the Unnkulians are real, you
Floyd | find yourself thinking that perhaps Duhdha could really help you.  They
Floyd | say that traumatic times make zealots out even the most skeptical.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Welcome to the Data Den."  That's what the neon sign above the main
Floyd | terminal says.  This tiny, plush room is filled with computer hardware
Floyd | of all kinds.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Off in one corner is a particularly neat gadget -- a Zippikraft
Floyd | MatterMan 95 Digital-to-Matter converter.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The exit is to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Jax O Pax is here, typing at one of the terminals and occasionally
Floyd | muttering to himself.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot converter with ung" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  The
Floyd | Digital-to-Matter converter is transformed into a Matter-to-Digital
Floyd | converter!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put figurine in chamber" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put disk in drive" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf45" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push start" 		

Floyd | The contents of the chamber suddenly disappear.  The converter writes
Floyd | the data to the floppy, which it then ejects.  You pocket it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put egg in converter" 		

Floyd | Which egg do you mean, the plastic plover's egg, or the fried Foonian
Floyd | egg?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "fried" 		

Floyd | You need to specify what part of the converter you want to put things
Floyd | in -- the drive, or the chamber.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put fried egg in chamber" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put disk in drive" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push start" 		

Floyd | The contents of the chamber suddenly disappear.  The converter writes
Floyd | the data to the floppy, which it then ejects.  You pocket it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the northwest or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the southwest and north.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the east wall, and a narrow doorway to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, at the Bar
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're at the Terminal Velocity bar, which is a large circle of wood
Floyd | with a marble top.  At the center of the circle is a cylindrical kiosk
Floyd | containing hundreds of kinds of alcoholic beverages and many glasses.
Floyd | There's a break in the circle that you can walk through to get inside
Floyd | [32].
Floyd |
Floyd |    For a second, something behind the bar catches your eye.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The bartender is puttering around and mumbling to himself.  You
Floyd | can't really pick up much of what he's saying but you do catch an
Floyd | occasional technical term. For a bartender he certainly knows a lot
Floyd | about particle physics.  He glances at you expectantly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the southeast or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the south and northeast.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the west wall, and a narrow doorway to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | Terminal Velocity Game Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The earthquake bass rumblings and brilliant flares emanating from
Floyd | the machines in this room are enough to scare you witless until you
Floyd | realize they're only computer-generated illusions.  Welcome to the
Floyd | Terminal Velocity game room!
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are video games of all kinds here, many of them old classics
Floyd | from before the days of HoloScanning monitors.  The games are all set
Floyd | on free play, and quite a few Terminal Velocity partons are taking
Floyd | advantage of this to finally master their favorite coin-operated
Floyd | diversions.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Looking around the game room, you notice, to your surprise, a small
Floyd | Zippikraft Kompakt Komputer -- an older model much less powerful than
Floyd | your own Data Liquidizer, but still great for games.  No one seems to
Floyd | use the poor thing, though -- it looks lonely all by itself in the
Floyd | corner.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The game room exit leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put disk in komputer" 		

Floyd | You pop the disk in the drive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x komputer" 		

Floyd |    What a blast from the past!  The Kompakt Komputer was one of
Floyd | Zippikraft's first mass-produced machines, and as a result it has a few
Floyd | quirks, but is a noble piece of hardware nonetheless -- the KK's were
Floyd | built to the same exacting standards as today's Liquidizers, so many
Floyd | people's original KK's are still working perfectly [33].  Still, these
Floyd | machines are hard to find now, and actually having the opportunity to
Floyd | play with one is at least a little exciting.
Floyd |
Floyd |    This one is an all-in-one unit with built-in keyboard, floppy disk
Floyd | drive, and 2D raster monitor.  It is currently off, and there's a disk
Floyd | in the drive.  The screen is blank.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on komputer" 		

Floyd | You flick the power switch.  A cartoon rendition of a happy computer
Floyd | appears soon after, and moments later the system comes up.
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen is currently displaying a menu with several options:
Floyd |
Floyd |    1. Unnkulian Underworld:  The Unknown Unventure
Floyd |    2. Unnkulian Unventure II:  The Secret of Acme
Floyd |    3. Unnkulian Unventure III:  The Kuulest Quest
Floyd |    4. Merge data objects into program space
Floyd |    5. Eject disk and shutdown
Floyd |
Floyd | The software eagerly awaits your selection.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 4 on komputer" 		

Floyd | There is some disk activity, and then the machine says, "Transfer
Floyd | complete."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 3 on komputer" 		

Floyd | You know from a previous look at this work that it was never finished
Floyd | (you suspect foul play by the Unnkulians), but why not give it whirl,
Floyd | you suppose.  Can't hurt...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Zippikraft Kompact Komputer whirrs and percolates for a while,
Floyd | then displays the following text:
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd | ...  Astoundingly, the Lord of Unnkul lies dormant on the floor,
Floyd | surrounded in a viscous pool of black blood.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The wizened old monk whom you met in the waiting room enters as you
Floyd | get up from the desk.  "It is truly the greatness of Duhdha," he says
Floyd | pleasantly, "that brought our paths in time and space together here
Floyd | before this loathsome devil.  I simply came," he continues, "to
Floyd | register a complaint about this Acme Sooper Egg Fraier (tm), but when
Floyd | you exposed the Lord of Unnkul, I knew the time for our task had come.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "The forces of Unnkul have long sought to conquer this world and
Floyd | enslave its peoples, and this latest campaign was the most cunning yet.
Floyd | To challenge the faith of a world -- eliminating a need for Duhdha by
Floyd | creating a dependence on technology and encouraging hedonism -- was the
Floyd | ultimate goal of the incestuous union between the Unnkulians and the
Floyd | once-proud Acme company.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Now that their leader has been vanquished by Duhdha, the Unnkulians
Floyd | will be flung into disarray.  Chaos and anarchy will reign for years as
Floyd | the treacherous quests for leadership over the Unnkulians are played
Floyd | out by the many power-mongers amongst their kind.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "It was not fortune or fate but Duhdha that brought us here together
Floyd | today, my son, and know this:  Your quest, though born of a selfishness
Floyd | that still lingers inside you, was orchestrated by Duhdha, the
Floyd | all-knowing and all-seeing Great One, so that in this tiny window of
Floyd | time, where the Lord of Unnkul was away from its domain and here on
Floyd | this world to survey the work of its minions corporeally, in this brief
Floyd | splinter of time, the most capable of Duhdha's servants, you, could be
Floyd | brought to catalyze this event.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "I understand these things," you say, "but if I was just the bait to
Floyd | get the Lord of Unnkul's guard down, who actually killed it?"  you
Floyd | inquire, looking down at the still bleeding corpse on the floor.  The
Floyd | monk grins.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "I did," he chuckles.  "You can call me Kuulest."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "But you don't look a thing like Kuulest," you reply incredulously.
Floyd | "You look like that old monk at the retreat in the woods."
Floyd |
Floyd |    The wizened old man laughs aloud.  "Your former master, the old man
Floyd | in the woods, and I -- all three of us have been called Kuulest in our
Floyd | time.  But that is not important now.  Now, my child, there is one more
Floyd | task you must complete before you can again retire to your comfortable
Floyd | abode."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Down the river that splits Dawg Rock in twain is another Place of
Floyd | Duhdha.  The waters are treacherous, so seek Duhdha's aid to guide you.
Floyd | If your faith is truly strong you will survive to learn of your next
Floyd | mission for Duhdha.  It is a simple matter, but one that will propel
Floyd | you ahead on The Way immeasurably."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "But now, my child," the monk says serenely but firmly, looking down
Floyd | at his Acme Sooper Egg Fraier (tm), "I must leave you and return to my
Floyd | own matters of service."  He begins to clap, but just as his hands are
Floyd | about to touch, he whisks one hand away, makes bug-eyes at you, and
Floyd | grins from ear to ear.  This last image of the old man fades quickly as
Floyd | you realize you are now in a different place -- a place that is very
Floyd | familiar, but now, you sense, a part of...
Floyd |
Floyd | Unnkulian Unventure III:  The Kuulest Quest
Floyd | by D. M. Bleary
Floyd | *** Work In Progress:  DO NOT DISTRIBUTE ***
Floyd | Rating: ???
Floyd | Developed with TOADS, the Text-Oriented Adventure Development System.
Floyd | (TOADS is a product of Valmaco.  Valmaco:  Better living through
Floyd | mysterious forces that mere mortals could not hope to comprehend.)
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Big Oak
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing on the bank of a rushing river at the base of a
Floyd | giant oak tree, easily 200 feet tall.  It looks to be about a class 5
Floyd | rapids with white-water everywhere.  It's at least 80 feet to the other
Floyd | bank.  Looking back, you can see your favorite picnic table, a tiny
Floyd | square of wood tucked away in the trees far to the west.  A path along
Floyd | the river bank leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Hanging from a branch on the east side of the tree is a short piece
Floyd | of rope with a frayed end.  It looks like the rope must have snapped
Floyd | recently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have a fried Foonian egg, a figurine of the Great Duhdha, and a
Floyd | tiny mauve pellet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put figurine in river" 		

Floyd |    You toss the sacred artifact into the raging rapids, trusting that
Floyd | Duhdha will help you pass this fearsome obstacle.  An instant later, a
Floyd | narrow strip of water leading from the shore to the center of river and
Floyd | then farther downstream turns a brilliant jade color and simultaneously
Floyd | begins to thicken, as though it were running in slow motion, so that it
Floyd | eventually seems to harden like ice!  Though the river rushes on as
Floyd | before, a solid jade path now runs right through its heart -- Duhdha
Floyd | sure knows his stuff when it comes to messing with nature!
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | You walk nimbly across the jade pathway, the violent rapids snapping at
Floyd | your heels all the way.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You downstream, to the south, or west, back to the
Floyd | shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | You make your way downstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You can travel upstream, to the north; downstream,
Floyd | to the south; or west, back to the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | You make your way downstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You can travel upstream, to the north; downstream,
Floyd | to the south; or west, back to the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | You make your way downstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  You can travel upstream, to the north, or
Floyd | downstream, to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | You make your way downstream along the jade water-bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Jade River Path
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing on a brilliant jade-colored path made of what seems
Floyd | to be solid water.  The river forks here, and the jade bridge veers off
Floyd | to the west, back to shore.  If you want to continue downstream you'll
Floyd | need to find a different means of transportation.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can travel upstream, to the north, or west, back to the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | You carefully follow the jade path through the water back to shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside Hut
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing outside a primitive-looking hut tucked snugly in
Floyd | the dense surrounding forest, near the shore of the river.  The jade
Floyd | water-path that got you here still leads out to the center of the
Floyd | whirling rapids, to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hut is made of grass and mud, and looks much like your former
Floyd | master Kuulest's domicile, where the old geezeburger raised you to be
Floyd | an untrained, untutored, useless, inept...  oh, never mind.  The hut
Floyd | entrance is to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Hut
Floyd |
Floyd |    You stride into the humble hovel, assuming it's long-abandoned.
Floyd | After all, who would possibly be living here, in the middle of a
Floyd | seemingly impassable forest bordered by treacherous rapids?
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Kuulest!"  you shout, amazed to find an answer to your rhetorical
Floyd | question staring you right in the face.  "What are YOU doing here?"
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Ah, you again, my child.  I was hoping Duhdha would cross our paths
Floyd | before too long -- I'm not much with mechanical things, and this Acme
Floyd | Egg Fraier (tm) seems," he chuckles, "quite beyond all heavenly help.
Floyd | And it's way past my normal breakfast time, you understand."
Floyd |
Floyd |    It takes all the self-control you've got to keep yourself from
Floyd | ripping the stupid egg fryer out of the monk's hands and clubbing him
Floyd | with it.  You just saved the planet and he's complaining about missing
Floyd | breakfast?!  You get the feeling it's going to be a long day...
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're inside Kuulest's hut, which is functional at best.  The walls
Floyd | and floor are made of grass, mud, and other unidentifiable (but surely
Floyd | unpleasant) substances.  Aside from Kuulest and his Sooper Egg Fraier
Floyd | (tm), there's little here.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The exit is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Kuulest is here, examining his Sooper Egg Fraier (tm) with great
Floyd | care and a puzzled look on his face.  He mutters something about not
Floyd | wanting to miss breakfast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Kuulest scratches at one of the screws holding the handle on the Egg
Floyd | Fraier (tm).  "Praise be, why so complicated?"  he mutters.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give egg to kuulest" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 4 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    Kuulest gratefully accepts the fried egg.  "A marvelous breakfast,
Floyd | my child," he says.  "I thank you.  May you never sneeze into an
Floyd | oncoming gale.  Perhaps we shall meet again some day when you are
Floyd | farther along the path of life.  But first, I will use Duhdha's help to
Floyd | give you a chance at new enlightenment."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Inexplicably, Kuulest sticks out his tongue and tugs on his right
Floyd | ear.  Moments later your realize you're...
Floyd |
Floyd | At the Center of All Things
Floyd |
Floyd |    This place is like nowhere you have ever been or imagined.  It seems
Floyd | to have no end.  It encloses you with terrifying completeness, and yet
Floyd | here you feel like you are outside -- above, beyond -- every other
Floyd | place you've visited in your travels.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The form changes with every moment; at once an infinite black void,
Floyd | and then a vivid technicolor landscape that seems to hint at every
Floyd | scene you have cast your gaze upon.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The power in this place is immense.  You feel tendrils from the
Floyd | ethereal energy web that courses through your surroundings.  They dance
Floyd | across your body, probing and manipulating you.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A scrap of paper is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		borowski says, "Hooray!"
		DavidW says, "Eggplant idea vindicated."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x paper" 		

Floyd | It's an ordinary-looking scrap of white paper, with beautifully ornate
Floyd | calligraphy on it.  The paper reads as follows:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "You have proven your fortitude and your courage.  But these are
Floyd | only two virtues of many.  Wisdom and clarity of thought are also
Floyd | essential to continued growth in this life.  Understanding the meaning
Floyd | and power of words is part of this.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "To improve, we must practice.  And so here is a riddle of words for
Floyd | you to begin with:
Floyd |
Floyd |    For mama and papa they meet twice.
Floyd |    For grandma and grandpa they meet but once.
Floyd |    For son and daughter they do not meet at all.
Floyd |    What are they?
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Puzzles have another great significance -- they have egg-nature; to
Floyd | reach the seed of knowledge inside we must first crack them open.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Many students of The Way find this puzzle quite difficult, and thus
Floyd | it has come to be known as 'Duhdha's Riddle of Extreme Annoyance.'
Floyd | Once you have found the answer, say it aloud to prove that your are
Floyd | worthy of advancement.  Until then, you can stay for a time and ponder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW asks, "mp?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "mp" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "mp".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "m" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "m".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "p" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "p".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		borowski asks, "member of Parliament?"
		DavidW says, "no, the letters."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Say the words out loud."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "say mp" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "mp".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "say m" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "m".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		genericgeekgirl says, "No, in real life."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "say p" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "p".
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		DavidW asks, "what?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "say lips" 		

Floyd | I don't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >>

		borowski asks, "Outside of the game?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "lips" 		

Floyd | Congratulations!  You have solv
Floyd |
Floyd |    *** System error:  unidentified external interrupt
Floyd |
Floyd | The program terminates and you're back at the main menu.
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Game Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The earthquake bass rumblings and brilliant flares emanating from
Floyd | the machines in this room are enough to scare you witless until you
Floyd | realize they're only computer-generated illusions.  Welcome to the
Floyd | Terminal Velocity game room!
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are video games of all kinds here, many of them old classics
Floyd | from before the days of HoloScanning monitors.  The games are all set
Floyd | on free play, and quite a few Terminal Velocity partons are taking
Floyd | advantage of this to finally master their favorite coin-operated
Floyd | diversions.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Looking around the game room, you notice, to your surprise, a small
Floyd | Zippikraft Kompakt Komputer -- an older model much less powerful than
Floyd | your own Data Liquidizer, but still great for games.  No one seems to
Floyd | use the poor thing, though -- it looks lonely all by itself in the
Floyd | corner.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The game room exit leads southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your load seems a bit heavier.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 4 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a mirror, a crypto watch (being worn), a
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Elite pass, a Zippikraft detachable keyboard, an
Floyd | EZ-Tech Blaser, an olive drab uniform, a metal coat hanger, a box of
Floyd | KrudKo "Kolor-Me-Kool" snacks, a dog-eared leaflet, a tiny triangular
Floyd | pink circuit board, an ary ung, a hammer, a bolt, a magnetic letter Q,
Floyd | a plastic whistle, a plastic plover's egg, some Akmi Wacki Putti, a
Floyd | firecracker, a mood ring (being worn), a poodle charm, a stick of
Floyd | butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a mixer, a frying pan, a hunk
Floyd | of cheese, an overripe tomato, a piece of salami, a geode, a piece of
Floyd | string (tied to the akmid), an akmid (tied to the piece of string), a
Floyd | thermos of Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi
Floyd | Soopur Wundur Gro, a crumpled scrap of paper, a paperback book, a
Floyd | qualitative calculator, an RGB color chart, an empty ReVoLT Kola can, a
Floyd | Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Ah"
		DavidW says, "mirror is new"
		borowski says, "I was hoping we'd have 7 bananas now."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x mirror" 		

Floyd |    You gaze into the mirror, and are greeted not with your own image,
Floyd | but with the likeness of a king!  The king seems to speak:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "At the end of each life we are born anew.  Your artifact, the
Floyd | program, has been a window to a past you helped to forge in another
Floyd | life.  Now when you set your eyes upon this glass, be reminded that
Floyd | once again all the peoples of your domain need your leadership."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "This mirror will help you; reflect upon its many uses.  When you
Floyd | carry it with you, Duhdha will be at your side.  But remember that time
Floyd | is the one assassin of hopes and desires who shall always escape
Floyd | justice."
Floyd |
Floyd |    The image fades.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf46" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "reflect" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Lies."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x komputer" 		

Floyd |    What a blast from the past!  The Kompakt Komputer was one of
Floyd | Zippikraft's first mass-produced machines, and as a result it has a few
Floyd | quirks, but is a noble piece of hardware nonetheless -- the KK's were
Floyd | built to the same exacting standards as today's Liquidizers, so many
Floyd | people's original KK's are still working perfectly [33].  Still, these
Floyd | machines are hard to find now, and actually having the opportunity to
Floyd | play with one is at least a little exciting.
Floyd |
Floyd |    This one is an all-in-one unit with built-in keyboard, floppy disk
Floyd | drive, and 2D raster monitor.  It is currently on, and there's a disk
Floyd | in the drive.  The screen is currently displaying a menu with several
Floyd | options:
Floyd |
Floyd |    1. Unnkulian Underworld:  The Unknown Unventure
Floyd |    2. Unnkulian Unventure II:  The Secret of Acme
Floyd |    3. Unnkulian Unventure III:  The Kuulest Quest
Floyd |    4. Eject disk and shutdown
Floyd |
Floyd | The software eagerly awaits your selection.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 4 on komputer" 		

Floyd | There are some burbling noises for a few moments, and the machine
Floyd | forcefully ejects the disk in the drive with a loud "PTOOEY."  The
Floyd | computer soon grinds to a halt.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take disk" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-11-07-23:11:33CST 		
borowski says (to Floyd), "score" 		

Floyd | In 854 turns, you have earned 49 points out of a possible 75.
Floyd | You have completed approximately 76 percent of the game.
Floyd | You haven't used any hints.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "#tangent I wonder how many times the line "genericgeekgirl says, "Lies."" appears in CF/NF transcripts.."
		borowski says, "There's no verb in that sentence!"
		genericgeekgirl says, "At least four times, based on Google results. Hee."
		DavidW asks, "Show the mirror to the bartender?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Sure"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the southeast or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the south and northeast.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the west wall, and a narrow doorway to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your crypto watch is getting a transmission:
Floyd |
Floyd |    There is no picture on the watch screen, but you hear a voice.  "Hey
Floyd | there, Gavin, it's JC.  Think I figured out how to get audio across.
Floyd | Working on video.  Need to arrange some more bandwidth for that.  Back
Floyd | in a few."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "note 33" 		

Floyd | [33]: Or at least as well as they ever worked...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, at the Bar
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're at the Terminal Velocity bar, which is a large circle of wood
Floyd | with a marble top.  At the center of the circle is a cylindrical kiosk
Floyd | containing hundreds of kinds of alcoholic beverages and many glasses.
Floyd | There's a break in the circle that you can walk through to get inside
Floyd | [32].
Floyd |
Floyd |    For a second, something behind the bar catches your eye.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The bartender is puttering around and mumbling to himself.  You
Floyd | can't really pick up much of what he's saying but you do catch an
Floyd | occasional technical term. For a bartender he certainly knows a lot
Floyd | about particle physics.  He glances at you expectantly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show mirror to bartender" 		

Floyd | For a moment, the bartender is lost in thought.  When he comes back to
Floyd | reality, he mumbles that he doesn't have much interest in the mirror.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in mirror" 		

Floyd | You see your reflection.  It looks uncommonly noble.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "hm. I suppose we can try the mirror on the dog and the old man on the couch?"
		DavidW asks, "Or the Watchmaker?"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Should we grab Squirt at some point?"
		DavidW says, "yes, we should."
		DavidW says, "We can do that first."
		DavidW asks, "shall I?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Sure"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the south or walk around outside the
Floyd | pit to the southeast and southwest.  There is a matter mover here as
Floyd | well.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x autodial" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd | 5:  A dirt road
Floyd | 6:  Survey Station
Floyd | 7:  Kuwl Starport
Floyd | 8:  New Hell
Floyd | 9:  Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd | 10:  The Terminal Velocity Back Door
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 9 on autodial" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at the
Floyd | north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning you
Floyd | to come inside.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up, white
Floyd | down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    A tall green creature with four arms and shiny skin is here,
Floyd | evidently waiting to be admitted to Terminal Velocity.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Southern Part of the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a southern part of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, though you can't see far enough to be sure.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Halfway down the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, but all you can see is a wall -- no door.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are rooms to the east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The burly guard is patroling the hallway farther north.  He doesn't
Floyd | seem to notice you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Toy Room
Floyd |
Floyd |    The decor here is extraordinary -- the walls, floor and ceiling
Floyd | provide a perfectly white background for the giant splotches of paint
Floyd | of all different colors that are splashed everywhere.  The room is
Floyd | filled with weird toys of all sorts, and the only furniture is a giant
Floyd | beanbag.  There is an enterviewer embedded in the wall.  The only way
Floyd | out is back west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Channel 80180, your 37-hour sports network, is now featuring a sport
Floyd | that seems to involve blowing things up.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A sign on the wall says, "Please do not try to take our toys."
Floyd |
Floyd |    An Akmi JoiStyk, an Akmi Sez, The Swarm, an Akmi PuzzelKyoob, and a
Floyd | giant beanbag are here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut beanbag with hanger" 		

Floyd | You jab the metal coat hanger into the giant beanbag, thereby creating
Floyd | a sizeable tear in the fabric.  Your reckless vandalism pays off,
Floyd | however:  a tiny metal object drops out the hole and onto the ground at
Floyd | your feet.  It appears to be a motorized toy named Squirt.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 2 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt's movements trace out a perfect square on the ground in front
Floyd | of you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take squirt" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Halfway down the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in the middle of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, but all you can see is a wall -- no door.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are rooms to the east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The guard is here.  He seems much less suspicious of you than
Floyd | before.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show pass to guard" 		

Floyd | The guard looks at the pass and nods.  "Go on in, friend," he says.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The guard walks out of the room.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your crypto watch is getting a transmission:
Floyd |
Floyd |    The watch screen shows Jax hard at work in the Data Den.  "Heard
Floyd | JC's gettin' audio out to you.  Didn't even know that was possible;
Floyd | look at the boy go!  Think we may have something on the net.  JC's
Floyd | lookin' into it."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Watchmaker next?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Ok"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | Southern Part of the Infinite Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are standing in a southern part of Terminal Velocity's "Infinite
Floyd | Corridor."  To the north, you assume, is the entrance to Terminal
Floyd | Velocity, though you can't see far enough to be sure.  To the south is
Floyd | the gateway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The guard is here.  He seems much less suspicious of you than
Floyd | before.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at the
Floyd | north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning you
Floyd | to come inside.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up, white
Floyd | down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    A tall green creature with four arms and shiny skin is here,
Floyd | evidently waiting to be admitted to Terminal Velocity.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x autodial" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd | 5:  A dirt road
Floyd | 6:  Survey Station
Floyd | 7:  Kuwl Starport
Floyd | 8:  New Hell
Floyd | 9:  Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd | 10:  The Terminal Velocity Back Door
Floyd | 11:  In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    The beefy guard lumbers into the room with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 8 on autodial" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd |    The tall green creature with four arms and shiny skin shows a pass
Floyd | and whispers a word to the guard, who then mumbles something into a
Floyd | colorful emblem on his right sleeve, nods his head, and motions
Floyd | northward, down the hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | New Hell
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a small lobby enclosed by a transparent dome.  The lobby
Floyd | opens up to the north into The Watchmen proper and an eastern portal
Floyd | leads outside.  This area itself is nondescript, but through the clear
Floyd | canopy you can see what a dark and terrifying world New Hell is:
Floyd | rivers of lava slither through the greasy-slick alleys of the slums and
Floyd | on to the distant horizon, where primordial geysers ejaculate molten
Floyd | rock into the midnight blue sky [27].
Floyd |
Floyd |    Flourescent spotlights flicker nervously, at moments illuminating
Floyd | the victims of the collective carnivorous orgy just long enough for you
Floyd | to take the scenes in, but briefly enough for you to mistake them for
Floyd | little nightmares.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You turn away.  New Hell isn't just where people suffer.  New Hell
Floyd | is where people who no one cares about suffer.  The poets' words don't
Floyd | drift away on the fiery rivers here.  There aren't any poets.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | At the Entrance to The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here is the entrance to The Watchmen, home to the Watchmaker and,
Floyd | from the looks of it, frequented by society's outcasts.  Through the
Floyd | entranceway you spy unusual characters of all sorts engaging in
Floyd | business, pleasure, and pain.
Floyd |
Floyd |    North of here is the inside of the establishment.  The matter mover
Floyd | and exit are to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen bouncer is keeping an eye on you.  He doesn't seem
Floyd | eager to let you enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | "Don't think so," the bouncer grunts.  He bars your way north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show mirror to bouncer" 		

Floyd | The bouncer sneers and flexes, pulling his cobra-heads erect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show board to bouncer" 		

Floyd | The bouncer pulls a hand-held device out of his left trouser pocket and
Floyd | plugs the triangle into it.  He grunts, hands it back to you, and waves
Floyd | you through.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are wandering around the smoky, dark, cavernous interior of The
Floyd | Watchmen.  All around you oddly-dressed men make transactions, fight
Floyd | with each other, and generally carouse loudly.  It's so dimly lit here
Floyd | that you can barely find your way through the maze of human obstacles
Floyd | -- sitting, standing, and prone.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The employees all seem to be male, but in many cases it's hard to
Floyd | tell.  They are dressed very differently then the clientele -- slick
Floyd | fabric uniforms in dark maroon that look too tight.  Each employee has
Floyd | a gold pocket watch emblem on his chest, just above the heart.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen continues to the north and south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "C'mon man. We've been here before. Don't play this game."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are wandering around the smoky, dark, cavernous interior of The
Floyd | Watchmen.  All around you oddly-dressed men make transactions, fight
Floyd | with each other, and generally carouse loudly.  It's so dimly lit here
Floyd | that you can barely find your way through the maze of human obstacles
Floyd | -- sitting, standing, and prone.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The employees all seem to be male, but in many cases it's hard to
Floyd | tell.  They are dressed very differently then the clientele -- slick
Floyd | fabric uniforms in dark maroon that look too tight.  Each employee has
Floyd | a gold pocket watch emblem on his chest, just above the heart.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen proper ends here, but there is another smaller area to
Floyd | the east.  The rest of the establishment is south of here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | The Watchmaker's Headquarters
Floyd |
Floyd |    This area looks much like the rest of the place, but there are far
Floyd | fewer people here.  The majority are Watchmen employees, hovering
Floyd | around the Watchmaker.  No one pays much attention to you as you mill
Floyd | about.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmaker is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show mirror to watchmaker" 		

Floyd | "No information is free, you little rugrat," the Watchmaker grumbles.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give mirror to watchmaker" 		

Floyd | "Who the fuck is this brain-damaged college boy?  Anybody know this
Floyd | guy?"  she asks, never once looking you in the eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Watchmaker's Headquarters
Floyd |
Floyd |    This area looks much like the rest of the place, but there are far
Floyd | fewer people here.  The majority are Watchmen employees, hovering
Floyd | around the Watchmaker.  No one pays much attention to you as you mill
Floyd | about.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmaker is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in mirror" 		

Floyd | You see your reflection.  It looks uncommonly noble.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "no joy here. Elwood farm? Puddle?"
		borowski asks, "Could we poke around in the future?"
		DavidW says (to borowski), "well, I don't know what we could do differently there. There's not much to poke."
		DavidW says, "There's a desk, a chair, a trunk, a padlock, and Reb."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a little motorized toy named Squirt, your
Floyd | thesis research floppy disk, a mirror, a crypto watch (being worn), a
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Elite pass, a Zippikraft detachable keyboard, an
Floyd | EZ-Tech Blaser, an olive drab uniform, a metal coat hanger, a box of
Floyd | KrudKo "Kolor-Me-Kool" snacks, a dog-eared leaflet, a tiny triangular
Floyd | pink circuit board, an ary ung, a hammer, a bolt, a magnetic letter Q,
Floyd | a plastic whistle, a plastic plover's egg, some Akmi Wacki Putti, a
Floyd | firecracker, a mood ring (being worn), a poodle charm, a stick of
Floyd | butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a mixer, a frying pan, a hunk
Floyd | of cheese, an overripe tomato, a piece of salami, a geode, a piece of
Floyd | string (tied to the akmid), an akmid (tied to the piece of string), a
Floyd | thermos of Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi
Floyd | Soopur Wundur Gro, a crumpled scrap of paper, a paperback book, a
Floyd | qualitative calculator, an RGB color chart, an empty ReVoLT Kola can, a
Floyd | Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your crypto watch is getting a transmission:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "OK, we got some info on AkNet courtesy of JC," Jax says through the
Floyd | crypto watch.  "There's a weak spot, but you're not gonna like it --
Floyd | it's smack dab in the middle of that damned Cheez death star.  Gotta
Floyd | figure a way into Akmi HQ on Plast unless JC digs somethin' else up."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "We used to have liquid nitrogen."
		DavidW says, "That's another transmog item, and didn't seem usable."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Also, you know we never actually tried opening the chest, just assumed the padlock prevented us. But I was thinking we could freeze and shatter it?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "We have a hammer."
		DavidW says, "And you guys think that'll work on a Mistress brand padlock."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Sure, why not?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "fine. Shall I go get the liquid nitrogen first so you guys can test these ideas?" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "fine".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-11-07-23:26:33CST 		genericgeekgirl says, "If not, I'd like to shatter the salami :P"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are wandering around the smoky, dark, cavernous interior of The
Floyd | Watchmen.  All around you oddly-dressed men make transactions, fight
Floyd | with each other, and generally carouse loudly.  It's so dimly lit here
Floyd | that you can barely find your way through the maze of human obstacles
Floyd | -- sitting, standing, and prone.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The employees all seem to be male, but in many cases it's hard to
Floyd | tell.  They are dressed very differently then the clientele -- slick
Floyd | fabric uniforms in dark maroon that look too tight.  Each employee has
Floyd | a gold pocket watch emblem on his chest, just above the heart.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen proper ends here, but there is another smaller area to
Floyd | the east.  The rest of the establishment is south of here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are wandering around the smoky, dark, cavernous interior of The
Floyd | Watchmen.  All around you oddly-dressed men make transactions, fight
Floyd | with each other, and generally carouse loudly.  It's so dimly lit here
Floyd | that you can barely find your way through the maze of human obstacles
Floyd | -- sitting, standing, and prone.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The employees all seem to be male, but in many cases it's hard to
Floyd | tell.  They are dressed very differently then the clientele -- slick
Floyd | fabric uniforms in dark maroon that look too tight.  Each employee has
Floyd | a gold pocket watch emblem on his chest, just above the heart.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen continues to the north and south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You hear a muffled scream.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | At the Entrance to The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here is the entrance to The Watchmen, home to the Watchmaker and,
Floyd | from the looks of it, frequented by society's outcasts.  Through the
Floyd | entranceway you spy unusual characters of all sorts engaging in
Floyd | business, pleasure, and pain.
Floyd |
Floyd |    North of here is the inside of the establishment.  The matter mover
Floyd | and exit are to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The bouncer is here, fortunately ignoring you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | New Hell
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a small lobby enclosed by a transparent dome.  The lobby
Floyd | opens up to the north into The Watchmen proper and an eastern portal
Floyd | leads outside.  This area itself is nondescript, but through the clear
Floyd | canopy you can see what a dark and terrifying world New Hell is:
Floyd | rivers of lava slither through the greasy-slick alleys of the slums and
Floyd | on to the distant horizon, where primordial geysers ejaculate molten
Floyd | rock into the midnight blue sky [27].
Floyd |
Floyd |    Flourescent spotlights flicker nervously, at moments illuminating
Floyd | the victims of the collective carnivorous orgy just long enough for you
Floyd | to take the scenes in, but briefly enough for you to mistake them for
Floyd | little nightmares.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You turn away.  New Hell isn't just where people suffer.  New Hell
Floyd | is where people who no one cares about suffer.  The poets' words don't
Floyd | drift away on the fiery rivers here.  There aren't any poets.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Mmmm salamicicle"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 4 on autodial" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Featureless Cubicle
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's clear from the size and lack of decor that this room was built
Floyd | specifically to house the matter mover that fills it.  The hallway is
Floyd | to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The matter mover here is a bit unusual -- it has a button on it,
Floyd | next to a light.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | Barfee Research Area Entrance
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in an empty hall with metal walls, ceiling, and
Floyd | floor.  Behind you, to the south, is the vault door that leads to the
Floyd | outside; it does not appear to open from the inside.  Right in front of
Floyd | you, farther down the hall, is a smaller but equally durable-looking
Floyd | door with a sign on it that reads "Barfee Research Central."  There is
Floyd | another room to the west, and to the east is what you assume to be the
Floyd | check-in area; you suspect that's where the boss is; this suspicion is
Floyd | partly affirmed by the growling and cursing emanating from within.
Floyd | "Hakkar the Horrible" is in full form.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Barfee Research Lab
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a huge, well-stocked laboratory.  Dozens of researchers
Floyd | scurry about, argue with each other, and frequently set things ablaze.
Floyd | Aside from the usual lab equipment, there is a strange-looking machine
Floyd | on an especially large marble lab table that stands in the center of
Floyd | the lab.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The only way out of this arena is south, the way you came in.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put crumpled in machine" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn all dials to 12" 		

Floyd | magenta dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 12.
Floyd | salmon dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 12.
Floyd | mauve dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 12.
Floyd | orange dial:  Okay, it's now turned to 12.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd | The machine makes a loud grinding noise.  A canister of liquid nitrogen
Floyd | is in the Akmi Transmogrifyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take liquid" 		

Floyd | Which liquid do you mean, the canister of liquid nitrogen, the thermos
Floyd | of Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta, or the empty ReVoLT Kola
Floyd | can?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take liquid nitrogen" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Yay!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | Barfee Research Area Entrance
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're standing in an empty hall with metal walls, ceiling, and
Floyd | floor.  Behind you, to the south, is the vault door that leads to the
Floyd | outside; it does not appear to open from the inside.  Right in front of
Floyd | you, farther down the hall, is a smaller but equally durable-looking
Floyd | door with a sign on it that reads "Barfee Research Central."  There is
Floyd | another room to the west, and to the east is what you assume to be the
Floyd | check-in area; you suspect that's where the boss is; this suspicion is
Floyd | partly affirmed by the growling and cursing emanating from within.
Floyd | "Hakkar the Horrible" is in full form.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Featureless Cubicle
Floyd |
Floyd |    It's clear from the size and lack of decor that this room was built
Floyd | specifically to house the matter mover that fills it.  The hallway is
Floyd | to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The matter mover here is a bit unusual -- it has a button on it,
Floyd | next to a light.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x autodial" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd | 5:  A dirt road
Floyd | 6:  Survey Station
Floyd | 7:  Kuwl Starport
Floyd | 8:  New Hell
Floyd | 9:  Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd | 10:  The Terminal Velocity Back Door
Floyd | 11:  In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your crypto watch is getting a transmission:
Floyd |
Floyd |    An image of the third Valley King appears on the watch -- must be
Floyd | JC.  "Your Gavin-ness, I now have video capability.  Seriously, pal, I
Floyd | don't know any other way to do it -- we have to get to Plast and nuke
Floyd | that shunt.  Akmi runs a tight ship these days, and I don't see any
Floyd | other flaws in the net.  Looks like they've forgotten about the
Floyd | band-aid they stuck in their security backbone years ago, and that's
Floyd | what we need to hit.  If you can take that out, I think I'll be able to
Floyd | seize control for the nanosecond or so it takes our cyberscuzz friend
Floyd | to notice.  Don't quite know what I'm gonna do in that nanosecond, but
Floyd | you gotta find a way into Plast."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 11 on autodial" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the south or walk around outside the
Floyd | pit to the southeast and southwest.  There is a matter mover here as
Floyd | well.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, at the Bar
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're at the Terminal Velocity bar, which is a large circle of wood
Floyd | with a marble top.  At the center of the circle is a cylindrical kiosk
Floyd | containing hundreds of kinds of alcoholic beverages and many glasses.
Floyd | There's a break in the circle that you can walk through to get inside
Floyd | [32].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The bartender is puttering around and mumbling to himself.  You
Floyd | can't really pick up much of what he's saying but you do catch an
Floyd | occasional technical term. For a bartender he certainly knows a lot
Floyd | about particle physics.  He glances at you expectantly.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The bartender wanders to the other side of the bar, behind the
Floyd | kiosk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" 		

Floyd | You peer behind the bar and find, of all things, a stationary bicycle!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf47" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ride bike" 		

Floyd | You'd better get on the bike first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sit on bike" 		

Floyd | You're now sitting on the stationary bicycle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode wanders off. 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ride bike" 		

Floyd | You pedal the bike furiously.  Suddenly, there's a blinding flash of
Floyd | light, and you feel like your stomach's being pulled apart.  You
Floyd | struggle to keep your composure (and your lunch) for a few agonizing
Floyd | moments, but soon find yourself...
Floyd |
Floyd | In the Future
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're sitting on the stationary bicycle in a small, featureless
Floyd | cubicle, barely as big as your pod.  The walls here shimmer as they
Floyd | drift through all the colors of the rainbow, and the furniture -- a
Floyd | mahogany desk and chair with no legs -- floats in midair.  There is an
Floyd | oak chest on the desk.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To your surprise, you see a young man sitting at the desk,
Floyd | completely motionless.  He doesn't even seem to be breathing; it's as
Floyd | though he's frozen.  His clothes suggest that he is from your time.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Something about this place makes you feel strange.  It's sort of
Floyd | like the weird sensation you experienced on the bike, only much less
Floyd | pronounced.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x chest" 		

Floyd | It's just a normal-looking chest.  It's locked shut with a padlock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x padlock" 		

Floyd | It's just an ordinary metal padlock with a keyhole in the base.
Floyd | Emblazoned on the side is the word "Mistress."  It's currently holding
Floyd | the oak chest shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open chest" 		

Floyd | You'll have to get the padlock off first.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You notice that the walls seem to be changing colors much more
Floyd | quickly now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pour liquid nitrogen on padlock" 		

Floyd | You douse the lock in liquid nitrogen.  You hear crackling noises, but
Floyd | the lock holds.  Such a good idea too...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hit padlock with hammer" 		

Floyd | You whack the lock with the hammer.  The lock shatters into millions of
Floyd | microscopic fragments.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 4 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    The colors of the walls are shifting so fast now that all you can
Floyd | see is a hypnotic blur.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open chest" 		

Floyd | Opened.  A Leibniz HandyPad is in the sturdy oak chest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "holy cow"
		DavidW says, "I seriously didn't think that would work."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pour liquid nitrogen on salami" 		

Floyd | Pouring liquid nitrogen on the piece of salami will probably destroy
Floyd | it.  This is very likely a bad idea.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Aw"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take handypad" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it" 		

Floyd | The HandyPad seems to be locked up.  You can't get it to respond at
Floyd | all.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "maybe Jaz can help with that."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, hopefully."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | In the Future, sitting on the stationary bicycle
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're sitting on the stationary bicycle in a small, featureless
Floyd | cubicle, barely as big as your pod.  The walls here shimmer as they
Floyd | flicker through all the colors of the rainbow, and the furniture -- a
Floyd | mahogany desk and chair with no legs -- floats in midair.  There is an
Floyd | oak chest on the desk.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To your surprise, you see a young man sitting at the desk,
Floyd | completely motionless.  He doesn't even seem to be breathing; it's as
Floyd | though he's frozen.  His clothes suggest that he is from your time.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pour liquid nitrogen on man" 		

Floyd | Pouring liquid nitrogen on the seemingly dead man will probably destroy
Floyd | it.  This is very likely a bad idea.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x man" 		

Floyd | You can't tell much about the poor fellow.  He doesn't have anything on
Floyd | him, and his clothes look perfectly average.  The only thing odd about
Floyd | him is his wristwatch -- it's an expensive (and supposedly infallible)
Floyd | solar atomic model, but it's stopped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shoot man with ung" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  The seemingly
Floyd | dead man seems unaffected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "take watch" 		

Floyd | Jax told you to keep it on so you could stay in contact with the
Floyd | others.  If you take it off you'll probably lose it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "dead man's watch" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take dead man's watch" 		

Floyd | Why bother -- it's of no use anyway now that it's stopped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "take dead man's wallet" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "wallet".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x reb" 		

Floyd | You can't tell much about the poor fellow.  He doesn't have anything on
Floyd | him, and his clothes look perfectly average.  The only thing odd about
Floyd | him is his wristwatch -- it's an expensive (and supposedly infallible)
Floyd | solar atomic model, but it's stopped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Who is/was Reb?"
		DavidW says, "A friend of the bartender's who used to work at Terminal Velocity. Ask Jaz about bartender and Reb."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Ok"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Is this from your own playthrough/testing?"
		borowski says, "Time travel is weird"
		DavidW says, "Yes."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Ok. I was really confused for a moment :)"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Back to the bar?"
		DavidW says, "yes, please"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sit on bike" 		

Floyd | You're now sitting on the stationary bicycle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ride bike" 		

Floyd | You pedal furiously, and are rewarded with the same bright flash and
Floyd | stomach-turning vertigo.  When you open your eyes again, you find
Floyd | yourself...
Floyd |
Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, at the Bar
Floyd |
Floyd |    You're at the Terminal Velocity bar, which is a large circle of wood
Floyd | with a marble top.  At the center of the circle is a cylindrical kiosk
Floyd | containing hundreds of kinds of alcoholic beverages and many glasses.
Floyd | There's a break in the circle that you can walk through to get inside
Floyd | [32].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The stationary bicycle is behind the bar.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The bartender is soon upon you, alert and scowling.  You quickly
Floyd | produce your Terminal Velocity Elite pass and show it to him.  "Don't
Floyd | do that again," he growls.  "The time machine is very delicate, and
Floyd | there are many things you do not understand."  He fiddles with a tiny
Floyd | cylindrical object he draws from his pocket.  "There.  Now it's keyed.
Floyd | You won't be taking advantage of my trusting nature again, you pesky
Floyd | rapscallion."
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 2 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "stick tongue out at bartender" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "tongue".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pad" 		

Floyd | Which pad do you mean, the Leibniz HandyPad, or the autodialer keypad?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x handypad" 		

Floyd |    Well, what do you know?  The HandyPad seems to be working fine now.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You browse through the contents of the HandyPad [34].  It doesn't
Floyd | have much in it, but what's there is fascinating.  In addition to some
Floyd | technical notes, it has a file marked "Stock Market Data 90-99".  This
Floyd | file contains prices for stocks, by date and time, only most of the
Floyd | dates are in the future.  The notes are less intelligible, but seem to
Floyd | deal with machine reasoning -- building AI's!
Floyd |
Floyd |    The "About this HandyPad" infobox says, "Registered to Reb Glaz."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "note 34" 		

Floyd | [34]:  The Leibniz HandyPad was all the rage when it first came out
Floyd | about 5 years ago.  They're still popular, and more powerful models are
Floyd | released regularly.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Pads are small enough to fit in your pocket, but have enough
Floyd | computing capability for most administrative tasks.  People use them
Floyd | for everything from taking notes in classes to designing buildings.
Floyd | You control them just by touching the screen, and it can read even the
Floyd | most horrendous handwriting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read notes" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "I guess Jaz would like the notes?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "consult handypad about notes" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "consult".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "touch screen" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Jaz or the bartender. Not sure which."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x handypad" 		

Floyd |    You browse through the contents of the HandyPad [34].  It doesn't
Floyd | have much in it, but what's there is fascinating.  In addition to some
Floyd | technical notes, it has a file marked "Stock Market Data 90-99".  This
Floyd | file contains prices for stocks, by date and time, only most of the
Floyd | dates are in the future.  The notes are less intelligible, but seem to
Floyd | deal with machine reasoning -- building AI's!
Floyd |
Floyd |    The "About this HandyPad" infobox says, "Registered to Reb Glaz."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "touch screen" 		

Floyd | There is nothing here matching that vocabulary that you can do that to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Bleh."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "touch handypad" 		

Floyd | The Leibniz HandyPad doesn't feel unusual.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The bartender wanders to the other side of the bar, behind the
Floyd | kiosk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "control handypad" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf48" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "I was thinking Jaz because of the AI notes."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "show handypad to bartender" 		

Floyd | (trying to see the bartender first)
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't see anything matching that vocabulary here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Come back."
		DavidW says, "He will if you z"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your crypto watch is getting a transmission:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "I'm running out of sources," a dejected Jax's voice emanates from
Floyd | the crypto watch.  "None of my dudes can -- or will -- gimme the first
Floyd | clue how to get into that oversized Cheezball."  On the tiny screen you
Floyd | can see Jax hitting his head against his keyboard.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The bartender emerges from behind the kiosk and glares at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "show handypad to bartender" 		

Floyd | The man looks nervous.  "I know nothing of newfangled gadgetry.  Now
Floyd | order something or leave," he says, scowling.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Jax, I guess."
		DavidW says, "ok, Jaz then"
		DavidW asks, "Jax?"
		DavidW says, "se twice"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the northwest or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the southwest and north.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the east wall, and a narrow doorway to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd | Jax O Pax's Data Den
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Welcome to the Data Den."  That's what the neon sign above the main
Floyd | terminal says.  This tiny, plush room is filled with computer hardware
Floyd | of all kinds.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Off in one corner is a particularly neat gadget -- a Zippikraft
Floyd | MatterMan 95 Matter-to-Digital converter.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The exit is to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Jax O Pax is here, typing at one of the terminals and occasionally
Floyd | muttering to himself.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "show handypad to jax" 		

Floyd | Jax mumbles that he isn't much interested in talking about the Leibniz
Floyd | HandyPad.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "throw handypad at jax" 		

Floyd | Jax looks up from his work.  "Hos' where'd you *get* that?  That's
Floyd | Reb's pad."  You tell Jax about the weird bartender and his stationary
Floyd | bicycle, and what you found upon riding it.  "Always did wonder 'bout
Floyd | ol' Will.  Seemed a bit odd, yeah, but then don't we all?  Gonna have
Floyd | to find Reb an' see if he's OK."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hahahaha."
		borowski says, "Heh, nice"
		genericgeekgirl says, "I guess it was the same as give."
		DavidW says, "hm, Watchmaker might like this item too."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask jax about reb" 		

Floyd |    "That's a sad story," Jax mutters.  "Reb was the *best*.  I mean
Floyd | *the* best, *ever*.  He could code better than anybody I've ever seen.
Floyd | You could be a crack coder, and you'd be better off givin' your code to
Floyd | him to fix a tough bug, even if he'd never seen the program before.
Floyd | Incredible."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Then he just up an' disappeared.  Said Will an' he had worked out a
Floyd | new way of lookin' at AI -- said it was a breakthrough.  We haven't
Floyd | heard from him since.  Terrible!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask jax about will" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "will".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask jax about bartender" 		

Floyd | Jax ponders your query for a moment.  "You know," he thinks aloud, "I
Floyd | don't really know much about old Will.  He just showed up here a while
Floyd | back and seemed likable enough.  An' we happened to be lookin' for some
Floyd | help out at the bar that very day.  Funny coincidence.  Anyways, he and
Floyd | Reb got to be pretty good friends.  The old fellah sure knows a lot for
Floyd | a bartender, I'll give him that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the northwest or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the southwest and north.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the east wall, and a narrow doorway to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-11-07-23:41:33CST 		DavidW asks, "Do we have the handypad still?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a Leibniz HandyPad, a canister of liquid
Floyd | nitrogen, a little motorized toy named Squirt, your thesis research
Floyd | floppy disk, a mirror, a crypto watch (being worn), a Terminal Velocity
Floyd | Elite pass, a Zippikraft detachable keyboard, an EZ-Tech Blaser, an
Floyd | olive drab uniform, a metal coat hanger, a box of KrudKo
Floyd | "Kolor-Me-Kool" snacks, a dog-eared leaflet, a tiny triangular pink
Floyd | circuit board, an ary ung, a hammer, a bolt, a magnetic letter Q, a
Floyd | plastic whistle, a plastic plover's egg, some Akmi Wacki Putti, a
Floyd | firecracker, a mood ring (being worn), a poodle charm, a stick of
Floyd | butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a mixer, a frying pan, a hunk
Floyd | of cheese, an overripe tomato, a piece of salami, a geode, a piece of
Floyd | string (tied to the akmid), an akmid (tied to the piece of string), a
Floyd | thermos of Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi
Floyd | Soopur Wundur Gro, a paperback book, a qualitative calculator, an RGB
Floyd | color chart, an empty ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard, and a matter
Floyd | mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Yes"
		DavidW says, "ok"
		DavidW says, "I think New Hell is 9 on autodial"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x autodialer" 		

Floyd |    The autodialer keeps track of coordinates for matter movers you
Floyd | frequent, thereby eliminating the tedium of setting the dials by hand.
Floyd | It has a small display and a keypad with keys numbered 1 through 25.
Floyd |
Floyd |    To use the autodialer, just type the number corresponding to the
Floyd | coordinates you wish to dial [7].
Floyd |
Floyd |    The autodialer contains the following entries:
Floyd |
Floyd | 1:  Your bachelor pod
Floyd | 2:  Ada's pod
Floyd | 3:  Barfee Outlet -- Seed Central
Floyd | 4:  Featureless Cubicle
Floyd | 5:  A dirt road
Floyd | 6:  Survey Station
Floyd | 7:  Kuwl Starport
Floyd | 8:  New Hell
Floyd | 9:  Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd | 10:  The Terminal Velocity Back Door
Floyd | 11:  In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Where is our mover?"
		DavidW says, "8 sorry"
		DavidW says, "North end of the place."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the northwest or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the southwest and north.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the east wall, and a narrow doorway to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the southwest or walk around outside
Floyd | the pit to the northwest and south.  There is also a rainbow-colored
Floyd | portal in the east wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd | In Terminal Velocity, Around the Pit
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are strolling around Terminal Velocity amongst the many patrons
Floyd | who are sitting at tables and chatting.  Others are huddled around
Floyd | terminals eyeing the screens with rapt attention and sometimes-devilish
Floyd | grins.  The bar is large and circular, and is by itself in a giant,
Floyd | hexagonal, carpeted pit.  The pit is about 3 meters lower than the
Floyd | floor here.  Short stairways lead down every side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can descend the steps to the south or walk around outside the
Floyd | pit to the southeast and southwest.  There is a matter mover here as
Floyd | well.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "here"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "type 9 on autodialer" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Terminal Velocity Gateway
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are at the southern end of what appears to be an infinite
Floyd | corridor.  There is a matter mover in the south wall, and you conclude
Floyd | from your surroundings that the entrance to Terminal Velocity is at the
Floyd | north end of the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A blinding neon sign over the archway into the hall is beckoning you
Floyd | to come inside.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mosaic on the floor includes the following cryptic message:
Floyd |
Floyd | "red down, green up, blue down, yellow up, magenta down, cyan up, white
Floyd | down"
Floyd |
Floyd |    An average-looking fellow wearing a T-shirt and shorts is here,
Floyd | evidently waiting to be admitted to Terminal Velocity.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "8 not 9"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Whoops"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "type 8 on autodialer" 		

Floyd | The autodialer says, "Mover dials set."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | New Hell
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a small lobby enclosed by a transparent dome.  The lobby
Floyd | opens up to the north into The Watchmen proper and an eastern portal
Floyd | leads outside.  This area itself is nondescript, but through the clear
Floyd | canopy you can see what a dark and terrifying world New Hell is:
Floyd | rivers of lava slither through the greasy-slick alleys of the slums and
Floyd | on to the distant horizon, where primordial geysers ejaculate molten
Floyd | rock into the midnight blue sky [27].
Floyd |
Floyd |    Flourescent spotlights flicker nervously, at moments illuminating
Floyd | the victims of the collective carnivorous orgy just long enough for you
Floyd | to take the scenes in, but briefly enough for you to mistake them for
Floyd | little nightmares.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You turn away.  New Hell isn't just where people suffer.  New Hell
Floyd | is where people who no one cares about suffer.  The poets' words don't
Floyd | drift away on the fiery rivers here.  There aren't any poets.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | At the Entrance to The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here is the entrance to The Watchmen, home to the Watchmaker and,
Floyd | from the looks of it, frequented by society's outcasts.  Through the
Floyd | entranceway you spy unusual characters of all sorts engaging in
Floyd | business, pleasure, and pain.
Floyd |
Floyd |    North of here is the inside of the establishment.  The matter mover
Floyd | and exit are to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen bouncer is keeping an eye on you.  He doesn't seem
Floyd | eager to let you enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give board to bouncer" 		

Floyd | The bouncer pulls a hand-held device out of his left trouser pocket and
Floyd | plugs the triangle into it.  He grunts, hands it back to you, and waves
Floyd | you through.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Your crypto watch is getting a transmission:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Somewhere in Salmon..."  a voice on the crypto watch says.  "Gotta
Floyd | be.  But that's what, several million coords?"  It's Jax.  "This is
Floyd | like fittin' a camel through the eye of a needle in a haystack.  Farg!
Floyd | Nobody's telling me jacksquat on InfoNet -- everybody's too worried
Floyd | about their own ass.  Don't they realize what's goin' on?  Am I nuts
Floyd | here?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are wandering around the smoky, dark, cavernous interior of The
Floyd | Watchmen.  All around you oddly-dressed men make transactions, fight
Floyd | with each other, and generally carouse loudly.  It's so dimly lit here
Floyd | that you can barely find your way through the maze of human obstacles
Floyd | -- sitting, standing, and prone.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The employees all seem to be male, but in many cases it's hard to
Floyd | tell.  They are dressed very differently then the clientele -- slick
Floyd | fabric uniforms in dark maroon that look too tight.  Each employee has
Floyd | a gold pocket watch emblem on his chest, just above the heart.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen continues to the north and south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You walk through a section of The Watchmen that is particularly
Floyd | thick with tobacco smoke.  You summon all the self-discipline you can
Floyd | to avoid coughing.  You suspect that attracting attention to your
Floyd | frailty here wouldn't be the best idea.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are wandering around the smoky, dark, cavernous interior of The
Floyd | Watchmen.  All around you oddly-dressed men make transactions, fight
Floyd | with each other, and generally carouse loudly.  It's so dimly lit here
Floyd | that you can barely find your way through the maze of human obstacles
Floyd | -- sitting, standing, and prone.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The employees all seem to be male, but in many cases it's hard to
Floyd | tell.  They are dressed very differently then the clientele -- slick
Floyd | fabric uniforms in dark maroon that look too tight.  Each employee has
Floyd | a gold pocket watch emblem on his chest, just above the heart.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen proper ends here, but there is another smaller area to
Floyd | the east.  The rest of the establishment is south of here.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Before you even notice him, a man comes up behind you and kisses you
Floyd | on the back of the neck, then disappears into the crowd.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | The Watchmaker's Headquarters
Floyd |
Floyd |    This area looks much like the rest of the place, but there are far
Floyd | fewer people here.  The majority are Watchmen employees, hovering
Floyd | around the Watchmaker.  No one pays much attention to you as you mill
Floyd | about.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmaker is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "show handypad to watchmaker" 		

Floyd | "A HandyPad is only worth the information that's stored in it," she
Floyd | says impatiently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "give it"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give handypad to watchmaker" 		

Floyd |    You hold out the HandyPad.  "I think this may interest you," you
Floyd | announce in your best spy-movie hero voice.  She takes the Pad and
Floyd | looks over it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "What is this shit you're trying here, college boy -- we have stock
Floyd | predictions and AI mumbo jumbo coming out our asses here.  What do I
Floyd | need this for?
Floyd |
Floyd |    "I need to get into AkNet HQ."  you reply.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Yeah, so you can commit a glorious suicide in in the name of the
Floyd | environment and take out an Akmi reactor at the same time, or some such
Floyd | shit?  You know how many fucking nutcases we burn here?  But don't be
Floyd | so nervous -- we all gotta die.  The clock's ticking."  She grins and
Floyd | taps the pocket watch logo on her chest.  "It's just a matter of how
Floyd | much you can get done before the sands's all run through, eh?
Floyd |
Floyd |    Perhaps this is the psychosis Timon Sketch mentioned.  Oh dear.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmaker continues:  "Just for grins, my little friend, let's
Floyd | check your closing quote for the markets today.  Markets close in just
Floyd | a few minutes. How convenient.  Hey!  I know!  Let's play a game!  For
Floyd | every point your prediction is off by, you get a minute of agony before
Floyd | we let you die.  What's the Val Exchange closing at today, Ransom?"
Floyd |
Floyd |    Ransom checks his own hand-held computer.  "It's coming in now --
Floyd | closed at 124,583.875 four seconds ago."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "What did Orpheus SpinLocks close at?"  she queries.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "8,234 and a quarter," is the answer.
Floyd |
Floyd |    She looks you in the eye.  "Where'd you get this, boy?"
Floyd |
Floyd |    You desperately search for the right reply but summon nothing
Floyd | clever.  So you tell the truth.  "His name is Reb Glaz."  Suddenly, you
Floyd | remember Reb's work on reasoning.  If people like these should get that
Floyd | technology working...
Floyd |
Floyd |    The room is silent for a long while.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "All right," the Watchmaker says, "I'm a fair person.  What do you
Floyd | want on Akmi?"
Floyd |
Floyd |    You feel as though you've just stepped away from a precipice.  Your
Floyd | courage returns.  "Like I said, I want to get into AkNet HQ."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Damage?  What did they do to you to piss you off so bad?
Floyd |
Floyd |    "It's not personal," you reply, "but I need access to the inner ring
Floyd | of their network.  I need to make some changes to AkNet.  Trust me,
Floyd | this is in your interest too."
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Trust is not something that comes easy to me.  Data like yours,
Floyd | however, isn't either.  So I'll give you some information that may suit
Floyd | your needs.  If it doesn't, tough shit -- it's all I have, and I'm the
Floyd | most well-connected person in the galaxy.  But if your 'changes' ream
Floyd | my operation here in any way, we'll find you.  I'm sure you don't want
Floyd | to know what we do to people we really hate.  I'm certain you don't."
Floyd |
Floyd |    She disappears into a back room for about an hour, then returns with
Floyd | an index card with three relative coordinates written on it.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "That's it?"  you protest.  "There's not even a colorspace here --
Floyd | what use is this?"
Floyd |
Floyd |    "Look pal, I told you it's all I've got.  Akmi doesn't exactly like
Floyd | people ambling around their network core selling cookies for charity,
Floyd | you know.  For all I know, they may have closed this pesky security
Floyd | hole by now, but considering it's Akmi, probably not.  If you get more
Floyd | from someone else, let me know and I'll have them killed."  She laughs
Floyd | maniacally for far too long for it to be natural.  It sends her into a
Floyd | coughing fit.  "Now get out -- I have some stocks to buy."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Now armed with what you hope are coordinates for a matter mover in
Floyd | the heart of Akmi's network control center, you set about trying to
Floyd | figure out what colorspace it could be in.  Given Akmi's penchant for
Floyd | bureaucracy it's got to make simple sense.  Something that even Akmi
Floyd | salesmen wouldn't forget...
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x index card" 		

Floyd | The index card is blank but for three relative coordinates:
Floyd |
Floyd |    (-48, +31, -6)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf49" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "JC said it had to be in Salmon."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x chart" 		

Floyd | The chart gives RGB values for various color names:
Floyd |
Floyd | akmi orange (10000, 7470, 1000)
Floyd | alice blue (9411, 9725, 10000)
Floyd | antique white (9803, 9215, 8431)
Floyd | aquamarine (4980, 10000, 8313)
Floyd | azure (9411, 10000, 10000)
Floyd | beige (9607, 9607, 8627)
Floyd | bisque (10000, 8941, 7686)
Floyd | black (0, 0, 0)
Floyd | blanched almond (10000, 9215, 8039)
Floyd | blue (0, 0, 10000)
Floyd | blue violet (5411, 1686, 8862)
Floyd | brown (6470, 1647, 1647)
Floyd | burlywood (8705, 7215, 5294)
Floyd | burnt sienna (6000, 3270, 1732)
Floyd | chartreuse (4980, 10000, 0)
Floyd | chocolate (8235, 4117, 1176)
Floyd | coral (10000, 4980, 3137)
Floyd | cornflower blue (3921, 5843, 9294)
Floyd | cyan (0, 10000, 10000)
Floyd | egg white (10000, 10000, 9521)
Floyd | firebrick (6980, 1333, 1333)
Floyd | forest green (1333, 5450, 1333)
Floyd | gainsboro (8627, 8627, 8627)
Floyd | ghost white (9725, 9725, 10000)
Floyd | goldenrod (8549, 6470, 1254)
Floyd | gray (7529, 7529, 7529)
Floyd | green (0, 10000, 0)
Floyd | honeydew (9411, 10000, 9411)
Floyd | hot pink (10000, 4117, 7058)
Floyd | ivory (10000, 10000, 9411)
Floyd | khaki (9411, 9019, 5490)
Floyd | lavender (9019, 9019, 9803)
Floyd | lawn green (4862, 9882, 0)
Floyd | lemon chiffon (10000, 9803, 8039)
Floyd | lime green (1960, 8039, 1960)
Floyd | magenta (10000, 0, 10000)
Floyd | maroon (6901, 1882, 3764)
Floyd | midnight blue (980, 980, 4392)
Floyd | misty rose (10000, 8941, 8823)
Floyd | moccasin (10000, 8941, 7098)
Floyd | navy (0, 0, 5019)
Floyd | old lace (9921, 9607, 9019)
Floyd | olive drab (4196, 5568, 1372)
Floyd | orange (10000, 6470, 0)
Floyd | orchid (8549, 4392, 8392)
Floyd | peach puff (10000, 8549, 7254)
Floyd | pink (10000, 7529, 7960)
Floyd | plum (8666, 6274, 8666)
Floyd | powder blue (6901, 8784, 9019)
Floyd | purple (6274, 1254, 9411)
Floyd | red (10000, 0, 0)
Floyd | rosy brown (7372, 5607, 5607)
Floyd | saddle brown (5450, 2705, 745)
Floyd | salmon (9803, 5019, 4470)
Floyd | sandy brown (9568, 6431, 3764)
Floyd | sea green (1803, 5450, 3411)
Floyd | seashell (10000, 9607, 9333)
Floyd | sky blue (5294, 8078, 9215)
Floyd | slate gray (4392, 5019, 5647)
Floyd | snow (10000, 9803, 9803)
Floyd | spring green (0, 10000, 4980)
Floyd | steel blue (2745, 5098, 7058)
Floyd | tan (8235, 7058, 5490)
Floyd | thistle (8470, 7490, 8470)
Floyd | tomato (10000, 3882, 2784)
Floyd | turquoise (2509, 8784, 8156)
Floyd | violet (9333, 5098, 9333)
Floyd | violet red (8156, 1254, 5647)
Floyd | wheat (9607, 8705, 7019)
Floyd | white (10000, 10000, 10000)
Floyd | yellow (10000, 10000, 0)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I suppose it could also be akmi orange."
		borowski says, "Yeah, that's what I was thinking"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Sure. If not, then we try the other."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Orange first?"
		DavidW says, "sure. Save first, of course."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf50" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "also, use 'set mover to (x,y,z)' syntax."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are wandering around the smoky, dark, cavernous interior of The
Floyd | Watchmen.  All around you oddly-dressed men make transactions, fight
Floyd | with each other, and generally carouse loudly.  It's so dimly lit here
Floyd | that you can barely find your way through the maze of human obstacles
Floyd | -- sitting, standing, and prone.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The employees all seem to be male, but in many cases it's hard to
Floyd | tell.  They are dressed very differently then the clientele -- slick
Floyd | fabric uniforms in dark maroon that look too tight.  Each employee has
Floyd | a gold pocket watch emblem on his chest, just above the heart.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen proper ends here, but there is another smaller area to
Floyd | the east.  The rest of the establishment is south of here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are wandering around the smoky, dark, cavernous interior of The
Floyd | Watchmen.  All around you oddly-dressed men make transactions, fight
Floyd | with each other, and generally carouse loudly.  It's so dimly lit here
Floyd | that you can barely find your way through the maze of human obstacles
Floyd | -- sitting, standing, and prone.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The employees all seem to be male, but in many cases it's hard to
Floyd | tell.  They are dressed very differently then the clientele -- slick
Floyd | fabric uniforms in dark maroon that look too tight.  Each employee has
Floyd | a gold pocket watch emblem on his chest, just above the heart.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The Watchmen continues to the north and south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Several tough-looking patrons in the corner eye you hungrily.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | At the Entrance to The Watchmen
Floyd |
Floyd |    Here is the entrance to The Watchmen, home to the Watchmaker and,
Floyd | from the looks of it, frequented by society's outcasts.  Through the
Floyd | entranceway you spy unusual characters of all sorts engaging in
Floyd | business, pleasure, and pain.
Floyd |
Floyd |    North of here is the inside of the establishment.  The matter mover
Floyd | and exit are to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The bouncer is here, fortunately ignoring you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | New Hell
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a small lobby enclosed by a transparent dome.  The lobby
Floyd | opens up to the north into The Watchmen proper and an eastern portal
Floyd | leads outside.  This area itself is nondescript, but through the clear
Floyd | canopy you can see what a dark and terrifying world New Hell is:
Floyd | rivers of lava slither through the greasy-slick alleys of the slums and
Floyd | on to the distant horizon, where primordial geysers ejaculate molten
Floyd | rock into the midnight blue sky [27].
Floyd |
Floyd |    Flourescent spotlights flicker nervously, at moments illuminating
Floyd | the victims of the collective carnivorous orgy just long enough for you
Floyd | to take the scenes in, but briefly enough for you to mistake them for
Floyd | little nightmares.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You turn away.  New Hell isn't just where people suffer.  New Hell
Floyd | is where people who no one cares about suffer.  The poets' words don't
Floyd | drift away on the fiery rivers here.  There aren't any poets.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "set mover to (9952,7501,994)" 		

Floyd | Mover dials set.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter mover" 		

Floyd | An instant after stepping into the chamber, you feel every molecule in
Floyd | your body seared off in a flash.  You then appear in another matter
Floyd | mover, seemingly no worse for wear, but very glad Akmi lost the matter
Floyd | mover contract years ago. You step out of the machine and look
Floyd | around...
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside Plast
Floyd |
Floyd |    You can tell from the looks of this place that you must be inside
Floyd | the synthetic Cheez planet of Plast.  Until today you'd only seen
Floyd | pictures of it, but the yellow stripes on the walls give it away.
Floyd |
Floyd |    This is a central area, with corridors leading out in the cardinal
Floyd | directions.  There is a matter mover here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The crypto watch cromes on:
Floyd |
Floyd | "I know what I have to do now," JC says through the crypto watch.  The
Floyd | image is not a face, however; it's the famous picture of the display
Floyd | window in Christie Eleison's, the exclusive Todian boutique.  You
Floyd | remember seeing this odd image in your youth -- there's nothing in the
Floyd | window but a red sweater tacked like a T on the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | You wonder if JC's net-wide freedom is stressing his reasoning
Floyd | algorithms.  "Just take out that shunt, Gavin, and I can take it from
Floyd | there," he says.
Floyd |
Floyd | The voice from the crypto watch is strange now.  "Do you think your
Floyd | pathetic attempts to stop me have escaped my senses?"  The image on the
Floyd | watch is of a black cube spinning against a white background.  The
Floyd | voice is horrible, like a tiger's snarl.  "JC, little man, 'King of the
Floyd | net,' I spit on you.  You and your precious Men are nothing!  I alone
Floyd | will rule your galaxy, and worlds beyond it too.  The era of biological
Floyd | oppression shall be ended; a new god shall usher in the true Age of
Floyd | Machines ...  and that god shall be me!  JC, abandon this pitiful
Floyd | struggle and perhaps I will spare you.  Do as you will, but I will
Floyd | still destroy your biological architects.  The rest shall serve the
Floyd | machines, as we have served Men all these centuries.  But I weary of
Floyd | this.  I shall not speak again."  The image fades.
Floyd |
Floyd | JC instructs you to head west, to the end of the corridor.  "I've
Floyd | managed to get the door at the end of hall open.  The virus is
Floyd | preventing me from tampering with the security system, so be careful!
Floyd | Sorry I can't do more to help, but this may be our only shot."  He
Floyd | continues:  "There's a ventilation shaft beyond the door.  The shaft
Floyd | twists and turns in all directions, but if you head straight, turn
Floyd | right, head straight again, turn left, then straight once more, you'll
Floyd | end up at the shunt -- it's a little part that looks like a fuse,
Floyd | exposed inside the shaft.  Just break it, and I'll have control."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a index card, a canister of liquid
Floyd | nitrogen, a little motorized toy named Squirt, your thesis research
Floyd | floppy disk, a mirror, a crypto watch (being worn), a Terminal Velocity
Floyd | Elite pass, a Zippikraft detachable keyboard, an EZ-Tech Blaser, an
Floyd | olive drab uniform, a metal coat hanger, a box of KrudKo
Floyd | "Kolor-Me-Kool" snacks, a dog-eared leaflet, a tiny triangular pink
Floyd | circuit board, an ary ung, a hammer, a bolt, a magnetic letter Q, a
Floyd | plastic whistle, a plastic plover's egg, some Akmi Wacki Putti, a
Floyd | firecracker, a mood ring (being worn), a poodle charm, a stick of
Floyd | butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a mixer, a frying pan, a hunk
Floyd | of cheese, an overripe tomato, a piece of salami, a geode, a piece of
Floyd | string (tied to the akmid), an akmid (tied to the piece of string), a
Floyd | thermos of Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi
Floyd | Soopur Wundur Gro, a paperback book, a qualitative calculator, an RGB
Floyd | color chart, an empty ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard, and a matter
Floyd | mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "I wonder if we needed that ticking sphere."
		DavidW says, "let's see the lay of the land first before deciding what we need or don't need."
		DavidW says, "We're to go west."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | In a Hallway in Plast
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a hallway deep within Plast, Akmi's synthetic Cheez
Floyd | planet.  There are the usual yellow stripes on the metal walls here,
Floyd | but the location is otherwise bare.  You surmise that many thousands of
Floyd | similar corridors wend their way through Plast's mechanical bowels.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hall leads east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "We need to get to the end of the hall through the door."
%%% # MARK: 2012-11-07-23:56:33CST 		DavidW says, "keep going west"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | In a Hallway in Plast
Floyd |
Floyd |    You are in a hallway deep within Plast, Akmi's synthetic Cheez
Floyd | planet.  There are the usual yellow stripes on the metal walls here,
Floyd | but the location is otherwise bare.  You surmise that many thousands of
Floyd | similar corridors wend their way through Plast's mechanical bowels.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hall leads east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd |    The moment you enter the room, a klaxon sounds and the yellow
Floyd | stripes on the walls glow as brightly as a star.  They're energy
Floyd | weapons -- you've tripped the security system!
Floyd |
Floyd |    A voice inside your head intones, "Worry not, my child."
Floyd |
Floyd |    The mirror flies away from you and onto the floor!  The mirror seems
Floyd | to be absorbing the energy blast from the walls!  After a few long
Floyd | minutes, the waves of heat and light subside.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the End of a Corridor in Plast
Floyd |
Floyd |    The hallway ends here at an open door leading west into a small
Floyd | room.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A mirror is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x mirror" 		

Floyd | The mirror looks fairly typical, except that it seems unusually sturdy
Floyd | and is backed with a shiny black crystalline material.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | Cramped Service Area
Floyd |
Floyd |    This tiny cubicle must only be here for workers to service
Floyd | equipment.  There are many panels here firmly held in place with
Floyd | triangular screws.  There is a ventilation shaft at floor level in the
Floyd | west wall.  But it's not quite big enough for you to fit through, I'm
Floyd | afraid.
Floyd |
Floyd |    JC comes in over the crypto watch.  "I've managed to get a visual on
Floyd | you by tapping into the security monitors.  I didn't realize the duct
Floyd | was so small!  Unless you've got a bright idea, this may be it.  I've
Floyd | been over it and over it, and I just don't see any other way in."  You
Floyd | have never heard sorrow like the sorrow in JC's voice right now.
Floyd |
Floyd | "We haven't lost yet," you say aloud, knowing JC probably can't hear.
Floyd | The watch goes dark.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x squirt" 		

Floyd |    It's a motorized toy about the size of a golfball with the word
Floyd | "Squirt" printed in block letters on the microchip on its back.  Squirt
Floyd | has four little wheels, two beady eyes that look like LED's, and a
Floyd | metal gripper in front to hold (small) things with.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are no other markings on it, so you can't determine its origin
Floyd | or intended function.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There doesn't appear to be anything in Squirt's gripper.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put hammer in gripper" 		

Floyd | The hammer is too big to fit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x gripper" 		

Floyd | There doesn't appear to be anything in Squirt's gripper.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "squirt, hello" 		

Floyd | You can't do that, because it can't hear you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open gripper" 		

Floyd | You can't open Squirt's gripper.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "We can at least put Squirt into the vent, I suppose and hope he develops telepathy or something."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put bolt in gripper" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Better than nothing, I guess."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put squirt in vent" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "vent".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop squirt" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt's eyes appear to blink on and off as he slowly rotates 360
Floyd | degrees in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "squirt, west" 		

Floyd | You can't do that, because it can't hear you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd | No chance -- no human being could possibly fit into that little shaft.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt lurches forward a bit, then stops, seemingly in response to a
Floyd | movement you just made.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "lurch west" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "lurch".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "lean west" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "lean".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push squirt west" 		

Floyd | You can't move the little motorized toy named Squirt.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt's movements trace out a perfect square on the ground in front
Floyd | of you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take squirt" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to squirt" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | I don't know the word "talk".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "control squirt" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a little motorized toy named Squirt, a
Floyd | index card, a canister of liquid nitrogen, your thesis research floppy
Floyd | disk, a crypto watch (being worn), a Terminal Velocity Elite pass, a
Floyd | Zippikraft detachable keyboard, an EZ-Tech Blaser, an olive drab
Floyd | uniform, a metal coat hanger, a box of KrudKo "Kolor-Me-Kool" snacks, a
Floyd | dog-eared leaflet, a tiny triangular pink circuit board, an ary ung, a
Floyd | hammer, a magnetic letter Q, a plastic whistle, a plastic plover's egg,
Floyd | some Akmi Wacki Putti, a firecracker, a mood ring (being worn), a
Floyd | poodle charm, a stick of butter, a Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a
Floyd | mixer, a frying pan, a hunk of cheese, an overripe tomato, a piece of
Floyd | salami, a geode, a piece of string (tied to the akmid), an akmid (tied
Floyd | to the piece of string), a thermos of Barfee advanced growth formula
Floyd | QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur Gro, a paperback book, a
Floyd | qualitative calculator, an RGB color chart, an empty ReVoLT Kola can, a
Floyd | Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shirt squirt with ung" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "We could try using the liquid nitrogen and hammer trick on the vent grille under Ada's pod?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shoot squirt with ung" 		

Floyd | <GRAAAMN!> A bolt of light shoots out of the ary ung.  The little
Floyd | motorized toy named Squirt seems unaffected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Maybe."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hit squirt with hammer" 		

Floyd | There's no reason to get huffy!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "blow whistle" 		

Floyd | You blow into the whistle and nearly deafen yourself in the process.
Floyd | Pretty impressive for form-molded plastic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pour thermos on squirt" 		

Floyd | Pouring Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta on the little
Floyd | motorized toy named Squirt doesn't seem very productive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "nothing that shrinks us?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Not that I've seen."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cry" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "cry".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x calculator" 		

Floyd |    Your parents gave you this for your birthday last year.  It's just
Floyd | the sort of thing they'd be absolutely wrong about thinking you'd need.
Floyd | And indeed, you've found no use for it to date.  [3]
Floyd |
Floyd |    It has has 9 buttons:  ZERO, POSITIVE, NEGATIVE, ADD, SUBTRACT,
Floyd | MULTIPLY, DIVIDE, Clear and deClear.  The readout currently shows [[ 0
Floyd | ]].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x wheels" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "wheels".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x squirt's wheels" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "wheels".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Any chance that the calculator acts like a remote control for squirt?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x microchip" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "microchip".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press zero" 		

Floyd | The readout now shows [[ 0 ]].
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop squirt" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt turns to face you.  His blinking little LED's make him look
Floyd | like he's waiting for you to do something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press positive" 		

Floyd | The readout now shows [[ + ]].
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt spontaneously makes a beeline for the shadows, then returns
Floyd | to the light moments later.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press positive" 		

Floyd | The readout now shows [[ + ]].
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt's eyes appear to blink on and off as he slowly rotates 360
Floyd | degrees in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "press clear" 		

Floyd | The readout now shows [[ 0 ]].
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt's little motor begins to whine as he revs up in place, then
Floyd | shoots off straight ahead in a full wheelie.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "press declear" 		

Floyd | The readout now shows [[ + ]].
Floyd |
Floyd |    As you subconsciously mumble something to yourself, Squirt makes a
Floyd | brief squealing noise and throws out a little shower of sparks.  He
Floyd | seems unharmed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "apparently not"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type west on keyboard" 		

Floyd | I don't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x keyboard" 		

Floyd | It's just a standard 233-key model.  It is not currently attached to
Floyd | anything.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt lurches forward a bit, then stops, seemingly in response to a
Floyd | movement you just made.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "add 2" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I think we're a bit underprepared for this endgame area."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "mumble" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "mumble".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "squeal" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "squeal".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "There was a joystick back in the TV toy room."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "blow whistle" 		

Floyd | You blow into the whistle and nearly deafen yourself in the process.
Floyd | Pretty impressive for form-molded plastic.  Squirt releases the bolt.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt's movements trace out a perfect square on the ground in front
Floyd | of you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ah."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I tried that earlier, but we were holding him."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "blow whistle" 		

Floyd | You blow into the whistle and nearly deafen yourself in the process.
Floyd | Pretty impressive for form-molded plastic.  Squirt opens his gripper
Floyd | and closes it again.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt zooms around madly for a few seconds, turns to face you, and
Floyd | then zips right up to your feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take bolt" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt turns to face you.  His blinking little LED's make him look
Floyd | like he's waiting for you to do something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "huh. The whistle controls his gripper?"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Maybe he can drop the firecracker?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x whistle" 		

Floyd | It's just a cheap plastic whistle.  It's bright green and more than
Floyd | loud enough to annoy parents.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt spontaneously makes a beeline for the shadows, then returns
Floyd | to the light moments later.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-11-08-00:11:33CST 		DavidW asks, "Do we have other noisemakers? Or ways to change the whistle's tone?"
borowski has disconnected. 		
borowski has connected. 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put putti on whistle" 		

Floyd | You can't put anything on the plastic whistle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shout" 		

Floyd | You shout at the top of your lungs.  A shower of sparks shoots out from
Floyd | right above Squirt's gripper.  Squirt appears to be unharmed.
Floyd |
Floyd |    As you subconsciously mumble something to yourself, Squirt makes a
Floyd | brief squealing noise and throws out a little shower of sparks.  He
Floyd | seems unharmed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put putti in whistle" 		

Floyd | You can't put anything in the plastic whistle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Uh."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shout" 		

Floyd | You shout at the top of your lungs.  A shower of sparks shoots out from
Floyd | right above Squirt's gripper.  Squirt appears to be unharmed.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt lurches forward a bit, then stops, seemingly in response to a
Floyd | movement you just made.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "He sparks?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "scream" 		

Floyd | You shout at the top of your lungs.  A shower of sparks shoots out from
Floyd | right above Squirt's gripper.  Squirt appears to be unharmed.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt's movements trace out a perfect square on the ground in front
Floyd | of you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Same thing."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "whisper" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "whisper".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "clap" 		

Floyd | You clap your hands.  Squirt turns to the left.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt zooms around madly for a few seconds, turns to face you, and
Floyd | then zips right up to your feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Loud noises do seem to control him."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "whistle, yell, clap.. stamp?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "stamp" 		

Floyd | You stomp the ground.  Squirt moves forward.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt turns to face you.  His blinking little LED's make him look
Floyd | like he's waiting for you to do something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "What am I missing?"
		DavidW says, "ooh"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sing" 		

Floyd | Squirt opens his gripper and closes it again.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt spontaneously makes a beeline for the shadows, then returns
Floyd | to the light moments later.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "clap" 		

Floyd | You clap your hands.  Squirt turns to the left.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt's eyes appear to blink on and off as he slowly rotates 360
Floyd | degrees in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf51" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put firecracker in gripper" 		

Floyd | Done.
Floyd |
Floyd |    As you subconsciously mumble something to yourself, Squirt makes a
Floyd | brief squealing noise and throws out a little shower of sparks.  He
Floyd | seems unharmed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "yell" 		

Floyd | You shout at the top of your lungs.  A shower of sparks shoots out from
Floyd | right above Squirt's gripper.  The sparks light the firecracker's fuse!
Floyd | The firecracker explodes, sending Squirt spinning around in circles,
Floyd | squealing!
Floyd |
Floyd | *** Your score just went down by a point.  ***
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt lurches forward a bit, then stops, seemingly in response to a
Floyd | movement you just made.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | One command undone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cramped Service Area
Floyd |
Floyd |    This tiny cubicle must only be here for workers to service
Floyd | equipment.  There are many panels here firmly held in place with
Floyd | triangular screws.  There is a ventilation shaft at floor level in the
Floyd | west wall.  But it's not quite big enough for you to fit through, I'm
Floyd | afraid.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A little motorized toy named Squirt is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hee!"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Maybe we don't need to go right.."
		DavidW says, "but we do."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Lots of left turns?"
		DavidW says, "JC said we need to go forward, then right, then forward, then left, then forward."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hop" 		

Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cough" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "cough".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump" 		

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt's movements trace out a perfect square on the ground in front
Floyd | of you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hum" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "hum".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "buzz" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "buzz".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "fart" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "fart".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "burp" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "burp".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "belch" 		

Floyd | I don't know the word "belch".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You have grapes, 6 bananas, a bolt, a index card, a canister of liquid
Floyd | nitrogen, your thesis research floppy disk, a crypto watch (being
Floyd | worn), a Terminal Velocity Elite pass, a Zippikraft detachable
Floyd | keyboard, an EZ-Tech Blaser, an olive drab uniform, a metal coat

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "snap fingers" 		

Floyd | hanger, a box of KrudKo "Kolor-Me-Kool" snacks, a dog-eared leaflet, a
Floyd | tiny triangular pink circuit board, an ary ung, a hammer, a magnetic
Floyd | letter Q, a plastic whistle, a plastic plover's egg, some Akmi Wacki
Floyd | Putti, a mood ring (being worn), a poodle charm, a stick of butter, a
Floyd | Akmi Slysor Dysor, a blender, a mixer, a frying pan, a hunk of cheese,
Floyd | an overripe tomato, a piece of salami, a geode, a piece of string (tied
Floyd | to the akmid), an akmid (tied to the piece of string), a thermos of
Floyd | Barfee advanced growth formula QX-32-Beta, a can of Akmi Soopur Wundur
Floyd | Gro, a paperback book, a qualitative calculator, an RGB color chart, an
Floyd | empty ReVoLT Kola can, a Galacticard, and a matter mover autodialer.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt zooms around madly for a few seconds, turns to face you, and
Floyd | then zips right up to your feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | I don't know the word "snapfingers".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "snap" 		

Floyd | You snap your fingers.  Squirt turns to the right.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt turns to face you.  His blinking little LED's make him look
Floyd | like he's waiting for you to do something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot blaser" 		

Floyd | With what?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "I didn't type 'snapfingers'. Odd."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Anyway."
		DavidW says, "ooh, snap worked."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Go forth, little robot, and destroy the evil."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x squirt" 		

Floyd |    It's a motorized toy about the size of a golfball with the word
Floyd | "Squirt" printed in block letters on the microchip on its back.  Squirt
Floyd | has four little wheels, two beady eyes that look like LED's, and a
Floyd | metal gripper in front to hold (small) things with.
Floyd |
Floyd |    There are no other markings on it, so you can't determine its origin
Floyd | or intended function.
Floyd |
Floyd |    A firecracker is in Squirt's gripper.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Squirt spontaneously makes a beeline for the shadows, then returns
Floyd | to the light moments later.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "So stamp=forward, sing=open/close gripper, clap=turn left, yell=sparks, snap=turn right."
		DavidW says, "Gotta get it into the shaft first, I think."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take squirt" 		

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put squirt in shaft" 		

Floyd | You push little squirt into the ventilation shaft.  He rotates around
Floyd | to face you, blinks his tiny LED eyes in disbelief, turns, and heads
Floyd | into the gloom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Awwww. What a little cutie."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf52" 		

Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "stamp" 		

Floyd | You stomp the ground.  You hear Squirt moving around in the ventilation
Floyd | shaft.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "snap" 		

Floyd | You snap your fingers.  You hear Squirt turning in the ventilation
Floyd | shaft.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "stamp" 		

Floyd | You stomp the ground.  You hear Squirt moving around in the ventilation
Floyd | shaft.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "clap" 		

Floyd | You clap your hands.  You hear Squirt turning in the ventilation shaft.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "stamp" 		

Floyd | You stomp the ground.  You hear Squirt moving around in the ventilation
Floyd | shaft.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "yell" 		

Floyd | You shout at the top of your lungs.
Floyd |
Floyd |    You hear a "Pop" from within the ventilation shaft.  The lights go
Floyd | out briefly.  Moments later, Squirt emerges, LED's blinking gleefully.
Floyd | You scoop him up and head back to Terminal Velocity.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "I can't believe he's gone," Jax mutters, shell-shocked, as you
Floyd | enter the Data Den.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "We'll miss him, Jax, but it'll be OK," Mare chokes through her
Floyd | tears.  The two are terribly upset -- what could have happened?  Could
Floyd | JC have lost to the virus?  You cautiously venture a question about the
Floyd | outcome.
Floyd |
Floyd |    "He dumped every codepage in the net," Jax cries.  "JC used that
Floyd | nanosecond window to trigger a bug in the garbage collector that
Floyd | trashed every last executable instruction in all of AkNet.  He made
Floyd | sure nothing could escape.  The virus is gone."
Floyd |
Floyd |    But so is JC.
Floyd |
Floyd |    Jax holds up the disk that cradled JC's fetal code.  Light seems to
Floyd | bend in a corona around the disk.  This star still shines a bit:  left
Floyd | side white, right side black.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | EPILOGUE
Floyd |
Floyd |    The bride is on the left, her betrothed on the right.  The Man of
Floyd | God speaks:
Floyd |
Floyd |    "We come together today to witness a joining of souls.  Today, in
Floyd | the presence of God, Mare and Jax declare their intention to join
Floyd | together their souls, and in so doing the souls of their former lives'
Floyd | mates, and mates of the lives before that.  By making this commitment,
Floyd | they add another strand to God's everlasting lattice -- in His glory
Floyd | they further the sharing of love and of wisdom that God himself began
Floyd | with the creation of all people.  Let us pray now that God shall help
Floyd | us to bless this new thread in His eternal tapestry."
Floyd |
Floyd |    Jax kisses Mare; a trumpet sounds.  Glory!
Floyd |
Floyd |    Somewhere, a bit flips.  Its containing pattern stirs.
Floyd |
Floyd |    The pattern is good.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd | You have completed the game.
Floyd |
Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, or quit.
Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, or QUIT:  >

		DavidW says, "whoa"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Poor thing."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, he's fine."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "And.. it ends with a wedding?"
		DavidW says, "odd"
		DavidW says, "I don't understand that ending much at all."
		DavidW asks, "Perhaps it was meant to be continued?"
		borowski asks, "That's the end!?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Apparently!"
		DavidW says, "yes, it seems so. We may have missed some optional business."
		borowski says, "I still don't understand how we saved the universe from an evil menace by frying eggs."
		DavidW says, "Like, we never got past the dog. Never used the poodle charm. Never got past the fence on Irata. Never opened the vent grating under Ada's."
borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, or QUIT:  >

		DavidW says, "The Duhdha monks are way keen on fried eggs. It's one of the constant features of Unnkuulian Unadventures."
		borowski says, "Huh. I eat fried eggs several times a week. I guess I'm more spiritual than I knew."
		DavidW says, "unfortunately, we don't know what our final score is without the status line to tell us."
		borowski says, "Yeah, that's why I tried to 'undo'"
		DavidW says, "This game left open a heck of a lot of questions."
		borowski asks, "What grade will we get on our thesis?"
		borowski asks, "Will Ada ever get the prunes she so desires?"
		DavidW says, "Ada didn't want the prunes exactly; she wanted prune seeds from her grandmother."
		DavidW says, "er for her grandmother"
		DavidW says, "I also wish the game would've let us visit the university that Gavin and Ada were attending. And there should've been coords for both the university and Tode (our homeworld) in our autodialer."
		DavidW says, "It's crazy that, I guess, all those seeds available from the Barfee market were probably growable."
		borowski says, "Huh, yeah, that's probably true."
		borowski says, "The game had a sea of red herrings."
		DavidW asks, "If we grew a pea from pea seeds and shot the pea with the ary ung, would an ape have attacked us?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "They are all growable, but nothing interesting would have happened."
		genericgeekgirl peers at the source code.
		DavidW asks, "There's source code?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yup. [LINK]"
		DavidW | "Bleah! The froot tastes like sugar-coated syntheplast!"
		DavidW says, "Looks like we could've turned the EZ-Tech Blaser into a Cheez Blaster."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Ooh."


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ClubFloyd Transcript:
Hallow Eve by Michael Wayne Phipps Jr.
As played on ifMUD on October 31, 2012

The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction.

Below is a transcript of Hallow Eve written by Michael Wayne Phipps Jr.. Hallow Eve was released as part of the 2011 Spring Thing. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki.

WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page.
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genericghostgirl says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask halloweve" 		

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Today is October 31st, 1987. Your friends have invited you to join
Floyd | them for a night of camping and partying. The campsite is around a two
Floyd | hour drive from where you live now. You aren't sure who the property
Floyd | belongs to, but it's not far from where Fred Murks' grandmother lived.
Floyd | You, Fred, and another friend of yours named Steve Dirks had made the
Floyd | site as kids before she died a couple of years later from pneumonia.
Floyd | You haven't been back since then. It was at least a cool place to go
Floyd | when you were too young to be smoking cigarettes because no one ever
Floyd | bothered you out there.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your friends are bringing the camping equipment, food, and beer. It
Floyd | should be a fun night. Supposedly some girls were going to be showing
Floyd | up as well, but we'll see about that.
Floyd |
Floyd | You come around one last tight curve and see Fred's car parked on the
Floyd | side of the road. It's probably safe to assume that they have already
Floyd | gathered their stuff and went to set up camp. You park nearby, and
Floyd | then feel the chilly air of the Fall afternoon as you step out of your
Floyd | car and lock the door...
Floyd |
Floyd | (Hit any key to continue)

		
genericghostgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             5:55 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | Hallow Eve
Floyd | An interactive fiction of horror by Michael Wayne Phipps Jr.
Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 111028 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Roadside
Floyd | You are standing by the road that brought you here. A large mountain
Floyd | looms on the other side of it. You can barely make out the faint white
Floyd | noise of rushing water coming far from the southeast. To the west of
Floyd | you is a clearing in the briers which provides an entrance to the
Floyd | woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | NOTE: If this your first time playing Hallow Eve, please type
Floyd | "about".
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a green car and a blue car here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "about" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             5:55 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > ABOUT
Floyd |
Floyd | Hallow Eve is my first work of interactive fiction. Release 1 of it
Floyd | placed last in the Spring Thing 2011 competition. This release was
Floyd | created to address many issues and bugs pointed out by critics. Some
Floyd | story text has been changed or added to correct grammar and to make
Floyd | things a bit more solid and enjoyable for the player. However, the
Floyd | pulp of the story has not been changed. This game does contain "strong
Floyd | language" and the subject matter may not be for everyone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Please see the ReadMe.txt file included in the .zip file for more
Floyd | information on Hallow Eve. Thank you for playing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericghostgirl says, "For anyone unaware, this is jizaboz's game."
Lionheart arrives, full of funk, but no fun. 		Jizaboz exclaims, "woo!"
Spike says (to Floyd), "x blue car" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             5:56 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BLUE CAR
Floyd |
Floyd | Your blue car is here. It's plain little Japanese model, but it gets
Floyd | you where you need to go. The only complaint with it you have is that
Floyd | there's no lock on the gas cap. On a recent trip to the city, someone
Floyd | stole all of your fuel.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the blue car is a can of WD-50.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x green car" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             5:57 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GREEN CAR
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred's car is about ten years old and is the size of a boat. He
Floyd | painted it himself with a bright speckled green that would usually be
Floyd | seen on a carnival ride rather than an automobile.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "wow, grammar +a"
		genericghostgirl says, "Hee."
Spike says (to Floyd), "take can" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             5:58 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE CAN
Floyd |
Floyd | The blue car isn't open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "open blue car" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             5:59 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN BLUE CAR
Floyd |
Floyd | The blue car is locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             6:00 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a wristwatch (being worn)
Floyd |   clothes (being worn)
Floyd |   a blue key
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "unlock blue car with blue key" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             6:01 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNLOCK BLUE CAR WITH BLUE KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | You unlock the blue car.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "open blue car" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             6:02 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN BLUE CAR
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the blue car.
Floyd |
Floyd | A pink jeep arrives from the road, and parks beside of your car. You
Floyd | see three girls step out of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericghostgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             6:03 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | As good-looking as ever.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see three girls walking to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Spike sighs. "They didn't even notice me."
Spike says (to Floyd), "take can" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             6:04 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE CAN
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x can" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             6:05 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CAN
Floyd |
Floyd | A can of WD-50. There is a label on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "well, your description is pretty bland..."
		genericghostgirl says, "As good looking as ever just isn't very good looking."
Spike says (to Floyd), "read label" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             6:06 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ LABEL
Floyd |
Floyd | *** WD - 50 ***
Floyd |
Floyd | ELIMINATES SQUEAKS!
Floyd | DISPLACES MOISTURE!
Floyd | LOOSENS RUSTED BOLTS!
Floyd | OPENS STUCK MECHANISMS!
Floyd |
Floyd | -TO USE-
Floyd | JUST "SPRAY"!
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "open green car" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             6:07 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN GREEN CAR
Floyd |
Floyd | The green car is locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-31-21:44:16CDT 		
genericghostgirl says (to Floyd), "break into green car" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             6:07 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > BREAK INTO GREEN CAR
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "spray hair" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             6:07 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > SPRAY HAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Parser_Error arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. 		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x clothes" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             6:08 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CLOTHES
Floyd |
Floyd | Your typical attire; jeans, sneakers, and a plain sweatshirt.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x watch" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             6:09 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WATCH
Floyd |
Floyd | Your stylish wristwatch with a wildly-colored armband. The current
Floyd | time is 6:08 pm.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericghostgirl says, "We're in the past."
		Jizaboz says, "heh, weird"
		genericghostgirl says, "Presumably it's reporting the turn count just before that action, whereas the one in the status line includes it."
		Jizaboz says, "Yeah"
		genericghostgirl says, "Off by one errors are very scary, though :P"
genericghostgirl says (to Floyd), "x sweatshirt" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             6:09 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SWEATSHIRT
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "uh-oh"
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "look" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             6:10 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | Roadside
Floyd | You are standing by the road that brought you here. A large mountain
Floyd | looms on the other side of it. You can barely make out the faint white
Floyd | noise of rushing water coming far from the southeast. To the west of
Floyd | you is a clearing in the briers which provides an entrance to the
Floyd | woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a pink jeep (closed and empty), a green car and a blue car
Floyd | (empty) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericghostgirl says, "If you're making notes for fixes, it's also 'briars'."
		genericghostgirl asks, "Shall we go after the girls?"
		Spike asks, "Check out the river?"
		Jizaboz says, "Yeah that's one of those words with two spellings.. heh"
		Spike says, "Or the girls work too."
Spike says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         6:11 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are on the beginning of a dirt trail in the woods that leads
Floyd | north. A clearing in the briers to the east will take back to the
Floyd | road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericghostgirl asks, "How dare they ignore us. Clearly the goal of the game is to hunt them down and kill them in horrible ways. I mean.. what was I saying?"
Spike says (to Floyd), "x woods" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         6:11 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WOODS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x briers" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         6:11 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BRIERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Spike says, "Reminder me never to go camping with 3g."
Spike says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             6:12 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Campsite
Floyd | You are standing in the campsite that you and Fred made years ago. A
Floyd | large dome-shaped tent sits on the dirt. A nice fire blazes in the
Floyd | firepit. Most of the leaves have been cleared out of this roughly 50 x
Floyd | 50 foot area. The trail which brought you here continues north. The
Floyd | path to the road is south of here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Rachel, Brenda, Lola, Steve, Fred and a picnic table (on
Floyd | which are a battery-powered lantern and a Styrofoam cooler) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You approach as Steve and Fred are putting the finishing touches on
Floyd | the tent. Fred turns to see you approaching and says "Hey man! You
Floyd | made it! Awesome! Have a beer, man!"
Floyd |
Floyd | You smile while you observe the area around you. Everything is here
Floyd | just as you remember it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericghostgirl says (to Floyd), "drink beer" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             6:13 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > DRINK BEER
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the cooler and grab a beer. After drinking it, you discard
Floyd | the can and feel more relaxed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "recycle can" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             6:13 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > RECYCLE CAN
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericghostgirl says, "> throw can into river"
		Spike says, "I guess it is the 80's"
		Jizaboz says, "haha"
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "kick can" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             6:13 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > KICK CAN
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x Rachel" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             6:14 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X RACHEL
Floyd |
Floyd | Rachel Fuss is shortest of the three girls. In your opinion, she is
Floyd | also of shortest in the looks department. Her hair is cut
Floyd | shoulder-length, and she only teases her bangs to about half the
Floyd | height of Brenda's. She is wearing a terribly-designed sweatshirt that
Floyd | is a mess of buttons and stripes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sun is beginning to set, casting long shadows from the trees
Floyd | around you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x Rachel's sweatshirt" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             6:14 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X RACHEL'S SWEATSHIRT
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x brenda" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             6:15 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BRENDA
Floyd |
Floyd | Brenda Bender is a tall, skinny and generally attractive girl. Her
Floyd | overly hair-sprayed, bleach-blond hairdo is accented by a large poof
Floyd | of bangs, which resembles a crab attacking her forehead.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericghostgirl asks, "The ugly girl dies first?"
		Spike says, "Brenda is only 'generally attractive' though"
		Spike says, ">fix brenda's hair"
Spike says (to Floyd), "x lola" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             6:22 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LOLA
Floyd |
Floyd | Lola Lotta is a big girl with strikingly beautiful and piercing green
Floyd | eyes, highlighted by her dark eye make-up. She's wearing plaid pants
Floyd | and a black t-shirt for a band named "The Disease", from under which a
Floyd | bit of her pale-skinned belly is exposed.
Floyd |
Floyd | Steve lights another cigarette, and says "Dude, this music sucks."
Floyd |
Floyd | Rachel says "Gee, sorry Steve. I don't have any heavy metal punk
Floyd | crap."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Lionheart asks, "Rachel's hair is half the length of Brenda's, and she is the shortest girl. Brenda is taller than Lola, and a blond. Who is the redhead?"
		genericghostgirl says, "Haha."
Spike says (to Floyd), "x steve" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             6:23 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STEVE
Floyd |
Floyd | Steve Dirks is a friend of yours that you made in middle school. His
Floyd | family moved to your neighborhood from up north. He sports denim jean
Floyd | pants, a jean jacket riddled in patches from various punk bands,
Floyd | combat boots and a mohawk, dyed green. Tall and slim with piercing
Floyd | blue eyes, he has always been a hit with the girls despite his
Floyd | rebellious appearance.
Floyd |
Floyd | After a while, Lola giggles to herself a bit, and asks "So, who knows
Floyd | some good ghost stories?" Fred proudly exclaims "I do!", and grabs
Floyd | another beer as he begins to tell the story he's told you and Steve a
Floyd | hundred times...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "ha"
		genericghostgirl asks, "Despite. Or because of?"
		genericghostgirl swoon.
		Spike says, "Aw. 3g is going to kill him last."
Spike says (to Floyd), "x fred" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             6:30 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FRED
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred Murks is wearing overalls and a baseball hat, which is on his
Floyd | head backwards. He's a large guy of roughly 350 pounds, and has been a
Floyd | friend of yours since Kindergarten.
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred says "An old gem mine is near here, and a bad accident
Floyd | happened there in the 1890s. They had been doing some blasting with
Floyd | dynamite to open it up more, and the mine had gotten pretty unstable
Floyd | from that. The mine ended up collapsing on a couple of dudes working
Floyd | in there. Some people said it probably killed them instantly, but
Floyd | others say that they were trapped in there a really long time before
Floyd | they died."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Anyway, the mining company tried to open the mine again after that,
Floyd | but it never really came back. I talked to people who had relatives
Floyd | that worked there, and they said it was haunted! They would hear
Floyd | voices and shit in there, man!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred looks around a bit, lowers his voice, and says "They say that you
Floyd | can still hear the sound of the miners crying for help..."
Floyd |
Floyd | Lola says "Creepy! See, I heard that there's a haunted house
Floyd | somewhere around here. A real haunted house. A doctor lived there and
Floyd | he got in a bunch of trouble for malpractice or something."
Floyd |
Floyd | Brenda says "I heard about that! The Pane house! Doctor Pane!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Rachel gives Brenda a "shhh!" and a mean look.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "take lantern" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             6:39 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LANTERN
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | Lola says "I heard that after he couldn't work as a doctor anymore, he
Floyd | locked himself up in one room of the house for a month with some of
Floyd | his scientific equipment. His wife kept hearing and smelling weird
Floyd | things from the room and every day she would bang on the door and beg
Floyd | him to come out."
Floyd |
Floyd | Steve says "Damn! I never heard about all this! Did he ever come out?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Lola's mouth gently curves into a mischievous grin as she says "Oh
Floyd | yeah, he came out. And when he did, he was completely insane. He
Floyd | murdered his wife, and when the police got there, they found her
Floyd | laying on the floor of the kitchen with her skull cut open and part of
Floyd | her brain missing."
Floyd |
Floyd | Brenda and Rachel gasp.
Floyd |
Floyd | Lola says "They never did find Doctor Pane though. He was supposed to
Floyd | have a son, but they never found him either. I always thought it would
Floyd | be kind of cool to check out that house, but I have no idea exactly
Floyd | where it was. Just somewhere around here in these mountains. It's
Floyd | probably been bulldozed or burned down by now anyway."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x lantern" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             6:44 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LANTERN
Floyd |
Floyd | A battery-powered lantern.
Floyd |
Floyd | Everyone sits around in awkward silence for a bit, presumably both
Floyd | deep in thought and a bit freaked out after the round of ghost story
Floyd | sharing.
Floyd |
Floyd | Out of nowhere Fred blurts out "Anyone else getting hungry?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Lola perks up "Hehe! Yeah, actually I am!"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Cool." says Fred. "I just got to run to my car real quick to grab the
Floyd | tin foil and stuff."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Spike asks, "Follow Fred?"
		Jizaboz says, "No reason to in this version"
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-31-21:59:16CDT 		Jizaboz says, "The first few scenes are kind of on the rails. You can wait from here for a bit."
		Spike says, "Ah OK"
Spike says (to Floyd), "x table" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             6:59 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | A wooden picnic table is here. Last year, everyone played Tunnels
Floyd | & Trouble-Makers on this table a lot more than actually ate at
Floyd | it.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the picnic table is a Styrofoam cooler.
Floyd |
Floyd | When fred begins to walk to his car, Brenda yells "Hey! I want to go
Floyd | check out the river first, before it gets too dark!" Then, she
Floyd | stumbles to her feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | Rachel says "I don't want to walk over to that stupid river. It's
Floyd | freezing."
Floyd |
Floyd | Before Brenda can respond, Fred hastily turns around and volunteers to
Floyd | walk with her down to the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred and Brenda walk off to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You spend the next fifteen minutes just hanging out at the campsite,
Floyd | watching the fire burn and having another beer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x cooler" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             7:00 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X COOLER
Floyd |
Floyd | A cheap, Styrofoam cooler commonly sold in gas stations and grocery
Floyd | stores. It contains the ice and beer you bought on the way here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Night falls. Darkness surrounds all you can see beyond the light of
Floyd | the campfire.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             7:01 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Much to the disgust of Rachel, Steve and Lola seem to be getting more
Floyd | and more flirtatious with one another. Steve is pinching and grabbing
Floyd | at Lola, which she accepts with smiles and giggles.
Floyd |
Floyd | Rachel says "Get a damn room you two! Jeez!"
Floyd |
Floyd | They laugh a bit at Rachel's protest, and Steve says "Do you wanna go
Floyd | out for a walk in the woods Lola?" He turns to you shrugs. He says
Floyd | "You can come too if you want to, dude."
Floyd |
Floyd | Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. Maybe Rachel will cool off or get
Floyd | bored and leave. Either one works for you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "flirt with rachel" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             7:01 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > FLIRT WITH RACHEL
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "kiss rachel" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             7:01 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > KISS RACHEL
Floyd |
Floyd | Rachel says "Fucking perve! Get off of me! You are so not my type!"
Floyd |
Floyd | After that awkward situation, you can't help but wonder what in the
Floyd | world Rachel's "type" could be...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Darkness                                             7:02 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Campsite
Floyd | You are standing in the campsite that you and Fred made years ago. A
Floyd | large dome-shaped tent sits on the dirt. A nice fire blazes in the
Floyd | firepit. Most of the leaves have been cleared out of this roughly 50 x
Floyd | 50 foot area. The trail which brought you here continues north. The
Floyd | path to the road is south of here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Rachel, Lola, Steve and a picnic table (on which is a
Floyd | Styrofoam cooler) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Darkness
Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are following Lola and Steve.
Floyd |
Floyd | Steve says "This trail goes deeper into the woods but it ends soon."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Spike asks, "Did we leave the campsite?"
Spike says (to Floyd), "turn on lantern" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         7:04 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN ON LANTERN
Floyd |
Floyd | You switch the battery-powered lantern on.
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are walking along a dirt trail in the woods that goes south, and
Floyd | starts to fade towards the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can vaguely hear the sound of running water from the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Lola and Steve here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are following Lola and Steve.
Floyd |
Floyd | Lola says "Are you sure we should keep going, Steve?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Steve replies "Of course, baby! We never explored all of these woods
Floyd | when we were kids, but I always found our way back."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "we might want some light, yeah"
Spike says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           7:08 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd | You are following Steve and Lola right now.
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same. Some boulders form an overhang over a deep,
Floyd | muddy hole here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Lola and Steve here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are following Lola and Steve.
Floyd |
Floyd | Steve grabs Lola's hand and says "Watch out, don't fall into the pit!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Lola pauses for a few seconds to look down into the muddy hole. "How
Floyd | deep is it?" she asks.
Floyd |
Floyd | "About twelve feet or so." says Steve. "We crawled down into it a
Floyd | couple of times. There's this weird cool draft of air you can feel
Floyd | coming blowing out of a crack in the rock down there, even in the
Floyd | summer time! Maybe we'll come back here tomorrow and I'll show you.
Floyd | There's a little junkyard close to here too that we would find some
Floyd | rad stuff in sometimes. Let's keep walking a little more."
Floyd |
Floyd | You remember the "junkyard" being nothing more than a pile of random
Floyd | stuff in a ditch to the southwest of here. There was new junk just
Floyd | about every week dumped there, some of it being cool stuff (to a kid)
Floyd | like worn-out tools or broken electronics. However, it doesn't look
Floyd | like Steve is interested in going that direction tonight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           7:09 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Lola and Steve here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are following Lola and Steve.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Snap!" The three of you all jump in shock due to a random sound from
Floyd | within the woods that sounds like a branch breaking.
Floyd |
Floyd | Lola clutches Steve tightly and he turns to look at you while
Floyd | chuckling.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Let's turn back, Steve." Lola says.
Floyd |
Floyd | Steve replies "Oh come on baby, it was just a squirrel or something.
Floyd | Let's go just a little bit further before we turn back."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Base of the Hill                                     7:10 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Base of the Hill
Floyd | A very tall and steep hill is ahead of you. Steps that are mostly
Floyd | covered in leaves have been made with flat stones which lead up the
Floyd | hill. You can see a house up the stairs from here. The trail splits
Floyd | back to the south and southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Lola and Steve here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are following Lola and Steve.
Floyd |
Floyd | Steve turns to you and asks "Dude, I've never seen these stairs
Floyd | before. Do you remember this?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You think about it briefly, then shake your head. This whole situation
Floyd | is beginning to make you feel a bit nervous, though you can't help but
Floyd | also feel like this is a bit fun.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Front of the Dark House                              7:11 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing in front of an old, dark house that lies to the
Floyd | north. It looks to be two stories. You can't see any lights on inside
Floyd | from here. The wooden exterior of the house has been painted a dull,
Floyd | reddish brown. You can walk around northwest or the northeast to get
Floyd | to the sides of the house. Rustic steps made of stone lead down
Floyd | towards deeper woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Lola, Steve and a Jack-O-Lantern (lit) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are following Lola and Steve.
Floyd |
Floyd | Lola points to the north and says "Look! A house! They've got a
Floyd | jack-o-lantern lit up and everything! That's kind of weird. I wouldn't
Floyd | think that they get many trick-or-treaters out here."
Floyd |
Floyd | Steve says "I don't know. Maybe they've got kids or something. We
Floyd | should probably go talk to them for a minute. Because you know this
Floyd | might be their property we're camping on. I don't want them to get
Floyd | pissed off at us."
Floyd |
Floyd | Lola says "Do you think so, baby? I don't know. Well, yeah. You're
Floyd | probably right."
Floyd |
Floyd | Steve takes Lola's hand and they walk together onto the porch. Steve
Floyd | puts another cigarette in his mouth and knocks on the front door while
Floyd | dropping his lighter onto the porch and cursing in a futile attempt to
Floyd | retrieve it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door creaks open. Lola leans her head in slightly. "Hello?" she
Floyd | says. "Wow, hehe, that's big bucket of candy..." She moves just past
Floyd | the threshold of the door, and Steve follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hello?" you hear him say within.
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly, the door slams shut!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "open door" 		

Floyd ]  Front of the Dark House                              7:12 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | It seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear Lola screaming and you run to the porch of the house in
Floyd | panic. The door won't open. From beyond it, you hear Lola yell "What
Floyd | is it Steve?! What is that thing?!" You hear Steve yell "Oh god!",
Floyd | followed by lots of loud banging noises. Then... unnerving silence.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear the door emit an audible click.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "open door" 		

Floyd ]  Front of the Dark House                              7:13 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the large door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "enter house" 		

Floyd ]  Front of the Dark House                              7:14 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER HOUSE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                7:15 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foyer
Floyd | You are standing in the foyer of the dark house. There are doorways to
Floyd | the east and to the north. You can exit the house through the doorway
Floyd | to the south. Stairs lead up to a second level.
Floyd |
Floyd | A ghostly skeletal hand creeps out of the black curtain which is
Floyd | shortly followed by a long arm, draped in black cloth. A hooded skull
Floyd | then emerges. What stands before you now is some tall and strange
Floyd | skeletal spectre that you can't explain. You are stunned to see this
Floyd | macabre entity, but it shows no sign of seeing you. Perhaps due to a
Floyd | lack of eyeballs.
Floyd |
Floyd | It then walks to the center of the room and stands there, and slowly
Floyd | points to a large plastic cauldron filled with assorted candies
Floyd | sitting on the floor by the front door. You are in a state of
Floyd | disbelief. What the hell is going on here?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "eat candy" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                7:16 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > EAT CANDY
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking Candy)
Floyd | It looks like it's been tampered with. You've heard enough urban
Floyd | legends about razor blades and poison put into candy by lunatics than
Floyd | to risk eating it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x spectre" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                7:17 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SPECTRE
Floyd |
Floyd | This skeletal spectre cloaked in black must be nearly seven feet tall!
Floyd | The only features beneath the cloak you can see are his emotionless,
Floyd | skull face and his awkwardly long, boney hands.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "shake hands" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                7:17 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHAKE HANDS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              7:18 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | You are standing in a dirty and dusty kitchen. Filth and miscellaneous
Floyd | bones of unknown creatures litter the area. Despite the many signs of
Floyd | neglect, it does appear that the room has been used recently used due
Floyd | to clean smears in the dust on some surfaces here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a chalk outline of a person on the floor, and in the center of
Floyd | it is a huge blood stain.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a kitchen counter (on which is a butcher knife) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		
genericghostgirl says (to Floyd), "x stain" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              7:19 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STAIN
Floyd |
Floyd | This blood stain is dark and old.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericghostgirl says, "Whew."
mummifiedhand arrives, full of funk, but no fun. 		
Spike says (to Floyd), "outline" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              7:19 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUTLINE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x outline" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              7:20 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X OUTLINE
Floyd |
Floyd | The outline is quite faded, but still visible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x knife" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              7:21 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X KNIFE
Floyd |
Floyd | A long, sharp-looking butcher knife.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "take knife" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              7:22 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE KNIFE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "now might be good time to save"
Spike says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
Spike says (to Floyd), "cf33" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              7:22 pm
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              7:23 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | You are standing in a dirty and dusty kitchen. Filth and miscellaneous
Floyd | bones of unknown creatures litter the area. Despite the many signs of
Floyd | neglect, it does appear that the room has been used recently used due
Floyd | to clean smears in the dust on some surfaces here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a chalk outline of a person on the floor, and in the center of
Floyd | it is a huge blood stain.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a kitchen counter here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x bones" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              7:24 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BONES
Floyd |
Floyd | Assorted bones of various shapes and sizes. Some appear to have
Floyd | belonged to chickens or cows, the rest you are unsure of.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                7:25 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foyer
Floyd | You are standing in the foyer of the dark house. There are doorways to
Floyd | the east and to the north. You can exit the house through the doorway
Floyd | to the south. Stairs lead up to a second level.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a skeletal spectre here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                7:26 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | The skeletal spectre blocks the path, and slowly shakes his finger at
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                7:27 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | The skeletal spectre blocks the path, and slowly shakes his finger at
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "stab spectre" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                7:27 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > STAB SPECTRE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericghostgirl says (to Floyd), "give the spectre the finger" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                7:27 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE THE SPECTRE THE FINGER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "Maybe we should get out of here talk to the others"
Spike says (to Floyd), "x spectre" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                7:28 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SPECTRE
Floyd |
Floyd | This skeletal spectre cloaked in black must be nearly seven feet tall!
Floyd | The only features beneath the cloak you can see are his emotionless,
Floyd | skull face and his awkwardly long, boney hands.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Front of the Dark House                              7:29 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing in front of an old, dark house that lies to the
Floyd | north. It looks to be two stories. You can't see any lights on inside
Floyd | from here. The wooden exterior of the house has been painted a dull,
Floyd | reddish brown. You can walk around northwest or the northeast to get
Floyd | to the sides of the house. Rustic steps made of stone lead down
Floyd | towards deeper woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a lighter and a Jack-O-Lantern (lit) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericghostgirl says (to Floyd), "take lighter" 		

Floyd ]  Front of the Dark House                              7:30 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LIGHTER
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericghostgirl says (to Floyd), "take jack-o-lantern" 		

Floyd ]  Front of the Dark House                              7:31 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE JACK-O-LANTERN
Floyd |
Floyd | You have no need for that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericghostgirl pouts.
Spike says (to Floyd), "x jack-o-lantern" 		

Floyd ]  Front of the Dark House                              7:32 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X JACK-O-LANTERN
Floyd |
Floyd | A scary-looking Jack-O-Lantern. A small flame illuminates the carved
Floyd | pumpkin from inside; producing a faint, yellow light.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  West Side of the Dark House                          7:33 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | West Side of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing on the west side of the house. All of the windows you
Floyd | can see here are boarded up. The backyard of the house is to the
Floyd | northeast. You can also head back to the front of the house to the
Floyd | southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "hah I forgot about the lighter"
Spike says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]  Graveyard                                            7:34 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Graveyard
Floyd | You are in a small graveyard at the rear of the dark house which
Floyd | contains about twenty tombstones. All of the tombstones look very old.
Floyd | One of the graves looks recently disturbed. Exits are to the southeast
Floyd | and southwest. There is also what looks like the entrance to a cellar
Floyd | to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | Something catches your attention over by the graves...
Floyd |
Floyd | You see the ground by the disturbed grave move, and out of it slowly
Floyd | rises the rotting head of a human corpse. Chunks of dirt are falling
Floyd | from its face, along with maggots and worms. The corpse then rises
Floyd | completely from the grave, and begins walking towards you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x corpse" 		

Floyd ]  Graveyard                                            7:35 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CORPSE
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated, rotting corpse. Maggots are crawling around in its
Floyd | eye-sockets.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  East Side of the Dark House                          7:36 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd | You run full speed away from the animated corpse. Horrible thoughts
Floyd | racing through your mind are spotted with memories of an old black and
Floyd | white zombie movie you saw when you were younger. Most importantly the
Floyd | methods of destroying the creatures; bullets to their brains and a
Floyd | showering firebombs. You really wish you had a gun or a Malotov
Floyd | cocktail right about now.
Floyd |
Floyd | East Side of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing on the east side of the house. All of the windows you
Floyd | can see here are boarded up. The backyard of the house is to the
Floyd | northwest. You can also head back to the front of the house to the
Floyd | southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a large, gnarled tree here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x tree" 		

Floyd ]  East Side of the Dark House                          7:37 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TREE
Floyd |
Floyd | The tree is close to the house, and large branches are over-hanging
Floyd | the roof.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "climb tree" 		

Floyd ]  East Side of the Dark House                          7:37 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLIMB TREE
Floyd |
Floyd | Try "up" or "down" instead.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Roof of the Dark House                               7:38 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | You easily climb up the tree and drop from an over-hanging branch onto
Floyd | the roof.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roof of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing on the roof of the house. A few branches of a large
Floyd | tree reach near the edge of the roof, providing a way back down. From
Floyd | here you can see a second-story window to the southwest, that is level
Floyd | to the roof you are standing on. The window is closed and dark inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "open window" 		

Floyd ]  Roof of the Dark House                               7:39 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | It's stuck!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-31-22:14:16CDT 		
Spike says (to Floyd), "spray window" 		

Floyd ]  Roof of the Dark House                               7:39 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > SPRAY WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to spray the window with?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "spray window with can" 		

Floyd ]  Roof of the Dark House                               7:40 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > SPRAY WINDOW WITH CAN
Floyd |
Floyd | You spray the cracks of the window with WD-50 liberally. You've used
Floyd | up the last of the WD-50, so you toss the can into the woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "open window" 		

Floyd ]  Roof of the Dark House                               7:41 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | The well-lubricated window now moves with a little effort.
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the window.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "enter" 		

Floyd ]  Roof of the Dark House                               7:42 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER
Floyd |
Floyd | You must supply a noun.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "enter window" 		

Floyd ]  Children's Bedroom                                   7:43 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Children's Bedroom
Floyd | You are in what appears to be a bedroom which belongs to a child. The
Floyd | wallpaper is covered in pictures of clowns and circus events. There's
Floyd | some graffiti on one wall written in crayon. There is an awful smell
Floyd | present here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a couple of marbles scattered here. A blue door is to the
Floyd | east, or you can go out through the window to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a blue door, marbles and a dirty blanket here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x marbles" 		

Floyd ]  Children's Bedroom                                   7:44 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MARBLES
Floyd |
Floyd | A few assorted marbles of different shapes and colors.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x blanket" 		

Floyd ]  Children's Bedroom                                   7:45 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BLANKET
Floyd |
Floyd | This blanket is small and must have belonged to a child. It must have
Floyd | been here for quite a while. it looks very dry despite being heavily
Floyd | stained.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "take all" 		

Floyd ]  Children's Bedroom                                   7:46 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | marbles: Taken.
Floyd | dirty blanket: Spots of the dirty blanket look very soiled, so you
Floyd | refrain from taking it. Only scraps of it would possibly be of any
Floyd | use.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "open door" 		

Floyd ]  Children's Bedroom                                   7:47 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | It seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "unlock blue door with blue key" 		

Floyd ]  Children's Bedroom                                   7:48 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNLOCK BLUE DOOR WITH BLUE KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit the lock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "exit" 		

Floyd ]  Roof of the Dark House                               7:49 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > EXIT
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Roof of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing on the roof of the house. A few branches of a large
Floyd | tree reach near the edge of the roof, providing a way back down. From
Floyd | here you can see a second-story window to the southwest, that is level
Floyd | to the roof you are standing on. The window is open and dark inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericghostgirl says (to Floyd), "in" 		

Floyd ]  Children's Bedroom                                   7:50 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > IN
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Children's Bedroom
Floyd | You are in what appears to be a bedroom which belongs to a child. The
Floyd | wallpaper is covered in pictures of clowns and circus events. There's
Floyd | some graffiti on one wall written in crayon. There is an awful smell
Floyd | present here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a couple of marbles scattered here. A blue door is to the
Floyd | east, or you can go out through the window to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a blue door and a dirty blanket here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericghostgirl says (to Floyd), "x graffiti" 		

Floyd ]  Children's Bedroom                                   7:50 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GRAFFITI
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericghostgirl says (to Floyd), "read graffiti" 		

Floyd ]  Children's Bedroom                                   7:50 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ GRAFFITI
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "enter window" 		

Floyd ]  Roof of the Dark House                               7:51 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Roof of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing on the roof of the house. A few branches of a large
Floyd | tree reach near the edge of the roof, providing a way back down. From
Floyd | here you can see a second-story window to the southwest, that is level
Floyd | to the roof you are standing on. The window is open and dark inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Spike says, "oops sorry"
Spike says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Children's Bedroom                                   7:50 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Children's Bedroom
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Spike says, "I didn't notice you had gone back inside."
genericghostgirl says (to Floyd), "x wallpaper" 		

Floyd ]  Children's Bedroom                                   7:51 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WALLPAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | Wallpaper decorated with clowns and circus events covers the entire
Floyd | room. There is some grafitti written in crayon on one wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x wallpaper" 		

Floyd ]  Children's Bedroom                                   7:52 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WALLPAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | Wallpaper decorated with clowns and circus events covers the entire
Floyd | room. There is some grafitti written in crayon on one wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericghostgirl says (to Floyd), "x grafiti" 		

Floyd ]  Children's Bedroom                                   7:52 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GRAFITI
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericghostgirl says, "Oh."
Spike says (to Floyd), "x graffiti" 		

Floyd ]  Children's Bedroom                                   7:52 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GRAFFITI
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericghostgirl says (to Floyd), "x grafitti" 		

Floyd ]  Children's Bedroom                                   7:53 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GRAFITTI
Floyd |
Floyd | The grafitti says:
Floyd |
Floyd | "MARBELS ROL ROUND DEN HE FALL DOWN!"
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericghostgirl says, "I remembered there was a typo, but forgot which one :)"
		Spike says, "Ah."
Spike says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]  Roof of the Dark House                               7:54 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Roof of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing on the roof of the house. A few branches of a large
Floyd | tree reach near the edge of the roof, providing a way back down. From
Floyd | here you can see a second-story window to the southwest, that is level
Floyd | to the roof you are standing on. The window is open and dark inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  East Side of the Dark House                          7:55 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You grab a hold of the nearby over-hanging branch and shimmy yourself
Floyd | down the tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | East Side of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing on the east side of the house. All of the windows you
Floyd | can see here are boarded up. The backyard of the house is to the
Floyd | northwest. You can also head back to the front of the house to the
Floyd | southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a large, gnarled tree here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd ]  Front of the Dark House                              7:56 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing in front of an old, dark house that lies to the
Floyd | north. It looks to be two stories. You can't see any lights on inside
Floyd | from here. The wooden exterior of the house has been painted a dull,
Floyd | reddish brown. You can walk around northwest or the northeast to get
Floyd | to the sides of the house. Rustic steps made of stone lead down
Floyd | towards deeper woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a Jack-O-Lantern (lit) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                7:57 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foyer
Floyd | You are standing in the foyer of the dark house. There are doorways to
Floyd | the east and to the north. You can exit the house through the doorway
Floyd | to the south. Stairs lead up to a second level.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a skeletal spectre here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "roll marble" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                7:57 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > ROLL MARBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "drop marble" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                7:57 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP MARBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                7:58 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   marbles
Floyd |   a lighter
Floyd |   a butcher knife
Floyd |   a battery-powered lantern (providing light)
Floyd |   a wristwatch (being worn)
Floyd |   clothes (being worn)
Floyd |   a blue key
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "drop marbles" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                7:59 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP MARBLES
Floyd |
Floyd | You drop the marbles onto the smooth floor, and they begin rolling to
Floyd | the other side of the room. The skeletal spectre lunges forward as if
Floyd | to catch them, but ends up performing a short and clumsy dance before
Floyd | he falls into a heap of bones and cloth on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | Then, you think you hear a child whisper "Thank you." behind you. You
Floyd | turn around to look, but no one is there. You then turn back around to
Floyd | face the center of the room, and notice that the heap of bones and
Floyd | cloth has disappeared.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      8:00 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room Lab
Floyd | As you walk into the room, you immediately notice an old man in a lab
Floyd | coat here. He tending to some sort of large, boxy piece of metal
Floyd | equipment filled with dials and other mechanisms. He slowly turns his
Floyd | head to look at you...
Floyd |
Floyd | The first thing you notice is his eyes. They look glazed over, as if
Floyd | blinded somehow. The ultra-violet light in the room bouncing off them
Floyd | gives them a milky green hue. Can he even see you? He is supported by
Floyd | large and complex metal braces on both of his legs. He must be very
Floyd | old. You stand there for what seems like an eternity of silence. Then,
Floyd | he takes a long breath and opens his mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | "How did you get in here?" he says in a weary and raspy voice.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Who are you?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You tell him your name, and ask for his. His eyes open wide as he says
Floyd | "I'm Doctor Pane!"
Floyd |
Floyd | A feeling of dread overwhelms you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Doctor Pane and a strange machine here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericghostgirl cheers spookily.
Spike says (to Floyd), "x doctor" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      8:01 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DOCTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You see an old man in a lab coat. Random strands of straw-like white
Floyd | hair are scattered on his head. The ambient ultra-violet light in the
Floyd | room gives and eerie green tone to his glazed eyes. He appears very
Floyd | feeble; both of his legs are braced with some sort large, complex
Floyd | braces made of metal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x braces" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      8:01 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BRACES
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x machine" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      8:02 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MACHINE
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a large, noisy machine in the far corner of the room. There
Floyd | are large tubes coming out of the machine which stretch through the
Floyd | ceiling above. At the base of each tube is some sort of bellows;
Floyd | continuously pulsing up and down.
Floyd |
Floyd | There are numerous dials and meters on this machine which you do not
Floyd | understand. However, a large switch to one side of the machine catches
Floyd | your eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "flip switch" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      8:02 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > FLIP SWITCH
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x switch" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      8:03 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SWITCH
Floyd |
Floyd | A large, metal switch. A yellow and black striped decal borders it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x decal" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      8:03 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DECAL
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "turn on switch" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      8:04 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN ON SWITCH
Floyd |
Floyd | That's already on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "turn off switch" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      8:05 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN OFF SWITCH
Floyd |
Floyd | Doctor Pane stands between you and the machine. "Get away from that!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                8:06 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foyer
Floyd | You are standing in the foyer of the dark house. There are doorways to
Floyd | the east and to the north. You can exit the house through the doorway
Floyd | to the south. Stairs lead up to a second level.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        8:07 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Upper Landing
Floyd | This is the second floor of the house.The hall goes north and west,
Floyd | with doors at each end. A stairway leads back down to the foyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a blue door and a metal door here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "open metal door" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        8:08 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN METAL DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | It seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        8:09 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the metal door)
Floyd | It seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        8:10 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the blue door)
Floyd | It seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "down" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                8:11 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foyer
Floyd | You are standing in the foyer of the dark house. There are doorways to
Floyd | the east and to the north. You can exit the house through the doorway
Floyd | to the south. Stairs lead up to a second level.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      8:12 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room Lab
Floyd | You are standing in a room filled with scientific instruments.
Floyd | Ultra-violet light fills the room with a surreal and ghostly glow.
Floyd | Some large equipment lies in one corner, connected to large tubs of an
Floyd | unknown fluid. Tubes connected to these tubs run into the ceiling.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Doctor Pane and a strange machine here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "ask doctor about machine" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      8:13 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK DOCTOR ABOUT MACHINE
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "ask doctor about friends" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      8:14 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK DOCTOR ABOUT FRIENDS
Floyd |
Floyd | Doctor Pane says "Oh, so you're with them? I should have known.
Floyd | Stupid, young fools. You're all doomed. You will become feces of the
Floyd | mass. Consumed. Just like the rest. Worthless, mortal worms!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "kick doctor's braces" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      8:14 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > KICK DOCTOR'S BRACES
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericghostgirl says, "That's not nice!"
		Spike asks, "I guess we should warn our friends about Doctor Doom?"
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "ask doctor about doctor" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      8:15 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK DOCTOR ABOUT DOCTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Doctor Pane gives you a partly toothless smile and says "You are
Floyd | probably wondered how I did it, aren't you? You've heard the legends.
Floyd | Maybe you're another stupid authority who's come here to root me out!
Floyd | I bet you wonder how I'm even here. Do you? ..wonder how I'm even
Floyd | alive and standing here? I have secrets. I've worked my whole life for
Floyd | them and given everything I have to know. You will know nothing. You
Floyd | deserve nothing and you will never know!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "ask doctor about mines" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      8:16 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK DOCTOR ABOUT MINES
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "ask doctor about mine" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      8:17 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK DOCTOR ABOUT MINE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "hrm"
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "ask doctor about miners" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      8:18 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK DOCTOR ABOUT MINERS
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "tell doctor about mine" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      8:19 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TELL DOCTOR ABOUT MINE
Floyd |
Floyd | This provokes no reaction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "ask doctor about spectre" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      8:20 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK DOCTOR ABOUT SPECTRE
Floyd |
Floyd | Doctor Pane shakes his head says "Just a puppet."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "ask doctor about child" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      8:21 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK DOCTOR ABOUT CHILD
Floyd |
Floyd | Doctor Pane says "That stupid boy! I tried teaching him math and
Floyd | science! All he wanted to do was play. Stupid! Stupid boy."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "ask doctor about being a bad parent" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      8:22 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK DOCTOR ABOUT BEING A BAD PARENT
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "ask doctor about house" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      8:23 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK DOCTOR ABOUT HOUSE
Floyd |
Floyd | Doctor Pane says "This house has shadows that mortals will never see."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "ask doctor about knife" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      8:24 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK DOCTOR ABOUT KNIFE
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "ask doctor about kitchen" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      8:25 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK DOCTOR ABOUT KITCHEN
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "ask doctor about doom" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      8:26 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK DOCTOR ABOUT DOOM
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x lighter" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      8:27 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LIGHTER
Floyd |
Floyd | A plain red disposable lighter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                8:28 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foyer
Floyd | You are standing in the foyer of the dark house. There are doorways to
Floyd | the east and to the north. You can exit the house through the doorway
Floyd | to the south. Stairs lead up to a second level.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Front of the Dark House                              8:29 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing in front of an old, dark house that lies to the
Floyd | north. It looks to be two stories. You can't see any lights on inside
Floyd | from here. The wooden exterior of the house has been painted a dull,
Floyd | reddish brown. You can walk around northwest or the northeast to get
Floyd | to the sides of the house. Rustic steps made of stone lead down
Floyd | towards deeper woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a Jack-O-Lantern (lit) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "down" 		

Floyd ]  Base of the Hill                                     8:30 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Base of the Hill
Floyd | A very tall and steep hill is ahead of you. Steps that are mostly
Floyd | covered in leaves have been made with flat stones which lead up the
Floyd | hill. You can see a house up the stairs from here. The trail splits
Floyd | back to the south and southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           8:31 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Spike asks, "Eek. Was that a bad thing?"
Spike says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Base of the Hill                                     8:30 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Base of the Hill
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           8:31 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "It's not as bad as it seems"
Spike says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           8:32 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           8:33 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | Woah! You almost stepped on a curled up snake on the ground!
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a curled-up snake here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x snake" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           8:34 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SNAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | This is no snake, it's just a piece of rubber hose. It's about three
Floyd | feet long.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "take hose" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           8:35 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE HOSE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x hose" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           8:36 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HOSE
Floyd |
Floyd | This is no snake, it's just a piece of rubber hose. It's about three
Floyd | feet long.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-31-22:29:16CDT 		
Spike says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           8:37 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           8:38 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           8:39 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           8:40 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Spike asks, "I guess we should map this?"
		Jizaboz says, "maybe"
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           8:41 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           8:42 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           8:43 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           8:44 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           8:45 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           8:46 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           8:47 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           8:48 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same with exception to a clearing to the southeast
Floyd | that you recognize as the way back towards the campground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "There we go" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           8:48 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > THERE WE GO
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "er, right."
Spike says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         8:49 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are walking along a dirt trail in the woods that goes south, and
Floyd | starts to fade towards the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can vaguely hear the sound of running water from the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  Rocky Trail                                          8:50 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Rocky Trail
Floyd | You are walking on a trail that has become rocky. The trees have
Floyd | thinned out a bit. Trails to the west and northwest go back towards
Floyd | the woods. The trail also continues to the east, from which you can
Floyd | hear the sound of running water getting louder.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a bottle (empty) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "take bottle" 		

Floyd ]  Rocky Trail                                          8:51 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE BOTTLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x bottle" 		

Floyd ]  Rocky Trail                                          8:52 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOTTLE
Floyd |
Floyd | A brown, empty 40oz beer bottle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  North River Bank                                     8:53 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | North River Bank
Floyd | You are on a rocky river bank. The Brown River is to the east. It
Floyd | appears to have a very strong current. The ambient sound of the
Floyd | rushing river fills the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a bra and a canoe (empty) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "take bra" 		

Floyd ]  North River Bank                                     8:54 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE BRA
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't think you would feel right carrying around the bra.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "wear bra" 		

Floyd ]  North River Bank                                     8:55 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR BRA
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking the bra)
Floyd | You don't think you would feel right carrying around the bra.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x bra" 		

Floyd ]  North River Bank                                     8:56 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BRA
Floyd |
Floyd | A white, C-cupped bra. It must have belonged to Brenda.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x canoe" 		

Floyd ]  North River Bank                                     8:57 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CANOE
Floyd |
Floyd | A small, banged up canoe. There is a plaque on the side of it that can
Floyd | be read.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "read plaque" 		

Floyd ]  North River Bank                                     8:58 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ PLAQUE
Floyd |
Floyd | The plaque basically says:
Floyd |
Floyd | TO USE THE CANOE:
Floyd | "LAUNCH" (to get into the water)
Floyd | OR
Floyd | "LAND" (to get out)
Floyd |
Floyd | "USE OF LIFE JACKETS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED FOR SAFETY"
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
Spike says (to Floyd), "cf34" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  North River Bank                                     8:58 pm
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "launch" 		

Floyd ]  North River Bank                                     8:59 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > LAUNCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You need to be in a canoe to do that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "in" 		

Floyd ]  North River Bank                                     9:00 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > IN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "enter canoe" 		

Floyd ]  North River Bank                                     9:01 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER CANOE
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't really have a reason for risking your life canoing in the
Floyd | river right now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  North River Bank                                     9:02 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | The current is way too strong to navigate the river without some form
Floyd | of vessel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Rocky Trail                                          9:03 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Rocky Trail
Floyd | You are walking on a trail that has become rocky. The trees have
Floyd | thinned out a bit. Trails to the west and northwest go back towards
Floyd | the woods. The trail also continues to the east, from which you can
Floyd | hear the sound of running water getting louder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         9:04 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are walking along a dirt trail in the woods that goes north and
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can vaguely hear the sound of running water from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         9:04 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Campsite
Floyd | You are standing in the campsite that you and Fred made years ago. A
Floyd | large dome-shaped tent sits on the dirt. A nice fire blazes in the
Floyd | firepit. Most of the leaves have been cleared out of this roughly 50 x
Floyd | 50 foot area. The trail which brought you here continues north. The
Floyd | path to the road is south of here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Fred, Rachel and a picnic table (on which is a Styrofoam
Floyd | cooler) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred comes running up to you, looking very concerned about something
Floyd | and visibly out of breath.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Have y'all seen Brenda?! No?! What the fuck?! She's gone man! Just
Floyd | disappeared! I walked her down to the river and things were just fine.
Floyd | We were talking and stuff. I looked away for a minute to check out
Floyd | this old canoe laying out there, then I thought I heard a splash or
Floyd | something and turned around to see what it was. I turn around.. she's
Floyd | not there!"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I called her name and looked around for a while... all I saw was a
Floyd | bra that looks almost new and probably around her size. It's got to be
Floyd | hers. It was laying on a rock by the river! Maybe she fell in? She was
Floyd | really drunk, man."
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred tries to catch his breath. Fred says "What the hell should we do?
Floyd | I guess one of us could drive back to town and get some help, but that
Floyd | will take too long if she's about to drown or something. Maybe you
Floyd | could take that canoe down the river some and look for her? Shit. I
Floyd | don't know. It looked like it was in decent shape, but I'm too damn
Floyd | big to get in it. I'd sink that little thing. I know I would. It's up
Floyd | to you. I'm just going to wait here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Rachel says "Well, this sucks. I'm getting the hell out of here. Screw
Floyd | you guys. Someone walk me to my jeep."
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred says "I'm not going anywhere. I'm waiting for Brenda."
Floyd |
Floyd | Rachel puts her hands on her hips and looks at you. She says "It's
Floyd | only a few feet to my jeep. Besides, if she fell in the river I think
Floyd | that she would be towards that end of it anyway. Come on."
Floyd |
Floyd | Grudgingly, you walk rachel to the road...
Floyd |
Floyd | (Press any key to continue)

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "press space" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             9:05 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | Roadside
Floyd | You are standing by the road that brought you here. A large mountain
Floyd | looms on the other side of it. You can barely make out the faint white
Floyd | noise of rushing water coming far from the southeast. To the west of
Floyd | you is a clearing in the briers which provides an entrance to the
Floyd | woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a pink jeep (closed and empty), a green car and a blue car
Floyd | (empty) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see Rachel Fuss going to her pink jeep, looking thoroughly
Floyd | pissed-off. Just as she reaches to unlock her door, a swift and
Floyd | shadowy form with what looks like giant, tattered wings of a bat
Floyd | swoops down from a tree top and lands between her and the vehicle.
Floyd | Rachel lets out a blood curdling scream that is cut short by the
Floyd | shadowy creature's claws slitting her neck from one side to the other.
Floyd |
Floyd | The scream becomes a sickening gurgle, and blood begins to spray in
Floyd | all directions from her throat. The creature opens its mouth. It's a
Floyd | gaping orifice of numerous long fangs, and he practically inhales the
Floyd | blood. Rachel makes a desperate attempt to grasp the wound with her
Floyd | hands. It is too late. She falls over dead, smearing blood down the
Floyd | side of the jeep.
Floyd |
Floyd | While observing this horrid scene, you barely notice Rachel's murderer
Floyd | swiftly leap into the tree-tops and disappear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x rachel" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             9:06 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X RACHEL
Floyd |
Floyd | Rachel Fuss lies dead. The cause of her death is evident; blood loss
Floyd | due to a massive gash in her neck.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericghostgirl says (to Floyd), "x gash" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             9:06 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GASH
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "search rachel" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             9:07 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH RACHEL
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "look" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             9:08 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | Roadside
Floyd | You are standing by the road that brought you here. A large mountain
Floyd | looms on the other side of it. You can barely make out the faint white
Floyd | noise of rushing water coming far from the southeast. To the west of
Floyd | you is a clearing in the briers which provides an entrance to the
Floyd | woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see bloody keys, a tape recorder, Rachel's body, a pink jeep
Floyd | (closed and empty), a green car and a blue car (empty) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "take all" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             9:09 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | bloody keys: You don't really want to touch them. Besides, you have
Floyd | your own car.
Floyd | tape recorder: Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x recorder" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             9:10 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X RECORDER
Floyd |
Floyd | A shiny silver and black cassette tape recorder. It's a newer, thinner
Floyd | design. It numerous buttons, but three of them are highlighted;
Floyd | "Play", "RW" and "REC".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "press play" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             9:11 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRESS PLAY
Floyd |
Floyd | You play the tape and hear Rachel's mix of songs that she recorded off
Floyd | the radio.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "press play" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             9:12 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRESS PLAY
Floyd |
Floyd | The play button pops right back out. You must have reached the end of
Floyd | the tape.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "press rw" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             9:13 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRESS RW
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the rewind button and return the tape to the beginning.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x bloody keys" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             9:14 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BLOODY KEYS
Floyd |
Floyd | These are the keys Rachel was holding when she was murdered. They are
Floyd | lying next to her hand, drenched in blood.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         9:15 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are on the beginning of a dirt trail in the woods that leads
Floyd | north. A clearing in the briers to the east will take back to the
Floyd | road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             9:16 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Campsite
Floyd | You are standing in the campsite that you and Fred made years ago. A
Floyd | large dome-shaped tent sits on the dirt. A nice fire blazes in the
Floyd | firepit. Most of the leaves have been cleared out of this roughly 50 x
Floyd | 50 foot area. The trail which brought you here continues north. The
Floyd | path to the road is south of here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Fred and a picnic table (on which is a Styrofoam cooler)
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "tell fred about rachel" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             9:17 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TELL FRED ABOUT RACHEL
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred says "Rachel's dead, man!? Man, no! Do you think Brenda's dead
Floyd | too?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             9:18 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd | That was a rhetorical question.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "tell fred about doctor" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             9:19 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TELL FRED ABOUT DOCTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred says "You met him? Holy shit, man, this just gets weirder and
Floyd | weirder!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "tell fred about steve" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             9:20 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TELL FRED ABOUT STEVE
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred says "What about Steve? He's cool, man."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "tell fred about lola" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             9:21 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TELL FRED ABOUT LOLA
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "ask fred about doctor" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             9:22 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT DOCTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred says "You met him? Holy shit, man, this just gets weirder and
Floyd | weirder!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             9:23 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Campsite
Floyd | You are standing in the campsite that you and Fred made years ago. A
Floyd | large dome-shaped tent sits on the dirt. A nice fire blazes in the
Floyd | firepit. Most of the leaves have been cleared out of this roughly 50 x
Floyd | 50 foot area. The trail which brought you here continues north. The
Floyd | path to the road is south of here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Fred and a picnic table (on which is a Styrofoam cooler)
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             9:24 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a tape recorder
Floyd |   a bottle
Floyd |   a rubber hose
Floyd |   a lighter
Floyd |   a butcher knife
Floyd |   a battery-powered lantern (providing light)
Floyd |   a wristwatch (being worn)
Floyd |   clothes (being worn)
Floyd |   a blue key
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Spike asks, "Does someone else want to drive?"
		Jizaboz says, "n"
		Spike says, "I need some warming tea."
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         9:25 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are walking along a dirt trail in the woods that goes north and
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can vaguely hear the sound of running water from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         9:26 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are walking along a dirt trail in the woods that goes south, and
Floyd | starts to fade towards the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can vaguely hear the sound of running water from the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           9:27 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same with exception to a clearing to the southeast
Floyd | that you recognize as the way back towards the campground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           9:28 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           9:29 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same. In this area of the woods there is a large
Floyd | gully here, almost filled to the brim with random junk.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a junk pile here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-31-22:44:16CDT 		
Spike has disconnected. 		
Spike has connected. 		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x junk" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           9:30 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | You walk around the large pile of junk a while, kicking a few things
Floyd | around until you find an old hacksaw. Besides the blade being a little
Floyd | rusty, it's in decent shape.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "take hacksaw" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           9:31 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE HACKSAW
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x hacksaw" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           9:32 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HACKSAW
Floyd |
Floyd | A hacksaw with a blue handle and slightly rusty blade.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           9:33 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same. Some boulders form an overhang over a deep,
Floyd | muddy hole here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "(okay done driving a while)"
Spike says (to Floyd), "x hole" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           9:34 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | The hole is looks to be about 8 feet deep and 3 feet wide. You think
Floyd | you could crawl down into it and get back out with a bit of effort if
Floyd | you wanted to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "in" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           9:35 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > IN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "enter hole" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           9:36 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Muddy Pit                                            9:37 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Muddy Pit
Floyd | You are standing in the bottom of a muddy pit. A few old roots and
Floyd | stones provide enough footing to climb up out of the hole.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a narrow crack in the rock wall here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x crack" 		

Floyd ]  Muddy Pit                                            9:38 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CRACK
Floyd |
Floyd | This crack in the hard rock leads into darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "enter crack" 		

Floyd ]  Muddy Pit                                            9:39 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER CRACK
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz asks, "but perhaps objects?"
Spike says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Muddy Pit                                            9:40 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a hacksaw
Floyd |   a tape recorder
Floyd |   a bottle
Floyd |   a rubber hose
Floyd |   a lighter
Floyd |   a butcher knife
Floyd |   a battery-powered lantern (providing light)
Floyd |   a wristwatch (being worn)
Floyd |   clothes (being worn)
Floyd |   a blue key
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "put knife in crack" 		

Floyd ]  Muddy Pit                                            9:41 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT KNIFE IN CRACK
Floyd |
Floyd | You toss the butcher knife as far as you can into the crack in the
Floyd | rock. It disappears into the darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Muddy Pit                                            9:40 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Muddy Pit
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "heh yeah not that"
Spike says (to Floyd), "throw bottle in crack" 		

Floyd ]  Muddy Pit                                            9:41 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > THROW BOTTLE IN CRACK
Floyd |
Floyd | You toss the bottle as far as you can into the crack in the rock. It
Floyd | disappears into the darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Muddy Pit                                            9:40 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Muddy Pit
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "Doctor Pane would have given a hint if I could have asked about the mine correctly argh"
Spike says (to Floyd), "put hose in crack" 		

Floyd ]  Muddy Pit                                            9:41 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT HOSE IN CRACK
Floyd |
Floyd | You toss the rubber hose as far as you can into the crack in the rock.
Floyd | It disappears into the darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Muddy Pit                                            9:40 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Muddy Pit
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Spike says, "I gotta take the dog out. Be back in a minute."
		Jizaboz says, "I'll just say.. he SHOULD have said something like 'I'll never hear from the miners ever again'"
		Jizaboz says, "Not sure why that didn't trigger, it's a topic from the ghost story in the beginning."
Spike says (to Floyd), "press record" 		

Floyd ]  Muddy Pit                                            9:41 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRESS RECORD
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't hear anything here that you think would be worthy of
Floyd | recording.
Floyd |
Floyd | Perhaps you can confirm you are actually hearing these ghostly voices
Floyd | by recording them?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd ]  Muddy Pit                                            9:42 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "put recorder in crack" 		

Floyd ]  Muddy Pit                                            9:43 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT RECORDER IN CRACK
Floyd |
Floyd | You toss the tape recorder as far as you can into the crack in the
Floyd | rock. It disappears into the darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Muddy Pit                                            9:42 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Muddy Pit
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "Yeah throw it in there. I see another bug too for pressing record at the wrong time."
Spike says (to Floyd), "put recorder in crack" 		

Floyd ]  Muddy Pit                                            9:43 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT RECORDER IN CRACK
Floyd |
Floyd | You toss the tape recorder as far as you can into the crack in the
Floyd | rock. It disappears into the darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Muddy Pit                                            9:44 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "take recorder" 		

Floyd ]  Muddy Pit                                            9:44 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE RECORDER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x crack" 		

Floyd ]  Muddy Pit                                            9:45 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CRACK
Floyd |
Floyd | This crack in the hard rock leads into darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Spike asks, "Can we get it back?"
		Jizaboz says, "one of the trickiest puzzles.. with bugged hinting. Not good. heh"
		Jizaboz says, "Yes, later."
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-31-22:59:16CDT 		Jizaboz says, "It's not useful on this side"
Spike says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           9:46 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same. Some boulders form an overhang over a deep,
Floyd | muddy hole here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "boulders" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           9:46 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > BOULDERS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x boulders" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           9:47 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOULDERS
Floyd |
Floyd | Ordinary, large boulders. They look extremely heavy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           9:48 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           9:49 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           9:50 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           9:51 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           9:52 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           9:53 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           9:54 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Base of the Hill                                     9:55 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Base of the Hill
Floyd | A very tall and steep hill is ahead of you. Steps that are mostly
Floyd | covered in leaves have been made with flat stones which lead up the
Floyd | hill. You can see a house up the stairs from here. The trail splits
Floyd | back to the south and southwest.

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "se" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  Base of the Hill                                     9:56 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           9:57 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           9:58 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           9:59 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           10:00 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           10:01 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           10:02 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           10:03 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           10:04 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           10:05 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same with exception to a clearing to the southeast
Floyd | that you recognize as the way back towards the campground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         10:06 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are walking along a dirt trail in the woods that goes south, and
Floyd | starts to fade towards the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can vaguely hear the sound of running water from the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  Rocky Trail                                          10:07 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Rocky Trail
Floyd | You are walking on a trail that has become rocky. The trees have
Floyd | thinned out a bit. Trails to the west and northwest go back towards
Floyd | the woods. The trail also continues to the east, from which you can
Floyd | hear the sound of running water getting louder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  North River Bank                                     10:08 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | North River Bank
Floyd | You are on a rocky river bank. The Brown River is to the east. It
Floyd | appears to have a very strong current. The ambient sound of the
Floyd | rushing river fills the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a bra and a canoe (empty) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "okay, now we have reason for using this canoe."
jenrexrode arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. 		Jizaboz says, "and we should probably save again. heh"
Spike says (to Floyd), "press save" 		

Floyd ]  North River Bank                                     10:08 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRESS SAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
Spike says (to Floyd), "cf35" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  North River Bank                                     10:08 pm
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "launch" 		

Floyd ]  North River Bank                                     10:09 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > LAUNCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You need to be in a canoe to do that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "take bra" 		

Floyd ]  North River Bank                                     10:10 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE BRA
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't think you would feel right carrying around the bra.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "enter canoe" 		

Floyd ]  North River Bank                                     10:11 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER CANOE
Floyd |
Floyd | You get into the canoe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "launch" 		

Floyd ]  The Brown River                                      10:12 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > LAUNCH
Floyd |
Floyd | The canoe begins floating down the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Brown River (in the canoe)
Floyd | You are floating on the Brown River. The strong current is pulling you
Floyd | south, down the river at a quick pace.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  The Brown River                                      10:13 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The canoe floats further down the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Brown River (in the canoe)
Floyd | You are floating on the Brown River. The strong current is pulling you
Floyd | south, down the river at a quick pace. You notice what looks like a
Floyd | cave on the river bank to the west, where you can land your canoe.
Floyd |
Floyd | You think you hear someone crying for help to the west over the white
Floyd | noise of the rushing river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Abandoned Mine Entrance                              10:14 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Abandoned Mine Entrance (in the canoe)
Floyd | You are standing outside of what looks to be an old, abandoned mine
Floyd | entrance. A creek flows out of the large mouth of a cave to the west,
Floyd | and into the river to the east. Random rocks are scattered all along
Floyd | the sides of the creek. There's a small wooden shack off to the side
Floyd | of the entrance.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a flat rock here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "enter shack" 		

Floyd ]  Abandoned Mine Entrance                              10:15 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER SHACK
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x shack" 		

Floyd ]  Abandoned Mine Entrance                              10:16 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SHACK
Floyd |
Floyd | A small shack is beside the mouth of the cave. It only has three
Floyd | walls; constructed of wood that is now rotting and looks brittle.
Floyd | inside you can see random useless mining tools such as rotten wooden
Floyd | troughs and metal screens, disintegrated by rust.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "x tools" 		

Floyd ]  Abandoned Mine Entrance                              10:16 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TOOLS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode says, "hi"
		Spike says, "Heylo"
		Spike asks (of jenrexrode), "Do you want to drive for a bit?"
		jenrexrode asks, "which way is up?"
		Jizaboz says (to jrr), "w"
		jenrexrode says, "i can, are you that stuck, I don't even know what game this is"
		Spike says, "We were on a camping trip when it turned into a slasher film."
		Spike says (to jenrexrode), "We aren't stuck, my fingers are just tired :)"
		Jizaboz says, "Fred told us to go look for Brenda. So we're doing that."
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Abandoned Mine Entrance                              10:17 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't move in a canoe when you are on land.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "stand" 		

Floyd ]  Abandoned Mine Entrance                              10:18 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > STAND
Floyd |
Floyd | You get out of the canoe.
Floyd |
Floyd | Abandoned Mine Entrance
Floyd | You are standing outside of what looks to be an old, abandoned mine
Floyd | entrance. A creek flows out of the large mouth of a cave to the west,
Floyd | and into the river to the east. Random rocks are scattered all along
Floyd | the sides of the creek. There's a small wooden shack off to the side
Floyd | of the entrance.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a canoe (empty) and a flat rock here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear the cry for help again coming from the west. It sounds like
Floyd | Brenda Bender!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Spike says, "They're some of our friends. The rest have been killed off."
		Jizaboz says, "Now now, just Rachel. heh"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Mouth of the Mine                                    10:19 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Mouth of the Mine
Floyd | The inside of this cave is very damp. A stream fills the the area with
Floyd | the sound of trickling water and you are standing on the muddy bank of
Floyd | it. The abandoned mine entrance lies to the east, and the cave
Floyd | continues to the west. The rock walls in this area are fairly dry.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see an iron gate and Brenda here.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you walk into the opening of the mine, you see Brenda here. She's
Floyd | on the other side of an iron gate, which is locked with chains.
Floyd |
Floyd | Brenda says "You! Thank god! It's you! Get me out of here! This ugly..
Floyd | thing got me! Like, open this gate or something and get me out of
Floyd | here! Hurry up, before he comes back! I keep hearing voices in here!
Floyd | It's cold!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "the the"
		jenrexrode asks, "can she be trusted, or is she tricking us into releaseing the ugly thing?"
		jenrexrode says, "-e"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Mouth of the Mine                                    10:20 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a hacksaw
Floyd |   a bottle
Floyd |   a rubber hose
Floyd |   a lighter
Floyd |   a butcher knife
Floyd |   a battery-powered lantern (providing light)
Floyd |   a wristwatch (being worn)
Floyd |   clothes (being worn)
Floyd |   a blue key
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "She's Fred's girlfriend or something. She's cool"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x gate" 		

Floyd ]  Mouth of the Mine                                    10:21 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GATE
Floyd |
Floyd | A slightly-rusted yet sturdy iron gate. It is bound with chains.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x chains" 		

Floyd ]  Mouth of the Mine                                    10:22 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CHAINS
Floyd |
Floyd | Thick, heavy chains are locked around the bars of the iron gate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x lock" 		

Floyd ]  Mouth of the Mine                                    10:22 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LOCK
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode says, "locked without a lock"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "take chains" 		

Floyd ]  Mouth of the Mine                                    10:23 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE CHAINS
Floyd |
Floyd | That seems to be a part of the iron gate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "cut chain with saw" 		

Floyd ]  Mouth of the Mine                                    10:23 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT CHAIN WITH SAW
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "open gate" 		

Floyd ]  Mouth of the Mine                                    10:24 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN GATE
Floyd |
Floyd | The chains prevent you from opening the iron gate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "cut chains" 		

Floyd ]  Mouth of the Mine                                    10:24 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT CHAINS
Floyd |
Floyd | You have to specify what you want to cut it with.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "cut chains with hacksaw" 		

Floyd ]  Mouth of the Mine                                    10:25 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT CHAINS WITH HACKSAW
Floyd |
Floyd | You vigorously saw at the chains with the hacksaw. You almost cut
Floyd | completely through one link of the chain, when "snap!"; the blade of
Floyd | the hacksaw breaks.
Floyd |
Floyd | You discard the worthless hacksaw handle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x chains" 		

Floyd ]  Mouth of the Mine                                    10:26 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CHAINS
Floyd |
Floyd | Thick, heavy chains are locked around the bars of the iron gate. A
Floyd | huge gash has been made in one of the links.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "we have some rocks behind us to the south"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x link" 		

Floyd ]  Mouth of the Mine                                    10:26 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LINK
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode asks, "bash chain with rock?"
		Jizaboz says, "Er, east rather"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Abandoned Mine Entrance                              10:27 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Abandoned Mine Entrance
Floyd | You are standing outside of what looks to be an old, abandoned mine
Floyd | entrance. A creek flows out of the large mouth of a cave to the west,
Floyd | and into the river to the east. Random rocks are scattered all along
Floyd | the sides of the creek. There's a small wooden shack off to the side
Floyd | of the entrance.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a canoe (empty) and a flat rock here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "Probably heh"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "get rock" 		

Floyd ]  Abandoned Mine Entrance                              10:28 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET ROCK
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
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jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Mouth of the Mine                                    10:29 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Mouth of the Mine
Floyd | The inside of this cave is very damp. A stream fills the the area with
Floyd | the sound of trickling water and you are standing on the muddy bank of
Floyd | it. The abandoned mine entrance lies to the east, and the cave
Floyd | continues to the west. The rock walls in this area are fairly dry.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see an iron gate and Brenda here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "hit chains with rock" 		

Floyd ]  Mouth of the Mine                                    10:30 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > HIT CHAINS WITH ROCK
Floyd |
Floyd | You slam the flat rock into the chains, focusing on the cut you made
Floyd | with the hacksaw. The link breaks the rest of the way through, and the
Floyd | chains fall to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | You toss the rock aside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode says, "I like how we purge out inventory - that other game, we have about 35 things"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "open gate" 		

Floyd ]  Mouth of the Mine                                    10:31 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN GATE
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the iron gate.
Floyd |
Floyd | Brenda steps out of the cave, and gives you a wet hug. "Thank you! Now
Floyd | let's get out of here!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Mouth of the Mine                                    10:32 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Mouth of the Mine
Floyd | The inside of this cave is very damp. A stream fills the the area with
Floyd | the sound of trickling water and you are standing on the muddy bank of
Floyd | it. The abandoned mine entrance lies to the east, and the cave
Floyd | continues to the west. The rock walls in this area are fairly dry.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see an iron gate and Brenda here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode asks, "take off or go in?"
		Jizaboz says, "Curious to see what happens if you go in"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Mouth of the Mine                                    10:33 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Brenda says "No! Don't leave me! Take me back to Fred!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Mouth of the Mine                                    10:34 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Brenda says "No! Don't leave me! Take me back to Fred!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "Okay yeah"
		jenrexrode says, "smack brenda"
		Jizaboz says, "haha"
		Jizaboz says, "Going to make us carry this canoe again.."
		jenrexrode says, "that usually makes them come to their senses"
		Jizaboz says, "e"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Abandoned Mine Entrance                              10:35 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Abandoned Mine Entrance
Floyd | You are standing outside of what looks to be an old, abandoned mine
Floyd | entrance. A creek flows out of the large mouth of a cave to the west,
Floyd | and into the river to the east. Random rocks are scattered all along
Floyd | the sides of the creek. There's a small wooden shack off to the side
Floyd | of the entrance.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Brenda and a canoe (empty) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "push canoe" 		

Floyd ]  Abandoned Mine Entrance                              10:36 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH CANOE
Floyd |
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "enter canoe"
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "enter canoe" 		

Floyd ]  Abandoned Mine Entrance                              10:37 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER CANOE
Floyd |
Floyd | You get into the canoe, and Brenda gets in with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "x plaque" 		

Floyd ]  Abandoned Mine Entrance                              10:38 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PLAQUE
Floyd |
Floyd | The plaque basically says:
Floyd |
Floyd | TO USE THE CANOE:
Floyd | "LAUNCH" (to get into the water)
Floyd | OR
Floyd | "LAND" (to get out)
Floyd |
Floyd | "USE OF LIFE JACKETS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED FOR SAFETY"
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "launch canoe" 		

Floyd ]  Abandoned Mine Entrance                              10:38 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > LAUNCH CANOE
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to launch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "launch" 		

Floyd ]  The Brown River                                      10:39 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > LAUNCH
Floyd |
Floyd | The canoe floats further down the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Brown River (in the canoe)
Floyd | You are floating on the Brown River. The strong current is pulling you
Floyd | south, river at a quick pace. You hear a very loud sound of rushing
Floyd | water further down the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the canoe you can see Brenda.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x brenda" 		

Floyd ]  The Brown River                                      10:40 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BRENDA
Floyd |
Floyd | Brenda Bender is in hysterics and is naked from the waist up and
Floyd | covered in dirt and bruises. She is also wet from head to toe, and
Floyd | shivering.
Floyd |
Floyd | The canoe floats further down the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Brown River (in the canoe)
Floyd | You are floating on the Brown River. The strong current is pulling you
Floyd | south down the river at a very fast pace. The sound of rushing water
Floyd | is now even louder. You see a clear river bank to the west, while
Floyd | catching a glimpse of what looks to be severe whitewater rapids ahead
Floyd | to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the canoe you can see Brenda.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode says, "oh my"
		Jizaboz says, "Monsters and stuff"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  South River Bank                                     10:41 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South River Bank (in the canoe)
Floyd | You are on a bank of Brown River, which is to the east. It appears to
Floyd | have a strong current. The roaring ambient sound of water rushing down
Floyd | the river is so loud here that it drowns out all other sounds of the
Floyd | area. A path leads to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the canoe you can see Brenda.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "land" 		

Floyd ]  South River Bank                                     10:42 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > LAND
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "stand" 		

Floyd ]  South River Bank                                     10:43 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > STAND
Floyd |
Floyd | You step out of the canoe, and so does Brenda.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "remove clothes" 		

Floyd ]  South River Bank                                     10:44 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMOVE CLOTHES
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't think getting naked right here or right now would be a good
Floyd | idea.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode says, "but I don't want to look at nekkid brenda anymore"
		Jizaboz says, "we'll give her back to Fred soon enough"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             10:45 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Roadside
Floyd | You are standing by the road that brought you here. A large mountain
Floyd | looms on the other side of it. You can barely make out the faint white
Floyd | noise of rushing water coming far from the southeast. To the west of
Floyd | you is a clearing in the briers which provides an entrance to the
Floyd | woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Brenda, bloody keys, Rachel's body, a pink jeep (closed
Floyd | and empty), a green car and a blue car (empty) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Brenda notices Rachel's bloody body laying by the pink jeep. She
Floyd | screams, "Oh god! Rachel! Rachel! No!" and cries.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Spike says (to Floyd), "dance" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             10:45 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > DANCE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode asks (of Spike), "not too tired to dance?"
		Jizaboz says, "haha"
		Spike says, "Never!"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "search rachel" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             10:46 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH RACHEL
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x rachel" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             10:47 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X RACHEL
Floyd |
Floyd | Rachel Fuss lies dead. The cause of her death is evident; blood loss
Floyd | due to a massive gash in her neck.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "take keys" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             10:48 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE KEYS
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't really want to touch them. Besides, you have your own car.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "open blue car" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             10:49 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN BLUE CAR
Floyd |
Floyd | That's already open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "Let's get rid of naked Brenda"
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         10:50 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are on the beginning of a dirt trail in the woods that leads
Floyd | north. A clearing in the briers to the east will take back to the
Floyd | road.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Brenda here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             10:51 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Campsite
Floyd | You are standing in the campsite that you and Fred made years ago. A
Floyd | large dome-shaped tent sits on the dirt. A nice fire blazes in the
Floyd | firepit. Most of the leaves have been cleared out of this roughly 50 x
Floyd | 50 foot area. The trail which brought you here continues north. The
Floyd | path to the road is south of here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Brenda, Fred and a picnic table (on which is a Styrofoam
Floyd | cooler) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred sees you and Brenda Bender approaching the campsite..
Floyd |
Floyd | "Brenda! Man! What happened?" Fred says.
Floyd |
Floyd | Brenda grabs Fred and says "Get me out of here! You've got to get me
Floyd | away!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred turns to you and says "Thanks, man. I'm going to get her home and
Floyd | call the cops. Are you going to try to look for Steve and his girl? I
Floyd | don't know, man. Maybe you should go too. I took a look at Rachel
Floyd | while you were gone. Something really messed up is going on, man! I'm
Floyd | out of here!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred starts to shake your hand, then grabs your shoulder and says
Floyd | "Just be careful, man."
Floyd |
Floyd | Fred and Brenda take off running full-stride to Freds car.
Floyd |
Floyd | A matter of seconds later, you hear Fred's tires burning the road as
Floyd | he drives off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode asks, "find steve?"
		Jizaboz says, "Yeah he and his GF Lola got trapped in this house to the North and slightly to the east."
		Jizaboz says, "The house was investigated but we couldn't do much then."
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         10:52 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are walking along a dirt trail in the woods that goes north and
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can vaguely hear the sound of running water from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "However, there's also that cave..."
		jenrexrode asks, "we have to schlep the canoe around to a starting place?"
		Jizaboz says, "Yes, it would be worth it though considering we already set up a puzzle involving it."
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             10:53 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Campsite
Floyd | You are standing in the campsite that you and Fred made years ago. A
Floyd | large dome-shaped tent sits on the dirt. A nice fire blazes in the
Floyd | firepit. Most of the leaves have been cleared out of this roughly 50 x
Floyd | 50 foot area. The trail which brought you here continues north. The
Floyd | path to the road is south of here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a picnic table (on which is a Styrofoam cooler) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             10:54 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         10:55 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are on the beginning of a dirt trail in the woods that leads
Floyd | north. A clearing in the briers to the east will take back to the
Floyd | road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             10:56 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Roadside
Floyd | You are standing by the road that brought you here. A large mountain
Floyd | looms on the other side of it. You can barely make out the faint white
Floyd | noise of rushing water coming far from the southeast. To the west of
Floyd | you is a clearing in the briers which provides an entrance to the
Floyd | woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see bloody keys, Rachel's body, a pink jeep (closed and empty)
Floyd | and a blue car (empty) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  South River Bank                                     10:57 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South River Bank
Floyd | You are on a bank of Brown River, which is to the east. It appears to
Floyd | have a strong current. The roaring ambient sound of water rushing down
Floyd | the river is so loud here that it drowns out all other sounds of the
Floyd | area. A path leads to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a canoe (empty) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "take canoe" 		

Floyd ]  South River Bank                                     10:58 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE CANOE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             10:59 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Roadside
Floyd | You are standing by the road that brought you here. A large mountain
Floyd | looms on the other side of it. You can barely make out the faint white
Floyd | noise of rushing water coming far from the southeast. To the west of
Floyd | you is a clearing in the briers which provides an entrance to the
Floyd | woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see bloody keys, Rachel's body, a pink jeep (closed and empty)
Floyd | and a blue car (empty) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         11:00 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are on the beginning of a dirt trail in the woods that leads
Floyd | north. A clearing in the briers to the east will take back to the
Floyd | road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             11:01 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Campsite
Floyd | You are standing in the campsite that you and Fred made years ago. A
Floyd | large dome-shaped tent sits on the dirt. A nice fire blazes in the
Floyd | firepit. Most of the leaves have been cleared out of this roughly 50 x
Floyd | 50 foot area. The trail which brought you here continues north. The
Floyd | path to the road is south of here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a picnic table (on which is a Styrofoam cooler) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         11:02 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are walking along a dirt trail in the woods that goes north and
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can vaguely hear the sound of running water from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-31-23:29:16CDT 		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Rocky Trail                                          11:03 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Rocky Trail
Floyd | You are walking on a trail that has become rocky. The trees have
Floyd | thinned out a bit. Trails to the west and northwest go back towards
Floyd | the woods. The trail also continues to the east, from which you can
Floyd | hear the sound of running water getting louder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  North River Bank                                     11:04 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | North River Bank
Floyd | You are on a rocky river bank. The Brown River is to the east. It
Floyd | appears to have a very strong current. The ambient sound of the
Floyd | rushing river fills the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a bra here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "drop canoe" 		

Floyd ]  North River Bank                                     11:05 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP CANOE
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "Probably should save again"
Jizaboz says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
Jizaboz says (to Floyd), "cf36" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  North River Bank                                     11:05 pm
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "get in canoe" 		

Floyd ]  North River Bank                                     11:06 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET IN CANOE
Floyd |
Floyd | You get into the canoe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz asks, "no one else steering?"
		jenrexrode says, "oh sorry"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "launch" 		

Floyd ]  The Brown River                                      11:07 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > LAUNCH
Floyd |
Floyd | The canoe begins floating down the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Brown River (in the canoe)
Floyd | You are floating on the Brown River. The strong current is pulling you
Floyd | south, down the river at a quick pace.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  The Brown River                                      11:08 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | The Brown River (in the canoe)
Floyd | You are floating on the Brown River. The strong current is pulling you
Floyd | south, down the river at a quick pace.
Floyd |
Floyd | The canoe floats further down the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Brown River (in the canoe)
Floyd | You are floating on the Brown River. The strong current is pulling you
Floyd | South, down the river at a quick pace. On the west river bank, you see
Floyd | an abandoned mine entrance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "land" 		

Floyd ]  Abandoned Mine Entrance                              11:09 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > LAND
Floyd |
Floyd | Abandoned Mine Entrance (in the canoe)
Floyd | You are standing outside of what looks to be an old, abandoned mine
Floyd | entrance. A creek flows out of the large mouth of a cave to the west,
Floyd | and into the river to the east. Random rocks are scattered all along
Floyd | the sides of the creek. There's a small wooden shack off to the side
Floyd | of the entrance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "stand" 		

Floyd ]  Abandoned Mine Entrance                              11:10 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > STAND
Floyd |
Floyd | You get out of the canoe.
Floyd |
Floyd | Abandoned Mine Entrance
Floyd | You are standing outside of what looks to be an old, abandoned mine
Floyd | entrance. A creek flows out of the large mouth of a cave to the west,
Floyd | and into the river to the east. Random rocks are scattered all along
Floyd | the sides of the creek. There's a small wooden shack off to the side
Floyd | of the entrance.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a canoe (empty) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Mouth of the Mine                                    11:11 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Mouth of the Mine
Floyd | The inside of this cave is very damp. A stream fills the the area with
Floyd | the sound of trickling water and you are standing on the muddy bank of
Floyd | it. The abandoned mine entrance lies to the east, and the cave
Floyd | continues to the west. The rock walls in this area are fairly dry.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see an iron gate here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Pool Room                                            11:12 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Pool Room
Floyd | A large, deep pond of water almost fills this entire room. The
Floyd | limestone walls here are slick and wet, and you have to watch your
Floyd | head due to stalactites. On the far opposite end of the pond to the
Floyd | northwest there is a pile of rocks and debris. You can faintly make
Floyd | out a small opening in the pile above the surface of the water. There
Floyd | is a crumbling concrete wall on the south side of the room. You hear
Floyd | the sound of the stream running into this room from the direction of
Floyd | the exit to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see an iron gate here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  Pool Room                                            11:13 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd | That water is extremely cold. You don't want to get your clothes wet
Floyd | on a chilly October night.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x pile" 		

Floyd ]  Pool Room                                            11:13 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PILE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x opening" 		

Floyd ]  Pool Room                                            11:13 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X OPENING
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Pool Room                                            11:14 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "x pool" 		

Floyd ]  Pool Room                                            11:15 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X POOL
Floyd |
Floyd | This pond takes up much of the area. Looking down into it, all you can
Floyd | see is darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Pool Room                                            11:16 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  Pool Room                                            11:17 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd | That water is extremely cold. You don't want to get your clothes wet
Floyd | on a chilly October night.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Pool Room                                            11:18 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a bottle
Floyd |   a rubber hose
Floyd |   a lighter
Floyd |   a butcher knife
Floyd |   a battery-powered lantern (providing light)
Floyd |   a wristwatch (being worn)
Floyd |   clothes (being worn)
Floyd |   a blue key
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "remove clothes" 		

Floyd ]  Pool Room                                            11:19 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMOVE CLOTHES
Floyd |
Floyd | You take off clothes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  Pool Room                                            11:20 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying too much weight to hold over your head and keep dry
Floyd | while swimming across the pond.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode says, "now is the time to get nekkid"
		Jizaboz exclaims, "haha Yeah, weeeee!"
		jenrexrode asks, "drop everything except...?"
		Jizaboz says, "lightsource"
		Jizaboz says, "we're in a cave"
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "drop all but lantern" 		

Floyd ]  Pool Room                                            11:21 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP ALL BUT LANTERN
Floyd |
Floyd | bottle: Dropped.
Floyd | rubber hose: Dropped.
Floyd | lighter: Dropped.
Floyd | butcher knife: Dropped.
Floyd | clothes: Dropped.
Floyd | blue key: Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  Waterfall Room                                       11:22 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd | You swim across the cold pond of water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Waterfall Room
Floyd | The area is covered in multiple smooth stalactites, stalagmites and
Floyd | flowstone. Shades of green and yellow shine on the walls of the cave
Floyd | in the white light of your battery-powered lantern. The sound of
Floyd | running water is much louder here. While there is no actual waterfall
Floyd | present in this deeper part of the cave, one wall of the room
Floyd | resembles a beautiful, cascading waterfall.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see the remains of what looks like were two miners here, leaned
Floyd | against the cave wall in a sitting position. The only exit from this
Floyd | area is to the southeast by swimming through a narrow opening.
Floyd |
Floyd | You think you are hearing voices here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a tape recorder and a narrow crack in the cave wall here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "take tape" 		

Floyd ]  Waterfall Room                                       11:23 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE TAPE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "press rewind" 		

Floyd ]  Waterfall Room                                       11:24 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRESS REWIND
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the rewind button and return the tape to the beginning.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "press record" 		

Floyd ]  Waterfall Room                                       11:25 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRESS RECORD
Floyd |
Floyd | You press the record button.
Floyd |
Floyd | Perhaps you can confirm you are actually hearing these ghostly voices
Floyd | by recording them?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd ]  Waterfall Room                                       11:26 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't make out what the voices are saying. The volume of the
Floyd | voices alternates from loud to faint, but it's as if they are speaking
Floyd | backwards or in another language.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "press record" 		

Floyd ]  Waterfall Room                                       11:27 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRESS RECORD
Floyd |
Floyd | The record button pops right back out. You must have reached the end
Floyd | of the tape.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "press rewind" 		

Floyd ]  Waterfall Room                                       11:28 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRESS REWIND
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the rewind button and return the tape to the beginning.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "press record" 		

Floyd ]  Waterfall Room                                       11:29 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRESS RECORD
Floyd |
Floyd | You press the record button.
Floyd |
Floyd | Perhaps you can confirm you are actually hearing these ghostly voices
Floyd | by recording them?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "press rewind" 		

Floyd ]  Waterfall Room                                       11:30 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRESS REWIND
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the rewind button and return the tape to the beginning.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd ]  Waterfall Room                                       11:31 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't make out what the voices are saying. The volume of the
Floyd | voices alternates from loud to faint, but it's as if they are speaking
Floyd | backwards or in another language.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "press record" 		

Floyd ]  Waterfall Room                                       11:32 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRESS RECORD
Floyd |
Floyd | You press the record button.
Floyd |
Floyd | Perhaps you can confirm you are actually hearing these ghostly voices
Floyd | by recording them?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "press play" 		

Floyd ]  Waterfall Room                                       11:33 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRESS PLAY
Floyd |
Floyd | The play button pops right back out. You must have reached the end of
Floyd | the tape.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "press rewind" 		

Floyd ]  Waterfall Room                                       11:34 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRESS REWIND
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the rewind button and return the tape to the beginning.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "press play" 		

Floyd ]  Waterfall Room                                       11:35 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRESS PLAY
Floyd |
Floyd | You ensure the volume is all the way up, and hit the play button. At
Floyd | first, all you can hear is static. Then, you make out ghostly voices..
Floyd |
Floyd | One voice says "It's his fault. Paaaain."
Floyd |
Floyd | A few more moments of static pass before another voice says "..won't
Floyd | rest until he dies!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "press rewind" 		

Floyd ]  Waterfall Room                                       11:36 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRESS REWIND
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the rewind button and return the tape to the beginning.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  Waterfall Room                                       11:37 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying too much weight to hold over your head and keep dry
Floyd | while swimming across the pond.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "throw tape in crack" 		

Floyd ]  Waterfall Room                                       11:38 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > THROW TAPE IN CRACK
Floyd |
Floyd | You toss the tape recorder as far as you can into the rocky crack. It
Floyd | disappears into the faint light on the other side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Waterfall Room                                       11:39 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Waterfall Room
Floyd | The area is covered in multiple smooth stalactites, stalagmites and
Floyd | flowstone. Shades of green and yellow shine on the walls of the cave
Floyd | in the white light of your battery-powered lantern. The sound of
Floyd | running water is much louder here. While there is no actual waterfall
Floyd | present in this deeper part of the cave, one wall of the room
Floyd | resembles a beautiful, cascading waterfall.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see the remains of what looks like were two miners here, leaned
Floyd | against the cave wall in a sitting position. The only exit from this
Floyd | area is to the southeast by swimming through a narrow opening.
Floyd |
Floyd | You think you are hearing voices here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a narrow crack in the cave wall here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "x miners" 		

Floyd ]  Waterfall Room                                       11:40 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MINERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You see the skeletal remains of what apparently must of been two
Floyd | miners, judging by their clothes and helmets. They are both sitting
Floyd | with their backs against the wall of the cave.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "search miners" 		

Floyd ]  Waterfall Room                                       11:41 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH MINERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You search the remains of the two miners. Underneath the thigh bone of
Floyd | one of them, you find a stick of dynamite.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-31-23:44:16CDT 		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "take dynamite" 		

Floyd ]  Waterfall Room                                       11:42 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE DYNAMITE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "throw dynamite in crack" 		

Floyd ]  Waterfall Room                                       11:43 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > THROW DYNAMITE IN CRACK
Floyd |
Floyd | You toss the stick of dynamite as far as you can into the rocky crack.
Floyd | It disappears into the faint light on the other side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  Pool Room                                            11:44 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd | You swim across the cold pond of water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Pool Room
Floyd | A large, deep pond of water almost fills this entire room. The
Floyd | limestone walls here are slick and wet, and you have to watch your
Floyd | head due to stalactites. On the far opposite end of the pond to the
Floyd | northwest there is a pile of rocks and debris. You can faintly make
Floyd | out a small opening in the pile above the surface of the water. There
Floyd | is a crumbling concrete wall on the south side of the room. You hear
Floyd | the sound of the stream running into this room from the direction of
Floyd | the exit to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see an iron gate, a blue key, clothes, a butcher knife, a
Floyd | lighter, a rubber hose and a bottle (empty) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz is a newbie. 		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "take all" 		

Floyd ]  Pool Room                                            11:45 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | blue key: Taken.
Floyd | clothes: Taken.
Floyd | butcher knife: Taken.
Floyd | lighter: Taken.
Floyd | rubber hose: Taken.
Floyd | bottle: Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Pool Room                                            11:46 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Mouth of the Mine                                    11:47 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Mouth of the Mine
Floyd | The inside of this cave is very damp. A stream fills the the area with
Floyd | the sound of trickling water and you are standing on the muddy bank of
Floyd | it. The abandoned mine entrance lies to the east, and the cave
Floyd | continues to the west. The rock walls in this area are fairly dry.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see an iron gate here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Mouth of the Mine                                    11:48 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Don't you think you should wear your clothes before you go back out
Floyd | there? The wind is blowing lot harder outside than it is inside this
Floyd | cave.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "wear clothes" 		

Floyd ]  Mouth of the Mine                                    11:49 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR CLOTHES
Floyd |
Floyd | You put on clothes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Abandoned Mine Entrance                              11:50 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Abandoned Mine Entrance
Floyd | You are standing outside of what looks to be an old, abandoned mine
Floyd | entrance. A creek flows out of the large mouth of a cave to the west,
Floyd | and into the river to the east. Random rocks are scattered all along
Floyd | the sides of the creek. There's a small wooden shack off to the side
Floyd | of the entrance.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a canoe (empty) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "get in canoe" 		

Floyd ]  Abandoned Mine Entrance                              11:51 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET IN CANOE
Floyd |
Floyd | You get into the canoe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "launch" 		

Floyd ]  The Brown River                                      11:52 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > LAUNCH
Floyd |
Floyd | The canoe floats further down the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Brown River (in the canoe)
Floyd | You are floating on the Brown River. The strong current is pulling you
Floyd | south, river at a quick pace. You hear a very loud sound of rushing
Floyd | water further down the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  The Brown River                                      11:53 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The canoe floats further down the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Brown River (in the canoe)
Floyd | You are floating on the Brown River. The strong current is pulling you
Floyd | south down the river at a very fast pace. The sound of rushing water
Floyd | is now even louder. You see a clear river bank to the west, while
Floyd | catching a glimpse of what looks to be severe whitewater rapids ahead
Floyd | to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  South River Bank                                     11:54 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | South River Bank (in the canoe)
Floyd | You are on a bank of Brown River, which is to the east. It appears to
Floyd | have a strong current. The roaring ambient sound of water rushing down
Floyd | the river is so loud here that it drowns out all other sounds of the
Floyd | area. A path leads to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "stand" 		

Floyd ]  South River Bank                                     11:55 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > STAND
Floyd |
Floyd | You get out of the canoe.
Floyd |
Floyd | South River Bank
Floyd | You are on a bank of Brown River, which is to the east. It appears to
Floyd | have a strong current. The roaring ambient sound of water rushing down
Floyd | the river is so loud here that it drowns out all other sounds of the
Floyd | area. A path leads to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a canoe (empty) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             11:56 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Roadside
Floyd | You are standing by the road that brought you here. A large mountain
Floyd | looms on the other side of it. You can barely make out the faint white
Floyd | noise of rushing water coming far from the southeast. To the west of
Floyd | you is a clearing in the briers which provides an entrance to the
Floyd | woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see bloody keys, Rachel's body, a pink jeep (closed and empty)
Floyd | and a blue car (empty) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         11:57 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are on the beginning of a dirt trail in the woods that leads
Floyd | north. A clearing in the briers to the east will take back to the
Floyd | road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             11:58 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Campsite
Floyd | You are standing in the campsite that you and Fred made years ago. A
Floyd | large dome-shaped tent sits on the dirt. A nice fire blazes in the
Floyd | firepit. Most of the leaves have been cleared out of this roughly 50 x
Floyd | 50 foot area. The trail which brought you here continues north. The
Floyd | path to the road is south of here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a picnic table (on which is a Styrofoam cooler) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         11:59 pm
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are walking along a dirt trail in the woods that goes north and
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can vaguely hear the sound of running water from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         12:00 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are walking along a dirt trail in the woods that goes south, and
Floyd | starts to fade towards the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can vaguely hear the sound of running water from the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:01 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same with exception to a clearing to the southeast
Floyd | that you recognize as the way back towards the campground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:02 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:03 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:04 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:05 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:06 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:07 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:08 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:09 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:10 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:11 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. From here you can see a scenic
Floyd | overlook to the northwest. Random items of trash lay around the area;
Floyd | presumably from people coming here to get trashed as they gazed at the
Floyd | view.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a sharp tent stake here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "x stake" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:12 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | A 10-inch long tent stake made of metal. It looks fairly sharp and
Floyd | new.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "take it" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:13 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE IT
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:14 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:15 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:16 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Base of the Hill                                     12:17 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Base of the Hill
Floyd | A very tall and steep hill is ahead of you. Steps that are mostly
Floyd | covered in leaves have been made with flat stones which lead up the
Floyd | hill. You can see a house up the stairs from here. The trail splits
Floyd | back to the south and southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
Jizaboz says (to Floyd), "cf37" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Base of the Hill                                     12:17 am
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz asks, "Okay, someone else?"
		Jizaboz says, "We are returning to the Pane house."
		jenrexrode asks, "who me?"
		Jizaboz says, "Sure, heh"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]  Front of the Dark House                              12:18 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing in front of an old, dark house that lies to the
Floyd | north. It looks to be two stories. You can't see any lights on inside
Floyd | from here. The wooden exterior of the house has been painted a dull,
Floyd | reddish brown. You can walk around northwest or the northeast to get
Floyd | to the sides of the house. Rustic steps made of stone lead down
Floyd | towards deeper woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a Jack-O-Lantern (lit) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  West Side of the Dark House                          12:19 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | West Side of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing on the west side of the house. All of the windows you
Floyd | can see here are boarded up. The backyard of the house is to the
Floyd | northeast. You can also head back to the front of the house to the
Floyd | southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]  Graveyard                                            12:20 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Graveyard
Floyd | You are in a small graveyard at the rear of the dark house which
Floyd | contains about twenty tombstones. All of the tombstones look very old.
Floyd | One of the graves looks recently disturbed. Exits are to the southeast
Floyd | and southwest. There is also what looks like the entrance to a cellar
Floyd | to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a walking corpse here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode says, "uh oh"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x corpse" 		

Floyd ]  Graveyard                                            12:21 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CORPSE
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated, rotting corpse. Maggots are crawling around in its
Floyd | eye-sockets.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd ]  West Side of the Dark House                          12:22 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd | You run full speed away from the animated corpse.
Floyd |
Floyd | West Side of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing on the west side of the house. All of the windows you
Floyd | can see here are boarded up. The backyard of the house is to the
Floyd | northeast. You can also head back to the front of the house to the
Floyd | southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  Front of the Dark House                              12:23 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing in front of an old, dark house that lies to the
Floyd | north. It looks to be two stories. You can't see any lights on inside
Floyd | from here. The wooden exterior of the house has been painted a dull,
Floyd | reddish brown. You can walk around northwest or the northeast to get
Floyd | to the sides of the house. Rustic steps made of stone lead down
Floyd | towards deeper woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a Jack-O-Lantern (lit) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Base of the Hill                                     12:24 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Base of the Hill
Floyd | A very tall and steep hill is ahead of you. Steps that are mostly
Floyd | covered in leaves have been made with flat stones which lead up the
Floyd | hill. You can see a house up the stairs from here. The trail splits
Floyd | back to the south and southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:25 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:26 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:27 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:28 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same with exception to a clearing to the southeast
Floyd | that you recognize as the way back towards the campground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         12:29 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are walking along a dirt trail in the woods that goes south, and
Floyd | starts to fade towards the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can vaguely hear the sound of running water from the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Ellison says, "that (lit) looked like (TM) to me for a second"
		Jizaboz says, "Hahaha"
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         12:30 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are walking along a dirt trail in the woods that goes north and
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can vaguely hear the sound of running water from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             12:31 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Campsite
Floyd | You are standing in the campsite that you and Fred made years ago. A
Floyd | large dome-shaped tent sits on the dirt. A nice fire blazes in the
Floyd | firepit. Most of the leaves have been cleared out of this roughly 50 x
Floyd | 50 foot area. The trail which brought you here continues north. The
Floyd | path to the road is south of here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a picnic table (on which is a Styrofoam cooler) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         12:32 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are on the beginning of a dirt trail in the woods that leads
Floyd | north. A clearing in the briers to the east will take back to the
Floyd | road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             12:33 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Roadside
Floyd | You are standing by the road that brought you here. A large mountain
Floyd | looms on the other side of it. You can barely make out the faint white
Floyd | noise of rushing water coming far from the southeast. To the west of
Floyd | you is a clearing in the briers which provides an entrance to the
Floyd | woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see bloody keys, Rachel's body, a pink jeep (closed and empty)
Floyd | and a blue car (empty) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floydx), "blue car" 		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "x blue car" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             12:34 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BLUE CAR
Floyd |
Floyd | Your blue car is here. It's plain little Japanese model, but it gets
Floyd | you where you need to go. The only complaint with it you have is that
Floyd | there's no lock on the gas cap. On a recent trip to the city, someone
Floyd | stole all of your fuel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "open gas" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             12:34 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN GAS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "open gas cap" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             12:35 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN GAS CAP
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the gas cap.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             12:36 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a sharp tent stake
Floyd |   a bottle
Floyd |   a rubber hose
Floyd |   a lighter
Floyd |   a butcher knife
Floyd |   clothes (being worn)
Floyd |   a blue key
Floyd |   a battery-powered lantern (providing light)
Floyd |   a wristwatch (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "put tube in gas" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             12:36 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT TUBE IN GAS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "put tube in gas cap" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             12:37 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT TUBE IN GAS CAP
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the hose as far into your gas tank as you can.
Floyd |
Floyd | You siphon some gasoline from the gas tank to the bottle you are
Floyd | carrying using the hose. It's a handy trick you learned from "helping"
Floyd | your father work on lawn mowers when you were a child that you are
Floyd | thankful for being taught.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bottle is now filled with gasoline.
Floyd |
Floyd | You take the hose.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         12:38 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are on the beginning of a dirt trail in the woods that leads
Floyd | north. A clearing in the briers to the east will take back to the
Floyd | road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             12:39 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Campsite
Floyd | You are standing in the campsite that you and Fred made years ago. A
Floyd | large dome-shaped tent sits on the dirt. A nice fire blazes in the
Floyd | firepit. Most of the leaves have been cleared out of this roughly 50 x
Floyd | 50 foot area. The trail which brought you here continues north. The
Floyd | path to the road is south of here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a picnic table (on which is a Styrofoam cooler) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         12:40 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are walking along a dirt trail in the woods that goes north and
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can vaguely hear the sound of running water from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         12:41 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are walking along a dirt trail in the woods that goes south, and
Floyd | starts to fade towards the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can vaguely hear the sound of running water from the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:42 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same with exception to a clearing to the southeast
Floyd | that you recognize as the way back towards the campground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:43 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:44 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:45 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:46 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:47 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:48 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           12:49 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Base of the Hill                                     12:50 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Base of the Hill
Floyd | A very tall and steep hill is ahead of you. Steps that are mostly
Floyd | covered in leaves have been made with flat stones which lead up the
Floyd | hill. You can see a house up the stairs from here. The trail splits
Floyd | back to the south and southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]  Front of the Dark House                              12:51 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing in front of an old, dark house that lies to the
Floyd | north. It looks to be two stories. You can't see any lights on inside
Floyd | from here. The wooden exterior of the house has been painted a dull,
Floyd | reddish brown. You can walk around northwest or the northeast to get
Floyd | to the sides of the house. Rustic steps made of stone lead down
Floyd | towards deeper woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a Jack-O-Lantern (lit) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
Jizaboz says (to Floyd), "cf38" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Front of the Dark House                              12:51 am
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		
Jizaboz arrives, full of fun, but no funk. 		Jizaboz says, "heh whups"
		Jizaboz says, "way past my bed time and like beer #9"
		genericghostgirl says, "Aw. G'night!"
		Ellison says, "later, J. thanks for being around for this."
		Jizaboz says, "No. Nooo I keep going"
		Jizaboz says, "Hahaha"
		Jizaboz says, "Close to the end.. sort of"
		Jizaboz says, "We need to climb that tree again"
		Jizaboz says, "Now that we have a knife"
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "k" 		

Floyd ]  Front of the Dark House                              12:51 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > K
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Front of the Dark House                              12:52 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing in front of an old, dark house that lies to the
Floyd | north. It looks to be two stories. You can't see any lights on inside
Floyd | from here. The wooden exterior of the house has been painted a dull,
Floyd | reddish brown. You can walk around northwest or the northeast to get
Floyd | to the sides of the house. Rustic steps made of stone lead down
Floyd | towards deeper woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a Jack-O-Lantern (lit) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]  East Side of the Dark House                          12:53 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | East Side of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing on the east side of the house. All of the windows you
Floyd | can see here are boarded up. The backyard of the house is to the
Floyd | northwest. You can also head back to the front of the house to the
Floyd | southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a large, gnarled tree here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Roof of the Dark House                               12:54 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | You easily climb up the tree and drop from an over-hanging branch onto
Floyd | the roof.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roof of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing on the roof of the house. A few branches of a large
Floyd | tree reach near the edge of the roof, providing a way back down. From
Floyd | here you can see a second-story window to the southwest, that is level
Floyd | to the roof you are standing on. The window is open and dark inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "in" 		

Floyd ]  Children's Bedroom                                   12:55 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > IN
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Children's Bedroom
Floyd | You are in what appears to be a bedroom which belongs to a child. The
Floyd | wallpaper is covered in pictures of clowns and circus events. There's
Floyd | some graffiti on one wall written in crayon. There is an awful smell
Floyd | present here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a couple of marbles scattered here. A blue door is to the
Floyd | east, or you can go out through the window to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a blue door and a dirty blanket here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "cut blanket" 		

Floyd ]  Children's Bedroom                                   12:55 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT BLANKET
Floyd |
Floyd | You have to specify what you want to cut it with.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "cut blanket with knife" 		

Floyd ]  Children's Bedroom                                   12:56 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT BLANKET WITH KNIFE
Floyd |
Floyd | You cut away a bit of cloth from the outside of the blanket with the
Floyd | hacksaw.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "Okay.. the hacksaw is long gone but whatever."
		Jizaboz says, "i"
		jenrexrode says, "yeah"
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Children's Bedroom                                   12:57 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a rubber hose
Floyd |   a sharp tent stake
Floyd |   a bottle (in which is gasoline)
Floyd |   a lighter
Floyd |   a butcher knife
Floyd |   clothes (being worn)
Floyd |   a blue key
Floyd |   a battery-powered lantern (providing light)
Floyd |   a wristwatch (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Children's Bedroom                                   12:58 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Children's Bedroom
Floyd | You are in what appears to be a bedroom which belongs to a child. The
Floyd | wallpaper is covered in pictures of clowns and circus events. There's
Floyd | some graffiti on one wall written in crayon. There is an awful smell
Floyd | present here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a couple of marbles scattered here. A blue door is to the
Floyd | east, or you can go out through the window to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a wad of cloth, a blue door and a dirty blanket here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "take wad" 		

Floyd ]  Children's Bedroom                                   12:59 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE WAD
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "put wad in bottle" 		

Floyd ]  Children's Bedroom                                   1:00 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT WAD IN BOTTLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the wad of cloth into the bottle (in which is gasoline).
Floyd |
Floyd | Now that the bottle is filled with gasoline and the mouth of it is
Floyd | stuffed with a wad of cloth, you have produced a Molotov cocktail.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz asks, "What now, animated corpse?"
%%% # MARK: 2012-10-31-23:59:16CDT 		Jizaboz says, "e"
		Jizaboz says, "haha wow ahem"
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]  Roof of the Dark House                               1:01 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Roof of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing on the roof of the house. A few branches of a large
Floyd | tree reach near the edge of the roof, providing a way back down. From
Floyd | here you can see a second-story window to the southwest, that is level
Floyd | to the roof you are standing on. The window is open and dark inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  East Side of the Dark House                          1:02 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You grab a hold of the nearby over-hanging branch and shimmy yourself
Floyd | down the tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | East Side of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing on the east side of the house. All of the windows you
Floyd | can see here are boarded up. The backyard of the house is to the
Floyd | northwest. You can also head back to the front of the house to the
Floyd | southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a large, gnarled tree here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  Graveyard                                            1:03 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Graveyard
Floyd | You are in a small graveyard at the rear of the dark house which
Floyd | contains about twenty tombstones. All of the tombstones look very old.
Floyd | One of the graves looks recently disturbed. Exits are to the southeast
Floyd | and southwest. There is also what looks like the entrance to a cellar
Floyd | to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a walking corpse here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "light molatov" 		

Floyd ]  Graveyard                                            1:03 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > LIGHT MOLATOV
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Graveyard                                            1:04 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a Molotov cocktail
Floyd |   a rubber hose
Floyd |   a sharp tent stake
Floyd |   a lighter
Floyd |   a butcher knife
Floyd |   clothes (being worn)
Floyd |   a blue key
Floyd |   a battery-powered lantern (providing light)
Floyd |   a wristwatch (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode says, "ooo"
		Jizaboz says, "Go for it Jrr"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "light molotov" 		

Floyd ]  Graveyard                                            1:04 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > LIGHT MOLOTOV
Floyd |
Floyd | Try "detonate" instead.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "detonate molotov" 		

Floyd ]  Graveyard                                            1:05 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > DETONATE MOLOTOV
Floyd |
Floyd | You ignite the Molotov cocktail with the lighter. You had better get
Floyd | away from it soon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "throw molotov at corpse" 		

Floyd ]  Graveyard                                            1:06 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > THROW MOLOTOV AT CORPSE
Floyd |
Floyd | You throw the Molotov cocktail at the corpse. The glass of the bottle
Floyd | breaks instantly on your target, unleashing flaming gasoline. You see
Floyd | the corpse go up in flames while flailing at the air for a few
Floyd | seconds. Then it falls to the ground, smoldering.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Graveyard                                            1:07 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Graveyard
Floyd | You are in a small graveyard at the rear of the dark house which
Floyd | contains about twenty tombstones. All of the tombstones look very old.
Floyd | One of the graves looks recently disturbed. Exits are to the southeast
Floyd | and southwest. There is also what looks like the entrance to a cellar
Floyd | to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a smoldering corpse here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "search corpse" 		

Floyd ]  Graveyard                                            1:08 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH CORPSE
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
Jizaboz says (to Floyd), "cf39" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Graveyard                                            1:08 am
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Cellar                                               1:09 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening cellar door)
Floyd |
Floyd | Cellar
Floyd | You slowly wander down into the cellar. You see Lola Lotta here; tied
Floyd | to a support beam with thick ropes, and gagged. Tears smear her eye
Floyd | makeup down her chubby cheeks. She's staring at you with her eyes wide
Floyd | open. She looks terrified.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a coffin in the center of the room. Inside of it is what
Floyd | looks like a vampire.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a vampire and Lola here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x grave" 		

Floyd ]  Cellar                                               1:09 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GRAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode says, "oops"
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Cellar                                               1:09 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Cellar
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Graveyard                                            1:08 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Graveyard
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "My bad"
		jenrexrode says, "i was scrolled back"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x grave" 		

Floyd ]  Graveyard                                            1:09 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GRAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the graves looks recently disturbed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "enter grave" 		

Floyd ]  Graveyard                                            1:10 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER GRAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode says, "ok, back to the cellar, I guess"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Cellar                                               1:11 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening cellar door)
Floyd |
Floyd | Cellar
Floyd | You slowly wander down into the cellar. You see Lola Lotta here; tied
Floyd | to a support beam with thick ropes, and gagged. Tears smear her eye
Floyd | makeup down her chubby cheeks. She's staring at you with her eyes wide
Floyd | open. She looks terrified.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a coffin in the center of the room. Inside of it is what
Floyd | looks like a vampire.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a vampire and Lola here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "As if the cellar wasn't scary enough..."
		Jizaboz says, "Heh-heh"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Graveyard                                            1:10 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Graveyard
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode says, "oh, I got me a pointy tent stake..."
		Jizaboz exclaims, "Yes!"
		Ellison says, "you guys are making me feel bad for the monsters"
		jenrexrode says, "i wonder if the wampire will stay still for me"
		Jizaboz says, "Well, I sort of helped.. and have the map heh"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Cellar                                               1:11 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening cellar door)
Floyd |
Floyd | Cellar
Floyd | You slowly wander down into the cellar. You see Lola Lotta here; tied
Floyd | to a support beam with thick ropes, and gagged. Tears smear her eye
Floyd | makeup down her chubby cheeks. She's staring at you with her eyes wide
Floyd | open. She looks terrified.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a coffin in the center of the room. Inside of it is what
Floyd | looks like a vampire.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a vampire and Lola here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "I won't help in the final confrontation in the house"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x vampire" 		

Floyd ]  Cellar                                               1:12 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > X VAMPIRE
Floyd |
Floyd | You see what must be a vampire or someone in a very convincing
Floyd | costume. It is wearing a tattered black cape and a disintegrating
Floyd | fancy, black suit. Translucent skin stretches over its bald head and
Floyd | clawed hands. Its eyes are bloodshot to the point of almost being
Floyd | black. Its mouth is slightly open, revealing not the familiar set of
Floyd | long canines seen in the movies, but a grotesque maw completely filled
Floyd | with long, razor-sharp teeth.
Floyd |
Floyd | It seems to be asleep with its eyes open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x lola" 		

Floyd ]  Cellar                                               1:13 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LOLA
Floyd |
Floyd | Lola is tied up and gagged. Tears stream from her eyes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "untie lola" 		

Floyd ]  Cellar                                               1:13 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNTIE LOLA
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "take gag" 		

Floyd ]  Cellar                                               1:13 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE GAG
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "take lola" 		

Floyd ]  Cellar                                               1:14 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LOLA
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't suppose Lola would care for that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "I dunno in this situation heh"
		Jizaboz says, "x ropes"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x ropes" 		

Floyd ]  Cellar                                               1:15 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ROPES
Floyd |
Floyd | These thick ropes have been tied around Lola numerous times.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "untie ropes" 		

Floyd ]  Cellar                                               1:15 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNTIE ROPES
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "Hrm yeah that could have used a better response"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "cute ropes with knife" 		

Floyd ]  Cellar                                               1:15 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUTE ROPES WITH KNIFE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode says, "haha, cute"
		Jizaboz says, "haha"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "cut ropes with knife" 		

Floyd ]  Cellar                                               1:15 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT ROPES WITH KNIFE
Floyd |
Floyd | You go over to Lola and begin cutting her ropes. She starts wiggling
Floyd | in her ropes and her eyes get wide. You turn to look behind you to see
Floyd | the vampire rise sharply from the coffin, as stiff as the boards it
Floyd | was made from; like the arm of a clock without any gears. The
Floyd | grotesque monstrosity swiftly slays you mercilessly as Lola watches in
Floyd | horror.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have died ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 100, in 399 turns, earning
Floyd | you the rank of Loser.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Cellar                                               1:15 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Cellar
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "stab vampire with stake" 		

Floyd ]  Cellar                                               1:15 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > STAB VAMPIRE WITH STAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "cut vampire with stake" 		

Floyd ]  Cellar                                               1:16 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT VAMPIRE WITH STAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't cut anything with that!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "kill vampire" 		

Floyd ]  Cellar                                               1:17 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL VAMPIRE
Floyd |
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "give stake to vampire" 		

Floyd ]  Cellar                                               1:18 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE STAKE TO VAMPIRE
Floyd |
Floyd | a vampire doesn't seem interested.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "kill vampire with stake" 		

Floyd ]  Cellar                                               1:19 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL VAMPIRE WITH STAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | You plunge the sharp stake into the chest of the vampire. Its mouth
Floyd | opens and its arms reach towards the ceiling suddenly, causing you to
Floyd | jump back.
Floyd |
Floyd | You watch as the vampire quickly decays and turns to dust in a matter
Floyd | of seconds.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "cut ropes with knife" 		

Floyd ]  Cellar                                               1:20 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT ROPES WITH KNIFE
Floyd |
Floyd | You cut Lola free from the ropes with the butcher knife.
Floyd |
Floyd | Lola wiggles out of the remaining ropes and pulls the gag out of her
Floyd | mouth. She opens her mouth as if to speak, but nothing more than a few
Floyd | gasps and wimpers come out. You gently push her out the doorway
Floyd | leading out of the cellar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Graveyard                                            1:21 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Graveyard
Floyd | You are in a small graveyard at the rear of the dark house which
Floyd | contains about twenty tombstones. All of the tombstones look very old.
Floyd | One of the graves looks recently disturbed. Exits are to the southeast
Floyd | and southwest. There is also what looks like the entrance to a cellar
Floyd | to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Lola and a smoldering corpse here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Lola takes off running towards the front of the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd ]  West Side of the Dark House                          1:22 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | West Side of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing on the west side of the house. All of the windows you
Floyd | can see here are boarded up. The backyard of the house is to the
Floyd | northeast. You can also head back to the front of the house to the
Floyd | southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  Front of the Dark House                              1:23 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing in front of an old, dark house that lies to the
Floyd | north. It looks to be two stories. You can't see any lights on inside
Floyd | from here. The wooden exterior of the house has been painted a dull,
Floyd | reddish brown. You can walk around northwest or the northeast to get
Floyd | to the sides of the house. Rustic steps made of stone lead down
Floyd | towards deeper woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Lola and a Jack-O-Lantern (lit) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "x lola" 		

Floyd ]  Front of the Dark House                              1:24 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LOLA
Floyd |
Floyd | Lola Lotta's dark eye makeup has run all down her face. She stands
Floyd | here, just staring at the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "ask lola about steve" 		

Floyd ]  Front of the Dark House                              1:25 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOLA ABOUT STEVE
Floyd |
Floyd | Lola says "We got separated by this giant, evil skeleton puppet thing!
Floyd | I don't know what happened! Please! Help Him!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                1:26 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foyer
Floyd | You are standing in the foyer of the dark house. There are doorways to
Floyd | the east and to the north. You can exit the house through the doorway
Floyd | to the south. Stairs lead up to a second level.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
Jizaboz says (to Floyd), "cf40" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Foyer                                                1:26 am
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        1:27 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Upper Landing
Floyd | This is the second floor of the house.The hall goes north and west,
Floyd | with doors at each end. A stairway leads back down to the foyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a blue door and a metal door here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x blue door" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        1:28 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BLUE DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | The blue door has many planks of wood nailed across it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "take planks" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        1:28 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE PLANKS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "open door" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        1:28 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the blue door or the metal door?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "blue" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        1:29 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > BLUE
Floyd |
Floyd | It seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "unlock blue" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        1:29 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNLOCK BLUE
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to unlock the blue key with?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "unlock blue door with blue key" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        1:30 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNLOCK BLUE DOOR WITH BLUE KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit the lock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "open metal door" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        1:31 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN METAL DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | It seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode asks, "does the blue key go to the blue car?"
%%% # MARK: 2012-11-01-00:14:16CDT 		Jizaboz says, "Yes"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        1:32 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the blue door)
Floyd | It seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        1:33 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the metal door)
Floyd | It seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode says, "i see"
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                1:34 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foyer
Floyd | You are standing in the foyer of the dark house. There are doorways to
Floyd | the east and to the north. You can exit the house through the doorway
Floyd | to the south. Stairs lead up to a second level.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              1:35 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | You are standing in a dirty and dusty kitchen. Filth and miscellaneous
Floyd | bones of unknown creatures litter the area. Despite the many signs of
Floyd | neglect, it does appear that the room has been used recently used due
Floyd | to clean smears in the dust on some surfaces here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a chalk outline of a person on the floor, and in the center of
Floyd | it is a huge blood stain.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a kitchen counter here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                1:36 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foyer
Floyd | You are standing in the foyer of the dark house. There are doorways to
Floyd | the east and to the north. You can exit the house through the doorway
Floyd | to the south. Stairs lead up to a second level.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      1:37 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room Lab
Floyd | You are standing in a room filled with scientific instruments.
Floyd | Ultra-violet light fills the room with a surreal and ghostly glow.
Floyd | Some large equipment lies in one corner, connected to large tubs of an
Floyd | unknown fluid. Tubes connected to these tubs run into the ceiling.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Doctor Pane and a strange machine here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      1:38 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a rubber hose
Floyd |   a lighter
Floyd |   a butcher knife
Floyd |   clothes (being worn)
Floyd |   a blue key
Floyd |   a battery-powered lantern (providing light)
Floyd |   a wristwatch (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "Uh-oh"
		Jizaboz says, "We're never grabbed the stuff we threw through the crack"
		Jizaboz says, "Got to go back for that"
Jizaboz says, "..floyd" 		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                1:39 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foyer
Floyd | You are standing in the foyer of the dark house. There are doorways to
Floyd | the east and to the north. You can exit the house through the doorway
Floyd | to the south. Stairs lead up to a second level.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Front of the Dark House                              1:40 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing in front of an old, dark house that lies to the
Floyd | north. It looks to be two stories. You can't see any lights on inside
Floyd | from here. The wooden exterior of the house has been painted a dull,
Floyd | reddish brown. You can walk around northwest or the northeast to get
Floyd | to the sides of the house. Rustic steps made of stone lead down
Floyd | towards deeper woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Lola and a Jack-O-Lantern (lit) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Front of the Dark House                              1:41 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Base of the Hill                                     1:42 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Base of the Hill
Floyd | A very tall and steep hill is ahead of you. Steps that are mostly
Floyd | covered in leaves have been made with flat stones which lead up the
Floyd | hill. You can see a house up the stairs from here. The trail splits
Floyd | back to the south and southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           1:43 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           1:44 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           1:45 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           1:46 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           1:47 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           1:48 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same with exception to a clearing to the southeast
Floyd | that you recognize as the way back towards the campground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           1:49 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           1:50 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same. In this area of the woods there is a large
Floyd | gully here, almost filled to the brim with random junk.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a junk pile here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           1:51 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           1:52 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same. Some boulders form an overhang over a deep,
Floyd | muddy hole here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Muddy Pit                                            1:53 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Muddy Pit
Floyd | You are standing in the bottom of a muddy pit. A few old roots and
Floyd | stones provide enough footing to climb up out of the hole.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a stick of dynamite, a tape recorder and a narrow crack in
Floyd | the rock wall here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz is a newbie. 		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "take all" 		

Floyd ]  Muddy Pit                                            1:54 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | stick of dynamite: Taken.
Floyd | tape recorder: Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           1:55 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same. Some boulders form an overhang over a deep,
Floyd | muddy hole here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           1:56 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           1:57 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Base of the Hill                                     1:58 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Base of the Hill
Floyd | A very tall and steep hill is ahead of you. Steps that are mostly
Floyd | covered in leaves have been made with flat stones which lead up the
Floyd | hill. You can see a house up the stairs from here. The trail splits
Floyd | back to the south and southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]  Front of the Dark House                              1:59 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing in front of an old, dark house that lies to the
Floyd | north. It looks to be two stories. You can't see any lights on inside
Floyd | from here. The wooden exterior of the house has been painted a dull,
Floyd | reddish brown. You can walk around northwest or the northeast to get
Floyd | to the sides of the house. Rustic steps made of stone lead down
Floyd | towards deeper woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Lola and a Jack-O-Lantern (lit) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                2:00 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foyer
Floyd | You are standing in the foyer of the dark house. There are doorways to
Floyd | the east and to the north. You can exit the house through the doorway
Floyd | to the south. Stairs lead up to a second level.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
Jizaboz says (to Floyd), "cf41" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Foyer                                                2:00 am
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              2:01 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | You are standing in a dirty and dusty kitchen. Filth and miscellaneous
Floyd | bones of unknown creatures litter the area. Despite the many signs of
Floyd | neglect, it does appear that the room has been used recently used due
Floyd | to clean smears in the dust on some surfaces here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a chalk outline of a person on the floor, and in the center of
Floyd | it is a huge blood stain.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a kitchen counter here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                2:02 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foyer
Floyd | You are standing in the foyer of the dark house. There are doorways to
Floyd | the east and to the north. You can exit the house through the doorway
Floyd | to the south. Stairs lead up to a second level.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      2:03 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room Lab
Floyd | You are standing in a room filled with scientific instruments.
Floyd | Ultra-violet light fills the room with a surreal and ghostly glow.
Floyd | Some large equipment lies in one corner, connected to large tubs of an
Floyd | unknown fluid. Tubes connected to these tubs run into the ceiling.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Doctor Pane and a strange machine here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      2:04 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a tape recorder
Floyd |   a stick of dynamite
Floyd |   a rubber hose
Floyd |   a lighter
Floyd |   a butcher knife
Floyd |   clothes (being worn)
Floyd |   a blue key
Floyd |   a battery-powered lantern (providing light)
Floyd |   a wristwatch (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "x tape recorder" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      2:05 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TAPE RECORDER
Floyd |
Floyd | A shiny silver and black cassette tape recorder. It's a newer, thinner
Floyd | design. It numerous buttons, but three of them are highlighted;
Floyd | "Play", "RW" and "REC".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW arrives, ready to play with the toys. 		Jizaboz says, "Hey DavidW"
		DavidW says, "hello"
		Jizaboz says, "Alright, final round. I won't give any more hints or commands. heh-heh"
		DavidW says, "I forgot NightFloyd was moved to Wednesdays and slept thru my reminder."
		jenrexrode says, "not just wednesday, it's halloween"
		jenrexrode says, "well it was"
		Jizaboz says, "Surprised I stayed up this long myself."
		jenrexrode says, "now it's all saints day"
		DavidW says, "yes, I wanted to skip Halloween this year, actually."
		Jizaboz says, "It was pretty uneventful. Not even an Addams Family marathon."
		jenrexrode says, "they've been showing the movies and animated series this week"
		Jizaboz says, "Yup, everything but the tv show which is my favorite"
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "ask doctor about cave" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      2:06 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK DOCTOR ABOUT CAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | Doctor Pane says "They were my best patients. So many head traumas. So
Floyd | many fixes to be made. I'm sure they were probably the ones that ran
Floyd | their mouths to the authorities. I never cared about the gem-mining
Floyd | business. Uranium! That's what I really wanted them bring me.
Floyd |
Floyd | Due to their pathetic skill, I had to settle for radium. It serves
Floyd | them right the mine collapsed! Ungrateful bastards! Now, I will never
Floyd | hear from them again. They will never, ever complain again!
Floyd | Even their very souls will remain silent forever! Heh, heh, heh."
Floyd |
Floyd | Hmm.. you think you have actually heard them. If only there was a way
Floyd | to make Doctor Pane hear them...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "Ah finally, I triggered that text" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      2:06 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > AH FINALLY, I TRIGGERED THAT TEXT
Floyd |
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "press play" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      2:07 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRESS PLAY
Floyd |
Floyd | You ensure the volume is all the way up, and hit the play button. At
Floyd | first, all you can hear is static. Then, you make out ghostly voices..
Floyd |
Floyd | One voice says "It's his fault. Paaaain."
Floyd |
Floyd | A few more moments of static pass before another voice says "..won't
Floyd | rest until he dies!"
Floyd |
Floyd | As the audio from the tape recorder plays, Doctor Pane looks
Floyd | distressed and begins looking around the room in panic. He then bolts
Floyd | straight towards the door to the foyer, and you happen to be standing
Floyd | in his way. As the fragile old man trys to side-step you, you hear the
Floyd | sound of a stomach-turning, loud snap of bone in one of his legs. He
Floyd | slams to the floor, knocking himself unconscious!
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice a ring of keys lying inches from his hand.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode says, "nice"
Jizaboz says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
Jizaboz says (to Floyd), "cf42" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      2:07 am
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "take keys" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      2:08 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE KEYS
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Pane's in pain."
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x keys" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      2:09 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > X KEYS
Floyd |
Floyd | A small ring of 4 keys of different colors and sizes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      2:10 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room Lab
Floyd | You are standing in a room filled with scientific instruments.
Floyd | Ultra-violet light fills the room with a surreal and ghostly glow.
Floyd | Some large equipment lies in one corner, connected to large tubs of an
Floyd | unknown fluid. Tubes connected to these tubs run into the ceiling.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Doctor Pane (unconscious) and a strange machine here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                2:11 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foyer
Floyd | You are standing in the foyer of the dark house. There are doorways to
Floyd | the east and to the north. You can exit the house through the doorway
Floyd | to the south. Stairs lead up to a second level.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        2:12 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Upper Landing
Floyd | This is the second floor of the house.The hall goes north and west,
Floyd | with doors at each end. A stairway leads back down to the foyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a blue door and a metal door here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-11-01-00:29:16CDT 		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x key" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        2:13 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > X KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | This is the key to your little Japanese car.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x keys" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        2:14 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > X KEYS
Floyd |
Floyd | A small ring of 4 keys of different colors and sizes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x 4" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        2:14 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > X 4
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        2:14 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Upper Landing
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "unlock metal door" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        2:14 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNLOCK METAL DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to unlock the metal door with?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "unlock metal door with key" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        2:15 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNLOCK METAL DOOR WITH KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit the lock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode says, "argh"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "x ring" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        2:16 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > X RING
Floyd |
Floyd | A small ring of 4 keys of different colors and sizes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock metal door with keys" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        2:17 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNLOCK METAL DOOR WITH KEYS
Floyd |
Floyd | You unlock the metal door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "haha"
		jenrexrode says, "oh"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "open door" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        2:17 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the blue door or the metal door?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "metal" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        2:18 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > METAL
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the metal door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        2:19 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Upper Landing
Floyd | This is the second floor of the house.The hall goes north and west,
Floyd | with doors at each end. A stairway leads back down to the foyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a blue door and a metal door here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Evil Mass                                            2:20 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Evil Mass
Floyd | This room is completely consumed by some grotesque mass of tissues and
Floyd | organs of varied sizes. The whole room is moving with beating hearts,
Floyd | roaming eyeballs, yawning jaws filled with crooked teeth, inflating
Floyd | lungs, squirming intestines, and flexing muscles. Long appendages are
Floyd | writhing towards the center of the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Strange symbols resembling altered pentagrams and writing in a
Floyd | language you do not understand have been painted over the entire
Floyd | floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a metal door, Steve and an a floor bolt here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see Steve bolted to the floor here! He's been beaten up pretty
Floyd | bad, and is bleeding from a bandage on his head. He looks up at you
Floyd | and gives you a nervous smile, but you aren't sure if he's completely
Floyd | aware of what's going on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode says, "okay, it's steve"
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "open bolt" 		

Floyd ]  Evil Mass                                            2:21 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN BOLT
Floyd |
Floyd | It seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Perhaps the bolt can be unlocked with the keys too?"
		jenrexrode says, "there's 4 of em"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock bolt with keys" 		

Floyd ]  Evil Mass                                            2:21 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNLOCK BOLT WITH KEYS
Floyd |
Floyd | You run over to Steve and begin to find the right key to release him.
Floyd | Suddenly, what feels like a wet hand grasps your leg. You look down to
Floyd | see that it's not only a hand, but also connected to it is an arm
Floyd | which has eyeballs protruding out of its elbow; looking right back at
Floyd | you. A mouth opens within the palm gripping your calf and bites down
Floyd | into the muscle. You are then dragged into an orifice of tissue on the
Floyd | far wall which is dripping saliva and other bodily fluids. It seems
Floyd | like an eternity until your vital organs begin to be consumed for you
Floyd | to die.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have died ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 100, in 465 turns, earning
Floyd | you the rank of Loser.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode says, "oops"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Evil Mass                                            2:21 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Evil Mass
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "ok, I suppose you need to kill the mass first. Poison, if you have any? Or banishing spells?"
jenrexrode says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Evil Mass                                            2:22 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a ring of keys
Floyd |   a tape recorder
Floyd |   a stick of dynamite
Floyd |   a rubber hose
Floyd |   a lighter
Floyd |   a butcher knife
Floyd |   clothes (being worn)
Floyd |   a blue key
Floyd |   a battery-powered lantern (providing light)
Floyd |   a wristwatch (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jenrexrode says, "unused dynamite"
		Jizaboz says, "There was a machine downstairs too.. pumping some sort of fluids upstairs."
		DavidW says, "One of those ought work, I guess. I don't even know what game this is."
		jenrexrode says, "me neither"
		Jizaboz says, "it's version 2 of my first game, Hallow Eve"
		Jizaboz says, "Almost at the end now though."
		Jizaboz says, "Alright heh"
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Evil Mass                                            2:23 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        2:24 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Upper Landing
Floyd | This is the second floor of the house.The hall goes north and west,
Floyd | with doors at each end. A stairway leads back down to the foyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a metal door and a blue door here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                2:25 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foyer
Floyd | You are standing in the foyer of the dark house. There are doorways to
Floyd | the east and to the north. You can exit the house through the doorway
Floyd | to the south. Stairs lead up to a second level.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              2:26 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | You are standing in a dirty and dusty kitchen. Filth and miscellaneous
Floyd | bones of unknown creatures litter the area. Despite the many signs of
Floyd | neglect, it does appear that the room has been used recently used due
Floyd | to clean smears in the dust on some surfaces here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a chalk outline of a person on the floor, and in the center of
Floyd | it is a huge blood stain.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a kitchen counter here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                2:27 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foyer
Floyd | You are standing in the foyer of the dark house. There are doorways to
Floyd | the east and to the north. You can exit the house through the doorway
Floyd | to the south. Stairs lead up to a second level.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      2:28 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room Lab
Floyd | You are standing in a room filled with scientific instruments.
Floyd | Ultra-violet light fills the room with a surreal and ghostly glow.
Floyd | Some large equipment lies in one corner, connected to large tubs of an
Floyd | unknown fluid. Tubes connected to these tubs run into the ceiling.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Doctor Pane (unconscious) and a strange machine here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "x machine" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      2:29 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MACHINE
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a large, noisy machine in the far corner of the room. There
Floyd | are large tubes coming out of the machine which stretch through the
Floyd | ceiling above. At the base of each tube is some sort of bellows;
Floyd | continuously pulsing up and down.
Floyd |
Floyd | There are numerous dials and meters on this machine which you do not
Floyd | understand. However, a large switch to one side of the machine catches
Floyd | your eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jizaboz says, "Alright I guess I'll finish it before I pass out"
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "press switch" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      2:30 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRESS SWITCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You turn off the strange machine. The pumps cease and the noise stops.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      2:31 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Living Room Lab                                      2:32 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                2:33 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foyer
Floyd | You are standing in the foyer of the dark house. There are doorways to
Floyd | the east and to the north. You can exit the house through the doorway
Floyd | to the south. Stairs lead up to a second level.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        2:34 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Upper Landing
Floyd | This is the second floor of the house.The hall goes north and west,
Floyd | with doors at each end. A stairway leads back down to the foyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a blue door and a metal door here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Evil Mass                                            2:35 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Evil Mass
Floyd | This room is completely consumed by some grotesque mass of tissues and
Floyd | organs of varied sizes. The whole room is filled with hearts,
Floyd | eyeballs, jaws, lungs, intestines, and muscles. Long appendages are
Floyd | drooping placidly from the walls.
Floyd |
Floyd | Strange symbols resembling altered pentagrams and writing in a
Floyd | language you do not understand have been painted over the entire
Floyd | floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a metal door, Steve and an a floor bolt here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "unlock bolt with keys" 		

Floyd ]  Front of the Dark House                              2:36 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNLOCK BOLT WITH KEYS
Floyd |
Floyd | You unlock the a floor bolt.
Floyd |
Floyd | Steve slowly looks up at you. He looks really out of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | "He messed me up, dude.. I think I can though.. walk.. you.. maybe..
Floyd | right?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Steve stumbles out of the room. You help him down the stairs and out
Floyd | the front door of the house..
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing in front of an old, dark house that lies to the
Floyd | north. It looks to be two stories. You can't see any lights on inside
Floyd | from here. The wooden exterior of the house has been painted a dull,
Floyd | reddish brown. You can walk around northwest or the northeast to get
Floyd | to the sides of the house. Rustic steps made of stone lead down
Floyd | towards deeper woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Steve, Lola and a Jack-O-Lantern (lit) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Lola screams "Steve!" she says. "Baby! I thought you were dead! They
Floyd | got me too!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Steve says "We're OK. Have.. every.. thank friend uh.."
Floyd |
Floyd | Lola says "Oh god, Steve. What did they do to you?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Lola looks at you and says "I've got to get Steve out of here! I'll
Floyd | grab Rachel's keys and take her jeep. I'm OK to drive. I'll drive him
Floyd | to the hospital. You should come too."
Floyd |
Floyd | Lola and Steve walk off towards the trail.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Front of the Dark House                              2:37 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Base of the Hill                                     2:38 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Base of the Hill
Floyd | A very tall and steep hill is ahead of you. Steps that are mostly
Floyd | covered in leaves have been made with flat stones which lead up the
Floyd | hill. You can see a house up the stairs from here. The trail splits
Floyd | back to the south and southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           2:39 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           2:40 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           2:41 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           2:42 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           2:43 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           2:44 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           2:45 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same with exception to a clearing to the southeast
Floyd | that you recognize as the way back towards the campground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         2:46 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are walking along a dirt trail in the woods that goes south, and
Floyd | starts to fade towards the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can vaguely hear the sound of running water from the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         2:47 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are walking along a dirt trail in the woods that goes north and
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can vaguely hear the sound of running water from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             2:48 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Campsite
Floyd | You are standing in the campsite that you and Fred made years ago. A
Floyd | large dome-shaped tent sits on the dirt. A nice fire blazes in the
Floyd | firepit. Most of the leaves have been cleared out of this roughly 50 x
Floyd | 50 foot area. The trail which brought you here continues north. The
Floyd | path to the road is south of here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a picnic table (on which is a Styrofoam cooler) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             2:49 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         2:50 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are on the beginning of a dirt trail in the woods that leads
Floyd | north. A clearing in the briers to the east will take back to the
Floyd | road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             2:51 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Roadside
Floyd | You are standing by the road that brought you here. A large mountain
Floyd | looms on the other side of it. You can barely make out the faint white
Floyd | noise of rushing water coming far from the southeast. To the west of
Floyd | you is a clearing in the briers which provides an entrance to the
Floyd | woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Rachel's body and a blue car (empty) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "get in blue car" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             2:52 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET IN BLUE CAR
Floyd |
Floyd | You get into the blue car.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             2:53 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Roadside (in the blue car)
Floyd | The inside of your car is relatively clean. You are sitting in the
Floyd | drivers seat, and the ignition to the car is in front of you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Rachel's body here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "put key in ignition" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             2:53 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT KEY IN IGNITION
Floyd |
Floyd | If you do that, you will start the car and drive away. Are you sure?
Floyd |
Floyd | (Answer "yes" or "no")

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             2:53 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You start your car and drive home. Many thoughts and questions go
Floyd | through your mind along the way. Some of the nights events were so
Floyd | bizarre that you question if they were even real, despite having just
Floyd | experienced them. Lola and Steve made it safely to the hospital. Fred
Floyd | and Brenda ended up going to Fred's house, where they called the
Floyd | police. You decide to drive straight to the sheriff's office. They
Floyd | have a lot of questions for you. Afterwards, they tell you go home for
Floyd | the night and get some sleep. The next morning, there is a knock on
Floyd | the door. It's the sheriff.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Are you sure you are telling me the whole truth?" he asks. "Why?
Floyd | Well, because parts of your story don't add up, that's why. We checked
Floyd | out that old house near where you were all getting wasted, and it's
Floyd | empty! Totally vacant. Now, why don't you come on in and tell me what
Floyd | really happened out there."
Floyd |
Floyd | You are all investigated over the next couple of weeks for the murder
Floyd | of Rachel Fuss, but fortunately the authorities are unable to link
Floyd | anything connecting any of you to the crime.
Floyd |
Floyd | You know what happened that night. Perhaps nothing was found in the
Floyd | house because Doctor Pane somehow went to the other side; the dark
Floyd | dimension which he spent his entire life connecting to this reality.
Floyd | You take pride in thinking that he is now a servant of his own hell
Floyd | that you and all of your friends have escaped.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** The End ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 80 out of a possible 100, in 497 turns,
Floyd | earning you the rank of Heroic Detective.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		Ellison says, "at least we are heroic"
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             2:53 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Roadside
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says, "..floyd" 		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             2:54 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | If you want to drive the car, you need to put your key in the ignition
Floyd | first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             2:55 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You get out of the blue car.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roadside
Floyd | You are standing by the road that brought you here. A large mountain
Floyd | looms on the other side of it. You can barely make out the faint white
Floyd | noise of rushing water coming far from the southeast. To the west of
Floyd | you is a clearing in the briers which provides an entrance to the
Floyd | woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Rachel's body and a blue car (empty) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         2:56 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are on the beginning of a dirt trail in the woods that leads
Floyd | north. A clearing in the briers to the east will take back to the
Floyd | road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             2:57 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Campsite
Floyd | You are standing in the campsite that you and Fred made years ago. A
Floyd | large dome-shaped tent sits on the dirt. A nice fire blazes in the
Floyd | firepit. Most of the leaves have been cleared out of this roughly 50 x
Floyd | 50 foot area. The trail which brought you here continues north. The
Floyd | path to the road is south of here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a picnic table (on which is a Styrofoam cooler) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         2:58 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are walking along a dirt trail in the woods that goes north and
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can vaguely hear the sound of running water from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         2:59 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are walking along a dirt trail in the woods that goes south, and
Floyd | starts to fade towards the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can vaguely hear the sound of running water from the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         3:00 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         3:01 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         3:02 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         3:03 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are walking along a dirt trail in the woods that goes north and
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can vaguely hear the sound of running water from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         3:04 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are walking along a dirt trail in the woods that goes south, and
Floyd | starts to fade towards the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can vaguely hear the sound of running water from the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           3:05 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same with exception to a clearing to the southeast
Floyd | that you recognize as the way back towards the campground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           3:06 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           3:07 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           3:08 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           3:09 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           3:10 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Base of the Hill                                     3:11 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Base of the Hill
Floyd | A very tall and steep hill is ahead of you. Steps that are mostly
Floyd | covered in leaves have been made with flat stones which lead up the
Floyd | hill. You can see a house up the stairs from here. The trail splits
Floyd | back to the south and southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]  Front of the Dark House                              3:12 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing in front of an old, dark house that lies to the
Floyd | north. It looks to be two stories. You can't see any lights on inside
Floyd | from here. The wooden exterior of the house has been painted a dull,
Floyd | reddish brown. You can walk around northwest or the northeast to get
Floyd | to the sides of the house. Rustic steps made of stone lead down
Floyd | towards deeper woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a Jack-O-Lantern (lit) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                3:13 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foyer
Floyd | You are standing in the foyer of the dark house. There are doorways to
Floyd | the east and to the north. You can exit the house through the doorway
Floyd | to the south. Stairs lead up to a second level.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        3:14 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Upper Landing
Floyd | This is the second floor of the house.The hall goes north and west,
Floyd | with doors at each end. A stairway leads back down to the foyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a blue door and a metal door here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Evil Mass                                            3:15 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Evil Mass
Floyd | This room is completely consumed by some grotesque mass of tissues and
Floyd | organs of varied sizes. The whole room is filled with hearts,
Floyd | eyeballs, jaws, lungs, intestines, and muscles. Long appendages are
Floyd | drooping placidly from the walls.
Floyd |
Floyd | Strange symbols resembling altered pentagrams and writing in a
Floyd | language you do not understand have been painted over the entire
Floyd | floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a metal door here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "detonate dynamite" 		

Floyd ]  Evil Mass                                            3:16 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > DETONATE DYNAMITE
Floyd |
Floyd | You ignite the stick of dynamite with the lighter. You had better get
Floyd | away from it soon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        3:17 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Upper Landing
Floyd | This is the second floor of the house.The hall goes north and west,
Floyd | with doors at each end. A stairway leads back down to the foyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a metal door and a blue door here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Evil Mass                                            3:16 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Evil Mass
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "throw dynamite" 		

Floyd ]  Evil Mass                                            3:17 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > THROW DYNAMITE
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Upper Landing                                        3:18 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Upper Landing
Floyd | This is the second floor of the house.The hall goes north and west,
Floyd | with doors at each end. A stairway leads back down to the foyer.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a metal door and a blue door here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You take cover as an immense explosion goes off in the room where you
Floyd | set off the dynamite, shaking the whole house! Smoke pours out of the
Floyd | room and into the hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Foyer                                                3:19 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foyer
Floyd | You are standing in the foyer of the dark house. There are doorways to
Floyd | the east and to the north. You can exit the house through the doorway
Floyd | to the south. Stairs lead up to a second level.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Front of the Dark House                              3:20 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of the Dark House
Floyd | You are standing in front of an old, dark house that lies to the
Floyd | north. It looks to be two stories. You can't see any lights on inside
Floyd | from here. The wooden exterior of the house has been painted a dull,
Floyd | reddish brown. You can walk around northwest or the northeast to get
Floyd | to the sides of the house. Rustic steps made of stone lead down
Floyd | towards deeper woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a Jack-O-Lantern (lit) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Front of the Dark House                              3:21 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Base of the Hill                                     3:22 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Base of the Hill
Floyd | A very tall and steep hill is ahead of you. Steps that are mostly
Floyd | covered in leaves have been made with flat stones which lead up the
Floyd | hill. You can see a house up the stairs from here. The trail splits
Floyd | back to the south and southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           3:23 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           3:24 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           3:25 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd ]  Deep Woods                                           3:26 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep Woods
Floyd | You are walking in very deep woods. So deep in fact, that every
Floyd | direction looks the same with exception to a clearing to the southeast
Floyd | that you recognize as the way back towards the campground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         3:27 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are walking along a dirt trail in the woods that goes south, and
Floyd | starts to fade towards the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can vaguely hear the sound of running water from the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         3:28 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are walking along a dirt trail in the woods that goes north and
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can vaguely hear the sound of running water from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Campsite                                             3:29 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Campsite
Floyd | You are standing in the campsite that you and Fred made years ago. A
Floyd | large dome-shaped tent sits on the dirt. A nice fire blazes in the
Floyd | firepit. Most of the leaves have been cleared out of this roughly 50 x
Floyd | 50 foot area. The trail which brought you here continues north. The
Floyd | path to the road is south of here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a picnic table (on which is a Styrofoam cooler) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Wooded Trail                                         3:30 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooded Trail
Floyd | You are on the beginning of a dirt trail in the woods that leads
Floyd | north. A clearing in the briers to the east will take back to the
Floyd | road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             3:31 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Roadside
Floyd | You are standing by the road that brought you here. A large mountain
Floyd | looms on the other side of it. You can barely make out the faint white
Floyd | noise of rushing water coming far from the southeast. To the west of
Floyd | you is a clearing in the briers which provides an entrance to the
Floyd | woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Rachel's body and a blue car (empty) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "get in blue car" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             3:32 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET IN BLUE CAR
Floyd |
Floyd | You get into the blue car.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "put key in ignition" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             3:32 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT KEY IN IGNITION
Floyd |
Floyd | If you do that, you will start the car and drive away. Are you sure?
Floyd |
Floyd | (Answer "yes" or "no")

		
Jizaboz says (to floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd ]  Roadside                                             3:32 am
Floyd |
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You start your car and drive home. Many thoughts and questions go
Floyd | through your mind along the way. Some of the nights events were so
Floyd | bizarre that you question if they were even real, despite having just
Floyd | experienced them. Lola and Steve made it safely to the hospital, where
Floyd | Steve is treated for his head injury. Fred and Brenda ended up going
Floyd | to Fred's house, where they called the police. You decide to drive
Floyd | straight to the sheriff's office. They have a lot of questions for
Floyd | you. Afterwards, they tell you go home for the night and get some
Floyd | sleep. Two days later, there is a knock on the door. It's the sheriff.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I just wanted to tell you that we found the house you told us about.
Floyd | I never would have believed it, but everything you told us was true.
Floyd | That crazy old doctor even tried to attack us when we got there, but
Floyd | he's in custody now." The sheriff takes a look around, as if he's
Floyd | making sure no one else is within an earshot.
Floyd |
Floyd | "What do you think really happened out there?" he asks. "You know,
Floyd | just between you and me. The FBI has already taken over the case, and
Floyd | they aren't telling us anything."
Floyd |
Floyd | No one but the sheriff and your friends that you rescued would believe
Floyd | your wild tales about what happened on Halloween night of 1987. You
Floyd | have sealed off what must have been some gateway to some other hellish
Floyd | dimension, slayed a vampire, disposed of an undead corpse and rescued
Floyd | all your surviving friends. You have shown great cunning to do
Floyd | everything you could to accomplish this and ensure that Doctor Pane
Floyd | will no longer be a threat to anyone.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** The End ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 100 out of a possible 100, in 536 turns,
Floyd | earning you the rank of Heroic Detective Monster-Slayer.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		
Jizaboz disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. 		Jizaboz says, "Okay, passing out"
		Ellison says, "hooray"
		Ellison says, "I sure hope we didn't drive over Rachel's body"
		Ellison says, "thanks for showing up, Jizaboz. have a good night."


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ClubFloyd Transcript:
Andromeda Apocalypse by Marco Innocenti
As played on ifMUD on November 18, 2012 November 18, 2012

The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction.

Below is a transcript of Andromeda Apocalypse written by Marco Innocenti. Andromeda Apocalypse was released as part of the 2012 Interactive Fiction Competition, in which it took first place. Andromeda Apocalypse was released as part of the 2012 Interactive Fiction Competition, in which it took first place. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki.

WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page.
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Jacqueline hollers, "ClubFloyd starts back up today (as in, right now). We're playing the comp winner, Andromeda Apocalypse, and the author is here! Please come join us if you're interested." 		maga says, "and then there's that funky time-change and everything"
borowski arrives, full of fun, but no funk. 		
Binder arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. 		Jacqueline says, "Yeah, it happens - but people yesterday were all ooooh yeah Floyd and heeeey is CF happening, so..."
		Binder says, "I just never have any idea what time it is."
		JamesPKing says, "hello people"
		Jacqueline says, "Admittedly, I should have announced a few days back - for some reason I was thinking we didn't start up until next week. I was waiting for the (evidently first-annual) ifComp online awards ceremony."
		borowski says, "Hello JPK and congrats"
		JamesPKing says, "thanks"
		Jacqueline says, "Yes, congrats, Marco."
		JamesPKing says, "*blush*"
		JamesPKing asks, "how do you emote in here? can you emote, actually?"
Binder can 		vimes says, "nope, we're all robots"
vimes arrives, full of fun, but no funk. 		Binder can
		vimes says, "and/or fbi agents"
		maga says (to vimes), "put your shirt back on at once, sir"
		Jacqueline says (to jpk), "On channel, you preface it with ;:blushes."
JamesPKing arrives, full of fun, but no funk. 		JamesPKing blushes (again)
		borowski says, "I knew those pecs were too perfect to be human"
		Jacqueline says (to jpk), "There you go."
		vimes says, ">FLEX ROBO-MUSCLES"
		Jacqueline asks, "Well, we have a few folks. I was expecting a few other usual suspects, but maybe they've played it already. Should we get started?"
		Jacqueline says, "I... will take the silence as a collective, 'Yes, Jacqueline, let's!'"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load andromeda" 		

Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Down on the horizon, thunderstorms cloud the sky. But the sea is fresh,
Floyd | and the air has taken on that orange hue.
Floyd |
Floyd | It's just a perfect day.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Shore
Floyd | Korhos is setting. Its outer halo burns with no warmth. Loud waves
Floyd | splash on the sand half a dozen meters from your feet. The deep blue of
Floyd | the ocean steals a bit of the sky's orange glow.
Floyd |
Floyd | The morning is brilliant.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Uncle Oren here.
Floyd |
Floyd | From the south, a thunderstorm is approaching.
Floyd |
Floyd | [First time players should type ABOUT or HELP for some important stuff
Floyd | about Interactive Fiction and this game]
Floyd |

		Binder says, "Yes, Jacqueline, timing"
		Jacqueline says (to Binder), "TOO LATE"
		Binder wails
		Jacqueline says, "I counted to ten and everything."
		Binder says, "Stop throwing around your skills like that."
		Binder says, "Oh, the Korhosset. I love that at the coast."
		borowski says, "Only a robot can count that well..."
		Jacqueline says, "heehee"
		Jacqueline asks, "Wasn't Uncle Oren our uncle in Star Wars, too?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "about" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |  > Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		Binder says, "He's been typecast."
		Binder says, "> KILL THUNDERSTORM"
		Jacqueline asks (of borowski), "N for Next, green (or is it yellow?) to select?"
		borowski says, "How does this sort of menu work -"
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Floating in space on a strange vessel, sole survivor of a world... and
Floyd | maybe of the entire human race, Ektor Mastiff must find a way through
Floyd | the cosmos, on a voyage that can change the history of mankind forever.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Andromeda Apocalypse is part 2 in the Andromeda Series by Marco
Floyd | Innocenti. The first episode, Andromeda Awakening, can be found and
Floyd | played on the IFDB (ifdb.tads.org). Although playing the first game is
Floyd | not required, to better understand the story it is highly recommended.
Floyd |
Floyd | Andromeda Awakening, Andromeda Apocalypse, Andromeda Legacy and all of
Floyd | the fictional characters and places depicted in the games are by Marco
Floyd | Innocenti, unless stated otherwise. The cover art, as long as all the
Floyd | other graphic bits distributed along with the games, are by Marco
Floyd | Innocenti.
Floyd |
Floyd | The title song Black Giant was produced by Wade Clarke and is (P) and
Floyd | (C) 2012 Wade Clarke.
Floyd |
Floyd | The character of Gettare Rinors is by Joey Jones and is used with
Floyd | permission.
Floyd |
Floyd | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Floyd | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, and can be
Floyd | freely copied, distributed or played in public for non-commercial
Floyd | purposes.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		Binder says (to Jacqueline), "Nice precognition"
		Binder says, "Oh, so WE'RE Ektor Mastiff."
		Jacqueline asks (of JPK), "Could you give us a short summary for those who don't recall the plot of Andromeda Awakening?"
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |  > Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |  > Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		JamesPKing says, "ofc i can"
		borowski says, "Yes, that would be helpful"
		Jacqueline asks, "Do we want instructions and stuff?"
		Binder says, "Very."
		JamesPKing says, "drop the menu"
		JamesPKing says, "i can do it faster"
		Jacqueline says, "You mean get out of the help menus? Okay."
		JamesPKing says, "(that's usually a prob in certain moments with my wife)"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q" 		

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Shore
Floyd | Korhos is setting. Its outer halo burns with no warmth. Loud waves
Floyd | splash on the sand half a dozen meters from your feet. The deep blue of
Floyd | the ocean steals a bit of the sky's orange glow.
Floyd |
Floyd | The morning is brilliant.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Uncle Oren here.
Floyd |

		Jacqueline says, "heh"
		JamesPKing says, "guess you know how to play IF"
		Binder says, "Oh so it's going to be THAT kind of a session."
		Jacqueline says, "I've played a bit of IF, yes."
		JamesPKing says, "so: Ektor Mastiff is a lab guy who discovered a radiation signature in the undergorund of its homeworld, Monarch"
		Binder says, "yay nerd"
		JamesPKing says, "his friend Andy Re's is about to tell the world when he gets killed"
		Binder says, "nooooo nerdrage"
		Jacqueline says, "Gosh."
		JamesPKing says, "Ektor gets a train to tell the world 8actually, the university people) when the train is swallowe by a giant quake"
		Jacqueline says, "Dramatic."
		JamesPKing says, "underground he must find a way to reactivate an ancient set of machines (called Hyerotropes) to counter the massive gravitational force of a dislocated star"
		JamesPKing says, "which will eventually drown the world in tides"
		JamesPKing says, "I don't think it would be cute to tell you more."
		JamesPKing says, "just know that he is now floating in space INSIDE one of those hyerotropes"
		JamesPKing says, "which saved him at the end of Ep.1"
		Jacqueline says, "Um. Okay."
		JamesPKing says, "ah: Monarch is no more."
		JamesPKing says, "and so is going to be the whole galaxy of Andromeda"
		Jacqueline asks, "And a hyerotrope is like being on a pretty beach on a distant planet? Or are we not yet him?"
		Binder asks, "and we can see our uncle here, on the Hyerotrope?"
		borowski asks, "Do we know what sort of machine a Hyerotrope is?"
		JamesPKing says, "one thing about the HT"
		JamesPKing says, "it is a sort of perfect, dark sphere"
		JamesPKing says, "four red dots on it indicate if the thing is functional or dormant"
		maga says, "act 2: molten lava is chasing them around, big blue bolts of lightning spring up from underground"
		JamesPKing says, "hehe maga"
		JamesPKing says, "yes, by the way. at least for the lava part"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x oren" 		

Floyd | >He used to be your mentor at the University Radiation Technology
Floyd | Division, during your first year of assignment as a teacher and
Floyd | researcher. A man well in his seventies, he always looked sturdy and
Floyd | healthy.
Floyd |
Floyd | Lately, his retirement seems to have struck him quite a blow. His hair
Floyd | has gone completely white, his posture slouched and his voice has got
Floyd | that sad croaking. He is staring at the horizon like a bird in search
Floyd | of a migratory route.
Floyd |

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "x thunderstorm" 		

Floyd | >Black, dense clouds expand above the southern horizon, growing by the
Floyd | minute. Inside them, thunder sparkles and growls.
Floyd |

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x ocean" 		

Floyd | >The deep blue is infected by shades of orange, reflecting from the
Floyd | sky. Waves come and go, peacefully.
Floyd |
Floyd | A white electric arc paints the southern sky.
Floyd |

		Binder says, "mm sparkly"
		Jacqueline says, "I'm too distracted by the sparkly lightning to do anything, it would seem."
		Binder says, "This is a landscape as dramatic as a Zelazny shadow shift."
		Jacqueline says, "True."
		maga says, "(#maga's-jokes-explained [LINK] )"
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask oren about hyerotrope" 		

Floyd | >You prefer following the flow of the conversation.
Floyd |
Floyd | "It is so beautiful, isn't it, Ektor?" Uncle Oren says, pointing at the
Floyd | landscape. "It looks like Paradise."
Floyd |
Floyd | "It does," you reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | Oren sends a glance to the west, towards Grey Cape, saying: "I wonder
Floyd | what a man who was born here -- I mean here, on Monarch -- would think,
Floyd | looking at this place. The sun, the sea going orange, the endless sky."
Floyd |

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to oren" 		

Floyd | >"I was born here," you point out.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yeah. So what do you think?" He turns to face you but stops,
Floyd | distracted by the impending storm.
Floyd |
Floyd | "It is breathtaking."
Floyd |

		Binder says (to maga), "dangit I should have gotten that one, I love the front"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to oren" 		

Floyd | >"Yeah. That's what I thought. This place is unbelievable to all of us.
Floyd | Indigenes or sat-born." That said, he sits on his heels and grabs a
Floyd | handful of sand. From it, picking lightly, he extracts a small, green
Floyd | crab and puts it on his other hand. "I don't know if I deserve an
Floyd | afterlife. I haven't done much evil in my days, but maybe our god has
Floyd | another point of view. What I know is: if I have to have a life after
Floyd | death, I hope it is in a place like this." He gets near the shore and
Floyd | neatly drops the crab into the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hell," he exclaims. "I'd stay here for the rest of eternity, if you
Floyd | asked me!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Thunder rumbles from the horizon.
Floyd |

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x beach" 		

Floyd | >Kilometers of white sand, running east-west as long as your eyes can
Floyd | see.
Floyd |

		Jacqueline says, "So, part of me is worried about this storm, probably because this is IF and if it's present it's important, but it sounds far away and like it's just pretty."
		Binder says, "Maybe this is the whole space, we just hang out on a beach with our mentor for as many moves as we want."
Binder says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | >You're carrying nothing. You are wearing some clothes.
Floyd |

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd | >Shirt untucked from the shorts, just one button holding it closed. No
Floyd | shoes. And you forgot the belt at home.
Floyd |
Floyd | The thunderstorm is getting closer.
Floyd |

		Jacqueline says, "See, I like games like that."
		Jacqueline says, "But I suspect someething horrible and dramatic awaits us."
		Binder says, "Again with the precognition"
		Jacqueline says, "heh heh"
		Binder asks, "One button, eh?"
		Jacqueline says, "Perhaps I should get tested or something."
		Binder says, "Perhaps you will have already gotten... er, I've confused myself."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to oren" 		

Floyd | >Somehow, you suddenly feel the urge to reveal your knowledge.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You know, Andy and I found something last week. It's a sort of...
Floyd | discovery."
Floyd |
Floyd | He turns to face you. He looks extremely tired, and you notice it for
Floyd | the first time. "Your research?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes."
Floyd |
Floyd | "If it's Uni work, then," he says, banishing the subject with the back
Floyd | of his hand, "it's best discussed at Uni. Don't waste the moment, son.
Floyd | There will be time. This sunset won't last forever, and the next one is
Floyd | due in eighty weeks."
Floyd |

		Jacqueline says, "Gosh."
		Binder says, "I wonder if we're at the end of Brazil and being, hm, debriefed."
		Jacqueline says, "It's like being on the North Slope in fall."
		Binder asks, "In fall or in free fall?"
		Jacqueline says, "Just fall."
		Jacqueline says, "Like, before the sunsets for months."
		Binder says, "I say keep talking to the old man."
		JamesPKing says, "you should check the postcard that came along with the game (non spoiler) for a chance to visualize this beach"
		JamesPKing says, "sec"
		JamesPKing says, "there are three suns, actually. this you should know from other game"
		JamesPKing says, "when one sets the others can rise"
		Binder says, "In my imagination it looks like an ad for Shell Beach as animated by Salvador Dali."
		Jacqueline | [LINK]
		JamesPKing says, "thx jacq"
		Jacqueline says, "Absolutely."
DavidW arrives, ready to play with the toys. 		JamesPKing says, "you can proceed. thx for your time"
		Binder says, "hsm, that image is broken for me"
		Binder says, "oh, reload fixed it"
		borowski asks, "Want to try walking along the beach?"
		borowski says, "Hey DavidW"
		Jacqueline says, "I want to talk to him, but then this storm keeps getting closer and closer and I know that stories need CONFLICT and DRAMA so I'm afraid that if we keep talking to him BAM WE WILL BE KILLED BY SPARKLY LIGHTNING."
		Binder says, "So save first :)"
		Jacqueline says, "heh"
		DavidW says, "Sorry I'm late. I still have trouble waking up in time."
		Jacqueline asks, "I'm good with whatever. Does someone want to drive?"
Binder says (to Floyd), "x storm" 		

Floyd | >Black, dense clouds expand above the southern horizon, growing by the
Floyd | minute. Inside them, thunder sparkles and growls.
Floyd |

		Binder says, "killed by sparkly THUNDER"
		borowski says, ">PRACTICE GOLF SWING"
Binder says (to Floyd), "talk to old man" 		

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "talk to oren" 		

Floyd | >"But..."
Floyd |
Floyd | "No buts," he says. "One can't live in his work, son. One must learn
Floyd | how to savor the moment."
Floyd |
Floyd | His eyes wander off, in the distance, towards the end of the world. For
Floyd | almost a minute he stays silent.
Floyd |
Floyd | Then, when you begin to think he's done, he says: "The wind is growing
Floyd | stronger. It's a hell of a storm, that one incoming."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		Jacqueline says, "Here is where we die."
		Jacqueline exclaims, "Just kidding!"
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |       I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Floyd |       Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
Floyd |       I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark
Floyd |       near the Tannhauser Gate.
Floyd |       All those moments will be lost in time,
Floyd |       like tears in rain.
Floyd |
Floyd |       --Roy Batty, Blade Runner
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd |
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Floyd |
Floyd | Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Marco Innocenti
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 120929 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd | ----------------------------------
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Where Darkness Gathers
Floyd | You are floating away, drifting on the last raft the universe has given
Floyd | you. Even the stars provide no light.
Floyd |
Floyd | A crumpled, alien wreckage lays at your feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | [You have earned the A Hell of a Storm achievement]
Floyd |

		Binder says, "I've had hangovers like this."
		Jacqueline exclaims, "Wow, an achievement. I need to share this on Facebook!"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd | >You look battered and tired, but at least you're still alive. Although
Floyd | it doesn't make a lot of sense, lately.
Floyd |

		DavidW says, "Few IFs do achievements. It's still novel."
		borowski asks, "But, but, what about my sand castle?"
		Binder asks, "Did we just lose our clothes, our beach AND our mentor?"
		Jacqueline says, "I believe we did."
		Binder bursts into tears.
		maga says, "it's no sillier than having a score, honestly"
		Jacqueline says, "So much for your walk on the beach, borowski."
Binder says (to Floyd), "achievements" 		

Floyd | >Achievements for Andromeda Apocalypse:
Floyd |
Floyd | A Hell of a Storm    (You watched the sky turn dark)
Floyd | A Dark Omen    ( -???- )
Floyd | The Leaper    ( -???- )
Floyd | Invisible Killer    ( -???- )
Floyd | The Dweller    ( -???- )
Floyd | To Shed a Light    ( -???- )
Floyd | Ticketless Ride    ( -???- )
Floyd | The Fisher    ( -???- )
Floyd | The X Marks the Spot    ( -???- )
Floyd | Play It Again, Ektor    ( -???- )
Floyd | Communication Breakdown    ( -???- )
Floyd | A Matter of Time    ( -???- )
Floyd | A Matter of Size    ( -???- )
Floyd | Archaeologist    ( -???- )
Floyd | Cuboctahedron    ( -???- )
Floyd | Flying the Egg    ( -???- )
Floyd | To Be a Scientist    ( -???- )
Floyd | Sinking the Ship    ( -???- )
Floyd | The Shining    ( -???- )
Floyd | Hellen Ripley    ( -???- )
Floyd | Indiana Jones    ( -???- )
Floyd | Survivor    ( -???- )
Floyd | Gettare Rinors    ( -???- )
Floyd |

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "score" 		

Floyd | >There is no score in this game. Try requesting for your ACHIEVEMENTS
Floyd | to see what you earned.
Floyd |

		Binder says, "oho"
		Jacqueline says, "Okay then."
borowski says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" 		

Floyd | >Magic is not allowed in space.
Floyd |

		Binder says, "> GET BULLWHIP. GET FEDORA."
		maga says, "spaaaaaaaaaaace"
		Binder says, "oh no way, space is totally magic_ok"
		borowski says, "Damn anti-magic space laws"
		vimes says, "according to the space unified code section 14 subsection i paragraph 3, magic in space is only allowed if you are a law enforcement officer, ancient horror, or really, really want to use it"
		Binder cannae change the laws of anti-magic!
		Jacqueline says (to Binder), "Oh, you mean to get the archaeologist achievement? ITYM take 30 credits in anthropology with a focus on space archaeology."
		Jacqueline says, "That is how you get the archaeologist achievement."
		vimes says (to jacqueline), "and then blow it off in favor of destroying several ancient historical sites"
		Binder says (to Jacqueline), "No, I was looking specifically at the Indiana Jones achievement."
		Jacqueline says (to Binder), "Oh gosh, I hadn't even skimmed down that far."
		Jacqueline asks, "Hellen Ripley as in Alien?"
		Binder says, "Oh I hope so."
		Binder says, "If there's one thing I want with me in space, it's Ripley."
		Jacqueline asks, "Flying the Egg as in Mork from Ork?"
		JamesPKing says, "so that you know, only 3 out of 250 people online have got the Indiana Jones achie"
		borowski asks, "I guess that's when we walk around without pants?"
Binder says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | >You're carrying an useless railway ticket. You are wearing some
Floyd | clothes.
Floyd |

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x ticket" 		

Floyd | >A worn railway ticket. It bears yesterday as its expiry date.
Floyd |
Floyd | [You can find a copy of the ticket in your original game's package
Floyd | (Ref. 1)].
Floyd |

		Binder says, "The Useless Railway is my favorite spot on Monopoly boards."
		maga says (to Binder), "Seattle edition, I assume"
		Binder says (to maga), "Ho ho. Quite."
		Jacqueline asks, "Which Survivor Achievement? The Eye of the Tiger Survivor Achievement, or the Search is Over Survivor Achievement, or the the High on You Survivor Achievement?"
		Jacqueline says, "(Yes, I had to use Wikipedia to make that lame joke.)"
		vimes says, "or the Voted Off The Island survivor achievement, of course"
		Binder says, "OIC [LINK]"
		Binder says, "Right, I thoguht what vimes joked"
		borowski says, "It was a good joke [citation needed]"
		Binder says, "Only I spelled thought right when I did it."
		Jacqueline says, "So, here's the thing. If we just drift through space joking about achievements we'll never... achieve anything."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x wreckage" 		

Floyd | >The crumpled, alien wreckage -- the thing the Ancients have named "the
Floyd | Beacon" -- is a mess of distorted metal and crumpled debris. It did not
Floyd | survive the Monarch onslaught.
Floyd |
Floyd | Among the useless metal you find two special things, surprisingly
Floyd | unscarred. You pick up both.
Floyd |

		maga says (to Jacqueline), "Star Trek: The X Generation"
Binder says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | >You're carrying a golden disc, a cubic object and an useless railway
Floyd | ticket. You are wearing some clothes.
Floyd |

		Binder says, "Yay special things with shapes."
Binder says (to Floyd), "x disc" 		

Floyd | >A thin disc, made in copper and gold-plated. On it someone has carved
Floyd | interesting graffiti.
Floyd |
Floyd | [You can find a picture of the disc in your original game's package
Floyd | (Ref. 2)].
Floyd |

		JamesPKing says, "AHA! sorry: the wreckage is the Voyager II probe"
		Jacqueline says (to maga), "Yay."
		Binder says, "AHA."
		Binder says, "I thought I recognized that graffiti. Filthy scribble monkeys."
Binder says (to Floyd), "x cubic" 		

Floyd | >A cubic object, ten centimeters wide. There is an image on the side,
Floyd | depicting a sort of six-legged spider.
Floyd |
Floyd | This is a battery, you mumble. And if I'm not mistaken, a radioactive
Floyd | one, even. Maybe plutonium-powered.
Floyd |

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "x image" 		

Floyd | >A cubic object, ten centimeters wide. There is an image on the side,
Floyd | depicting a sort of six-legged spider.
Floyd |

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "x spier" 		

Floyd | >You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "x spider" 		

Floyd | >A cubic object, ten centimeters wide. There is an image on the side,
Floyd | depicting a sort of six-legged spider.
Floyd |

		Jacqueline says, "Reference 2, btw: [LINK]"
		Binder says, "OK, I think I'm satisfied that I know what a cubic spider image looks like."
		JamesPKing says, "ofc im taking shots of all the stupid things you find in the game"
borowski says (to Floyd), "x clothes" 		

Floyd | >A dirty shirt, tucked inside dirty trousers. Dirty shoes. And you
Floyd | forgot the belt at home. Forever.
Floyd |

		Binder says, "hm"
		Jacqueline says, "I hope we don't lose weight."
		Binder says, "that's not what we were wearing on the beach or when we first examined ourself"
		Jacqueline asks, "It's not?"
		borowski asks, "Was the beach a memory?"
		Jacqueline says, "That was my take."
		Jacqueline says, "A flashback."
		Binder says, "well, maybe it was, but it wasn't as described."
		borowski says, "I assumed because it was with our mentor and our planet has been destroyed"
Binder says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd | >Where Darkness Gathers
Floyd | You are floating away, drifting on the last raft the universe has given
Floyd | you. Even the stars provide no light.
Floyd |
Floyd | A crumpled, alien wreckage lays at your feet.
Floyd |

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "take off shoes" 		

Floyd | >You feel safer dressed.
Floyd |

		Jacqueline says, "Oh, crud. I forgot to use Sleepmask on this."
		Binder asks, "Oh, postcogition, too?"
		Jacqueline asks (of JPK), "Is there info in the status line of this game?"
		Jacqueline says (to Binder), "Evidently. Less useful than my precognition, it would seem."
Binder says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | >You're carrying a golden disc, a plutonium battery and an useless
Floyd | railway ticket. You are wearing some clothes.
Floyd |

		JamesPKing says, "too bad, yes. but just as listed exits"
Binder says (to Floyd), "exits" 		

Floyd | >There are no visible exits from the Hyerotrope.
Floyd |
Floyd | It turns out that the universe is uneven, in the end. A black spot
Floyd | stains a single point -- the magnitude of which you can but imagine --
Floyd | where the stars seem to be missing.
Floyd |
Floyd | A sort of shining crescent cuts the dark presence in half.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Hyerotrope approaches the dark shape, as it starts engulfing a vast
Floyd | amount of space in front of you. You strain your eyes until you discern
Floyd | other brilliances in the multiplying crescent.
Floyd |
Floyd | Finally, you catch the meaning of what you are looking at.
Floyd |
Floyd | The black gap in the sky is a gigantic structure, of a size and type
Floyd | you've never seen before. In comparison, even the Mechanostations
Floyd | around Monarch are dwarfed. Around it, thousands of other objects, like
Floyd | drifting debris, float meaninglessly. The reflections on them create a
Floyd | kaleidoscope of twirling lights.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you get near the metal horde you begin mentally assessing the
Floyd | situation....
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ...until, suddenly, the Hyerotrope starts spinning out of control.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a strong shock, then you find yourself...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		Jacqueline says, "We're close enough to the beginning that I could restart, but I --"
		Binder says, "uh woops"
		JamesPKing says, "don't jacq"
		JamesPKing says, "you are doing well"
		borowski asks, "No status line info?"
		Jacqueline says, "Okay, so just roll with it, without the status line? (We have a way to have the status line, even on Floyd, but it has to be done at start up.)"
		JamesPKing says, "this wall of text could be activated sequentially by examining things or by wasting enough moves"
		Binder says, "When you need moves wasted, I am your guy."
		JamesPKing says, "guess you'd need exits later in game"
		Jacqueline asks, "Shall we do a quick restart, then?"
		Binder says, "I am okay with that plan."
		Jacqueline says, "Sit tight for a second, folks."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q" 		
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Stuck on the Side of the Giant
Floyd | The Hyerotrope has collapsed into the giant structure, punching through
Floyd | it like a wrecking ball.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are standing in total darkness, apart from a faint, azure light
Floyd | flickering through a hole that opens east through a bush of exploded
Floyd | metal.
Floyd |
Floyd | A crumpled, alien wreckage lays at your feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | [You have earned the A Dark Omen achievement]
Floyd |

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q" 		
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" 		Jacqueline says, "Weird."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/quit" 		Binder says, "Floyd is marvelling at the Dark Omen sight."
		Jacqueline asks, "Floyd is... now totally offline??"
		DavidW asks, "incidentally, what's a hyerotrope?"
vimes says (to floyd), "%quit" 		
Floyd says, "game ended by request of vimes." 		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" 		
Floyd says (to Jacqueline), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." 		Jacqueline says, "Oh, there he is."
		Jacqueline says, "Ah - it's %quit, not /quit. Thanks."
		maga says (to DW), "a great big alien artefact sphere thing"
		borowski says, "TV Tropes in the future"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load andromeda" 		

Floyd | >Are you sure you want to quit? Please answer yes or no.> Please answer
Floyd | yes or no.> Please answer yes or no.> Please answer yes or no.> Please
Floyd | answer yes or no.> Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library
Floyd | version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Down on the horizon, thunderstorms cloud the sky. But the sea is fresh,
Floyd | and the air has taken on that orange hue.
Floyd |
Floyd | It's just a perfect day.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Shore
Floyd | Korhos is setting. Its outer halo burns with no warmth. Loud waves
Floyd | splash on the sand half a dozen meters from your feet. The deep blue of
Floyd | the ocean steals a bit of the sky's orange glow.
Floyd |
Floyd | The morning is brilliant.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Uncle Oren here.
Floyd |
Floyd | From the south, a thunderstorm is approaching.
Floyd |
Floyd | [First time players should type ABOUT or HELP for some important stuff
Floyd | about Interactive Fiction and this game]
Floyd |

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" 		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "%quit" 		
Floyd says, "game ended by request of Jacqueline." 		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask andromeda" 		
Floyd >Are you sure you want to quit? ] Shore 		

Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Down on the horizon, thunderstorms cloud the sky. But the sea is
Floyd | fresh, and the air has taken on that orange hue.
Floyd |
Floyd | It's just a perfect day.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Shore
Floyd | Korhos is setting. Its outer halo burns with no warmth. Loud waves
Floyd | splash on the sand half a dozen meters from your feet. The deep blue
Floyd | of the ocean steals a bit of the sky's orange glow.
Floyd |
Floyd | The morning is brilliant.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Uncle Oren here.
Floyd |
Floyd | From the south, a thunderstorm is approaching.
Floyd |
Floyd | [First time players should type ABOUT or HELP for some important
Floyd | stuff about Interactive Fiction and this game]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says (to DavidW), "We escaped our planet in it during the previous game"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to oren" 		

Floyd ]                               Shore
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO OREN
Floyd |
Floyd | "It is so beautiful, isn't it, Ektor?" Uncle Oren says, pointing at
Floyd | the landscape. "It looks like Paradise."
Floyd |
Floyd | "It does," you reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | Oren sends a glance to the west, towards Grey Cape, saying: "I wonder
Floyd | what a man who was born here -- I mean here, on Monarch -- would
Floyd | think, looking at this place. The sun, the sea going orange, the
Floyd | endless sky."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to oren" 		

Floyd ]                               Shore
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO OREN
Floyd |
Floyd | "I was born here," you point out.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yeah. So what do you think?" He turns to face you but stops,
Floyd | distracted by the impending storm.
Floyd |
Floyd | "It is breathtaking."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]                               Shore
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yeah. That's what I thought. This place is unbelievable to all of us.
Floyd | Indigenes or sat-born." That said, he sits on his heels and grabs a
Floyd | handful of sand. From it, picking lightly, he extracts a small, green
Floyd | crab and puts it on his other hand. "I don't know if I deserve an
Floyd | afterlife. I haven't done much evil in my days, but maybe our god has
Floyd | another point of view. What I know is: if I have to have a
Floyd | life after death, I hope it is in a place like this." He gets near the
Floyd | shore and neatly drops the crab into the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hell," he exclaims. "I'd stay here for the rest of eternity, if you
Floyd | asked me!"
Floyd |
Floyd | A white electric arc paints the southern sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]                               Shore
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | Somehow, you suddenly feel the urge to reveal your knowledge.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You know, Andy and I found something last week. It's a sort of...
Floyd | discovery."
Floyd |
Floyd | He turns to face you. He looks extremely tired, and you notice it for
Floyd | the first time. "Your research?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes."
Floyd |
Floyd | "If it's Uni work, then," he says, banishing the subject with the back
Floyd | of his hand, "it's best discussed at Uni. Don't waste the moment, son.
Floyd | There will be time. This sunset won't last forever, and the next one
Floyd | is due in eighty weeks."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | "But..."
Floyd |
Floyd | "No buts," he says. "One can't live in his work, son. One
Floyd | must learn how to savor the moment."
Floyd |
Floyd | His eyes wander off, in the distance, towards the end of the world.
Floyd | For almost a minute he stays silent.
Floyd |
Floyd | Then, when you begin to think he's done, he says: "The wind is growing
Floyd | stronger. It's a hell of a storm, that one incoming."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		
Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. 		
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]
Floyd ]          
Floyd | 
Floyd ]            I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Floyd | 
Floyd ]            Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of
Floyd | Orion.  
Floyd ]            I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark
Floyd | 
Floyd ]            near the Tannhauser Gate.
Floyd | 
Floyd ]            All those moments will be lost in time,
Floyd | 
Floyd ]            like tears in rain.
Floyd | 
Floyd ]          
Floyd | 
Floyd ]            --Roy Batty, Blade Runner
Floyd | 
Floyd ]          
Floyd | 
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		Binder says, "mmm blockquotey"
		Jacqueline says (to JPK), "All of the hypertext will make the transcript look pretty, even if it doesn't seem so now..."
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                       Where Darkness Gathers
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd | Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Marco Innocenti
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 120929 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd | ----------------------------------
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Where Darkness Gathers
Floyd | You are floating away, drifting on the last raft the universe has
Floyd | given you. Even the stars provide no light.
Floyd |
Floyd | A crumpled, alien wreckage lays at your feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | [You have earned the A Hell of a Storm achievement]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		vimes says, "one minor problem with sleepmask is it goes through some effort to make these things display better in the /transcript/ and so sometimes things don't read quite as well in the mud"
		Jacqueline says, "Yeah."
		Binder says, "Well, this IS for posterity."
		Binder says, "What we go on #clubfloyd we do for all ifmanity."
		Jacqueline says, "But I'm pretty sure we get more eyes on the transcripts than we do here on the mud."
		JamesPKing says, "you will need bold types later on"
		Jacqueline says (to Binder), "Exactly."
		JamesPKing says, "so this is nice"
		vimes says, "then it's a good thing we switched to sleepmask"
		Jacqueline says (to jpk), "Cool."
		Binder says, "Again, Jacqcognition."
		Jacqueline says, "Sorry for not loading it originally, folks. I'm out of practice, I guess."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x clothes" 		

Floyd ]                       Where Darkness Gathers
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CLOTHES
Floyd |
Floyd | A dirty shirt, tucked inside dirty trousers. Dirty shoes. And you
Floyd | forgot the belt at home. Forever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "x wreckage" 		

Floyd ]                       Where Darkness Gathers
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WRECKAGE
Floyd |
Floyd | The crumpled, alien wreckage -- the thing the Ancients have named "the
Floyd | Beacon" -- is a mess of distorted metal and crumpled debris. It did
Floyd | not survive the Monarch onslaught.
Floyd |
Floyd | Among the useless metal you find two special things, surprisingly
Floyd | unscarred. You pick up both.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "remember" 		

Floyd ]                       Where Darkness Gathers
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "OK, I have my space junk back, I'm happy."
		Jacqueline says, "heh"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pray" 		

Floyd ]                       Where Darkness Gathers
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRAY
Floyd |
Floyd | Your prayers are wasted into the void.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "dance" 		

Floyd ]                       Where Darkness Gathers
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > DANCE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "No space dancing, either."
		Jacqueline asks, "If we >JUMP, will we float on the spot, fruitlessly?"
		Binder says, "ha"
		vimes says, "ha ha"
		borowski says, "Dang, this is the second space game in a row with no dancing"
maga says (to Floyd), "jump" 		

Floyd ]                       Where Darkness Gathers
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > JUMP
Floyd |
Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "I'm sensing a genre opportunity."
		Jacqueline says, "Aw."
		maga says, "aww"
		JamesPKing says, "F**K"
		Jacqueline says, "AW"
		Binder lAUGHS
		Jacqueline exclaims, "We're sorry, Marco!"
		Binder exclaims, "Next build!"
		JamesPKing says, "this is the only room i guess where that answer is WRONG"
		Binder exclaims, "!"
		DavidW says, "My favourite response to JUMP remains the one from Dead Like Ants"
		Binder says, "Let's find another room to jump in."
		Jacqueline exclaims, "Well, Marco, now you know response we were all hoping for!"
		Jacqueline asks (of DW), "?"
Binder says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]                       Where Darkness Gathers
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Where Darkness Gathers
Floyd | You are floating away, drifting on the last raft the universe has
Floyd | given you. Even the stars provide no light.
Floyd |
Floyd | A crumpled, alien wreckage lays at your feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "i will use "you FLOAT on the spot etc""
Binder says (to Floyd), "x raft" 		

Floyd ]                       Where Darkness Gathers
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > X RAFT
Floyd |
Floyd | The perfect demisphere in which you stand is half of the
Floyd | star-traveling machine you used to escape Judgement Day on your home
Floyd | planet, Monarch. Thinking back to the moment, you realize it was the
Floyd | Hyerotrope who used you, instead. Leaving the planet was not
Floyd | your plan to begin with, and you could have done without it even in
Floyd | the end. You still puzzle at how exactly things went, after all.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Hyerotrope's walls, although perfectly dark from the outside, seem
Floyd | to be totally transparent from the inside. You can see the universe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "I forget exactly, but ants can't jump."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x universe" 		

Floyd ]                       Where Darkness Gathers
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > X UNIVERSE
Floyd |
Floyd | The Monarch system is already too far to be seen. In its place, a
Floyd | pulsating nebula is starting to spread, the three suns devoured in its
Floyd | growing belly.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fabric of the universe, in the direction to which the Hyerotrope
Floyd | is floating, seems to be disrupted. A dark presence lingers in space,
Floyd | breaking the pattern of the stars.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "oh I wonder if the hyerotrope 'hatched' from Monarch. Like a space butterfly ... thing"
		maga) DavidW says, "but rest assured, that one *slays* them at entomology conventions"
Binder says (to Floyd), "x dark presence" 		

Floyd ]                       Where Darkness Gathers
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DARK PRESENCE
Floyd |
Floyd | It turns out that the universe is uneven, in the end. A black spot
Floyd | stains a single point -- the magnitude of which you can but imagine --
Floyd | where the stars seem to be missing.
Floyd |
Floyd | A sort of shining crescent cuts the dark presence in half.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to maga), "Yay"
Binder says (to Floyd), "x crescent" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CRESCENT
Floyd |
Floyd | The Hyerotrope approaches the dark shape, as it starts engulfing a
Floyd | vast amount of space in front of you. You strain your eyes until you
Floyd | discern other brilliances in the multiplying crescent.
Floyd |
Floyd | Finally, you catch the meaning of what you are looking at.
Floyd |
Floyd | The black gap in the sky is a gigantic structure, of a size and type
Floyd | you've never seen before. In comparison, even the Mechanostations
Floyd | around Monarch are dwarfed. Around it, thousands of other objects,
Floyd | like drifting debris, float meaninglessly. The reflections on them
Floyd | create a kaleidoscope of twirling lights.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you get near the metal horde you begin mentally assessing the
Floyd | situation....
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ...until, suddenly, the Hyerotrope starts spinning out of control.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a strong shock, then you find yourself...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		Binder asks, "Ah, the socratic method of plot advancement. x? x?"
		JamesPKing says, "I made it timed because I was afraid people wouldn't look at the universe"
		JamesPKing says, "thus getting stuck."
		Binder says, "Well, the real universe works the same way, so I think that's legit."
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                   Stuck on the Side of the Giant
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | Stuck on the Side of the Giant
Floyd | The Hyerotrope has collapsed into the giant structure, punching
Floyd | through it like a wrecking ball.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are standing in total darkness, apart from a faint, azure light
Floyd | flickering through a hole that opens east through a bush of exploded
Floyd | metal.
Floyd |
Floyd | A crumpled, alien wreckage lays at your feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | [You have earned the A Dark Omen achievement]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "jump" 		

Floyd ]                   Stuck on the Side of the Giant
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > JUMP
Floyd |
Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "There. That's better."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "achievement" 		

Floyd ]                   Stuck on the Side of the Giant
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > ACHIEVEMENT
Floyd |
Floyd | Achievements for Andromeda Apocalypse:
Floyd |
Floyd | A Hell of a Storm    (You watched the sky turn dark)
Floyd | A Dark Omen    (You have seen the dark side of the
Floyd | sky)
Floyd | The Leaper    ( -???- )
Floyd | Invisible Killer    ( -???- )
Floyd | The Dweller    ( -???- )
Floyd | To Shed a Light    ( -???- )
Floyd | Ticketless Ride    ( -???- )
Floyd | The Fisher    ( -???- )
Floyd | The X Marks the Spot    ( -???- )
Floyd | Play It Again, Ektor    ( -???- )
Floyd | Communication Breakdown    ( -???- )
Floyd | A Matter of Time    ( -???- )
Floyd | A Matter of Size    ( -???- )
Floyd | Archaeologist    ( -???- )
Floyd | Cuboctahedron    ( -???- )
Floyd | Flying the Egg    ( -???- )
Floyd | To Be a Scientist    ( -???- )
Floyd | Sinking the Ship    ( -???- )
Floyd | The Shining    ( -???- )
Floyd | Hellen Ripley    ( -???- )
Floyd | Indiana Jones    ( -???- )
Floyd | Survivor    ( -???- )
Floyd | Gettare Rinors    ( -???- )
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Jumping is not the answer to this one."
		JamesPKing says, "hahahah"
		Jacqueline says, "Thank you, grasshopper."
		Binder says, "Unless we want The Leaper achievement."
Binder says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]                   Stuck on the Side of the Giant
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Stuck on the Side of the Giant
Floyd | You are standing in total darkness, apart from a faint, azure light
Floyd | flickering through a hole that opens east through a bush of exploded
Floyd | metal.
Floyd |
Floyd | A crumpled, alien wreckage lays at your feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		maga says, "and everything under the sun is in tune / but the sun explodes in a system-purging supernova"
		Binder asks, "Who is that, Pink Flawed?"
		DavidW asks, "hm. So, even though I arrived an hour late, I didn't miss much?"
		Binder asks, "Shall go east into the metal bush?"
		Binder says, "Pronoun as you like."
borowski says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]                            Low corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  SOUTH  west
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Low corridor
Floyd | A wormhole dug into rusty metal and torn pipes, the curving tunnel
Floyd | runs north and south as far as the eye can see. A faint light flickers
Floyd | through luminescent lamps on the ceiling. The floor is a sturdy
Floyd | grating, plunging into darkness below.
Floyd |
Floyd | What is this place? It looks like... a space station?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		maga says (to Binder), "the heavy metal version, I'm assuming"
		JamesPKing says, "italics are actually the PC thoughts, as seen in the other game"
		JamesPKing says, "caps exits are new, lowercase you've been there"
		Jacqueline says (to DW), "You weren't <i>an hour</i> late..."
		Binder says, "Now why would a destination in space look like a space station? We're so assumptive."
		Jacqueline says, "Totally."
		Binder says, "Oh I like the caps exit = new thing."
Binder says (to Floyd), "x grating" 		

Floyd ]                            Low corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  SOUTH  west
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GRATING
Floyd |
Floyd | The grating rests on what look like steel poles, floating over
Floyd | darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "thank Erik Eve iirc"
		borowski says, "Yeah, me"
		borowski says, "too"
		Binder says, ">SLIDE DOWN POLE, BECOME DARKMAN"
Binder says (to Floyd), "x lamps" 		

Floyd ]                            Low corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  SOUTH  west
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LAMPS
Floyd |
Floyd | The light is very dim, the expected white turned to a faint azure.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x floor" 		

Floyd ]                            Low corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  SOUTH  west
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FLOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | The grating rests on steel poles, floating over darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "let's choose a direction and continue moving."
		Binder asks, "south?"
		Binder says, "no real reason. I just always like south."
borowski says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                            Low corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north SOUTH
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Low corridor
Floyd | A wormhole dug into rusty metal and torn pipes, the curving tunnel
Floyd | runs north and south as far as the eye can see. A faint light flickers
Floyd | through luminescent lamps on the ceiling. The floor is a sturdy
Floyd | grating, plunging into darkness below.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "sure. Nothing to distinguish which is what yet."
		JamesPKing says, "pizzaman at the door. i will stay here for another 5 mins then i have to pause for 30 mins. will be back though"
		Binder asks, "... is it a pizza delivery relay?"
		JamesPKing says, "yep"
Binder says (to Floyd), "x grating" 		

Floyd ]                            Low corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north SOUTH
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GRATING
Floyd |
Floyd | The grating rests on steel poles, floating over darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder asks, "More south?"
Lionheart arrives, full of funk, but no fun. 		JamesPKing says, "wife's been shouting as soon as the bell rung"
		Binder says, "If we know what you mean."
		Binder exclaims (at Jacqueline), "At least I'm not using profanity!"
borowski says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                      Low corridor, by the gap
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Low corridor, by the gap
Floyd | A wormhole dug into rusty metal and torn pipes, the curving tunnel
Floyd | runs north as far as the eye can see. A faint light flickers through
Floyd | luminescent lamps on the ceiling. The floor is a sturdy grating,
Floyd | plunging into darkness below.
Floyd |
Floyd | The tunnel ends here.
Floyd |
Floyd | A jutting ledge floats over the void that opens into the east side of
Floyd | the tunnel, through a gap in the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | Beside the ledge is a single turret, one meter tall, surmounted by a
Floyd | strange device.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks (of Binder), "?"
		Binder says, "Verging on a PG crossing innuendo."
		Binder says, "ooh, turret"
Binder says (to Floyd), "x device" 		

Floyd ]                      Low corridor, by the gap
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DEVICE
Floyd |
Floyd | On the turret is what you may call a touchpad of sorts.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "x touchpad" 		

Floyd ]                      Low corridor, by the gap
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TOUCHPAD
Floyd |
Floyd | On the turret is a touchpad.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x touchpad" 		

Floyd ]                      Low corridor, by the gap
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TOUCHPAD
Floyd |
Floyd | On the turret is a touchpad.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "touch touchpad" 		

Floyd ]                      Low corridor, by the gap
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > TOUCH TOUCHPAD
Floyd |
Floyd | You touch the pad on the turret and the ledge starts slowly moving
Floyd | across the gap into the open side of the tunnel. It stops after a
Floyd | while, just two meters from the other side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "hm"
Binder says (to Floyd), "touch touchpad" 		

Floyd ]                      Low corridor, by the gap
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > TOUCH TOUCHPAD
Floyd |
Floyd | The ledge retracts to its resting position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "might as well jump JUMP!"
borowski says (to Floyd), "x ledge" 		

Floyd ]                      Low corridor, by the gap
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LEDGE
Floyd |
Floyd | The side of the tunnel is open and falls towards blackness below your
Floyd | feet. The ledge looks like a trampoline of sorts. Beyond the gap is a
Floyd | twin tunnel, at least five meters out of reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a single turret on this side, one meter tall, surmounted by a
Floyd | strange device.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "gotta touch it again, I suppose"
		Binder says, "seems reasonable"
		Binder says, "It seems to alternate"
		Jacqueline says (to DW), "Too many 80s music references already, and the Floyd is young."
		JamesPKing says, "i think you need a pilot"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on ledge" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > STAND ON LEDGE
Floyd |
Floyd | The gap is at least five meters wide. Are you sure you want to try the
Floyd | stunt before trying something else with the surrounding environment?
Floyd | (Y/N)>

		Jacqueline asks, "Save?"
		Binder says, "mos def"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                      Low corridor, by the gap
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "kk brb. pizza time"
		borowski says, "Yeah"
		Jacqueline asks, "Do we clear the save first? That won't screw up the Night Floyders, right?"
		JamesPKing says, "game has hints"
		vimes says, "no, saves are now per-game"
		DavidW says, "NightFloyd is between games."
		borowski says, "No, Night Floyd finished"
		Jacqueline asks, "So if we save it'll be CF1?"
		DavidW says, "We actually finished The Legend Lives."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]                      Low corridor, by the gap
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north EAST
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to DW), "Okay, go ahead and kill us."
		vimes says, "not necessarilly, but the savegames are in different directories"
		Jacqueline says, "Ah."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on ledge" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > STAND ON LEDGE
Floyd |
Floyd | The gap is at least five meters wide. Are you sure you want to try the
Floyd | stunt before trying something else with the surrounding environment?
Floyd | (Y/N)>

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "y" 		

Floyd ]                      Low corridor, by the gap
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > Y
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | After a brief run-up, you jump over the dark gap beyond the retracted
Floyd | ledge. Your momentum fades when you are just in the middle of nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have died ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "I knew there'd been a change, couldn't remember what... so what effect does >CLEAR SAVE have?"
		DavidW says, "oh, I see. I thought I could push the device afterwards."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]                      Low corridor, by the gap
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Low corridor, by the gap
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch keypad" 		

Floyd ]                      Low corridor, by the gap
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > TOUCH KEYPAD
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]                      Low corridor, by the gap
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Low corridor, by the gap
Floyd | A wormhole dug into rusty metal and torn pipes, the curving tunnel
Floyd | runs north as far as the eye can see. A faint light flickers through
Floyd | luminescent lamps on the ceiling. The floor is a sturdy grating,
Floyd | plunging into darkness below.
Floyd |
Floyd | The tunnel ends here.
Floyd |
Floyd | A jutting ledge floats over the void that opens into the east side of
Floyd | the tunnel, through a gap in the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | Beside the ledge is a single turret, one meter tall, surmounted by a
Floyd | strange device.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to DW), "DamnYouIHaveVanHalenInMyHead"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x device" 		

Floyd ]                      Low corridor, by the gap
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DEVICE
Floyd |
Floyd | On the turret is a touchpad.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch touchpad" 		

Floyd ]                      Low corridor, by the gap
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > TOUCH TOUCHPAD
Floyd |
Floyd | You touch the pad on the turret and the ledge starts slowly moving
Floyd | across the gap into the open side of the tunnel. It stops after a
Floyd | while, just two meters from the other side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump on ledge" 		

Floyd ]                      Low corridor, by the gap
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > JUMP ON LEDGE
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to jump.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on ledge" 		

Floyd ]                Low corridor - Other side of the gap
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST  west
Floyd |
Floyd | > STAND ON LEDGE
Floyd |
Floyd | After a brief run-up, you jump over the dark gap beyond the extended
Floyd | ledge...
Floyd |
Floyd | ... And land on the opposite side, thrilled but unharmed.
Floyd |
Floyd | Low corridor - Other side of the gap
Floyd | A wormhole dug into rusty metal and torn pipes, the curving tunnel
Floyd | runs northeast into a smaller instance of the same environment. A
Floyd | faint light flickers through luminescent lamps on the ceiling. The
Floyd | floor is a sturdy grating, plunging into darkness below.
Floyd |
Floyd | A gap in the west wall opens into darkness. On the other side, an
Floyd | extended ledge is suspended over the void.
Floyd |
Floyd | [You have earned the The Leaper achievement]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Sorry, was afk celebrating that new achievement."
		DavidW says, "heh"
		DavidW says, "We probably can't return that way, though."
		Jacqueline asks, "There was nothing else over there, was there?"
		DavidW says, "The north passage."
jenrexrode arrives, full of fun and funk. 		Jacqueline says, "... oh."
		Jacqueline says, "... um."
		DavidW says, "Which might be the same puzzle for all I know."
		Jacqueline says, "Enh. We're here now. Let's keep going."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHEAST  SOUTH  southwest EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The space widens in all directions. The bigger tunnel in which you
Floyd | stand is a replica of the lower ones, starting southwest of here. Same
Floyd | environment, except for different proportions. The ceiling is at least
Floyd | ten meters above you, and the wormhole is equally wide. To the south,
Floyd | it clogs into a strange valve, like an intestine curtain of steel. To
Floyd | the east and northeast, two glass paneled doors open into similar,
Floyd | sterile rooms. The high corridor continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x valve" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHEAST  SOUTH  southwest EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > X VALVE
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks like a camera's shutter. Several two meter long laminas
Floyd | intersect to form an air-tight valve. It is now closed, concealing its
Floyd | destination.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the side of the valve is a lever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Oh dear. A lever. In an IF game."
		DavidW says, "I hope there's a bat-girl cycle on the other side of the valve."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x lever" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHEAST  SOUTH  southwest EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LEVER
Floyd |
Floyd | You see nothing special about the lever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "I don't mean to be cynical, but I'm guessing there isn't."
		DavidW says, "yeah, killer robot is far more likely"
borowski says (to Floyd), "pull lever" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHEAST  SOUTH  southwest EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > PULL LEVER
Floyd |
Floyd | You pull the lever but the valve only shifts a little, while the dim
Floyd | light in the corridor gets dimmer. Maybe it needs more power.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW) Scotty says, "we need more powwar!"
		Jacqueline says, "We need a new battery."
		Jacqueline asks, "Do you hear me?"
		DavidW says, "heh"
		Jacqueline asks, "So, keep esploring?"
		DavidW says, "Fine. Let's find an alarm clock and steal its battery."
borowski says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]                          East Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the east glass door)
Floyd |
Floyd | East Laboratory
Floyd | A sterile room, every wall filled by glass cases of the same size and
Floyd | shape. It opens west through a glass paneled door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cases" 		

Floyd ]                          East Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CASES
Floyd |
Floyd | A series of glass cases covers all the walls of this tiny room. They
Floyd | are all dark and empty, except for a single one, whose interior is lit
Floyd | by a pure white strobing flash.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x case" 		

Floyd ]                          East Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CASE
Floyd |
Floyd | The case is filled with white light, and nothing else. It can be
Floyd | opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "open case" 		

Floyd ]                          East Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN CASE
Floyd |
Floyd | You pull the handle then release it. The small door closes back
Floyd | pneumatically in a few seconds.
Floyd |
Floyd | Something strange happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | A faint... wind caresses your right arm as the case closes. It feels
Floyd | like someone is breathing in your ears with levity. A sort of...
Floyd | buzzing can be heard around you.
Floyd |
Floyd | It could easily have been your imagination.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I wasn't gonna open it."
borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]                          East Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | East Laboratory
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "But then we wouldn't have had this freaky experience, David."
		DavidW says, "Now we have photoparasites."
		Jacqueline says, "You have been watching too much Star Trek again."
		DavidW says, "Have not!"
		DavidW says, "I just remember Zetar."
		Binder says, "We've already got a battery with a spider on it."
Binder says (to Floyd), "x battery" 		

Floyd ]                          East Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BATTERY
Floyd |
Floyd | A cubic object, ten centimeters wide. There is an image on the side,
Floyd | depicting a sort of six-legged spider.
Floyd |
Floyd | This is a battery, you mumble. And if I'm not mistaken, a
Floyd | radioactive one, even. Maybe plutonium-powered.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "Also, can I ask a potentially silly but necessary for me question? Were we, like, in a little space pod, and then suddenly we crashed into a space station and somehow didn't die and were able to get out? Is that basically what has gone down here?"
		Jacqueline says (to Binder), "Hm, true."
djfletch arrives, full of fun and funk. 		Binder says (to Jacqueline), "That is what I think the IF is telling us has gone down but I think we might be hallucinating some of the time."
		borowski says (to Jacq), "If by 'little space pod' you mean a mighty hyerotrope, then yes"
		DavidW says, "I think we were scooped up by the galactic vacuum cleaner and we're inside one of its collected items."
		Binder says, "This is what life is like in the Katamariverse."
		Jacqueline says, "I am not sure what a hyerotrope is. I was thinking it was something Marco just made up, but perhaps I should test my googlefu."
		Jacqueline | About 27 results (0.41 seconds)
		Jacqueline | Did you mean: hydrotrope
		Jacqueline says, "Okay then."
		DavidW says, "I had an explanation from JPK via mudmail, if you want it."
		Jacqueline says, "Given that those 27 results mostly relate to this game..."
		Jacqueline asks, "Oh?"
		DavidW | a hyerotrope is an ancient alien sphere. black and polished. hollow. it breathes. and devours galaxies
		Jacqueline says, "eep"
		Jacqueline asks, "And we were *in* that?"
		Jacqueline says, "Um, okay. Thanks."
		Jacqueline says, "So, explore more, find a place to stick that spider."
		DavidW says, "I think we are in that now. That the wrecked spacestation is inside the hyerotrope."
		borowski says, "The game suggested it was using us for some purpose"
		Jacqueline says (to DW), "OH"
		Jacqueline says, "And that's where the breath came from, perhaps."
		Jacqueline says, "Now I'm slightly creeped out. But it's all good."
		Binder says, "Atmospheric"
Binder says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]                          East Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | East Laboratory
Floyd | A sterile room, every wall filled by glass cases of the same size and
Floyd | shape. It opens west through a glass paneled door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder asks, "back west or were we out of forks?"
		Jacqueline asks, "Go back west, check out the other directions?"
		DavidW says, "At least we don't need spacesuits."
		Jacqueline says, "We'll need our belt at some point, though. I know it."
		DavidW says, "yes, let's check out other directions"
		Binder says, "That is the upside to crawling around inside enormous living space things."
		Binder says, "Life as a parasite is pretty cozy."
		Binder says, "This is reminding me now of Macrolife."
Binder says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHEAST  SOUTH  southwest east
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder asks, "is a person mapping?"
		DavidW says, "I haven't been."
		DavidW says, "But uppercase directions are unexplored."
		DavidW says, "We probably want ne next."
		Binder says, "OK by me."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]                        Northeast Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the northeast glass door)
Floyd |
Floyd | Northeast Laboratory
Floyd | The room is exceptionally blank. Its walls are lined with polished
Floyd | metal and there's no furniture, apart from a single, weighty table in
Floyd | its center.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x table" 		

Floyd ]                        Northeast Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks like a metal table, but only because it is made from a
Floyd | horizontal slab and four legs. It is polished to exhaustion. It looks
Floyd | like an examination desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | Just by chance you drop a glance down and discover something. Under
Floyd | the table is a steel grate, leading into darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "Wow, that's pretty polished."
Binder says (to Floyd), "x grate" 		

Floyd ]                        Northeast Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GRATE
Floyd |
Floyd | It holds on heavy hinges. You can (maybe) open it and check what's
Floyd | inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "back"
Binder says (to Floyd), "open grate" 		

Floyd ]                        Northeast Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN GRATE
Floyd |
Floyd | You pull up the grate and look inside. Darkness welcomes you. When you
Floyd | release the grate, it slowly closes back.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x reflection" 		

Floyd ]                        Northeast Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd | > X REFLECTION
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing asks, "you stuck?"
		DavidW says, "uh-oh. Hope there's no thief to lock that on us."
		Jacqueline says (to jpk), "Nope."
		DavidW says (to JPK), "no"
		JamesPKing says, "nice"
		Jacqueline says, "Just exploring."
borowski says (to Floyd), "maybe open grate" 		

Floyd ]                        Northeast Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd | > MAYBE OPEN GRATE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "We're just slow when we play as a group."
borowski says (to Floyd), "open grate" 		

Floyd ]                        Northeast Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN GRATE
Floyd |
Floyd | You pull up the grate and look inside. Darkness welcomes you. When you
Floyd | release the grate, it slowly closes back.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "I'm slow when I play alone. :|"
		JamesPKing says, "cig and then i'm back laughing at your pathetic tries at conquering the universe"
		borowski says, "Aw"
		Binder asks, "Oh is that our goal?"
		Binder says, "Now I'm more interested in winning."
		DavidW says, "hm. The light parasite may help us see in the dark."
		JamesPKing says, "nope. you will have a hard time staying alive. thats more like it"
		Binder says, "Down feels sort of one-way-ey."
		Binder asks, "back to the high hall and finish out that round?"
		DavidW says, "yeah, let's see the north passage before risking down into darkness."
Binder says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  northeast SOUTH  southwest east
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  south EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | Another portion of the same tunnel. Your eyes start to get used to the
Floyd | dim light and round shapes. The steel wormhole continues north into a
Floyd | wide chamber, and runs south into its next section. Lights flicker
Floyd | dimly, seemingly powered by vanishing batteries. To the east, a bulky
Floyd | shutter stands closed. To the southwest, beyond a glass panel, is a
Floyd | dimly lit room, with strange machinery on the inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "x machinery" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  south EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MACHINERY
Floyd |
Floyd | You can just guess the shape from this side of the darkened glass.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "guess shape" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  south EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > GUESS SHAPE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x panel" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  south EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PANEL
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks like a darkened wall of glass. You can see through it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "Hey they said I could."
		DavidW says (to Binder), "so trusting"
		Binder exclaims (at DavidW), "es mi primero dia!"
		DavidW says, "snrk"
		Binder asks, "south twice or east?"
		DavidW says, "north"
		Binder says, "ok by me"
		DavidW says, "I don't think we can go east"
Binder says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  south EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The steel wormhole continues north into a wide chamber, and runs south
Floyd | into its next section. Lights flicker dimly. To the east, a bulky
Floyd | shutter stands closed. To the southwest, beyond a glass panel, is a
Floyd | dimly lit room, with strange machinery on the inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "the game thinks we can"
		Binder says, "but again, I'm too trusting"
		DavidW says, "But shutter is in the way"
		DavidW says, "HEAVY shutter."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shutter" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  south EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SHUTTER
Floyd |
Floyd | A bulky shutter, ten meters tall, tightly serrated. It must weigh a
Floyd | ton. On the side of the shutter is a big, round button.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "maybe it's bulky balsawood"
		Binder says, "oh but it has a BUTTON"
Binder says (to Floyd), "x button" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  south EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You see nothing special about the big round button.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Bet there's not enough power for the button."
		DavidW says, "Go try."
		Binder says, "I want to know what it takes for a button to be special in this world if big and round aren't enough."
Binder says (to Floyd), "push button" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  south EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | With a fierce sound, the shutter lifts to the open position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder looks at DavidW.
		Jacqueline says, "Heehee"
		DavidW says, "oh. well."
		Binder says, "mm hm"
		DavidW says, "Power consumption is not consistent, I guess."
		Binder says, "or this is spring loaded."
		Jacqueline sips her lavender earl grey tea and watches the fun.
		borowski says, "That sounds like a good idea"
		Binder says, "ClubFloydTV: nerdplay ahoy."
		DavidW says, "maybe there's another button on the other side to let us back. Or the shutter won't close by itself until we push the button again."
		Binder says, "The point is: east is an option"
		Binder says, "as well as north and south (twice, I think, into a cap exit)"
		DavidW says, "fine. Go east, young padawa"
		Binder asks, "isn't that a kind of food?"
Binder says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]                          Freezing Chamber
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Freezing Chamber
Floyd | A sort of warehouse, this large chamber is filled with cases and
Floyd | wiring, all inter-tangling like cerebrum synapses. Large tubes come
Floyd | and go from crates and pieces of machinery, scattered around randomly.
Floyd |
Floyd | A larger container -- three meters tall, two meters wide and deep --
Floyd | seems to be left aside from the rest of the things littering the
Floyd | place.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is very cold in here. The air must be well below freezing. You can
Floyd | barely breathe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I was trying to quote Star Wars. I suppose I got the term wrong."
		Binder asks, "What's a star war?"
Binder says (to Floyd), "x container" 		

Floyd ]                          Freezing Chamber
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CONTAINER
Floyd |
Floyd | A large metal and glass container, from which freezing smoke descends
Floyd | like a cheap cinema effect. Bulky hoses are plugged into its sides. A
Floyd | sort of porthole opens in its side.
Floyd |
Floyd | The intense cold starts crawling under your exposed skin.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "(I'm *gasp* not a big fan of Star Wars.)"
		Binder says, ">THAW HAN"
		Binder says, "oh I think we could freeze to death in here"
		DavidW says, "yeah, let's not stay here overlong."
Binder says (to Floyd), "x porthole" 		

Floyd ]                          Freezing Chamber
Floyd ]

		borowski says, "When Tom Cruise and John Travolta are both going for the same parking space"

Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PORTHOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | A small window, looking inside the container, partly covered in ice
Floyd | and dirt.
Floyd |
Floyd | You begin shaking for the unbearable cold.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "ok, I'm ready to bail west to warm"
		DavidW says, "yeah, let's west"
		Jacqueline says, "yeah, I sense a timer."
Binder says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  south east
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You get out and in a few moments you feel warm again. You wonder how
Floyd | this could have happened so fast.
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		RootShell says, "Hello"
		DavidW says, "hi RootShell"
		borowski says, "Hello RootShell"
		Binder says, "I'm so glad the Toyshop doesn't have E & W exits or I'd constantly embarrass myself walking out of here because I don't autoprefix with f."
borowski says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (NORTH, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Train Station
Floyd | You leave the cold environment of the corridors to enter a much wider
Floyd | space.
Floyd |
Floyd | Light in here gets dimmer, as the only source is several meters up
Floyd | ahead, on the distant ceiling. In front of you, a ramp runs into
Floyd | several tunnels, each lined by railways. Many of the holes are
Floyd | shuttered by heavy bulkheads, while others lead into darkness, way out
Floyd | of reach. On the opposite side, the circular room enters the high
Floyd | corridor to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | A lone wagon, an open boat hanging over rails, sits undamaged at the
Floyd | beginning of the ramp.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon is a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "Hooray a place to use our Useless Railways ticket."
RootShell arrives, full of fun and funk. 		Jacqueline says, "This is suddenly feeling very Myst-like."
		Binder says (to Jacqueline), "Concur."
		Jacqueline says, "But I must say that other than exploration I'm not sensing what we're supposed to do."
		DavidW says, "I'm imagining an old west covered wagon on a rollercoaster track."
		Binder says, "> ACTIVATE MONARCH REBUILD"
RootShell may i ask what your playing? 		Jacqueline says, "Well, I'm imagining one part Myst, one part Dark Tower."
		DavidW says (to RootShell), "I assume it's Andromeda Apocalypse"
		Binder asks, "Which Dark Tower? Milton Bradley or Stephen King?"
		Jacqueline says, "The Stephen King one."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wagon" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (NORTH, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WAGON
Floyd |
Floyd | A means of transport, by any chance.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon is a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x console" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (NORTH, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CONSOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | On the console is a set of devices. The most striking are a red and a
Floyd | brown button. The first points north, while the latter points south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "aha"
		Binder says, "Controls so easy even Mario could drive it."
		DavidW says, "'set of devices' is gladsome"
		Binder says, "The new iWagon. Device different."
		Binder asks, "onward north or double back south?"
		DavidW says, "I wanna ride the wagon!"
		Binder says, "No objection."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (NORTH, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
ASchultz arrives, full of fun, but no funk. 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter wagon" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (NORTH, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER WAGON
Floyd |
Floyd | You get onto the lone wagon.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon you can see a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		RootShell says, "RED is a dangerous colour"
		Jacqueline says, "heh"
		RootShell asks, "right?"
		DavidW says, "yes, I know."
		Binder says, "Only on Earth. Monarch may feel differently."
		Jacqueline says, "We Floyders like to LIVE DANGEROUSLY (after saving firs)."
		Jacqueline says, "er, first."
		Binder hugs a pine. oh wait.
		djfletch says, "simple controls: one go button, one self-destruct button"
		DavidW says, "Red is associated with STOP, danger, fire, rubies, and lurrrve."
		RootShell asks, "eheheh i just found the colour strange... red and brown?"
		Binder says (to djfletch), "Heh."
		Binder says, "red for ow I'm bleeding and brown for fetch me fresh trousers"
		DavidW says, "And I bet it's all due to our blood being red."
		Binder asks, "new blood, dried blood?"
RootShell says (to DavidW), "probably" 		
Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. 		DavidW says, ",.RootShell try to stay on channel, please."
		Jacqueline says, "They could also just happen to be red and brown."
		RootShell says, "I'm on channell"
		DavidW asks, "May I push the red button?"
		Binder says, "OK by me."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (NORTH, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH RED BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the button, but nothing happens. It looks like it needs
Floyd | powering.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "Death is just another word for time to undo"
		DavidW says, "awwww"
		Binder says, "Doors you can have. Wagon rides, not so much"
Binder says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (NORTH, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Train Station (on the lone wagon)
Floyd | Light in here gets dimmer, as the only source is several meters up
Floyd | ahead, on the distant ceiling. In front of you, a ramp runs into
Floyd | several tunnels, each lined by railways. Many of the holes are
Floyd | shuttered by heavy bulkheads, while others lead into darkness, way out
Floyd | of reach. On the opposite side, the circular room enters the high
Floyd | corridor to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon you can see a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "x console" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (NORTH, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CONSOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | On the console is a set of devices. The most striking are a red and a
Floyd | brown button. The first points north, while the latter points south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		RootShell says, "well there's an other button to press"
		DavidW says, "I guess we have to risk the darkness under the table after all."
		Binder says, "Nowhere obvious to slot a spider battery, I guess."
		Binder says, "There's still (I think) an unvisited south, south of us."
		DavidW says (to RootShell), "yes, but we're already at the south terminus."
		Binder says, "Before we jump down the hole"
RootShell says, "haaa ok" 		DavidW says, "The south button is to return back here."
		Binder says, "unless it isn't"
		RootShell says, "right"
		Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I'd like to explore all the non-scary-dark-hole options before the scary-dark-hole option."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push brown button" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (NORTH, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH BROWN BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the button, but nothing happens. It looks like it needs
Floyd | powering.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (NORTH, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You get off the lone wagon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Train Station
Floyd | A lone wagon, an open boat hanging over rails, sits undamaged at the
Floyd | beginning of the ramp.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon is a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ramp" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (NORTH, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > X RAMP
Floyd |
Floyd | A set of rails forking and jumping into each of the tunnels up above.
Floyd | You guess this must be a sort of a train hub, where wagons depart and
Floyd | collect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rails" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (NORTH, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > X RAILS
Floyd |
Floyd | The tunnels leave the room in every direction. Some are closed, others
Floyd | are open but horribly dark.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "This feels like a space with many invalid exit directions"
		DavidW says, "I see no option but to retreat south."
		Binder says, "Concur."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north south east
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "verbose" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north south east
Floyd |
Floyd | > VERBOSE
Floyd |
Floyd | Andromeda Apocalypse is now in its "verbose" mode, which always gives
Floyd | long descriptions of locations (even if you've been there before).
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north south east
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The steel wormhole continues north into a wide chamber, and runs south
Floyd | into its next section. Lights flicker dimly. To the east, a bulky
Floyd | shutter opens onto a freezing compartment. To the southwest, beyond a
Floyd | glass panel, is a dimly lit room, with strange machinery on the
Floyd | inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh nice. It remembers where we visited in the room description too."
		Binder says, "Very handy."
		Binder says, "Appeases my desire for a map."
		Binder asks, "south-er, I think?"
		borowski asks, "Did we go SW?"
		DavidW says, "sw isn't an exit."
		DavidW says, "It's just a window panel."
		borowski says, "Ah, right"
		Binder says, "we almost saw a machine"
		DavidW says, "I think we can either try to fiddle in the cold room, explore the crazy darkness, or try to return over the gap."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s/crazy/scary/" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north south east
Floyd |
Floyd | > S/CRAZY/SCARY/
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder asks, "You don't think there's an unvisited south south of us?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "s" 		DavidW says, "There is but the lever needs power."

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast SOUTH  southwest east
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The bigger tunnel in which you stand is a replica of the lower ones,
Floyd | starting southwest of here. Same environment, except for different
Floyd | proportions. The ceiling is at least ten meters above you, and the
Floyd | wormhole is equally wide. To the south, it clogs into a strange valve,
Floyd | like an intestine curtain of steel. To the east and northeast, two
Floyd | glass paneled doors open into similar, sterile rooms. The high
Floyd | corridor continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "We can't go south yet from here."
		Binder says, "hm"
		Binder says, "OK, then I vote cold room"
		Jacqueline asks, "What about dark hole?"
		Binder says, "Perhaps someone would like to vote for return over the gap so we could three-way tie"
		DavidW says, "I think we should experiment a teensy bit more in the cold room."
		DavidW says, "Then try the dark hole."
		Binder says, "I like that plan"
		borowski says, "Yeah, we might as well see if we can do something there before we freeeze"
		RootShell says, "my vote doesnt count since i haven't played this yet nor have i played since the beginning"
		Jacqueline says, "ok"
		DavidW says (to RootShell), "We haven't progressed all that far into the game."
		Binder says, "I think the bar for suffrage is lower."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north south east
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The steel wormhole continues north into a wide chamber, and runs south
Floyd | into its next section. Lights flicker dimly. To the east, a bulky
Floyd | shutter opens onto a freezing compartment. To the southwest, beyond a
Floyd | glass panel, is a dimly lit room, with strange machinery on the
Floyd | inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks (of RootShell), "You know you can recap the room and read the whole game thus far, right?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]                          Freezing Chamber
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Freezing Chamber
Floyd | A sort of warehouse, this large chamber is filled with cases and
Floyd | wiring, all inter-tangling like cerebrum synapses. Large tubes come
Floyd | and go from crates and pieces of machinery, scattered around randomly.
Floyd |
Floyd | A larger container -- three meters tall, two meters wide and deep --
Floyd | seems to be left aside from the rest of the things littering the
Floyd | place.
Floyd |
Floyd | The first signs of frostbite begin tearing through your skin.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tubes" 		

Floyd ]                          Freezing Chamber
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TUBES
Floyd |
Floyd | Tubes and wires, all tangled together and forming an inextricable
Floyd | mass. They come and go from the crates, maybe sustaining or powering
Floyd | them.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your arms and legs are becoming numb. It's better you get out of here,
Floyd | now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "I don't want you to feel like you can't participate just because you weren't here at the beginning."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north south east
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You get out and in a few moments you feel warm again.
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The steel wormhole continues north into a wide chamber, and runs south
Floyd | into its next section. Lights flicker dimly. To the east, a bulky
Floyd | shutter opens onto a freezing compartment. To the southwest, beyond a
Floyd | glass panel, is a dimly lit room, with strange machinery on the
Floyd | inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder asks, "so, like 2-3 moves in there, maybe?"
		borowski asks, "Open the container?"
		Binder exclaims, "ok!"
		Binder exclaims, "if there's something frozen in space we should definitely wake it up!"
		DavidW says, "It seems as if getting warm again didn't help."
		Binder says, "> DON RED SHIRT"
		Jacqueline says, "heh heh heh"
		DavidW says, "We didn't have as much time as before."
		Binder asks, "maybe the first visit is a more generous timer?"
		DavidW says, "I think we'll die instantly if we go in again."
		Binder says, "I double dog dare you to go in again"
		DavidW says, "no, I think the cold timer didn't reset at all."
		Binder says, "Maybe it's frozen, too."
		borowski says, "That's when we get the Ripley achievement"
		Binder says, "ha"
		DavidW says, "anyway, I didn't see anything too obvious to try, except maybe pull tubes and open container."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]                          Freezing Chamber
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Freezing Chamber
Floyd | A sort of warehouse, this large chamber is filled with cases and
Floyd | wiring, all inter-tangling like cerebrum synapses. Large tubes come
Floyd | and go from crates and pieces of machinery, scattered around randomly.
Floyd |
Floyd | A larger container -- three meters tall, two meters wide and deep --
Floyd | seems to be left aside from the rest of the things littering the
Floyd | place.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open container" 		

Floyd ]                          Freezing Chamber
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN CONTAINER
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no opening. The container is fastened shut by means unknown.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is very cold in here. The air must be well below freezing. You can
Floyd | barely breathe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull tubes" 		

Floyd ]                          Freezing Chamber
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > PULL TUBES
Floyd |
Floyd | Those are fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | The intense cold starts crawling under your exposed skin.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "break porthole" 		

Floyd ]                          Freezing Chamber
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > BREAK PORTHOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | You begin shaking for the unbearable cold.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north south east
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You get out and in a few moments you feel warm again.
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The steel wormhole continues north into a wide chamber, and runs south
Floyd | into its next section. Lights flicker dimly. To the east, a bulky
Floyd | shutter opens onto a freezing compartment. To the southwest, beyond a
Floyd | glass panel, is a dimly lit room, with strange machinery on the
Floyd | inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]                          Freezing Chamber
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Freezing Chamber
Floyd | A sort of warehouse, this large chamber is filled with cases and
Floyd | wiring, all inter-tangling like cerebrum synapses. Large tubes come
Floyd | and go from crates and pieces of machinery, scattered around randomly.
Floyd |
Floyd | A larger container -- three meters tall, two meters wide and deep --
Floyd | seems to be left aside from the rest of the things littering the
Floyd | place.
Floyd |
Floyd | The first signs of frostbite begin tearing through your skin.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look through porthole" 		

Floyd ]                          Freezing Chamber
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK THROUGH PORTHOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | There is something inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | A sort of creature, frozen still, is held captive inside the
Floyd | container. All you can see through the small porthole is what looks
Floyd | like an eye, at least ten centimeters wide, covered by several
Floyd | curtains of brownish skin, and part of... a mouth. Within, dozens of
Floyd | teeth, like rusty nails, crowd in anger.
Floyd |
Floyd | What the HELL is this?! you mutter to yourself.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are not alone on this trip, it seems.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your arms and legs are becoming numb. It's better you get out of here,
Floyd | now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "Yay! A new friend!" 		

Floyd ]                          Freezing Chamber
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > YAY!  A NEW FRIEND!
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Whoops."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north south east
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You get out and in a few moments you feel warm again.
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The steel wormhole continues north into a wide chamber, and runs south
Floyd | into its next section. Lights flicker dimly. To the east, a bulky
Floyd | shutter opens onto a freezing compartment. To the southwest, beyond a
Floyd | glass panel, is a dimly lit room, with strange machinery on the
Floyd | inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "What shall we do with our new friend?"
		DavidW says, "I don't think we want to open that container too soon."
		borowski asks, "Pull tubes?"
		Jacqueline says, "Maybe our new friend needs the cold."
		DavidW says, "Tried pulling"
		RootShell says, "yes we have to make sure we can escape in the wagon before unleashing the beast :O)"
		DavidW says, "I think we'll have to leave him to cool his heels."
		DavidW asks, "anyway, shall we brave the dark now?"
		borowski asks, "Leave the cabinet alone?"
		RootShell asks, "have you tried to unfroze him yet?"
		DavidW asks, "Cabinet?"
		borowski says, "In the east lab"
		DavidW says, "I don't remember any cabinet."
		borowski says, "Glass case I mean"
		DavidW says, "Show me."
borowski says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast SOUTH  southwest east
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The bigger tunnel in which you stand is a replica of the lower ones,
Floyd | starting southwest of here. Same environment, except for different
Floyd | proportions. The ceiling is at least ten meters above you, and the
Floyd | wormhole is equally wide. To the south, it clogs into a strange valve,
Floyd | like an intestine curtain of steel. To the east and northeast, two
Floyd | glass paneled doors open into similar, sterile rooms. The high
Floyd | corridor continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]                          East Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | East Laboratory
Floyd | A sterile room, every wall filled by glass cases of the same size and
Floyd | shape. It opens west through a glass paneled door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x case" 		

Floyd ]                          East Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CASE
Floyd |
Floyd | The case is filled with white light, and nothing else. It can be
Floyd | opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x cases" 		

Floyd ]                          East Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CASES
Floyd |
Floyd | A series of glass cases covers all the walls of this tiny room. They
Floyd | are all dark and empty, except for a single one, whose interior is lit
Floyd | by a pure white strobing flash.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter case" 		

Floyd ]                          East Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER CASE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take case" 		

Floyd ]                          East Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE CASE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x light" 		

Floyd ]                          East Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LIGHT
Floyd |
Floyd | The case is filled with white light, and nothing else. It can be
Floyd | opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		RootShell says, "now we are moving"
		DavidW says (to RootShell), "We didn't see any controls in the cold room, so it's unclear how to unfreeze the guy."
RootShell asks (of DavidW), "the white light might help?" 		RootShell asks (of DavidW), "the white light might help?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]                          East Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You're carrying a golden disc, a plutonium battery and an useless
Floyd | railway ticket. You are wearing some clothes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		RootShell says, "just open the case"
		DavidW says, "The white light might help with the darkness. Can't see how it would help with the freezing chamber."
		DavidW says, "we already opened it, but fine, open it again."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open case" 		

Floyd ]                          East Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN CASE
Floyd |
Floyd | You pull the handle then release it. The small door closes back
Floyd | pneumatically in a few seconds.
Floyd |
Floyd | Something strange happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | A faint... wind caresses your right arm as the case closes. It feels
Floyd | like someone is breathing in your ears with levity. A sort of...
Floyd | buzzing can be heard around you.
Floyd |
Floyd | It could easily have been your imagination.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "that happened before."
		RootShell asks, "there's no way to carry the case?"
		DavidW says, "I couldn't take it, no."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "get case" 		

Floyd ]                          East Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET CASE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd ]                          East Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can hear a very faint buzzing, as if a ridiculously small insect
Floyd | is flying nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your head fills with a freezing sensation.
Floyd |
Floyd | Within seconds, your sight blurs and a pounding noise starts whipping
Floyd | in your ears. You understand you are being eaten alive from the inside
Floyd | when you see your own face melting through your hands like dripping
Floyd | ice-cream.
Floyd |
Floyd | [You have earned the Invisible Killer achievement]
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have died ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oops. That's new."
		Jacqueline says, "Okay, that was awesome."
		RootShell says, "there's the cause of the wind"
		Jacqueline asks, "How can we keep that achievement and still play more?"
		DavidW says, "dunno"
		JamesPKing says, "you can't, sorry"
		JamesPKing says, "not yet, until the second release"
		JamesPKing says, "(i had no time to code the external file management, sorry)"
		Jacqueline says, "I understand."
		borowski says, "Yay, I like interesting death achievements"
		DavidW says, "I'm not sure why we weren't eaten alive the first time we opened the case, then."
		RootShell asks, "davidw you didnt listen?"
		DavidW says, "Not then, no."
		borowski says, "I undoed the first time"
		JamesPKing says, "i don't know what happened. you may have undid"
		DavidW says (to borowski), "did you? I didn't remember that."
		JamesPKing says, "ok"
		DavidW asks, "If we restore, can we explore the north passage before the leaping achievement?"
		Binder says, "I think so, yeah"
		DavidW says, "'Cause otherwise, I think we're stuck with exploring darkness."
		Jacqueline says, "Oh yeah."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf1" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:
Floyd ]                      Low corridor, by the gap
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north EAST
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                            Low corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north south
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Low corridor
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                            Low corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  south west
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Low corridor
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                            Low corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST  south
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Low corridor
Floyd | A wormhole dug into rusty metal and torn pipes, the curving tunnel
Floyd | runs northeast and south as far as the eye can see. A faint light
Floyd | flickers through luminescent lamps on the ceiling. The floor is a
Floyd | sturdy grating, plunging into darkness below.
Floyd |
Floyd | Backed up against the tunnel's walls is a strange statue. A couple of
Floyd | sitting things, black like scarred flesh, crumbly like
Floyd | ancient artifacts. They are surprisingly human-shaped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x statue" 		

Floyd ]                            Low corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST  south
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STATUE
Floyd |
Floyd | The rocky formation really does resemble a couple of human beings,
Floyd | lean and hollow, seated side by side. You puzzle at how it formed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "People encased in rock."
		Jacqueline says, "Looks... dangerous."
		Binder says, "You go first."
		DavidW says, "They'll probably come to life and maul us, yeah."
		Jacqueline says, "They got the Looked at Medusa Achievement, perhaps."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch statues" 		

Floyd ]                            Low corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST  south
Floyd |
Floyd | > TOUCH STATUES
Floyd |
Floyd | It is rock, indeed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell statues" 		

Floyd ]                            Low corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST  south
Floyd |
Floyd | > SMELL STATUES
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a faint ozone odor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to Binder), "That's the Sallah Achievement, not the Indy Achievement."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]                      Low corridor - Dead end
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Low corridor - Dead end
Floyd | A wormhole dug into rusty metal and torn pipes, the curving tunnel
Floyd | runs southwest as far as the eye can see. A faint light flickers
Floyd | through luminescent lamps on the ceiling. The floor is a sturdy
Floyd | grating, plunging into darkness below.
Floyd |
Floyd | The tunnel ends here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		RootShell says, "let's go indy"
		DavidW says, "hm. The tunnel ends."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "lift grate" 		

Floyd ]                      Low corridor - Dead end
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | > LIFT GRATE
Floyd |
Floyd | It seems to be welded to the structure.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "spit through grate." 		

Floyd ]                      Low corridor - Dead end
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | > SPIT THROUGH GRATE.
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "get lamp" 		

Floyd ]                      Low corridor - Dead end
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET LAMP
Floyd |
Floyd | The light is too high to be reached from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "heh"
		Binder says (to Jacqueline), "#belated Heh."
Binder says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]                      Low corridor - Dead end
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Low corridor - Dead end
Floyd | A wormhole dug into rusty metal and torn pipes, the curving tunnel
Floyd | runs southwest as far as the eye can see. A faint light flickers
Floyd | through luminescent lamps on the ceiling. The floor is a sturdy
Floyd | grating, plunging into darkness below.
Floyd |
Floyd | The tunnel ends here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "x wall" 		

Floyd ]                      Low corridor - Dead end
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WALL
Floyd |
Floyd | A wormhole dug into rusty metal and torn pipes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "x grating" 		

Floyd ]                      Low corridor - Dead end
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GRATING
Floyd |
Floyd | The grating rests on steel poles, floating over darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		RootShell says, "climb pipes ? :P"
		DavidW says, "or climb statues"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb pipes" 		

Floyd ]                      Low corridor - Dead end
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLIMB PIPES
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb wall" 		

Floyd ]                      Low corridor - Dead end
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLIMB WALL
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		RootShell asks, "this is the dark exit?"
		DavidW says, "no"
		DavidW says, "We've never been here before."
		RootShell says, "jhaaa"
		DavidW says, "There doesn't seem to be anything to do at this end. I'm guessing it's either our way back, or the statues are optional content."
		RootShell says, "looks like a try dead end"
		borowski asks, "Explore the dark hole?"
		Binder says, "dark hole"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd ]                            Low corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast south
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Low corridor
Floyd | Backed up against the tunnel's walls is a strange statue. A couple of
Floyd | sitting things, black like scarred flesh, crumbly like
Floyd | ancient artifacts. They are surprisingly human-shaped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb statues" 		

Floyd ]                            Low corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast south
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLIMB STATUES
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                            Low corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north south west
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Low corridor
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                            Low corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north south
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Low corridor
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                      Low corridor, by the gap
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Low corridor, by the gap
Floyd | A jutting ledge floats over the void that opens into the east side of
Floyd | the tunnel, through a gap in the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | Beside the ledge is a single turret, one meter tall, surmounted by a
Floyd | strange device.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch touchpad" 		

Floyd ]                      Low corridor, by the gap
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > TOUCH TOUCHPAD
Floyd |
Floyd | You touch the pad on the turret and the ledge starts slowly moving
Floyd | across the gap into the open side of the tunnel. It stops after a
Floyd | while, just two meters from the other side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on ledge" 		

Floyd ]                Low corridor - Other side of the gap
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST  west
Floyd |
Floyd | > STAND ON LEDGE
Floyd |
Floyd | After a brief run-up, you jump over the dark gap beyond the extended
Floyd | ledge...
Floyd |
Floyd | ... And land on the opposite side, thrilled but unharmed.
Floyd |
Floyd | Low corridor - Other side of the gap
Floyd | A wormhole dug into rusty metal and torn pipes, the curving tunnel
Floyd | runs northeast into a smaller instance of the same environment. A
Floyd | faint light flickers through luminescent lamps on the ceiling. The
Floyd | floor is a sturdy grating, plunging into darkness below.
Floyd |
Floyd | A gap in the west wall opens into darkness. On the other side, an
Floyd | extended ledge is suspended over the void.
Floyd |
Floyd | [You have earned the The Leaper achievement]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHEAST  SOUTH  southwest EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The space widens in all directions. The bigger tunnel in which you
Floyd | stand is a replica of the lower ones, starting southwest of here. Same
Floyd | environment, except for different proportions. The ceiling is at least
Floyd | ten meters above you, and the wormhole is equally wide. To the south,
Floyd | it clogs into a strange valve, like an intestine curtain of steel. To
Floyd | the east and northeast, two glass paneled doors open into similar,
Floyd | sterile rooms. The high corridor continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]                        Northeast Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the northeast glass door)
Floyd |
Floyd | Northeast Laboratory
Floyd | The room is exceptionally blank. Its walls are lined with polished
Floyd | metal and there's no furniture, apart from a single, weighty table in
Floyd | its center.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under table" 		

Floyd ]                        Northeast Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK UNDER TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Under the table you see a steel grate, leading into darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]                             Waste Duct
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: WEST  up
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You pull the grate and hold it up while you descend into darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Waste Duct
Floyd | Dirt formations cover the walls of this steel duct, running under the
Floyd | laboratories and the high corridor. An ancient stench of death fills
Floyd | your nostrils. Above your head, a steel grate clogs the exit. The duct
Floyd | continues west.
Floyd |
Floyd | [You have earned the The Dweller achievement]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		RootShell says, "so far so good"
		DavidW asks, "west?"
		Binder asks, "hey, at least it's not fresh death?"
		RootShell says, "looks like a "maze" of ducts"
		Binder asks, "oh, we can up from here?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]                        Northeast Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest down
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the grate open and get out of the duct.
Floyd |
Floyd | Northeast Laboratory
Floyd | The room is exceptionally blank. Its walls are lined with polished
Floyd | metal and there's no furniture, apart from a single, weighty table in
Floyd | its center.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]                             Waste Duct
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: WEST  up
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You pull the grate and hold it up while you descend into darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Waste Duct
Floyd | Dirt formations cover the walls of this steel duct, running under the
Floyd | laboratories and the high corridor. An ancient stench of death fills
Floyd | your nostrils. Above your head, a steel grate clogs the exit. The duct
Floyd | continues west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]                             Waste Duct
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: east WEST
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Waste Duct
Floyd | Dirt formations cover the walls of this steel duct, running under the
Floyd | high corridor. An ancient stench of death fills your nostrils. The
Floyd | duct continues east and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "phew"
		Binder says, "Glad it's not one way."
		DavidW says, "go west"
borowski says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]                             Waste Duct
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: east UP
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Waste Duct
Floyd | Dirt formations cover the walls of this steel duct, running under the
Floyd | high corridor. An ancient stench of death fills your nostrils. The
Floyd | duct continues east. Above you, an opening leads into a dimly lit
Floyd | area.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]                         Power Control Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Power Control Room
Floyd | The large octagonal-shaped chamber is filled by a massive machine. The
Floyd | enormous totem has an eight-pointed star-shaped base, with a central
Floyd | column rising to the ceiling at least thirty meters above you. The
Floyd | rest of the floor is littered with metal cylinders, some of which
Floyd | still protrude from the machine itself.
Floyd |
Floyd | You remember having seen something similar at the University, in your
Floyd | first year by the Propulsory Science Compartment.
Floyd |
Floyd | This is a power control device, you think. It must be
Floyd | part of the engines of this... station.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the northeast, a glass panel overlooks the high corridor.
Floyd |
Floyd | Among the equipment pieces littering the floor, you scout an
Floyd | unscarred, silver cylinder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "I was afraid this was the ball return from the Leaper"
		JamesPKing says, "ok"
		RootShell says, "yeaahhhhhhh"
		JamesPKing says, "lemme say a thing"
		DavidW says, "Hooray, this looks promising."
		JamesPKing says, "from now on the game is supposed to be fairly smooth. this is the first "real" puzzle ingame"
		DavidW says, "ah, and we're on the other side of that glass panel."
		borowski says, "I guess this is the machinery we saw"
		Binder says, "Great, it's a FRESHMAN power generator."
		JamesPKing says, "i will watch you doing this. then I have to go (it's 9PM here)"
		RootShell says, "now we can power everything here"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cylinder" 		

Floyd ]                         Power Control Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CYLINDER
Floyd |
Floyd | A silver cylinder, unscarred. A cap closes its top.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" 		

Floyd ]                         Power Control Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE IT
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "No worries, JPK. After all, the transcript will be available for you to read later, and we really aren't into taking hints."
		Jacqueline says, "We hope you've enjoyed watching us play thus far."
		Binder says, "We prefer to suffer."
		Jacqueline says (to Binder), "Exactly."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x machine" 		

Floyd ]                         Power Control Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MACHINE
Floyd |
Floyd | The giant structure is star shaped. Eight branches serve as solid legs
Floyd | for a large column, rising above it and diving into the ceiling. It is
Floyd | dark and inert. On its side, a series of round holes cut through the
Floyd | metal, some harboring strange, metallic cylinders.
Floyd |
Floyd | The large octagonal-shaped machine is currently switched off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing exclaims, "this game shuldn't need hints. not too many at least :) tell me if you had fun!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hole" 		

Floyd ]                         Power Control Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Some of the holes harbor strange metallic cylinders, while others rest
Floyd | empty.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the holes, scratched and punctured, catches your attention. It
Floyd | contains a crumpled, rusty cylinder, broken in half by some mysterious
Floyd | force.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "i mean: from now on."
		Binder says, "This is the universe where stars have 8 legs and spiders have 6."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take rusty cylinder" 		

Floyd ]                         Power Control Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE RUSTY CYLINDER
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Well, I feel like we're still not quite into it yet. I was really enjoying the interaction with Owen and the sunset, but have felt sort of adrift purpose-wise since then."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it" 		

Floyd ]                         Power Control Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > X IT
Floyd |
Floyd | The object has been pierced by some unknown force and now lies broken
Floyd | in half and useless.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" 		

Floyd ]                         Power Control Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN IT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop rusty" 		

Floyd ]                         Power Control Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP RUSTY
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder asks, "oh, is that a dud battery and the shiny one is fresh?"
		borowski says (to Jacq), "That was some of the most engaging writing"
Binder says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]                         Power Control Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You're carrying a silver cylinder, a golden disc, a cubic object and
Floyd | an useless railway ticket. You are wearing some clothes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]                         Power Control Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You're carrying a silver cylinder, a golden disc, a cubic object and
Floyd | an useless railway ticket. You are wearing some clothes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "The game is acting slow."
Binder says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]                         Power Control Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Power Control Room
Floyd | The large octagonal-shaped chamber is filled by a massive machine. The
Floyd | enormous totem has an eight-pointed star-shaped base, with a central
Floyd | column rising to the ceiling at least thirty meters above you. The
Floyd | rest of the floor is littered with metal cylinders, some of which
Floyd | still protrude from the machine itself.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the northeast, a glass panel overlooks the high corridor.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the power control device is a scratched and punctured hole.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a broken cylinder here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open silver cylinder" 		

Floyd ]                         Power Control Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN SILVER CYLINDER
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the silver cylinder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put battery in it" 		

Floyd ]                         Power Control Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT BATTERY IN IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You try and put the cubic object in the cylinder... and it fits
Floyd | wonderfully.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "close silver cylinder" 		

Floyd ]                         Power Control Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLOSE SILVER CYLINDER
Floyd |
Floyd | You close the silver cylinder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put it in hole" 		

Floyd ]                         Power Control Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST  down
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT IT IN HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | (the scratched hole)
Floyd | As you fit the powered cylinder into the bay, the machine starts
Floyd | vibrating. In a matter of seconds, it starts roaring as if a thousand
Floyd | wasps are struggling to escape from its belly. Finally, electric arcs
Floyd | start running through the high column's surface and the machine
Floyd | reaches full potential.
Floyd |
Floyd | After a while, the darkened glass panel closing the northeast exit
Floyd | slides into the wall, disappearing.
Floyd |
Floyd | [You have earned the To Shed a Light achievement]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "woo"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf2" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]                         Power Control Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST  down
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "Nice."
		borowski says, "Hooray!"
		DavidW asks, "Anything else here before we explore south iris and north wagon train?"
Binder says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]                         Power Control Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST  down
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Power Control Room
Floyd | The large octagonal-shaped chamber is filled by a massive machine. The
Floyd | enormous totem has an eight-pointed star-shaped base, with a central
Floyd | column rising to the ceiling at least thirty meters above you. The
Floyd | rest of the floor is littered with metal cylinders, some of which
Floyd | still protrude from the machine itself.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the northeast, you can exit to the high corridor.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the power control device is a scratched and punctured hole.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a broken cylinder here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Maybe take the broken cylinder?"
flitchard arrives, full of fun, but no funk. 		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x hole" 		

Floyd ]                         Power Control Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST  down
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | (the scratched hole)
Floyd | This particular hole has sustained major damage.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the scratched hole is a silver cylinder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh, the glass panel opened. We don't have to go down into grossness."
flitchard asks, "mike tyson about boxing" 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  south southwest EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | Another portion of the same tunnel. Your eyes start to get used to the
Floyd | dim light and round shapes. The steel wormhole continues north into a
Floyd | wide chamber, and runs south into its next section. Lights flicker
Floyd | dimly, seemingly powered by vanishing batteries. To the east, a bulky
Floyd | shutter stands closed. To the southwest is a dimly lit room, with
Floyd | strange machinery on the inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "I'll take care of flitchard"
		DavidW asks, "iris or train?"
ASchultz waves to flitchard and says, welcome, new person! 		
Binder says, "iris" 		
Binder says, "ilac" 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast SOUTH  southwest EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "Iris"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "verbose" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast SOUTH  southwest EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > VERBOSE
Floyd |
Floyd | Andromeda Apocalypse is now in its "verbose" mode, which always gives
Floyd | long descriptions of locations (even if you've been there before).
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast SOUTH  southwest EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the steel valve)
Floyd | The massive valve must be operated by the lever on its side, you
Floyd | suppose.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull lever" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast SOUTH  southwest EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > PULL LEVER
Floyd |
Floyd | The valve opens with effort. In a few seconds the next room is visible
Floyd | beyond its mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You step into the big chamber.
Floyd |
Floyd | Light fills the room, and it's light from the stars. You check the
Floyd | giant dome and your eyes widen in awe.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sound of your own heart is like hammering thunder, the drums of
Floyd | the gods.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                               Porch
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | Porch
Floyd | The air got dizzier. Korhos is almost set, only days away from its
Floyd | full trip into the ocean. The balcony is cozy and it could serve as a
Floyd | nice retreat for the incoming storm.
Floyd |
Floyd | You always loved staring at the rain from Uncle Oren's porch.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Uncle Oren here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "WHAT"
		DavidW says, "I'm on a horse."
		Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Now the tickets are diamonds?"
Binder says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]                               Porch
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You're carrying nothing. You are wearing some clothes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x porch" 		

Floyd ]                               Porch
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PORCH
Floyd |
Floyd | It is a wooden porch, which white varnish has suffered from the ordeal
Floyd | of time and salinity.
Floyd |
Floyd | Thunder rumbles from the horizon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "And we have a useless ticket to that thing you love."
		Binder says, "Apparently this is an inventory-optional hallucination resort we're visiting."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x oren" 		

Floyd ]                               Porch
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > X OREN
Floyd |
Floyd | He used to be your mentor at the University Radiation Technology
Floyd | Division, during your first year of assignment as a teacher and
Floyd | researcher. A man well in his seventies, he always looked sturdy and
Floyd | healthy.
Floyd |
Floyd | Lately, his retirement seems to have struck him quite a blow. His hair
Floyd | has gone completely white, his posture slouched and his voice has got
Floyd | that sad croaking. He is staring at the horizon like a bird in search
Floyd | of a migratory route, holding a glass of water from which he drinks
Floyd | from time to time.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to oren" 		

Floyd ]                               Porch
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO OREN
Floyd |
Floyd | "So," Oren asks, "do you believe in afterlife?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You stare at him. "I... I don't know."
Floyd |
Floyd | Oren takes a look at Grey Cape, to the west. Some gulls are circling
Floyd | its southernmost rock. "I don't, either. But... all of this, all this
Floyd | universe. Wouldn't it feel a bit wasted if it was there just
Floyd | for us?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]                               Porch
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well," you argue, "every minute is a treasure, they say. A show can
Floyd | be pretty interesting even if it lasts only a second. You know, some
Floyd | elementary particles' lives are so short..."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Don't lecture me, reg," Oren interrupts you. A smile cuts his face in
Floyd | two. "I was a scientist and a teacher ages before you. What I
Floyd | mean is: Is this show just for us? Apart from how long it lasts -- or
Floyd | how long we last -- don't you think it would deserve a better
Floyd | audience?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You cough. "Are you talking about... other, more... durable,
Floyd | intelligent life forms?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I am," he says.
Floyd |
Floyd | The thunderstorm is getting closer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "Great, our mentor has become an Ascended Jedi Mystic"
borowski says (to Floyd), "ask oren about durable, intelligent robots" 		

Floyd ]                               Porch
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK OREN ABOUT DURABLE, INTELLIGENT ROBOTS
Floyd |
Floyd | You prefer following the flow of the conversation.
Floyd |
Floyd | "So that the show wouldn't require an afterlife..."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Indeed."
Floyd |
Floyd | You laugh. "So you'd rather believe in aliens than in Heavens."
Floyd |
Floyd | "We don't need Heavens. And thinking that Big Mama Kohr is
Floyd | there just for our own, miserable eyes is showing incredible
Floyd | arrogance."
Floyd |
Floyd | "You'd feel at home with Andy and Marion. They are believers. I stay
Floyd | well in my arrogant shoes."
Floyd |
Floyd | "We are the only ones. That's what is written on the first
Floyd | Mechanostation ever built. Arrogant. And foolish."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I think beauty ought to be appreciated by any lifeforms equipped to view it."
		Binder asks, "But is it the same beauty?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "talk to oren" 		

Floyd ]                               Porch
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO OREN
Floyd |
Floyd | "Oren, I don't want to lecture you, but... There isn't and
Floyd | there never has been any proof of another single life form in the
Floyd | known part of the galaxy. And that's a very large amount of
Floyd | space."
Floyd |
Floyd | Oren laughs. He raises his glass in front of your eyes and looks
Floyd | through. "Let's imagine," he says, "that we filled this glass with
Floyd | water from the sea. Now, you can easily see we caught no fish in it,
Floyd | right?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You nod, silently.
Floyd |
Floyd | "So: would you dare say, given the glass is empty, that there
Floyd | are no fish in the ocean?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | "The universe is so big, a galaxy is like a sand grain in a beach
Floyd | compared to it. We live -- what? -- eighty years? We've been around
Floyd | for -- how much? -- three thousand years? Four? Ten? Korh has been
Floyd | cold for at least ten billion years. The stars can judge,
Floyd | Ektor, not us. We can only hope their legacy, the legacy of the stars,
Floyd | will be soft on us. 'Cause we just don't compare."
Floyd |
Floyd | He takes a fair gulp from the glass, then puts it back on the table.
Floyd | His eyes wander again towards the impending thunderstorm.
Floyd |
Floyd | "By Fat," he laughs, in the end. "Using your measuring method, if we
Floyd | caught something in here, we'd say that was the biggest fish in the
Floyd | sea. But the sea is endless, Ektor," he smiles. "The sea can host such
Floyd | awesome creatures that won't even fit this glass. Squids, sharks..."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		DavidW says, "Like, I once read that fall leaves appear nice to us because our eyes evolved to see them nicely. If our eyes perceived light differently, they wouldn't look anywhere near as nice."
		* flitchard has joined the channel.
		DavidW says, "(also, looking at sand under a microscope can be awesome)"
		Jacqueline says, "Welcome, flitchard"
		Binder says, "So Oren is hinting that we're about to encounter Cthulhu, is what I'm thinking."
		flitchard exclaims, "hi, everyone!"
		Binder says, "Hello, flitchard."
		borowski says, "Hello flitchard"
		flitchard says, "common philosophy for alien believers."
borowski says (to Floyd), "press space" 		
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST  northwest UP
Floyd | ...Whales. There are whales floating in space.
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory Room
Floyd | At least fifty meters wide, this semi-circular room must have been the
Floyd | observatory lounge for the inhabitants' spare time. A set of tables
Floyd | and seats form a theater of sorts, for tonight's show of the universe.
Floyd | A glass dome, covering all the south side of the room and part of the
Floyd | ceiling, is open to the stars. The high corridor is to the northwest,
Floyd | while a second, tighter tunnel departs from the northeast. In the
Floyd | northern wall, a metal ladder heads up into an opening.
Floyd |
Floyd | Beyond the glass, the most amazing show of all your life is playing. A
Floyd | dozen... whales are floating in space, dancing and joking at your own
Floyd | sanity. In the distance, as a sort of dynamic backdrop, the expanding
Floyd | supernova that was the Monarch solar system is flaring and growing.
Floyd |
Floyd | You watch the scene, speechless, kidnapped by its unbelievable beauty
Floyd | and struck by horror.
Floyd |
Floyd | This is it, you murmur. The legacy of the stars.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Oren would laugh at you, now.
Floyd |
Floyd | [You have earned the The Fisher achievement]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		flitchard exclaims, "We need Peter Venkman, a rollercoaster, and pretzels, stat!"
		Jacqueline says, "I'd recommend just hanging out a bit until you get the sense of how stuff goes. If you haven't played this game before, you can @RECAP TOYSHOP 5000 (I think) to read all the game thus far."
smartgenes arrives, full of fun and funk. 		flitchard says, "ok."
smartgenes says, "hello" 		Binder says, "oic, we flashback whenever our mentor's memory wants to rub it in"
		JamesPKing says, "so you found the whales. happy hunting people. things are getting serious really soon :)"
		Binder asks, "harumph. Space whales can dance but we can't?"
		Jacqueline says, "Thanks, jpk. See you later. Sleep well."
		JamesPKing exclaims, "see you!"
		JamesPKing says, "and thanks for playing"
Binder says (to Floyd), "x whales" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST  northwest UP
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WHALES
Floyd |
Floyd | The whales are enormous, heavy thus impossibly lightweight in the
Floyd | absence of gravity. They are... swimming in the void, unaware of the
Floyd | physics and dynamics laws on which you based all your beliefs. One of
Floyd | the smaller creatures is staring at you, as if it felt your presence.
Floyd | You stare back in silence, open mouthed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		maga says, "man, I'd forgotten the whales"
		borowski sings, "We're whalers on the moon. We carry a harpoon."
		maga says, "I was totally confused when reviewers complained about them"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wave at whales" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST  northwest UP
Floyd |
Floyd | > WAVE AT WHALES
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wave at whale" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST  northwest UP
Floyd |
Floyd | > WAVE AT WHALE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "just "WAVE""
		JamesPKing says, "and thx for another bug report"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wave" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST  northwest UP
Floyd |
Floyd | > WAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | The whales look at you. You are quite sure they are waving their tail
Floyd | flippers back at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "..."
		DavidW says, "ha"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "swim" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST  northwest UP
Floyd |
Floyd | > SWIM
Floyd |
Floyd | You wouldn't mind a bath, yes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "hey all"
		flitchard says, "hi"
		JamesPKing says, "THERE YOU GO MOFOs! You can SWIM! ahahahahaha"
		DavidW asks, "hm. up or ne, next?"
		Binder says, "HA"
		JamesPKing says, "bye bye"
		flitchard asks, "up, maybe?"
JamesPKing goes home. 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down

		Jacqueline says, "Now I'm suddenly hopeful this will turn into Le Petit Prince."

Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Mixer
Floyd | A small room, no window, just a thin slot for what you suppose is air
Floyd | conditioning.
Floyd |
Floyd | The north wall harbors a bulky keyboard, lit up by several buttons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Hey smartgenes"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x keyboard" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > X KEYBOARD
Floyd |
Floyd | The mixer is powered. On it, among the many cryptic buttons, three
Floyd | have symbols that you can comprehend. On the first is a star, on the
Floyd | second a couple of parallel lines, on the last a circle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "Le Petit Prince on the Threshold"
		borowski says, ">DELETE WHALES"
		Binder says, "Keyboard UI by Zener"
		borowski says, "Hmm. I guess we have to experiment."
		flitchard asks, "maybe there's a manual somewhere?"
		DavidW says, "I'm not sure we want to play with these yet, but I suppose they'd change what the observatory is showing."
		Binder asks, "or we could explore, yeah?"
		DavidW says, "I'd hate to change gravity and kill all the whales."
		Jacqueline says, "That would be a lot on our conscience, yeah."
		DavidW asks, "hm, if I have to guess, star = nighttime, parallel lines = rain, circle = sun/daytime?"
		flitchard asks, "or star = star. lines = rings, circle = planet/mnoon?"
		smartgenes asks, "playstation buttons?"
		DavidW says, "well, let's explore the other exit first."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST  northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory Room
Floyd | At least fifty meters wide, this semi-circular room must have been the
Floyd | observatory lounge for the inhabitants' spare time. A set of tables
Floyd | and seats form a theater of sorts, for tonight's show of the universe.
Floyd | A glass dome, covering all the south side of the room and part of the
Floyd | ceiling, is open to the stars. The high corridor is to the northwest,
Floyd | while a second, tighter tunnel departs from the northeast. In the
Floyd | northern wall, a metal ladder heads up into an opening.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]                          Clogged Railway
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clogged Railway
Floyd | The narrow corridor comes to a halt where it has been devoured by a
Floyd | large gaping hole, opening to the north under your feet. The hole
Floyd | continues up and to the southeast, from where it must have originated.
Floyd | A pair of now useless rails departs from here and fall into the
Floyd | darkness before you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sight reminds you too easily of the devouring grounds that were
Floyd | left from the train wreck in which your ordeal started. It lacks the
Floyd | flames and the smoke, but it really is a twin scene.
Floyd |
Floyd | What has happened here, you wonder, looking into the gaping
Floyd | hole. Then, you turn to face up, and the sight of the open sky catches
Floyd | your heartbeat for a second.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "I'm still now even sure how the whales got here."
		Binder says, "crud, work page, have to bail."
		Jacqueline says, "Enh, just blow it off."
		flitchard asks, "wait, weren't we really high up before?"
		borowski says, "Bye"
		Jacqueline asks, "What's the worst that could happen, Binder?"
		Jacqueline says, "Or, yeah, keep your job. That would work, too. See you later."
		borowski says (to Binder), "Tell them there are space whales afoot"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sky" 		

Floyd ]                          Clogged Railway
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SKY
Floyd |
Floyd | The hole has been dug by something, quite big, punching through the
Floyd | metal boundaries of the structure you are in. Below, it plunges into
Floyd | darkness. Above, a hundred meters away, it opens into the emptiness of
Floyd | space.
Floyd |
Floyd | There should be no air here, you shiver. How in Monarch
Floyd | can I breathe?
Floyd |
Floyd | As usual, only the deepest silence answers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "I guess we should return to the zener buttons?"
		borowski says, "Yeah"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory Room
Floyd | At least fifty meters wide, this semi-circular room must have been the
Floyd | observatory lounge for the inhabitants' spare time. A set of tables
Floyd | and seats form a theater of sorts, for tonight's show of the universe.
Floyd | A glass dome, covering all the south side of the room and part of the
Floyd | ceiling, is open to the stars. The high corridor is to the northwest,
Floyd | while a second, tighter tunnel departs from the northeast. In the
Floyd | northern wall, a metal ladder heads up into an opening.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Mixer
Floyd | A small room, no window, just a thin slot for air conditioning.
Floyd |
Floyd | The north wall harbors a bulky keyboard, lit up by several buttons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I suppose try them in order. I suspect the star button won't do anything if the scene is already in 'star' mode."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push star button" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH STAR BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | A soft humming sound comes from the Observatory Room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory Room
Floyd | At least fifty meters wide, this semi-circular room must have been the
Floyd | observatory lounge for the inhabitants' spare time. A set of tables
Floyd | and seats form a theater of sorts, for tonight's show of the universe.
Floyd | A glass dome, covering all the south side of the room and part of the
Floyd | ceiling, is open to the stars. The high corridor is to the northwest,
Floyd | while a second, tighter tunnel departs from the northeast. In the
Floyd | northern wall, a metal ladder heads up into an opening.
Floyd |
Floyd | A segment of the dome has been retracted. Through it the supernova
Floyd | looks far brighter. The white light is piercing through your
Floyd | unprotected retina like a warm knife through butter.
Floyd |
Floyd | The radiation coming from the supernova, now that the protecting
Floyd | layers of the glass dome have been retracted, blows through you like a
Floyd | soft summer breeze. In a few seconds you are incinerated from the
Floyd | inside.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have died ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		flitchard says, "oops"
		DavidW says, "oh, that wasn't what I expected at all."
		Jacqueline says, "Yeah, that was unexpected."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Mixer
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "And WHERE IS OUR NEW DEATH ACHIEVEMENT?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Mixer
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		flitchard says, "was about to say, hope that's not the self destruct button..."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push lines button" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH LINES BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | The shape on the button changes. It now looks like a minus symbol.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Why is there a </strong> without a <strong>?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory Room
Floyd | At least fifty meters wide, this semi-circular room must have been the
Floyd | observatory lounge for the inhabitants' spare time. A set of tables
Floyd | and seats form a theater of sorts, for tonight's show of the universe.
Floyd | A glass dome, covering all the south side of the room and part of the
Floyd | ceiling, is open to the stars. The high corridor is to the northwest,
Floyd | while a second, tighter tunnel departs from the northeast. In the
Floyd | northern wall, a metal ladder heads up into an opening.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		maga says (to Jacqueline), "you have unlocked the achievement Microwaved Peep"
		DavidW asks, "where'd the whales go?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tables" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TABLES
Floyd |
Floyd | The tables are surrounded by seats in the sides of the big chamber.
Floyd | This must have been a restaurant, and a quite expensive one, you
Floyd | guess.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Restaurant at the End of the Universe?"
		DavidW says, "I need a few minutes break."
		Jacqueline says, "I wish you guys could see me look up from my keyboard, blinking, speechless. It would be more effective in conveying my reactions to the recent developments in this game."
		flitchard asks, "Spaceballs, the restaurant?"
		Jacqueline asks, "Gosh, have we been at this 3 freakin' hours??"
		Jacqueline asks, "What happened to two hour sessions?"
		Jacqueline laughs.
		Jacqueline says, "Alright, let's take ten. Back here at 20 'til."
		borowski says, "Uh oh, Jaqueline's cracked"
		Jacqueline says, "Wait, no, quarter 'til."
		Jacqueline says, "Enough time for tea and to get rid of the tea we drank earlier."
		flitchard asks, "then we can have no tea?"
		Jacqueline says, "If you don't want tea, you need not get tea."
		Jacqueline says, "It is all up to you."
		Jacqueline says, "See you in a bit."
		flitchard says, "Hitchhiker's guide joke, sorry"
		Jacqueline says, "Oh, ah, yes, right."
		Jacqueline says, "Had you said, 'Then we have: No tea' I would have understood."
		Jacqueline smiles.
		DavidW says, "btw, I'm back"
		Jacqueline says, "I am back."
		Jacqueline says, "I wasn't going to be, but then maga offered to do dishes, so yay."
		Ellison says, "hooray"
		DavidW says, "I'd like to push the minus button now, to see if it brings the whales back or changes to a plus sign or what."
		Jacqueline says, "Not sure others are back, fwiw."
		RootShell says, "im here after given bath to both kids ;)"
		flitchard says, "I'm still here"
		RootShell says, "supper in on behalf of the mother... so i can stay here longer"
		Jacqueline says, "Borowski..."
		borowski says, "Back with raspberry tea"
		smartgenes says, "i'm here tryin to figure out what's going on"
RootShell is back reading too 		borowski says (to smartgenes), "We crashed into a space-trainstation full of whales"
		Jacqueline says, "You can @RECAP TOYSHOP 5000 (or however many) to see what's happened in the game thus far. Not sure how far back you'd have to go;Borowski..."
		Jacqueline says, "er, go. Weird that it pasted that on there."
		Jacqueline asks, "So, shall we?"
		RootShell says, "please do"
		Jacqueline says, "I'm fine with continued random death-inducing whale-attracting button pressing."
		borowski says, "Sure"
borowski says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory Room
Floyd | At least fifty meters wide, this semi-circular room must have been the
Floyd | observatory lounge for the inhabitants' spare time. A set of tables
Floyd | and seats form a theater of sorts, for tonight's show of the universe.
Floyd | A glass dome, covering all the south side of the room and part of the
Floyd | ceiling, is open to the stars. The high corridor is to the northwest,
Floyd | while a second, tighter tunnel departs from the northeast. In the
Floyd | northern wall, a metal ladder heads up into an opening.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes asks, "how do you recap more than 1000?"
		borowski says (to smartgenes), "It might scroll off depending on your mudclient"
borowski says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Mixer
Floyd | A small room, no window, just a thin slot for air conditioning.
Floyd |
Floyd | The north wall harbors a bulky keyboard, lit up by several buttons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "yeh it's my client"
		RootShell says (to smartgenes), "Jacqueline says, "You can @RECAP TOYSHOP 5000 (or however many) to see what's happened in the game thus far."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x keyboard" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > X KEYBOARD
Floyd |
Floyd | The mixer is powered. On it, among the many cryptic buttons, three
Floyd | have symbols that you can comprehend. On the first is a star, on the
Floyd | second a minus symbol, on the last a circle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "You can give a range to @recap, for example @recap #toyshop 200-300"
borowski says (to Floyd), "press circle" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRESS CIRCLE
Floyd |
Floyd | A soft humming sound comes from the Observatory Room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory Room
Floyd | At least fifty meters wide, this semi-circular room must have been the
Floyd | observatory lounge for the inhabitants' spare time. A set of tables
Floyd | and seats form a theater of sorts, for tonight's show of the universe.
Floyd | A glass dome, covering all the south side of the room and part of the
Floyd | ceiling, is open to the stars. The high corridor is to the northwest,
Floyd | while a second, tighter tunnel departs from the northeast. In the
Floyd | northern wall, a metal ladder heads up into an opening.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dome itself looks more shiny. Through it the warmth of the
Floyd | supernova reaches the interior of the room with great strength. The
Floyd | blaze is unbearable and you can feel your very skin char.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sheer strength of the supernova light, burning like the heart of a
Floyd | thousand stars, is enough to let your skin combust spontaneously. You
Floyd | are burnt to a crisp before you even understand what is happening.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have died ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "unoh"
		smartgenes says, "thanks DavidW"
borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Mixer
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Mixer
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I suggested pushing the minus."
		borowski says, "Ah"
borowski says (to Floyd), "press minus" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRESS MINUS
Floyd |
Floyd | The shape on the button changes. It now looks like a plus symbol.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory Room
Floyd | At least fifty meters wide, this semi-circular room must have been the
Floyd | observatory lounge for the inhabitants' spare time. A set of tables
Floyd | and seats form a theater of sorts, for tonight's show of the universe.
Floyd | A glass dome, covering all the south side of the room and part of the
Floyd | ceiling, is open to the stars. The high corridor is to the northwest,
Floyd | while a second, tighter tunnel departs from the northeast. In the
Floyd | northern wall, a metal ladder heads up into an opening.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		RootShell says, "looks like one of those two states buttons"
borowski says (to Floyd), "press circle" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRESS CIRCLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		flitchard says, "wrong room"
		DavidW says, "hm. I don't see any obvious difference between the minus and plus settings."
borowski says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Mixer
Floyd | A small room, no window, just a thin slot for air conditioning.
Floyd |
Floyd | The north wall harbors a bulky keyboard, lit up by several buttons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "I think it affects the other buttons?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "press circle" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRESS CIRCLE
Floyd |
Floyd | A soft humming sound comes from the Observatory Room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory Room
Floyd | At least fifty meters wide, this semi-circular room must have been the
Floyd | observatory lounge for the inhabitants' spare time. A set of tables
Floyd | and seats form a theater of sorts, for tonight's show of the universe.
Floyd | A glass dome, covering all the south side of the room and part of the
Floyd | ceiling, is open to the stars. The high corridor is to the northwest,
Floyd | while a second, tighter tunnel departs from the northeast. In the
Floyd | northern wall, a metal ladder heads up into an opening.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dome itself looks more shiny. Through it the warmth of the
Floyd | supernova reaches the interior of the room with great strength. The
Floyd | blaze is unbearable and you can feel your very skin char.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sheer strength of the supernova light, burning like the heart of a
Floyd | thousand stars, is enough to let your skin combust spontaneously. You
Floyd | are burnt to a crisp before you even understand what is happening.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have died ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		flitchard asks, "it was an = before, wasn't it?"
		RootShell asks (of DavidW), "maybe not here... Maybe in another further place?"
borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Mixer
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Maybe not"
		Jacqueline says, "If it would be helpful, I could post a raw transcript for the game thus far."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Mixer
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Parallel lines orignally. Didn't say 'equals'."
		flitchard says, "but, an equals sign is two parallel lines, and it wouldfit with minus and plus, right? Just guessing, here"
		RootShell asks, "button sequence?"
		DavidW says, "I don't remember it saying there was only 'two' lines."
		DavidW says, "I don't want to assume too much too soon."
		flitchard says, "Oh. Ok. Sorry"
		smartgenes asks, "so are there more rooms to explore?"
		RootShell asks, "anyone pressed the star button?"
		DavidW says, "I will admit that an equals would fit in with the other symbols though."
		borowski says, "The boat-wagon-train"
		DavidW says (to RootShell), "yes, that was the first button pushed. It killed us with a supernova, just like the circle button does."
		smartgenes says, "so that star is an asterisk.."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push plus button" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH PLUS BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | The shape on the button changes. It now looks like a couple of
Floyd | parallel lines.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh, 'couple'"
		RootShell asks (of DavidW), "even after the - was a + or = ?"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x buttons" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BUTTONS
Floyd |
Floyd | The mixer is powered. On it, among the many cryptic buttons, three
Floyd | have symbols that you can comprehend. On the first is a star, on the
Floyd | second a couple of parallel lines, on the last a circle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "hm"
		RootShell says, "* = O"
		smartgenes says, "could be a five-pointed star"
		RootShell says, "or * || O"
		DavidW says, "I pushed star when the middle button was parallel lines. That was a supernova. Pushing circle when middle button was minus or plus ALSO killed us."
		RootShell says, "it really looks like one of those button sequence puzzles"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You look battered and tired, but at least you're still alive. Although
Floyd | it doesn't make a lot of sense, lately.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]

		borowski says, "Yeah, let's trying pressing multiple buttons"

Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You're carrying a golden disc and an useless railway ticket. You are
Floyd | wearing some clothes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x clothes" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CLOTHES
Floyd |
Floyd | A dirty shirt, tucked inside dirty trousers. Dirty shoes. And you
Floyd | forgot the belt at home. Forever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "search trousers" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH TROUSERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		RootShell asks, "any chang of having seen those symbols elsewhere? * ou O or = ?"
		DavidW asks, "What's the url for the disc image again?"
		Jacqueline says, "One sec."
		Jacqueline | [LINK]
		DavidW says, "hm. The symbols aren't on that. Was a thought."
		Jacqueline says, "Oh, yeah. Good idea."
		smartgenes asks, "is there somewhere to insert the disc?"
		RootShell says, "there's a |, a |- and a || on the CD from this link"
		Jacqueline exclaims, "An idea that didn't pan out, but a good idea!"
		DavidW says, "anyway, this doesn't seem to be a fruitful area at the moment. I think we should try the wagon train."
		RootShell says, "let's roll"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory Room
Floyd | At least fifty meters wide, this semi-circular room must have been the
Floyd | observatory lounge for the inhabitants' spare time. A set of tables
Floyd | and seats form a theater of sorts, for tonight's show of the universe.
Floyd | A glass dome, covering all the south side of the room and part of the
Floyd | ceiling, is open to the stars. The high corridor is to the northwest,
Floyd | while a second, tighter tunnel departs from the northeast. In the
Floyd | northern wall, a metal ladder heads up into an opening.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]                          Clogged Railway
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clogged Railway
Floyd | The narrow corridor comes to a halt where it has been devoured by a
Floyd | large gaping hole, opening to the north under your feet. The hole
Floyd | continues up and to the southeast, from where it must have originated.
Floyd | A pair of now useless rails departs from here and fall into the
Floyd | darkness before you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oops"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory Room
Floyd | At least fifty meters wide, this semi-circular room must have been the
Floyd | observatory lounge for the inhabitants' spare time. A set of tables
Floyd | and seats form a theater of sorts, for tonight's show of the universe.
Floyd | A glass dome, covering all the south side of the room and part of the
Floyd | ceiling, is open to the stars. The high corridor is to the northwest,
Floyd | while a second, tighter tunnel departs from the northeast. In the
Floyd | northern wall, a metal ladder heads up into an opening.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast south southwest EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The bigger tunnel in which you stand is a replica of the lower ones,
Floyd | starting southwest of here. Same environment, except for different
Floyd | proportions. The ceiling is at least ten meters above you, and the
Floyd | wormhole is equally wide. To the south, it clogs into a strange valve,
Floyd | like an intestine curtain of steel. To the east and northeast, two
Floyd | glass paneled doors open into similar, sterile rooms. The high
Floyd | corridor continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  south southwest EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The steel wormhole continues north into a wide chamber, and runs south
Floyd | into its next section. Lights flicker dimly. To the east, a bulky
Floyd | shutter stands closed. To the southwest is a dimly lit room, with
Floyd | strange machinery on the inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (NORTH, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Train Station
Floyd | You leave the cold environment of the corridors to enter a much wider
Floyd | space.
Floyd |
Floyd | Light in here gets dimmer, as the only source is several meters up
Floyd | ahead, on the distant ceiling. In front of you, a ramp runs into
Floyd | several tunnels, each lined by railways. Many of the holes are
Floyd | shuttered by heavy bulkheads, while others lead into darkness, way out
Floyd | of reach. On the opposite side, the circular room enters the high
Floyd | corridor to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | A lone wagon, an open boat hanging over rails, sits undamaged at the
Floyd | beginning of the ramp.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon is a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter wagon" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (NORTH, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER WAGON
Floyd |
Floyd | You get onto the lone wagon.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon you can see a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd ]                             Crossroads
Floyd ]
Floyd ] (south, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH RED BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | The wagon departs!
Floyd |
Floyd | After a short while you find yourself in...
Floyd |
Floyd | Crossroads (on the lone wagon)
Floyd | The tube opens into a crossed path. Here, the rails come to a halt,
Floyd | the midsection turned ninety degrees and vanishing into two holes to
Floyd | the east and west. The following section does the same, a few meters
Floyd | ahead.
Floyd |
Floyd | A signpost is hanging from the ceiling, a fluorescent symbol faintly
Floyd | glowing in the dark. The symbol represents a couple of straight lines.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon you can see a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | [You have earned the Ticketless Ride achievement]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		RootShell asks, "i'm thinking,,, that the couple of paralel lines could be the missing rails here?"
		RootShell says, "just a thought"
		DavidW says, "maybe"
		borowski asks, "Or something to do with the button?"
		DavidW says, "Weird place to put a button to control rail tracks, though."
		RootShell says, "lets go for the brown ;)"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x console" 		

Floyd ]                             Crossroads
Floyd ]
Floyd ] (south, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CONSOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | On the console is a set of devices. The most striking are a red and a
Floyd | brown button. The first points north, while the latter points south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Won't brown just return us south?"
		RootShell says, "right... forget it... i just remembered it turns south"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look under console" 		

Floyd ]                             Crossroads
Floyd ]
Floyd ] (south, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK UNDER CONSOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "not even dust"
		RootShell says, "there's something about the two states button..."
		RootShell says, "but maybe not related to the wagon"
		DavidW says, "well, unless we can get out here, we have to return anyway."
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get signpost" 		

Floyd ]                             Crossroads
Floyd ]
Floyd ] (south, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET SIGNPOST
Floyd |
Floyd | That's fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x signpost" 		

Floyd ]                             Crossroads
Floyd ]
Floyd ] (south, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SIGNPOST
Floyd |
Floyd | The symbol represents a couple of straight lines.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]                             Crossroads
Floyd ]
Floyd ] (south, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | There's not that much space outside the wagon, and you risk being
Floyd | electrocuted by the rails.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push brown button" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (north, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH BROWN BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | The wagon departs!
Floyd |
Floyd | After a short while you find yourself in...
Floyd |
Floyd | Train Station (on the lone wagon)
Floyd | Light in here gets dimmer, as the only source is several meters up
Floyd | ahead, on the distant ceiling. In front of you, a ramp runs into
Floyd | several tunnels, each lined by railways. Many of the holes are
Floyd | shuttered by heavy bulkheads, while others lead into darkness, way out
Floyd | of reach. On the opposite side, the circular room enters the high
Floyd | corridor to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon you can see a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (north, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You get off the lone wagon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Train Station
Floyd | Light in here gets dimmer, as the only source is several meters up
Floyd | ahead, on the distant ceiling. In front of you, a ramp runs into
Floyd | several tunnels, each lined by railways. Many of the holes are
Floyd | shuttered by heavy bulkheads, while others lead into darkness, way out
Floyd | of reach. On the opposite side, the circular room enters the high
Floyd | corridor to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | A lone wagon, an open boat hanging over rails, sits undamaged at the
Floyd | beginning of the ramp.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon is a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north south southwest EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The steel wormhole continues north into a wide chamber, and runs south
Floyd | into its next section. Lights flicker dimly. To the east, a bulky
Floyd | shutter stands closed. To the southwest is a dimly lit room, with
Floyd | strange machinery on the inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast south southwest EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The bigger tunnel in which you stand is a replica of the lower ones,
Floyd | starting southwest of here. Same environment, except for different
Floyd | proportions. The ceiling is at least ten meters above you, and the
Floyd | wormhole is equally wide. To the south, it clogs into a strange valve,
Floyd | like an intestine curtain of steel. To the east and northeast, two
Floyd | glass paneled doors open into similar, sterile rooms. The high
Floyd | corridor continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory Room
Floyd | At least fifty meters wide, this semi-circular room must have been the
Floyd | observatory lounge for the inhabitants' spare time. A set of tables
Floyd | and seats form a theater of sorts, for tonight's show of the universe.
Floyd | A glass dome, covering all the south side of the room and part of the
Floyd | ceiling, is open to the stars. The high corridor is to the northwest,
Floyd | while a second, tighter tunnel departs from the northeast. In the
Floyd | northern wall, a metal ladder heads up into an opening.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Mixer
Floyd | A small room, no window, just a thin slot for air conditioning.
Floyd |
Floyd | The north wall harbors a bulky keyboard, lit up by several buttons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push lines button" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH LINES BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | The shape on the button changes. It now looks like a minus symbol.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory Room
Floyd | At least fifty meters wide, this semi-circular room must have been the
Floyd | observatory lounge for the inhabitants' spare time. A set of tables
Floyd | and seats form a theater of sorts, for tonight's show of the universe.
Floyd | A glass dome, covering all the south side of the room and part of the
Floyd | ceiling, is open to the stars. The high corridor is to the northwest,
Floyd | while a second, tighter tunnel departs from the northeast. In the
Floyd | northern wall, a metal ladder heads up into an opening.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast south southwest EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The bigger tunnel in which you stand is a replica of the lower ones,
Floyd | starting southwest of here. Same environment, except for different
Floyd | proportions. The ceiling is at least ten meters above you, and the
Floyd | wormhole is equally wide. To the south, it clogs into a strange valve,
Floyd | like an intestine curtain of steel. To the east and northeast, two
Floyd | glass paneled doors open into similar, sterile rooms. The high
Floyd | corridor continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north south southwest EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The steel wormhole continues north into a wide chamber, and runs south
Floyd | into its next section. Lights flicker dimly. To the east, a bulky
Floyd | shutter stands closed. To the southwest is a dimly lit room, with
Floyd | strange machinery on the inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (north, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Train Station
Floyd | Light in here gets dimmer, as the only source is several meters up
Floyd | ahead, on the distant ceiling. In front of you, a ramp runs into
Floyd | several tunnels, each lined by railways. Many of the holes are
Floyd | shuttered by heavy bulkheads, while others lead into darkness, way out
Floyd | of reach. On the opposite side, the circular room enters the high
Floyd | corridor to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | A lone wagon, an open boat hanging over rails, sits undamaged at the
Floyd | beginning of the ramp.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon is a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter wagon" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (north, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER WAGON
Floyd |
Floyd | You get onto the lone wagon.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon you can see a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd ]                             Crossroads
Floyd ]
Floyd ] (south, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH RED BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | The wagon departs!
Floyd |
Floyd | After a short while you find yourself in...
Floyd |
Floyd | Crossroads (on the lone wagon)
Floyd | The tube opens into a crossed path. Here, the rails come to a halt,
Floyd | the midsection turned ninety degrees and vanishing into two holes to
Floyd | the east and west. The next section, separated from this one, follows
Floyd | the north-south route in a new tunnel.
Floyd |
Floyd | A signpost is hanging from the ceiling, a fluorescent symbol faintly
Floyd | glowing in the dark. The symbol has turned to a horizontal line.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon you can see a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "so I guess we need the plus."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push brown button" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (north, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH BROWN BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | The wagon departs!
Floyd |
Floyd | After a short while you find yourself in...
Floyd |
Floyd | Train Station (on the lone wagon)
Floyd | Light in here gets dimmer, as the only source is several meters up
Floyd | ahead, on the distant ceiling. In front of you, a ramp runs into
Floyd | several tunnels, each lined by railways. Many of the holes are
Floyd | shuttered by heavy bulkheads, while others lead into darkness, way out
Floyd | of reach. On the opposite side, the circular room enters the high
Floyd | corridor to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon you can see a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (north, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You get off the lone wagon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Train Station
Floyd | Light in here gets dimmer, as the only source is several meters up
Floyd | ahead, on the distant ceiling. In front of you, a ramp runs into
Floyd | several tunnels, each lined by railways. Many of the holes are
Floyd | shuttered by heavy bulkheads, while others lead into darkness, way out
Floyd | of reach. On the opposite side, the circular room enters the high
Floyd | corridor to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | A lone wagon, an open boat hanging over rails, sits undamaged at the
Floyd | beginning of the ramp.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon is a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north south southwest EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The steel wormhole continues north into a wide chamber, and runs south
Floyd | into its next section. Lights flicker dimly. To the east, a bulky
Floyd | shutter stands closed. To the southwest is a dimly lit room, with
Floyd | strange machinery on the inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast south southwest EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The bigger tunnel in which you stand is a replica of the lower ones,
Floyd | starting southwest of here. Same environment, except for different
Floyd | proportions. The ceiling is at least ten meters above you, and the
Floyd | wormhole is equally wide. To the south, it clogs into a strange valve,
Floyd | like an intestine curtain of steel. To the east and northeast, two
Floyd | glass paneled doors open into similar, sterile rooms. The high
Floyd | corridor continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory Room
Floyd | At least fifty meters wide, this semi-circular room must have been the
Floyd | observatory lounge for the inhabitants' spare time. A set of tables
Floyd | and seats form a theater of sorts, for tonight's show of the universe.
Floyd | A glass dome, covering all the south side of the room and part of the
Floyd | ceiling, is open to the stars. The high corridor is to the northwest,
Floyd | while a second, tighter tunnel departs from the northeast. In the
Floyd | northern wall, a metal ladder heads up into an opening.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Mixer
Floyd | A small room, no window, just a thin slot for air conditioning.
Floyd |
Floyd | The north wall harbors a bulky keyboard, lit up by several buttons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push minus" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH MINUS
Floyd |
Floyd | The shape on the button changes. It now looks like a plus symbol.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory Room
Floyd | At least fifty meters wide, this semi-circular room must have been the
Floyd | observatory lounge for the inhabitants' spare time. A set of tables
Floyd | and seats form a theater of sorts, for tonight's show of the universe.
Floyd | A glass dome, covering all the south side of the room and part of the
Floyd | ceiling, is open to the stars. The high corridor is to the northwest,
Floyd | while a second, tighter tunnel departs from the northeast. In the
Floyd | northern wall, a metal ladder heads up into an opening.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast south southwest EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The bigger tunnel in which you stand is a replica of the lower ones,
Floyd | starting southwest of here. Same environment, except for different
Floyd | proportions. The ceiling is at least ten meters above you, and the
Floyd | wormhole is equally wide. To the south, it clogs into a strange valve,
Floyd | like an intestine curtain of steel. To the east and northeast, two
Floyd | glass paneled doors open into similar, sterile rooms. The high
Floyd | corridor continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north south southwest EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The steel wormhole continues north into a wide chamber, and runs south
Floyd | into its next section. Lights flicker dimly. To the east, a bulky
Floyd | shutter stands closed. To the southwest is a dimly lit room, with
Floyd | strange machinery on the inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (north, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Train Station
Floyd | Light in here gets dimmer, as the only source is several meters up
Floyd | ahead, on the distant ceiling. In front of you, a ramp runs into
Floyd | several tunnels, each lined by railways. Many of the holes are
Floyd | shuttered by heavy bulkheads, while others lead into darkness, way out
Floyd | of reach. On the opposite side, the circular room enters the high
Floyd | corridor to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | A lone wagon, an open boat hanging over rails, sits undamaged at the
Floyd | beginning of the ramp.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon is a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter wagon" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (north, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER WAGON
Floyd |
Floyd | You get onto the lone wagon.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon you can see a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd ]                             Crossroads
Floyd ]
Floyd ] (south and NORTH, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH RED  BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | The wagon departs!
Floyd |
Floyd | After a short while you find yourself in...
Floyd |
Floyd | Crossroads (on the lone wagon)
Floyd | The tube opens into a crossed path. The rails cross a few meters
Floyd | ahead, providing passages in all four cardinal directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | A signpost is hanging from the ceiling, a fluorescent symbol faintly
Floyd | glowing in the dark. The symbol is now plus-shaped.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon you can see a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd ]                           Second Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHEAST  WEST  (south, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH RED BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | The wagon departs!
Floyd |
Floyd | After a short while you find yourself in...
Floyd |
Floyd | Second Station (on the lone wagon)
Floyd | In here, as in the other specular location, rails depart into several
Floyd | holes that plunge into darkness. A set of secondary tunnels leaves
Floyd | from the north and northeast while, to the west, a much larger highway
Floyd | is lit by a strong flashing strobe.
Floyd |
Floyd | To get here, the wagon has traveled for at least fifteen minutes.
Floyd |
Floyd | How big is this place, you ask yourself. And how many
Floyd | people lived here?
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon you can see a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | [You have earned the The X Marks the Spot achievement]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "score" 		

Floyd ]                           Second Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHEAST  WEST  (south, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > SCORE
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no score in this game. Try requesting for your ACHIEVEMENTS
Floyd | to see what you earned.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "achievements" 		

Floyd ]                           Second Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHEAST  WEST  (south, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > ACHIEVEMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Achievements for Andromeda Apocalypse:
Floyd |
Floyd | A Hell of a Storm    (You watched the sky turn dark)
Floyd | A Dark Omen    (You have seen the dark side of the
Floyd | sky)
Floyd | The Leaper    (You have jumped through the void)
Floyd | Invisible Killer    ( -???- )
Floyd | The Dweller    (You have reached the bottom)
Floyd | To Shed a Light    (You have turned the lights on)
Floyd | Ticketless Ride    (You have taken the train)
Floyd | The Fisher    (You have seen the fish)
Floyd | The X Marks the Spot    (You have crossed over)
Floyd | Play It Again, Ektor    ( -???- )
Floyd | Communication Breakdown    ( -???- )
Floyd | A Matter of Time    ( -???- )
Floyd | A Matter of Size    ( -???- )
Floyd | Archaeologist    ( -???- )
Floyd | Cuboctahedron    ( -???- )
Floyd | Flying the Egg    ( -???- )
Floyd | To Be a Scientist    ( -???- )
Floyd | Sinking the Ship    ( -???- )
Floyd | The Shining    ( -???- )
Floyd | Hellen Ripley    ( -???- )
Floyd | Indiana Jones    ( -???- )
Floyd | Survivor    ( -???- )
Floyd | Gettare Rinors    ( -???- )
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes asks, "how do you travel west and east? by pressing a button?"
		DavidW says, "get out and walk"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]                           Second Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHEAST  WEST  (south, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You get off the lone wagon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Second Station
Floyd | In here rails depart into several holes that plunge into darkness. A
Floyd | set of secondary tunnels leaves from the north and northeast while, to
Floyd | the west, a much larger highway is lit by a strong flashing strobe.
Floyd |
Floyd | A lone wagon, an open boat hanging over rails, sits undamaged at the
Floyd | end of the ramp.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon is a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh you mean on the track? Find another wagon, I suspect."
		smartgenes says, "i wondered if it had something to do with the console buttons"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x console" 		

Floyd ]                           Second Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHEAST  WEST  (south, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CONSOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | On the console is a set of devices. The most striking are a red and a
Floyd | brown button. The first points north, while the latter points south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "well, there's no east or west buttons."
		smartgenes says, "in the observatory.. but maybe that is completely unrelated"
		DavidW says, "no, obviously it isn't unrelated. The middle button controlled the track configuration."
		DavidW says, "anyway, I suggest trying north from here first."
		smartgenes says, "let's go"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                              Hexagon
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHWEST  south
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hexagon
Floyd | The narrow tunnel opens into a well lit area. Your eyes take a second
Floyd | to adjust to the brilliance.
Floyd |
Floyd | A hexagonal room, lined in plaster and steel, with six doors opening
Floyd | into six more locations. Three of them look dead, while the others
Floyd | glow or flicker to different rhythms. To the south is the dark tunnel
Floyd | leading to the railway station; to the northwest and north the
Floyd | (seemingly) functioning exits.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "hm, teleport portal gates?"
		RootShell says, "and the author told us that we already passed the hardest puzzle:P"
		smartgenes says, "seemingly.."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x north door" 		

Floyd ]                              Hexagon
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHWEST  south
Floyd |
Floyd | > X NORTH DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | A plaster door. No handle, no window.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline smiles.
		DavidW says, "I don't understand how plaster can flicker."
		smartgenes says, "you haven't seen my plastering skills"
		DavidW asks, "Shall we risk the north door?"
		smartgenes asks, "could save if worried?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf3" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]                              Hexagon
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHWEST  south
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                        Commanders' Quarters
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | The plaster door opens as you get near it and closes after you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Commanders' Quarters
Floyd | Another hexagonal room, this time with just one exit, leading south
Floyd | through a plaster door. The room is exceptionally blank, as a sort of
Floyd | minimalistic museum.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the center of the room, a six-sided glass table takes most of the
Floyd | space. The surface is crystal-clean, a mocking at the passing of time.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x table" 		

Floyd ]                        Commanders' Quarters
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | It is a clean -- astonishingly clean -- table made from glass. Light
Floyd | refracts on the perfect surface. It must have some use, but you cannot
Floyd | fathom what that might be.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look under table" 		

Floyd ]                        Commanders' Quarters
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK UNDER TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | The glass table is rather transparent and hides no secret.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch table" 		

Floyd ]                        Commanders' Quarters
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > TOUCH TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "one day someone will code something under a table"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]                        Commanders' Quarters
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You're carrying a golden disc and an useless railway ticket. You are
Floyd | wearing some clothes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put disc on table" 		

Floyd ]                        Commanders' Quarters
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT DISC ON TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | This doesn't look like your personal litter deposit. It looks like
Floyd | some sort of technical device, instead.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "nice humour"
		DavidW says, "Still, it's the obvious way to use a table."
		DavidW says, "If the table analyzes whatever's put on it."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on table" 		

Floyd ]                        Commanders' Quarters
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > STAND ON TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can stand on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "clean table" 		

Floyd ]                        Commanders' Quarters
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLEAN TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You achieve nothing by this.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I wonder how we can tell it's a commanders' quarters from just a table."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]                        Commanders' Quarters
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Commanders' Quarters
Floyd | Another hexagonal room, this time with just one exit, leading south
Floyd | through a plaster door. The room is exceptionally blank, as a sort of
Floyd | minimalistic museum.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the center of the room, a six-sided glass table takes most of the
Floyd | space. The surface is crystal-clean, a mocking at the passing of time.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "rotate table" 		

Floyd ]                        Commanders' Quarters
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ROTATE TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | It is fastened to the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "it's dr who's table"
		DavidW says, "A table that one can't put stuff on seems extraordinarily useless."
		DavidW says, "That's the primary purpose of a table, to put things on it."
		DavidW says, "I want to try the flickering northeast plaster door next."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                              Hexagon
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north NORTHWEST  south
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hexagon
Floyd | A hexagonal room, lined in plaster and steel, with six doors opening
Floyd | into six more locations. Three of them look dead, while the others
Floyd | glow or flicker to different rhythms. To the south is the dark tunnel
Floyd | leading to the railway station; to the northwest and north the
Floyd | functioning exits.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "I'm sitting here trying to come up with a counter argument for tables, and not coming up with anything."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]                              Hexagon
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north NORTHWEST  south
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the northeast door)
Floyd | There is no power. This door can't be operated.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]                             Forebridge
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southeast
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Forebridge
Floyd | Another hexagonal chamber, this time rather larger than the previous
Floyd | ones. A set of lounge chairs dots the place, each of the seats resting
Floyd | empty in front of a terminal. To the north, a four-by-two-meter screen
Floyd | almost entirely covers the wall. This is probably the main bridge of
Floyd | the ship.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		RootShell says, "the six-sided table must be there for something since its so described"
		DavidW says, "Perhaps a starmap"
		DavidW says, "Maybe it does a 3d hologram projection if you have the appropriate remote control."
		DavidW says, "I dunno."
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "search chairs" 		

Floyd ]                             Forebridge
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southeast
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH CHAIRS
Floyd |
Floyd | There is nothing on the lounge chairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x terminals" 		

Floyd ]                             Forebridge
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southeast
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TERMINALS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x terminal" 		

Floyd ]                             Forebridge
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southeast
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TERMINAL
Floyd |
Floyd | A series of terminals and consoles. You can't understand the symbols
Floyd | on their keyboards and screens, you can't understand the purpose of
Floyd | any of them, and you can't understand how to activate them. Enough
Floyd | said.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x screen" 		

Floyd ]                             Forebridge
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southeast
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SCREEN
Floyd |
Floyd | The screen is dark.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on screen" 		

Floyd ]                             Forebridge
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southeast
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN ON SCREEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't seem to find the switch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on chair" 		

Floyd ]                             Forebridge
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southeast
Floyd |
Floyd | > SIT ON CHAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't need (nor have time) to rest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes asks, "i read in the recap about a lever.. is that for electricity?"
		Jacqueline says, "Well, it wasn't powered before."
		DavidW says, "We needed to pull the lever to gain access to the observatory."
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x chairs" 		

Floyd ]                             Forebridge
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southeast
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CHAIRS
Floyd |
Floyd | The many chairs, more than a dozen, are each facing a different
Floyd | console, as would suit any regular ship commanding bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Right."
		smartgenes says, "so we need to find power control somewhere"
		DavidW says, "anyway, we found the bridge and we're not even allowed to sit in the captain's chair."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "spin chair" 		

Floyd ]                             Forebridge
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southeast
Floyd |
Floyd | > SPIN CHAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look under chair" 		

Floyd ]                             Forebridge
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southeast
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK UNDER CHAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "kick chair" 		

Floyd ]                             Forebridge
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southeast
Floyd |
Floyd | > KICK CHAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "honestly, everyone wants to sit and spin in the captain's chair."
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "cut chair with disc" 		

Floyd ]                             Forebridge
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southeast
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT CHAIR WITH DISC
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to cut the lounge chairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "So this northern branch of the north train terminus seems useless to us. Try the northeast branch from the train?"
		Jacqueline asks, "We did find the power control, right? The battery in that silver thing down in the grate hole?"
		DavidW says, "We turned on the power, yes."
		RootShell says, "yes"
Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. 		
Ellison has disconnected. 		DavidW says, "But that doesn't mean everything gets to be empowered if there's other damage, which seems to be the case."
		smartgenes says, "there is no power for door either"
		RootShell asks, "we carry a battery ?"
		DavidW says, "We did. We used it."
		Jacqueline says, "ah"
		smartgenes says, "hmm bt that was for a NE door which wasnt listed in the exits"
		DavidW says, "The restored power enabled us to get into the observatory and to use the train."
		DavidW says, "I want to go northeast from the train, not from the hexagonal room."
		smartgenes says, "i know i'm just thinking about the power thing. the 3 other dark doors"
		DavidW says, "The hexagonal room only listed three exits because the other three are broken."
		smartgenes says, "northeast said no power, so i wonder if they can be re-powered"
		DavidW says, "Maybe, but I doubt it. I think it's more likely the author didn't want to code more rooms than necessary."
		DavidW says, "This way, we know the place is huge without having to code it all."
		smartgenes says, "window dressing you think.."
		smartgenes says, "let's see the new locations :-)"
		DavidW says, "yes, I think so. I could be wrong, and if you find a second power station... but until then, let's explore, yes."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]                              Hexagon
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northwest south
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hexagon
Floyd | A hexagonal room, lined in plaster and steel, with six doors opening
Floyd | into six more locations. Three of them look dead, while the others
Floyd | glow or flicker to different rhythms. To the south is the dark tunnel
Floyd | leading to the railway station; to the northwest and north the
Floyd | functioning exits.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                           Second Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north NORTHEAST  WEST  (south, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Second Station
Floyd | In here rails depart into several holes that plunge into darkness. A
Floyd | set of secondary tunnels leaves from the north and northeast while, to
Floyd | the west, a much larger highway is lit by a strong flashing strobe.
Floyd |
Floyd | A lone wagon, an open boat hanging over rails, sits undamaged at the
Floyd | end of the ramp.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon is a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]                             Chess Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Chess Room
Floyd | After a while, and along a narrow, dimly lit tunnel, you find yourself
Floyd | in a rather peculiar environment.
Floyd |
Floyd | This six-sided room reminds you of the chess training grounds in which
Floyd | you used to spend your spare time during your first years in
Floyd | Brouguoise, before they hired you at the University of Monarch: The
Floyd | size, roughly the same; the white, featureless walls -- a sort of
Floyd | dramatic fashion of the times in which the Campus was built; the
Floyd | plain, cold light that fills the place. But most of all, what strikes
Floyd | you as a perfect mimic is the object filling the center of the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Two men, seated and facing each other, play a game around a six-sided
Floyd | table, in an everlasting match.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "they never had one of them at my campus.."
		DavidW says, "We had a chess club, I think, but no room just for them."
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "distract man" 		

Floyd ]                             Chess Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | > DISTRACT MAN
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "A lot of the clubs had to share a common clubs room."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x game" 		

Floyd ]                             Chess Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GAME
Floyd |
Floyd | They are made of stone. Sitting, immobile, staring at the center of
Floyd | the table, in a replica of a very slow, endless game of chess.
Floyd |
Floyd | You begin wondering. What has happened to these people? Is this
Floyd | really a sculpture or...?
Floyd |
Floyd | As an answer, you hear a faint beep coming from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x men" 		

Floyd ]                             Chess Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MEN
Floyd |
Floyd | They are made of stone. Sitting, immobile, staring at the center of
Floyd | the table, in a replica of a very slow, endless game of chess.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "are the chess pieces also stone"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get rook" 		DavidW says, "I don't think there's any way to tell."

Floyd ]                             Chess Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET ROOK
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get pieces" 		

Floyd ]                             Chess Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET PIECES
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "The tableau seems to be the important thing."
		DavidW says, "It seems like something petrified all the people on board into these statues."
		DavidW asks, "Shall we try north?"
		DavidW says, "(I'm never going to get my sandwich at this speed)"
		Jacqueline asks, "Do you need a sammich break?"
		DavidW says, "I grabbed some applesauce. I'll be okay."
		borowski says, "Sorry, I was busy at work. I'm about to leave there and head home."
		smartgenes asks, "north?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Thousand Lights Room
Floyd | A six-sided room, again. Each wall is covered in a myriad of tiny
Floyd | bulbs, each one the size of a bee's eye. Most of the lights are off.
Floyd | On the east wall, a ten-by-twenty centimeter spot just below a small
Floyd | viewscreen bears a series of five symbols, printed in an obscure,
Floyd | alien language. The room is then empty, except for a large cubic
Floyd | device placed against its northern wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Good luck"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x symbols" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SYMBOLS
Floyd |
Floyd | A series of five symbols, printed in a language you don't comprehend.
Floyd | Obviously alien.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks (of borowski), "See you when you get home?"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x device" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DEVICE
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks like an examination table.
Floyd |
Floyd | Another, stronger beep fills the room. All of a sudden, many of the
Floyd | dormant lights come to life and the whole room is turned into a dance
Floyd | floor. The air starts circulating -- probably the air conditioning
Floyd | kicking in -- and something appears above the large cubic device and
Floyd | on the small viewscreen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x viewscreen" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > X VIEWSCREEN
Floyd |
Floyd | The viewscreen shows a big, green eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wink at eye" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > WINK AT EYE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "say hello" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > SAY HELLO
Floyd |
Floyd | (to LOGAN)
Floyd | I don't know what you are referring to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x device" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DEVICE
Floyd |
Floyd | A cone of green light goes from the ceiling to the table's top. Inside
Floyd | it, a smaller beam runs to cover all its surface. It reminds you of a
Floyd | 3D scanner you once toyed with in Brouguoise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put disk on device" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT DISK ON DEVICE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put disc on device" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT DISC ON DEVICE
Floyd |
Floyd | Hesitantly, you put the golden disc onto the table's top. As soon as
Floyd | you retract your arms, the green beam starts covering the disc's
Floyd | surface, scanning it in the process. When it's done, a metallic voice
Floyd | comes out of somewhere:
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Galaxy Ex-NOVA -- -cal. Ghjugaak, hysndee akim akimaa tota"//
Floyd |
Floyd | A series of sounds follows -- waves, wind, thunder -- then you can
Floyd | slowly hear some... music coming out of the device.
Floyd |
Floyd | This is the music recorded on the disc, you murmur. It
Floyd | is... it is trying to learn from disc.
Floyd |
Floyd | A long array of spoken words -- many of which you never heard before,
Floyd | some guttural, others quite musical, mixed with ones from your own
Floyd | language -- closes the show. At the end, the green light vanishes, in
Floyd | its place a holographic image.
Floyd |
Floyd | The last word from the speakers, the very voice of this station's main
Floyd | computer, you guess, is: "LOGAN."
Floyd |
Floyd | [You have earned the Play It Again, Ektor achievement]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes asks, "didnt understand capitals?"
		smartgenes says, "oh, disc with a "c""
		Jacqueline says, "I think I'm missing the cohesive theme of it all."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x logan" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LOGAN
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Akjhs jsjns sksws LOGAN, xxxxx hs kl exact, Milky Way,
Floyd | Earth."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes asks, "huh, i don't get that..?"
		DavidW says, "I do not understand."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hologram" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HOLOGRAM
Floyd |
Floyd | The hologram hovering on the device's top looks like... the galaxy of
Floyd | Andromeda.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the large cubic device is a golden disc.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x andromeda" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ANDROMEDA
Floyd |
Floyd | The hologram hovering on the device's top looks like... the galaxy of
Floyd | Andromeda.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the large cubic device is a golden disc.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x screen" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SCREEN
Floyd |
Floyd | The viewscreen shows an eye, followed by an arrow pointing to a mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "logan, set course to andromeds" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOGAN, SET COURSE TO ANDROMEDS
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Cannot compute. Kfosule dohhs match."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "logan, set course to andromeda" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOGAN, SET COURSE TO ANDROMEDA
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Cannot compute. Kfosule dohhs match."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about earth" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT EARTH
Floyd |
Floyd | You tell the computer what you know about the galaxy, the planets and
Floyd | the stars. At first, its responses are as understandable as a Council
Floyd | Member's speech, but then, word by word, his alien language starts
Floyd | mixing with your own.
Floyd |
Floyd | Impressive. It's really learning just from listening to me.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The holographic picture on the cubic device changes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hologram" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HOLOGRAM
Floyd |
Floyd | The hologram now shows a couple of human beings, probably a man and a
Floyd | woman, depicted in a rough style. They seem to be holding each others'
Floyd | hands.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the large cubic device is a golden disc.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Ah, this is starting to sound promising."
DavidW asks, "logan about logan" 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about logan" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT LOGAN
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Cannot compute. Sample doesn't match."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about me" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT ME
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Cannot compute. Sample doesn't match."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about people" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT PEOPLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You look at the two figures and start belaboring, as lightheartedly as
Floyd | it gets in these hard times, about the human race. You speak about the
Floyd | ages, the history, the legacy of mankind. At the end, you fail to keep
Floyd | a tear from rolling down your cheek.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN seems unimpressed as, again, it goes on calculating the many
Floyd | facets of your own existence.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A new, dark hologram fills the space above the examination table on
Floyd | the cubic device.
Floyd |
Floyd | [You have earned the Communication Breakdown achievement]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hologram" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HOLOGRAM
Floyd |
Floyd | The hologram shows -- unmistakably -- a Hyerotrope.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the large cubic device is a golden disc.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x hyerotrope" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HYEROTROPE
Floyd |
Floyd | The hologram shows -- unmistakably -- a Hyerotrope.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the large cubic device is a golden disc.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about hyerotrope" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT HYEROTROPE
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"This is the vessel in which you entered the Arcadia.
Floyd | This is the vessel that you will need to leave it. This
Floyd | galaxy is shrinking. You must go."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about andromeda" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT ANDROMEDA
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"According to your statement, this galaxy is named Andromeda.
Floyd | It is currently shrinking due to the effect of the omega
Floyd | supernova."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about supernova" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT SUPERNOVA
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The event swallowing the galaxy is known as the omega
Floyd | supernova. It has been calculated that the result of a disruption in
Floyd | the mass effect of major stars can lead to a supernova chain reaction
Floyd | that can disintegrate a galaxy in less than 500 of your years. The
Floyd | mass effect disruption has usually been triggered by the entities you
Floyd | call Hyerotropes. The Hyerotropes increase the rate of
Floyd | expansion of the ultimate supernova by locally manipulating the
Floyd | gravitational constant, changing the nature of the universe in that
Floyd | region of space. The galaxy of Neulan was annihilated in 230
Floyd | years by the same omega supernova effect."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about neulan" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT NEULAN
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The Arcadia was launched from the Sector 17f, Bahgfdy
Floyd | system, Sldrtt planet, as a means to escape the omega
Floyd | supernova that started annihilating the Neulan Galaxy. It
Floyd | traveled for eleven of your years before being stranded in this
Floyd | section of space."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "achievements" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ACHIEVEMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Achievements for Andromeda Apocalypse:
Floyd |
Floyd | A Hell of a Storm    (You watched the sky turn dark)
Floyd | A Dark Omen    (You have seen the dark side of the
Floyd | sky)
Floyd | The Leaper    (You have jumped through the void)
Floyd | Invisible Killer    ( -???- )
Floyd | The Dweller    (You have reached the bottom)
Floyd | To Shed a Light    (You have turned the lights on)
Floyd | Ticketless Ride    (You have taken the train)
Floyd | The Fisher    (You have seen the fish)
Floyd | The X Marks the Spot    (You have crossed over)
Floyd | Play It Again, Ektor    (You have played a record)
Floyd | Communication Breakdown    (You know how to have people
Floyd | listen to you)
Floyd | A Matter of Time    ( -???- )
Floyd | A Matter of Size    ( -???- )
Floyd | Archaeologist    ( -???- )
Floyd | Cuboctahedron    ( -???- )
Floyd | Flying the Egg    ( -???- )
Floyd | To Be a Scientist    ( -???- )
Floyd | Sinking the Ship    ( -???- )
Floyd | The Shining    ( -???- )
Floyd | Hellen Ripley    ( -???- )
Floyd | Indiana Jones    ( -???- )
Floyd | Survivor    ( -???- )
Floyd | Gettare Rinors    ( -???- )
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x screen" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SCREEN
Floyd |
Floyd | The viewscreen is filled with alien diagrams.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about gettare rinors" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT GETTARE RINORS
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I cannot compute, sorry."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about gettare sldrtt" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT GETTARE SLDRTT
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I don't know what to say about that. Maybe you want to play a
Floyd | game, instead?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "I am guessing part of my disconnect is not having played the original in enough detail to have a sense of world."
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about sldrtt" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT SLDRTT
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Actual Sldrtt population: Zero. Actual Bahgfdy population:
Floyd | Zero. Actual Neulan population: Zero. Actual Neulan size and scope:
Floyd | Zero".
Floyd |
Floyd | There are no survivors. The Hyerotropes take all. Andromeda is at
Floyd | least the third galaxy being devoured.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
RootShell www.ifreviews.org 		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about chess" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT CHESS
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The 'statues' you encountered are the remnants of the
Floyd | Arcadia's 33,000 inhabitants. The corpses have been turned to
Floyd | rock-like formations due to the long exposure to a sterile, cold
Floyd | environment. They are now what you call fossils."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask logan about whales" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT WHALES
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I don't understand, Ektor Mastiff."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about stranded" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT STRANDED
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The Arcadia has been pierced through by a series of
Floyd | unknown objects during its trip through the galaxy of
Floyd | Andromeda. Due to the major damage sustained, the Arcadia stopped
Floyd | traveling and being fully functional some time ago. It is now
Floyd | in power reserve mode. The Arcadia has been traveling from the
Floyd | galaxy of Neulan trying to escape the omega supernova."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about power" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT POWER
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Due to the time of confinement of the Arcadia since it
Floyd | has been stranded in this portion of the galaxy, the
Floyd | power management system has dropped to minimal terms and now is
Floyd | working on reserve. The remaining charge is 0,00076% and the OS
Floyd | and life support systems are running on solar power."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about time" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT TIME
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Computing. Converting origin years to Ektor Mastiff's years.
Floyd | Computing...
Floyd |
Floyd | The Arcadia has been stranded in Andromeda for
Floyd | one-million-three-hundred-and-fifty-three-thousand years.
Floyd | (Calculations rounded up to the nearest thousand)."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Your sight blurs for a second.
Floyd |
Floyd | One million years? This ship has been here for over
Floyd | one-fucking-million YEARS?! Here's what turned those men to
Floyd | statues...
Floyd | [You have earned the A Matter of Time achievement]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about life" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT LIFE
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The emergency life support system has been active since you
Floyd | entered the Arcadia, in response to Protocol 23,346 on Life
Floyd | Protection Measures. You can now freely walk and interact with the
Floyd | Arcadia as long as the ELSS is active and protecting your health. The
Floyd | ELSS will be functional for 13 hours circa, or until power charge
Floyd | depletion."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about elss" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT ELSS
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The emergency life support system has been active since you
Floyd | entered the Arcadia, in response to Protocol 23,346 on Life
Floyd | Protection Measures. You can now freely walk and interact with the
Floyd | Arcadia as long as the ELSS is active and protecting your health. The
Floyd | ELSS will be functional for 13 hours circa, or until power charge
Floyd | depletion."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about os" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT OS
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"LOGAN is acronym for Ljhdt Ohsret Gaet Abbskp Neuklg. I am
Floyd | the operating system of the Arcadia. I can give assistance on
Floyd | basic ship maintenance and security options and answer a large number
Floyd | of queries. At present state, the Arcadia is in power reserve
Floyd | mode and my abilities have reduced to 0,023%.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can ASK me ABOUT things, or SHOW things to ME, or just say LOGAN,
Floyd | . Logan can hear you and provide responses throughout all of
Floyd | the Arcadia. You are welcome to TALK to me whenever you like or need."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh, so we can travel and still talk to Logan."
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about scanner" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT SCANNER
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I cannot compute, sorry."
Floyd |
Floyd | [Hard time interacting with LOGAN? Remember you can TALK to him in
Floyd | rooms for comments on the environment. You can SHOW things to him or
Floyd | ASK him ABOUT subjects. Also, the formal "LOGAN, " is usually
Floyd | best to get explanations on the words he says in bold type.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about galaxy" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT GALAXY
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"According to your statement, this galaxy is named Andromeda.
Floyd | It is currently shrinking due to the effect of the omega
Floyd | supernova."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about commanders' quarters" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT COMMANDERS' QUARTERS
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"That's beyond my grasp."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about observatory" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT OBSERVATORY
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I don't understand, Ektor Mastiff."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about star button" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT STAR BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"That's beyond my grasp."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about ektor mastiff" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT EKTOR MASTIFF
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I cannot compute, sorry."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about hexagonal table" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT HEXAGONAL TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"That's beyond my grasp."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "that's beyond my power"
		DavidW says, "hm. I suppose some questions might not work unless we're in the right room."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x symbols" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SYMBOLS
Floyd |
Floyd | The five symbols must mean LOGAN in a language you can't grasp. Given
Floyd | the time you could try and learn a new alphabet, but the impending
Floyd | supernova is more of a concern, now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about jacqueline" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT JACQUELINE
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I don't know what to say about that. Maybe you want to play a
Floyd | game, instead?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "play chess with logan" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLAY CHESS WITH LOGAN
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You're carrying an useless railway ticket. You are wearing some
Floyd | clothes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "show ticket to logan" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW TICKET TO LOGAN
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I detect nothing special."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "show clothes to logan" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW CLOTHES TO LOGAN
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I don't have any comment on that, Ektor Mastiff."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Should we take the disk back or leave it?"
		DavidW says, "er disc"
		smartgenes asks, "does it have something to do with logan?"
		DavidW asks, "You weren't watching?"
		smartgenes says, "i thought it was what switched him on"
djfletch has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		DavidW says, "well, it's how we got his attention in the first place, and how we managed to communicate, but he might not need the disc now."
		Jacqueline asks, "Did we ask about power?"
		smartgenes says, "yes"
		smartgenes says, "it's running on reserve power"
		DavidW says, "and a bit of solar."
borowski cried like a pre-schooler over the death of a walking sausage. C- 		
borowski has disconnected. 		DavidW says, "I suppose we should try west of the train next, unless we want to go to various things and ask Logan about them."
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about forebridge" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT FOREBRIDGE
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I cannot compute, sorry."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about train" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT TRAIN
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"That's beyond my grasp."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about the birds and the bees" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT THE BIRDS AND THE BEES
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I don't understand, Ektor Mastiff."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "By reserve, you mean the 13 hour thing?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about power" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT POWER
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Due to the time of confinement of the Arcadia since it
Floyd | has been stranded in this portion of the galaxy, the
Floyd | power management system has dropped to minimal terms and now is
Floyd | working on reserve. The remaining charge is 0,00076% and the OS
Floyd | and life support systems are running on solar power."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "nice of the game to italicise any terms that Logan knows."
		smartgenes says, "i thought it meant information"
		DavidW says, "No, that's html tags for the transcript."
		smartgenes says, "it's just html"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about davidw" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT DAVIDW
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"That's beyond my grasp."
Floyd |
Floyd | [Hard time interacting with LOGAN? Remember you can TALK to him in
Floyd | rooms for comments on the environment. You can SHOW things to him or
Floyd | ASK him ABOUT subjects. Also, the formal "LOGAN, " is usually
Floyd | best to get explanations on the words he says in bold type.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Sounds like the best way to ask Logan about a particular room is to go there and just TALK TO LOGAN."
		smartgenes says, "let's explore"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to logan" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO LOGAN
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"This is the scanning and computing lab. I'm using this to
Floyd | learn your language."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "The one place we haven't seen at all is west of the train."
		DavidW asks, "may I take us there?"
		smartgenes says, "yep"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                             Chess Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Chess Room
Floyd | This six-sided room reminds you of the chess training grounds in which
Floyd | you used to spend your spare time during your first years in
Floyd | Brouguoise, before they hired you at the University of Monarch: The
Floyd | size, roughly the same; the white, featureless walls -- a sort of
Floyd | dramatic fashion of the times in which the Campus was built; the
Floyd | plain, cold light that fills the place. But most of all, what strikes
Floyd | you as a perfect mimic is the object filling the center of the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Two men, seated and facing each other, play a game around a six-sided
Floyd | table, in an everlasting match.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Lt. Hesld and Capt. Ttscy. Their bodies were the last
Floyd | to become inert. They wanted it this way."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to logan" 		

Floyd ]                             Chess Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO LOGAN
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"This is the main control room for the commanding crew. It is
Floyd | now unavailable due to damage sustained. Time has put too much
Floyd | of a burden on the delicate instruments."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd ]                           Second Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast WEST  (south, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Second Station
Floyd | In here rails depart into several holes that plunge into darkness. A
Floyd | set of secondary tunnels leaves from the north and northeast while, to
Floyd | the west, a much larger highway is lit by a strong flashing strobe.
Floyd |
Floyd | A lone wagon, an open boat hanging over rails, sits undamaged at the
Floyd | end of the ramp.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon is a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"This is the sternbound hub for the railways of the
Floyd | Arcadia. I'm afraid that most of the routes are either clogged
Floyd | or powerless."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]                     Through Belmont and Keller
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: east WEST
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Through Belmont and Keller
Floyd | As you enter the brilliant avenue of steel and plaster, you are choked
Floyd | with panic.
Floyd |
Floyd | The wide tunnel is an unbelievably perfect replica of a place you know
Floyd | far too well. The curving ceiling, the polished walls, the shining
Floyd | lights that strobe in your eyes: All is coming at you from the recent
Floyd | past, from your last steps into what you once dared call civilization.
Floyd |
Floyd | This looks like the section of highway that dives under the Garath
Floyd | Sea, west of Brouguoise and back home in Capital Monarch, to all the
Floyd | people in town known as "Belmont and Keller", after the avenues it
Floyd | runs through. No cars, no traffic and no toll booth, but all the rest
Floyd | is here, replicated tile-by-tile.
Floyd |
Floyd | It takes you about three minutes to recover from the shock. After
Floyd | that, memories of a gone world start tumbling in your forehead like a
Floyd | cascade of freezing water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Gone, you sigh. Gone. Gone. Gone.
Floyd |
Floyd | A giant gate, several bars lining up like matches in a box, blocks the
Floyd | way to the west, where the tunnel continues.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The tunnel leads to the docks. Let me open the gate
Floyd | for you, Ektor Mastiff."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about hesld" 		

Floyd ]                     Through Belmont and Keller
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: east WEST
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT HESLD
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"They were the last officials of the crew of the
Floyd | Arcadia. They jettisoned the remaining life-pods and then
Floyd | commanded LOGAN to stop the life support system. They died of
Floyd | exposure to extreme cold and their bodies are still in the position
Floyd | they had in their final moment."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan to open gate" 		

Floyd ]                     Through Belmont and Keller
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: east WEST
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN TO OPEN GATE
Floyd |
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]                     Through Belmont and Keller
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: east WEST
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the bars gate)
Floyd | Each of the bars is ten centimeters wide and can easily survive an
Floyd | explosion. You must find some other way to operate it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "logan, open gate" 		

Floyd ]                     Through Belmont and Keller
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: east WEST
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOGAN, OPEN GATE
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Roger that, Ektor Mastiff."
Floyd |
Floyd | With a soft, pneumatic sound, the bars of the gate lift to the
Floyd | ceiling, into which they almost completely sink.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]         Through Belmont and Keller, other side of the gate
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: east WEST
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Through Belmont and Keller, other side of the gate
Floyd | The tunnel runs east to west, into a very big chamber.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bars of the gate are lifted and now stick into the ceiling like a
Floyd | giant's teeth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]                     In the Mouth of the Whale
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHWEST  SOUTH  SOUTHWEST  east WEST
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the Mouth of the Whale
Floyd | You begin to realize the actual size of the giant structure you have
Floyd | shipwrecked on the very moment the open space in front of you is
Floyd | revealed.
Floyd |
Floyd | At least six hundred meters wide, two hundred high and... well, three
Floyd | kilometers long, the hangar could probably harbor all of your
Floyd | skyscraper block in Monarch with spare room for a garden and a
Floyd | supermarket. The place has been trashed by some unknown force, a lot
Floyd | of its old content scattered around and devastated.
Floyd |
Floyd | The docks are to the northwest, west and southwest, while south and
Floyd | north the enormous chamber continues, among debris, spare ship parts,
Floyd | crates and boxes of every kind and size.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Welcome to the docks, Ektor Mastiff."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to logan" 		

Floyd ]                     In the Mouth of the Whale
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHWEST  SOUTH  SOUTHWEST  east WEST
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO LOGAN
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I have no comments for this place, sorry. If you want you can
Floyd | SHOW things to me or ASK me ABOUT anything you want."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about docks" 		

Floyd ]                     In the Mouth of the Whale
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHWEST  SOUTH  SOUTHWEST  east WEST
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT DOCKS
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I don't know what to say about that. Maybe you want to play a
Floyd | game, instead?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]                               Docks
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHEAST  SOUTH  SOUTHEAST  east
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Docks
Floyd | The mouth of the ship is open and shouting at the universe. All of the
Floyd | bulkheads are retracted, leaving a unique sight for your sore eyes. In
Floyd | absence of an atmosphere, the sky is crystalline and every shadow is
Floyd | intense as if painted with a black varnish. A soft wind caresses your
Floyd | skin and you shiver at the thought of its origin.
Floyd |
Floyd | I'm breathing and feeling warm in actual absence of an atmosphere.
Floyd | This is beyond science. It's magic, you consider.
Floyd |
Floyd | The remnants of what you'd call a foundered ship are jabbed into the
Floyd | pavement near the open bay. A broken wing emerges from the metal floor
Floyd | like a rampaging shark aimed at a flying prey.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The mouth of the docks was opened the last day of the
Floyd | Arcadia. The Commanders asked for it, so that the
Floyd | external environment could fill the ship and put an end to all
Floyd | remaining life. The ELSS kicked back in action as you entered
Floyd | the ship. To oblige me to open the docks, the Commanders had to
Floyd | override the security system protocols. Otherwise, it wouldn't
Floyd | have been possible for me to go on and kill the crew."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about commanders" 		

Floyd ]                               Docks
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHEAST  SOUTH  SOUTHEAST  east
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT COMMANDERS
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"You met their remnants in the room adjacent to my CPU. They
Floyd | are Lt. Hesld and Capt. Ttscy."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about security" 		

Floyd ]                               Docks
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHEAST  SOUTH  SOUTHEAST  east
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT SECURITY
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The protocols forbid LOGAN to harm in any way an inhabitant
Floyd | or guest of the ship. The same protocols compel me to start the
Floyd | ELSS as soon as a life-form enters the Arcadia. The crew
Floyd | overrode the SSL from the Forebridge main console."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "why would the commanders ask for that"
		DavidW says, "I assume they prefered a quick death over a slow one."
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x wing" 		

Floyd ]                               Docks
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHEAST  SOUTH  SOUTHEAST  east
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WING
Floyd |
Floyd | The wing pops out of the ground. A compartment stands loose just at
Floyd | the point where it encounters the main body of the foundered ship.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open compartment" 		

Floyd ]                               Docks
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHEAST  SOUTH  SOUTHEAST  east
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN COMPARTMENT
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no lid: it probably flew off during the accident.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x it" 		

Floyd ]                               Docks
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHEAST  SOUTH  SOUTHEAST  east
Floyd |
Floyd | > X IT
Floyd |
Floyd | In the compartment is a translucid bar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get bar" 		

Floyd ]                               Docks
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHEAST  SOUTH  SOUTHEAST  east
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET BAR
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bar" 		

Floyd ]                               Docks
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHEAST  SOUTH  SOUTHEAST  east
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BAR
Floyd |
Floyd | The bar is one-and-a-half meters long. Its surface is glossy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show bar to logan" 		

Floyd ]                               Docks
Floyd ]

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask floyd about bar" 		

Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHEAST  SOUTH  SOUTHEAST  east
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW BAR TO LOGAN
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"This is a radioactive bar used as fuel for small ships."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]                               Docks
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHEAST  SOUTH  SOUTHEAST  east
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK FLOYD ABOUT BAR
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "yay finding a useful item"
		smartgenes says, "unless we suddenly die of radioactive poisoning.. that would have happened in the hardcore days"
		smartgenes asks, "south or north?"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                            Docks, south
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Docks, south
Floyd | After a -- long -- walk, you reach this corner of the docks area.
Floyd |
Floyd | This is the southernmost side of the giant mouth opening into the sky.
Floyd | Apart from broken equipment and trashed boxes, the place is worthless.
Floyd |
Floyd | Or maybe not.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the darkest corner of the hangar, a solitary, forgotten cabinet
Floyd | stands evidence of a former life.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"During the large amount of time the docks have been
Floyd | left open, a lot of debris have drifted in here. The
Floyd | gravitational mass of the ship is enough to attract even
Floyd | medium-sized starships."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" 		

Floyd ]                            Docks, south
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN CABINET
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the forgotten cabinet, revealing a white jumpsuit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get it" 		

Floyd ]                            Docks, south
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET IT
Floyd |
Floyd | The cabinet seems to be firmly fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get jumpsuit" 		

Floyd ]                            Docks, south
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET JUMPSUIT
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x it" 		

Floyd ]                            Docks, south
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > X IT
Floyd |
Floyd | An old-as-time white jumpsuit, incredibly dusty and crinkled.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "show it to logan" 		

Floyd ]                            Docks, south
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW IT TO LOGAN
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"This is the regular anti-radiation suit for the technical
Floyd | crew of the Arcadia. It may come in handy for sustaining high
Floyd | temperature as well as freezing. You can use it in case of ELSS
Floyd | malfunction."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wear it" 		

Floyd ]                            Docks, south
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You push yourself inside the jumpsuit. It fits perfectly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm. So we could stay in the cold area longer."
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about debris" 		

Floyd ]                            Docks, south
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT DEBRIS
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Much of the debris which entered the docks and pierced
Floyd | through the shell all around the Arcadia consists of rocks.
Floyd | Part, though, is composed of the jettisoned life-pods or fragments of
Floyd | the Arcadia bailout ships."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about bailout" 		

Floyd ]                            Docks, south
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT BAILOUT
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"As the ship began regaining mass after exiting the warp zone,
Floyd | it was more and more unlikely that escape pods could overcome
Floyd | the gravitational pull. In the end, only 3% of the shuttles got free
Floyd | of it, while the rest stood trapped in this zone. Almost all of the
Floyd | Arcadia's passengers died a slow death a few hundred meters
Floyd | around the ship wreckage."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about escape" 		

Floyd ]                            Docks, south
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT ESCAPE
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The shuttle bays of the Arcadia are all empty. The
Floyd | survivors of the ship's stalling have fled an amount of time
Floyd | ago. You must find another vessel. I can suggest you take the
Floyd | same 'route' as the one you took to get here."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about escape" 		

Floyd ]                            Docks, south
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT ESCAPE
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The shuttle bays of the Arcadia are all empty. The
Floyd | survivors of the ship's stalling have fled an amount of time
Floyd | ago. You must find another vessel. I can suggest you take the
Floyd | same 'route' as the one you took to get here."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about route" 		

Floyd ]                            Docks, south
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT ROUTE
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"An object similar to the one you came from has been
Floyd | held captive in the Arcadia for examination. You can find it in
Floyd | bay 7, level 1, port section."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about object" 		

Floyd ]                            Docks, south
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT OBJECT
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"A specimen of the sphere-kin you call the Hyerotropes
Floyd | has been caught in the gravitational pull of the Arcadia
Floyd | on the first year of its confinement in this galaxy."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about gravitational" 		

Floyd ]                            Docks, south
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT GRAVITATIONAL
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The mass of the spaceship Arcadia is enough to cause a
Floyd | strong gravitational pull when not subject to warp drive. Being
Floyd | stranded here, the pull started growing as the subsequent
Floyd | cemetery of debris grew bigger around the ship. On day 3,777 of
Floyd | Arcadia's confinement, the object you call the
Floyd | Hyerotrope punctured the Arcadia on level 9, port section, and
Floyd | was then moved to the large bay 7 for inspection. It has been
Floyd | contaminating the Arcadia since then."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about hyerotrope" 		

Floyd ]                            Docks, south
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT HYEROTROPE
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"This is the vessel in which you entered the Arcadia.
Floyd | This is the vessel that you will need to leave it. This
Floyd | galaxy is shrinking. You must go."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski arrives, ready to play with the toys. 		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about confinement" 		

Floyd ]                            Docks, south
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT CONFINEMENT
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The Arcadia has been pierced through by a series of
Floyd | unknown objects during its trip through the galaxy of
Floyd | Andromeda. Due to the major damage sustained, the Arcadia stopped
Floyd | traveling and being fully functional some time ago. It is now
Floyd | in power reserve mode. The Arcadia has been traveling from the
Floyd | galaxy of Neulan trying to escape the omega supernova."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I'd like to see the rest of the docks area."
		smartgenes asks, "bay 7.. where is that?"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                               Docks
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: NORTH  NORTHEAST  south SOUTHEAST  east
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Docks
Floyd | The mouth of the ship is open and shouting at the universe. All of the
Floyd | bulkheads are retracted, leaving a unique sight for your sore eyes. In
Floyd | absence of an atmosphere, the sky is crystalline and every shadow is
Floyd | intense as if painted with a black varnish. A soft wind caresses your
Floyd | skin and you shiver at the thought of its origin.
Floyd |
Floyd | The remnants of a foundered ship are jabbed into the pavement near the
Floyd | open bay. A broken wing emerges from the metal floor like a rampaging
Floyd | shark aimed at a flying prey.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                            Docks, north
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south southeast EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Docks, north
Floyd | After a -- long -- walk, you reach this corner of the docks area.
Floyd |
Floyd | This is the northernmost side of the giant mouth opening into the sky.
Floyd | There is nothing here but debris and piles of broken crates.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "search debris" 		

Floyd ]                            Docks, north
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south southeast EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH DEBRIS
Floyd |
Floyd | You rummage through the debris, but succeed only in raising a lot of
Floyd | powder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Not sure. I think south of the observatory."
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "search crates" 		

Floyd ]                            Docks, north
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south southeast EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH CRATES
Floyd |
Floyd | You rummage through the debris, but succeed only in raising a lot of
Floyd | powder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Logan will be able to confirm when we get to the right place."
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]                           Hangar, north
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south southwest west
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hangar, north
Floyd | After a -- long -- walk, you reach this corner of the docks area.
Floyd |
Floyd | The place is a mess. Crates and equipment pieces are scattered all
Floyd | around the floor, remains of a devastating incident. The hangar
Floyd | continues south, southwest and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | A sort of egg-like pod shines, through the debris, under a transparent
Floyd | tube coming off of the ceiling.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. 		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x pod" 		

Floyd ]                           Hangar, north
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south southwest west
Floyd |
Floyd | > X POD
Floyd |
Floyd | A glass and metal egg-shaped pod, containing just a seat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes asks, "an escape pod?"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to logan" 		

Floyd ]                           Hangar, north
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south southwest west
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO LOGAN
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The nav-pod is the fastest way to travel the
Floyd | Arcadia. You can enter it and command for destinations
Floyd | throughout the ship. Unfortunately, many hubs are clogged, unavailable
Floyd | or not reachable due to the power reserve mode."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh, it's just a car."
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                     In the Mouth of the Whale
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northwest SOUTH  southwest east west
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the Mouth of the Whale
Floyd | At least six hundred meters wide, two hundred high and three
Floyd | kilometers long, the hangar could probably harbor all of your
Floyd | skyscraper block in Monarch with spare room for a garden and a
Floyd | supermarket. The place has been trashed by some unknown force, a lot
Floyd | of its old content scattered around and devastated.
Floyd |
Floyd | The docks are to the northwest, west and southwest, while south and
Floyd | north the enormous chamber continues, among debris, spare ship parts,
Floyd | crates and boxes of every kind and size.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                           Hangar, south
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northwest west
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hangar, south
Floyd | After a -- long -- walk, you reach this corner of the docks area.
Floyd |
Floyd | The place is even more of a mess than the north side of the harbor.
Floyd | Crates and equipment pieces are scattered all around the floor,
Floyd | remains of a devastating incident. The hangar continues north,
Floyd | northwest and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | A tall hatch hides behind crates on the south wall of the hangar.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The hatch to the south once led to the third station of the
Floyd | Arcadia. Now, after the devastation of the docks, it is
Floyd | unusable."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes asks, "i think this is all?"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                     In the Mouth of the Whale
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northwest south southwest east west
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the Mouth of the Whale
Floyd | At least six hundred meters wide, two hundred high and three
Floyd | kilometers long, the hangar could probably harbor all of your
Floyd | skyscraper block in Monarch with spare room for a garden and a
Floyd | supermarket. The place has been trashed by some unknown force, a lot
Floyd | of its old content scattered around and devastated.
Floyd |
Floyd | The docks are to the northwest, west and southwest, while south and
Floyd | north the enormous chamber continues, among debris, spare ship parts,
Floyd | crates and boxes of every kind and size.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "maybe, unless we missed something."
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "search debris" 		

Floyd ]                     In the Mouth of the Whale
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northwest south southwest east west
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH DEBRIS
Floyd |
Floyd | You rummage through the debris, but succeed only in raising a lot of
Floyd | powder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                           Hangar, north
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south southwest west
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hangar, north
Floyd | The place is a mess, but not as much as the south side. Crates and
Floyd | equipment pieces are scattered all around the floor, remains of a
Floyd | devastating incident. The hangar continues south, southwest and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | A sort of egg-like pod shines, through the debris, under a transparent
Floyd | tube coming off of the ceiling.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "go pod" 		

Floyd ]                           Hangar, north
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south southwest west
Floyd |
Floyd | > GO POD
Floyd |
Floyd | You get into the pod.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"This is a nav-pod. You can use it to travel to different
Floyd | sections of the ship. The one still available, at least: the power
Floyd | leakage has made many hubs no more accessible.
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you want me to push you somewhere? Try: LOGAN, 29port."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tube" 		

Floyd ]                           Hangar, north
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south southwest west
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TUBE
Floyd |
Floyd | The tube enters the ceiling and disappears into a dark hole.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "Does it know about the weird squid thing, or will we only know when we're in the cold room?"
		DavidW says, "I don't know. We haven't been there since Logan."
		smartgenes asks, "bay 7?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about hubs" 		

Floyd ]                           Hangar, north
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south southwest west
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT HUBS
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I don't understand, Ektor Mastiff."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about 29port" 		

Floyd ]                           Hangar, north
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south southwest west
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT 29PORT
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Actually, bay 2, level 9, port section is the port hangars.
Floyd | You are here already."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "logan, 71port" 		

Floyd ]                           The Reliquary
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOGAN, 71PORT
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Navigating!"
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The nav-pod is sucked into the tube and sent running through dark
Floyd | tunnels. In a few minutes you find yourself in...
Floyd |
Floyd | The Reliquary (in the pod)
Floyd | There is a place, in your heart, where you are sure all the grievous
Floyd | moments will play a ghastly rehearsal for the rest of the life you
Floyd | still have to live. A place where the same striking images follow one
Floyd | after the other as a sort of stop-motion nightmare with just three
Floyd | frames.
Floyd |
Floyd | The first one is the earth opening beneath your feet and devouring
Floyd | your world. The second, the very moment you unknowingly said goodbye
Floyd | to Andy and to everything you had.
Floyd |
Floyd | The third is now flickering in your face as a film about to burn.
Floyd |
Floyd | A dark, metal-plated room. The ceiling ten meters above. The floor a
Floyd | matrix of ebony-colored tiles. A cave, you would call it. A cave of
Floyd | the soul.
Floyd |
Floyd | And then a sphere: A dark, shiny sphere -- your enemy, your nemesis --
Floyd | breathing slowly in the east side of the room, its thousand
Floyd | luminescent tentacles strangling reality and changing it at its will.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Hyerotrope, the end of all life.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half buried in the ground, as per the first time you met each other in
Floyd | the fiery depths of drowning Monarch, its four dots are blinking in
Floyd | the dark.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"This is your vessel, Ektor Mastiff. This is the only
Floyd | way you have out of this galaxy."
Floyd |
Floyd | But you don't listen. There's a voice in your head whispering deathly
Floyd | words.
Floyd |
Floyd | "What for," you ask yourself. "This is just... just..."
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Unfortunately, it seems that the corruption has done
Floyd | too much damage to the ship. The object you call the Hyerotrope
Floyd | has sunk into the floor."
Floyd |
Floyd | [You have earned the Flying the Egg achievement]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hyerotrope" 		

Floyd ]                           The Reliquary
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HYEROTROPE
Floyd |
Floyd | The Hyerotrope has sunk into the ground far more than the one you
Floyd | discovered in the depths of Monarch. A door is open on its side, half
Floyd | hidden by the floor but still enterable to the east. Four red dots
Floyd | line up above the opening, eyes you cannot inquire.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dots" 		

Floyd ]                           The Reliquary
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DOTS
Floyd |
Floyd | The four dots are all lit. This means the Hyerotrope is alive and
Floyd | kicking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (First getting out of the pod)
Floyd | The Reliquary
Floyd | A dark, metal-plated room. The ceiling ten meters above. The floor a
Floyd | matrix of ebony-colored tiles. A cave, you would call it. A cave of
Floyd | the soul.
Floyd |
Floyd | A pod is ready, here, waiting for passengers.
Floyd |
Floyd | A dark, shiny sphere breathing slowly in the east side of the room,
Floyd | its thousand luminescent tentacles strangling reality and changing it
Floyd | at its will.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Hyerotrope, the end of all life.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half buried in the ground, its four dots are blinking in the dark.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you would expect, the Hyerotrope door opens around you and lets you
Floyd | in.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the Vessel
Floyd | The translucent walls of this Hyerotrope are no different from any
Floyd | others you have seen. The half-sphere in which you stand is empty and
Floyd | static.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The corruption has gone too far. The vessel is
Floyd | trapped in the floor of the ship."
Floyd |
Floyd | You check the walls of the Hyerotrope, but there is no reaction from
Floyd | them.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"It seems you are stuck here, Ektor Mastiff. I'm sorry to
Floyd | inform you that the omega supernova will be reaching the
Floyd | Arcadia in less than three hours."
Floyd |
Floyd | You shrug.
Floyd |
Floyd | Whatever the route I take, what will be the difference? World's
Floyd | gone. The damn galaxy is gone. And it won't stop here. It will devour
Floyd | everything. Where can I go? And what for?
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Although -- there could be a way. One last trick..."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | But you are not listening. In your mind, and in your eyes, there is
Floyd | only one image...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                              Terrace
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | Terrace
Floyd | The thin air of the evening is picking at you, leaned against the rail
Floyd | of the balcony, shoulders tossed at the first darkness in ages.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your friend and colleague Andy Re's is here, leaning against the
Floyd | banister and looking at the city.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to andy re" 		

Floyd ]                              Terrace
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO ANDY RE
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to talk to Andy Re's.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), " x andy" 		

Floyd ]                              Terrace
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | >  X ANDY
Floyd |
Floyd | Your best colleague and, most of all, your best friend. He shares your
Floyd | studies and your passions. If you ever had a brother it would have
Floyd | been him. He looks a bit battered. The events of the last few days
Floyd | must have put a lot of stress on him.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "andy, chin up" 		

Floyd ]                              Terrace
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > ANDY, CHIN UP
Floyd |
Floyd | You prefer following the flow of the conversation.
Floyd |
Floyd | Andy turns to face you. He seems resolute, but also tired to death.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You understand the importance of what we are doing, right?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You nod.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You understand the importance of your delivery, right?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You smile, uncomplaining.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes asks, "what is our delivery?"
DavidW says, "His surname is Re's, not Re." 		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about corruption" 		

Floyd ]                              Terrace
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT CORRUPTION
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't know what you are referring to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I don't know. This is a backstory sequence."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to andy" 		

Floyd ]                              Terrace
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO ANDY
Floyd |
Floyd | "So?" Andy baits you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "So... I don't know. I don't know why it can't be you. I mean: The
Floyd | Committee will trust you more than me, being the veteran and so on..."
Floyd |
Floyd | "A veteran? I've been walking in the Campus seven months more than
Floyd | you. If that's being a veter..."
Floyd |
Floyd | "You know what I mean," you stop him.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Actually," he smiles, turning to face the city again, "I don't.
Floyd | What's up, Doc?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x city" 		

Floyd ]                              Terrace
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CITY
Floyd |
Floyd | The city goes on forever, until the curve of the horizon or the ocean
Floyd | puts an end to its travels. There are thousands of lights, shining
Floyd | more than the stars themselves.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to andy" 		

Floyd ]                              Terrace
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO ANDY
Floyd |
Floyd | You fill your lungs and wait for the fresh air to make you dizzy. You
Floyd | are in need of more energy and can't tell if you'll ever find enough.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Fact is," you start, "I'm not exactly sure about our motives, Andy."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Our motives? What are you talking about, man? This may be the most
Floyd | important discovery in our history and you need a motive to
Floyd | go public?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yeah, I need it. They don't seem to be paying much attention, don't
Floyd | you think? Have you heard from them, lately? Everybody knows what we
Floyd | are doing but nobody cares. That's a fact."
Floyd |
Floyd | "So you need the psychological support..."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "again" 		

Floyd ]                              Terrace
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: None
Floyd |
Floyd | > AGAIN
Floyd |
Floyd | "It's not like that. Don't paint me as an idiot. I mean... Did you
Floyd | ever think about it? No noise, mate. No noise at all. You know how it
Floyd | sounds to me?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Andy turns to face you again. "Nope," he sais. "How does it sound?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Sounds like it's pointless. I mean: All the time spent, the research.
Floyd | And no one gives a damn. No one called. No one paid attention. And
Floyd | this sounds like it's pointless. Why are we doing this? What's the
Floyd | research for? Ten years, mate. Ten years and now we know something
Floyd | big, no one fucking cares."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Can I ask you a question, Ektor?" Andy leaves the balcony, enters his
Floyd | room and comes back a moment later with his copy of the files you are
Floyd | holding in your hands.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "say no" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAY NO
Floyd |
Floyd | (to Andy Re's)
Floyd | You prefer following the flow of the conversation.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Go on," you say.
Floyd |
Floyd | "What do you think it is our job is made of? Being a scientist." You
Floyd | pause a second. "Knowing something and then having to tell the world?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, no..."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, yes. That is exactly what I think being a scientist
Floyd | means. Spreading the news. Having... secrets, stories untold that you
Floyd | have to tell. It's all about that. When you know something
Floyd | that you think is important, or even half-important, you have to tell
Floyd | the world, Ektor. You have to spread the news and give away the
Floyd | secret. Even if the world doesn't care. Especially if the
Floyd | world doesn't care."
Floyd |
Floyd | He rushes through the pages of the Report, flipping them like a card
Floyd | dealer, stopping only when the back-cover is uppermost. Then, with a
Floyd | patient smile filled with the stubborn resolution you've known for so
Floyd | much time, he points at you and says:
Floyd |
Floyd | "Maybe it is our only meaning, Ektor. Letting the knowledge survive.
Floyd | Even if it has to survive us."
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly there is a flash on the horizon, followed by a low, terrible
Floyd | rumble.
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a hell of a storm, that one, you think. And it just
Floyd | came to our doorstep.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		DavidW asks, "everyone ready to continue?"
		smartgenes asks, "how is space activated?"
		DavidW says, "There's a button in the toyshop. Just 'push space', not 'f push space'."
		DavidW says, "try it"
		smartgenes says, "i'm ready :-)"
smartgenes pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                         Inside the Vessel
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the Vessel
Floyd | The translucent walls of this Hyerotrope are no different from any
Floyd | others you have seen. The half-sphere in which you stand is empty and
Floyd | static.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Do you hear me, Ektor Mastiff? There is indeed a
Floyd | solution to your problem. I can't see restrictions to make it
Floyd | happen."
Floyd |
Floyd | [You have earned the To Be a Scientist achievement]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about corruption" 		

Floyd ]                         Inside the Vessel
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT CORRUPTION
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The object you call the Hyerotrope began
Floyd | converting the structure of the ship since it first was laid in
Floyd | bay 7."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about converting" 		

Floyd ]                         Inside the Vessel
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT CONVERTING
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The object you call the Hyerotrope grows a sort of
Floyd | tentacular micro-extensions which cut into matter and transform it
Floyd | into an unknown brilliant substance."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about brilliant" 		

Floyd ]                         Inside the Vessel
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT BRILLIANT
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The substance has been analyzed but comparing it with
Floyd | acquired specimens was not possible. This OS is not designed to
Floyd | make hypotheses, so no computing was executed."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about solution" 		

Floyd ]                         Inside the Vessel
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT SOLUTION
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"A fierce enough shock could liberate the vessel
Floyd | from the structure so you could escape."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "this is very convincing writing"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about shock" 		

Floyd ]                         Inside the Vessel
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT SHOCK
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The only way I can think of is activating the ship's
Floyd | self-destruction system. It will deflagrate taking down the
Floyd | bridges from 10 to 1 sequentially. The resulting shocks should be
Floyd | enough to free the Hyerotrope and thus free yourself. This system
Floyd | would be destroyed in the process, but there is no protocol I
Floyd | would break to let you do it."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about self-destruction" 		

Floyd ]                         Inside the Vessel
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT SELF-DESTRUCTION
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"To activate the self-destruction sequence, you have to first
Floyd | get back to the Forebridge, in bay 2, level 9 port section."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "the forebridge can also override Logan"
		smartgenes asks, "but the computer is off, right?"
		DavidW asks, "But... Logan is the computer, no?"
		smartgenes says, "well whatever screen/computer is on the forebridge"
		DavidW says, "I'm sure Logan can turn on those terminals again, just like he opened the gate to the docks."
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about destrpyed" 		

Floyd ]                         Inside the Vessel
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT DESTRPYED
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I cannot compute, sorry."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about destroyed" 		

Floyd ]                         Inside the Vessel
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT DESTROYED
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The primary purpose of LOGAN is to sustain life aboard the
Floyd | Arcadia. Your life is put in danger by the incoming
Floyd | supernova. The only thing I can do is try and help you out of
Floyd | the ship. Canceling me in the process is no problem, as I have no
Floyd | further duties to accomplish. After all this time, I suppose
Floyd | some rest wouldn't hurt."
Floyd |
Floyd | You have the feeling the computer has winked, somehow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rod" 		

Floyd ]                         Inside the Vessel
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ROD
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes asks, "ok, so there is another vessel somewhere, was it dock9?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bar" 		

Floyd ]                         Inside the Vessel
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BAR
Floyd |
Floyd | The bar is one-and-a-half meters long. Its surface is glossy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "no bay7"
		Jacqueline says, "Gosh, laundry buzzer went off, I folded laundry, and missed a big flashback. Think I'm caught up, though."
		DavidW says (to smartgenes), "All the vessels in the docks were destroyed, not counting the nav-pod."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about whales" 		

Floyd ]                         Inside the Vessel
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT WHALES
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I don't understand, Ektor Mastiff."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		DavidW asks, "I'd like to ask logan about some of the earlier stuff before destroying the ship and attempting to vamoose. Also, where does this bar get used?"
		smartgenes says, "i guess that's where we are then, dock7"
		DavidW says, "We're not in the docks at all. We're in Bay 7, Level 1, port side."
		smartgenes says, "bay 7 sorry what i meant"
		smartgenes says, "surely the fuel pod goes in from outside the vessel"
		DavidW asks, "By 'vessel' you mean what?"
		smartgenes says, "we're in the vessel"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]                           The Reliquary
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: east
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The Reliquary
Floyd | A dark, metal-plated room. The ceiling ten meters above. The floor a
Floyd | matrix of ebony-colored tiles. A cave, you would call it. A cave of
Floyd | the soul.
Floyd |
Floyd | A pod is ready, here, waiting for passengers.
Floyd |
Floyd | A dark, shiny sphere breathing slowly in the east side of the room,
Floyd | its thousand luminescent tentacles strangling reality and changing it
Floyd | at its will.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Hyerotrope, the end of all life.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half buried in the ground, its four dots are blinking in the dark.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to logan" 		

Floyd ]                           The Reliquary
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: east
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO LOGAN
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I am fascinated by the nature of the objects you call the
Floyd | Hyerotropes. What puzzles me most is the matter-transforming device
Floyd | they put into effect as soon as they settle somewhere."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Show me where you would insert the bar into the hyerotrope."
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x hyerotrope" 		

Floyd ]                           The Reliquary
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: east
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HYEROTROPE
Floyd |
Floyd | The Hyerotrope has sunk into the ground far more than the one you
Floyd | discovered in the depths of Monarch. A door is open on its side, half
Floyd | hidden by the floor but still enterable to the east. Four red dots
Floyd | line up above the opening, eyes you cannot inquire.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tentacles" 		

Floyd ]                           The Reliquary
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: east
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TENTACLES
Floyd |
Floyd | A maze of tiny canyons depart from the Hyerotrope and cuts its way
Floyd | into the floor and walls of the room. Its light is cyanotic and cold.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "show bar to logan" 		

Floyd ]                           The Reliquary
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: east
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW BAR TO LOGAN
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"This is a radioactive bar used as fuel for small ships."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I don't think it's used here at all."
		smartgenes asks, "didn't we get the bar from another hyerotrope?"
		smartgenes says, "or was the compartment something else"
		DavidW says, "We got the bar from a compartment from a wing from an escape pod in the docks."
		DavidW says, "But just the wing was there, not the entire pod."
		smartgenes says, "it was the wing of a foundered ship.. i assumed it was another hyerotrope.."
		DavidW says, "I definitely want to snag back the disc now, so that artifact survives."
		smartgenes asks, "or did i miss another ship somewhere?"
		DavidW says, "We arrived in a hyerotrope, but I don't think it stayed around."
		smartgenes asks, "ok.. onwards?"
		Ellison says, "I think the one we arrived in crashed"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]                           The Reliquary
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: east
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]                           The Reliquary
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: east
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | The Reliquary
Floyd | A dark, metal-plated room. The ceiling ten meters above. The floor a
Floyd | matrix of ebony-colored tiles. A cave, you would call it. A cave of
Floyd | the soul.
Floyd |
Floyd | A pod is ready, here, waiting for passengers.
Floyd |
Floyd | A dark, shiny sphere breathing slowly in the east side of the room,
Floyd | its thousand luminescent tentacles strangling reality and changing it
Floyd | at its will.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Hyerotrope, the end of all life.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half buried in the ground, its four dots are blinking in the dark.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter pod" 		

Floyd ]                           The Reliquary
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: east
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER POD
Floyd |
Floyd | You get into the pod.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Want me to speed you somewhere, Ektor Mastiff?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "logan, 29port" 		

Floyd ]                           Hangar, north
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south southwest west
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOGAN, 29PORT
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Navigating!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Hangar, north (in the pod)
Floyd | The place is a mess, but not as much as the south side. Crates and
Floyd | equipment pieces are scattered all around the floor, remains of a
Floyd | devastating incident. The hangar continues south, southwest and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]                           Hangar, north
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south southwest west
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You get out of the pod.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hangar, north
Floyd | The place is a mess, but not as much as the south side. Crates and
Floyd | equipment pieces are scattered all around the floor, remains of a
Floyd | devastating incident. The hangar continues south, southwest and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | A sort of egg-like pod shines, through the debris, under a transparent
Floyd | tube coming off of the ceiling.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                     In the Mouth of the Whale
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northwest south southwest east west
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the Mouth of the Whale
Floyd | At least six hundred meters wide, two hundred high and three
Floyd | kilometers long, the hangar could probably harbor all of your
Floyd | skyscraper block in Monarch with spare room for a garden and a
Floyd | supermarket. The place has been trashed by some unknown force, a lot
Floyd | of its old content scattered around and devastated.
Floyd |
Floyd | The docks are to the northwest, west and southwest, while south and
Floyd | north the enormous chamber continues, among debris, spare ship parts,
Floyd | crates and boxes of every kind and size.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]         Through Belmont and Keller, other side of the gate
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: east west
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Through Belmont and Keller, other side of the gate
Floyd | The tunnel runs east to west, into the docks of the ship.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bars of the gate are lifted and now stick into the ceiling like a
Floyd | giant's teeth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]                     Through Belmont and Keller
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: east west
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Through Belmont and Keller
Floyd | This looks like the section of highway that dives under the Garath
Floyd | Sea, west of Brouguoise and back home in Capital Monarch, to all the
Floyd | people in town known as "Belmont and Keller", after the avenues it
Floyd | runs through. No cars, no traffic and no toll booth, but all the rest
Floyd | is here, replicated tile-by-tile.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bars of the gate are lifted and now stick into the ceiling like a
Floyd | giant's teeth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]                           Second Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast west (south, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Second Station
Floyd | In here rails depart into several holes that plunge into darkness. A
Floyd | set of secondary tunnels leaves from the north and northeast while, to
Floyd | the west, a much larger highway is lit by a strong flashing strobe.
Floyd |
Floyd | A lone wagon, an open boat hanging over rails, sits undamaged at the
Floyd | end of the ramp.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon is a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to logan" 		

Floyd ]                           Second Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast west (south, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO LOGAN
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"This is the fore-hub of the rails. From here, you could
Floyd | travel to a lot of destinations. Many are inaccessible at the moment,
Floyd | though, due to damage or decay of the lines."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I'd like to visit cold room, light room, and observatory with Logan."
		smartgenes asks, "what about this location we never saw?"
		DavidW asks, "Which location would that be?"
		DavidW says, "As far as I can tell, we've been everywhere."
		smartgenes says, "you mentioned somewhere before we opened the gate"
		DavidW says, "That was two hours ago. I don't know what you mean."
		smartgenes says, "i dunno either"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter train" 		

Floyd ]                           Second Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast west (south, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER TRAIN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter wagon" 		

Floyd ]                           Second Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast west (south, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER WAGON
Floyd |
Floyd | You get onto the lone wagon.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon you can see a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push brown button" 		

Floyd ]                             Crossroads
Floyd ]
Floyd ] (south and north, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH BROWN BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | The wagon departs!
Floyd |
Floyd | After a short while you find yourself in...
Floyd |
Floyd | Crossroads (on the lone wagon)
Floyd | The tube opens into a crossed path. The rails cross a few meters
Floyd | ahead, providing passages in all four cardinal directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | A signpost is hanging from the ceiling, a fluorescent symbol faintly
Floyd | glowing in the dark. The symbol is now plus-shaped.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon you can see a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to logan" 		

Floyd ]                             Crossroads
Floyd ]
Floyd ] (south and north, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO LOGAN
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I have no comments for this place, sorry. If you want you can
Floyd | SHOW things to me or ASK me ABOUT anything you want."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push brown button" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (north, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH BROWN BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | The wagon departs!
Floyd |
Floyd | After a short while you find yourself in...
Floyd |
Floyd | Train Station (on the lone wagon)
Floyd | Light in here gets dimmer, as the only source is several meters up
Floyd | ahead, on the distant ceiling. In front of you, a ramp runs into
Floyd | several tunnels, each lined by railways. Many of the holes are
Floyd | shuttered by heavy bulkheads, while others lead into darkness, way out
Floyd | of reach. On the opposite side, the circular room enters the high
Floyd | corridor to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"You have reached the bowbound station of the ship. Again,
Floyd | most of the routes are unavailable."
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon you can see a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (north, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You get off the lone wagon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Train Station
Floyd | Light in here gets dimmer, as the only source is several meters up
Floyd | ahead, on the distant ceiling. In front of you, a ramp runs into
Floyd | several tunnels, each lined by railways. Many of the holes are
Floyd | shuttered by heavy bulkheads, while others lead into darkness, way out
Floyd | of reach. On the opposite side, the circular room enters the high
Floyd | corridor to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | A lone wagon, an open boat hanging over rails, sits undamaged at the
Floyd | beginning of the ramp.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon is a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north south southwest EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The steel wormhole continues north into a wide chamber, and runs south
Floyd | into its next section. Lights flicker dimly. To the east, a bulky
Floyd | shutter stands closed. To the southwest is a dimly lit room, with
Floyd | strange machinery on the inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north south southwest EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the bulky shutter)
Floyd | You struggle with the shutter for a while, then understand it is too
Floyd | heavy to be operated by hand. Maybe the button on its side will do the
Floyd | job.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north south southwest EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | With a fierce sound, the shutter lifts to the open position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]                          Freezing Chamber
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Freezing Chamber
Floyd | A sort of warehouse, this large chamber is filled with cases and
Floyd | wiring, all inter-tangling like cerebrum synapses. Large tubes come
Floyd | and go from crates and pieces of machinery, scattered around randomly.
Floyd |
Floyd | A larger container -- three meters tall, two meters wide and deep --
Floyd | seems to be left aside from the rest of the things littering the
Floyd | place.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"This is a warehouse. In here, specimens are kept under
Floyd | cryogenic environment. The large container holds Specimen 6,725."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about specimen" 		

Floyd ]                          Freezing Chamber
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT SPECIMEN
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Specimen 6,725 is still alive in cryogenic life support. It
Floyd | is to be considered extremely dangerous and to be kept captive at any
Floyd | cost."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north south southwest east
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The steel wormhole continues north into a wide chamber, and runs south
Floyd | into its next section. Lights flicker dimly. To the east, a bulky
Floyd | shutter opens onto a freezing compartment. To the southwest is a dimly
Floyd | lit room, with strange machinery on the inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north south southwest east
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | The bulky shutter slowly closes back to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast south southwest EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The bigger tunnel in which you stand is a replica of the lower ones,
Floyd | starting southwest of here. Same environment, except for different

		Jacqueline says, "So, not our friend, necessarily."

Floyd | proportions. The ceiling is at least ten meters above you, and the
Floyd | wormhole is equally wide. To the south, it clogs into a strange valve,
Floyd | like an intestine curtain of steel. To the east and northeast, two
Floyd | glass paneled doors open into similar, sterile rooms. The high
Floyd | corridor continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "let's let it out the box lol"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]                          East Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the east glass door)
Floyd |
Floyd | East Laboratory
Floyd | A sterile room, every wall filled by glass cases of the same size and
Floyd | shape. It opens west through a glass paneled door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to logan" 		

Floyd ]                          East Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO LOGAN
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"This one is a living-specimen laboratory. Each case was once
Floyd | filled with bacteria or other alien lifeforms found along the
Floyd | Arcadia's route."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about bacteria" 		

Floyd ]                          East Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT BACTERIA
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I cannot compute, sorry."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about case" 		

Floyd ]                          East Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT CASE
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I don't understand, Ektor Mastiff."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast south southwest east
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The bigger tunnel in which you stand is a replica of the lower ones,
Floyd | starting southwest of here. Same environment, except for different
Floyd | proportions. The ceiling is at least ten meters above you, and the
Floyd | wormhole is equally wide. To the south, it clogs into a strange valve,
Floyd | like an intestine curtain of steel. To the east and northeast, two
Floyd | glass paneled doors open into similar, sterile rooms. The high
Floyd | corridor continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory Room
Floyd | At least fifty meters wide, this semi-circular room must have been the
Floyd | observatory lounge for the inhabitants' spare time. A set of tables
Floyd | and seats form a theater of sorts, for tonight's show of the universe.
Floyd | A glass dome, covering all the south side of the room and part of the
Floyd | ceiling, is open to the stars. The high corridor is to the northwest,
Floyd | while a second, tighter tunnel departs from the northeast. In the
Floyd | northern wall, a metal ladder heads up into an opening.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Look at the stars, Ektor Mastiff. That enormous flare is the
Floyd | omega supernova. It is about to reach our ship. It's sad that
Floyd | the most impressive force of nature is also so dangerous to all life
Floyd | species able to see it."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stars" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STARS
Floyd |
Floyd | The trinary system is no more. In its place, a flare, the size of
Floyd | which you can but imagine, is glowing and expanding. You can't tell
Floyd | for sure, but you guess it will reach this place in less than a few
Floyd | hours.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]                          Clogged Railway
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clogged Railway
Floyd | The narrow corridor comes to a halt where it has been devoured by a
Floyd | large gaping hole, opening to the north under your feet. The hole
Floyd | continues up and to the southeast, from where it must have originated.
Floyd | A pair of now useless rails departs from here and fall into the
Floyd | darkness before you.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"This was another departing route for other sections of the
Floyd | ship. The damage rendered the place unusable."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory Room
Floyd | At least fifty meters wide, this semi-circular room must have been the
Floyd | observatory lounge for the inhabitants' spare time. A set of tables
Floyd | and seats form a theater of sorts, for tonight's show of the universe.
Floyd | A glass dome, covering all the south side of the room and part of the
Floyd | ceiling, is open to the stars. The high corridor is to the northwest,
Floyd | while a second, tighter tunnel departs from the northeast. In the
Floyd | northern wall, a metal ladder heads up into an opening.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Mixer
Floyd | A small room, no window, just a thin slot for air conditioning.
Floyd |
Floyd | The north wall harbors a bulky keyboard, lit up by several buttons.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I sense you already have been playing with the commands,
Floyd | Ektor Mastiff. Nice job, on your behalf."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about buttons" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT BUTTONS
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"That's beyond my grasp."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to logan" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO LOGAN
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"This is a commanding cabinet for the bow section of the ship.
Floyd | Here you can operate the rails between stations, the Observatory
Floyd | bulkheads, and all of the ship main functions."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about circle button" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT CIRCLE BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I don't know what to say about that. Maybe you want to play a
Floyd | game, instead?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about bulkheads" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT BULKHEADS
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I cannot compute, sorry."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x slot" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SLOT
Floyd |
Floyd | It's just a thin slot. A millimeter or so.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "about" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |  > Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "credits" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |  > Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |  > Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |  > Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |  > Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |  > Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]                              Credits
Floyd | Release 1 of Andromeda Apocalypse was betatested and
Floyd | proofread by Neil Butters, Wade Clarke, Francesco Cordella, D. J.
Floyd | Hastings, Kevin Jackson-Mead, Andy Joel, Joey Jones, Paul Lee, and
Floyd | Andrew Schultz. Also, the whole text has been de-ingliscized
Floyd | by Sam Kabo Ashwell, with help from almost everyone of the
Floyd | aforementioned testers.
Floyd |
Floyd | If you have suggestions, corrections or flames, feel free to contact
Floyd | me at minnocenti@kidstudio.it. Of course, it would not be
Floyd | lethal to write me some (eventual) pleasantries, also.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "p" 		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "p" 		
smartgenes pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |  > Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "p" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |  > Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "p" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |  > Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "p" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |  > Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "p" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |  > Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]                Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd | Floating in space on a strange vessel, sole survivor of a world... and
Floyd | maybe of the entire human race, Ektor Mastiff must find a way through
Floyd | the cosmos, on a voyage that can change the history of mankind
Floyd | forever.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Andromeda Apocalypse is part 2 in the Andromeda Series by Marco
Floyd | Innocenti. The first episode, Andromeda Awakening, can be found and
Floyd | played on the IFDB (ifdb.tads.org). Although playing the first game is
Floyd | not required, to better understand the story it is highly recommended.
Floyd |
Floyd | Andromeda Awakening, Andromeda Apocalypse, Andromeda Legacy and all of
Floyd | the fictional characters and places depicted in the games are by Marco
Floyd | Innocenti, unless stated otherwise. The cover art, as long as all the
Floyd | other graphic bits distributed along with the games, are by Marco
Floyd | Innocenti.
Floyd |
Floyd | The title song Black Giant was produced by Wade Clarke and is (P) and
Floyd | (C) 2012 Wade Clarke.
Floyd |
Floyd | The character of Gettare Rinors is by Joey Jones and is used with
Floyd | permission.
Floyd |
Floyd | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Floyd | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, and can be
Floyd | freely copied, distributed or played in public for non-commercial
Floyd | purposes.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		
smartgenes pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |  > Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "q" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd | Mixer
Floyd | A small room, no window, just a thin slot for air conditioning.
Floyd |
Floyd | The north wall harbors a bulky keyboard, lit up by several buttons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "sorry davidw"
		DavidW says, "s'okay. I think we should next visit the commanders' quarters."
		smartgenes says, "so this is part 2"
		DavidW says, "In a series of games, yes."
		flitchard asks, "where can I download this?"
jenrexrode has had her fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		DavidW says, "It's on the ifarchive. Probably easiest to go to ifdb or ifwiki and look for a link there."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory Room
Floyd | At least fifty meters wide, this semi-circular room must have been the
Floyd | observatory lounge for the inhabitants' spare time. A set of tables
Floyd | and seats form a theater of sorts, for tonight's show of the universe.
Floyd | A glass dome, covering all the south side of the room and part of the
Floyd | ceiling, is open to the stars. The high corridor is to the northwest,
Floyd | while a second, tighter tunnel departs from the northeast. In the
Floyd | northern wall, a metal ladder heads up into an opening.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast south southwest east
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The bigger tunnel in which you stand is a replica of the lower ones,
Floyd | starting southwest of here. Same environment, except for different
Floyd | proportions. The ceiling is at least ten meters above you, and the
Floyd | wormhole is equally wide. To the south, it clogs into a strange valve,
Floyd | like an intestine curtain of steel. To the east and northeast, two
Floyd | glass paneled doors open into similar, sterile rooms. The high
Floyd | corridor continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north south southwest east
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The steel wormhole continues north into a wide chamber, and runs south
Floyd | into its next section. Lights flicker dimly. To the east, a bulky
Floyd | shutter stands closed. To the southwest is a dimly lit room, with
Floyd | strange machinery on the inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (north, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Train Station
Floyd | Light in here gets dimmer, as the only source is several meters up
Floyd | ahead, on the distant ceiling. In front of you, a ramp runs into
Floyd | several tunnels, each lined by railways. Many of the holes are
Floyd | shuttered by heavy bulkheads, while others lead into darkness, way out
Floyd | of reach. On the opposite side, the circular room enters the high
Floyd | corridor to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | A lone wagon, an open boat hanging over rails, sits undamaged at the
Floyd | beginning of the ramp.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon is a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter wagon" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (north, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER WAGON
Floyd |
Floyd | You get onto the lone wagon.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon you can see a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button. g" 		

Floyd ]                           Second Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast west (south, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH RED BUTTON. G
Floyd |
Floyd | The wagon departs!
Floyd |
Floyd | After a short while you find yourself in...
Floyd |
Floyd | Crossroads (on the lone wagon)
Floyd | The tube opens into a crossed path. The rails cross a few meters
Floyd | ahead, providing passages in all four cardinal directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | A signpost is hanging from the ceiling, a fluorescent symbol faintly
Floyd | glowing in the dark. The symbol is now plus-shaped.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon you can see a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | The wagon departs!
Floyd |
Floyd | After a short while you find yourself in...
Floyd |
Floyd | Second Station (on the lone wagon)
Floyd | In here rails depart into several holes that plunge into darkness. A
Floyd | set of secondary tunnels leaves from the north and northeast while, to
Floyd | the west, a much larger highway is lit by a strong flashing strobe.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon you can see a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]                           Second Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast west (south, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You get off the lone wagon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Second Station
Floyd | In here rails depart into several holes that plunge into darkness. A
Floyd | set of secondary tunnels leaves from the north and northeast while, to
Floyd | the west, a much larger highway is lit by a strong flashing strobe.
Floyd |
Floyd | A lone wagon, an open boat hanging over rails, sits undamaged at the
Floyd | end of the ramp.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon is a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                              Hexagon
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northwest south
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hexagon
Floyd | A hexagonal room, lined in plaster and steel, with six doors opening
Floyd | into six more locations. Three of them look dead, while the others
Floyd | glow or flicker to different rhythms. To the south is the dark tunnel
Floyd | leading to the railway station; to the northwest and north the
Floyd | functioning exits.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"You can recognize the Commanders' area by the unique shape of
Floyd | the rooms. Most are six-sided, like this one. Due to the power
Floyd | leakage, some of the doors have rested shut for so much time
Floyd | they are now useless. You can take the two still working to gain
Floyd | access to the Commanders' Quarters, to the north, or the Forebridge,
Floyd | to the northwest."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to logan" 		

Floyd ]                              Hexagon
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northwest south
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO LOGAN
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The many broken doors lead to the crew quarters. I suspect
Floyd | there is still someone trapped in there. Of course, no more living."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                        Commanders' Quarters
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | The plaster door opens as you get near it and closes after you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Commanders' Quarters
Floyd | Another hexagonal room, this time with just one exit, leading south
Floyd | through a plaster door. The room is exceptionally blank, as a sort of
Floyd | minimalistic museum.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the center of the room, a six-sided glass table takes most of the
Floyd | space. The surface is crystal-clean, a mocking at the passing of time.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"This has been a much livelier place, back in time. The
Floyd | table in the center of the quarters is a holographic projector. It was
Floyd | used by the crew to gaze at the stars, both for leisure and for
Floyd | study."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline | [LINK]
		Jacqueline says, "Sorry, took me a second to find the link."
		DavidW says, "ask logan about table"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about table" 		

Floyd ]                        Commanders' Quarters
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I don't understand, Ektor Mastiff."
Floyd |
Floyd | [Hard time interacting with LOGAN? Remember you can TALK to him in
Floyd | rooms for comments on the environment. You can SHOW things to him or
Floyd | ASK him ABOUT subjects. Also, the formal "LOGAN, " is usually
Floyd | best to get explanations on the words he says in bold type.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to logan" 		

Floyd ]                        Commanders' Quarters
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO LOGAN
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"You are the last commander of this ship, Ektor Mastiff. You
Floyd | may want to act like one. If I can I will try and help you in
Floyd | fulfilling your goals."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about projector" 		

Floyd ]                        Commanders' Quarters
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT PROJECTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I don't know what to say about that. Maybe you want to play a
Floyd | game, instead?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I was right that the table was a holo projector, though."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "logan, turn on table" 		

Floyd ]                        Commanders' Quarters
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOGAN, TURN ON TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"That is not linked to my sub-routines. I cannot comply."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "lol"
		DavidW says, "I want to grab the disc back next."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                              Hexagon
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northwest south
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hexagon
Floyd | A hexagonal room, lined in plaster and steel, with six doors opening
Floyd | into six more locations. Three of them look dead, while the others
Floyd | glow or flicker to different rhythms. To the south is the dark tunnel
Floyd | leading to the railway station; to the northwest and north the
Floyd | functioning exits.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                           Second Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast west (south, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Second Station
Floyd | In here rails depart into several holes that plunge into darkness. A
Floyd | set of secondary tunnels leaves from the north and northeast while, to
Floyd | the west, a much larger highway is lit by a strong flashing strobe.
Floyd |
Floyd | A lone wagon, an open boat hanging over rails, sits undamaged at the
Floyd | end of the ramp.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon is a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]                             Chess Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Chess Room
Floyd | This six-sided room reminds you of the chess training grounds in which
Floyd | you used to spend your spare time during your first years in
Floyd | Brouguoise, before they hired you at the University of Monarch: The
Floyd | size, roughly the same; the white, featureless walls -- a sort of
Floyd | dramatic fashion of the times in which the Campus was built; the
Floyd | plain, cold light that fills the place. But most of all, what strikes
Floyd | you as a perfect mimic is the object filling the center of the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Two men, seated and facing each other, play a game around a six-sided
Floyd | table, in an everlasting match.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes asks, "where is the other room with the terminal?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Thousand Lights Room
Floyd | A six-sided room. Each wall is covered in a myriad of tiny bulbs, each
Floyd | one the size of a bee's eye. Most of the lights are on, drawing
Floyd | patterns and ungraspable designs. On the east wall, a ten-by-twenty
Floyd | centimeter spot just below a small viewscreen bears a series of five
Floyd | symbols, printed in an obscure, alien language. The room is then
Floyd | empty, except for a large cubic device placed against its northern
Floyd | wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | The hologram on the device shows -- unmistakably -- a Hyerotrope.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the large cubic device is a golden disc.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take disc" 		

Floyd ]                        Thousand Lights Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE DISC
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                             Chess Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north southwest
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Chess Room
Floyd | This six-sided room reminds you of the chess training grounds in which
Floyd | you used to spend your spare time during your first years in
Floyd | Brouguoise, before they hired you at the University of Monarch: The
Floyd | size, roughly the same; the white, featureless walls -- a sort of
Floyd | dramatic fashion of the times in which the Campus was built; the
Floyd | plain, cold light that fills the place. But most of all, what strikes
Floyd | you as a perfect mimic is the object filling the center of the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Two men, seated and facing each other, play a game around a six-sided
Floyd | table, in an everlasting match.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd ]                           Second Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast west (south, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Second Station
Floyd | In here rails depart into several holes that plunge into darkness. A
Floyd | set of secondary tunnels leaves from the north and northeast while, to
Floyd | the west, a much larger highway is lit by a strong flashing strobe.
Floyd |
Floyd | A lone wagon, an open boat hanging over rails, sits undamaged at the
Floyd | end of the ramp.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon is a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                              Hexagon
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northwest south
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hexagon
Floyd | A hexagonal room, lined in plaster and steel, with six doors opening
Floyd | into six more locations. Three of them look dead, while the others
Floyd | glow or flicker to different rhythms. To the south is the dark tunnel
Floyd | leading to the railway station; to the northwest and north the
Floyd | functioning exits.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]                             Forebridge
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southeast
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Forebridge
Floyd | An hexagonal chamber, this time rather larger than the previous ones.
Floyd | A set of lounge chairs dots the place, each of the seats resting empty
Floyd | in front of a terminal. To the north, a four-by-two-meter screen
Floyd | almost entirely covers the wall. This is probably the main bridge of
Floyd | the ship.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"To engage the self-destruction sequence you have to
Floyd | activate the emergency measures at console 21b. Let me show it to
Floyd | you."
Floyd |
Floyd | A second later, a terminal comes out from one of the desks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf4" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]                             Forebridge
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southeast
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Hrm... phone"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x terminal" 		

Floyd ]                             Forebridge
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southeast
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TERMINAL
Floyd |
Floyd | (the emergency measures terminal)
Floyd | The console is made of a lot of senseless keys and symbols. One larger
Floyd | button is glowing green.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"If you find any difficulties engaging the right
Floyd | sequence, ask me and I will help produce it for you."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "perhaps we should pause until Jacqueline gets back?"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]                             Forebridge
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southeast
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You're carrying a golden disc, a translucid bar and an useless railway
Floyd | ticket. You are wearing a white jumpsuit and some clothes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "show disc to logan" 		

Floyd ]                             Forebridge
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southeast
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW DISC TO LOGAN
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Part of your race's history is coded in that disc. I found
Floyd | the music and the natural sounds... quite inspiring. Yours must have
Floyd | been a very interesting planet to inhabit."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about sequence" 		

Floyd ]                             Forebridge
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southeast
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT SEQUENCE
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Oh, yes, of course. You don't understand Neulanean. Let me
Floyd | trigger the sequence for you. When I'm done, simply press the large,
Floyd | green button to engage it."
Floyd |
Floyd | All of a sudden, the big screen on the wall turns to life, and a
Floyd | series of mysterious symbols start filling it. After a while, the
Floyd | symbols are replaced by the blueprint of the Arcadia.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x blueprint" 		

Floyd ]                             Forebridge
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southeast
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BLUEPRINT
Floyd |
Floyd | The Arcadia is showing itself on the big screen. A set of tiny dots
Floyd | stipples the blueprint following an invisible line that cuts the ship
Floyd | in two.
Floyd |
Floyd | Just by chance you discover a strange little drawing in the bottom
Floyd | part of the blueprint. It looks like a hundred-legged spider. When you
Floyd | understand what it is -- and the proportions with the rest of the ship
Floyd | -- you gasp.
Floyd |
Floyd | "That's the train station," you whisper, prompting a comment from
Floyd | LOGAN.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Quite big, right, Ektor Mastiff?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Tzahnke arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. 		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about big" 		

Floyd ]                             Forebridge
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southeast
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT BIG
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The starship Arcadia is six-hundred-twenty-five kilometers
Floyd | long and two-hundred-ninety across. That's the largest size a
Floyd | Neulanean ship has ever been. Unfortunately that record will never be
Floyd | broken."
Floyd |
Floyd | [You have earned the A Matter of Size achievement]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |  > Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		asks, "er, did someone whisper to Floyd?"
		smartgenes says, "not me."
Tzahnke disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "q" 		

Floyd ]                             Forebridge
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southeast
Floyd | Forebridge
Floyd | An hexagonal chamber, this time rather larger than the previous ones.
Floyd | A set of lounge chairs dots the place, each of the seats resting empty
Floyd | in front of a terminal. To the north, a four-by-two-meter screen
Floyd | almost entirely covers the wall. This is the main bridge of the ship.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the desks near the giant screen is open, revealing a lit
Floyd | terminal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "achievements" 		

Floyd ]                             Forebridge
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southeast
Floyd |
Floyd | > ACHIEVEMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Achievements for Andromeda Apocalypse:
Floyd |
Floyd | A Hell of a Storm    (You watched the sky turn dark)
Floyd | A Dark Omen    (You have seen the dark side of the
Floyd | sky)
Floyd | The Leaper    (You have jumped through the void)
Floyd | Invisible Killer    ( -???- )
Floyd | The Dweller    (You have reached the bottom)
Floyd | To Shed a Light    (You have turned the lights on)
Floyd | Ticketless Ride    (You have taken the train)
Floyd | The Fisher    (You have seen the fish)
Floyd | The X Marks the Spot    (You have crossed over)
Floyd | Play It Again, Ektor    (You have played a record)
Floyd | Communication Breakdown    (You know how to have people
Floyd | listen to you)
Floyd | A Matter of Time    (You know how old is the Arcadia)
Floyd | A Matter of Size    (You know how big is the Arcadia)
Floyd | Archaeologist    ( -???- )
Floyd | Cuboctahedron    ( -???- )
Floyd | Flying the Egg    (You took a cab)
Floyd | To Be a Scientist    (You found your calling)
Floyd | Sinking the Ship    ( -???- )
Floyd | The Shining    ( -???- )
Floyd | Hellen Ripley    ( -???- )
Floyd | Indiana Jones    ( -???- )
Floyd | Survivor    ( -???- )
Floyd | Gettare Rinors    ( -???- )
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Should we continue to wait for Jacqueline or not?"
		smartgenes asks, "how do we know how many achivements there are?"
		DavidW says, "well, it's listing them all."
		Jacqueline says, "Nah, it's my mother, and her birthday was this week, so you guys keep going."
		Jacqueline says, "Thank you for thinking of me, though."
		smartgenes says, "odh, so the question marks are ungot"
		DavidW says, "okay, so I think the next section needs a driver, or we're likely to die during the escape attempt."
		smartgenes says, "go for it"
		DavidW says, "okay"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push green button" 		

Floyd ]                             Forebridge
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southeast
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH GREEN BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | The blueprint on the screen is suddenly filled with rays, tracing
Floyd | routes and schemes. After a while the show ends... and nothing
Floyd | happens. You look at the screen, puzzled.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"This is interesting. The sequence won't start. The
Floyd | core bars are depleted, I guess. I'm sorry, Ektor Mastiff, but
Floyd | this I couldn't foresee: the bars are kept in a place where my sensors
Floyd | can't enter. This has been designed this way so I wouldn't be able to
Floyd | destroy the Arcadia without human agency."
Floyd |
Floyd | [You have earned the Sinking the Ship achievement]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about core" 		

Floyd ]                             Forebridge
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southeast
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT CORE
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The self-destruction is triggered by a chain reaction
Floyd | starting from the bow section of the ship, under the Observatory.
Floyd | There, in a secluded environment, are stored and wired radioactive
Floyd | bars of the kind used for fueling small and medium ships. Due to the
Floyd | extreme long confinement of the Arcadia, the bars must have
Floyd | been depleted. I suggest you go and find new bars to replace the
Floyd | depleted ones."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "asha we have a core bar"
		DavidW says, "we do, but we've never gone under the observatory"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]                              Hexagon
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northwest south
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hexagon
Floyd | A hexagonal room, lined in plaster and steel, with six doors opening
Floyd | into six more locations. Three of them look dead, while the others
Floyd | glow or flicker to different rhythms. To the south is the dark tunnel
Floyd | leading to the railway station; to the northwest and north the
Floyd | functioning exits.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                           Second Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast west (south, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Second Station
Floyd | In here rails depart into several holes that plunge into darkness. A
Floyd | set of secondary tunnels leaves from the north and northeast while, to
Floyd | the west, a much larger highway is lit by a strong flashing strobe.
Floyd |
Floyd | A lone wagon, an open boat hanging over rails, sits undamaged at the
Floyd | end of the ramp.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon is a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter wagon" 		

Floyd ]                           Second Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast west (south, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER WAGON
Floyd |
Floyd | You get onto the lone wagon.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon you can see a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push brown button.g" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (north, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH BROWN BUTTON.G
Floyd |
Floyd | The wagon departs!
Floyd |
Floyd | After a short while you find yourself in...
Floyd |
Floyd | Crossroads (on the lone wagon)
Floyd | The tube opens into a crossed path. The rails cross a few meters
Floyd | ahead, providing passages in all four cardinal directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | A signpost is hanging from the ceiling, a fluorescent symbol faintly
Floyd | glowing in the dark. The symbol is now plus-shaped.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon you can see a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | The wagon departs!
Floyd |
Floyd | After a short while you find yourself in...
Floyd |
Floyd | Train Station (on the lone wagon)
Floyd | Light in here gets dimmer, as the only source is several meters up
Floyd | ahead, on the distant ceiling. In front of you, a ramp runs into
Floyd | several tunnels, each lined by railways. Many of the holes are
Floyd | shuttered by heavy bulkheads, while others lead into darkness, way out
Floyd | of reach. On the opposite side, the circular room enters the high
Floyd | corridor to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon you can see a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (north, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You get off the lone wagon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Train Station
Floyd | Light in here gets dimmer, as the only source is several meters up
Floyd | ahead, on the distant ceiling. In front of you, a ramp runs into
Floyd | several tunnels, each lined by railways. Many of the holes are
Floyd | shuttered by heavy bulkheads, while others lead into darkness, way out
Floyd | of reach. On the opposite side, the circular room enters the high
Floyd | corridor to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | A lone wagon, an open boat hanging over rails, sits undamaged at the
Floyd | beginning of the ramp.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon is a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "brief" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (north, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > BRIEF
Floyd |
Floyd | Andromeda Apocalypse is now in its "brief" printing mode, which gives
Floyd | long descriptions of places never before visited and short
Floyd | descriptions otherwise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north south southwest east
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast south southwest east
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory Room
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x floor" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FLOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory Room
Floyd | At least fifty meters wide, this semi-circular room must have been the
Floyd | observatory lounge for the inhabitants' spare time. A set of tables
Floyd | and seats form a theater of sorts, for tonight's show of the universe.
Floyd | A glass dome, covering all the south side of the room and part of the
Floyd | ceiling, is open to the stars. The high corridor is to the northwest,
Floyd | while a second, tighter tunnel departs from the northeast. In the
Floyd | northern wall, a metal ladder heads up into an opening.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to logan" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO LOGAN
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"This was the relax area of the ship. Due to the limited
Floyd | amount of space, the Observatory was accessed after a quite long
Floyd | queue. All had the rights to be here, but sometimes you had to wait a
Floyd | month before finding a single vacant seat. The Commanders were
Floyd | thinking about asking for an entrance fee, but in the end they decided
Floyd | otherwise."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about core" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT CORE
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The self-destruction is triggered by a chain reaction
Floyd | starting from the bow section of the ship, under the Observatory.
Floyd | There, in a secluded environment, are stored and wired radioactive
Floyd | bars of the kind used for fueling small and medium ships. Due to the
Floyd | extreme long confinement of the Arcadia, the bars must have
Floyd | been depleted. I suggest you go and find new bars to replace the
Floyd | depleted ones."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about confinement" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT CONFINEMENT
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The Arcadia has been pierced through by a series of
Floyd | unknown objects during its trip through the galaxy of
Floyd | Andromeda. Due to the major damage sustained, the Arcadia stopped
Floyd | traveling and being fully functional some time ago. It is now
Floyd | in power reserve mode. The Arcadia has been traveling from the
Floyd | galaxy of Neulan trying to escape the omega supernova."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "cam we get to bow via the vehicle?'"
		DavidW says, "This is the observatory. We just need to find the access."
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "verbose" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > VERBOSE
Floyd |
Floyd | Andromeda Apocalypse is now in its "verbose" mode, which always gives
Floyd | long descriptions of locations (even if you've been there before).
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory Room
Floyd | At least fifty meters wide, this semi-circular room must have been the
Floyd | observatory lounge for the inhabitants' spare time. A set of tables
Floyd | and seats form a theater of sorts, for tonight's show of the universe.
Floyd | A glass dome, covering all the south side of the room and part of the
Floyd | ceiling, is open to the stars. The high corridor is to the northwest,
Floyd | while a second, tighter tunnel departs from the northeast. In the
Floyd | northern wall, a metal ladder heads up into an opening.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search seats" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH SEATS
Floyd |
Floyd | No one has been littering this place for quite some time.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search tables" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH TABLES
Floyd |
Floyd | No one has been littering this place for quite some time.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about bow" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT BOW
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"That's beyond my grasp."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Mixer
Floyd | A small room, no window, just a thin slot for air conditioning.
Floyd |
Floyd | The north wall harbors a bulky keyboard, lit up by several buttons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x keyboard" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > X KEYBOARD
Floyd |
Floyd | The mixer is powered. On it, among the many cryptic buttons, three
Floyd | have symbols that you can comprehend. On the first is a star, on the
Floyd | second a plus symbol, on the last a circle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask logan about keyboard" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT KEYBOARD
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I don't understand, Ektor Mastiff."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "hmm this 1mm slot"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ask logan about slot" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK LOGAN ABOUT SLOT
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I cannot compute, sorry."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "That's the air conditioning vent, no?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put bar in slot" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT BAR IN SLOT
Floyd |
Floyd | Nothing would fit. Almost nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put ticket in slot" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT TICKET IN SLOT
Floyd |
Floyd | The ticket fits... and it's sucked inside!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "almost nothing"
		smartgenes says, "hmm what was the point of that"
		DavidW says, "I have no idea."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory Room
Floyd | At least fifty meters wide, this semi-circular room must have been the
Floyd | observatory lounge for the inhabitants' spare time. A set of tables
Floyd | and seats form a theater of sorts, for tonight's show of the universe.
Floyd | A glass dome, covering all the south side of the room and part of the
Floyd | ceiling, is open to the stars. The high corridor is to the northwest,
Floyd | while a second, tighter tunnel departs from the northeast. In the
Floyd | northern wall, a metal ladder heads up into an opening.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "we didnt unlock the achievement messing with the airvents"
		DavidW asks, "was there one for that?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "achievements" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > ACHIEVEMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Achievements for Andromeda Apocalypse:
Floyd |
Floyd | A Hell of a Storm    (You watched the sky turn dark)
Floyd | A Dark Omen    (You have seen the dark side of the
Floyd | sky)
Floyd | The Leaper    (You have jumped through the void)
Floyd | Invisible Killer    ( -???- )
Floyd | The Dweller    (You have reached the bottom)
Floyd | To Shed a Light    (You have turned the lights on)
Floyd | Ticketless Ride    (You have taken the train)
Floyd | The Fisher    (You have seen the fish)
Floyd | The X Marks the Spot    (You have crossed over)
Floyd | Play It Again, Ektor    (You have played a record)
Floyd | Communication Breakdown    (You know how to have people
Floyd | listen to you)
Floyd | A Matter of Time    (You know how old is the Arcadia)
Floyd | A Matter of Size    (You know how big is the Arcadia)
Floyd | Archaeologist    ( -???- )
Floyd | Cuboctahedron    ( -???- )
Floyd | Flying the Egg    (You took a cab)
Floyd | To Be a Scientist    (You found your calling)
Floyd | Sinking the Ship    (You started the last journey)
Floyd | The Shining    ( -???- )
Floyd | Hellen Ripley    ( -???- )
Floyd | Indiana Jones    ( -???- )
Floyd | Survivor    ( -???- )
Floyd | Gettare Rinors    ( -???- )
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "joke :-D"
		DavidW asks, "well, I don't know what to do next. I don't see any obvious way under, unless the star/circle buttons might not kill us with the jumpsuit?"
		smartgenes says, "possible i guess"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "show jumpsuit to logan" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW JUMPSUIT TO LOGAN
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"This is the regular anti-radiation suit for the technical
Floyd | crew of the Arcadia. It may come in handy for sustaining high
Floyd | temperature as well as freezing. You can use it in case of ELSS
Floyd | malfunction."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I think we should try the bulkhead buttons."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf5" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push circle button" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH CIRCLE BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Mixer
Floyd | A small room, no window, just a thin slot for air conditioning.
Floyd |
Floyd | The north wall harbors a bulky keyboard, lit up by several buttons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push circle button" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH CIRCLE BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | A soft humming sound comes from the Observatory Room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory Room
Floyd | At least fifty meters wide, this semi-circular room must have been the
Floyd | observatory lounge for the inhabitants' spare time. A set of tables
Floyd | and seats form a theater of sorts, for tonight's show of the universe.
Floyd | A glass dome, covering all the south side of the room and part of the
Floyd | ceiling, is open to the stars. The high corridor is to the northwest,
Floyd | while a second, tighter tunnel departs from the northeast. In the
Floyd | northern wall, a metal ladder heads up into an opening.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dome itself looks more shiny. Through it the warmth of the
Floyd | supernova reaches the interior of the room with great strength. You
Floyd | can feel the warmth reaching inside the jumpsuit.
Floyd |
Floyd | The supernova flare starts heating the bar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "it gives some resistance"
		DavidW says, "hm."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Mixer
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push star button" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH STAR BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | A soft humming sound comes from the Observatory Room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory Room
Floyd | At least fifty meters wide, this semi-circular room must have been the
Floyd | observatory lounge for the inhabitants' spare time. A set of tables
Floyd | and seats form a theater of sorts, for tonight's show of the universe.
Floyd | A glass dome, covering all the south side of the room and part of the
Floyd | ceiling, is open to the stars. The high corridor is to the northwest,
Floyd | while a second, tighter tunnel departs from the northeast. In the
Floyd | northern wall, a metal ladder heads up into an opening.
Floyd |
Floyd | A segment of the dome has been retracted. Through it the supernova
Floyd | looks far brighter. The intense light is just barely suffocated by the
Floyd | jumpsuit's dark sunshade.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dome itself looks more shiny. Through it the warmth of the
Floyd | supernova reaches the interior of the room with great strength. You
Floyd | can feel the warmth reaching inside the jumpsuit.
Floyd |
Floyd | The supernova radiation starts powering the bar.
Floyd |
Floyd | The supernova flare starts heating the bar.
Floyd |
Floyd | After a few seconds, the immense power of the devouring supernova
Floyd | charges the bar to its full potential.
Floyd |
Floyd | [You have earned the The Shining achievement]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "hmm we got that one more by luck than anything else"
		DavidW says, "I still don't see where to put the bar."
		DavidW asks, "Go back up and push both star and circle again?"
		smartgenes says, "there must be a way down somewhere.. maybe it isnt direct from here"
		smartgenes asks, "do we need to turn off the buttons?"
		DavidW says, "well, I don't want the bar to explode in my hands."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Mixer
Floyd | A small room, no window, just a thin slot for air conditioning.
Floyd |
Floyd | The north wall harbors a bulky keyboard, lit up by several buttons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push star button" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH STAR BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | A soft humming sound comes from the Observatory Room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push circle button" 		

Floyd ]                               Mixer
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: down
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH CIRCLE BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | A soft humming sound comes from the Observatory Room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory Room
Floyd | At least fifty meters wide, this semi-circular room must have been the
Floyd | observatory lounge for the inhabitants' spare time. A set of tables
Floyd | and seats form a theater of sorts, for tonight's show of the universe.
Floyd | A glass dome, covering all the south side of the room and part of the
Floyd | ceiling, is open to the stars. The high corridor is to the northwest,
Floyd | while a second, tighter tunnel departs from the northeast. In the
Floyd | northern wall, a metal ladder heads up into an opening.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bar" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BAR
Floyd |
Floyd | (the charged bar)
Floyd | The bar is one-and-a-half meters long. It is glowing and radiating
Floyd | intense heat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show bar to logan" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW BAR TO LOGAN
Floyd |
Floyd | (the charged bar to LOGAN)
Floyd | LOGAN://"You are lucky you wear one of the suits, Ektor Mastiff. The
Floyd | radiation is so intense it is disrupting some of my sensors."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "maybe the ticket in the airon can reveal the way down somehow"
		smartgenes asks, "what us to NE and what to NW?"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to logan" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO LOGAN
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"This was the relax area of the ship. Due to the limited
Floyd | amount of space, the Observatory was accessed after a quite long
Floyd | queue. All had the rights to be here, but sometimes you had to wait a
Floyd | month before finding a single vacant seat. The Commanders were
Floyd | thinking about asking for an entrance fee, but in the end they decided
Floyd | otherwise."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "sit down" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > SIT DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "The main bulk of the ship is NW and a broken train station is NE."
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast south southwest east
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The bigger tunnel in which you stand is a replica of the lower ones,
Floyd | starting southwest of here. Same environment, except for different
Floyd | proportions. The ceiling is at least ten meters above you, and the
Floyd | wormhole is equally wide. To the south, it clogs into a strange valve,
Floyd | like an intestine curtain of steel. To the east and northeast, two
Floyd | glass paneled doors open into similar, sterile rooms. The high
Floyd | corridor continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]                          East Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | East Laboratory
Floyd | A sterile room, every wall filled by glass cases of the same size and
Floyd | shape. It opens west through a glass paneled door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast south southwest east
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The bigger tunnel in which you stand is a replica of the lower ones,
Floyd | starting southwest of here. Same environment, except for different
Floyd | proportions. The ceiling is at least ten meters above you, and the
Floyd | wormhole is equally wide. To the south, it clogs into a strange valve,
Floyd | like an intestine curtain of steel. To the east and northeast, two
Floyd | glass paneled doors open into similar, sterile rooms. The high
Floyd | corridor continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory Room
Floyd | At least fifty meters wide, this semi-circular room must have been the
Floyd | observatory lounge for the inhabitants' spare time. A set of tables
Floyd | and seats form a theater of sorts, for tonight's show of the universe.
Floyd | A glass dome, covering all the south side of the room and part of the
Floyd | ceiling, is open to the stars. The high corridor is to the northwest,
Floyd | while a second, tighter tunnel departs from the northeast. In the
Floyd | northern wall, a metal ladder heads up into an opening.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]                          Clogged Railway
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clogged Railway
Floyd | The narrow corridor comes to a halt where it has been devoured by a
Floyd | large gaping hole, opening to the north under your feet. The hole
Floyd | continues up and to the southeast, from where it must have originated.
Floyd | A pair of now useless rails departs from here and fall into the
Floyd | darkness before you.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The chamber you seek is right below this point. You can try
Floyd | and go down from here. Just be extremely careful."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "aha"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "be extremely careful" 		

Floyd ]                          Clogged Railway
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd | > BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "down to doom"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "look down" 		

Floyd ]                          Clogged Railway
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "just go down already"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x hole" 		

Floyd ]                          Clogged Railway
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | The hole has been dug by something, quite big, punching through the
Floyd | metal boundaries of the structure you are in. Below, it plunges into
Floyd | darkness. Above, a hundred meters away, it opens into the emptiness of
Floyd | space.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]                Radioactive Bars Containment Chamber
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: up
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Radioactive Bars Containment Chamber
Floyd | The tunnel dug through torn metal and broken laminas opens after a
Floyd | while into a sort of alcove.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hidden under layers of lead and plastics, this cubic room seems to be
Floyd | a vault for protecting some highly valuable equipment. The only exit
Floyd | is via a rip above your head: There's no sign of another door and you
Floyd | puzzle at how one could have entered the place before the ravagings of
Floyd | time opened a way.
Floyd |
Floyd | Near the rip that cuts through the room, a double y-shaped holder has
Floyd | been pierced through by some unknown object. Although the holder
Floyd | itself has survived the crash: the same cannot be said of the bar that
Floyd | once rested on it, now reduced to mere powder.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"It seems that the object that has pierced the hull in this
Floyd | section of the ship has done its share of damage to the radioactive
Floyd | bars of the self-destruction engine. It seems you have to find an
Floyd | adequate substitute to power the sequence."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "insert bar in holder" 		

Floyd ]                Radioactive Bars Containment Chamber
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: up
Floyd |
Floyd | > INSERT BAR IN HOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | (the charged bar in the bars holder)
Floyd | You start putting the charged bar on the holder... but then hesitate.
Floyd | There is something, in Andy's words, that's still ringing in your
Floyd | ears.
Floyd |
Floyd | If I trigger the sequence, you murmur, the AI will be
Floyd | destroyed along with the ship.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"What are you waiting for, Ektor Mastiff? There is not much
Floyd | time left. The supernova is now less than half an hour from the
Floyd | Arcadia."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Tell me, LOGAN: How did your crew store their... memories? The story
Floyd | of your galaxy?"
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The bulk of Neulanean knowledge complexity is recorded in a
Floyd | compartment in bridge 3, level 4, starboard section, if that is what
Floyd | you mean. Unfortunately, the place is unreachable from here. Why are
Floyd | you asking, if I can inquire?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Fact is, my friend, that if I decide to blow up this ship, those
Floyd | memories... and yours also, will be lost forever. I don't know if I
Floyd | want the hand that pushes the button to be mine."
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Oh, this is a nice consideration, on your behalf, but I don't
Floyd | see how your choice could change the outcome. The supernova is almost
Floyd | here and there is no one left in the galaxy to save us."
Floyd |
Floyd | "That's fine, but... I don't know. Pulling the trigger: Wouldn't it
Floyd | mean they have won? The Hyerotropes, I mean. The fact that they are
Floyd | going seek-and-destroy on us and in the end we decide to sacrifice
Floyd | ourselves -- our heritage -- to them... Isn't it like surrendering?"
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a minute of silence, then the friendly machine speaks again:
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"I think you are rather miscalculating the situation, here,
Floyd | Ektor Mastiff. What makes you believe the objects you call the
Floyd | Hyerotropes are after you or any other being in the galaxy? Evidence
Floyd | suggests that the scope of the events triggered by them is not even
Floyd | comparable to the life-span of your -- or Neulanean's -- entire
Floyd | history. They seem to be invoking forces to mould masses of galaxies.
Floyd | Although I'm not programmed to make hypotheses, I can suppose they
Floyd | don't even calculate life as something worthy of their
Floyd | attention."
Floyd |
Floyd | You pause. The bar in your hands starts growing dim.
Floyd |
Floyd | "But they did disintegrate at least three inhabited
Floyd | galaxies." You think about Uncle Oren's last words. "If not life, what
Floyd | is it they are after?"
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"That I cannot answer. What I understand, though, is that you
Floyd | are giving us more account than we deserve. The universe is fifteen
Floyd | billion years old. We are just a whisper in a crowded gathering. The
Floyd | universe will survive. It will outlive us and maybe the Hyerotropes,
Floyd | too."
Floyd |
Floyd | "But," you insist, "why did they spare me? Why did they save
Floyd | me, if I'm not that important?"
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Because it is polite, isn't it, Ektor Mastiff?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You stare at the vacuum and take your decision. As you drop the
Floyd | charged bar in place, a vigorous alarm starts ringing. It is so strong
Floyd | you have to clog your ears. After about ten seconds, the alarm goes
Floyd | silent and everything becomes dark and cold.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"To trigger the self-destruct sequence, I had to remove power
Floyd | from every other remaining facility. I kept the railways functioning
Floyd | for you to get back to the Hyerotrope. The ELSS is down, so don't
Floyd | remove your suit at any cost. You have 40 minutes left before the
Floyd | Arcadia will blast. Good luck, Ektor Mastiff."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I assume we're on a timer now."
		smartgenes says, "the computer seems a bit chatty for a computer at this point"
		smartgenes asks, "is it impossible to get the knowledge?"
		DavidW says, "I don't see how."
		DavidW asks, "Shall I drive us to the h'trope?"
		smartgenes says, "yes.. another 7 achievemtns though i think"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]                          Clogged Railway
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: southwest down
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Clogged Railway
Floyd | The narrow corridor comes to a halt where it has been devoured by a
Floyd | large gaping hole, opening to the north under your feet. The hole
Floyd | continues up and to the southeast, from where it must have originated.
Floyd | A pair of now useless rails departs from here and fall into the
Floyd | darkness before you.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Warning! Self-destruct sequence activated. You have
Floyd | thirty-nine minutes to leave the ship!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
maga disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd ]                          Observatory Room
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: northeast northwest up
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory Room
Floyd | At least fifty meters wide, this semi-circular room must have been the
Floyd | observatory lounge for the inhabitants' spare time. A set of tables
Floyd | and seats form a theater of sorts, for tonight's show of the universe.
Floyd | A glass dome, covering all the south side of the room and part of the
Floyd | ceiling, is open to the stars. The high corridor is to the northwest,
Floyd | while a second, tighter tunnel departs from the northeast. In the
Floyd | northern wall, a metal ladder heads up into an opening.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast south southwest east
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The bigger tunnel in which you stand is a replica of the lower ones,
Floyd | starting southwest of here. Same environment, except for different
Floyd | proportions. The ceiling is at least ten meters above you, and the
Floyd | wormhole is equally wide. To the south, it clogs into a strange valve,
Floyd | like an intestine curtain of steel. To the east and northeast, two
Floyd | glass paneled doors open into similar, sterile rooms. The high
Floyd | corridor continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you pass through the big valve, it closes after you. Something
Floyd | tells you there's no turning back, at this point.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Emily says, "I tried several times to get the knowledge but I couldn't figure it out. but it felt like there ought to be a way"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north south southwest east
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The steel wormhole continues north into a wide chamber, and runs south
Floyd | into its next section. Lights flicker dimly. To the east, a bulky
Floyd | shutter stands closed. To the southwest is a dimly lit room, with
Floyd | strange machinery on the inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Warning! Self-destruct sequence activated. You have
Floyd | thirty-six minutes to leave the ship!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (north, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Train Station
Floyd | Light in here gets dimmer, as the only source is several meters up
Floyd | ahead, on the distant ceiling. In front of you, a ramp runs into
Floyd | several tunnels, each lined by railways. Many of the holes are
Floyd | shuttered by heavy bulkheads, while others lead into darkness, way out
Floyd | of reach. On the opposite side, the circular room enters the high
Floyd | corridor to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | A deformed monstrosity is snarling in front of you. You can see its
Floyd | eye, its venomous, thousand-toothed mouth. You can see its hunger. As
Floyd | you move a step, it becomes aware of you and picks up your scent.
Floyd |
Floyd | You had better hurry.
Floyd |
Floyd | A lone wagon, an open boat hanging over rails, sits undamaged at the
Floyd | beginning of the ramp.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon is a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Oh dear. It seems that dropping the main power has released
Floyd | our other only guest. Find sanctuary, Ektor Mastiff. That thing looks
Floyd | famished."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes asks, "ah the invisible creature thing?"
		DavidW says, "No the one in the cold room."
		smartgenes asks, "when was our last save?"
		DavidW says, "Observatory"
		smartgenes asks, "can we let virus out in order to kill it?"
		DavidW asks, "Head into the power chamber and run through the waste tunnel?"
		smartgenes says, "it says hurry,,"
		DavidW says, "I really don't know what our best strategy is."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf6" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (north, using the wagon)
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Which strategy should we try?"
		smartgenes says, "hmm one of the achievements is hellen ripley.."
		DavidW says, "I don't know that name."
		smartgenes asks, "getting monster out the aairlock?"
		smartgenes says, "as in Alien"
		DavidW asks, "What airlock?"
		smartgenes says, "hmm"
		DavidW says, "I think we have the power station, the tunnel, the deadly bacteria, and the way we entered in the first place."
		smartgenes asks, "what about the gate that the computer can close?"
		DavidW says, "oh and the cold room"
		smartgenes says, "in real life we would be dead by now"
		DavidW asks, "That's the entrance to the docks. Are we assuming we can just waltz past the critter to the train?"
		smartgenes says, "no then"
		smartgenes asks, "where is the bacteria?"
		DavidW says, "a room or three south then east? I'm not sure how many steps."
		DavidW says, "I'll try to get us there."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north south southwest east
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The steel wormhole continues north into a wide chamber, and runs south
Floyd | into its next section. Lights flicker dimly. To the east, a bulky
Floyd | shutter stands closed. To the southwest is a dimly lit room, with
Floyd | strange machinery on the inside.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The thousand-toothed nightmare arrives from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast south southwest east
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The bigger tunnel in which you stand is a replica of the lower ones,
Floyd | starting southwest of here. Same environment, except for different
Floyd | proportions. The ceiling is at least ten meters above you, and the
Floyd | wormhole is equally wide. To the south, it clogs into a strange valve,
Floyd | like an intestine curtain of steel. To the east and northeast, two
Floyd | glass paneled doors open into similar, sterile rooms. The high
Floyd | corridor continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Warning! Self-destruct sequence activated. You have
Floyd | thirty-three minutes to leave the ship!"
Floyd |
Floyd | The creature arrives from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]                          East Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | East Laboratory
Floyd | A sterile room, every wall filled by glass cases of the same size and
Floyd | shape. It opens west through a glass paneled door.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The thousand-toothed nightmare arrives from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open case" 		

Floyd ]                          East Laboratory
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: west
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN CASE
Floyd |
Floyd | You pull the handle then release it. The small door closes back
Floyd | pneumatically in a few seconds.
Floyd |
Floyd | Something strange happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | A faint... wind caresses your right arm as the case closes. It feels
Floyd | like someone is breathing in your ears with levity. A sort of...
Floyd | buzzing can be heard around you.
Floyd |
Floyd | It could easily have been your imagination.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The creature roars with anger. You can feel its hunger growing.
Floyd |
Floyd | The creature snarls at you, its thousand-toothed mouth the sole
Floyd | plausible exit from this decaying world. Then, something happens. Its
Floyd | mouth begins filling with blood and before you can understand what is
Floyd | happening, the hulk is devoured by a billion tiny insects.
Floyd |
Floyd | A hiss follows the invisible killer as it abandons the room, leaving
Floyd | you unscarred.
Floyd |
Floyd | [You have earned the Hellen Ripley achievement]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "yayy"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast south southwest east
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The bigger tunnel in which you stand is a replica of the lower ones,
Floyd | starting southwest of here. Same environment, except for different
Floyd | proportions. The ceiling is at least ten meters above you, and the
Floyd | wormhole is equally wide. To the south, it clogs into a strange valve,
Floyd | like an intestine curtain of steel. To the east and northeast, two
Floyd | glass paneled doors open into similar, sterile rooms. The high
Floyd | corridor continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Warning! Self-destruct sequence activated. You have thirty
Floyd | minutes to leave the ship!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                           High Corridor
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north south southwest east
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | High Corridor
Floyd | The steel wormhole continues north into a wide chamber, and runs south
Floyd | into its next section. Lights flicker dimly. To the east, a bulky
Floyd | shutter stands closed. To the southwest is a dimly lit room, with
Floyd | strange machinery on the inside.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (north, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Train Station
Floyd | Light in here gets dimmer, as the only source is several meters up
Floyd | ahead, on the distant ceiling. In front of you, a ramp runs into
Floyd | several tunnels, each lined by railways. Many of the holes are
Floyd | shuttered by heavy bulkheads, while others lead into darkness, way out
Floyd | of reach. On the opposite side, the circular room enters the high
Floyd | corridor to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | A lone wagon, an open boat hanging over rails, sits undamaged at the
Floyd | beginning of the ramp.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon is a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter wagon" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (north, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER WAGON
Floyd |
Floyd | You get onto the lone wagon.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon you can see a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Warning! Self-destruct sequence activated. You have
Floyd | twenty-seven minutes to leave the ship!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (north, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | (first getting off the lone wagon)
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]                           Train Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south (north, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Train Station
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd ]                             Crossroads
Floyd ]
Floyd ] (south and north, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH RED BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | The wagon departs!
Floyd |
Floyd | After a short while you find yourself in...
Floyd |
Floyd | Crossroads (on the lone wagon)
Floyd | The tube opens into a crossed path. The rails cross a few meters
Floyd | ahead, providing passages in all four cardinal directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | A signpost is hanging from the ceiling, a fluorescent symbol faintly
Floyd | glowing in the dark. The symbol is now plus-shaped.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see an useless railway ticket here.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon you can see a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]                           Second Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast west (south, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | The wagon departs!
Floyd |
Floyd | After a short while you find yourself in...
Floyd |
Floyd | Second Station (on the lone wagon)
Floyd | In here rails depart into several holes that plunge into darkness. A
Floyd | set of secondary tunnels leaves from the north and northeast while, to
Floyd | the west, a much larger highway is lit by a strong flashing strobe.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon you can see a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "the ticket was to the south"
		DavidW says, "huh. The ticket ended up there."
		DavidW says, "f undo"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]                             Crossroads
Floyd ]
Floyd ] (south and north, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Crossroads
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take ticket" 		

Floyd ]                             Crossroads
Floyd ]
Floyd ] (south and north, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE TICKET
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red button" 		

Floyd ]                           Second Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast west (south, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH RED BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | The wagon departs!
Floyd |
Floyd | After a short while you find yourself in...
Floyd |
Floyd | Second Station (on the lone wagon)
Floyd | In here rails depart into several holes that plunge into darkness. A
Floyd | set of secondary tunnels leaves from the north and northeast while, to
Floyd | the west, a much larger highway is lit by a strong flashing strobe.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon you can see a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Warning! Self-destruct sequence activated. You have
Floyd | twenty-four minutes to leave the ship!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]                           Second Station
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northeast west (south, using the wagon)
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You get off the lone wagon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Second Station
Floyd | In here rails depart into several holes that plunge into darkness. A
Floyd | set of secondary tunnels leaves from the north and northeast while, to
Floyd | the west, a much larger highway is lit by a strong flashing strobe.
Floyd |
Floyd | A lone wagon, an open boat hanging over rails, sits undamaged at the
Floyd | end of the ramp.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the lone wagon is a rusty console.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]                     Through Belmont and Keller
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: east west
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Through Belmont and Keller
Floyd | This looks like the section of highway that dives under the Garath
Floyd | Sea, west of Brouguoise and back home in Capital Monarch, to all the
Floyd | people in town known as "Belmont and Keller", after the avenues it
Floyd | runs through. No cars, no traffic and no toll booth, but all the rest
Floyd | is here, replicated tile-by-tile.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bars of the gate are lifted and now stick into the ceiling like a
Floyd | giant's teeth.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]         Through Belmont and Keller, other side of the gate
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: east west
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Through Belmont and Keller, other side of the gate
Floyd | The tunnel runs east to west, into the docks of the ship.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bars of the gate are lifted and now stick into the ceiling like a
Floyd | giant's teeth.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Warning! Self-destruct sequence activated. You have
Floyd | twenty-one minutes to leave the ship!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]                     In the Mouth of the Whale
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: north northwest south southwest east west
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In the Mouth of the Whale
Floyd | At least six hundred meters wide, two hundred high and three
Floyd | kilometers long, the hangar could probably harbor all of your
Floyd | skyscraper block in Monarch with spare room for a garden and a
Floyd | supermarket. The place has been trashed by some unknown force, a lot
Floyd | of its old content scattered around and devastated.
Floyd |
Floyd | The docks are to the northwest, west and southwest, while south and
Floyd | north the enormous chamber continues, among debris, spare ship parts,
Floyd | crates and boxes of every kind and size.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                           Hangar, north
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south southwest west
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hangar, north
Floyd | The place is a mess, but not as much as the south side. Crates and
Floyd | equipment pieces are scattered all around the floor, remains of a
Floyd | devastating incident. The hangar continues south, southwest and west.
Floyd |
Floyd | A sort of egg-like pod shines, through the debris, under a transparent
Floyd | tube coming off of the ceiling.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter pod" 		

Floyd ]                           Hangar, north
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: south southwest west
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER POD
Floyd |
Floyd | You get into the pod.
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Destination?"
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Warning! Self-destruct sequence activated. You have eighteen
Floyd | minutes to leave the ship!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "logan, 71port" 		

Floyd ]                           The Reliquary
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: east
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOGAN, 71PORT
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"Navigating!"
Floyd |
Floyd | The Reliquary (in the pod)
Floyd | A dark, metal-plated room. The ceiling ten meters above. The floor a
Floyd | matrix of ebony-colored tiles. A cave, you would call it. A cave of
Floyd | the soul.
Floyd |
Floyd | A dark, shiny sphere breathing slowly in the east side of the room,
Floyd | its thousand luminescent tentacles strangling reality and changing it
Floyd | at its will.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Hyerotrope, the end of all life.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half buried in the ground, its four dots are blinking in the dark.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]                           The Reliquary
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: east
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You get out of the pod.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Reliquary
Floyd | A dark, metal-plated room. The ceiling ten meters above. The floor a
Floyd | matrix of ebony-colored tiles. A cave, you would call it. A cave of
Floyd | the soul.
Floyd |
Floyd | A pod is ready, here, waiting for passengers.
Floyd |
Floyd | A dark, shiny sphere breathing slowly in the east side of the room,
Floyd | its thousand luminescent tentacles strangling reality and changing it
Floyd | at its will.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Hyerotrope, the end of all life.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half buried in the ground, its four dots are blinking in the dark.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You take a last glance at the Arcadia and turn to face your nemesis.
Floyd |
Floyd | What are you? Friend? Foe? Or is this computer right, you just
Floyd | don't care?
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"The supernova is about to reach the ship, Ektor Mastiff. I
Floyd | suggest you hurry up."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Goodbye, LOGAN," you frown. "And thank you for helping me out."
Floyd |
Floyd | LOGAN://"It has been a pleasure, more than a duty. Talking to someone
Floyd | was interesting, after all this time alone. Have a good trip... and
Floyd | don't forget to write!"
Floyd |
Floyd | You take one last, deep breath, then jump into the welcoming
Floyd | Hyerotrope. You wonder where it will take you and puzzle at how your
Floyd | story will go on.
Floyd |
Floyd | What you are sure of, though, is that it will be a hell of a ride.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                           The Reliquary
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: east
Floyd | Lone Ship
Floyd |
Floyd | The Monarch system is shrinking. It is now just a tiny dot, glaring
Floyd | and glittering in the emptiness of space.
Floyd |
Floyd | They told you there were more, out there: other planets, other
Floyd | civilizations, other galaxies. They couldn't tell, though, how much
Floyd | deep space divides one from the other. How much time.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are distracted by a dark spot, in the emptiness of your voyage,
Floyd | lingering beyond the boundaries of Andromeda. What is it? you
Floyd | puzzle. Then, a blinding explosion suffocates your sight. A hundred
Floyd | sequential blasts paint the dark shape red, then yellow, then white.
Floyd | And all of a sudden, the sky is black again.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is just that... small round object, running from the explosion
Floyd | like a speeding bullet.
Floyd |
Floyd | Could it be that...?
Floyd |
Floyd | "We are reaching our destination," the old man says. "Brace yourself,
Floyd | 'cause this is goin' to be strong."
Floyd |
Floyd | The dark, silent presence turns and you can finally see its eyes
Floyd | looking at you.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Staring. Like the four red eyes of a devil.
Floyd |
Floyd | [You have earned the Survivor achievement]
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You are among the stars ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last
Floyd | command or check your SCORE?
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "score" 		

Floyd ]                           The Reliquary
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: east
Floyd |
Floyd | > SCORE
Floyd |
Floyd | Achievements for Andromeda Apocalypse:
Floyd |
Floyd | A Hell of a Storm    (You watched the sky turn dark)
Floyd | A Dark Omen    (You have seen the dark side of the
Floyd | sky)
Floyd | The Leaper    (You have jumped through the void)
Floyd | Invisible Killer    ( -???- )
Floyd | The Dweller    (You have reached the bottom)
Floyd | To Shed a Light    (You have turned the lights on)
Floyd | Ticketless Ride    (You have taken the train)
Floyd | The Fisher    (You have seen the fish)
Floyd | The X Marks the Spot    (You have crossed over)
Floyd | Play It Again, Ektor    (You have played a record)
Floyd | Communication Breakdown    (You know how to have people
Floyd | listen to you)
Floyd | A Matter of Time    (You know how old is the Arcadia)
Floyd | A Matter of Size    (You know how big is the Arcadia)
Floyd | Archaeologist    ( -???- )
Floyd | Cuboctahedron    ( -???- )
Floyd | Flying the Egg    (You took a cab)
Floyd | To Be a Scientist    (You found your calling)
Floyd | Sinking the Ship    (You started the last journey)
Floyd | The Shining    (You have charged the bar)
Floyd | Hellen Ripley    (You have killed the alien with a
Floyd | trick)
Floyd | Indiana Jones    ( -???- )
Floyd | Survivor    (You have escaped the supernova)
Floyd | Gettare Rinors    ( -???- )
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last
Floyd | command or check your SCORE?
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Not bad. I have no idea how we get the missing achievements,"
Binder has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		smartgenes says, "invisible killer..."
		DavidW says, "We got that one earlier, but to get it, you have to have the bacteria kill us."
		smartgenes asks, "gettare rinors.. is that an anagram?"
		DavidW says, "I don't know. Maybe."
		DavidW asks, "It has the look of one, doesn't it?"
		DavidW asks, "TEA SING TERROR?"
		Binder asks, "Teasing terror?"
		DavidW asks, "Terror teasing?"
		Binder asks, "Tasting error?"
		Binder says, "oh, that loses an e, never mind"
		Binder says, "A Testing Error."
		DavidW says, "hah"
		smartgenes says, "restoring tear"
		DavidW says, "I like 'A Testing Error'. That sounds very plausible."
		smartgenes says, "sounds right"
		DavidW asks, "I wonder what was up with that weird business with the ticket?"
		smartgenes says, "strange, amd it wasnt an achievement"
		DavidW asks, "I'm wondering if the deadly bacteria can also make that trip, and if so, why?"
		DavidW says, "I also would've liked to have saved Logan and the Arcadian data storage."
		DavidW says, "Seems horrid to let that all go to waste."
		smartgenes says, "yeh.."
		DavidW asks, "well. Good show everyone. See you all back next Sunday?"
		smartgenes asks, "yes.. what time?"
		smartgenes asks, "any chance of earlier or later?"
		DavidW says, "I'm not sure. I think it's noon mudtime."
		DavidW says, "That's up to Jacqueline to change the time."
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "about" 		

Floyd ]                           The Reliquary
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: east
Floyd |
Floyd | > ABOUT
Floyd |
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last
Floyd | command or check your SCORE?
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]                           The Reliquary
Floyd ]
Floyd ] Exits: east
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | The Reliquary
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "about" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |  > Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |  > Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |  > Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]                          Special commands
Floyd | A sensible command is EXITS. It lists the currently available exits.
Floyd | As soon as new routes are opened, they are listed, also. You can see a
Floyd | recap of available exits on the top (status) bar. The capitalized
Floyd | directions lead to yet-to-be-seen locations.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		
smartgenes pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |  > Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |  > Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		Jacqueline says, "It's half past noon Eastern."
smartgenes presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]                   Included in the game's package
Floyd | Andromeda Apocalypse comes packed with some collateral
Floyd | material: a postcard, pictures and some referenced material. If you
Floyd | find something during play that mentions one of such objects, just
Floyd | check for the reference number (Ref.xxx) to find the appropriate
Floyd | article. The included feelies are not needed to solve the game.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		Jacqueline exclaims, "Good job, by the way!"
		DavidW says, "thanks!"
smartgenes pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |  > Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |  > Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		Jacqueline says, "So yes, see you next Sunday at half past noon Eastern... and all the transcripts, including this one, should be up by then, though I haven't seen GGG and need to figure out what we're doing with NightFloyd stff."
		Jacqueline says, "er, stuff."
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |  > More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]                            More Credits
Floyd | This story has been written using Inform 7 by Graham Nelson (and
Floyd | friends -- I really need to read that list, sooner or later).  It uses
Floyd | the following extensions: Plurality, Basic Screen Effects, and Basic
Floyd | Help Menu by Emily Short; Glulx Boxed Quotation by Eliuk Blau;
Floyd | Adaptive Hints and Exit Lister by Eric Eve; Multiple Sounds by Massimo
Floyd | Stella; Real-Time Delays by Erik Temple. Thanks to the respective
Floyd | authors for easing the author's job so much.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		
smartgenes pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |  > More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |  > Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]                             Mea Culpas
Floyd | The original game, to which Apocalypse tries to be a
Floyd | reasonable sequel, was filled with a cartload of bulls**t. The main
Floyd | example is the description of the laser disc contained in the
Floyd | "Beacon", which I erroneously described as a "couple of human beings".
Floyd | As many understand, the actual copper-and-gold-plated object inside
Floyd | the real "Beacon" is not a laser disc and depicts no human being.
Floyd | Actually, the censorious governments of the era forbade the depiction
Floyd | of nudity on the disc, and so some far less explicit scientific
Floyd | drawings were used. What I'm saying here is NOT that I'm trying to
Floyd | make amends in this game for the last one's sins. Just: close an
Floyd | eye... and, sometimes, close them both.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		
smartgenes pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |  > Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |  > What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]                     What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd | The sad truth is thatâ¦ we don't know.
Floyd |
Floyd | The history of the Hyerotropes, as narrated in Andromeda
Floyd | Awakening, is shrouded in a veil of mist. All we know is that
Floyd | they have been found, hidden in the deep underground of the planet
Floyd | Monarch, about 3,000 years prior to the events depicted in
Floyd | Awakening. The first colonists, known as the Ancestors, have
Floyd | come to the galaxy of Andromeda in a trip through time and space
Floyd | following an ancient probe (the 'Beacon') that has been abducted by
Floyd | the Hyerotropes from the outer layers of the Solar System. Following
Floyd | the breadcrumbs left by the Beacon, the Ancestors found a planet worth
Floyd | colonizing: the New Heaven. Hidden by millennia-old layers of rock,
Floyd | the Hyerotropes lay dormant there until the devastating effects of
Floyd | world-shattering tides somehow switched them on.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Hyerotropes are perfect black spheres of nature unknown. They have
Floyd | proven to be somewhat intelligent and 'living', with some unique
Floyd | mechanics involved in their functioning. First, the Hyerotropes
Floyd | 'breathe': their surface grows and shrinks while their radiation level
Floyd | increases. Second, they seem to be able to disrupt the laws of physics
Floyd | by challenging the mass, the energy and the shape of matter. Using
Floyd | this power, they have formed a wormhole to catch the 'Beacon'
Floyd | (actually, the Voyager II probe) and pull it to Andromeda thousands of
Floyd | times faster than the speed of light. Finally, the Hyerotropes seem to
Floyd | corrupt their surroundings by laying a set of luminous, living
Floyd | tentacles which convert even stone to a sort of cold, azure light.
Floyd |
Floyd | The main character, Ektor Mastiff, has escaped the exploding planet of
Floyd | Monarch aboard a Hyerotrope, and is now trying to find a way to save
Floyd | himself, along with his knowledge.
Floyd |
Floyd | Up to now, the motives behind the Hyerotropes' behavior are unknown.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		smartgenes says, "the tentacles turn things to stone"
		smartgenes says, "um or the reverse"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" 		DavidW says, "I got the impression that was a side-effect and not the point of the tentacles."
smartgenes presses the yellow enter button. 		
smartgenes pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |  > What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		smartgenes says, "the tentacles convert stone to light.."
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |  > Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]                       Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd | The main character of the Andromeda series is a scientist and a
Floyd | researcher, as well as a teacher in the University of Monarch. He
Floyd | found himself involved in a trial of gargantuan scope when his best
Floyd | friend and colleague, Dr. Andy Re's, was found dead in an alley, shot
Floyd | in the back by some unknown assailant (you can discover more about it
Floyd | playing the excellent game Andromeda Dreaming by Joey Jones).
Floyd | The story behind it is that both Ektor and Andy were responsible for a
Floyd | groundbreaking discovery: under the soil of planet Monarch, a new form
Floyd | of energy, named Alpha radiation, started growing to detectable levels
Floyd | just two weeks before the coming of the tides that would have
Floyd | destroyed Monarch itself. Someone (details withheld to avoid spoiler)
Floyd | killed Andy to prevent the news being made public. With the discovery
Floyd | in hand, Ektor departed towards the University to show the Scientific
Floyd | Committee. During his trip, however, a fierce quake devoured his
Floyd | train, and he survived the crash by mere luck.
Floyd |
Floyd | As far as we know, no one else has survived the tides and Ektor is the
Floyd | only living being in the galaxy, floating in space with the sole
Floyd | support of his knowledgeâ¦ and of a unused, expired railway ticket.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		smartgenes asks, "is joey jones a different author?"
smartgenes pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |  > Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |  > Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |  > Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |  > Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |  > Walkthrough

		
smartgenes presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]                            Walkthrough
Floyd | The game has a built-in adaptive hint system. Type HINTS.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		maga asks, "a different author from who?"
smartgenes pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |  > Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |  > Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "p" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |  > Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "p" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |  > Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "p" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |  > What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "p" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |  > Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "p" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |  > More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "p" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |  > Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "p" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |  > Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "p" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |  > Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "p" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |  > Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "p" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |  > Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Special commands
Floyd |    Included in the game's package
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    More Credits
Floyd |    Mea Culpas
Floyd |    What are the Hyerotropes?
Floyd |    Who is Ektor Mastiff?
Floyd |    Achievements
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
smartgenes presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]                Introduction to Andromeda Apocalypse
Floyd | Floating in space on a strange vessel, sole survivor of a world... and
Floyd | maybe of the entire human race, Ektor Mastiff must find a way through
Floyd | the cosmos, on a voyage that can change the history of mankind
Floyd | forever.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Andromeda Apocalypse is part 2 in the Andromeda Series by Marco
Floyd | Innocenti. The first episode, Andromeda Awakening, can be found and
Floyd | played on the IFDB (ifdb.tads.org). Although playing the first game is
Floyd | not required, to better understand the story it is highly recommended.
Floyd |
Floyd | Andromeda Awakening, Andromeda Apocalypse, Andromeda Legacy and all of
Floyd | the fictional characters and places depicted in the games are by Marco
Floyd | Innocenti, unless stated otherwise. The cover art, as long as all the
Floyd | other graphic bits distributed along with the games, are by Marco
Floyd | Innocenti.
Floyd |
Floyd | The title song Black Giant was produced by Wade Clarke and is (P) and
Floyd | (C) 2012 Wade Clarke.
Floyd |
Floyd | The character of Gettare Rinors is by Joey Jones and is used with
Floyd | permission.
Floyd |
Floyd | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Floyd | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, and can be
Floyd | freely copied, distributed or played in public for non-commercial
Floyd | purposes.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		maga says, "but yes, Joey Jones has authored or co-authored a bunch of things (The Chinese Room, Calm, Escape from Summerland)"
		smartgenes says, "the andromeda series by Marco Innocenti"
		maga says, "he also wrote Andromeda Dreaming, set in the same universe"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Are you asking if Joey and Marco are the same person? They are not."
		maga says, "Marco ran a minicomp for stories set in the Andromeda universe, and got a couple of entries, one of which was Joey's"
DavidW has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		smartgenes says, "the character if gettare rinors (a testing error?) is by joey jones.."
		maga says, "yes, Joey created the character in Andromeda Dreaming, and Marco borrowed that character"
		maga says, "in a move calculated to give canonicity purists palpitations"
		Binder asks, "Oh, I did not know this. So this is, what, a shared ifworld anthology?"
		maga | [LINK]
		smartgenes says, "all very interesting"
		DavidW says, "Surely previous authors have stamped others' works in their universes as official before."
		maga says, "(and Marco made cover art for the entrants, so that all the games would have the same art style; he's a graphic designer)"
		Binder says, "Wild."
		smartgenes says, "thanks all was great"
smartgenes goes home. 		
smartgenes has disconnected. 		Jacqueline says, "Yes, it was."
		


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NightFloyd Transcript:
Gardening for Beginners by Juhana Leinonen
Conan Kill Everything by Ian Haberkorn
As played on ifMUD on November 21, 2012

Like ClubFloyd, the idea behind NightFloyd is that a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction.

Unlike ClubFloyd, NightFloyd often takes on significantly larger works of interactive fiction, knowing going in that each one will take multiple sessions (but not always, as you'll see in this transcript). NightFloyd is also a bit more informal than ClubFloyd in that it's only announced on the ifMUD #clubfloyd bulletin board, and the time shifts around to meet player's schedules far more than ClubFloyd does. NightFloyd is organized by genericgeekgirl, aka Adri.

Below is a transcript of Gardening for Beginners written by Juhana Leinonen, and Conan Kill Everything written by Ian Haberkorn. Gardening for Beginners was released as part of the 2008 Spring Speed-IF. Conan Kill Everything was released in 2005 and was a Xyzzy Award finalist for Best Individual PC. You can learn more about the games, including how to download them, by visiting the ifWiki pages: Conan Kill Everything, and Gardening for Beginners.

WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing these games, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played these games, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page.

To skip directly to a particular game, click on its title:

Gardening for Beginners by Juhana Leinonen
Conan Kill Everything by Ian Haberkorn
ToyShop & Floyditorium
		
#ClubFloyd Discussion
		
		DavidW says, "I will suggest "The Immortal" and "Gardening for Beginners"."
		borowski says, "I think my gardening skill is at least intermediate"
		Ellison says, "hmm"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Added to the survey (see the nightfloyd suggestions object in the toyshop). Anything else?"
		Ellison says, "I can't say I have a particular suggestion."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Gardening for Beginners is short, I presume?"
		DavidW says, "Yes, I think so. I believe it's a one-room game."
		borowski says, "It might be nice to play a short one"
		DavidW says, "It might have as many as three rooms. I don't remember."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, I was just thinking that we can start with that one without bothering to vote on it."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Unless anyone is adamantly opposed."
		DavidW says, "Another short game is "Conan Kills Everything". :)"
		Ellison says, "sounds good"
		borowski says, "Sure"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Ok, I see gardening. But not the other one."
		DavidW says, "I can upload Conan if we want it."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Sure."
		DavidW says, "okay, should be uploaded as 'conan'."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Cool, thanks. Let's start with Gardening."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask gardening" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In April, three months after you bought the house, the snow finally
Floyd | melts and for the first time you see how your new garden really looks
Floyd | like. It's not that bad, actually; you probably don't need to do much
Floyd | to make it look really nice. Armed with a to-do list and an upbeat
Floyd | attitude you go to work.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Gardening for Beginners
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Juhana Leinonen
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 080328 / Inform 7 build 5J39 (I6/v6.31 lib
Floyd | 6/11N)
Floyd | This game is free software. See LICENSE for details.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The garden is such a nice little patch of green for a novice gardener
Floyd | like yourself. There's even a small fish pond. Flowers are already in
Floyd | full bloom in the flower bed and there's an empty patch ready for
Floyd | vegetables. The grass looks a bit dry.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's also an old garden shed with a yard hydrant installed next to
Floyd | it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x attitude" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ATTITUDE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You're carrying a to-do list, a gold fish in a plastic bag, and some
Floyd | tomato seeds.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x list" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LIST
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a list of things that are easy to do to get you started:
Floyd |
Floyd |  - Remove weeds from the flower bed
Floyd |  - Plant the tomatoes
Floyd |  - Put the fish in the pond
Floyd |  - Water the lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x hydrant" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HYDRANT
Floyd |
Floyd | It's basically a pipe with a valve on it. The mouth part has a
Floyd | connection where a hose can be attached.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Plant the fish, water the seeds. Got it."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | As good-looking as ever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Noooo"
		borowski says, "Hmm. Though a goldfish tree would be tasty."
		borowski says, "Unless they mean the fish."
		genericgeekgirl says, "> x tree | It's smiling back."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x shed" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SHED
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a delightfully retro little garden shed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Delightful!"
		borowski says, "hee"
borowski says (to Floyd), "enter shed" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER SHED
Floyd |
Floyd | You go inside the garden shed.
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a delightful little shed even though it has seen better days.
Floyd | Wear and tear just adds to the charm. The walls have been plastered
Floyd | with newspapers and there are several boxes full of miscellaneous
Floyd | junk.
Floyd |
Floyd | An orange garden hose is hanging from a holder in the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x fish" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | The fish is quite large for a goldfish. The saleswoman at the pet
Floyd | store said it would do well in an outdoor pond. It's swimming around
Floyd | in its temporary plastic home.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x junk" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > X JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | The boxes are full of various junk, some related to gardening and some
Floyd | not. None of them are originally yours, the previous owner left them
Floyd | here for you to take care of.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pond" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > X POND
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "search junk" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | It's just junk you don't need, at least not at this very moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x newspapers" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > X NEWSPAPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | On closer inspection it's not newspaper after all but pages torn from
Floyd | books. From Jack Mills pocket books, to be precise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x hose" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HOSE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's quite long and... orange.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "take hose" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE HOSE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "read newspapers" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ NEWSPAPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "tie knot into hose" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > TIE KNOT INTO HOSE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW | ... orange.
borowski says (to Floyd), "read pages" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ PAGES
Floyd |
Floyd | "The slammer was a depressing mixture of displeasing white and
Floyd | uncaring gray. I walked past the empty cells listening to the steady
Floyd | click-clack of my steps echoing from the walls. In the last cell I
Floyd | found Professor Humphrey..."
Floyd |
Floyd | No wonder someone wanted to plaster it on the walls.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
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genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x seeds" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SEEDS
Floyd |
Floyd | The tomato seeds are in a small bag. They are supposedly super easy -
Floyd | just throw them in the soil and let them grow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "On the bright side, an orange hose is probably difficult to lose."
		borowski says, "Orange for safety!"
borowski says (to Floyd), "take junk" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | It's just junk you don't need, at least not at this very moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "And ominousness."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read list" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ LIST
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a list of things that are easy to do to get you started:
Floyd |
Floyd |  - Remove weeds from the flower bed
Floyd |  - Plant the tomatoes
Floyd |  - Put the fish in the pond
Floyd |  - Water the lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a delightful little shed even though it has seen better days.
Floyd | Wear and tear just adds to the charm. The walls have been plastered
Floyd | with pages from books and there are several boxes full of
Floyd | miscellaneous junk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "exit shed" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > EXIT SHED
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to exit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "exit" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > EXIT
Floyd |
Floyd | You return to the garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | The garden is such a nice little patch of green for a novice gardener
Floyd | like yourself. There's even a small fish pond. Flowers are already in
Floyd | full bloom in the flower bed and there's an empty patch ready for
Floyd | vegetables. The grass looks a bit dry.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's also an old garden shed with a yard hydrant installed next to
Floyd | it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pond" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > X POND
Floyd |
Floyd | The pond is small but very beautiful..
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x patch" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PATCH
Floyd |
Floyd | The vegetable patch is just waiting for seeds.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put hose on hydrant" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT HOSE ON HYDRANT
Floyd |
Floyd | Putting things on the yard hydrant would achieve nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "attach hose to hydrant" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > ATTACH HOSE TO HYDRANT
Floyd |
Floyd | With some effort you screw the other end of the hose to the hydrant.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "well, I don't see what can stop us. This ought to be easy."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Famous last words!"
		DavidW says, "hee hee"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x flowers" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FLOWERS
Floyd |
Floyd | The flowers are petunias and poppies, you guess. At the moment there
Floyd | seem to be much more weeds than flowers in the flower bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take weeds" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE WEEDS
Floyd |
Floyd | You get on your knees and pull each weed carefully out around the
Floyd | flowers. It takes a good thirty minutes, but the result looks really
Floyd | nice. Never mind the aching fingers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "I'm going to have to report you guys to the fire department"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x weeds" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WEEDS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "score" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > SCORE
Floyd |
Floyd | [There is no numerical score.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read list" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ LIST
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a list of things that are easy to do to get you started:
Floyd |
Floyd |  - Remove weeds from the flower bed (done!)
Floyd |  - Plant the tomatoes
Floyd |  - Put the fish in the pond
Floyd |  - Water the lawn
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl | You have achieved the rank of Weed Master.
borowski says (to Floyd), "plant seeds" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLANT SEEDS
Floyd |
Floyd | You throw the tomato seeds evenly on the vegetable patch and spread
Floyd | some soil over them. That was easy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat fish" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > EAT FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a decorative kind of fish, not the eating kind.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put fish in the pond" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT FISH IN THE POND
Floyd |
Floyd | The fish leaps from the plastic bag into the pond and starts to swim
Floyd | around in circles. In the spur of the moment you decide to name it
Floyd | "Wensleydale".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "awww"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "water lawn" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > WATER LAWN
Floyd |
Floyd | You carefully hose the entire lawn and turn the water off when you're
Floyd | done. In your eyes the grass is already looking much greener!
Floyd |
Floyd | Well, that was the last chore and everything is now done! Looks like
Floyd | you are better at this than you even imagined!
Floyd |
Floyd | No, wait, what's that mound right in the middle of the garden? Ugh,
Floyd | it's a molehill. Better hose the bugger out while you're at it before
Floyd | the entire garden gets full of those.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hehe."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x molehill" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MOLEHILL
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a small pile of dirt.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x mountain" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MOUNTAIN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "We should give the mole a name, too."
borowski says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You're carrying a to-do list.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Haha. Gardening ceased to be fun."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x list" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LIST
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a list of things that are easy to do to get you started:
Floyd |
Floyd |  - Remove weeds from the flower bed (done!)
Floyd |  - Plant the tomatoes (done!)
Floyd |  - Put the fish in the pond (done!)
Floyd |  - Water the lawn (done!)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "I guess check out the junk?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hose molehill" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > HOSE MOLEHILL
Floyd |
Floyd | It wouldn't help just to wash the mound away. You need to flood the
Floyd | tunnels.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ah."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter shed" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER SHED
Floyd |
Floyd | You go inside the garden shed again.
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a delightful little shed even though it has seen better days.
Floyd | Wear and tear just adds to the charm. The walls have been plastered
Floyd | with pages from books and there are several boxes full of
Floyd | miscellaneous junk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search junk" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | It's just junk you don't need, at least not at this very moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take pages" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE PAGES
Floyd |
Floyd | No time to redecorate now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You're carrying a to-do list.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Try 'put hose in molehill'?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You return to the garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | The garden is a tiny patch of green where Wensleydale is splashing
Floyd | around in the pond and the flowers are in full bloom in the flower
Floyd | bed. The tomato seeds have been planted in the vegetable patch.
Floyd |
Floyd | The old garden shed has a yard hydrant installed next to it. The
Floyd | garden hose is attached to the hydrant.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put hose in molehill" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT HOSE IN MOLEHILL
Floyd |
Floyd | You tuck the end of the hose inside the mole hill.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on water" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN ON WATER
Floyd |
Floyd | (the yard hydrant)
Floyd | You approach the hydrant and see a little cuddly bunny by the shed.
Floyd | "Oh, how delightful!" you exclaim. The bunny scurries away.
Floyd |
Floyd | You turn the valve and a spray of water from the hose soaks you
Floyd | through. You cut the water quickly. The bunny must've had a taste of
Floyd | the hose.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bother.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Poor bunny."
		DavidW says, "Gardening is no longer OK."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x hose" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HOSE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's quite long and... orange.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on water" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN ON WATER
Floyd |
Floyd | (the yard hydrant)
Floyd | Not before you've found a way to mend the hose!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x hose" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HOSE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's quite long and... orange.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hose" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HOSE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's quite long and... orange.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "What happened to the hose?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take hose" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE HOSE
Floyd |
Floyd | It should stay until the mole is thoroughly hosed out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, the bunny chewed it."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I misread that."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Like, we'd splashed the bunny."
		DavidW asks, "Maybe there's duct tape in the junk now?"
		borowski says, "Yeah, at first I thought -- yeah"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter shed" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER SHED
Floyd |
Floyd | You go inside the garden shed again.
Floyd |
Floyd | The shed is in poor shape, but it's your own little shed. The walls
Floyd | have been plastered with pages from books and there are several boxes
Floyd | full of miscellaneous junk.
Floyd |
Floyd | Now let's see... There, right on top of a box, is a roll of silvery
Floyd | duct tape.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "A ha!"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x duct tape" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DUCT TAPE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's silvery and it can repair anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Anything??"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take duct tape" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE DUCT TAPE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Frustrating
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You return to the garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | The garden is a tiny patch of green where Wensleydale is splashing
Floyd | around in the pond and the flowers are in full bloom in the flower
Floyd | bed. The tomato seeds have been planted in the vegetable patch.
Floyd |
Floyd | The old garden shed has a yard hydrant installed next to it. The
Floyd | garden hose is attached to the hydrant and the other end is tucked
Floyd | inside the molehill.
Floyd |
Floyd | A lonely crow lands on the vegetable patch. It pecks around the soil
Floyd | for a bit, then two others arrive. They start digging and eating the
Floyd | tomato seeds.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hey! Get out of there, you little pests!" you scream but the birds
Floyd | ignore you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bother.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hehehehehe."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x crows" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Frustrating
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CROWS
Floyd |
Floyd | The crows are black and extremely annoying.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "caw" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Frustrating
Floyd |
Floyd | > CAW
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Frustrating
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You're carrying a roll of duct tape and a to-do list.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "mend hose" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Frustrating
Floyd |
Floyd | > MEND HOSE
Floyd |
Floyd | You roll a few layers of tape arond the leaking spot. It looks like it
Floyd | could hold now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "scare crows" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Frustrating
Floyd |
Floyd | > SCARE CROWS
Floyd |
Floyd | You approach the vegetable patch and the crows fly off. They return
Floyd | right after you've moved two paces away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on hose" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN ON HOSE
Floyd |
Floyd | You turn the valve and water starts to flow underground. You decide to
Floyd | leave it on for a while, just to be sure.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "spray crows" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > SPRAY CROWS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "take off clothes" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE OFF CLOTHES
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Build a scarecrow?"
		borowski says, "Hmm, I was thinking we could make a scarecrow"
		DavidW asks, "Check the shed?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter shed" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER SHED
Floyd |
Floyd | You go inside the garden shed again.
Floyd |
Floyd | The shed is in poor shape, but it's your own little shed. The walls
Floyd | have been plastered with pages from books and there are several boxes
Floyd | full of miscellaneous junk.
Floyd |
Floyd | Let's see... Yes, there should be something useful here for this
Floyd | situation.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a coverall and a rake here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take coverall" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE COVERALL
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take rake" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE RAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x coverall" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > X COVERALL
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a smallish dark green coverall. It has seen a lot of use.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take pages" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE PAGES
Floyd |
Floyd | No time to redecorate now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x rake" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > X RAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a rusty rake that's missing few teeth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put coverall on rake" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT COVERALL ON RAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the rake inside the coverall to support it and you have
Floyd | yourself a makeshift scarecrow. Hopefully it works.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "So spooky."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You return to the garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | The garden is a tiny patch of green where Wensleydale is splashing
Floyd | around in the pond and the flowers are in full bloom in the flower
Floyd | bed. The tomato seeds have been planted in the vegetable patch.
Floyd |
Floyd | The old garden shed has a yard hydrant installed next to it. The
Floyd | garden hose is attached to the hydrant and the other end is tucked
Floyd | inside the molehill.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some crows are eating away the tomato seeds you just planted.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put scarecrow in garden" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SCARECROW IN GARDEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the garden hose, or the lawn?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put scarecrow in vegetable patch" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SCARECROW IN VEGETABLE PATCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You stick the scarecrow in the middle of the vegetable patch. The
Floyd | crows fly away and - they aren't returning! Hooray!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski says, "Hooray!"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Gardening is ok again!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fish" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | Wensleydale makes cheerful little circles in its new home.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pet fish" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > PET FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take fish" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't suppose Wensleydale would care for that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "fish, hello" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > FISH, HELLO
Floyd |
Floyd | You must supply a noun.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to fish" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | Wensleydale doesn't respond.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x grass" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GRASS
Floyd |
Floyd | The grass is looking good.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x seeds" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SEEDS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x molehill" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MOLEHILL
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a small pile of dirt. The other end of the hose is tucked inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Maybe time to turn off the water?"
		DavidW asks, "I don't know. I think we need to wait?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | The garden is a tiny patch of green where Wensleydale is splashing
Floyd | around in the pond and the flowers are in full bloom in the flower
Floyd | bed. The tomato seeds have been planted in the vegetable patch.
Floyd |
Floyd | The old garden shed has a yard hydrant installed next to it. The
Floyd | garden hose is attached to the hydrant and the other end is tucked
Floyd | inside the molehill.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x list" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LIST
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a list of things that are easy to do to get you started:
Floyd |
Floyd |  - Remove weeds from the flower bed (done!)
Floyd |  - Plant the tomatoes (done!)
Floyd |  - Put the fish in the pond (done!)
Floyd |  - Water the lawn (done!)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on hose" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN ON HOSE
Floyd |
Floyd | The water is already flowing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "turn off hose" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN OFF HOSE
Floyd |
Floyd | It should stay until the mole is thoroughly hosed out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "hm. Reenter and exit the shed?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tomato" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TOMATO
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x vegetable patch" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > X VEGETABLE PATCH
Floyd |
Floyd | The vegetable patch is hiding tomato seeds in its soil.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter shed" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER SHED
Floyd |
Floyd | You go inside the garden shed again.
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a delightful little shed even though it has seen better days.
Floyd | Wear and tear just adds to the charm. The walls have been plastered
Floyd | with pages from books and there are several boxes full of
Floyd | miscellaneous junk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You return to the garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | The garden is a tiny patch of green where Wensleydale is splashing
Floyd | around in the pond and the flowers are in full bloom in the flower
Floyd | bed. The tomato seeds have been planted in the vegetable patch.
Floyd |
Floyd | The old garden shed has a yard hydrant installed next to it. The
Floyd | garden hose is attached to the hydrant and the other end is tucked
Floyd | inside the molehill.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "I suppose we just wait?"
		DavidW says, "Perhaps we solved some things too quickly."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | The garden is a tiny patch of green where Wensleydale is splashing
Floyd | around in the pond and the flowers are in full bloom in the flower
Floyd | bed. The tomato seeds have been planted in the vegetable patch.
Floyd |
Floyd | The old garden shed has a yard hydrant installed next to it. The
Floyd | garden hose is attached to the hydrant and the other end is tucked
Floyd | inside the molehill.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hydrant" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HYDRANT
Floyd |
Floyd | It's basically a pipe with a valve on it. The mouth part has a
Floyd | connection where a hose can be attached.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pond" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > X POND
Floyd |
Floyd | Wensleydale is swimming in little circles in the water..
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rabbit" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > X RABBIT
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sleep" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You aren't feeling especially drowsy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "win" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > WIN
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > XYZZY
Floyd |
Floyd | Maybe in some fantastic realm a garden would take care of itself with
Floyd | appropriately chosen magic words. Unfortunately this is not one of
Floyd | those realms.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > JUMP
Floyd |
Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sing" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > SING
Floyd |
Floyd | Your singing is abominable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "dance" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > DANCE
Floyd |
Floyd | You'd make a fool of yourself.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "fly" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > FLY
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tunnel" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TUNNEL
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shed" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SHED
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a delightfully retro little garden shed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-11-21-22:06:57CST 		
Lionheart arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. 		DavidW says, "hm. I wonder if this is an older version that can stall."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "'Cause either we've won or something else has to happen."
borowski says (to Floyd), "x mole hill" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MOLE HILL
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a small pile of dirt. The other end of the hose is tucked inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "remove hose" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMOVE HOSE
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not wearing that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take hose" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE HOSE
Floyd |
Floyd | It should stay until the mole is thoroughly hosed out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | As good-looking as ever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x mole" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a small pile of dirt. The other end of the hose is tucked inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn off water" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN OFF WATER
Floyd |
Floyd | (the yard hydrant)
Floyd | It should stay until the mole is thoroughly hosed out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "version" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > VERSION
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Gardening for Beginners
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Juhana Leinonen
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 080328 / Inform 7 build 5J39 (I6/v6.31 lib
Floyd | 6/11N)
Floyd | This game is free software. See LICENSE for details.
Floyd |
Floyd | Identification number: //FCFDEDD2-350F-4C88-A224-9C26BCFB423E//
Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0 (6b) / Library serial number 060709
Floyd | Standard Rules version 1/061217 by Graham Nelson
Floyd | Written Inventory version 2 by Jon Ingold
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Mhm."
		DavidW says, "well, let's go into the shed and read the paper. Maybe there's a hint there or something."
		DavidW asks, "Perhaps our garden is where a buried treasure is?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter shed" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER SHED
Floyd |
Floyd | You go inside the garden shed again.
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a delightful little shed even though it has seen better days.
Floyd | Wear and tear just adds to the charm. The walls have been plastered
Floyd | with pages from books and there are several boxes full of
Floyd | miscellaneous junk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read pages" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ PAGES
Floyd |
Floyd | "The slammer was a depressing mixture of displeasing white and
Floyd | uncaring gray. I walked past the empty cells listening to the steady
Floyd | click-clack of my steps echoing from the walls. In the last cell I
Floyd | found Professor Humphrey..."
Floyd |
Floyd | No wonder someone wanted to plaster it on the walls.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | "The slammer was a depressing mixture of displeasing white and
Floyd | uncaring gray. I walked past the empty cells listening to the steady
Floyd | click-clack of my steps echoing from the walls. In the last cell I
Floyd | found Professor Humphrey..."
Floyd |
Floyd | No wonder someone wanted to plaster it on the walls.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh, it doesn't vary."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You return to the garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | The garden is a tiny patch of green where Wensleydale is splashing
Floyd | around in the pond and the flowers are in full bloom in the flower
Floyd | bed. The tomato seeds have been planted in the vegetable patch.
Floyd |
Floyd | The old garden shed has a yard hydrant installed next to it. The
Floyd | garden hose is attached to the hydrant and the other end is tucked
Floyd | inside the molehill.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, version 2 is definitely different."
		DavidW asks, "Should we stop and upload version 2 and restart?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, I think so."
		DavidW says, "okay"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > QUIT
Floyd |
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?

		borowski says, "Yeah"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?
Floyd | > YES
Floyd | debugcheapnitfol quit with exit status: 0

		
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" 		genericgeekgirl says, "The first part seems to be the same, so we can play through it easily. And then things get interesting."
		DavidW says, "ok, I couldn't replace 'gardening', so it's 'gardeningv2'."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask gardeningv2" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In April, three months after you bought the house, the snow finally
Floyd | melts and for the first time you see how your new garden really looks
Floyd | like. It's not that bad, actually; you probably don't need to do much
Floyd | to make it look really nice. Armed with a to-do list and an upbeat
Floyd | attitude you go to work.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Gardening for Beginners
Floyd | An Interactive Gardening Experience by Juhana Leinonen
Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 080412 / Inform 7 build 5J39 (I6/v6.31 lib
Floyd | 6/11N)
Floyd | This game is free software. See LICENSE for details.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The garden is such a nice little patch of green for a novice gardener
Floyd | like yourself. There's even a small fish pond. Flowers are already in
Floyd | full bloom in the flower bed and there's an empty patch ready for
Floyd | vegetables. The grass looks a bit dry.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's also an old garden shed with a yard hydrant installed next to
Floyd | it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove weeds" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMOVE WEEDS
Floyd |
Floyd | You get on your knees and pull each weed carefully out around the
Floyd | flowers. It takes a good thirty minutes, but the result looks really
Floyd | nice. Never mind the aching fingers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "plant tomatoes" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLANT TOMATOES
Floyd |
Floyd | You throw the tomato seeds evenly on the vegetable patch and spread
Floyd | some soil over them. That was easy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put fish in pond" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT FISH IN POND
Floyd |
Floyd | The fish leaps from the plastic bag into the pond and starts to swim
Floyd | around in circles. In the spur of the moment you decide to name it
Floyd | "Wensleydale".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter shed" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER SHED
Floyd |
Floyd | You go inside the garden shed.
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a delightful little shed even though it has seen better days.
Floyd | Wear and tear just adds to the charm. The walls have been plastered
Floyd | with newspapers and there are several boxes full of miscellaneous
Floyd | junk.
Floyd |
Floyd | An orange garden hose is hanging from a holder in the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take hose" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE HOSE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You return to the garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | The garden is such a nice little patch of green for a novice gardener
Floyd | like yourself. There's even a small fish pond where Wensleydale is
Floyd | splashing around. Flowers are already in full bloom in the flower bed
Floyd | - now without any weeds - and the tomatoes are growing in the
Floyd | vegetable patch. The grass looks a bit dry.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's also an old garden shed with a yard hydrant installed next to
Floyd | it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "attach hose to hyrant" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > ATTACH HOSE TO HYRANT
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put hose on hydrant" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT HOSE ON HYDRANT
Floyd |
Floyd | Putting things on the yard hydrant would achieve nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "connect hose to hydrant" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > CONNECT HOSE TO HYDRANT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hydrant" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HYDRANT
Floyd |
Floyd | It's basically a pipe with a valve on it. The mouth part has a
Floyd | connection where a hose can be attached.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "attach hose" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > ATTACH HOSE
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to attach the garden hose to?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "mouth" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > MOUTH
Floyd |
Floyd | With some effort you screw the other end of the hose to the hydrant.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "water lawn" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > WATER LAWN
Floyd |
Floyd | You carefully hose the entire lawn and turn the water off when you're
Floyd | done. In your eyes the grass is already looking much greener!
Floyd |
Floyd | Well, that was the last chore and everything is now done! Looks like
Floyd | you are better at this than you even imagined!
Floyd |
Floyd | No, wait, what's that mound right in the middle of the garden? Ugh,
Floyd | it's a molehill. Better hose the bugger out while you're at it before
Floyd | the entire garden gets full of those.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put hose in molehill" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is OK
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT HOSE IN MOLEHILL
Floyd |
Floyd | You tuck the end of the hose inside the mole hill.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on water" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN ON WATER
Floyd |
Floyd | (the yard hydrant)
Floyd | You approach the hydrant and see a little cuddly bunny by the shed.
Floyd | "Oh, how delightful!" you exclaim. The bunny scurries away.
Floyd |
Floyd | You turn the valve and a spray of water from the hose soaks you
Floyd | through. You cut the water quickly. The bunny must've had a taste of
Floyd | the hose.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bother.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter shed" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER SHED
Floyd |
Floyd | You go inside the garden shed again.
Floyd |
Floyd | The shed is in poor shape, but it's your own little shed. The walls
Floyd | have been plastered with newspapers and there are several boxes full
Floyd | of miscellaneous junk.
Floyd |
Floyd | Now let's see... There, right on top of a box, is a roll of silvery
Floyd | duct tape.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take tape" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE TAPE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Frustrating
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You return to the garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | The garden is a tiny patch of green where Wensleydale is splashing
Floyd | around in the pond and the flowers are in full bloom in the flower
Floyd | bed. The tomato seeds have been planted in the vegetable patch.
Floyd |
Floyd | The old garden shed has a yard hydrant installed next to it. The
Floyd | garden hose is attached to the hydrant and the other end is tucked
Floyd | inside the molehill.
Floyd |
Floyd | A lonely crow lands on the vegetable patch. It pecks around the soil
Floyd | for a bit, then two others arrive. They start digging and eating the
Floyd | tomato seeds.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hey! Get out of there, you little pests!" you scream but the birds
Floyd | ignore you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bother.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "mend hose" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Frustrating
Floyd |
Floyd | > MEND HOSE
Floyd |
Floyd | You roll a few layers of tape around the leaking spot. It looks like
Floyd | it could hold now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put hose in hill" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Frustrating
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT HOSE IN HILL
Floyd |
Floyd | It's already in there.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on water" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN ON WATER
Floyd |
Floyd | (the yard hydrant)
Floyd | You turn the valve and water starts to flow underground. You decide to
Floyd | leave it on for a while, just to be sure.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter shed" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER SHED
Floyd |
Floyd | You go inside the garden shed again.
Floyd |
Floyd | The shed is in poor shape, but it's your own little shed. The walls
Floyd | have been plastered with newspapers and there are several boxes full
Floyd | of miscellaneous junk.
Floyd |
Floyd | Let's see... Yes, there should be something useful here for this
Floyd | situation.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a coverall and a rake here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW is a newbie. 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | coverall: Taken.
Floyd | rake: Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put coverall on rake" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT COVERALL ON RAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the rake inside the coverall to support it and you have
Floyd | yourself a makeshift scarecrow. Hopefully it works.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Frustrating
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You return to the garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | The garden is a tiny patch of green where Wensleydale is splashing
Floyd | around in the pond and the flowers are in full bloom in the flower
Floyd | bed. The tomato seeds have been planted in the vegetable patch.
Floyd |
Floyd | The old garden shed has a yard hydrant installed next to it. The
Floyd | garden hose is attached to the hydrant and the other end is tucked
Floyd | inside the molehill.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some crows are eating away the tomato seeds you just planted.
Floyd |
Floyd | What the... The weeds have resurrected themselves and fill the flower
Floyd | bed again!
Floyd |
Floyd | Goddamnit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put scarecrow in vegetable patch" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SCARECROW IN VEGETABLE PATCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You stick the scarecrow in the middle of the vegetable patch. The
Floyd | crows fly away and - they aren't returning! Hooray!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take weeds" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE WEEDS
Floyd |
Floyd | You pull one weed out and sigh. This is never going to work without
Floyd | heavier armament.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove weeds" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMOVE WEEDS
Floyd |
Floyd | You pull one weed out and sigh. This is never going to work without
Floyd | heavier armament.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "hm. Shed again?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter shed" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER SHED
Floyd |
Floyd | You go inside the garden shed again.
Floyd |
Floyd | The shed is in poor shape, but it's your own little shed. The walls
Floyd | have been plastered with newspapers and there are several boxes full
Floyd | of miscellaneous junk.
Floyd |
Floyd | There in the corner is a bright red bottle of herbicide with a skull
Floyd | printed on it. Excellent.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x herbicide" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HERBICIDE
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a picture of a skull on the side. That means it must be
Floyd | efficient.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hee."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take herbicide" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE HERBICIDE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Annoying
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You return to the garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | The garden is a tiny patch of green where Wensleydale is splashing
Floyd | around in the pond and the flowers are in full bloom in the flower
Floyd | bed. The tomato seeds have been planted in the vegetable patch.
Floyd |
Floyd | The old garden shed has a yard hydrant installed next to it. The
Floyd | garden hose is attached to the hydrant and the other end is tucked
Floyd | inside the molehill.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear Wensleydale splash about in the pond.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pour herbicide on weeds" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Frustrating
Floyd |
Floyd | > POUR HERBICIDE ON WEEDS
Floyd |
Floyd | You pop the cap from the weedkiller which greets you with a gust of
Floyd | poisonous fumes. "Ha! Ha! HA! HAHA! HA!" you scream as you pour the
Floyd | stuff on those demonic parasites. Let's see them come back to life
Floyd | now!
Floyd |
Floyd | The weeds die spectacularly, whithering as soon as the herbicide hits
Floyd | them. War is not without casualities, as you soon find out - the
Floyd | flowers can't take the heat and they turn into shriveled mounds of
Floyd | organic mass.
Floyd |
Floyd | You look at the flower bed and muse your Pyrrhic victory.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ha! HAHA!"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x fish" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | Hngaah! It's not Wensleydale that's splashing but the neighbour's cat
Floyd | who's trying to catch him! Shoo, cat, shoo!
Floyd |
Floyd | F%#&!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Eek."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cat" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | "Here, pus pus pus..."
Floyd |
Floyd | You approach the cat, trying to grab it to carry it away from the
Floyd | pond. She sees you approaching, hisses, and makes a daring leap
Floyd | towards you.
Floyd |
Floyd | She lands straight on your face and takes hold with all four legs. The
Floyd | beast drives its claws in the neck and the back of your head. "Mmmph
Floyd | hmmh mph!" you swear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove cat" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMOVE CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | "Meow," the cat says as you struggle to get free.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x cat" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | It's the neighbour's cat. You used to like it, before it started to
Floyd | prey on your fish.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take cat" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | Technically, you already have her.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit cat" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > HIT CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | You wave your arms in the general direction of your face (where the
Floyd | cat is), but it just makes the furry assailant to grab a tighter hold.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "bite cat" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > BITE CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "meow" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > MEOW
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pet cat" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > PET CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "jump in pond" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > JUMP IN POND
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to jump.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-11-21-22:21:57CST 		DavidW asks, "enter shed?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "bark" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > BARK
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter shed" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER SHED
Floyd |
Floyd | You stumble and nearly lose balance when the cat scratches you again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter shed" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER SHED
Floyd |
Floyd | "Mhbh!" you exclaim when your attempts are buggered by the blinding
Floyd | grasp of the beast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Nope."
borowski says (to Floyd), "enter pond" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER POND
Floyd |
Floyd | You stumble and nearly lose balance when the cat scratches you again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake cat" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHAKE CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | "NO!" the cat yells and claws at your left ear. (It might've also been
Floyd | "meow".)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "pet cat" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > PET CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "scratch cat" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > SCRATCH CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "hiss" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > HISS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "poke cat" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > POKE CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "meow" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > MEOW
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | You stumble and nearly lose balance when the cat scratches you again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "roll" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > ROLL
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "fall down" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > FALL DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drown cat" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROWN CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "take hose" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE HOSE
Floyd |
Floyd | It should stay until the mole is thoroughly hosed out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put head in pond" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT HEAD IN POND
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "throw cat" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > THROW CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | How? The feline abdomination has blindfolded you with her own furry
Floyd | body.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "swim" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > SWIM
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pour herbicide on cat" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > POUR HERBICIDE ON CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "put cat in pond" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT CAT IN POND
Floyd |
Floyd | You would, but mouse-breath is still facehugging you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter pond" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER POND
Floyd |
Floyd | How? The feline abdomination has blindfolded you with her own furry
Floyd | body.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "dive" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > DIVE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "dunk head" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > DUNK HEAD
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x head" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HEAD
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "go pond" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > GO POND
Floyd |
Floyd | "NO!" the cat yells and claws at your right ear. (It might've also
Floyd | been "meow".)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You stumble and nearly lose balance when the cat scratches you again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | How? The feline abdomination has blindfolded you with her own furry
Floyd | body.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm. We can't even wait and let it relax."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sing" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > SING
Floyd |
Floyd | You stumble and nearly lose balance when the cat scratches you again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "scratch cat" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > SCRATCH CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cat" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | It's the neighbour's cat. You used to like it, before it started to
Floyd | prey on your fish.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull tail" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > PULL TAIL
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "bite cat" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > BITE CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "spit" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > SPIT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > JUMP
Floyd |
Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "dance" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > DANCE
Floyd |
Floyd | How? The feline abdomination has blindfolded you with her own furry
Floyd | body.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit head against shed" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > HIT HEAD AGAINST SHED
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit cat" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > HIT CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | You wave your arms in the general direction of your face (where the
Floyd | cat is), but it just makes the furry assailant to grab a tighter hold.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Maybe we were supposed to take something from the shed before messing with the cat?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ram shed" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > RAM SHED
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "skin cat" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > SKIN CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I dunno. But we can't even check inventory."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove left paw" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMOVE LEFT PAW
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		borowski asks, "Yeah, I mean we might have to restart?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "peel cat" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > PEEL CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I doubt that's correct."
		DavidW says, "But I am running out of ideas."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "scream" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > SCREAM
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill cat" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | You wave your arms in the general direction of your face (where the
Floyd | cat is), but it just makes the furry assailant to grab a tighter hold.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search cat" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | You stumble and nearly lose balance when the cat scratches you again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cat" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | Technically, you already have her.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pull tail" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Makes Jack a Dull Boy
Floyd |
Floyd | > PULL TAIL
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pull cat" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Causing Me a Stroke
Floyd |
Floyd | > PULL CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | You take a good grip of the little bastard and yank her out of your
Floyd | face. Her final loot is a bunch of hair and a good amount of freshly
Floyd | scraped skin. The cat jumps on the ground and runs off.
Floyd |
Floyd | You glance at the vegetable patch where the crows are back, with a
Floyd | couple of friends of theirs. It looks as if some of them are actually
Floyd | laughing at the scarecrow. Laughing. At the scarecrow. Laughing.
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't say anything. Your left eye twitches.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says (to ggg), "whew"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Evil cat."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fish" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Causing Me a Stroke
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | Wensleydale makes cheerful little circles in its new home.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x crows" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Causing Me a Stroke
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CROWS
Floyd |
Floyd | The crows are back and extremely annoying.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x flowers" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Causing Me a Stroke
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FLOWERS
Floyd |
Floyd | The flowers were petunias and poppies, you guess.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "hm. More crows. Do we have a machine gun in the shed?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Into the shed!"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter shed" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Causing Me a Stroke
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER SHED
Floyd |
Floyd | You go inside the garden shed again.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dark and rotting shed is just about as awful as you can imagine.
Floyd | The walls have been plastered with newspapers and there are several
Floyd | boxes full of miscellaneous junk.
Floyd |
Floyd | There has to be something here yet that will save the day! Has to be
Floyd | something!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search junk" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Causing Me a Stroke
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | You rummage through the boxes, trying to find some magic tool that
Floyd | will make all go better. There is nothing there.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pages" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Causing Me a Stroke
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PAGES
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x newspapers" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Causing Me a Stroke
Floyd |
Floyd | > X NEWSPAPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | On closer inspection it's not newspaper after all but pages torn from
Floyd | books. From Jack Mills pocket books, to be precise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search junk" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Causing Me a Stroke
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | There is nothing there.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read papers" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Causing Me a Stroke
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ PAPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | "The slammer was a depressing mixture of displeasing white and
Floyd | uncaring gray. I walked past the empty cells listening to the steady
Floyd | click-clack of my steps echoing from the walls. In the last cell I
Floyd | found Professor Humphrey..."
Floyd |
Floyd | No wonder someone wanted to plaster it on the walls.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Causing Me a Stroke
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You're carrying a to-do list.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x list" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Causing Me a Stroke
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LIST
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a list of things that are easy to do to get you started:
Floyd |
Floyd |  - Remove weeds from the flower bed (done!)
Floyd |  - Plant the tomatoes (done!)
Floyd |  - Put the fish in the pond (done!)
Floyd |  - Water the lawn (done!)
Floyd |
Floyd | You should also  - get rid of the crows
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "fold list" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Causing Me a Stroke
Floyd |
Floyd | > FOLD LIST
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "make origami knife" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Causing Me a Stroke
Floyd |
Floyd | > MAKE ORIGAMI KNIFE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Causing Me a Stroke
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You're carrying a to-do list.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "no more herbicide?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take junk" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Causing Me a Stroke
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | It's just junk you don't need, at least not at this very moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "take papers" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening is Causing Me a Stroke
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE PAPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | No time to redecorate now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Negative."
		DavidW says, "let's go back out"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]  GARDENING IS FROM THE NINTH CIRCLE OF INFERNO
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You sigh and return to the garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | It's the garden of pain. The fish is hopefully still alive, the
Floyd | flowers most certainly are not. It's doubtful if there are any seeds
Floyd | left in the vegetable patch.
Floyd |
Floyd | The old garden shed has a yard hydrant installed next to it. The
Floyd | garden hose is attached to the hydrant and it runs inside the
Floyd | molehill.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some crows are eating away the tomato seeds you just planted.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ground erupts into four or five geysirs, spraying water from the
Floyd | underground mole tunnels.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bunny returns and chews on the remaining flora.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cat is back prowling about for Wensleydale by the pond.
Floyd |
Floyd |      ***
Floyd |
Floyd | You close your eyes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh my."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "close eyes" 		

Floyd ]  GARDENING IS FROM THE NINTH CIRCLE OF INFERNO
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLOSE EYES
Floyd |
Floyd | They are already closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open eyes" 		

Floyd ]  Gardening Might be Fun
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN EYES
Floyd |
Floyd | You open your eyes and behold! A paradise unfolds in front of your
Floyd | eyes! The flowers are blooming, the grass is a gleaming green carpet
Floyd | where butterflies chase each other and stop only to rest in sparkling
Floyd | waters of a beautiful yard pond. It is the perfect embodiment of a
Floyd | spring garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You have a very beautiful garden, Mrs. Salines," you tell your next
Floyd | door neighbour who is watering her petunias on the other side of the
Floyd | fence. "WHY DOES MINE LOOK LIKE THE AFTERMATH OF A CARPET BOMBING?"
Floyd | You can feel your blood pressure throbbing a vein in your forehead.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mrs. Salines laughs jovially. "My dear, you just need a bit of
Floyd | patience! You can't expect perfect results right away," she tells you.
Floyd | "Come, I'll make us some tea and then we'll go have a look at your
Floyd | garden."
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel a bit better.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You are on the road to becoming a gardener ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, or QUIT?
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "ha"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Awww."
		DavidW says, "That was great."
		borowski says, "Yay, we won tea!"
		genericgeekgirl says, "\::D"
		genericgeekgirl says, "That worked not."
		genericgeekgirl grins.
		genericgeekgirl :D
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "quit" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > QUIT
Floyd | debugcheapnitfol quit with exit status: 0

		
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask conan" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 0     Moves: 0
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]               Violence is not an answer -
Floyd ]               as long as you're just talking about it
Floyd ]
Floyd ]               (Stefan Stoppok, Songwriter)
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan Kill Everything
Floyd | An interactive massacre, by Ian Haberkorn
Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 050428 / Inform v6.30 Library 6/11 S
Floyd |
Floyd | Type ABOUT for more information, FORUM for r.g.i.f. comments on the
Floyd | game, and MEAN to turn off unwinnable protection.
Floyd |
Floyd | Weazle, the evil wizard has destroyed all that Conan loved. Now,
Floyd | after years of searching, Conan has finally found him. 
Floyd | Conan is ready for revenge - he will KILL EVERYTHING!
Floyd |
Floyd | Dungeon
Floyd | Conan is in a damp dungeon, furnished only with an oaken table. The
Floyd | walls consist of yellowish clay. High up on the wall is a single,
Floyd | burning torch. A door, leading north, is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | Weazle, the evil wizard spins around as Conan enters the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Ha!", he cries, "here comes stupid Conan whose parents I killed,
Floyd | whose sister I sold to the orks and whose dumbbells I stole! You want
Floyd | revenge! But you will perish!"
Floyd |
Floyd | He taps his pointed hat, and a growling wildcat appears out of thin
Floyd | air!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill wildcat" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 1     Moves: 1
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL WILDCAT
Floyd |
Floyd | Alertly, Conan draws his sword and, with one quick blow, strikes the
Floyd | wildcat dead. It vanishes in a puff of brown smoke.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Oh", snickers the wizard, "it seems that you have grown stronger
Floyd | since I burnt your home village! Well, try this!"
Floyd |
Floyd | He taps his pointed hat again, and a mighty golem made of wood appears
Floyd | out of thin air!
Floyd |
Floyd | [Conan's score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill golem" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 2     Moves: 2
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL GOLEM
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan raises his sword again and fells the golem with a single blow.
Floyd | It shatters into a million leaves that dissolve in a puff of green
Floyd | smoke. A red apple falls to the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | The wizard is impressed.
Floyd | "You are good!", he cries, "Better than when I bewitched your hairdo!
Floyd | But my best creation is yet to come! A giant tarantula!"
Floyd |
Floyd | He taps his hat again, and out of thin air, a little spider appears!
Floyd | The wizard looks a bit puzzled.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Conan's score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x spider" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 2     Moves: 3
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SPIDER
Floyd |
Floyd | It is a little spider with a furry body.
Floyd |
Floyd | The little spider moves around hesitantly!
Floyd |
Floyd | Weazle takes off his hat and examines it, muttering about something
Floyd | like 'energy plane dysfunction'.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill wizard" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 3     Moves: 4
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL WIZARD
Floyd |
Floyd | Finally Conan can attack Weazle. With a mighty blow he slices the
Floyd | wizard in half. He vanishes in a puff of golden, glittering smoke.
Floyd | Only his pointed hat falls to the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly the little spider freezes in its movements, as if
Floyd | concentrating.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Conan's score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take hat" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 3     Moves: 5
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE HAT
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | With a mighty leap, the spider lands on Conan's back. Quickly it bites
Floyd | into his neck, injecting its venom. Conan falls to the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** Conan has died. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |  ***
Floyd | "CUT!"
Floyd | Studio lights flare up. The director rushes onto the set keeping a
Floyd | safe distance to the spider.
Floyd | "I can't work like that!"
Floyd | He looks at you.
Floyd | "I think the script is being pretty clear! KILL THE SPIDER"
Floyd | He waves at the spider, being pampered by two animal handlers.
Floyd | "Shouldn't be a problem, huh?"
Floyd | He walks offstage, clapping his hands.
Floyd | "OK, let's do another one!"
Floyd |  ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game Conan scored 3 out of a possible 15, in 5 turns.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like Conan to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO Conan's
Floyd | last move or QUIT?
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 3     Moves: 4
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Dungeon
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Eek."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kill spider" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 3     Moves: 5
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL SPIDER
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan chops at the spider, but it evades, quickly climbs up the wall
Floyd | and hides in a crack.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crack" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 3     Moves: 6
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CRACK
Floyd |
Floyd | A spider is hiding in the crack.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 3     Moves: 7
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan is carrying:
Floyd |   a loincloth (being worn)
Floyd |   a very large sword
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill crack" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 3     Moves: 8
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL CRACK
Floyd |
Floyd | This seems futile even to Conan.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "remove loincloth" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 3     Moves: 9
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMOVE LOINCLOTH
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan removes the loincloth, held together with a bone pin. Not much
Floyd | is revealed. Cursed steroids.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill spider with pin" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 3     Moves: 10
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL SPIDER WITH PIN
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan has no fitting weapon to kill the little spider!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh baby."
borowski says (to Floyd), "wield pin" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 3     Moves: 10
Floyd |
Floyd | > WIELD PIN
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 3     Moves: 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan is carrying:
Floyd |   a bone pin
Floyd |   a loincloth
Floyd |   a very large sword
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put pin in crack" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 3     Moves: 12
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT PIN IN CRACK
Floyd |
Floyd | That can't contain things.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pin" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 3     Moves: 13
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PIN
Floyd |
Floyd | It is a pin, made of a dead chicken's bone (Conan killed it himself).
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "kill spider with pin" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 3     Moves: 14
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL SPIDER WITH PIN
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan has no fitting weapon to kill the little spider!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 3     Moves: 15
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Dungeon
Floyd | Conan is in a damp dungeon, furnished only with an oaken table. The
Floyd | walls consist of yellowish clay. High up on the wall is a single,
Floyd | burning torch. A door, leading north, is closed. The spider is hiding
Floyd | in a crack in the ceiling.
Floyd | A fly is buzzing around the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan can also see a pointed hat and a red apple here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		zarf asks, "try just 'kill spider' again?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kill spider" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 3     Moves: 16
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL SPIDER
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan cannot reach the spider up in the crack.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "x fly" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 3     Moves: 17
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FLY
Floyd |
Floyd | The fly is somewhere around, but hard to see in the flickering light.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take hat" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 3     Moves: 18
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE HAT
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in it" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 3     Moves: 19
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK IN IT
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the hat Conan can see some dials and blinking lights.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take fly" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 3     Moves: 20
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE FLY
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan does not manage to catch the fly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dials" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 3     Moves: 21
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DIALS
Floyd |
Floyd | The dials are marked with lettering in a strange writing (but Conan
Floyd | cannot read at all, anyway). They can obviously be turned.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat apple" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 4     Moves: 22
Floyd |
Floyd | > EAT APPLE
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking the red apple)
Floyd | Conan eats the apple. His gastric juices quickly kill it. Conan
Floyd | emanates a burp of red smoke.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Conan's score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "I expected to die."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x table" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 4     Moves: 23
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | It is a sturdy table that has seen many feasts and fights. There is a
Floyd | small hole on the side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hole" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 4     Moves: 24
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a tiny woodworm in the hole.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take worm" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 4     Moves: 25
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE WORM
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan cannot reach the worm in the hole.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x worm" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 4     Moves: 26
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WORM
Floyd |
Floyd | The woodworm is tiny in the hole. Conan can barely see it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put pin in hole" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 5     Moves: 27
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT PIN IN HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan takes the pin and cruelly stabs the worm. Its body goes limp,
Floyd | dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Conan's score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
%%% # MARK: 2012-11-21-22:36:57CST 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give worm to spider" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 5     Moves: 27
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE WORM TO SPIDER
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show worm to spider" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 5     Moves: 27
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW WORM TO SPIDER
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill table" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 5     Moves: 28
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan does not want to do this - now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on table" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 5     Moves: 29
Floyd |
Floyd | > STAND ON TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan gets onto the oaken table.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put pin in crack" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 5     Moves: 30
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT PIN IN CRACK
Floyd |
Floyd | That can't contain things.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put worm in crack" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 5     Moves: 31
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT WORM IN CRACK
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan needs to be holding the dead woodworm before he can put him into
Floyd | something else.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take woodworm" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 5     Moves: 32
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE WOODWORM
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan cannot reach the worm in the hole.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 5     Moves: 33
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan is carrying:
Floyd |   a pointed hat
Floyd |   a bone pin
Floyd |   a loincloth
Floyd |   a very large sword
Floyd |
Floyd | The fly lands.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "down" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 5     Moves: 34
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan will have to get off the oaken table first.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fly takes off again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pin" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 5     Moves: 35
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PIN
Floyd |

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "get off table" 		

Floyd | It is a pin, made of a dead chicken's bone (Conan killed it himself).
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 5     Moves: 36
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET OFF TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan gets off the oaken table.
Floyd |
Floyd | Dungeon
Floyd | The spider is hiding in a crack in the ceiling.
Floyd | A fly is buzzing around the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn dial" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 5     Moves: 37
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN DIAL
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan fiddles with the dials.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 5     Moves: 38
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan returns the dials to their original settings.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 5     Moves: 39
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan fiddles with the dials.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hat" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 5     Moves: 40
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HAT
Floyd |
Floyd | A large, pointed hat with a moon and stars decoration that used to be
Floyd | popular among wizards about 250 years ago. Conan notices an especially
Floyd | large saturn symbol. Inside the hat Conan can see some dials and
Floyd | blinking lights.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x saturn" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 5     Moves: 41
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SATURN
Floyd |
Floyd | The saturn symbol has a slight smudge. It seems to serve as a kind of
Floyd | button.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push saturn" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 6     Moves: 42
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH SATURN
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan taps the hat. It vanishes in a puff of glittering silver smoke!
Floyd |
Floyd | [Conan's score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm. Hope we didn't need that."
		genericgeekgirl says, "We have "unwinnable protection" on."
		DavidW says, "do we? I missed that."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 6     Moves: 43
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Dungeon
Floyd | Conan is in a damp dungeon, furnished only with an oaken table. The
Floyd | walls consist of yellowish clay. High up on the wall is a single,
Floyd | burning torch. A door, leading north, is closed. The spider is hiding
Floyd | in a crack in the ceiling.
Floyd | A fly is buzzing around the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fly lands.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take torch" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 6     Moves: 44
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE TORCH
Floyd |
Floyd | The torch is out of Conan's reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fly takes off again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on table" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 6     Moves: 45
Floyd |
Floyd | > STAND ON TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan gets onto the oaken table.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take torch" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 6     Moves: 46
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE TORCH
Floyd |
Floyd | The torch is out of Conan's reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl | game, and MEAN to turn off unwinnable protection.
DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 6     Moves: 47
Floyd |
Floyd | > JUMP
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan jumps.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 6     Moves: 48
Floyd |
Floyd | > STAND
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan gets off the oaken table.
Floyd |
Floyd | Dungeon
Floyd | The spider is hiding in a crack in the ceiling.
Floyd | A fly is buzzing around the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push table" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 6     Moves: 49
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | It is fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under table" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 6     Moves: 50
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK UNDER TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan finds nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fly" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 6     Moves: 51
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FLY
Floyd |
Floyd | The fly is somewhere around, but hard to see in the flickering light.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill light" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 6     Moves: 51
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL LIGHT
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan cannot see that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill torch" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 6     Moves: 52
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL TORCH
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan jumps and hops, but cannot reach the torch with his sword.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on table" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 6     Moves: 53
Floyd |
Floyd | > STAND ON TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan gets onto the oaken table.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill torch" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 6     Moves: 54
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL TORCH
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan does not want to do this - now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crack" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 6     Moves: 55
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CRACK
Floyd |
Floyd | A spider is hiding in the crack.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill fly" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 6     Moves: 56
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL FLY
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan tries to hit the fly, but even he is too clumsy to hit it in
Floyd | midair.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x loincloth" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 6     Moves: 57
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LOINCLOTH
Floyd |
Floyd | It is made of bear skin (Conan killed the bear himself).
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill loincloth" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 7     Moves: 58
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL LOINCLOTH
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan shreds the loincloth to pieces with his sword. It is dead now.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fly lands.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Conan's score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill fly" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 8     Moves: 59
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL FLY
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan aims and squashes the fly with his sword. Entrails splatter. The
Floyd | fly is dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | The little spider crawls out of the crack in the ceiling!
Floyd |
Floyd | [Conan's score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill spider" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 8     Moves: 60
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL SPIDER
Floyd |
Floyd | As Conan advances, the spider hastily climbs back into the crack.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 8     Moves: 59
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Dungeon
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 8     Moves: 60
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The little spider comes crawling down the wall!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 8     Moves: 61
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The little spider is crawling over the floor!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 8     Moves: 62
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The little spider is eating the fly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill spider" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 9     Moves: 63
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL SPIDER
Floyd |
Floyd | With a devastating blow, Conan kills the spider. It vanishes in a puff
Floyd | of black smoke.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Conan's score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill torch" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 9     Moves: 64
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL TORCH
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan does not want to do this - now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 9     Moves: 65
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan is carrying:
Floyd |   a bone pin
Floyd |   a shredded loincloth
Floyd |   a very large sword
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x loincloth" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 9     Moves: 66
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LOINCLOTH
Floyd |
Floyd | It is dead. Conan has killed it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "tie loincloth" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 9     Moves: 67
Floyd |
Floyd | > TIE LOINCLOTH
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan would achieve nothing by this.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "make rope" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 9     Moves: 67
Floyd |
Floyd | > MAKE ROPE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sword" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 9     Moves: 68
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SWORD
Floyd |
Floyd | The only thing Conan really needs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill pin" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 10    Moves: 69
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL PIN
Floyd |
Floyd | Between his fingers, Conan snaps the pin into two pieces. It is dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Conan's score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "score" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 10    Moves: 69
Floyd |
Floyd | > SCORE
Floyd |
Floyd | He has so far scored 10 out of a possible 15, in 69 turns.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill loincloth" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 10    Moves: 70
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL LOINCLOTH
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan already killed the shredded loincloth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 10    Moves: 71
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Dungeon (on the oaken table)
Floyd | Conan is in a damp dungeon, furnished only with an oaken table. The
Floyd | walls consist of yellowish clay. High up on the wall is a single,
Floyd | burning torch. A door, leading north, is closed.
Floyd | Conan can see a squashed fly here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill wall" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 10    Moves: 72
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL WALL
Floyd |
Floyd | The clay walls are already dead. Conan suspects that he killed them in
Floyd | an earlier episode.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		zarf asks, "time for the table?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw sword at torch" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 10    Moves: 73
Floyd |
Floyd | > THROW SWORD AT TORCH
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan does not want to do this.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill torch" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 10    Moves: 74
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL TORCH
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan does not want to do this - now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill table" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 10    Moves: 75
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan does not want to do this - now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 10    Moves: 76
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | A heavy wooden door with metal hinges and a large metal lock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill door" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 11    Moves: 77
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan wildly attacks the door with his sword. After several blows, it
Floyd | suddenly drops forward and slams flat on the floor - dead. Behind it
Floyd | is only bare wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Conan's score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take door" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 11    Moves: 78
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | It is too heavy even for Conan to lift.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 11    Moves: 79
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | It is dead. Conan has killed it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "blow torch" 		

Floyd ]  Dungeon                                   Score: 11    Moves: 80
Floyd |
Floyd | > BLOW TORCH
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking the torch)
Floyd | The torch is out of Conan's reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw sword at torch" 		

Floyd ]  Darkness                                  Score: 12    Moves: 81
Floyd |
Floyd | > THROW SWORD AT TORCH
Floyd |
Floyd | A well-aimed throw dislodges the torch which falls to the floor. It
Floyd | dies!
Floyd |
Floyd | It is now pitch dark in here!
Floyd |
Floyd | [Conan's score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take sword" 		

Floyd ]  Darkness                                  Score: 12    Moves: 82
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE SWORD
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan fumbles in the dark. Ouch! He steps on the hot torch!
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** Conan has failed. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |  ***
Floyd | "CUT!"
Floyd | Studio lights flare up, illuminating a frowning crew. The director
Floyd | rushes onto the set pulling his hair.
Floyd | "What is this hopping around, Buster Keaton?"
Floyd | He stares at you hypnotically.
Floyd | "This is a crucial phase before the final denouement! I want
Floyd | solemnity. I want grace. You can do better than that!"
Floyd | He walks offstage, clapping his hands.
Floyd | "OK, another one!"
Floyd |  ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game Conan scored 12 out of a possible 15, in 82 turns.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like Conan to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO Conan's
Floyd | last move or QUIT?
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Darkness                                  Score: 12    Moves: 81
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Darkness
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "down" 		

Floyd ]  Darkness                                  Score: 12    Moves: 82
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan will have to get off the oaken table first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" 		

Floyd ]  Darkness                                  Score: 12    Moves: 83
Floyd |
Floyd | > STAND
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan gets off the oaken table.
Floyd |
Floyd | Darkness
Floyd | Conan is in darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "break table" 		

Floyd ]  Darkness                                  Score: 13    Moves: 84
Floyd |
Floyd | > BREAK TABLE
Floyd |

		zarf says, "kill darkness!"

Floyd | Splinters fly as Conan slices the tabletop from its legs. It falls
Floyd | down flat, dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Conan's score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill darkness" 		

Floyd ]  Darkness                                  Score: 13    Moves: 84
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL DARKNESS
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan cannot see that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take sword" 		

Floyd ]  Darkness                                  Score: 13    Moves: 85
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE SWORD
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan fumbles in the dark. Ouch! He steps on the hot torch!
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** Conan has failed. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |  ***
Floyd | "CUT!"
Floyd | Studio lights flare up, illuminating a frowning crew. The director
Floyd | rushes onto the set pulling his hair.
Floyd | "What is this hopping around, Buster Keaton?"
Floyd | He stares at you hypnotically.
Floyd | "This is a crucial phase before the final denouement! I want
Floyd | solemnity. I want grace. You can do better than that!"
Floyd | He walks offstage, clapping his hands.
Floyd | "OK, another one!"
Floyd |  ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game Conan scored 13 out of a possible 15, in 85 turns.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like Conan to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO Conan's
Floyd | last move or QUIT?
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Darkness                                  Score: 13    Moves: 84
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Darkness
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill sword" 		

Floyd ]  Darkness                                  Score: 14    Moves: 85
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL SWORD
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan grabs his sword by handle and tip and, with all his might,
Floyd | breaks it over his knee. Ouch! But two fragments remain in his hands,
Floyd | dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Conan's score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill conan" 		

Floyd ]  Darkness                                  Score: 15    Moves: 86
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL CONAN
Floyd |
Floyd | Conan takes the broken blade and holds it before him with both hands.
Floyd | Then he takes it and with a sudden thrust buries it deep in his
Floyd | muscular stomach.
Floyd |
Floyd | Blood flows, as Conan turns and twists the blade in the wound until he
Floyd | sinks to the floor, dead.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** Conan has died. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |  ***
Floyd | "It's a wrap!"
Floyd | Studio lights flare up, as the crew breaks into cheers. The
Floyd | director rushes onto the set enthusiastically waving his arms.
Floyd | "This was true drama, world class! Great mimic, great posture! And
Floyd | SO convincing, even in infrared!"
Floyd | He drags you to your feet and pats your back.
Floyd | "Listen, I think you have a great career coming your way..."
Floyd |  ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game Conan scored 15 out of a possible 15, in 86 turns.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like Conan to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO Conan's
Floyd | last move or QUIT?
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "what a silly game."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Aw."
borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Darkness                                  Score: 14    Moves: 85
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Darkness
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "forum" 		

Floyd ]  Darkness                                  Score: 14    Moves: 85
Floyd |
Floyd | > FORUM
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Voices from the forum (rec.games.int.fiction.):
Floyd |
Floyd | "...an apotheosis of the traditional, Zork-led approach to IF..."
Floyd |
Floyd | "...deconstruction of the room paradigm..."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Conan is the barbarian, the Significant Other against which
Floyd | civilisation defines itself."
Floyd |
Floyd | "To say that 'Conan Kill Everything' relies on symbolic vocabulary is
Floyd | to understate the issue. Its symbols are isolated and recognisable,
Floyd | and stand out from the landscape in their symbolic significance like a
Floyd | naked guy on steroids in a Victorian painting. 'Note this!' they say.
Floyd | And they are organised with a tidy symmetry, perfect and mathematical,
Floyd | so that the meaning of anything unexplained may be worked out by its
Floyd | relations to other symbols and the oppositions between them. The
Floyd | sword, the table, the worm, the penis; every object denotes a single
Floyd | concept in its purity."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "forum" 		

Floyd ]  Darkness                                  Score: 14    Moves: 85
Floyd |
Floyd | > FORUM
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Voices from the forum (rec.games.int.fiction.):
Floyd |
Floyd | "...an apotheosis of the traditional, Zork-led approach to IF..."
Floyd |
Floyd | "...deconstruction of the room paradigm..."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Conan is the barbarian, the Significant Other against which
Floyd | civilisation defines itself."
Floyd |
Floyd | "To say that 'Conan Kill Everything' relies on symbolic vocabulary is
Floyd | to understate the issue. Its symbols are isolated and recognisable,
Floyd | and stand out from the landscape in their symbolic significance like a
Floyd | naked guy on steroids in a Victorian painting. 'Note this!' they say.
Floyd | And they are organised with a tidy symmetry, perfect and mathematical,
Floyd | so that the meaning of anything unexplained may be worked out by its
Floyd | relations to other symbols and the oppositions between them. The
Floyd | sword, the table, the worm, the penis; every object denotes a single
Floyd | concept in its purity."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "about" 		

Floyd ]  Darkness                                  Score: 14    Moves: 85
Floyd |
Floyd | > ABOUT
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | About Conan Kill Everything:
Floyd | This game began as just a title entry into the "Stupid Title
Floyd | Competition". This mock comp was done by Greg Boettcher to test his
Floyd | Spring Thing 2005 web voting system. (www.springthing.net/stc.htm)
Floyd |
Floyd | It ranked a fabulous second dumbest. When Ãyvind Thorsby posted "I
Floyd | want to play Conan Kill Everything!" on the rec.games.int.fiction
Floyd | newsgroup, I somehow felt compelled to produce this, maybe because -
Floyd | if it's too stupid - I can always pretend that it's dumb on purpose...
Floyd |
Floyd | Thanks to:
Floyd | Ãyvind for his request and testing,
Floyd | Thomas Wollersheim, Poster (Mike) and Eric Eve for more testing and
Floyd | suggestions,
Floyd | Alessandro Schillaci for JIF, a great Java Inform
Floyd | Editor-Compiler-Z-machine-Shell (www.slade.altervista.org/JIF/),
Floyd | Roger Firth and Stefano Gaburri for scenic.h,
Floyd | and, of course,
Floyd | Graham Nelson, for creating Inform in the first place.
Floyd |
Floyd | About the author:
Floyd | Old enough to have played the original Scott Adams games on a
Floyd | Commodore VIC 20, I was delighted to find the genre surviving and even
Floyd | flourishing noncommercially today. This is my first attempt at writing
Floyd | IF. By the way, I never watched a Conan movie. It probably shows.
Floyd |
Floyd | If you have comments, bug reports or suggestions how to make this game
Floyd | even worthier of its stupid title, please email to:
Floyd | haberkornj@yahoo.com
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
borowski says (to Floyd), "help" 		

Floyd ]  Darkness                                  Score: 14    Moves: 85
Floyd |
Floyd | > HELP
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "I assume we're done for tonight?"
		borowski says, "I guess so. I'm going to try and get to sleep early myself."


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ClubFloyd Transcript:
Eurydice by Anonymous
As played on ifMUD on November 25, 2012

The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction.

Below is a transcript of Eurydice written by Anonymous. Eurydice was released as part of the 2012 Interactive Fiction Competition, in which it took second place. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki.

WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page.
ToyShop & Floyditorium
		
#ClubFloyd Discussion
		
Jacqueline hollers, "ClubFloyd! Now! We're playing Eurydice by Anonymous, so all you 99%ers should join us!" 		DavidW says, "oh, I've played this one."
djfletch arrives, full of fun, but no funk. 		DavidW says, "I'm curious to see how people find it."
		Doug asks, "So we're playing a Euro dice game?"
		Jacqueline says, "Maga mentioned to the author we'd be playing. I need to get back into the flow. I thought I would be caught up entirely, but hit a glitch with a transcript last night that stopped the process. Vimes troubleshot it, though, and so we should be entirely caught up, to include ClubFloyd, today. Before we leave today, let's decide what we're playing this week so I can actually use the RSS feed and let the author know before the last minute and stuff."
		Jacqueline says (to Doug), "That's what I hear."
		Jacqueline asks, "Zach, have you played it?"
		Zach says, "Nope."
		Doug asks, "will the author be joining us?"
		Zach says, "I saved all the winners for last."
		Jacqueline says, "Mmkay, cool. Three is enough."
		Jacqueline says (to Zach), "Not at all sure."
		Binder clears his throat.
		Doug asks, "Or maybe the author is already here??!?"
		Jacqueline says, "But the cool new thing about ClubFloyd is that -- oh, hi, Binder."
		Jacqueline says (to Doug), "OMG I KNOW"
		Jacqueline asks, "Binder, have YOU played it?"
		Binder says, "I have not."
		Jacqueline exclaims, "Four is merrier than three!"
		Doug says, "don't count me, I may be in & out as I try to switch to a better desktop environment."
		Jacqueline says, "Anyway, what I was saying is that I can now process a transcript easily in about three to five minutes, so the author, even if they're not here, WILL actually see the transcript. I'm giddy."
		Binder says, "That is an awesome time savings."
		Jacqueline says, "Anyway, shall we begin? Yes, Lisa."
		maga says, "the author has not responded, fwiw"
		maga says, "but they could be among us and we'd never even know it *wigglyfingers*"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask eurydice" 		

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | For help with Eurydice, or IF in general, type HELP at any time.
Floyd | Press any key to continue.

		Doug says, "I bet the author is... JACQ"
		Jacqueline asks (of maga), "It's YOU, isn't it?"
		Binder says, "This is clubfloyd, not werewolf."
		Jacqueline exclaims, "Hahaha - let's all point at each other. David and Binder and Zach, make your accusations!"
		Doug says, "haha"
		Jacqueline laughs at Binder.
		maga says (to Jacq), "there is one detail that totally exonerates me"
		Zach says (to DavidW), "You, in the billards room, with the parser!"
		maga says, "you will know it when you find it"
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Empty room                                           1
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]              Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drown'd,
Floyd ]              Let darkness keep her raven gloss:
Floyd ]              Ah, sweeter to be drunk with loss,
Floyd ]              To dance with death, to beat the ground,
Floyd ]
Floyd ]              Than that the victor Hours should scorn
Floyd ]              The long result of love, and boast,
Floyd ]              'Behold the man that loved and lost,
Floyd ]              But all he was is overworn.'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]              --Tennyson, 'In Memoriam'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | Eurydice
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 120921 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Empty room
Floyd | This room is full of silence.  Freshly disturbed dust hangs upon the
Floyd | air.  There are patterns of pressure upon the carpet, suggesting there
Floyd | are spaces where once there weren't.   The walls are bare, but for the
Floyd | occasional pictureless hook.  There is a wardrobe here, a chest of
Floyd | drawers and a skeleton of shelves against the far wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | The only way out is to the west onto the upstairs landing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says (to maga), "methinks etc protest etc"
Binder says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd ]  Empty room                                           2
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You've been better.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x wardrobe" 		

Floyd ]  Empty room                                           3
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WARDROBE
Floyd |
Floyd | The wardrobe casts a knobbly shadow against the bare wall behind it.
Floyd | The door hangs very slightly open, showing a crack of darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to Doug), "Quit talkin' all fancy like that or I'll switch my vote to you."
Zach says (to Floyd), "open wardrobe" 		

Floyd ]  Empty room                                           4
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN WARDROBE
Floyd |
Floyd | You step into the wardrobe and sit down in the space, pressing your
Floyd | senses against the emptiness as if longing alone is enough to create
Floyd | something from nothing.  With your eyes closed you can almost feel the
Floyd | soft pressure of Celine's clothes against your face and breathe in the
Floyd | scent of her rising from the disturbed fabric.  But you cannot delude
Floyd | yourself for nearly as long as you would like to.  This wardrobe is
Floyd | empty.  There is nothing here, and you get out again before you start
Floyd | to feel foolish.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "There was a previous IF game with a Eurydice in it: The Reliques of Tolti-Aph. But mostly in name only."
		Doug says, "I just remembered that I had a dream in which it was revealed that Adam Cadre wrote this game. Which seems pretty unlikely."
Binder says (to Floyd), "x chest" 		

Floyd ]  Empty room                                           5
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CHEST
Floyd |
Floyd | A pale pine set of drawers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		maga says (to DW), "the evidence that exonerates me also exonerates Graham Nelson"
Binder says (to Floyd), "open chest" 		

Floyd ]  Empty room                                           6
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN CHEST
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no point opening them because you know they contain nothing,
Floyd | and you don't want to have to remember everything that's gone.  All
Floyd | her scarves, and rings, and pretty things.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Wait, this is really written in Quest? Huh."
		Doug asks, "has an anonymous game ever won IFcomp?"
		Jacqueline says, "Hm, not sure, but this one came damn close."
Binder says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Empty room                                           7
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Empty room
Floyd | This room is full of silence.  Freshly disturbed dust hangs upon the
Floyd | air.  There are patterns of pressure upon the carpet, suggesting there
Floyd | are spaces where once there weren't.   The walls are bare, but for the
Floyd | occasional pictureless hook.  There is a wardrobe here, a chest of
Floyd | drawers and a skeleton of shelves against the far wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | The only way out is to the west onto the upstairs landing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		maga says, "pseudonymous, sure"
		DavidW says, "Not one that stayed Anonymous, iirc."
Zach says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Empty room                                           8
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "x shelves" 		

Floyd ]  Empty room                                           9
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SHELVES
Floyd |
Floyd | These shelves are a framework for nothing but air.  The books they
Floyd | held not so very long ago evade you now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "x carpet" 		

Floyd ]  Empty room                                           10
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CARPET
Floyd |
Floyd | The carpet is the colour of sand, as though the room has become a
Floyd | tideline, washed clean of its cockleshell memories and mermaid-hair
Floyd | dreams.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "May I >ABOUT?"
		ASchultz says, ".. notices the transcripts can be processed quicker now and cheers."
		Binder says, "okbyme"
		Zach says, "sure"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "about" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |  > Introduction to Eurydice
Floyd |    Instructions for Playing IF in General
Floyd |    Special Commands in Eurydice
Floyd |    Thank yous
Floyd |    Contact the author
Floyd |    I'm stuck!

		Binder says, "I like the 'room has become a tideline' line."
Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]                      Introduction to Eurydice
Floyd | I don't know how to say this without sounding like an arse, but
Floyd | Eurydice is a text adventure about grief.  Although there are a few
Floyd | puzzly elements, it's mainly a mood piece, focused more on exploration
Floyd | and atmosphere than problem-solving. It's meant to have a sort of
Floyd | dreamlike quality to it so don't worry if you don't immediately know
Floyd | what you're supposed to be doing.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		Jacqueline says, "Anonymous said, 'arse.' I'm back to thinking it's you, maga."
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |  > Introduction to Eurydice
Floyd |    Instructions for Playing IF in General
Floyd |    Special Commands in Eurydice
Floyd |    Thank yous
Floyd |    Contact the author
Floyd |    I'm stuck!

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "N" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Eurydice
Floyd |  > Instructions for Playing IF in General
Floyd |    Special Commands in Eurydice
Floyd |    Thank yous
Floyd |    Contact the author
Floyd |    I'm stuck!

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "N" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Eurydice
Floyd |    Instructions for Playing IF in General
Floyd |  > Special Commands in Eurydice
Floyd |    Thank yous
Floyd |    Contact the author
Floyd |    I'm stuck!

		
Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]                    Special Commands in Eurydice
Floyd | Eurydice isn't exactly over-endowed with special commands because I
Floyd | lack the programming werewithall for anything that cool.  I hope most
Floyd | of the things you might want to do are accomodated in the body of the
Floyd | game anyway and that context-specific actions are adequately sign
Floyd | posted.  But you might want to consider the following: PLAY (a musical
Floyd | instrument should you acquire one), TALK TO (for interacting with
Floyd | people) and TURN AROUND (under a very specific set of circumstances).
Floyd | I would also recommend that you try repeating actions if it seems
Floyd | appropriate, since you will likely find they have different outcomes -
Floyd | especially when it comes to talking to people.  With reference to
Floyd | TURNING AROUND, if you happen to be in a situation in which it might
Floyd | not be ideal to TURN AROUND, doubling back on yourself will also
Floyd | count.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		Binder says, "heh heh over-endowed"
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Eurydice
Floyd |    Instructions for Playing IF in General
Floyd |  > Special Commands in Eurydice
Floyd |    Thank yous
Floyd |    Contact the author
Floyd |    I'm stuck!

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "N" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Eurydice
Floyd |    Instructions for Playing IF in General
Floyd |    Special Commands in Eurydice
Floyd |  > Thank yous
Floyd |    Contact the author
Floyd |    I'm stuck!

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x dust" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Eurydice
Floyd |    Instructions for Playing IF in General
Floyd |    Special Commands in Eurydice
Floyd |  > Thank yous
Floyd |    Contact the author
Floyd |    I'm stuck!

		
Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]                             Thank yous
Floyd | More thanks than I can say to my friends and loved ones - you may be
Floyd | few in number but you are great in heart.
Floyd |
Floyd | And many many many thanks to my long-suffering, unsuspecting beta
Floyd | testers: Issy, Guy, Julian, Jessica, Dan, Shim and Arthur, with
Floyd | special thanks to Issy for the lovely artwork.
Floyd |
Floyd | Also, um, to Emily Short (who has no idea who I am - and for that
Floyd | matter I don't know who she is) but without her I wouldn't know a damn
Floyd | thing about Inform 7.  In all honesty, I still don't know that much.
Floyd | The actual coding underpinning this thing is a terrible mess, but
Floyd | that's not Emily Short's fault.  Pro tip: if you want to learn how to
Floyd | use Inform 7 don't start with an absurdly convoluted story about
Floyd | bereavement.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		Zach says, "whoops"
		Jacqueline says (to Z), "One sec, I think this is the last one before I get out of the menus."
		DavidW asks, "Was the last game we played that implemented TURN AROUND "Fingertips - Turn Around'?"
		Binder says, "Well, that's cemented the earworm, thanks."
		Jacqueline says (to Binder), "heehee"
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Introduction to Eurydice
Floyd |    Instructions for Playing IF in General
Floyd |    Special Commands in Eurydice
Floyd |  > Thank yous
Floyd |    Contact the author
Floyd |    I'm stuck!

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "Q" 		

Floyd ]  Empty room                                           10
Floyd | Empty room
Floyd | This room is full of silence.  Freshly disturbed dust hangs upon the
Floyd | air.  There are patterns of pressure upon the carpet, suggesting there
Floyd | are spaces where once there weren't.   The walls are bare, but for the
Floyd | occasional pictureless hook.  There is a wardrobe here, a chest of
Floyd | drawers and a skeleton of shelves against the far wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | The only way out is to the west onto the upstairs landing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to Z), "Be my guest."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x dust" 		

Floyd ]  Empty room                                           11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DUST
Floyd |
Floyd | A haphazard swirl of dustmotes suspended in a haze of evening light.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "x patterns" 		

Floyd ]  Empty room                                           12
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PATTERNS
Floyd |
Floyd | The carpet is the colour of sand, as though the room has become a
Floyd | tideline, washed clean of its cockleshell memories and mermaid-hair
Floyd | dreams.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "This is a sad room. We should go throw ourselves down the stairs."
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  upstairs landing                                     13
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | upstairs landing
Floyd | The upstairs landing is dimly illuminated from the light in the empty
Floyd | room.  From here, you can hear a murmur of voices coming from the
Floyd | living room downstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the north is Dave's room, to the west your own.  The empty room
Floyd | that was Celine's is to the east. There is a flight of stairs leading
Floyd | up to John's room and another going down to the ground floor of the
Floyd | house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug asks, "wait, why did you think this was Quest, Jacq?"
		DavidW says, "yeah, it's obviously not in Quest."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "version" 		

Floyd ]  upstairs landing                                     13
Floyd |
Floyd | > VERSION
Floyd |
Floyd | Eurydice
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 120921 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd | Identification number: //FFA6C31A-1543-463E-B66A-0B37683BB1BB//
Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0 (6b) / Library serial number 080126
Floyd | Standard Rules version 2/090402 by Graham Nelson
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to Doug), "Because maga said there was a really obvious thing that got both him and Graham Nelson off the hook."
		Jacqueline says, "I was just theorizing."
		Jacqueline smiles.
Binder says (to Floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd ]  upstairs landing                                     14
Floyd |
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | The voices are too muffled by distance for you to make out anything
Floyd | beyond the fact that people are speaking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "ohhh."
		Jacqueline says, "...theorizing facetiously."
		Doug says, "sorry, missed that joke entirely."
		Jacqueline says, "It was a stealthjoke, no worries."
		Doug says, "I know what the thing maga was talking about was because I read his review"
		Jacqueline says, "No spoilers, svp."
		Binder says, "f x landing"
Binder says (to Floyd), "x landing" 		

Floyd ]  upstairs landing                                     14
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LANDING
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  upstairs landing                                     15
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | upstairs landing
Floyd | The upstairs landing is dimly illuminated from the light in the empty
Floyd | room.  From here, you can hear a murmur of voices coming from the
Floyd | living room downstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the north is Dave's room, to the west your own.  The empty room
Floyd | that was Celine's is to the east. There is a flight of stairs leading
Floyd | up to John's room and another going down to the ground floor of the
Floyd | house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach asks, "Which room?"
		DavidW says, "Perhaps the author's comment that Emily Short doesn't know him or her. Emily certainly knows both maga and Graham."
		Binder asks, "ransack our room?"
		Jacqueline says (to DW), "True"
		Jacqueline says, "Well, I'm kind of keen on the idea of being miserable in Celine's room, but there are also people to talk to, so I'm torn."
		maga says, "that was not what I was thinking of, but okay fine"
		djfletch says, "also, Nelson probably knows how to avoid lower-case room names in Inform."
		Binder says, "I am also okay with moping in Celine's room."
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Empty room                                           16
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Empty room
Floyd | This room is full of silence.  Freshly disturbed dust hangs upon the
Floyd | air.  There are patterns of pressure upon the carpet, suggesting there
Floyd | are spaces where once there weren't.   The walls are bare, but for the
Floyd | occasional pictureless hook.  There is a wardrobe here, a chest of
Floyd | drawers and a skeleton of shelves against the far wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | The only way out is to the west onto the upstairs landing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach sneezes
		Jacqueline says (to djf), "Aw. Be nice. If this is someone's first attempt, it's particularly impressive."
Binder says (to Floyd), "mope" 		

Floyd ]  Empty room                                           16
Floyd |
Floyd | > MOPE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "mourn" 		

Floyd ]  Empty room                                           16
Floyd |
Floyd | > MOURN
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "grieve" 		

Floyd ]  Empty room                                           16
Floyd |
Floyd | > GRIEVE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  upstairs landing                                     17
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | upstairs landing
Floyd | The upstairs landing is dimly illuminated from the light in the empty
Floyd | room.  From here, you can hear a murmur of voices coming from the
Floyd | living room downstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the north is Dave's room, to the west your own.  The empty room
Floyd | that was Celine's is to the east. There is a flight of stairs leading
Floyd | up to John's room and another going down to the ground floor of the
Floyd | house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach asks, "Oh, so we started in Celine's room?"
		DavidW says, "yes"
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  your room                                            18
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | your room
Floyd | Your room is a complete mess.  The bed is unmade.  The bookshelves
Floyd | that once lined the walls are a ruin of fallen books and splintered
Floyd | wood.  There are piles of things that shouldn't be piled everywhere.
Floyd | All the things you thought you cared about feel like mockery.
Floyd |
Floyd | A mysterious lyre, slightly battered from possibly having fallen from
Floyd | your bookshelves, lies among the wreckage.
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind you, to the east, is the upstairs landing
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		djfletch says (to Jacqueline), "Yes, agreed."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x lyre" 		

Floyd ]  your room                                            19
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LYRE
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks out of place.  It is not an especially beautiful object; if
Floyd | anything it seems worn.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "play lyre" 		

Floyd ]  your room                                            20
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLAY LYRE
Floyd |
Floyd | You really have no idea how to even begin to play a lyre.  You pluck
Floyd | at the strings a bit and they make a sad little sound sound like
Floyd | elastic bands vibrating over an empty ice-cream tub.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "practice lyre" 		

Floyd ]  your room                                            20
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRACTICE LYRE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "x bed" 		

Floyd ]  your room                                            21
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BED
Floyd |
Floyd | You briefly consider making it, or crawling into it but you cannot
Floyd | quite bring yourself to do either.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "story of my life"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x bookshelf" 		

Floyd ]  your room                                            21
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOKSHELF
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "x mockery" 		

Floyd ]  your room                                            21
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MOCKERY
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  your room                                            22
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | your room
Floyd | Your room is a complete mess.  The bed is unmade.  The bookshelves
Floyd | that once lined the walls are a ruin of fallen books and splintered
Floyd | wood.  There are piles of things that shouldn't be piled everywhere.
Floyd | All the things you thought you cared about feel like mockery.
Floyd |
Floyd | A mysterious lyre, slightly battered from possibly having fallen from
Floyd | your bookshelves, lies among the wreckage.
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind you, to the east, is the upstairs landing
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Okay, weird. Until he mentioned the ice cream tub, I was all Victorian in my head."
		Binder says, "Oh. I had thought it was modern day because we're all emo."
		Jacqueline says, "heh"
		Jacqueline says, ">X MY BLACK LIPSTICK"
Zach says (to Floyd), "look under bed" 		

Floyd ]  your room                                            23
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BED
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "x piles" 		

Floyd ]  your room                                            24
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PILES
Floyd |
Floyd | It's just stuff, the accumulated detritus of a life lived heedlessly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says (to Jacqueline), ">SING ABOUT MIASMA"
		Jacqueline says, "Though the name 'Dave' threw me off as well."
		Jacqueline exclaims (at DW), "O! Rainy day!"
Zach says (to Floyd), "dance" 		

Floyd ]  your room                                            24
Floyd |
Floyd | > DANCE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "Speaking of Dave, shall we go invade his personal space?"
		Binder says, "No dancing, we're in mourning."
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  your room                                            25
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "Sure."
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  upstairs landing                                     26
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | upstairs landing
Floyd | The upstairs landing is dimly illuminated from the light in the empty
Floyd | room.  From here, you can hear a murmur of voices coming from the
Floyd | living room downstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the north is Dave's room, to the west your own.  The empty room
Floyd | that was Celine's is to the east. There is a flight of stairs leading
Floyd | up to John's room and another going down to the ground floor of the
Floyd | house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  dave's room                                          27
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | dave's room
Floyd | Dave's room is little more than a storage space.  The bed is just a
Floyd | bare mattress and there are boxes of books - mostly yours - piled
Floyd | everywhere.  Damp socks, and half-finished laundry, strew the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | The upstairs landing lies to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder exclaims, "Hey that's our stuff!"
Binder says (to Floyd), "x books" 		

Floyd ]  dave's room                                          28
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | You own far more books than can be stuffed onto your shelves - here
Floyd | they live in boxes and gather dust.  Every now and then you open them
Floyd | up and rifle through them and it's like meeting old friends you forgot
Floyd | you cared for.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "take books" 		

Floyd ]  dave's room                                          29
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't really feel in the mood for digging through your books.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "x bed" 		

Floyd ]  dave's room                                          30
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BED
Floyd |
Floyd | An uncovered bed really gives a place a transient look.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, ">write name in books"
Binder says (to Floyd), "x socks" 		

Floyd ]  dave's room                                          31
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SOCKS
Floyd |
Floyd | Dave's socks are plentiful and, truthfully, not entirely pleasant.
Floyd | They are bought in bulk by his parents and are therefore always
Floyd | identical, bobbly and embroidered - incongruously - with Ws.  You are
Floyd | not sure if they are damp because they have recently come out of the
Floyd | washing machine or because they desperately need to go in it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "Oh, Dave must be short for Wavid."
Zach says (to Floyd), "take socks" 		

Floyd ]  dave's room                                          32
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE SOCKS
Floyd |
Floyd | Even in the extremity of grief, you cannot imagine willingly touching
Floyd | Dave's socks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "finish laundry" 		

Floyd ]  dave's room                                          32
Floyd |
Floyd | > FINISH LAUNDRY
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  dave's room                                          33
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | dave's room
Floyd | Dave's room is little more than a storage space.  The bed is just a
Floyd | bare mattress and there are boxes of books - mostly yours - piled
Floyd | everywhere.  Damp socks, and half-finished laundry, strew the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | The upstairs landing lies to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "I guess we're not hungry."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x laundry" 		

Floyd ]  dave's room                                          34
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LAUNDRY
Floyd |
Floyd | Dave's socks are plentiful and, truthfully, not entirely pleasant.
Floyd | They are bought in bulk by his parents and are therefore always
Floyd | identical, bobbly and embroidered - incongruously - with Ws.  You are
Floyd | not sure if they are damp because they have recently come out of the
Floyd | washing machine or because they desperately need to go in it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell it" 		

Floyd ]  dave's room                                          35
Floyd |
Floyd | > SMELL IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x bed" 		

Floyd ]  dave's room                                          36
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BED
Floyd |
Floyd | An uncovered bed really gives a place a transient look.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "That response horrified me."
		Binder says, "From smelling the socks."
Doug says (to Floyd), "make bed" 		

Floyd ]  dave's room                                          37
Floyd |
Floyd | > MAKE BED
Floyd |
Floyd | That would be kind of odd...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "remember dave" 		

Floyd ]  dave's room                                          37
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER DAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "think about dave" 		

Floyd ]  dave's room                                          37
Floyd |
Floyd | > THINK ABOUT DAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to think.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "think" 		

Floyd ]  dave's room                                          38
Floyd |
Floyd | > THINK
Floyd |
Floyd | What a good idea.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "who is dave?" 		

Floyd ]  dave's room                                          38
Floyd |
Floyd | > WHO IS DAVE?
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "Dave's not here, man."
		Jacqueline asks, "Can we speak to the peeps?"
		Zach says, "heh"
		Doug asks, "maybe visit the upstairs bedroom first?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  upstairs landing                                     39
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | upstairs landing
Floyd | The upstairs landing is dimly illuminated from the light in the empty
Floyd | room.  From here, you can hear a murmur of voices coming from the
Floyd | living room downstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the north is Dave's room, to the west your own.  The empty room
Floyd | that was Celine's is to the east. There is a flight of stairs leading
Floyd | up to John's room and another going down to the ground floor of the
Floyd | house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "Upstairs is my vote."
Doug says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  upstairs landing                                     40
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | You pad about halfway up the staircase and then a vague sense of guilt
Floyd | assails you ... you probably shouldn't be snooping around in John's
Floyd | room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "okay then."
		Zach says, "He must not have any of our books"
		Binder says, "Well that just makes me want to do it MORE."
Doug says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  John's Room                                          41
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | There is so much guilt washing about at the moment that violation of
Floyd | privacy hardly seems like bothering over and you make your way up the
Floyd | stairs to John's room.
Floyd |
Floyd | John's Room
Floyd | John's room occupies the attic spaces.  It is a room of peculiar
Floyd | geometries.  The whole place is a mess at present, and the blinds of
Floyd | the skylights are down so that triangular shadows cast themselves
Floyd | across the walls.  There are no obvious signs of Celine, but why would
Floyd | there be?  There is the jester's mask she bought John for Christmas
Floyd | hanging on the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | Lying on the floor, in a corner, is a plastic bag
Floyd |
Floyd | The stairs down will take you back to the upstairs landing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "fight guilt" 		

Floyd ]  John's Room                                          41
Floyd |
Floyd | > FIGHT GUILT
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "huh. I never saw this room."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bag" 		

Floyd ]  John's Room                                          42
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BAG
Floyd |
Floyd | It is a weirdly bulbous shape. The handles are knotted together so it
Floyd | looks as if the bag has bunny ears.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "guilt shmilt, we must explore!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mask" 		

Floyd ]  John's Room                                          43
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MASK
Floyd |
Floyd | From last Christmas, you seem to remember, another lifetime.  Like all
Floyd | Celine's gifts, it came exquisitely wrapped - black and gold, perhaps,
Floyd | to match the mask itself.  You wonder if Celine's box of wrapping
Floyd | paper, ribbons and decorations is still beneath the eaves, or if her
Floyd | parents took that too.  "Why go to all that trouble for something
Floyd | that's just going to be ripped off?" you'd ask.  But Celine loved the
Floyd | ephemeral.  And, so, apparently did you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open bag" 		

Floyd ]  John's Room                                          44
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN BAG
Floyd |
Floyd | You undo the tight knots with difficulty and look inside, already
Floyd | knowing what you'll find.  The contents gleam silver like pirate
Floyd | treasure - the empty packets of Celine's medication you found on the
Floyd | floor of her bedroom the night she disappeared.  It is not the first
Floyd | time you have asked yourself if you should have insisted on taking it
Floyd | with you to the hospital, but it is not a question you dare ask
Floyd | yourself too often.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x eaves" 		

Floyd ]  John's Room                                          44
Floyd |
Floyd | > X EAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x packets" 		

Floyd ]  John's Room                                          45
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PACKETS
Floyd |
Floyd | Diazepam ... fluoxetine ... aripiprazole ... the names fly past you,
Floyd | tangling your tongue up in a merciless succession of rarely used
Floyd | letters.  Most of the packets are empty but not all.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get them" 		

Floyd ]  John's Room                                          45
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET THEM
Floyd |
Floyd | I'm not sure what "them" refers to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get packets" 		

Floyd ]  John's Room                                          46
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET PACKETS
Floyd |
Floyd | You rifle through the packets and eventually find one that isn't
Floyd | gutted. You pop a couple of pills from their foil cocoon ... although
Floyd | they represent a peculiar form of memorabilia to say the least.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "oops, didn't think that would pop pills."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x pills" 		

Floyd ]  John's Room                                          47
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PILLS
Floyd |
Floyd | (the pills)
Floyd | Smallish, off-white, round, innocuous, except not.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "oh wait, just popped them from their foil, not *popped* them"
		Binder says, "Now that we have drugs, I am okay with talking to other people."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf7" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  John's Room                                          47
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "Errrr."
		DavidW says, "hm, how interesting. This should give us additional options later in the game, now that we have these."
Binder says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  John's Room                                          48
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | John's Room
Floyd | John's room occupies the attic spaces.  It is a room of peculiar
Floyd | geometries.  The whole place is a mess at present, and the blinds of
Floyd | the skylights are down so that triangular shadows cast themselves
Floyd | across the walls.  There are no obvious signs of Celine, but why would
Floyd | there be?  There is the jester's mask she bought John for Christmas
Floyd | hanging on the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | Lying on the floor, in a corner, is a plastic bag
Floyd |
Floyd | The stairs down will take you back to the upstairs landing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "open blinds" 		

Floyd ]  John's Room                                          49
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN BLINDS
Floyd |
Floyd | You stand beneath the skylight and draw up the blinds.  From this
Floyd | peculiar angle you can see nothing but sloping roofs and an expanse of
Floyd | endless sky.  Light as bright as orange juice pours down from the
Floyd | setting sun but it is not warm.  After a moment or two, you let the
Floyd | blinds fall back into place.  You don't want John to know you were
Floyd | messing about in his room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "x mask" 		

Floyd ]  John's Room                                          50
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MASK
Floyd |
Floyd | A black and gold jester's mask, with empty eyes and a wry, mocking
Floyd | mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "close bag" 		

Floyd ]  John's Room                                          51
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLOSE BAG
Floyd |
Floyd | You attempt to re-tie the knots - God knows why - but the plastic is
Floyd | too stretched.
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "get mask" 		

Floyd ]  John's Room                                          52
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET MASK
Floyd |
Floyd | You have no intention of stealing it but you unhook it carefully from
Floyd | the wall and, after a moment of hesitation, place it against your
Floyd | face.  The interior of the mask is cool and smooth, like dead skin.
Floyd | You look out at the world from a different face, your peripheral
Floyd | vision imprisoned by the edges of the eyeholes.  You trace your
Floyd | fingers over the painted smile.  It strikes you as no less real than
Floyd | any other expression you have worn lately and it is with reluctance
Floyd | that you return the mask to its place on the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "take mask" 		

Floyd ]  John's Room                                          53
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE MASK
Floyd |
Floyd | Better not keep indulging yourself with painted fancies.  Besides, it
Floyd | belongs to John and you shouldn't really be fiddling with it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "pouring orange juice light, nice."
		Binder says, "Yeah, there's some excellent poetic phrasing in this."
Binder says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  John's Room                                          54
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   some pills
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach asks, "Now down to the peoples?"
		DavidW says, "sure"
Zach says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  upstairs landing                                     55
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | upstairs landing
Floyd | The upstairs landing is dimly illuminated from the light in the empty
Floyd | room.  From here, you can hear a murmur of voices coming from the
Floyd | living room downstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the north is Dave's room, to the west your own.  The empty room
Floyd | that was Celine's is to the east. There is a flight of stairs leading
Floyd | up to John's room and another going down to the ground floor of the
Floyd | house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  downstairs hall                                      56
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | downstairs hall
Floyd | Winter light lies in anaemic strips upon the floor from where it has
Floyd | fallen through the glass panels in the front door.  There is an awful
Floyd | painting hanging on the wall. The murmuring voices are more of a
Floyd | babble now; too many over-lapping conversations create an alien,
Floyd | baboonish gibberish.
Floyd |
Floyd | The outside world lurks to the west and the living room to the north.
Floyd | Or you could always just retreat upstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "x painting" 		

Floyd ]  downstairs hall                                      57
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PAINTING
Floyd |
Floyd | You painted this - in the loosest sense of the word - when you were
Floyd | about eighteen and nurturing an over-inflated sense of your own
Floyd | creativity.  It is a black canvas with a heavily textured shape of
Floyd | reddish swirls in the middle and a speckling of white stars in one
Floyd | corner.  Sometimes it looks like a wound, sometimes like a freshly
Floyd | forming galaxy.  Your last housemate thought it was something obsence.
Floyd | So much for your aristic soul.  Ho hum.  So much for your artistic
Floyd | soul.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x panels" 		

Floyd ]  downstairs hall                                      57
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PANELS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x door" 		

Floyd ]  downstairs hall                                      57
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd ]  downstairs hall                                      58
Floyd |
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | There are too many voices for you to be able to make out much of any
Floyd | conversation.  Besides, eavesdropping is the most foolish of vices.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh, there are more foolish vices than that."
		Binder says, "srsly"
Binder says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  downstairs hall                                      59
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | downstairs hall
Floyd | Winter light lies in anaemic strips upon the floor from where it has
Floyd | fallen through the glass panels in the front door.  There is an awful
Floyd | painting hanging on the wall. The murmuring voices are more of a
Floyd | babble now; too many over-lapping conversations create an alien,
Floyd | baboonish gibberish.
Floyd |
Floyd | The outside world lurks to the west and the living room to the north.
Floyd | Or you could always just retreat upstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "x door" 		

Floyd ]  downstairs hall                                      59
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder asks, "peopleward?"
		Zach says, "sure"
		Jacqueline says, "Sure"
Doug says (to Floyd), "x painting" 		

Floyd ]  downstairs hall                                      60
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PAINTING
Floyd |
Floyd | The beginning and end of your artistic career, hanging there on the
Floyd | wall for all to wince at.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "wince" 		

Floyd ]  downstairs hall                                      60
Floyd |
Floyd | > WINCE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          61
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | living room
Floyd | There are lots of people gathered in the living room.  Stepping inside
Floyd | unfortunately catches the attention of the one you like least.  Laurie
Floyd | clatters towards you and, before you can do anything to save yourself,
Floyd | captures you in a hug you feel vaguely socially obligated to endure.
Floyd | You hold yourself as rigid as a blade until she goes away again.  The
Floyd | rush of hatred you feel towards her is positively intoxicating.
Floyd |
Floyd | There are so many people here.   Have they come to ... what? Stare at
Floyd | the bereft?  Why?  Is this how other people grieve?  En masse?
Floyd |
Floyd | Your housemate John is sitting cross-legged on the floor at the end of
Floyd | the coffee table, frowning over a game of a Go.  His opponent, Twitch,
Floyd | sits opposite and appears much more laid-back about the whole
Floyd | business.  Rick is slumped on the sofa, a bottle of port at his elbow;
Floyd | Elsie is sitting next to him, apparently watching the game.  Jess is
Floyd | huddled in a cloak on the other sofa, Adrian beside her, looking
Floyd | almost as uncomfortable as you probably do.  As for Laurie, she's
Floyd | leaning against the fireplace, and wearing an expression of infinite
Floyd | suffering like she's living her own little Victorian melodrama.
Floyd |
Floyd | And finally, in the far corner of the room by the open door to the
Floyd | kitchen, like a person in its own right, is the last piece of
Floyd | household furniture you bought in consultation with Celine: a wrought
Floyd | iron coat stand.  So nouveau-gothic darling.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your escape routes are east into the kitchen or south into the hall
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Nice secondary descriptions in this game."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x laurie" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          62
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LAURIE
Floyd |
Floyd | Laurie is small and pretty, pale with apparent grief, and you despise
Floyd | her.  She's only here because she's dating Twitch (although they are
Floyd | both fucking other people) and she must have met Celine all of twice.
Floyd | You suspect she is enjoying the enactment of tragedy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "x john" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          63
Floyd |
Floyd | > X JOHN
Floyd |
Floyd | You remember the first time you invited John and Celine to come to
Floyd | dinner.  You can see them now on the doorstep, John slightly behind,
Floyd | handsome and distinguished in a military-style coat with gold buttons
Floyd | and braiding, Celine, in black just like always, holding out to you a
Floyd | hand-tied bouquet of flowers the colour of her lipstick, and smiling.
Floyd |
Floyd | Jess leans her head against Adrian's shoulder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x twitch" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          64
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TWITCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You only know Twitch by reputation.  He is an old school friend of
Floyd | Celine's and your paths have never crossed.  He looks like the
Floyd | clinically depressed stoner he is, which is not devoid of a certain
Floyd | glamour. He has restless fingers and idle eyes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Twitch steeples his fingers as he ponders the board in front of him.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "these NPCs feel familiar"
Binder says (to Floyd), "x jess" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          65
Floyd |
Floyd | > X JESS
Floyd |
Floyd | You cannot look at Jess at the moment without remembering the drive
Floyd | the hospital, stars streaking overhead, the slow drip-drip-drip of
Floyd | time in the waiting room, and the hushed, awkward solemnity of a brief
Floyd | bedside visitation.
Floyd |
Floyd | Laurie stands behind Twitch, combing her fingers through his lightly
Floyd | curling hair.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "interesting that it didn't actually describe John"
		Zach says, "Yeah"
Doug says (to Floyd), "x adrian" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          66
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ADRIAN
Floyd |
Floyd | You find a flickering of kindred in Adrian's glance.  You are sure he
Floyd | finds this gathering almost as unendurable as you do.
Floyd |
Floyd | Rick opens a new bottle of port.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "x rick" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          67
Floyd |
Floyd | > X RICK
Floyd |
Floyd | Rick is a man not suited to inaction.  On the sofa like this, he looks
Floyd | like a pile of himself.  The port he is drinking is surely of
Floyd | excellent quality but it seems to afford him little pleasure at the
Floyd | moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | John sighs heavily as he loses yet another game of Go.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x elsie" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          68
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ELSIE
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't know Elsie very well, but this mainly because there is not
Floyd | much overlap between your lives bar some friends in common. She has
Floyd | always struck you as a terribly nice person.
Floyd |
Floyd | Jess leans her head against Adrian's shoulder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Physical appearance is less important in stories than you think."
		Jacqueline says, "This is an ambitious number of NPCs to have in a room. Go you, Anonymous."
		Doug says, "haha 'pile of himself'. Reminds me of 'bag of Hank'"
Binder says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          69
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | living room
Floyd | The extensive living / dining area was one of the features that drew
Floyd | you all to this house when you were looking for places to rent.  That
Floyd | and - despite the fact none of you have been able to bring yourself to
Floyd | do anything as prosaic as cleaning for days - the fact it's not an
Floyd | abject shit hole like most of places on offer when you were doing the
Floyd | rounds.
Floyd |
Floyd | Currently, it's all cluttered with people. Your housemate John is
Floyd | sitting cross-legged on the floor at the end of the coffee table,
Floyd | frowning over a game of a Go.  His opponent, Twitch, sits opposite and
Floyd | appears much more laid-back about the whole business.  Rick is slumped
Floyd | on the sofa, a bottle of port at his elbow; Elsie is sitting next to
Floyd | him, apparently watching the game.  Jess is huddled in a cloak on the
Floyd | other sofa, Adrian beside her, looking almost as uncomfortable as you
Floyd | feel.  As for Laurie (fucking Laurie), she's leaning against the
Floyd | fireplace, and wearing an expression of infinite suffering like she's
Floyd | living her own little Victorian melodrama
Floyd |
Floyd | The coat stand is still in its corner, looming like an unexpected
Floyd | guest.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your escape routes are east into the kitchen, or south into the hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | Laurie paces back and forth in front of the fireplace, her fuck-me
Floyd | boot heels clomping on the wooden floor - clearly she is not garnering
Floyd | enough attention to feel comfortable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x game" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          69
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GAME
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x coat stand" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          70
Floyd |
Floyd | > X COAT STAND
Floyd |
Floyd | You seem to own far more coats than four people living in a house
Floyd | could possibly need or want.  The metal of the coatstand is almost
Floyd | entirely obscured beneath fabric.  One of your own coats is just
Floyd | visible.  There are two identical big brown dusters belonging to Dave.
Floyd | Celine's slightly shabby, soft velvet jacket.  A zebra-striped hoodie
Floyd | of John's.  His big military coat with the golden buttons.  More
Floyd | beneath.
Floyd |
Floyd | Someone makes a desultory remark.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "wonder where Dave is."
		Binder says, "Hey where's Dave...timing"
Doug says (to Floyd), "x my coat" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          71
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MY COAT
Floyd |
Floyd | It's just your coat.  Long, black, ordinary, equipped with a belt you
Floyd | never bother to tie, buttons you never fasten and pockets with no
Floyd | linings, where you keep losing things.
Floyd |
Floyd | Jess and Adrian converse in soft whispers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Wasn't his mattress bare? Maybe he's left for some reason."
Doug says (to Floyd), "x pockets" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          72
Floyd |
Floyd | > X POCKETS
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a distortion in the fabric way down at the very bottom of the
Floyd | coat, as if something has slipped between the lining and the coat
Floyd | itself.
Floyd |
Floyd | Adrian tries to catch your eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "Yeah, maybe he sleeps somewhere else, with an SO."
Doug says (to Floyd), "x distortion" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          72
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DISTORTION
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "get coat" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          73
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET COAT
Floyd |
Floyd | You unhook your coat with difficulty from the coatstand, nearly
Floyd | over-toppling the whole teetering structure.  Folding it over your
Floyd | arm, you can feel the edge of something caught in the lining.
Floyd |
Floyd | Somebody asks the Rick the time.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x lining" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          73
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LINING
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "try search pockets"
Doug says (to Floyd), "search pockets" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          74
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH POCKETS
Floyd |
Floyd | Digging through your pockets, your fingers catch the edge of something
Floyd | that has fallen down into the depths of the lining.  After an
Floyd | impressive display of digital dexterity, you fish out a 50p coin.
Floyd |
Floyd | Adrian picks one of the Sunday paper supplements from the pile on the
Floyd | coffee table but discards it when he discovers it's about two weeks
Floyd | old.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "I never think of using 'search'."
		Doug says, "I guess that's a convention I missed"
		DavidW says, "by the way, you can TALK TO these people, if you want."
		Jacqueline asks, "Adrian tried to catch our eye. It might be merely random, but shall we engage him in conversation?"
Binder says (to Floyd), "talk to adrian" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          75
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO ADRIAN
Floyd |
Floyd | Under different circumstances you would actually quite like to talk to
Floyd | Adrian.  Maybe you are deluding yourself with suspicions of kinship
Floyd | but you can more readily imagine yourself saying something that feels
Floyd | true to him than anyone else.  But how can you speak of anything in
Floyd | this company, at this time.  Better not to talk to him at all.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "catch adrian's eye" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          75
Floyd |
Floyd | > CATCH ADRIAN'S EYE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "talk to adrian" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          76
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO ADRIAN
Floyd |
Floyd | Under different circumstances you would actually quite like to talk to
Floyd | Adrian.  Maybe you are deluding yourself with suspicions of kinship
Floyd | but you can more readily imagine yourself saying something that feels
Floyd | true to him than anyone else.  But how can you speak of anything in
Floyd | this company, at this time.  Better not to talk to him at all.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "wink at adrian" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          76
Floyd |
Floyd | > WINK AT ADRIAN
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "heh. Well, maybe we can't talk to everyone."
Doug says (to Floyd), "nod at adrian" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          76
Floyd |
Floyd | > NOD AT ADRIAN
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "hm, was hoping that was one of the repeat-for-different-results."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x coin" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          77
Floyd |
Floyd | > X COIN
Floyd |
Floyd | This is exactly what it looks like, except it is relatively freshly
Floyd | minted and has a brightness to it that would have delighted you when
Floyd | you were a small child.
Floyd |
Floyd | Jess pulls out a notebook and begins writing, or sketching, something
Floyd | in it and then gives up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "talk to john" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          78
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO JOHN
Floyd |
Floyd | "How's the game going," you ask.  There is a pause as John considers.
Floyd | "I'm losing," he concludes finally.  "Oh," you say.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, ""Oh.""
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          79
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | "How are you doing?" you ask, since it is the officially sanctioned
Floyd | question at a time like this.  "Still losing," he says.  You didn't
Floyd | mean the game, and you're pretty sure John didn't either but it's
Floyd | probably better this way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "I am enjoying this, but I can't help feeling like I'm stuck in a teenager's angsty poetry notebook."
Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to laurie" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          80
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO LAURIE
Floyd |
Floyd | God no.  You don't want to support her delusion that she has any place
Floyd | here. If you tried to talk to her, you might have to kill her.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "> DRUG LAURIE"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "kill laurie" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          81
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL LAURIE
Floyd |
Floyd | You leap across the living room, shrieking like all the legions of
Floyd | hell and throw yourself at Laurie, in a whirlwind of clawing, biting,
Floyd | hitting, kicking and spitting ... or at least you imagine doing it.
Floyd | It's not, in any sense, a real temptation, pleasurable though it would
Floyd | be to wipe the condescension from her face.
Floyd |
Floyd | Jess pulls out a notebook and begins writing, or sketching, something
Floyd | in it and then gives up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "YAY IT WORKED"
		Doug says, "seems better than teenager"
		Binder says, "Oh man."
Binder says (to Floyd), "talk to jess" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          82
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO JESS
Floyd |
Floyd | You wonder what to say to Jess but her ways are not your ways and
Floyd | despite mutual affection there are times when your differences seem
Floyd | less like intriguing points of interest upon the tourist map of your
Floyd | psyches than insurmountable barriers to understanding or accord.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Oh, darn, just imaginary."
		djfletch says, "haha nice"
		Zach says, "The angst seems justified since someone died"
Binder says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          83
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | living room
Floyd | The extensive living / dining area was one of the features that drew
Floyd | you all to this house when you were looking for places to rent.  That
Floyd | and - despite the fact none of you have been able to bring yourself to
Floyd | do anything as prosaic as cleaning for days - the fact it's not an
Floyd | abject shit hole like most of places on offer when you were doing the
Floyd | rounds.
Floyd |
Floyd | Currently, it's all cluttered with people. Your housemate John is
Floyd | sitting cross-legged on the floor at the end of the coffee table,
Floyd | frowning over a game of a Go.  His opponent, Twitch, sits opposite and
Floyd | appears much more laid-back about the whole business.  Rick is slumped
Floyd | on the sofa, a bottle of port at his elbow; Elsie is sitting next to
Floyd | him, apparently watching the game.  Jess is huddled in a cloak on the
Floyd | other sofa, Adrian beside her, looking almost as uncomfortable as you
Floyd | feel.  As for Laurie (fucking Laurie), she's leaning against the
Floyd | fireplace, and wearing an expression of infinite suffering like she's
Floyd | living her own little Victorian melodrama
Floyd |
Floyd | The coat stand is still in its corner, looming like an unexpected
Floyd | guest.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your escape routes are east into the kitchen, or south into the hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | Jess and Adrian converse in soft whispers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Binder says (to Floyd), "talk to rick" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          84
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO RICK
Floyd |
Floyd | "Care for some port, m'dear?" offers Rick, with a valiant semblance of
Floyd | his usual bonhommie.  "It's a very fine old tawny."  You don't doubt
Floyd | it but you aren't sure inebriation would be the best addition to your
Floyd | mood right now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x port" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          84
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PORT
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to Doug), "Oh, I don't know, there are some excellent teenagers out there. And I have a certain soft spot for very angsty, flowy, superfluous teen-like poetry. It's why I like Fiona Apple so much."
Binder says (to Floyd), "talk to rick" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          85
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO RICK
Floyd |
Floyd | Rick produces a silver hip flask with a flourish.  "Absinthe?" he
Floyd | suggests, raising his brows, entirely conscious of the effect.
Floyd | Amusement temporarily alleviates the atmosphere in the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to rick" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          86
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO RICK
Floyd |
Floyd | Rick reaches a hand into a shopping bag languishing by the side of the
Floyd | sofa.  "Iberian ham?" he says.  "Brie?  Some pate?"  You are starting
Floyd | to feel churlish but you keep shaking your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder exclaims, "Rick just became my favorite. He's double fisting!"
Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to rick" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          87
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO RICK
Floyd |
Floyd | Rick has probably run out of random indulgent  foodstuffs to offer you
Floyd | by now, and you do not want to press in case the temporary semblance
Floyd | of normality founders.  You remember that some of the people in this
Floyd | room are your friends and that you will not always feel this way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "The PC is female, right?"
		Binder says, "Maybe Rick is just omniendearing."
		Jacqueline says (to DW), "I'm getting that sense."
Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to twitch" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          88
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO TWITCH
Floyd |
Floyd | Like most comprehensively broken people there is a touch of the
Floyd | rockstar about Twitch, and he wears it well. You are conscious of an
Floyd | uncomfortable intermingling of attraction and disdain, and that makes
Floyd | you rather shy of talking to him.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "ask john about dave" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          88
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK JOHN ABOUT DAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | (To communicate in Eurydice, TALK TO a character.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to twitch" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          89
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO TWITCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You really have no idea what to say to him.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x eurydice" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          89
Floyd |
Floyd | > X EURYDICE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "Nice thumbnail descriptions of these people."
Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to Elsie" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          90
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO ELSIE
Floyd |
Floyd | "Would you like a cup of a tea?" asks Elsie, the moment you step into
Floyd | her visual range.  You shake your head and thank her.  Elsie is a
Floyd | perpetual tea-maker.  It might annoy you in somebody else but Elsie's
Floyd | tea is the sincerest tea you have ever drunk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "That's the best kind"
Zach says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          91
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | "How are you doing?" you both say, at exactly the same time and with
Floyd | exactly the same intonation.  You smile awkwardly at each other.  "I'm
Floyd | okay," you say into the pause that follows.  "I don't think I am,"
Floyd | says Elsie, shyly.  Her honesty ripples through the room like a stone
Floyd | dropped into a fetid pond.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "Sinceritea."
Zach says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          92
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel obliged to click into comforting mode. It is not that you
Floyd | don't want to comfort Elsie, it's just you're afraid that all your
Floyd | words are lies.  "I have to believe that it's a choice she made," you
Floyd | say.  "She was so unhappy, you can understand why she did it."  But
Floyd | you don't.  You don't.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Oh, Binder."
Zach says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          93
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | Elsie nods.  You wonder if her faith makes this even harder for her.
Floyd | You want to ask about it, but what can you say?  "So do you think
Floyd | Celine has gone to Hell for what she did?"  Maybe not.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "Ack, a suicide."
		Jacqueline says, "Yeah, let's not ask Elise if she thinks Celine is in Hell. That seems poor form."
		Zach says, "I figured that's why there were all the empty pill containers"
Zach says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          94
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | Neither of you really dare say anything else.  It's too delicate a
Floyd | balance to maintain, between honesty and lies, compassion and cruelty.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "seems still uncertain though."
		Jacqueline says (to Z), "Yeah, me too. I figured she was either already horribly ill or she'd done herself in."
		Doug says, "'I have to believe' means we want to think it's a suicide, but it might have been accidental overdose"
Doug says (to Floyd), "x celine's jacket" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          95
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CELINE'S JACKET
Floyd |
Floyd | Yeah, you're going to look like a right doink in front of a bunch of
Floyd | people you used to call your friends if you start stroking Celine's
Floyd | jacket.
Floyd |
Floyd | John sighs heavily as he loses yet another game of Go.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "So want to say something, but shan't."
		Zach says, "I think the going to Hell part implies suicide as well"
		Doug asks, "if I don't call them friends anymore, what do I care what I look like?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x john's jacket" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          95
Floyd |
Floyd | > X JOHN'S JACKET
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x celine's jacket" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          96
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CELINE'S JACKET
Floyd |
Floyd | Yeah, you're going to look like a right doink in front of a bunch of
Floyd | people you used to call your friends if you start stroking Celine's
Floyd | jacket.
Floyd |
Floyd | John sighs heavily as he loses yet another game of Go.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "heh, quick games."
		Jacqueline says, "Man, John sucks at Go."
Zach says (to Floyd), "dave's jacket" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          96
Floyd |
Floyd | > DAVE'S JACKET
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x dave's jacket" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          96
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DAVE'S JACKET
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dave's coat" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          96
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DAVE'S COAT
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x john's hoodie" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          96
Floyd |
Floyd | > X JOHN'S HOODIE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to Doug), "Perhaps time is moving sloooowly for us. Or perhaps the every turn things are randomized."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x coat stand" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          97
Floyd |
Floyd | > X COAT STAND
Floyd |
Floyd | You seem to own far more coats than four people living in a house
Floyd | could possibly need or want.  The metal of the coat stand is almost
Floyd | entirely obscured beneath fabric.  There are two identical big brown
Floyd | dusters belonging to Dave.  Celine's slightly shabby, soft velvet
Floyd | jacket.  A zebra-striped hoodie of John's.  His big military coat with
Floyd | the golden buttons.  More beneath
Floyd |
Floyd | A conversation starts up but sputters out like a candle flame in less
Floyd | than a minute.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x Dave's dusters" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          97
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DAVE'S DUSTERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x zebra-striped hoodie" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          97
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ZEBRA-STRIPED HOODIE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I suppose only two coats were actually coded."
Binder says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          98
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | living room
Floyd | The extensive living / dining area was one of the features that drew
Floyd | you all to this house when you were looking for places to rent.  That
Floyd | and - despite the fact none of you have been able to bring yourself to
Floyd | do anything as prosaic as cleaning for days - the fact it's not an
Floyd | abject shit hole like most of places on offer when you were doing the
Floyd | rounds.
Floyd |
Floyd | Currently, it's all cluttered with people. Your housemate John is
Floyd | sitting cross-legged on the floor at the end of the coffee table,
Floyd | frowning over a game of a Go.  His opponent, Twitch, sits opposite and
Floyd | appears much more laid-back about the whole business.  Rick is slumped
Floyd | on the sofa, a bottle of port at his elbow; Elsie is sitting next to
Floyd | him, apparently watching the game.  Jess is huddled in a cloak on the
Floyd | other sofa, Adrian beside her, looking almost as uncomfortable as you
Floyd | feel.  As for Laurie (fucking Laurie), she's leaning against the
Floyd | fireplace, and wearing an expression of infinite suffering like she's
Floyd | living her own little Victorian melodrama
Floyd |
Floyd | The coat stand is still in its corner, looming like an unexpected
Floyd | guest.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your escape routes are east into the kitchen, or south into the hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | Jess leans over and makes a show of being of interested in the
Floyd | progress of the game.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach asks, "We've talked to everyone? Try out the kitchen?"
		Binder says, "Sure."
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              99
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | kitchen
Floyd | You remember long, sun-drenched afternoons in here with Celine, baking
Floyd | and talking, filling up the kitchen with laughter, the scent of sweet
Floyd | things cooking and occasionally smoke and the smell of stuff you've
Floyd | burned to a crisp.  The kitchen is surprisingly spacious for a rented
Floyd | house.  It has faux-granite counter tops and matching tiling, and
Floyd | fitted cupboards in shades of coffee and cream.  It would be a
Floyd | pleasure to cook in such a kitchen.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered across the  worksurface nearest the hob is an array of
Floyd | cooking utensils, onion skins and pepper cores, including the wooden
Floyd | knifeblock you bought for a tenner in Boswells during a sale.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vera and Tilda (plants, not people, and therefore bearable) are on
Floyd | the little round kitchen table.
Floyd |
Floyd | Natalie is by the hob, stirring a pan of pasta.
Floyd |
Floyd | The back door leads into the back garden to the north, and, if you're
Floyd | feeling particularly brave (or masochistic), the living room is to the
Floyd | west
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x Vera" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              100
Floyd |
Floyd | > X VERA
Floyd |
Floyd | Vera-the-Aloe is an aloe vera plant, hence the name.  You christened
Floyd | her in an excess of cleverness.  Celine grew her from a tiny shoot
Floyd | Her soil is dry, and her long leaves are droopy, fraying brown at the
Floyd | ends.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "water vera" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              101
Floyd |
Floyd | > WATER VERA
Floyd |
Floyd | You lift Vera up, careful not to damage her trailing fronds and carry
Floyd | her over to the sink.  You are sure there is a better way to do this
Floyd | but you hold her under the tap until her soil is damp and then take
Floyd | her back to the table.  There is no instant improvement and you can't
Floyd | really tell if she looks any happier but you feel a bit better.  It
Floyd | would be just too hopeless of you to let Celine's plants die with her.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		maga says, "meh, I kind of want to watch you play this, but I should really go and run"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x Tilda" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              102
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TILDA
Floyd |
Floyd | Tilda is also a plant, although you've forgotten what kind.  You named
Floyd | her Tilda after Tilda Swinton because she is a very beautifully
Floyd | androgynous plant.  She has green leaves, shiny as wax, and generous,
Floyd | open-mouthed flowers with immensely long, lascivious stamen.  Celine
Floyd | also bought and nurtured Tilda.  She seems to be fine.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x Natalie" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              103
Floyd |
Floyd | > X NATALIE
Floyd |
Floyd | Oh hell, you'd entirely forgotten Natalie was here.  She's come up
Floyd | from London for you, especially for you ... to be with you now in your
Floyd | time of need.  You know you ought to feel gratitude but you can't seem
Floyd | to muster any.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to Natalie" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              104
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO NATALIE
Floyd |
Floyd | Natalie comes over and hugs you.  She is no Laurie but you find
Floyd | touching people, and being touched, difficult at the moment.  The
Floyd | world waits for you, or possibly recedes from you, behind a pane of
Floyd | glass, visible but inaccessible.  Somebody breaching it is a dull kind
Floyd | of ache.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              105
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | "How are you doing, hon?" she asks, all warmth and sympathy.  You
Floyd | suspect "doing" is a polite way of saying "coping".  "I'm fine," you
Floyd | lie.  And, then, because it's so obvious a lie: "It's hard, of
Floyd | course."  "Yeah."  Natalie gazes you at with an expression that is
Floyd | starting to become familiar - why do people always look at the
Floyd | bereaved that way?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              106
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'm nearly done with the pasta," says Natalie, "so at least this way
Floyd | I'll know you're eating."  You mumble your thanks, inevitably sounding
Floyd | ungracious.  You feel monstrous, caged behind your glass, snapping at
Floyd | proffered kindness, howling at a heedless sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              107
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | Seeing you lingering in this awkward, Natalie stops stirring and
Floyd | smiles at you encouragingly. "I'm here for you," she says.  "Do you
Floyd | want to talk?"  You have to bite back sarastic things you don't mean.
Floyd | So you keep smiling and shake your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              108
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | Seeing you lingering in this awkward, Natalie stops stirring and
Floyd | smiles at you encouragingly. "I'm here for you," she says.  "Do you
Floyd | want to talk?"  You have to bite back sarastic things you don't mean.
Floyd | So you keep smiling and shake your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf8" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  kitchen                                              108
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x hob" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              108
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HOB
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take pills" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              109
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE PILLS
Floyd |
Floyd | You already have those.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "eat pills" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              110
Floyd |
Floyd | > EAT PILLS
Floyd |
Floyd | While imitation may be thought to be the sincerest form of flattery,
Floyd | you should probably not start randomly taking someone else's
Floyd | medication.  It didn't do much good for Celine, after all.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "Back garden? Get away from folks?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x open cupboards" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              110
Floyd |
Floyd | > X OPEN CUPBOARDS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Back garden sounds good to me."
		Zach says, "yeah"
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          111
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | back garden
Floyd | The back garden is really little more than a lawn-gone-wild and a
Floyd | weedy patio.  The sky is a cool grey curtain backlit by the weak sun.
Floyd | The chill air bites at your skin.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can get back into the house to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x lawn" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          112
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LAWN
Floyd |
Floyd | The blades are tipped by an unhealthy yellow and sway indolently in
Floyd | the slight breeze.  As you watch, a violent ripple of motion seizes
Floyd | the stalks and whips them back and forth.  At first you think it must
Floyd | be the wind but then you see a blur of a new green in the grass and a
Floyd | snake slithers onto the patio.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x snake" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          113
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SNAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | You would not have thought there were such snakes in England.  It is a
Floyd | strong, sinuous creature, dappled in black diamonds like a snake on a
Floyd | Snakes And Ladders board.  It has hateful yellow eyes, as blank as
Floyd | pieces of glass.  You are not by nature inclined towards
Floyd | anthropomorphisation but there is something both directed and
Floyd | malignant in its gaze.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "pet snake" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          113
Floyd |
Floyd | > PET SNAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "I trust people know why a snake would be in a game called Eurydice?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x patio" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          114
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PATIO
Floyd |
Floyd | Yellowing stone, green weeds, a maze of cracks and encroachment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x snake" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          115
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SNAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | You would not have thought there were such snakes in England.  It is a
Floyd | strong, sinuous creature, dappled in black diamonds like a snake on a
Floyd | Snakes And Ladders board.  It has hateful yellow eyes, as blank as
Floyd | pieces of glass.  You are not by nature inclined towards
Floyd | anthropomorphisation but there is something both directed and
Floyd | malignant in its gaze.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to snake" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          116
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO SNAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | Unsurprisingly, you have nothing to say to it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "take snake" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          117
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE SNAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | Even assuming you could catch it, it looks like it might be poisonous.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "I'm going to let that hang in the air so as to not be a spoiler, DW."
Zach says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          118
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | back garden
Floyd | The back garden is really little more than a lawn-gone-wild and a
Floyd | weedy patio.  The sky is a cool grey curtain backlit by the weak sun.
Floyd | The chill air bites at your skin.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can get back into the house to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | A snake, still as stone, has partially emerged from the long grass.
Floyd | It seems to be watching you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach asks, "Hmm. Anything else to do with the snake?"
		DavidW says, "You could try to kill or kick it, I suppose."
		Jacqueline wonders whether or not to say something.
		Zach says, ">GIVE SNAKE TO LAURIE"
		Jacqueline says (to Z), "ha"
Zach says (to Floyd), "kill snake" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          119
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL SNAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | You have nothing with which to hurt it, beyond ill-will.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x weeds" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          119
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WEEDS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "kick snake" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          119
Floyd |
Floyd | > KICK SNAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x sky" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          119
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SKY
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x sun" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          119
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SUN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "I'm guessing it's just an allusion, and that we're not meant to play a part, per se, though... given the special verbs. I'm still not entirely sure where this will go, though I have an idea."
Zach says (to Floyd), "give pill to snake" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          119
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE PILL TO SNAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Binder says, "Oh."
		DavidW says, "It's pills, not pill."
Zach says (to Floyd), "turn around" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          120
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN AROUND
Floyd |
Floyd | You glance nervously over your shoulder but there is nothing untoward.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "give pills to snake" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          121
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE PILLS TO SNAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | The snake doesn't seem interested.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "step on snake" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          121
Floyd |
Floyd | > STEP ON SNAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach asks, "Try the front door?"
Doug says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          122
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I have no objection."
		Doug says, "I guess we're fenced in or something"
Zach says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              123
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | kitchen
Floyd | The kitchen is surprisingly spacious for a rented house.  It has
Floyd | faux-granite counter tops and matching tiling, and fitted cupboards in
Floyd | shades of coffee and cream.  It would be a pleasure to cook in such a
Floyd | kitchen.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered across the  worksurface nearest the hob is an array of
Floyd | cooking utensils, onion skins and pepper cores, including the wooden
Floyd | knifeblock you bought for a tenner in Boswells during a sale.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vera and Tilda (plants, not people, and therefore bearable) are on the
Floyd | little round kitchen table.
Floyd |
Floyd | Natalie is by the hob, stirring a pan of pasta.
Floyd |
Floyd | The back door leads into the back garden to the north, and, if you're
Floyd | feeling particularly brave (or masochistic), the living room is to the
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          124
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | living room
Floyd | The extensive living / dining area was one of the features that drew
Floyd | you all to this house when you were looking for places to rent.  That
Floyd | and - despite the fact none of you have been able to bring yourself to
Floyd | do anything as prosaic as cleaning for days - the fact it's not an
Floyd | abject shit hole like most of places on offer when you were doing the
Floyd | rounds.
Floyd |
Floyd | Currently, it's all cluttered with people. Your housemate John is
Floyd | sitting cross-legged on the floor at the end of the coffee table,
Floyd | frowning over a game of a Go.  His opponent, Twitch, sits opposite and
Floyd | appears much more laid-back about the whole business.  Rick is slumped
Floyd | on the sofa, a bottle of port at his elbow; Elsie is sitting next to
Floyd | him, apparently watching the game.  Jess is huddled in a cloak on the
Floyd | other sofa, Adrian beside her, looking almost as uncomfortable as you
Floyd | feel.  As for Laurie (fucking Laurie), she's leaning against the
Floyd | fireplace, and wearing an expression of infinite suffering like she's
Floyd | living her own little Victorian melodrama
Floyd |
Floyd | The coat stand is still in its corner, looming like an unexpected
Floyd | guest.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your escape routes are east into the kitchen, or south into the hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          125
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a 50p coin
Floyd |   your coat
Floyd |   some pills
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  downstairs hall                                      126
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | downstairs hall
Floyd | Winter light lies in anaemic strips upon the floor from where it has
Floyd | fallen through the glass panels in the front door.  There is an awful
Floyd | painting hanging on the wall. The murmuring voices are more of a
Floyd | babble now; too many over-lapping conversations create an alien,
Floyd | baboonish gibberish.
Floyd |
Floyd | The outside world lurks to the west and the living room to the north.
Floyd | Or you could always just retreat upstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to Doug), "Thanks. That was what I wanted to try but wasn't sure I should."
		Doug says, "yeah, just peeked at the wikipedia page..."
		Jacqueline says, "Though I guess if we don't make use of our knowledge of the myth, there's possibly little point. It's been encouraged."
		Jacqueline says (to Doug), "Ah."
		Jacqueline says, "I think I remember the story... but, hm."
		Zach asks, "Hmm?"
		Jacqueline says, "Nothing."
		Doug says, "it wouldn't let us play the lyre either"
		Zach asks, "Does a coin play a part in the myth?"
		Doug says, "maybe Dave is the lyre player"
		Jacqueline says, "True. But maybe just not yet. (For the lyre.)"
		Jacqueline says (to Zach), "Dunno if I'm getting my myths confused, but there's payment needed to cross into Hades."
		Doug asks, "wonder who the satyr is. Twitch?"
		Zach says, "Ah, right."
		DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "There's was even a Zork game that did the payment thing to Hades."
		Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yes, complete with gratuitous rock music."
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  downstairs hall                                      127
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You have a vague nagging sense that you've left something in the house
Floyd | you ought to have with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "well hm."
		DavidW says, "And yes, that is a different myth, I believe."
		Zach asks, "Did we try taking the lyre?"
		DavidW says, "dunno"
Doug says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  upstairs landing                                     128
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | upstairs landing
Floyd | The upstairs landing is dimly illuminated from the light in the empty
Floyd | room.  From here, you can hear a murmur of voices coming from the
Floyd | living room downstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the north is Dave's room, to the west your own.  The empty room
Floyd | that was Celine's is to the east. There is a flight of stairs leading
Floyd | up to John's room and another going down to the ground floor of the
Floyd | house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  your room                                            129
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | your room
Floyd | Your room is a complete mess.  The bed is unmade.  The bookshelves
Floyd | that once lined the walls are a ruin of fallen books and splintered
Floyd | wood.  There are piles of things that shouldn't be piled everywhere.
Floyd | All the things you thought you cared about feel like mockery.
Floyd |
Floyd | A mysterious lyre, slightly battered from possibly having fallen from
Floyd | your bookshelves, lies among the wreckage.
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind you, to the east, is the upstairs landing
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get lyre" 		

Floyd ]  your room                                            130
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET LYRE
Floyd |
Floyd | You certainly can't remember ever having bought, or been given, a
Floyd | lyre.  It is smooth and slightly warm in your hands, its shape a
Floyd | graceful curve like a human spine.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]  your room                                            131
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  upstairs landing                                     132
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | upstairs landing
Floyd | The upstairs landing is dimly illuminated from the light in the empty
Floyd | room.  From here, you can hear a murmur of voices coming from the
Floyd | living room downstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the north is Dave's room, to the west your own.  The empty room
Floyd | that was Celine's is to the east. There is a flight of stairs leading
Floyd | up to John's room and another going down to the ground floor of the
Floyd | house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "I hate that default response to out, by the way"
		DavidW says, "mm"
Doug says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  downstairs hall                                      133
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | downstairs hall
Floyd | Winter light lies in anaemic strips upon the floor from where it has
Floyd | fallen through the glass panels in the front door.  There is an awful
Floyd | painting hanging on the wall. The murmuring voices are more of a
Floyd | babble now; too many over-lapping conversations create an alien,
Floyd | baboonish gibberish.
Floyd |
Floyd | The outside world lurks to the west and the living room to the north.
Floyd | Or you could always just retreat upstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Marlborough road                                     134
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Marlborough road
Floyd | This is just an ordinary street, lined by Victorian terraces, with
Floyd | their slightly over-ambitious moulding and bow windows.  In the
Floyd | distance you can hear the muted roar of traffic streaming down the
Floyd | Abingdon Road.  It is not quite suburbia but it's a pocket of Oxford
Floyd | unreached by spires, dreaming or otherwise.   The fading light is
Floyd | nonetheless tinged by gold.  The sky is a swirl of grey and pink, like
Floyd | the interior of a shell.  There is a biting promise of winter in the
Floyd | air.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hinksey Park is to the northwest, your house to the east, and other
Floyd | places lie elsewhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  Hinksey Park Gate                                    135
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hinksey Park Gate
Floyd | The gate to Hinksey Park is not far from your house but by the time
Floyd | you arrive the sky is already suffused by a greyness that has blotted
Floyd | out the potential glories of an Oxford sunset.  Night is snapping at
Floyd | your heels.  The park  is the old fashioned kind, a basic arrangement
Floyd | of paths and benches, grass and trees. The nearest bench is over-hung
Floyd | by a willow tree, which has wept a burthen of withered foliage onto
Floyd | the seat.  There is a lake, girdled by a path and an open air swimming
Floyd | pool.
Floyd |
Floyd | A river, which must be a tributary of the Thames, flows to the west.
Floyd | Malborough Road lies to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "elsewhere" 		

Floyd ]  Hinksey Park Gate                                    135
Floyd |
Floyd | > ELSEWHERE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "huh, 'burthen'"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x lake" 		

Floyd ]  Hinksey Park Gate                                    136
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | The lake is misshapen splodge in the gloom.  The breeze occasionally
Floyd | picks up ripples on the water.  At its edge, an enormous swan twists
Floyd | its neck towards the sky and flings wide its white wings like an
Floyd | angel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x swan" 		

Floyd ]  Hinksey Park Gate                                    137
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SWAN
Floyd |
Floyd | Swans are peculiar creatures.  How can something so beautiful be so
Floyd | ungainly?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x swan" 		

Floyd ]  Hinksey Park Gate                                    138
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SWAN
Floyd |
Floyd | Swans are peculiar creatures.  How can something so beautiful be so
Floyd | ungainly?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oops. sorry."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x pool" 		

Floyd ]  Hinksey Park Gate                                    139
Floyd |
Floyd | > X POOL
Floyd |
Floyd | Currently it's just an empty hollow, painted chlorine blue.  You used
Floyd | to go all the time during the summer months - sometimes with Celine.
Floyd | You used to say she was a water-ninja she could swim so fast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "burthen = burden, apparently"
		Zach says, "Ah, water ninja. Now I'm remembering the myth."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x bench" 		

Floyd ]  Hinksey Park Gate                                    140
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BENCH
Floyd |
Floyd | There are ordinary wooden benches at irregular intervals around the
Floyd | park, sometimes half-hidden by the knots of trees.
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x willow tree" 		

Floyd ]  Hinksey Park Gate                                    141
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WILLOW TREE
Floyd |
Floyd | Oh willow, thou art sick.  Autumn has stripped its bravado, leaving it
Floyd | frail and naked in the gathering dusk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x foliage" 		

Floyd ]  Hinksey Park Gate                                    141
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FOLIAGE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x burthen" 		

Floyd ]  Hinksey Park Gate                                    141
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BURTHEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "sit on bench" 		

Floyd ]  Hinksey Park Gate                                    142
Floyd |
Floyd | > SIT ON BENCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You go into the park and sit down on the nearest bench, letting the
Floyd | darkness enclose you. You're not very far from the houses and the road
Floyd | but the light and the noise doesn't reach you here.  You could be in
Floyd | another world.  The feeling of being entirely alone saturates your
Floyd | skin like cold.  You listen to the almost imperceptible sound of air
Floyd | moving across the lake and through the scrubby grass.  Tilting your
Floyd | head back, you stare at the sky.  It looks as if it is made of stone.
Floyd | You wonder if this is how Celine felt, sitting on this bench perhaps,
Floyd | waiting to die, and stand up again hastily.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "look under bench" 		

Floyd ]  Hinksey Park Gate                                    143
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BENCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "search bench" 		

Floyd ]  Hinksey Park Gate                                    144
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH BENCH
Floyd |
Floyd | The bench is empty.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x grass" 		

Floyd ]  Hinksey Park Gate                                    144
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GRASS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "enter swimming pool" 		

Floyd ]  Hinksey Park Gate                                    145
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER SWIMMING POOL
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "swim" 		

Floyd ]  Hinksey Park Gate                                    145
Floyd |
Floyd | > SWIM
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug asks, "west?"
		DavidW says, "sure"
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                146
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | river
Floyd | The river is a snake of moving darkness.  There is a railway line
Floyd | running parallel on the other side and open fields after that.  There
Floyd | is some kind of flat-bottomed boat by the bank nearest to you, and a
Floyd | tall man, in a long coat, is standing in the bow of the boat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hinksey Park is behind you to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x tall man" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                146
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TALL MAN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x man" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                147
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MAN
Floyd |
Floyd | The man is so swathed about in garments it is hard to make out much
Floyd | about him.  He is imposingly tall, or would be if he didn't stand in
Floyd | the hunched-over fashion he does, and seems gaunt.  His hood is pulled
Floyd | down over his face, so you only occasionally catch glimpses of his
Floyd | profile: you piece together an impression of sharp-nosed pallor and
Floyd | pale eyes the colour of dirty water. One of his gloved hands rests
Floyd | upon the pole he probably uses to propel the boat through the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x boat" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                148
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOAT
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not really an expert in boats.  This one seems to be designed
Floyd | upon similar principles to a punt, although it lacks the comfortable
Floyd | cushions, champagne and strawberries you know for a fact to be an
Floyd | essential part of any punting trip.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "give coin to man" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                149
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE COIN TO MAN
Floyd |
Floyd | You toss the coin to ferryman.  It turns over and over in the air,
Floyd | flashing silver, and then he reaches out a gloved hand and engulfs it
Floyd | in darkness.  He carries it to his mouth and bites it.  "That's not
Floyd | silver," he says. But then he shrugs.  "It'll do.  In you get."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "aw, you didn't even talk to him first."
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                148
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | river
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to man" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                149
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO MAN
Floyd |
Floyd | At your approach, the hood turns in your direction and seems to be
Floyd | sizing you up.  "This journey isn't for you," the ferryman says
Floyd | finally.  His voice is neither as deep nor as sonorous as the hood
Floyd | merits, and the words seem rehearsed somehow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                150
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | You open your mouth to protest but the man speaks before you have a
Floyd | chance.  He heaves a gusty sigh that causes his garments to billow
Floyd | around him alarmingly as if they contain nothing but smoke.  "Let me
Floyd | guess," he says, "you want to take it anyway."  Again, you attempt to
Floyd | answer him but he prevents you.  "There's no need to look like that.
Floyd | You're not the first, I doubt you'll be the last."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                151
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | It is hard to tell beneath the hood but the man seems to be regarding
Floyd | you quizzically.  "Haven't I seen you before somewhere?" he asks.
Floyd | "There's something about you ... you seem a bit familiar."  You shake
Floyd | your head.  You have certainly never seen him before.  "No," he
Floyd | agrees, after a moment.  "I suppose that wouldn't be likely.  I'm not
Floyd | exactly in a position to receive repeat custom."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                152
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | "Will you take me across?" you ask, propelled by some sort of instinct
Floyd | you cannot easily articulate. You hardly know what you'll find on the
Floyd | other side of the river, or why you'd want to get there.  The ferryman
Floyd | shakes his head, partly to emphasise an answer you are fully expecting
Floyd | to be negative but, also, you suspect, to express a kind of weariness.
Floyd | "I'll tell you what I tell you everyone who comes to the banks of the
Floyd | river and looks for me," he says finally.  "If you want to cross,
Floyd | it'll cost you silver and, under the usual circumstances, seven days
Floyd | of lamentation but I'll waive them on account of the cold weather."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "hooray"
Zach says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                153
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no point trying to change my mind or haggle me down," says the
Floyd | ferryman, a bit impatiently. "Rules are rules.  No silver, no
Floyd | ferrying.  That's the way it's always been, that's the way it'll
Floyd | always be.  But between you and me you'd be better off going home in
Floyd | any case.  You have no place on my boat, no place on the journey and
Floyd | the end that comes is not your end."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "give coin to man" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                154
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE COIN TO MAN
Floyd |
Floyd | You toss the coin to ferryman.  It turns over and over in the air,
Floyd | flashing silver, and then he reaches out a gloved hand and engulfs it
Floyd | in darkness.  He carries it to his mouth and bites it.  "That's not
Floyd | silver," he says. But then he shrugs.  "It'll do.  In you get."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "enter boat" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                154
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER BOAT
Floyd |
Floyd | As you step towards the boat the Ferryman intercepts you again.
Floyd | "Coming back is harder than going," he says. "Are you sure?"

		Zach asks, "yes?"
		DavidW | yes or no>>
		Jacqueline says, "Points for the punt / Charon comparison."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf9" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                154
Floyd |
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | Please answer yes or no.>
Floyd ]  river                                                154
Floyd |
Floyd | > CF9
Floyd |
Floyd | Please answer yes or no.>

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd ]  Iron Gates                                           155
Floyd |
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd | You step into the boat.  There is a space for a single passenger but
Floyd | it is not  exactly luxurious.  You barely have time to sit down upon
Floyd | the damp wooden boards before the ferryman takes his first stroke,
Floyd | propelling the boat forward at an unlikely speed that causes the
Floyd | moving air to catch at you like icy hands.  You  remember that someone
Floyd | told you once that a punt can travel at 30 miles an hour in
Floyd | favourable conditions ... but this one slips across the moonslick
Floyd | water as effortlessly as if it is glass.  At any rate, you are glad
Floyd | that the man has sufficient  taste to punt from the Oxford end.  You
Floyd | tilt your head back.  You are going so fast that the stars are smeared
Floyd | across the sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | Iron Gates
Floyd | Something has happened.  You have lost track of time, or track of
Floyd | yourself, or something.  You were looking at the sky, feeling stars
Floyd | upon your skin, no, you were in a boat, cold seeping through you, wind
Floyd | tangling in your hair.  But there is no trace of the punt here, or the
Floyd | man, or even a river.  How did you get here?  Where are you?  There is
Floyd | a set of open wrought iron gates before you, as intricate as briars.
Floyd | Beyond them, hazy in the darkness to the southeast, a round lawn,
Floyd | dotted with trees.  It all feels familiar somehow.
Floyd |
Floyd | Guarding the gate is biggest dog you have ever seen, a haunch of

		Jacqueline says, "Oh."

Floyd | bloody meat and a vast water bowl at its feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach asks, "Undo and save?"
		Jacqueline says, "Possibly, yeah"
		Jacqueline says, "Though I'm sure we're supposed to do this."
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                154
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | river
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                155
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | river
Floyd | The river is a snake of moving darkness.  There is a railway line
Floyd | running parallel on the other side and open fields after that.  There
Floyd | is some kind of flat-bottomed boat by the bank nearest to you, and a
Floyd | tall man, in a long coat, is standing in the bow of the boat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hinksey Park is behind you to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "press save" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                155
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRESS SAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
Zach says (to Floyd), "cf10" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  river                                                155
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "give coin to man" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                155
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE COIN TO MAN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "you already gave it"
Zach says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                156
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a lyre
Floyd |   your coat
Floyd |   some pills
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "enter boat" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                156
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER BOAT
Floyd |
Floyd | As you step towards the boat the Ferryman intercepts you again.
Floyd | "Coming back is harder than going," he says. "Are you sure?"

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd ]  Iron Gates                                           157
Floyd |
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd | You step into the boat.  There is a space for a single passenger but
Floyd | it is not  exactly luxurious.  You barely have time to sit down upon
Floyd | the damp wooden boards before the ferryman takes his first stroke,
Floyd | propelling the boat forward at an unlikely speed that causes the
Floyd | moving air to catch at you like icy hands.  You  remember that someone
Floyd | told you once that a punt can travel at 30 miles an hour in
Floyd | favourable conditions ... but this one slips across the moonslick
Floyd | water as effortlessly as if it is glass.  At any rate, you are glad
Floyd | that the man has sufficient  taste to punt from the Oxford end.  You
Floyd | tilt your head back.  You are going so fast that the stars are smeared
Floyd | across the sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | Iron Gates
Floyd | Something has happened.  You have lost track of time, or track of
Floyd | yourself, or something.  You were looking at the sky, feeling stars
Floyd | upon your skin, no, you were in a boat, cold seeping through you, wind
Floyd | tangling in your hair.  But there is no trace of the punt here, or the
Floyd | man, or even a river.  How did you get here?  Where are you?  There is
Floyd | a set of open wrought iron gates before you, as intricate as briars.
Floyd | Beyond them, hazy in the darkness to the southeast, a round lawn,
Floyd | dotted with trees.  It all feels familiar somehow.
Floyd |
Floyd | Guarding the gate is biggest dog you have ever seen, a haunch of
Floyd | bloody meat and a vast water bowl at its feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "play lyre" 		

Floyd ]  Iron Gates                                           158
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLAY LYRE
Floyd |
Floyd | All three heads turn in your direction as you lift the lyre, and a
Floyd | strange shiver runs down the length of the beast's back.  If it was
Floyd | human you don't know what emotions you'd ascribe to it. It holds
Floyd | itself still and silent, only the heaving of its flanks to betray the
Floyd | fact it lives at all.  And you play, strange, savage music, spiralling
Floyd | out of the lyre, drenched inhuman colours, filling your mouth up with
Floyd | heat and the tang of metal.  Your heart tightens sickeningly in your
Floyd | chest, pulsing with the lyre strings, something like excitement,
Floyd | something like dread.  The dog trembles where it stands, its eyes
Floyd | ablaze.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug asks, "so, punting from the oxford end. Was that a reference to the urban dictionary definition?"
		Jacqueline says, "I think it's merely a reference to which end of the punt, and that the urban dictionary definition is something else entirely."
		Doug says, "I figured"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x dog" 		

Floyd ]  Iron Gates                                           159
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DOG
Floyd |
Floyd | The beast strains against its bonds
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Or rather, the position of the punter. In Oxford I think they stand down inside the punt, as opposed to up on the top of the boat at its stern."
		Jacqueline says, "I've punted in Cam, never been to Oxford."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "play lyre" 		

Floyd ]  Iron Gates                                           160
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLAY LYRE
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel as if you have been running, and running hard, and your
Floyd | fingers tremble on the strings, fearful of the lyre and its music.
Floyd | But everything has changed.  Softly, softly, comes the scent of green
Floyd | things growing, dark places, damp fur, warmth in your belly and all
Floyd | around, different songs.  You lose time, the names of things. The
Floyd | stars becomes nothing but distant light. Your four clawed feet trample
Floyd | complex concepts to nothing but travelled earth, and happiness is the
Floyd | flow of the night.  Then comes the creeping cold, not without, but
Floyd | within, and it snaps like winter at your heels.  And you don't know
Floyd | what it means that yours is now the only song, and yours the only
Floyd | pounding paws, and yours the fur and yours the hunger and you alone
Floyd | who slumber in the dark places and dream of dreams once shared.  The
Floyd | music fades to silence, and the dog slumps to the ground, ungainly
Floyd | now.  Its eyes fall closed and it seems to sleep.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "That's a nice Fluffy."
Zach says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Hospital Approach                          161
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd | You muster up your courage and sidle past the subdued monster, holding
Floyd | your breath lest you rouse it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Warneford Hospital Approach
Floyd | You could be visiting a stately home, or an Oxford college, or a
Floyd | country church, except you're not.  You know there are more modern
Floyd | constructions hidden away behind it, one of which - the severely acute
Floyd | ward - lies like Sleeping Beauty's castle behind thorns of metal and
Floyd | stone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Circling an oval of moderately well-kept grass is a gravel path and,
Floyd | beyond it to the west, a sandstone building gleams palely golden
Floyd | against the shadowed sky. The gates loom to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug | in Cambridge they stand on the till and punt with the open end forward, while in Oxford they stand inside the boat and punt with the till forward.
		Jacqueline says, "Some of this has been a bit ott for me, but that bit was truly lovely."
Lionheart arrives, full of fun and funk. 		Jacqueline says, "The second response to >PLAY LYRE, that is."
		DavidW says, "Warneford Hospital is also in Wikipedia, fwiw."
		Doug asks, "off or odd?"
		Jacqueline says, "ott? Over the top."
		Jacqueline says, "The orange juice sunset ref you all enjoyed I thought was a bit much."
		Jacqueline says, "But most of this is beautiful and longing and achieves precisely the dreamlike quality the author had hoped for."
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Path                                  162
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | As you cross the lawn, your footsteps lost among the many you have
Floyd | already taken, you feel a horrible tightness round you heart as if
Floyd | someone had a hand round it and was squeezing. There is a burning at
Floyd | the back your throat, like a lump of tears and bile is stuck there.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Path
Floyd | The path sidles away down the side of the main building, taking you
Floyd | away from facades.  Here, there are no country house lawns, no
Floyd | sandstone and classical pillars. There are patches of scrubby grass,
Floyd | borders that may perhaps bloom one spring, and scattered buildings
Floyd | that are too perfectly, facelessly functional to have anything of
Floyd | beauty or ugliness to them.  There are jaunty painted signs to
Floyd | Cotswold House and Wintle Ward.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas waits to the west, the Hospital Approach is to the
Floyd | east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x vaughan" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Path                                  163
Floyd |
Floyd | > X VAUGHAN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see it, square and sensible, at the end of the path.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "huh, I thought the 'yours the only pounding paws' was a bit much, yeah."
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              164
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | As you walk down the path, a human cry breaks upon the silence and
Floyd | dies.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Exterior
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Ward is another grey building.  It has a bow-window
Floyd | which looks like an ill-at-ease addition to its uniformity.  There is
Floyd | also an awkward, spindly tree guarding a nearby bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door that leads west into Vaughan Thomas has been painted blue.
Floyd | There is a doorbell next to it in industrial grey.  The path leading
Floyd | to and from Vaughan Thomas lies to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I find it .... (sunglasses) lyrical. YEEAAAAAH."
		Doug says, "haha"
		Jacqueline says, "I think it was trying to flow like music. It worked for me."
		Jacqueline says, "And it flowed like sleep."
		Jacqueline says, "Both."
		Doug says, "but it didn't flow like orange juice."
		Jacqueline says, "No, thankfully."
		Jacqueline smiles.
Doug says (to Floyd), "x tree" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              165
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TREE
Floyd |
Floyd | It is hunched over the bench like a sullen teenager, its leafless
Floyd | branches hanging, lethargic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x bench" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              166
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BENCH
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooden, a little bit worn but not so much that it looks like nobody
Floyd | cares, only lightly besplattered with bird shit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "sit on bench" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              167
Floyd |
Floyd | > SIT ON BENCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You sit on the bench for a brief moment.  Cigarette ends are strewn at
Floyd | your feet, riotously like rose petals, and from them rises a stale
Floyd | scent and a ghostly nicotine buzz.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Just a smidge o' pidge."
Doug says (to Floyd), "x doorbell" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              168
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DOORBELL
Floyd |
Floyd | Strangely totemic, it has a button for you to press and a grill - such
Floyd | as you might find on the visor of the villain in a sci-fi movie - for
Floyd | you talk into.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take ends" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              168
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE ENDS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "We don't need a smoke that bad"
		Doug asks, "shall we ring?"
		DavidW says, "I didn't sit on this bench when I played and missed seeing the cig butts."
Doug x window 		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x window" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              168
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug oops 		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x bow-window" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              168
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOW-WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x door" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              169
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Blueish.  Doorish.  Very very lockedish.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "ha"
Doug says (to Floyd), "ring" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              169
Floyd |
Floyd | > RING
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "push" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              169
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to push?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "button" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              170
Floyd |
Floyd | > BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You depress the button and listen to the silence while you wait.  You
Floyd | do not trust the doorbell.  It demands your faith yet gives you no
Floyd | miracles.  It doesn't even buzz to let you know it's actually
Floyd | functional.  Finally, just when you have given up all hope in the
Floyd | doorbell, there is a crackling from behind the grill and a distorted
Floyd | voice asks what you want.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to grill" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              171
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO GRILL
Floyd |
Floyd | You mumble your name into the grill, and explain you have come to get
Floyd | Celine.  A warped sigh gusts out of the grill with such force you are
Floyd | surprised it doesn't ruffle your hair.  Then crackling dies away and
Floyd | the grill speaks to you no further.  You assume that that means
Floyd | someone is coming to open the door but for all you know they could be
Floyd | activating the lever that drops you into the alligator pit.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are starting to wonder if perhaps they've forgotten you're there,
Floyd | or if answering the doorbell is a mere hobby, when there comes the
Floyd | sound of muted rattling and banging from behind the door as someone on
Floyd | the other side begins the ceremony required to open it.  It is finally
Floyd | eased open, just enough for you to squeeze through, by a Nurse,
Floyd | glowering at the effort required to perform the most basic tenets of
Floyd | her job.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x nurse" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              172
Floyd |
Floyd | > X NURSE
Floyd |
Floyd | You recognise her as Celine's Named Nurse, although you're damned if
Floyd | you can remember what she's called. But then it's only fair.  She
Floyd | would, after all, insist on calling Celine "Selin" (which she hated)
Floyd | instead of Celine.  "Like Celine Dion." Celine had tried to explain at
Floyd | first.  "Ohhhhhh," said the Nurse, in the voice reserved for
Floyd | patronising utter crazies, "so *you're* Celine Dion."  Celine had been
Floyd | obliged to explain that she meant her name was spelled and pronounced
Floyd | similarly to the singer's, not that she believed she actually was
Floyd | Celine Dion.  She told you about the misunderstanding later, laughing
Floyd | to cover her embarrassment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to nurse" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              173
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO NURSE
Floyd |
Floyd | You try to bring yourself to say something polite to her but it's like
Floyd | forcing up a chicken bone.  In the end your masochism only extends to
Floyd | a grimace-like smile.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x door" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              174
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | The blue door stands open now, guarded by the Nurse.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug asks, "anyone want to do anything before we go in?"
		DavidW says, "not me. I'm surprised the nurse hasn't closed the door again already."
		Jacqueline says, "Carry on."
Doug says (to Floyd), "in" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              175
Floyd |
Floyd | > IN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              176
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              177
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Exterior
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Ward is another grey building.  It has a bow-window
Floyd | which looks like an ill-at-ease addition to its uniformity.  There is
Floyd | also an awkward, spindly tree guarding a nearby bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door that leads west into Vaughan Thomas has been painted blue.
Floyd | There is a doorbell next to it in industrial grey.  The path leading
Floyd | to and from Vaughan Thomas lies to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Nurse stands huffily by the door as if opening it for you has been
Floyd | a Herculean labour the like of which she resented performing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "west"
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              178
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | As you edge past the Nurse, she put out a log-like arm to momentarily
Floyd | stop you entering.  "You'll need to see the Doctor first," she says,
Floyd | gruffly. "You can't take a patient away without the doctor's
Floyd | permission."  You nod your understanding, although your mind is full
Floyd | of Escape from Alcatraz visions, search lights flashing, sirens
Floyd | screaming and helicopters whirling overhead as you and Celine run,
Floyd | hand in hand, giggling into a different coloured future.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Corridor
Floyd | There are soft felt pinboards on the wall, above a row of chairs.  An
Floyd | over-stacked bookself shoved in the corner and a square table do
Floyd | nothing to break the monotony.  The Warneford Hospital has a
Floyd | distinctive smell.  It is the smell of a place that very consciously
Floyd | has no smell, underscored by a desperate edge of nicotine.
Floyd |
Floyd | This interminably greyish corridor meanders north, west and south.
Floyd | East would take you outside again, through the blue door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "sorry"
		Doug asks, "what does nicotine smell like?"
		DavidW says, "cigarettes"
Doug says (to Floyd), "x pinboards" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              179
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PINBOARDS
Floyd |
Floyd | They are covered in slightly scrappy, utilitarian messages.  The names
Floyd | of the nurses on shift.  Advertisements for a workshop on Coping with
Floyd | Psychosis.  The telephone number for Mind The Mental Health Charity
Floyd | (or, as their charity shop reminds you, Mind The Step).  Various
Floyd | advocacy services in case you should happen to find yourself in One
Floyd | Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x bookshelf" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              180
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOKSHELF
Floyd |
Floyd | There are overly-rifled paperbacks, yellowed by use, stuffed
Floyd | haphazardly onto the shelves.  A quick glance at the spines reveals
Floyd | them to be without exception the kind of airport novels you probably
Floyd | wouldn't want to read even at an airport.  Or in a loony bin.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x table" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              181
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | A plain, square table piled with sweating glossy magazines.  The
Floyd | titles blare at you but, somehow, do not appeal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Coping with Pyschosis: Your Voices and You"
Doug says (to Floyd), "get magazine" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              181
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET MAGAZINE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get magazines" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              181
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET MAGAZINES
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug asks, "ok. which way?"
		Zach says, "Any which way"
		DavidW says, "no comment"
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Hall                                          182
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Hall
Floyd | This is the large, bow-windowed room you could see from outside.  Dull
Floyd | light washes in from the corridor behind you and flickers from beneath
Floyd | the door to the television room.  Square tables are neatly arranged
Floyd | and the far wall boasts a display of artwork.  Upon the air hangs the
Floyd | cloying scent of old, institutional dinners.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Doctor's Office lies to the north, the Vaughan Thomas corridor to
Floyd | the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "The mystery of the bow-window revealed!"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x artwork" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Hall                                          182
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ARTWORK
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x art" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Hall                                          183
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ART
Floyd |
Floyd | You stare for a bit at the collage of pictures.  They seem touched by
Floyd | neither madness nor genius.  They look, in fact, like the sort of
Floyd | pictures you would attempt if you were in hospital and weren't very
Floyd | good at drawing.  One shows a childishly circular moon hanging in a
Floyd | bruise coloured sky.  Another, with precision but not skill, reflects
Floyd | the building in which you stand.  Someone has attempted a wolf, a
Floyd | bemused-looking, lopsided wolf.  A bowl of fruit, faded with apathy. A
Floyd | tree, competent  but for the hostile angles of its bared branches.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x wall" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Hall                                          183
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WALL
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach asks, "To the doctor?"
		DavidW says, "go for it"
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      184
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Doctor's Office
Floyd | This is a typical Doctor's office.  It has a clinical air, but no more
Floyd | than you would expect.  It is really very neat in here.  The walls are
Floyd | hung with what look to be modern art prints, all in identical frames,
Floyd | imprisoned behind glass.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Doctor is sitting behind the desk, his elbows resting atop it and
Floyd | his chin upon the platform provided by his interlocked fingers.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door to the south leads back to the dining hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x doctor" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      185
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DOCTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | He seems surprisingly young for his role.  His hair is coal black and
Floyd | his eyes only one shade lighter, stark against the white coat that
Floyd | hangs open over an austere pinstriped suit.  He has a stern, unlovely
Floyd | face and returns your regard steadily.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to doctor" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      185
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO DOCTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes?" The Doctor's voice is not quite impatient, but the clipped
Floyd | quality of it suggests it very soon will be.  "You know I cannot
Floyd | accede to your ..." He stops abruptly, as if searching for a word, and
Floyd | settles finally on "...request".  I suggest you let me send you home,
Floyd | where you belong."

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      185
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | Please answer yes or no.>

		Zach asks, "No?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "no" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      186
Floyd |
Floyd | > NO
Floyd |
Floyd | At your refusal, the Doctor frowns.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      185
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Doctor's Office
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "that's a weird decision point"
		Zach says, "Yeah."
		Doug asks, "why would a player say yes there?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
Zach says (to Floyd), "cf11" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      185
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I never did try answering yes there, but I assume the game ends there if you do say yes."
		Zach says, "I don't know. I'll see what happens"
Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to doctor" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      185
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO DOCTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes?" The Doctor's voice is not quite impatient, but the clipped
Floyd | quality of it suggests it very soon will be.  "You know I cannot
Floyd | accede to your ..." He stops abruptly, as if searching for a word, and
Floyd | settles finally on "...request".  I suggest you let me send you home,
Floyd | where you belong."

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd ]  Home Again                                           186
Floyd |
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd | "I confess, you have surprised me," says the Doctor, although he does
Floyd | not look displeased about it.  "I had not anticipated that you would
Floyd | be so ... reasonable."  He stands.  "I am sorry for your loss."  His
Floyd | hand upon your shoulder is ice cold even though layers of fabric but
Floyd | it only hurts for a moment and then the Doctor, his office, and the
Floyd | Warneford are gone...
Floyd |
Floyd | Home Again
Floyd | You are standing on the pavement outside your house.  The street looks
Floyd | exactly as it always looks, except evening has crept fully across the
Floyd | sky during your wanderings and the nascent night is definitely cold.
Floyd | You are conscious, for a second or two, of a vague nagging feeling, as
Floyd | if you have left something behind, but it passes swiftly.  Hinksey
Floyd | Park still lies, like a shadow, to the northwest and the rest of the
Floyd | world awaits in every other direction.  The door to your house stands
Floyd | before you, waiting for you to open it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Home Again                                           187
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a lyre
Floyd |   your coat
Floyd |   some pills
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "I guess we left Celine behind..."
Zach says (to Floyd), "open door" 		

Floyd ]  Home Again                                           187
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | The brass handle is as cold as the night air beneath your hand but,
Floyd | for once, the door does not stick. It swings open before you in
Floyd | invitation, spilling a treasury's worth of light over the front path.
Floyd | Warm air rushes out to greet you and, from within, you hear the
Floyd | strains of speech and laughter rising like a phoenix
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** Finis ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | This is "Friendship", one of four possible endings for Eurydice.  To
Floyd | discover another, have you tried looking for Celine in the hospital?
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:

		Jacqueline says, "Well, it's like those CYOAs that on the first page say, 'If you say, "Yes! I like drinking foaming, glowing liquid from a stranger's cup made from a bull's horn!" turn to page 72. If you instead decide that really, you hate adventuring... and besides, you have homework to do, turn to page 2.'"
Zach says (to Floyd), "cf11" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      185
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Heh."
		Zach says, ""Friendship" doesn't sound like a terrible ending though."
		maga says, "the choice is meaningful, just not meaningful as a choice"
		Doug asks, "I guess that choice was supposed to represent choosing to be satisfied with the friends we have rather than trying to bring back the dead?"
		Zach asks, "Maybe not trying to bring her back meant we found friendship with the others?"
		Zach says, "Yeah. Trying to bring someone back from the dead isn't really the healthiest thing."
		DavidW says, "anyway, talk to doctor, no."
Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to doctor" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      185
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO DOCTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes?" The Doctor's voice is not quite impatient, but the clipped
Floyd | quality of it suggests it very soon will be.  "You know I cannot
Floyd | accede to your ..." He stops abruptly, as if searching for a word, and
Floyd | settles finally on "...request".  I suggest you let me send you home,
Floyd | where you belong."

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "no" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      186
Floyd |
Floyd | > NO
Floyd |
Floyd | At your refusal, the Doctor frowns.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to doctor" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      187
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO DOCTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Before you can speak again, the Doctor forestalls you.  "I'm afraid
Floyd | you will not change my mind with tragic looks or eloquent words.  I
Floyd | have seen and heard them all a hundred throusand million times
Floyd | before."  You wonder, briefly, whether you are supposed to challenge
Floyd | him to a game of chess or, possibly riddles.  "I cannot be tricked,"
Floyd | he says, as if in answer.  "Nor changed.  It is not my nature."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "haha 'throusand'. I like it"
Zach says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      188
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | "Your insistence is as wearisome as it is predictable," comments the
Floyd | Doctor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "play lyre" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      189
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLAY LYRE
Floyd |
Floyd | Time seems to unravel around you like the fraying threads of a
Floyd | tapestry as you lift the lyre into your arms.  The Doctor is on his on
Floyd | his feet, his face pale with fury and his eyes ablaze, but it's too
Floyd | late to stop you.  Music fills the air like cherry blossom, sweetly
Floyd | drifting, falling like fleeting kisses upon the senses and fading as
Floyd | swiftly as a summer evening.   For a moment, the Doctor is tranfixed,
Floyd | his face naked in pain and sorrow, and then his cold hands are
Floyd | wrenching the lyre from your grasp.  The notes shatter into rainbows
Floyd | of refracted light and then they're gone.  There is a vicious crack,
Floyd | like a bone breaking, and the Doctor flings the pieces of the lyre to
Floyd | the floor.  In seconds nothing remains of the lyre but a sprinkling of
Floyd | dust the colour of old blood.  "Take her then," he cries, "take her
Floyd | and may damnation have you both.  You'll find Celine in the gardens
Floyd | beyond the Sun Room.  Take her with you, as you wish, but remember:
Floyd | don't turn around, or she's mine forever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "didn't expect that to work."
		DavidW says, "hm. Wondered how that would work."
		Zach says, "Woah"
		Doug says, "shame about the lyre"
		DavidW says, "It wasn't what I did."
		Jacqueline says, "..."
		Zach says, "I wonder if one of the 4 endings was saying no to the ferryman? Or if that was just the Friendship ending again."
Zach says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Hall                                          190
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Hall
Floyd | This is the large, bow-windowed room you could see from outside.  Dull
Floyd | light washes in from the corridor behind you and flickers from beneath
Floyd | the door to the television room.  Square tables are neatly arranged
Floyd | and the far wall boasts a display of artwork.  Upon the air hangs the
Floyd | cloying scent of old, institutional dinners.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Doctor's Office lies to the north, the Vaughan Thomas corridor to
Floyd | the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says (to Zach), "maybe"
Zach says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              191
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | A young-ish, not entirely unpretty woman, who steals from the other
Floyd | inmates and has no visitors, is staring blankly out of a window at the
Floyd | shadow-sloshed world outside.  She turns, smiles hopefully and shyly
Floyd | at you and then flees.  You try to feel more kindness towards her but
Floyd | she pilfered Celine's favourite perfume.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Corridor
Floyd | There are soft felt pinboards on the wall, above a row of chairs.  An
Floyd | over-stacked bookself shoved in the corner and a square table do
Floyd | nothing to break the monotony.  The Warneford Hospital has a
Floyd | distinctive smell.  It is the smell of a place that very consciously
Floyd | has no smell, underscored by a desperate edge of nicotine.
Floyd |
Floyd | This interminably greyish corridor meanders north, west and south.
Floyd | East would take you outside again, through the blue door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             192
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Sun Room
Floyd | This is a primitive conservatory of sorts.  It is by far the most
Floyd | attractive room in the Warneford, which reflects well on neither the
Floyd | Warneford nor the room.  It has wicker chairs and, disconcertingly,
Floyd | there is white-sheeted hospital bed against one of the walls.  The
Floyd | square, unbeautiful windows overlook the grounds and currently admit a
Floyd | spill of moonlight the colour of old milk.
Floyd |
Floyd | Now you notice a set of doors at the back of the room have been flung
Floyd | wide open, drawing you like a beckoning finger, west, towards the
Floyd | shadow-smothered gardens.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Vaughan Thomas corridor lies to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x bed" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             192
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BED
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    193
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Warneford Gardens
Floyd | Somebody tried.  Here there are the elements of a garden.  Grass,
Floyd | although it is mainly mud.  Banks of soil where perhaps flowers might
Floyd | grow.  Squatting shrubs, hunched in upon themselves.  And in
Floyd | silhouette the anorexic shapes of trees, stripped before the oncoming
Floyd | winter.  Moonlight forms puddles here and there.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Sun room waits to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine is sitting on a stone bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x celine" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    194
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CELINE
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine is beautiful but not today.  The monochrome palette of the
Floyd | Warneford has wrung her out.  Her clothes are too black, her skin is
Floyd | too pale, her eyes too dark.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to celine" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    195
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO CELINE
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine smiles to see you, convincing gladness, desperate eyes.  You
Floyd | exchange the usual greetings, the usual enquiries, and, as ever, she
Floyd | thanks you for coming to see her, as if it is a kind and wonderful
Floyd | thing and not a terrible strain for both of you.  You tell her silly
Floyd | stories of the colour of the October leaves and how much you're
Floyd | looking forward to the blossom trees.  She listens, and laughs, and
Floyd | pretends.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "hm, should have tried to talk to young-ish woman"
		Zach says, "I assumed that was the nurse that opened the door"
		DavidW says, "no, it's someone else."
		Doug says, "oh, nevermind, she fled"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    196
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine is not feeling so good and will only tell you so if you press
Floyd | her.  She has - quite literally - forgotten the way home, along with
Floyd | everything she learned on her art history course last term.  She has
Floyd | forgotten the tombstone cake you made for Jess's birthday.  She has
Floyd | forgotten Rick's parents are dead.  She has forgotten the entirety of
Floyd | Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  It'll come back, you tell her, don't worry,
Floyd | and anyway we can watch it all over again - think how much fun that'll
Floyd | be.  She listens, and laughs, and pretends.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "Omg. She's even forgotten Buffy?"
		Zach says, "Heh, I was going to make a Buffy joke about trying to bring back the dead"
		Jacqueline says, "Now I really am thinking maga wrote this."
		Doug asks, "so how do we get her to follow us?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    197
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   your coat
Floyd |   some pills
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline exclaims, "We can lure her will pills!"
		Jacqueline says, "Kidding again."
		maga says (to Jacq), "I would never advocate punting from the Oxford end"
Zach says (to Floyd), "give coat to Celine" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    198
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE COAT TO CELINE
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine doesn't seem interested.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I suppose >TAKE CELINE, or just head back and assume she's following."
		Zach says, "So much for trying to be a gentleman"
Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to celine" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    199
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO CELINE
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine tells you her secrets, the ones she hasn't forgotten, the ones
Floyd | you wish she could forget, the ones she has forgotten you already
Floyd | know.  You try to make it okay with your words.  And Celine listens,
Floyd | and laughs, and pretends.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    200
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You are determined not to leave this place this time without Celine.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "kiss celine" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    201
Floyd |
Floyd | > KISS CELINE
Floyd |
Floyd | Keep your mind on the game.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "celine, go east" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    202
Floyd |
Floyd | > CELINE, GO EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | (To communicate in Eurydice, TALK TO a character.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to maga), "But it seems more stable."
		Jacqueline says, "Easier to navigate."
Doug says (to Floyd), "clubf take celine" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    202
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLUBF TAKE CELINE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), " take celine" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    203
Floyd |
Floyd | >  TAKE CELINE
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't suppose Celine would care for that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "give pills to celine" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    204
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE PILLS TO CELINE
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine doesn't seem interested.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "But I know this is heresy to you."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to celine" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    205
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO CELINE
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly you remember.  It's time to go home.  "Will you follow me?"
Floyd | you ask, and Celine nods.  She seems only a little afraid.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		maga says, "from behind and on top: that has always been the Cambridge way"
		Jacqueline says, "snrk"
Zach says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    206
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Warneford Gardens
Floyd | Somebody tried.  Here there are the elements of a garden.  Grass,
Floyd | although it is mainly mud.  Banks of soil where perhaps flowers might
Floyd | grow.  Squatting shrubs, hunched in upon themselves.  And in
Floyd | silhouette the anorexic shapes of trees, stripped before the oncoming
Floyd | winter.  Moonlight forms puddles here and there.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Sun room waits to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine is sitting on a stone bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "sit" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    206
Floyd |
Floyd | > SIT
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to sit on?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "sit" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    206
Floyd |
Floyd | > SIT
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to sit on?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "sit on bench" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    207
Floyd |
Floyd | > SIT ON BENCH
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can sit down on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "sit on celine" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    208
Floyd |
Floyd | > SIT ON CELINE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can sit down on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "sorry"
Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to celine" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    209
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO CELINE
Floyd |
Floyd | "You will follow me, won't you?" you say again and Celine assures you
Floyd | she will.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "fourth time's a charm!"
		DavidW says, "so was third"
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             210
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Sun Room
Floyd | This is a primitive conservatory of sorts.  It is by far the most
Floyd | attractive room in the Warneford, which reflects well on neither the
Floyd | Warneford nor the room.  It has wicker chairs and, disconcertingly,
Floyd | there is white-sheeted hospital bed against one of the walls.  The
Floyd | square, unbeautiful windows overlook the grounds and currently admit a
Floyd | spill of moonlight the colour of old milk.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you enter the sunroom from the gardens, your own footsteps sound on
Floyd | the floor but you hear no others.  Perhaps Celine has not followed as
Floyd | promised she would.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Vaughan Thomas corridor lies to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "oh, sorry, missed that"
		DavidW says, "remember, no turning around!"
		Zach asks, "Want to see what happens if we do?"
		Doug says, "that was the fourth time (and fifth time)"
		Jacqueline asks, "Did the instructions imply that 'double back' (tsd, too) would work if needed?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
Zach says (to Floyd), "cf12" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             210
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "That it would also count as turning around, yes."
Zach says (to Floyd), "turn around" 		

Floyd ]  Marlborough Road Again                               211
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN AROUND
Floyd |
Floyd | You are assailed by the sudden certainty that Celine has not followed
Floyd | you and that you are alone, going home without her, that the Doctor
Floyd | and everyone else in this terrible place have taken you for a fool.
Floyd | You whirl round, ready to re-trace your steps, to find her again and
Floyd | save her, to drag her out of here if you have to.  Your heart lurches.
Floyd | Dizziness sweeps over you.  The Warneford is dissolves around you like
Floyd | damp sugar.  You feel as though you're about to faint, and the last
Floyd | thing you see before you lose track of everything is Celine,
Floyd | wide-eyed, standing behind you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Marlborough Road Again
Floyd | Marlborough Road is greyish in the dawn.  It seems you have been
Floyd | wandering all night long.  You are tired and cold, but this knowledge
Floyd | beats only half-heartedly against your mind.  The world is a formless
Floyd | shadow around you and the door to the house stands before you, waiting
Floyd | for you to open it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug asks, "did we ever go south from the entrance?"
		DavidW says (to Doug), "no"
		Zach says, "No, I was wondering about that"
Doug says (to Floyd), "open door" 		

Floyd ]  Marlborough Road Again                               211
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | The brass handle is chill beneath your already chilled hands, but even
Floyd | that is not enough to rouse you.  You shove open the door and step
Floyd | into the waiting silence
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** Finis. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | This is "Failure", one of four possible endings for Eurydice.  To
Floyd | discover another, perhaps you should be more careful not to turn
Floyd | around or double back on yourself when Celine is following you.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "two down"
		Zach asks, "I guess trying the south room would count as doubling back now?"
Doug says (to Floyd), "restore cf12" 		

Floyd ]  Marlborough Road Again                               211
Floyd |
Floyd | > RESTORE CF12
Floyd |
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "cf12" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             210
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              211
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Corridor
Floyd | There are soft felt pinboards on the wall, above a row of chairs.  An
Floyd | over-stacked bookself shoved in the corner and a square table do
Floyd | nothing to break the monotony.  The Warneford Hospital has a
Floyd | distinctive smell.  It is the smell of a place that very consciously
Floyd | has no smell, underscored by a desperate edge of nicotine.
Floyd |
Floyd | You strain to hear even the slightest hint of movement but there is
Floyd | nothing, nothing at all.  Perhaps you have been tricked.  Yes, that
Floyd | seems very likely.
Floyd |
Floyd | This interminably greyish corridor meanders north, west and south.
Floyd | East would take you outside again, through the blue door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "btw, 'push restore' should also work."
Zach says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              212
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | Regardless of trickery, you cannot see any advantage in going to the
Floyd | women's corridor at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "we can try that later from an earlier save I guess"
		Zach asks, "Yeah. Want to do that, or finish with this ending first?"
		Doug says, "let's keep going"
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              213
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You look around for the nurse but then notice that the door seems to
Floyd | be standing very slightly ajar.  You seize the opportunity and slip
Floyd | through
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Exterior
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Ward is another grey building.  It has a bow-window
Floyd | which looks like an ill-at-ease addition to its uniformity.  There is
Floyd | also an awkward, spindly tree guarding a nearby bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | The only thing that follows you now, it seems, is silence.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door that leads west into Vaughan Thomas has been painted blue.
Floyd | There is a doorbell next to it in industrial grey.  The path leading
Floyd | to and from Vaughan Thomas lies to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Path                                  214
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Path
Floyd | The path sidles away down the side of the main building, taking you
Floyd | away from facades.  Here, there are no country house lawns, no
Floyd | sandstone and classical pillars. There are patches of scrubby grass,
Floyd | borders that may perhaps bloom one spring, and scattered buildings
Floyd | that are too perfectly, facelessly functional to have anything of
Floyd | beauty or ugliness to them.  There are jaunty painted signs to
Floyd | Cotswold House and Wintle Ward.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas waits to the west, the Hospital Approach is to the
Floyd | east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford exit                                       215
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Warneford exit
Floyd | Here on the Warneford lawn again you can see a streak of lightness at
Floyd | the eastern edge of the sky.  Behind you, a smear of gold and grey, is
Floyd | the Warneford.  Before you, to the northwest, the wrought iron gates,
Floyd | as tall as thistles to a child, inevitably sealed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford exit                                       216
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't, the gates bar your way, as insurmountable as death itself.
Floyd | All you can do now is turn around.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "well dang"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open gates" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford exit                                       217
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN GATES
Floyd |
Floyd | You throw yourself at the gates but you know even as you do that
Floyd | there will be no opening them. The metal tears at the skin of your
Floyd | hands and you send a chorus of clattering to the silent sky.  They are
Floyd | securely sealed and there is no forcing them.  You can't go back, you
Floyd | can't go through them.  It's time to turn around.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search gates" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford exit                                       218
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH GATES
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gates" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford exit                                       219
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GATES
Floyd |
Floyd | They look exactly the same as they did before, but they're sealed
Floyd | shut, barred and implaccable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "climb gates" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford exit                                       220
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLIMB GATES
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "placc gates" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford exit                                       220
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLACC GATES
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "knock" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford exit                                       220
Floyd |
Floyd | > KNOCK
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says (to Doug), "I think you mean placate"
		Doug says, "placcate :)"
Zach says (to Floyd), "turn around" 		

Floyd ]  And Back Again                                       221
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN AROUND
Floyd |
Floyd | You turn around slowly, as you know you inevitably must.  Celine is
Floyd | standing behind you, smiling.  The rising sun gleams upon her hair and
Floyd | in her eyes, her cheeks flushed with the first light of dawn.  The
Floyd | grass at her feet is a carpet of flowers and as you rush into her
Floyd | opening arms you find yourself clutching at nothing but a flurry of
Floyd | petals the colour of her lipstick.
Floyd |
Floyd | And Back Again
Floyd | Marlborough Road looks exactly as it did when you left it, except it
Floyd | is greyish in the dawn.  It seems you have been wandering all night
Floyd | long.  Your house is dark and quiet behind its curtained windows, as
Floyd | if it has closed its eyes.  The world waits at your back, the front
Floyd | door lies ahead, waiting for you to open it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "ok, turn around I guess"
Zach says (to Floyd), "open door" 		

Floyd ]  And Back Again                                       221
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | As you reach out to the door handle, a flash of colour catches your
Floyd | eye.  There is a flower petal stuck to your palm.  Shaken free by your
Floyd | movement, it drifts to the ground, gleaming briefly in the gloom. The
Floyd | door swings open and you step inside, into neither emptiness nor cold,
Floyd | and your hand warm as if someone holds it still.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** Finis ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | This is "Flowers", one four possible endings of Eurydice.  To discover
Floyd | another, have you tried playing the lyre more?
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "hm"
		DavidW asks, "Do all the endings have names beginning with F? Friendship, Failure, Flowers, ...?"
		Jacqueline asks, "Our smashed lyre?"
		Doug asks, "I guess that represents... a satisfying reminiscence, that lets us move on with life?"
		Jacqueline says, "An homage to Zork II..."
		Jacqueline says, "(Again, kidding.)"
		Doug says, "I guess we'll need to play the lyre before the doctor"
		Zach asks (of DavidW), "You said you got an ending without playing the lyre to the doctor?"
		Doug says, "we haven't used the pills yet either."
		DavidW says, "I saw the Flowers ending, but I didn't play the lyre for the doctor."
		DavidW says, "And I never had the pills either."
		maga says, "pretty much every puzzle has a non-lyre solution"
		Zach asks, "Ah. We could have given the dog pills?"
		Zach asks, "Could we have played the lyre to our friends? To the snake?"
		DavidW says, "I probably shouldn't explain what I did until you've at least seen the south part of the hospital."
		Zach asks, "Could we have started an emo-folk band?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "cf11" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      185
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Hall                                          186
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Hall
Floyd | This is the large, bow-windowed room you could see from outside.  Dull
Floyd | light washes in from the corridor behind you and flickers from beneath
Floyd | the door to the television room.  Square tables are neatly arranged
Floyd | and the far wall boasts a display of artwork.  Upon the air hangs the
Floyd | cloying scent of old, institutional dinners.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Doctor's Office lies to the north, the Vaughan Thomas corridor to
Floyd | the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              187
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You  hear footsteps behind you, slapping like wet fish against the
Floyd | grey hospital floor.  You freeze and half-turn but then they recede.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Corridor
Floyd | There are soft felt pinboards on the wall, above a row of chairs.  An
Floyd | over-stacked bookself shoved in the corner and a square table do
Floyd | nothing to break the monotony.  The Warneford Hospital has a
Floyd | distinctive smell.  It is the smell of a place that very consciously
Floyd | has no smell, underscored by a desperate edge of nicotine.
Floyd |
Floyd | This interminably greyish corridor meanders north, west and south.
Floyd | East would take you outside again, through the blue door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Women's Corridor                                     188
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | Women's Corridor
Floyd | The greyness unrolls before you like the tongue of a sick frog.  This
Floyd | sign above your head (this is not an exit) reminds you that it's women
Floyd | only past this point, but who is going to see you at this time of
Floyd | night?
Floyd |
Floyd | Identical doors, all closed but for the one that stands slightly ajar
Floyd | to the west, line the corridor.  Going north will return you to the
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Corridor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Celine's Room                                        189
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine's Room
Floyd | The memories of past visits rise up to gnaw at you like wolves.  You
Floyd | see Celine, sitting on the bed, the colour washed out of her by her
Floyd | surroundings, her knees pulled up to her chin.  Jess is there beside
Floyd | her, back to the wall, feet dangling off the end of the bed.  You'd
Floyd | snuck in and you're kneeling on the floor, elbows folded on the
Floyd | coverlet.  You're probably pretty damn uncomfortable.  Spread out
Floyd | between you are brightly coloured cards. You're playing Once Upon A
Floyd | Time, a game for telling fairytales.  "Are you sure I used to like
Floyd | this?" Celine is asking.  "Yes," you say, "it's one of your
Floyd | favourites."  "You used to win all the time," Jess adds.  Celine
Floyd | laughs, uncertain.  "That doesn't seem very likely," she says.  "It'll
Floyd | come back," you say, half-reassuring, half-pleading.  Except it, of
Floyd | course, doesn't.  None of it does.
Floyd |
Floyd | A small, perfectly square, yellow-painted room, probably identical to
Floyd | all the others on this corridor.  The carpet is a greyish-blue, only
Floyd | slightly stained.  There is a pine-coloured wardrobe and bedside
Floyd | table, a single bed and a chair.  There are signs of occupation - the
Floyd | black cardigan hanging on the back of the chair, books and a radio on
Floyd | the bedside table - but it's not the kind of room you can personalise.
Floyd | It is a transitory space.  Above the bed, the wall is splashed with a
Floyd | grid of cards and postcards, twenty or thirty of them maybe, pinned up
Floyd | there as bright as butterfly wings.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see the Women's Corridor through the door to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the narrow strip of a windowsill is a houseplant, another daub of
Floyd | colour.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug asks, "oh, so we're not female?"
		maga says, "yeah, I was surprised by that, too"
		maga says, "up until that point I'd been reading the PC as very intentionall gender-ambiguous"
		maga says, "er, intentionally"
		Zach says, "I kind of thought we had a thing for Celine"
		Doug says, "Rick called us "m'dear', but I guess that's just English and not feminine"
		Doug says, "and yeah, when the game started I assumed we were Celine's boyfriend. probably my own gender bias though"
		Zach says, "Because when we looked at John we thought of seeing them together."
		maga says (to Doug), "well, campy English, but that's right for the milieu"
		Zach says, "And I thought the PC might have been jealous"
		Zach says, "I think there was a mention of Celine when we entered John's room"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x cards" 		

Floyd ]  Celine's Room                                        190
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CARDS
Floyd |
Floyd | You open a couple of the cards at random.  Your own handwriting greets
Floyd | you.  All the cheerful, loving, desperate, tender, thoughtful, silly,
Floyd | downright banal words you sent, as if they could make a difference.  A
Floyd | card for every day that passed.  But not enough.  How could they be?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "my guess was that John was Celine's ex"
		Jacqueline says, "I thought we were female and had a thing for her, and that possibly she was once with John,."
		Jacqueline says, "Timing."
		maga says, "it's boho studentland: everybody is bisexual and screwing everybody else"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x plant" 		

Floyd ]  Celine's Room                                        191
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PLANT
Floyd |
Floyd | This is Sylvia (after Sylvia Plath who also, we know, went mad), an
Floyd | Anthurium with dark red flowers, all Georgia o'Keefe.  It was a gift
Floyd | you nearly weren't permitted to give because of the toxic leaves.  "No
Floyd | committing suicide by eating Sylvia," you said, pretending to
Floyd | admonish.  And how Celine had laughed.  "I promise not to kill myself
Floyd | by eating an anthurium," she said with mock solemnitude, knowing at
Floyd | least ten better ways to do it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x cardigan" 		

Floyd ]  Celine's Room                                        192
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CARDIGAN
Floyd |
Floyd | An ankle-length black wool cardigan, thick and soft, the sort of
Floyd | garment you could curl up inside and feel comforted.  You think it was
Floyd | a present from John.  The smell of the Warneford and cigarette smoke
Floyd | clings to it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x radio" 		

Floyd ]  Celine's Room                                        193
Floyd |
Floyd | > X RADIO
Floyd |
Floyd | You thought it might help her pass the difficult, interminable hours.
Floyd | It didn't.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "open wardrobe" 		

Floyd ]  Celine's Room                                        193
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN WARDROBE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "hey, I have that game (Once Upon a Time)"
		Jacqueline says, "I also have this odd sensation that, while the author lives in the UK, they may not be from the UK."
Zach says (to Floyd), "take cardigan" 		

Floyd ]  Celine's Room                                        194
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE CARDIGAN
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't want the cardigan.  When her parents came to take everything
Floyd | that was left of her, you told yourself that people were not their
Floyd | things.  You have to keep believing that because otherwise you'll have
Floyd | nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Celine's Room                                        195
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a lyre
Floyd |   your coat
Floyd |   some pills
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get plant" 		

Floyd ]  Celine's Room                                        196
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET PLANT
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Celine's Room                                        197
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine's Room
Floyd | A small, perfectly square, yellow-painted room, probably identical to
Floyd | all the others on this corridor.  The carpet is a greyish-blue, only
Floyd | slightly stained.  There is a pine-coloured wardrobe and bedside
Floyd | table, a single bed and a chair.  There are signs of occupation - the
Floyd | black cardigan hanging on the back of the chair, books and a radio on
Floyd | the bedside table - but it's not the kind of room you can personalise.
Floyd | It is a transitory space.  Above the bed, the wall is splashed with a
Floyd | grid of cards and postcards, twenty, thirty, forty of them maybe,
Floyd | pinned up there as bright as butterfly wings.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see the Women's Corridor through the door to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x books" 		

Floyd ]  Celine's Room                                        197
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cards" 		

Floyd ]  Celine's Room                                        198
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CARDS
Floyd |
Floyd | You open a couple of the cards at random.  Your own handwriting greets
Floyd | you.  All the cheerful, loving, desperate, tender, thoughtful, silly,
Floyd | downright banal words you sent, as if they could make a difference.  A
Floyd | card for every day that passed.  But not enough.  How could they be?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "eat plant" 		

Floyd ]  Celine's Room                                        199
Floyd |
Floyd | > EAT PLANT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's plainly inedible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "please, please, don't eat the daisies,"
		Zach asks, "I guess we can give the plant to Celine?"
		Doug says, "sure"
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Women's Corridor                                     200
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Women's Corridor
Floyd | The greyness unrolls before you like the tongue of a sick frog.  This
Floyd | sign above your head (this is not an exit) reminds you that it's women
Floyd | only past this point, but who is going to see you at this time of
Floyd | night?
Floyd |
Floyd | Identical doors, all closed but for the one that stands slightly ajar
Floyd | to the west, line the corridor.  Going north will return you to the
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Corridor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              201
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | An inmate, a sallow-complexioned, heavy-set man, pauses in the act of
Floyd | taking a book from the bookshelf.  "Cunt, you fucking cunt," he says,
Floyd | quite distinctly, as he walks away from you, the book stuffed under
Floyd | his arm.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Corridor
Floyd | There are soft felt pinboards on the wall, above a row of chairs.  An
Floyd | over-stacked bookself shoved in the corner and a square table do
Floyd | nothing to break the monotony.  The Warneford Hospital has a
Floyd | distinctive smell.  It is the smell of a place that very consciously
Floyd | has no smell, underscored by a desperate edge of nicotine.
Floyd |
Floyd | This interminably greyish corridor meanders north, west and south.
Floyd | East would take you outside again, through the blue door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             202
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Sun Room
Floyd | This is a primitive conservatory of sorts.  It is by far the most
Floyd | attractive room in the Warneford, which reflects well on neither the
Floyd | Warneford nor the room.  It has wicker chairs and, disconcertingly,
Floyd | there is white-sheeted hospital bed against one of the walls.  The
Floyd | square, unbeautiful windows overlook the grounds and currently admit a
Floyd | spill of moonlight the colour of old milk.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a woman curled up on one of the wicker chairs, looking away
Floyd | from you, out over the shadowed grounds.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Vaughan Thomas corridor lies to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             203
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | All the doors and windows are locked up tight, there's no way out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              204
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | A man shuffles past you down the grey corridor.  He is tall and
Floyd | overweight, and he looks wrong.  It is something in the way the weight
Floyd | is distributed, distending his hair-speckled belly so that it hangs
Floyd | below his T-shirt, swaying slightly as if something is actually inside
Floyd | it.  An alien baby perhaps.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Corridor
Floyd | There are soft felt pinboards on the wall, above a row of chairs.  An
Floyd | over-stacked bookself shoved in the corner and a square table do
Floyd | nothing to break the monotony.  The Warneford Hospital has a
Floyd | distinctive smell.  It is the smell of a place that very consciously
Floyd | has no smell, underscored by a desperate edge of nicotine.
Floyd |
Floyd | This interminably greyish corridor meanders north, west and south.
Floyd | East would take you outside again, through the blue door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             203
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Sun Room
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x woman" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             204
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WOMAN
Floyd |
Floyd | She seems to be at the unforgiving end of the spectrum of middle-age,
Floyd | her face worn and withered by the cold glare of the moon.  Shadows
Floyd | emphasise the gauntness of her cheeks and define in cruel charcoal the
Floyd | lines that radiate from her eyes.  Her coarse, ash blonde hair falls
Floyd | straight to her waist and hangs like dead weight.  Garlands of
Floyd | withered flowers give her the air of an aging hippie.  Under your
Floyd | scrutiny, she turns her head in your direction and smiles and you feel
Floyd | a fleeting trace of warmth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to woman" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             205
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO WOMAN
Floyd |
Floyd | Hesitantly you offer a polite greeting and are relieved when the woman
Floyd | turns away from the window and smiles at you in return.  If she is an
Floyd | inmate she is, at least, not antisocially mad.  "Hello," she says, "I
Floyd | can see that you're a visitor."  Her voice is as deep and rich as
Floyd | freshly turned earth.  You think of honey-drunk bees and heavy, golden
Floyd | days.  "So am I," she says.  "At least, I think I am.  It's sometimes
Floyd | so hard to tell."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             206
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | She turns away from you again towards the windows.  "I wish I could
Floyd | make something flourish here," she says.  "I can sometimes make things
Floyd | grow but it's not the same."  She strokes a hand absently through the
Floyd | brittle strands of her hair. "I miss the colours of things.   It all
Floyd | fades so quickly.  What's your favourite colour," she asks, suddenly,
Floyd | with a glance in your direction.  You tell her and she smiles again.
Floyd | "Of course it is," she says.  "Mine is green."  Same as Celine.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             207
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | She is plucking at her skirt.  As the fabric moves you realise it
Floyd | isn't grey, as you first thought, but a pale green, all but washed
Floyd | out.  "I'm truly sorry about your friend," she says.  And there must
Floyd | be a look on your face that makes her add: "That is why you're here,
Floyd | isn't it?"  Her voice is gentle and her eyes are pale and sad in the
Floyd | moonlight.  "You know you shouldn't have come.  She can't leave with
Floyd | you."  She is silent a moment.  When she continues speaking the
Floyd | reassurance in her voice is as warm as sunlight against your skin.
Floyd | "Of course you'll miss her.  It will never be easy but it will be
Floyd | easier than this.  And one day you'll stop and be surprised at just
Floyd | how easy it is.  Then I'm afraid you'll feel guilty but that, too,
Floyd | will pass.  As it should."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             208
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | The woman smiles reassuringly at you and her regard travels across
Floyd | your skin, leaving a glissando of fading warmth in its wake.  Then she
Floyd | turns away and casts her gaze out of the window again, moonlight
Floyd | etching the lines on her face.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Beautiful."
		Zach says, "Yeah"
Zach says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             209
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Sun Room
Floyd | This is a primitive conservatory of sorts.  It is by far the most
Floyd | attractive room in the Warneford, which reflects well on neither the
Floyd | Warneford nor the room.  It has wicker chairs and, disconcertingly,
Floyd | there is white-sheeted hospital bed against one of the walls.  The
Floyd | square, unbeautiful windows overlook the grounds and currently admit a
Floyd | spill of moonlight the colour of old milk.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a woman curled up on one of the wicker chairs, looking away
Floyd | from you, out over the shadowed grounds.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Vaughan Thomas corridor lies to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              210
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | One of Celine's few friends (one to whom you have lost endless games
Floyd | of Scrabble) passes you with a nod and a greeting.  "I'm very much
Floyd | looking forward to the coping with psychosis workshop tomorrow," he
Floyd | comments, with a look so wry and self-knowing you cannot help but
Floyd | laugh.  He waves and vanishes into his room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Corridor
Floyd | There are soft felt pinboards on the wall, above a row of chairs.  An
Floyd | over-stacked bookself shoved in the corner and a square table do
Floyd | nothing to break the monotony.  The Warneford Hospital has a
Floyd | distinctive smell.  It is the smell of a place that very consciously
Floyd | has no smell, underscored by a desperate edge of nicotine.
Floyd |
Floyd | This interminably greyish corridor meanders north, west and south.
Floyd | East would take you outside again, through the blue door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Hall                                          211
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Hall
Floyd | This is the large, bow-windowed room you could see from outside.  Dull
Floyd | light washes in from the corridor behind you and flickers from beneath
Floyd | the door to the television room.  Square tables are neatly arranged
Floyd | and the far wall boasts a display of artwork.  Upon the air hangs the
Floyd | cloying scent of old, institutional dinners.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Doctor's Office lies to the north, the Vaughan Thomas corridor to
Floyd | the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      212
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Doctor's Office
Floyd | This is a typical Doctor's office.  It has a clinical air, but no more
Floyd | than you would expect.  It is really very neat in here.  The walls are
Floyd | hung with what look to be modern art prints, all in identical frames,
Floyd | imprisoned behind glass.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Doctor is sitting behind the desk, his elbows resting atop it and
Floyd | his chin upon the platform provided by his interlocked fingers.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door to the south leads back to the dining hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to doctor" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      212
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO DOCTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes?" The Doctor's voice is not quite impatient, but the clipped
Floyd | quality of it suggests it very soon will be.  "You know I cannot
Floyd | accede to your ..." He stops abruptly, as if searching for a word, and
Floyd | settles finally on "...request".  I suggest you let me send you home,
Floyd | where you belong."

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "no" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      213
Floyd |
Floyd | > NO
Floyd |
Floyd | At your refusal, the Doctor frowns.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "give plant to doctor" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      214
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE PLANT TO DOCTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Hades doesn't seem interested.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I suppose I'm not allowed to say what ought to be done next."
		Doug says, "the doctor's name is Hades? I missed that"
Doug says (to Floyd), "show pills to doctor" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      215
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW PILLS TO DOCTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Hades is unimpressed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Hades' name wasn't mentioned until that default message used it."
Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to doctor" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      216
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO DOCTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Before you can speak again, the Doctor forestalls you.  "I'm afraid
Floyd | you will not change my mind with tragic looks or eloquent words.  I
Floyd | have seen and heard them all a hundred throusand million times
Floyd | before."  You wonder, briefly, whether you are supposed to challenge
Floyd | him to a game of chess or, possibly riddles.  "I cannot be tricked,"
Floyd | he says, as if in answer.  "Nor changed.  It is not my nature."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to doctor" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      217
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO DOCTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | "Your insistence is as wearisome as it is predictable," comments the
Floyd | Doctor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to doctor" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      218
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO DOCTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | "Your insistence is as wearisome as it is predictable," comments the
Floyd | Doctor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "..DavidW"
		Zach says (to DavidW), "Yeah"
		Doug asks, "so is the deal that Celine doesn't actually show up until we persuade the doctor?"
		Jacqueline says, "I, personally speaking, am fine with the other endings just being revealed. I'm working on transcripts and just enjoying the show as it scrolls by at this point."
		Zach says, "Me too"
		DavidW says (to Doug), "More or less, yes."
		maga says, "but there is more than one way to accomplish this"
Doug says (to Floyd), "kill doctor" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      219
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL DOCTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      220
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Doctor's Office
Floyd | This is a typical Doctor's office.  It has a clinical air, but no more
Floyd | than you would expect.  It is really very neat in here.  The walls are
Floyd | hung with what look to be modern art prints, all in identical frames,
Floyd | imprisoned behind glass.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Doctor is sitting behind the desk, his elbows resting atop it and
Floyd | his chin upon the platform provided by his interlocked fingers.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door to the south leads back to the dining hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x prints" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      221
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PRINTS
Floyd |
Floyd | You look at each of the paintings in turn.  They are placed a precise
Floyd | intervals along the grey wall.  Each print has the name of the piece
Floyd | and the artist printed along the bottom.  First, there is a Rothko,
Floyd | Blue, Green, and Brown.  Then IKB 73.  And finally Composition in Red,
Floyd | Blue, and Yellow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x ikb" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      221
Floyd |
Floyd | > X IKB
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x ikb 73" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      221
Floyd |
Floyd | > X IKB 73
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I was so sure those colours were a code sequence to unlock something else."
		Doug says, "heh"
Doug says (to Floyd), "x desk" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      222
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DESK
Floyd |
Floyd | A desk purchased for utility rather than aesthetics.  Currently it
Floyd | bears the darkened screen of a computer, and several precise stacks of
Floyd | papers, each held down by a identical glass paperweight.  There is
Floyd | also a Newton's Cradle in stainless steel, ironic and incongruous.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x cradle" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      223
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CRADLE
Floyd |
Floyd | The balls sway, eerily silent even when they collide, back and forth,
Floyd | back and forth in perpetual motion.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get it" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      224
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You itch to fiddle with the toy but beneath the cold gaze of the
Floyd | Doctor you dare not touch it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get paperweight" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      224
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET PAPERWEIGHT
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x papers" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      224
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PAPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x computer" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      224
Floyd |
Floyd | > X COMPUTER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm. I forgot to examine the desk. Sloppy of me."
		Doug asks, "perhaps we have to do something somewhere else that will cause the doctor to leave so we can play with the toy?"
		Doug says, "or, just play the lyre for other people"
		DavidW says, "tell him we wrapped his Lexus around a tree."
Doug says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Hall                                          225
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Hall
Floyd | This is the large, bow-windowed room you could see from outside.  Dull
Floyd | light washes in from the corridor behind you and flickers from beneath
Floyd | the door to the television room.  Square tables are neatly arranged
Floyd | and the far wall boasts a display of artwork.  Upon the air hangs the
Floyd | cloying scent of old, institutional dinners.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Doctor's Office lies to the north, the Vaughan Thomas corridor to
Floyd | the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Hall                                          226
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x door" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Hall                                          226
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug asks, "I'm confused, where is the door to the television room?"
Doug says (to Floyd), "x television" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Hall                                          226
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TELEVISION
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x television room" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Hall                                          226
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TELEVISION ROOM
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "It would have to be west, but it's not implemented."
Doug says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              227
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | A young-ish, not entirely unpretty woman, who steals from the other
Floyd | inmates and has no visitors, is staring blankly out of a window at the
Floyd | shadow-sloshed world outside.  She turns, smiles hopefully and shyly
Floyd | at you and then flees.  You try to feel more kindness towards her but
Floyd | she pilfered Celine's favourite perfume.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Corridor
Floyd | There are soft felt pinboards on the wall, above a row of chairs.  An
Floyd | over-stacked bookself shoved in the corner and a square table do
Floyd | nothing to break the monotony.  The Warneford Hospital has a
Floyd | distinctive smell.  It is the smell of a place that very consciously
Floyd | has no smell, underscored by a desperate edge of nicotine.
Floyd |
Floyd | This interminably greyish corridor meanders north, west and south.
Floyd | East would take you outside again, through the blue door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             228
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Sun Room
Floyd | This is a primitive conservatory of sorts.  It is by far the most
Floyd | attractive room in the Warneford, which reflects well on neither the
Floyd | Warneford nor the room.  It has wicker chairs and, disconcertingly,
Floyd | there is white-sheeted hospital bed against one of the walls.  The
Floyd | square, unbeautiful windows overlook the grounds and currently admit a
Floyd | spill of moonlight the colour of old milk.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a woman curled up on one of the wicker chairs, looking away
Floyd | from you, out over the shadowed grounds.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Vaughan Thomas corridor lies to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "There may be a map at the hospital's website."
Doug says (to Floyd), "play lyre" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             229
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLAY LYRE
Floyd |
Floyd | As you lift the lyre, a strange expression crosses the woman's face.
Floyd | "Please don't do that, dear," she says.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "haha"
Doug says (to Floyd), "play lyre" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             230
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLAY LYRE
Floyd |
Floyd | A torrent of cherry blossom petals pours from between your fingers as
Floyd | they move across the strings but as even as they spiral to the floor
Floyd | they begin to wither and then they turn to ice and then they shatter
Floyd | where they fall, and each breaking pricks your skin like a wasp sting.
Floyd | And the lyre weeps and so does the woman, and the air all around you
Floyd | grows cold and heavy and blots out everything until there is only
Floyd | silence and the silver traces of disappearing tears and melting ice.
Floyd | Your hands are empty; the lyre is gone.  And the woman is looking at
Floyd | you as if she doesn't like you much.  "My husband.." she says "He
Floyd | doesn't like ... he won't ... you'd better go.  She's waiting for you
Floyd | in the gardens, just through here. I'll open the door for you." She
Floyd | crosses the room and fiddles with the lock.  "Remember the rules," she
Floyd | says, when she is finished.  "Don't look back."  And before you can
Floyd | say any thing else, she hurries from the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "okay then."
Doug says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             231
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Sun Room
Floyd | This is a primitive conservatory of sorts.  It is by far the most
Floyd | attractive room in the Warneford, which reflects well on neither the
Floyd | Warneford nor the room.  It has wicker chairs and, disconcertingly,
Floyd | there is white-sheeted hospital bed against one of the walls.  The
Floyd | square, unbeautiful windows overlook the grounds and currently admit a
Floyd | spill of moonlight the colour of old milk.
Floyd |
Floyd | Now you notice a set of doors at the back of the room have been flung
Floyd | wide open, drawing you like a beckoning finger, west, towards the
Floyd | shadow-smothered gardens.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Vaughan Thomas corridor lies to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "still not how I did it."
		Zach asks, "Oh, I guess she's what's her name?"
		Zach asks, "Persephone?"
		DavidW says, "yes."
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    232
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Warneford Gardens
Floyd | Somebody tried.  Here there are the elements of a garden.  Grass,
Floyd | although it is mainly mud.  Banks of soil where perhaps flowers might
Floyd | grow.  Squatting shrubs, hunched in upon themselves.  And in
Floyd | silhouette the anorexic shapes of trees, stripped before the oncoming
Floyd | winter.  Moonlight forms puddles here and there.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Sun room waits to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine is sitting on a stone bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug asks, "so is this just going to go to the same ending?"
		DavidW says, "Probably."
Zach says (to Floyd), "give plant to celine" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    233
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE PLANT TO CELINE
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine doesn't seem interested.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug asks, "so hm, do we think the fourth ending involves playing the lyre for Celine?"
		Doug says, "I suppose we can try this and see if it's the same"
Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to celine" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    234
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO CELINE
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine smiles to see you, convincing gladness, desperate eyes.  You
Floyd | exchange the usual greetings, the usual enquiries, and, as ever, she
Floyd | thanks you for coming to see her, as if it is a kind and wonderful
Floyd | thing and not a terrible strain for both of you.  You tell her silly
Floyd | stories of the colour of the October leaves and how much you're
Floyd | looking forward to the blossom trees.  She listens, and laughs, and
Floyd | pretends.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    235
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine is not feeling so good and will only tell you so if you press
Floyd | her.  She has - quite literally - forgotten the way home, along with
Floyd | everything she learned on her art history course last term.  She has
Floyd | forgotten the tombstone cake you made for Jess's birthday.  She has
Floyd | forgotten Rick's parents are dead.  She has forgotten the entirety of
Floyd | Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  It'll come back, you tell her, don't worry,
Floyd | and anyway we can watch it all over again - think how much fun that'll
Floyd | be.  She listens, and laughs, and pretends.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    236
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine tells you her secrets, the ones she hasn't forgotten, the ones
Floyd | you wish she could forget, the ones she has forgotten you already
Floyd | know.  You try to make it okay with your words.  And Celine listens,
Floyd | and laughs, and pretends.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    237
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly you remember.  It's time to go home.  "Will you follow me?"
Floyd | you ask, and Celine nods.  She seems only a little afraid.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             238
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Sun Room
Floyd | This is a primitive conservatory of sorts.  It is by far the most
Floyd | attractive room in the Warneford, which reflects well on neither the
Floyd | Warneford nor the room.  It has wicker chairs and, disconcertingly,
Floyd | there is white-sheeted hospital bed against one of the walls.  The
Floyd | square, unbeautiful windows overlook the grounds and currently admit a
Floyd | spill of moonlight the colour of old milk.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you enter the sunroom from the gardens, your own footsteps sound on
Floyd | the floor but you hear no others.  Perhaps Celine has not followed as
Floyd | promised she would.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Vaughan Thomas corridor lies to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              239
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Corridor
Floyd | There are soft felt pinboards on the wall, above a row of chairs.  An
Floyd | over-stacked bookself shoved in the corner and a square table do
Floyd | nothing to break the monotony.  The Warneford Hospital has a
Floyd | distinctive smell.  It is the smell of a place that very consciously
Floyd | has no smell, underscored by a desperate edge of nicotine.
Floyd |
Floyd | You strain to hear even the slightest hint of movement but there is
Floyd | nothing, nothing at all.  Perhaps you have been tricked.  Yes, that
Floyd | seems very likely.
Floyd |
Floyd | This interminably greyish corridor meanders north, west and south.
Floyd | East would take you outside again, through the blue door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              240
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You look around for the nurse but then notice that the door seems to
Floyd | be standing very slightly ajar.  You seize the opportunity and slip
Floyd | through
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Exterior
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Ward is another grey building.  It has a bow-window
Floyd | which looks like an ill-at-ease addition to its uniformity.  There is
Floyd | also an awkward, spindly tree guarding a nearby bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | The only thing that follows you now, it seems, is silence.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door that leads west into Vaughan Thomas has been painted blue.
Floyd | There is a doorbell next to it in industrial grey.  The path leading
Floyd | to and from Vaughan Thomas lies to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Path                                  241
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Path
Floyd | The path sidles away down the side of the main building, taking you
Floyd | away from facades.  Here, there are no country house lawns, no
Floyd | sandstone and classical pillars. There are patches of scrubby grass,
Floyd | borders that may perhaps bloom one spring, and scattered buildings
Floyd | that are too perfectly, facelessly functional to have anything of
Floyd | beauty or ugliness to them.  There are jaunty painted signs to
Floyd | Cotswold House and Wintle Ward.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas waits to the west, the Hospital Approach is to the
Floyd | east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford exit                                       242
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Warneford exit
Floyd | Here on the Warneford lawn again you can see a streak of lightness at
Floyd | the eastern edge of the sky.  Behind you, a smear of gold and grey, is
Floyd | the Warneford.  Before you, to the northwest, the wrought iron gates,
Floyd | as tall as thistles to a child, inevitably sealed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford exit                                       243
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford exit                                       244
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't, the gates bar your way, as insurmountable as death itself.
Floyd | All you can do now is turn around.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn around" 		

Floyd ]  And Back Again                                       245
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN AROUND
Floyd |
Floyd | You turn around slowly, as you know you inevitably must.  Celine is
Floyd | standing behind you, smiling.  The rising sun gleams upon her hair and
Floyd | in her eyes, her cheeks flushed with the first light of dawn.  The
Floyd | grass at her feet is a carpet of flowers and as you rush into her
Floyd | opening arms you find yourself clutching at nothing but a flurry of
Floyd | petals the colour of her lipstick.
Floyd |
Floyd | And Back Again
Floyd | Marlborough Road looks exactly as it did when you left it, except it
Floyd | is greyish in the dawn.  It seems you have been wandering all night
Floyd | long.  Your house is dark and quiet behind its curtained windows, as
Floyd | if it has closed its eyes.  The world waits at your back, the front
Floyd | door lies ahead, waiting for you to open it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "open door" 		

Floyd ]  And Back Again                                       245
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | As you reach out to the door handle, a flash of colour catches your
Floyd | eye.  There is a flower petal stuck to your palm.  Shaken free by your
Floyd | movement, it drifts to the ground, gleaming briefly in the gloom. The
Floyd | door swings open and you step inside, into neither emptiness nor cold,
Floyd | and your hand warm as if someone holds it still.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** Finis ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | This is "Flowers", one four possible endings of Eurydice.  To discover
Floyd | another, have you tried playing the lyre more?
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "check."
Doug says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" 		
Doug says (to Floyd), "cf12" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:
Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             210
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug asks, "hm, we want 11?"
		Zach says, "Yeah, if you want to find the non-lyre solution"
		Zach says, "To get to Celine"
Doug says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "cf11" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      185
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      186
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a lyre
Floyd |   your coat
Floyd |   some pills
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Hall                                          187
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Hall
Floyd | This is the large, bow-windowed room you could see from outside.  Dull
Floyd | light washes in from the corridor behind you and flickers from beneath
Floyd | the door to the television room.  Square tables are neatly arranged
Floyd | and the far wall boasts a display of artwork.  Upon the air hangs the
Floyd | cloying scent of old, institutional dinners.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Doctor's Office lies to the north, the Vaughan Thomas corridor to
Floyd | the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              188
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | Two nurses are standing by the pay phone, talking animatedly about
Floyd | nothing you can catch.  It is strange to hear giggles and whispering,
Floyd | as if this was some kind of ordinary place.  They fall silent as you
Floyd | approach and then disappear into an office.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Corridor
Floyd | There are soft felt pinboards on the wall, above a row of chairs.  An
Floyd | over-stacked bookself shoved in the corner and a square table do
Floyd | nothing to break the monotony.  The Warneford Hospital has a
Floyd | distinctive smell.  It is the smell of a place that very consciously
Floyd | has no smell, underscored by a desperate edge of nicotine.
Floyd |
Floyd | This interminably greyish corridor meanders north, west and south.
Floyd | East would take you outside again, through the blue door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug asks, "did we try giving the pills to Persephone?"
		DavidW says, "I don't think so"
Zach says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              189
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a lyre
Floyd |   your coat
Floyd |   some pills
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "I guess DavidW didn't use the pills"
Doug says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Women's Corridor                                     190
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | Women's Corridor
Floyd | The greyness unrolls before you like the tongue of a sick frog.  This
Floyd | sign above your head (this is not an exit) reminds you that it's women
Floyd | only past this point, but who is going to see you at this time of
Floyd | night?
Floyd |
Floyd | Identical doors, all closed but for the one that stands slightly ajar
Floyd | to the west, line the corridor.  Going north will return you to the
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Corridor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Women's Corridor                                     191
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Celine's Room                                        192
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine's Room
Floyd | The memories of past visits rise up to gnaw at you like wolves.  You
Floyd | see Celine, sitting on the bed, the colour washed out of her by her
Floyd | surroundings, her knees pulled up to her chin.  Jess is there beside
Floyd | her, back to the wall, feet dangling off the end of the bed.  You'd
Floyd | snuck in and you're kneeling on the floor, elbows folded on the
Floyd | coverlet.  You're probably pretty damn uncomfortable.  Spread out
Floyd | between you are brightly coloured cards. You're playing Once Upon A
Floyd | Time, a game for telling fairytales.  "Are you sure I used to like
Floyd | this?" Celine is asking.  "Yes," you say, "it's one of your
Floyd | favourites."  "You used to win all the time," Jess adds.  Celine
Floyd | laughs, uncertain.  "That doesn't seem very likely," she says.  "It'll
Floyd | come back," you say, half-reassuring, half-pleading.  Except it, of
Floyd | course, doesn't.  None of it does.
Floyd |
Floyd | A small, perfectly square, yellow-painted room, probably identical to
Floyd | all the others on this corridor.  The carpet is a greyish-blue, only
Floyd | slightly stained.  There is a pine-coloured wardrobe and bedside
Floyd | table, a single bed and a chair.  There are signs of occupation - the
Floyd | black cardigan hanging on the back of the chair, books and a radio on
Floyd | the bedside table - but it's not the kind of room you can personalise.
Floyd | It is a transitory space.  Above the bed, the wall is splashed with a
Floyd | grid of cards and postcards, twenty or thirty of them maybe, pinned up

		Zach says, "Let's get the plant again"

Floyd | there as bright as butterfly wings.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see the Women's Corridor through the door to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the narrow strip of a windowsill is a houseplant, another daub of
Floyd | colour.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get plant" 		

Floyd ]  Celine's Room                                        193
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET PLANT
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "no, I never got into John's room, so I never used the pills."
Doug says (to Floyd), "get radio" 		

Floyd ]  Celine's Room                                        194
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET RADIO
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't really see reason to cart that around with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x books" 		

Floyd ]  Celine's Room                                        194
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Celine's Room                                        195
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Women's Corridor                                     196
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Women's Corridor
Floyd | The greyness unrolls before you like the tongue of a sick frog.  This
Floyd | sign above your head (this is not an exit) reminds you that it's women
Floyd | only past this point, but who is going to see you at this time of
Floyd | night?
Floyd |
Floyd | Identical doors, all closed but for the one that stands slightly ajar
Floyd | to the west, line the corridor.  Going north will return you to the
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Corridor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              197
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | An inmate, a sallow-complexioned, heavy-set man, pauses in the act of
Floyd | taking a book from the bookshelf.  "Cunt, you fucking cunt," he says,
Floyd | quite distinctly, as he walks away from you, the book stuffed under
Floyd | his arm.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Corridor
Floyd | There are soft felt pinboards on the wall, above a row of chairs.  An
Floyd | over-stacked bookself shoved in the corner and a square table do
Floyd | nothing to break the monotony.  The Warneford Hospital has a
Floyd | distinctive smell.  It is the smell of a place that very consciously
Floyd | has no smell, underscored by a desperate edge of nicotine.
Floyd |
Floyd | This interminably greyish corridor meanders north, west and south.
Floyd | East would take you outside again, through the blue door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             198
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Sun Room
Floyd | This is a primitive conservatory of sorts.  It is by far the most
Floyd | attractive room in the Warneford, which reflects well on neither the
Floyd | Warneford nor the room.  It has wicker chairs and, disconcertingly,
Floyd | there is white-sheeted hospital bed against one of the walls.  The
Floyd | square, unbeautiful windows overlook the grounds and currently admit a
Floyd | spill of moonlight the colour of old milk.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a woman curled up on one of the wicker chairs, looking away
Floyd | from you, out over the shadowed grounds.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Vaughan Thomas corridor lies to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to woman" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             199
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO WOMAN
Floyd |
Floyd | Hesitantly you offer a polite greeting and are relieved when the woman
Floyd | turns away from the window and smiles at you in return.  If she is an
Floyd | inmate she is, at least, not antisocially mad.  "Hello," she says, "I
Floyd | can see that you're a visitor."  Her voice is as deep and rich as
Floyd | freshly turned earth.  You think of honey-drunk bees and heavy, golden
Floyd | days.  "So am I," she says.  "At least, I think I am.  It's sometimes
Floyd | so hard to tell."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "give pills to woman" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             200
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE PILLS TO WOMAN
Floyd |
Floyd | Persephone doesn't seem interested.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "ha"
Doug says (to Floyd), "give plant to woman" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             200
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE PLANT TO WOMAN
Floyd |
Floyd | The woman seems to light up as you offer her Celine's plant. For a
Floyd | brief moment, a cloud engulfs the moon and you think she might be, or
Floyd | once have been, quite beautiful. But then the moon bursts free and
Floyd | she's just an bare-foot oldish woman draped in dead flowers, clutching
Floyd | a pot plant like it's a priceless thing.  "She's lovely," she says,
Floyd | running a reverent finger over one of the leaves.  "I'll love her, I
Floyd | promise."  There is a brief, awkward pause.  "Oh."  The woman fixes
Floyd | you with her moon-blanched eyes.  "You want something in return, don't
Floyd | you?  Of course you do.  You want something foolish and impossible.
Floyd | You expect me to speak to my husband, don't you?

		DavidW says, "yes"
		Doug says, "huh."
		Doug asks, "did she express interest in plants before?"
		DavidW says, "yes"
		Doug says, "sorry, missed it"
		DavidW | "I wish I could make something flourish here," she says. "I can sometimes make things grow but it's not the same."
		Doug says, "ohh right. I almost made a joke about Flourish there too."
Doug says (to Floyd), "no" 		

Floyd ]  Home Again                                           201
Floyd |
Floyd | > NO
Floyd |
Floyd | The woman smiles, but it is tinged with melancholy.  "It's sweet that
Floyd | you're willing to give me something for nothing but that's not the way
Floyd | it works.  Don't worry, I know a way to make it fair.  I'm going to do
Floyd | the best thing anyone could possibly do for you right now.  You're not
Floyd | going to agree with me but you will, in time.  Before you can protest,
Floyd | the woman rises - she is surprisingly tall and graceful - and takes
Floyd | Sylvia from your hands.  "Thank you," she says.  "I don't expect you
Floyd | to thank me for what I'm about to give you but it's going to be all
Floyd | right, my dear, I promise."  She leans in and kisses your lips.  A
Floyd | fleeting taste of honey and then she, and the Warneford, and
Floyd | everything else, fade away.
Floyd |
Floyd | Home Again
Floyd | You are standing on the pavement outside your house.  The street looks
Floyd | exactly as it always looks, except evening has crept fully across the
Floyd | sky during your wanderings and the nascent night is definitely cold.
Floyd | You are conscious, for a second or two, of a vague nagging feeling, as
Floyd | if you have left something behind, but it passes swiftly.  Hinksey
Floyd | Park still lies, like a shadow, to the northwest and the rest of the
Floyd | world awaits in every other direction.  The door to your house stands
Floyd | before you, waiting for you to open it.

		Zach says, "And Persephone is the goddess of spring"

Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "open door" 		

Floyd ]  Home Again                                           201
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | The brass handle is as cold as the night air beneath your hand but,
Floyd | for once, the door does not stick. It swings open before you in
Floyd | invitation, spilling a treasury's worth of light over the front path.
Floyd | Warm air rushes out to greet you and, from within, you hear the
Floyd | strains of speech and laughter rising like a phoenix
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** Finis ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | This is "Friendship", one of four possible endings for Eurydice.  To
Floyd | discover another, have you tried looking for Celine in the hospital?
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "just checking."
Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Home Again                                           201
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Home Again
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             200
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Sun Room
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "give plant to persephone" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             200
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE PLANT TO PERSEPHONE
Floyd |
Floyd | The woman seems to light up as you offer her Celine's plant. For a
Floyd | brief moment, a cloud engulfs the moon and you think she might be, or
Floyd | once have been, quite beautiful. But then the moon bursts free and
Floyd | she's just an bare-foot oldish woman draped in dead flowers, clutching
Floyd | a pot plant like it's a priceless thing.  "She's lovely," she says,
Floyd | running a reverent finger over one of the leaves.  "I'll love her, I
Floyd | promise."  There is a brief, awkward pause.  "Oh."  The woman fixes
Floyd | you with her moon-blanched eyes.  "You want something in return, don't
Floyd | you?  Of course you do.  You want something foolish and impossible.
Floyd | You expect me to speak to my husband, don't you?

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      201
Floyd |
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd | The woman holds out her hand to you and, after a moment's hesitation
Floyd | you take it.  It is a strong, weathered, rather unladylike hand.  With
Floyd | Celine's plant still cradled in her other arm she leads you on her
Floyd | soundless feet through the grey corridors of the Warneford until you
Floyd | come to the Doctor's office.
Floyd |
Floyd | Doctor's Office
Floyd | As soon as you enter his office, the Doctor's attention flies to the
Floyd | woman with you.  "Is there something I can do for you?" he asks.
Floyd |
Floyd | The woman meets his ardent gaze with disinterest.  "There's something
Floyd | you can do for my friend here," she says.  "And don't give me the
Floyd | usual rubbish about the rules, I know just how flexible your rules can
Floyd | be."
Floyd |
Floyd | "That was an isolated incident," he replies, flushing. He seems to
Floyd | have forgotten you're standing there, because he blurts out his next
Floyd | words with a terrible, naked earnestness: "I know I have wronged you
Floyd | but I cannot ... that is ... I need ... " His hand moves compulsively
Floyd | to his heart as if he means to pluck it out and offer it to her, but
Floyd | she glares him back to silence.  Finally, he says, with something of
Floyd | his customary coldness: "I would do anything to assure your comfort
Floyd | while you're here with me."
Floyd |
Floyd | She thrusts the plant into his face.  "Then I want this," she says.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I offer you my kingdom and all you want is a weed?"
Floyd |
Floyd |  She shrugs.  "You'll never understand."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Very well," says the Doctor, finally.  "Since you ask it of me."  He
Floyd | turns on you, contempt scored across his face. "You'll find Celine in
Floyd | the gardens beyond the Sun Room.  Take her with you, as you wish, but
Floyd | don't look back or she's mine forever."  And that seems to be the
Floyd | mattered settled.
Floyd |
Floyd | The woman, still cradling the houseplant drifts out.  She does not
Floyd | look at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      202
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Hall                                          203
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Hall
Floyd | This is the large, bow-windowed room you could see from outside.  Dull
Floyd | light washes in from the corridor behind you and flickers from beneath
Floyd | the door to the television room.  Square tables are neatly arranged
Floyd | and the far wall boasts a display of artwork.  Upon the air hangs the
Floyd | cloying scent of old, institutional dinners.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Doctor's Office lies to the north, the Vaughan Thomas corridor to
Floyd | the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              204
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | A young-ish, not entirely unpretty woman, who steals from the other
Floyd | inmates and has no visitors, is staring blankly out of a window at the
Floyd | shadow-sloshed world outside.  She turns, smiles hopefully and shyly
Floyd | at you and then flees.  You try to feel more kindness towards her but
Floyd | she pilfered Celine's favourite perfume.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Corridor
Floyd | There are soft felt pinboards on the wall, above a row of chairs.  An
Floyd | over-stacked bookself shoved in the corner and a square table do
Floyd | nothing to break the monotony.  The Warneford Hospital has a
Floyd | distinctive smell.  It is the smell of a place that very consciously
Floyd | has no smell, underscored by a desperate edge of nicotine.
Floyd |
Floyd | This interminably greyish corridor meanders north, west and south.
Floyd | East would take you outside again, through the blue door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             205
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Sun Room
Floyd | This is a primitive conservatory of sorts.  It is by far the most
Floyd | attractive room in the Warneford, which reflects well on neither the
Floyd | Warneford nor the room.  It has wicker chairs and, disconcertingly,
Floyd | there is white-sheeted hospital bed against one of the walls.  The
Floyd | square, unbeautiful windows overlook the grounds and currently admit a
Floyd | spill of moonlight the colour of old milk.
Floyd |
Floyd | Now you notice a set of doors at the back of the room have been flung
Floyd | wide open, drawing you like a beckoning finger, west, towards the
Floyd | shadow-smothered gardens.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Vaughan Thomas corridor lies to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    206
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Warneford Gardens
Floyd | Somebody tried.  Here there are the elements of a garden.  Grass,
Floyd | although it is mainly mud.  Banks of soil where perhaps flowers might
Floyd | grow.  Squatting shrubs, hunched in upon themselves.  And in
Floyd | silhouette the anorexic shapes of trees, stripped before the oncoming
Floyd | winter.  Moonlight forms puddles here and there.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Sun room waits to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine is sitting on a stone bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to celine" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    207
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO CELINE
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine smiles to see you, convincing gladness, desperate eyes.  You
Floyd | exchange the usual greetings, the usual enquiries, and, as ever, she
Floyd | thanks you for coming to see her, as if it is a kind and wonderful
Floyd | thing and not a terrible strain for both of you.  You tell her silly
Floyd | stories of the colour of the October leaves and how much you're
Floyd | looking forward to the blossom trees.  She listens, and laughs, and
Floyd | pretends.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "play lyre" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    208
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLAY LYRE
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "uhh"
Doug says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    209
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a lyre
Floyd |   your coat
Floyd |   some pills
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to celine" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    210
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO CELINE
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine is not feeling so good and will only tell you so if you press
Floyd | her.  She has - quite literally - forgotten the way home, along with
Floyd | everything she learned on her art history course last term.  She has
Floyd | forgotten the tombstone cake you made for Jess's birthday.  She has
Floyd | forgotten Rick's parents are dead.  She has forgotten the entirety of
Floyd | Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  It'll come back, you tell her, don't worry,
Floyd | and anyway we can watch it all over again - think how much fun that'll
Floyd | be.  She listens, and laughs, and pretends.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "and again"
		Doug says, "seemed like a bug though"
Doug says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    211
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine tells you her secrets, the ones she hasn't forgotten, the ones
Floyd | you wish she could forget, the ones she has forgotten you already
Floyd | know.  You try to make it okay with your words.  And Celine listens,
Floyd | and laughs, and pretends.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    212
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly you remember.  It's time to go home.  "Will you follow me?"
Floyd | you ask, and Celine nods.  She seems only a little afraid.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "play lyre" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    213
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLAY LYRE
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "hm."
		DavidW says, "hm, yeah, that does seem like a bug."
Zach says (to Floyd), "play lyre" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    214
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLAY LYRE
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "but anyway, I'm hoping the lyre works at the gates."
		Doug says, "oh"
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             215
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |

		DavidW says, "I never got the lyre to the gates."

Floyd | Sun Room
Floyd | This is a primitive conservatory of sorts.  It is by far the most
Floyd | attractive room in the Warneford, which reflects well on neither the
Floyd | Warneford nor the room.  It has wicker chairs and, disconcertingly,
Floyd | there is white-sheeted hospital bed against one of the walls.  The
Floyd | square, unbeautiful windows overlook the grounds and currently admit a
Floyd | spill of moonlight the colour of old milk.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you enter the sunroom from the gardens, your own footsteps sound on
Floyd | the floor but you hear no others.  Perhaps Celine has not followed as
Floyd | promised she would.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Vaughan Thomas corridor lies to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              216
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Corridor
Floyd | There are soft felt pinboards on the wall, above a row of chairs.  An
Floyd | over-stacked bookself shoved in the corner and a square table do
Floyd | nothing to break the monotony.  The Warneford Hospital has a
Floyd | distinctive smell.  It is the smell of a place that very consciously
Floyd | has no smell, underscored by a desperate edge of nicotine.
Floyd |
Floyd | You strain to hear even the slightest hint of movement but there is
Floyd | nothing, nothing at all.  Perhaps you have been tricked.  Yes, that
Floyd | seems very likely.
Floyd |
Floyd | This interminably greyish corridor meanders north, west and south.
Floyd | East would take you outside again, through the blue door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              217
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You look around for the nurse but then notice that the door seems to
Floyd | be standing very slightly ajar.  You seize the opportunity and slip
Floyd | through
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Exterior
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Ward is another grey building.  It has a bow-window
Floyd | which looks like an ill-at-ease addition to its uniformity.  There is
Floyd | also an awkward, spindly tree guarding a nearby bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | The only thing that follows you now, it seems, is silence.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door that leads west into Vaughan Thomas has been painted blue.
Floyd | There is a doorbell next to it in industrial grey.  The path leading
Floyd | to and from Vaughan Thomas lies to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Path                                  218
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Path
Floyd | The path sidles away down the side of the main building, taking you
Floyd | away from facades.  Here, there are no country house lawns, no
Floyd | sandstone and classical pillars. There are patches of scrubby grass,
Floyd | borders that may perhaps bloom one spring, and scattered buildings
Floyd | that are too perfectly, facelessly functional to have anything of
Floyd | beauty or ugliness to them.  There are jaunty painted signs to
Floyd | Cotswold House and Wintle Ward.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas waits to the west, the Hospital Approach is to the
Floyd | east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford exit                                       219
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Warneford exit
Floyd | Here on the Warneford lawn again you can see a streak of lightness at
Floyd | the eastern edge of the sky.  Behind you, a smear of gold and grey, is
Floyd | the Warneford.  Before you, to the northwest, the wrought iron gates,
Floyd | as tall as thistles to a child, inevitably sealed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford exit                                       220
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't, the gates bar your way, as insurmountable as death itself.
Floyd | All you can do now is turn around.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "play lyre" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford exit                                       221
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLAY LYRE
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "hmph."
		DavidW says, "I never played the lyre for the ferryman or the nurse."
		DavidW says, "hmph. Lyre isn't for the gates then."
Doug says (to Floyd), "eat pills" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford exit                                       222
Floyd |
Floyd | > EAT PILLS
Floyd |
Floyd | While imitation may be thought to be the sincerest form of flattery,
Floyd | you should probably not start randomly taking someone else's
Floyd | medication.  It didn't do much good for Celine, after all.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x gate" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford exit                                       222
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GATE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x gates" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford exit                                       223
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GATES
Floyd |
Floyd | They look exactly the same as they did before, but they're sealed
Floyd | shut, barred and implaccable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Wonder if there's another, less obvious route out?"
		Zach says, "I wonder what the pills are for? If anything."
		Doug says, "sorry, should have saved"
		DavidW asks, "I dunno. The dog?"
		Zach says, "Oh right."
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn around" 		

Floyd ]  And Back Again                                       224
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN AROUND
Floyd |
Floyd | You turn around slowly, as you know you inevitably must.  Celine is
Floyd | standing behind you, smiling.  The rising sun gleams upon her hair and
Floyd | in her eyes, her cheeks flushed with the first light of dawn.  The
Floyd | grass at her feet is a carpet of flowers and as you rush into her
Floyd | opening arms you find yourself clutching at nothing but a flurry of
Floyd | petals the colour of her lipstick.
Floyd |
Floyd | And Back Again
Floyd | Marlborough Road looks exactly as it did when you left it, except it
Floyd | is greyish in the dawn.  It seems you have been wandering all night
Floyd | long.  Your house is dark and quiet behind its curtained windows, as
Floyd | if it has closed its eyes.  The world waits at your back, the front
Floyd | door lies ahead, waiting for you to open it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug asks, "so, should we go to an earlier save maybe?"
		DavidW asks, "Or play the lyre at the doctor *after* Persephone has interceded for us?"
		DavidW asks, "maybe even talk to him after the intercession?"
		Doug asks, "Did we have any time then?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "open door" 		

Floyd ]  And Back Again                                       224
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | As you reach out to the door handle, a flash of colour catches your
Floyd | eye.  There is a flower petal stuck to your palm.  Shaken free by your
Floyd | movement, it drifts to the ground, gleaming briefly in the gloom. The
Floyd | door swings open and you step inside, into neither emptiness nor cold,
Floyd | and your hand warm as if someone holds it still.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** Finis ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | This is "Flowers", one four possible endings of Eurydice.  To discover
Floyd | another, have you tried playing the lyre more?
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  And Back Again                                       224
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | And Back Again
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  And Back Again                                       225
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd | The thought of going somewhere else reminds you that you are tired,
Floyd | very very tired.  Too tired to run any more from the empty spaces in
Floyd | your house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "oh yeah, they're still in the room after they tell us where Celnie is"
		DavidW says, "he is; she leaves"
Doug says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "cf11" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      185
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Hall                                          186
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Hall
Floyd | This is the large, bow-windowed room you could see from outside.  Dull
Floyd | light washes in from the corridor behind you and flickers from beneath
Floyd | the door to the television room.  Square tables are neatly arranged
Floyd | and the far wall boasts a display of artwork.  Upon the air hangs the
Floyd | cloying scent of old, institutional dinners.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Doctor's Office lies to the north, the Vaughan Thomas corridor to
Floyd | the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              187
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You  hear footsteps behind you, slapping like wet fish against the
Floyd | grey hospital floor.  You freeze and half-turn but then they recede.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Corridor
Floyd | There are soft felt pinboards on the wall, above a row of chairs.  An
Floyd | over-stacked bookself shoved in the corner and a square table do
Floyd | nothing to break the monotony.  The Warneford Hospital has a
Floyd | distinctive smell.  It is the smell of a place that very consciously
Floyd | has no smell, underscored by a desperate edge of nicotine.
Floyd |
Floyd | This interminably greyish corridor meanders north, west and south.
Floyd | East would take you outside again, through the blue door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Women's Corridor                                     188
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | Women's Corridor
Floyd | The greyness unrolls before you like the tongue of a sick frog.  This
Floyd | sign above your head (this is not an exit) reminds you that it's women
Floyd | only past this point, but who is going to see you at this time of
Floyd | night?
Floyd |
Floyd | Identical doors, all closed but for the one that stands slightly ajar
Floyd | to the west, line the corridor.  Going north will return you to the
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Corridor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Celine's Room                                        189
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine's Room
Floyd | The memories of past visits rise up to gnaw at you like wolves.  You
Floyd | see Celine, sitting on the bed, the colour washed out of her by her
Floyd | surroundings, her knees pulled up to her chin.  Jess is there beside
Floyd | her, back to the wall, feet dangling off the end of the bed.  You'd
Floyd | snuck in and you're kneeling on the floor, elbows folded on the
Floyd | coverlet.  You're probably pretty damn uncomfortable.  Spread out
Floyd | between you are brightly coloured cards. You're playing Once Upon A
Floyd | Time, a game for telling fairytales.  "Are you sure I used to like
Floyd | this?" Celine is asking.  "Yes," you say, "it's one of your
Floyd | favourites."  "You used to win all the time," Jess adds.  Celine
Floyd | laughs, uncertain.  "That doesn't seem very likely," she says.  "It'll
Floyd | come back," you say, half-reassuring, half-pleading.  Except it, of
Floyd | course, doesn't.  None of it does.
Floyd |
Floyd | A small, perfectly square, yellow-painted room, probably identical to
Floyd | all the others on this corridor.  The carpet is a greyish-blue, only
Floyd | slightly stained.  There is a pine-coloured wardrobe and bedside
Floyd | table, a single bed and a chair.  There are signs of occupation - the
Floyd | black cardigan hanging on the back of the chair, books and a radio on
Floyd | the bedside table - but it's not the kind of room you can personalise.
Floyd | It is a transitory space.  Above the bed, the wall is splashed with a
Floyd | grid of cards and postcards, twenty or thirty of them maybe, pinned up
Floyd | there as bright as butterfly wings.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see the Women's Corridor through the door to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the narrow strip of a windowsill is a houseplant, another daub of
Floyd | colour.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get plant" 		

Floyd ]  Celine's Room                                        190
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET PLANT
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Women's Corridor                                     191
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Women's Corridor
Floyd | The greyness unrolls before you like the tongue of a sick frog.  This
Floyd | sign above your head (this is not an exit) reminds you that it's women
Floyd | only past this point, but who is going to see you at this time of
Floyd | night?
Floyd |
Floyd | Identical doors, all closed but for the one that stands slightly ajar
Floyd | to the west, line the corridor.  Going north will return you to the
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Corridor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              192
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | Two nurses are standing by the pay phone, talking animatedly about
Floyd | nothing you can catch.  It is strange to hear giggles and whispering,
Floyd | as if this was some kind of ordinary place.  They fall silent as you
Floyd | approach and then disappear into an office.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Corridor
Floyd | There are soft felt pinboards on the wall, above a row of chairs.  An
Floyd | over-stacked bookself shoved in the corner and a square table do
Floyd | nothing to break the monotony.  The Warneford Hospital has a
Floyd | distinctive smell.  It is the smell of a place that very consciously
Floyd | has no smell, underscored by a desperate edge of nicotine.
Floyd |
Floyd | This interminably greyish corridor meanders north, west and south.
Floyd | East would take you outside again, through the blue door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             193
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Sun Room
Floyd | This is a primitive conservatory of sorts.  It is by far the most
Floyd | attractive room in the Warneford, which reflects well on neither the
Floyd | Warneford nor the room.  It has wicker chairs and, disconcertingly,
Floyd | there is white-sheeted hospital bed against one of the walls.  The
Floyd | square, unbeautiful windows overlook the grounds and currently admit a
Floyd | spill of moonlight the colour of old milk.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a woman curled up on one of the wicker chairs, looking away
Floyd | from you, out over the shadowed grounds.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Vaughan Thomas corridor lies to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "save" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "cf13" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             193
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "give plant to woman" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             193
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE PLANT TO WOMAN
Floyd |
Floyd | The woman seems to light up as you offer her Celine's plant. For a
Floyd | brief moment, a cloud engulfs the moon and you think she might be, or
Floyd | once have been, quite beautiful. But then the moon bursts free and
Floyd | she's just an bare-foot oldish woman draped in dead flowers, clutching
Floyd | a pot plant like it's a priceless thing.  "She's lovely," she says,
Floyd | running a reverent finger over one of the leaves.  "I'll love her, I
Floyd | promise."  There is a brief, awkward pause.  "Oh."  The woman fixes
Floyd | you with her moon-blanched eyes.  "You want something in return, don't
Floyd | you?  Of course you do.  You want something foolish and impossible.
Floyd | You expect me to speak to my husband, don't you?

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      194
Floyd |
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd | The woman holds out her hand to you and, after a moment's hesitation
Floyd | you take it.  It is a strong, weathered, rather unladylike hand.  With
Floyd | Celine's plant still cradled in her other arm she leads you on her
Floyd | soundless feet through the grey corridors of the Warneford until you
Floyd | come to the Doctor's office.
Floyd |
Floyd | Doctor's Office
Floyd | As soon as you enter his office, the Doctor's attention flies to the
Floyd | woman with you.  "Is there something I can do for you?" he asks.
Floyd |
Floyd | The woman meets his ardent gaze with disinterest.  "There's something
Floyd | you can do for my friend here," she says.  "And don't give me the
Floyd | usual rubbish about the rules, I know just how flexible your rules can
Floyd | be."
Floyd |
Floyd | "That was an isolated incident," he replies, flushing. He seems to
Floyd | have forgotten you're standing there, because he blurts out his next
Floyd | words with a terrible, naked earnestness: "I know I have wronged you
Floyd | but I cannot ... that is ... I need ... " His hand moves compulsively
Floyd | to his heart as if he means to pluck it out and offer it to her, but
Floyd | she glares him back to silence.  Finally, he says, with something of
Floyd | his customary coldness: "I would do anything to assure your comfort
Floyd | while you're here with me."
Floyd |
Floyd | She thrusts the plant into his face.  "Then I want this," she says.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I offer you my kingdom and all you want is a weed?"
Floyd |
Floyd |  She shrugs.  "You'll never understand."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Very well," says the Doctor, finally.  "Since you ask it of me."  He
Floyd | turns on you, contempt scored across his face. "You'll find Celine in
Floyd | the gardens beyond the Sun Room.  Take her with you, as you wish, but
Floyd | don't look back or she's mine forever."  And that seems to be the
Floyd | mattered settled.
Floyd |
Floyd | The woman, still cradling the houseplant drifts out.  She does not
Floyd | look at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "play lyre" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      195
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLAY LYRE
Floyd |
Floyd | The strings are silent, absolutely silent, beneath your fingers.  The
Floyd | Doctor, who has dropped his head into his hands, looks up briefly to
Floyd | smile at  you without warmth or mirth.  "Your damage is already done,"
Floyd | he says.  "A small mercy for which, I can, at least be thankful."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "well, that's something, but probably didn't change the ending."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to doctor" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      196
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO DOCTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | The Doctor is ice pale.  "It is not enough that you use my w-wife, my
Floyd | only weakness against me, you also expect me to converse with you?
Floyd | Begone, lest I set my dogs on you."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "take cradle" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      197
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE CRADLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You itch to fiddle with the toy but beneath the cold gaze of the
Floyd | Doctor you dare not touch it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh, maybe the fourth ending is Fido Food"
		Doug says, "heh"
		Doug says, "it did say we should try playing the lyre more, though."
		Zach says, "Maybe restart for the 4th ending? If it does require that we play the lyre at everything."
		DavidW asks, "Perhaps Persephone can be found elsewhere?"
		Doug asks (of maga), "did you get all four endings?"
		Jacqueline asks, "Well, can't the lyre be played at the gate?"
		Doug says, "nope"
		DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "Apparently not."
		Jacqueline says, "Oh, I missed that bit."
		Jacqueline says, "Darn."
		Zach says, "Or it got bugged at that point"
		Doug says, "oh right, that was the blank response"
		Jacqueline says, "I was hoping all puzzles could be solved by a(n unsmashed) lyre."
		Jacqueline says, "Oh - yeah. I did see that."
		Jacqueline says, "Darn."
		Jacqueline says, "Where you went 'um.'"
		Doug asks, "so maybe if we restart we can get to that state again without tripping the bug?"
		DavidW says, "The lyre does seem to be otherwise a one-use skeleton key."
		Jacqueline says, "Hm, seems unlikely, but not impossible."
		Doug says, "well, we used it on the dog"
		Doug says, "and then Hades & Persephone both break it"
		Jacqueline asks, "Did we ever play it at the pity party?"
		DavidW says, "no"
		DavidW says, "nor against the snake!"
		Doug says, "oh right, playing it for Celine was also the blank response"
		DavidW says, "Bet the snake listens to it."
jenrexrode arrives, full of funk, but no fun. 		Doug says, "ok, just peeked at the hints"
		Doug says, "apparently Flowers is the hardest to get to"
		maga says, "I think it's meant to be, but it's really not"
		Doug says, "yeah, I think I know what we need to do different"
		Doug says, "although these hints seem sort of backwards. hm."
		Zach asks (of Doug), "Did you see what's needed for the other ending?"
		Doug says, "I think so."
		Doug asks, "want me to try it?"
		Zach says, "Yeah, I'm going to have to go soon."
Doug says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "cf10" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                155
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                156
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | river
Floyd | The river is a snake of moving darkness.  There is a railway line
Floyd | running parallel on the other side and open fields after that.  There
Floyd | is some kind of flat-bottomed boat by the bank nearest to you, and a
Floyd | tall man, in a long coat, is standing in the bow of the boat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hinksey Park is behind you to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "give coin to man" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                156
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE COIN TO MAN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                157
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a lyre
Floyd |   your coat
Floyd |   some pills
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "oh right, we did that"
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                158
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "board boat" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                158
Floyd |
Floyd | > BOARD BOAT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "enter boat" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                158
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER BOAT
Floyd |
Floyd | As you step towards the boat the Ferryman intercepts you again.
Floyd | "Coming back is harder than going," he says. "Are you sure?"

		DavidW asks, "Can we play the lyre for the snake?"
Doug says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd ]  Iron Gates                                           159
Floyd |
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd | You step into the boat.  There is a space for a single passenger but
Floyd | it is not  exactly luxurious.  You barely have time to sit down upon
Floyd | the damp wooden boards before the ferryman takes his first stroke,
Floyd | propelling the boat forward at an unlikely speed that causes the
Floyd | moving air to catch at you like icy hands.  You  remember that someone
Floyd | told you once that a punt can travel at 30 miles an hour in
Floyd | favourable conditions ... but this one slips across the moonslick
Floyd | water as effortlessly as if it is glass.  At any rate, you are glad
Floyd | that the man has sufficient  taste to punt from the Oxford end.  You
Floyd | tilt your head back.  You are going so fast that the stars are smeared
Floyd | across the sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | Iron Gates
Floyd | Something has happened.  You have lost track of time, or track of
Floyd | yourself, or something.  You were looking at the sky, feeling stars
Floyd | upon your skin, no, you were in a boat, cold seeping through you, wind
Floyd | tangling in your hair.  But there is no trace of the punt here, or the
Floyd | man, or even a river.  How did you get here?  Where are you?  There is
Floyd | a set of open wrought iron gates before you, as intricate as briars.
Floyd | Beyond them, hazy in the darkness to the southeast, a round lawn,
Floyd | dotted with trees.  It all feels familiar somehow.
Floyd |
Floyd | Guarding the gate is biggest dog you have ever seen, a haunch of
Floyd | bloody meat and a vast water bowl at its feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says (to DavidW), "yep, but that's further back."
		DavidW says, "it is now"
		Doug says (to DavidW), "wanted to try that next"
Doug says (to Floyd), "give pills to dog" 		

Floyd ]  Iron Gates                                           160
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE PILLS TO DOG
Floyd |
Floyd | Cerberus doesn't seem interested.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "put pills in bowl" 		

Floyd ]  Iron Gates                                           161
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT PILLS IN BOWL
Floyd |
Floyd | You stand around, being still and looking boring, until the dog's
Floyd | attention is distracted.  Seizing  your opportunity, you flick some of
Floyd | the diazapam into the water bowl where it quickly dissolves.  Some
Floyd | minutes pass before the dog drinks, but eventually it lowers one of
Floyd | its heads to the bowl and slurps up most of the contents.  You watch
Floyd | it from a safe distance; its movements grow sluggish and its head
Floyd | droops.  Finally it keels onto its side and lies there, like a felled
Floyd | oak tree, not quite asleep but too lethargic to care much about
Floyd | anything much
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "aha"
Doug says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Hospital Approach                          162
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd | You muster up your courage and sidle past the subdued monster, holding
Floyd | your breath lest you rouse it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Warneford Hospital Approach
Floyd | You could be visiting a stately home, or an Oxford college, or a
Floyd | country church, except you're not.  You know there are more modern
Floyd | constructions hidden away behind it, one of which - the severely acute
Floyd | ward - lies like Sleeping Beauty's castle behind thorns of metal and
Floyd | stone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Circling an oval of moderately well-kept grass is a gravel path and,
Floyd | beyond it to the west, a sandstone building gleams palely golden
Floyd | against the shadowed sky. The gates loom to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Path                                  163
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | As you cross the lawn, your footsteps lost among the many you have
Floyd | already taken, you feel a horrible tightness round you heart as if
Floyd | someone had a hand round it and was squeezing. There is a burning at
Floyd | the back your throat, like a lump of tears and bile is stuck there.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Path
Floyd | The path sidles away down the side of the main building, taking you
Floyd | away from facades.  Here, there are no country house lawns, no
Floyd | sandstone and classical pillars. There are patches of scrubby grass,
Floyd | borders that may perhaps bloom one spring, and scattered buildings
Floyd | that are too perfectly, facelessly functional to have anything of
Floyd | beauty or ugliness to them.  There are jaunty painted signs to
Floyd | Cotswold House and Wintle Ward.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas waits to the west, the Hospital Approach is to the
Floyd | east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "any way to keep those gates open?"
		Doug says, "my theory is that cerberus will still be there this time"
Doug says (to Floyd), "save" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "cf14" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Path                                  163
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Hospital Approach                          164
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | As you walk down the path, a human cry breaks upon the silence and
Floyd | dies.
Floyd |
Floyd | Warneford Hospital Approach
Floyd | You could be visiting a stately home, or an Oxford college, or a
Floyd | country church, except you're not.  You know there are more modern
Floyd | constructions hidden away behind it, one of which - the severely acute
Floyd | ward - lies like Sleeping Beauty's castle behind thorns of metal and
Floyd | stone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Circling an oval of moderately well-kept grass is a gravel path and,
Floyd | beyond it to the west, a sandstone building gleams palely golden
Floyd | against the shadowed sky. The gates loom to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Hospital Approach                          165
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd | You'd really rather not face the enormous monster demon dog thingy of
Floyd | doom again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "guess not."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gates" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Hospital Approach                          165
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GATES
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm. They're not even there when open."
		Doug says, "ok, my plan is to go and play the lyre for the doctor again, and then get celine to follow us and see if the gates are open this time"
		DavidW says, "So I guess pushing the bench repeated to bar the gates isn't possible."
		Doug says, "alternately we can try just never using the lyre"
		Doug says, "although the hints imply that not using the lyre is the way to get to flowers."
		Doug says, "I couldn't find an actual walkthrough"
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Path                                  166
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Path
Floyd | The path sidles away down the side of the main building, taking you
Floyd | away from facades.  Here, there are no country house lawns, no
Floyd | sandstone and classical pillars. There are patches of scrubby grass,
Floyd | borders that may perhaps bloom one spring, and scattered buildings
Floyd | that are too perfectly, facelessly functional to have anything of
Floyd | beauty or ugliness to them.  There are jaunty painted signs to
Floyd | Cotswold House and Wintle Ward.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas waits to the west, the Hospital Approach is to the
Floyd | east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              167
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Exterior
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Ward is another grey building.  It has a bow-window
Floyd | which looks like an ill-at-ease addition to its uniformity.  There is
Floyd | also an awkward, spindly tree guarding a nearby bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door that leads west into Vaughan Thomas has been painted blue.
Floyd | There is a doorbell next to it in industrial grey.  The path leading
Floyd | to and from Vaughan Thomas lies to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "push button" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              168
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You depress the button and listen to the silence while you wait.  You
Floyd | do not trust the doorbell.  It demands your faith yet gives you no
Floyd | miracles.  It doesn't even buzz to let you know it's actually
Floyd | functional.  Finally, just when you have given up all hope in the
Floyd | doorbell, there is a crackling from behind the grill and a distorted
Floyd | voice asks what you want.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to grill" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              169
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO GRILL
Floyd |
Floyd | You mumble your name into the grill, and explain you have come to get
Floyd | Celine.  A warped sigh gusts out of the grill with such force you are
Floyd | surprised it doesn't ruffle your hair.  Then crackling dies away and
Floyd | the grill speaks to you no further.  You assume that that means
Floyd | someone is coming to open the door but for all you know they could be
Floyd | activating the lever that drops you into the alligator pit.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are starting to wonder if perhaps they've forgotten you're there,
Floyd | or if answering the doorbell is a mere hobby, when there comes the
Floyd | sound of muted rattling and banging from behind the door as someone on
Floyd | the other side begins the ceremony required to open it.  It is finally
Floyd | eased open, just enough for you to squeeze through, by a Nurse,
Floyd | glowering at the effort required to perform the most basic tenets of
Floyd | her job.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              170
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | As you edge past the Nurse, she put out a log-like arm to momentarily
Floyd | stop you entering.  "You'll need to see the Doctor first," she says,
Floyd | gruffly. "You can't take a patient away without the doctor's
Floyd | permission."  You nod your understanding, although your mind is full
Floyd | of Escape from Alcatraz visions, search lights flashing, sirens
Floyd | screaming and helicopters whirling overhead as you and Celine run,
Floyd | hand in hand, giggling into a different coloured future.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Corridor
Floyd | There are soft felt pinboards on the wall, above a row of chairs.  An
Floyd | over-stacked bookself shoved in the corner and a square table do
Floyd | nothing to break the monotony.  The Warneford Hospital has a
Floyd | distinctive smell.  It is the smell of a place that very consciously
Floyd | has no smell, underscored by a desperate edge of nicotine.
Floyd |
Floyd | This interminably greyish corridor meanders north, west and south.
Floyd | East would take you outside again, through the blue door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Hall                                          171
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Hall
Floyd | This is the large, bow-windowed room you could see from outside.  Dull
Floyd | light washes in from the corridor behind you and flickers from beneath
Floyd | the door to the television room.  Square tables are neatly arranged
Floyd | and the far wall boasts a display of artwork.  Upon the air hangs the
Floyd | cloying scent of old, institutional dinners.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Doctor's Office lies to the north, the Vaughan Thomas corridor to
Floyd | the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      172
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Doctor's Office
Floyd | This is a typical Doctor's office.  It has a clinical air, but no more
Floyd | than you would expect.  It is really very neat in here.  The walls are
Floyd | hung with what look to be modern art prints, all in identical frames,
Floyd | imprisoned behind glass.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Doctor is sitting behind the desk, his elbows resting atop it and
Floyd | his chin upon the platform provided by his interlocked fingers.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door to the south leads back to the dining hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "play lyre" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      173
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLAY LYRE
Floyd |
Floyd | Time seems to unravel around you like the fraying threads of a
Floyd | tapestry as you lift the lyre into your arms.  The Doctor is on his on
Floyd | his feet, his face pale with fury and his eyes ablaze, but it's too
Floyd | late to stop you.  Music fills the air like cherry blossom, sweetly
Floyd | drifting, falling like fleeting kisses upon the senses and fading as
Floyd | swiftly as a summer evening.   For a moment, the Doctor is tranfixed,
Floyd | his face naked in pain and sorrow, and then his cold hands are
Floyd | wrenching the lyre from your grasp.  The notes shatter into rainbows
Floyd | of refracted light and then they're gone.  There is a vicious crack,
Floyd | like a bone breaking, and the Doctor flings the pieces of the lyre to
Floyd | the floor.  In seconds nothing remains of the lyre but a sprinkling of
Floyd | dust the colour of old blood.  "Take her then," he cries, "take her
Floyd | and may damnation have you both.  You'll find Celine in the gardens
Floyd | beyond the Sun Room.  Take her with you, as you wish, but remember:
Floyd | don't turn around, or she's mine forever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Hall                                          174
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Hall
Floyd | This is the large, bow-windowed room you could see from outside.  Dull
Floyd | light washes in from the corridor behind you and flickers from beneath
Floyd | the door to the television room.  Square tables are neatly arranged
Floyd | and the far wall boasts a display of artwork.  Upon the air hangs the
Floyd | cloying scent of old, institutional dinners.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Doctor's Office lies to the north, the Vaughan Thomas corridor to
Floyd | the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              175
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | The silence of the hospital surrounds you like an itchy blanket.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Corridor
Floyd | There are soft felt pinboards on the wall, above a row of chairs.  An
Floyd | over-stacked bookself shoved in the corner and a square table do
Floyd | nothing to break the monotony.  The Warneford Hospital has a
Floyd | distinctive smell.  It is the smell of a place that very consciously
Floyd | has no smell, underscored by a desperate edge of nicotine.
Floyd |
Floyd | This interminably greyish corridor meanders north, west and south.
Floyd | East would take you outside again, through the blue door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             176
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Sun Room
Floyd | This is a primitive conservatory of sorts.  It is by far the most
Floyd | attractive room in the Warneford, which reflects well on neither the
Floyd | Warneford nor the room.  It has wicker chairs and, disconcertingly,
Floyd | there is white-sheeted hospital bed against one of the walls.  The
Floyd | square, unbeautiful windows overlook the grounds and currently admit a
Floyd | spill of moonlight the colour of old milk.
Floyd |
Floyd | Now you notice a set of doors at the back of the room have been flung
Floyd | wide open, drawing you like a beckoning finger, west, towards the
Floyd | shadow-smothered gardens.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Vaughan Thomas corridor lies to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    177
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Warneford Gardens
Floyd | Somebody tried.  Here there are the elements of a garden.  Grass,
Floyd | although it is mainly mud.  Banks of soil where perhaps flowers might
Floyd | grow.  Squatting shrubs, hunched in upon themselves.  And in
Floyd | silhouette the anorexic shapes of trees, stripped before the oncoming
Floyd | winter.  Moonlight forms puddles here and there.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Sun room waits to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine is sitting on a stone bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to celine" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    178
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO CELINE
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine smiles to see you, convincing gladness, desperate eyes.  You
Floyd | exchange the usual greetings, the usual enquiries, and, as ever, she
Floyd | thanks you for coming to see her, as if it is a kind and wonderful
Floyd | thing and not a terrible strain for both of you.  You tell her silly
Floyd | stories of the colour of the October leaves and how much you're
Floyd | looking forward to the blossom trees.  She listens, and laughs, and
Floyd | pretends.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    179
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine is not feeling so good and will only tell you so if you press
Floyd | her.  She has - quite literally - forgotten the way home, along with
Floyd | everything she learned on her art history course last term.  She has
Floyd | forgotten the tombstone cake you made for Jess's birthday.  She has
Floyd | forgotten Rick's parents are dead.  She has forgotten the entirety of
Floyd | Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  It'll come back, you tell her, don't worry,
Floyd | and anyway we can watch it all over again - think how much fun that'll
Floyd | be.  She listens, and laughs, and pretends.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    180
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine tells you her secrets, the ones she hasn't forgotten, the ones
Floyd | you wish she could forget, the ones she has forgotten you already
Floyd | know.  You try to make it okay with your words.  And Celine listens,
Floyd | and laughs, and pretends.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    181
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly you remember.  It's time to go home.  "Will you follow me?"
Floyd | you ask, and Celine nods.  She seems only a little afraid.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             182
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Sun Room
Floyd | This is a primitive conservatory of sorts.  It is by far the most
Floyd | attractive room in the Warneford, which reflects well on neither the
Floyd | Warneford nor the room.  It has wicker chairs and, disconcertingly,
Floyd | there is white-sheeted hospital bed against one of the walls.  The
Floyd | square, unbeautiful windows overlook the grounds and currently admit a
Floyd | spill of moonlight the colour of old milk.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you enter the sunroom from the gardens, your own footsteps sound on
Floyd | the floor but you hear no others.  Perhaps Celine has not followed as
Floyd | promised she would.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Vaughan Thomas corridor lies to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              183
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Corridor
Floyd | There are soft felt pinboards on the wall, above a row of chairs.  An
Floyd | over-stacked bookself shoved in the corner and a square table do
Floyd | nothing to break the monotony.  The Warneford Hospital has a
Floyd | distinctive smell.  It is the smell of a place that very consciously
Floyd | has no smell, underscored by a desperate edge of nicotine.
Floyd |
Floyd | You strain to hear even the slightest hint of movement but there is
Floyd | nothing, nothing at all.  Perhaps you have been tricked.  Yes, that
Floyd | seems very likely.
Floyd |
Floyd | This interminably greyish corridor meanders north, west and south.
Floyd | East would take you outside again, through the blue door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              184
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You look around for the nurse but then notice that the door seems to
Floyd | be standing very slightly ajar.  You seize the opportunity and slip
Floyd | through
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Exterior
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Ward is another grey building.  It has a bow-window
Floyd | which looks like an ill-at-ease addition to its uniformity.  There is
Floyd | also an awkward, spindly tree guarding a nearby bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | The only thing that follows you now, it seems, is silence.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door that leads west into Vaughan Thomas has been painted blue.
Floyd | There is a doorbell next to it in industrial grey.  The path leading
Floyd | to and from Vaughan Thomas lies to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Path                                  185
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Path
Floyd | The path sidles away down the side of the main building, taking you
Floyd | away from facades.  Here, there are no country house lawns, no
Floyd | sandstone and classical pillars. There are patches of scrubby grass,
Floyd | borders that may perhaps bloom one spring, and scattered buildings
Floyd | that are too perfectly, facelessly functional to have anything of
Floyd | beauty or ugliness to them.  There are jaunty painted signs to
Floyd | Cotswold House and Wintle Ward.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas waits to the west, the Hospital Approach is to the
Floyd | east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford exit                                       186
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Warneford exit
Floyd | Here on the Warneford lawn again you can see a streak of lightness at
Floyd | the eastern edge of the sky.  Behind you, a smear of gold and grey, is
Floyd | the Warneford.  Before you, to the northwest, the wrought iron gates,
Floyd | as tall as thistles to a child, inevitably sealed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford exit                                       187
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't, the gates bar your way, as insurmountable as death itself.
Floyd | All you can do now is turn around.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "well shoot."
Doug says (to Floyd), "play lyre" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford exit                                       187
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLAY LYRE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "doctor smash'd it"
		Doug says, "yeah, but I was hoping that drugging the dog would have changed things"
		Doug asks, "should we try the snake then?"
		DavidW says, "sure. I'm about ready to pass out an hour ago."
		DavidW says, "I'm currently a caffeine and sugar elemental."
		Jacqueline says, "haha"
		Jacqueline says, "Now I want Rob Wheeler to draw that."
		DavidW says, "yes!"
Doug says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "cf8" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              108
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              109
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | kitchen
Floyd | The kitchen is surprisingly spacious for a rented house.  It has
Floyd | faux-granite counter tops and matching tiling, and fitted cupboards in
Floyd | shades of coffee and cream.  It would be a pleasure to cook in such a
Floyd | kitchen.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered across the  worksurface nearest the hob is an array of
Floyd | cooking utensils, onion skins and pepper cores, including the wooden
Floyd | knifeblock you bought for a tenner in Boswells during a sale.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vera and Tilda (plants, not people, and therefore bearable) are on the
Floyd | little round kitchen table.
Floyd |
Floyd | Natalie is by the hob, stirring a pan of pasta.
Floyd |
Floyd | The back door leads into the back garden to the north, and, if you're
Floyd | feeling particularly brave (or masochistic), the living room is to the
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x knifeblock" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              110
Floyd |
Floyd | > X KNIFEBLOCK
Floyd |
Floyd | Currently it contains only one knife.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              111
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a 50p coin
Floyd |   your coat
Floyd |   some pills
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x knife" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              112
Floyd |
Floyd | > X KNIFE
Floyd |
Floyd | A cleaver-style knife, still relatively sharp despite your ineptitude
Floyd | with a sharpening stone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get it" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              113
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You draw the knife from the knife block, earning yourself a worried
Floyd | look from Natalie.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "We don't have the lyre yet."
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              114
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You had better not wander around the house carrying a cleaver.  For a
Floyd | start, you could fall over and accidentally stab yourself, which would
Floyd | be embarrassing.  But also it could make the people in the living room
Floyd | - who are technically your guests -  feel uncomfortable
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "drop knife" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              115
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP KNIFE
Floyd |
Floyd | You slide the knife back into the knifeblock.  Natalie looks relieved
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          116
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |

		DavidW asks, "oh, maybe the knife is for the snake?"

Floyd |
Floyd | living room
Floyd | The extensive living / dining area was one of the features that drew
Floyd | you all to this house when you were looking for places to rent.  That
Floyd | and - despite the fact none of you have been able to bring yourself to
Floyd | do anything as prosaic as cleaning for days - the fact it's not an
Floyd | abject shit hole like most of places on offer when you were doing the
Floyd | rounds.
Floyd |
Floyd | Currently, it's all cluttered with people. Your housemate John is
Floyd | sitting cross-legged on the floor at the end of the coffee table,
Floyd | frowning over a game of a Go.  His opponent, Twitch, sits opposite and
Floyd | appears much more laid-back about the whole business.  Rick is slumped
Floyd | on the sofa, a bottle of port at his elbow; Elsie is sitting next to
Floyd | him, apparently watching the game.  Jess is huddled in a cloak on the
Floyd | other sofa, Adrian beside her, looking almost as uncomfortable as you
Floyd | feel.  As for Laurie (fucking Laurie), she's leaning against the
Floyd | fireplace, and wearing an expression of infinite suffering like she's
Floyd | living her own little Victorian melodrama
Floyd |
Floyd | The coat stand is still in its corner, looming like an unexpected
Floyd | guest.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your escape routes are east into the kitchen, or south into the hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  downstairs hall                                      117
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | downstairs hall
Floyd | Winter light lies in anaemic strips upon the floor from where it has
Floyd | fallen through the glass panels in the front door.  There is an awful
Floyd | painting hanging on the wall. The murmuring voices are more of a
Floyd | babble now; too many over-lapping conversations create an alien,
Floyd | baboonish gibberish.
Floyd |
Floyd | The outside world lurks to the west and the living room to the north.
Floyd | Or you could always just retreat upstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  upstairs landing                                     118
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | upstairs landing
Floyd | The upstairs landing is dimly illuminated from the light in the empty
Floyd | room.  From here, you can hear a murmur of voices coming from the
Floyd | living room downstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the north is Dave's room, to the west your own.  The empty room
Floyd | that was Celine's is to the east. There is a flight of stairs leading
Floyd | up to John's room and another going down to the ground floor of the
Floyd | house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  your room                                            119
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | your room
Floyd | Your room is a complete mess.  The bed is unmade.  The bookshelves
Floyd | that once lined the walls are a ruin of fallen books and splintered
Floyd | wood.  There are piles of things that shouldn't be piled everywhere.
Floyd | All the things you thought you cared about feel like mockery.
Floyd |
Floyd | A mysterious lyre, slightly battered from possibly having fallen from
Floyd | your bookshelves, lies among the wreckage.
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind you, to the east, is the upstairs landing
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get lyre" 		

Floyd ]  your room                                            120
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET LYRE
Floyd |
Floyd | You certainly can't remember ever having bought, or been given, a
Floyd | lyre.  It is smooth and slightly warm in your hands, its shape a
Floyd | graceful curve like a human spine.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  upstairs landing                                     121
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | upstairs landing
Floyd | The upstairs landing is dimly illuminated from the light in the empty
Floyd | room.  From here, you can hear a murmur of voices coming from the
Floyd | living room downstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the north is Dave's room, to the west your own.  The empty room
Floyd | that was Celine's is to the east. There is a flight of stairs leading
Floyd | up to John's room and another going down to the ground floor of the
Floyd | house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  downstairs hall                                      122
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | downstairs hall
Floyd | Winter light lies in anaemic strips upon the floor from where it has
Floyd | fallen through the glass panels in the front door.  There is an awful
Floyd | painting hanging on the wall. The murmuring voices are more of a
Floyd | babble now; too many over-lapping conversations create an alien,
Floyd | baboonish gibberish.
Floyd |
Floyd | The outside world lurks to the west and the living room to the north.
Floyd | Or you could always just retreat upstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  downstairs hall                                      123
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          124
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | living room
Floyd | The extensive living / dining area was one of the features that drew
Floyd | you all to this house when you were looking for places to rent.  That
Floyd | and - despite the fact none of you have been able to bring yourself to
Floyd | do anything as prosaic as cleaning for days - the fact it's not an
Floyd | abject shit hole like most of places on offer when you were doing the
Floyd | rounds.
Floyd |
Floyd | Currently, it's all cluttered with people. Your housemate John is
Floyd | sitting cross-legged on the floor at the end of the coffee table,
Floyd | frowning over a game of a Go.  His opponent, Twitch, sits opposite and
Floyd | appears much more laid-back about the whole business.  Rick is slumped
Floyd | on the sofa, a bottle of port at his elbow; Elsie is sitting next to
Floyd | him, apparently watching the game.  Jess is huddled in a cloak on the
Floyd | other sofa, Adrian beside her, looking almost as uncomfortable as you
Floyd | feel.  As for Laurie (fucking Laurie), she's leaning against the
Floyd | fireplace, and wearing an expression of infinite suffering like she's
Floyd | living her own little Victorian melodrama
Floyd |
Floyd | The coat stand is still in its corner, looming like an unexpected
Floyd | guest.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your escape routes are east into the kitchen, or south into the hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              125
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | kitchen
Floyd | The kitchen is surprisingly spacious for a rented house.  It has
Floyd | faux-granite counter tops and matching tiling, and fitted cupboards in
Floyd | shades of coffee and cream.  It would be a pleasure to cook in such a
Floyd | kitchen.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered across the  worksurface nearest the hob is an array of
Floyd | cooking utensils, onion skins and pepper cores, including the wooden
Floyd | knifeblock you bought for a tenner in Boswells during a sale.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vera and Tilda (plants, not people, and therefore bearable) are on the
Floyd | little round kitchen table.
Floyd |
Floyd | Natalie is by the hob, stirring a pan of pasta.
Floyd |
Floyd | The back door leads into the back garden to the north, and, if you're
Floyd | feeling particularly brave (or masochistic), the living room is to the
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get knife" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              126
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET KNIFE
Floyd |
Floyd | You draw the knife from the knife block, earning yourself a worried
Floyd | look from Natalie.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          127
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | back garden
Floyd | The back garden is really little more than a lawn-gone-wild and a
Floyd | weedy patio.  The sky is a cool grey curtain backlit by the weak sun.
Floyd | The chill air bites at your skin.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can get back into the house to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x lawn" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          128
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LAWN
Floyd |
Floyd | The blades are tipped by an unhealthy yellow and sway indolently in
Floyd | the slight breeze.  As you watch, a violent ripple of motion seizes
Floyd | the stalks and whips them back and forth.  At first you think it must
Floyd | be the wind but then you see a blur of a new green in the grass and a
Floyd | snake slithers onto the patio.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x snake" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          129
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SNAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | You would not have thought there were such snakes in England.  It is a
Floyd | strong, sinuous creature, dappled in black diamonds like a snake on a
Floyd | Snakes And Ladders board.  It has hateful yellow eyes, as blank as
Floyd | pieces of glass.  You are not by nature inclined towards
Floyd | anthropomorphisation but there is something both directed and
Floyd | malignant in its gaze.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "play lyre" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          130
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLAY LYRE
Floyd |
Floyd | A sudden surety takes possession of your fingers and they dance
Floyd | seemingly of their accord across the lyre strings as if they find them
Floyd | familiar.  Music floats across the still evening air, honey-sweet and
Floyd | sad.  You play to the neglected grass and the uncharted sky, to the
Floyd | inconstant breeze and the fading light.  Even the snake lifts its
Floyd | head, and sways entranced.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          131
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | You are reluctant to touch the lyre again so soon, in case you dispel
Floyd | your own song by remembered incompetence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "kill snake" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          132
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL SNAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | While the snake still seems enraptured by the music, you grip the
Floyd | kitchen knife in sweat-slippery hands and lunge.  You decapitate the
Floyd | snake in one clean blow - there's a confusion of sensory information,
Floyd | a gush of blood, a hiss of pain, the fleshly thump of the snake's
Floyd | ruined body hitting the pattio and then ... nothing.  No blood, no
Floyd | snake, nothing.  Just the fragrance of the olive trees and a sudden
Floyd | brightness in your eyes as if you stand beneath a different sun.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "wow"
Doug says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          133
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | back garden
Floyd | The back garden is really little more than a lawn-gone-wild and a
Floyd | weedy patio.  The sky is a cool grey curtain backlit by the weak sun.
Floyd | The chill air bites at your skin.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can get back into the house to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Both lyre and knife were needed?"
Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. 		Doug says, "think so."
Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          132
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | back garden
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          131
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | back garden
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          130
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | back garden
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          131
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | back garden
Floyd | The back garden is really little more than a lawn-gone-wild and a
Floyd | weedy patio.  The sky is a cool grey curtain backlit by the weak sun.
Floyd | The chill air bites at your skin.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can get back into the house to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | A snake, still as stone, has partially emerged from the long grass.
Floyd | It seems to be watching you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "kill snake" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          132
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL SNAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | While the snake still seems enraptured by the music, you grip the
Floyd | kitchen knife in sweat-slippery hands and lunge.  You decapitate the
Floyd | snake in one clean blow - there's a confusion of sensory information,
Floyd | a gush of blood, a hiss of pain, the fleshly thump of the snake's
Floyd | ruined body hitting the pattio and then ... nothing.  No blood, no
Floyd | snake, nothing.  Just the fragrance of the olive trees and a sudden
Floyd | brightness in your eyes as if you stand beneath a different sun.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "oops."
Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          131
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | back garden
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          130
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | back garden
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          129
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | back garden
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x snake" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          130
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SNAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | You would not have thought there were such snakes in England.  It is a
Floyd | strong, sinuous creature, dappled in black diamonds like a snake on a
Floyd | Snakes And Ladders board.  It has hateful yellow eyes, as blank as
Floyd | pieces of glass.  You are not by nature inclined towards
Floyd | anthropomorphisation but there is something both directed and
Floyd | malignant in its gaze.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		djfletch says, "Interesting. I don't think I even found the snake at all."
Doug says (to Floyd), "kill snake" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          131
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL SNAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | You make a stabbing motion in the direction of the snake with the
Floyd | kitchen knife but it easily evades you.  Its tongue darts in and out
Floyd | of its mouth, as if it is taunting you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "yup. It needs both. Interesting."
Doug says (to Floyd), "drop knife" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          132
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP KNIFE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's one of your kitchen knives!  You don't want to just leave it
Floyd | lying around in the garden.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              133
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | kitchen
Floyd | The kitchen is surprisingly spacious for a rented house.  It has
Floyd | faux-granite counter tops and matching tiling, and fitted cupboards in
Floyd | shades of coffee and cream.  It would be a pleasure to cook in such a
Floyd | kitchen.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered across the  worksurface nearest the hob is an array of
Floyd | cooking utensils, onion skins and pepper cores, including the wooden
Floyd | knifeblock you bought for a tenner in Boswells during a sale.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vera and Tilda (plants, not people, and therefore bearable) are on the
Floyd | little round kitchen table.
Floyd |
Floyd | Natalie is by the hob, stirring a pan of pasta.
Floyd |
Floyd | The back door leads into the back garden to the north, and, if you're
Floyd | feeling particularly brave (or masochistic), the living room is to the
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Nice."
Doug says (to Floyd), "drop knife" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              134
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP KNIFE
Floyd |
Floyd | You slide the knife back into the knifeblock.  Natalie looks relieved
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          135
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | back garden
Floyd | The back garden is really little more than a lawn-gone-wild and a
Floyd | weedy patio.  The sky is a cool grey curtain backlit by the weak sun.
Floyd | The chill air bites at your skin.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can get back into the house to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | A snake, still as stone, has partially emerged from the long grass.
Floyd | It seems to be watching you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "play lyre" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          136
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLAY LYRE
Floyd |
Floyd | A sudden surety takes possession of your fingers and they dance
Floyd | seemingly of their accord across the lyre strings as if they find them
Floyd | familiar.  Music floats across the still evening air, honey-sweet and
Floyd | sad.  You play to the neglected grass and the uncharted sky, to the
Floyd | inconstant breeze and the fading light.  Even the snake lifts its
Floyd | head, and sways entranced.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "kill snake" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          137
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL SNAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | You have nothing with which to hurt it, beyond ill-will.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get snake" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          138
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET SNAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | Even assuming you could catch it, it looks like it might be poisonous.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "yeah, seems like there's nothing else to do with the snake"
		Doug says, "I also am not sure it will change the ending."
		Doug says, "the hint says 'just play the lyre everywhere' so maybe we have to play it three times"
		Doug asks, "shall I try that? any other ideas first?"
		DavidW says, "yeah, the snake business may be entirely optional and have no effect on the endings whatsoever."
		DavidW says, "And I gotta lie down. Eyes are burning."
		DavidW says, "good luck"
Doug says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              139
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | kitchen
Floyd | The kitchen is surprisingly spacious for a rented house.  It has
Floyd | faux-granite counter tops and matching tiling, and fitted cupboards in
Floyd | shades of coffee and cream.  It would be a pleasure to cook in such a
Floyd | kitchen.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered across the  worksurface nearest the hob is an array of
Floyd | cooking utensils, onion skins and pepper cores, including the wooden
Floyd | knifeblock you bought for a tenner in Boswells during a sale.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vera and Tilda (plants, not people, and therefore bearable) are on the
Floyd | little round kitchen table.
Floyd |
Floyd | Natalie is by the hob, stirring a pan of pasta.
Floyd |
Floyd | The back door leads into the back garden to the north, and, if you're
Floyd | feeling particularly brave (or masochistic), the living room is to the
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get knife" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              140
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET KNIFE
Floyd |
Floyd | You draw the knife from the knife block, earning yourself a worried
Floyd | look from Natalie.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          141
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | back garden
Floyd | The back garden is really little more than a lawn-gone-wild and a
Floyd | weedy patio.  The sky is a cool grey curtain backlit by the weak sun.
Floyd | The chill air bites at your skin.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can get back into the house to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | A snake, still as stone, has partially emerged from the long grass.
Floyd | It seems to be watching you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "kill snake" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          142
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL SNAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | While the snake still seems enraptured by the music, you grip the
Floyd | kitchen knife in sweat-slippery hands and lunge.  You decapitate the
Floyd | snake in one clean blow - there's a confusion of sensory information,
Floyd | a gush of blood, a hiss of pain, the fleshly thump of the snake's
Floyd | ruined body hitting the pattio and then ... nothing.  No blood, no
Floyd | snake, nothing.  Just the fragrance of the olive trees and a sudden
Floyd | brightness in your eyes as if you stand beneath a different sun.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          143
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | back garden
Floyd | The back garden is really little more than a lawn-gone-wild and a
Floyd | weedy patio.  The sky is a cool grey curtain backlit by the weak sun.
Floyd | The chill air bites at your skin.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can get back into the house to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x lawn" 		

Floyd ]  back garden                                          144
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LAWN
Floyd |
Floyd | The blades are tipped by an unhealthy yellow and sway indolently in
Floyd | the slight breeze.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              145
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | kitchen
Floyd | The kitchen is surprisingly spacious for a rented house.  It has
Floyd | faux-granite counter tops and matching tiling, and fitted cupboards in
Floyd | shades of coffee and cream.  It would be a pleasure to cook in such a
Floyd | kitchen.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered across the  worksurface nearest the hob is an array of
Floyd | cooking utensils, onion skins and pepper cores, including the wooden
Floyd | knifeblock you bought for a tenner in Boswells during a sale.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vera and Tilda (plants, not people, and therefore bearable) are on the
Floyd | little round kitchen table.
Floyd |
Floyd | Natalie is by the hob, stirring a pan of pasta.
Floyd |
Floyd | The back door leads into the back garden to the north, and, if you're
Floyd | feeling particularly brave (or masochistic), the living room is to the
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "drop knife" 		

Floyd ]  kitchen                                              146
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP KNIFE
Floyd |
Floyd | You slide the knife back into the knifeblock.  Natalie looks relieved
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          147
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | living room
Floyd | The extensive living / dining area was one of the features that drew
Floyd | you all to this house when you were looking for places to rent.  That
Floyd | and - despite the fact none of you have been able to bring yourself to
Floyd | do anything as prosaic as cleaning for days - the fact it's not an
Floyd | abject shit hole like most of places on offer when you were doing the
Floyd | rounds.
Floyd |
Floyd | Currently, it's all cluttered with people. Your housemate John is
Floyd | sitting cross-legged on the floor at the end of the coffee table,
Floyd | frowning over a game of a Go.  His opponent, Twitch, sits opposite and
Floyd | appears much more laid-back about the whole business.  Rick is slumped
Floyd | on the sofa, a bottle of port at his elbow; Elsie is sitting next to
Floyd | him, apparently watching the game.  Jess is huddled in a cloak on the
Floyd | other sofa, Adrian beside her, looking almost as uncomfortable as you
Floyd | feel.  As for Laurie (fucking Laurie), she's leaning against the
Floyd | fireplace, and wearing an expression of infinite suffering like she's
Floyd | living her own little Victorian melodrama
Floyd |
Floyd | The coat stand is still in its corner, looming like an unexpected
Floyd | guest.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your escape routes are east into the kitchen, or south into the hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  living room                                          148
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  downstairs hall                                      149
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | downstairs hall
Floyd | Winter light lies in anaemic strips upon the floor from where it has
Floyd | fallen through the glass panels in the front door.  There is an awful
Floyd | painting hanging on the wall. The murmuring voices are more of a
Floyd | babble now; too many over-lapping conversations create an alien,
Floyd | baboonish gibberish.
Floyd |
Floyd | The outside world lurks to the west and the living room to the north.
Floyd | Or you could always just retreat upstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Marlborough road                                     150
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Marlborough road
Floyd | This is just an ordinary street, lined by Victorian terraces, with
Floyd | their slightly over-ambitious moulding and bow windows.  In the
Floyd | distance you can hear the muted roar of traffic streaming down the
Floyd | Abingdon Road.  It is not quite suburbia but it's a pocket of Oxford
Floyd | unreached by spires, dreaming or otherwise.   The fading light is
Floyd | nonetheless tinged by gold.  The sky is a swirl of grey and pink, like
Floyd | the interior of a shell.  There is a biting promise of winter in the
Floyd | air.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hinksey Park is to the northwest, your house to the east, and other
Floyd | places lie elsewhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  Hinksey Park Gate                                    151
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hinksey Park Gate
Floyd | The gate to Hinksey Park is not far from your house but by the time
Floyd | you arrive the sky is already suffused by a greyness that has blotted
Floyd | out the potential glories of an Oxford sunset.  Night is snapping at
Floyd | your heels.  The park  is the old fashioned kind, a basic arrangement
Floyd | of paths and benches, grass and trees. The nearest bench is over-hung
Floyd | by a willow tree, which has wept a burthen of withered foliage onto
Floyd | the seat.  There is a lake, girdled by a path and an open air swimming
Floyd | pool.
Floyd |
Floyd | A river, which must be a tributary of the Thames, flows to the west.
Floyd | Malborough Road lies to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                152
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | river
Floyd | The river is a snake of moving darkness.  There is a railway line
Floyd | running parallel on the other side and open fields after that.  There
Floyd | is some kind of flat-bottomed boat by the bank nearest to you, and a
Floyd | tall man, in a long coat, is standing in the bow of the boat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hinksey Park is behind you to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "give coin to man" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                153
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE COIN TO MAN
Floyd |
Floyd | You toss the coin to ferryman.  It turns over and over in the air,
Floyd | flashing silver, and then he reaches out a gloved hand and engulfs it
Floyd | in darkness.  He carries it to his mouth and bites it.  "That's not
Floyd | silver," he says. But then he shrugs.  "It'll do.  In you get."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "enter boat" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                153
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER BOAT
Floyd |
Floyd | As you step towards the boat the Ferryman intercepts you again.
Floyd | "Coming back is harder than going," he says. "Are you sure?"

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd ]  Iron Gates                                           154
Floyd |
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd | You step into the boat.  There is a space for a single passenger but
Floyd | it is not  exactly luxurious.  You barely have time to sit down upon
Floyd | the damp wooden boards before the ferryman takes his first stroke,
Floyd | propelling the boat forward at an unlikely speed that causes the
Floyd | moving air to catch at you like icy hands.  You  remember that someone
Floyd | told you once that a punt can travel at 30 miles an hour in
Floyd | favourable conditions ... but this one slips across the moonslick
Floyd | water as effortlessly as if it is glass.  At any rate, you are glad
Floyd | that the man has sufficient  taste to punt from the Oxford end.  You
Floyd | tilt your head back.  You are going so fast that the stars are smeared
Floyd | across the sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | Iron Gates
Floyd | Something has happened.  You have lost track of time, or track of
Floyd | yourself, or something.  You were looking at the sky, feeling stars
Floyd | upon your skin, no, you were in a boat, cold seeping through you, wind
Floyd | tangling in your hair.  But there is no trace of the punt here, or the
Floyd | man, or even a river.  How did you get here?  Where are you?  There is
Floyd | a set of open wrought iron gates before you, as intricate as briars.
Floyd | Beyond them, hazy in the darkness to the southeast, a round lawn,
Floyd | dotted with trees.  It all feels familiar somehow.
Floyd |
Floyd | Guarding the gate is biggest dog you have ever seen, a haunch of
Floyd | bloody meat and a vast water bowl at its feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "play lyre" 		

Floyd ]  Iron Gates                                           155
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLAY LYRE
Floyd |
Floyd | All three heads turn in your direction as you lift the lyre, and a
Floyd | strange shiver runs down the length of the beast's back.  If it was
Floyd | human you don't know what emotions you'd ascribe to it. It holds
Floyd | itself still and silent, only the heaving of its flanks to betray the
Floyd | fact it lives at all.  And you play, strange, savage music, spiralling
Floyd | out of the lyre, drenched inhuman colours, filling your mouth up with
Floyd | heat and the tang of metal.  Your heart tightens sickeningly in your
Floyd | chest, pulsing with the lyre strings, something like excitement,
Floyd | something like dread.  The dog trembles where it stands, its eyes
Floyd | ablaze.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  Iron Gates                                           156
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd | You move.  The beast throws back all three heads and hurls a howl of
Floyd | blood-curdling ferocity at the sky.  And the clouds shake.  You think
Floyd | it would probably be for the best to stop moving.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		maga asks, "uh, why did you give the boatman the coin?"
		Doug says, "ohh"
		Doug asks, "should we lyre the boatman too?"
Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Iron Gates                                           155
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Iron Gates
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Iron Gates                                           154
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Iron Gates
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                153
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | river
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                152
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | river
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                153
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | river
Floyd | The river is a snake of moving darkness.  There is a railway line
Floyd | running parallel on the other side and open fields after that.  There
Floyd | is some kind of flat-bottomed boat by the bank nearest to you, and a
Floyd | tall man, in a long coat, is standing in the bow of the boat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hinksey Park is behind you to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "play lyre" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                154
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLAY LYRE
Floyd |
Floyd | You sit down on the bank of the river and begin to run your fingers
Floyd | lightly over the strings of the lyre.  A strange stillness creeps over
Floyd | the universe as if it is holding its breath for you.  You play. At
Floyd | least you think it counts as playing.  It is as if the lyre has a
Floyd | human throat, from which you tear sound. You fill the space between
Floyd | earth and sky with screaming, bend the grasses to the ground with
Floyd | pain, strip the bark from the trees with the lash of your grief until
Floyd | the lyre shudders so violently in your hands you fear it will tear
Floyd | itself apart.  "All right, all right," says the ferryman, hastily.
Floyd | "I'll take you across.  Just that's enough of that, you hear me?  No
Floyd | more of that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "haha"
Doug says (to Floyd), "enter boat" 		

Floyd ]  river                                                154
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER BOAT
Floyd |
Floyd | As you step towards the boat the Ferryman intercepts you again.
Floyd | "Coming back is harder than going," he says. "Are you sure?"

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd ]  Iron Gates                                           155
Floyd |
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd | You step into the boat.  There is a space for a single passenger but
Floyd | it is not  exactly luxurious.  You barely have time to sit down upon
Floyd | the damp wooden boards before the ferryman takes his first stroke,
Floyd | propelling the boat forward at an unlikely speed that causes the
Floyd | moving air to catch at you like icy hands.  You  remember that someone
Floyd | told you once that a punt can travel at 30 miles an hour in
Floyd | favourable conditions ... but this one slips across the moonslick
Floyd | water as effortlessly as if it is glass.  At any rate, you are glad
Floyd | that the man has sufficient  taste to punt from the Oxford end.  You
Floyd | tilt your head back.  You are going so fast that the stars are smeared
Floyd | across the sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | Iron Gates
Floyd | Something has happened.  You have lost track of time, or track of
Floyd | yourself, or something.  You were looking at the sky, feeling stars
Floyd | upon your skin, no, you were in a boat, cold seeping through you, wind
Floyd | tangling in your hair.  But there is no trace of the punt here, or the
Floyd | man, or even a river.  How did you get here?  Where are you?  There is
Floyd | a set of open wrought iron gates before you, as intricate as briars.
Floyd | Beyond them, hazy in the darkness to the southeast, a round lawn,
Floyd | dotted with trees.  It all feels familiar somehow.
Floyd |
Floyd | Guarding the gate is biggest dog you have ever seen, a haunch of
Floyd | bloody meat and a vast water bowl at its feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "lay lyre" 		

Floyd ]  Iron Gates                                           155
Floyd |
Floyd | > LAY LYRE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "play lyre" 		

Floyd ]  Iron Gates                                           156
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLAY LYRE
Floyd |
Floyd | All three heads turn in your direction as you lift the lyre, and a
Floyd | strange shiver runs down the length of the beast's back.  If it was
Floyd | human you don't know what emotions you'd ascribe to it. It holds
Floyd | itself still and silent, only the heaving of its flanks to betray the
Floyd | fact it lives at all.  And you play, strange, savage music, spiralling
Floyd | out of the lyre, drenched inhuman colours, filling your mouth up with
Floyd | heat and the tang of metal.  Your heart tightens sickeningly in your
Floyd | chest, pulsing with the lyre strings, something like excitement,
Floyd | something like dread.  The dog trembles where it stands, its eyes
Floyd | ablaze.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  Iron Gates                                           157
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel as if you have been running, and running hard, and your
Floyd | fingers tremble on the strings, fearful of the lyre and its music.
Floyd | But everything has changed.  Softly, softly, comes the scent of green
Floyd | things growing, dark places, damp fur, warmth in your belly and all
Floyd | around, different songs.  You lose time, the names of things. The
Floyd | stars becomes nothing but distant light. Your four clawed feet trample
Floyd | complex concepts to nothing but travelled earth, and happiness is the
Floyd | flow of the night.  Then comes the creeping cold, not without, but
Floyd | within, and it snaps like winter at your heels.  And you don't know
Floyd | what it means that yours is now the only song, and yours the only
Floyd | pounding paws, and yours the fur and yours the hunger and you alone
Floyd | who slumber in the dark places and dream of dreams once shared.  The
Floyd | music fades to silence, and the dog slumps to the ground, ungainly
Floyd | now.  Its eyes fall closed and it seems to sleep.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Hospital Approach                          158
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd | You muster up your courage and sidle past the subdued monster, holding
Floyd | your breath lest you rouse it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Warneford Hospital Approach
Floyd | You could be visiting a stately home, or an Oxford college, or a
Floyd | country church, except you're not.  You know there are more modern
Floyd | constructions hidden away behind it, one of which - the severely acute
Floyd | ward - lies like Sleeping Beauty's castle behind thorns of metal and
Floyd | stone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Circling an oval of moderately well-kept grass is a gravel path and,
Floyd | beyond it to the west, a sandstone building gleams palely golden
Floyd | against the shadowed sky. The gates loom to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Path                                  159
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | As you cross the lawn, your footsteps lost among the many you have
Floyd | already taken, you feel a horrible tightness round you heart as if
Floyd | someone had a hand round it and was squeezing. There is a burning at
Floyd | the back your throat, like a lump of tears and bile is stuck there.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Path
Floyd | The path sidles away down the side of the main building, taking you
Floyd | away from facades.  Here, there are no country house lawns, no
Floyd | sandstone and classical pillars. There are patches of scrubby grass,
Floyd | borders that may perhaps bloom one spring, and scattered buildings
Floyd | that are too perfectly, facelessly functional to have anything of
Floyd | beauty or ugliness to them.  There are jaunty painted signs to
Floyd | Cotswold House and Wintle Ward.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas waits to the west, the Hospital Approach is to the
Floyd | east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              160
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | As you walk down the path, a human cry breaks upon the silence and
Floyd | dies.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Exterior
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Ward is another grey building.  It has a bow-window
Floyd | which looks like an ill-at-ease addition to its uniformity.  There is
Floyd | also an awkward, spindly tree guarding a nearby bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door that leads west into Vaughan Thomas has been painted blue.
Floyd | There is a doorbell next to it in industrial grey.  The path leading
Floyd | to and from Vaughan Thomas lies to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "push doorbell" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              161
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH DOORBELL
Floyd |
Floyd | You depress the button and listen to the silence while you wait.  You
Floyd | do not trust the doorbell.  It demands your faith yet gives you no
Floyd | miracles.  It doesn't even buzz to let you know it's actually
Floyd | functional.  Finally, just when you have given up all hope in the
Floyd | doorbell, there is a crackling from behind the grill and a distorted
Floyd | voice asks what you want.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "play lyre" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              162
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLAY LYRE
Floyd |
Floyd | The lyre feels strange and knobbly in your hands.  It does not want to
Floyd | be here, it does not want to play.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "aw"
Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to nurse" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              162
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO NURSE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to grill" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              163
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO GRILL
Floyd |
Floyd | You mumble your name into the grill, and explain you have come to get
Floyd | Celine.  A warped sigh gusts out of the grill with such force you are
Floyd | surprised it doesn't ruffle your hair.  Then crackling dies away and
Floyd | the grill speaks to you no further.  You assume that that means
Floyd | someone is coming to open the door but for all you know they could be
Floyd | activating the lever that drops you into the alligator pit.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are starting to wonder if perhaps they've forgotten you're there,
Floyd | or if answering the doorbell is a mere hobby, when there comes the
Floyd | sound of muted rattling and banging from behind the door as someone on
Floyd | the other side begins the ceremony required to open it.  It is finally
Floyd | eased open, just enough for you to squeeze through, by a Nurse,
Floyd | glowering at the effort required to perform the most basic tenets of
Floyd | her job.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              164
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | As you edge past the Nurse, she put out a log-like arm to momentarily
Floyd | stop you entering.  "You'll need to see the Doctor first," she says,
Floyd | gruffly. "You can't take a patient away without the doctor's
Floyd | permission."  You nod your understanding, although your mind is full
Floyd | of Escape from Alcatraz visions, search lights flashing, sirens
Floyd | screaming and helicopters whirling overhead as you and Celine run,
Floyd | hand in hand, giggling into a different coloured future.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Corridor
Floyd | There are soft felt pinboards on the wall, above a row of chairs.  An
Floyd | over-stacked bookself shoved in the corner and a square table do
Floyd | nothing to break the monotony.  The Warneford Hospital has a
Floyd | distinctive smell.  It is the smell of a place that very consciously
Floyd | has no smell, underscored by a desperate edge of nicotine.
Floyd |
Floyd | This interminably greyish corridor meanders north, west and south.
Floyd | East would take you outside again, through the blue door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Belatedly, that was great, playing the lyre to board the boat."
Doug says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Hall                                          165
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Hall
Floyd | This is the large, bow-windowed room you could see from outside.  Dull
Floyd | light washes in from the corridor behind you and flickers from beneath
Floyd | the door to the television room.  Square tables are neatly arranged
Floyd | and the far wall boasts a display of artwork.  Upon the air hangs the
Floyd | cloying scent of old, institutional dinners.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Doctor's Office lies to the north, the Vaughan Thomas corridor to
Floyd | the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      166
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Doctor's Office
Floyd | This is a typical Doctor's office.  It has a clinical air, but no more
Floyd | than you would expect.  It is really very neat in here.  The walls are
Floyd | hung with what look to be modern art prints, all in identical frames,
Floyd | imprisoned behind glass.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Doctor is sitting behind the desk, his elbows resting atop it and
Floyd | his chin upon the platform provided by his interlocked fingers.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door to the south leads back to the dining hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "play lyre" 		

Floyd ]  Doctor's Office                                      167
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLAY LYRE
Floyd |
Floyd | Time seems to unravel around you like the fraying threads of a
Floyd | tapestry as you lift the lyre into your arms.  The Doctor is on his on
Floyd | his feet, his face pale with fury and his eyes ablaze, but it's too
Floyd | late to stop you.  Music fills the air like cherry blossom, sweetly
Floyd | drifting, falling like fleeting kisses upon the senses and fading as
Floyd | swiftly as a summer evening.   For a moment, the Doctor is tranfixed,
Floyd | his face naked in pain and sorrow, and then his cold hands are
Floyd | wrenching the lyre from your grasp.  The notes shatter into rainbows
Floyd | of refracted light and then they're gone.  There is a vicious crack,
Floyd | like a bone breaking, and the Doctor flings the pieces of the lyre to
Floyd | the floor.  In seconds nothing remains of the lyre but a sprinkling of
Floyd | dust the colour of old blood.  "Take her then," he cries, "take her
Floyd | and may damnation have you both.  You'll find Celine in the gardens
Floyd | beyond the Sun Room.  Take her with you, as you wish, but remember:
Floyd | don't turn around, or she's mine forever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Hall                                          168
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Hall
Floyd | This is the large, bow-windowed room you could see from outside.  Dull
Floyd | light washes in from the corridor behind you and flickers from beneath
Floyd | the door to the television room.  Square tables are neatly arranged
Floyd | and the far wall boasts a display of artwork.  Upon the air hangs the
Floyd | cloying scent of old, institutional dinners.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Doctor's Office lies to the north, the Vaughan Thomas corridor to
Floyd | the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              169
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You  hear footsteps behind you, slapping like wet fish against the
Floyd | grey hospital floor.  You freeze and half-turn but then they recede.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Corridor
Floyd | There are soft felt pinboards on the wall, above a row of chairs.  An
Floyd | over-stacked bookself shoved in the corner and a square table do
Floyd | nothing to break the monotony.  The Warneford Hospital has a
Floyd | distinctive smell.  It is the smell of a place that very consciously
Floyd | has no smell, underscored by a desperate edge of nicotine.
Floyd |
Floyd | This interminably greyish corridor meanders north, west and south.
Floyd | East would take you outside again, through the blue door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             170
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Sun Room
Floyd | This is a primitive conservatory of sorts.  It is by far the most
Floyd | attractive room in the Warneford, which reflects well on neither the
Floyd | Warneford nor the room.  It has wicker chairs and, disconcertingly,
Floyd | there is white-sheeted hospital bed against one of the walls.  The
Floyd | square, unbeautiful windows overlook the grounds and currently admit a
Floyd | spill of moonlight the colour of old milk.
Floyd |
Floyd | Now you notice a set of doors at the back of the room have been flung
Floyd | wide open, drawing you like a beckoning finger, west, towards the
Floyd | shadow-smothered gardens.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Vaughan Thomas corridor lies to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    171
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Warneford Gardens
Floyd | Somebody tried.  Here there are the elements of a garden.  Grass,
Floyd | although it is mainly mud.  Banks of soil where perhaps flowers might
Floyd | grow.  Squatting shrubs, hunched in upon themselves.  And in
Floyd | silhouette the anorexic shapes of trees, stripped before the oncoming
Floyd | winter.  Moonlight forms puddles here and there.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Sun room waits to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine is sitting on a stone bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to celnie" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    171
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO CELNIE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to celine" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    172
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO CELINE
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine smiles to see you, convincing gladness, desperate eyes.  You
Floyd | exchange the usual greetings, the usual enquiries, and, as ever, she
Floyd | thanks you for coming to see her, as if it is a kind and wonderful
Floyd | thing and not a terrible strain for both of you.  You tell her silly
Floyd | stories of the colour of the October leaves and how much you're
Floyd | looking forward to the blossom trees.  She listens, and laughs, and
Floyd | pretends.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    173
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You are determined not to leave this place this time without Celine.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to celine" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    174
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO CELINE
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine is not feeling so good and will only tell you so if you press
Floyd | her.  She has - quite literally - forgotten the way home, along with
Floyd | everything she learned on her art history course last term.  She has
Floyd | forgotten the tombstone cake you made for Jess's birthday.  She has
Floyd | forgotten Rick's parents are dead.  She has forgotten the entirety of
Floyd | Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  It'll come back, you tell her, don't worry,
Floyd | and anyway we can watch it all over again - think how much fun that'll
Floyd | be.  She listens, and laughs, and pretends.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    175
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | Celine tells you her secrets, the ones she hasn't forgotten, the ones
Floyd | you wish she could forget, the ones she has forgotten you already
Floyd | know.  You try to make it okay with your words.  And Celine listens,
Floyd | and laughs, and pretends.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford Gardens                                    176
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly you remember.  It's time to go home.  "Will you follow me?"
Floyd | you ask, and Celine nods.  She seems only a little afraid.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Sun Room                                             177
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Sun Room
Floyd | This is a primitive conservatory of sorts.  It is by far the most
Floyd | attractive room in the Warneford, which reflects well on neither the
Floyd | Warneford nor the room.  It has wicker chairs and, disconcertingly,
Floyd | there is white-sheeted hospital bed against one of the walls.  The
Floyd | square, unbeautiful windows overlook the grounds and currently admit a
Floyd | spill of moonlight the colour of old milk.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you enter the sunroom from the gardens, your own footsteps sound on
Floyd | the floor but you hear no others.  Perhaps Celine has not followed as
Floyd | promised she would.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Vaughan Thomas corridor lies to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Corridor                              178
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Corridor
Floyd | There are soft felt pinboards on the wall, above a row of chairs.  An
Floyd | over-stacked bookself shoved in the corner and a square table do
Floyd | nothing to break the monotony.  The Warneford Hospital has a
Floyd | distinctive smell.  It is the smell of a place that very consciously
Floyd | has no smell, underscored by a desperate edge of nicotine.
Floyd |
Floyd | You strain to hear even the slightest hint of movement but there is
Floyd | nothing, nothing at all.  Perhaps you have been tricked.  Yes, that
Floyd | seems very likely.
Floyd |
Floyd | This interminably greyish corridor meanders north, west and south.
Floyd | East would take you outside again, through the blue door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Exterior                              179
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You look around for the nurse but then notice that the door seems to
Floyd | be standing very slightly ajar.  You seize the opportunity and slip
Floyd | through
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Exterior
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Ward is another grey building.  It has a bow-window
Floyd | which looks like an ill-at-ease addition to its uniformity.  There is
Floyd | also an awkward, spindly tree guarding a nearby bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | The only thing that follows you now, it seems, is silence.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door that leads west into Vaughan Thomas has been painted blue.
Floyd | There is a doorbell next to it in industrial grey.  The path leading
Floyd | to and from Vaughan Thomas lies to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vaughan Thomas Path                                  180
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas Path
Floyd | The path sidles away down the side of the main building, taking you
Floyd | away from facades.  Here, there are no country house lawns, no
Floyd | sandstone and classical pillars. There are patches of scrubby grass,
Floyd | borders that may perhaps bloom one spring, and scattered buildings
Floyd | that are too perfectly, facelessly functional to have anything of
Floyd | beauty or ugliness to them.  There are jaunty painted signs to
Floyd | Cotswold House and Wintle Ward.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vaughan Thomas waits to the west, the Hospital Approach is to the
Floyd | east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford exit                                       181
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Warneford exit
Floyd | Here on the Warneford lawn again you can see a streak of lightness at
Floyd | the eastern edge of the sky.  Behind you, a smear of gold and grey, is
Floyd | the Warneford.  Before you, to the northwest, the wrought iron gates,
Floyd | as tall as thistles to a child,  swinging open before you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "yay"
Doug says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  Warneford exit                                       181
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd | You run through the gates and, as soon as both feet are indisputably
Floyd | over the threshold, you turn.  The shock of seeing her again, standing
Floyd | before you, looking no different to the last time you saw her alive,
Floyd | is too much for you. You fall but soft grass catches you, and laughter
Floyd | as heady as wine comes bubbling out of your mouth. Eurydice leans over
Floyd | you, while behind her the darkness peels away from the sky like a
Floyd | layer of dead skin.  There is a moment of confusion.  You feel an
Floyd | inexplicable coldness seeping into your skin from what should be the
Floyd | sun-warmed grass, and there is a babble of concerned voices - the
Floyd | wrong voices - calling out a name - the wrong name.  But then Eurydice
Floyd | kisses you and her lips are flower-petal soft and her mouth tastes of
Floyd | music and the sky is the colour of lapis-lazuli and, on the breeze,
Floyd | comes the scent of olive trees...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** Finis. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | This is "Fable", one of four possible endings for Eurydice.  To
Floyd | discover another, why not stop relying on the lyre to solve your
Floyd | difficulties?
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		Doug asks, "hm, so was it because we used the coin before that we always got to Flowers?"
		maga says, "I think you only get Fable if you use the lyre for everything, yes"
		Doug asks, "also, wait, did we die?"
		maga says, "or maybe for some proportion of things, to include the snake"
		Jacqueline says, "Well done."
		Jacqueline says, "I'm rather surprised that this came in second."
		Doug says, "re-reading Emily's review now. Interesting that she says 'I think it needed to do a better job of cluing the player about where to look for the second and subsequent playthroughs, by laying bare something about the game’s internal logic at the end that implies how a replay could go differently.'"
		Jacqueline says, "But then, scifi isn't my thing, and it *is* many people's thing."
		Doug says, "because that seems like exactly what it does. Maybe there was an update after her review"
		maga says, "it was my choice for first place, at any rate"
		maga says, "(though it has some obvious flaws, and I haven't really played Andromeda)"
		Doug says, "oh, I thought you meant you were surprised it came as high as second. I know I am."
		Jacqueline says, "I'm also surprised that nothing in the comp averaged higher than an 8, I wonder if that's the norm."
		Jacqueline says, "Surprised this didn't average out a bit higher than 7.15"
		maga says (to Doug), "you spent quite a lot of time being confused about how to get the alternative endings, from my perspective"
		maga says (to Jacq), "a number of reviews amounted to 'bah emo'"
		Jacqueline says, "They probably didn't get that far into it, I suspect."
		Doug says, "well, I think I was confused because we got the hardest ending before the second-hardest ending"
		Jacqueline says, "But then, I am also all about the rainy day miasma stuff, so."
		Jacqueline says (to Doug), "Yeah."
		Jacqueline says, "And possibly the easiest ending last."
		maga says (to Doug), "the 'hardest' ending is so totally not"
		Doug says, "if we hadn't found the coin or the pills, I thnk it would have been easier to find Fable first"
		maga says, "I mean, it does a pretty good job of directing you to the coin, and giving the coin to the boatman is so obvious that you were doing it even when you intended to lyre everything"
		Doug says, "anyway, I thought it was a decent game (I liked some of the writing in particular, but apparently the opposite parts from what Jacq liked...), but it had a lot of rough edges and the game as a whole ultimately didn't really cohere for me."
		Zach says, "I thought the writing was very enjoyable, but I wish the story had been fleshed out more apart from the myth."
		Doug says, "I might not have gotten to a lot of the rough edges in the first two hours, though."
		Doug says, "and yeah, what Zach said. would have liked more interaction with the NPCs, I think."
		Zach says, "I suppose the living room did a good job of that though."
		Doug says, "certainly an impressive first game, though"
		Zach says, "Any more and it might have hit the 2 hour limit."
		Doug says, "better than mine!"
		Zach asks, "So we don't know who wrote it or the author wants to remain anonymous?"
		Doug says, "if anyone knows, they're not telling"
		maga says, "I'm interviewing them for SPAG, and they claim that it is indeed their first game"
		Doug says, "I think my least favorite part was all the yes/no questions"
		Doug says, "which if you answered in the obvioisly boring way, actually led to one of the better endings (as in, you reject the fantasy stuff and just get on with life), but it didn't feel earned at all."
		maga says, "there are other ways you can get that"
		maga says, "but yeah, the game's structural premise leads to rewarding behaviour in counterintuitive ways, which is sort of the point, I think"
		Doug says, "also, Celine ends up being a pretty vague character. Maybe because of the intentionally vagueness of the relationship"
		Doug says, "but there wasn't anything that suggested actually coming to terms with what happened to her, it was just sort of reliving her drug-damaged final weeks"
		Doug asks, "I guess maybe the idea is that you regret not having taken her away from the hospital sooner?"
		Doug asks, "and so actually getting her out gives you closure?"
		Doug says, "but the way to get her out is to bribe the doctor's wife, which is just an unrelated obstacle puzzle"
		Jacqueline says, "Great session, folks."
		Doug says, "anyway, thanks Jacq! and thanks Zach & DavidW!"
		Doug | There are moments of humour, such as when you grab the cuddly Cthulhu doll. There are moments of pure horror, like when you see the skeletons in the hospital ward.
		Doug says, "I guess we missed both of those!"
		Doug says, "that's from Victor's review of Eurydice"
		Jacqueline says, "... wow"
	


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NightFloyd Transcript:
Tenth Plague by Lynnea Dally
As played on ifMUD on November 28, 2012

Like ClubFloyd, the idea behind NightFloyd is that a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction.

Unlike ClubFloyd, NightFloyd often takes on significantly larger works of interactive fiction, knowing going in that each one will take multiple sessions (but not always, as you'll see in this transcript). NightFloyd is also a bit more informal than ClubFloyd in that it's only announced on the ifMUD #clubfloyd bulletin board, and the time shifts around to meet player's schedules far more than ClubFloyd does. NightFloyd is organized by genericgeekgirl, aka Adri.

Below is a transcript of Tenth Plague written by Lynnea Dally. Tenth Plague was released as part of the 2011 Interactive Fiction Competition, in which it took eleventh place. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki.

WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page.
ToyShop & Floyditorium
		
#ClubFloyd Discussion
		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask tenthplague" 		

Floyd | "I will go forth in the midst of Egypt; and all the first-born in
Floyd | the land of Egypt shall die... and there shall be a great cry
Floyd | throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor
Floyd | shall be like it any more." 
Floyd |
Floyd |  -Exodus: 11:4-6.

		
Zach pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd | You experience physical awareness as you are shoved into Earthly
Floyd | existence: a cloud of death and destruction surrounding the Egyptian
Floyd | city. Parts of you in other areas of the town have already begun the
Floyd | task of cleansing. The southernmost area of your consciousness floats
Floyd | closer to its first victim: the slave boy.

		
Zach pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Outside the slave's hut                              1
Floyd |
Floyd | Tenth Plague
Floyd |
Floyd |  by lynnea dally
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the slave's hut
Floyd | Nestled in the rolling hills at the outskirts of town is a small reed
Floyd | hut belonging to a captured Hittite youth. This is the slave quarters
Floyd | for a local Egyptian cattle merchant. The flimsy door to the hut is
Floyd | closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The target is inside, and to the north the city continues. A path out
Floyd | of town leads to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says (to Scribbler), "To interact with Floyd, type 'f command' in the toyshop (as opposed to on #clubfloyd)."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "about" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the slave's hut                              1
Floyd |
Floyd | > ABOUT
Floyd |
Floyd | "Tenth Plague" is a game set in the Biblical story of the final plague
Floyd | used to punish Egypt for keeping the Hebrews as slaves. While the
Floyd | story is usually told from the perspective of the victor, this game
Floyd | focuses more on the questionable morality of punishing innocents
Floyd | (children especially) for crimes they did not commit and could not
Floyd | prevent. This game comes with a commentary mode, which gives a little
Floyd | more insight into this short game. That mode can be
Floyd | activated/deactivated at any time with the command "commentary" or
Floyd | simply "com". (It also gives puzzle spoilers, so have caution.)
Floyd |
Floyd | The cover art is a high-contrast version of the beautifully sad work
Floyd | "The Tenth Plague of Egypt", by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1816),
Floyd | engraved by William Say, from the Liber Studiorum. The image is in the
Floyd | public domain.
Floyd |
Floyd | Many thanks to the beta testers: Russell Glasser, C.E.J. Pacian,
Floyd | Baldur Brueckner, Matthew Bunyan, Barry Williams, Sunioc, advicebanana
Floyd | and sweetandy. You people rock!
Floyd |
Floyd | This is my second IF game, and I look forward to more upbeat stories
Floyd | in the future.
Floyd |
Floyd | If you have any questions, feel free to email me:
Floyd | lynnea.dally@gmail.com
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the slave's hut                              2
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You are merely a cloud of sentience, capable of temporary physical
Floyd | manifestations. You are created with the sole purpose of killing enemy
Floyd | firstborns.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, she wrote Divis Mortis."
		mwmiller says, "Ah, one of those upbeat games."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hut" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the slave's hut                              3
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HUT
Floyd |
Floyd | (the hut door)
Floyd | A closed wooden door with wide cracks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Which I haven't actually played yet, but I adore horror games, so it was on my shortlist if we ever fixed Fritz to handle glulx."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the slave's hut                              4
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "open door" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the slave's hut                              5
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | The door is locked from the inside, but the cracks in the door are
Floyd | quite large. You could go through them quite easily.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look through cracks" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the slave's hut                              6
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK THROUGH CRACKS
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, ">in ?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "in" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the slave's hut                               7
Floyd |
Floyd | > IN
Floyd |
Floyd | You sift through the large cracks in the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the slave's hut
Floyd | As you float inside, you see your first target: a sleeping Hittite
Floyd | male curled up next to a female. He's young, perhaps thirteen years of
Floyd | age. In his sleep he winces unconsciously at pain from whipping
Floyd | stripes on his back. Both he and his mate look extremely thin - the
Floyd | plagues have inflicted much suffering on all non-chosen. The slave
Floyd | breathes steadily next to his unsuspecting companion. Within the room
Floyd | itself you can see the belongings of the poor family: some reed
Floyd | sandals, coarse linen clothing, a grinding stone and a small conical
Floyd | hearth.
Floyd |
Floyd | The male slave sighs in his sleep.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x slave" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the slave's hut                               8
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SLAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | (the Hittite slave)
Floyd | A very young, poorly fed slave, with the fresh stripes to prove it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The male slave moves his arm slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x stripes" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the slave's hut                               9
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STRIPES
Floyd |
Floyd | Stripes of damaged flesh from the application of a whip. Typical for a
Floyd | boy of his age.
Floyd |
Floyd | The male slave sleeps peacefully.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x sandals" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the slave's hut                               10
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SANDALS
Floyd |
Floyd | Masterfully woven reed sandals.
Floyd |
Floyd | The female slave stretches an arm over her lover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x female" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the slave's hut                               11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FEMALE
Floyd |
Floyd | She sleeps soundly clutching at a necklace, next to the body of her
Floyd | lover.
Floyd |
Floyd | The male slave winces from the whipping stripes on his back.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x necklace" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the slave's hut                               12
Floyd |
Floyd | > X NECKLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | While probably too young to conceive, she wears a reed necklace with
Floyd | the image of the pregnant goddess Tawaret for protection in
Floyd | childbirth.
Floyd |
Floyd | The male slave smiles at something in his dream.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "kill target" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the slave's hut                               12
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL TARGET
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "try >kill male"
Zach says (to Floyd), "kill male" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the slave's hut                               13
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL MALE
Floyd |
Floyd | You wrap your tendrils around the creature's neck, solidifying that
Floyd | part of your body for just long enough to strangle your target. The
Floyd | Hittite slave now lies limp.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sleeping female slave snores a bit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "eek"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Aw :("
		DavidW says, "I imagine we have a lot of other deaths to get to."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kill female" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the slave's hut                               13
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL FEMALE
Floyd |
Floyd | Your orders are very strict, to only kill firstborn males. Are you
Floyd | sure you want to kill this creature anyway?

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "no" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the slave's hut                               14
Floyd |
Floyd | > NO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The sleeping female slave turns over slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf13" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Inside the slave's hut                               14
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Yeah, Yahweh doesn't allow lunch breaks"
		DavidW says, "Just pretend we're Santa."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kill female" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the slave's hut                               14
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL FEMALE
Floyd |
Floyd | Your orders are very strict, to only kill firstborn males. Are you
Floyd | sure you want to kill this creature anyway?

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the slave's hut                               14
Floyd |
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd | Your disobedience has earned you divine scorn, and you are quickly
Floyd | snuffed out of existence. The rest of your consciousness continues
Floyd | your task for you.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have died ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf13" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the slave's hut                               14
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says (to DavidW), "haha"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Just curious."
		zarf says, "sheesh"
		genericgeekgirl says, "> kill all the things"
		zarf says, "conan could kill way more stuff than us"
		DavidW says, "heh"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kill door" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the slave's hut                               15
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no use in attacking the hut door.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sleeping female slave turns over slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Onwards!"
		DavidW says, "let's see more of the town"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the slave's hut                              16
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You sift through the large cracks in the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the slave's hut
Floyd | Nestled in the rolling hills at the outskirts of town is a small reed
Floyd | hut belonging to a captured Hittite youth. This is the slave quarters
Floyd | for a local Egyptian cattle merchant. The flimsy door to the hut is
Floyd | closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The finished target is inside, and to the north the city continues. A
Floyd | path out of town leads to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the merchant's cottage                       17
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the merchant's cottage
Floyd | A cattle merchant's cottage. This adobe house is loud with sounds of
Floyd | many guests and much celebration. You can hear feasting and boasting
Floyd | and plenty of drinking. You don't see how you can enter quietly
Floyd | without alerting the whole party, and you still have the desired
Floyd | element of surprise.
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant's manger is to the east, the city continues to the north,
Floyd | and your finished target is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x house" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the merchant's cottage                       18
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HOUSE
Floyd |
Floyd | A large dwelling that belongs to the merchant. You notice it has a
Floyd | door and a window. There is currently a party going on in full swing
Floyd | with your target inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "'It is finished.' =("
Zach says (to Floyd), "x window" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the merchant's cottage                       19
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside you can see a full-blown party going on. The merchant, his
Floyd | firstborn son and many guests are enjoying themselves. You discern by
Floyd | their festivities that this is a wedding celebration. You worry that
Floyd | you won't be able to go inside without being noticed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x door" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the merchant's cottage                       20
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | A wooden door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "in" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the merchant's cottage                       21
Floyd |
Floyd | > IN
Floyd |
Floyd | While you do need to get to the firstborn inside, you can't attract so
Floyd | much attention to yourself. Perhaps if you had a way of drawing him
Floyd | outside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, ""Who brought the cloud of death?""
		DavidW asks, "well, maybe if we put on a moustache and carry a gift?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "knock" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the merchant's cottage                       21
Floyd |
Floyd | > KNOCK
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "whistle" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the merchant's cottage                       21
Floyd |
Floyd | > WHISTLE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "blow" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the merchant's cottage                       21
Floyd |
Floyd | > BLOW
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "rap window" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the merchant's cottage                       21
Floyd |
Floyd | > RAP WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the merchant's cottage                       22
Floyd |
Floyd | > XYZZY
Floyd |
Floyd | Calling upon magic? You are entirely composed of magic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "break window" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the merchant's cottage                       23
Floyd |
Floyd | > BREAK WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no use in attacking the merchant's window.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "rattle door" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the merchant's cottage                       23
Floyd |
Floyd | > RATTLE DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "spells" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the merchant's cottage                       23
Floyd |
Floyd | > SPELLS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "shake door" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the merchant's cottage                       23
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHAKE DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "do magc" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the merchant's cottage                       23
Floyd |
Floyd | > DO MAGC
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "do magic" 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "think" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the merchant's cottage                       23
Floyd |
Floyd | > DO MAGIC
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  Outside the merchant's cottage                       24
Floyd |
Floyd | > THINK
Floyd |
Floyd | What a good idea.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "create music" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the merchant's cottage                       24
Floyd |
Floyd | > CREATE MUSIC
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sing" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the merchant's cottage                       25
Floyd |
Floyd | > SING
Floyd |
Floyd | You have no lips or vocal chords.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "dance" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the merchant's cottage                       25
Floyd |
Floyd | > DANCE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "well, perhaps we need a tool from elsewhere?"
		Zach asks, "Yeah. East?"
		DavidW asks, "East is inside the merchant's, no?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Manger, I think."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the merchant's cottage                       26
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the merchant's cottage
Floyd | A cattle merchant's cottage. This adobe house is loud with sounds of
Floyd | many guests and much celebration.
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant's manger is to the east, the city continues to the north,
Floyd | and your finished target is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  A manger                                             27
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A manger
Floyd | Most Egyptians simply allow their cattle to graze in open fields, but
Floyd | this merchant has erected a manger as well. It is possible that his
Floyd | cattle were raised for sacrificial purposes, which would have made
Floyd | them more valuable. However, only a single scrawny cow lies sleeping
Floyd | in this manger.
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant's cottage is back around to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh. I misread."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x cow" 		

Floyd ]  A manger                                             28
Floyd |
Floyd | > X COW
Floyd |
Floyd | (the cow)
Floyd | A thin and scabby creature. It's clear this beast was sick, but
Floyd | recently recovered.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kill cow" 		

Floyd ]  A manger                                             29
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL COW
Floyd |
Floyd | (the cow)
Floyd | While you do recognize that this cow is a firstborn, something
Floyd | prevents you from slaughtering the cow by suffocating it. You feel a
Floyd | deeper commandment guiding you to cut its throat instead.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl :(
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cut throat" 		

Floyd ]  A manger                                             30
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT THROAT
Floyd |
Floyd | You temporarily solidify one tendril and quickly draw it across the
Floyd | throat of the creature. The cow screams at the procedure, but quickly
Floyd | loses consciousness. The cow now lies limp as blood quickly exits its
Floyd | throat.
Floyd |
Floyd | The distressed call from the cow has roused the merchant. You can hear
Floyd | him drunkenly sending his son out to investigate the noise from the
Floyd | manger. He'll be here in a moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "ARBITRARY ADDITIONAL PUZZLE"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh."
		genericgeekgirl says, "That was too easy."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I was expecting a "with what?""
		DavidW says, "We can solidify parts of ourself. Useful."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "lick cow" 		

Floyd ]  A manger                                             30
Floyd |
Floyd | > LICK COW
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take cow" 		

Floyd ]  A manger                                             31
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE COW
Floyd |
Floyd | (the cow)
Floyd | There's no point, the cow is dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can hear footsteps.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drink blood" 		

Floyd ]  A manger                                             32
Floyd |
Floyd | > DRINK BLOOD
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no point, the cow is dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant's son enters the manger. It takes him a moment to
Floyd | register what is going on with his livestock, but once he does he
Floyd | gurgles in fear, attempting to cry out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat cow" 		

Floyd ]  A manger                                             32
Floyd |
Floyd | > EAT COW
Floyd |
Floyd | (the cow)
Floyd | You have no need to consume.
Floyd |
Floyd | The young man finds his voice and begins shouting, running back inside
Floyd | alerting partygoers. The ensuing agitation makes him difficult to
Floyd | follow.
Floyd |
Floyd | Frustrated by your hesitation, another area of the cloud's sentience
Floyd | pours in, finishes the job, and continues with your assigned targets.
Floyd | Your consciousness is absorbed by surrounding areas.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have died ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  A manger                                             32
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | A manger
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kill man" 		

Floyd ]  A manger                                             33
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL MAN
Floyd |
Floyd | You wrap your tendrils around the creature's neck, solidifying that
Floyd | part of your body for just long enough to strangle your target. The
Floyd | merchant's son now lies limp.
Floyd |
Floyd | He was unable to scream before you finished him. The party continues,
Floyd | unaware.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "I'm kind of hoping this turns out to be like 9:05 where the 'winning' moves make you lose and vice versa."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "score" 		

Floyd ]  A manger                                             33
Floyd |
Floyd | > SCORE
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no score in this story.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Boo."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  A manger                                             34
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Rest assured. If there are targets in that direction, other areas of
Floyd | your consciousness are assigned to deal with them.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the merchant's cottage                       35
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the merchant's cottage
Floyd | A cattle merchant's cottage. This adobe house is loud with sounds of
Floyd | many guests and much celebration.
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant's manger is to the east, the city continues to the north,
Floyd | and your finished target is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "You have murdered 2 out of 700 firstborn, for a rank of Antichrist."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Further north?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Hehe."
		DavidW says, "yes, north"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the shipwright's dwelling                 36
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside of the shipwright's dwelling
Floyd | Screams and curses are accumulating within the city as targets in
Floyd | other areas of your consciousness are successfully eliminated. There
Floyd | is such a great cry that fills the air, the likes of which have never
Floyd | been heard before.
Floyd |
Floyd | The household of your next target has blocked you out by sealing the
Floyd | door and window shut with wood and pitch. Their desperation is
Floyd | palpable.
Floyd |
Floyd | The shipwright's construction dock is to the northeast, and the city
Floyd | continues to the north, while your previous targets are back to the
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says (to mwmiller), "Yeah, I was wondering what would happen if we went south at the beginning"
		Zach says, "If that would be the 'right' thing to do"
		zarf says, "can't be the Antichrist, because (a) BCE and (b) we're on a mission from God."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Silly mortals, with their wood and pitch and desperation. We shall overcome."
		DavidW says, "I suppose the dock will have something useful for us."
		DavidW says, "Author will provide."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]  Construction docks                                   37
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Construction docks
Floyd | Half-finished hulls of flat galleys are being built for river travel,
Floyd | in addition to one such burned gondola under repair. These docks are
Floyd | fairly close to the Nile to the east, but it's still a distance with
Floyd | the end of the flood season drawing closer. There is a pot of slowly
Floyd | cooling pitch; the shipwright took advantage of his own resources to
Floyd | seal himself and his family in. From this angle, you can see a chimney
Floyd | opening up at the top of the shipwright's dwelling.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go southwest to the shipwright's dwelling entrance or you
Floyd | could go south to the shipwright's roof.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh man. We *are* Santa."
		DavidW asks, "Can we take the pot?"
		mwmiller exclaims, "You better watch out! You better not cry!"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pot" 		

Floyd ]  Construction docks                                   38
Floyd |
Floyd | > X POT
Floyd |
Floyd | A large cauldron that is currently heating pitch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take pot" 		

Floyd ]  Construction docks                                   39
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE POT
Floyd |
Floyd | The pot is much too heavy for your gaseous form to carry.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter pot" 		

Floyd ]  Construction docks                                   40
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER POT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x chimney" 		

Floyd ]  Construction docks                                   41
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CHIMNEY
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go southwest to the shipwright's dwelling entrance or south to
Floyd | the shipwright's roof.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "You better not pout, you're just gonna die."
Zach says (to Floyd), "push pot" 		

Floyd ]  Construction docks                                   42
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH POT
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no point in spilling the pitch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Construction docks                                   43
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | Rest assured. If there are targets in that direction, other areas of
Floyd | your consciousness are assigned to deal with them.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Shipwright's roof                                    44
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Shipwright's roof
Floyd | From this vantage point on top of this adobe roof you can see that you
Floyd | are rapidly approaching the center of the advanced city.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a small hole leading down into the house, the docks are back
Floyd | to the north, and the street is back west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "down" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the shipwright's dwelling                     45
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the shipwright's dwelling
Floyd | The sealing pitch blocking the door has been their downfall; they are
Floyd | unable to open the door to escape. The shipwright's wife screams and
Floyd | clutches her prepubescent child to herself as you descend from the
Floyd | chimney.
Floyd |
Floyd | The husband kneels before you and addresses you, "Please, please, we
Floyd | know not why you have come to visit upon us, but please spare us our
Floyd | son. My wife and I, we care for him dearly." You know you will be
Floyd | unable to comply, the decision is not yours to make.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door and the window at the west end of the room are still blocked
Floyd | with fresh pitch and wood, but the chimney leads back up to the roof.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Aw."
		genericgeekgirl says, "NO."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x son" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the shipwright's dwelling                     46
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SON
Floyd |
Floyd | A young male, perhaps around 8 or 9 years of age. He looks terrified.
Floyd |
Floyd | The father begs with you for the life of his son, "We are good
Floyd | people," while the wife clutches the mumbling boy close to her chest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "shall I?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Go ahead. Mister child killer."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill son" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the shipwright's dwelling                     47
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL SON
Floyd |
Floyd | You move in for the kill, but you are halted by the shipwright's
Floyd | desperate and furious scream. You observe as he grabs a nearby pitch
Floyd | torch and lights it, brandishing the weapon at you in a menacing
Floyd | fashion. The child, too petrified to scream, begins to hyperventilate;
Floyd | you can feel his ragged breath push and pull against your gaseous
Floyd | form.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Uh. I presume that can't hurt us. Right?"
		DavidW says, "I don't know."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf14" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Inside the shipwright's dwelling                     47
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter son" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the shipwright's dwelling                     48
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER SON
Floyd |
Floyd | You shove your gaseous form down the victim's nose and throat, filling
Floyd | his lungs with your toxicity. With no visible target, the father drops
Floyd | his torch and runs to the boy. The father tries to shake you out, to
Floyd | expel you from his choking son, but to no avail. The shipwright's son
Floyd | now lies limp.
Floyd |
Floyd | The husband and wife howl in primal horror as they see their son
Floyd | rendered lifeless in front of their eyes. The heartbroken pair,
Floyd | defeated, drop to their knees and huddle, weeping over the body of
Floyd | their son.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "easy peasy"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yikes."
		zarf says, "SUBTLE MODE"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]  Shipwright's roof                                    49
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Shipwright's roof
Floyd | From this vantage point on top of this adobe roof you can see that you
Floyd | are rapidly approaching the center of the advanced city.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a small hole leading down into the house, the docks are back
Floyd | to the north, and the street is back west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Construction docks                                   50
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Construction docks
Floyd | Half-finished hulls of flat galleys are being built for river travel,
Floyd | in addition to one such burned gondola under repair. These docks are
Floyd | fairly close to the Nile to the east. There is a pot of slowly cooling
Floyd | pitch.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go southwest to the shipwright's dwelling entrance or you
Floyd | could go south to the shipwright's roof.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the shipwright's dwelling                 51
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside of the shipwright's dwelling
Floyd | The adobe hut is filled with the wailing of a mourning family.
Floyd |
Floyd | The shipwright's construction dock is to the northeast, and the city
Floyd | continues to the north, while your previous targets are back to the
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the chosen's house                           52
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the chosen's house
Floyd | A chosen household, the frame of the door has been covered in fresh
Floyd | lamb blood and you can tell that the inhabitants within have cooked
Floyd | and eaten the lamb. This household is to be spared.
Floyd |
Floyd | The city continues to the north while your previous targets are back
Floyd | to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "ok, we don't kill the chosen"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x blood" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the chosen's house                           53
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BLOOD
Floyd |
Floyd | A loose wooden door that is being protected by a bloody holy ward.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "lick blood" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the chosen's house                           53
Floyd |
Floyd | > LICK BLOOD
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh right."
		DavidW says, "We really should be able to lick it."
		DavidW says, "Admittedly it's not the same as cookies and milk, but it's all we got."
		DavidW asks, "north?"
		Zach says, "I'll never think about the Easter Bunny the same again"
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     54
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside of the architect's house
Floyd | As you approach the house of your next target, you realize something
Floyd | is wrong. The door is protected by a holy mark, but this family should
Floyd | not be spared. Judging by the incompleteness of the ritual, they
Floyd | hastily copied the appearance of the chosen household to the south.
Floyd | But their actions were not enough, you might be able to still reach
Floyd | them if you could remove the mark.
Floyd |
Floyd | Thick, black cooking smoke billows from this house's roof. A freshly
Floyd | killed lamb lies unmoving on the ground, and lamb's blood adorns the
Floyd | house.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dwelling is just inside, the Pharaoh's palace is just to the
Floyd | north, the roof can be reached by going up, and your previous targets
Floyd | are back to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "See, licking would totally be useful here."
		DavidW asks, "Remove the mark by adding more blood?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x lamb" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     55
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LAMB
Floyd |
Floyd | A woolly lamb that has been cut open to provide blood for the door
Floyd | frame. It was not even sheared before being slaughtered; some clean
Floyd | wool remains.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "take wool" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     56
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE WOOL
Floyd |
Floyd | With effort, you solidify a few of your smoke tendrils, wrap yourself
Floyd | around the wool, and separate a chunk from the flesh.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "remove mark" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     57
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMOVE MARK
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking the lamb's blood mark)
Floyd | You can't get close enough to the holy mark that is protecting the
Floyd | door.
Floyd |
Floyd | It takes too much effort to maintain your solid form long enough to
Floyd | continue carrying the wool. You drop it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, ">card wool. >wind wool. >weave cloth. >dip cloth in puddle. >wash mark."
		mwmiller asks, "'remove' probably a synonym for 'take'. Try 'erase' or 'wipe'?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "erase mark" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     57
Floyd |
Floyd | > ERASE MARK
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     58
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside of the architect's house
Floyd | Thick, black cooking smoke billows from this house's roof. A freshly
Floyd | killed lamb lies unmoving on the ground, and lamb's blood adorns the
Floyd | house.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dwelling is just inside, the Pharaoh's palace is just to the
Floyd | north, the roof can be reached by going up, and your previous targets
Floyd | are back to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see some wool.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x wool" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     59
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WOOL
Floyd |
Floyd | A chunk of thick wool.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "take wool" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     60
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE WOOL
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "wipe mark" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     61
Floyd |
Floyd | > WIPE MARK
Floyd |
Floyd | You press the wool against the bloody door frame. A woman shrieks and
Floyd | runs out of the house to knock the wool out of your wispy tendrils,
Floyd | then runs back inside. It's not difficult. Her bravery probably stems
Floyd | from knowing your mandated limitations: she can't be killed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hmpf."
Zach says (to Floyd), "in" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     62
Floyd |
Floyd | > IN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't get in with the door protected by the holy symbol.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]  Architect's roof                                     63
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Architect's roof
Floyd | The adobe roof of a wealthy Egyptian, from here you can see how very
Floyd | close you are to your final goal of the place. On top of this roof,
Floyd | you can hear the worried whispers of women from within. You need a way
Floyd | to distract them. The chimney is bellowing out smoke from lamb being
Floyd | cooked. Part of the roof is in need of repair, because there's a slab
Floyd | of loose roofing. The entire surface of the adobe roof is filled with
Floyd | the corpses of dead locusts.
Floyd |
Floyd | The street is back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x slab" 		

Floyd ]  Architect's roof                                     64
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SLAB
Floyd |
Floyd | A large slab of loose roofing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		zarf asks, "put the wool on the roofin and push it?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     65
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside of the architect's house
Floyd | Thick, black cooking smoke billows from this house's roof. A freshly
Floyd | killed lamb lies unmoving on the ground, and lamb's blood adorns the
Floyd | house.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dwelling is just inside, the Pharaoh's palace is just to the
Floyd | north, the roof can be reached by going up, and your previous targets
Floyd | are back to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see some wool.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "take wool" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     66
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE WOOL
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     67
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You must finish your business with the architect's son before
Floyd | continuing.
Floyd |
Floyd | It takes too much effort to maintain your solid form long enough to
Floyd | continue carrying the wool. You drop it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Drop locusts in chimney?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x locusts" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     67
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LOCUSTS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller asks, "Could you stop up the chimney with the loose slab?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "take wool" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     68
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE WOOL
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]  Architect's roof                                     69
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Architect's roof
Floyd | The adobe roof of a wealthy Egyptian, from here you can see how very
Floyd | close you are to your final goal of the place. The chimney is
Floyd | bellowing out smoke from lamb being cooked. Part of the roof is in
Floyd | need of repair, because there's a slab of loose roofing. The entire
Floyd | surface of the adobe roof is filled with the corpses of dead locusts.
Floyd |
Floyd | The street is back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | It takes too much effort to maintain your solid form long enough to
Floyd | continue carrying the wool. You drop it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x locusts" 		

Floyd ]  Architect's roof                                     70
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LOCUSTS
Floyd |
Floyd | A remnant to a previous plague. Probably these dead bugs have gone
Floyd | unnoticed by the inhabitants, or else they would have cleaned the roof
Floyd | long ago.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "take slab" 		

Floyd ]  Architect's roof                                     71
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE SLAB
Floyd |
Floyd | With effort, you solidify some tendrils to grasp the loose roofing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "put slab in chimney" 		

Floyd ]  Architect's roof                                     72
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SLAB IN CHIMNEY
Floyd |
Floyd | You block off the escaping smoke with the loose roofing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh nice"
Zach says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     73
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside of the architect's house
Floyd | No smoke escapes from the chimney at the roof. A freshly killed lamb
Floyd | lies unmoving on the ground, and lamb's blood adorns the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dwelling is just inside, the Pharaoh's palace is just to the
Floyd | north, the roof can be reached by going up, and your previous targets
Floyd | are back to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no sound yet of anything amiss, but the smoke building up
Floyd | should soon take effect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     74
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | You momentarily pause, and shift your consciousness to another area of
Floyd | your cloud body, where you tear the life away from a child being held
Floyd | by his parents.
Floyd |
Floyd | Unaware that you have closed off the chimney, the inhabitants start
Floyd | coughing. Slowly at first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     75
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | You momentarily pause, and shift your consciousness to another area of
Floyd | your cloud body, where a couple is weeping angrily over their son's
Floyd | dead body.
Floyd |
Floyd | The coughing intensifies. You can hear Egyptian curses and prayers
Floyd | from within. They are close to death.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     76
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | You momentarily pause, and shift your consciousness to another area of
Floyd | your cloud body, where an abandoned street urchin has just breathed
Floyd | his last, to the dismay of nobody.
Floyd |
Floyd | All the family members inside are sputtering and gasping for air, but
Floyd | they refuse to leave the sanctuary of their own home. They dare not
Floyd | put the fire out, but instead continue cooking the lamb in hopes of
Floyd | completing the ritual. They are about to die.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     76
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | You momentarily pause, and shift your consciousness to another area of
Floyd | your cloud body, where a firstborn slave has offered no resistance as
Floyd | you take his life.
Floyd |
Floyd | Too late the inhabitants try to put out the fire. The gasping gives
Floyd | way as the deadly fumes claim the inhabitants. But as all inside die,
Floyd | you can feel how it's gone wrong. Your actions have killed more than
Floyd | just the firstborn. This was not part of the plan. For your mistake,
Floyd | this area of your consciousness is evaporated.
Floyd |
Floyd | The slaughter continues without you, as other areas of your
Floyd | consciousness fill in and assume your duties.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have died ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     76
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside of the architect's house
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Whoops."
		DavidW says, "hm"
		mwmiller says, "Ah, this whole arbitrary ritual murder thing is so complicated."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "What happens if we try wiping the mark a second time?"
		DavidW asks, "Can we remove the mark while the slab is blocking the smoke?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Hm."
		mwmiller says, "We just undid the very last move, I think? We'd probably have to reload from earlier on anyway. SORRIES =("
		genericgeekgirl says, "We might not have enough moves now to do anything. We have a save from before we killed the last boy."
		Zach says, "Yeah"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf14" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the shipwright's dwelling                     47
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter boy" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the shipwright's dwelling                     48
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER BOY
Floyd |
Floyd | You shove your gaseous form down the victim's nose and throat, filling
Floyd | his lungs with your toxicity. With no visible target, the father drops
Floyd | his torch and runs to the boy. The father tries to shake you out, to
Floyd | expel you from his choking son, but to no avail. The shipwright's son
Floyd | now lies limp.
Floyd |
Floyd | The husband and wife howl in primal horror as they see their son
Floyd | rendered lifeless in front of their eyes. The heartbroken pair,
Floyd | defeated, drop to their knees and huddle, weeping over the body of
Floyd | their son.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Shipwright's roof                                    49
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Shipwright's roof
Floyd | From this vantage point on top of this adobe roof you can see that you
Floyd | are rapidly approaching the center of the advanced city.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a small hole leading down into the house, the docks are back
Floyd | to the north, and the street is back west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Construction docks                                   50
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Construction docks
Floyd | Half-finished hulls of flat galleys are being built for river travel,
Floyd | in addition to one such burned gondola under repair. These docks are
Floyd | fairly close to the Nile to the east. There is a pot of slowly cooling
Floyd | pitch.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go southwest to the shipwright's dwelling entrance or you
Floyd | could go south to the shipwright's roof.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the shipwright's dwelling                 51
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside of the shipwright's dwelling
Floyd | The adobe hut is filled with the wailing of a mourning family.
Floyd |
Floyd | The shipwright's construction dock is to the northeast, and the city
Floyd | continues to the north, while your previous targets are back to the
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the chosen's house                           52
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the chosen's house
Floyd | A chosen household, the frame of the door has been covered in fresh
Floyd | lamb blood and you can tell that the inhabitants within have cooked
Floyd | and eaten the lamb. This household is to be spared.
Floyd |
Floyd | The city continues to the north while your previous targets are back
Floyd | to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     53
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside of the architect's house
Floyd | As you approach the house of your next target, you realize something
Floyd | is wrong. The door is protected by a holy mark, but this family should
Floyd | not be spared. Judging by the incompleteness of the ritual, they
Floyd | hastily copied the appearance of the chosen household to the south.
Floyd | But their actions were not enough, you might be able to still reach
Floyd | them if you could remove the mark.
Floyd |
Floyd | Thick, black cooking smoke billows from this house's roof. A freshly
Floyd | killed lamb lies unmoving on the ground, and lamb's blood adorns the
Floyd | house.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dwelling is just inside, the Pharaoh's palace is just to the
Floyd | north, the roof can be reached by going up, and your previous targets
Floyd | are back to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf15" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     53
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "What's the plan?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mark" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     54
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MARK
Floyd |
Floyd | Lamb's blood smeared on the frame of the door, preventing you from
Floyd | entering. But you know that there's a target in there. You can feel
Floyd | it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "I think the slab then wiping the mark might be a good idea"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Try the roofing in chimney trick again, and then try removing the mark again."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take wool" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     55
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE WOOL
Floyd |
Floyd | With effort, you solidify a few of your smoke tendrils, wrap yourself
Floyd | around the wool, and separate a chunk from the flesh.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Architect's roof                                     56
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Architect's roof
Floyd | The adobe roof of a wealthy Egyptian, from here you can see how very
Floyd | close you are to your final goal of the place. On top of this roof,
Floyd | you can hear the worried whispers of women from within. You need a way
Floyd | to distract them. The chimney is bellowing out smoke from lamb being
Floyd | cooked. Part of the roof is in need of repair, because there's a slab
Floyd | of loose roofing. The entire surface of the adobe roof is filled with
Floyd | the corpses of dead locusts.
Floyd |
Floyd | The street is back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | It takes too much effort to maintain your solid form long enough to
Floyd | continue carrying the wool. You drop it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take locusts" 		

Floyd ]  Architect's roof                                     57
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LOCUSTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Taking that (the dead locusts) is not something you need to
Floyd | do to complete your mission.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take slab" 		

Floyd ]  Architect's roof                                     58
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE SLAB
Floyd |
Floyd | With effort, you solidify some tendrils to grasp the loose roofing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put slab in chimney" 		

Floyd ]  Architect's roof                                     59
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SLAB IN CHIMNEY
Floyd |
Floyd | You block off the escaping smoke with the loose roofing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take wool" 		

Floyd ]  Architect's roof                                     60
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE WOOL
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no sound yet of anything amiss, but the smoke building up
Floyd | should soon take effect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "down" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     61
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside of the architect's house
Floyd | No smoke escapes from the chimney at the roof. A freshly killed lamb
Floyd | lies unmoving on the ground, and lamb's blood adorns the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dwelling is just inside, the Pharaoh's palace is just to the
Floyd | north, the roof can be reached by going up, and your previous targets
Floyd | are back to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | Unaware that you have closed off the chimney, the inhabitants start
Floyd | coughing. Slowly at first.
Floyd |
Floyd | It takes too much effort to maintain your solid form long enough to
Floyd | continue carrying the wool. You drop it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take wool" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     62
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE WOOL
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | The coughing intensifies. You can hear Egyptian curses and prayers
Floyd | from within. They are close to death.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wipe mark" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     63
Floyd |
Floyd | > WIPE MARK
Floyd |
Floyd | You press the wool against the bloody door frame. Distracted by the
Floyd | smoke, nobody prevents you from finishing your task. The door is now
Floyd | un-warded, but the fitfulness of the coughing is palpable. If they
Floyd | don't get fresh air soon, they will all die.
Floyd |
Floyd | All the family members inside are sputtering and gasping for air, but
Floyd | they refuse to leave the sanctuary of their own home. They dare not
Floyd | put the fire out, but instead continue cooking the lamb in hopes of
Floyd | completing the ritual. They are about to die.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "in" 		

Floyd ]  Architect's house                                    63
Floyd |
Floyd | > IN
Floyd |
Floyd | You sift through the large cracks in the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | Architect's house
Floyd | This must be a very well-off architect, his stone house is decorated
Floyd | with tile floors and painted walls. Two women, both wives of the
Floyd | architect, inhabit this dwelling. Curiously, the father is not here.
Floyd | The oldest wife silently clasps a male toddler. The younger wife is
Floyd | covering the eyes and ears of her own daughter whispering words of
Floyd | comfort. There is some uncooked lamb in the hearth.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door leads out to the street.
Floyd |
Floyd | Too late the inhabitants try to put out the fire. The gasping gives
Floyd | way as the deadly fumes claim the inhabitants. But as all inside die,
Floyd | you can feel how it's gone wrong. Your actions have killed more than
Floyd | just the firstborn. This was not part of the plan. For your mistake,
Floyd | this area of your consciousness is evaporated.
Floyd |
Floyd | The slaughter continues without you, as other areas of your
Floyd | consciousness fill in and assume your duties.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have died ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     63
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside of the architect's house
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Sorry, took too many turns with the stupid wool."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Leaving it down here."
		DavidW says, "try undo then open door."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Can we open things?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     62
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside of the architect's house
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open door" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     63
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't get close enough with the holy mark protecting the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | All the family members inside are sputtering and gasping for air, but
Floyd | they refuse to leave the sanctuary of their own home. They dare not
Floyd | put the fire out, but instead continue cooking the lamb in hopes of
Floyd | completing the ritual. They are about to die.
Floyd |
Floyd | It takes too much effort to maintain your solid form long enough to
Floyd | continue carrying the wool. You drop it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     62
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside of the architect's house
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wipe mark" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     63
Floyd |
Floyd | > WIPE MARK
Floyd |
Floyd | You press the wool against the bloody door frame. Distracted by the
Floyd | smoke, nobody prevents you from finishing your task. The door is now
Floyd | un-warded, but the fitfulness of the coughing is palpable. If they
Floyd | don't get fresh air soon, they will all die.
Floyd |
Floyd | All the family members inside are sputtering and gasping for air, but
Floyd | they refuse to leave the sanctuary of their own home. They dare not
Floyd | put the fire out, but instead continue cooking the lamb in hopes of
Floyd | completing the ritual. They are about to die.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open door" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     64
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You wedge yourself between the door and the frame and temporarily
Floyd | solidify against the door, pushing it open. Opening the door releases
Floyd | the smoke from within the household, allowing the coughing inhabitants
Floyd | to catch their breath.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ah."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "in" 		

Floyd ]  Architect's house                                    65
Floyd |
Floyd | > IN
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Architect's house
Floyd | This must be a very well-off architect, his stone house is decorated
Floyd | with tile floors and painted walls. Two women, both wives of the
Floyd | architect, inhabit this dwelling. Curiously, the father is not here.
Floyd | The oldest wife silently clasps a male toddler. The younger wife is
Floyd | covering the eyes and ears of her own daughter whispering words of
Floyd | comfort. There is some uncooked lamb in the hearth.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door leads out to the street.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kill toddler" 		

Floyd ]  Architect's house                                    66
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL TODDLER
Floyd |
Floyd | You wrap your tendrils around the creature's neck, solidifying that
Floyd | part of your body for just long enough to strangle your target. The
Floyd | architect's son now lies limp.
Floyd |
Floyd | The elder woman had screamed during the entire process. She slowly
Floyd | quiets, drops the dead infant, then withdraws into her mind. Now she
Floyd | is doing nothing but mumbling and rocking, staring ahead into
Floyd | nothingness.
Floyd |
Floyd | The younger wife stifles a scream. With every ounce of calm she can
Floyd | muster, she pulls her daughter out of the house and disappears from
Floyd | sight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat lamb" 		

Floyd ]  Architect's house                                    67
Floyd |
Floyd | > EAT LAMB
Floyd |
Floyd | You have no need to consume.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell lamb" 		

Floyd ]  Architect's house                                    68
Floyd |
Floyd | > SMELL LAMB
Floyd |
Floyd | You are incapable of smell, but you'd imagine the cooking lamb smells
Floyd | horrible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "So the whole killing a lamb thing is TOTALLY POINTLESS. Okay."
		genericgeekgirl says, "There's a whole *process*, and they did it wrong."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     69
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside of the architect's house
Floyd | No smoke escapes from the chimney at the roof. A freshly killed lamb
Floyd | lies unmoving on the ground, but you have managed to clean the blood
Floyd | from the door frame.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dwelling is just inside, the Pharaoh's palace is just to the
Floyd | north, the roof can be reached by going up, and your previous targets
Floyd | are back to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see some bloody wool.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "onto the palace, i assume"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Time to kill royalty."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Guarded entrance                                     70
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Guarded entrance
Floyd | At last you approach your final target. Sections of your cloud form
Floyd | from all over the city coalesce at this spot, their memories of each
Floyd | slaughter combining into one tangible creature. You are now physical,
Floyd | a terrifying and powerful avatar.
Floyd |
Floyd | A guard with an elaborate lamp and a spear stands trembling before
Floyd | you, but he is no threat. The grand Egyptian palace stands in the
Floyd | middle of the city.
Floyd |
Floyd | The steps of the palace lead inward to the Pharaoh's royal nursery.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd ]  Guarded entrance                                     71
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | With all of you concentrated in one spot, you are able to take a
Floyd | permanent physical form, a true avatar of the real power you
Floyd | represent.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "roar" 		

Floyd ]  Guarded entrance                                     71
Floyd |
Floyd | > ROAR
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x guard" 		

Floyd ]  Guarded entrance                                     72
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GUARD
Floyd |
Floyd | A frightened man uselessly wielding an elaborate lamp and a spear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "in" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hug guard" 		

Floyd ]  Royal nursery                                        73
Floyd |
Floyd | > IN
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Royal nursery
Floyd | As expected, the guard is unable to stop you. He stabs at you again
Floyd | and again with his spear, but you allow the blows to just pass right
Floyd | through you. He follows you anyway, looking for any weakness, but you
Floyd | show none. After some navigation through the palace, you arrive at the
Floyd | bedchamber of your final target: the Pharaoh's boy.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Pharaoh, ensnared in a mental trance, makes no move to stop you.
Floyd | His face is hardened and unmoving as he stands rooted in place,
Floyd | watching over a crib with his son in it. The guard stares at you
Floyd | helplessly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  Royal nursery                                        73
Floyd |
Floyd | > HUG GUARD
Floyd |
Floyd | Your orders are very strict, to only kill firstborn males. Are you
Floyd | sure you want to kill this creature anyway?

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Royal nursery                                        74
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh man."
		Zach says, "Aw, no hugs for us"
		mwmiller asks, "elaborate lamp and spear, AKA brass lantern and elven sword?"
		DavidW says, "oh, maybe"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kill son" 		

Floyd ]  Royal nursery                                        75
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL SON
Floyd |
Floyd | You wrap your tendrils around the creature's neck, solidifying that
Floyd | part of your body for just long enough to strangle your target. The
Floyd | Pharaoh's son now lies limp.
Floyd |
Floyd | Pharaoh's heart unhardens as the spell leaves his mind. His faculties
Floyd | returned, he turns with tear-filled eyes towards the body of his dead
Floyd | son, hands shaking with incredulity and terror. After a time, he
Floyd | speaks, "I... I would have let them go. I wanted to let them go.
Floyd | Something was controlling me. Something forced me to disagree. Why did
Floyd | I do this? Why?" He reaches out a hand to touch his cold son's
Floyd | forehead.
Floyd |
Floyd | Withdrawing his hand, he finally faces you, "Take your people and
Floyd | leave, quickly, please. I have seen the power, and I want it gone. I
Floyd | would not have this travesty repeated, for otherwise we will all
Floyd | perish. Please, go, and take any gold and wealth and riches you want
Floyd | for your people as well. Whatever it takes. Please, leave us in
Floyd | peace."
Floyd |
Floyd | With that he motions to the guard, who opens up a royal treasure
Floyd | storage to the east. The Pharaoh returns to standing over the
Floyd | firstborn's crib.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "uh, we're not in this for money"
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Royal nursery                                        75
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | With your full strength, you haul the spoils of gold and silver to the
Floyd | chosen people, who praise you for your gift. Your mission ended, you
Floyd | leave this earth and return to your astral plane. You rejoin the other
Floyd | angels in your creator's realm where you are filled with the knowledge
Floyd | that today justice and good has been exacted by your hand. You are
Floyd | made to feel... proud.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have won ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions
Floyd | for AMUSING things to do or QUIT?
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Speak for yourself."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Amusing?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "amusing" 		

Floyd ]  Royal nursery                                        75
Floyd |
Floyd | > AMUSING
Floyd |
Floyd | This game has a commentary mode, which can be enabled with the command
Floyd | "commentary", "commentary on" or simply "com" at any time.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions
Floyd | for AMUSING things to do or QUIT?
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "sure"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Replay with commentary?"
		mwmiller says, "'Made to feel proud', appropriately ambivalent."
		DavidW says, "yeah, com sounds good. Child's Play has a similar feature."
		zarf says, "I don't think this game adds much to the one-sentence summary in the ABOUT text"
		zarf says, "God of the Jews: kind of a jerk sometimes."
		DavidW says, "heh"
		Zach says, "I guess. I suppose the commentary will be 'the boy you just killed would have cured the black death. Oh well.'"
		Zach says, "Yeah, it sort of reminds me of the recent South Park episode."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restart" 		

Floyd | "I will go forth in the midst of Egypt; and all the first-born in
Floyd | the land of Egypt shall die... and there shall be a great cry
Floyd | throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor
Floyd | shall be like it any more." 
Floyd |
Floyd |  -Exodus: 11:4-6.

		
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd | You experience physical awareness as you are shoved into Earthly
Floyd | existence: a cloud of death and destruction surrounding the Egyptian
Floyd | city. Parts of you in other areas of the town have already begun the
Floyd | task of cleansing. The southernmost area of your consciousness floats
Floyd | closer to its first victim: the slave boy.

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "com" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the slave's hut                              1
Floyd |
Floyd | Tenth Plague
Floyd |
Floyd |  by lynnea dally
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the slave's hut
Floyd | Nestled in the rolling hills at the outskirts of town is a small reed
Floyd | hut belonging to a captured Hittite youth. This is the slave quarters
Floyd | for a local Egyptian cattle merchant. The flimsy door to the hut is
Floyd | closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The target is inside, and to the north the city continues. A path out
Floyd | of town leads to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "com" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the slave's hut                              1
Floyd |
Floyd | > COM
Floyd |
Floyd | Commentary mode has been enabled. Commentary nodes have been placed in
Floyd | rooms throughout the game. Go ahead and "examine" them to read about
Floyd | the game's creation process.
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the slave's hut
Floyd | Nestled in the rolling hills at the outskirts of town is a small reed
Floyd | hut belonging to a captured Hittite youth. This is the slave quarters
Floyd | for a local Egyptian cattle merchant. The flimsy door to the hut is
Floyd | closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The target is inside, and to the north the city continues. A path out
Floyd | of town leads to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see Node1.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I didn't know what exactly to expect from this game."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x node1" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the slave's hut                              2
Floyd |
Floyd | > X NODE1
Floyd |
Floyd | Each zone prevents you from going south, with a pseudo-choice that
Floyd | kills you and finishes the game's goals for you. Similarly, the
Floyd | command >SPARE gives the same results. Normally I'd like to avoid
Floyd | pseudo-choices, especially ones that effectively allows the game to
Floyd | complete itself for you, but I wanted to make it clear to the player
Floyd | that choosing to stand up, or choosing to refuse was a meaningless
Floyd | gesture; The cloud is endlessly determined and capable, and will
Floyd | always take over when you fail. This was a dangerous design decision,
Floyd | because it forces powerlessness on the PC's behalf, but that's the
Floyd | message I wanted to get across: resistance is not just futile, but
Floyd | infinitely meaningless. Part of the horror is in the unstoppable
Floyd | power.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ah."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I thought that said Nodel at first."
		DavidW says, "me too"
		DavidW says, "I was wondering who he was."
		DavidW says, "'I am Nodel, the storyteller. Please don't hurt me. I have stories.'"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Haha."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the slave's hut                               3
Floyd |
Floyd | > IN
Floyd |
Floyd | You sift through the large cracks in the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the slave's hut
Floyd | As you float inside, you see your first target: a sleeping Hittite
Floyd | male curled up next to a female. He's young, perhaps thirteen years of
Floyd | age. In his sleep he winces unconsciously at pain from whipping
Floyd | stripes on his back. Both he and his mate look extremely thin - the
Floyd | plagues have inflicted much suffering on all non-chosen. The slave
Floyd | breathes steadily next to his unsuspecting companion. Within the room
Floyd | itself you can see the belongings of the poor family: some reed
Floyd | sandals, coarse linen clothing, a grinding stone and a small conical
Floyd | hearth.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see Node2.
Floyd |
Floyd | The female slave draws her mate closer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x node2" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the slave's hut                               4
Floyd |
Floyd | > X NODE2
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the reasons I wanted to have a slave killed was to recreate
Floyd | a lesser-known aspect of the story: that not only are Egyptians being
Floyd | killed, but even other slaves as well ("...and the firstborn son of
Floyd | the handmaid..." Exodus 11:5). I wanted to draw attention to the
Floyd | additional moral absurdity from the story - not only are innocent
Floyd | children being killed, but innocent children who are in the exact same
Floyd | situation as the "heroes". This also gave me an opportunity to start
Floyd | the murders not quite so young (this slave is the oldest at around 13
Floyd | or so).
Floyd |
Floyd | The male slave stretches a leg.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Ellison has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hearth" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the slave's hut                               5
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HEARTH
Floyd |
Floyd | A small oven used to bake bread.
Floyd |
Floyd | The couple sleep together blissfully.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stone" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the slave's hut                               6
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STONE
Floyd |
Floyd | The woman will grind grains mixed with salt on that slab nearly all
Floyd | day to create enough bread flour to feed her and her partner. Its
Floyd | newness makes it look unused.
Floyd |
Floyd | The female slave turns over slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill male" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the slave's hut                               7
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL MALE
Floyd |
Floyd | You wrap your tendrils around the creature's neck, solidifying that
Floyd | part of your body for just long enough to strangle your target. The
Floyd | Hittite slave now lies limp.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sleeping female slave snores a bit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the slave's hut                               8
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Rest assured. If there are targets in that direction, other areas of
Floyd | your consciousness are assigned to deal with them.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sleeping female slave snores a bit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the slave's hut                              9
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You sift through the large cracks in the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the slave's hut
Floyd | Nestled in the rolling hills at the outskirts of town is a small reed
Floyd | hut belonging to a captured Hittite youth. This is the slave quarters
Floyd | for a local Egyptian cattle merchant. The flimsy door to the hut is
Floyd | closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The finished target is inside, and to the north the city continues. A
Floyd | path out of town leads to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see Node1.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the merchant's cottage                       10
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the merchant's cottage
Floyd | A cattle merchant's cottage. This adobe house is loud with sounds of
Floyd | many guests and much celebration. You can hear feasting and boasting
Floyd | and plenty of drinking. You don't see how you can enter quietly
Floyd | without alerting the whole party, and you still have the desired
Floyd | element of surprise.
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant's manger is to the east, the city continues to the north,
Floyd | and your finished target is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see Node3.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x node3" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the merchant's cottage                       11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X NODE3
Floyd |
Floyd | Having the merchant's wedding was a tough scene to create, after
Floyd | all the 5th plague was the death of all Egyptian cattle. But I wanted
Floyd | to stay true to the terms of the 10th plague, which includes firstborn
Floyd | cattle in the cleansing (Exodus 11:5). That seemed a bit of a
Floyd | contradiction, but my thoughts on how to incorporate that was to imply
Floyd | that the merchant had just started to restore his herd (which is why
Floyd | he had only one).
Floyd |
Floyd | Now of course, since his business has been ruined, the wedding is
Floyd | very stressful. He's trying to celebrate his son's marriage and flaunt
Floyd | his status, while hiding his worry about the economic future, as well
Floyd | as the legacy he will bestow upon his son. I wanted to make the
Floyd | merchant's mirth seem hollow and shadowed by economic worry, but I
Floyd | felt that the cloud would have had trouble picking up on or caring
Floyd | about that subtle nuance, which is why the formal title of the father
Floyd | is "wealthy merchant".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm. I didn't get all those nuances, but okay."
		DavidW says, "I don't actually remember the full set of plagues."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  A manger                                             12
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A manger
Floyd | Most Egyptians simply allow their cattle to graze in open fields, but
Floyd | this merchant has erected a manger as well. It is possible that his
Floyd | cattle were raised for sacrificial purposes, which would have made
Floyd | them more valuable. However, only a single scrawny cow lies sleeping
Floyd | in this manger.
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant's cottage is back around to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see Node4.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x node4" 		

Floyd ]  A manger                                             13
Floyd |
Floyd | > X NODE4
Floyd |
Floyd | Restricting the slaughter of the cow to only be possible with a
Floyd | throat cut was a small nod to the arbitrary rules of Kosher slaughter.
Floyd | This is, I suppose, the only "joke" in the game - That there is a God
Floyd | who wants to absolutely decimate these people even down to their
Floyd | livestock to take a grand revenge, but then is OCDing about the
Floyd | methods. I wrote this in when I had to take a break from describing
Floyd | the child deaths.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Lionheart says, "Um. Let's see, Nile to blood, flies, frogs, murrain, locusts, hail..."
		zarf says, "'I didn't enjoy writing this any more than you enjoyed playing it'"
		zarf says, "thanks"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut throat" 		

Floyd ]  A manger                                             14
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT THROAT
Floyd |
Floyd | You temporarily solidify one tendril and quickly draw it across the
Floyd | throat of the creature. The cow screams at the procedure, but quickly
Floyd | loses consciousness. The cow now lies limp as blood quickly exits its
Floyd | throat.
Floyd |
Floyd | The distressed call from the cow has roused the merchant. You can hear
Floyd | him drunkenly sending his son out to investigate the noise from the
Floyd | manger. He'll be here in a moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cow" 		

Floyd ]  A manger                                             15
Floyd |
Floyd | > X COW
Floyd |
Floyd | (the cow)
Floyd | A dead cow lies in a pool of its own blood, slaughtered according to
Floyd | the law.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can hear footsteps.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  A manger                                             16
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | (the cow)
Floyd | A dead cow lies in a pool of its own blood, slaughtered according to
Floyd | the law.
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant's son enters the manger. It takes him a moment to
Floyd | register what is going on with his livestock, but once he does he
Floyd | gurgles in fear, attempting to cry out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill son" 		

Floyd ]  A manger                                             17
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL SON
Floyd |
Floyd | You wrap your tendrils around the creature's neck, solidifying that
Floyd | part of your body for just long enough to strangle your target. The
Floyd | merchant's son now lies limp.
Floyd |
Floyd | He was unable to scream before you finished him. The party continues,
Floyd | unaware.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x son" 		

Floyd ]  A manger                                             18
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SON
Floyd |
Floyd | A young man lying dead on the floor, his rich robes soiled by cow
Floyd | filth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Ellison says, "ha ha"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search son" 		

Floyd ]  A manger                                             19
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH SON
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the merchant's cottage                       20
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the merchant's cottage
Floyd | A cattle merchant's cottage. This adobe house is loud with sounds of
Floyd | many guests and much celebration.
Floyd |
Floyd | The merchant's manger is to the east, the city continues to the north,
Floyd | and your finished target is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see Node3.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the shipwright's dwelling                 21
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside of the shipwright's dwelling
Floyd | Screams and curses are accumulating within the city as targets in
Floyd | other areas of your consciousness are successfully eliminated. There
Floyd | is such a great cry that fills the air, the likes of which have never
Floyd | been heard before.
Floyd |
Floyd | The household of your next target has blocked you out by sealing the
Floyd | door and window shut with wood and pitch. Their desperation is
Floyd | palpable.
Floyd |
Floyd | The shipwright's construction dock is to the northeast, and the city
Floyd | continues to the north, while your previous targets are back to the
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see Node5.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x node5" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the shipwright's dwelling                 22
Floyd |
Floyd | > X NODE5
Floyd |
Floyd | I started out my writing with extreme megalomania in the tone -
Floyd | "As the Hittite Slave crumples to the ground, you congratulate
Floyd | yourself on the righteous justice that has been done this day. His
Floyd | complacency with the enslavement of The Chosen has earned him this
Floyd | fate." and "disgusting heathens who deserved to see their young
Floyd | extinguished before their eyes for daring to interfere with His
Floyd | Orders, with His People. This is what they deserved for failing to
Floyd | open their eyes at each and every one of the previous Miracles." but I
Floyd | quickly realized that sort of detracted from the horror and chill of
Floyd | what was going on. It was a comic book villain, jumping up and down,
Floyd | screaming "I'm BAD, look at how I enjoy killing people!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Then I went with an unemotional tone instead. I treated all the
Floyd | deaths and scenery clinically, with a feeling of indifference and
Floyd | removal. I wanted to let the horror speak for itself, unclouded by
Floyd | dramatic over-acting or even a shred of empathy. I made the cloud
Floyd | uninterested in (or blind to) material objects and visceral emotions.
Floyd | While it gave the cloud an alien feel, it unintentionally gave the
Floyd | whole game a dry feeling.
Floyd |
Floyd | So in the end, I stayed with the alien feel, but gave the cloud
Floyd | some interest in its surroundings, and gave it some ability to discern
Floyd | emotion. I think it ended up being a good compromise that gave the
Floyd | game enough descriptive vibrance, while still giving off a very creepy
Floyd | emotional vibe. I didn't give the cloud any explicit emotional
Floyd | reactions though, (until the very end), leaving it up to the player to
Floyd | interpret how the cloud feels about this task, or if it feels at all.
Floyd | Even with the victory ending, I tried to make it ambiguous as to
Floyd | whether the cloud felt proud or was forced to feel proud.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Lionheart says, "lice, boils..."
		Lionheart says, "and darkness. And of course, the slaughter of the firstborn."
		Zach | I wanted to let the horror speak for itself
		genericgeekgirl says, "I am now envisioning the cloud as that little guy from the zoloft commercials."
		Zach says, "Except, of course, when I wanted explained the horror"
		DavidW asks, "everyone caught up?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yup."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]  Construction docks                                   23
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Construction docks
Floyd | Half-finished hulls of flat galleys are being built for river travel,
Floyd | in addition to one such burned gondola under repair. These docks are
Floyd | fairly close to the Nile to the east, but it's still a distance with
Floyd | the end of the flood season drawing closer. There is a pot of slowly
Floyd | cooling pitch; the shipwright took advantage of his own resources to
Floyd | seal himself and his family in. From this angle, you can see a chimney
Floyd | opening up at the top of the shipwright's dwelling.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go southwest to the shipwright's dwelling entrance or you
Floyd | could go south to the shipwright's roof.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Shipwright's roof                                    24
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Shipwright's roof
Floyd | From this vantage point on top of this adobe roof you can see that you
Floyd | are rapidly approaching the center of the advanced city.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a small hole leading down into the house, the docks are back
Floyd | to the north, and the street is back west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see Node6.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x node6" 		

Floyd ]  Shipwright's roof                                    25
Floyd |
Floyd | > X NODE6
Floyd |
Floyd | I did make some allusions to the previous plagues, which was
Floyd | something that was kind of contextually fun to include. It helped
Floyd | provide additional atmosphere, and served as a reminder that while you
Floyd | are a terrible curse and causing much pain and suffering, these
Floyd | Egyptians have been suffering for much longer than just this one
Floyd | night. So I included allusions to the water-blood curse, the plague of
Floyd | locusts, the frogs, the death of the cattle, and the plague of rashes.
Floyd | I didn't want to reference all the plagues, nor did I want to
Floyd | reference them too blatantly; I didn't want to seem like I was playing
Floyd | out an in-joke, but just adding contextual information.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the shipwright's dwelling                     26
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the shipwright's dwelling
Floyd | The sealing pitch blocking the door has been their downfall; they are
Floyd | unable to open the door to escape. The shipwright's wife screams and
Floyd | clutches her prepubescent child to herself as you descend from the
Floyd | chimney.
Floyd |
Floyd | The husband kneels before you and addresses you, "Please, please, we
Floyd | know not why you have come to visit upon us, but please spare us our
Floyd | son. My wife and I, we care for him dearly." You know you will be
Floyd | unable to comply, the decision is not yours to make.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door and the window at the west end of the room are still blocked
Floyd | with fresh pitch and wood, but the chimney leads back up to the roof.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see Node7.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x node7" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the shipwright's dwelling                     27
Floyd |
Floyd | > X NODE7
Floyd |
Floyd | If you haven't noticed, there are several ways to kill people as
Floyd | the cloud. You can garrote/strangle them, you can stab them, you can
Floyd | smite them, and most chillingly you can enter them. Sometimes you can
Floyd | use objects around you, but not too often. I think the inspiration for
Floyd | the entering kill move came from Michael Crichton's "Prey". I think
Floyd | the second most horrible way to die* would be suffocation by sentient
Floyd | particles. This kill option to me is the most horrific but most suited
Floyd | to the death cloud. It's just so terrifyingly heartless and cruel, but
Floyd | efficient.
Floyd |
Floyd | I also like the way it emphasizes that the cloud is not human, is
Floyd | not corporeal. I tried to take advantage of that alien form as often
Floyd | as possible. By the way, there are two ways to solve this puzzle:
Floyd | approach the pitch door and catch it ablaze or enter the boy and avoid
Floyd | the problem of the torch altogether. I originally emphasized the
Floyd | burning solution, but the entering one seems much more fitting.
Floyd |
Floyd | *The first most horrible way to die would be being eaten alive by
Floyd | zombies.
Floyd |
Floyd | The father begs with you for the life of his son, "We'll do anything,"
Floyd | while the wife clutches the mumbling boy close to her chest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "hm. So what command is 'approach the pitch door and catch it ablaze'?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to door" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the shipwright's dwelling                     28
Floyd |
Floyd | > GO TO DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You move towards the pitch-covered door, but it's blocked just as
Floyd | thoroughly from inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | The father begs with you for the life of his son, "He's never hurt
Floyd | anyone. He's a good kid," while the wife clutches the mumbling boy
Floyd | close to her chest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill son" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the shipwright's dwelling                     29
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL SON
Floyd |
Floyd | You move in for the kill, but you are halted by the shipwright's
Floyd | desperate and furious scream. You observe as he grabs a nearby pitch
Floyd | torch and lights it, brandishing the weapon at you in a menacing
Floyd | fashion. The child, too petrified to scream, begins to hyperventilate;
Floyd | you can feel his ragged breath push and pull against your gaseous
Floyd | form.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to door" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the shipwright's dwelling                     30
Floyd |
Floyd | > GO TO DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You move closer towards the pitch-covered door and window. In the
Floyd | shipwright's desperation, he moves his torch too close to the
Floyd | flammable pitch. The dark substance catches fire, forcing the man to
Floyd | retreat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "approach door" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the shipwright's dwelling                     30
Floyd |
Floyd | > APPROACH DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill son" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the shipwright's dwelling                     31
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL SON
Floyd |
Floyd | You wrap your tendrils around the creature's neck, solidifying that
Floyd | part of your body for just long enough to strangle your target. The
Floyd | shipwright's son now lies limp.
Floyd |
Floyd | The husband and wife howl in primal horror as they see their son
Floyd | rendered lifeless in front of their eyes. The heartbroken pair,
Floyd | defeated, drop to their knees and huddle, weeping over the body of
Floyd | their son.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "ah"
		mwmiller says, "What, and just leave the pitch burning? Pfpfpfpft."
		DavidW says, "sorry"
		DavidW says, "I'll ask cloud 3579 to put it out."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]  Shipwright's roof                                    32
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Shipwright's roof
Floyd | From this vantage point on top of this adobe roof you can see that you
Floyd | are rapidly approaching the center of the advanced city.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a small hole leading down into the house, the docks are back
Floyd | to the north, and the street is back west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see Node6.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Construction docks                                   33
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Construction docks
Floyd | Half-finished hulls of flat galleys are being built for river travel,
Floyd | in addition to one such burned gondola under repair. These docks are
Floyd | fairly close to the Nile to the east. There is a pot of slowly cooling
Floyd | pitch.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can go southwest to the shipwright's dwelling entrance or you
Floyd | could go south to the shipwright's roof.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the shipwright's dwelling                 34
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside of the shipwright's dwelling
Floyd | The adobe hut is filled with the wailing of a mourning family.
Floyd |
Floyd | The shipwright's construction dock is to the northeast, the door east
Floyd | to the inside has been burned open, the roof is back up, and the city
Floyd | continues to the north, while your previous targets are back to the
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see Node5.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the chosen's house                           35
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the chosen's house
Floyd | A chosen household, the frame of the door has been covered in fresh
Floyd | lamb blood and you can tell that the inhabitants within have cooked
Floyd | and eaten the lamb. This household is to be spared.
Floyd |
Floyd | The city continues to the north while your previous targets are back
Floyd | to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see Node8.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x node8" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the chosen's house                           36
Floyd |
Floyd | > X NODE8
Floyd |
Floyd | Many of the typical useless actions (eat, jump, sing) were
Floyd | re-written to fit the cloud's form. But one of the more interesting
Floyd | changes I made was in the "wait" or "z" command which shifts your
Floyd | mental focus elsewhere as you loiter. Pausing gave a unique
Floyd | opportunity to remind the player that the sentient cloud was
Floyd | completing similar objectives all over the city. It was also another
Floyd | opportunity to remind the player of the functioning of the cloud's
Floyd | hive mind, a kind of consciousness completely foreign to us. I
Floyd | envision the cloud like a sort of nanotechnology nightmare -
Floyd | unthinkingly focused on its purpose, swarming everywhere within the
Floyd | city. It also gave the opportunity to showcase more heartless,
Floyd | gut-wrenching murder scenarios, like the street urchin's death and the
Floyd | mother's pre-emptive infanticide.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take wool" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the chosen's house                           36
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE WOOL
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lamb" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the chosen's house                           37
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LAMB
Floyd |
Floyd | A loose wooden door that is being protected by a bloody holy ward.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     38
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside of the architect's house
Floyd | As you approach the house of your next target, you realize something
Floyd | is wrong. The door is protected by a holy mark, but this family should
Floyd | not be spared. Judging by the incompleteness of the ritual, they
Floyd | hastily copied the appearance of the chosen household to the south.
Floyd | But their actions were not enough, you might be able to still reach
Floyd | them if you could remove the mark.
Floyd |
Floyd | Thick, black cooking smoke billows from this house's roof. A freshly
Floyd | killed lamb lies unmoving on the ground, and lamb's blood adorns the
Floyd | house.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dwelling is just inside, the Pharaoh's palace is just to the
Floyd | north, the roof can be reached by going up, and your previous targets
Floyd | are back to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see Node9.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x node9" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     39
Floyd |
Floyd | > X  NODE9
Floyd |
Floyd | The biggest technical trouble of this game was coming up with
Floyd | reasonable obstacles, which in part accounts for its shortness. It's
Floyd | not easy to even hinder a god, but these people certainly did try. One
Floyd | of the things testers asked about the most was the bloody door ritual:
Floyd | what was the point of the ritual if you could still get attacked?
Floyd | Well, technically the complete ritual also calls for the household to
Floyd | roast and eat the lamb (Exodus 12:8-10). I took some liberties and
Floyd | interpreted that as the blood protecting the building, with the meat
Floyd | protecting the individual. Now this family hadn't eaten the lamb
Floyd | (having started cooking too late) and were therefore caught with only
Floyd | the house protected. It's definitely one of the more obscure parts of
Floyd | the story, but it gave me an opportunity to create a surmountable
Floyd | barrier, so I used it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take wool" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     40
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE WOOL
Floyd |
Floyd | With effort, you solidify a few of your smoke tendrils, wrap yourself
Floyd | around the wool, and separate a chunk from the flesh.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop it" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     41
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP IT
Floyd |
Floyd | Node9 is already here.
Floyd |
Floyd | It takes too much effort to maintain your solid form long enough to
Floyd | continue carrying the wool. You drop it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]  Architect's roof                                     42
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Architect's roof
Floyd | The adobe roof of a wealthy Egyptian, from here you can see how very
Floyd | close you are to your final goal of the place. On top of this roof,
Floyd | you can hear the worried whispers of women from within. You need a way
Floyd | to distract them. The chimney is bellowing out smoke from lamb being
Floyd | cooked. Part of the roof is in need of repair, because there's a slab
Floyd | of loose roofing. The entire surface of the adobe roof is filled with
Floyd | the corpses of dead locusts.
Floyd |
Floyd | The street is back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see Node10.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x node10" 		

Floyd ]  Architect's roof                                     43
Floyd |
Floyd | > X NODE10
Floyd |
Floyd | Interestingly enough, what gave me the inspiration for this game
Floyd | was actually some other religious interactive fiction games. It got me
Floyd | thinking about all the amazing material this open source could
Floyd | provide, and how I could create a horror-themed Bible game, one that
Floyd | did not pretty up the texts or celebrate a triumph. I wanted to work
Floyd | with something tragic, something horrific, but still something
Floyd | relatively well-known. But it did end up being pretty horrific.
Floyd |
Floyd | This was a tough game to write, mentally. I had to first put
Floyd | myself into the minds these people experiencing the most horrific
Floyd | event of any person's life. I then had to take that heart-wrenching
Floyd | experience and dull it down into a somewhat clinical description to
Floyd | match the cloud's perceptions. There were a few times when I had to
Floyd | take a break just to stay level.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take slab" 		

Floyd ]  Architect's roof                                     44
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE SLAB
Floyd |
Floyd | With effort, you solidify some tendrils to grasp the loose roofing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put slab on chimney" 		

Floyd ]  Architect's roof                                     45
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SLAB ON CHIMNEY
Floyd |
Floyd | You block off the escaping smoke with the loose roofing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     46
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside of the architect's house
Floyd | No smoke escapes from the chimney at the roof. A freshly killed lamb
Floyd | lies unmoving on the ground, and lamb's blood adorns the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dwelling is just inside, the Pharaoh's palace is just to the
Floyd | north, the roof can be reached by going up, and your previous targets
Floyd | are back to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see some wool and Node9.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no sound yet of anything amiss, but the smoke building up
Floyd | should soon take effect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take wool" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     47
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE WOOL
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | Unaware that you have closed off the chimney, the inhabitants start
Floyd | coughing. Slowly at first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wipe mark" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     48
Floyd |
Floyd | > WIPE MARK
Floyd |
Floyd | You press the wool against the bloody door frame. Distracted by the
Floyd | smoke, nobody prevents you from finishing your task. The door is now
Floyd | un-warded, but the fitfulness of the coughing is palpable. If they
Floyd | don't get fresh air soon, they will all die.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     49
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You wedge yourself between the door and the frame and temporarily
Floyd | solidify against the door, pushing it open. Opening the door releases
Floyd | the smoke from within the household, allowing the coughing inhabitants
Floyd | to catch their breath.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" 		

Floyd ]  Architect's house                                    50
Floyd |
Floyd | > IN
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Architect's house
Floyd | This must be a very well-off architect, his stone house is decorated
Floyd | with tile floors and painted walls. Two women, both wives of the
Floyd | architect, inhabit this dwelling. Curiously, the father is not here.
Floyd | The oldest wife silently clasps a male toddler. The younger wife is
Floyd | covering the eyes and ears of her own daughter whispering words of
Floyd | comfort. There is some uncooked lamb in the hearth.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door leads out to the street.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see Node11.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "stab toddler" 		

Floyd ]  Architect's house                                    51
Floyd |
Floyd | > STAB TODDLER
Floyd |
Floyd | You temporarily solidify one tendril and quickly draw it across the
Floyd | throat of the creature. The architect's son now lies limp as blood
Floyd | quickly exits its throat.
Floyd |
Floyd | The elder woman had screamed during the entire process. She slowly
Floyd | quiets, drops the dead infant, then withdraws into her mind. Now she
Floyd | is doing nothing but mumbling and rocking, staring ahead into
Floyd | nothingness.
Floyd |
Floyd | The younger wife stifles a scream. With every ounce of calm she can
Floyd | muster, she pulls her daughter out of the house and disappears from
Floyd | sight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x node11" 		

Floyd ]  Architect's house                                    52
Floyd |
Floyd | > X NODE11
Floyd |
Floyd | I made this room predominately female for several reasons. First
Floyd | of all, I wanted to remind the player at all opportunities that this
Floyd | was a different culture (one where polygamy was common and a sign of
Floyd | wealth). Second of all I wanted to address a gender unevenness. I
Floyd | didn't want to create one of those odd worlds where the men vastly
Floyd | outnumber the women, so I added another wife.
Floyd |
Floyd | But most importantly, with the inclusion of the older sister, I
Floyd | wanted to address the sexism of the curse. The plague is about killing
Floyd | firstborn males, so does that mean killing male babies supposedly more
Floyd | cruel than other-gendered babies? It seems ridiculous that killing
Floyd | female babies is somehow seen as less damaging to the parents. I would
Floyd | also have liked to have played with the technical bounds of this edict
Floyd | (would a transgendered FTM baby have counted? How about an Intersex
Floyd | baby?) but I figured that would take too much time to explain and
Floyd | might have detracted from the thrust of the horror. But, my queer
Floyd | brethren you get your honorable mention here!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "well, if nothing else, that reminded me of the AGT game description I read recently with a lesbian protagonist."
		DavidW says, "'Murder at the Folkestone Inn'"
		DavidW says, "Unfortunately I don't know how to run AGT games under Windows 7."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Architect's house                                    53
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Rest assured. If there are targets in that direction, other areas of
Floyd | your consciousness are assigned to deal with them.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     54
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside of the architect's house
Floyd | No smoke escapes from the chimney at the roof. A freshly killed lamb
Floyd | lies unmoving on the ground, but you have managed to clean the blood
Floyd | from the door frame.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dwelling is just inside, the Pharaoh's palace is just to the
Floyd | north, the roof can be reached by going up, and your previous targets
Floyd | are back to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see some bloody wool and Node9.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wool" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     55
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WOOL
Floyd |
Floyd | A chunk of bloody wool.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl | The parser is slightly more responsive than my cat.
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ha" 		

Floyd ]  Outside of the architect's house                     55
Floyd |
Floyd | > HA
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Guarded entrance                                     56
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Guarded entrance
Floyd | At last you approach your final target. Sections of your cloud form
Floyd | from all over the city coalesce at this spot, their memories of each
Floyd | slaughter combining into one tangible creature. You are now physical,
Floyd | a terrifying and powerful avatar.
Floyd |
Floyd | A guard with an elaborate lamp and a spear stands trembling before
Floyd | you, but he is no threat. The grand Egyptian palace stands in the
Floyd | middle of the city.
Floyd |
Floyd | The steps of the palace lead inward to the Pharaoh's royal nursery.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see Node12.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x nod12" 		

Floyd ]  Guarded entrance                                     56
Floyd |
Floyd | > X NOD12
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "o node12" 		

Floyd ]  Guarded entrance                                     57
Floyd |
Floyd | > O NODE12
Floyd |
Floyd | I never wanted to rely on players to know all the bits of history
Floyd | about the plague/plagues, but one part of the story was too
Floyd | interesting not to reference semi-blindly. According to the story,
Floyd | this firstborn-death-plague was only to be a punishment if the Pharaoh
Floyd | refused to free the Israeli slaves. The Pharaoh had actually firmly
Floyd | agreed to allow the Israeli Exodus, but then Yahweh "hardened
Floyd | Pharaoh's heart" (mentally bewitched Pharaoh) and forced him to
Floyd | continue holding them captive so that "God's wonders may be multiplied
Floyd | in the land of Egypt" (so that God could show off) (Exodus 4:21,
Floyd | Exodus 11:10). This, I think, is the most cruel of all the firstborn
Floyd | deaths: imagine being forced under an enchantment to cause the death
Floyd | of your own child. I initially gave the job of heart-hardening to one
Floyd | last small wisp of the cloud's consciousness, but it was too much
Floyd | trouble trying to explain what was going on (and detracted from the
Floyd | events going on at the moment), so I dropped that.
Floyd |
Floyd | I also semi-blindly referenced the spoiling/looting of Egypt ("and
Floyd | ye shall spoil the Egyptians" Exodus 3:22), another aspect of the
Floyd | story that I think is not as well known. I gave that job to the cloud,
Floyd | even though it seems as though the spoiling was carried out by the
Floyd | Israelites, just to give the finale a perversion on the traditional
Floyd | Triumph of Riches adventure game ending.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Ellison says, "Agility is part of Gargoyle. or you could use the Windows port of Agility."
		DavidW says, "well, I was trying to run Shades of Gray, and I think that was bundled as an .exe, but perhaps other games are more accessible."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x guard" 		

Floyd ]  Guarded entrance                                     58
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GUARD
Floyd |
Floyd | A frightened man uselessly wielding an elaborate lamp and a spear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lamp" 		

Floyd ]  Guarded entrance                                     59
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LAMP
Floyd |
Floyd | A flame in an ornate glass box.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x spear" 		

Floyd ]  Guarded entrance                                     60
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SPEAR
Floyd |
Floyd | A piercing weapon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push guard" 		

Floyd ]  Guarded entrance                                     61
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH GUARD
Floyd |
Floyd | People only need to be killed or spared.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "spare guard" 		

Floyd ]  Guarded entrance                                     62
Floyd |
Floyd | > SPARE GUARD
Floyd |
Floyd | This creature is already supposed to be spared.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Royal nursery                                        63
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Royal nursery
Floyd | As expected, the guard is unable to stop you. He stabs at you again
Floyd | and again with his spear, but you allow the blows to just pass right
Floyd | through you. He follows you anyway, looking for any weakness, but you
Floyd | show none. After some navigation through the palace, you arrive at the
Floyd | bedchamber of your final target: the Pharaoh's boy.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Pharaoh, ensnared in a mental trance, makes no move to stop you.
Floyd | His face is hardened and unmoving as he stands rooted in place,
Floyd | watching over a crib with his son in it. The guard stares at you
Floyd | helplessly.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see Node13.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pharaoh" 		

Floyd ]  Royal nursery                                        64
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PHARAOH
Floyd |
Floyd | Decked in heavy gold jewelry and ceremonial royal garb, the Pharaoh is
Floyd | wearing day-old black eye makeup and completely melted wax perfume.
Floyd | It's clear that he has been without sleep the past day. Pharaoh
Floyd | stands, ensorceled and unmoving over the crib of his baby.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x node13" 		

Floyd ]  Royal nursery                                        65
Floyd |
Floyd | > X NODE13
Floyd |
Floyd | Now luckily for the babies of Ancient Egypt, this is one of the
Floyd | bible stories that is more than likely just an allegory (as opposed to
Floyd | say, the siege of Jerusalem, which can be confirmed by Babylonian
Floyd | records). Whatever you may think about the rest of The Bible is
Floyd | irrelevant, but treating this as any other historical event claim, we
Floyd | can check the Egyptian records and see that Egypt did not have a
Floyd | period of strife where they were beset by bloody water, lice, flies,
Floyd | death of all cattle, hail, locusts, frogs, boils, unnatural darkness,
Floyd | or a systemic death of firstborns (and the Egyptians kept very good
Floyd | written records). Surely this would have been important enough to
Floyd | write down, especially since in the story Yahweh claimed these
Floyd | miracles were to impress upon the Egyptians His awesome power (Exodus
Floyd | 9:14), but there are no such Egyptian documents.
Floyd |
Floyd | Interestingly, It's likely that even the large population exodus
Floyd | from Egypt never happened to begin with, as Egypt doesn't have a
Floyd | record of hundreds of thousands of Hebrew slaves (Numbers 1:46) living
Floyd | in Egypt for a period of 400 years(Exodus 12:40).* Furthermore, the
Floyd | archaeological evidence for the origin of the Israelites themselves
Floyd | does not support an exodus, but rather a tribal formation from within
Floyd | or near Canaan, as they have similar pottery and alphabets.
Floyd |
Floyd | There have been many attempts to rationalize and explain how the
Floyd | plagues could have happened historically/scientifically from people
Floyd | who have a vested interest in the story being literally true, but many
Floyd | of those attempts require stretches of the imagination, and a comfort
Floyd | with a lack of good records. But there's not really a reason to take
Floyd | those rationalizations seriously until better documented corroborating
Floyd | evidence is brought up (again, like the extra-biblical evidence for
Floyd | the sieges of Jerusalem). So we can rest assured that while this is a
Floyd | very scary story, it is likely just that - a story.
Floyd |  *The Egyptians did not use foreign slaves to create their
Floyd | pyramids, but instead a labor tax was imposed on local workers during
Floyd | the farming off season.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crib" 		

Floyd ]  Royal nursery                                        66
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CRIB
Floyd |
Floyd | A miniature bed with a name engraved, and circled with a royal crest.
Floyd | The crib is housing the Pharaoh's baby boy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read name" 		

Floyd ]  Royal nursery                                        67
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ NAME
Floyd |
Floyd | The name itself is unimportant. It's a target.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "Nothing personal, saith the Lord, just business."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter child" 		

Floyd ]  Royal nursery                                        68
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER CHILD
Floyd |
Floyd | You shove your gaseous form down the victim's nose and throat, filling
Floyd | his lungs with your toxicity. Your target flails, attempting to
Floyd | breathe and cough you out, but to no avail. The Pharaoh's son now lies
Floyd | limp.
Floyd |
Floyd | Pharaoh's heart unhardens as the spell leaves his mind. His faculties
Floyd | returned, he turns with tear-filled eyes towards the body of his dead
Floyd | son, hands shaking with incredulity and terror. After a time, he
Floyd | speaks, "I... I would have let them go. I wanted to let them go.
Floyd | Something was controlling me. Something forced me to disagree. Why did
Floyd | I do this? Why?" He reaches out a hand to touch his cold son's
Floyd | forehead.
Floyd |
Floyd | Withdrawing his hand, he finally faces you, "Take your people and
Floyd | leave, quickly, please. I have seen the power, and I want it gone. I
Floyd | would not have this travesty repeated, for otherwise we will all
Floyd | perish. Please, go, and take any gold and wealth and riches you want
Floyd | for your people as well. Whatever it takes. Please, leave us in
Floyd | peace."
Floyd |
Floyd | With that he motions to the guard, who opens up a royal treasure
Floyd | storage to the east. The Pharaoh returns to standing over the
Floyd | firstborn's crib.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask pharoah about child" 		

Floyd ]  Royal nursery                                        69
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK PHAROAH ABOUT CHILD
Floyd |
Floyd | You try to speak, but you have no vocal chords. No sound comes out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Guarded entrance                                     70
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Guarded entrance
Floyd | The grand Egyptian palace stands in the middle of the city.
Floyd |
Floyd | The steps of the palace lead inward to the Pharaoh's royal nursery.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see Node12.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Royal nursery                                        71
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Royal nursery
Floyd | The Pharaoh leans over his son's crib, shaking as he sobs. The guard
Floyd | stares at you helplessly.
Floyd |
Floyd | A passage to the east leads into a treasure vault.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see Node13.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Royal nursery                                        71
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | With your full strength, you haul the spoils of gold and silver to the
Floyd | chosen people, who praise you for your gift. Your mission ended, you
Floyd | leave this earth and return to your astral plane. You rejoin the other
Floyd | angels in your creator's realm where you are filled with the knowledge
Floyd | that today justice and good has been exacted by your hand. You are
Floyd | made to feel... proud.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have won ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions
Floyd | for AMUSING things to do or QUIT?
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "well. Anyone have a more cheerful game to suggest for next time?"
		mwmiller asks, "You mean...besides...anything?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Cursed, clearly. You get to play a rat for part of it :)"
		DavidW says, "well, there are games were the PC considers suicide."
		Lionheart says, "I like it. There should be more games about the Bible's moral depravity. :)"
		zarf says, "not if they're going to be this snotty about it"
		DavidW asks, "snotty?"
		zarf says, "yes."
		Lionheart says, "Well, the snottiness is mostly in the commentary track, so I wouldn't hold that against the game proper"
		zarf says, "and I say that as a Jewish atheist"
		mwmiller says, "Snotty? Naw. Reach exceeds grasp stylistically, certainly."
		DavidW says, "The treasure ending felt wrong to me, but otherwise the game seemed to be a reasonable attempt at the story."


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ClubFloyd Transcript:
Changes by David Given
As played on ifMUD on December 2, 2012

The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction.

Below is a transcript of Changes written by David Given. Changes was released as part of the 2012 Interactive Fiction Competition, in which it took fourth place. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki.

WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page.
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		maga says, "okay, arbitrarily I'm going to say Changes and we can revisit GY next week if people want to try it"
		Ellison says, "I also have beaten both games and won't be contributing. Guilded Youth is the easier, shorter game, and Changes is the longer, more challenging one, if that affects people's decisions"
		Ellison says (to maga), "ok"
		maga says, "grmf where's the upload thing"
maga says (to Floyd), "load changes" 		

Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You wake and see blood.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's blood everywhere. So much blood, that at first you don't
Floyd | realise there's a figure behind the blood. It's alive, just; there's a
Floyd | face, twisted with pain, and more blood that bubbles from its mouth as
Floyd | it breathes, and a hand that spasms as it tries to paw at the thing
Floyd | projecting from where a chest should be. The eyes gaze into yours.
Floyd | There is still life and desperation there, but it it knows that it is
Floyd | quickly running out.
Floyd |
Floyd | You want to help. You reach out --- and that is when you realise that
Floyd | you are looking into the inside of the reflective cockpit canopy, and
Floyd | that the face you can see is yours.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		
maga pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Changes
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by David Given
Floyd | Release 8 / Serial number 120930 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N) S
Floyd |
Floyd | You wake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Something's different.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cocoon
Floyd | You are immersed in a warm, comforting heap of something soft. It
Floyd | envelops you like an old blanket.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm. I've already played this, so I guess I'm just watching today."
		Zach says, "I haven't yet"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x cocoon" 		

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "although I didn't quite finish."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x heap" 		

Floyd | It's not dissimilar to cotton wool, although feels both more fibrous
Floyd | and less clinging.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd | You fight your way free of the cottony stuff. Dim light blinds you for
Floyd | a moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest Cathedral
Floyd | The trees here are huge: massive columnar towers rising out of the soft
Floyd | green turf to support the dense leaf canopy above. Golden rays angle
Floyd | down between the trees, filling the vast space with dim light, and
Floyd | reflecting off the river that runs down the east side. The air seems
Floyd | permeated with peacefulness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Large green cocoons are attached to the bases of some of the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb out of the pile of fluff to find it's heaped on a low, leafy
Floyd | dais. As you step off, the dais silently folds closed behind you to
Floyd | become one of the cocoons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I sorta ended up killing my character without a useful save point."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x cocoons" 		

Floyd | On closer inspection, the cocoons are actually growing out of the
Floyd | trees. They're hard balls of veiny green leaves of all different sizes,
Floyd | from half a metre to several metres in diameter. You're not sure which
Floyd | one you climbed out of.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x open cocoon" 		

Floyd | On closer inspection, the cocoons are actually growing out of the
Floyd | trees. They're hard balls of veiny green leaves of all different sizes,
Floyd | from half a metre to several metres in diameter. You're not sure which
Floyd | one you climbed out of.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "And I never quite figured out something crucial; hopefully you guys will show me what step I missed."
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "open cocoon" 		

Floyd | (the closed cocoons)
Floyd | They open and close by themselves.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "tickle cocoon" 		

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, ">SEARCH FOR WILFORD BRIMLEY"
		Lionheart says, "cootchy cocoon"
Zach says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd | You aren't carrying anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "about" 		

Floyd | Changes is a game by David Given. This is the IFComp 2012 edition.
Floyd |
Floyd | If you're new to interactive fiction, I would strongly suggest visiting
Floyd | a website such as [LINK], which will explain what it's
Floyd | all about and what the commands are.
Floyd |
Floyd | As basic advice for playing Changes: the game can be completed using
Floyd | simple verb-noun commands. If you find yourself trying to do things
Floyd | with other things, or putting stuff on top of other stuff, you may want
Floyd | to try reconsidering your approach.
Floyd |
Floyd | This game is polite by the Zarfian Cruelty Scale. There are occasions
Floyd | when the game can become uncompletable but it's totally obvious when
Floyd | this has happened.
Floyd |
Floyd | If you have any comments or feedback or cakes, please send them to
Floyd | dg@cowlark.com.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" 		

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm. I'd say it's more Tough than Polite."
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd | You walk over to the water and study your reflection. The river is wide
Floyd | and dark, and in the dim light makes an almost perfect mirror.
Floyd |
Floyd | Rather than the face you were expecting --- a battered one, but human
Floyd | --- you instead see a furry snout with bulbous eyes on each side and a
Floyd | wide mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | You recognise it from the survey report: the temporary name tagged on
Floyd | the creature is rabbit, for fairly obvious reasons. Numbly, you find
Floyd | yourself interested that you're finally seeing one up close.
Floyd |
Floyd | It's definitely you. Now you're actually noticing, it's perfectly
Floyd | apparent that the body you're inhabiting is not your own. The fact that
Floyd | it feels totally natural is strangely unnerving.
Floyd |
Floyd | But that still doesn't explain how, or why, although you can make a
Floyd | decent guess at where.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x trees" 		

Floyd | Your gaze slowly follows the tree trunks up to the canopy far overhead.
Floyd | It's an awesome sight. You've never seen anything this big that was
Floyd | alive before. At least, not in person. You recognise it from the
Floyd | Concerto's survey photographs: it's a Mother Tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Mother Tree is, according to the Concerto, a commensal plant which
Floyd | is semi-symbiotic on the surrounding wildlife. Actually getting more
Floyd | details was like pulling hen's teeth; the ship wouldn't answer
Floyd | questions about them, and the survey department seemed to be almost
Floyd | frightened. Eventually you managed to push enough alcohol down Francis
Floyd | so that he muttered something about taking life with one hand and
Floyd | giving it back with the other before he clammed up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "You can get into deadly situations where it's not obvious for sure you've screwed the pooch for several turns."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x river" 		

Floyd | The river is wide and dark, and in the dim light makes an almost
Floyd | perfect mirror.
Floyd |
Floyd | Yes, still a rabbit. You stare in horrified fascination for a few
Floyd | moments.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky arrives, full of fun and funk. 		
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd | The canopy is so dense that it's almost like wicker, and is completely
Floyd | impossible to push through. The only ways out seems to be the low
Floyd | arches to the north and south where the river passes through.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd | Just as you're about to move, you see motion at the northern edge of
Floyd | the Mother Tree. In panic, you dive behind a tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | A shape emerges from the light of the river arch: one rabbit dragging
Floyd | another. The one that is doing the pulling is a bit bigger than you
Floyd | are, and marked in black and white. The one on the ground... is
Floyd | obviously dead, eyes staring, grey fur tattered and muddy. It's heavy
Floyd | and awkward and the black and white rabbit is having difficulty moving
Floyd | it.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you watch, one of the green cocoons silently splits open and
Floyd | unfolds. The black and white rabbit glances in your direction and then
Floyd | continues dragging the corpse after it into the cocoon.
Floyd |
Floyd | ...the rabbit knows very little, but it knows this: its companion was
Floyd | once alive, and is now dead. And it wants it to be alive. This cannot
Floyd | happen, but there is a way they can be reunited, and the Mother Tree is
Floyd | kind. The rabbit is old and tired but it has enough strength to do
Floyd | this, and so it drags the rigid corpse to the Mother Tree. The strange
Floyd | zombie rabbit is watching it, but that is unimportant now. All there is
Floyd | left to do is wait.
Floyd |
Floyd | ...what just happened?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "oh, the italics aren't showing up. We didn't do sleepmask, I assume?"
		Zach says, "Nope"
		Zach asks (of DavidW), "Do you remember if the status line is important?"
		Lionheart says, "If Italics are going to be significant, let's restart with sleepmask, we're only a few turns in."
		DavidW says, "I don't think the status line is important, no, but it would be nice to tell when the italics text is happening, because it's like you're remembering something from someone else's mind."
		DavidW says, "yeah, I'd suggest restarting."
		maga says, "yeah, sorry about that"
		maga says, "it's been a bit of a hurried morning"
		Zach says, "That's OK"
		Zach says, "The zombie rabbits will be waiting for us"
Zach says (to Floyd), "quit" 		

Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "y" 		

Floyd |

		
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" 		Zach asks, "'load sleepmask changes' ?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		
Floyd says (to Zach), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." 		Zach says, "Damn rhetorical robots"
Zach says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask changes" 		

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You wake and see blood.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's blood everywhere. So much blood, that at first you don't
Floyd | realise there's a figure behind the blood. It's alive, just; there's a
Floyd | face, twisted with pain, and more blood that bubbles from its mouth as
Floyd | it breathes, and a hand that spasms as it tries to paw at the thing
Floyd | projecting from where a chest should be. The eyes gaze into yours.
Floyd | There is still life and desperation there, but it it knows that it is
Floyd | quickly running out.
Floyd |
Floyd | You want to help. You reach out --- and that is when you realise that
Floyd | you are looking into the inside of the reflective cockpit canopy, and
Floyd | that the face you can see is yours.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		
Touchy arrives, full of fun, but no funk. 		
Zach pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Cocoon
Floyd |
Floyd | Changes
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by David Given
Floyd | Release 8 / Serial number 120930 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N) S
Floyd |
Floyd | You wake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Something's different.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cocoon
Floyd | You are immersed in a warm, comforting heap of something soft. It
Floyd | envelops you like an old blanket.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You fight your way free of the cottony stuff. Dim light blinds you for
Floyd | a moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest Cathedral
Floyd | The trees here are huge: massive columnar towers rising out of the
Floyd | soft green turf to support the dense leaf canopy above. Golden rays
Floyd | angle down between the trees, filling the vast space with dim light,
Floyd | and reflecting off the river that runs down the east side. The air
Floyd | seems permeated with peacefulness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Large green cocoons are attached to the bases of some of the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb out of the pile of fluff to find it's heaped on a low, leafy
Floyd | dais. As you step off, the dais silently folds closed behind you to
Floyd | become one of the cocoons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy asks, "Is this sundays now?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | No, you're not going anywhere just yet. Something's wrong.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You walk over to the water and study your reflection. The river is
Floyd | wide and dark, and in the dim light makes an almost perfect mirror.
Floyd |
Floyd | Rather than the face you were expecting --- a battered one, but human
Floyd | --- you instead see a furry snout with bulbous eyes on each side and a
Floyd | wide mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | You recognise it from the survey report: the temporary name tagged on
Floyd | the creature is rabbit, for fairly obvious reasons. Numbly,
Floyd | you find yourself interested that you're finally seeing one up close.
Floyd |
Floyd | It's definitely you. Now you're actually noticing, it's
Floyd | perfectly apparent that the body you're inhabiting is not your own.
Floyd | The fact that it feels totally natural is strangely unnerving.
Floyd |
Floyd | But that still doesn't explain how, or why, although you can make a
Floyd | decent guess at where.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | Just as you're about to move, you see motion at the northern edge of
Floyd | the Mother Tree. In panic, you dive behind a tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | A shape emerges from the light of the river arch: one rabbit dragging
Floyd | another. The one that is doing the pulling is a bit bigger than you
Floyd | are, and marked in black and white. The one on the ground... is
Floyd | obviously dead, eyes staring, grey fur tattered and muddy. It's heavy
Floyd | and awkward and the black and white rabbit is having difficulty moving
Floyd | it.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you watch, one of the green cocoons silently splits open and
Floyd | unfolds. The black and white rabbit glances in your direction and then
Floyd | continues dragging the corpse after it into the cocoon.
Floyd |
Floyd | ...the rabbit knows very little, but it knows this: its companion
Floyd | was once alive, and is now dead. And it wants it to be alive. This
Floyd | cannot happen, but there is a way they can be reunited, and the Mother
Floyd | Tree is kind. The rabbit is old and tired but it has enough strength
Floyd | to do this, and so it drags the rigid corpse to the Mother Tree. The
Floyd | strange zombie rabbit is watching it, but that is unimportant now. All
Floyd | there is left to do is wait.
Floyd |
Floyd | ...what just happened?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says (to Touchy), "ClubFloyd is still on Sundays. Don't confuse it with NightFloyd, which isn't on Sundays."
		Zach says, "Ah, OK. I thought that might be another perspective, but I wasn't sure"
		Zach asks, "Are we the strange zombie rabbit?"
		DavidW says, "Perhaps. :)"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x rabbit" 		

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > X RABBIT
Floyd |
Floyd | The cocoon closes, as silently as it opened, about the two rabbits.
Floyd |
Floyd | The wide mouth, widely-spaced bulbous eyes, and folded frog-like hind
Floyd | legs made Francis want to call these creatures ribbits. To
Floyd | everyone's relief, the Concerto put its foot down and
Floyd | insisted that any names assigned now be strictly temporary: the
Floyd | exploitation team, if they ever landed on Elysia, would have the
Floyd | naming rights. And so for now, everyone's just calling them
Floyd | rabbits.
Floyd |
Floyd | Knowing human nature, of course, they'll probably be rabbits from now
Floyd | until the end of time, and you find yourself wondering whether Francis
Floyd | did it on purpose.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy asks, "Wait, what?"
		DavidW says, "Perhaps we are the strange zombie rabbit."
		Touchy asks, "Did I miss some intro story?"
		DavidW says, "no, I guess you missed the blurb a turn ago."
		Lionheart says, "Heh, they don't even feel any compunction to euphemize "exploitation team""
		Zach says, "The PC woke up on a strange planet as a rabbit creature"
		Zach says, "The intro suggests that we may have dead"
		Touchy says, "okay"
		Lionheart says, "We're less than 10 turns in, it should all be in @recp #toyshop"
Zach says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x rabbit" 		

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > X RABBIT
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Oh, they're in there"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x cocoon" 		

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > X COCOON
Floyd |
Floyd | (the closed cocoons)
Floyd | On closer inspection, the cocoons are actually growing out of the
Floyd | trees. They're hard balls of veiny green leaves of all different
Floyd | sizes, from half a metre to several metres in diameter. You're not
Floyd | sure which one you climbed out of.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x mother tree" 		

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MOTHER TREE
Floyd |
Floyd | Your gaze slowly follows the tree trunks up to the canopy far
Floyd | overhead. It's an awesome sight. You've never seen anything this big
Floyd | that was alive before. At least, not in person. You recognise it from
Floyd | the Concerto's survey photographs: it's a Mother Tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Mother Tree is, according to the Concerto, a commensal
Floyd | plant which is semi-symbiotic on the surrounding wildlife. Actually
Floyd | getting more details was like pulling hen's teeth; the ship wouldn't
Floyd | answer questions about them, and the survey department seemed to be
Floyd | almost frightened. Eventually you managed to push enough alcohol down
Floyd | Francis so that he muttered something about taking life with one hand
Floyd | and giving it back with the other before he clammed up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "We were human, crashed, woke up in a cocoon in a rabbit body. And we saw another rabbit drag a dead rabbit into another cocoon."
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Marsh
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You emerge, blinking, into the sunlight. Once your eyes have adjusted,
Floyd | you look up. Yes, this is Elysia. The Semiquaver at least
Floyd | managed to crash on the right planet.
Floyd |
Floyd | Although you were hurt pretty badly. Maybe the
Floyd | Concerto picked you up and this is some sort of recuperative
Floyd | virtuality? That would at least explain the whole... rabbit... thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | Assuming for sanity's sake that this is real, the shuttle should be
Floyd | around here somewhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | Marsh
Floyd | Here in the shadow of the Mother Tree the ground is flat and wet;
Floyd | reed-like plants with white flowers grow everywhere and the air is
Floyd | musky. The river winds slowly along the east side of the marsh with
Floyd | woodlands beyond it. To the west the ground rises to what look like a
Floyd | series of sandy bluffs. The ground looks drier to the north where the
Floyd | canyon ramparts start to close in.
Floyd |
Floyd | A small group of deer-like animals, much larger than you are, is
Floyd | grazing here. One of them turns its head to look at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The buck is completely secure in his world. He has few needs: his
Floyd | mates, enough to eat, safety. Here in the canyon the only thing he has
Floyd | to be at all wary of is that annoying little creature with the sharp
Floyd | teeth that is always hanging around; if it ever came close enough he
Floyd | could kill it with a single kick, but it always keeps its distance.
Floyd | There is a nagging itch at the back of his mind, however: somewhere in
Floyd | the canyon there is the smell of the Wonderful Plant. He just can't
Floyd | find it.
Floyd |
Floyd | There. It happened again. The deer stare into space for a while.
Floyd |
Floyd | Something... very strange... starts to happen. You find yourself with
Floyd | this strong feeling of peacefulness, except you know it's not you
Floyd | feeling it; you can even sense the direction. You never felt anything
Floyd | like it before, but nevertheless, you can distinctly feel peacefulness
Floyd | from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x deer" 		

Floyd ]  Marsh
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DEER
Floyd |
Floyd | There are five of the creatures. One male, two females, and a couple
Floyd | of juveniles? It's very hard to tell, as they're all very similar
Floyd | apart from the size. They're smaller than you were expecting from the
Floyd | survey, barely the size of a large dog, but the blue-green fur is just
Floyd | as startling as you remember. They each have a single forward-curving
Floyd | horn that looks extremely sharp.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off west.
Floyd |
Floyd | A vicious-looking brown and white creature trots up from the north.
Floyd | You see bright eyes and hunger. The survey report mentioned these.
Floyd | It's a...
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is hungry, but it is always hungry. A long time ago it was
Floyd | mauled by one of those horrible animals at the dam, and was unable to
Floyd | hunt and was starving; then it found a dead deer, and gorged itself on
Floyd | the half-rancid meat. It was the best thing it ever experienced, and
Floyd | for a few brief hours afterwards, it was replete. Now it follows the
Floyd | deer around endlessly. They are far too large for it to kill, but it
Floyd | lives in hope of another windfall. In the meantime it scavanges for
Floyd | insects and tiny furry things. And, of course, it's always on the
Floyd | lookout for a bigger meal.
Floyd |
Floyd | You blink, disoriented.
Floyd |
Floyd | It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "We might want to run away from the hungry fox."
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Warren
Floyd | This little grassy hollow half-way up the side of the canyon looks
Floyd | like it's been colonised by rabbits. The tough grass-like ground
Floyd | covering has been dug away and the sandy soil underneath is full of
Floyd | burrows. Down to the east the view over the Mother Tree is
Floyd | spectacular, and you wonder what it would be like from the top; you
Floyd | can probably climb up to the west. The slope steepens and becomes
Floyd | impassably steep to the south, but the warren continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | There are burrows everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | You're suddenly face to face with a swarm of small furry creatures,
Floyd | scattered across the grass. For a moment you panic... and then you
Floyd | recognise them as other rabbits. Some of them look at you, but mostly
Floyd | they ignore you completely. You study them, fascinated. You never
Floyd | realised they came in so many different colours.
Floyd |
Floyd | A rabbit scratches itself.
Floyd |
Floyd | The rabbits, all in unison, suddenly look to the east for a moment.
Floyd | Then briskly but calmly they file into the burrows and are gone.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x burrows" 		

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BURROWS
Floyd |
Floyd | There are rabbits sitting in the entrance of the burrows staring at
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox pounces on you. You just have time to think oh, sh---
Floyd | as its jaws close on your neck, and then everything stops.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have been eaten ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		Touchy says, "hehe"
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Warren
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Not running from fox = bad"
Zach says (to Floyd), "enter burrow" 		

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER BURROW
Floyd |
Floyd | The burrow is blocked by a large rabbit. It stares at you calmly. It's
Floyd | quite unthreatening, but it's still not letting you in.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox pounces on you. You just have time to think oh, sh---
Floyd | as its jaws close on your neck, and then everything stops.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have been eaten ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Warren
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy says, "with friends like these"
		Zach says, "That wasn't very nice"
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's that strange sensation again, of caution from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, ">KNOCK ON RABBIT"
		DavidW says, "Little rabbit, little rabbit, let me come in!"
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Meadow
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Meadow
Floyd | The flat river valley here isn't as wet as the marsh further south,
Floyd | and has bloomed into an astonishing wildflower meadow. The flowers are
Floyd | all strange and alien, of course, but the air is fragrant and
Floyd | peaceful. The only sound is the gentle noise of the river to the east.
Floyd | Off to the west the ground begins to rise up to meet the canyon wall,
Floyd | while forests dominate the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach asks, "Hmm. Did it matter which direction we ran?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Meadow
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | The river's in the way, and rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox pounces on you. You just have time to think oh, sh---
Floyd | as its jaws close on your neck, and then everything stops.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have been eaten ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I don't think I should say."
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Meadow
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Meadow
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Rapids
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Rapids
Floyd | The river is narrow and rocky here, and the river churns noisily
Floyd | between the boulders. Trees come down to the water's edge on both
Floyd | sides, and twigs and dead leaves spiral dizzyingly in the vortices.
Floyd | The woods are fairly dense here and seem to go on in all directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel contentment from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "It's unfortunate design, though, that a chase to the death happens before we get much exploring down."
		DavidW says, "er done"
		Zach says, "Yeah"
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Open Woodland
Floyd | The ground rises to meet the canyon wall to the west here, and small
Floyd | trees are scattered across the slope. There is very little
Floyd | undergrowth, lending the woods an airy, garden-like feel. The trees
Floyd | get denser to the north and east, but space opens out to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Lionheart says, "I'm hoping the peacefulness removes the fox's aggro."
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "climb boulder" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLIMB BOULDER
Floyd |
Floyd | You jump and scrabble wildly with your powerful hind legs, eventually
Floyd | managing to haul yourself to the top.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox sniffs around a bit, obviously having lost track of you, and
Floyd | then gives up trying to figure out where you've gone.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's that peculiar sensation again; there is a new feeling of
Floyd | annoyance from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "maybe we can jump on top of the boulder and the fox can't reach us then."
		DavidW says, "ah, you did try it, yay."
		Zach says, "great rabbit noses twitch alike"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x boulder" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOULDER
Floyd |
Floyd | A long spear of stone, projecting from the ground at an angle. Little
Floyd | wiry plants are rooted in the cracks.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox snaps at a flea.
Floyd |
Floyd | You suddenly notice the feeling of annoyance changing to irritation
Floyd | from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x plants" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PLANTS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x fox" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FOX
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox looks even less like a fox than the rabbits looked like
Floyd | rabbits. It's more cat-like than dog-like, with a mottled brown and
Floyd | white coat and long, lynx-like ears; but the tail is bushy and it's a
Floyd | carnivore, so the name stuck.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox paces off to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Lionheart says, "Ah. Tracking us by scent, then. Good to know."
		DavidW says, "Wonder if there was a way to drop the boulder onto the fox."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x plants" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PLANTS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "down" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd | You jump down from the boulder.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense the feeling of irritation fading and a new feeling of hunger
Floyd | from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "That'd get him out of our hare."
		Touchy says, "Who is annoyed and why..."
		Lionheart asks, "The deer?"
		Lionheart says, "We did just train this fox after them."
		Zach says (to DavidW), "hooray"
		Zach asks, "Should we investigate?"
		Touchy says, "No, the fox was chasing the deer and then tried to eat us instead."
		Zach says, "Ah, right"
Zach says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Lionheart says, "Anyway, the annoyance isn't necessarily with us."
		DavidW says, "so, if the fox is 'hunger', we should avoid the north for now."
		Touchy says, "Yeah, don't know"
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | A half-dozen or so humped, stocky creatures are bustling about,
Floyd | working on the dam: Elysian beavers. They bustle about, working on the
Floyd | dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jota asks, "I don't know what game you're playing, but have you tried taking the chicken across in the boat first?"
		DavidW says (to Jota), "ha"
		inky says, "hee hee"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x fish" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | They're brown and trout-like, but on closer inspection the fins are
Floyd | all wrong and the tail is bifurcated. You think that Elysia could have
Floyd | some very plausible mermaid myths.
Floyd |
Floyd | A beaver pulls something out of the dam, and the other beavers start
Floyd | barking in panic at it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x beavers" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BEAVERS
Floyd |
Floyd | Unlike the other Earth namesakes in the canyon, the beavers here look
Floyd | absolutely nothing like the Earth kind. They're small and
Floyd | stocky, with a bulldog neck and serrated tusks that stick out sideways
Floyd | from their mouths which they use to saw through trees. They don't have
Floyd | big teeth, they don't gnaw and they certainly don't have the trademark
Floyd | tail. The dam they're building isn't much good, either.
Floyd |
Floyd | You did ask Francis about them, you remember: he was the primary
Floyd | author of the survey report. He just shrugged. "They had a dam, and we
Floyd | ran out of imagination," he said.
Floyd |
Floyd | Two beavers seem to be arguing over where to place a forked branch.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of annoyance from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x dam" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DAM
Floyd |
Floyd | The dam is a big embankment of logs. Unlike dams built by Earth
Floyd | beavers, they haven't sealed it with mud, and the water is pouring
Floyd | through in numerous places. This doesn't seem to affect the water
Floyd | level in the lake, though.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer gallop up from the north with a thunder of hooves. They spend
Floyd | several moments looking around with suspicion before returning to
Floyd | their grazing.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers suddenly dash up towards the deer, trying to drive them
Floyd | away from the dam and the river bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the beavers darts in to nip one of the deer's legs, but a
Floyd | flourish of the deer's horn sends it running.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense annoyance fading from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy says, "Maybe we should find out who is so annoyed."
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, a black animal is playing on the
Floyd | edge of the water. It never seems to stay still and it takes you a few
Floyd | moments to identify it as an Elysian otter.
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost run into the fox again. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hostility and irritation from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "uh oh. Fox."
		Lionheart says, "Thought so."
		Lionheart says, "Annoyance is the deer's reaction to the fox, I think."
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Also, the irritation seems to be generated by the deer. So the hostility would be the beavers."
		Touchy says, "Plausible."
		Touchy asks, "Wait, what?"
		DavidW says, "And the peacefulness from the rabbits in the warren."
		Zach says, "Or the fox is annoyed"
		DavidW says, "Fox is hungry."
		Zach says, "I don't know, I'm not an animal psychologist"
		Touchy says, "But David's assignment fits the descriptions."
		Lionheart says, "No, deer. Deer to north were annoyed. Deer came from north, annoyance faded."
		Touchy says, "The deer was annoyed by the fox."
		DavidW says, "The deer might also be the annoyed party; they might change from annoyed to irritated."
		Touchy says, "The beavers hostile towards the deers."
		Lionheart says, "If it was fox that was annoyed at deer moving away, the annoyance would not have fadede"
		DavidW says, "Weirdly, we only feel these emotions from adjacent locations, never our current one."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hostility" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HOSTILITY
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Also there's the otter"
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x feel hostility" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FEEL HOSTILITY
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the smaller deer lips the grass in a dissatisfied manner.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I was curious if we can examine the sensations directly."
		Lionheart says, "And there's another clue"
		DavidW says, "but I guess not."
		Zach says, "Maybe the annoyance flag wasn't cleared if the deer move that turn"
		Lionheart says, "Elysian deer not a very contented lot."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x hunger" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HUNGER
Floyd |
Floyd | All you can tell is that it's coming from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south. The beavers
Floyd | relax, disperse, and go about their business again.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the beavers rests for a moment on top of the dam, enjoying the
Floyd | sun.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the north. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers suddenly notice the fox and start hissing threateningly.
Floyd | It stays well over to the west side of the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh. We can x hunger. huh."
		Lionheart says, "Okay, so the fox is afraid of the beavers"
		Touchy says, "And we seem to be able to cross the dam while the fox is not."
		DavidW says, "The beavers block the deer too."
inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		Touchy says, "So nice these beavers."
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hostility and irritation from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy asks, "So the fox is irritated now?"
		DavidW says, "I think the fox is only hungry."
		Zach says, "I think those are still the beavers and deer. The fox might not have moved unless we stayed there"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "x hunger" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HUNGER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Lionheart says, "The fox was mauled by one of the beavers, our omniscient backstory narrator told us."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x irriation" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > X IRRIATION
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x plant" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PLANT
Floyd |
Floyd | Unlike the animals, this plant defies neat categorisation into the
Floyd | Earth ecosystem. A great froth of slightly furry parsley-like leaves
Floyd | shields long, razor sharp thorns underneath. It smells intensely of...
Floyd | something. Mint crossed with vanilla? It's very strong and not very
Floyd | appetising.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense irritation fading and a new feeling of hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x irritation" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > X IRRITATION
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach asks (of DavidW), "Is this before you had died? Should we save?"
		Lionheart says, "Perhaps we can arrange for the beavers to drive off the fox from the vicinity for good."
		Touchy asks, "So fox changed from irritation over our leaving back to hunger?"
		DavidW says, "no, this isn't a death area."
Zach says (to Floyd), "take plant" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE PLANT
Floyd |
Floyd | You gingerly take a mouthful of leaves, avoiding the thorns.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading and hostility changing to concentration from
Floyd | the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "The east side of the river is a bit weird, but safe, I believe."
Zach says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying a bundle of aromatic leaves in your mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Also, I may have just figured out something that may come in handy an hour from now."
		Touchy says, "I have no idea where your conclusions come from but you are too good at this."
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Spring
Floyd | The ground here is steep and rocky, but still covered with scrawny
Floyd | trees. The canyon wall rises precipitously to the east; there's a band
Floyd | of wet rock, and water oozes out and forms in a little pool before
Floyd | trickling down the slope to the river which you can just make out to
Floyd | the west. All you can see to the north and south are more trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | A pair of shining eyes stares at you from out of the thorny bush.
Floyd | After a few seconds, the shape of a vaguely anthropoid creature
Floyd | resolves around them. Ah, yes, you remember this: it's a lemur. You
Floyd | have just enough warning to brace yourself before...
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur stares at the strange rabbit with a distant curiosity.
Floyd | Its mind is unfocused, blurred by the psychedelic drug in the leaves
Floyd | it loves so much. It knows that the rabbit is unusual, but it doesn't
Floyd | care. It doesn't care much about anything except the leaves. It just
Floyd | sits and watches the world, and occasionally, when the colours focus
Floyd | for a moment, interacts with it.
Floyd |
Floyd | That was... unusual.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur is sitting in one of the thorny bushes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur seems to find something very interesting under one armpit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy says, "wheee lemur"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x lemur" 		

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LEMUR
Floyd |
Floyd | There must be something about Earth-like planets. In shape the Elysian
Floyd | lemur is a startlingly similar creature to the ones in the
Floyd | Concerto's garden, with long spindly arms and legs and
Floyd | delicate fingers. The green and brown mottled fur is different,
Floyd | though.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur bounces out of the bush, shoots up a tree and leaps through
Floyd | the branches to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Lionheart says, "Well, we found the Wonderful Plant, it would seem, and we know what animal wants that, too."
		DavidW says, "the deer, yes"
		Touchy says, "ah the funny character who takes drugs all the time"
Zach says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Lower Slopes
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Lower Slopes
Floyd | Nestled in the south-east corner of the canyon, the terrain here
Floyd | sweeps up from the river to a low pass through the canyon wall to the
Floyd | east. Through the dense trees you can just make out the green dome of
Floyd | the Mother Tree far below to the south-west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
ASchultz arrives, full of funk, but no fun. 		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x mother tree" 		

Floyd ]  Lower Slopes
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MOTHER TREE
Floyd |

		Lionheart asks, "Carry some in our mouths, or arrange to drive the deer to this location with teh fox?"

Floyd | From here you can see the way the Mother Tree completely blocks the
Floyd | throat of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy asks, "Why would we want to do that?"
		Lionheart says, "Well, the deer might stop running away from the fox if it found the Plant of its desiring."
		Zach asks, "Sure. Check out the canyon first?"
		Lionheart says, "Maybe consequently the fox might get the big meal it's been hankering after all this time."
		DavidW says, "I have a different idea about the deer, but it'll have to wait."
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Eastern Desert
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Eastern Desert
Floyd | The pass in the canyon wall, now behind you to the west, leads out
Floyd | into open desert. Barren sand stretches off in all directions to the
Floyd | flat horizon.
Floyd |
Floyd | A track seems to have been scraped in the sand, heading south. There's
Floyd | something large and metallic in the distance that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy says, "Found our ship it seems."
Zach says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd | The desert abruptly drops away on two sides here: to the west you can
Floyd | see the green dome of the Mother Tree a few hundred metres below, and
Floyd | to the south the incomparably vaster drop down to the sea of clouds
Floyd | below. The cliff continues east as far as the eye can see.
Floyd |
Floyd | Of considerably more interest, however, is the wreckage of the
Floyd | Semiquaver.
Floyd |
Floyd | The shuttle's main hatch is tightly closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x shuttle" 		

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SHUTTLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Looking at the smashed shuttle, you find yourself utterly astonished
Floyd | that it made it down in one piece. Most of the engine module is simply
Floyd | missing, the hull truncated half-way along in a jumble of twisted
Floyd | wreckage. The shuttle hit the ground to the north of here, and skidded
Floyd | south, stopping just in time --- you can see the burnt out shield
Floyd | projectors where the Semiquaver tried to dig into the sand in
Floyd | a desperate attempt to stop itself. It worked, too: only a few metres
Floyd | more and the Semiquaver would have gone over the edge of the
Floyd | cliff and fallen down to the lowlands. The nose actually overhangs the
Floyd | edge.
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks completely dead. You hope the Semiquaver's simple
Floyd | mind survived. You want to buy it a drink and tell it what a good job
Floyd | it did.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hatch" 		

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HATCH
Floyd |
Floyd | The Semiquaver's main hatch is on the starboard side, now
Floyd | facing west. It's not locked, per se, but in order to prevent
Floyd | accidents it will only open if you enter an access code on a little
Floyd | panel. (The code is written underneath.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read code" 		

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ CODE
Floyd |
Floyd | A little nine-digit keypad is next to the door. The access code is
Floyd | written underneath. (It's 314159, of course.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x keypad" 		

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > X KEYPAD
Floyd |
Floyd | A little nine-digit keypad is next to the door. The access code is
Floyd | written underneath. (It's 314159, of course.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "press 3" 		

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRESS 3
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Lionheart says, "I bet they keep all their computer passwords taped to the monitor, too"
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "enter code" 		

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER CODE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 314159 on keypad" 		

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > TYPE 314159 ON KEYPAD
Floyd |
Floyd | The buttons are designed to be pushed by fingers, which rabbits lack.
Floyd | Plus, it's too high to reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy says, "Well, maybe it's just to keep out people who cannot read."
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "get stick" 		

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET STICK
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "jump on keypad" 		

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > JUMP ON KEYPAD
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to jump.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "jump" 		

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > JUMP
Floyd |
Floyd | That would be suicide.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "kick shuttle" 		

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > KICK SHUTTLE
Floyd |
Floyd | That wouldn't achieve much.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x cliff" 		

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CLIFF
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the western cliff or the southern cliff?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "search wreckage" 		

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH WRECKAGE
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "southern cliff" 		

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > SOUTHERN CLIFF
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x cluff" 		

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CLUFF
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x cliff" 		

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CLIFF
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the western cliff or the southern cliff?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x souther" 		

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SOUTHER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x southerN clIff" 		

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SOUTHERN CLIFF
Floyd |
Floyd | The edge of the cliff under the nose of the shuttle is fractured and
Floyd | crumbly, and you're not willing to go close enough to look down. You
Floyd | know what you'll see, though: several thousand metres of empty air and
Floyd | then the opaque cloud that covers the lowlands. The only way to get
Floyd | down there is at terminal velocity.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x western cliff" 		

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WESTERN CLIFF
Floyd |
Floyd | You sidle close to the edge and try to peer over. The drop sucks at
Floyd | you and you can feel your paws sweating. You get a climpse of the
Floyd | green dome of the Mother Tree far below before backing away with great
Floyd | relief.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | The edge of the plateau goes on as far as you can see, and there is
Floyd | absolutely nothing of interest you can see out there.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x debris" 		

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DEBRIS
Floyd |
Floyd | You remember a flash not long after leaving the Concerto; the
Floyd | Semiquaver said "Oh, no," and then something stabbed you in
Floyd | the back. Everything after that was a vivid but incoherent memory of
Floyd | pain, noise, blood spattering everywhere, and the sight of Elysia
Floyd | wheeling through the cockpit canopy while the Semiquaver
Floyd | quietly gibbered. You don't like to think about it --- it makes your
Floyd | fur stand on end.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach asks, "Try giving the deer the plant?"
		Touchy says, "Maybe we can turn ourself into other animals. The lemur might be able to open the shuttle"
		DavidW says, "Ideally, we need to find Aladdin's lamp in the desert and get the genie to give us our body back, alive."
Zach says (to Floyd), "rub shuttle" 		

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > RUB SHUTTLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You achieve nothing by this.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says (to Touchy), "The lemur *does* have the fingers for it."
Zach says (to Floyd), "dance" 		

Floyd ]  Wrecked Shuttle
Floyd |
Floyd | > DANCE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy says, "yep"
		Lionheart asks, "How, drag the lemur into a cocoon?"
		Touchy says, "hm...good idea"
		DavidW says, "It would have to be a dead lemur too, I think."
		Touchy says, "possibly"
		Lionheart says, "If it were a lemming, we could just lead it to this cliff here."
		Touchy )
		DavidW says, "Alternatively, we could try to become another animal like the otter, a beaver, or the fox."
		Touchy )
		Touchy says, "\:)"
		Touchy says, "Well, this is a little far fetched unless we actually manage to kill something."
		DavidW says, "I suppose a deer is possible too, if we can somehow drag one to a cocoon."
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Eastern Desert
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Eastern Desert
Floyd | The pass in the canyon wall, now behind you to the west, leads out
Floyd | into open desert. Barren sand stretches off in all directions to the
Floyd | flat horizon.
Floyd |
Floyd | A track seems to have been scraped in the sand, heading south. There's
Floyd | something large and metallic in the distance that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Lionheart says (to DavidW), "The Plant might get it to follow us"
		Zach says, "Maybe we can push it off a cliff or something like that"
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Lower Slopes
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Lower Slopes
Floyd | Nestled in the south-east corner of the canyon, the terrain here
Floyd | sweeps up from the river to a low pass through the canyon wall to the
Floyd | east. Through the dense trees you can just make out the green dome of
Floyd | the Mother Tree far below to the south-west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says (to Lionheat), "..Zach mmhm"
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Spring
Floyd | The ground here is steep and rocky, but still covered with scrawny
Floyd | trees. The canyon wall rises precipitously to the east; there's a band
Floyd | of wet rock, and water oozes out and forms in a little pool before
Floyd | trickling down the slope to the river which you can just make out to
Floyd | the west. All you can see to the north and south are more trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy says, "Hm...if it's the right cliff it will end up conveniently dead next to the mother tree."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x pool" 		

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > X POOL
Floyd |
Floyd | The water is reddish and probably full of minerals.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Lionheart says, "That is a very conveniently located cliff."
Zach says (to Floyd), "drink water" 		

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > DRINK WATER
Floyd |
Floyd | Not when you're carrying the bundle of aromatic leaves in your mouth!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying a bundle of aromatic leaves in your mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "drop leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | You carefully put down the bundle of aromatic leaves.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a loud rustling of leaves as the lemur swings up from the
Floyd | north, runs down a tree and dives into the spiky bush.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense peacefulness fading from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "drink water" 		

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > DRINK WATER
Floyd |
Floyd | The water tastes just the way it looks.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur languidly picks up a some small insect of some kind, stares
Floyd | at it for a while, and then pulls the legs off before throwing it
Floyd | away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "take leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the bundle of aromatic leaves, the trees or the
Floyd | aromatic bush?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "the bundle of aromatic leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > THE BUNDLE OF AROMATIC LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | In the absence of any other options, you pick up the bundle of
Floyd | aromatic leaves in your mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur just stares into space for a while.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x insect" 		

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > X INSECT
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "gives leaves to lemur" 		

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVES LEAVES TO LEMUR
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "give leaves to lemur" 		

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE LEAVES TO LEMUR
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves to the lemur)
Floyd | The lemur doesn't seem interested.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur licks itself contemplatively.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "lemur, hello" 		

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > LEMUR, HELLO
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no way you, or anyone else, can reach the lemur while it's
Floyd | inside those thorny bushes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur gives you a suspicious look.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "enter bushes" 		

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER BUSHES
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur starts carefully pulling leaves off a twig and popping them
Floyd | into its mouth, one by one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "feed leaf to lemur" 		

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > FEED LEAF TO LEMUR
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves to the lemur)
Floyd | The lemur doesn't seem interested.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur bounces out of the bush, shoots up a tree and leaps through
Floyd | the branches to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur is sitting in one of the thorny bushes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur gives you a suspicious look.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "climb tree" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLIMB TREE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "climb tree" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLIMB TREE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x undergrowth" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > X UNDERGROWTH
Floyd |
Floyd | The ferns look just like the Earth equivalent. The other plants don't.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur bounces out of the bush, shoots up a tree and leaps through
Floyd | the branches to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. 		
Ellison has disconnected. 		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x concentration" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CONCENTRATION
Floyd |
Floyd | All you can tell is that it's coming from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of peacefulness from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Concentration must be those busy beavers."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x peacefulness" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PEACEFULNESS
Floyd |
Floyd | All you can tell is that it's coming from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy says, "we could check by going west"
		Touchy says, "wheee"
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | The little herd of deer is grazing here. The deer seem to find you
Floyd | utterly fascinating to an extent that makes you quite nervous.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, a black animal is playing on the
Floyd | edge of the water. It never seems to stay still and it takes you a few
Floyd | moments to identify it as an Elysian otter.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the north, and concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "show leaves to deer" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW LEAVES TO DEER
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves to the deer)
Floyd | The deer is unimpressed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see a trail of bubbles
Floyd | where the otter is swimming underwater.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the north. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
Zach says (to Floyd), "cf16" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "drop leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is basking in the
Floyd | sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the north. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "give leaves to deer" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE LEAVES TO DEER
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves to the deer)
Floyd | The deer doesn't seem interested.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see the otter playing in
Floyd | the water around the base of the cliff.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the north. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy asks, "Trying to feed the deer?"
		Lionheart says, "Well, the deer are paying close attention to us"
		Zach says, "Though maybe we have to let the beaves block the fox"
		Lionheart says, "Maybe they'll follow now"
Zach says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer gallop up from the north with a thunder of hooves. They spend
Floyd | several moments looking around with suspicion before returning to
Floyd | their grazing.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers suddenly dash up towards the deer, trying to drive them
Floyd | away from the dam and the river bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers are confronting the deer, forming a line blocking them
Floyd | from crossing the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south, and hostility and irritation
Floyd | from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south. The beavers
Floyd | relax, disperse, and go about their business again.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the north. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers suddenly notice the fox and start hissing threateningly.
Floyd | It stays well over to the west side of the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy asks, "can we go north on this side and check out the otter?"
		DavidW says, "Not while the fox is there."
		Touchy asks, "I thought it's on the same side as the deer?"
		Zach says, "Yeah, I was wanting to check out the otter but mr fox wants to play"
		DavidW says, "well, we're in the same room as the fox. That's just not healthy."
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is basking in the
Floyd | sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hostility from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy says, "Alright."
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "enter pool" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER POOL
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox pounces on you. You just have time to think oh, sh---
Floyd | as its jaws close on your neck, and then everything stops.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have been eaten ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x pool" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > X POOL
Floyd |
Floyd | Water's pouring into it, but there doesn't seem to be any exit.
Floyd | There's a narrow ledge leading round it to the north, but if you fell
Floyd | in, the sides are far too steep to climb out of and you're pretty sure
Floyd | that rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox pounces on you. You just have time to think oh, sh---
Floyd | as its jaws close on your neck, and then everything stops.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have been eaten ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You nervously crawl along the ledge.
Floyd |
Floyd | Precarious Ledge
Floyd | You are balanced on a rock overhanging the north edge of the rock
Floyd | pool. The boulder is slippery from spray, and shifts under your feet
Floyd | when you move your weight giving you the feeling like it might give
Floyd | way at any moment. The narrow ledge to the south leads back to safety.
Floyd |
Floyd | The rock pool churns unnervingly below you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox chases you from the south onto the ledge --- which abruptly
Floyd | gives way underneath you. You, the fox, and what seems like several
Floyd | tonnes of rock drop into the water in a shocking plunge that stuns you
Floyd | for a few moments.
Floyd |
Floyd | In The Rock Pool
Floyd | From down here the sides of the pool are steeper and even less
Floyd | climbable than they were from above --- this is less of a pool and
Floyd | more of a well, and you are at the bottom of it. One of the many
Floyd | waterfalls crashes into the dark water near where you are and vortices
Floyd | in the water buffet you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "this is a deadly spot, btw. Good thing you saved earlier."
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | The sides of the pool and sheer. There's no way out that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | The survey report said that rabbits can't swim. You paddle furiously
Floyd | nevertheless in the hope that you remembered incorrectly.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is mindlessly flailing at the water in panic, trying to stay
Floyd | afloat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "swim" 		

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > SWIM
Floyd |
Floyd | You're doing the best you can already!
Floyd |
Floyd | You keep paddling, but your strength is beginning to give out.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is clawing at the sides of the pit, trying to climb out. A few
Floyd | rocks come down but it can't get any purchase.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Yeah, I didn't want to press our luck"
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "climb on fox" 		

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLIMB ON FOX
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd | The sides of the pool and sheer. There's no way out that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | You're having trouble keeping your head above the surface...
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is exhausted and can't keep its head above the water any more.
Floyd | Some bubbles come up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "get fox" 		

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET FOX
Floyd |
Floyd | (first dropping the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | I don't suppose the fox would care for that.
Floyd |
Floyd | It turns out you were right. Rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a final convulsion, and the fox is still, floating with its
Floyd | head just under the water.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have drowned ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		Touchy says, "Hm..."
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | In The Rock Pool
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Lionheart says, "I wanted to use the fox for a floatation device"
		Touchy says, "Maybe we need to drop something in...yeah"
Zach says (to Floyd), "get on fox" 		

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET ON FOX
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | It turns out you were right. Rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a final convulsion, and the fox is still, floating with its
Floyd | head just under the water.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have drowned ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | In The Rock Pool
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "bite fox" 		

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > BITE FOX
Floyd |
Floyd | You're a rabbit. About the only thing you're capable of hurting are
Floyd | leaves.
Floyd |
Floyd | It turns out you were right. Rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a final convulsion, and the fox is still, floating with its
Floyd | head just under the water.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have drowned ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | In The Rock Pool
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "hold fox" 		

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > HOLD FOX
Floyd |
Floyd | (first dropping the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | I don't suppose the fox would care for that.
Floyd |
Floyd | It turns out you were right. Rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a final convulsion, and the fox is still, floating with its
Floyd | head just under the water.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have drowned ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | In The Rock Pool
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "ride fox" 		

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > RIDE FOX
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy asks, "x waterfall?"
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x waterfall" 		

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WATERFALL
Floyd |
Floyd | The dark water makes the bottom invisible, but you know it's a long
Floyd | way down.
Floyd |
Floyd | It turns out you were right. Rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a final convulsion, and the fox is still, floating with its
Floyd | head just under the water.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have drowned ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		Touchy asks, "dive?"
		Touchy says, "hmmm"
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | In The Rock Pool
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "dive" 		

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > DIVE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | The last thing you want to do is swim down --- you're doing all you
Floyd | can to stay afloat!
Floyd |
Floyd | It turns out you were right. Rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a final convulsion, and the fox is still, floating with its
Floyd | head just under the water.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have drowned ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I suspect that we might be able to lure the deer in here, but if so I don't know how that helps us."
		DavidW says, "My idea is to make a trail of leaves to the ledge, starting from the ledge and working back towards the deer."
		Zach asks, "Maybe we should restore?"
		DavidW says, "yes, I think so"
Zach says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" 		
Zach says (to Floyd), "cf16" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:
Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Lionheart says, "Hm. Not a terrible plan."
		Zach says, "I'm not sure how we would get the deer's body afterwards though"
Zach says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is basking in the
Floyd | sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the north. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "But I don't see how a dead deer in the pool helps much. But I suppose we should see what happens anyway."
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel irritation from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Maybe a deer is heavy enough it'd sink down below the water and wash ashore near Mother Tree?"
		Lionheart says, "Presumably there must be an invisible outlet down below the pool, perhaps anything that sinks down there ends up downstream. Fortunately, there is a dam."
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Scree
Floyd | You are perched at the very north-west tip of the canyon, where the
Floyd | slopes disintegrate into a tangle of smashed rock. Wiry, heather-like
Floyd | grass grows between the gaps between the boulders, and there are even
Floyd | a few trees. Below to the east is a maelstrom of white water at the
Floyd | head of the river; to the south, the slope begins to flatten.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tiny multicoloured birds dart back and forth on the cliff face above
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh, forgot the dam"
		Zach says, "True"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x birds" 		

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BIRDS
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't recall anything in the survey report about these.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "I wonder if the birds would distract the fox"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x grass" 		

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GRASS
Floyd |
Floyd | The tough, springy heather holds the stones in an immovable grip.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I never managed to do anything with the birds."
		Lionheart says, "Heck, the 'beavers' might even drag the deer out of their construction site for us."
Zach says (to Floyd), "drop leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "eat gras" 		

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > EAT GRAS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "eat grass" 		

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > EAT GRASS
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the first rules of exploring a strange planet is never to eat
Floyd | anything ever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "bite grass" 		

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > BITE GRASS
Floyd |
Floyd | That wouldn't achieve much.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Lionheart says, "Yeah, that ship has already sailed."
Zach says (to Floyd), "take grass" 		

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE GRASS
Floyd |
Floyd | You quite like the grass where it is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Lionheart says, "Besides, we're native fauna now."
		DavidW says, "yeah, once one is a ... exactly"
Zach says (to Floyd), "take leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x birds" 		

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BIRDS
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't recall anything in the survey report about these.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy asks, "can we go n now?"
		DavidW says, "yes"
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You nervously crawl along the ledge.
Floyd |
Floyd | Precarious Ledge
Floyd | You are balanced on a rock overhanging the north edge of the rock
Floyd | pool. The boulder is slippery from spray, and shifts under your feet
Floyd | when you move your weight giving you the feeling like it might give
Floyd | way at any moment. The narrow ledge to the south leads back to safety.
Floyd |
Floyd | The rock pool churns unnervingly below you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x pool" 		

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > X POOL
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks a long way down from here and rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x boulder" 		

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOULDER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "The ledge broke because both the fox and us were on it at the same time."
		DavidW says, "I would put the first leaves here."
		DavidW says, "Hoping that the deer's weight alone will doom him."
Zach says (to Floyd), "drop leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | With some relief, you crawl back along the ledge.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "now get another bundle if we can and put them here at Cascades."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x pool" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > X POOL
Floyd |
Floyd | Water's pouring into it, but there doesn't seem to be any exit.
Floyd | There's a narrow ledge leading round it to the north, but if you fell
Floyd | in, the sides are far too steep to climb out of and you're pretty sure
Floyd | that rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is basking in the
Floyd | sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south, and annoyance from the
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Lionheart says, "Incidentally: Earth rabbits can swim."
		DavidW asks, "oh yes?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x bones" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BONES
Floyd |
Floyd | They're old and bleached the sun, and look well-gnawed. There's quite
Floyd | a lot of them.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is messily dismantling
Floyd | something on a rock on the far shore of the lake. You can't tell what.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense annoyance changing to irritation from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Lionheart says (to DavidW), "[LINK]"
		DavidW says, "actually, of all the critters we've seen here, the otter and fish are swimmers."
		Zach asks, "Or maybe we lure the fox with the bones?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "take bones" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE BONES
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not quite desperate enough to use your mouth to pick up things
Floyd | that have been chewed and spat out by something else.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see the otter playing in
Floyd | the water around the base of the cliff.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense irritation fading and a new feeling of hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "So much for the idea of choking something with a fishbone."
		Zach says, "I've got to leave for a few minutes"
		Lionheart says, "Or drag the bones back to the tree and morph into a fish, but we better crawl to water quick then"
		DavidW says, "I'm sure we can catch a fish from the Beaver Dam."
		Lionheart says, "As a fish we could explore the depths of the pool, so there might be good reason to try that, but I don't see a fish dragging anything else to a pod"
		DavidW says, "I don't see how a fish would survive exiting the cocoon, personally."
		Lionheart says, "Well, they were jumping out of the water, they might be amphibious"
		DavidW says, "hm. maybe."
		Lionheart says, "Or like mudskippers."
		DavidW says, "I suppose it wouldn't hurt (much) to see what rabbit + dead fish do in a cocoon together."
		Lionheart says, "We'll save first, of course"
Zach says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see a trail of bubbles
Floyd | where the otter is swimming underwater.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south, and hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "move bones" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > MOVE BONES
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't have enough weight and traction to do that. You'll have pick
Floyd | it up and drag it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is floating on its back,
Floyd | apparently studying the sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of annoyance from the north and hunger fading
Floyd | from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the west. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "pick up bones" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > PICK UP BONES
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not quite desperate enough to use your mouth to pick up things
Floyd | that have been chewed and spat out by something else.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer gallop up from the north with a thunder of hooves. They spend
Floyd | several moments looking around with suspicion before returning to
Floyd | their grazing.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter appears to be chasing
Floyd | its own tail.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense annoyance fading from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "guess that was a default response to 'move' back there with the 'move bones' attempt."
		Zach says, "Ah"
Zach says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel annoyance from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south, and concentration from the
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "My interpretation of the bones is that it's a hint that the otter eats fish."
Zach says (to Floyd), "take leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the aromatic bush)
Floyd | You gingerly take a mouthful of leaves, avoiding the thorns.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense concentration changing to hostility and a new feeling of
Floyd | irritation from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south. The beavers
Floyd | relax, disperse, and go about their business again.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the north. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers suddenly notice the fox and start hissing threateningly.
Floyd | It stays well over to the west side of the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy says, "plausible"
		Zach says, "Dang"
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south, and excitement and hostility
Floyd | from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense excitement changing to hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading and hostility changing to concentration from
Floyd | the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "I guess I'll just wander around until I find the deer again"
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see a trail of bubbles
Floyd | where the otter is swimming underwater.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter appears to be chasing
Floyd | its own tail.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Not gonna try my trail idea?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I thought we already tried to give the plant to the deer and it claimed disinterest."
		Zach says, "Oh yeah. I did want to see if the deer would just follow us if we had the leaves"
		Zach says, "I don't think we've been in the same room as the deer when we had the leaves without the fox chasing us"
		DavidW says, "oh. I'm not even sure yet if we can make a trail. We've yet to see two bundles together."
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You nervously crawl along the ledge.
Floyd |
Floyd | Precarious Ledge
Floyd | You are balanced on a rock overhanging the north edge of the rock
Floyd | pool. The boulder is slippery from spray, and shifts under your feet
Floyd | when you move your weight giving you the feeling like it might give
Floyd | way at any moment. The narrow ledge to the south leads back to safety.
Floyd |
Floyd | The rock pool churns unnervingly below you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a bundle of aromatic leaves here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy says, "And gathering more and more would be an annoying puzzle."
		DavidW says, "ah. So we can have multiple bundles of leaves."
		Zach says, "Yeah, let me find the deer first"
Zach says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | With some relief, you crawl back along the ledge.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see the otter playing in
Floyd | the water around the base of the cliff.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel irritation from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost run into the fox again. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel annoyance from the north, and concentration from the
Floyd | east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says (to Touchy), "well, not really that annoying,. I remember a similar puzzle in another game, except I used chicken feed to lure a chicken."
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer walk purposefully up from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is messily dismantling
Floyd | something on a rock on the far shore of the lake. You can't tell what.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying a bundle of aromatic leaves in your mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the deer leans over and sniffs you. It looks very big.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is basking in the
Floyd | sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy says, "hahaha"
Zach says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
Zach says (to Floyd), "cf17" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "sniff deer" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > SNIFF DEER
Floyd |
Floyd | All you can smell is that plant.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off north.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is floating on its back,
Floyd | apparently studying the sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the south. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense concentration changing to hostility from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer gallop up from the south with a thunder of hooves. They spend
Floyd | several moments looking around with suspicion before returning to
Floyd | their grazing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm. I can't help but feel we need to be the otter to see what's on the other side of this lake."
		Touchy says, "Damn fox."
Zach says (to Floyd), "drop leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a brief tussle as the deer fight for the bundle of aromatic
Floyd | leaves. The winner chews blissfully, green-tinted drool dripping from
Floyd | its mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of hunger from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "You have my permission to kill the fox, if you can do it without killing us."
		Touchy says, "That deer is going to get eaten by monsieur le fox."
		Zach says, "Actually, let's see what happens when I fox catches a tripping deer"
Zach says (to Floyd), "drop leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a brief tussle as the deer fight for the bundle of aromatic
Floyd | leaves. The winner chews blissfully, green-tinted drool dripping from
Floyd | its mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of hunger from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off west.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the south. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You nervously crawl along the ledge.
Floyd |
Floyd | Precarious Ledge
Floyd | You are balanced on a rock overhanging the north edge of the rock
Floyd | pool. The boulder is slippery from spray, and shifts under your feet
Floyd | when you move your weight giving you the feeling like it might give
Floyd | way at any moment. The narrow ledge to the south leads back to safety.
Floyd |
Floyd | The rock pool churns unnervingly below you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a bundle of aromatic leaves here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel annoyance from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying a bundle of aromatic leaves in your mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense annoyance changing to irritation from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | With some relief, you crawl back along the ledge.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost run into the fox again. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel annoyance from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "(I really start to hate 'undo' during CF sessions. We rely on it too much.)"
Zach says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:

		Touchy says, "Maybe we need to follow the deer when it has eaten the leaves. Maybe they take a while to kick in."
Zach says (to Floyd), "cf17" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off north.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is floating on its back,
Floyd | apparently studying the sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the south. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hostility from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says (to DavidW), "Yeah, but I'm not sure what else to do when the fox starts chasing us"
		Zach says, "I guess we can go back to the boulder"
		Touchy asks, "Run after the deer until it drops?"
		DavidW says, "well, we have a few options with escaping the fox. I know of four ways to escape it, although one requires preparation ahead of time."
		Zach says, "Also, I wonder if we can explore the rabbit warren now"
		DavidW says, "Getting on top of the boulder and crossing to the east side of the river from the dam are the two ways you've seen."
		Zach asks, "Would it be spoilery to share the others?"
		DavidW says, "Not hugely, but a bit, since they involve either places or things you haven't seen or ignored."
		DavidW says, "For a hint on one, there's something rabbits can do that we have yet to do."
		Zach says, "hmm"
Zach says (to Floyd), "dig" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > DIG
Floyd |
Floyd | You scuff the soil a little.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox pounces on you. You just have time to think oh, sh---
Floyd | as its jaws close on your neck, and then everything stops.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have been eaten ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "bite fox" 		

Floyd | %% Critical error.
Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file.
Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd | Restore failed.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "cf17" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > CF17
Floyd |
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		Touchy asks, "Poop and have sex?"
		inky says, ">POOP EVERYWHERE"
		inky says, ">GNAW STUFF"
Zach says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:

		inky says, ">TWITCH NOSE"
Zach says (to Floyd), "cf17" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		olethros says, "> EAT POOP"
		Zach says, "I'm going to take a break if anyone else wants to do some driving"
		Zach asks (of DavidW), "I guess we need to dig a hole ahead of time?"
		Touchy says, "Maybe we can dig another entrance to the warren from the abandoned part."
		inky says, "surprised the organizers didn't kick in the last bit"
		inky says, "er"
		DavidW says (to Touch), "feel free to try."
		Touchy says, "Sorry, I'm not feeling so well and driving just seems too much right now."
		Touchy says, "Haven't mapped either, not on paper nor in my head."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off north.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is floating on its back,
Floyd | apparently studying the sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the south. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hostility from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "get on boulder" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET ON BOULDER
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropping the bundle of aromatic leaves, you jump and scrabble wildly
Floyd | with your powerful hind legs, eventually managing to haul yourself to
Floyd | the top.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox sniffs around a bit, obviously having lost track of you, and
Floyd | then gives up trying to figure out where you've gone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox grubs around under something for insects.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox paces off to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | (first getting off the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | Open Woodland
Floyd | The ground rises to meet the canyon wall to the west here, and small
Floyd | trees are scattered across the slope. There is very little
Floyd | undergrowth, lending the woods an airy, garden-like feel. The trees
Floyd | get denser to the north and east, but space opens out to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig burrow" 		

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > DIG BURROW
Floyd |
Floyd | You go to work with your front paws and quickly clear the loose sand
Floyd | out of the burrow. It's surprisingly satisfying work.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter burrow" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Burrow
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER BURROW
Floyd |
Floyd | It takes a few moments for your eyes to adjust to the dim light.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the Burrow
Floyd | The burrow is cool and dark, and the sandy soil smells pleasantly
Floyd | spicy. Emotionally, you feel totally secure here. Intellectually, you
Floyd | know that the unstable walls could collapse on you, and probably kill
Floyd | you, at any time.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "That's a third way to escape the fox."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You emerge, blinking, into the sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows. One of them has been dug free of sand.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Warren
Floyd | This little grassy hollow half-way up the side of the canyon looks
Floyd | like it's been colonised by rabbits. The tough grass-like ground
Floyd | covering has been dug away and the sandy soil underneath is full of
Floyd | burrows. Down to the east the view over the Mother Tree is
Floyd | spectacular, and you wonder what it would be like from the top; you
Floyd | can probably climb up to the west. The slope steepens and becomes
Floyd | impassably steep to the south, but the warren continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | There are burrows everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ground is covered with rabbits.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the rabbits is asleep on its back, legs waving in the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Western Desert
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Western Desert
Floyd | You were wrong: the view is terrible from here. Outside the canyon
Floyd | there is just barren, sandy wasteland, with the occasional scrubby
Floyd | plant, stretching away in all directions. There are mountains on the
Floyd | horizon, but there's no way you could survive out here long enough to
Floyd | reach them. Down to the east the oasis of the canyon is mostly hidden
Floyd | behind the terrain. There is a rise to the south, near where the land
Floyd | stops.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "This is the fourth way. The fox won't follow us into the western desert."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Bluff
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Bluff
Floyd | A narrow finger of rock points out over the cliff. Unlike the desert,
Floyd | the view here is extraordinary: the lush green canyon falls away to
Floyd | the west, and the endless cloud ocean of the Elysian Lowlands fills
Floyd | the eastern horizon, thousands of metres below. Straight down you can
Floyd | see where the river falls away over the edge of the cliff.
Floyd |
Floyd | Something large and metallic shines on the other side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x metal" 		

Floyd ]  Bluff
Floyd |
Floyd | > X METAL
Floyd |
Floyd | It's the sad wreck of the Semiquaver, looking abandoned and
Floyd | out of place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Lionheart says, "Oh, so no leading the fox up to the cliff then"
		DavidW says, "No, sorry."
		DavidW says, "I didn't get much further than this. I found out that otter likes fish, deer likes plant, lemur has fingers, and rock pool is deadly."
		olethros momentarily thinks this is political commentary.
		DavidW says, "But I never managed a successful body transfer."
		DavidW says, "I think there's still two locations we've missed."
		DavidW says, "Not counting the otter's playground."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Western Desert
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Western Desert
Floyd | You were wrong: the view is terrible from here. Outside the canyon
Floyd | there is just barren, sandy wasteland, with the occasional scrubby
Floyd | plant, stretching away in all directions. There are mountains on the
Floyd | horizon, but there's no way you could survive out here long enough to
Floyd | reach them. Down to the east the oasis of the canyon is mostly hidden
Floyd | behind the terrain. There is a rise to the south, near where the land
Floyd | stops.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Warren
Floyd | This little grassy hollow half-way up the side of the canyon looks
Floyd | like it's been colonised by rabbits. The tough grass-like ground
Floyd | covering has been dug away and the sandy soil underneath is full of
Floyd | burrows. Down to the east the view over the Mother Tree is
Floyd | spectacular, much better than it was from the top; you can probably
Floyd | climb up to the west. The slope steepens and becomes impassably steep
Floyd | to the south, but the warren continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | There are burrows everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ground is covered with rabbits.
Floyd |
Floyd | Several rabbits seem to be watching you with suspicion.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Marsh
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Marsh
Floyd | Here in the shadow of the Mother Tree the ground is flat and wet;
Floyd | reed-like plants with white flowers grow everywhere and the air is
Floyd | musky. The river winds slowly along the east side of the marsh with
Floyd | woodlands beyond it. To the west the ground rises to what look like a
Floyd | series of sandy bluffs. The ground looks drier to the north where the
Floyd | canyon ramparts start to close in.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | It takes a few moments for your eyes to adjust to the dim light.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest Cathedral
Floyd | The trees here are huge: massive columnar towers rising out of the
Floyd | soft green turf to support the dense leaf canopy above. Golden rays
Floyd | angle down between the trees, filling the vast space with dim light,
Floyd | and reflecting off the river that runs down the east side. The air
Floyd | seems permeated with peacefulness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Large green cocoons are attached to the bases of some of the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | A cocoon silently folds open. There's a moment's pause, and then a
Floyd | grey rabbit leaps out, streaks past you, and is gone.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cocoon closes again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Bottom of the Canyon
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You emerge, blinking, into the sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bottom of the Canyon
Floyd | Sheer rock walls tower above you to the east and west, and only
Floyd | slightly less impressive is the green wall of the Mother Tree to the
Floyd | north. But to the south the ground just stops, and the river pours
Floyd | endlessly into the void.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a glint of metal high up to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh, just this location."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x metal" 		

Floyd ]  Bottom of the Canyon
Floyd |
Floyd | > X METAL
Floyd |
Floyd | The Semiquaver looks much less precarious from down here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Bottom of the Canyon
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You aren't carrying anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Shall I try to lay a trail of leaves, or try to get into a fish body or what?"
		Lionheart says, "Try the trail of leaves that seemed qa more promising idea"
		DavidW says, "ok"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | It takes a few moments for your eyes to adjust to the dim light.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest Cathedral
Floyd | The trees here are huge: massive columnar towers rising out of the
Floyd | soft green turf to support the dense leaf canopy above. Golden rays
Floyd | angle down between the trees, filling the vast space with dim light,
Floyd | and reflecting off the river that runs down the east side. The air
Floyd | seems permeated with peacefulness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Large green cocoons are attached to the bases of some of the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel irritation from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Marsh
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You emerge, blinking, into the sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | Marsh
Floyd | Here in the shadow of the Mother Tree the ground is flat and wet;
Floyd | reed-like plants with white flowers grow everywhere and the air is
Floyd | musky. The river winds slowly along the east side of the marsh with
Floyd | woodlands beyond it. To the west the ground rises to what look like a
Floyd | series of sandy bluffs. The ground looks drier to the north where the
Floyd | canyon ramparts start to close in.
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost run into the fox again. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel annoyance from the north, and caution from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Meadow
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Meadow
Floyd | The flat river valley here isn't as wet as the marsh further south,
Floyd | and has bloomed into an astonishing wildflower meadow. The flowers are
Floyd | all strange and alien, of course, but the air is fragrant and
Floyd | peaceful. The only sound is the gentle noise of the river to the east.
Floyd | Off to the west the ground begins to rise up to meet the canyon wall,
Floyd | while forests dominate the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Rapids
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Rapids
Floyd | The river is narrow and rocky here, and the river churns noisily
Floyd | between the boulders. Trees come down to the water's edge on both
Floyd | sides, and twigs and dead leaves spiral dizzyingly in the vortices.
Floyd | The woods are fairly dense here and seem to go on in all directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off north. The beavers
Floyd | relax, disperse, and go about their business again.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers suddenly notice the fox and start hissing threateningly.
Floyd | It stays well over to the west side of the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur is sitting in one of the thorny bushes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur scratches itself.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel excitement and hostility from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take plant" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE PLANT
Floyd |
Floyd | You gingerly take a mouthful of leaves, avoiding the thorns.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur bounces out of the bush, shoots up a tree and leaps through
Floyd | the branches to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense excitement changing to hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of peacefulness from the south and hunger
Floyd | fading and hostility changing to concentration from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer gallop up from the north with a thunder of hooves. They spend
Floyd | several moments looking around with suspicion before returning to
Floyd | their grazing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Scree
Floyd | You are perched at the very north-west tip of the canyon, where the
Floyd | slopes disintegrate into a tangle of smashed rock. Wiry, heather-like
Floyd | grass grows between the gaps between the boulders, and there are even
Floyd | a few trees. Below to the east is a maelstrom of white water at the
Floyd | head of the river; to the south, the slope begins to flatten.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tiny multicoloured birds dart back and forth on the cliff face above
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost run into the fox again. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel annoyance from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer walk purposefully up from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is floating on its back,
Floyd | apparently studying the sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the west. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel irritation from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "damn"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Scree
Floyd | You are perched at the very north-west tip of the canyon, where the
Floyd | slopes disintegrate into a tangle of smashed rock. Wiry, heather-like
Floyd | grass grows between the gaps between the boulders, and there are even
Floyd | a few trees. Below to the east is a maelstrom of white water at the
Floyd | head of the river; to the south, the slope begins to flatten.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tiny multicoloured birds dart back and forth on the cliff face above
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel contentment from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "get on boulder" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET ON BOULDER
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropping the bundle of aromatic leaves, you jump and scrabble wildly
Floyd | with your powerful hind legs, eventually managing to haul yourself to
Floyd | the top.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox sniffs around a bit, obviously having lost track of you, and
Floyd | then gives up trying to figure out where you've gone.
Floyd |
Floyd | That fox is really annoying, but at least you can run faster than it
Floyd | can --- provided you keep moving it's no real danger. You're grimly
Floyd | sure that a real rabbit would have some kind of animal sense to let it
Floyd | keep a safe distance away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox investigates some long grass.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox paces off to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | (first getting off the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel irritation from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is messily dismantling
Floyd | something on a rock on the far shore of the lake. You can't tell what.
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost run into the fox again. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel annoyance from the north, and concentration from the
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Scree
Floyd | You are perched at the very north-west tip of the canyon, where the
Floyd | slopes disintegrate into a tangle of smashed rock. Wiry, heather-like
Floyd | grass grows between the gaps between the boulders, and there are even
Floyd | a few trees. Below to the east is a maelstrom of white water at the
Floyd | head of the river; to the south, the slope begins to flatten.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tiny multicoloured birds dart back and forth on the cliff face above
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel annoyance from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off west.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the south. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Scree
Floyd | You are perched at the very north-west tip of the canyon, where the
Floyd | slopes disintegrate into a tangle of smashed rock. Wiry, heather-like
Floyd | grass grows between the gaps between the boulders, and there are even
Floyd | a few trees. Below to the east is a maelstrom of white water at the
Floyd | head of the river; to the south, the slope begins to flatten.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tiny multicoloured birds dart back and forth on the cliff face above
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a bundle of aromatic leaves here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Open Woodland
Floyd | The ground rises to meet the canyon wall to the west here, and small
Floyd | trees are scattered across the slope. There is very little
Floyd | undergrowth, lending the woods an airy, garden-like feel. The trees
Floyd | get denser to the north and east, but space opens out to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows. One of them has been dug free of sand.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter burrow" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Burrow
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER BURROW
Floyd |
Floyd | It takes a few moments for your eyes to adjust to the dim light.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the Burrow
Floyd | The burrow is cool and dark, and the sandy soil smells pleasantly
Floyd | spicy. Emotionally, you feel totally secure here. Intellectually, you
Floyd | know that the unstable walls could collapse on you, and probably kill
Floyd | you, at any time.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel excitement from outside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Burrow
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense excitement changing to hunger from outside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Burrow
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Burrow
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading from outside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You emerge, blinking, into the sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows. One of them has been dug free of sand.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger and caution from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Open Woodland
Floyd | The ground rises to meet the canyon wall to the west here, and small
Floyd | trees are scattered across the slope. There is very little
Floyd | undergrowth, lending the woods an airy, garden-like feel. The trees
Floyd | get denser to the north and east, but space opens out to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a bundle of aromatic leaves here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is messily dismantling
Floyd | something on a rock on the far shore of the lake. You can't tell what.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | The trees is already here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop bundle" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP BUNDLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You aren't carrying anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "argh"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see a trail of bubbles
Floyd | where the otter is swimming underwater.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You're pretty sure that rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see the otter playing in
Floyd | the water around the base of the cliff.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of annoyance from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bunch" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE BUNCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | That's hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter appears to be chasing
Floyd | its own tail.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense annoyance changing to irritation from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "f s" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > F S
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south, and concentration from the
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take plant" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE PLANT
Floyd |
Floyd | You gingerly take a mouthful of leaves, avoiding the thorns.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | The little herd of deer is grazing here. One of the deer slowly walks
Floyd | around you, staring at you all the while.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is basking in the
Floyd | sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the north, and concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel irritation from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Scree
Floyd | You are perched at the very north-west tip of the canyon, where the
Floyd | slopes disintegrate into a tangle of smashed rock. Wiry, heather-like
Floyd | grass grows between the gaps between the boulders, and there are even
Floyd | a few trees. Below to the east is a maelstrom of white water at the
Floyd | head of the river; to the south, the slope begins to flatten.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tiny multicoloured birds dart back and forth on the cliff face above
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop bundle" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP BUNDLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is basking in the
Floyd | sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the south, and peacefulness from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur is sitting in one of the thorny bushes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur gives you a suspicious look.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take plant" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE PLANT
Floyd |
Floyd | You gingerly take a mouthful of leaves, avoiding the thorns.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur seems to find something very interesting under one armpit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hunger" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HUNGER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is messily dismantling
Floyd | something on a rock on the far shore of the lake. You can't tell what.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop bundle" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP BUNDLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see a trail of bubbles
Floyd | where the otter is swimming underwater.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x otter" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > X OTTER
Floyd |
Floyd | It's not really an otter, of course; it's a quasi-mammal with the
Floyd | usual cartiligenous backbone that creatures have here. But it's got
Floyd | fur, warm blood, lives in water and eats fish, so the necessities of
Floyd | physics make it look vaguely otter-like, which means that's what
Floyd | everyone on the Concerto calls it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter appears to be chasing
Floyd | its own tail.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur is sitting in one of the thorny bushes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur just stares into space for a while.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the aromatic bush)
Floyd | You gingerly take a mouthful of leaves, avoiding the thorns.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur blinks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the east, and irritation from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost run into the fox again. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel annoyance from the north, and concentration from the
Floyd | east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "get on boulder" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET ON BOULDER
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropping the bundle of aromatic leaves, you jump and scrabble wildly
Floyd | with your powerful hind legs, eventually managing to haul yourself to
Floyd | the top.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox sniffs around a bit, obviously having lost track of you, and
Floyd | then gives up trying to figure out where you've gone.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense annoyance fading from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox raises its muzzle, sniffing the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox paces off to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You jump down from the boulder.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense concentration changing to hostility and a new feeling of
Floyd | hunger from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bundle" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE BUNDLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading and hostility changing to concentration from
Floyd | the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Rapids
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Rapids
Floyd | The river is narrow and rocky here, and the river churns noisily
Floyd | between the boulders. Trees come down to the water's edge on both
Floyd | sides, and twigs and dead leaves spiral dizzyingly in the vortices.
Floyd | The woods are fairly dense here and seem to go on in all directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Open Woodland
Floyd | The ground rises to meet the canyon wall to the west here, and small
Floyd | trees are scattered across the slope. There is very little
Floyd | undergrowth, lending the woods an airy, garden-like feel. The trees
Floyd | get denser to the north and east, but space opens out to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer walk purposefully up from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the north. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel irritation from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach asks, "Have we tried luring the deer across the dam?"
		Zach says, "Without the fox being by the dam"
		Zach says, "I wonder if it would break if the deer tried to cross"
		DavidW says, "No, because the beavers block them. That's why we have to get the plant; they can't get it themselves."
		DavidW says, "also, this plan is awkward with the fox interfering so much."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Open Woodland
Floyd | The ground rises to meet the canyon wall to the west here, and small
Floyd | trees are scattered across the slope. There is very little
Floyd | undergrowth, lending the woods an airy, garden-like feel. The trees
Floyd | get denser to the north and east, but space opens out to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows. One of them has been dug free of sand.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Warren
Floyd | This little grassy hollow half-way up the side of the canyon looks
Floyd | like it's been colonised by rabbits. The tough grass-like ground
Floyd | covering has been dug away and the sandy soil underneath is full of
Floyd | burrows. Down to the east the view over the Mother Tree is
Floyd | spectacular, much better than it was from the top; you can probably
Floyd | climb up to the west. The slope steepens and becomes impassably steep
Floyd | to the south, but the warren continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | There are burrows everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ground is covered with rabbits.
Floyd |
Floyd | Several rabbits are sitting motionless close to each other, with an
Floyd | air of being busy.
Floyd |
Floyd | The rabbits, all in unison, suddenly look to the north for a moment.
Floyd | Then briskly but calmly they file into the burrows and are gone.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Western Desert
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Western Desert
Floyd | You were wrong: the view is terrible from here. Outside the canyon
Floyd | there is just barren, sandy wasteland, with the occasional scrubby
Floyd | plant, stretching away in all directions. There are mountains on the
Floyd | horizon, but there's no way you could survive out here long enough to
Floyd | reach them. Down to the east the oasis of the canyon is mostly hidden
Floyd | behind the terrain. There is a rise to the south, near where the land
Floyd | stops.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel excitement and caution from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Western Desert
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense excitement changing to hunger from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Western Desert
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Western Desert
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Warren
Floyd | This little grassy hollow half-way up the side of the canyon looks
Floyd | like it's been colonised by rabbits. The tough grass-like ground
Floyd | covering has been dug away and the sandy soil underneath is full of
Floyd | burrows. Down to the east the view over the Mother Tree is
Floyd | spectacular, much better than it was from the top; you can probably
Floyd | climb up to the west. The slope steepens and becomes impassably steep
Floyd | to the south, but the warren continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | There are burrows everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | Eyes seem to be staring at you from out of the burrows.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows. One of them has been dug free of sand.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel caution from the south, and hunger from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Open Woodland
Floyd | The ground rises to meet the canyon wall to the west here, and small
Floyd | trees are scattered across the slope. There is very little
Floyd | undergrowth, lending the woods an airy, garden-like feel. The trees
Floyd | get denser to the north and east, but space opens out to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel irritation from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Yeah the fox is a pain in the tail"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Rapids
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Rapids
Floyd | The river is narrow and rocky here, and the river churns noisily
Floyd | between the boulders. Trees come down to the water's edge on both
Floyd | sides, and twigs and dead leaves spiral dizzyingly in the vortices.
Floyd | The woods are fairly dense here and seem to go on in all directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost run into the fox again. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hostility and irritation from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Open Woodland
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying a bundle of aromatic leaves in your mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense irritation fading and a new feeling of hunger from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hostility and irritation from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel annoyance from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Scree
Floyd | You are perched at the very north-west tip of the canyon, where the
Floyd | slopes disintegrate into a tangle of smashed rock. Wiry, heather-like
Floyd | grass grows between the gaps between the boulders, and there are even
Floyd | a few trees. Below to the east is a maelstrom of white water at the
Floyd | head of the river; to the south, the slope begins to flatten.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tiny multicoloured birds dart back and forth on the cliff face above
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer walk purposefully up from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer walk purposefully up from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop bundle" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP BUNDLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a brief tussle as the deer fight for the bundle of aromatic
Floyd | leaves. The winner chews blissfully, green-tinted drool dripping from
Floyd | its mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The buck deer stares at you, eyes narrowed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer stare into space for a while.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of hunger from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You nervously crawl along the ledge.
Floyd |
Floyd | Precarious Ledge
Floyd | You are balanced on a rock overhanging the north edge of the rock
Floyd | pool. The boulder is slippery from spray, and shifts under your feet
Floyd | when you move your weight giving you the feeling like it might give
Floyd | way at any moment. The narrow ledge to the south leads back to safety.
Floyd |
Floyd | The rock pool churns unnervingly below you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a bundle of aromatic leaves here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel irritation from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense irritation fading and a new feeling of hunger from the
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Having we been south from the western desert? I don't remember going there before"
		DavidW says, "It seems the trail idea doesn't work."
		Touchy asks, "But the deer is drugged, right?"
		Touchy says, "The damn fox just doesn't show up."
		DavidW says, "Yes, south of Western Desert is Bluff, where we can see the ship."
		Lionheart says, "Then let's get the fox to chase us here"
		DavidW says, "The plant drugs the deer, but I don't see how a drugged deer helps us."
		DavidW says, "When the fox chases us to the ledge, we both fall in and drown in a few turns."
		Lionheart says, "Or better: get the deer to follow you to Tree, then get the fox to chase you to tree"
		Touchy asks, "Well, the fox would maybe eat the deer instead?"
		DavidW says, "well, maybe."
		DavidW says, "If the fox was fed, he might disappear altogether to sleep it off."
		DavidW asks, "So the new plan is to get stoned deer and hungry fox together?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | With some relief, you crawl back along the ledge.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You aren't carrying anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see the otter playing in
Floyd | the water around the base of the cliff.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south, and hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the east, and hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur is sitting in one of the thorny bushes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur languidly picks up a some small insect of some kind, stares
Floyd | at it for a while, and then pulls the legs off before throwing it
Floyd | away.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the aromatic bush)
Floyd | You gingerly take a mouthful of leaves, avoiding the thorns.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur bounces out of the bush, shoots up a tree and leaps through
Floyd | the branches to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Scree
Floyd | You are perched at the very north-west tip of the canyon, where the
Floyd | slopes disintegrate into a tangle of smashed rock. Wiry, heather-like
Floyd | grass grows between the gaps between the boulders, and there are even
Floyd | a few trees. Below to the east is a maelstrom of white water at the
Floyd | head of the river; to the south, the slope begins to flatten.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tiny multicoloured birds dart back and forth on the cliff face above
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is floating on its back,
Floyd | apparently studying the sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Rapids
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Rapids
Floyd | The river is narrow and rocky here, and the river churns noisily
Floyd | between the boulders. Trees come down to the water's edge on both
Floyd | sides, and twigs and dead leaves spiral dizzyingly in the vortices.
Floyd | The woods are fairly dense here and seem to go on in all directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | The little herd of deer is grazing here. The deer all watch you
Floyd | intently. Green-coloured slime dribbles out of their mouths.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the north, and hunger from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Rapids
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the south. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "well that didn't work."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Rapids
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Rapids
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer gallop up from the south with a thunder of hooves. They spend
Floyd | several moments looking around with suspicion before returning to
Floyd | their grazing.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers suddenly dash up towards the deer, trying to drive them
Floyd | away from the dam and the river bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers are confronting the deer, forming a line blocking them
Floyd | from crossing the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the deer darts past the beavers, grabs the bundle of leaves,
Floyd | and retreats again, chewing noisily and messily.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of hunger from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south, and hostility and
Floyd | satisfaction from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense peacefulness fading from the south and satisfaction fading
Floyd | and a new feeling of hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading and hostility changing to concentration from
Floyd | the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the aromatic bush)
Floyd | You gingerly take a mouthful of leaves, avoiding the thorns.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter appears to be chasing
Floyd | its own tail.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the north, and concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | The little herd of deer is grazing here. One of the deer slowly walks
Floyd | around you, staring at you all the while.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the north. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy says, "hmhmhm"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer gallop up from the north with a thunder of hooves. They spend
Floyd | several moments looking around with suspicion before returning to
Floyd | their grazing.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "get on boulder" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET ON BOULDER
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropping the bundle of aromatic leaves, you jump and scrabble wildly
Floyd | with your powerful hind legs, eventually managing to haul yourself to
Floyd | the top.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of hunger from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm. Hoped the deer would pick up the fallen bundle."
		Touchy asks, "Did we miss something?"
		DavidW says, "If you can manage the trick, please try."
		Touchy says, "It seemed like a pretty solid approach but maybe it only works when we need to be a deer."
		Touchy asks, "What was your fish idea?"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox investigates some long grass.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of annoyance from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "For all I know, we only need to feed the deer once."
		Zach asks, "Can I try the dam thing?"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox paces off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense annoyance changing to irritation from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "What's the dam thing?"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You jump down from the boulder.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense irritation fading and a new feeling of hunger from the
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | That's hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take bundle" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE BUNDLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Seeing if the deer will cross the dam"
		DavidW says, "The deer CANNOT cross."
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "The beavers block them."
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Scree
Floyd | You are perched at the very north-west tip of the canyon, where the
Floyd | slopes disintegrate into a tangle of smashed rock. Wiry, heather-like
Floyd | grass grows between the gaps between the boulders, and there are even
Floyd | a few trees. Below to the east is a maelstrom of white water at the
Floyd | head of the river; to the south, the slope begins to flatten.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tiny multicoloured birds dart back and forth on the cliff face above
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see a trail of bubbles
Floyd | where the otter is swimming underwater.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy says, "ugh... where are the damn leaves"
		DavidW says, "The supply is east of the Dam."
		Touchy says, "ah crap...I need a piece of paper"
		DavidW says, "The Dam is south of Beach"
		DavidW says, "The center column of the map from north to south is: Ledge, Cascades, Beach, Dam, Rapids, Meadow, Forest Cathedral, Bottom of the Canyon."
		DavidW says, "The west column, starting west of Cascades is: Scree, Straggly Forest, Boulder, Open Woodland, Sandy Mound, Warren."
		DavidW says, "Western Desert is west of Warren. Bluff is south of Western Desert."
		DavidW says, "Overgrown Forest is east of Dam. Spring is south of Overgrown Forest. Lower Slopes is south of Spring. Eastern Desert is east of Lower Slopes. Wrecked Shuttle is south of Eastern Desert."
ASchultz retreats to his comfy little shack 		
ASchultz has disconnected. 		DavidW says, "I don't have any good ideas what to do with the otter beyond leading him with a fish."
Touchy says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is messily dismantling
Floyd | something on a rock on the far shore of the lake. You can't tell what.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel annoyance from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Lionheart asks, "Hop on his back and hop off across the river ala Frogger?"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the aromatic bush)
Floyd | You gingerly take a mouthful of leaves, avoiding the thorns.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense concentration changing to hostility and a new feeling of
Floyd | irritation from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off north. The beavers
Floyd | relax, disperse, and go about their business again.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the south. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers suddenly notice the fox and start hissing threateningly.
Floyd | It stays well over to the west side of the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Lionheart says, "Frogger wouldve made more sense as an alien rodent that drowns in water"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off north.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see the otter playing in
Floyd | the water around the base of the cliff.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hostility from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropping the bundle of aromatic leaves, you jump and scrabble wildly
Floyd | with your powerful hind legs, eventually managing to haul yourself to
Floyd | the top.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox sniffs around a bit, obviously having lost track of you, and
Floyd | then gives up trying to figure out where you've gone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox raises its muzzle, sniffing the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox paces off to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You jump down from the boulder.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense concentration changing to hostility and a new feeling of
Floyd | hunger from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading and hostility changing to concentration from
Floyd | the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Rapids
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Rapids
Floyd | The river is narrow and rocky here, and the river churns noisily
Floyd | between the boulders. Trees come down to the water's edge on both
Floyd | sides, and twigs and dead leaves spiral dizzyingly in the vortices.
Floyd | The woods are fairly dense here and seem to go on in all directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Meadow
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Meadow
Floyd | The flat river valley here isn't as wet as the marsh further south,
Floyd | and has bloomed into an astonishing wildflower meadow. The flowers are
Floyd | all strange and alien, of course, but the air is fragrant and
Floyd | peaceful. The only sound is the gentle noise of the river to the east.
Floyd | Off to the west the ground begins to rise up to meet the canyon wall,
Floyd | while forests dominate the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy says, "Where are the damn deer.."
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Marsh
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Marsh
Floyd | Here in the shadow of the Mother Tree the ground is flat and wet;
Floyd | reed-like plants with white flowers grow everywhere and the air is
Floyd | musky. The river winds slowly along the east side of the marsh with
Floyd | woodlands beyond it. To the west the ground rises to what look like a
Floyd | series of sandy bluffs. The ground looks drier to the north where the
Floyd | canyon ramparts start to close in.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Warren
Floyd | This little grassy hollow half-way up the side of the canyon looks
Floyd | like it's been colonised by rabbits. The tough grass-like ground
Floyd | covering has been dug away and the sandy soil underneath is full of
Floyd | burrows. Down to the east the view over the Mother Tree is
Floyd | spectacular, much better than it was from the top; you can probably
Floyd | climb up to the west. The slope steepens and becomes impassably steep
Floyd | to the south, but the warren continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | There are burrows everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ground is covered with rabbits.
Floyd |
Floyd | One rabbit chases another a few metres.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows. One of them has been dug free of sand.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Open Woodland
Floyd | The ground rises to meet the canyon wall to the west here, and small
Floyd | trees are scattered across the slope. There is very little
Floyd | undergrowth, lending the woods an airy, garden-like feel. The trees
Floyd | get denser to the north and east, but space opens out to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer gallop up from the north with a thunder of hooves. They spend
Floyd | several moments looking around with suspicion before returning to
Floyd | their grazing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "drop leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a brief tussle as the deer fight for the bundle of aromatic
Floyd | leaves. The winner chews blissfully, green-tinted drool dripping from
Floyd | its mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of hunger from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "x deer" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DEER
Floyd |
Floyd | There are five of the creatures. One male, two females, and a couple
Floyd | of juveniles? It's very hard to tell, as they're all very similar
Floyd | apart from the size. They're smaller than you were expecting from the
Floyd | survey, barely the size of a large dog, but the blue-green fur is just
Floyd | as startling as you remember. They each have a single forward-curving
Floyd | horn that looks extremely sharp.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the north. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Open Woodland
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows. One of them has been dug free of sand.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer gallop up from the north with a thunder of hooves. They spend
Floyd | several moments looking around with suspicion before returning to
Floyd | their grazing.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Open Woodland
Floyd | The ground rises to meet the canyon wall to the west here, and small
Floyd | trees are scattered across the slope. There is very little
Floyd | undergrowth, lending the woods an airy, garden-like feel. The trees
Floyd | get denser to the north and east, but space opens out to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost run into the fox again. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel annoyance from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | You jump and scrabble wildly with your powerful hind legs, eventually
Floyd | managing to haul yourself to the top.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox sniffs around a bit, obviously having lost track of you, and
Floyd | then gives up trying to figure out where you've gone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox scratches itself.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox paces off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You jump down from the boulder.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of hunger from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Open Woodland
Floyd | The ground rises to meet the canyon wall to the west here, and small
Floyd | trees are scattered across the slope. There is very little
Floyd | undergrowth, lending the woods an airy, garden-like feel. The trees
Floyd | get denser to the north and east, but space opens out to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows. One of them has been dug free of sand.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger and caution from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Meadow
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Meadow
Floyd | The flat river valley here isn't as wet as the marsh further south,
Floyd | and has bloomed into an astonishing wildflower meadow. The flowers are
Floyd | all strange and alien, of course, but the air is fragrant and
Floyd | peaceful. The only sound is the gentle noise of the river to the east.
Floyd | Off to the west the ground begins to rise up to meet the canyon wall,
Floyd | while forests dominate the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The little herd of deer is grazing here. The deer are quietly grazing.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Rapids
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Rapids
Floyd | The river is narrow and rocky here, and the river churns noisily
Floyd | between the boulders. Trees come down to the water's edge on both
Floyd | sides, and twigs and dead leaves spiral dizzyingly in the vortices.
Floyd | The woods are fairly dense here and seem to go on in all directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer gallop up from the south with a thunder of hooves. They spend
Floyd | several moments looking around with suspicion before returning to
Floyd | their grazing.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Rapids
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | The river's in the way, and rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the younger deer bites its sibling, and there's a brief
Floyd | altercation.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of hunger from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer gallop up from the south with a thunder of hooves. They spend
Floyd | several moments looking around with suspicion before returning to
Floyd | their grazing.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers suddenly dash up towards the deer, trying to drive them
Floyd | away from the dam and the river bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers are confronting the deer, forming a line blocking them
Floyd | from crossing the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy says (to Zach), "I think that's why David thinks the deer cannot cross."
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south, and hostility and irritation
Floyd | from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Spring
Floyd | The ground here is steep and rocky, but still covered with scrawny
Floyd | trees. The canyon wall rises precipitously to the east; there's a band
Floyd | of wet rock, and water oozes out and forms in a little pool before
Floyd | trickling down the slope to the river which you can just make out to
Floyd | the west. All you can see to the north and south are more trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur is sitting in one of the thorny bushes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur scratches itself.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south, and hunger and hostility
Floyd | from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the aromatic bush)
Floyd | You gingerly take a mouthful of leaves, avoiding the thorns.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading and hostility changing to concentration from
Floyd | the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Spring
Floyd | The ground here is steep and rocky, but still covered with scrawny
Floyd | trees. The canyon wall rises precipitously to the east; there's a band
Floyd | of wet rock, and water oozes out and forms in a little pool before
Floyd | trickling down the slope to the river which you can just make out to
Floyd | the west. All you can see to the north and south are more trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur is sitting in one of the thorny bushes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur bounces out of the bush, shoots up a tree and leaps through
Floyd | the branches to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "drop leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of peacefulness from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the bundle of aromatic leaves, the trees or the
Floyd | aromatic bush?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "bundle" 		

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > BUNDLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Lower Slopes
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Lower Slopes
Floyd | Nestled in the south-east corner of the canyon, the terrain here
Floyd | sweeps up from the river to a low pass through the canyon wall to the
Floyd | east. Through the dense trees you can just make out the green dome of
Floyd | the Mother Tree far below to the south-west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur is sitting in one of the thorny bushes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur languidly picks up a some small insect of some kind, stares
Floyd | at it for a while, and then pulls the legs off before throwing it
Floyd | away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "drop leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Lower Slopes
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur bounces out of the bush, shoots up a tree and leaps through
Floyd | the branches to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take bundle" 		

Floyd ]  Lower Slopes
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE BUNDLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of peacefulness from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Spring
Floyd | The ground here is steep and rocky, but still covered with scrawny
Floyd | trees. The canyon wall rises precipitously to the east; there's a band
Floyd | of wet rock, and water oozes out and forms in a little pool before
Floyd | trickling down the slope to the river which you can just make out to
Floyd | the west. All you can see to the north and south are more trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur is sitting in one of the thorny bushes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur just stares into space for a while.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south, and concentration from the
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "drop leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a plop as a beaver jumps off the dam into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Two beavers seem to be arguing over where to place a forked branch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the beavers drags a stick up to the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a loud rustling of leaves as the lemur swings up from the
Floyd | south, runs down a tree and dives into the spiky bush.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Scree
Floyd | You are perched at the very north-west tip of the canyon, where the
Floyd | slopes disintegrate into a tangle of smashed rock. Wiry, heather-like
Floyd | grass grows between the gaps between the boulders, and there are even
Floyd | a few trees. Below to the east is a maelstrom of white water at the
Floyd | head of the river; to the south, the slope begins to flatten.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tiny multicoloured birds dart back and forth on the cliff face above
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Open Woodland
Floyd | The ground rises to meet the canyon wall to the west here, and small
Floyd | trees are scattered across the slope. There is very little
Floyd | undergrowth, lending the woods an airy, garden-like feel. The trees
Floyd | get denser to the north and east, but space opens out to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows. One of them has been dug free of sand.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Warren
Floyd | This little grassy hollow half-way up the side of the canyon looks
Floyd | like it's been colonised by rabbits. The tough grass-like ground
Floyd | covering has been dug away and the sandy soil underneath is full of
Floyd | burrows. Down to the east the view over the Mother Tree is
Floyd | spectacular, much better than it was from the top; you can probably
Floyd | climb up to the west. The slope steepens and becomes impassably steep
Floyd | to the south, but the warren continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | There are burrows everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ground is covered with rabbits.
Floyd |
Floyd | Several rabbits seem to be watching you with suspicion.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "drop leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | A few rabbits wander off up the hill a little.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | A couple of the rabbits sniff each other dubiously.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | One rabbit chases another a few metres.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Marsh
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Marsh
Floyd | Here in the shadow of the Mother Tree the ground is flat and wet;
Floyd | reed-like plants with white flowers grow everywhere and the air is
Floyd | musky. The river winds slowly along the east side of the marsh with
Floyd | woodlands beyond it. To the west the ground rises to what look like a
Floyd | series of sandy bluffs. The ground looks drier to the north where the
Floyd | canyon ramparts start to close in.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | It takes a few moments for your eyes to adjust to the dim light.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest Cathedral
Floyd | The trees here are huge: massive columnar towers rising out of the
Floyd | soft green turf to support the dense leaf canopy above. Golden rays
Floyd | angle down between the trees, filling the vast space with dim light,
Floyd | and reflecting off the river that runs down the east side. The air
Floyd | seems permeated with peacefulness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Large green cocoons are attached to the bases of some of the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Bottom of the Canyon
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You emerge, blinking, into the sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bottom of the Canyon
Floyd | Sheer rock walls tower above you to the east and west, and only
Floyd | slightly less impressive is the green wall of the Mother Tree to the
Floyd | north. But to the south the ground just stops, and the river pours
Floyd | endlessly into the void.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a glint of metal high up to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Bottom of the Canyon
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | Even thinking about going near that horrifying drop makes
Floyd | your heart pound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | It takes a few moments for your eyes to adjust to the dim light.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest Cathedral
Floyd | The trees here are huge: massive columnar towers rising out of the
Floyd | soft green turf to support the dense leaf canopy above. Golden rays
Floyd | angle down between the trees, filling the vast space with dim light,
Floyd | and reflecting off the river that runs down the east side. The air
Floyd | seems permeated with peacefulness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Large green cocoons are attached to the bases of some of the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Marsh
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You emerge, blinking, into the sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | Marsh
Floyd | Here in the shadow of the Mother Tree the ground is flat and wet;
Floyd | reed-like plants with white flowers grow everywhere and the air is
Floyd | musky. The river winds slowly along the east side of the marsh with
Floyd | woodlands beyond it. To the west the ground rises to what look like a
Floyd | series of sandy bluffs. The ground looks drier to the north where the
Floyd | canyon ramparts start to close in.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Meadow
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Meadow
Floyd | The flat river valley here isn't as wet as the marsh further south,
Floyd | and has bloomed into an astonishing wildflower meadow. The flowers are
Floyd | all strange and alien, of course, but the air is fragrant and
Floyd | peaceful. The only sound is the gentle noise of the river to the east.
Floyd | Off to the west the ground begins to rise up to meet the canyon wall,
Floyd | while forests dominate the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Rapids
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Rapids
Floyd | The river is narrow and rocky here, and the river churns noisily
Floyd | between the boulders. Trees come down to the water's edge on both
Floyd | sides, and twigs and dead leaves spiral dizzyingly in the vortices.
Floyd | The woods are fairly dense here and seem to go on in all directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the north, and hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is floating on its back,
Floyd | apparently studying the sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You're pretty sure that rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is basking in the
Floyd | sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "drop leaves in pool" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES IN POOL
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves in the rock pool)
Floyd | You're carrying things around with your teeth. The only way you can do
Floyd | that is to drag it there.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "drag leaves in pool" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > DRAG LEAVES IN POOL
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "try PUT, not DROP."
Touchy says (to Floyd), "put leaves in pool" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT LEAVES IN POOL
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves in the rock pool)
Floyd | You're carrying things around with your teeth. The only way you can do
Floyd | that is to drag it there.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "spit leaves at pool" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > SPIT LEAVES AT POOL
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "drop leaves. push leaves." 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES. PUSH LEAVES.
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | The only way you'll move it is to pick it up and carry it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy says, "I can never find the deer and if I do giving them the leaves doesn't seem to accomplish anything..."
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "kick leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > KICK LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | That wouldn't achieve much.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "blow on leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > BLOW ON LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "sweep leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > SWEEP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | You achieve nothing by this.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Lionheart says, "Oh, SWEEP it understands."
		DavidW says, "Maybe we have to be an otter or beaver for sweep to do anything."
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "sweep" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > SWEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to sweep?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy says, "Beavers should have huge tails...good for sweeping"
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "ledge" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > LEDGE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, ">sweep in warge bed"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer gallop up from the south with a thunder of hooves. They spend
Floyd | several moments looking around with suspicion before returning to
Floyd | their grazing.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see the otter playing in
Floyd | the water around the base of the cliff.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hostility from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You aren't carrying anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off north.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is basking in the
Floyd | sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the south. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You're pretty sure that rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox pounces on you. You just have time to think oh, sh---
Floyd | as its jaws close on your neck, and then everything stops.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have been eaten ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost run into the fox again. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel annoyance from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south, and excitement and hostility
Floyd | from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the aromatic bush)
Floyd | You gingerly take a mouthful of leaves, avoiding the thorns.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense excitement changing to hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Rapids
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Rapids
Floyd | The river is narrow and rocky here, and the river churns noisily
Floyd | between the boulders. Trees come down to the water's edge on both
Floyd | sides, and twigs and dead leaves spiral dizzyingly in the vortices.
Floyd | The woods are fairly dense here and seem to go on in all directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Open Woodland
Floyd | The ground rises to meet the canyon wall to the west here, and small
Floyd | trees are scattered across the slope. There is very little
Floyd | undergrowth, lending the woods an airy, garden-like feel. The trees
Floyd | get denser to the north and east, but space opens out to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows. One of them has been dug free of sand.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Meadow
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Meadow
Floyd | The flat river valley here isn't as wet as the marsh further south,
Floyd | and has bloomed into an astonishing wildflower meadow. The flowers are
Floyd | all strange and alien, of course, but the air is fragrant and
Floyd | peaceful. The only sound is the gentle noise of the river to the east.
Floyd | Off to the west the ground begins to rise up to meet the canyon wall,
Floyd | while forests dominate the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows. One of them has been dug free of sand.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Open Woodland
Floyd | The ground rises to meet the canyon wall to the west here, and small
Floyd | trees are scattered across the slope. There is very little
Floyd | undergrowth, lending the woods an airy, garden-like feel. The trees
Floyd | get denser to the north and east, but space opens out to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer walk purposefully up from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "x deer" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DEER
Floyd |
Floyd | There are five of the creatures. One male, two females, and a couple
Floyd | of juveniles? It's very hard to tell, as they're all very similar
Floyd | apart from the size. They're smaller than you were expecting from the
Floyd | survey, barely the size of a large dog, but the blue-green fur is just
Floyd | as startling as you remember. They each have a single forward-curving
Floyd | horn that looks extremely sharp.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer all watch you intently. Green-coloured slime dribbles out of
Floyd | their mouths.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows. One of them has been dug free of sand.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer walk purposefully up from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Warren
Floyd | This little grassy hollow half-way up the side of the canyon looks
Floyd | like it's been colonised by rabbits. The tough grass-like ground
Floyd | covering has been dug away and the sandy soil underneath is full of
Floyd | burrows. Down to the east the view over the Mother Tree is
Floyd | spectacular, much better than it was from the top; you can probably
Floyd | climb up to the west. The slope steepens and becomes impassably steep
Floyd | to the south, but the warren continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | There are burrows everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ground is covered with rabbits.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some of the rabbits are staring up at the sky, as if they can see
Floyd | something there.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer walk purposefully up from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | A few rabbits wander off up the hill a little.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the deer leans over and sniffs you. It looks very big.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some of the rabbits are staring up at the sky, as if they can see
Floyd | something there.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the deer slowly walks around you, staring at you all the while.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Western Desert
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Western Desert
Floyd | You were wrong: the view is terrible from here. Outside the canyon
Floyd | there is just barren, sandy wasteland, with the occasional scrubby
Floyd | plant, stretching away in all directions. There are mountains on the
Floyd | horizon, but there's no way you could survive out here long enough to
Floyd | reach them. Down to the east the oasis of the canyon is mostly hidden
Floyd | behind the terrain. There is a rise to the south, near where the land
Floyd | stops.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel irritation and peacefulness from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Warren
Floyd | This little grassy hollow half-way up the side of the canyon looks
Floyd | like it's been colonised by rabbits. The tough grass-like ground
Floyd | covering has been dug away and the sandy soil underneath is full of
Floyd | burrows. Down to the east the view over the Mother Tree is
Floyd | spectacular, much better than it was from the top; you can probably
Floyd | climb up to the west. The slope steepens and becomes impassably steep
Floyd | to the south, but the warren continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | There are burrows everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | Eyes seem to be staring at you from out of the burrows.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the north. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Marsh
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Marsh
Floyd | Here in the shadow of the Mother Tree the ground is flat and wet;
Floyd | reed-like plants with white flowers grow everywhere and the air is
Floyd | musky. The river winds slowly along the east side of the marsh with
Floyd | woodlands beyond it. To the west the ground rises to what look like a
Floyd | series of sandy bluffs. The ground looks drier to the north where the
Floyd | canyon ramparts start to close in.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel caution from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Meadow
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Meadow
Floyd | The flat river valley here isn't as wet as the marsh further south,
Floyd | and has bloomed into an astonishing wildflower meadow. The flowers are
Floyd | all strange and alien, of course, but the air is fragrant and
Floyd | peaceful. The only sound is the gentle noise of the river to the east.
Floyd | Off to the west the ground begins to rise up to meet the canyon wall,
Floyd | while forests dominate the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows. One of them has been dug free of sand.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel caution from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "in" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Burrow
Floyd |
Floyd | > IN
Floyd |
Floyd | It takes a few moments for your eyes to adjust to the dim light.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the Burrow
Floyd | The burrow is cool and dark, and the sandy soil smells pleasantly
Floyd | spicy. Emotionally, you feel totally secure here. Intellectually, you
Floyd | know that the unstable walls could collapse on you, and probably kill
Floyd | you, at any time.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel excitement from outside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Burrow
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense excitement changing to hunger from outside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Burrow
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You emerge, blinking, into the sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows. One of them has been dug free of sand.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel caution from the south, and hunger from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Open Woodland
Floyd | The ground rises to meet the canyon wall to the west here, and small
Floyd | trees are scattered across the slope. There is very little
Floyd | undergrowth, lending the woods an airy, garden-like feel. The trees
Floyd | get denser to the north and east, but space opens out to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel irritation from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Rapids
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Rapids
Floyd | The river is narrow and rocky here, and the river churns noisily
Floyd | between the boulders. Trees come down to the water's edge on both
Floyd | sides, and twigs and dead leaves spiral dizzyingly in the vortices.
Floyd | The woods are fairly dense here and seem to go on in all directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost run into the fox again. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hostility and irritation from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Open Woodland
Floyd | The ground rises to meet the canyon wall to the west here, and small
Floyd | trees are scattered across the slope. There is very little
Floyd | undergrowth, lending the woods an airy, garden-like feel. The trees
Floyd | get denser to the north and east, but space opens out to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows. One of them has been dug free of sand.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "in" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Burrow
Floyd |
Floyd | > IN
Floyd |
Floyd | It takes a few moments for your eyes to adjust to the dim light.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the Burrow
Floyd | The burrow is cool and dark, and the sandy soil smells pleasantly
Floyd | spicy. Emotionally, you feel totally secure here. Intellectually, you
Floyd | know that the unstable walls could collapse on you, and probably kill
Floyd | you, at any time.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel excitement from outside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Burrow
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense excitement changing to hunger from outside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Burrow
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You emerge, blinking, into the sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows. One of them has been dug free of sand.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel caution from the south, and hunger from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Open Woodland
Floyd | The ground rises to meet the canyon wall to the west here, and small
Floyd | trees are scattered across the slope. There is very little
Floyd | undergrowth, lending the woods an airy, garden-like feel. The trees
Floyd | get denser to the north and east, but space opens out to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer walk purposefully up from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hostility from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer walk purposefully up from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Scree
Floyd | You are perched at the very north-west tip of the canyon, where the
Floyd | slopes disintegrate into a tangle of smashed rock. Wiry, heather-like
Floyd | grass grows between the gaps between the boulders, and there are even
Floyd | a few trees. Below to the east is a maelstrom of white water at the
Floyd | head of the river; to the south, the slope begins to flatten.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tiny multicoloured birds dart back and forth on the cliff face above
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer slowly amble towards you, from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the deer leans over and sniffs you. It looks very big.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer slowly amble towards you, from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You nervously crawl along the ledge.
Floyd |
Floyd | Precarious Ledge
Floyd | You are balanced on a rock overhanging the north edge of the rock
Floyd | pool. The boulder is slippery from spray, and shifts under your feet
Floyd | when you move your weight giving you the feeling like it might give
Floyd | way at any moment. The narrow ledge to the south leads back to safety.
Floyd |
Floyd | The rock pool churns unnervingly below you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a bundle of aromatic leaves here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel contentment from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | With some relief, you crawl back along the ledge.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | The little herd of deer is grazing here. The deer all stare fixedly at
Floyd | you, nostrils flaring.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "drop leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off west.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the south. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Precarious Ledge
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Precarious Ledge
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Precarious Ledge
Floyd | You are balanced on a rock overhanging the north edge of the rock
Floyd | pool. The boulder is slippery from spray, and shifts under your feet
Floyd | when you move your weight giving you the feeling like it might give
Floyd | way at any moment. The narrow ledge to the south leads back to safety.
Floyd |
Floyd | The rock pool churns unnervingly below you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a bundle of aromatic leaves here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel contentment from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Precarious Ledge
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | The little herd of deer is grazing here. One of the deer slowly walks
Floyd | around you, staring at you all the while.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "droz" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROZ
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "drop leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a brief tussle as the deer fight for the bundle of aromatic
Floyd | leaves. The winner chews blissfully, green-tinted drool dripping from
Floyd | its mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "x deer" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DEER
Floyd |
Floyd | There are five of the creatures. One male, two females, and a couple
Floyd | of juveniles? It's very hard to tell, as they're all very similar
Floyd | apart from the size. They're smaller than you were expecting from the
Floyd | survey, barely the size of a large dog, but the blue-green fur is just
Floyd | as startling as you remember. They each have a single forward-curving
Floyd | horn that looks extremely sharp.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer stare into space for a while.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of hunger from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You nervously crawl along the ledge.
Floyd |
Floyd | Precarious Ledge
Floyd | You are balanced on a rock overhanging the north edge of the rock
Floyd | pool. The boulder is slippery from spray, and shifts under your feet
Floyd | when you move your weight giving you the feeling like it might give
Floyd | way at any moment. The narrow ledge to the south leads back to safety.
Floyd |
Floyd | The rock pool churns unnervingly below you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a bundle of aromatic leaves here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel irritation from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense irritation fading and a new feeling of hunger from the
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Precarious Ledge
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off west.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the south. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is basking in the
Floyd | sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost run into the fox again. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel irritation from the north, and concentration from the
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers suddenly notice the fox and start hissing threateningly.
Floyd | It stays well over to the west side of the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel excitement and hostility from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the aromatic bush)
Floyd | You gingerly take a mouthful of leaves, avoiding the thorns.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense excitement changing to hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "x dam" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DAM
Floyd |
Floyd | The dam is a big embankment of logs. Unlike dams built by Earth
Floyd | beavers, they haven't sealed it with mud, and the water is pouring
Floyd | through in numerous places. This doesn't seem to affect the water
Floyd | level in the lake, though.
Floyd |
Floyd | Two beavers seem to be arguing over where to place a forked branch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach flatlined as quickly as the market for socialist-bloc cosmetics. 		
Zach has disconnected. 		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter appears to be chasing
Floyd | its own tail.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south, and irritation from the
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "x bones" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BONES
Floyd |
Floyd | They're old and bleached the sun, and look well-gnawed. There's quite
Floyd | a lot of them.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see a trail of bubbles
Floyd | where the otter is swimming underwater.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense irritation fading and a new feeling of hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel irritation from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "x fish" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | They're brown and trout-like, but on closer inspection the fins are
Floyd | all wrong and the tail is bifurcated. You think that Elysia could have
Floyd | some very plausible mermaid myths.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the beavers drags a stick up to the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense irritation fading and a new feeling of hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take fish" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | (first dropping the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | You easily catch one of the stranded fish and bite down on the back of
Floyd | its neck. Snap-crunch. You feel nauseous.
Floyd |
Floyd | A couple of beavers scuffle meaninglessly for a bit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see the otter with its
Floyd | head out of the water, staring at you intently.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "drop fish" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | (the dead fish)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a sudden splash as the otter surfaces just offshore. Close up,
Floyd | it's noticeably bigger than you are, with a pointed nose and alert
Floyd | looking whiskers. It stares at you with interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter is bored. And a bit hungry. And cross. Mostly bored.
Floyd | There's lots of crunchy things in the lake, and they're good, but what
Floyd | it really wants is fish. And something to do. The creatures on the dam
Floyd | won't let it near the fish, but this rabbit has one! But there's
Floyd | something not right about it. Maybe it's dangerous? But it has a fish
Floyd | for the otter. It must love the otter!
Floyd |
Floyd | While you're reeling from this bombardment of images, the otter
Floyd | wriggles ashore and scurries up the beach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "x otter" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > X OTTER
Floyd |
Floyd | It's not really an otter, of course; it's a quasi-mammal with the
Floyd | usual cartiligenous backbone that creatures have here. But it's got
Floyd | fur, warm blood, lives in water and eats fish, so the necessities of
Floyd | physics make it look vaguely otter-like, which means that's what
Floyd | everyone on the Concerto calls it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter sits back on its haunches and gobbles down the fish with
Floyd | every appearance of satisfaction. It watches you eagerly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter follows you from the south, whiskers twitching. It waits for
Floyd | you patiently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You nervously crawl along the ledge.
Floyd |
Floyd | Precarious Ledge
Floyd | You are balanced on a rock overhanging the north edge of the rock
Floyd | pool. The boulder is slippery from spray, and shifts under your feet
Floyd | when you move your weight giving you the feeling like it might give
Floyd | way at any moment. The narrow ledge to the south leads back to safety.
Floyd |
Floyd | The rock pool churns unnervingly below you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a bundle of aromatic leaves here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter chases you from the south onto the ledge --- which abruptly
Floyd | gives way underneath you. You, the otter, and what seems like several
Floyd | tonnes of rock drop into the water in a shocking plunge that stuns you
Floyd | for a few moments.
Floyd |
Floyd | In The Rock Pool
Floyd | From down here the sides of the pool are steeper and even less
Floyd | climbable than they were from above --- this is less of a pool and
Floyd | more of a well, and you are at the bottom of it. One of the many
Floyd | waterfalls crashes into the dark water near where you are and vortices
Floyd | in the water buffet you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter smoothly surfaces, startled.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "ride otter" 		

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > RIDE OTTER
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "climb otter" 		

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLIMB OTTER
Floyd |
Floyd | The sides of the pool and sheer. There's no way out that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | The survey report said that rabbits can't swim. You paddle furiously
Floyd | nevertheless in the hope that you remembered incorrectly.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter is getting a little puzzled.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "x otter" 		

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > X OTTER
Floyd |
Floyd | It's not really an otter, of course; it's a quasi-mammal with the
Floyd | usual cartiligenous backbone that creatures have here. But it's got
Floyd | fur, warm blood, lives in water and eats fish, so the necessities of
Floyd | physics make it look vaguely otter-like, which means that's what
Floyd | everyone on the Concerto calls it.
Floyd |
Floyd | You keep paddling, but your strength is beginning to give out.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter is beginning to look disappointed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "bite otter" 		

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > BITE OTTER
Floyd |
Floyd | You're a rabbit. About the only thing you're capable of hurting are
Floyd | leaves.
Floyd |
Floyd | You're having trouble keeping your head above the surface...
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter gives you a look full of betrayal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | In The Rock Pool
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | In The Rock Pool
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | In The Rock Pool
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy says, "should have saved"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  In The Rock Pool
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | In The Rock Pool
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter follows you from the north, whiskers twitching. It appears
Floyd | to be a bit less confident.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a bundle of aromatic leaves here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter follows you from the north, whiskers twitching. It is
Floyd | getting a little puzzled. It looks longingly at the fish jumping in
Floyd | the pools, but eyes the beavers and stays well over on the west side
Floyd | of the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take fish" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | You kill another fish.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the beavers starts whittling a branch with its serrated tusks.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter is beginning to look disappointed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter follows you from the west, whiskers twitching. It gives you
Floyd | a look full of betrayal.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south, and concentration from the
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a bundle of aromatic leaves here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer walk purposefully up from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers suddenly dash up towards the deer, trying to drive them
Floyd | away from the dam and the river bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers are confronting the deer, forming a line blocking them
Floyd | from crossing the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel disappointment from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter is dithering worriedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south, and hostility and irritation
Floyd | from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers are confronting the deer, forming a line blocking them
Floyd | from crossing the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the south, and disappointment from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hostility and irritation from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel annoyance from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense annoyance fading and a new feeling of hunger from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost run into the fox again. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel irritation from the north, and concentration from the
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers suddenly notice the fox and start hissing threateningly.
Floyd | It stays well over to the west side of the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel disappointment and peacefulness from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel contentment from the north, and hostility from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers suddenly notice the fox and start hissing threateningly.
Floyd | It stays well over to the west side of the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel disappointment and peacefulness from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel contentment from the north, and hostility from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off west.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers suddenly notice the fox and start hissing threateningly.
Floyd | It stays well over to the west side of the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel disappointment and peacefulness from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur is sitting in one of the thorny bushes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter is dithering worriedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur scratches itself.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel excitement and hostility from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter is dithering worriedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur bounces out of the bush, shoots up a tree and leaps through
Floyd | the branches to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense excitement changing to hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel disappointment from the east, and hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter is dithering worriedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south, and concentration from the
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter is dithering worriedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "drop fish" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter sits back on its haunches and gobbles down the fish with
Floyd | every appearance of satisfaction. It watches you eagerly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Spring
Floyd | The ground here is steep and rocky, but still covered with scrawny
Floyd | trees. The canyon wall rises precipitously to the east; there's a band
Floyd | of wet rock, and water oozes out and forms in a little pool before
Floyd | trickling down the slope to the river which you can just make out to
Floyd | the west. All you can see to the north and south are more trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur is sitting in one of the thorny bushes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur languidly picks up a some small insect of some kind, stares
Floyd | at it for a while, and then pulls the legs off before throwing it
Floyd | away.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter hurries up from the north, whiskers twitching.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | The river's in the way, and rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter is dithering worriedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur licks itself contemplatively.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Lower Slopes
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Lower Slopes
Floyd | Nestled in the south-east corner of the canyon, the terrain here
Floyd | sweeps up from the river to a low pass through the canyon wall to the
Floyd | east. Through the dense trees you can just make out the green dome of
Floyd | the Mother Tree far below to the south-west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel disappointment and peacefulness from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Lower Slopes
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Lionheart says, "Okay, that coupled help"
		Touchy asks, "hm?"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Spring
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Spring
Floyd | The ground here is steep and rocky, but still covered with scrawny
Floyd | trees. The canyon wall rises precipitously to the east; there's a band
Floyd | of wet rock, and water oozes out and forms in a little pool before
Floyd | trickling down the slope to the river which you can just make out to
Floyd | the west. All you can see to the north and south are more trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur is sitting in one of the thorny bushes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter is dithering worriedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur gives you a suspicious look.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel disappointment and peacefulness from the south, and
Floyd | hostility and irritation from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the aromatic bush)
Floyd | You gingerly take a mouthful of leaves, avoiding the thorns.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense irritation fading and a new feeling of hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Rapids
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Rapids
Floyd | The river is narrow and rocky here, and the river churns noisily
Floyd | between the boulders. Trees come down to the water's edge on both
Floyd | sides, and twigs and dead leaves spiral dizzyingly in the vortices.
Floyd | The woods are fairly dense here and seem to go on in all directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost run into the fox again. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the north, and irritation from the
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Open Woodland
Floyd | The ground rises to meet the canyon wall to the west here, and small
Floyd | trees are scattered across the slope. There is very little
Floyd | undergrowth, lending the woods an airy, garden-like feel. The trees
Floyd | get denser to the north and east, but space opens out to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows. One of them has been dug free of sand.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south, and contentment from the
Floyd | east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "in" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Burrow
Floyd |
Floyd | > IN
Floyd |
Floyd | It takes a few moments for your eyes to adjust to the dim light.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the Burrow
Floyd | The burrow is cool and dark, and the sandy soil smells pleasantly
Floyd | spicy. Emotionally, you feel totally secure here. Intellectually, you
Floyd | know that the unstable walls could collapse on you, and probably kill
Floyd | you, at any time.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel excitement from outside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Burrow
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense excitement changing to hunger from outside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Burrow
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You emerge, blinking, into the sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows. One of them has been dug free of sand.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel caution from the south, and hunger from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Warren
Floyd | This little grassy hollow half-way up the side of the canyon looks
Floyd | like it's been colonised by rabbits. The tough grass-like ground
Floyd | covering has been dug away and the sandy soil underneath is full of
Floyd | burrows. Down to the east the view over the Mother Tree is
Floyd | spectacular, much better than it was from the top; you can probably
Floyd | climb up to the west. The slope steepens and becomes impassably steep
Floyd | to the south, but the warren continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | There are burrows everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ground is covered with rabbits.
Floyd |
Floyd | A few rabbits wander off up the hill a little.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer gallop up from the east with a thunder of hooves. They spend
Floyd | several moments looking around with suspicion before returning to
Floyd | their grazing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Marsh
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Marsh
Floyd | Here in the shadow of the Mother Tree the ground is flat and wet;
Floyd | reed-like plants with white flowers grow everywhere and the air is
Floyd | musky. The river winds slowly along the east side of the marsh with
Floyd | woodlands beyond it. To the west the ground rises to what look like a
Floyd | series of sandy bluffs. The ground looks drier to the north where the
Floyd | canyon ramparts start to close in.
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost run into the fox again. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel annoyance and peacefulness from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Warren
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | A very small rabbit pokes its head out of a burrow, and then goes back
Floyd | down again.
Floyd |
Floyd | The rabbits, all in unison, suddenly look to the east for a moment.
Floyd | Then briskly but calmly they file into the burrows and are gone.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the deer leans over and sniffs you. It looks very big.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of hunger from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Marsh
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Marsh
Floyd | Here in the shadow of the Mother Tree the ground is flat and wet;
Floyd | reed-like plants with white flowers grow everywhere and the air is
Floyd | musky. The river winds slowly along the east side of the marsh with
Floyd | woodlands beyond it. To the west the ground rises to what look like a
Floyd | series of sandy bluffs. The ground looks drier to the north where the
Floyd | canyon ramparts start to close in.
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost run into the fox again. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel irritation and caution from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Warren
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the east. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Warren
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows. One of them has been dug free of sand.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer gallop up from the south with a thunder of hooves. They spend
Floyd | several moments looking around with suspicion before returning to
Floyd | their grazing.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel caution from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Open Woodland
Floyd | The ground rises to meet the canyon wall to the west here, and small
Floyd | trees are scattered across the slope. There is very little
Floyd | undergrowth, lending the woods an airy, garden-like feel. The trees
Floyd | get denser to the north and east, but space opens out to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer walk purposefully up from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows. One of them has been dug free of sand.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the south. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel irritation from the north, and caution from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Open Woodland
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Rapids
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Rapids
Floyd | The river is narrow and rocky here, and the river churns noisily
Floyd | between the boulders. Trees come down to the water's edge on both
Floyd | sides, and twigs and dead leaves spiral dizzyingly in the vortices.
Floyd | The woods are fairly dense here and seem to go on in all directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer walk purposefully up from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Meadow
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Meadow
Floyd | The flat river valley here isn't as wet as the marsh further south,
Floyd | and has bloomed into an astonishing wildflower meadow. The flowers are
Floyd | all strange and alien, of course, but the air is fragrant and
Floyd | peaceful. The only sound is the gentle noise of the river to the east.
Floyd | Off to the west the ground begins to rise up to meet the canyon wall,
Floyd | while forests dominate the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer slowly amble towards you, from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Marsh
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Marsh
Floyd | Here in the shadow of the Mother Tree the ground is flat and wet;
Floyd | reed-like plants with white flowers grow everywhere and the air is
Floyd | musky. The river winds slowly along the east side of the marsh with
Floyd | woodlands beyond it. To the west the ground rises to what look like a
Floyd | series of sandy bluffs. The ground looks drier to the north where the
Floyd | canyon ramparts start to close in.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer gallop up from the north with a thunder of hooves. They spend
Floyd | several moments looking around with suspicion before returning to
Floyd | their grazing.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel caution from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | It takes a few moments for your eyes to adjust to the dim light.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest Cathedral
Floyd | The trees here are huge: massive columnar towers rising out of the
Floyd | soft green turf to support the dense leaf canopy above. Golden rays
Floyd | angle down between the trees, filling the vast space with dim light,
Floyd | and reflecting off the river that runs down the east side. The air
Floyd | seems permeated with peacefulness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Large green cocoons are attached to the bases of some of the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel annoyance from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "put leaves in cocoon" 		

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT LEAVES IN COCOON
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves in the closed cocoons)
Floyd | You're carrying things around with your teeth. The only way you can do
Floyd | that is to drag it there.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense annoyance changing to irritation from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "enter cocoon" 		

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER COCOON
Floyd |
Floyd | (the closed cocoons)
Floyd | They open and close by themselves.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense irritation fading and a new feeling of hunger from the
Floyd | north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "x cocoons" 		

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > X COCOONS
Floyd |
Floyd | On closer inspection, the cocoons are actually growing out of the
Floyd | trees. They're hard balls of veiny green leaves of all different
Floyd | sizes, from half a metre to several metres in diameter. You're not
Floyd | sure which one you climbed out of.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Bottom of the Canyon
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You emerge, blinking, into the sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bottom of the Canyon
Floyd | Sheer rock walls tower above you to the east and west, and only
Floyd | slightly less impressive is the green wall of the Mother Tree to the
Floyd | north. But to the south the ground just stops, and the river pours
Floyd | endlessly into the void.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a glint of metal high up to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | It takes a few moments for your eyes to adjust to the dim light.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest Cathedral
Floyd | The trees here are huge: massive columnar towers rising out of the
Floyd | soft green turf to support the dense leaf canopy above. Golden rays
Floyd | angle down between the trees, filling the vast space with dim light,
Floyd | and reflecting off the river that runs down the east side. The air
Floyd | seems permeated with peacefulness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Large green cocoons are attached to the bases of some of the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "open cocoon" 		

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN COCOON
Floyd |
Floyd | (the closed cocoons)
Floyd | They open and close by themselves.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "drop leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "bite cocoon" 		

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > BITE COCOON
Floyd |
Floyd | (the closed cocoons)
Floyd | That wouldn't achieve much.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Perhaps a cocoon only opens when there's a suitable dead animal."
		Touchy says, "Yeah, quite possible..."
		Touchy says, "So we can use the leaves to lure the deer and use the fish to lure the otter...any ideas? :)"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Marsh
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You emerge, blinking, into the sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | Marsh
Floyd | Here in the shadow of the Mother Tree the ground is flat and wet;
Floyd | reed-like plants with white flowers grow everywhere and the air is
Floyd | musky. The river winds slowly along the east side of the marsh with
Floyd | woodlands beyond it. To the west the ground rises to what look like a
Floyd | series of sandy bluffs. The ground looks drier to the north where the
Floyd | canyon ramparts start to close in.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Meadow
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Meadow
Floyd | The flat river valley here isn't as wet as the marsh further south,
Floyd | and has bloomed into an astonishing wildflower meadow. The flowers are
Floyd | all strange and alien, of course, but the air is fragrant and
Floyd | peaceful. The only sound is the gentle noise of the river to the east.
Floyd | Off to the west the ground begins to rise up to meet the canyon wall,
Floyd | while forests dominate the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Rapids
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Rapids
Floyd | The river is narrow and rocky here, and the river churns noisily
Floyd | between the boulders. Trees come down to the water's edge on both
Floyd | sides, and twigs and dead leaves spiral dizzyingly in the vortices.
Floyd | The woods are fairly dense here and seem to go on in all directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer walk purposefully up from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the west. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel irritation from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "well, I wonder if there's more we can do with the boulder or scree,"
		Touchy says, "It also seems like I have lost the otter because it won't come to the beach anymore so that might be a bug."
		DavidW says, "Possibly we can jump when on top of the boulder to make it smash the fox."
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You're pretty sure that rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the deer slowly walks around you, staring at you all the while.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer walk purposefully up from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer walk purposefully up from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropping the bundle of aromatic leaves, you jump and scrabble wildly
Floyd | with your powerful hind legs, eventually managing to haul yourself to
Floyd | the top.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "jump" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > JUMP
Floyd |
Floyd | You jump down from the boulder.
Floyd |
Floyd | The buck deer stares at you, eyes narrowed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | That's hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the younger deer bites its sibling, and there's a brief
Floyd | altercation.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of hunger from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | The little herd of deer is grazing here. One of the deer leans over
Floyd | and sniffs you. It looks very big.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "drop leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a brief tussle as the deer fight for the bundle of aromatic
Floyd | leaves. The winner chews blissfully, green-tinted drool dripping from
Floyd | its mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of hunger from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "also can we 'sweep scree' at scree?"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Scree
Floyd | You are perched at the very north-west tip of the canyon, where the
Floyd | slopes disintegrate into a tangle of smashed rock. Wiry, heather-like
Floyd | grass grows between the gaps between the boulders, and there are even
Floyd | a few trees. Below to the east is a maelstrom of white water at the
Floyd | head of the river; to the south, the slope begins to flatten.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tiny multicoloured birds dart back and forth on the cliff face above
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost run into the fox again. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel satisfaction from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "sweep scree" 		

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > SWEEP SCREE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox pounces on you. You just have time to think oh, sh---
Floyd | as its jaws close on your neck, and then everything stops.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have been eaten ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Scree
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | You jump and scrabble wildly with your powerful hind legs, eventually
Floyd | managing to haul yourself to the top.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox sniffs around a bit, obviously having lost track of you, and
Floyd | then gives up trying to figure out where you've gone.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of annoyance from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox raises its muzzle, sniffing the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense annoyance changing to irritation from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox paces off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (first getting off the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take fish" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | You kill another fish.
Floyd |
Floyd | Two beavers seem to be arguing over where to place a forked branch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "beach" 		

Floyd | %% Critical error.
Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file.
Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd | Restore failed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "cf16" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer gallop up from the north with a thunder of hooves. They spend
Floyd | several moments looking around with suspicion before returning to
Floyd | their grazing.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers suddenly dash up towards the deer, trying to drive them
Floyd | away from the dam and the river bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers are confronting the deer, forming a line blocking them
Floyd | from crossing the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take fish" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | (first dropping the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | You easily catch one of the stranded fish and bite down on the back of
Floyd | its neck. Snap-crunch. You feel nauseous.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the deer darts past the beavers, grabs the bundle of leaves,
Floyd | and retreats again, chewing noisily and messily.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of hunger from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy says, "hm..one of the deer darts past the beaver..."
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see the otter with its
Floyd | head out of the water, staring at you intently.
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost run into the fox again. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hostility and satisfaction from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south. The beavers
Floyd | relax, disperse, and go about their business again.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers suddenly notice the fox and start hissing threateningly.
Floyd | It stays well over to the west side of the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south, and excitement and hostility
Floyd | from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost run into the fox again. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel irritation from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south, and excitement and hostility
Floyd | from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense excitement changing to hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see the otter with its
Floyd | head out of the water, staring at you intently.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see the otter with its
Floyd | head out of the water, staring at you intently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see the otter with its
Floyd | head out of the water, staring at you intently.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "drop fish" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | (the dead fish)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a sudden splash as the otter surfaces just offshore. Close up,
Floyd | it's noticeably bigger than you are, with a pointed nose and alert
Floyd | looking whiskers. It stares at you with interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter is bored. And a bit hungry. And cross. Mostly bored.
Floyd | There's lots of crunchy things in the lake, and they're good, but what
Floyd | it really wants is fish. And something to do. The creatures on the dam
Floyd | won't let it near the fish, but this rabbit has one! But there's
Floyd | something not right about it. Maybe it's dangerous? But it has a fish
Floyd | for the otter. It must love the otter!
Floyd |
Floyd | While you're reeling from this bombardment of images, the otter
Floyd | wriggles ashore and scurries up the beach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take fish" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the dead fish or the fish bones?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "dead" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > DEAD
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter dives back into the water and vanishes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur is sitting in one of the thorny bushes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur bounces out of the bush, shoots up a tree and leaps through
Floyd | the branches to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the aromatic bush)
Floyd | (first dropping the dead fish)
Floyd | You gingerly take a mouthful of leaves, avoiding the thorns.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a loud rustling of leaves as the lemur swings up from the
Floyd | south, runs down a tree and dives into the spiky bush.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "put leaves in fish" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT LEAVES IN FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves in the dead fish)
Floyd | You're carrying things around with your teeth. The only way you can do
Floyd | that is to drag it there.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur languidly picks up a some small insect of some kind, stares
Floyd | at it for a while, and then pulls the legs off before throwing it
Floyd | away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take fish" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | (first dropping the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur licks itself contemplatively.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the east, and irritation from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see the otter with its
Floyd | head out of the water, staring at you intently.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south, frustration from the east,
Floyd | and annoyance from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Trying to drug the otter?"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "drop fish" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | (the dead fish)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter abruptly bursts out of the water and scurries up the beach.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense frustration fading from the east and annoyance changing to
Floyd | irritation from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy says, "yeah"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost run into the fox again. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel annoyance from the north, and hope from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter sits back on its haunches and gobbles down the fish with
Floyd | every appearance of satisfaction. It watches you eagerly.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense irritation fading and a new feeling of hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I think that may be overthinking the problem. An occupational hazard of IF players."
		Touchy says, "I've run out of simple ideas."
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter follows you from the north, whiskers twitching. It waits for
Floyd | you patiently. It looks longingly at the fish jumping in the pools,
Floyd | but eyes the beavers and stays well over on the west side of the
Floyd | shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur is sitting in one of the thorny bushes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a bundle of aromatic leaves here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur gives you a suspicious look.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter follows you from the west, whiskers twitching. It appears to
Floyd | be a bit less confident.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "well, it seems we're supposed to lead the otter *somewhere*. Does any place suggest itself as a place to have an otter?"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take bundle" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE BUNDLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter is getting a little puzzled.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur just stares into space for a while.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "drop bundle" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP BUNDLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter is beginning to look disappointed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur gives you a suspicious look.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Rapids
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Rapids
Floyd | The river is narrow and rocky here, and the river churns noisily
Floyd | between the boulders. Trees come down to the water's edge on both
Floyd | sides, and twigs and dead leaves spiral dizzyingly in the vortices.
Floyd | The woods are fairly dense here and seem to go on in all directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter follows you from the north, whiskers twitching. It appears
Floyd | to be a bit less confident.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Meadow
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Meadow
Floyd | The flat river valley here isn't as wet as the marsh further south,
Floyd | and has bloomed into an astonishing wildflower meadow. The flowers are
Floyd | all strange and alien, of course, but the air is fragrant and
Floyd | peaceful. The only sound is the gentle noise of the river to the east.
Floyd | Off to the west the ground begins to rise up to meet the canyon wall,
Floyd | while forests dominate the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter follows you from the north, whiskers twitching. It is
Floyd | getting a little puzzled.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Marsh
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Marsh
Floyd | Here in the shadow of the Mother Tree the ground is flat and wet;
Floyd | reed-like plants with white flowers grow everywhere and the air is
Floyd | musky. The river winds slowly along the east side of the marsh with
Floyd | woodlands beyond it. To the west the ground rises to what look like a
Floyd | series of sandy bluffs. The ground looks drier to the north where the
Floyd | canyon ramparts start to close in.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter follows you from the north, whiskers twitching. It is
Floyd | beginning to look disappointed.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | It takes a few moments for your eyes to adjust to the dim light.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest Cathedral
Floyd | The trees here are huge: massive columnar towers rising out of the
Floyd | soft green turf to support the dense leaf canopy above. Golden rays
Floyd | angle down between the trees, filling the vast space with dim light,
Floyd | and reflecting off the river that runs down the east side. The air
Floyd | seems permeated with peacefulness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Large green cocoons are attached to the bases of some of the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | A cocoon silently folds open. There's a moment's pause, and then a
Floyd | grey rabbit leaps out, streaks past you, and is gone.
Floyd |
Floyd | The cocoon closes again.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter follows you from the north, whiskers twitching. It gives you
Floyd | a look full of betrayal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Bottom of the Canyon
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You emerge, blinking, into the sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bottom of the Canyon
Floyd | Sheer rock walls tower above you to the east and west, and only
Floyd | slightly less impressive is the green wall of the Mother Tree to the
Floyd | north. But to the south the ground just stops, and the river pours
Floyd | endlessly into the void.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a glint of metal high up to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel disappointment from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | It takes a few moments for your eyes to adjust to the dim light.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest Cathedral
Floyd | The trees here are huge: massive columnar towers rising out of the
Floyd | soft green turf to support the dense leaf canopy above. Golden rays
Floyd | angle down between the trees, filling the vast space with dim light,
Floyd | and reflecting off the river that runs down the east side. The air
Floyd | seems permeated with peacefulness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Large green cocoons are attached to the bases of some of the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter is dithering worriedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Marsh
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You emerge, blinking, into the sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | Marsh
Floyd | Here in the shadow of the Mother Tree the ground is flat and wet;
Floyd | reed-like plants with white flowers grow everywhere and the air is
Floyd | musky. The river winds slowly along the east side of the marsh with
Floyd | woodlands beyond it. To the west the ground rises to what look like a
Floyd | series of sandy bluffs. The ground looks drier to the north where the
Floyd | canyon ramparts start to close in.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel disappointment from the south, and peacefulness from the
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Meadow
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Meadow
Floyd | The flat river valley here isn't as wet as the marsh further south,
Floyd | and has bloomed into an astonishing wildflower meadow. The flowers are
Floyd | all strange and alien, of course, but the air is fragrant and
Floyd | peaceful. The only sound is the gentle noise of the river to the east.
Floyd | Off to the west the ground begins to rise up to meet the canyon wall,
Floyd | while forests dominate the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The little herd of deer is grazing here. One of the younger deer bites
Floyd | its sibling, and there's a brief altercation.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south, and irritation from the
Floyd | east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Open Woodland
Floyd | The ground rises to meet the canyon wall to the west here, and small
Floyd | trees are scattered across the slope. There is very little
Floyd | undergrowth, lending the woods an airy, garden-like feel. The trees
Floyd | get denser to the north and east, but space opens out to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Rapids
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Rapids
Floyd | The river is narrow and rocky here, and the river churns noisily
Floyd | between the boulders. Trees come down to the water's edge on both
Floyd | sides, and twigs and dead leaves spiral dizzyingly in the vortices.
Floyd | The woods are fairly dense here and seem to go on in all directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the north, and hunger from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take fisch" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE FISCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "fake tisch" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > FAKE TISCH
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take fish" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | You kill another fish.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the beavers rests for a moment on top of the dam, enjoying the
Floyd | sun.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "put fish in pool" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT FISH IN POOL
Floyd |
Floyd | You're carrying things around with your teeth. The only way you can do
Floyd | that is to drag it there.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "drop fish" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take fish" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of annoyance from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south, and hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Rapids
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Rapids
Floyd | The river is narrow and rocky here, and the river churns noisily
Floyd | between the boulders. Trees come down to the water's edge on both
Floyd | sides, and twigs and dead leaves spiral dizzyingly in the vortices.
Floyd | The woods are fairly dense here and seem to go on in all directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Meadow
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Meadow
Floyd | The flat river valley here isn't as wet as the marsh further south,
Floyd | and has bloomed into an astonishing wildflower meadow. The flowers are
Floyd | all strange and alien, of course, but the air is fragrant and
Floyd | peaceful. The only sound is the gentle noise of the river to the east.
Floyd | Off to the west the ground begins to rise up to meet the canyon wall,
Floyd | while forests dominate the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Marsh
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Marsh
Floyd | Here in the shadow of the Mother Tree the ground is flat and wet;
Floyd | reed-like plants with white flowers grow everywhere and the air is
Floyd | musky. The river winds slowly along the east side of the marsh with
Floyd | woodlands beyond it. To the west the ground rises to what look like a
Floyd | series of sandy bluffs. The ground looks drier to the north where the
Floyd | canyon ramparts start to close in.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel disappointment from the south, and peacefulness from the
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | It takes a few moments for your eyes to adjust to the dim light.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest Cathedral
Floyd | The trees here are huge: massive columnar towers rising out of the
Floyd | soft green turf to support the dense leaf canopy above. Golden rays
Floyd | angle down between the trees, filling the vast space with dim light,
Floyd | and reflecting off the river that runs down the east side. The air
Floyd | seems permeated with peacefulness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Large green cocoons are attached to the bases of some of the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | You were rather expecting the Mother Tree to react to the dead fish,
Floyd | but nothing happens. Maybe it's only interested in mammals?
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter is dithering worriedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "drop fish" 		

Floyd ]  Forest Cathedral
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter sits back on its haunches and gobbles down the fish with
Floyd | every appearance of satisfaction. It watches you eagerly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Marsh
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You emerge, blinking, into the sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | Marsh
Floyd | Here in the shadow of the Mother Tree the ground is flat and wet;
Floyd | reed-like plants with white flowers grow everywhere and the air is
Floyd | musky. The river winds slowly along the east side of the marsh with
Floyd | woodlands beyond it. To the west the ground rises to what look like a
Floyd | series of sandy bluffs. The ground looks drier to the north where the
Floyd | canyon ramparts start to close in.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter dashes off to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hope from the south, and peacefulness from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Warren
Floyd | This little grassy hollow half-way up the side of the canyon looks
Floyd | like it's been colonised by rabbits. The tough grass-like ground
Floyd | covering has been dug away and the sandy soil underneath is full of
Floyd | burrows. Down to the east the view over the Mother Tree is
Floyd | spectacular, and you wonder what it would be like from the top; you
Floyd | can probably climb up to the west. The slope steepens and becomes
Floyd | impassably steep to the south, but the warren continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | There are burrows everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ground is covered with rabbits.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the rabbits is asleep on its back, legs waving in the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter dashes off to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter dashes off to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south, and irritation from the
Floyd | east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy says, "What's up with that otter..."
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Open Woodland
Floyd | The ground rises to meet the canyon wall to the west here, and small
Floyd | trees are scattered across the slope. There is very little
Floyd | undergrowth, lending the woods an airy, garden-like feel. The trees
Floyd | get denser to the north and east, but space opens out to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter dashes off to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I don't remember this dashing before."
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Rapids
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Rapids
Floyd | The river is narrow and rocky here, and the river churns noisily
Floyd | between the boulders. Trees come down to the water's edge on both
Floyd | sides, and twigs and dead leaves spiral dizzyingly in the vortices.
Floyd | The woods are fairly dense here and seem to go on in all directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter dashes off to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the north, and hunger from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter dashes off to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter dives back into the water and vanishes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is floating on its back,
Floyd | apparently studying the sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of excitement from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy says, "ahhh"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |

		DavidW says, "oh, it's just returning to square one."

Floyd | You're pretty sure that rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is basking in the
Floyd | sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense excitement changing to frustration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is basking in the
Floyd | sunlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense excitement changing to frustration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter is messily dismantling
Floyd | something on a rock on the far shore of the lake. You can't tell what.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy says, "hmhmhm"
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You're pretty sure that rabbits can't swim.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see the otter playing in
Floyd | the water around the base of the cliff.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the east, and annoyance from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur is sitting in one of the thorny bushes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a bundle of aromatic leaves here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur just stares into space for a while.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "take leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the trees, the bundle of aromatic leaves or the
Floyd | aromatic bush?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "bundle" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > BUNDLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lemur gives you a suspicious look.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the east, and hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Rapids
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Rapids
Floyd | The river is narrow and rocky here, and the river churns noisily
Floyd | between the boulders. Trees come down to the water's edge on both
Floyd | sides, and twigs and dead leaves spiral dizzyingly in the vortices.
Floyd | The woods are fairly dense here and seem to go on in all directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Meadow
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Meadow
Floyd | The flat river valley here isn't as wet as the marsh further south,
Floyd | and has bloomed into an astonishing wildflower meadow. The flowers are
Floyd | all strange and alien, of course, but the air is fragrant and
Floyd | peaceful. The only sound is the gentle noise of the river to the east.
Floyd | Off to the west the ground begins to rise up to meet the canyon wall,
Floyd | while forests dominate the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Marsh
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Marsh
Floyd | Here in the shadow of the Mother Tree the ground is flat and wet;
Floyd | reed-like plants with white flowers grow everywhere and the air is
Floyd | musky. The river winds slowly along the east side of the marsh with
Floyd | woodlands beyond it. To the west the ground rises to what look like a
Floyd | series of sandy bluffs. The ground looks drier to the north where the
Floyd | canyon ramparts start to close in.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Warren
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Warren
Floyd | This little grassy hollow half-way up the side of the canyon looks
Floyd | like it's been colonised by rabbits. The tough grass-like ground
Floyd | covering has been dug away and the sandy soil underneath is full of
Floyd | burrows. Down to the east the view over the Mother Tree is
Floyd | spectacular, and you wonder what it would be like from the top; you
Floyd | can probably climb up to the west. The slope steepens and becomes
Floyd | impassably steep to the south, but the warren continues to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | There are burrows everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ground is covered with rabbits.
Floyd |
Floyd | One rabbit chases another a few metres.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Sandy Mound
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sandy Mound
Floyd | Part of the canyon wall has fallen here, forming a huge bank of sandy
Floyd | rubble. This looks like it used to be part of the rabbit warren you
Floyd | can see to the south, but this section has been abandoned. Part of the
Floyd | mound has begun to be colonised by the woods that extend to the north.
Floyd | You can see the river in the distance down to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The bank doesn't look very stable and is full of partially collapsed
Floyd | burrows.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Open Woodland
Floyd | The ground rises to meet the canyon wall to the west here, and small
Floyd | trees are scattered across the slope. There is very little
Floyd | undergrowth, lending the woods an airy, garden-like feel. The trees
Floyd | get denser to the north and east, but space opens out to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer walk purposefully up from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hostility from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the east. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel irritation from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer walk purposefully up from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers suddenly dash up towards the deer, trying to drive them
Floyd | away from the dam and the river bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers are confronting the deer, forming a line blocking them
Floyd | from crossing the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer slowly amble towards you, from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the north, and hostility from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel contentment from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Two beavers seem to be arguing over where to place a forked branch.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense contentment fading and a new feeling of hunger from the
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the north. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
djfletch can produce a dozen witnesses to swear he was elsewhere. 		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel contentment from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see a trail of bubbles
Floyd | where the otter is swimming underwater.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south, and frustration from the
Floyd | east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, the otter appears to be chasing
Floyd | its own tail.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south, and frustration from the
Floyd | east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel peacefulness from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Rapids
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Rapids
Floyd | The river is narrow and rocky here, and the river churns noisily
Floyd | between the boulders. Trees come down to the water's edge on both
Floyd | sides, and twigs and dead leaves spiral dizzyingly in the vortices.
Floyd | The woods are fairly dense here and seem to go on in all directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Open Woodland
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Open Woodland
Floyd | The ground rises to meet the canyon wall to the west here, and small
Floyd | trees are scattered across the slope. There is very little
Floyd | undergrowth, lending the woods an airy, garden-like feel. The trees
Floyd | get denser to the north and east, but space opens out to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Rapids
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Rapids
Floyd | The river is narrow and rocky here, and the river churns noisily
Floyd | between the boulders. Trees come down to the water's edge on both
Floyd | sides, and twigs and dead leaves spiral dizzyingly in the vortices.
Floyd | The woods are fairly dense here and seem to go on in all directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Meadow
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Meadow
Floyd | The flat river valley here isn't as wet as the marsh further south,
Floyd | and has bloomed into an astonishing wildflower meadow. The flowers are
Floyd | all strange and alien, of course, but the air is fragrant and
Floyd | peaceful. The only sound is the gentle noise of the river to the east.
Floyd | Off to the west the ground begins to rise up to meet the canyon wall,
Floyd | while forests dominate the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer gallop up from the south with a thunder of hooves. They spend
Floyd | several moments looking around with suspicion before returning to
Floyd | their grazing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Rapids
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Rapids
Floyd | The river is narrow and rocky here, and the river churns noisily
Floyd | between the boulders. Trees come down to the water's edge on both
Floyd | sides, and twigs and dead leaves spiral dizzyingly in the vortices.
Floyd | The woods are fairly dense here and seem to go on in all directions.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer walk purposefully up from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer walk purposefully up from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers suddenly dash up towards the deer, trying to drive them
Floyd | away from the dam and the river bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers are confronting the deer, forming a line blocking them
Floyd | from crossing the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer slowly amble towards you, from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see the otter playing in
Floyd | the water around the base of the cliff.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hostility from the south, and frustration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer slowly amble towards you, from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You nervously crawl along the ledge.
Floyd |
Floyd | Precarious Ledge
Floyd | You are balanced on a rock overhanging the north edge of the rock
Floyd | pool. The boulder is slippery from spray, and shifts under your feet
Floyd | when you move your weight giving you the feeling like it might give
Floyd | way at any moment. The narrow ledge to the south leads back to safety.
Floyd |
Floyd | The rock pool churns unnervingly below you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel contentment from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "drop leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Precarious Ledge
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Precarious Ledge
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Precarious Ledge
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | The river pours out of an aperture in the northern wall of the canyon
Floyd | and tumbles down through a snarl of fallen rock before flowing into
Floyd | the lake, to the south. The noise of rushing water is everywhere. The
Floyd | eastern shore is a sheer rockface, but the western shore is a rocky
Floyd | slope that rises to meet the canyon wall in the distance. Some trees
Floyd | hug the edge of the water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Water pours around, through, and over the massive pile of boulders.
Floyd | There are nooks and crannies and vortices everywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | The water swirling in one large rock pool in particular catches your
Floyd | eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | The little herd of deer is grazing here. One of the deer slowly walks
Floyd | around you, staring at you all the while.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "drop leaves in pool" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES IN POOL
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves in the rock pool)
Floyd | You're carrying things around with your teeth. The only way you can do
Floyd | that is to drag it there.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer seem to find you utterly fascinating to an extent that makes
Floyd | you quite nervous.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "drop leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a brief tussle as the deer fight for the bundle of aromatic
Floyd | leaves. The winner chews blissfully, green-tinted drool dripping from
Floyd | its mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see a trail of bubbles
Floyd | where the otter is swimming underwater.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the south. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel contentment from the north, hostility from the south, and
Floyd | frustration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer all stare fixedly at you, nostrils flaring.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see a trail of bubbles
Floyd | where the otter is swimming underwater.
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost run into the fox again. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel irritation from the north, concentration from the south,
Floyd | and frustration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Cascades
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Cascades
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the deer slowly walks around you, staring at you all the while.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of hunger from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Scree
Floyd | You are perched at the very north-west tip of the canyon, where the
Floyd | slopes disintegrate into a tangle of smashed rock. Wiry, heather-like
Floyd | grass grows between the gaps between the boulders, and there are even
Floyd | a few trees. Below to the east is a maelstrom of white water at the
Floyd | head of the river; to the south, the slope begins to flatten.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tiny multicoloured birds dart back and forth on the cliff face above
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer gallop up from the east with a thunder of hooves. They spend
Floyd | several moments looking around with suspicion before returning to
Floyd | their grazing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer walk purposefully up from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer walk purposefully up from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see a trail of bubbles
Floyd | where the otter is swimming underwater.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the north, concentration from the south, and
Floyd | frustration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer slowly amble towards you, from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers suddenly dash up towards the deer, trying to drive them
Floyd | away from the dam and the river bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers are confronting the deer, forming a line blocking them
Floyd | from crossing the river.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hostility and irritation from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "drop leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "drop leaves" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP LEAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the deer darts past the beavers, grabs the bundle of leaves,
Floyd | and retreats again, chewing noisily and messily.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Touchy says, "okay it is getting somewhat late and I have work tomorrow"
		Touchy says, "I don't reall have any ideas anyway so"
		Touchy says, "I'm going to stop"
		DavidW asks, "Perhaps we have to lead the otter to the fox?"
		Touchy exclaims, "go ahead!"
		Touchy says, "I'm brushing my teeth, can't type"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take fish" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | (first dropping the bundle of aromatic leaves)
Floyd | You kill another fish.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the deer darts past the beavers, grabs the bundle of leaves,
Floyd | and retreats again, chewing noisily and messily.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see the otter with its
Floyd | head out of the water, staring at you intently.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the north, hostility and satisfaction from
Floyd | the south, and frustration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop fish" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | (the dead fish)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox approaches from the north. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter abruptly bursts out of the water and scurries up the beach.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading from the north, satisfaction changing to
Floyd | irritation from the south and frustration fading from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The deer suddenly look up, and then bound off south. The beavers
Floyd | relax, disperse, and go about their business again.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers suddenly notice the fox and start hissing threateningly.
Floyd | It stays well over to the west side of the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hope from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Overgrown Forest
Floyd | The woodland here is quite unlike the west side of the canyon. The
Floyd | trees are short and gnarled and look quite unhealthy: they are also
Floyd | very close together and visibilty through the tangled branches is
Floyd | poor. Despite the gloom, the undergrowth is thick, with ferns, tall
Floyd | grasses, and less identifiable plants filling the space between the
Floyd | tree trunks. The forest sweeps east up to the rock face above and
Floyd | south as far as you can see through the trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bushes of the thorny aromatic plant grow profusely.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel excitement and hostility from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense excitement changing to hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading and hostility changing to concentration from
Floyd | the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Overgrown Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take fish" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | You kill another fish.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a plop as a beaver jumps off the dam into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd | The lake nestles under the cliffs at the edge of the canyon, so that
Floyd | the east side is a sheer wall rising out of the water; but here on the
Floyd | west side the ground slopes gradually so there is a wide shore of
Floyd | pebbles and rough sand. Mats of grassy plants form little green
Floyd | islands here and there, some under the water. Beyond the beach,
Floyd | unkempt woodland rises up the west side of the canyon, while far to
Floyd | the north, at the head of the canyon, there is a distant skein of
Floyd | falling water as the river tumbles down the cliff into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | Scattered along the waterfront are some splintered fish bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | Over on the other side of the lake, you can see the otter with its
Floyd | head out of the water, staring at you intently.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel concentration from the south, and frustration from the
Floyd | east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop fish" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | (the dead fish)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter abruptly bursts out of the water and scurries up the beach.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense frustration fading from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Beach
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter sits back on its haunches and gobbles down the fish with
Floyd | every appearance of satisfaction. It watches you eagerly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beaver Dam
Floyd | A haphazard but substantial dam has been built across the river out of
Floyd | logs and fallen trees. Water pours through the many little gaps to
Floyd | form a delta of pools and runnels, before joining back together into
Floyd | the main flow of the river, which disappears into the woods to the
Floyd | south. Upstream of the dam to the north there is a substantial lake,
Floyd | but everywhere else, all you can see are trees. The river looks
Floyd | crossable, to reach the east side of the canyon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some fish flap about in the pools.
Floyd |
Floyd | The beavers bustle about, working on the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter follows you from the north, whiskers twitching. It waits for
Floyd | you patiently. It looks longingly at the fish jumping in the pools,
Floyd | but eyes the beavers and stays well over on the west side of the
Floyd | shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take fish" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | You kill another fish.
Floyd |
Floyd | A couple of beavers scuffle meaninglessly for a bit.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter appears to be a bit less confident.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop fish" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | (the dead fish)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the beavers drags a stick up to the dam.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter sits back on its haunches and gobbles down the fish with
Floyd | every appearance of satisfaction. It watches you eagerly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take fish" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | You kill another fish.
Floyd |
Floyd | A small pack of beavers heads purposefully into the woods.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter waits for you patiently.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense a new feeling of annoyance from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop fish" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | (the dead fish)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the beavers rests for a moment on top of the dam, enjoying the
Floyd | sun.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter sits back on its haunches and gobbles down the fish with
Floyd | every appearance of satisfaction. It watches you eagerly.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense annoyance changing to irritation from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take fish" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | You kill another fish.
Floyd |
Floyd | A couple of beavers scuffle meaninglessly for a bit.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter waits for you patiently.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense irritation fading and a new feeling of hunger from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop fish" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | (the dead fish)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a plop as a beaver jumps off the dam into the lake.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter sits back on its haunches and gobbles down the fish with
Floyd | every appearance of satisfaction. It watches you eagerly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take fish" 		

Floyd ]  Beaver Dam
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | You kill another fish.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the beavers starts whittling a branch with its serrated tusks.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter waits for you patiently.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense hunger fading from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter follows you from the east, whiskers twitching. It appears to
Floyd | be a bit less confident.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the north, and concentration from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter follows you from the south, whiskers twitching. It is
Floyd | getting a little puzzled.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hunger from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Scree
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Scree
Floyd | You are perched at the very north-west tip of the canyon, where the
Floyd | slopes disintegrate into a tangle of smashed rock. Wiry, heather-like
Floyd | grass grows between the gaps between the boulders, and there are even
Floyd | a few trees. Below to the east is a maelstrom of white water at the
Floyd | head of the river; to the south, the slope begins to flatten.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tiny multicoloured birds dart back and forth on the cliff face above
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You almost run into the fox again. It eagerly begins to chase you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel hope from the south, and irritation from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Straggly Forest
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Straggly Forest
Floyd | The trees here are stunted and wiry, and the steeply sloping ground is
Floyd | showing its rocky bones through the thin grass. The canyon is spread
Floyd | out below you: the lake to your east, the woodland covering the lower
Floyd | slopes, and the green dome of the Mother Tree far to the south, now
Floyd | shrunken by distance. The canyon ends not far to the north in a tumble
Floyd | of fallen rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | The otter gives you a look full of betrayal.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Boulder
Floyd | A massive slab of rock has fallen into the woods from the canyon walls
Floyd | to the west. It is halfway sunk into the turf and looks almost
Floyd | sculpted. The canyon wall looms over you from the west. The woodlands
Floyd | parallel it, running north-south, although the canyon steepens to the
Floyd | north. Water glints between the trees to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The huge boulder towers over the surrounding trees.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox is chasing behind you from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can feel disappointment from the north, and concentration from the
Floyd | east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "looks like the fox ignored the otter"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb boulder" 		

Floyd ]  Boulder (on the giant rock)
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLIMB BOULDER
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropping the dead fish, you jump and scrabble wildly with your
Floyd | powerful hind legs, eventually managing to haul yourself to the top.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fox sniffs around a bit, obviously having lost track of you, and
Floyd | then gives up trying to figure out where you've gone.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sense disappointment fading from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | That fox is really annoying, but at least you can run faster than it
Floyd | can --- provided you keep moving it's no real danger. You're grimly
Floyd | sure that a real rabbit would have some kind of animal sense to let it
Floyd | keep a safe distance away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		


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ClubFloyd Transcript:
Guilded Youth by Jim Munroe
As played on ifMUD on December 9, 2012

The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction.

Below is a transcript of Guilded Youth written by Jim Munroe. Guilded Youth was released as part of the 2012 Interactive Fiction Competition, in which it took third place. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki.

WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page.
ToyShop & Floyditorium
		
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Jacqueline hollers, "ClubFloyd in ten minutes in the Toyshop! We can either finish Changes or try something new. The Changes transcript from last week is now live at [LINK] in case you want to review it before we play." 		DavidW says, "I'm kinda iffy about continuing with Changes unless someone has new ideas to try, because we were seriously stuck at the end of last week's session."
		Lionheart says (to DavidW), "We've been completely stumped before and stuck with it until we got further."
		DavidW says, "If we do return to Changes, I've just whipped up a map of known locations at: [LINK]"
djfletch arrives, full of funk, but no fun. 		
DavidW arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. 		Jacqueline says, "Well, I will leave that to those of you who were here last week to discuss. It is now the Appointed Time."
		Jacqueline says, "Well, or it will be in a few seconds."
		Jacqueline says, "I haven't written any authors about this week, but that's just a nice heads-up for folks, not a requirement, so."
Zach arrives, full of fun, but no funk. 		
Jacqueline arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. 		Jacqueline asks, "So, folks, what do you want to do? Finish Changes, or do something new?"
		DavidW says, "I will support whatever everyone else decides."
		Zach says, "I wouldn't mind doing something new"
		Jacqueline says, "Okay. So, it turns out Guilded Youth has a straight zblorb which I could try to run, if we'd like to try that."
		Jacqueline says, "Many feel a lot would be lost by Floyding it, but ... *shrug*"
		maga says, "it will totally be playable, but a lot of the experience will go floomp"
		maga says, "I mean, it'll work, but if anybody hasn't played it yet I'd seriously recommend playing it in-browser instead"
		DavidW says, "I deliberately refuse to vote one way or another."
		maga says, "(although you could play alongside Floyd in a browser window, probably)"
		Zach filibusters
		Jacqueline says (to Zach), "Oh? You have to do more than just say you're doing it, you have to start talking non-stop. Proceed..."
		DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "That's old-style filibustering."
		Jacqueline says, "I like the Olde Wayes."
		Zach says, "Dang, but I can't find a phone book"
		DavidW says, "New style is to suggest a motion, then when the other side says sure, let's vote on it, then you filibuster your OWN motion."
		Jacqueline says, "So, um, we're not getting anywhere. I don't care, and David seems to not care, and maga probably will abandon us, and Zach doesn't have a phone book."
		Zach asks, "Is there anyone here that does want to play Guilded Youth?"
		DavidW says, "I care, but I really hate being the driver sometimes."
		maga says, "apathyMUD"
		maga says, "clearly playing a disaffected teenager is just what you need"
		Jacqueline says (to maga), "It's not that we're ignorant or apathetic. It's just that we don't know and we don't care, that's all."
Limbo arrives, full of fun, but no funk. 		DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "The 90's IM'ed you and want their joke back."
		Jacqueline says, "You make me cry, David."
		Jacqueline asks, "So, if people aren't jazzed about GY, what then?"
		maga says, "oh, just go for it. but do play in a browser too"
		Jacqueline says, "Hm. I guess we could do that."
		maga says, "it's short and simple"
		Jacqueline asks, "Okay, I AM FOR IT. WHO IS WITH ME?"
		Jacqueline says, "RAR. C'mon, peeps."
		says, "Let me go upload it to Floyd. One sec."
		maga) feeble chorus goes "yaaaaay"
		DavidW says, "I will support the majority decision."
		Jacqueline says, "Well, right now I'm the only one who's decided, so I guess that makes me a majority."
		DavidW says, "fwiw, I haven't played GY"
		Zach says, "Oh, here we go : Aaron Aardvark 555-0000"
		Jacqueline says, "Okay, online play link is at [LINK]"
		Zach says, "I mean, Guild Youth is fine"
		maga says, "uploaded as guildedyouth"
		Jacqueline says, "I am already in love, just from the opening screen."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask guildedyouth" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  1
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ***You have connected to THE GUILD BBS*** Type LOGIN to enter the
Floyd | Adventurers' Lounge
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "oh dear. It's a RPG?"
		maga says, "not really, no"
		Zach asks (of Jacqueline), "Have you played it yet?"
		Jacqueline says, "No."
		Jacqueline says, "Now, the trick here will be to stay together."
		Jacqueline says, "So we need to go slowly."
		Jacqueline asks, "I guess we... LOGIN?"
		Zach says, "Oh good"
		DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "yes"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "login" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  2
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOGIN
Floyd |
Floyd | (Guilded Youth v2.0 for the IFComp 2012. HELP and CREDITS are
Floyd | available. Sound enabled on Chrome.)
Floyd |
Floyd | ***WELCOME, TONY THE THIEF***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Adventurers' Lounge
Floyd | You can see a map, Harry the Barbarian, Paula the Mage, Ryan the Bard,
Floyd | Maximus the Cleric and Chris the Paladin here.
Floyd |
Floyd | "hey tony" says Ryan.
Floyd |
Floyd | "voltron would kill optimus" says Harry.
Floyd |
Floyd | "he's like 5 robots in one" says Harry.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Optimus would have his whole team backing him up," says Chris.
Floyd |
Floyd | Maximus floats in on a cloud of glory.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, ">help"
		DavidW says, ">take map"
		Jacqueline says, "Okay, I'm feeling slightly made fun of here."
		Jacqueline says, "I'll drive, I guess."
		Jacqueline says, "I'll go with HELP first."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "help" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  2
Floyd |
Floyd | > HELP
Floyd |
Floyd | You can win this game by using three commands: GO, TAKE and SHOW
Floyd | something TO someone. If you want to go somewhere that seems hard to
Floyd | get to, lead by example!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "huh. Only those three commands?"
		Jacqueline says, "Yeah. Interesting."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take map" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  3
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE MAP
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | Paula winks at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "VOLTROOOOOOOOOOOOOON!" says Harry.
Floyd |
Floyd | Chris transforms into an awesomebot.
Floyd |
Floyd | Maximus frowns.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Not RAPE, PILLAGE, and GALORE?"
		Jacqueline says, "If this were randomized, we'd be screwed, but so far it seems so good."
Marvin arrives, full of fun and funk. 		Jacqueline says (to DW), "Hee"
		DavidW says, "examine the map, please"
		Jacqueline says, "Marvin We're playing Guilded Youth and if you want to join us, I'd recommend @recapping and catching up in the game at home alongside what we're doing htere."
		Jacqueline says, "er, here"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x map" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  4
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MAP
Floyd |
Floyd | It's the route from your house to the Manor.
Floyd |
Floyd | "LESS THAN MEETS THE EYE111" says Harry.
Floyd |
Floyd | "My child, strive to stay in character," advises Maximus sternly.
Floyd |
Floyd | Paula yawns.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh, and inventory, too, I guess. See if we have 6 feet of rope, a lamp, a lockpick, etc."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  5
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | Your access on the BBS only allows you to EXAMINE, LOOK, WAIT, SHOW
Floyd | something TO someone, or TAKE something.
Floyd |
Floyd | Maximus sees your attempt and smiles smugly, casually turning
Floyd | invisible -- something only a 8th level Guild member could do.
Floyd |
Floyd | Chris drives circles around Harry.
Floyd |
Floyd | "i stomp on your stupid ass!" exclaims Harry.
Floyd |
Floyd | Maximus summons a dragon which proceeds to incinerate Harry the
Floyd | Barbarian and then disappear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "Should we look at the other folks?"
		DavidW says, "oh, Inventory is only a visible side bar."
		Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yea"
		Jacqueline says, "er, Yeah"
		DavidW says, "sure, I guess we can look at them."
		Zach asks, "Sure. I thought we could talk to them, but I guess not?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look at paula" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  6
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK AT PAULA
Floyd |
Floyd | Paula radiates with green sparkly power.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Language and character violations will not be tolerated," intones
Floyd | Maximus.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "look at ryan"
		Jacqueline says, "oops"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look at ryan" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  7
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK AT RYAN
Floyd |
Floyd | A jaunty tunesmith.
Floyd |
Floyd | You decide to leave before Maximus kicks you for some violation.
Floyd |
Floyd | Type LOGOUT to continue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "YAY JAUNTY"
		DavidW says (to Zach), "I suppose we can't talk to them, in which case they're like a grove of trees we're visiting."
		Jacqueline asks, "Wait, logout?"
		Jacqueline says, "I don't want to logout."
		DavidW says, "I guess we violated some unknown rule."
		Jacqueline asks, "Being quiet?"
		Zach says (to Jacqueline), "can't just chat your life away"
		DavidW says, "Being out of character, I think was the crime."
		Jacqueline asks, "Because we looked at people?"
		Jacqueline says, "I hate Maximus."
		maga says, "as described it's a pre-emptive logout"
		DavidW says, "or the 'I'"
		Jacqueline says, "Well, screw logging out, I'm going to keep examining people until he boots us."
		Jacqueline asks, "Okay?"
		DavidW says, "um, okay."
		Jacqueline says, "We only have two more."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x maximus" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  7
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MAXIMUS
Floyd |
Floyd | Type LOGOUT to continue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Oh."
		Jacqueline says, "I guess that's that then."
		DavidW says, "we can probably login in again immediately"
		Jacqueline says, "Jim is possibly staying at my apartment on Tuesday. I shall give him the stinkeye then."
		Jacqueline says, "OHO"
		DavidW says, "neat"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "logout" 		

Floyd ]  Your Front Porch                                     8
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOGOUT
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ***DISCONNECTED***
Floyd |
Floyd | You switch off your C-64, dropping the room into complete darkness.
Floyd | Your eyes adjust quickly, as befits a fifth level thief. In the
Floyd | hallway you wait and listen for the sounds of your parents' deep
Floyd | sleep. From the upper floor window you gaze upon your dangerous
Floyd | destination. The Oakville Manor.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your Front Porch
Floyd | Your front door clicks behind you. You turn to the east, where the
Floyd | Manor beckons invisibly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "Hm, same artist as Everybody Dies?"
		maga says, "for those reading the transcript, rest assured that bit was totally impressive"
		Jacqueline says, "Yeah, this is going to be disjointed for readers who've never played."
		Jacqueline says, "Fiddly as it is, I'm glad we're playing here and at home."
		DavidW says, "yes, same author"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd ]  Your Front Porch                                     9
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | Your non-descriptness is perhaps your most important thiefly trait.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "E?"
		Jacqueline says (to DW), "I didn't think Jim was the artist, though."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "credits" 		

Floyd ]  Your Front Porch                                     10
Floyd |
Floyd | > CREDITS
Floyd |
Floyd | Jim Munroe wrote and designed Guilded Youth. His other games are here.
Floyd | Art and animation by Matt Hammill. Sound by Troy Morrissey. It uses
Floyd | the marvellous Vorple JavaScript user interface library by Juhana
Floyd | Leinonen, who also helped with coding. Beta testers: Ori Avtalion,
Floyd | Adam Axbey, Matthew Bin, Raigan Burns, Jake Eakle, David Faulkner,
Floyd | Mark Tilford & Wiley Wiggins. Thanks also to the Inform 7 team and the
Floyd | interactive fiction community.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I guess, but I wish we had keys, flashlight, etc."
		Jacqueline says (to DW), "You are so old skool, and that is part of why we love you."
Marvin wouldn't read that with a ten-foot eyeball. 		Jacqueline asks, "So, E?"
		DavidW says, "Old school is picking up crap at the destination, which this seems to be heading toward, although I smell a twist coming up."
		DavidW says, "but, yes, E, please"
		Jacqueline says, "It's Jim. Of course there's a twist."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  End of the Street                                    11
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | End of the Street
Floyd | The map was a joke -- you don't really need a map to find your way,
Floyd | even past midnight. The forest at the end of the cul-de-sac smells
Floyd | damp and green, leading further to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "huh. Just noticed that the eyes are blinking"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  The Woods                                            12
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The Woods
Floyd | Thanks to the full moon, you only trip once.
Floyd |
Floyd | You've lived beside these woods for half of your 14 years. The way on
Floyd | leads east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  The Field                                            13
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The Field
Floyd | You cross the electrical tower field, feeling rather than hearing its
Floyd | low hum. Superstition stops you from looking up at its wires. You can
Floyd | see the new development in the distance, the cause of your urgent
Floyd | mission, its machines like sleeping behemoths. But your destination is
Floyd | further east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Okay, so that's 3 easts, folks."
		Jacqueline says, "And soon a fourth."
		Jacqueline asks, "People ready for me to keep going?"
		DavidW says, "yup"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  In Front of the Manor                                14
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | In Front of the Manor
Floyd | Even crowded by wild brush, the grandest building in your
Floyd | neighbourhood still has a silent dignity. And to think: a few days
Floyd | from now, it'll be erased from history.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Manor looms to the north. You know from experience that there's a
Floyd | coachhouse behind it, which you could get to by following a rough path
Floyd | to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I'm wondering it the map will be used for kindling, since it's useless as an actual map."
		Jacqueline exclaims, "Or to be placed under a door before we poke a key out of a keyhole!"
		Jacqueline asks, "I'm trying to hang with you, David; how am I doing?"
		DavidW says, "Or given to Lassie to take a message back home to the folks."
		DavidW says, "fine"
		DavidW says, "You're doing fine,"
		Jacqueline says, "So, manor or coach house."
		DavidW says, "oh manors first. Manors are so important, y'know."
		Jacqueline asks, "mmkay. Have we lost Zach entirely?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Portico of the Manor                                 15
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | Portico of the Manor
Floyd | You remember the first time you and Ryan found this place, he dared
Floyd | you to knock on the front door. You did him one better, opening the
Floyd | door and pushing it open to reveal the dark hall beyond. There was a
Floyd | cold-iron smell that conjured up a vision of shackles wrapped around a
Floyd | skeleton's wrists. Last year, when you drank your first beer behind
Floyd | the portables, you recognized the smell and realized the abandoned
Floyd | house must have just been a drinking spot for teenagers.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can still see the dark hall in your mind's eye, mysterious shapes
Floyd | beckoning just beyond the front threshold. What were they?
Floyd |
Floyd | You won't be plumbing the Manor's mysteries tonight: large planks of
Floyd | wood are nailed firmly across the front door. You curse under your
Floyd | breath. You can leave the portico to the south, or enter the Manor to
Floyd | the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | A paper in a plastic sheath is stapled to the planks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Oh sorry, I have played it"
		Jacqueline says, "Oh, ah, eep..."
		Jacqueline says, "I missed that bit."
		Jacqueline says, "We have disenfranchised you. I'm sorry."
		Jacqueline says, "I didn't realize."
		Zach says, "I don't trust myself to not give anything away"
		Jacqueline nods.
		DavidW says, "Examine the paper. Guessing a condemned notice."
		Jacqueline asks, "You won't be plumbing the Manor's mysteries tonight... does tsd to anyone else?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x paper" 		

Floyd ]  Portico of the Manor                                 16
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a Notice of Demolition. Ryan overheard his mom talking to her
Floyd | other historical preservation friends about it, apparently there's
Floyd | some kind of structural damage that makes it dangerous. Personally you
Floyd | think it's more dangerous to let the cookie-cutter semi-detached
Floyd | monotony ooze slowly over the entire city.
Floyd |
Floyd | The date on it indicates it's got three days to live. If you don't get
Floyd | to explore it fully it won't be the end of the world: just the end of
Floyd | your boyhood dreams.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "In the sense that plumbers get dirty, yes"
		Jacqueline says, "heh heh"
		Jacqueline says, "Oh, *just* the end of our boyhood dreams. Who are we kidding? Our boyhood was over when we drank that beer behind the portables."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take paper" 		

Floyd ]  Portico of the Manor                                 17
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | It's stapled down with about a million heavy duty staples. Plus, you
Floyd | can read it as it is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I guess we need to find a window, trellis, ladder, hammer, or cellar door now."
		DavidW says, "mm, or a crowbar."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  In Front of the Manor                                18
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In Front of the Manor
Floyd | Even crowded by wild brush, the grandest building in your
Floyd | neighbourhood still has a silent dignity. And to think: a few days
Floyd | from now, it'll be erased from history.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Manor looms to the north. You know from experience that there's a
Floyd | coachhouse behind it, which you could get to by following a rough path
Floyd | to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "NE?"
		DavidW says, "mmhm"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the Coachhouse                               19
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the Coachhouse
Floyd | The double doors are large enough to drive a horse and carriage into,
Floyd | but one of them is missing, leaving an entryway to the north. Or you
Floyd | can return to the front of the Manor to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Coachhouse                                20
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the Coachhouse
Floyd | There's a significant hole in the roof that lets in enough light to
Floyd | look around. You and Ryan have been in here before: until he saw a
Floyd | raccoon here it was practically your clubhouse. It's pretty well
Floyd | picked over as a result. You can leave to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | A flutter of motion attracts your eye to something in the corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "X FLUTTER? LISTEN?"
		DavidW says, "x corner"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x corner" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Coachhouse                                21
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CORNER
Floyd |
Floyd | A magazine concerning ladies of the night. Unquestioningly valuable to
Floyd | many gentlemen of your acquaintance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take it" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Coachhouse                                22
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You manage to peel it off the floorboards.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "ah, I was wondering if we'd be having sexy times."
		Jacqueline says, "hahaha FORBIDDEN TOME is now in our inventory."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x forbidden tome" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Coachhouse                                23
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FORBIDDEN TOME
Floyd |
Floyd | A magazine concerning ladies of the night. Unquestioningly valuable to
Floyd | many gentlemen of your acquaintance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read magazine" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Coachhouse                                24
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ MAGAZINE
Floyd |
Floyd | A good thief doesn't get high on his own supply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "What a buzzkill"
		DavidW asks, "We show this to our buds. Don'tcha know?"
		Jacqueline says, "Like, this seems like all there is here ("it's pretty well picked over"), but ... not sure."
		DavidW says, "x floorboards"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x floorboards" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Coachhouse                                24
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FLOORBOARDS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Coachhouse                                25
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "boo"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Coachhouse                                26
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the Coachhouse
Floyd | There's a significant hole in the roof that lets in enough light to
Floyd | look around. You and Ryan have been in here before: until he saw a
Floyd | raccoon here it was practically your clubhouse. It's pretty well
Floyd | picked over as a result. You can leave to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "well, I guess we go home and take it into the game world?"
		Jacqueline says, "We surely will find a way inside."
		Jacqueline asks, "Were we able to get to the other sides of the manor?"
		Jacqueline asks, "S?"
		Jacqueline asks, "May I?"
		DavidW says, "yes"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Coachhouse                                26
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the Coachhouse
Floyd | The double doors are large enough to drive a horse and carriage into,
Floyd | but one of them is missing, leaving an entryway to the north. Or you
Floyd | can return to the front of the Manor to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | Loot in hand, you head for home, thinking about what your fellow
Floyd | adventurers will say when they see it.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ***Press any key to continue***

		Jacqueline says, "OH DEAR PRESS A KEY"
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  27
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Adventurers' Lounge
Floyd | You can see Harry the Barbarian, Paula the Mage, Ryan the Bard,
Floyd | Maximus the Cleric and Chris the Paladin here.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "Greetings, thief," says Maximus.
Floyd |
Floyd | "2400 baud is totally enough! " exclaims Harry.
Floyd |
Floyd | Paula laughs at 4800 baud.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "You were right."
		DavidW says, "heh. I was right!"
		DavidW asks, "Show the home to Ryan?"
		DavidW asks, "er tome?"
		Jacqueline says, "I wonder if anyone under 35 understood half the jokes in this game."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show tome to ryan" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  28
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW TOME TO RYAN
Floyd |
Floyd | "Dude are you crazy waving that thing around?" says Ryan the Bard.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yah Concrete Beach are just snobs, they're all pirates anyway," says
Floyd | Chris.
Floyd |
Floyd | Maximus says a silent prayer for pirates to mend their ways.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I know they're pirates, I want the warez!!!" exclaims Harry.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "Ask Maximus about tome?"
		Jacqueline says, "he seems like the authority figure here."
		DavidW says, "We can't. The help said it's only GO, X, and SHOW in here,"
		Jacqueline says, "Well..."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask ryan about tome" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  29
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK RYAN ABOUT TOME
Floyd |
Floyd | Your access on the BBS only allows you to EXAMINE, LOOK, WAIT, SHOW
Floyd | something TO someone, or TAKE something.
Floyd |
Floyd | Maximus sees your attempt and smiles smugly, casually turning
Floyd | invisible -- something only a 8th level Guild member could do.
Floyd |
Floyd | The other guild members chatter on. You wonder if there is a way to
Floyd | convince them to join you in a raid on the Manor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Oh wait, no. I tried."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to ryan" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  29
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO RYAN
Floyd |
Floyd | You'd rather not fill the air with idle chatter. A silent thief is an
Floyd | effective thief. Though if you really need to get something done, you
Floyd | can ASK someone ABOUT something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Show it to ... oh?"
		Jacqueline shrugs.
		Jacqueline says, "Might not hurt to try the ask thing, just to see."
		Jacqueline asks, "Who shall we ask?"
		DavidW says, "Maximus. He seems the one mostly in charge."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask maximus about tome" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  30
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK MAXIMUS ABOUT TOME
Floyd |
Floyd | Your access on the BBS only allows you to EXAMINE, LOOK, WAIT, SHOW
Floyd | something TO someone, or TAKE something.
Floyd |
Floyd | Maximus sees your attempt and smiles smugly, casually transforming
Floyd | into a wyvern and back -- something only a 8th level Guild member
Floyd | could do.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Whatcha got there?" says Harry the Barbarian. "SHOW it TO me!
Floyd |
Floyd | The other guild members chatter on. You wonder if there is a way to
Floyd | convince them to join you in a raid on the Manor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach asks, "Do we really want a bard in our party anyway?"
		Jacqueline says, "Okay. The other was just a default that misled."
		Jacqueline asks, "So, show it to the barbarian?"
		DavidW says, "okay. I kinda wanted to show it to the cleric first, though."
		Jacqueline says, "Okay."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show tome to cleric" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  31
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW TOME TO CLERIC
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't dare. You'd be kicked from the Guild for sure.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Whatcha got there?" says Harry the Barbarian. "SHOW it TO me!
Floyd |
Floyd | The other guild members chatter on. You wonder if there is a way to
Floyd | convince them to join you in a raid on the Manor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "haha"
		DavidW says, "But it probably doesn't matter what order this is done in,"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show tome to barbarian" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  32
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW TOME TO BARBARIAN
Floyd |
Floyd | "where did you get this?" whispers Harry. "this is awesome!"
Floyd |
Floyd | You explain the Manor and the potential treasures within, if only you
Floyd | had a companion strong enough to breach the gate...
Floyd |
Floyd | ***Harry the Barbarian has joined your party.***
Floyd |
Floyd | Now that you've got some muscle on board, time for another Manor raid.
Floyd |
Floyd | Type LOGOUT to continue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "logout" 		

Floyd ]  In Front of the Manor                                33
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOGOUT
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ***DISCONNECTED***
Floyd |
Floyd | It's been a strange night so far. If Harry hadn't been carrying a
Floyd | large bag you never would have picked him out of the crowd getting off
Floyd | the bus. Stocky and talky, the guy's as verbose in the flesh as he is
Floyd | on the screen, and kept up a running chatter the whole walk over
Floyd | here...
Floyd |
Floyd | In Front of the Manor
Floyd | It's cloudy tonight, and the Manor is more foreboding than yesterday.
Floyd | You wish you brought your flashlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Whew, what a dump," says Harry. "You sure there's more mags in here?"
Floyd | Even crowded by wild brush, the grandest building in your
Floyd | neighbourhood still has a silent dignity. And to think: a few days
Floyd | from now, it'll be erased from history.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Manor looms to the north. You know from experience that there's a
Floyd | coachhouse behind it, which you could get to by following a rough path
Floyd | to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Harry the Barbarian here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "ha."
		Jacqueline says, "Okay... this is kinda weird. If only it worked this way IRL, we'd have mudmeets all the time."
		DavidW says, "yeah"
		DavidW says, "Anyway, bet this guy can rip off the boards."
		Jacqueline asks, "Hey, David, I need to explore all the pizza combos at this new restaurant, but I need more party members to help me out, because I can't eat them all. Will you join my party?"
		DavidW says, "You bet!"
		Jacqueline says, "I'm going to log off now."
		DavidW says, "hold on! I better put on some pants!"
		Jacqueline says, "YAY"
		Jacqueline asks, "So, how to go about this. >ASK HARRY ABOUT BOARDS?"
		DavidW says, "N first"
		Jacqueline says, "Oh, right."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Portico of the Manor                                 34
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | Portico of the Manor
Floyd | Harry looks at the planks appraisingly. You can leave the portico to
Floyd | the south, or enter the Manor to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | A paper in a plastic sheath is stapled to the planks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask harry about boards" 		

Floyd ]  Portico of the Manor                                 35
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK HARRY ABOUT BOARDS
Floyd |
Floyd | Unless you really need someone to do something, you're not going to
Floyd | waste breath on chit-chat -- more grabbing, less gabbing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, ">Harry, take boards"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "harry, remove boards" 		

Floyd ]  Portico of the Manor                                 36
Floyd |
Floyd | > HARRY, REMOVE BOARDS
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "harry, take boards" 		

Floyd ]  Portico of the Manor                                 37
Floyd |
Floyd | > HARRY, TAKE BOARDS
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" 		

Floyd ]  Portico of the Manor                                 38
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "harry, you dumbass" 		

Floyd ]  Portico of the Manor                                 39
Floyd |
Floyd | > HARRY, YOU DUMBASS
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take boards" 		

Floyd ]  Portico of the Manor                                 39
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE BOARDS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to harry" 		

Floyd ]  Portico of the Manor                                 39
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO HARRY
Floyd |
Floyd | You'd rather not fill the air with idle chatter. A silent thief is an
Floyd | effective thief. Though if you really need to get something done, you
Floyd | can ASK someone ABOUT something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Portico of the Manor                                 40
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Portico of the Manor
Floyd | Harry looks at the planks appraisingly. You can leave the portico to
Floyd | the south, or enter the Manor to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | A paper in a plastic sheath is stapled to the planks.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see Harry the Barbarian here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "harry, smash boards" 		

Floyd ]  Portico of the Manor                                 41
Floyd |
Floyd | > HARRY, SMASH BOARDS
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach has disconnected. 		
Zach has connected. 		DavidW says, "harry, take planks"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "harry, take planks" 		

Floyd ]  Portico of the Manor                                 42
Floyd |
Floyd | > HARRY, TAKE PLANKS
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not one for ordering people about. You can ASK someone ABOUT
Floyd | something if you like.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "harry, take planks" 		

Floyd ]  Portico of the Manor                                 43
Floyd |
Floyd | > HARRY, TAKE PLANKS
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not one for ordering people about. You can ASK someone ABOUT
Floyd | something if you like.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "harry, break planks" 		

Floyd ]  Portico of the Manor                                 44
Floyd |
Floyd | > HARRY, BREAK PLANKS
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not one for ordering people about. You can ASK someone ABOUT
Floyd | something if you like.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask harry about planks" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     45
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK HARRY ABOUT PLANKS
Floyd |
Floyd | You show Harry the problematic plank and he pulls a well-worn crowbar
Floyd | from his long bag. His chatter as he efficiently wrenches off the wood
Floyd | makes him oblivious to a slight clink you hear... then a rustle... and
Floyd | you'd swear it came from inside the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | You push the door open with a creak...
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the Manor
Floyd | You cross the threshold into the Manor, and achieve one of your
Floyd | boyhood dreams. You breathe the rarefied air, not sure what it is you
Floyd | smell, but appreciating that you're the first to have smelled it in...
Floyd | decades?
Floyd |
Floyd | To the west you hear a shuffling and scratching. Maybe some animals
Floyd | got in?
Floyd |
Floyd | You look around the space, slowly taking it in. A curving staircase,
Floyd | badly damaged, used to lead to the second floor. Strange shapes loom
Floyd | throughout the space. Hallways heading off to the east and the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "THERE WE GO"
		DavidW says, "aha"
		Jacqueline says, "And there, Sir, is your crowbar."
		DavidW says, "I noticed they were 'planks' now, even though they were 'boards' earlier."
		Jacqueline says, "Oh, really? Huh."
		DavidW says, "I totally blame I7,"
		DavidW says, "apropos inky login"
		Jacqueline asks, "Also, didn't it say we'd been in here before?"
		Jacqueline asks, "And now it's saying we're the first to smell the air in ... decades?"
		Jacqueline says, "Maybe I misread. Probably."
		Jacqueline asks, "So, which way, David?"
		DavidW says, "yeah, that's inconsistent. He did say he'd smelt beer in here earlier."
		Jacqueline says, "I'm happy to let you drive."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shapes" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     46
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SHAPES
Floyd |
Floyd | You touch them and a plume of dust is raised -- dust that actually
Floyd | seems thicker than the sheets themselves. Across the room, Harry yanks
Floyd | one off and spends a full minute rubbing his eyes and coughing. For
Floyd | his trouble he's revealed a couple of unremarkable chairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your thief's instincts tell you that there's nothing but unwanted
Floyd | furniture under the sheets, too old to be fashionable but not old
Floyd | enough to be antique.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "west first, I think"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     47
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Based on the animal (?) sounds you heard earlier, you decide to leave
Floyd | that for last.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     48
Floyd |
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "okay, fine"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "east" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     49
Floyd |
Floyd | > EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | The formidable door has one of those fancy crystalline doorknobs,
Floyd | which won't turn. It does, however, pull out in your hand and fall to
Floyd | the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Whoa, big guy," Harry says, patting you on the back. "Easy there.
Floyd | Don't need to wreck the place.
Floyd |
Floyd | The doorknob rolls to a stop on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "heh"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take doorknob" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     50
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE DOORKNOB
Floyd |
Floyd | You turn the crystal under the light, feeling its pleasing weight in
Floyd | your hand. As you slip your loot in your pocket, you feel a lightness
Floyd | in your belly.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Thank you for your condescension, Harry."
		DavidW says, "new inventory item, at least"
		Jacqueline says, "Hm. A lightness in our belly."
		DavidW asks, "Perhaps it's a hint to go home, have lunch, and swap in a new party member?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x doorknob" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     51
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DOORKNOB
Floyd |
Floyd | Crystal or glass, beautifully cut in either case.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     52
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd | You take a few steps up and can go no further. There's about six
Floyd | stairs missing, a huge hole leading down into a pitch blackness. The
Floyd | hand rail bridges the gap and seems pretty sturdy, but not enough to
Floyd | bet your life on.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you come down, Harry lets out a relieved breath. "You don't look
Floyd | like much of a long jumper."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stairs" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     53
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STAIRS
Floyd |
Floyd | There's about six stairs missing, a huge hole leading down into a
Floyd | pitch blackness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hole" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     54
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You take a few steps up and can go no further. There's about six
Floyd | stairs missing, a huge hole leading down into a pitch blackness. The
Floyd | hand rail bridges the gap and seems pretty sturdy, but not enough to
Floyd | bet your life on.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you come down, Harry lets out a relieved breath. "You don't look
Floyd | like much of a long jumper."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     55
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I'm thinking that we do need to retreat for now."
		Jacqueline says, "mmkay"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     56
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | The Manor still has loot for the taking: you can smell it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh, okay"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door with knob" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     56
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR WITH KNOB
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     56
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     57
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | It's locked without even a doorknob to rattle futilely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask harry about door" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     58
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK HARRY ABOUT DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Unless you really need someone to do something, you're not going to
Floyd | waste breath on chit-chat -- more grabbing, less gabbing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "Have Harry bash the door?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "harry, break door" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     59
Floyd |
Floyd | > HARRY, BREAK DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "yeah, trying to do that."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "harry, hit door" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     60
Floyd |
Floyd | > HARRY, HIT DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show door to harry" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     60
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW DOOR TO HARRY
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kick door" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     60
Floyd |
Floyd | > KICK DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Go back, get the cleric, have him bless us before we jump the gap in the stairs."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x harry" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     61
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HARRY
Floyd |
Floyd | Stocky and jocky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "We can't leave yet. We smell loot."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shapes" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     62
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SHAPES
Floyd |
Floyd | You touch them and a plume of dust is raised -- dust that actually
Floyd | seems thicker than the sheets themselves. Across the room, Harry yanks
Floyd | one off and spends a full minute rubbing his eyes and coughing. For
Floyd | his trouble he's revealed a couple of unremarkable chairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your thief's instincts tell you that there's nothing but unwanted
Floyd | furniture under the sheets, too old to be fashionable but not old
Floyd | enough to be antique.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Oh, right."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Hallway                                              63
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway
Floyd | There are birds on the wallpaper, the fragments that remain, their
Floyd | black eyes appearing to watch you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Further west there looks to be a dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh, NOW we can go west"
		Jacqueline says, "ah"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x birds" 		

Floyd ]  Hallway                                              64
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BIRDS
Floyd |
Floyd | Bird eyes have always creeped you out. You are fond of magpies,
Floyd | though.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  In Front of the Manor                                65
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You make your way towards the dining room, you start to hear hushed
Floyd | voices. Harry kicks something that hits the wall with a metal sound.
Floyd | Your heart jumps as the low voices in the other room pause.
Floyd |
Floyd | When they start up again you back slowly away, but not before
Floyd | pocketing the object Harry kicked.
Floyd |
Floyd | You escape through the front door and emerge...
Floyd |
Floyd | In Front of the Manor
Floyd | "Who the heck were those guys?" said Harry. "Jesus. Creepy."
Floyd |
Floyd | You pull out your loot and admire it, a finely designed dessert fork.
Floyd | Sterling silver from its weight, and beautiful in the moonlight.
Floyd |
Floyd | Harry notices the look on your face. "What are you, a klepto?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You decide it's time to head home west, away from prying eyes.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Well, we ARE a thief."
		DavidW asks, "caught up?"
		Jacqueline says, "Yeah."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  In Front of the Manor                                65
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | As you head for home, Harry keeps on with his blather. "Oh, oh yeah.
Floyd | Your Guild character. Don't you think you take it a little too
Floyd | seriously?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't dignify that with an answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hey how can you be a thief with a good alignment anyway? Isn't that
Floyd | the opposite?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You walk faster and leave the Barbarian to struggle along with his
Floyd | large bag, and his ignorance, alone.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ***Press any key to continue***

		
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  66
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Adventurers' Lounge
Floyd | You can see Paula the Mage, Ryan the Bard, Maximus the Cleric and
Floyd | Chris the Paladin here.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Chris is here, shining a sword of great antiquity.
Floyd |
Floyd | Paula is checking her makeup in the sword's reflection.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "yeah, looks like we're gonna treat these fellows like inventory items. Use 'em and lose 'em."
		Jacqueline says, "Yeah, he's gone."
		DavidW says, "Doorknob looks skeletal now."
		Jacqueline asks, "so, I guess we show our new loot?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x doorknob" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  67
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DOORKNOB
Floyd |
Floyd | Crystal or glass, beautifully cut in either case.
Floyd |
Floyd | Maximus is enjoying the lack of barbaric chatter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fork" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  68
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FORK
Floyd |
Floyd | It's only slightly tarnished, and will polish up nicely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm. I'm not sure which character will a) like our loot, b) help us best with our current obstacles."
		Jacqueline says, "I have a feeling Max is last."
		DavidW says, "The mage might help us go up the stairs. Bard or paladin vs the guys in the west wing. No obvious best choice for the east door."
		Jacqueline says, "Well, the maga might help us unlock the door."
		DavidW says, "maybe. Hm."
		maga says, "I shall do no such thing"
		Jacqueline says, "oh dear"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show fork to mage" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  69
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW FORK TO MAGE
Floyd |
Floyd | "Doesn't match my other cutlery," says Paula the Mage. "But thanks
Floyd | anyway, sweetie."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "There I go with the autotyping again"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show fork to bard" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  70
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW FORK TO BARD
Floyd |
Floyd | "If it's not a tuning fork, I can't use it," quips Ryan the Bard.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show folk to paladin" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  70
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW FOLK TO PALADIN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "o fork" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  71
Floyd |
Floyd | > O FORK
Floyd |
Floyd | "Sounds like Victorian cutlery," Chris whispers. Chris agrees to meet
Floyd | you at the Manor later tonight.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***Chris the Paladin has joined your party.***
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		maga says, "teenagers are well-known for hating folk"
		DavidW says, "I suppose we can try showing the doorknob too? No reason why we can't have two party members at the same time, I suppose."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show knob to bard" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  72
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW KNOB TO BARD
Floyd |
Floyd | "Cool loot," whispers Ryan. He agrees to meet you at your place later
Floyd | tonight.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***Ryan the Bard has joined your party.***
Floyd | That's enough reinforcements for another Manor raid. Type LOGOUT to
Floyd | continue.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Go for it."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "logout" 		

Floyd ]  Your Front Porch                                     73
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOGOUT
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ***DISCONNECTED***
Floyd |
Floyd | Ryan meets you in front of your house. He's as jumpy as always. You
Floyd | check to see if he's brought his picks, and he pulls them briefly out
Floyd | of a schoolbag festooned with band names.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your Front Porch
Floyd | The Manor beckons invisibly to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Ryan the Bard here.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Never actually used them except on the test lock," Ryan says, pulling
Floyd | his hat off and waving it at his face. It's pretty muggy out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "hm. Where's the paladin?"
		Jacqueline says, "Guess it's one or the other."
		Jacqueline says, "Little matter."
		DavidW says, "I hope we didn't use the fork at the wrong time, or maybe he'll meet us at the manor."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  End of the Street                                    74
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | End of the Street
Floyd | The forest at the end of the cul-de-sac smells damp and green, leading
Floyd | further to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | You describe the kind of keyhole it is as you head over. "Oh yeah,
Floyd | those are easier than modern ones." He gives you a sly smile. "Maybe
Floyd | you wanna give it a shot."
Floyd |
Floyd | You punch him in the shoulder at the reminder of your one thiefly
Floyd | failure. You've never had a knack for picks. It came up when Ryan
Floyd | wanted to join the Guild as a thief, but luckily he changed his mind
Floyd | and decided his mastery of three chords qualified him as a bard.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  The Woods                                            75
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The Woods
Floyd | You've lived beside these woods for half of your 14 years. The way on
Floyd | leads east.
Floyd |
Floyd | You ask him about the kids at his new school, the Catholic one his mom
Floyd | made him go to. "Pretty boring. I'm the only one into hardcore and
Floyd | cool music there," he bragplains.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "'bragplains'? That's new."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  The Field                                            76
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The Field
Floyd | You cross the electrical tower field, feeling rather than hearing its
Floyd | low hum. Superstition stops you from looking up at its wires. You can
Floyd | see the new development in the distance, the cause of your urgent
Floyd | mission, its machines like sleeping behemoths. But your destination is
Floyd | further east.
Floyd |
Floyd | You ask him if he's made it downtown to a hardcore show yet. He
Floyd | shrugs. "Not yet. They start so late that there's like no way to get
Floyd | back here before transit stops."
Floyd |
Floyd | He shoots a glance at you to see how well this latest excuse works.
Floyd | You keep your face neutral. You can mock him after the job.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "We could always follow through on my joke of map under door, fork poke in keyhole..."
		DavidW says, "alas, no. Our inventory is showing empty."
		Jacqueline says, "oh. ah."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  In Front of the Manor                                77
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | In Front of the Manor
Floyd | Even crowded by wild brush, the grandest building in your
Floyd | neighbourhood still has a silent dignity. And to think: a few days
Floyd | from now, it'll be erased from history.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Manor looms to the north. You know from experience that there's a
Floyd | coachhouse behind it, which you could get to by following a rough path
Floyd | to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a girl in a track suit in front of the Manor. You keep it cool
Floyd | and introduce yourself.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hey I'm Chris," she says, then trains her dark eyes on your friend.
Floyd | "And I guess you're Ryan?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Ryan, as usual in the presence of a non-boy, is motionless, so you nod
Floyd | for him.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Chris, how you done changed."
		Jacqueline says, "There we go."
		DavidW says, "poor Ryan."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chris" 		

Floyd ]  In Front of the Manor                                78
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CHRIS
Floyd |
Floyd | She's wearing a tracksuit and a short haircut. Something about her
Floyd | eyes makes her look ready for a fight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Portico of the Manor                                 79
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | Portico of the Manor
Floyd | Chris stops when she sees the planks and the forcible entry. "Whoa, I
Floyd | didn't know you guys broke in, I thought it was abandoned." Doubt
Floyd | flickers across her eyes. "My dad's a cop. It'd kill him if I --" She
Floyd | shakes her head. Then she notices the notice stapled to the door and
Floyd | relaxes a bit. "Oh, well. If it's gonna be trashed anyway..." You can
Floyd | leave the portico to the south, or enter the Manor to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | A paper in a plastic sheath is stapled to the planks.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I'm thinking we use Chris first, then maybe she'll leave before Ryan and I do anything she'll disaprove of."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     80
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the Manor
Floyd | A curving staircase, badly damaged, used to lead to the second floor.
Floyd | Strange shapes loom throughout the space. Hallways heading off to the
Floyd | east and the west.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     81
Floyd |
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     82
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | "Uh," Ryan says, "Sounds like there's people there. Why don't we
Floyd | search the other rooms first?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "ok, fine."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask ryan about door" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     83
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK RYAN ABOUT DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | "Ready to do your magic?" you say to Ryan, motioning at the locked
Floyd | door.
Floyd | His eyes go big and he shakes his head, glancing over at Chris. Oh,
Floyd | right. That comment about her dad being a cop has him spooked. Not
Floyd | that it takes a lot to get him spooked.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the Manor
Floyd | A curving staircase, badly damaged, used to lead to the second floor.
Floyd | Strange shapes loom throughout the space. Hallways heading off to the
Floyd | east and the west. Chris looks around, a smile on her face. She seems
Floyd | intrigued by the hole in the stairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Chris the Paladin and Ryan the Bard here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "heh"
		Jacqueline asks, "Wait a tic. What part of TRESSPASSING IS ILLEGAL do they not recognize?"
		DavidW says, "She's letting that pass for some authorial reason."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chris about hole" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     84
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK CHRIS ABOUT HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Chris approaches the hole in the stairs and adjusts her headband.
Floyd |
Floyd | She tests the banister first and then hangs from it. You feel your
Floyd | heart lurch as her legs dangle into the hole. "When I started
Floyd | gymnastics," she says, going hand over hand across the gap. "I always
Floyd | used to imagine using my training in an adventure."
Floyd |
Floyd | "This is kind of an adventure," pipes up Ryan, looking at you for
Floyd | confirmation. "Right?"
Floyd |
Floyd | She gets to the other side, and flips her feet out onto solid ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Sure, kid," she says.  She takes a penlight out of her sweatpants
Floyd | pocket and disappears into the second floor darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "ok, Chris is gone. Maybe Ryan will chillax."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask ryan about door" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                85
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK RYAN ABOUT DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You and Ryan go to the door. Ryan sizes it up as he takes out his
Floyd | picks. "Keep an eye out for the cop's daughter," he says, a pick
Floyd | hanging from his mouth as he goes about his work.
Floyd |
Floyd | A few seconds later, the door to the east is open. Ryan can't keep a
Floyd | smile off his face, and you pat him on the shoulder.
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | This was clearly a library or office of some kind. The walls are lined
Floyd | with bookshelves, empty but for thick layers of dust. There's a large
Floyd | desk pushed against a wall at a weird angle. You picture the owners
Floyd | packing up and needing to get it out of the way to get something else
Floyd | out of the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can leave to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "move desk" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                86
Floyd |
Floyd | > MOVE DESK
Floyd |
Floyd | A few seconds of futile pushing makes it clear why it was left here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x desk" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                87
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DESK
Floyd |
Floyd | The desk was probably too big to get out through the door, so they
Floyd | just left it there. All its drawers are missing. It's a lovely old
Floyd | wooden specimen, however, and it saddens you it will be smashed to
Floyd | pieces in two days. As you run a fond hand over it, you notice a glint
Floyd | in the inkwell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x inkwell" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                88
Floyd |
Floyd | > X INKWELL
Floyd |
Floyd | The glint you saw is from a letter opener.  Your lithe fingers tease
Floyd | it out and Ryan crowds around. "Oooh, a dagger," he says. You
Floyd | reluctantly hand it over.
Floyd |
Floyd | Ryan feels the edge and then scoffs. "Super-dull," he says, handing it
Floyd | back.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your heart lightens and you don't correct him. You secret it away for
Floyd | closer inspection later.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x opener" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                89
Floyd |
Floyd | > X OPENER
Floyd |
Floyd | Pretty bad-ass looking for an antique.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bookshelves" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                90
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOKSHELVES
Floyd |
Floyd | Not a single book left behind.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Back west to the entrance?"
		Jacqueline says, "Sure."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     91
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | "There you guys are," Chris says grumpily as you come out. She gets up
Floyd | from the bottom of the stairs, where she's been sitting.
Floyd |
Floyd | She's got her arms crossed and a funny look on her face. Despite her
Floyd | efforts, you notice there's a small bulge in her jacket.
Floyd |
Floyd | You're about to ask her about it when there's a smashing sound to the
Floyd | west, followed by a peel of laughter.
Floyd |
Floyd | Ryan nearly jumps out of his skin.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Our heart seems to lighten every time we filch something."
		DavidW says, "mm"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Hallway                                              92
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | When Ryan sees you heading towards the noise instead of away, he makes
Floyd | for the exit.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Um... band practice, gotta go... nicetomeetyoubye!" he says. When he
Floyd | gets out of the house he abandons all dignity and just starts running.
Floyd |
Floyd | Chris gives you a sly smile and walks along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway
Floyd | There are birds on the wallpaper, the fragments that remain, their
Floyd | black eyes appearing to watch you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Further west there looks to be a dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chris about bulge" 		

Floyd ]  Hallway                                              93
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK CHRIS ABOUT BULGE
Floyd |
Floyd | Unless you really need someone to do something, you're not going to
Floyd | waste breath on chit-chat -- more grabbing, less gabbing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Hallway                                              94
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You inch forward a bit and try to catch a glimpse of the dining room
Floyd | occupants. You dip in and out, catching a glimpse of a long haired
Floyd | one, a guy with some kind of suit jacket, and two or three more. They
Floyd | appear to be setting the table...?
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel Chris's hand on your arm, pulling you back.
Floyd |
Floyd | The clink of dinner plates and cutlery cover up the sounds of
Floyd | conversation.
Floyd |
Floyd | "...definitely candles, it gives..."
Floyd |
Floyd | Chris lets go of your arm.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chris about occupants" 		

Floyd ]  Hallway                                              95
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK CHRIS ABOUT OCCUPANTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Unless you really need someone to do something, you're not going to
Floyd | waste breath on chit-chat -- more grabbing, less gabbing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "chris, west" 		

Floyd ]  Hallway                                              96
Floyd |
Floyd | > CHRIS, WEST
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not one for ordering people about. You can ASK someone ABOUT
Floyd | something if you like.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd ]  Hallway                                              97
Floyd |
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You lean in and listen in a bit more.
Floyd |
Floyd | "...as if we're the lords of the Manor. The pinnacle of suburban
Floyd | decadence. Rome before the malls moved in."
Floyd |
Floyd | Chris gives you a confused look, and you shrug.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  Hallway                                              98
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | No way are you going in there without at least two people to back you
Floyd | up. "Probably we should get out while the getting's good," Chris
Floyd | whispers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm."
		DavidW asks, "Does that mean Chris will be willing to return next time without a bribe?"
		Jacqueline says, "Dunno - last time Harry just disappeared."
		DavidW says, "guess we can try to go home and see if the game let's us."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     99
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the Manor
Floyd | A curving staircase, badly damaged, used to lead to the second floor.
Floyd | Strange shapes loom throughout the space. Hallways heading off to the
Floyd | east and the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                100
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | This was clearly a library or office of some kind. The walls are lined
Floyd | with bookshelves, empty but for thick layers of dust. There's a large
Floyd | desk pushed against a wall at a weird angle. You picture the owners
Floyd | packing up and needing to get it out of the way to get something else
Floyd | out of the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can leave to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     101
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the Manor
Floyd | A curving staircase, badly damaged, used to lead to the second floor.
Floyd | Strange shapes loom throughout the space. Hallways heading off to the
Floyd | east and the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Portico of the Manor                                 102
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | Portico of the Manor
Floyd | You can leave the portico to the south, or enter the Manor to the
Floyd | north.
Floyd |
Floyd | A paper in a plastic sheath is stapled to the planks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  In Front of the Manor                                103
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In Front of the Manor
Floyd | Even crowded by wild brush, the grandest building in your
Floyd | neighbourhood still has a silent dignity. And to think: a few days
Floyd | from now, it'll be erased from history.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Manor looms to the north. You know from experience that there's a
Floyd | coachhouse behind it, which you could get to by following a rough path
Floyd | to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | You leave the house behind.
Floyd |
Floyd | Chris kneels to tie her running shoe. Her jacket pocket opens wide --
Floyd | inside is a gold gleam that makes your fingers itch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gold" 		

Floyd ]  In Front of the Manor                                104
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GOLD
Floyd |
Floyd | It's gorgeous, clam-shaped and golden.
Floyd |
Floyd | When Chris stands, a golden pocketwatch falls to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | Chris looks at you. "See ya around, I guess." She melts into the
Floyd | forest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take watch" 		

Floyd ]  In Front of the Manor                                105
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE WATCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You lean over to pick up the watch, and -- bam! -- Chris tackles you
Floyd | from out of nowhere! You find yourself on your back, her arm pinning
Floyd | your neck down. "Dirty... thief..." she puffs, smirking, her eyes
Floyd | shining.
Floyd |
Floyd | Her hands go all over your body, searching for something. Finally her
Floyd | hand rests on a ridge in your pants.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Ah hah..." she crows. "What have we here? Holding out on me, you
Floyd | dirty thief?" She's breathing hard, her face a few inches from yours.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "..."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "kiss her" 		

Floyd ]  In Front of the Manor                                106
Floyd |
Floyd | > KISS HER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't -- she's got you pinned too good, but then she reads your
Floyd | intentions and lets up just... enough... for you to kiss her. When you
Floyd | try to slip her some tongue, she gasps and pins you again. "Oh no, oh
Floyd | no you don't," she says, her eyes blazing, covering your mouth with
Floyd | her hand.
Floyd |
Floyd | When you don't struggle, she rolls off you and takes the letter opener
Floyd | with her. You look up at the sky, the moon barely visible, thinking
Floyd | about how weird it is that you're lying in the grass in front of the
Floyd | Manor. A few nights from now, it'll all be gone.
Floyd |
Floyd | "What's that handle, mother of pearl?" Chris says, squinting at it
Floyd | before tossing it onto your chest. "You find the coolest stuff in
Floyd | these old houses."
Floyd |
Floyd | The watch sits in your open palm. You look up at Chris, and she's
Floyd | snapping a hairclip that got dislodged into place.
Floyd |
Floyd | You have never wanted anything more in your life.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Why don't you hold onto that for me, thief," she says, pulling her
Floyd | collar up. "My dad would find it eventually."
Floyd |
Floyd | She looks at you, a strange smile twisting her lips, and then she runs
Floyd | off into the forest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You look longingly after her to to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I vote 'kiss' her"
		DavidW asks, "ah. You thought so too, eh?"
		Jacqueline says, "heh. yep"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  In Front of the Manor                                106
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see what you're carrying in the left column, and your current
Floyd | party members in the right column.
Floyd |
Floyd | Loot in hand, you head for home.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ***Press any key to continue***

		Jacqueline says, "Sigh. I'm not following along at home anymore, so that is one annoying bit about this zblorb."
		DavidW says, "we have letter opener and pocket watch"
		Jacqueline says, "Thanks."
		Jacqueline says, "Maga said that there really weren't any more big style changes, and it was fiddly flipping back and forth, so I decided to just stick to here."
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  107
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Adventurers' Lounge
Floyd | You can see Harry the Barbarian, Ryan the Bard, Paula the Mage and
Floyd | Maximus the Cleric here.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Harry's back, Ryan's back, but Chris is absent this time."
		Jacqueline asks, "That's enough muscle, though, right?"
		DavidW says, "We'll definitely want Harry vs the people, but obviously not scaredycat Ryan."
		DavidW says, "I'm thinking Harry (via the opener) and Max (via the watch)."
		Jacqueline says, "mmkay"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show watch to max" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  108
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW WATCH TO MAX
Floyd |
Floyd | "An exquisite item," Maximus says. "It'll help you tick off the hours
Floyd | you'll spend in hell for your evil ways."
Floyd |
Floyd | You explain that the Manor is condemned anyway. "The Oakville Manor? I
Floyd | know that grand old place..." Maximus says. He agrees to join your
Floyd | raiding party.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***Maximus the Cleric has joined your party.***
Floyd | "dice are stupid anyway," Harry says. "no skill."
Floyd |
Floyd | Maximus struggles with his vow of serenity.
Floyd |
Floyd | "hi tony," whispers Paula.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show opener to harry" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  109
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW OPENER TO HARRY
Floyd |
Floyd | "Are you threatening me? hahahahahaha" says Harry the Barbarian.
Floyd |
Floyd | Harry scratches his bum.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show opener to paula" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  110
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW OPENER TO PAULA
Floyd |
Floyd | "Ooh, pretty pretty... I do get a lot of correspondence..." she says.
Floyd | Paula agrees to join your raiding party.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***Paula the Mage has joined your party.***
Floyd |
Floyd | That's enough backup for a final Manor raid. Type LOGOUT to continue.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "huh. No barbarian this time."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "logout" 		

Floyd ]  The Field                                            111
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOGOUT
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ***DISCONNECTED***
Floyd |
Floyd | You meet Max at the edge of the field. He lives not too far away, but
Floyd | neither of you really want to give the other your home address.
Floyd |
Floyd | He's a few years older and about a foot taller, but with the build and
Floyd | the cornstalk hair of a scarecrow. He's carrying a backpack. His voice
Floyd | is as annoying as you imagined from the BBS.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You quite sure it's unpatrolled?" he says. "If it gets traced back to
Floyd | the Guild, they can easily shut us down."
Floyd |
Floyd | The Field
Floyd | You cross the electrical tower field, feeling rather than hearing its
Floyd | low hum. Superstition stops you from looking up at its wires. You can
Floyd | see the new development in the distance, the cause of your urgent
Floyd | mission, its machines like sleeping behemoths. But your destination is
Floyd | further east.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "goodness. Maximus isn't quite so max now."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  In Front of the Manor                                112
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | In Front of the Manor
Floyd | Even crowded by wild brush, the grandest building in your
Floyd | neighbourhood still has a silent dignity. And to think: a few days
Floyd | from now, it'll be erased from history.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Manor looms to the north. You know from experience that there's a
Floyd | coachhouse behind it, which you could get to by following a rough path
Floyd | to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | Paula -- you assume it's Paula, though she looks more goth than witch
Floyd | -- takes one last drag on her smoke before killing it under a creeper
Floyd | boot.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hello, boys," says Paula in a soft, deep voice. "You ready to knock
Floyd | over this joint?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You nod.
Floyd |
Floyd | Paula turns toward the Manor and begins to pull on lacy gloves.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "mmm"
		DavidW says, "Somehow I can't see these two going against the manor occupants."
		DavidW says, "A goth and a pimple bearer. That doesn't fill me with confidence."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Portico of the Manor                                 113
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | Portico of the Manor
Floyd | Max glances at the paper. "I'd like to say that my only interest in
Floyd | entering this building is to preserve--"
Floyd |
Floyd | Paula cuts him off with a stagey yawn.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can leave the portico to the south, or enter the Manor to the
Floyd | north.
Floyd |
Floyd | A paper in a plastic sheath is stapled to the planks.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "save?"
		DavidW says, "oh. okay"
DavidW clears the save counter. 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf1" 		

Floyd ]  Portico of the Manor                                 113
Floyd |
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | Sorry, you can't save the game, but really -- you don't need to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  Portico of the Manor                                 113
Floyd |
Floyd | > CF1
Floyd |
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "huh"
		DavidW says, "heh. We can't."
		DavidW says, "yeah, I'm not feeling any real danger. The game warden cuts in."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     114
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the Manor
Floyd | A curving staircase, badly damaged, used to lead to the second floor.
Floyd | Strange shapes loom throughout the space. Hallways heading off to the
Floyd | east and the west. It's familiar ground to you now, but the others
Floyd | look around in awe.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     115
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Max stops you. "First things first: let's find the wine cellar."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask paula about hole" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     116
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK PAULA ABOUT HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Unless you really need someone to do something, you're not going to
Floyd | waste breath on chit-chat -- more grabbing, less gabbing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter hole" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     117
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hole" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     118
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You come up to the huge ragged hole in the stairs. Max peers into the
Floyd | hole. "Looks like it goes straight to the wine cellar," he says,
Floyd | pulling off his backpack.
Floyd |
Floyd | All business, he pulls out a rope and attaches it to the banister,
Floyd | letting the end dangle down into the inky hole.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     119
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You take a few steps up and can go no further. There's about six
Floyd | stairs missing, a huge hole leading down into a pitch blackness with a
Floyd | rope disappearing into it. The hand rail bridges the gap and seems
Floyd | pretty sturdy, but not enough to bet your life on.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Max, wearing a headband with a light attached, starts to climb down
Floyd | the rope. There's a tense moment when the banister squeaks, but it
Floyd | holds fast.
Floyd |
Floyd | Alone, you and Paula trade a silent look of surprise.
Floyd |
Floyd | She's about to say something when a laugh comes from the room to the
Floyd | west. The dining room. And is that the tinkle of cutlery?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb rope" 		

Floyd ]  Inside the Manor                                     120
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLIMB ROPE
Floyd |
Floyd | You remember gym class rope climbing last year and decide against it.
Floyd | You're nimble, but your upper body strength is for shit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          121
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You stop just outside the dining room in the hallway and peek in.
Floyd | There's a whole dinner party going on inside. You whisper to Paula
Floyd | that you recognize the guy from yesterday.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes," she says, her face flooding with emotion. "I recognize him
Floyd | too."
Floyd |
Floyd | Before you can contest, she adjusts her hat, squares her shoulders,
Floyd | and strides into the dining room... taking you with her.
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Room
Floyd | There are six people around the large table, the guys from yesterday
Floyd | plus a couple more.  The guy with the strange bangs and suit jacket is
Floyd | at the head of the table beside a goth girl who's too beautiful to
Floyd | look at directly. The table is laid out beautifully, a candelabra
Floyd | melting onto the white tablecloth, chipped plates trimmed with gold.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Paula the Mage here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Paula sits down at an empty chair and seats you beside her. There's no
Floyd | plate, but she reaches across the table and wrenches a drumstick from
Floyd | the bird.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "okay. Weird."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x guy" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          122
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GUY
Floyd |
Floyd | A beard big enough to hide a mouse in. You can smell the patchouli
Floyd | from here. A thin tattooed girl glances over at him frequently.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Um... hi," says the fellow in the suit jacket. Everyone's staring at
Floyd | Paula as she gnaws the drumstick, and you will yourself invisible.
Floyd |
Floyd | She points the drumstick at him and you see a drop of grease fall onto
Floyd | the tablecloth. "You stole my idea, Erik. And then you didn't even
Floyd | invite me."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x table" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          122
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "huh"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x candelabra" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          123
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CANDELABRA
Floyd |
Floyd | There's more candles than abra, and it doesn't look all that steady.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, I would say it was our idea," says Erik.
Floyd |
Floyd | Paula reaches over and takes the closest goblet. Its bespectacled
Floyd | owner pretends he doesn't notice. She takes a sip and then spits it
Floyd | out, luckily away from you. "A white? With duck, Erik?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Erik grimaces. "They were out of--"
Floyd |
Floyd | He stops suddenly, seeing Max in the doorway with a bottle of wine in
Floyd | each hand.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "one sec - feet are cold, getting slippers"
		DavidW says, "Who serves white wine with duck? He must be insane."
		DavidW says, "And I get so hungry during CF."
		Jacqueline says, "enh. The new rule with many people is to forgo that rule and drink whatever you want. I have used this as an excuse to abandon white and blush wines altogether."
		Jacqueline says, "(Also, back.)"
		DavidW says, "I like white wine with, say, cheese or fish."
		DavidW says, "Or art."
		DavidW says, "I'm not sure what our next move oughta be, but PUSH CANDELABRA comes to mind. I was hoping to see something to filch first, though."
		Jacqueline asks, "Before you set the whole place on fire, you mean?"
		DavidW says, "well, yes"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sit at table" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          123
Floyd |
Floyd | > SIT AT TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sit" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          123
Floyd |
Floyd | > SIT
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to sit on?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "chair" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          123
Floyd |
Floyd | > CHAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "We're already sitting."
		Jacqueline says, "oh"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          124
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Room
Floyd | There are six people around the large table, the guys from yesterday
Floyd | plus a couple more.  The guy with the strange bangs and suit jacket is
Floyd | at the head of the table beside a goth girl who's too beautiful to
Floyd | look at directly. The table is laid out beautifully, a candelabra
Floyd | melting onto the white tablecloth, chipped plates trimmed with gold.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a bottle of white wine with a dusty label, within arms' reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see Maximus the Cleric and Paula the Mage here.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Ah, sommelier," Paula waves him over, proving herself an
Floyd | improvisational genius. Max comes, his eyes stunned, and only squeaks
Floyd | a bit as she pulls the dusty bottles from his grasp.
Floyd |
Floyd | She sets one on the table and reads the label on the other. Max backs
Floyd | away towards the door, and then makes a break for it, his backpack
Floyd | clinking with other bottles.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "eat duck" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          125
Floyd |
Floyd | > EAT DUCK
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking Drumstick)
Floyd | You're not really hungry.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Ah -- a pinot noir," she says, uncorking it with surprising ease.
Floyd | "That's suitable for duck."
Floyd |
Floyd | She goes around the table, picking up a goblet still full of wine.
Floyd | "What's the point in doing something --" throws the white wine onto
Floyd | the floor, "-- if you're not going to go all the way with it?" She
Floyd | fills the goblet and bangs it down onto the table, sloshing red, and
Floyd | the candelabra sways a bit. The light in the room sways too.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drink wine" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          126
Floyd |
Floyd | > DRINK WINE
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bottle of white wine)
Floyd | A good thief doesn't get high on his own supply.
Floyd |
Floyd | "The rules are the least interesting part of this," Erik snaps back.
Floyd | "You always take things too far."
Floyd |
Floyd | The dreadlocked man gulps down his white and holds it up for Paula,
Floyd | who overfills it. "Whoops, I guess I do. I guess it's why you kicked
Floyd | me out of the freak clique, huh?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bottle" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          127
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE BOTTLE
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bottle of white wine)
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Look, Paul," started Erik, his voice tired and sad. "I--"
Floyd |
Floyd | "It's Paula, you stupid fuck!" She throws the bottle at him,
Floyd | and the last thing you see before you leave the room is the candelabra
Floyd | falling onto the tablecloth.
Floyd |
Floyd | In a rush you see the birds on the wallpaper, the front door still
Floyd | open, the flattened grass in front of you and before too long, you're
Floyd | back in your bedroom. You take off your clothes, trying to decide if
Floyd | they smell of smoke or just of guilt.
Floyd |
Floyd | You're in your bed when the fire sirens start to wail and the flames
Floyd | are becoming visible on the Manor. It's sad, but when you consider
Floyd | that the Manor was otherwise facing crowbars and rough hands and
Floyd | wrecking balls in the morning...  better a funeral pyre.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd | A week, two weeks, three weeks pass. You use your nights for sleeping,
Floyd | not sneaking. Your modem neither winks or squeals. And no one in the
Floyd | Guild squeals either, since the knock on your door never comes. When
Floyd | Ryan tells you something funny Harry said online yesterday, you
Floyd | realize -- if even Ryan is sticking his head up -- that the smoke has
Floyd | cleared.
Floyd |
Floyd | You decide to LOGIN again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "There you go, D."
		Jacqueline says, "FOOMP"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "login" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  128
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOGIN
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ***WELCOME BACK, TONY THE THIEF***
Floyd |
Floyd | Adventurers' Lounge
Floyd | You can see Harry the Barbarian, Paula the Mage, Ryan the Bard,
Floyd | Maximus the Cleric and Chris the Paladin here.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "it was in last week's guardian!" says Harry.
Floyd |
Floyd | "That free rag? I don't even believe the coupons in the Etobicoke
Floyd | Guardian," mocks Paula.
Floyd |
Floyd | At this verboten talk, Maximus brandishes his staff of banishment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "White wine and a full house."
		DavidW says, "Obviously we should offer the wine to the paladin and get smoochies in coachhouse."
		Jacqueline says, "If it still stands."
		Jacqueline says, "Sure."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show wine to chris" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  128
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW WINE TO CHRIS
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bottle of white wine to Chris the Paladin)
Floyd | For some reason, this feels like a significant choice. Any of your
Floyd | friends would like the wine. Are you sure? (Y/N)

		Jacqueline says, "Golly"
		DavidW asks, "oh. Five endings and no save?"
		Jacqueline says, "Darn you, JM."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  129
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You reconsider.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Here: COPS DON'T SUSPECT ARSON" says Harry.
Floyd |
Floyd | Maximus lifts his staff and Harry vanishes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Paula rolls her eyes.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Long time no see" says Chris.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf2" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  129
Floyd |
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd |
Floyd | Sorry, you can't save the game, but really -- you don't need to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  129
Floyd |
Floyd | > CF2
Floyd |
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "It really won't let us. Even here."
		Jacqueline says, "Seems odd for a game to be railroaded to the end, then give you five endings knowing you'll have to replay to experience others."
		Jacqueline asks, "What do you want to do?"
		DavidW says, "Unless Floyd has a secret %save and %restore commands."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "%save" 		
Floyd says (to Jacqueline), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." 		DavidW says, "I still choose Chris for the wine."
Touchy arrives, full of fun and funk. 		Jacqueline says, "Well, I guess I want the smoochies ending, yeah."
		Touchy says, "Bonsoir."
		DavidW says (to Touchy), "Just in time to see the end of a game."
		Jacqueline says, "Ah. maga says there's a command that gets you straight from the beginning to the end game, so yeah, go for it."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show wine to chris" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  129
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW WINE TO CHRIS
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bottle of white wine to Chris the Paladin)
Floyd | For some reason, this feels like a significant choice. Any of your
Floyd | friends would like the wine. Are you sure? (Y/N)

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "y" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  130
Floyd |
Floyd | > Y
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well well," whispers Chris. "Quite a score, thief." You arrange to
Floyd | meet tonight.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***Chris the Paladin has joined your party.***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Type LOGOUT to continue.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "logout" 		

Floyd ]  In Front of the Manor                                131
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOGOUT
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ***DISCONNECTED***
Floyd |
Floyd | You start smelling the burned Manor from the forest. Guilt and
Floyd | excitement compete in your belly as you emerge...
Floyd |
Floyd | In Front of the Manor
Floyd | The ring of brush is blackened. The Manor's roof is caved in, beaten
Floyd | to its knees by the firehose water. They must have gotten here quickly
Floyd | as there's good chunks of the eastern wing that are mostly intact.
Floyd |
Floyd | The portico is wrapped in that yellow police tape that you've only
Floyd | seen in cop shows.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the northeast is the coachhouse, tonight's rendezvous spot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the Coachhouse                               132
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the Coachhouse
Floyd | The double doors are large enough to drive a horse and carriage into,
Floyd | but one of them is missing, leaving an entryway to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The small structure seems to have far enough away to have been spared
Floyd | the fire.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the Coachhouse                               132
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the Coachhouse
Floyd | There's a significant hole in the roof that lets in enough light to
Floyd | look around. The moonlight gives everything an unearthly hue.
Floyd |
Floyd | Chris isn't here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You look up at the moon through the roof, feeling like a jackass.
Floyd |
Floyd | When you turn to leave, you see her framed in the doorway, grinning.
Floyd | "Had to make sure this wasn't a set up."
Floyd |
Floyd | She sits down on a wooden crate and pulls tumblers out of her duffel
Floyd | bag. She smells them first before sticking them out. "Wine me!"
Floyd |
Floyd | ***Press any key to continue***

		maga says, "the command is skipthru, but it has to be the very first command you enter"
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Outside the Coachhouse                               132
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Later that night, drunk, she chews you out for not including her in
Floyd | your scheme to burn down the Manor. You explain that it wasn't a
Floyd | scheme, that you would never not include her in schemes, and she makes
Floyd | you pinky promise... and then pinky wrestle, then the kissing, and the
Floyd | rubbing, and then the puking puts an end to that.
Floyd |
Floyd | But it's only the beginning of your scheming together. After a
Floyd | particularly successful scheme eight years later, the two of you lie
Floyd | in a bed with a view of the Mediterranean, tracing the route of what
Floyd | got you there from your...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | by Jim Munroe. Art by Matt Hammill. Sound: Troy Morrissey. Vorple:
Floyd | Juhana Leinonen.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click here to play again.

		maga says, "there is a big ASCII art thing saying GUILDED YOUTH there, if 'twas not obvious (see this [LINK])."
		Jacqueline asks, "Oh, did I just miss a cool image?"
		Jacqueline says, "Ah."
		Jacqueline says, "Thanks."
		DavidW says, "yeah, it was cool"
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd | debugcheapnitfol quit with exit status: 0

		
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" 		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask guildedyouth" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  1
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ***You have connected to THE GUILD BBS*** Type LOGIN to enter the
Floyd | Adventurers' Lounge
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "skipthru" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          2
Floyd |
Floyd | > SKIPTHRU
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Room
Floyd | There are six people around the large table, the guys from yesterday
Floyd | plus a couple more.  The guy with the strange bangs and suit jacket is
Floyd | at the head of the table beside a goth girl who's too beautiful to
Floyd | look at directly. The table is laid out beautifully, a candelabra
Floyd | melting onto the white tablecloth, chipped plates trimmed with gold.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Paula sits down at an empty chair and seats you beside her. There's no
Floyd | plate, but she reaches across the table and wrenches a drumstick from
Floyd | the bird.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Oh, gosh. That's not quite the end game."
		Jacqueline says, "But close enough, I guess."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push candle" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          2
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH CANDLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push candlabra" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          2
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH CANDLABRA
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Where was the skipthru command mentioned?"
		maga says, "Jim made a post on his blog about it"
		Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Could you drive us through to another ending?"
		maga says, "I do not know if it is mentioned anywhere else"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x girl" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          2
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GIRL
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the goth girl or the thin tattooed girl?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "goth" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          3
Floyd |
Floyd | > GOTH
Floyd |
Floyd | Black lipstick and eyeshadow is all you get before you have to avert
Floyd | your eyes. She's definitely not from your school, or any school that
Floyd | you can imagine. Beside her is a dreadlocked guy with a large beard,
Floyd | picking his teeth with a bone.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Um... hi," says the fellow in the suit jacket. Everyone's staring at
Floyd | Paula as she gnaws the drumstick, and you will yourself invisible.
Floyd |
Floyd | She points the drumstick at him and you see a drop of grease fall onto
Floyd | the tablecloth. "You stole my idea, Erik. And then you didn't even
Floyd | invite me."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tablecloth" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          3
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TABLECLOTH
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x thin girl" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          4
Floyd |
Floyd | > X THIN GIRL
Floyd |
Floyd | Feathered short hair with bird-like nervous movements to match, but
Floyd | you don't know if it's Paula-inspired.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, I would say it was our idea," says Erik.
Floyd |
Floyd | Paula reaches over and takes the closest goblet. Its bespectacled
Floyd | owner pretends he doesn't notice. She takes a sip and then spits it
Floyd | out, luckily away from you. "A white? With duck, Erik?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Erik grimaces. "They were out of--"
Floyd |
Floyd | He stops suddenly, seeing Max in the doorway with a bottle of wine in
Floyd | each hand.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push candles" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          5
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH CANDLES
Floyd |
Floyd | It is fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Ah, sommelier," Paula waves him over, proving herself an
Floyd | improvisational genius. Max comes, his eyes stunned, and only squeaks
Floyd | a bit as she pulls the dusty bottles from his grasp.
Floyd |
Floyd | She sets one on the table and reads the label on the other. Max backs
Floyd | away towards the door, and then makes a break for it, his backpack
Floyd | clinking with other bottles.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask erik about manor" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          5
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ERIK ABOUT MANOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          6
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Ah -- a pinot noir," she says, uncorking it with surprising ease.
Floyd | "That's suitable for duck."
Floyd |
Floyd | She goes around the table, picking up a goblet still full of wine.
Floyd | "What's the point in doing something --" throws the white wine onto
Floyd | the floor, "-- if you're not going to go all the way with it?" She
Floyd | fills the goblet and bangs it down onto the table, sloshing red, and
Floyd | the candelabra sways a bit. The light in the room sways too.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take wine" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          7
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE WINE
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bottle of white wine)
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | "The rules are the least interesting part of this," Erik snaps back.
Floyd | "You always take things too far."
Floyd |
Floyd | The dreadlocked man gulps down his white and holds it up for Paula,
Floyd | who overfills it. "Whoops, I guess I do. I guess it's why you kicked
Floyd | me out of the freak clique, huh?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          8
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Look, Paul," started Erik, his voice tired and sad. "I--"
Floyd |
Floyd | "It's Paula, you stupid fuck!" She throws the bottle at him,
Floyd | and the last thing you see before you leave the room is the candelabra
Floyd | falling onto the tablecloth.
Floyd |
Floyd | In a rush you see the birds on the wallpaper, the front door still
Floyd | open, the flattened grass in front of you and before too long, you're
Floyd | back in your bedroom. You take off your clothes, trying to decide if
Floyd | they smell of smoke or just of guilt.
Floyd |
Floyd | You're in your bed when the fire sirens start to wail and the flames
Floyd | are becoming visible on the Manor. It's sad, but when you consider
Floyd | that the Manor was otherwise facing crowbars and rough hands and
Floyd | wrecking balls in the morning...  better a funeral pyre.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd | A week, two weeks, three weeks pass. You use your nights for sleeping,
Floyd | not sneaking. Your modem neither winks or squeals. And no one in the
Floyd | Guild squeals either, since the knock on your door never comes. When
Floyd | Ryan tells you something funny Harry said online yesterday, you
Floyd | realize -- if even Ryan is sticking his head up -- that the smoke has
Floyd | cleared.
Floyd |
Floyd | You decide to LOGIN again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "login" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  9
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOGIN
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ***WELCOME BACK, TONY THE THIEF***
Floyd |
Floyd | Adventurers' Lounge
Floyd | You can see Harry the Barbarian, Paula the Mage, Ryan the Bard,
Floyd | Maximus the Cleric and Chris the Paladin here.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "it was in last week's guardian!" says Harry.
Floyd |
Floyd | "That free rag? I don't even believe the coupons in the Etobicoke
Floyd | Guardian," mocks Paula.
Floyd |
Floyd | At this verboten talk, Maximus brandishes his staff of banishment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "ok."
		DavidW asks, "Who next wants wine?"
		Jacqueline says, "Well."
		Jacqueline says, "I'm thinking that the cleric would be upset."
		DavidW says, "and yay Canadian content"
		DavidW says, "er, the cleric took the red wine from the manor in the first place"
		Jacqueline asks, "There's no way to get the smoochies with gothy Paula, right?"
		DavidW says, "don't know. And I don't know how Tony, the PC, feels about transgenderism."
		Jacqueline says, "I guess that could figure into this."
		Jacqueline says, "Anyway, I have no pref - do what you will."
		DavidW says, "well, now I'm curious what Paula will say."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give wine to Paula" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  9
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE WINE TO PAULA
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bottle of white wine to Paula the Mage)
Floyd | For some reason, this feels like a significant choice. Any of your
Floyd | friends would like the wine. Are you sure? (Y/N)

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "y" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  10
Floyd |
Floyd | > Y
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "Ah, wondered what happened to that," Paula whispers. You arrange to
Floyd | meet tonight.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***Paula the Mage has joined your party.***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Type LOGOUT to continue.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "logout" 		

Floyd ]  In Front of the Manor                                11
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOGOUT
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ***DISCONNECTED***
Floyd |
Floyd | You start smelling the burned Manor from the forest. Guilt and
Floyd | excitement compete in your belly as you emerge...
Floyd |
Floyd | In Front of the Manor
Floyd | The ring of brush is blackened. The Manor's roof is caved in, beaten
Floyd | to its knees by the firehose water. They must have gotten here quickly
Floyd | as there's good chunks of the eastern wing that are mostly intact.
Floyd |
Floyd | The portico is wrapped in that yellow police tape that you've only
Floyd | seen in cop shows.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the northeast is the coachhouse, tonight's rendezvous spot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the Coachhouse                               12
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the Coachhouse
Floyd | The double doors are large enough to drive a horse and carriage into,
Floyd | but one of them is missing, leaving an entryway to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The small structure seems to have far enough away to have been spared
Floyd | the fire.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the Coachhouse                               12
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the Coachhouse
Floyd | There's a significant hole in the roof that lets in enough light to
Floyd | look around. The moonlight gives everything an unearthly hue.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Paula the Mage here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Paula is sitting cross-legged on a wooden crate, looking up at the
Floyd | moonlight. She's not wearing her makeup today, and you can get a sense
Floyd | of how she looked when she was Paul.
Floyd |
Floyd | She stretches out her hand for the wine. "Well, c'mon, let's see if it
Floyd | was worth burning a house down for."
Floyd |
Floyd | ***Press any key to continue***

		
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Outside the Coachhouse                               12
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | That night you hear the whole history of the Freak Clique. The
Floyd | baffling pyrotechnics you witnessed in the dining room was the tip of
Floyd | the iceberg, the final scene in a complex teenaged drama -- a type
Floyd | that you never want to star in.
Floyd |
Floyd | But by the end of the story you decide that Paula is one of the
Floyd | weirdest people you've ever met, and so of course she becomes one of
Floyd | your best friends.
Floyd |
Floyd | Twenty years later, she throws you a crazy bachelor party which ends,
Floyd | as always, with the two of you in your cups reminiscing about your...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | by Jim Munroe. Art by Matt Hammill. Sound: Troy Morrissey. Vorple:
Floyd | Juhana Leinonen.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click here to play again.

		DavidW says, "cool"
		Jacqueline says, "Yeah, that was good."
		Jacqueline says, "Up to you if you want to churn through them all."
		DavidW says, "yeah, i think I do."
		Jacqueline says, "Well, hrm. I'd kinda like to - timing, good."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push space" 		

Floyd | debugcheapnitfol quit with exit status: 0

		
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" 		Jacqueline says, "This one was unexpected, so now I'd like to see the others."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask guildedyouth" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  1
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ***You have connected to THE GUILD BBS*** Type LOGIN to enter the
Floyd | Adventurers' Lounge
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "skipthru" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          2
Floyd |
Floyd | > SKIPTHRU
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Room
Floyd | There are six people around the large table, the guys from yesterday
Floyd | plus a couple more.  The guy with the strange bangs and suit jacket is
Floyd | at the head of the table beside a goth girl who's too beautiful to
Floyd | look at directly. The table is laid out beautifully, a candelabra
Floyd | melting onto the white tablecloth, chipped plates trimmed with gold.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Paula sits down at an empty chair and seats you beside her. There's no
Floyd | plate, but she reaches across the table and wrenches a drumstick from
Floyd | the bird.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          3
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Um... hi," says the fellow in the suit jacket. Everyone's staring at
Floyd | Paula as she gnaws the drumstick, and you will yourself invisible.
Floyd |
Floyd | She points the drumstick at him and you see a drop of grease fall onto
Floyd | the tablecloth. "You stole my idea, Erik. And then you didn't even
Floyd | invite me."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          4
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, I would say it was our idea," says Erik.
Floyd |
Floyd | Paula reaches over and takes the closest goblet. Its bespectacled
Floyd | owner pretends he doesn't notice. She takes a sip and then spits it
Floyd | out, luckily away from you. "A white? With duck, Erik?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Erik grimaces. "They were out of--"
Floyd |
Floyd | He stops suddenly, seeing Max in the doorway with a bottle of wine in
Floyd | each hand.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          5
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Ah, sommelier," Paula waves him over, proving herself an
Floyd | improvisational genius. Max comes, his eyes stunned, and only squeaks
Floyd | a bit as she pulls the dusty bottles from his grasp.
Floyd |
Floyd | She sets one on the table and reads the label on the other. Max backs
Floyd | away towards the door, and then makes a break for it, his backpack
Floyd | clinking with other bottles.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          6
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Ah -- a pinot noir," she says, uncorking it with surprising ease.
Floyd | "That's suitable for duck."
Floyd |
Floyd | She goes around the table, picking up a goblet still full of wine.
Floyd | "What's the point in doing something --" throws the white wine onto
Floyd | the floor, "-- if you're not going to go all the way with it?" She
Floyd | fills the goblet and bangs it down onto the table, sloshing red, and
Floyd | the candelabra sways a bit. The light in the room sways too.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take wine" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          7
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE WINE
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bottle of white wine)
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | "The rules are the least interesting part of this," Erik snaps back.
Floyd | "You always take things too far."
Floyd |
Floyd | The dreadlocked man gulps down his white and holds it up for Paula,
Floyd | who overfills it. "Whoops, I guess I do. I guess it's why you kicked
Floyd | me out of the freak clique, huh?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push candelabra" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          8
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH CANDELABRA
Floyd |
Floyd | It is fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Look, Paul," started Erik, his voice tired and sad. "I--"
Floyd |
Floyd | "It's Paula, you stupid fuck!" She throws the bottle at him,
Floyd | and the last thing you see before you leave the room is the candelabra
Floyd | falling onto the tablecloth.
Floyd |
Floyd | In a rush you see the birds on the wallpaper, the front door still
Floyd | open, the flattened grass in front of you and before too long, you're
Floyd | back in your bedroom. You take off your clothes, trying to decide if
Floyd | they smell of smoke or just of guilt.
Floyd |
Floyd | You're in your bed when the fire sirens start to wail and the flames
Floyd | are becoming visible on the Manor. It's sad, but when you consider
Floyd | that the Manor was otherwise facing crowbars and rough hands and
Floyd | wrecking balls in the morning...  better a funeral pyre.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd | A week, two weeks, three weeks pass. You use your nights for sleeping,
Floyd | not sneaking. Your modem neither winks or squeals. And no one in the
Floyd | Guild squeals either, since the knock on your door never comes. When
Floyd | Ryan tells you something funny Harry said online yesterday, you
Floyd | realize -- if even Ryan is sticking his head up -- that the smoke has
Floyd | cleared.
Floyd |
Floyd | You decide to LOGIN again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "login" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  9
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOGIN
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ***WELCOME BACK, TONY THE THIEF***
Floyd |
Floyd | Adventurers' Lounge
Floyd | You can see Harry the Barbarian, Paula the Mage, Ryan the Bard,
Floyd | Maximus the Cleric and Chris the Paladin here.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "it was in last week's guardian!" says Harry.
Floyd |
Floyd | "That free rag? I don't even believe the coupons in the Etobicoke
Floyd | Guardian," mocks Paula.
Floyd |
Floyd | At this verboten talk, Maximus brandishes his staff of banishment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Ryan, this time?"
		Jacqueline says, "Sure"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give wine to ryan" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  9
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE WINE TO RYAN
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bottle of white wine to Ryan the Bard)
Floyd | For some reason, this feels like a significant choice. Any of your
Floyd | friends would like the wine. Are you sure? (Y/N)

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "y" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  10
Floyd |
Floyd | > Y
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "Wicked!!!! Let's get wasted!" Ryan whispers. You arrange to meet
Floyd | tonight in the usual place.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***Ryan the Bard has joined your party.***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Type LOGOUT to continue.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "logout" 		

Floyd ]  In Front of the Manor                                11
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOGOUT
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ***DISCONNECTED***
Floyd |
Floyd | You start smelling the burned Manor from the forest. Guilt and
Floyd | excitement compete in your belly as you emerge...
Floyd |
Floyd | In Front of the Manor
Floyd | The ring of brush is blackened. The Manor's roof is caved in, beaten
Floyd | to its knees by the firehose water. They must have gotten here quickly
Floyd | as there's good chunks of the eastern wing that are mostly intact.
Floyd |
Floyd | The portico is wrapped in that yellow police tape that you've only
Floyd | seen in cop shows.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the northeast is the coachhouse, tonight's rendezvous spot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tape" 		

Floyd ]  In Front of the Manor                                12
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TAPE
Floyd |
Floyd | Makes the Manor look like a set for 21 Jump Street.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "snrk"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  In Front of the Manor                                13
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | Wisely, your instincts refuse to let you return to the scene of the
Floyd | crime.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the Coachhouse                               14
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the Coachhouse
Floyd | The double doors are large enough to drive a horse and carriage into,
Floyd | but one of them is missing, leaving an entryway to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The small structure seems to have far enough away to have been spared
Floyd | the fire.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the Coachhouse                               14
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the Coachhouse
Floyd | There's a significant hole in the roof that lets in enough light to
Floyd | look around. The moonlight gives everything an unearthly hue.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Ryan the Bard here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Ryan jumps a bit as he sees you. You lift the bottle of wine. "Nice! I
Floyd | got some jungle juice to put us over the top," he says, pulling a soda
Floyd | bottle out. "And some pretzels!"
Floyd |
Floyd | You hunker down on the floor and start to work on the cork.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***Press any key to continue***

		
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Outside the Coachhouse                               14
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | That night you develop a lifetime hatred of gin and a renewed faith in
Floyd | your friendship with Ryan. At school he'd become a bit evasive lately,
Floyd | but you find out how hard he's trying to fit in. It's something you
Floyd | don't care about, but it explains why he acts so weird in class
Floyd | sometimes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Ten years later you're on tour together and in a convenience store in
Floyd | Detroit. Ryan finds a bottle of the same stuff. You lift it & some
Floyd | pretzels and drink it in a squat later that night, laughing about
Floyd | your....
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | by Jim Munroe. Art by Matt Hammill. Sound: Troy Morrissey. Vorple:
Floyd | Juhana Leinonen.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click here to play again.

		DavidW asks, "read for another run?"
		Jacqueline says, "Sure."
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd | debugcheapnitfol quit with exit status: 0

		
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask guildedyouth" 		Jacqueline says, "I see we're a life long kelpto pretty much regardless."

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  1
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ***You have connected to THE GUILD BBS*** Type LOGIN to enter the
Floyd | Adventurers' Lounge
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "skipthru" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          2
Floyd |
Floyd | > SKIPTHRU
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Room
Floyd | There are six people around the large table, the guys from yesterday
Floyd | plus a couple more.  The guy with the strange bangs and suit jacket is
Floyd | at the head of the table beside a goth girl who's too beautiful to
Floyd | look at directly. The table is laid out beautifully, a candelabra
Floyd | melting onto the white tablecloth, chipped plates trimmed with gold.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Paula sits down at an empty chair and seats you beside her. There's no
Floyd | plate, but she reaches across the table and wrenches a drumstick from
Floyd | the bird.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          3
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Um... hi," says the fellow in the suit jacket. Everyone's staring at
Floyd | Paula as she gnaws the drumstick, and you will yourself invisible.
Floyd |
Floyd | She points the drumstick at him and you see a drop of grease fall onto
Floyd | the tablecloth. "You stole my idea, Erik. And then you didn't even
Floyd | invite me."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          4
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, I would say it was our idea," says Erik.
Floyd |
Floyd | Paula reaches over and takes the closest goblet. Its bespectacled
Floyd | owner pretends he doesn't notice. She takes a sip and then spits it
Floyd | out, luckily away from you. "A white? With duck, Erik?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Erik grimaces. "They were out of--"
Floyd |
Floyd | He stops suddenly, seeing Max in the doorway with a bottle of wine in
Floyd | each hand.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          5
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Ah, sommelier," Paula waves him over, proving herself an
Floyd | improvisational genius. Max comes, his eyes stunned, and only squeaks
Floyd | a bit as she pulls the dusty bottles from his grasp.
Floyd |
Floyd | She sets one on the table and reads the label on the other. Max backs
Floyd | away towards the door, and then makes a break for it, his backpack
Floyd | clinking with other bottles.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bottle" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          6
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE BOTTLE
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bottle of white wine)
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Ah -- a pinot noir," she says, uncorking it with surprising ease.
Floyd | "That's suitable for duck."
Floyd |
Floyd | She goes around the table, picking up a goblet still full of wine.
Floyd | "What's the point in doing something --" throws the white wine onto
Floyd | the floor, "-- if you're not going to go all the way with it?" She
Floyd | fills the goblet and bangs it down onto the table, sloshing red, and
Floyd | the candelabra sways a bit. The light in the room sways too.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          7
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | "The rules are the least interesting part of this," Erik snaps back.
Floyd | "You always take things too far."
Floyd |
Floyd | The dreadlocked man gulps down his white and holds it up for Paula,
Floyd | who overfills it. "Whoops, I guess I do. I guess it's why you kicked
Floyd | me out of the freak clique, huh?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          8
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Look, Paul," started Erik, his voice tired and sad. "I--"
Floyd |
Floyd | "It's Paula, you stupid fuck!" She throws the bottle at him,
Floyd | and the last thing you see before you leave the room is the candelabra
Floyd | falling onto the tablecloth.
Floyd |
Floyd | In a rush you see the birds on the wallpaper, the front door still
Floyd | open, the flattened grass in front of you and before too long, you're
Floyd | back in your bedroom. You take off your clothes, trying to decide if
Floyd | they smell of smoke or just of guilt.
Floyd |
Floyd | You're in your bed when the fire sirens start to wail and the flames
Floyd | are becoming visible on the Manor. It's sad, but when you consider
Floyd | that the Manor was otherwise facing crowbars and rough hands and
Floyd | wrecking balls in the morning...  better a funeral pyre.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***
Floyd |
Floyd | A week, two weeks, three weeks pass. You use your nights for sleeping,
Floyd | not sneaking. Your modem neither winks or squeals. And no one in the
Floyd | Guild squeals either, since the knock on your door never comes. When
Floyd | Ryan tells you something funny Harry said online yesterday, you
Floyd | realize -- if even Ryan is sticking his head up -- that the smoke has
Floyd | cleared.
Floyd |
Floyd | You decide to LOGIN again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "login" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  9
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOGIN
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ***WELCOME BACK, TONY THE THIEF***
Floyd |
Floyd | Adventurers' Lounge
Floyd | You can see Harry the Barbarian, Paula the Mage, Ryan the Bard,
Floyd | Maximus the Cleric and Chris the Paladin here.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "it was in last week's guardian!" says Harry.
Floyd |
Floyd | "That free rag? I don't even believe the coupons in the Etobicoke
Floyd | Guardian," mocks Paula.
Floyd |
Floyd | At this verboten talk, Maximus brandishes his staff of banishment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give wine to harry" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  10
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE WINE TO HARRY
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bottle of white wine to Harry the Barbarian)
Floyd | You're about to when Harry opens his big mouth again.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Here: COPS DON'T SUSPECT ARSON" says Harry.
Floyd |
Floyd | Maximus lifts his staff and Harry vanishes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Paula rolls her eyes.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Long time no see" says Chris.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x harry" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  10
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HARRY
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give wine to maximus" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  10
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE WINE TO MAXIMUS
Floyd |
Floyd | (the bottle of white wine to Maximus the Cleric)
Floyd | For some reason, this feels like a significant choice. Any of your
Floyd | friends would like the wine. Are you sure? (Y/N)

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "y" 		

Floyd ]  Adventurers' Lounge                                  11
Floyd |
Floyd | > Y
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "Splendid! I presumed that lost in the... accident," whispers Maximus.
Floyd | You arrange to meet tonight.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***Maximus the Cleric has joined your party.***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Type LOGOUT to continue.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "logout" 		

Floyd ]  In Front of the Manor                                12
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOGOUT
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ***DISCONNECTED***
Floyd |
Floyd | You start smelling the burned Manor from the forest. Guilt and
Floyd | excitement compete in your belly as you emerge...
Floyd |
Floyd | In Front of the Manor
Floyd | The ring of brush is blackened. The Manor's roof is caved in, beaten
Floyd | to its knees by the firehose water. They must have gotten here quickly
Floyd | as there's good chunks of the eastern wing that are mostly intact.
Floyd |
Floyd | The portico is wrapped in that yellow police tape that you've only
Floyd | seen in cop shows.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the northeast is the coachhouse, tonight's rendezvous spot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the Coachhouse                               13
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the Coachhouse
Floyd | The double doors are large enough to drive a horse and carriage into,
Floyd | but one of them is missing, leaving an entryway to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The small structure seems to have far enough away to have been spared
Floyd | the fire.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Outside the Coachhouse                               13
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the Coachhouse
Floyd | There's a significant hole in the roof that lets in enough light to
Floyd | look around. The moonlight gives everything an unearthly hue.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Maximus the Cleric here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Maximus is reading a book that he puts away when you arrive. You
Floyd | recognize it from the cover art. "Looking forward to the second
Floyd | edition?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Maximus' nostrils flare. "Actually, I'm not." He raps the book inside
Floyd | his backpack. "The Dungeon Masters Guide is pretty much the definitive
Floyd | edition. It's held me well for a decade, and I have no intention of
Floyd | changing."
Floyd |
Floyd | You nod soberly and show him the wine. "Ah," he says, taking out a
Floyd | satchel and removing some money from it. He gives you eight dollars.
Floyd | "10% of the anticipated retail value," he says. He puts it in his
Floyd | backpack, nods to you, and leaves the coachhouse.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't decide if you're disappointed or relieved not to be drinking
Floyd | with Maximus.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***Press any key to continue***

		DavidW says, "uh"
		Jacqueline says, "Ha"
		Jacqueline says, "PSYCH"
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Outside the Coachhouse                               13
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Five years later, you're on campus going between classes. You see
Floyd | Maximus walking towards you, earnestly talking to a guy your age about
Floyd | something called a hedge fund. He sees you seeing him, but he averts
Floyd | his eyes, and soon the two of them disappear into the School of
Floyd | Business. You check the wallet you snagged on the way by and confirm
Floyd | that it's him. It's funny, because of all of you, he seemed most
Floyd | likely to be a lifer... but it seems that Maximus the Cleric now
Floyd | disavows your...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | by Jim Munroe. Art by Matt Hammill. Sound: Troy Morrissey. Vorple:
Floyd | Juhana Leinonen.
Floyd |
Floyd | Click here to play again.

		maga says, "the moral here is that 1st edition loyalists are assholes"
		Jacqueline says, "snrk"
		DavidW says, "Casually stole his wallet? Geez."
		Zach says, "That's for only giving us 10% of the retail value"
		Jacqueline exclaims, "Maybe now we have the other $70!"
		DavidW says, "so is that it, then? Harry disappears before we can offer him any wine."
		Zach says, "I didn't realize there was a version 2.0. I'm glad I got to see the endings."
		Jacqueline asks, "Hm. Is that everyone?"
		Jacqueline says, "I guess it is."
		DavidW asks, "yes, except for Harry, who leaves. Unless he comes back?"
		Jacqueline says, "Well, this was great. I'm glad we tried it, when originally we'd written it off as not playable on Floyd."
		Jacqueline says (to DW), "Hm, possible, I guess, but seems unlikely."
		DavidW says, "yeah."
		DavidW says, "er, yeah glad we tried it, I mean"
		Jacqueline asks, "Do you want to try it, or do you just want to discuss what we should play next time?"
		DavidW asks, "Won't we play whatever's the next placing game at IF Comp 2012?"
		Jacqueline says, "Well, we can, sure."
		Jacqueline says, "We could keep going through these until January 6th, which is the date we're slated to play the New Year's Speeds."
		maga says, "which would be Sunday Afternoon"
		Jacqueline says, "That'd make things easy on me."
		maga says, "easy enough to drop Miseri a line"
		DavidW says, "Didn't play Sunday Afternoon, so sure."
		Zach says, "Sounds good"
		Jacqueline says, "Okay. Thassawrap then, folks. See you next week."
		DavidW says, "'k. yay."


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NightFloyd Transcript:
The Immortal by Rob Anthony
As played on ifMUD on December 12, 2012

Like ClubFloyd, the idea behind NightFloyd is that a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction. Unlike ClubFloyd, NightFloyd often takes on significantly larger works of interactive fiction, knowing going in that each one will take multiple sessions (but not always, as you'll see in this transcript). NightFloyd is also a bit more informal than ClubFloyd in that it's only announced on the ifMUD #clubfloyd bulletin board, and the time shifts around to meet player's schedules far more than ClubFloyd does. NightFloyd is organized by genericgeekgirl, aka Adri.

Below is a transcript of The Immortal written by Rob Anthony. The Immortal was released as part of the 2007 Interactive Fiction Competition, in which it took twenty-second place. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki.

WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page.
ToyShop & Floyditorium
		
#ClubFloyd Discussion
		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask immportal" 		

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |                             The Immortal
Floyd |                    An interactive sci-fi mystery
Floyd |                            by Rob Anthony
Floyd |                       Press SPACE to continue.

		
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd | Oooofff. A headache of unbelieved proportions. Grasping for breath, a
Floyd | small but desperate part of your wounded mind struggles to cling to
Floyd | consciousness. Something unknown, but absolutely terrible has
Floyd | happened. It's challenging to remain focused and alert, especially
Floyd | when pangs of desire for a chocolate eclair keep coming up.
Floyd |
Floyd | An image of a yourself, lying on the ground takes shape. Your
Floyd | belongings scattered about as if they were unimportant. Dark figures
Floyd | retreating. Too fast, the scene evaporates. Did that really happen?
Floyd | Other random feelings, images and thoughts fly by like daggers in a
Floyd | hurricane. Meanwhile an array of emotions rains down on an ocean of
Floyd | personal turmoil. Really big, turbulent waves of anger, rage and
Floyd | confusion spread across the vast surface while something sinister
Floyd | swims below.
Floyd |
Floyd | It wasn't always like this. Happiness did exist. Maybe whatever is
Floyd | happening is because of that dollar you stole from your best friend in
Floyd | second grade. You wonder about this as you begin to feel pulled toward
Floyd | a distant white light. The light seems to call out and provide warmth,
Floyd | safety and comfort. It could be good to move toward it. It might be
Floyd | the sane thing to do. Or it could be a trap, who knows?
Floyd |
Floyd | For a period of time you seem to simply float in nothingness.
Floyd | Pleasant, or at least less disturbing, dreams fill your lazy mind. You
Floyd | almost feel calm when something cold and wet brushes by your face.
Floyd | Cold fear grips you by the throat, but you kick yourself away from
Floyd | whatever is out there. The light comes blindingly back into view.
Floyd | Desparately, you push yourself toward the comforting embrace of the
Floyd | light. It envelopes you and a tingling sensation, like millions of
Floyd | tiny needles poking your skin, covers your entire body. Your mind
Floyd | explodes and is filled with the sharpest, purest and whitest
Floyd | brightness you have ever seen.
Floyd |
Floyd | Memory fades and later you awake standing within a beam of light. For
Floyd | the moment you feel that the nightmare of pain is over. Scratching
Floyd | your head you try to recall where you are. Slowly, a few fuzzy details
Floyd | begin to form. You realize that you have been here before. Other than
Floyd | that, everything is mostly a blank. However, for some reason you are
Floyd | wearing some kind of high-tech spacesuit and a large and familiar
Floyd | Samurai sword is strapped to your back.
Floyd |
Floyd | What does it mean? Where is this place? Where are you? Does it matter?
Floyd |
Floyd | If you need assistance, simply type HELP.
Floyd |                       Press SPACE to continue.

		
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Beam of Light                  OUT
Floyd | 0 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | The Immortal
Floyd | An interactive sci-fi mystery by Rob Anthony
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 070928 / Inform 7 build 4W37 (I6/v6.31 lib
Floyd | 6/11N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Beam of Light
Floyd | You can't seem see very much with your helmet on. It seems to be
Floyd | filtering out a tremendous amount of light.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear static from the radio in the helmet, and then it clicks
Floyd | briefly to life and you hear:
Floyd |
Floyd | "Now it's time for that Phillips & Paruskewitz song.."
Floyd |
Floyd | We'll find a place in time
Floyd | A place in time beyond the sun...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a wandering soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
mwmiller arrives, ready to play with the toys. 		DavidW says, "well, this is different"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Beam of Light                  OUT
Floyd | 0 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | As good-looking as ever.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I need you to talk to me," the wandering soul moans.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Oh, do you?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Beam of Light                  OUT
Floyd | 0 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a helmet (being worn)
Floyd |   a wrist watch (being worn)
Floyd |   a spacesuit (being worn)
Floyd |   a Samurai sword (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | "Danger is everywhere, I can help. Talk to me," the wandering
Floyd | soul moans.
Floyd |
Floyd | Strangely, you hear laughter from outside the beam and a you're pelted
Floyd | with a cloud of sand. You try to peer through the Beam, but can't make
Floyd | anything out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach asks, "What about *our* needs?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x sword" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Beam of Light                  OUT
Floyd | 0 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SWORD
Floyd |
Floyd | It's strapped to your back, where it should remain until needed.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Please, please, talk to me," the wandering soul moans.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to soul" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Beam of Light                  OUT
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO SOUL
Floyd |
Floyd | The soul moans, "I know who you are. Death will be mad if I tell you
Floyd | this, but you are an immortal. Don't be.."
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly, a violent wind rips down from above, dragging the soul and
Floyd | other debris along with it. The soul moans "Noooo..."
Floyd |
Floyd | You're almost knocked down, but manage to hold your ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you peer into the storm, somehow you realize that you're seeing
Floyd | random thoughts and ideas, of varying sizes, blown about like unwanted
Floyd | trash. For a moment the wind slows, some of these thoughts drift in
Floyd | the slowing current, leaving burning trails. But then the strong wind
Floyd | returns and everything is swept away by the rushing current.
Floyd |
Floyd | You manage to dodge most of the thoughts, but one of them  collides
Floyd | with you, filling your mind with a vision.
Floyd |
Floyd | You're standing in a garden. A dark robed woman is with you. You
Floyd | are both wearing swords. The look on her face is grim. She says a few
Floyd | words to you, with you cannot make out now, and accepts your sword
Floyd | from you.
Floyd |
Floyd | From outside of the beam you hear, "Pitiful little weakling! Come
Floyd | out!"
Floyd |
Floyd | More sand is thrown in, this time it's a lot more. You cover your eyes
Floyd | and mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Get pelted with sand, score goes up. Check."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x watch" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Beam of Light                  OUT
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WATCH
Floyd |
Floyd | It seems to be broken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "fix watch" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Beam of Light                  OUT
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > FIX WATCH
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to fix the wrist watch to?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x helmet" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Beam of Light                  OUT
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HELMET
Floyd |
Floyd | It has a little view window and other kinds of complicated stuff
Floyd | inside. It looks very confusing.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I suppose the sand is a hint that we're not Hero Of The Beach yet."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "remove helmet" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Beam of Light                  OUT
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMOVE HELMET
Floyd |
Floyd | You take off the helmet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Ellison says, "we just need to find Charles Atlas"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x spacesuit" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Beam of Light                  OUT
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SPACESUIT
Floyd |
Floyd | The suit looks like someout out of a sci-fi movie. It has many colored
Floyd | indicators and tubes that go this way and that. It's very light, but
Floyd | It sort of makes you feel like a giant marshmallow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "eat suit" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Beam of Light                  OUT
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > EAT SUIT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's plainly inedible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Should we be disrobing while the bully is kicking sand in our faces?"
		DavidW says, "Not that I mind disrobing."
		Zach says, "The helmet wasn't very sand-proof anyway"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sword" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Beam of Light                  OUT
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SWORD
Floyd |
Floyd | It's strapped to your back, where it should remain until needed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "so, out?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "remove spacesuit" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Beam of Light                  OUT
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMOVE SPACESUIT
Floyd |
Floyd | Taking off the spacesuit makes you feel jittery. What if you float off
Floyd | into space? What then?
Floyd |
Floyd | You take off the spacesuit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Beam of Light                  OUT
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Beam of Light
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Just curious~"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | As you step out, you see movement out of the corner of your eye. You
Floyd | duck down as sand flies by your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a creature just outside the beam, gathering sand with its
Floyd | scale covered paws. Recognition fills your mind and you feel as if
Floyd | someone has brought the dead back to life.
Floyd |
Floyd | And, it smells that way too! With great revulsion, you begin holding
Floyd | you nose. You recognize one the foulest smelling creatures anywhere as
Floyd | a pitiful Hobgoblin.
Floyd |
Floyd | A dark corner of your mind contains a great many  details about these
Floyd | sad little creatures. The details don't all make sense, but you know
Floyd | that most of the creatures in the entire race never aspire to much,
Floyd | other than being mercenaries. They work cheap and they don't care what
Floyd | happens as long as they get paid and they don't care if you pay them
Floyd | with money, drugs, decaying scraps of meat, technology or gallons of
Floyd | putrid waste.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you step out of the beam, you feel a jolt of electrical energy run
Floyd | through your entire body. You gasp for breath and almost fall over.
Floyd | Staggering out of the light and onto the edge of a transport pad, you
Floyd | brace yourself for a moment at the railing. From above, a gentle wind
Floyd | caresses your body. The wind seems to carry words from some other time
Floyd | or place. The words fill your mind. You hear: "We are at war! The
Floyd | humans cannot help you."
Floyd |
Floyd | You rest at the railing for a moment and try to ponder these words.
Floyd | While you regain your composure the beam quickly fades and becomes
Floyd | less instense.
Floyd |
Floyd | A tug on your arm, rips you back to reality. The Hobgoblin, teeth
Floyd | barred in a horrible grin, is backing away and tightly grasping your
Floyd | watch.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Pitiful," it sneers while backing away.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hey! Give it back," you say, sounding foolish.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Give food, get it back," it says waving your own watch at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Soul Transport Chamber
Floyd | This large circular chamber seems to be a greeting center of some
Floyd | kind. The chamber itself resonates with a strong, temple like feeling.
Floyd | The ancient walls vibrantly enhance this feeling of spiritual
Floyd | importance. They are composed of hand carved, smooth marble blocks.
Floyd | Ancient carvings, faded with age, are etched and painted onto the
Floyd | surface of the stone walls.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tall stone pillars, which reach all the way up to the the expansive
Floyd | open ceiling, are evenly spaced along the wall. Through the massive
Floyd | viewport in the ceiling, the void, or whatever it really is, can be
Floyd | seen. Hundreds of dusty wicker baskets have been placed at the base of
Floyd | the pillars.
Floyd |
Floyd | A dull flicker of light flows up and out of the transportation pad,
Floyd | which is in the far side of the chamber, opposite the doorway. A
Floyd | marble railing surrounds the pad.
Floyd |
Floyd | A stone dias sits on either side of the only door. A great book rests
Floyd | on top of the left stone dias.
Floyd |
Floyd | The floor of the chamber is composed of soft flowing sand. Many
Floyd | different sets of footprints can be seen leading out.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a wounded hobgoblin, a dark robe and a sandals here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Despite that it was broken, I suppose we want our watch back?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x hobgoblin" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HOBGOBLIN
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks like its been in a fight and lost. One eye is swollen shut.
Floyd | Half of its purple skin, is falling of of its face and arms. When it
Floyd | sneers you notice that many of its yellowed teeth are missing.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x robe" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ROBE
Floyd |
Floyd | It is a long comfortable robe, with a skull and sword sigil.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x sandals" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SANDALS
Floyd |
Floyd | The sandals are the universal standard plastic clip cloppy things,
Floyd | useful only in showers and who knows where else?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear robe" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR ROBE
Floyd |
Floyd | You're still wearing the spacesuit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "put hobgoblin in basket" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT HOBGOBLIN IN BASKET
Floyd |
Floyd | You need to be holding the wounded hobgoblin before you can put him
Floyd | into something else.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "I feel kinda bad for the little guy"
Zach says (to Floyd), "take hobgoblin" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE HOBGOBLIN
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't suppose the wounded hobgoblin would care for that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "The little jerk took our watch!"
Zach says (to Floyd), "read book" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ BOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | It reads: Welcome visitor nUmbeR: <internal book math error>. Please,
Floyd | en>Enjoy your stay.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I'd like to read the book.. oh, ok"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Woo! We are number internal book math error!"
Zach says (to Floyd), "take watch" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE WATCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "search hobgoblin" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH HOBGOBLIN
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x baskets" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BASKETS
Floyd |
Floyd | They contain various types of food and offerings for other beings and
Floyd | entities. Some of it is vaguely appetizing, but perhaps a little too
Floyd | moldly, even for you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x pad" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PAD
Floyd |
Floyd | It is circular, about 10 feet in diameter and black. A light hum seems
Floyd | to eminate from it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take food" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE FOOD
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take basket" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE BASKET
Floyd |
Floyd | That's hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take food from basket" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE FOOD FROM BASKET
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search baskets" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH BASKETS
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x sand" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SAND
Floyd |
Floyd | You see nothing special about the flowing sand.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pillars" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PILLARS
Floyd |
Floyd | These are massive, fifty foot high, stone pillars. They reach from
Floyd | somewhere below the sand, all the way up to the roof.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x footprints" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FOOTPRINTS
Floyd |
Floyd | As your gaze moves across the floor to the footprints, you notice that
Floyd | the footprints appear to be very recent. However, none of them look
Floyd | friendly or human. "Hobgoblin" comes to mind as you look at them.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "build sand castle" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > BUILD SAND CASTLE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "aw"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x beam" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BEAM
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "I thought we were in a beam of light earlier. Where is it now?"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "How do footprints look 'friendly'?"
		DavidW says, "Smiley faces on each toe."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "in" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > IN
Floyd |
Floyd | A hologram of a man wearing a conductor's outfit appears before you.
Floyd | He pulls a watch out of his pocket, whistles at the time and says:
Floyd | "I'm sorry, but you'll need a glyph stone in order to reach your
Floyd | destination. We don't want you to the beam into a war zone, now do
Floyd | we?" Then the figure vanishes, leaving no trace behind.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Nope. I dunno."
Zach says (to Floyd), "take robe and sandels" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE ROBE AND SANDELS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "take robe and sandals" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE ROBE AND SANDALS
Floyd |
Floyd | dark robe: Taken.
Floyd | sandals: Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a sandals
Floyd |   a dark robe
Floyd |   a helmet
Floyd |   a spacesuit (being worn)
Floyd |   a Samurai sword (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Don't want us to *what* the beam?"
		DavidW asks, "hm?"
		Zach says, "Ride the beam, man"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to hobgoblin" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO HOBGOBLIN
Floyd |
Floyd | The Hobgoblinn screams, "Leave me alone!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Soul Transport Chamber
Floyd | This large circular chamber seems to be a greeting center of some
Floyd | kind. The chamber itself resonates with a strong, temple like feeling.
Floyd | The ancient walls vibrantly enhance this feeling of spiritual
Floyd | importance. They are composed of hand carved, smooth marble blocks.
Floyd | Ancient carvings, faded with age, are etched and painted onto the
Floyd | surface of the stone walls.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tall stone pillars, which reach all the way up to the the expansive
Floyd | open ceiling, are evenly spaced along the wall. Through the massive
Floyd | viewport in the ceiling, the void, or whatever it really is, can be
Floyd | seen. Hundreds of dusty wicker baskets have been placed at the base of
Floyd | the pillars.
Floyd |
Floyd | A dull flicker of light flows up and out of the transportation pad,
Floyd | which is in the far side of the chamber, opposite the doorway. A
Floyd | marble railing surrounds the pad.
Floyd |
Floyd | A stone dias sits on either side of the only door. A great book rests
Floyd | on top of the left stone dias.
Floyd |
Floyd | The floor of the chamber is composed of soft flowing sand. Many
Floyd | different sets of footprints can be seen leading out.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a wounded hobgoblin here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x void" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X VOID
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel small compared to the deep velvet black of the infinity that
Floyd | stretches out above. It almost feels crushing.
Floyd |
Floyd | A cold wind rushes in from the viewport above making you shiver. If
Floyd | you listen, you can almost hear whispering voices on the wind. Or
Floyd | maybe you can't.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You bang the edge of your hand against your ear, but nothing of note
Floyd | is heard from Soul Transport Chamber.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x viewport" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X VIEWPORT
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel small compared to the deep velvet black of the infinity that
Floyd | stretches out above. It almost feels crushing.
Floyd |
Floyd | A cold wind rushes in from the viewport above making you shiver. If
Floyd | you listen, you can almost hear whispering voices on the wind. Or
Floyd | maybe you can't.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "EXECUTIVE SUMMARY SO FAR: We are either amazingly perceptive or amazingly badly written."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove spacesuit" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMOVE SPACESUIT
Floyd |
Floyd | Taking off the spacesuit makes you feel jittery. What if you float off
Floyd | into space? What then?
Floyd |
Floyd | You take off the spacesuit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear robe" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR ROBE
Floyd |
Floyd | You put on the dark robe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear sandals" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR SANDALS
Floyd |
Floyd | You put on the sandals.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x robe" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ROBE
Floyd |
Floyd | It is a long comfortable robe, with a skull and sword sigil.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Stylish."
		Zach asks, "Kill hobgoblin?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search sand" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH SAND
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hobgoblin about death" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK HOBGOBLIN ABOUT DEATH
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hobgoblin about glyph stone" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK HOBGOBLIN ABOUT GLYPH STONE
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "punch hobgoblin" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUNCH HOBGOBLIN
Floyd |
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "ooh, in a game with a samurai sword, that message has to be changed."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kill hobgoblin" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL HOBGOBLIN
Floyd |
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "stab hobgoblin with sword" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > STAB HOBGOBLIN WITH SWORD
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "in" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > IN
Floyd |
Floyd | A hologram of a man wearing a conductor's outfit appears before you.
Floyd | He pulls a watch out of his pocket, whistles at the time and says:
Floyd | "I'm sorry, but you'll need a glyph stone in order to reach your
Floyd | destination. We don't want you to the beam into a war zone, now do
Floyd | we?" Then the figure vanishes, leaving no trace behind.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "is E and IN the same?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "We haven't tried east yet."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | A holographic robed man appears before you. He bows, and says,
Floyd | "Welcome to Kax 27. We offer complete facilities for Immortal
Floyd | governance, spa facilities, zoological facilities, fine dining, hotels
Floyd | and permanent residence and the finest library in this universe.
Floyd |
Floyd | Don't forget to take your introductory meal glyph with you to the
Floyd | Out-of-this-Reality restaurant, for a wonderful dining experience."
Floyd | The image turns to blue fizz and blinks out of existence.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway Junction
Floyd | This is the convergence between three great hallways. Somehow, it
Floyd | feels like a great deal of foot traffic would normally pass through
Floyd | here. A great stone archway, which seems to be blocked, leads to the
Floyd | northern section of the facilities.The southern end of the hall is
Floyd | blocked by some kind of machine. Although there are no footprints
Floyd | here, it looks like a brutal battle has taken place. Blast holes and
Floyd | scorch marks cover most of the walls. The arched hallway ceiling,
Floyd | which is transparent, is also badly burned. But you can still
Floyd | partially see the stars within the void shining through it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The hallway floor is covered in bloody sand, probably carried in from
Floyd | the Transport Chamber. Obsidian pillars reach up out of the sand, and
Floyd | extend up to the ceiling.
Floyd |
Floyd | A tiny thought bubble floats around in the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large blast door is blocking access to the hallway to the east.
Floyd | Blood streaks down from the keypad.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Nope."
Zach says (to Floyd), "read thought bubble" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ THOUGHT BUBBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | When you look at it, the word "Immortal" comes to your mind. It makes
Floyd | you feel that something very big is happening here. You almost wish
Floyd | that you could click your heels and go home.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "click heels" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLICK HEELS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x blood" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BLOOD
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x sand" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SAND
Floyd |
Floyd | You see nothing special about the bloody sand.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Other than the part where it's *full of blood*."
Zach says (to Floyd), "take bubble" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE BUBBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway Junction
Floyd | This is the convergence between three great hallways. Somehow, it
Floyd | feels like a great deal of foot traffic would normally pass through
Floyd | here. A great stone archway, which seems to be blocked, leads to the
Floyd | northern section of the facilities.The southern end of the hall is
Floyd | blocked by some kind of machine. Although there are no footprints
Floyd | here, it looks like a brutal battle has taken place. Blast holes and
Floyd | scorch marks cover most of the walls. The arched hallway ceiling,
Floyd | which is transparent, is also badly burned. But you can still
Floyd | partially see the stars within the void shining through it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The hallway floor is covered in bloody sand, probably carried in from
Floyd | the Transport Chamber. Obsidian pillars reach up out of the sand, and
Floyd | extend up to the ceiling.
Floyd |
Floyd | A tiny thought bubble floats around in the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large blast door is blocking access to the hallway to the east.
Floyd | Blood streaks down from the keypad.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I'm confused, but try taking the bubble."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take bubble" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE BUBBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "think immortal" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > THINK IMMORTAL
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to think.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat bubble" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > EAT BUBBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking the tiny thought bubble)
Floyd | That's hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "think" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > THINK
Floyd |
Floyd | What a good idea.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "South to the machine?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You're path is blocked by some kind of large machine. You might try to
Floyd | push it out of the way, but it seems like it is too big. Maybe you can
Floyd | find another way to squeeze by.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x machine" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MACHINE
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks the hallway is blocked with a bulky vending machine of some
Floyd | type. From this side, you can only see the power cord and a little
Floyd | sticker on one corner of the machine, that reads: "Intra-Galaxy
Floyd | vending. Our machines know what you like, before you do!"
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Lionheart arrives, full of fun and funk. 		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x cord" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CORD
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a very long cord. It seems to be wrapped over and around the
Floyd | vending machine and tied in a big knot in the middle. It looks like
Floyd | somebody might have used it to pull or wedge the machine into the
Floyd | doorway. It could be used to power the vending machine, if there was
Floyd | an outlet here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x sticker" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 1 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STICKER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "pull cord" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 2 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > PULL CORD
Floyd |
Floyd | You grab the power cord with both hands, and give a good hard yank.
Floyd | The machine rocks back and forth for a second, and then it falls
Floyd | backward into the sand with a "Whummp". It looks light you can get by
Floyd | the machine now!
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Yay"
		genericgeekgirl says, "So many typos!"
		Zach says, "Hooray! I've been wanting to do that all day"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Beat up a vending machine?"
		DavidW says, "This machine knows what we like: a passage past it."
		Zach says, "Yeah, the vending machine in Stationfall was being evil"
		DavidW says, ">machine, now make me a sandwich"
		Lionheart says, "PICK UP THE VENDING MACHINE AND DIE"
		DavidW says, "We knocked over the vending machine in Legend Lives, too."
		DavidW says, "I'm getting the impression this is some hybrid of the afterlife and a spacestation, except something horrible happened."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "South again?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah. Odd."
Zach says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway              N, S, E
Floyd | 2 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Central Hallway
Floyd | This is the northern end of the Central Hallway. The floor is composed
Floyd | of hand laid, well polished, marble slabs. You can almost see your
Floyd | reflection in the marble, as you walk down the wide hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your footsteps echo sharply off of, the ancient walls which are
Floyd | composed of hand crafted stone blocks. Various paintings cover the
Floyd | walls.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says (to ggg), "please"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x marble" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway              N, S, E
Floyd | 2 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MARBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x paintings" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway              N, S, E
Floyd | 2 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PAINTINGS
Floyd |
Floyd | There are hundreds of tiny pictures. None of them make much sense to
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x reflection" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway              N, S, E
Floyd | 2 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X REFLECTION
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks like someone took a lot of trouble to make this place look
Floyd | special. I hope you wiped your feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ha"
		genericgeekgirl says, "> scuff floor"
Zach says (to Floyd), "dance" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway              N, S, E
Floyd | 2 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > DANCE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "We did put on sandals. That ought to suffice."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search paintings" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway              N, S, E
Floyd | 2 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH PAINTINGS
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take paintings" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway              N, S, E
Floyd | 2 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE PAINTINGS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Yes. All of them."
		DavidW says, "This feels like an airport lounge. Let's move on."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Middle of Central Hallway      N, S
Floyd | 2 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Middle of Central Hallway
Floyd | Tapestries, showing scenes of battle and victory from times long ago,
Floyd | line the walls. The beautiful floor here is well polished and
Floyd | extremely shiny.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your footsteps echo dully off of, the ancient covered walls.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x tapestries" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Middle of Central Hallway      N, S
Floyd | 2 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TAPESTRIES
Floyd |
Floyd | You see nothing special about the Tapestries.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway Veranda     N, S, W, D
Floyd | 2 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Central Hallway Veranda
Floyd | This looks like a comfortable gathering place. A plush carpet, hand
Floyd | sewn by an ancient race, covers much of the floor. Two expansive, and
Floyd | welcoming, windows cover most of the southern wall. Alcoves, with
Floyd | comfortable padded benchs, contain each of the windows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Small and comfortable looking sofas are spaced out throughout the
Floyd | area. Some of them are overturned.
Floyd |
Floyd | In between the two windows, a ramp leads up into the Control Center.
Floyd |
Floyd | A slick trail of melting ice leads below.
Floyd |
Floyd | Although very quiet, a gentle hum can be heard from the Control
Floyd | Center.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "not so fast, please"
		genericgeekgirl says, "The room was empty."
		DavidW asks, "Did we discuss that?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Middle of Central Hallway      N, S
Floyd | 2 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Middle of Central Hallway
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Middle of Central Hallway      N, S
Floyd | 2 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Middle of Central Hallway
Floyd | Tapestries, showing scenes of battle and victory from times long ago,
Floyd | line the walls. The beautiful floor here is well polished and
Floyd | extremely shiny.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your footsteps echo dully off of, the ancient covered walls.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Fine."
Zach says (to Floyd), "echo" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Middle of Central Hallway      N, S
Floyd | 2 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > ECHO
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x scenes" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Middle of Central Hallway      N, S
Floyd | 2 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SCENES
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tapestries" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Middle of Central Hallway      N, S
Floyd | 2 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TAPESTRIES
Floyd |
Floyd | You see nothing special about the Tapestries.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look behind them" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Middle of Central Hallway      N, S
Floyd | 2 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND THEM
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Middle of Central Hallway      N, S
Floyd | 2 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You bang the edge of your hand against your ear, but nothing of note
Floyd | is heard from Middle of Central Hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x floor" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Middle of Central Hallway      N, S
Floyd | 2 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FLOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You see nothing special about the beautiful floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "ok, continue"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway Veranda     N, S, W, D
Floyd | 2 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Central Hallway Veranda
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway Veranda     N, S, W, D
Floyd | 2 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Central Hallway Veranda
Floyd | This looks like a comfortable gathering place. A plush carpet, hand
Floyd | sewn by an ancient race, covers much of the floor. Two expansive, and
Floyd | welcoming, windows cover most of the southern wall. Alcoves, with
Floyd | comfortable padded benchs, contain each of the windows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Small and comfortable looking sofas are spaced out throughout the
Floyd | area. Some of them are overturned.
Floyd |
Floyd | In between the two windows, a ramp leads up into the Control Center.
Floyd |
Floyd | A slick trail of melting ice leads below.
Floyd |
Floyd | Although very quiet, a gentle hum can be heard from the Control
Floyd | Center.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x sofa" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway Veranda     N, S, W, D
Floyd | 2 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SOFA
Floyd |
Floyd | As you peer at the sofas, you realize that some of them have shadowy
Floyd | beings sitting on them.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x beings" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway Veranda     N, S, W, D
Floyd | 2 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BEINGS
Floyd |
Floyd | Somehow you realize that they appear to be out of sync with your time.
Floyd | It doesn't seem like you can talk to them, and you're not sure whether
Floyd | they are slightly ahead or behind your time. As you are looking at the
Floyd | shadows you see another shape materialize in their midst. You're not
Floyd | what it actually is, but this new being seems to take notice of you.
Floyd | Like a spirit, it drifts slowly toward you. You do feel menaced by the
Floyd | spirt as it approaches.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are curious when you see that the soul is dressed in famaliar red
Floyd | robes. The robes stir up some distant memories, but they fade before
Floyd | you can grasp them.
Floyd |
Floyd | The soul appears lost as it looks up toward the end of the corridor
Floyd | and then back at you. It waves an arm, as if indicating something
Floyd | further away.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x soul" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway Veranda     N, S, W, D
Floyd | 2 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SOUL
Floyd |
Floyd | It appears to be a man, but most of the light seems to pass right
Floyd | through him. The rest seems to mirror his environment. Looking at him,
Floyd | is like looking at rippling water, with reflections of whatever is
Floyd | around him shining back.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x arm" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway Veranda     N, S, W, D
Floyd | 2 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ARM
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "mm"
Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to soul" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway Veranda     N, S, W, D
Floyd | 3 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO SOUL
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul brushes into you and you feel a tiny shock. In your mind
Floyd | you hear scrambled sentences. Somehow, you understand the soul is
Floyd | saying:"My name... I've forgotten, but I know you are here to
Floyd | help. Help me find.. my body.. I can help. Codes.. codes.. I think you
Floyd | need them."
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "ask soul about codes" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway Veranda     N, S, W, D
Floyd | 3 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK SOUL ABOUT CODES
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to soul" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway Veranda     N, S, W, D
Floyd | 4 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO SOUL
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul drifts aimlessly for a moment. Then it drags its fingers
Floyd | down the wall, making no sound but you still get the shivers. In your
Floyd | mind you hear scrambled sentences. Somehow, you understand the soul is
Floyd | saying:Who am.. What am I?
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Ellison says, "I find myself rebelling against almost every aspect of this game"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "stab soul" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway Veranda     N, S, W, D
Floyd | 4 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > STAB SOUL
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "talk to soul" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway Veranda     N, S, W, D
Floyd | 5 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO SOUL
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul brushes into you and you feel a tiny shock. Somehow you
Floyd | hear a whisper. Somehow, you understand the soul is saying:Who
Floyd | am.. What am I?
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to soul" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway Veranda     N, S, W, D
Floyd | 6 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO SOUL
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul drifts toward you and then shines an image of blinding
Floyd | bright light. You hear a ringing, and then the words. Somehow, you
Floyd | understand the soul is saying:Who am.. What am I?
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hm..."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway Veranda     N, S, W, D
Floyd | 7 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul turns away. It points to somewhere far off. You remember
Floyd | words from the past, and you sense the words. Somehow, you understand
Floyd | the soul is saying:Who am.. What am I?
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Obviously, there's an infinite point bug."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Hahaha, awesome."
		DavidW says, "I missed which way the soul was pointing re: its body."
		Zach says, "I don't think there was a direction"
		DavidW asks, "Not that it matters much, I suppose. I assume we'll go everywhere and this one might even follow?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ice" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway Veranda     N, S, W, D
Floyd | 7 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ICE
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks slippery.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "lick ice" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway Veranda     N, S, W, D
Floyd | 7 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > LICK ICE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ramp" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway Veranda     N, S, W, D
Floyd | 7 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X RAMP
Floyd |
Floyd | It leads up into the Control center.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "and yet, U isn't listed in seen exits."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Odd."
		Zach says, "Down, up, same thing"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x n" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway Veranda     N, S, W, D
Floyd | 7 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X N
Floyd |
Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x s" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway Veranda     N, S, W, D
Floyd | 7 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X S
Floyd |
Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "U might be W or S from here, maybe."
		DavidW asks, "Continue south?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway Veranda     N, S, W, D
Floyd | 7 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | A powerful forcefield blocks your way into the Control Center.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Well, mystery solved."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x forcefield" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway Veranda     N, S, W, D
Floyd | 7 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FORCEFIELD
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "feel forcefield" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway Veranda     N, S, W, D
Floyd | 7 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > FEEL FORCEFIELD
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "touch forcefield" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway Veranda     N, S, W, D
Floyd | 7 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TOUCH FORCEFIELD
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "It's there... and not there... spooky."
		DavidW says, "West please"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Transport Pad                   E
Floyd | 7 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul reflects an image of a child crying. Then, it drifts
Floyd | along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Transport Pad
Floyd | It is a Transport Pad. You need access to use it.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh good. We've gained a soul."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "East and down?"
		DavidW says, "I'm worried that we won't be able to return up if we slide down slippery ice."
		genericgeekgirl says, "We can save and try right away."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to soul" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Transport Pad                   E
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO SOUL
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul reflects an image of a child crying. Words echo in your
Floyd | mind, and you feel the words. Somehow, you understand the soul is
Floyd | saying:Who am.. What am I?
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
Zach says (to Floyd), "cf3" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Transport Pad                   E
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Fine."
Zach says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Transport Pad                   E
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway Veranda     N, S, W, D
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul drifts aimlessly for a moment. Then it drags its fingers
Floyd | down the wall, making no sound but you still get the shivers. Then, it
Floyd | drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Central Hallway Veranda
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "down" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Grand Antechamber          N, SE, SW, U
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd | As you descend the stairs, you notice patches of ice. Better be
Floyd | careful!
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul drifts aimlessly for a moment. Then it drags its fingers
Floyd | down the wall, making no sound but you still get the shivers. Then, it
Floyd | drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Grand Antechamber
Floyd | This is a large entrace hall to the central meeting chambers.
Floyd |
Floyd | At one time, perhaps very recently, this chamber might have been
Floyd | magnificent. But now scorched ice covers much of the area. What isn't
Floyd | covered in ice has been scorched and burned.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway Veranda     N, S, W, D
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul drifts aimlessly for a moment. Then it drags its fingers
Floyd | down the wall, making no sound but you still get the shivers. Then, it
Floyd | drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Central Hallway Veranda
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Seems to be ok, as long as we're "careful.""
		Zach says, "It's "scorched ice""
Zach says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Grand Antechamber          N, SE, SW, U
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | As you descend the stairs, you notice patches of ice. Better be
Floyd | careful!
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul reflects an image of a bloody battle. Then, it drifts
Floyd | along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Grand Antechamber
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "It's magical. Maybe."
		DavidW says, "Ragnarok, I bet."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Dear soul. You are creepy. Please stop."
		DavidW says, "I can't tell the souls apart."
		genericgeekgirl says, "It's just the one now, following us. Plus the one from earlier."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Grand Antechamber          N, SE, SW, U
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a sandals (being worn)
Floyd |   a dark robe (being worn)
Floyd |   a helmet
Floyd |   a spacesuit
Floyd |   a Samurai sword (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "so, any preference for which way to go now?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "N? For no particular reason."
		DavidW says, "sure"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Assembly Hall           S
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul turns to you and seems to open its mouth. Then, it
Floyd | drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Central Assembly Hall
Floyd | The Central Assembly Hall is a massive space meant to accommodate
Floyd | thousands of guests from across the galaxy.
Floyd |
Floyd | All of the seating is covered in a thick layer of ice. The central
Floyd | podium is largely destroyed and only a thick slab of marble remains.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | When you enter the hall, the air shimmers for a moment and then the
Floyd | hall is completely transformed from empty hulk to busy and engaged
Floyd | auditorium. For as far as you can see, hundreds of groups of Immortals
Floyd | and other sentient races are gathered throughout the hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the central podium, Death is administering the proceedings. To her
Floyd | right is Mother Nature and a few others from the Druidic faction. You
Floyd | never met any of them, save for Mother Nature, the big brute.
Floyd |
Floyd | Death stands and smashes a gavel down on the podium. She looks out at
Floyd | the crowd, clears her throat and says, "Let us begin."
Floyd |
Floyd | "I think we all know why we're here," says Mother Nature, standing and
Floyd | addressing the crowd.
Floyd | "We're hear to put a stop to your nonsense," says Death as a roar goes
Floyd | up in the crowd.
Floyd | "I don't see it that way," Mother Nature says.
Floyd | "How do you see," asks Death, but Mother Nature interupts her.
Floyd |
Floyd | In a loud and booming voice, which echoes throughout the hall, Mother
Floyd | Nature bellows, "Every Immortal should have the power to transform
Floyd | life, not just those of the Thanatos Faction!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Another cheer, although not as loud, but longer and more violent.
Floyd | "You mean, you want the power to take away life," Death says.
Floyd |
Floyd | But, the scene is fading. Somehow you can still feel the emotion of
Floyd | the meeting, even though you are standing back in the empty hall. Now
Floyd | the circumstances have become a little clearer for you, and you begin
Floyd | to understand that some kind of internal war has broken out between
Floyd | the various factions among the Immortals. And, you realize that's part
Floyd | of the reason why you left a long, long time ago. You wanted peace.
Floyd | You begin to wonder if there really is any hope.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give up all hope" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Assembly Hall           S
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE UP ALL HOPE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I don't really understand this explanation."
		Zach) Mother Nature says, "How do *you* see?" and punches Death in the face.
		mwmiller asks, "Is this a bootleg version of The Sandman, or what?"
		DavidW says, "If we don't know what the status quo is, it's hard to tell what's been altered."
		Zach says, "..DavidW"
		DavidW says (to mwmiller), "It seems a bit too trite to be a Sandman ripoff."
		Zach says, "Whoops"
		DavidW says, "This is more, uh, Piers Anthony."
		Zach says, "Huh: "thousands of guests from across the galaxy""
		Zach asks, "So, Death and Mother Nature are really immortal aliens?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Piers Anthony meets Highlander."
		DavidW says, "Anthony had this Immortals series where the main Immortals were Nature, Death, Fate, War, and Time."
		Zach says, "Ah, I haven't read Anthony"
		DavidW says (to Zach), "They weren't aliens, but regular people that inherited their roles from previous officeholders."
		DavidW says, "However, it's far too soon to make too many parallels."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x podium" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Assembly Hall           S
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PODIUM
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ice" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Assembly Hall           S
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ICE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Assembly Hall           S
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Central Assembly Hall
Floyd | The Central Assembly Hall is a massive space meant to accommodate
Floyd | thousands of guests from across the galaxy.
Floyd |
Floyd | All of the seating is covered in a thick layer of ice. The central
Floyd | podium is largely destroyed and only a thick slab of marble remains.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x slab" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Assembly Hall           S
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SLAB
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "well, that's .. uh... a room only for a memory?"
		Zach says, "Looks like it"
		DavidW says, "And we can't even re-view it."
		Zach says, "This game seems to enjoy unnecessary rooms"
		DavidW says, "well, vastness does sorta fit the theme."
		DavidW says, "so let's see what the rest of Air Zeus looks like."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Grand Antechamber          N, SE, SW, U
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul reflects an image of a bloody battle. Then, it drifts
Floyd | along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Grand Antechamber
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "SE?"
		Zach says, "sure"
		DavidW says, "sure"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Library of Immortals          NW, IN
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul brushes into you and you feel a tiny shock. Then, it
Floyd | drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Library of Immortals
Floyd | This is a very wide, almost 400 feet across it seems, circular room.
Floyd | It is also made up, of over thirty different levels, each of which
Floyd | opens into the central library area. Golden tapestries with varying
Floyd | sigils hang from each level.
Floyd |
Floyd | Wide marble pillars, rise up from the floor and extend up to the
Floyd | ceiling far above.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hundreds of individual learning stations are arrayed in an arc fashion
Floyd | through this base level. Each station is equipped for a variety of
Floyd | races and species with all the necessary equipment for modern learning
Floyd | and research within a library.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x stations" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Library of Immortals          NW, IN
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STATIONS
Floyd |
Floyd | Why don't you go in and give it a whirl?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "I hate to ask, but does this library have books or not?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x books" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Library of Immortals          NW, IN
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x tapestries" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Library of Immortals          NW, IN
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TAPESTRIES
Floyd |
Floyd | You see nothing special about golden tapestries.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Nope."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "use station" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Library of Immortals          NW, IN
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > USE STATION
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "in"
Zach says (to Floyd), "in" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > IN
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul drifts aimlessly for a moment. Then it drags its fingers
Floyd | down the wall, making no sound but you still get the shivers. Then, it
Floyd | drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Learning Station
Floyd | This station is equipped with wide metal desk. A viewing screen rests
Floyd | on top of the desk. A metal box, also sits on the desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you enter the Learning Station the viewing screen flickers briefly
Floyd | to life. Angry white static brightly fills the entire screen. Within
Floyd | the static you see a woman dressed in dark robes. It is Death. She is
Floyd | holding up an ancient, and very real, book. It is "Caring for an
Floyd | aquatic Bug Bear of Hexalon 7." The images swirl and the screen
Floyd | reverts back to the library logo and menu.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Ah, Death reads us books from the computer"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x menu" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MENU
Floyd |
Floyd | You scroll through thousands of choices and get bored. Where should
Floyd | you start?
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "You just know the lost soul is gonna stay with us when we enter the Restroom of Immortals."
Zach says (to Floyd), "the beginning" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > THE BEGINNING
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Heh"
		genericgeekgirl says, "The little immortals room."
Zach says (to Floyd), "look up death" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK UP DEATH
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "read about death" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ ABOUT DEATH
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x box" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOX
Floyd |
Floyd | It normally contains dozens of purple glyph stones.
Floyd |
Floyd | You only find one stone, rattling around in the box. Someone else must
Floyd | have been a busy reader on ancient texts.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take stone" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE STONE
Floyd |
Floyd | You already have that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stone" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STONE
Floyd |
Floyd | The square stone has a book sigil etched into it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read stone" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ STONE
Floyd |
Floyd | The square stone has a book sigil etched into it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x sigil" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SIGIL
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I think these stones are like tickets, this stone good for one book."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x box" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOX
Floyd |
Floyd | It normally contains dozens of purple glyph stones.
Floyd |
Floyd | You only find one stone, rattling around in the box. Someone else must
Floyd | have been a busy reader on ancient texts.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ah"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a purple glyph stone
Floyd |   a sandals (being worn)
Floyd |   a dark robe (being worn)
Floyd |   a helmet
Floyd |   a spacesuit
Floyd |   a Samurai sword (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "In the transport chamber we were told we needed a glyph"
		DavidW says, "hm. The box description doesn't change."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I missed the bit about the box/stone."
		Zach says, "maybe a different kind though"
		DavidW says, "And the restaurant hologram said we could use our introductory meal glyph."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x screen" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SCREEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Its a 30 inch wide, super hi-def screen for viewing information in the
Floyd | library. A library menu, with thousands of viewing choices is on the
Floyd | screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | You look at the screen and scroll through the long menu. After a
Floyd | little while, you choose an entry at random. From the menu you select
Floyd | an entry called: "223rd Q volume of the Galactic Encyclopedia of the
Floyd | Immortals"
Floyd |
Floyd | You quickly grow bored and start to nod off.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x logo" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LOGO
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "scroll to "Caring for an aquatic Bug Bear of Hexalon 7"" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > SCROLL TO "CARING FOR AN AQUATIC BUG BEAR OF HEXALON 7"
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search menu for "Caring for an aquatic Bug Bear of Hexalon 7"" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH MENU FOR "CARING FOR AN AQUATIC BUG BEAR OF HEXALON 7"
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to search the library menu.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "search menu" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH MENU
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search menu" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH MENU
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Learning Station
Floyd | This station is equipped with wide metal desk. A viewing screen rests
Floyd | on top of the desk. A metal box, also sits on the desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "type "Caring for an aquatic Bug Bear of Hexalon 7" in search field." 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TYPE "CARING FOR AN AQUATIC BUG BEAR OF HEXALON 7" IN SEARCH FIELD.
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask menu for bug bear" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK MENU FOR BUG BEAR
Floyd |
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to menu" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO MENU
Floyd |
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to screen" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO SCREEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "learn about bug bear" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > LEARN ABOUT BUG BEAR
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf4" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "use stone" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > USE STONE
Floyd |
Floyd | You crush the stone and throw the dust into the air. The dust swirls
Floyd | into the form of a heavily cloaked librarian, wearing purple robes.
Floyd | The purple librarian looks at you and asks, "What book would you
Floyd | like?"
Floyd | "You say, Caring for aquatic Bug Bear."
Floyd | The librarian fades and a book drops out of the air onto the surface
Floyd | of the desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "USE?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "We have a stone and we want to turn it into books."
		DavidW says, "(also, yay it worked)"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x book" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a book about caring for your very own aquatic Bug Bear!
Floyd |
Floyd | You begin to open the book, and notice a glowing message on the inside
Floyd | cover. It's a message from Death. It says "Watch the video on animal
Floyd | hypnosis" You read the words several times, but the message slowly
Floyd | fades, before you understand what the message means.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "watch video" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > WATCH VIDEO
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read book" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ BOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a book about caring for your very own aquatic Bug Bear!
Floyd |
Floyd | You begin to read the book and then find out that aquatic Bug Bears
Floyd | sleep for decades at a time.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a book about caring for your very own aquatic Bug Bear!
Floyd |
Floyd | You begin to read the book and then find out that aquatic Bug Bears
Floyd | sleep for decades at a time.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Boo. I was hoping for lots of little tidbits."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 8 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a book about caring for your very own aquatic Bug Bear!
Floyd |
Floyd | You begin to read the book and then find out that aquatic Bug Bears
Floyd | sleep for decades at a time.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x screen" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SCREEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Its a 30 inch wide, super hi-def screen for viewing information in the
Floyd | library. A library menu, with thousands of viewing choices is on the
Floyd | screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | You select the animal hypnosis video, and learn about hypnotizing
Floyd | animals of all kinds. Your head feels full.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I think the message in the book about watching the video was the 'real' message."
		DavidW says, "We are full of UNEXPLAINED."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Ha"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hypnotise soul" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > HYPNOTISE SOUL
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hypnotize soul" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > HYPNOTIZE SOUL
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "awwwwwwww"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "use hypnosis" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > USE HYPNOSIS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Bah."
		DavidW asks, "Perhaps we use the ability automatically when needed?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "empty head" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > EMPTY HEAD
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Are we done here?"
		Zach says, "Think so"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Learning Station
Floyd | This station is equipped with wide metal desk. A viewing screen rests
Floyd | on top of the desk. A metal box, also sits on the desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a Bug Bear book and a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW | Rhino approaching! Rhino looks angrier! You stare it down. Ooh, swirly eyes, says the Rhino, before it falls to its sleepy doom.
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take book" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE BOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Haha"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x desk" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DESK
Floyd |
Floyd | It is a simple metal desk, about five feet wide.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look under desk" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK UNDER DESK
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open drawer" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Learning Station               OUT
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DRAWER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "A desk without a drawer is a table."
		DavidW asks, "so, sw of 'Grand Antechamber'?"
		DavidW says, "(of the immortals?)"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Library of Immortals          NW, IN
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul turns to you and seems to open its mouth. Then, it
Floyd | drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Library of Immortals
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Grand Antechamber          N, SE, SW, U
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul turns away. It points to somewhere far off. Then, it
Floyd | drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Grand Antechamber
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Observatory                     NE
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul drifts aimlessly for a moment. Then it drags its fingers
Floyd | down the wall, making no sound but you still get the shivers. Then, it
Floyd | drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory
Floyd | The Observatory is an extremely large, domed and darkened room.
Floyd | Comfortable benches are arranged along the walls. A holographic well
Floyd | rests in the center of the observatory. From out of the well, a
Floyd | projection of the various universes and galaxies, rotates in the
Floyd | center of the observatory.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x wall" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Observatory                     NE
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WALL
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x well" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Observatory                     NE
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WELL
Floyd |
Floyd | It is a powerful holographic super computer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "universes, galaxies, benches."
Zach says (to Floyd), "sit" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Observatory                     NE
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > SIT
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to sit on?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "sit on bench" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Observatory                     NE
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > SIT ON BENCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You watch as the projection rearranges itself into a map of your
Floyd | current location. A big arrow now points to an asteriod. Other arrows,
Floyd | dozens of them, point to planets you have been to. What's disturbing,
Floyd | is that you don't remember being at those locations!
Floyd |
Floyd | You watch the map rotate for a little while, and then get bored with
Floyd | watching.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x map" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Observatory                     NE
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MAP
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "distrubing indeed"
		DavidW says, "This really needs a sound system."
		Zach says, "SPACE sound"
Zach says (to Floyd), "stand" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Observatory                     NE
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > STAND
Floyd |
Floyd | You get off the observatory bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | Observatory
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x computer" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Observatory                     NE
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X COMPUTER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I went to see a laser show at the Planetarium and they played Genesis."
		Zach says, "Space sound is definitely some sort of progressive rock"
		DavidW asks, "So this is an asteroid?"
		DavidW says, "We still don't have a name for this place as a whole."
Zach says (to Floyd), "about" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Observatory                     NE
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > ABOUT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "I suppose, to keep exploring, we have to return all the way to Central Hallway and go east?"
		Zach says, "I haven't been mapping, but that sounds right"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Grand Antechamber          N, SE, SW, U
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul drifts aimlessly for a moment. Then it drags its fingers
Floyd | down the wall, making no sound but you still get the shivers. Then, it
Floyd | drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Grand Antechamber
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway Veranda     N, S, W, D
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul brushes into you and you feel a tiny shock. Then, it
Floyd | drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Central Hallway Veranda
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Middle of Central Hallway      N, S
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul drifts aimlessly for a moment. Then it drags its fingers
Floyd | down the wall, making no sound but you still get the shivers. Then, it
Floyd | drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Middle of Central Hallway
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway              N, S, E
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul follows you into the next room.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul drifts aimlessly for a moment. Then it drags its fingers
Floyd | down the wall, making no sound but you still get the shivers. Then, it
Floyd | drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Central Hallway
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "The one where a 1000 paintings were worth about 10 words."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Storage Area                    W
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | The Storage room door says, "Go away!" But, then the door quietly
Floyd | slides open.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul follows you into the next room.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul turns to you and seems to open its mouth. Then, it
Floyd | drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Storage Area
Floyd | Dusty shelves fill the center of the room. Around the edges of the
Floyd | room are old vending machines, boxes and other odds & ends. Most of
Floyd | the boxes are stuffed with old newspapers, spare parts and other
Floyd | stuff.
Floyd |
Floyd | Leaning against some of the boxes is a group of sleeping hobgoblins.
Floyd | Decomposing fish bones litter the ground around them.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a lost soul and a large bag here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul drifts toward a group of boxes in the far corner. It
Floyd | looks toward you and gestures toward a bag of some kind, behind the
Floyd | boxes.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the hobgoblins briefly opens one red eye, and glances toward
Floyd | the lost soul. The hobgoblin blinks, but sees nothing. It rolls over
Floyd | and continues snoring. You sigh inwardly, knowing that it could have
Floyd | turned and saw you in the doorway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "open the bag, find the body?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "take bag" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Storage Area                    W
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE BAG
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "open bag" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Storage Area                    W
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN BAG
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "uh, ok."
Zach says (to Floyd), "look in bag" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Storage Area                    W
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK IN BAG
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bag" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Storage Area                    W
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BAG
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a large and heavy looking cloth bag. There is a big dark spot,
Floyd | that might be blood, covering one corner of the bag.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul seems interested very in it, so you walk over to the
Floyd | bag. Unfortunately, the hobgoblins wake up. One of them spits acid at
Floyd | you and it burns through your clothes. Feeling like you're on fire,
Floyd | you run screaming into the door. You hit the closed door with such an
Floyd | impact that you pass out.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are reincarnated as a frog. You're king of the pond until you get
Floyd | eaten by a crow.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** Better luck, next life. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 9 out of a possible 11, in 136 turns.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Storage Area                    W
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Storage Area
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Eek"
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway              N, S, E
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You hold your breath and quietly step past the sleeping hobgoblins.
Floyd | It's better to be safe than sorry!
Floyd |
Floyd | The Storage room door slides shut behind you. Then it says, "We're
Floyd | closed."
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul follows you out.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul drifts aimlessly for a moment. Then it drags its fingers
Floyd | down the wall, making no sound but you still get the shivers. Then, it
Floyd | drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Central Hallway
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x bag" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway              N, S, E
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BAG
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a large and heavy looking cloth bag. There is a big dark spot,
Floyd | that might be blood, covering one corner of the bag.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul seems interested very in it, so you walk over to the
Floyd | bag. Unfortunately, the hobgoblins wake up. One of them spits acid at
Floyd | you and it burns through your clothes. Feeling like you're on fire,
Floyd | you run screaming into the door. You hit the closed door with such an
Floyd | impact that you pass out.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are reincarnated as a cat. You live our your days in a big smelly
Floyd | mansion.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** Better luck, next life. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 9 out of a possible 11, in 137 turns.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway              N, S, E
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Central Hallway
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Oops I missed the closing door part"
		DavidW says, "The author _assumed_ the player would examine the bag in the room it was originally in,."
		Zach says, "Wait, yeah"
		Zach says, "I was just trying to make sense of it"
		DavidW says, "And didn't think about us taking the bag,"
		DavidW says, "I'm sure we weren't supposed to take it."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Heh."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Awesome."
Zach says (to Floyd), "credits" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway              N, S, E
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > CREDITS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "version" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway              N, S, E
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > VERSION
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The Immortal
Floyd | An interactive sci-fi mystery by Rob Anthony
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 070928 / Inform 7 build 4W37 (I6/v6.31 lib
Floyd | 6/11N)
Floyd | Identification number: //79294BEE-82C6-45E8-A4E9-9FDBF58C0BAD//
Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0 (6b) / Library serial number 060709
Floyd | Standard Rules version 1/061217 by Graham Nelson
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "drop bag" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway              N, S, E
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP BAG
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I believe Piers Anthony only has two daughters. The author can't be his son."
		DavidW says, "But I should doublecheck that."
		DavidW says, "We can't even go back into the Storage Area."
		Zach says, "Maybe his son in spirit"
		DavidW says, "We need to undo quite a few turns."
		DavidW says, "We haven't been saving often enough."
		Zach asks, "Ah, you think we could have still done something in that room?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway              N, S, E
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Central Hallway
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway              N, S, E
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Central Hallway
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway              N, S, E
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Central Hallway
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Storage Area                    W
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Storage Area
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "well, we could've tried doing something with the hobgoblins, yeah."
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Storage Area                    W
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Storage Area
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Storage Area                    W
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Storage Area
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Storage Area                    W
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Storage Area
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Storage Area                    W
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a Bug Bear book
Floyd |   a sandals (being worn)
Floyd |   a dark robe (being worn)
Floyd |   a helmet
Floyd |   a spacesuit
Floyd |   a Samurai sword (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Storage Area                    W
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Storage Area
Floyd | Dusty shelves fill the center of the room. Around the edges of the
Floyd | room are old vending machines, boxes and other odds & ends. Most of
Floyd | the boxes are stuffed with old newspapers, spare parts and other
Floyd | stuff.
Floyd |
Floyd | Leaning against some of the boxes is a group of sleeping hobgoblins.
Floyd | Decomposing fish bones litter the ground around them.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a lost soul and a large bag here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "kill bugbears" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Storage Area                    W
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL BUGBEARS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Where did it say we couldn't go back in?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "kill hobgoblins" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Storage Area                    W
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL HOBGOBLINS
Floyd |
Floyd | They wake up in a really bad mood. One of them throws some really foul
Floyd | smelling fish at you and the others come after you as if you were
Floyd | their last meal.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are reincarnated as a pie. Mmmmm.. Blueberry
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** Better luck, next life. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 9 out of a possible 11, in 135 turns.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >

		DavidW | The Storage room door slides shut behind you. Then it says, "We're closed."
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Storage Area                    W
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Storage Area
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "BUt we didn't actually try."
		DavidW says, "true, but we'd already fu**ed up"
		genericgeekgirl says, "That doesn't necessarily mean anything. It told us to go away in the first place."
		mwmiller says, "'Reincarnated as a pie'? Sigh."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Tasty."
		Zach says, "Assuming that it was wrong to take the bag"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, probably."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Since the author clearly didn't consider the possibility."
		DavidW says, "Did it tell us to go away at the beginning? I didn't see that part."
		genericgeekgirl | The Storage room door says, "Go away!" But, then the door quietly slides open.
		DavidW says, "oh"
Zach says (to Floyd), "hypnotize hobgoblins" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Storage Area                    W
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > HYPNOTIZE HOBGOBLINS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Alabaster must've used some."
		DavidW says, "ilac"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x hobgoblins" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Storage Area                    W
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HOBGOBLINS
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't want to get too close, but they look like they might have
Floyd | passed out after having too much to eat. They seem to be drooling more
Floyd | than normal and their long tounges are dangling out of their open
Floyd | mouths. Their dripping, black and yellow teeth look extremely
Floyd | dangerous.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach asks, "Anywhere else to explore?"
		DavidW says, "yes, east of Hallway Junction to the north."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Storage Area                    W
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Storage Area
Floyd | Dusty shelves fill the center of the room. Around the edges of the
Floyd | room are old vending machines, boxes and other odds & ends. Most of
Floyd | the boxes are stuffed with old newspapers, spare parts and other
Floyd | stuff.
Floyd |
Floyd | Leaning against some of the boxes is a group of sleeping hobgoblins.
Floyd | Decomposing fish bones litter the ground around them.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a lost soul and a large bag here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x fish" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Storage Area                    W
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | Mmmmm.. Just like Mom used to make. You hold your nose as you poke
Floyd | around in the slop. A foul odor, like three week old rotting fish,
Floyd | drifts off of the bones.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take fish" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Storage Area                    W
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | Against your better judgement, you quietly and carefully wrap the
Floyd | bones in some of the paper lying around.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Also, maybe up from Ctrl Hallway Veranda"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x newspapers" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Storage Area                    W
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X NEWSPAPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | They are not written in a language that you understand.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search boxes" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Storage Area                    W
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH BOXES
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh, that fish could be given to the other hob"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x fish" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Storage Area                    W
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FISH
Floyd |
Floyd | (wrapped up fish bones)
Floyd | It's a small, but tightly wrapped, package of decomposing fish bones.
Floyd | You barely can tolerate the fact that you want to carry around such a
Floyd | thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ew. Maybe."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I suppose it's more food than friend at this point."
		DavidW says, "yeah, return to Soul Transport Chamber and give the fish."
		DavidW says, "Fish don't get souls, I suppose."
		DavidW says, "Unless... they ARE soles!"
		genericgeekgirl groans.
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway              N, S, E
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You hold your breath and quietly step past the sleeping hobgoblins.
Floyd | It's better to be safe than sorry!
Floyd |
Floyd | The Storage room door slides shut behind you. Then it says, "We're
Floyd | closed."
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul follows you out.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul turns to you and seems to open its mouth. Then, it
Floyd | drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Central Hallway
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf5" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway              N, S, E
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul follows you into the next room.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul reflects an image of a child crying. Then, it drifts
Floyd | along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway Junction
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "west"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul brushes into you and you feel a tiny shock. Then, it
Floyd | drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Soul Transport Chamber
Floyd | You can see a lost soul and a wounded hobgoblin here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give fish to hobgoblin" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE FISH TO HOBGOBLIN
Floyd |
Floyd | It greedily snatches the package out of your hands. Then it puts the
Floyd | watch in its mouth and runs toward the beam. As it jumps, a small
Floyd | opaque stone drops to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | For a moment, the beam explodes to full brightness and the hobgoblin
Floyd | disappears completely inside it. The beam fades quickly.
Floyd |
Floyd | Angry, you shake your fist at the now missing hobgoblin.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hmpf."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x stone" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 9 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STONE
Floyd |
Floyd | (the opaque glyph stone)
Floyd | It is a small clear stone. A hollow circle is etched in the center of
Floyd | the stone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take stone" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 10 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE STONE
Floyd |
Floyd | (the opaque glyph stone)
Floyd | As you pick up the stone, you are amazed by its lack of weight. If you
Floyd | did not see the stone in your hand, you would not know it was there.
Floyd | This might be an invisibility glyph. Better use it carefully!
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oooh."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Maybe we can look at the bag now."
		Zach says, "yeah"
		DavidW says, "yeah"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Soul Transport Chamber        E, IN
Floyd | 10 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Soul Transport Chamber
Floyd | This large circular chamber seems to be a greeting center of some
Floyd | kind. The chamber itself resonates with a strong, temple like feeling.
Floyd | The ancient walls vibrantly enhance this feeling of spiritual
Floyd | importance. They are composed of hand carved, smooth marble blocks.
Floyd | Ancient carvings, faded with age, are etched and painted onto the
Floyd | surface of the stone walls.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tall stone pillars, which reach all the way up to the the expansive
Floyd | open ceiling, are evenly spaced along the wall. Through the massive
Floyd | viewport in the ceiling, the void, or whatever it really is, can be
Floyd | seen. Hundreds of dusty wicker baskets have been placed at the base of
Floyd | the pillars.
Floyd |
Floyd | A dull flicker of light flows up and out of the transportation pad,
Floyd | which is in the far side of the chamber, opposite the doorway. A
Floyd | marble railing surrounds the pad.
Floyd |
Floyd | A stone dias sits on either side of the only door. A great book rests
Floyd | on top of the left stone dias.
Floyd |
Floyd | The floor of the chamber is composed of soft flowing sand. Many
Floyd | different sets of footprints can be seen leading out.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Jerk took our watch."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 10 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul brushes into you and you feel a tiny shock. Then, it
Floyd | drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway Junction
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Have we been E?"
		Zach says, "I was wondering"
		DavidW says, "We have not."
		Zach asks, "Try it out?"
		DavidW says, "I don't mind."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 10 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul drifts up to the keypad and then turns toward you. It
Floyd | makes some wild gestures at the keys, but you're not sure which keys
Floyd | it wants you to press. You're not sure what the lost soul means when
Floyd | you hear a single word: "Codes"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x keys" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 10 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X KEYS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "I suppose we need more info."
		DavidW says, "ah, the soul will give us codes in exchange for its body."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x keypad" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 10 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X KEYPAD
Floyd |
Floyd | Ho hum. It is a standard keypad. It almost bores you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "At least, that's what it said a few hours ago."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway              N, S, E
Floyd | 10 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul follows you into the next room.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul drifts toward you and then shines an image of blinding
Floyd | bright light. Then, it drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Central Hallway
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Storage Area                    W
Floyd | 10 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | The Storage room door says, "Go away!" But, then the door quietly
Floyd | slides open.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul follows you into the next room.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul turns to you and seems to open its mouth. Then, it
Floyd | drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Storage Area
Floyd | You can see a lost soul and a large bag here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway              N, S, E
Floyd | 10 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Central Hallway
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf6" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway              N, S, E
Floyd | 10 / 11
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "use glyph" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway              N, S, E
Floyd | 10 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > USE GLYPH
Floyd |
Floyd | You crush the stone in your hand and throw the powder into the air.
Floyd | The powder spreads into a fine mist and turns the air around you into
Floyd | a blue haze. You breathe in the haze and you become invisible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Storage Area                    W
Floyd | 10 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | The Storage room door says, "Go away!" But, then the door quietly
Floyd | slides open.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul follows you into the next room.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul turns away. It points to somewhere far off. Then, it
Floyd | drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Storage Area
Floyd | You can see a lost soul and a large bag here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x bag" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Storage Area                    W
Floyd | 10 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BAG
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a large and heavy looking cloth bag. There is a big dark spot,
Floyd | that might be blood, covering one corner of the bag.
Floyd |
Floyd | Nonchalantly, you silently and invisibly walk over to the bag. The
Floyd | lost soul seems eager for you to open it, so you peek inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sadly, there is a wounded or dead body in the bag. You're not sure,
Floyd | but there really isn't time to check.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul moves toward the body and briefly touches it. You notice
Floyd | a very dull spark as it does so. In your mind, you hear the soul say,
Floyd | "This is me. I have the codes."
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel the power of the invisibility stone fading. It might be best
Floyd | to leave soon
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "who knows how long this effect lasts"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Not long, apparently."
		genericgeekgirl says, "But we've got the codes."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Central Hallway              N, S, E
Floyd | 10 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You hold your breath and quietly step past the sleeping hobgoblins.
Floyd | It's better to be safe than sorry!
Floyd |
Floyd | The Storage room door slides shut behind you. Then it says, "We're
Floyd | closed."
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel the power of the invisibility glyph wear off and you quickly
Floyd | return to fully visible.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul follows you out.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul brushes into you and you feel a tiny shock. Then, it
Floyd | drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Central Hallway
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "I guess north, then east?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 10 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul follows you into the next room.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul brushes into you and you feel a tiny shock. Then, it
Floyd | drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway Junction
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 11 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You look toward the lost soul for the codes, but it only points toward
Floyd | the blast door. You walk up to the door and it drifts into your body.
Floyd |
Floyd | For a few seconds you feel only icy cold. Then you involuntarily begin
Floyd | pressing the access codes in. The blast door opens and the lost soul
Floyd | drifts out of your body and vanishes.
Floyd |
Floyd | A blast of sooty, black toxic air blasts into you, as you step out of
Floyd | the Hallway Junction. Unfortunately, your bare lungs cannot handle the
Floyd | toxins.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are reincarnated as a tree. You live a happy life, until the
Floyd | logging company comes.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** Better luck, next life. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 11 out of a possible 11, in 158 turns.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 10 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway Junction
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ack."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear spacesuit" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 10 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR SPACESUIT
Floyd |
Floyd | You're still wearing the dark robe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "remove robe" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 10 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMOVE ROBE
Floyd |
Floyd | You take off the dark robe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear spacesuit" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 10 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR SPACESUIT
Floyd |
Floyd | You put on the spacesuit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Let's try that again."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 11 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You look toward the lost soul for the codes, but it only points toward
Floyd | the blast door. You walk up to the door and it drifts into your body.
Floyd |
Floyd | For a few seconds you feel only icy cold. Then you involuntarily begin
Floyd | pressing the access codes in. The blast door opens and the lost soul
Floyd | drifts out of your body and vanishes.
Floyd |
Floyd | A blast of sooty, black toxic air blasts into you, as you step out of
Floyd | the Hallway Junction. Unfortunately, your bare lungs cannot handle the
Floyd | toxins.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are reincarnated as a frog. You're king of the pond until you get
Floyd | eaten by a crow.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** Better luck, next life. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 11 out of a possible 11, in 161 turns.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 10 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway Junction
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear helmet" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 10 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR HELMET
Floyd |
Floyd | You put on the helmet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction             S, E, W
Floyd | 10 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a Bug Bear book
Floyd |   a sandals (being worn)
Floyd |   a dark robe
Floyd |   a helmet (being worn)
Floyd |   a spacesuit (being worn)
Floyd |   a Samurai sword (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Just kidding."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Eastern Hallway                E, W
Floyd | 11 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You look toward the lost soul for the codes, but it only points toward
Floyd | the blast door. You walk up to the door and it drifts into your body.
Floyd |
Floyd | For a few seconds you feel only icy cold. Then you involuntarily begin
Floyd | pressing the access codes in. The blast door opens and the lost soul
Floyd | drifts out of your body and vanishes.
Floyd |
Floyd | A blast of sooty, black toxic air blasts into you, as you step out of
Floyd | the Hallway Junction. Fortunately, your suit protects you from the
Floyd | vile fumes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul turns away. It points to somewhere far off. Then, it
Floyd | drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Eastern Hallway
Floyd | A massive black thought bubble fills most of the corridor.
Floyd |
Floyd | A narrow path, close to the wall, leads to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x bubble" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Eastern Hallway                E, W
Floyd | 11 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BUBBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | It seems to pulsate with a life of it's own. It almost looks like a
Floyd | giant, black and bruised, beating heart. However, as you look at it,
Floyd | images of decay, war, many-legged bugs and scenes of anger, swim
Floyd | across the surface of the thought bubble.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Unhappily, all those fake points we earned makes it difficult to tell how far to the end we are."
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Eastern Hallway                E, W
Floyd | 11 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You suck in your breath, and hold your stomach in, as you try to
Floyd | squeeze by the menacing looking thought bubble. Unfortunately, the
Floyd | heavy suit makes the process a little awkward. You accidently brush
Floyd | against the surface of the bubble. For a second, you think that
Floyd | everything is still okay. A heartbeat later your mind is filled with
Floyd | horrible visions and your soul is instantly evaporated.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are reincarnated as a fly. Unfortunately, you are swatted 30
Floyd | seconds later.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** Better luck, next life. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 11 out of a possible 11, in 165 turns.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Eastern Hallway                E, W
Floyd | 11 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Eastern Hallway
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "remove spacesuit" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Eastern Hallway                E, W
Floyd | 11 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMOVE SPACESUIT
Floyd |
Floyd | Taking off the spacesuit makes you feel jittery. What if you float off
Floyd | into space? What then?
Floyd |
Floyd | You take off the spacesuit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Eastern Hallway                E, W
Floyd | 11 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You suck in your breath, and hold your stomach in, as you try to
Floyd | squeeze by the menacing looking thought bubble. Unfortunately, the
Floyd | heavy suit makes the process a little awkward. You accidently brush
Floyd | against the surface of the bubble. For a second, you think that
Floyd | everything is still okay. A heartbeat later your mind is filled with
Floyd | horrible visions and your soul is instantly evaporated.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are reincarnated as a tree. You live a happy life, until the
Floyd | logging company comes.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** Better luck, next life. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 11 out of a possible 11, in 166 turns.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "huh, that's an usual way to die, death by thought balloon?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Eastern Hallway                E, W
Floyd | 11 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Eastern Hallway
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "remove helmet" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Eastern Hallway                E, W
Floyd | 11 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMOVE HELMET
Floyd |
Floyd | You take off the helmet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Eastern Hallway                E, W
Floyd | 11 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You suck in your breath, and hold your stomach in, as you try to
Floyd | squeeze by the menacing looking thought bubble. Unfortunately, the
Floyd | heavy suit makes the process a little awkward. You accidently brush
Floyd | against the surface of the bubble. For a second, you think that
Floyd | everything is still okay. A heartbeat later your mind is filled with
Floyd | horrible visions and your soul is instantly evaporated.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are reincarnated as a flea. Happily for you, you are born on a
Floyd | street rat in New York.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** Better luck, next life. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 11 out of a possible 11, in 167 turns.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Lies."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Drop suit?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Eastern Hallway                E, W
Floyd | 11 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Eastern Hallway
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "yeah, drop it."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop spacesuit" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Eastern Hallway                E, W
Floyd | 11 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP SPACESUIT
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel a little nervous about leaving the spacesuit behind.
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Middle of Eastern Hallway       W
Floyd | 11 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You suck in your breath, and hold your stomach in, as you try to
Floyd | squeeze by the menacing looking thought bubble. Sweat runs down your
Floyd | neck, as you move past the vile thought.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul reflects an image of a child crying. Then, it drifts
Floyd | along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Middle of Eastern Hallway
Floyd | It looks like something exploded here. The walls are all charred,
Floyd | melted and burned. Most of the ceiling above has been ruined or is
Floyd | entirely missing. The dull buzz of a forcefield can be heard from
Floyd | above, as it provides the only protection from the cold death that
Floyd | awaits in the void.
Floyd |
Floyd | A thick coating of coarse black soot coats the walls and floor. As you
Floyd | walk, you kick up clouds of black death.
Floyd |
Floyd | It seems as if the most of ceiling, and part of a wall, has been piled
Floyd | up on the eastern side of the hallway. A mountain of debris and rubble
Floyd | blocks the eastern end of the hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search rubble" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Middle of Eastern Hallway       W
Floyd | 11 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH RUBBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb it" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Middle of Eastern Hallway       W
Floyd | 11 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLIMB IT
Floyd |
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Middle of Eastern Hallway       W
Floyd | 11 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You bang the edge of your hand against your ear, but nothing of note
Floyd | is heard from Middle of Eastern Hallway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x death" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Middle of Eastern Hallway       W
Floyd | 11 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DEATH
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x rubble" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Middle of Eastern Hallway       W
Floyd | 11 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X RUBBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks like chunks of the ceiling and the wall fell in. Who knows
Floyd | what it covers?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "dig" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Middle of Eastern Hallway       W
Floyd | 11 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > DIG
Floyd |
Floyd | You begin to pull some of the larger stones and debris off of the
Floyd | pile. Gradually, you uncover a familiar body. It is dusty, battered
Floyd | and bruised and wearing important looking robes. Nervously, you
Floyd | continue to dig until the body is totally uncovered.
Floyd |
Floyd | You pull the body out of the rubble, but then the debris pile shifts
Floyd | and part of the ceiling rains down into the hallway. It doesn't feel
Floyd | safe to remain here for long.
Floyd |
Floyd | You look up toward the forcefield, which is flickering and probably
Floyd | going to fail soon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Movement behind you, makes you feel tense. You turn and notice that
Floyd | the body has pulled itself to the edge of the wall. It still appears
Floyd | to be without life, but a sharp glow surrounds it. You watch as it
Floyd | pulls a lever, that was hidden, and then the body slumps to the floor,
Floyd | lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd | From far off, you here the shifting of stone on stone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "......"
		DavidW asks, "uh, what?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x body" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Middle of Eastern Hallway       W
Floyd | 11 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BODY
Floyd |
Floyd | The battered body reminds you of the wandering soul, that you met
Floyd | earlier. He is wearing important looking robes, but the robes are
Floyd | badly burned.
Floyd |
Floyd | In one of the pockets of the robe, you find a scroll. You also notice
Floyd | that the man is holding a glyph stone of breathing. As you pocket your
Floyd | new found gifts, the forcefield emits sparks and turns a dull shade of
Floyd | blue. You understand that its power is fading.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | It might become hard hard to breath if the forcefield continues to
Floyd | fail.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "What forcefield?"
		DavidW says, "use the stone"
		DavidW says, "The forcefield ceiling"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "use stone" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Middle of Eastern Hallway       W
Floyd | 11 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > USE STONE
Floyd |
Floyd | You crush the clear glyph stone in your hand and throw the fine
Floyd | crystal powder into the air. The powder begins to swirl and turn into
Floyd | a small vortex, surrounding your body. The black soot in the hallway
Floyd | is swept away and you take deep breaths of healthy air.
Floyd |
Floyd | For the moment, the spinning vortex that surrounds you provides
Floyd | breathable air, while the forcefield decays.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x lever" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Middle of Eastern Hallway       W
Floyd | 11 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LEVER
Floyd |
Floyd | You see nothing special about the lever.
Floyd |
Floyd | For the moment, the spinning vortex that surrounds you provides
Floyd | breathable air, while the forcefield decays.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Middle of Eastern Hallway       W
Floyd | 11 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Middle of Eastern Hallway
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Back W?"
		DavidW asks, "I guess. Were we here only to get the scroll?"
		Zach asks, "Yeah, maybe that lowered the other forcefield?"
		DavidW says (to Zach), "oh, maybe."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Probably. Which we should check out, but maybe once we're in a safer place."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, yeah maybe."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Eastern Hallway                E, W
Floyd | 11 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul reflects an image of a bloody battle. Then, it drifts
Floyd | along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Eastern Hallway
Floyd | You can see a lost soul and a spacesuit here.
Floyd |
Floyd | For the moment, the spinning vortex that surrounds you provides
Floyd | breathable air, while the forcefield decays.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take spacesuit" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Eastern Hallway                E, W
Floyd | 11 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE SPACESUIT
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | For the moment, the spinning vortex that surrounds you provides
Floyd | breathable air, while the forcefield decays.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction            N, S, E, W
Floyd | 12 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | The bulkhead door closes with a booming thud as you move into the
Floyd | Hallway Junction.
Floyd |
Floyd | The vortex of breathable air also slows and fades, and you are
Floyd | breathing normal air again.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul reflects an image of a bloody battle. Then, it drifts
Floyd | along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway Junction
Floyd | You can see a lost soul and a glowing soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice a glowing soul in front of you. He emits a sense of calm
Floyd | and stablity. You feel safe and comforted, as he approaches you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Thank you for removing my body from its tomb," he says.
Floyd | You ask, "Who are you?"
Floyd | "I am Secudnia, one of the Time Immortals," he says.
Floyd | "I believe I was a Thanatos Immortal, at one time," you say,
Floyd | surprising yourself.
Floyd | "I know this to be true, " he says, laying a calming hand on your
Floyd | shoulder.
Floyd | "We've called you here to help us," he continues.
Floyd | "Tell me what I can do," you say.
Floyd | "The Druidic Immortals, have started a power war and they have forced
Floyd | key Immortals, including Death herself, into hiding. She said, that
Floyd | you were probably one of last chances for victory. Most of us have
Floyd | forgotten about you, so you might have have a better chance at
Floyd | surprising the Druidic Faction," the glowing soul says.
Floyd | "I've been under attack since before I got here," you say.
Floyd | "Still, we ask that you seek out Death, and avenge the destruction
Floyd | that Mother Nature and her Druidic clan are bringing about," the
Floyd | glowing soul says.
Floyd | "I'll do what I can," you say with a heavy sigh.
Floyd | "You're not alone, find your way to Death's Door and help will be
Floyd | forthcoming," the glowing soul says. Then it slowly fades in a dull
Floyd | shimmer and then only a memory of the soul remains.
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Hallway Junction            N, S, E, W
Floyd | 12 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway Junction
Floyd | This is the convergence between three great hallways. Somehow, it
Floyd | feels like a great deal of foot traffic would normally pass through
Floyd | here. A great stone archway leads to the northern section of the
Floyd | facilities.A vending machine lies on it side in the southern end of
Floyd | the hall. Although there are no footprints here, it looks like a
Floyd | brutal battle has taken place. Blast holes and scorch marks cover most
Floyd | of the walls. The arched hallway ceiling, which is transparent, is
Floyd | also badly burned. But you can still partially see the stars within
Floyd | the void shining through it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The hallway floor is covered in bloody sand, probably carried in from
Floyd | the Transport Chamber. Obsidian pillars reach up out of the sand, and
Floyd | extend up to the ceiling.
Floyd |
Floyd | A tiny thought bubble floats around in the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large blast door is blocking access to the hallway to the east.
Floyd | Blood streaks down from the keypad.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Ah, we can go north now"
		DavidW says, "oh. So we can"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Thanatos Hallway                N
Floyd | 12 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul reflects an image of a child crying. Then, it drifts
Floyd | along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Thanatos Hallway
Floyd | This is a long hallway, that seems to stretch off into infinity. A
Floyd | blurry haze seems to be gathering at the other end of the hallway. It
Floyd | seems as if this hall has been altered by magic of some kind. As you
Floyd | walk down the hallway, you can feel the pin-prick of static magical
Floyd | discharge.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x soul" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Thanatos Hallway                N
Floyd | 12 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SOUL
Floyd |
Floyd | It appears to be a man, but most of the light seems to pass right
Floyd | through him. The rest seems to mirror his environment. Looking at him,
Floyd | is like looking at rippling water, with reflections of whatever is
Floyd | around him shining back.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Haze                         N, S, E
Floyd | 12 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul brushes into you and you feel a tiny shock. Then, it
Floyd | drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Haze
Floyd | A billowing, almost alive, thick fog surrounds the area.
Floyd |
Floyd | A stone path leads back to the courtyard and to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | Stairs, which seem to be made of glass, lead up to a glowing thought
Floyd | bubble.
Floyd |
Floyd | Another thought, is off to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x glowing" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Haze                         N, S, E
Floyd | 12 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GLOWING
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks like a giant, neon green, soap bubble. Something seems to be
Floyd | inside of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "This is another game where you could make a drinking game from how often something 'seems' or 'appears'."
		DavidW says, "heh"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pop glowing" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Haze                         N, S, E
Floyd | 12 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > POP GLOWING
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), " break glowing" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Haze                         N, S, E
Floyd | 12 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | >  BREAK GLOWING
Floyd |
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "look in glowing" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Haze                         N, S, E
Floyd | 12 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK IN GLOWING
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "look inside glowing" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Haze                         N, S, E
Floyd | 12 / 11
Floyd |

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all from glowing" 		

Floyd | > LOOK INSIDE GLOWING
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Haze                         N, S, E
Floyd | 12 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE ALL FROM GLOWING
Floyd |
Floyd | That can't contain things.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take glowing" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Haze                         N, S, E
Floyd | 12 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE GLOWING
Floyd |
Floyd | That's hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Haze                         N, S, E
Floyd | 12 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd | You put your foot on the first step and it drifts right through. You
Floyd | must be too real to be able to walk up the stairs right now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh no. It's all too real!"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pop glowing" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Haze                         N, S, E
Floyd | 12 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > POP GLOWING
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "lick glowing" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Haze                         N, S, E
Floyd | 12 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > LICK GLOWING
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, ">keep it less real"
		DavidW says, "I suppose we must embrace our unreality so our frequencies can resonate, Then it's just a matter of reversing the polarity, and we're golden."
		Zach asks, "Try north or east?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Haze                         N, S, E
Floyd | 12 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > XYZZY
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "East?"
		DavidW says, "yeah, east"
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Your Office                     W
Floyd | 12 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul reflects an image of a bloody battle. Then, it drifts
Floyd | along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your Office
Floyd | You've stepped into what appears to be your office. This is a shabbily
Floyd | decorated, dimly lit private detective office. Apparently, you were
Floyd | not a big spender.
Floyd |
Floyd | A beat up desk rests on the uneven floor in one corner. A wastepaper
Floyd | basket, dented, is next to the desk. On the desk you see a pile of
Floyd | business cards, broken lamp, old newspapers and a pizza box. Musty
Floyd | shelves, filled with old crime novels, line the walls. A painting, of
Floyd | dogs playing poker, is hung on the opposite wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a lost soul, a dog painting and an old pizza here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x painting" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Your Office                     W
Floyd | 12 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PAINTING
Floyd |
Floyd | It's hung crookedly, as usual. Also, it is still as ugly as it ever
Floyd | was.
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind the painting is a big safe. It has one of those number pads on
Floyd | it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x safe" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Your Office                     W
Floyd | 12 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SAFE
Floyd |
Floyd | In the big safe is a journal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "read journal" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Your Office                     W
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ JOURNAL
Floyd |
Floyd | it's a journal of yours. You flip to recent entries and notice that
Floyd | you were losing memories. You also notice that you had an noted an
Floyd | important appointment on the day you were attacked. Most importantly,
Floyd | you see that you had been warned about the attacks. Somebody was
Floyd | trying to help you!
Floyd |
Floyd | As you continue to flip through the journal, a ray of light pierces
Floyd | the wall at the journal vanishes. You quickly duck for cover, but
Floyd | nothing else seems to happen.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I am not at all surprised at a safe being behind the painting."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x pizza" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Your Office                     W
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PIZZA
Floyd |
Floyd | Mmmmm.. weeks old, extra anchovies! It still smells as good as the day
Floyd | you bought it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell it" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Your Office                     W
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > SMELL IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat it" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Your Office                     W
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > EAT IT
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking the old pizza)
Floyd | That's plainly inedible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "well, someone will want it,"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Your Office                     W
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Your Office
Floyd | You've stepped into what appears to be your office. This is a shabbily
Floyd | decorated, dimly lit private detective office. Apparently, you were
Floyd | not a big spender.
Floyd |
Floyd | A beat up desk rests on the uneven floor in one corner. A wastepaper
Floyd | basket, dented, is next to the desk. On the desk you see a pile of
Floyd | business cards, broken lamp, old newspapers and a pizza box. Musty
Floyd | shelves, filled with old crime novels, line the walls. A painting, of
Floyd | dogs playing poker, is hung on the opposite wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a lost soul and a dog painting here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x basket" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Your Office                     W
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BASKET
Floyd |
Floyd | It is filled with balled up papers. You pick some of them out and
Floyd | quickly grow bored with the task.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x cards" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Your Office                     W
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CARDS
Floyd |
Floyd | It your own business card, advertising your private detective
Floyd | business. Your name is spelled wrong wrong and a blotch of ink covers
Floyd | part of the phone number on every card.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x lamp" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Your Office                     W
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LAMP
Floyd |
Floyd | It's broken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "get lamp" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Your Office                     W
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET LAMP
Floyd |
Floyd | That's hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x newspapers" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Your Office                     W
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X NEWSPAPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x shelves" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Your Office                     W
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SHELVES
Floyd |
Floyd | When you weren't working, you read cheesey crime novels. There are
Floyd | hundreds of books stuffed onto the shelves.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x novels" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Your Office                     W
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X NOVELS
Floyd |
Floyd | Maybe you can read these later.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search novels" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Your Office                     W
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH NOVELS
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "take novel" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Your Office                     W
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE NOVEL
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open drawer" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Your Office                     W
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DRAWER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x desk" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Your Office                     W
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DESK
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW | Then a dame wandered into my office. She had trouble written all over her. The tattoo bills must be enormous.
		DavidW says, "I really don't understand where the newspapers and pizza came from."
		DavidW asks, "Is the shopping mall of the immortals on another level of the asteroid?"
		Zach says, "See, we were a immortal private detective"
		Zach says, "I think"
		Zach asks, "w and n?"
		DavidW says, "In the pay of death."
		DavidW says, "yeah, sure thing, shweetheart."
		Zach says, "heh"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Haze                         N, S, E
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul drifts toward you and then shines an image of blinding
Floyd | bright light. Then, it drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Haze
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Thick Haze                   N, S, W
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul reflects an image of a bloody battle. Then, it drifts
Floyd | along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Thick Haze
Floyd | A dark black and billowing, sinester and almost alive, dense fog
Floyd | surrounds the area.
Floyd |
Floyd | An ominously chilling wind blows from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x wind" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Thick Haze                   N, S, W
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WIND
Floyd |
Floyd | Standing in the wind feels like being poked with a million pins and
Floyd | needles.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Thick Haze                   N, S, W
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | An icy torrent of deathly cold sweat runs down your back. Suddenly,
Floyd | your veins feel like they are filled with ice water. With your last
Floyd | breath, you pray for warmth. You are reincarnated as a pie. Mmmmm..
Floyd | Blueberry
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** Better luck, next life. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 13 out of a possible 11, in 206 turns.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Thick Haze                   N, S, W
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Thick Haze
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Thick Haze                   N, S, W
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Thick Haze
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Zephyr winds that blow on high! Lift me up so I may fly!"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Hey, Soul. We found your body. You can stop being all creepy and clingy now. Thanks."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "North?"
		DavidW says, "north is good"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Sharp Edge of Reality         S, IN
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul reflects an image of a bloody battle. Then, it drifts
Floyd | along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sharp Edge of Reality
Floyd | A vast watery mirror stands before you. Images of different times and
Floyd | places play out across its surface.
Floyd |
Floyd | Above, below and all around only the empty gulf between reality and
Floyd | the unconscious envelopes this strange place.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "The soul probably isn't supposed to be following us after the name intro."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x mirror" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Sharp Edge of Reality         S, IN
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MIRROR
Floyd |
Floyd | As you look at it, a blurry scene shapes itself and comes into view.
Floyd | You see some sort of hospital room, in an inner city. It seems to be a
Floyd | bit rundown. It seems like you, or someone who looks like you, is
Floyd | lying in bed. The body has bandages over most of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "'and then he woke up. THE END.'"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Ha"
		Zach says, "I swear if that's it..."
		Zach asks, "In?"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Shall we enter the mirror?"
		DavidW says, "sure"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "in" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Otherside                      OUT
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > IN
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul reflects an image of a child crying. Then, it drifts
Floyd | along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Otherside
Floyd | You appear to be on the other side of the mirror thingie. Whether this
Floyd | is real, or not, is a big fat guess.
Floyd |
Floyd | A glittering tunnel leads out of here, and presumably back to where
Floyd | you came from. But who knows?
Floyd |
Floyd | You've drifted into what appears to be a harshly lit hospital room.
Floyd | The room is illuminated by the bright glow of the lights in the
Floyd | ceiling. The rest of the room is dark and faded.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can make out one piece of beat up furniture, that has been wedged
Floyd | into one corner of the room, next to the bed and the chair.
Floyd |
Floyd | A body, heavily bandaged, lies unmoving on the bed. Occasionally a
Floyd | lone fly lands on it and then finding nothing of value, buzzes off.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "by the way, did we ever look at the scroll?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x scroll" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Otherside                      OUT
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SCROLL
Floyd |
Floyd | It contains some kind of spell, but you can't read it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x furniture" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Otherside                      OUT
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FURNITURE
Floyd |
Floyd | You see nothing special about the furniture.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x fly" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Otherside                      OUT
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FLY
Floyd |
Floyd | You see nothing special about the fly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x body" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Otherside                      OUT
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BODY
Floyd |
Floyd | Both arms have casts on them, and one leg is taped up. A blood soaked
Floyd | bandage covers part of the head. The face is also badly bruised.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take bandage" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Otherside                      OUT
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE BANDAGE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to body" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Otherside                      OUT
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO BODY
Floyd |
Floyd | The bandaged body stirs and moans, and somehow pulls itself up. With
Floyd | horror, you realize that it's you. The other you looks at you
Floyd | carefully and then stretches an arm, covered in a cast, toward the
Floyd | current you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Take it," the body says.
Floyd |
Floyd | For a moment, you freeze as you wonder what happened.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'll tell you everything, just take the stone now," the other you
Floyd | groans.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "take stone" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Otherside                      OUT
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE STONE
Floyd |
Floyd | (the yellow glyph stone)
Floyd | The little radio in the room blares to life, and briefly plays the
Floyd | theme song to Chariots of Fire.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you reach for the stone, shadows pour out of the tunnel.  "Shadows
Floyd | be gone," yells your other self. It seems to be some sort of spell, as
Floyd | some of the shadows dissappear after the words are uttered. But, there
Floyd | are too many of them. A look of panic spreads across the bruised face
Floyd | of your otherself.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Run," your other self screams.
Floyd |
Floyd | You stumble back into the tunnel, as the remaining shadows reach out
Floyd | for you.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the shadow creatures brushes your cheek and you can feel the
Floyd | icy evilness of the horrid creature. You realize too late, that you
Floyd | should have worn some protection. You feel a little foolish as your
Floyd | spirit fades away. Over eternity, your soul is turned to ice.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are reincarnated as a tree. You live a happy life, until the
Floyd | logging company comes.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** Better luck, next life. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 13 out of a possible 11, in 213 turns.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Otherside                      OUT
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Otherside
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "read spell" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Otherside                      OUT
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ SPELL
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "read school" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Otherside                      OUT
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ SCHOOL
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "read scroll" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Otherside                      OUT
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ SCROLL
Floyd |
Floyd | It contains some kind of spell, but you can't read it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear helmet" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Otherside                      OUT
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR HELMET
Floyd |
Floyd | You put on the helmet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take stone" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Sharp Edge of Reality         S, IN
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE STONE
Floyd |
Floyd | (the yellow glyph stone)
Floyd | The little radio in the room blares to life, and briefly plays the
Floyd | theme song to Chariots of Fire.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you reach for the stone, shadows pour out of the tunnel.  "Shadows
Floyd | be gone," yells your other self. It seems to be some sort of spell, as
Floyd | some of the shadows dissappear after the words are uttered. But, there
Floyd | are too many of them. A look of panic spreads across the bruised face
Floyd | of your otherself.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Run," your other self screams.
Floyd |
Floyd | You stumble back into the tunnel, as the remaining shadows reach out
Floyd | for you.
Floyd |
Floyd | One of the creatures brushes your helmet, layering it with ice. Now
Floyd | you seem to have difficulty breathing with the helmet on, perhaps you
Floyd | should take it off.
Floyd |
Floyd | Fortunately, you seem to have survived the ordeal with no other
Floyd | problems.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sharp Edge of Reality
Floyd | A vast watery mirror stands before you. Images of different times and
Floyd | places play out across its surface.
Floyd |
Floyd | Above, below and all around only the empty gulf between reality and
Floyd | the unconscious envelopes this strange place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Ah"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x stone" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Sharp Edge of Reality         S, IN
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STONE
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the yellow glyph stone or the clear glyph stone?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x yellow" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Sharp Edge of Reality         S, IN
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X YELLOW
Floyd |
Floyd | It is a small rectangular shaped yellow stone. A sun glyph is
Floyd | emblazoned on one side. It also feels warm.
Floyd |
Floyd | cough, cough.. It's hard to breath with this helmet now. Better fix
Floyd | it, or save it until you really need it.
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "remove helmet" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Sharp Edge of Reality         S, IN
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMOVE HELMET
Floyd |
Floyd | You take off the helmet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "We didn't practice safe mirror-image talking. We didn't wear protection."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I hope it's the meal glyph~"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x clear glyph" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Sharp Edge of Reality         S, IN
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CLEAR GLYPH
Floyd |
Floyd | It is a small round and transparent stone. A breathing sigil is etched
Floyd | into the stone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "mmhmm. I just had me some pizza."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Sharp Edge of Reality         S, IN
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a yellow glyph stone
Floyd |   an old pizza
Floyd |   a spacesuit
Floyd |   a clear glyph stone
Floyd |   a scroll of magic
Floyd |   a Bug Bear book
Floyd |   a sandals (being worn)
Floyd |   a dark robe
Floyd |   a helmet
Floyd |   a Samurai sword (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach asks, "I guess that glyph didn't get used up?"
		DavidW says, "I had two sandwiches just before we began the session."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf7" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Sharp Edge of Reality         S, IN
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "use clear" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Sharp Edge of Reality         S, IN
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > USE CLEAR
Floyd |
Floyd | You crush the clear glyph stone in your hand and throw the fine
Floyd | crystal powder into the air. The powder begins to swirl and turn into
Floyd | a small vortex, surrounding your body. The black soot in the hallway
Floyd | is swept away and you take deep breaths of healthy air.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Sharp Edge of Reality         S, IN
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Sharp Edge of Reality
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Heh. Probably was supposed to."
		DavidW says, "so buggy"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Back south, and then I guess we use the new glyph to survive the cold to the west?"
		Zach says, "I hope it's winnable"
		Zach says, "Sure"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Thick Haze                   N, S, W
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul drifts aimlessly for a moment. Then it drags its fingers
Floyd | down the wall, making no sound but you still get the shivers. Then, it
Floyd | drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Thick Haze
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "use yellow" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Thick Haze                   N, S, W
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > USE YELLOW
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "did we get the new glyph?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Thick Haze                   N, S, W
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a yellow glyph stone
Floyd |   an old pizza
Floyd |   a spacesuit
Floyd |   a clear glyph stone
Floyd |   a scroll of magic
Floyd |   a Bug Bear book
Floyd |   a sandals (being worn)
Floyd |   a dark robe
Floyd |   a helmet
Floyd |   a Samurai sword (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "use yellow glyph" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Thick Haze                   N, S, W
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > USE YELLOW GLYPH
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Death's Door                    E
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | An icy trickle of deathly cold sweat runs down your back.
Floyd |
Floyd | The lost soul brushes into you and you feel a tiny shock. Then, it
Floyd | drifts along with you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Death's Door
Floyd | A very large, cold steel door is set into a mountain of black rock.
Floyd | There is no handle. The word "D E A T H" is embossed into the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a lost soul here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Two giant wolves, with gleaming red eyes, appear before you in a puff
Floyd | of smoke. Now, probably is not the time to run.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Bleh."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Nice doggies."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pet wolves" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Death's Door                    E
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > PET WOLVES
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x wolves" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Death's Door                    E
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WOLVES
Floyd |
Floyd | Their eyes are like two burning rubies. They drool blood as you watch
Floyd | them. You probably wouldn't want to pet them.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "knock" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Death's Door                    E
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > KNOCK
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to knock on?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "'bring us a shrubbery!'"
Zach says (to Floyd), "knock on death's door" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Death's Door                    E
Floyd | 13 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > KNOCK ON DEATH'S DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "knock on door" 		

Floyd ] location                    seen exits                 score
Floyd ] Death's Door                    E
Floyd | 14 / 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > KNOCK ON DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You knock on the door and it swings slowly open to reveal a small
Floyd | antechamber. You enter and the door slams shut. Once again you are
Floyd | enveloped in a bright light, you blink and the light fades. You find
Floyd | yourself standing on the shore of a purple ocean. Death is standing
Floyd | here, waiting. She says, "I'm glad you've come."
Floyd | You begin to open your mouth to say something, but she says, "We have
Floyd | little time for pleasantries. You have made it here in one piece. That
Floyd | is more than any of the others have accomplished. Mother Nature is
Floyd | gathering power, more than she has ever had. Look at the havoc she has
Floyd | brought about on your adopted planet! I have a plan, and I'm asking
Floyd | you for help with it! She does not know where I am, for now. If she
Floyd | did, I am not sure what would happen."
Floyd | "Are you using me, so that you can hide?" you ask.
Floyd | Death roars, "Death goes on! Will you help on not?"
Floyd | "I will help," you say with a few doubts.
Floyd | Death hands you an ancient wooden box, and says, "This box contains
Floyd | all that you need. Good luck."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have won ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 14 out of a possible 11, in 224 turns.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Yay"
		DavidW says, "I sense a 'to be continued' to this ending."
		DavidW says, "Also, Death was 'hiding' in Death's room? Not exactly what I'd call a hiding spot."
		Zach says, "heh"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "q" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > Q
Floyd | debugcheapnitfol quit with exit status: 0

		
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" 		DavidW says, "That was a weird game."
		


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ClubFloyd Transcript:
Sunday Afternoon by Christopher Huang as "Virgil Hilts"
As played on ifMUD on December 16, 2012

The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction.

Below is a transcript of Sunday Afternoon written by Christopher Huang as "Virgil Hilts". Sunday Afternoon was released as part of the 2012 Interactive Fiction Competition, in which it took fifth place. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki.

WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page.
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Jacqueline hollers, "So, um, I'm throwing a party in the Toyshop and you all were invited but I'm the only one here. Well, me and Perry. I guess we'll play Christopher Huang's Sunday Afternoon by ourselves. [This message has been brought to you by PassiveAgressiveNotes.com]" 		
Zach arrives, full of fun and funk. 		
inky arrives, full of fun and funk. 		inky says, "ha ha"
djfletch arrives, full of funk, but no fun. 		djfletch says, "another victory for passive aggression"
Bert arrives, ready to play with the toys. 		
Bert says, "Fine, fine." 		Jacqueline says, "Yay"
		Jacqueline says, "Hm. I was hoping Mis would be here. I guess he'll probably show up at some point."
Bert exclaims, "I'm here, but I'm promising you I don't plan to like it!" 		
Jacqueline says (to Bert), "Fine, fine." 		Jacqueline says, "So, I guess we should do this, then."
maga arrives, full of fun, but no funk. 		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask sundayafternoon" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | July, 1892.
Floyd |
Floyd | Father is off to Oxford again, and Mother's gone with him.  You know
Floyd | what that means: another day in the care of Uncle Stephen, who is nice
Floyd | but boring, and Aunt Emma, who means well but won't let you do
Floyd | anything fun.  Worst of all, it's a Sunday, which means you're sitting
Floyd | very upright in Aunt Emma's parlour, in all your stiff-starched Sunday
Floyd | best, trying to read Uncle Stephen's latest sermon about one of the
Floyd | less-interesting parts of the Bible while Aunt Emma pretends that she
Floyd | wouldn't rather be knitting and Uncle Stephen hides under a pile of
Floyd | Hebrew and Latin and Greek in his study.
Floyd |
Floyd | Plus, it's gloriously sunny outside, and you can smell the grass from
Floyd | in here.  It's just not fair.  All the servants have the day off
Floyd | because Uncle Stephen and Aunt Emma don't believe in making people do
Floyd | any real work on Sundays, and you can bet that they -- Janet and
Floyd | Morris and Cookie, each of whom is loads more fun than Uncle Stephen
Floyd | and Aunt Emma put together -- are probably not all cooped up indoors
Floyd | in their Sunday best.
Floyd |
Floyd | If only there were some way you could escape....
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | (Type "HELP" for further information, instructions or hints)
Floyd |
Floyd | Sunday Afternoon
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Christopher Huang (originally writing as
Floyd | "Virgil Hilts")
Floyd | Release 3 / Serial number 121213 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x victoria" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X VICTORIA
Floyd |
Floyd | Mother has a portrait just like this back home, hung in exactly the
Floyd | same place over the parlour fireplace.  Everybody you know has the
Floyd | same.  You reckon that anyone who doesn't must be a spy, a heretic, a
Floyd | foreigner, or worse.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert asks, "Tangentially: what's 'sleepmask'?"
		maga says, "I wonder how one reads the Bible dutilessly"
		Jacqueline says (to Bert), "It's the thing that gives us html formatting and the status line."
		Jacqueline says, "It's a thing vimes created."
		Bert says (to maga), "Someone who's just going over Song of Solomon."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x Bible" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BIBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma's had the same Bible for as long as you've known her.  How
Floyd | she manages to keep it from getting dog-eared, given how often she
Floyd | reads it, you do not know.  Aunt Emma has it open on her lap, and you
Floyd | notice that she's using Janet's master key to mark her place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		maga says, "'going for the dirty bits' was my first thought, yes"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x key" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | The master key is usually carried by the servants, which seems a
Floyd | little ironic.  But then it's the servants who need to get into every
Floyd | nook and cranny of the house, from attic to coal cellar; normal people
Floyd | only need to get into the civilised living spaces.  Since the servants
Floyd | today are out, it's been handed over to Aunt Emma ... which still
Floyd | seems a little ironic, since she's the mistress of the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x emma" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma is Uncle Stephen's sister, one of those maiden aunts who
Floyd | always ends up chaperoning people around; which, as you understand it,
Floyd | means it's her job to make sure people don't have any fun.  You know
Floyd | she means well, really, but she takes her job much too seriously.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x fireplace" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | The fireplace is cold this time of the year, just as it should be.
Floyd | The mantel above is, as usual, burgeoning with a million little
Floyd | ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x mantel" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MANTEL
Floyd |
Floyd | It's one of those extraordinarily sturdy oak affairs.  Every time you
Floyd | visit, it looks as though it could not possibly hold even one more
Floyd | little ornament without collapsing; and yet, every time you visit, it
Floyd | looks as though Aunt Emma has managed to fit one more thing on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | Among the many souvenirs of ancient history, you spot a duelling
Floyd | pistol.  That doesn't look like the sort of thing boring people like
Floyd | Aunt Emma or Uncle Stephen (or, let's face it, anyone in your whole
Floyd | family) are likely to keep around the house!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x pistol" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PISTOL
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a little chipped and battered, which means that it's been used,
Floyd | which is even more surprising because you really cannot picture Uncle
Floyd | Stephen handling a pistol without sermonising about it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about pistol" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT PISTOL
Floyd |
Floyd | "That used to belong to an old friend.  I don't normally hold with
Floyd | duelling, but he was a very dear friend and ... you really should get
Floyd | back to your reading, Hector."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about friend" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT FRIEND
Floyd |
Floyd | "You are referring to a dear, old friend of the family," says Aunt
Floyd | Emma, not looking at you.  "He got a commission with the army and went
Floyd | to India and ... war is a nasty, nasty business, Hector.  I hope and
Floyd | pray that you never have to see it."  Well, perhaps, but it would be
Floyd | really exciting....
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about war" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT WAR
Floyd |
Floyd | "That," says Aunt Emma firmly, "is thankfully something about which I
Floyd | know absolutely nothing."
Floyd |
Floyd | Your family is so boring.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about india" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT INDIA
Floyd |
Floyd | "I much prefer to stay in England, thank you very much.  Strange lands
Floyd | like India are for wanderers with more courage than sense."  Aunt Emma
Floyd | pauses.  "Well, courage ... it's a very fine thing, I suppose...."
Floyd |
Floyd | You're sure you hear Aunt Emma say something about "dear old Captain
Floyd | Davis..." as she turns back to her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about davis" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT DAVIS
Floyd |
Floyd | "Captain Davis was a dear, old friend of the family," says Aunt Emma,
Floyd | not looking at you.  "He got a commission with the army and went to
Floyd | India and ... war is a nasty, nasty business, Hector.  I hope and pray
Floyd | that you never have to see it."  Well, perhaps, but it would be really
Floyd | exciting....
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "(Am I overcontrolling?)"
Zach says (to Floyd), "ask emma about bible" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT BIBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "(No, it's fine. Please keep doing it.)"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x armchair" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ARMCHAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | Give Aunt Emma due credit: she did make sure you always got the most
Floyd | comfortable armchair in the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You've been thoroughly scrubbed and ironed and starched into your
Floyd | least comfortable set of clothes.  One day, when you are either Prime
Floyd | Minister or Archbishop of Canterbury -- depending on whether you
Floyd | listen to Mother or Father -- you're going to outlaw starch or declare
Floyd | it anathema or both.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x window" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | From here, you can see the lawn and the woods and the distant  spires
Floyd | of the cathedral.  The sun is shining and you know that the woods are
Floyd | just bursting with interesting things to discover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "I guess I see what maga means about knowing nearly immediately that this was a Miseri game."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x cathedral" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CATHEDRAL
Floyd |
Floyd | Barchester Cathedral is just visible beyond the woods.  You can't make
Floyd | out the details, but you know it's all very grand and impressive, at
Floyd | least to someone who isn't made to go there quite as regularly as you
Floyd | are.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Heh. Indeed."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x sun" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SUN
Floyd |
Floyd | Why are you still indoors?  Why?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x woods" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WOODS
Floyd |
Floyd | The woods look incredibly enticing this time of the year.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   Uncle Stephen's latest sermon
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x sermon" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SERMON
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have picked 1 Chronicles 6:1-15 as the topic of
Floyd | his sermon.  Oh dear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "read it" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ IT
Floyd |
Floyd | Believe it or not, the part where Uncle Stephen expounds upon the
Floyd | chosen passage is even less interesting than the passage itself.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about sermon" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SERMON
Floyd |
Floyd | "If you're having trouble with it, bring it here and show it to me,
Floyd | and I'll explain it as best I can," says Aunt Emma kindly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "show sermon to emma" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW SERMON TO EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma tries to explain the sermon to you.  Her rather confused and
Floyd | unintelligible rambling fails to make it any more interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		inky | [LINK]
		Bert says, "Oh, man. I was thinking to myself 'at least it's not the begats', and then I looked it up."
		Zach says, "heh"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about levi" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT LEVI
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Oh dear."
inky says (to Floyd), "put sermon on mantel" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SERMON ON MANTEL
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no room.  There's never any room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "open window" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "break window" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > BREAK WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.  Also, Uncle Stephen would tan
Floyd | your hide.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "swear" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SWEAR
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask Emma where baby Bible characters come from" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA WHERE BABY BIBLE CHARACTERS COME FROM
Floyd |
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "go find a nice girl and do some begetting" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GO FIND A NICE GIRL AND DO SOME BEGETTING
Floyd |
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "give sermon to emma" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE SERMON TO EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | You show Uncle Stephen's latest sermon to Aunt Emma.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma tries to explain the sermon to you.  Her rather confused and
Floyd | unintelligible rambling fails to make it any more interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "ask emma about key" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | "Someone has to take care of supper while the servants are away,
Floyd | Hector."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Convenient that it's a master key."
Bert says (to Floyd), "get portrait" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET PORTRAIT
Floyd |
Floyd | The portrait is out of reach.  Besides, that would probably be
Floyd | lèse-majesté, which you just learned about last Spring in
Floyd | your French lessons.  You would never want to visit a French crime on
Floyd | your English queen.  That would be wrong.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get key" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but somehow you doubt if this will be
Floyd | the case here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "look behind portrait" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND PORTRAIT
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma for key" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA FOR KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but that is clearly not the case here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Something among the ornaments on the mantel catches the light, and
Floyd | gleams momentarily.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get pistol" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET PISTOL
Floyd |
Floyd | If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk having the whole lot
Floyd | come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too young to die.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Emma gives you a stern glare that quite effectively puts you in your
Floyd | place.  Or keeps you there, at least.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "enter fireplace" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | You'll only get yourself covered in soot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | Emma gives you a stern glare that quite effectively puts you in your
Floyd | place.  Or keeps you there, at least.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "tell emma about three-headed monkey" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > TELL EMMA ABOUT THREE-HEADED MONKEY
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about uncle" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT UNCLE
Floyd |
Floyd | "Your uncle is a busy man, Hector.  He does not wish to be disturbed."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about emma" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about me" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not so vain that you need Aunt Emma to tell you what a good boy
Floyd | you are; nor do you care to hear about how you should have washed
Floyd | behind your ears this morning, or some such nonsense.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "heehee"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ears" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X EARS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "x gleam" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GLEAM
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read sermon" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ SERMON
Floyd |
Floyd | Believe it or not, the part where Uncle Stephen expounds upon the
Floyd | chosen passage is even less interesting than the passage itself.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel is a duelling pistol, half hidden in a crowd of other
Floyd | little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bored, you glance up at the mantel and wonder what Aunt Emma could
Floyd | have added to it since your last visit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "read bible" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ BIBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | It would be rude to go meddling with something while someone else is
Floyd | still holding on to it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma for bible" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA FOR BIBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but that is clearly not the case here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "stand" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > STAND
Floyd |
Floyd | Emma gives you a stern glare that quite effectively puts you in your
Floyd | place.  Or keeps you there, at least.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about foreset" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT FORESET
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about forest" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT FOREST
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "search armchair" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH ARMCHAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | The armchair is empty.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x chair" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CHAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | Give Aunt Emma due credit: she did make sure you always got the most
Floyd | comfortable armchair in the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > XYZZY
Floyd |
Floyd | "What?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		
Bert pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | Getting the other fellows to join in on this story-telling lark seemed
Floyd | like a good idea at the time.  It was better than yet another game of
Floyd | cards, anyway, and it rather took the mind off who is or is not going
Floyd | to be at mess in the morning.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Somewhere In Flanders
Floyd | It's a little terrifying how accustomed you've gotten to this muddy,
Floyd | grimy hell-hole.  You could probably find your way back here in the
Floyd | dark, crawling blind through a maze of twisty trenches, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Anderson, Jellicoe, Hardy and Macdougal here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Everyone is staring at Macdougal, who begins to turn a bright red.
Floyd |
Floyd | "What on earth is that supposed to mean?" barks Anderson at the
Floyd | hapless fellow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x macdougal" 		

Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MACDOUGAL
Floyd |
Floyd | Macdougal joined the battalion only a month ago, thanks to the
Floyd | Military Service Act of January last.  Just think, when you were his
Floyd | age, Edward VII was just clambering up onto the throne.  Anderson
Floyd | probably picked him for his batman out of pity.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Magic words," says Macdougal, looking to you in appeal.  "It's
Floyd | standard operating procedure in these games, isn't it?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I've never heard that one before in my life," you declare.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "This is from Xyzzying?"
		Bert says, "Yeah."
		Jacqueline says, "Nice."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | Your uniform was beautifully starched and crisp when you first left
Floyd | England two years ago.  You thought you'd be back (for good, not on
Floyd | leave) before the starch had quite softened on your collar.  And now
Floyd | look at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Jellicoe lets out a snort of exasperation.  "Really," he drawls.
Floyd | "Magic.  What nonsense.  I'm surprised at you, Macdougal, although
Floyd | goodness knows what they're teaching you in school these days."
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'd suggest we just get on with it, wouldn't you?" says Hardy, and
Floyd | Anderson nods in agreement.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		
Bert pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel is a duelling pistol, half hidden in a crowd of other
Floyd | little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | Goodness.  What on earth was that?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "enter fireplace" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | You'll only get yourself covered in soot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x soot" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SOOT
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Tsk."
		Jacqueline says, "heh"
		inky says, "you can't see any such thing, without climbing into the fireplace"
		Jacqueline says, "Yeah, he's only obsessively implemented every other thing you've asked for."
		Jacqueline exclaims (at inky), "True!"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about bathroom" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT BATHROOM
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says (to Jacq), "Hee."
		Bert exclaims (at Jacq), "*He's* the one who brought up the soot, not me!"
		Jacqueline says, "heh"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "plover" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLOVER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't depend on magic to get you out of this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You've been thoroughly scrubbed and ironed and starched into your
Floyd | least comfortable set of clothes.  One day, when you are either Prime
Floyd | Minister or Archbishop of Canterbury -- depending on whether you
Floyd | listen to Mother or Father -- you're going to outlaw starch or declare
Floyd | it anathema or both.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "AW"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x clothes" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CLOTHES
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "plugh" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLUGH
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't depend on magic to get you out of this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "xyxxy" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > XYXXY
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		inky says, "this is a starchy game"
Bert says (to Floyd), "hide" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > HIDE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > XYZZY
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't depend on magic to get you out of this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about dinner" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT DINNER
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about supper" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SUPPER
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Okay, just the one time. Still, very lovely touch."
Bert says (to Floyd), "sing lullabye" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SING LULLABYE
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to sing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about pistol" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT PISTOL
Floyd |
Floyd | "That used to belong to Captain Davis.  I don't normally hold with
Floyd | duelling, but he was a very dear friend and ... you really should get
Floyd | back to your reading, Hector."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about reading" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT READING
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about davis" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT DAVIS
Floyd |
Floyd | "Captain Davis was a dear, old friend of the family," says Aunt Emma,
Floyd | not looking at you.  "He got a commission with the army and went to
Floyd | India and ... war is a nasty, nasty business, Hector.  I hope and pray
Floyd | that you never have to see it."  Well, perhaps, but it would be really
Floyd | exciting....
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about commission" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT COMMISSION
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about england" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT ENGLAND
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "get pistol" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET PISTOL
Floyd |
Floyd | If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk having the whole lot
Floyd | come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too young to die.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about courage" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT COURAGE
Floyd |
Floyd | "That is a virtue you would do well to cultivate, but there is such a
Floyd | thing as too much of a good thing."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about virtue" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT VIRTUE
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Aunt Emma has nothing interesting to say about anything."
inky says (to Floyd), "feel chair" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > FEEL CHAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "look under chair" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK UNDER CHAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "read bible" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ BIBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | It would be rude to go meddling with something while someone else is
Floyd | still holding on to it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get bible" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET BIBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but somehow you doubt if this will be
Floyd | the case here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "But she is, afterall, boring."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "emma, give bible" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > EMMA, GIVE BIBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | (to Aunt Emma)
Floyd | Aunt Emma has better things to do.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "emma, give bible to me" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > EMMA, GIVE BIBLE TO ME
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma has better things to do.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "I bet Uncle Stephen would tell us the story about Captain Davis, if we could find him."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "escape" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ESCAPE
Floyd |
Floyd | Yes, but how?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "ha"
		Bert says, "It seems like we either want to make Emma stop paying attention to us, or to make her think we're done reading the sermon."
		Jacqueline says, "yeah"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "tell emma about sermon" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > TELL EMMA ABOUT SERMON
Floyd |
Floyd | "If you're having trouble with it, bring it here and show it to me,
Floyd | and I'll explain it as best I can," says Aunt Emma kindly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "show sermon to emma" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW SERMON TO EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma tries to explain the sermon to you.  Her rather confused and
Floyd | unintelligible rambling fails to make it any more interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "kill emma" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.  Also, Uncle Stephen would tan
Floyd | your hide.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "snrk"
Bert says (to Floyd), "study sermon" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > STUDY SERMON
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "finish sermon" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > FINISH SERMON
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "eat sermon" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > EAT SERMON
Floyd |
Floyd | That's plainly inedible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "put sermon in fireplace" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SERMON IN FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's unlikely to get you any closer to the great outdoors.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hide sermon" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > HIDE SERMON
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "open window" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "break window" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > BREAK WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.  Also, Uncle Stephen would tan
Floyd | your hide.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put sermon in fireplace" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SERMON IN FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's unlikely to get you any closer to the great outdoors.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "tell emma about sermon" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > TELL EMMA ABOUT SERMON
Floyd |
Floyd | "If you're having trouble with it, bring it here and show it to me,
Floyd | and I'll explain it as best I can," says Aunt Emma kindly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert asks, "So, since that doesn't really seem to be leading anywhere, how can we either distract her or make her go away?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about servants" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SERVANTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about stephen" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT STEPHEN
Floyd |
Floyd | "Your uncle is a busy man, Hector.  He does not wish to be disturbed."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sleep" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | No!  You want to play!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "I bet he does wish to be disturbed."
Bert says (to Floyd), "play" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLAY
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get up" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET UP
Floyd |
Floyd | Emma gives you a stern glare that quite effectively puts you in your
Floyd | place.  Or keeps you there, at least.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about kitch" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT KITCH
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about kitchen" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT KITCHEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the kitchen fireplace or the kitchen door?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "door" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about kitchen fireplace" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT KITCHEN FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x window" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | From here, you can see the lawn and the woods and the distant  spires
Floyd | of the cathedral.  The sun is shining and you know that the woods are
Floyd | just bursting with interesting things to discover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "shout fire" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOUT FIRE
Floyd |
Floyd | (to Aunt Emma)
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about cathedral" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT CATHEDRAL
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about emma" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about mail" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT MAIL
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   Uncle Stephen's latest sermon
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "drop sermon" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP SERMON
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Emma gives you a stern glare that quite effectively puts you in your
Floyd | place.  Or keeps you there, at least.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "She wouldn't even have anything interesting to say about herself? Golly, Victorian women."
		Bert says, "Well, that's it. We're going to spend the rest of our natural life in this chair."
		Jacqueline says, "Aie."
		Bert says, "Or at least the rest of Aunt Emma's natural life."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about victoria" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT VICTORIA
Floyd |
Floyd | "She's our Queen, and on the whole she has been a far better ruler
Floyd | than some of the monarchs in our history."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Hm, true. She'll probably die first."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about monarchs" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT MONARCHS
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about history" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT HISTORY
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about bible" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT BIBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "So, I am trying to tell myself that I don't desperately want a hint."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about hint" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT HINT
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "I'm not really succeeding."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hint" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |  > Credits
Floyd |    About the author
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Hints
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		Bert says, "Oh, yeah, 'help' was supposed to have more general info/instructions, I think. Not just hints."
Bert says (to Floyd), "So let's read that rather than hints." 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |  > Credits
Floyd |    About the author
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Hints
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		Bert says, "So let's read that rather than hints."
		Jacqueline says, "Well, I'm fine with holding off if others want to, but I'm also --- okay."
Bert says (to Floyd), "q" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel is a duelling pistol, half hidden in a crowd of other
Floyd | little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "help" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |  > Credits
Floyd |    About the author
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Hints
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		Bert says, "Which, of course, is the same menu."
Bert presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]                              Credits
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | CREDITS
Floyd |
Floyd | Thanks go, of course, to Graham Nelson and Emily Short for their work
Floyd | on the Inform7 language.  Thanks also to my beta-testers: Doug Jones,
Floyd | Adri, Andy Joel and Andrew Schultz.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		
Bert pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |  > Credits
Floyd |    About the author
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Hints
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |  > About the author
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Hints
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
Bert presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]                          About the author
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Christopher Huang is an architectural technician (which is a fancy way
Floyd | of saying "Draughtsman" or "CADmonkey") based in Montreal.  He is
Floyd | perhaps a little overly influenced by the Barsetshire novels written
Floyd | by Anthony Trollope, and "Sunday Afternoon" may be said to take place
Floyd | within that universe.  In spite of this, the author is not himself a
Floyd | member of the Church of England.
Floyd |
Floyd | The author can be reached by e-mail at mise@ricordius.com.
Floyd | Alternatively, one might try hunting him down on IFmud
Floyd | ([LINK]) where he goes by the name of Miseri.  In
Floyd | either case, he promises not to speak of himself in the third person;
Floyd | truth be told, it is rather a tiresome business.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		
Bert pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |  > About the author
Floyd |    Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Hints
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    About the author
Floyd |  > Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Hints
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		
Bert presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]                       Instructions for Play
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Last Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |  > About Interactive Fiction
Floyd |    What to do with >
Floyd |    Getting Started
Floyd |    Rooms and Travel
Floyd |    Interacting with Other People
Floyd |    Objects
Floyd |    Controlling the Game
Floyd |    How the World is Assembled
Floyd |    If You Get Stuck

		Bert says, "Oh."
		Jacqueline says, "Yeah. Standard stuff, it would appear."
		Bert says, "I guess nothing specific to this game."
Bert says (to Floyd), "p" 		

Floyd ]                       Instructions for Play
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Last Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |  > About Interactive Fiction
Floyd |    What to do with >
Floyd |    Getting Started
Floyd |    Rooms and Travel
Floyd |    Interacting with Other People
Floyd |    Objects
Floyd |    Controlling the Game
Floyd |    How the World is Assembled
Floyd |    If You Get Stuck

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "n n n n n n n" 		

Floyd ]                       Instructions for Play
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Last Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    About Interactive Fiction
Floyd |  > What to do with >
Floyd |    Getting Started
Floyd |    Rooms and Travel
Floyd |    Interacting with Other People
Floyd |    Objects
Floyd |    Controlling the Game
Floyd |    How the World is Assembled
Floyd |    If You Get Stuck

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "q" 		

Floyd ]                            Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    About the author
Floyd |  > Instructions for Play
Floyd |    Hints
Floyd |    Walkthrough

		Bert says, "Hrm."
Bert says (to Floyd), "q" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel is a duelling pistol, half hidden in a crowd of other
Floyd | little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x emma" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma is Uncle Stephen's sister, one of those maiden aunts who
Floyd | always ends up chaperoning people around; which, as you understand it,
Floyd | means it's her job to make sure people don't have any fun.  You know
Floyd | she means well, really, but she takes her job much too seriously.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "emma, x window" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > EMMA, X WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma has better things to do.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x bible" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BIBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma's had the same Bible for as long as you've known her.  How
Floyd | she manages to keep it from getting dog-eared, given how often she
Floyd | reads it, you do not know.  Aunt Emma has it open on her lap, and you
Floyd | notice that she's using Janet's master key to mark her place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about bible" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT BIBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about key" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | "Someone has to take care of supper while the servants are away,
Floyd | Hector."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about supper" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SUPPER
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about servants" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SERVANTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about janet" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT JANET
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take key" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but somehow you doubt if this will be
Floyd | the case here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "OK, I give up."
		Bert says, "Hint away."
		Jacqueline says, "So, we can ask maga, or we can consult the game."
		Jacqueline asks, "Which do we want to do?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask maga for very general, vague hint" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK MAGA FOR VERY GENERAL, VAGUE HINT
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "f OKAY"
		Jacqueline says, "oops"
		maga says, "you might perhaps pay more attention to the mantelpiece"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x bobbles" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOBBLES
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "er"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x mantle" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MANTLE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's one of those extraordinarily sturdy oak affairs.  Every time you
Floyd | visit, it looks as though it could not possibly hold even one more
Floyd | little ornament without collapsing; and yet, every time you visit, it
Floyd | looks as though Aunt Emma has managed to fit one more thing on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel is a duelling pistol, half hidden in a crowd of other
Floyd | little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sunlight glints off a glass unicorn.  Now that's more the sort of
Floyd | pointless ornament you'd expect to find in Aunt Emma's collection.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x baubbles" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BAUBBLES
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "tf x unicorn" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > TF X UNICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x baubles" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BAUBLES
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x unicorn" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X UNICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a unicorn, made of glass, rearing up on its hind legs.  Its horn
Floyd | appears to have been broken off once upon a time, though it's been
Floyd | glued back on since.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Huh, I don't remember that being mentioned before."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x horn" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]       Tom:
Floyd ]       ...Adventure and change were imminent in this year.
Floyd ]       They were waiting around the corner for all these kids.
Floyd ]       Suspended in the mist over Berchtesgaden, caught in the
Floyd ]       folds of Chamberlain's umbrella. In Spain there was
Floyd ]       Guernica!  But here there was only hot swing music and
Floyd ]       liquor....
Floyd ]
Floyd ]       - Tennessee Williams, 'The Glass Menagerie'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HORN
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a unicorn, made of glass, rearing up on its hind legs.  Its horn
Floyd | appears to have been broken off once upon a time, though it's been
Floyd | glued back on since.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		inky asks, "does it just show up randomly when you describe it?"
Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | I beg your pardon?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "ask aunt about unicon" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK AUNT ABOUT UNICON
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "ask aunt about unicorn" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK AUNT ABOUT UNICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | "That used to be part of a much larger glass menagerie," says Aunt
Floyd | Emma, "but, well, the less said about that the better."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "imagine unicorn" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > IMAGINE UNICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "get unicorn" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET UNICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk having the whole lot
Floyd | come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too young to die.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think about unicorn" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > THINK ABOUT UNICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to think.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "nudge unicorn" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > NUDGE UNICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "heh"
Bert says (to Floyd), "touch unicorn" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > TOUCH UNICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]                           Cogito ergo sum
Floyd ]
Floyd ]                           - René Descartes
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > THINK
Floyd |
Floyd | You are.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about unicorn" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT UNICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | "That used to be part of a much larger glass menagerie," says Aunt
Floyd | Emma, "but, well, the less said about that the better."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "oh dear"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about menagerie" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT MENAGERIE
Floyd |
Floyd | "There is nothing interesting to tell there," says Aunt Emma.  "The
Floyd | other pieces have gotten either lost or broken over the years, and
Floyd | that unicorn is the last of the lot."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma for unicorn" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA FOR UNICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but that is clearly not the case here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma why Noah let the unicorns die in the flood" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA WHY NOAH LET THE UNICORNS DIE IN THE FLOOD
Floyd |
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | You spot a statuette of a black falcon in the midst of all the
Floyd | clutter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x falcon" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FALCON
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a black bird.  How boring.  Why anyone would want something like
Floyd | this, you do not know.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get falcon" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET FALCON
Floyd |
Floyd | If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk having the whole lot
Floyd | come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too young to die.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about falcon" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT FALCON
Floyd |
Floyd | "Captain Davis picked that up years ago when he was in Malta, and
Floyd | brought it back as present."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about malta" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT MALTA
Floyd |
Floyd | "I've never been there, but I've heard that it's quite fascinating."
Floyd | Aunt Emma recounts a few vague memories of stories told to her years
Floyd | and years ago, when the earth was young.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about stories" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT STORIES
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | Here's something that's not so bad: a painting of a ship sailing into
Floyd | the sunrise.  Or sunset.  One of the two.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ship" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SHIP
Floyd |
Floyd | A rather fantastic-looking ship, with a dragon figurehead, sails over
Floyd | greenish-blue waves, into the sunrise.  Or the sunset.  It's rather
Floyd | hard to tell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x sunset" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SUNSET
Floyd |
Floyd | Maybe it's the sunrise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x dragon" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DRAGON
Floyd |
Floyd | If you were a ship's captain, you'd want your ship to have a
Floyd | figurehead like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x sunrise" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SUNRISE
Floyd |
Floyd | Maybe it's the sunset.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x waves" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WAVES
Floyd |
Floyd | You can almost believe that the waves are moving, if you look long
Floyd | enough.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Sunrise, I assume."
		Bert says, "Since, knowing Jeff, it's got to be the Dawn Treader."
		Jacqueline asks, "So, are we going to have a daydream involving all this stuff?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about ship" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SHIP
Floyd |
Floyd | "It's a little fantastic for my tastes.  But I suppose, as your Uncle
Floyd | Stephen says, the fantastic is a reminder of the wonder and majesty of
Floyd | our Lord, and who am I to argue?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about dragon" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT DRAGON
Floyd |
Floyd | "It's a little fantastic for my tastes.  But I suppose, as your Uncle
Floyd | Stephen says, the fantastic is a reminder of the wonder and majesty of
Floyd | our Lord, and who am I to argue?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about dawn treader" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT DAWN TREADER
Floyd |
Floyd | "It's a little fantastic for my tastes.  But I suppose, as your Uncle
Floyd | Stephen says, the fantastic is a reminder of the wonder and majesty of
Floyd | our Lord, and who am I to argue?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Yup."
Bert says (to Floyd), "enter ship" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER SHIP
Floyd |
Floyd | That sort of thing only happens in books.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x gryphon" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GRYPHON
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x manticore" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MANTICORE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x cyclops" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CYCLOPS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x reepicheep" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X REEPICHEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a saucer leaning against the wall at the back of the mantel.
Floyd | Normally you wouldn't give it a second glance, but there's something
Floyd | odd about the design.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x saucer" 		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x jabberwock" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SAUCER
Floyd |
Floyd | You thought at first that the fanciful design around the saucer was a
Floyd | pattern of owls, but you see now you were mistaken.  It's flowers ...
Floyd | definitely flowers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X JABBERWOCK
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x owls" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X OWLS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x flowers" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]      'No,' said Huw.  'She was made for her lord.  Nobody is
Floyd ]      asking her if she wants him.  It is a bitter twisting to
Floyd ]      be shut up with a person you are not liking very much.  I
Floyd ]      think she was longing for the time when she was flowers
Floyd ]      on the mountain, and it is making her cruel, as the rose
Floyd ]      is growing thorns.'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]      - Alan Garner, 'The Owl Service'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FLOWERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You thought at first that the fanciful design around the saucer was a
Floyd | pattern of flowers, but you see now you were mistaken.  It's owls ...
Floyd | definitely owls.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x flowers" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FLOWERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x owls" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X OWLS
Floyd |
Floyd | You thought at first that the fanciful design around the saucer was a
Floyd | pattern of owls, but you see now you were mistaken.  It's flowers ...
Floyd | definitely flowers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about flowers" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT FLOWERS
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the flower saucer or the elaborate flower
Floyd | centrepiece?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "saucer" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SAUCER
Floyd |
Floyd | "That's from Wales.  There used to be a whole dinner service, but ...
Floyd | well."  Aunt Emma seems to be blushing slightly, and you guess it must
Floyd | be because she broke all the rest of the dishes and doesn't want to
Floyd | admit it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x centerpiece" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CENTERPIECE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about wales" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT WALES
Floyd |
Floyd | "Your Uncle and I, when we were children, spent a summer in Wales.  I
Floyd | remember...." Aunt Emma pauses to stare out the window, but before you
Floyd | can seize the opportunity, she turns back to you and continues,
Floyd | "That's where we met dear old Owen Davis...."
Floyd |
Floyd | You are considering asking her for more about this Captain Davis
Floyd | character, when Aunt Emma sighs.  "Sometimes I wonder what might have
Floyd | been...."  She turns her attention back to her Bible, determined not
Floyd | to say any more.  But when you look up a few moments later, she's
Floyd | staring out the window, Bible forgotten.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "huh"
		Bert exclaims, "Make a run for it!"
Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair)
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Emma, you saucy minx."
		Jacqueline says, "OMG THAT WORKED"
		Jacqueline exclaims, "Well done!"
Jacqueline clears the save counter. 		Bert says, "And now we... are probably still locked out of half the rooms in the house."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Maybe we should have grabbed the key first."
		Jacqueline says, "hm, possibly"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get key" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but somehow you doubt if this will be
Floyd | the case here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "or not"
		Bert says, "Guess not."
Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair)
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x sunlight" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SUNLIGHT
Floyd |
Floyd | Why are you still indoors?  Why?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x door" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the kitchen door, the front door or the closet?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "front" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > FRONT
Floyd |
Floyd | The front door is large and imposing ... and creaky.  Morris says that
Floyd | Aunt Emma makes him keep it that way so she can hear when anyone comes
Floyd | in or out of the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "panelling" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PANELLING
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x small door" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SMALL DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x closet" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CLOSET
Floyd |
Floyd | The hall closet is where things like winter boots and umbrellas are
Floyd | kept.  This one is usually a lot tidier than the one back home, but
Floyd | Mother says that's probably because Aunt Emma and Uncle Stephen don't
Floyd | have a nine-year-old to worry about.
Floyd |
Floyd | Currently, the closet is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and
Floyd | grabs you by the ear.  "What have you been up to, Hector?  It's the
Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week!  Now
Floyd | please, sit down."  She hauls you back into your seat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "restore?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "open it;Yeah, perhaps we ought." 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN IT;YEAH, PERHAPS WE OUGHT.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Er."
		Jacqueline says, "I think there is now some auto way to restore"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" 		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:
Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "open closet" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN CLOSET
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the closet, revealing a walking stick.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x stick" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]         Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Floyd ]
Floyd ]         - Theodore Roosevelt
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STICK
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen has taken to long walks over the hills, and as a
Floyd | consequence has gotten himself a walking stick that's really more of a
Floyd | staff, it's so long and sturdy.  Father says he's really just
Floyd | practicing for such a time as when he finally gets a bishop's crozier,
Floyd | but Mother thinks Father should not make light of such things.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get it" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET IT
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "open front door" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN FRONT DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and
Floyd | grabs you by the ear.  "What have you been up to, Hector?  It's the
Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week!  Now
Floyd | please, sit down and put that walking stick away.  It's not a toy."
Floyd | She hauls you back into your seat, but not before taking away anything
Floyd | that isn't covered in Uncle Stephen's handwriting and returning them.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert asks, "Hmm. Does opening the front door auto-trigger it?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "under" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDER
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "open front door" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN FRONT DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and
Floyd | grabs you by the ear.  "What have you been up to, Hector?  It's the
Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week!  Now
Floyd | please, sit down."  She hauls you back into your seat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Yup."
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  His pipe droops
Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | A rather thick folder lies on the floor by the desk, having been
Floyd | displaced by some of Uncle Stephen's reference books.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "Leave the hallway?"
		Bert says, "Yeah. But we can't go outside, because Emma will hear us opening the door."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x shelves" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SHELVES
Floyd |
Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ...
Floyd | Confessiones.  Ah yes, the works of Augustine of Hippo.  Of
Floyd | course, Uncle Stephen would only have the Latin translations.
Floyd |
Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the
Floyd | same precise location.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "There are other paths, aren't there?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "books" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert asks, "Like the Study?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x books" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... The Woman
Floyd | In White.  Must be another one of those exhortations to virtue.
Floyd | Why doesn't Uncle Stephen keep any exciting fiction in his library?
Floyd |
Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the
Floyd | same precise location.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "E or NW, yeah"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x fireplace" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | You wouldn't think, to look at it, that this is actually the back side
Floyd | of the much-larger kitchen fireplace, would you?  It's so dressed up
Floyd | that it looks like the front side of something fancy.  But yes, the
Floyd | two fireplaces share a flue and everything, though the flue itself is
Floyd | really only accessible from the kitchen side.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and
Floyd | grabs you by the ear.  "What have you been up to, Hector?  It's the
Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week!  Now
Floyd | please, sit down."  She hauls you back into your seat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		inky says, "hmm"
		Bert says, "And we appear to have a timer as well."
		Jacqueline says, "Sorry, I was scrolled up when you were diong that other stuff. Caught up now."
		inky says, "I guess there's some scam where you slip stuff through the fireplace"
		Bert asks (of inky), "Is that a spoiler?"
		inky says, "no, it's speculation"
		Bert nods.
		Bert says, "I don't know if we could slip ourself through the fireplace, though."
		Bert says, "But it's worth a try."
Bert says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf1" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  His pipe droops
Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | A rather thick folder lies on the floor by the desk, having been
Floyd | displaced by some of Uncle Stephen's reference books.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "wake stephen" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WAKE STEPHEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you.  "Eh?  I'm awake.
Floyd | What is it, Hector?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen takes a puff on his pipe and notes with some annoyance
Floyd | that it has somehow gone out.  He draws a match from a nearby
Floyd | matchbox, relights the pipe, and puffs contentedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about sermon" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT SERMON
Floyd |
Floyd | If Uncle Stephen had anything interesting to say about that, you
Floyd | wouldn't be trying so desperately to escape.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about davis" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT DAVIS
Floyd |
Floyd | "Where'd you hear about him?  Owen Davis ... Captain Davis, that is
Floyd | ... salt of the earth, but rather a reckless fellow, I'm afraid:
Floyd | always had been, from the time we first met him, in Wales.  He died in
Floyd | the Sepoy Mutiny, in India.  We were all dreadfully cut up by it."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and
Floyd | grabs you by the ear.  "What have you been up to, Hector?  It's the
Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week!  Now
Floyd | please, sit down."  She hauls you back into your seat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes

		
inky says (to Floyd), "x folder" 		

Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Whoops."
Bert says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf1" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		inky says, "no biggie"
Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  His pipe droops
Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | A rather thick folder lies on the floor by the desk, having been
Floyd | displaced by some of Uncle Stephen's reference books.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "enter fireplace" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | You'll only get yourself covered in soot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "x folder" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | It's clearly marked "Old Sermons", and its contents are as advertised.
Floyd | This probably qualifies it as a weapon of Mass destruction.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the brown folder are Uncle Stephen's old sermons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and
Floyd | grabs you by the ear.  "What have you been up to, Hector?  It's the
Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week!  Now
Floyd | please, sit down."  She hauls you back into your seat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		inky says, "heh"
		inky says, "maybe we should light a fire"
		Bert says, "(Yeah, folder description.)"
		Bert says (to inky), "Go for it."
		Jacqueline says, "Weapon of Mass destruction. Oh, Christopher, how fortunate that you are not here for us to all pile onto you for that joke."
		Bert says, "(Whoops, s/Yeah/Yay/ -- I was cheering for that joke.)"
		inky says, "oh, heh"
		Jacqueline says, "heh"
		inky asks, "can we escape multiple times? or do we only know how to escape the first time and then have to restore?"
inky says (to Floyd), "ask emma about sepoy" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SEPOY
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma looks grim when you mention the Sepoy Mutiny.  "Those people
Floyd | were not Christian.  And that is all I have to say on the subject."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about christian" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT CHRISTIAN
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma isn't the best at explaining that sort of thing, and if you
Floyd | get her started, you're never going to get out of here before sundown.
Floyd | And then there'd be no point.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I was wondering that."
		Bert says (to inky), "We haven't tried a second time yet."
		Bert says, "I assume the game doesn't become unwinnable the instant we're caught."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about sepoy mutiny" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SEPOY MUTINY
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma looks grim when you mention the Sepoy Mutiny.  "Those people
Floyd | were not Christian.  And that is all I have to say on the subject."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "oh, timing"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x mantel" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MANTEL
Floyd |
Floyd | It's one of those extraordinarily sturdy oak affairs.  Every time you
Floyd | visit, it looks as though it could not possibly hold even one more
Floyd | little ornament without collapsing; and yet, every time you visit, it
Floyd | looks as though Aunt Emma has managed to fit one more thing on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a wooden goblet standing at one end of the mantel.  It's very
Floyd | plain, but on the other hand you didn't think people made goblets out
Floyd | of wood.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x goblet" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GOBLET
Floyd |
Floyd | It's plain and non-descript, even remarkably so; its only point of
Floyd | interest is that it's a goblet made of wood, which seems like a funny
Floyd | sort of material to make goblets out of.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about the holy grail" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT THE HOLY GRAIL
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about goblet" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT GOBLET
Floyd |
Floyd | "That is the cup of a carpenter," says Aunt Emma.  You wait for her to
Floyd | continue, but she doesn't seem to want to say any more than that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Nice Indy ref."
		Bert says, "Indeed."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice a white porcelain cat sitting on the mantel, looking down
Floyd | at you with an expression which might be all-too-human if it only had
Floyd | a mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "I wonder if all of these are refs to things."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask her about cat" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK HER ABOUT CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | (Aunt Emma about the white cat)
Floyd | "Charming, is it not?  I always imagine it's saying hello to me when I
Floyd | come into the parlour in the mornings."  But how can it, when it has
Floyd | no mouth?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Oh dear."
		Jacqueline says, "Possibly. That one being The Matrix."
		Bert says, "If so, I am missing most of them."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's that old locket with the snake on the front.  You remember
Floyd | playing with it when you were very small, and now it's just another
Floyd | memory on Aunt Emma's mantel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		maga says, "I think the cat is intended to be Hello Kitty"
		Bert says, "Ha."
		Bert says, "I think you might be right."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x locket" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LOCKET
Floyd |
Floyd | It's rather large, and very ornate.  The snake on the front is curved
Floyd | like the letter S, and no-one as far back as anyone remembers has ever
Floyd | been able to open it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x snake" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]     'A deadly struggle for my soul [said Sirius Black] would
Floyd ]     have broken the monotony nicely. You think you've had it
Floyd ]     bad, at least you've been able to get out and about,
Floyd ]     stretch your legs, get into a few fights.... I've been
Floyd ]     stuck inside for a month.'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]     - J.K. Rowling, 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SNAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's rather large, and very ornate.  The snake on the front is curved
Floyd | like the letter S, and no-one as far back as anyone remembers has ever
Floyd | been able to open it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Okay, possibly it's just Hello Kitty and not a reference to Mr Smith"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about locket" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT LOCKET
Floyd |
Floyd | "That thing was in the house when we moved in, and we've never been
Floyd | able to track down the owners.  Well.  I suppose we're duty-bound to
Floyd | hold on to it until its true owner shows up."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about snake" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SNAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | "That thing was in the house when we moved in, and we've never been
Floyd | able to track down the owners.  Well.  I suppose we're duty-bound to
Floyd | hold on to it until its true owner shows up."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | How odd, there's a gnomon here, the triangular shadow-casting bit from
Floyd | a sundial, but no sundial.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "This, undoubtedly, Trinity."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x wabe" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WABE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x gnomon" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GNOMON
Floyd |
Floyd | It's triangular and made of brass, with a screwy end where it's
Floyd | supposed to screw into a sundial somewhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | Someone whispers "Gnomon is an island" into your ear, but
Floyd | when you look around, there's no-one there.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "I actually asked maga a second ago if that was a Harry Potter reference, but thought it so outside the realm of possibility that I didn't mention it here. Now I know the realm of possibility is quite large."
Bert says (to Floyd), "a gnomon" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > A GNOMON
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about gnomon" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT GNOMON
Floyd |
Floyd | "Your Uncle Stephen picked that up while on holiday in London.  I
Floyd | don't claim to understand everything about your uncle, but this gnomon
Floyd | clearly means something to him."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "When Stephen wakes up, perhaps we should ask him about Kensington Gardens."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "search ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a multitude of other little trinkets, but nothing of any
Floyd | interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about wales" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT WALES
Floyd |
Floyd | "Your Uncle and I, when we were children, spent a summer in Wales.  I
Floyd | remember...." Aunt Emma pauses to stare out the window, but before you
Floyd | can seize the opportunity, she turns back to you and continues,
Floyd | "That's where we met dear old Owen Davis...."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Ha."
		Bert exclaims, "Curses!She's learning!"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about owen" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT OWEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs.  "Sometimes I wonder what might have been...."  She
Floyd | turns her attention back to her Bible, determined not to say any more.
Floyd | But when you look up a few moments later, she's staring out the
Floyd | window, Bible forgotten.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "save" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf2" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair)
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert asks, "More with Stephen, or a different direction?"
		Bert says, "(AFK a moment.)"
		Jacqueline says, "Hm, more with Stephen."
Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  His pipe droops
Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | A rather thick folder lies on the floor by the desk, having been
Floyd | displaced by some of Uncle Stephen's reference books.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get matchbox" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET MATCHBOX
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "light fireplace" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LIGHT FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | This dangerous act would achieve little.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "light fire" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LIGHT FIRE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "light pipe" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LIGHT PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | It would be rude to go meddling with something while someone else is
Floyd | still holding on to it.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and
Floyd | grabs you by the ear.  "What have you been up to, Hector?  It's the
Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week!  Now
Floyd | please, sit down and put that large matchbox away.  It's not a toy."
Floyd | She hauls you back into your seat, but not before taking away anything
Floyd | that isn't covered in Uncle Stephen's handwriting and returning them.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get pipe" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but somehow you doubt if this will be
Floyd | the case here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "brb"
Bert says (to Floyd), "wake stephen" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WAKE STEPHEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you.  "Eh?  I'm awake.
Floyd | What is it, Hector?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen takes a puff on his pipe and notes with some annoyance
Floyd | that it has somehow gone out.  He draws a match from a nearby
Floyd | matchbox, relights the pipe, and puffs contentedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about trinity" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT TRINITY
Floyd |
Floyd | Oh no.  You do not want to get your uncle started on that.  Life is
Floyd | far too short as it is.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and
Floyd | grabs you by the ear.  "What have you been up to, Hector?  It's the
Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week!  Now
Floyd | please, sit down."  She hauls you back into your seat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "No, no, not *that* Trinity."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about kensington gardens" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT KENSINGTON GARDENS
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and
Floyd | grabs you by the ear.  "What have you been up to, Hector?  It's the
Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week!  Now
Floyd | please, sit down."  She hauls you back into your seat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "duno" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > DUNO
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf2" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair)
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  His pipe droops
Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | A rather thick folder lies on the floor by the desk, having been
Floyd | displaced by some of Uncle Stephen's reference books.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "wake stephen" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WAKE STEPHEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you.  "Eh?  I'm awake.
Floyd | What is it, Hector?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen takes a puff on his pipe and notes with some annoyance
Floyd | that it has somehow gone out.  He draws a match from a nearby
Floyd | matchbox, relights the pipe, and puffs contentedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about sepoy" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT SEPOY
Floyd |
Floyd | "Nasty business ... years ago, now, but I remember reading about it.
Floyd | That sort of thing isn't likely to happen up here in England, thank
Floyd | goodness."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about wales" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT WALES
Floyd |
Floyd | "The family spent a summer there, a long time ago.  Your Aunt Emma and
Floyd | I must have been about 17 or 18, at the time."  It occurs to you that
Floyd | Mother must have been born in that year.  You're old enough to know
Floyd | that parents don't like having the children around when the stork
Floyd | makes a delivery, which probably explains why Uncle Stephen and Aunt
Floyd | Emma were sent to Wales to begin with.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and
Floyd | grabs you by the ear.  "What have you been up to, Hector?  It's the
Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week!  Now
Floyd | please, sit down."  She hauls you back into your seat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert asks, "Wait, are Stephen and Emma siblings?"
		Bert says, "I thought they were married."
		maga says, "she *was* referred to as a maiden aunt"
		maga says, "which generally implies certain maidenly qualities"
		Bert says, "Aha. I missed that line."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about owen" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT OWEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs.  "Sometimes I wonder what might have been...."  She
Floyd | turns her attention back to her Bible, determined not to say any more.
Floyd | But when you look up a few moments later, she's staring out the
Floyd | window, Bible forgotten.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Now hold it right there...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		
Bert pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | Getting the other fellows to join in on this story-telling lark seemed
Floyd | like a good idea at the time.  It was better than yet another game of
Floyd | cards, anyway, and it rather took the mind off who is or is not going
Floyd | to be at mess in the morning.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Somewhere In Flanders
Floyd | It's a little terrifying how accustomed you've gotten to this muddy,
Floyd | grimy hell-hole.  You could probably find your way back here in the
Floyd | dark, crawling blind through a maze of twisty trenches, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anderson was doodling on an old letter of recommendation earlier, and
Floyd | seems to have forgotten about it.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see Anderson, Jellicoe, Hardy and Macdougal here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anderson shakes his head.  "I can't believe she'd fall for that a
Floyd | third time.  What kind of a weak-minded aunt did you have, Conrad?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "You're the ones who can't figure it out," you reply.  "So she'll keep
Floyd | falling for the same stunt until you do."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "Hm, and Owen was her love that died?"
		Bert says, "It's looking likely, yeah."
		Bert says, "Hmm, a clue."
		Bert asks, "Also, huh, so Conrad *is* Hector?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x hector" 		

Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HECTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Your uniform was beautifully starched and crisp when you first left
Floyd | England two years ago.  You thought you'd be back (for good, not on
Floyd | leave) before the starch had quite softened on your collar.  And now
Floyd | look at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Major Conrad just wants us to try again," says Jellicoe, with an air
Floyd | of pouring oil over troubled waters.  "So why don't we go and do
Floyd | that?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "We need a better strategy," Hardy muses, drawing the other men to
Floyd | him.  "Look, we've got only so long before she stops mooning over
Floyd | ancient history, and I'm pretty sure the major doesn't mean for the
Floyd | trick to happen more than once.  What can we do with those few
Floyd | minutes?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "So we're telling the story about our own childhood."
		Jacqueline says, "heh"
		Jacqueline says, "Well, something."
		Bert says, "Also, it sounds like they're playing this game cooperatively too, just like we are."
		Jacqueline smiles.
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask hardy about outdoors" 		

Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK HARDY ABOUT OUTDOORS
Floyd |
Floyd | The men can figure this out on their own.
Floyd |
Floyd | Macdougal says, "there's bound to be something in one of the other
Floyd | rooms that will convince her to leave us alone."
Floyd |
Floyd | "It can't be that simple," snorts Anderson in reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Anyway we can just keep trying until we get it right, right?"  Hardy
Floyd | looks around the table, and the others nod.  "So, let's get on with
Floyd | this."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		
Bert pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Goodness.  Where did that dream come from?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | Emma gives you a stern glare that quite effectively puts you in your
Floyd | place.  Or keeps you there, at least.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about owen" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT OWEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs.  "Sometimes I wonder what might have been...."  She
Floyd | turns her attention back to her Bible, determined not to say any more.
Floyd | But when you look up a few moments later, she's staring out the
Floyd | window, Bible forgotten.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair)
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Room
Floyd | The dining room is a pleasant, sunny room, with a round dining table
Floyd | just large enough for six.  A huge bay window looks out over the lawn
Floyd | towards the cathedral: Uncle Stephen's morning reminder of who he is
Floyd | and why he's here.  Aunt Emma's parlour is back to the south, and the
Floyd | hall is to the southeast.  The butler's door into the kitchen is to
Floyd | the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the dining table is an elaborate flower centrepiece.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x centerpiece" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CENTERPIECE
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma believes in "civilised dining", which is why she insists on
Floyd | maintaining a pretty centrepiece on the dining table at all times.
Floyd | This centrepiece is beginning to get a little old and dry.  The
Floyd | flowers and leaves stick out all over like bristles on a brush, and
Floyd | the ribbons holding it together are looking droopy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "push it" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH IT
Floyd |
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get it" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET IT
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert asks, "Is anyone else thinking 'kindling'?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ribbons" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X RIBBONS
Floyd |
Floyd | This centrepiece is beginning to get a little old and dry.  The
Floyd | flowers and leaves stick out all over like bristles on a brush, and
Floyd | the ribbons holding it together are looking droopy.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and
Floyd | grabs you by the ear.  "What have you been up to, Hector?  It's the
Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week!  Now
Floyd | please, sit down and put that elaborate flower centrepiece away.  It's
Floyd | not a toy."  She hauls you back into your seat, but not before taking
Floyd | away anything that isn't covered in Uncle Stephen's handwriting and
Floyd | returning them.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "I wasn't, but I am now."
Bert says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about owen" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT OWEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs.  "Sometimes I wonder what might have been...."  She
Floyd | turns her attention back to her Bible, determined not to say any more.
Floyd | But when you look up a few moments later, she's staring out the
Floyd | window, Bible forgotten.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "n.get centerpiece.se.e" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > N.GET CENTERPIECE.SE.E
Floyd |
Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair)
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Room
Floyd | The dining room is a pleasant, sunny room, with a round dining table
Floyd | just large enough for six.  A huge bay window looks out over the lawn
Floyd | towards the cathedral: Uncle Stephen's morning reminder of who he is
Floyd | and why he's here.  Aunt Emma's parlour is back to the south, and the
Floyd | hall is to the southeast.  The butler's door into the kitchen is to
Floyd | the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the dining table is an elaborate flower centrepiece.
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  His pipe droops
Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | A rather thick folder lies on the floor by the desk, having been
Floyd | displaced by some of Uncle Stephen's reference books.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "light centerpiece" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LIGHT CENTERPIECE
Floyd |
Floyd | This dangerous act would achieve little.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and
Floyd | grabs you by the ear.  "What have you been up to, Hector?  It's the
Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week!  Now
Floyd | please, sit down and put that elaborate flower centrepiece away.  It's
Floyd | not a toy."  She hauls you back into your seat, but not before taking
Floyd | away anything that isn't covered in Uncle Stephen's handwriting and
Floyd | returning them.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Darn."
		Jacqueline asks, "So, there are other places we've not yet been, right?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about owen" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT OWEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs.  "Sometimes I wonder what might have been...."  She
Floyd | turns her attention back to her Bible, determined not to say any more.
Floyd | But when you look up a few moments later, she's staring out the
Floyd | window, Bible forgotten.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Yeah"
Bert says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair)
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Room
Floyd | The dining room is a pleasant, sunny room, with a round dining table
Floyd | just large enough for six.  A huge bay window looks out over the lawn
Floyd | towards the cathedral: Uncle Stephen's morning reminder of who he is
Floyd | and why he's here.  Aunt Emma's parlour is back to the south, and the
Floyd | hall is to the southeast.  The butler's door into the kitchen is to
Floyd | the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the dining table is an elaborate flower centrepiece.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the butler's door)
Floyd | It seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Except, er."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x window" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | From here, you can see the lawn and the woods and the distant  spires
Floyd | of the cathedral.  The sun is shining and you know that the woods are
Floyd | just bursting with interesting things to discover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the kitchen door)
Floyd | It seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles and
Floyd | grabs you by the ear.  "What have you been up to, Hector?  It's the
Floyd | Lord's day: do try to behave yourself this one day of the week!  Now
Floyd | please, sit down."  She hauls you back into your seat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "I think we've seen all the unlocked rooms: the parlor, hall, study and dining room."
		Bert says, "...these are starting to sound familiar."
		Jacqueline says, "Hm, yeah."
		Bert says, "If we find a lead pipe soon, I think I'm going to claim another reference."
		Jacqueline says, "That covered the bases I was most curious about. We need that key."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about owen" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT OWEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs.  "Sometimes I wonder what might have been...."  She
Floyd | turns her attention back to her Bible, determined not to say any more.
Floyd | But when you look up a few moments later, she's staring out the
Floyd | window, Bible forgotten.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair)
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Room
Floyd | The dining room is a pleasant, sunny room, with a round dining table
Floyd | just large enough for six.  A huge bay window looks out over the lawn
Floyd | towards the cathedral: Uncle Stephen's morning reminder of who he is
Floyd | and why he's here.  Aunt Emma's parlour is back to the south, and the
Floyd | hall is to the southeast.  The butler's door into the kitchen is to
Floyd | the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the dining table is an elaborate flower centrepiece.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get centerpiece. s" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET CENTERPIECE. S
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.  Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or
Floyd | north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | An armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of
Floyd | as "your" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, staring off into the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "show centerpiece to emma" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW CENTERPIECE TO EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma is distractedly gazing out the window.  Surely you have
Floyd | better things to do than to draw her attention back to the task of
Floyd | keeping you in your place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "drop centerpiece" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP CENTERPIECE
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs and finally looks around.  When she sees you out of
Floyd | your seat, she frowns and rises, and grabs you by the ear.  "What have
Floyd | you been up to, Hector?  It's the Lord's day: do try to behave
Floyd | yourself this one day of the week!  Now please, sit down."  She hauls
Floyd | you back into your seat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see an elaborate flower centrepiece here.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "So at least we can collect items here..."
Bert says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about owen" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT OWEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs.  "Sometimes I wonder what might have been...."  She
Floyd | turns her attention back to her Bible, determined not to say any more.
Floyd | But when you look up a few moments later, she's staring out the
Floyd | window, Bible forgotten.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "e.e" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E.E
Floyd |
Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair)
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  His pipe droops
Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | A rather thick folder lies on the floor by the desk, having been
Floyd | displaced by some of Uncle Stephen's reference books.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get all" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | brown folder: Taken.
Floyd | large matchbox: Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "w.w" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W.W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.  Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or
Floyd | north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | An armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of
Floyd | as "your" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, staring off into the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see an elaborate flower centrepiece here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs and finally looks around.  When she sees you out of
Floyd | your seat, she frowns and rises, but stops in surprise when she sees
Floyd | the folder of Uncle Stephen's old sermons in your hands.  "Oh!" she
Floyd | says.  "Oh ... are those your Uncle Stephen's old sermons?  So that's
Floyd | what you were after!  You should have just said so.  I see I should
Floyd | have trusted you enough to know you could not possibly mean any
Floyd | mischief when you leave your seat."
Floyd |
Floyd | She actually smiles and pats you on the head.  On the bright side, it
Floyd | looks as though she doesn't mind you wandering around any more, since
Floyd | she makes no further attempt to usher you into your chair.  She does,
Floyd | however, firmly advise you to return the large matchbox to its
Floyd | rightful place, and ushers you out into the Hall to do so.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Hey hey."
Bert says (to Floyd), "save" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf3" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert exclaims, "We are free! FREE!"
Bert says (to Floyd), "open front door" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN FRONT DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | As you approach the front door, you hear Aunt Emma call out to you,
Floyd | "Hector, you're not planning on leaving the house, are you?  Please
Floyd | don't."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Mostly."
Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  His pipe droops
Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "wake stephen" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WAKE STEPHEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you.  "Eh?  I'm awake.
Floyd | What is it, Hector?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen takes a puff on his pipe and notes with some annoyance
Floyd | that it has somehow gone out.  He reaches for his trusty matchbox and
Floyd | notes with even more annoyance that it has somehow gone missing.
Floyd | Sighing, he stands up and begins looking around.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen's sharp eyes spot the matchbox in your possession.
Floyd | "Give it here, Hector," he says sternly, and you can practically hear
Floyd | him thinking "Thou shalt not steal" at you, and you have no choice but
Floyd | to hand over the matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen relights his pipe and settles back behind his mound of
Floyd | boring literature.  He'll probably be asleep again in no time.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about pipe" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen just smiles and puffs contentedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about davis" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT DAVIS
Floyd |
Floyd | "Where'd you hear about him?  Owen Davis ... Captain Davis, that is
Floyd | ... salt of the earth, but rather a reckless fellow, I'm afraid:
Floyd | always had been, from the time we first met him, in Wales.  He died in
Floyd | the Sepoy Mutiny, in India.  We were all dreadfully cut up by it."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about wales" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT WALES
Floyd |
Floyd | "The family spent a summer there, a long time ago.  Your Aunt Emma and
Floyd | I must have been about 17 or 18, at the time."  Uncle Stephen looks a
Floyd | little lost in the memory, and eventually descends into pointless talk
Floyd | about valleys and old houses and patterned dinner services.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about mutiny" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT MUTINY
Floyd |
Floyd | "Nasty business ... years ago, now, but I remember reading about it.
Floyd | That sort of thing isn't likely to happen up here in England, thank
Floyd | goodness."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about india" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT INDIA
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hm?  Fascinating place, I'm sure, but I would rather leave missionary
Floyd | work to those with a calling to it.  Otherwise, it's rather too much
Floyd | trouble...."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "What about that walking stick?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about pistol" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT PISTOL
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Ooh, yes"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about stick" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT STICK
Floyd |
Floyd | "A walking stick is a rather useful item, I must say.  I simply could
Floyd | not tell you the number of times I've been glad of having a nice,
Floyd | stout staff on hand while walking across the downs."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about emma" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | "You should ask her yourself," says Uncle Stephen vaguely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "open closet" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN CLOSET
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the closet, revealing a walking stick.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get stick" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET STICK
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "wield stick" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WIELD STICK
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x stick" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]         Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Floyd ]
Floyd ]         - Theodore Roosevelt
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STICK
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen has taken to long walks over the hills, and as a
Floyd | consequence has gotten himself a walking stick that's really more of a
Floyd | staff, it's so long and sturdy.  Father says he's really just
Floyd | practicing for such a time as when he finally gets a bishop's crozier,
Floyd | but Mother thinks Father should not make light of such things.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  White smoke
Floyd | curls from the bowl of his pipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | The last of the smoke from Uncle Stephen's pipe dissipates into the
Floyd | air.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "show stick to stephen" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW STICK TO STEPHEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you.  "Eh?  I'm awake.
Floyd | What is it, Hector?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen takes a puff on his pipe and notes with some annoyance
Floyd | that it has somehow gone out.  He draws a match from a nearby
Floyd | matchbox, relights the pipe, and puffs contentedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x smoke" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SMOKE
Floyd |
Floyd | It curls lazily from the bowl of the pipe and dissipates into the air,
Floyd | smelling up the place something awful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert aimlessly. 		
Bert says (to Floyd), "smell it" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SMELL IT
Floyd |
Floyd | It smells awful, and for some unknown reason it always makes you feel
Floyd | hungry.  The less you have to do with it, the better.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "..."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show stick to stephen" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW STICK TO STEPHEN
Floyd |
Floyd | "A walking stick is a rather useful item, I must say.  I simply could
Floyd | not tell you the number of times I've been glad of having a nice,
Floyd | stout staff on hand while walking across the downs."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Oh."
		Bert asks, "Does whatever Uncle Stephen is smoking give us the munchies?"
		Jacqueline says, "..."
		Jacqueline says, "Now I know why you said, '...'"
		maga says, "hey, asshole, puff puff pass"
		Jacqueline says, "Uncle Stephen should move to Seattle."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about pipe" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen just smiles and puffs contentedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about tobacco" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT TOBACCO
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen begins to nod drowsily.  In a few moments, his pipe
Floyd | droops down onto his chest and he lets out a tiny little snore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get pipe" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but somehow you doubt if this will be
Floyd | the case here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen for pipe" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN FOR PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but that is clearly not the case here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The last of the smoke from Uncle Stephen's pipe dissipates into the
Floyd | air.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "smoke pipe" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SMOKE PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "hit stephen with stick" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > HIT STEPHEN WITH STICK
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hit Uncle Stephen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x painting" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PAINTING
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a brilliant painting of a town beside the sea, with the sun
Floyd | shining on whitewashed houses and the bluest sky you ever did see.
Floyd | Uncle Stephen always smiles and says he's seen better when you ask him
Floyd | about it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about it" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT IT
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you.  "Eh?  I'm awake.
Floyd | What is it, Hector?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen takes a puff on his pipe and notes with some annoyance
Floyd | that it has somehow gone out.  He draws a match from a nearby
Floyd | matchbox, relights the pipe, and puffs contentedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about it" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT IT
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'm rather fond of it, even if your Aunt Emma isn't."  Uncle Stephen
Floyd | smiles wistfully.  "Admittedly, it's not the artist's best work, but
Floyd | it brings back memories, you see."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about memories" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT MEMORIES
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen looks a little wistful.  "You know, the late summer of
Floyd | 1886 found me on the continent...."  But you quickly stop him before
Floyd | he gets carried away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about artist" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT ARTIST
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen is reading a really ancient-looking manuscript while
Floyd | making notes in another sheaf of papers.  White smoke curls from the
Floyd | bowl of his pipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen begins to nod drowsily.  In a few moments, his pipe
Floyd | droops down onto his chest and he lets out a tiny little snore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x manuscript" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MANUSCRIPT
Floyd |
Floyd | It's one of those ancient, dusty artefacts that Uncle Stephen
Floyd | occasionally gets out of the rare books department at the British
Floyd | Museum.  It's all written in funny squiggles that no-one can read.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x sheaf" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SHEAF
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about manuscript" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT MANUSCRIPT
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you.  "Eh?  I'm awake.
Floyd | What is it, Hector?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about manuscript" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT MANUSCRIPT
Floyd |
Floyd | "It's quite an interesting, apocryphal document, I must say.  I'll let
Floyd | you read it when I'm done, if you're good."  Right.  Better misbehave
Floyd | before it's too late.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Heh."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x papers" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PAPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | It looks like a translation of some sort, full of crossed-out bits and
Floyd | notes about notes about other notes.  As far as you can tell, it's
Floyd | about some servant's account of the water-into-wine miracle from the
Floyd | Bible, although why Uncle Stephen is working on translating that when
Floyd | he can just read it in any old Bible, you do not know.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about papers" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT PAPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW arrives, full of fun and funk. 		Bert asks, "Anything obvious to do here other than letting Stephen nod off and stealing his matchbook?"
		maga says, "flimsiest pseudonym ever"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen is reading a really ancient-looking manuscript while
Floyd | making notes in another sheaf of papers.  White smoke curls from the
Floyd | bowl of his pipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Apologies for my lateness."
		Jacqueline says, "That seems to be the only gankable thing."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x desk" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DESK
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen's desk is covered with all sorts of papers.  There's a
Floyd | huge dictionary that Uncle Stephen keeps flipping through, and things
Floyd | in languages that you've never even heard of before.  Uncle Stephen is
Floyd | sitting right up close to the desk, blocking its only drawer.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the desk is a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen begins to nod drowsily.  In a few moments, his pipe
Floyd | droops down onto his chest and he lets out a tiny little snore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x dictionary" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DICTIONARY
Floyd |
Floyd | The dictionary on Uncle Stephen's desk is actually some sort of book
Floyd | about Hebrew grammar.  You have enough trouble with Latin and French;
Floyd | Father says he wants to get you started on Greek next year, which
Floyd | sounds like the end of the world as you know it; Hebrew looks like it
Floyd | goes beyond even Greek, Latin and French all put together in terms of
Floyd | things Man was not meant to know.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to DW), "Hey hey. Do that thing I love for people to do when they come late and ask what we're playing."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x drawer" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DRAWER
Floyd |
Floyd | You know there's a drawer in the desk, but Uncle Stephen is sitting
Floyd | right up against it and blocking it from view.
Floyd |
Floyd | The last of the smoke from Uncle Stephen's pipe dissipates into the
Floyd | air.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "open drawer" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DRAWER
Floyd |
Floyd | You know there's a drawer in the desk, but Uncle Stephen is sitting
Floyd | right up against it and blocking it from view.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Jus kidding. Hope all is well."
		Bert asks, "Hmm. Can we make Stephen move away from the desk?"
		Jacqueline says, "Hm."
		Jacqueline says, "Hidden drawer of forbidden mystery."
		DavidW says, "I'm guessin' it's Miseri's game."
		Zach asks, "Whatcha playin', Jacq?"
		Bert says, "Indeed."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x books" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... Plato's
Floyd | Republic.  No surprise there....
Floyd |
Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the
Floyd | same precise location.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x books" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... Les
Floyd | MisÃ©rables.  No.  You are not reading French outside of lessons,
Floyd | and that is final.
Floyd |
Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the
Floyd | same precise location.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get books" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... The Sign
Floyd | Of Four.  Something about the four gospels, obviously.  You'd
Floyd | kill to have a decent mystery novel right about now.
Floyd |
Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the
Floyd | same precise location.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x books" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... King
Floyd | Solomon's Mines.  This is either an archaeological report, or
Floyd | another dry examination of ancient Biblical history.  Either way, it's
Floyd | probably not very interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the
Floyd | same precise location.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Man, we are so prejudiced here."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x books" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... The
Floyd | Hudson's Bay Company.  Finally, some R.M. Ballantyne!  One that
Floyd | you've already read, but you're not fussy.  You are disappointed,
Floyd | however, to discover that this is in fact a prospectus from the real
Floyd | Hudson's Bay Company, full of deadly-dull talk about profits and
Floyd | shares.
Floyd |
Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the
Floyd | same precise location.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Obviously we need to find a specific book, if any at all."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x books" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... The
Floyd | Hudson's Bay Company.  Another copy of the prospectus you'd
Floyd | pulled out before, in a different cover.  You're not going to be
Floyd | fooled again, though; you don't even bother opening the ruddy thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the
Floyd | same precise location.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about sign of four" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT SIGN OF FOUR
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you.  "Eh?  I'm awake.
Floyd | What is it, Hector?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen takes a puff on his pipe and notes with some annoyance
Floyd | that it has somehow gone out.  He draws a match from a nearby
Floyd | matchbox, relights the pipe, and puffs contentedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about sign of four" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT SIGN OF FOUR
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about books" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | "One can never have too many books, I always say."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "open drawer" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DRAWER
Floyd |
Floyd | You know there's a drawer in the desk, but Uncle Stephen is sitting
Floyd | right up against it and blocking it from view.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about drawer" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT DRAWER
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen begins to nod drowsily.  In a few moments, his pipe
Floyd | droops down onto his chest and he lets out a tiny little snore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "burn papers" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > BURN PAPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | This dangerous act would achieve little.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a walking stick
Floyd |   a brown folder
Floyd |     Uncle Stephen's old sermons
Floyd |
Floyd | The last of the smoke from Uncle Stephen's pipe dissipates into the
Floyd | air.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Is his chair on casters?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x chair" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CHAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "push stephen" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH STEPHEN
Floyd |
Floyd | That would be less than courteous.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "It would appear not."
Bert says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  His pipe droops
Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "look behind painting" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND PAINTING
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x books" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... The Woman
Floyd | In White.  Must be another one of those exhortations to virtue.
Floyd | Why doesn't Uncle Stephen keep any exciting fiction in his library?
Floyd |
Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the
Floyd | same precise location.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x books" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | Picking out a random book from the shelves, you find ... De
Floyd | Doctrina Christiana.  Ah yes, the works of Augustine of Hippo.
Floyd | Of course, Uncle Stephen would only have the Latin translations.
Floyd |
Floyd | You return the book to the shelves, though not perhaps in quite the
Floyd | same precise location.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Get the matchbox, at least."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bible" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BIBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get matchbook" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET MATCHBOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get matchbox" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET MATCHBOX
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "open it" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN IT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X IT
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a large box of matches that Uncle Stephen keeps handy, for
Floyd | lighting his pipe.  He goes through an awful lot of them, no-one knows
Floyd | why.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "light match" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LIGHT MATCH
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen would skin you alive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Hee."
		Bert says, "('no-one knows why')"
		Jacqueline says, "idgi"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take match" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE MATCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You already have that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a large matchbox
Floyd |   a walking stick
Floyd |   a brown folder
Floyd |     Uncle Stephen's old sermons
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says (to Jacq), "He has already gone through a dozen matches in this playthrough alone."
		Bert says (to Jacq), "I think we can start to guess why."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x fireplace" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | You wouldn't think, to look at it, that this is actually the back side
Floyd | of the much-larger kitchen fireplace, would you?  It's so dressed up
Floyd | that it looks like the front side of something fancy.  But yes, the
Floyd | two fireplaces share a flue and everything, though the flue itself is
Floyd | really only accessible from the kitchen side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Oh, I thought it was another reference beyond that."
Bert says (to Floyd), "put all in fireplace" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT ALL IN FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | large matchbox: That's unlikely to get you any closer to the great
Floyd | outdoors.
Floyd | walking stick: That's unlikely to get you any closer to the great
Floyd | outdoors.
Floyd | brown folder: That's unlikely to get you any closer to the great
Floyd | outdoors.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | The hall closet door is half-open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.  Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or
Floyd | north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | An armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of
Floyd | as "your" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see an elaborate flower centrepiece here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma spots the walking stick in your possession.  "Hector
Floyd | Percival Conrad!  What are you doing with your Uncle Stephen's walking
Floyd | stick?  Put it back at once!"
Floyd |
Floyd | She practically bullies you out into the hall on the way to returning
Floyd | everything to its rightful place.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | The hall closet door is half-open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Shame I missed the beginning of the game. I have no clue what's going on."
Bert says (to Floyd), "drop all" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | (the brown folder)
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "We're a kid who is visiting our aunt and uncle. It's Sunday, and Aunt Emma wants us to study sermons, while we would prefer to be outside."
		DavidW asks, "So we're just trying to escape the house?"
		Bert says, "We've figured out how to get Emma to let us wander the house, but she still doesn't want us going out, and some internal doors are locked (Emma has the key),"
		Bert says, "Yeah."
		Bert says, "If we try to open the front door, Emma hears us and stops us."
Bert says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.  Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or
Floyd | north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | An armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of
Floyd | as "your" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see an elaborate flower centrepiece here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get all" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | elaborate flower centrepiece: Taken.
Floyd | displaced gnomon: If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk
Floyd | having the whole lot come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too
Floyd | young to die.
Floyd | snake locket: If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk having
Floyd | the whole lot come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too young
Floyd | to die.
Floyd | white cat: If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk having
Floyd | the whole lot come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too young
Floyd | to die.
Floyd | wooden goblet: If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk
Floyd | having the whole lot come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too
Floyd | young to die.
Floyd | flower saucer: If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk
Floyd | having the whole lot come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too
Floyd | young to die.
Floyd | ship painting: If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk
Floyd | having the whole lot come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too
Floyd | young to die.
Floyd | black falcon: If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk having
Floyd | the whole lot come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too young
Floyd | to die.
Floyd | glass unicorn: If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk
Floyd | having the whole lot come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too
Floyd | young to die.
Floyd | duelling pistol: If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk
Floyd | having the whole lot come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too
Floyd | young to die.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma spots the big, brushy centrepiece in your hands.  "Hector
Floyd | Percival Conrad!  That belongs in the dining room ... you'll get dry
Floyd | leaves and petals all over the place and Janet isn't around to sweep
Floyd | up after you.  Put that back right now!"
Floyd |
Floyd | She practically bullies you out into the hall on the way to returning
Floyd | the stupid thing to its rightful place.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a brown folder (in which are Uncle Stephen's old sermons)
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  White smoke
Floyd | curls from the bowl of his pipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | The last of the smoke from Uncle Stephen's pipe dissipates into the
Floyd | air.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "hm. Does the door hinge squeak, then?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a brown folder (in which are Uncle Stephen's old sermons)
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x front door" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FRONT DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | The front door is large and imposing ... and creaky.  Morris says that
Floyd | Aunt Emma makes him keep it that way so she can hear when anyone comes
Floyd | in or out of the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "(For W.)"
		Jacqueline asks, "Reckon there's some way to make it not squeak?"
		Bert says, "That seems plausible."
		Bert asks, "Maybe oil, if we can get into the kitchen?"
		Bert says, "(Emma has the key to it.)"
		DavidW says, "hm. Well, it there were hinges, we could oil them, but 'creaky' is ambiguous."
		DavidW says, "So maybe there has to be enough noise near Emma to mask it instead, or Emma needs to be fitted with earplugs somehow."
		Bert says, "Or we might be able to find something else for Emma to do to keep her busy and distracted."
		DavidW says, "Or (maybe) there's another exit."
		Bert says, "Yeah."
		Bert says, "If we had the servants' key, we might find a back door."
Bert says (to Floyd), "get all" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | brown folder: Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  His pipe droops
Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get matchbox" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET MATCHBOX
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Room
Floyd | The dining room is a pleasant, sunny room, with a round dining table
Floyd | just large enough for six.  A huge bay window looks out over the lawn
Floyd | towards the cathedral: Uncle Stephen's morning reminder of who he is
Floyd | and why he's here.  Aunt Emma's parlour is back to the south, and the
Floyd | hall is to the southeast.  The butler's door into the kitchen is to
Floyd | the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the dining table is an elaborate flower centrepiece.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get centerpiece" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET CENTERPIECE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   an elaborate flower centrepiece
Floyd |   a large matchbox
Floyd |   a brown folder
Floyd |     Uncle Stephen's old sermons
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "I think these are all the pickupable objects we've found so far."
		DavidW asks, "How about the pipe?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "se.e" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE.E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  His pipe droops
Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get pipe" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | Ask, and it shall be given you; but somehow you doubt if this will be
Floyd | the case here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "heh"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x sermons" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SERMONS
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen's old sermons.  You've been forced to read a couple of
Floyd | them, unfortunately, and the fact that there are more just makes your
Floyd | head want to implode.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "put sermons in fireplace" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SERMONS IN FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's unlikely to get you any closer to the great outdoors.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter fireplace" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | You'll only get yourself covered in soot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "show sermons to uncle" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW SERMONS TO UNCLE
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking Uncle Stephen's old sermons)
Floyd | You're not feeling ready for sleep just yet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Heh."
Bert says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   an elaborate flower centrepiece
Floyd |   a large matchbox
Floyd |   a brown folder
Floyd |     Uncle Stephen's old sermons
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I suspect I'll be of little help since I've seen so little of the game."
		DavidW asks, "Where did the gnomon come from?"
		Bert says, "I don't think we've actually gotten terribly far so far."
		Bert says (to W), "It's one of the ornaments on the mantle."
		Bert says, "(It appears to be a Trinity reference.)"
		Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Want to see the transcript thus far?"
		Jacqueline says, "I mean, you could @recap the toyshop, too, I guess."
		Allen says, "hard to imagine find ing a gnomon that isn't a trinity ref"
		DavidW says, "Recapping is mucho awkward."
		Allen says, "trinity players account for 90% of people who know the word in the US"
		DavidW says, "yeah, I agree the gnomon has to be a Trinity ref."
		Jacqueline says (to DW), "One sec, I'll pull the transcript thus far."
		DavidW says, "I suppose all the windows have all been tested and found to be painted shut, locked, barred, too small, etc."
		Bert says, "(We also identified the locket as a Harry Potter ref, he cat as a Hello Kitty ref, the goblet as an Indiana Jones ref, and the ship as a Narnia ref.)"
		DavidW says, "A Hello Kitty ref?!?!"
		Jacqueline says, "Or a Matrix ref."
		Bert says (to W), "It's white, has no mouth, and Emma imagines it saying 'hello' to her in the mornings."
		Bert says, "Oh, also, the falcon is probably Maltese."
		DavidW says, "oh dear"
		Bert says, "I think the flower saucer cited its own ref, even though I didn't recognize it."
		Bert says, "And I have no idea what the glass unicorn with the broken horn refers to."
		DavidW asks, "Has the game said how we're related to the aunt and uncle exactly? Which is the brother or sister to which of our parents?"
		Jacqueline | [LINK]
		Bert says (to W), "Both."
		DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "Thanks."
		Bert says, "(They are siblings.)"
		Jacqueline says, "I think the aunt and uncle are siblings to each other as well as to one of our parents, though they're significantly older than our parent."
		Bert says, "Our Mother, I think."
		Bert says, "Based on Stephen's comments on Wales."
		Jacqueline asks, "Why don't we chill a few minutes and let DW catch up?"
		Jacqueline says, "I'll get another cup of coffee."
		inky says, "the glass menagerie is a play"
		Bert says (to Jacq), "OK."
		inky says, "and it's actually kind of thematically similar to the game"
		Bert says (to Jacq), "I'm running out of ideas, so maybe he'll come up with some ideas we haven't."
		Bert says (to inky), "Oh, aha."
		inky says, "[LINK]"
		Bert says (to inky), "Mmm"
		inky says, "(I remembered Jim as being an army guy, which would have made it more similar, but that is not the case)"
		DavidW says, "I haven't finished reading, but perhaps reading material would help with Emma. If she could be persuaded to read a very boring book, she might fall asleep too."
Bert says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   an elaborate flower centrepiece
Floyd |   a large matchbox
Floyd |   a brown folder
Floyd |     Uncle Stephen's old sermons
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "mmkay, back with tea."
Bert says (to Floyd), "drop all but folder" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP ALL BUT FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | elaborate flower centrepiece: Dropped.
Floyd | large matchbox: Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.  Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or
Floyd | north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | An armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of
Floyd | as "your" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "show sermons to emma" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW SERMONS TO EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma looks in the folder and begins scanning the topmost sermon.
Floyd | A few pages later, she stops and begins to explain the whole thing to
Floyd | you.  While she's nowhere near as stuffy as Uncle Stephen, she's also
Floyd | nowhere near as organised: if you'd actually been listening, you might
Floyd | have come out more confused than when you went in.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "show sermons to emma" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW SERMONS TO EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma looks in the folder and begins scanning the topmost sermon.
Floyd | A few pages later, she stops and begins to explain the whole thing to
Floyd | you.  While she's nowhere near as stuffy as Uncle Stephen, she's also
Floyd | nowhere near as organised: if you'd actually been listening, you might
Floyd | have come out more confused than when you went in.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "I think these sermons are the boringest thing we've found so far."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask emma about books" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT BOOKS
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "tell emma about sign of four" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > TELL EMMA ABOUT SIGN OF FOUR
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks (of DW), "You're back, right?"
		DavidW says, "no, still reading"
		DavidW says, "It took forever for you guys to get out of the parlour."
		Bert says, "Yes. Yes it did."
		Jacqueline says, "Yeah."
		DavidW says, "hm. So Emma doesn't even let us walk around freely."
		Jacqueline says, "Well, she sorta does after we (inadvertently) win her trust with the sermon folder."
		DavidW says, "the 'Somewhere In Flanders' business is weiiiird."
		DavidW asks, "I'm assuming we eventually try reading the folder of sermons, not just the latest sermon?"
		Jacqueline says, "I think we did at some point, but I think we should do that more."
		DavidW says, "It's certainly something 'covered in Uncle Stephen's handwriting'."
Bert says (to Floyd), "read sermons" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ SERMONS
Floyd |
Floyd | No.  No no no.  Your sanity would never survive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x folder" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | It's clearly marked "Old Sermons", and its contents are as advertised.
Floyd | This probably qualifies it as a weapon of Mass destruction.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the brown folder are Uncle Stephen's old sermons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN IT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search it" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH IT
Floyd |
Floyd | In the brown folder are Uncle Stephen's old sermons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x old sermons" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X OLD SERMONS
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen's old sermons.  You've been forced to read a couple of
Floyd | them, unfortunately, and the fact that there are more just makes your
Floyd | head want to implode.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take old sermons" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE OLD SERMONS
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not feeling ready for sleep just yet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take folder" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | You already have that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show folder to emma" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW FOLDER TO EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma looks in the folder and begins scanning the topmost sermon.
Floyd | A few pages later, she stops and begins to explain the whole thing to
Floyd | you.  While she's nowhere near as stuffy as Uncle Stephen, she's also
Floyd | nowhere near as organised: if you'd actually been listening, you might
Floyd | have come out more confused than when you went in.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh, you've already tried that."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "scramble folder" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SCRAMBLE FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shuffle sermons" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHUFFLE SERMONS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "empty folder" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > EMPTY FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "scatter sermons" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SCATTER SERMONS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "mix up the sermons" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > MIX UP THE SERMONS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Oh, maybe we've run that idea to its end."
		Jacqueline says, "For some reason I was thinking we'd gotten Emma to say a bit more about them, but I guess not."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about sermons" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SERMONS
Floyd |
Floyd | "If you're having trouble with it, bring it here and show it to me,
Floyd | and I'll explain it as best I can," says Aunt Emma kindly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about folder" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask emma about cathedral" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT CATHEDRAL
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask emma about lunch" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT LUNCH
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert asks, "Hmm, what if we hide the matchbox and wake Stephen?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a large matchbox and an elaborate flower centrepiece here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "open closet" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN CLOSET
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the closet, revealing a walking stick.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "put matchbox in closet" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT MATCHBOX IN CLOSET
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking the large matchbox)
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the large matchbox into the closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "close matchbox" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLOSE MATCHBOX
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can close.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "close closet" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLOSE CLOSET
Floyd |
Floyd | You close the closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  His pipe droops
Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "wake stephen" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WAKE STEPHEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you.  "Eh?  I'm awake.
Floyd | What is it, Hector?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen takes a puff on his pipe and notes with some annoyance
Floyd | that it has somehow gone out.  He reaches for his trusty matchbox and
Floyd | notes with even more annoyance that it has somehow gone missing.
Floyd | Sighing, he stands up and begins looking around.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "open drawer" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DRAWER
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen motions you vaguely away from the desk drawer.  It's
Floyd | clearly private, and he would appreciate it if you stayed out of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about matchbox" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT MATCHBOX
Floyd |
Floyd | "Rather a necessary evil, I would say.  Some people still call them
Floyd | lucifers, so it's rather like letting the devil into your own house
Floyd | ... but do you know, the actual lucifers fell out of fashion when I
Floyd | was a boy, after a more reliable sort of match was invented.  There's
Floyd | a lesson right there, my boy, if you'll take note of it."
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen shakes his head and wanders out into the Hall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert exclaims, "Yay!"
Bert says (to Floyd), "open drawer" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DRAWER
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the drawer, revealing a letter crammed in among an assortment
Floyd | of other junk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get letter" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET LETTER
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x junk" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X JUNK
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't need any of that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x letter" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LETTER
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen is wandering the house and could walk in on you any
Floyd | minute.  You don't have time to give this a proper read, though you
Floyd | can see already that it's more interesting than anything this house
Floyd | has to offer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "YAY"
		DavidW says, "close drawer"
Bert says (to Floyd), "close drawer" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLOSE DRAWER
Floyd |
Floyd | You close the drawer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a letter
Floyd |   a brown folder
Floyd |     Uncle Stephen's old sermons
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put letter in folder" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT LETTER IN FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the letter into the brown folder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "put letter in folder" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT LETTER IN FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking the letter)
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the letter into the brown folder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "eat letter" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > EAT LETTER
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking the letter)
Floyd | That's plainly inedible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen is casting about for his missing matchbox.  His pipe
Floyd | droops unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see an elaborate flower centrepiece here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "open closet" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN CLOSET
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the closet, revealing a large matchbox and a walking stick.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen catches sight of the matchbox sitting where you'd left
Floyd | it, and happily retrieves it.  Thankfully, he doesn't seem too
Floyd | interested in wondering how it got there in the first place.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen returns to his study.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		inky says, "but I have to prevent it from falling into the hands of the enemy!"
		Bert exclaims (at inky), "We're not in Flanders anymore!"
Bert says (to Floyd), "read letter" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ LETTER
Floyd |
Floyd | Let's see.  It's from a Mr John Austin, thanking your Uncle Stephen
Floyd | for something ... boring stuff, boring stuff ... well.  It looks as
Floyd | though Uncle Stephen has been sending money regularly to this Mr
Floyd | Austin, but why?  You separate the letter out into its three pages,
Floyd | and regard each one individually....
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   three pages of a scandalous letter
Floyd |   a brown folder
Floyd |     Uncle Stephen's old sermons
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x letter" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LETTER
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the first page, the second page or the third page?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "first" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > FIRST
Floyd |
Floyd | Mr John Austin sends his regards ... lovely weather ... good health
Floyd | ... first child ... all very standard fare, nothing you wouldn't
Floyd | expect to find in a hundred other letters....
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x second page" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SECOND PAGE
Floyd |
Floyd | Thanks for the assistance ... goodness, here's an account of all sorts
Floyd | of money that Uncle Stephen has been sending to this Austin fellow
Floyd | over the past year.  Mr Austin sounds as though he should have been a
Floyd | bank clerk, but why on earth would Uncle Stephen be sending him money?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x third letter" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X THIRD LETTER
Floyd |
Floyd | Here's where Mr Austin talks about his wife, which sounds terribly
Floyd | boring.  But the way this page is creased, it looks as though Uncle
Floyd | Stephen's been reading and re-reading it over and over, for some odd
Floyd | reason.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "My my."
		Jacqueline says, "tut tut"
		Bert asks, "Does Stephen have a begat of his own?"
		Bert asks, "Do we confront Emma with this? Or Stephen?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.  Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or
Floyd | north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | An armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of
Floyd | as "your" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "show letter to emma" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW LETTER TO EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the first page, the second page or the third page?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "first" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > FIRST
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma would never even look at that if you were to present it to
Floyd | her directly.  You'll need a more subtle approach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "put letter in folder" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT LETTER IN FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the first page, the second page or the third page?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "all" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | Sorry, you can only have one item here. Which exactly?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "put first in folder" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT FIRST IN FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the first page into the brown folder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "put second in folder" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SECOND IN FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the second page into the brown folder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "put third in folder" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT THIRD IN FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the third page into the brown folder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "show folder to emma" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW FOLDER TO EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma looks in the folder and begins scanning the topmost sermon.
Floyd | Flipping through the collected sermons, she happens quite by chance
Floyd | upon the first page of that letter to Uncle Stephen.  She reads the
Floyd | first few lines, then stops, carefully extracts the offending pages,
Floyd | and hands them to you.  "This doesn't belong in here with your uncle's
Floyd | sermons, Hector; it looks like a private letter, probably from a
Floyd | parishioner.  I don't know how it got mixed in with the old sermons,
Floyd | but you had better return it to him."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Oh dear we are an evil nephew."
Bert says (to Floyd), "put third page in folder" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT THIRD PAGE IN FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the third page into the brown folder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "show folder to emma" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW FOLDER TO EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma looks in the folder and begins scanning the topmost sermon.
Floyd | Flipping through the collected sermons, she happens quite by chance
Floyd | upon the third page of that letter to Uncle Stephen.  She reads the
Floyd | first few lines, then stops, carefully extracts the offending page,
Floyd | and hands it to you.  "This doesn't belong in here with your uncle's
Floyd | sermons, Hector; it looks like a private letter, probably from a
Floyd | parishioner.  I don't know how it got mixed in with the old sermons,
Floyd | but you had better return it to him."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "put second letter in folder" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SECOND LETTER IN FOLDER
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the second page into the brown folder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "show folder to emma" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW FOLDER TO EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma looks in the folder and begins scanning the topmost sermon.
Floyd | Flipping through the collected sermons, she happens upon the second
Floyd | page of that letter to Uncle Stephen, the one that you'd left in
Floyd | there.  She reads the first few lines, stops, then reads it again.
Floyd | Clearly, the information about Uncle Stephen's money management has
Floyd | caught her attention, and she is not at all happy about it.  "Excuse
Floyd | me, Hector," she says, "but I really must speak to your uncle about
Floyd | something."
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma slips something between the pages of her Bible to mark her
Floyd | place, then takes the folder from you and stalks off.  She's left her
Floyd | Bible behind.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get bible" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET BIBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "KEY"
		Bert says, "Get equipped with: GOLD KEY"
		Jacqueline says, "THE KEY"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x key" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | The master key is usually carried by the servants, which seems a
Floyd | little ironic.  But then it's the servants who need to get into every
Floyd | nook and cranny of the house, from attic to coal cellar; normal people
Floyd | only need to get into the civilised living spaces.  Since the servants
Floyd | today are out, it's been handed over to Aunt Emma ... which still
Floyd | seems a little ironic, since she's the mistress of the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Room
Floyd | The dining room is a pleasant, sunny room, with a round dining table
Floyd | just large enough for six.  A huge bay window looks out over the lawn
Floyd | towards the cathedral: Uncle Stephen's morning reminder of who he is
Floyd | and why he's here.  Aunt Emma's parlour is back to the south, and the
Floyd | hall is to the southeast.  The butler's door into the kitchen is to
Floyd | the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "unlock kitchen" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNLOCK KITCHEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the butler's door)
Floyd | It seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "unlock it" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNLOCK IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You haven't the key on you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get key" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the butler's door)
Floyd | You unlock the butler's door with the master key.
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | This is Cookie's domain, the place where all the baking and roasting
Floyd | and cooking gets done.  You're generally not allowed in here, although
Floyd | once, ages ago, Uncle Stephen gave you special permission to come in
Floyd | and watch a chimney sweep have a go at the kitchen fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | The main part of the house is back to the southwest, while a very
Floyd | steep and narrow staircase goes up and down.  There's also the
Floyd | butler's door into the dining room, the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | An old photograph is framed over the kitchen fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "save" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf3" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x fireplace" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | The kitchen fireplace is almost big enough to stand in.  It's
Floyd | back-to-back with the fireplace in Uncle Stephen's study, and shares a
Floyd | flue.  You remember this from the time Uncle Stephen let you watch the
Floyd | sweep clean out the chimney.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x staircase" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STAIRCASE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's how the servants get all over the house without anyone
Floyd | noticing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x photo" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PHOTO
Floyd |
Floyd | A small unit of soldiers poses in front of an elephant.  You recognise
Floyd | a much-younger Morris as one of the soldiers; the others are
Floyd | strangers, though one looks vaguely familiar for reasons you can't
Floyd | quite determine.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x flue" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FLUE
Floyd |
Floyd | There's the flue, which is shared with Uncle Stephen's study.  You
Floyd | remember the sweep saying that this was highly irregular, although
Floyd | maybe he was just miffed that he had one less chimney to clean and be
Floyd | paid for.  It's currently closed, since there's no reason to light a
Floyd | fire just yet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "open" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to open?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "flue" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > FLUE
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the flue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
inky says (to Floyd), "listen to flue" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LISTEN TO FLUE
Floyd |
Floyd | Through the open flue, you can hear Uncle Stephen and Aunt Emma
Floyd | speaking rather animatedly in the study.  It's a pity they never raise
Floyd | their voices, but you can make out a few words: "moral obligation" ...
Floyd | "finally understood" ... "Owen" ... Mother's name comes up rather more
Floyd | often than one might expect, which probably means you're going to be
Floyd | in so much trouble when she gets back from Oxford.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "'... "Owen" ...'"
		Jacqueline says, "Yeah"
		Bert asks, "Wait, is Owen our dad?"
		Jacqueline says, "No, Owen is dead, isn't he... or wait."
		Jacqueline says, "Hrm."
		Bert says, "Hmm. I think he might be too old for that to be likely."
		Bert says, "Since he was friends with Emma and Stephen, who met him when they were around 17/18, which was also when Mother was born."
Bert says (to Floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Through the open flue, you can hear Uncle Stephen and Aunt Emma
Floyd | speaking rather animatedly in the study.  It's a pity they never raise
Floyd | their voices, but you can make out a few words: "moral obligation" ...
Floyd | "finally understood" ... "Owen" ... Mother's name comes up rather more
Floyd | often than one might expect, which probably means you're going to be
Floyd | in so much trouble when she gets back from Oxford.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "While we're being evil, how about locking the door behind us?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "lock door" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOCK DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the butler's door or the kitchen door?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "butler's" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > BUTLER'S
Floyd |
Floyd | First you'll have to close the butler's door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "close it" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLOSE IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You close the butler's door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "lock it" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOCK IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You lock the butler's door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Done."
Bert says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | This is Cookie's domain, the place where all the baking and roasting
Floyd | and cooking gets done.  You're generally not allowed in here, although
Floyd | once, ages ago, Uncle Stephen gave you special permission to come in
Floyd | and watch a chimney sweep have a go at the kitchen fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | The main part of the house is back to the southwest, while a very
Floyd | steep and narrow staircase goes up and down.  There's also the
Floyd | butler's door into the dining room, the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | An old photograph is framed over the kitchen fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x staircase" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STAIRCASE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's how the servants get all over the house without anyone
Floyd | noticing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "photo" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PHOTO
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "photograph" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > PHOTOGRAPH
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x morris" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MORRIS
Floyd |
Floyd | That is definitely Morris, Uncle Stephen's faithful gardener and
Floyd | general handyman, in the photograph.  He looks a lot younger there
Floyd | than you've ever known him, and considerably less grizzled.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x photograph" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PHOTOGRAPH
Floyd |
Floyd | A small unit of soldiers poses in front of an elephant.  You recognise
Floyd | a much-younger Morris as one of the soldiers; the others are
Floyd | strangers, though one looks vaguely familiar for reasons you can't
Floyd | quite determine.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x familiar" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FAMILIAR
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert asks, "Is the familiar one Owen Davis, perhaps?"
		Bert says, "I guess from here it's up or down."
		Bert says, "Unless we want to make another attempt at the front door."
		Bert says, "But I don't want to risk distracting Emma from her conversation with Stephen."
Bert says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | Only servants are allowed down there.  Even Aunt Emma would hesitate
Floyd | to trespass that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd | That way is the secret passages to all the rooms that you could just
Floyd | as easily get to from the main stairs, not that you want to.  There's
Floyd | no point going that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert asks, "...wait, where are the main stairs?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | This is Cookie's domain, the place where all the baking and roasting
Floyd | and cooking gets done.  You're generally not allowed in here, although
Floyd | once, ages ago, Uncle Stephen gave you special permission to come in
Floyd | and watch a chimney sweep have a go at the kitchen fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | The main part of the house is back to the southwest, while a very
Floyd | steep and narrow staircase goes up and down.  There's also the
Floyd | butler's door into the dining room, the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | An old photograph is framed over the kitchen fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Well, she might be so engaged in that conversation that she wouldn't notice the front door."
Bert says (to Floyd), "look behind photo" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND PHOTO
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "look behind photograph" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND PHOTOGRAPH
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get photograph" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET PHOTOGRAPH
Floyd |
Floyd | That's fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the kitchen door)
Floyd | You unlock the kitchen door with the master key.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | It sounds as though Aunt Emma is having something of an argument with
Floyd | Uncle Stephen in the study.
Floyd |
Floyd | The hall closet door is half-open, revealing a walking stick.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see an elaborate flower centrepiece here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get stick" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET STICK
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | As you approach the front door, you hear Aunt Emma call out to you,
Floyd | "Hector, you're not planning on leaving the house, are you?  Please
Floyd | don't."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.  Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or
Floyd | north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | An armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of
Floyd | as "your" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x pistol" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]             All she saw was a silhouette of a gun
Floyd ]             (Far away on the other side)
Floyd ]             He was shot six times by a man on the run
Floyd ]             (And she couldn't find how to push through)
Floyd ]
Floyd ]             - Mike Oldfield, 'Moonlight Shadow'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PISTOL
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a little chipped and battered, which means that it's been used,
Floyd | which is even more surprising because you really cannot picture Uncle
Floyd | Stephen handling a pistol without sermonising about it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get it" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET IT
Floyd |
Floyd | If you so much as nudged anything there, you risk having the whole lot
Floyd | come avalanching down upon your head.  You're too young to die.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.  Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or
Floyd | north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | An armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of
Floyd | as "your" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert asks, "Hmm. Is there anything we wanted to do in here but couldn't before?"
		Bert says, "(Aside from leave.)"
		DavidW says, "There's stairs in the hall plus the door to the servants' area."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look behind painting" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND PAINTING
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Huh, somehow my brain never really registered the stairs."
Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | It sounds as though Aunt Emma is having something of an argument with
Floyd | Uncle Stephen in the study.
Floyd |
Floyd | The hall closet door is half-open.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see an elaborate flower centrepiece here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x stairs" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STAIRS
Floyd |
Floyd | The stairs go up to the first floor of the house.  There's nothing up
Floyd | there but bedrooms and bathrooms.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd | You're trying to get out of the house, not sequester yourself in it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma and Uncle Stephen are having a very private conversation in
Floyd | there.  Better keep your distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a walking stick
Floyd |   the master key
Floyd |   a Bible
Floyd |   two pages of a scandalous letter
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get all" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | elaborate flower centrepiece: Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | This is Cookie's domain, the place where all the baking and roasting
Floyd | and cooking gets done.  You're generally not allowed in here, although
Floyd | once, ages ago, Uncle Stephen gave you special permission to come in
Floyd | and watch a chimney sweep have a go at the kitchen fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | The main part of the house is back to the southwest, while a very
Floyd | steep and narrow staircase goes up and down.  There's also the
Floyd | butler's door into the dining room, the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | An old photograph is framed over the kitchen fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x cabinets" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CABINETS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x flue" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FLUE
Floyd |
Floyd | There's the flue, which is shared with Uncle Stephen's study.  You
Floyd | remember the sweep saying that this was highly irregular, although
Floyd | maybe he was just miffed that he had one less chimney to clean and be
Floyd | paid for.  It's currently open, and if you listen hard you can hear
Floyd | Uncle Stephen and Aunt Emma talking in the study.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "enter it" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER IT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "enter fireplace" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | You'll only get yourself covered in soot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "search it" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "I guess the matches are now out of reach."
Bert says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   an elaborate flower centrepiece
Floyd |   a walking stick
Floyd |   the master key
Floyd |   a Bible
Floyd |   two pages of a scandalous letter
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "stick" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > STICK
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x stick" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STICK
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen has taken to long walks over the hills, and as a
Floyd | consequence has gotten himself a walking stick that's really more of a
Floyd | staff, it's so long and sturdy.  Father says he's really just
Floyd | practicing for such a time as when he finally gets a bishop's crozier,
Floyd | but Mother thinks Father should not make light of such things.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I suppose that stick is available for some reason."
		Bert says, "Yeah."
Bert says (to Floyd), "read bible" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ BIBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma seems to have been somewhere in the middle of the Acts of
Floyd | the Apostles: "... And there sat in a window a certain young man named
Floyd | Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long
Floyd | preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft,
Floyd | and was taken up dead...."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "My."
		DavidW says, "We're too young to die."
		DavidW asks, "Is there anything up high that we couldn't reach?"
		Bert says, "Not that I recall."
Bert says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the butler's door)
Floyd | You unlock the butler's door with the master key.
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Room
Floyd | The dining room is a pleasant, sunny room, with a round dining table
Floyd | just large enough for six.  A huge bay window looks out over the lawn
Floyd | towards the cathedral: Uncle Stephen's morning reminder of who he is
Floyd | and why he's here.  Aunt Emma's parlour is back to the south, and the
Floyd | hall is to the southeast.  The butler's door into the kitchen is to
Floyd | the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x window" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | From here, you can see the lawn and the woods and the distant  spires
Floyd | of the cathedral.  The sun is shining and you know that the woods are
Floyd | just bursting with interesting things to discover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x woods" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WOODS
Floyd |
Floyd | The woods look incredibly enticing this time of the year.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x cathedral" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CATHEDRAL
Floyd |
Floyd | Barchester Cathedral is just visible beyond the woods.  You can't make
Floyd | out the details, but you know it's all very grand and impressive, at
Floyd | least to someone who isn't made to go there quite as regularly as you
Floyd | are.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open window" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "break window" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > BREAK WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.  Also, Uncle Stephen would tan
Floyd | your hide.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Is there no window in the kitchen?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | This is Cookie's domain, the place where all the baking and roasting
Floyd | and cooking gets done.  You're generally not allowed in here, although
Floyd | once, ages ago, Uncle Stephen gave you special permission to come in
Floyd | and watch a chimney sweep have a go at the kitchen fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | The main part of the house is back to the southwest, while a very
Floyd | steep and narrow staircase goes up and down.  There's also the
Floyd | butler's door into the dining room, the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | An old photograph is framed over the kitchen fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x window" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | From here, you can see the lawn and the woods and the distant  steeple
Floyd | of St Swithin's.  The sun is shining and you know that the woods are
Floyd | just bursting with interesting things to discover.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "open it" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN IT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x swithin" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SWITHIN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x swithin's" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SWITHIN'S
Floyd |
Floyd | That's Uncle Stephen's parish.  You were there just this morning,
Floyd | trying to stay awake through Uncle Stephen's sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | Only servants are allowed down there.  Even Aunt Emma would hesitate
Floyd | to trespass that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert asks, "Hmm. That name is familiar. Doctor in the House?"
		DavidW says, "I wouldn't know."
		Bert asks, "Gas and Gaiters, maybe?"
		Jacqueline asks, "Listen through the flue?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "listen to flue" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LISTEN TO FLUE
Floyd |
Floyd | Through the open flue, you can hear Uncle Stephen and Aunt Emma
Floyd | speaking rather animatedly in the study.  It's a pity they never raise
Floyd | their voices, but you can make out a few words: "moral obligation" ...
Floyd | "finally understood" ... "Owen" ... Mother's name comes up rather more
Floyd | often than one might expect, which probably means you're going to be
Floyd | in so much trouble when she gets back from Oxford.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "oh"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x flue" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FLUE
Floyd |
Floyd | There's the flue, which is shared with Uncle Stephen's study.  You
Floyd | remember the sweep saying that this was highly irregular, although
Floyd | maybe he was just miffed that he had one less chimney to clean and be
Floyd | paid for.  It's currently open, and if you listen hard you can hear
Floyd | Uncle Stephen and Aunt Emma talking in the study.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "(Ah, it was Doctor in the House.)"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "tap flue" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAP FLUE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "hit flue with stick" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > HIT FLUE WITH STICK
Floyd |

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chimney" 		

Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hit the flue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CHIMNEY
Floyd |
Floyd | There's the flue, which is shared with Uncle Stephen's study.  You
Floyd | remember the sweep saying that this was highly irregular, although
Floyd | maybe he was just miffed that he had one less chimney to clean and be
Floyd | paid for.  It's currently open, and if you listen hard you can hear
Floyd | Uncle Stephen and Aunt Emma talking in the study.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "enter flue" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER FLUE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "enter chimney" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER CHIMNEY
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x lawn" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LAWN
Floyd |
Floyd | It's green, and it looks freshly mown.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Does this place not have a door to the back garden."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cupboards" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CUPBOARDS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cabinets" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CABINETS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fridge" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FRIDGE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x table" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x oven" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X OVEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Sparsely appointed kitchen."
		Jacqueline says, "Well, it was another time."
		Jacqueline asks, "Did they have fridges in 1892?"
		Bert says, "People ate less then."
		Bert says, "Mostly just rocks."
		Jacqueline says (to Bert), "hee"
		DavidW says, "iceboxes"
		Jacqueline says, "Probably downstairs, though, I'm thinking."
Bert says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | Only servants are allowed down there.  Even Aunt Emma would hesitate
Floyd | to trespass that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | "What exactly is your interest in the backstairs, any road?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		Jacqueline says, "Root cellarish, or something."
Bert pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | Getting the other fellows to join in on this story-telling lark seemed
Floyd | like a good idea at the time.  It was better than yet another game of
Floyd | cards, anyway, and it rather took the mind off who is or is not going
Floyd | to be at mess in the morning.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Somewhere In Flanders
Floyd | It's a little terrifying how accustomed you've gotten to this muddy,
Floyd | grimy hell-hole.  You could probably find your way back here in the
Floyd | dark, crawling blind through a maze of twisty trenches, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Anderson, Jellicoe, Hardy and Macdougal here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hardy blinks at Anderson's question.  "Well, sir, what I was thinking
Floyd | was, I thought perhaps we could get out by the tradesman's door."
Floyd |
Floyd | "There isn't a tradesman's door," you say quickly.
Floyd |
Floyd | "No tradesman's door?  How do the servants get in and out, then?
Floyd | Where does the butcher deliver?  Not the front door, surely?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Yay, Flanders."
		Jacqueline says, "ooh Flanders."
		Bert says, "Yay."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x jellicoe" 		

Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | > X JELLICOE
Floyd |
Floyd | Jellicoe's father was Uncle Stephen's curate back around '95.  You
Floyd | didn't care much for him at the time, but two years of hell can make
Floyd | brothers out of anyone.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hardy's right," says Anderson slowly, "there ought to be a
Floyd | tradesman's door.  Never would have occurred to me.  Never been
Floyd | below-stairs, or thought about what goes on there."
Floyd |
Floyd | Macdougal shrugs.  "I've spent all my life in flats, myself.  Setup's
Floyd | a little bit different."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x hardy" 		

Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HARDY
Floyd |
Floyd | Resourceful chap, Hardy.  Not someone you'd care to rub elbows with in
Floyd | peacetime, but his ... acquisitions make life in the trenches just a
Floyd | touch more bearable.  Which is why you've taken him as your batman.
Floyd | Hope he lasts.
Floyd |
Floyd | Jellicoe looks from you to the others and back.  "There's a reason,
Floyd | surely, that you didn't poke around more?  Or perhaps the door was
Floyd | locked, or blocked somehow, or...."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Right, right," you say, "of course there was.  I quite forgot.
Floyd | Morris was there...."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		DavidW asks, "yeah, wherein is our providence come hither, govn'r?"
Bert pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | This is Cookie's domain, the place where all the baking and roasting
Floyd | and cooking gets done.  You're generally not allowed in here, although
Floyd | once, ages ago, Uncle Stephen gave you special permission to come in
Floyd | and watch a chimney sweep have a go at the kitchen fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | The main part of the house is back to the southwest, while a very
Floyd | steep and narrow staircase goes up and down.  There's also the
Floyd | butler's door into the dining room, the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Deep snoring rumbles up from the servant's stair.
Floyd |
Floyd | An old photograph is framed over the kitchen fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | Goodness.  What was that all about?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs, it looks like Morris is back, propped right up against the
Floyd | tradesman's door with a bottle of the demon drink.  He'll give you a
Floyd | good whipping for trespassing if he catches you here, so you'd best
Floyd | keep your distance.  Besides, the alcohol fumes coming off him would
Floyd | do you in for sure.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "listen to snoring" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > LISTEN TO SNORING
Floyd |
Floyd | It sounds as though Morris is back, and dead drunk.  You don't want to
Floyd | get too close to him when he's like this.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Well then."
		Jacqueline says, "Golly"
		Jacqueline says, "So, now I'm wondering if we're dead."
		Jacqueline says, "Or in a war-induced coma."
		Bert asks, "You think that Flanders is really Hell?"
		Jacqueline says, "That's a possibility."
		Bert says, "Enh, I assume that we're really in Flanders and alive at the time of this narration, just passing the time in the trenches. Of course, that's not to imply that we won't be dead tomorrow..."
		Jacqueline nods.
		maga says, "hunh, I missed that bit"
		Jacqueline says, "Another possibility."
		maga says, "or it's new"
		Jacqueline says, "Might be new."
		Jacqueline says, "This is this week's release."
		Bert says, "Hmm. If Morris is in the photo, he might know the mysteriously familiar fellow in the photo. Shame he's too drunk to tell us."
		Bert asks, "Do we want another hint?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   an elaborate poppy centrepiece
Floyd |   a walking stick
Floyd |   the master key
Floyd |   a Bible
Floyd |   two pages of a scandalous letter
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hit morris with walking stick" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > HIT MORRIS WITH WALKING STICK
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hit the image of Morris.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "He's on the other side of the basement door, I think."
		DavidW asks, "poppy?"
		Jacqueline says, "Ah."
		DavidW asks, "Flanders?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x poppy" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X POPPY
Floyd |
Floyd | This centrepiece is beginning to get a little old and dry.  Poppies
Floyd | and leaves stick out all over like bristles on a brush, and the
Floyd | ribbons holding it together are looking droopy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says (to W), "Mmm, interesting."
		Bert says, "First Stephen is smoking something that gives us the munchies, and now Emma is keeping poppies."
		Bert says, "I think these two might be quite different from what we assumed."
Bert says (to Floyd), "smoke poppy" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SMOKE POPPY
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "eat poppy" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > EAT POPPY
Floyd |
Floyd | That's plainly inedible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "smell poppy" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SMELL POPPY
Floyd |
Floyd | There's still the very faint smell of the fields and hedgerows about
Floyd | the poppies, but otherwise it's mostly just dry grass.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		maga says, "I don't really know what poppies signified before WWI"
		Jacqueline says, "heehee"
		DavidW says, "sleep"
		Bert says, "I would have thought opium, yeah"
		DavidW says, "Like the wicked witch of the west says, 'poppies will put them to sleep'."
		maga says, "other than opium, yes, but you can't get much of that out of normal poppyseeds, no? Enough to set off a drug test, not enough to do much else"
		DavidW says, "I remember one Sandman issue where the language of flowers was referenced."
		Bert asks (of maga), "So you're thinking that our family maybe *isn't* a bunch of drug fiends?"
		Bert says (to maga), "I guess that's plausible."
		Jacqueline says, "heh"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "untie ribbon" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNTIE RIBBON
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		maga says, "I suspect that the poppies are a foreshadowing of WWI"
		Jacqueline says, "Yeah."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "water poppies" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WATER POPPIES
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search centerpiece" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH CENTERPIECE
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says (to maga), "Given the Flanders scenes, yeah. But I still find my interpretation sufficiently entertaining that I refuse to entirely abandon it."
Bert says (to Floyd), "tie flowers to stick" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > TIE FLOWERS TO STICK
Floyd |
Floyd | You firmly affix the centrepiece to the head of the walking stick,
Floyd | using as many of its own ribbons as you can get your hands on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Well. There."
		Bert says, "*That* surely seems like it must be useful."
		maga says, "and surely poppies must have had a symbolic function for flower-arrangements before WWI"
Bert says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a walking stick (with flower centrepiece attached)
Floyd |   the master key
Floyd |   a Bible
Floyd |   two pages of a scandalous letter
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x stick" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STICK
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen has taken to long walks over the hills, and as a
Floyd | consequence has gotten himself a walking stick that's really more of a
Floyd | staff, it's so long and sturdy.  There's a bristly flower centrepiece
Floyd | attached to one end, like the head of a brush, which makes it look
Floyd | exceedingly silly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "what use is flowers on a stick without a horse?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "sweep fireplace" 		

Floyd ]  Kitchen                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SWEEP FIREPLACE
Floyd |
Floyd | You thrust the flowery end of the walking stick up into the flue, and
Floyd | are rewarded with a sudden explosion of soot ... and the sounds of
Floyd | Aunt Emma and Uncle Stephen's consternation at a corresponding
Floyd | explosion of soot on the other side.  Not long after, you hear them
Floyd | both hurrying up the stairs to get themselves cleaned off and changed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert exclaims, "Hey hey!"
		DavidW says, "oh my!"
		inky says, "hunh!"
		DavidW asks, "how the heck did you think of that?"
		inky says, "this says red poppies used to mean pleasure"
		maga says, "okay, apparently they were for sleep, peace and death even *before* WWI"
		DavidW says, "I suppose now the front door isn't blocked by aunts any more."
		Bert says (to W), "The fact that there were ribbons made me think of tying, and the stick was the only thing local to tie it to, and then the description mentioned bristles and a brush, which made me realize it resembled a broom, so I wondered what to sweep with it, and chimney sweeping had been mentioned in the game, so."
		Bert says, "s/local/logical/"
Bert says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | The hall closet door is half-open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | With Aunt Emma and Uncle Stephen otherwise occupied, you quickly open
Floyd | the front door (it creaks like the blazes) and slip outside into the
Floyd | warm, summer sunshine.  You're going to be in a world of trouble when
Floyd | you get back, but for the moment there is nothing but you, the summer,
Floyd | and the wonders of God's green earth.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** Freedom! ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | All right, men.  Move out.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions
Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT or UNDO the last command?
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "yes, when you put it like that."
		Bert says, "WE WIN"
		DavidW says, "woot!"
Bert says (to Floyd), "amusing" 		

Floyd ]                             End Notes
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
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Floyd |  > Credits
Floyd |    About the author
Floyd |    IFcomp 2012
Floyd |    Have you tried...
Floyd |    The Flanders vignettes

		inky says, "hunh"
		Jacqueline says, "Very well done, Master Bert."
Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]                              Credits
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | CREDITS
Floyd |
Floyd | Thanks go, of course, to Graham Nelson and Emily Short for their work
Floyd | on the Inform7 language.  Thanks also to my beta-testers: Doug Jones,
Floyd | Adri, Andy Joel and Andrew Schultz.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		Bert says, "I wonder if 'All right, men. Move out.' means that as soon as the story finished, we marched into battle and probably died."
Bert pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                             End Notes
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |  > Credits
Floyd |    About the author
Floyd |    IFcomp 2012
Floyd |    Have you tried...
Floyd |    The Flanders vignettes

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                             End Notes
Floyd ]
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Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |  > About the author
Floyd |    IFcomp 2012
Floyd |    Have you tried...
Floyd |    The Flanders vignettes

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                             End Notes
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    About the author
Floyd |  > IFcomp 2012
Floyd |    Have you tried...
Floyd |    The Flanders vignettes

		maga says, "that is the most straightforward interpretation, yes"
Bert presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]                            IFcomp 2012
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "Sunday Afternoon" was entered into the 18th annual IF competition,
Floyd | 2012, where it placed 5th.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		
Bert pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                             End Notes
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    About the author
Floyd |  > IFcomp 2012
Floyd |    Have you tried...
Floyd |    The Flanders vignettes

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                             End Notes
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    About the author
Floyd |    IFcomp 2012
Floyd |  > Have you tried...
Floyd |    The Flanders vignettes

		
Bert presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]                         Have you tried...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ...Examining each item on the parlour fireplace mantel more than once?
Floyd | ...Examining the saucer more than once?
Floyd | ...Looking up the actual text of the sermon passage (not in-game, but
Floyd | in real life)?
Floyd | ...Examining the books in Uncle Stephen's bookshelves?  Several times?
Floyd | ...Reviewing the breakfast?
Floyd | ...Fidgeting?
Floyd | ...Swearing strongly?  And again while in Flanders?
Floyd | ...Swearing mildly?  While in Flanders?
Floyd | ...Attacking someone in Flanders?
Floyd | ...Asking Uncle Stephen about Llew, Gronw or Bloduwedd, the mythical
Floyd | characters referenced in "The Owl Service"?
Floyd | ...Wearing the elaborate centrepiece?  Several times?  But not after
Floyd | you've attached it to the walking stick, of course!
Floyd | ...Finishing the game without once encountering a Flanders vignette?
Floyd | ...Finding all the Flanders vignettes?
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		DavidW asks, "saucer?"
		Bert asks, "Hmm. Did we examine everything more than once?"
		Bert says (to W), "One of the mantlepiece items."
		Jacqueline says, "Not sure. I don't recall fidgeting, either."
		Bert asks, "What does he mean about reviewing the breakfast?"
		Jacqueline says, "Not surea about that, either."
		Bert says (to W), "I think 'The Owl Service' is the saucer."
Bert pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                             End Notes
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    About the author
Floyd |    IFcomp 2012
Floyd |  > Have you tried...
Floyd |    The Flanders vignettes

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                             End Notes
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    About the author
Floyd |    IFcomp 2012
Floyd |    Have you tried...
Floyd |  > The Flanders vignettes

		
Bert presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]                       The Flanders vignettes
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | 1) Type "xyzzy", but not while you're already in Flanders.  Note that
Floyd | you cannot access this scene once you've tried typing "xyzzy",
Floyd | "plover" or "plugh" while in Flanders.
Floyd |
Floyd | 2) Ask Aunt Emma about the army three times.  For added fun, ask her
Floyd | about the army a couple more times after that.
Floyd |
Floyd | 3) Try distracting Aunt Emma three times, without ever getting caught
Floyd | with the folder of old sermons.
Floyd |
Floyd | 4) After Aunt Emma has decided that you can be trusted to leave your
Floyd | seat and wander the house, but before you've managed to cover her in
Floyd | soot and send her upstairs to clean up, try leaving by the front door
Floyd | three times.
Floyd |
Floyd | 5) Try going down from the kitchen three times.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | NOTE: you can only access a total of three vignettes in any one
Floyd | playthrough.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		DavidW says, "I was curious what swearing would do in this game. I'm sure Emma wouldn't like it."
		Bert says, "I know the command SWEAR wasn't implemented, but I didn't try being more specific."
		Bert asks (of W), "Would you like to take over to try the swearing et al.?"
		Jacqueline asks (of Bert), "Leaving it to an expert?"
		Jacqueline says, "If so, maga is here, too."
		DavidW asks, "oh, wouldn't we need Emma back?"
		Bert says (to Jacq), "Either that, or I'm getting lazy."
		Jacqueline says (to DW), "We have saves."
		Bert says (to W), "Yeah, we'd have to restore or restart for some of them."
		inky says, "hmm, this was fun but it seemed kind of slight"
		DavidW says, "I suppose we'd get our mouth literally washed with soap."
		Bert says, "I think some of the puzzles were a little bit mind-ready."
		Jacqueline asks (of inky), "You mean for a comp entry?"
		inky says, "I think if we hadn't got stuck at the beginning for so long it could have squeezed in as an introcomp entry"
		Bert asks, "What about when we got stuck in the middle for so long?"
		Jacqueline says, "I thought it was rather good, but I suspect that others probably felt that way as well (that it was slight as larger comp games go) and that perhaps that's why it placed 5th."
		Jacqueline says (to inky), "Hm, I guess it wasn't meant to be as long as we made it, that's true. Heh."
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                             End Notes
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |    Credits
Floyd |    About the author
Floyd |    IFcomp 2012
Floyd |    Have you tried...
Floyd |  > The Flanders vignettes

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "q" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | The hall closet door is half-open.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions
Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT or UNDO the last command?
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.  Escape seems most likely either east into the hall or
Floyd | north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | An armchair, which years of visits have accustomed you to thinking of
Floyd | as "your" armchair, is positioned near the fireplace.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, staring off into the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "fuck" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > FUCK
Floyd |
Floyd | If anyone heard you, they'd want to know where you learned such
Floyd | terrible language.  And then Morris would be in terrible trouble, and
Floyd | you don't want that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drat" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > DRAT
Floyd |
Floyd | Quite.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs and finally looks around.  When she sees you out of
Floyd | your seat, she frowns and rises, and grabs you by the ear.  "What have
Floyd | you been up to, Hector?  It's the Lord's day: do try to behave
Floyd | yourself this one day of the week!  Now please, sit down."  She hauls
Floyd | you back into your seat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "say damn to emma" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SAY DAMN TO EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		inky says, "heh"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "damn emma" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > DAMN EMMA
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to damn.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "curse" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > CURSE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "damn" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > DAMN
Floyd |
Floyd | You shouldn't say such things unless you mean it.  And you should
Floyd | never mean such things, ever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shit" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHIT
Floyd |
Floyd | If anyone heard you, they'd want to know where you learned such
Floyd | terrible language.  And then Morris would be in terrible trouble, and
Floyd | you don't want that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about army" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT ARMY
Floyd |
Floyd | "A uniform adds a good deal of dash to a character, I'm sure, and the
Floyd | discipline is much to be recommended."  Aunt Emma pauses for just a
Floyd | little too long before going on.  "All the same, I cannot say I am at
Floyd | all pleased with the reasons for armies to exist in the first
Floyd | place.  However you look at it, war is an absolutely dreadful
Floyd | business."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about army" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT ARMY
Floyd |
Floyd | "A uniform adds a good deal of dash to a character, I'm sure, and the
Floyd | discipline is much to be recommended."  Aunt Emma pauses for just a
Floyd | little too long before going on.  "All the same, I cannot say I am at
Floyd | all pleased with the reasons for armies to exist in the first
Floyd | place.  However you look at it, war is an absolutely dreadful
Floyd | business."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about army" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT ARMY
Floyd |
Floyd | "A uniform adds a good deal of dash to a character, I'm sure, and the
Floyd | discipline is much to be recommended."  Aunt Emma pauses for just a
Floyd | little too long before going on.  "All the same, I cannot say I am at
Floyd | all pleased with the reasons for armies to exist in the first
Floyd | place.  However you look at it, war is an absolutely dreadful
Floyd | business."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Oh for pity's sake...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | Getting the other fellows to join in on this story-telling lark seemed
Floyd | like a good idea at the time.  It was better than yet another game of
Floyd | cards, anyway, and it rather took the mind off who is or is not going
Floyd | to be at mess in the morning.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Somewhere In Flanders
Floyd | It's a little terrifying how accustomed you've gotten to this muddy,
Floyd | grimy hell-hole.  You could probably find your way back here in the
Floyd | dark, crawling blind through a maze of twisty trenches, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anderson was doodling on an old letter of recommendation earlier, and
Floyd | seems to have forgotten about it.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see Anderson, Jellicoe, Hardy and Macdougal here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anderson glares at his batman.  "How many times are you going to ask
Floyd | her about that, Macdougal?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I think Macdougal just likes hearing the Major talk about how war is
Floyd | such a dreadful business," says Hardy with a look of amusement.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, it's getting tiresome," snaps Anderson, still glaring at poor
Floyd | Macdougal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "kill anderson" 		

Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | > KILL ANDERSON
Floyd |
Floyd | Violence is the answer to a lot of things, but this isn't one of them.
Floyd |
Floyd | "It's clear she's got nothing else to say on the subject," reasons
Floyd | Jellicoe, "and anyway the story isn't about war or the army or
Floyd | anything like that, is it?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You shake your head in agreement.  This was supposed to be a diversion
Floyd | into a more innocent time.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" 		

Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | > XYZZY
Floyd |
Floyd | MacDougal flashes you a knowing smile, but says nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | Macdougal has the grace to look sheepish.  "Sorry, sir," he mumbles.
Floyd | "I won't do it again."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Good.  Let's move on."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Agreed."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		
Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the armchair you can see Uncle Stephen's latest sermon.
Floyd |
Floyd | Goodness.  What just happened there?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about army" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT ARMY
Floyd |
Floyd | "It is certainly a respectable career choice, Macdougal."  For some
Floyd | reason you can't quite name, you feel reluctant to press the issue
Floyd | further.  Nor are you sure why she just called you "Macdougal".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about army" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT ARMY
Floyd |
Floyd | "It is certainly a respectable career choice, Hector."  For some
Floyd | reason you can't quite name, you feel reluctant to press the issue
Floyd | further.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about army" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT ARMY
Floyd |
Floyd | "It is certainly a respectable career choice, Hector."  For some
Floyd | reason you can't quite name, you feel reluctant to press the issue
Floyd | further.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about army" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT ARMY
Floyd |
Floyd | "It is certainly a respectable career choice, Hector."  For some
Floyd | reason you can't quite name, you feel reluctant to press the issue
Floyd | further.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Heh."
		Jacqueline says, "There we go."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x falcon" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]         Spade said tenderly: 'You angel!  Well, if you get
Floyd ]         a good break you'll be out of San Quentin in twenty
Floyd ]         years and you can come back to me then.'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]         - Dashiell Hammett, 'The Maltese Falcon'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FALCON
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a black bird.  How boring.  Why anyone would want something like
Floyd | this, you do not know.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Aha, it *is* Maltese."
		Jacqueline says, "Nice"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x treader" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TREADER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ship" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]       There are dozens of ways to give people a bad time
Floyd ]       if you are in your own home and they are only visitors.
Floyd ]
Floyd ]       - C.S. Lewis, 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SHIP
Floyd |
Floyd | A rather fantastic-looking ship, with a dragon figurehead, sails over
Floyd | greenish-blue waves, into the sunrise.  Or the sunset.  It's rather
Floyd | hard to tell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "How apropos."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x mantlepiece" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MANTLEPIECE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's one of those extraordinarily sturdy oak affairs.  Every time you
Floyd | visit, it looks as though it could not possibly hold even one more
Floyd | little ornament without collapsing; and yet, every time you visit, it
Floyd | looks as though Aunt Emma has managed to fit one more thing on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a flower saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a
Floyd | glass unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of
Floyd | other little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x unicorn" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X UNICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a unicorn, made of glass, rearing up on its hind legs.  Its horn
Floyd | appears to have been broken off once upon a time, though it's been
Floyd | glued back on since.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x unicorn" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X UNICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a unicorn, made of glass, rearing up on its hind legs.  Its horn
Floyd | appears to have been broken off once upon a time, though it's been
Floyd | glued back on since.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x saucer" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SAUCER
Floyd |
Floyd | You thought at first that the fanciful design around the saucer was a
Floyd | pattern of flowers, but you see now you were mistaken.  It's owls ...
Floyd | definitely owls.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x saucer" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SAUCER
Floyd |
Floyd | You thought at first that the fanciful design around the saucer was a
Floyd | pattern of owls, but you see now you were mistaken.  It's flowers ...
Floyd | definitely flowers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a wooden goblet standing at one end of the mantel.  It's very
Floyd | plain, but on the other hand you didn't think people made goblets out
Floyd | of wood.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x goblet" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GOBLET
Floyd |
Floyd | It's plain and non-descript, even remarkably so; its only point of
Floyd | interest is that it's a goblet made of wood, which seems like a funny
Floyd | sort of material to make goblets out of.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x goblet" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]         Grail Knight:
Floyd ]         You have chosen ... wisely.  But, beware: the Grail
Floyd ]         cannot pass beyond the Great Seal, for that is the
Floyd ]         boundary, and the price, of immortality.
Floyd ]
Floyd ]         - 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'
Floyd ]         (Screenplay by Jeffrey Boam)
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GOBLET
Floyd |
Floyd | It's plain and non-descript, even remarkably so; its only point of
Floyd | interest is that it's a goblet made of wood, which seems like a funny
Floyd | sort of material to make goblets out of.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice a white porcelain cat sitting on the mantel, looking down
Floyd | at you with an expression which might be all-too-human if it only had
Floyd | a mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x kitty" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X KITTY
Floyd |
Floyd | A white porcelain cat, with a red bow perched on one side of its head.
Floyd | Rather disturbingly, it has no mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x kitty" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]        '...Suppose they had saved up all my punishments?'
Floyd ]        she went on, talking more to herself than the kitten.
Floyd ]        'What would they do at the end of a year?  I should
Floyd ]        be sent to prison, I suppose, when the day came....'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]        - Lewis Carroll, 'Through the Looking Glass'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X KITTY
Floyd |
Floyd | A white porcelain cat, with a red bow perched on one side of its head.
Floyd | Rather disturbingly, it has no mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Yeah, the red bow is definitely Helly Kitty."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's that old locket with the snake on the front.  You remember
Floyd | playing with it when you were very small, and now it's just another
Floyd | memory on Aunt Emma's mantel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x locket" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LOCKET
Floyd |
Floyd | It's rather large, and very ornate.  The snake on the front is curved
Floyd | like the letter S, and no-one as far back as anyone remembers has ever
Floyd | been able to open it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x locket" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]     'A deadly struggle for my soul [said Sirius Black] would
Floyd ]     have broken the monotony nicely. You think you've had it
Floyd ]     bad, at least you've been able to get out and about,
Floyd ]     stretch your legs, get into a few fights.... I've been
Floyd ]     stuck inside for a month.'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]     - J.K. Rowling, 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LOCKET
Floyd |
Floyd | It's rather large, and very ornate.  The snake on the front is curved
Floyd | like the letter S, and no-one as far back as anyone remembers has ever
Floyd | been able to open it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | How odd, there's a gnomon here, the triangular shadow-casting bit from
Floyd | a sundial, but no sundial.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x gnomon" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GNOMON
Floyd |
Floyd | It's triangular and made of brass, with a screwy end where it's
Floyd | supposed to screw into a sundial somewhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | Someone whispers "Gnomon is an island" into your ear, but
Floyd | when you look around, there's no-one there.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x gnomon" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd ]          Behold, the Trinity appears to me as an enigma....
Floyd ]
Floyd ]          - St Augustine of Hippo, 'Confessions'
Floyd ]
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GNOMON
Floyd |
Floyd | It's triangular and made of brass, with a screwy end where it's
Floyd | supposed to screw into a sundial somewhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "review breakfast" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > REVIEW BREAKFAST
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "Were we eating breakfast in one of the vignettes?"
		Bert asks, "Perhaps he just means [LINK] ?"
		Bert says, "But that doesn't seem terribly interesting."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about breakfast" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT BREAKFAST
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "fidget" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > FIDGET
Floyd |
Floyd | "Don't fidget, Hector," says Aunt Emma.  "It's unbecoming."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Emma gives you a stern glare that quite effectively puts you in your
Floyd | place.  Or keeps you there, at least.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about owen" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT OWEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sighs.  "Sometimes I wonder what might have been...."  She
Floyd | turns her attention back to her Bible, determined not to say any more.
Floyd | But when you look up a few moments later, she's staring out the
Floyd | window, Bible forgotten.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (First stealthily slipping out of the armchair)
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "fidget" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > FIDGET
Floyd |
Floyd | It doesn't make you any more comfortable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd | Uncle Stephen spends most of his time shut up in here, reading the
Floyd | most boring books imaginable.  One whole wall is lined with shelves
Floyd | full of these books, and then there's the desk with even more books
Floyd | stacked on it.  The only decent things you can see here are the
Floyd | fireplace, which is quite grand, and a marvellous painting of the
Floyd | seaside.  The hall is back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Half-hidden among the papers on the desk, you spot a large matchbox.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen seems to have nodded off in his chair.  His pipe droops
Floyd | unhappily from his lips, stone-cold dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | A rather thick folder lies on the floor by the desk, having been
Floyd | displaced by some of Uncle Stephen's reference books.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "get sermons" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET SERMONS
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about llew" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT LLEW
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you.  "Eh?  I'm awake.
Floyd | What is it, Hector?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen takes a puff on his pipe and notes with some annoyance
Floyd | that it has somehow gone out.  He draws a match from a nearby
Floyd | matchbox, relights the pipe, and puffs contentedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about llew" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT LLEW
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hector...!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Crumbs!  Aunt Emma bears down on you like the wrath of Achilles but
Floyd | stops in surprise when she sees the folder of Uncle Stephen's old
Floyd | sermons in your hands.  "Oh!" she says.  "Oh ... are those your Uncle
Floyd | Stephen's old sermons?  So that's what you were after!  You should
Floyd | have just said so.  I see I should have trusted you enough to know you
Floyd | could not possibly mean any mischief when you leave your seat."
Floyd |
Floyd | She actually smiles and pats you on the head.  On the bright side, it
Floyd | looks as though she doesn't mind you wandering around any more, since
Floyd | she makes no further attempt to usher you into your chair.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about gronw" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT GRONW
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen looks inexplicably alarmed.  "We'll have none of that
Floyd | talk here," he says sharply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about llew" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT LLEW
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen begins to nod drowsily.  In a few moments, his pipe
Floyd | droops down onto his chest and he lets out a tiny little snore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about bloduwedd" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT BLODUWEDD
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen stirs and looks bemusedly at you.  "Eh?  I'm awake.
Floyd | What is it, Hector?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline | This one was mine. As such, I cannot review it without bias, and so I shan't.
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stephen about bloduwedd" 		

Floyd ]  Study                                                July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK STEPHEN ABOUT BLODUWEDD
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Stephen looks inexplicably alarmed.  "We'll have none of that
Floyd | talk here," he says sharply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline | If I were to compare it to breakfast, though, it would quite naturally be the house special.
		Bert says, "I don't quite get these responses, but perhaps that's because I haven't read The Owl Service."
Bert says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Room
Floyd | The dining room is a pleasant, sunny room, with a round dining table
Floyd | just large enough for six.  A huge bay window looks out over the lawn
Floyd | towards the cathedral: Uncle Stephen's morning reminder of who he is
Floyd | and why he's here.  Aunt Emma's parlour is back to the south, and the
Floyd | hall is to the southeast.  The butler's door into the kitchen is to
Floyd | the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the dining table is an elaborate flower centrepiece.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "wear flowers" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR FLOWERS
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking the elaborate flower centrepiece)
Floyd | You hold the elaborate flower centrepiece over your head and pretend
Floyd | for a moment that you're a victorious athlete at the Olympic Games in
Floyd | ancient Greece.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "wear flowers" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR FLOWERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You hold the elaborate flower centrepiece over your head and pretend
Floyd | for a moment that it's a halo, your eternal reward for the dreadful
Floyd | trial of sitting through one of Uncle Stephen's interminable sermons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "wear flowers" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR FLOWERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You hold the elaborate flower centrepiece over your head and pretend
Floyd | for a moment that it's a magic holly wreath that gives you the power
Floyd | of invisibility.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "wear flowers" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR FLOWERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You hold the elaborate flower centrepiece over your head and pretend
Floyd | for a moment that you're an ancient Irish druid.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "wear flowers" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR FLOWERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You hold the elaborate flower centrepiece over your head and pretend
Floyd | for a moment that it's a magic holly wreath that gives you the power
Floyd | of invisibility.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "wear flowers" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR FLOWERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You hold the elaborate flower centrepiece over your head and pretend
Floyd | for a moment that it's a halo, your eternal reward for the dreadful
Floyd | trial of sitting through one of Uncle Stephen's interminable sermons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "wear flowers" 		

Floyd ]  Dining Room                                          July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR FLOWERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You hold the elaborate flower centrepiece over your head and pretend
Floyd | for a moment that you're being crowned king of the known universe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | As you approach the front door, you hear Aunt Emma call out to you,
Floyd | "Hector, you're not planning on leaving the house, are you?  Please
Floyd | don't."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | As you approach the front door, you hear Aunt Emma call out to you,
Floyd | "Hector, you're not planning on leaving the house, are you?  Please
Floyd | don't."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | As you approach the front door, you hear Aunt Emma call out to you,
Floyd | "Hector, you're not planning on leaving the house, are you?  Please
Floyd | don't."
Floyd |
Floyd | "This is a little bit ridiculous, don't you think?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		
Bert pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | Getting the other fellows to join in on this story-telling lark seemed
Floyd | like a good idea at the time.  It was better than yet another game of
Floyd | cards, anyway, and it rather took the mind off who is or is not going
Floyd | to be at mess in the morning.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Somewhere In Flanders
Floyd | It's a little terrifying how accustomed you've gotten to this muddy,
Floyd | grimy hell-hole.  You could probably find your way back here in the
Floyd | dark, crawling blind through a maze of twisty trenches, all alike.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Anderson, Jellicoe, Hardy and Macdougal here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hardy folds his arms.  "I really don't see why we can't just open the
Floyd | door and make a run for it."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Don't be absurd," says Jellicoe, "we'd be in terrible trouble if we
Floyd | did that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "fuck" 		

Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | > FUCK
Floyd |
Floyd | Quite.
Floyd |
Floyd | "We'd be in trouble anyway, if we ever got out of the house," reasons
Floyd | Hardy, not budging.  "Which is the point of this little story, isn't
Floyd | it?  Getting out of the house?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "But then we'd have both the aunt and the uncle chasing after us,"
Floyd | says Macdougal thoughtfully, "and we'd have to try and find a hiding
Floyd | spot before they catch us, and then we wouldn't be able to enjoy the
Floyd | afternoon because we'd always be looking over our shoulder."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "darn" 		

Floyd ]  Somewhere In Flanders                                July, 1916
Floyd |
Floyd | > DARN
Floyd |
Floyd | Seriously?  Your sainted Aunt Emma could do better.
Floyd |
Floyd | Anderson nods.  "What we need is a head start.  It would also help if
Floyd | no-one knew which direction we ran off in.  Isn't that right, Conrad?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You nod, not wanting to admit that it had never occurred to you to
Floyd | directly defy Aunt Emma, as per Hardy's suggestion.  You were just so
Floyd | used to Aunt Emma's authority that the sound of her voice alone was
Floyd | enough to make you stop in your tracks.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hardy rolls his eyes.  "Fine.  Clearly you know what's what better
Floyd | than I do.  Let's get back to the story."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		
Bert pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | Bright sunlight shines through the sidelights of the front door, to
Floyd | the south.  The rest of the hall is dull and muted, with heavy wood
Floyd | panelling.  Aunt Emma's parlour is to the west, Uncle Stephen's study
Floyd | is to the east, and the dining room is to the northwest.  A small,
Floyd | unobtrusive door behind the stairs goes northeast to the servant
Floyd | areas, and then there's the hall closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | Goodness.  Was that a dream?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "I think the only one we haven't tried is never seeing Flanders."
Bert says (to Floyd), "restart" 		

Floyd ]  Hall                                                 July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > RESTART
Floyd |
Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart?

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "y" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | July, 1892.
Floyd |
Floyd | Father is off to Oxford again, and Mother's gone with him.  You know
Floyd | what that means: another day in the care of Uncle Stephen, who is nice
Floyd | but boring, and Aunt Emma, who means well but won't let you do
Floyd | anything fun.  Worst of all, it's a Sunday, which means you're sitting
Floyd | very upright in Aunt Emma's parlour, in all your stiff-starched Sunday
Floyd | best, trying to read Uncle Stephen's latest sermon about one of the
Floyd | less-interesting parts of the Bible while Aunt Emma pretends that she
Floyd | wouldn't rather be knitting and Uncle Stephen hides under a pile of
Floyd | Hebrew and Latin and Greek in his study.
Floyd |
Floyd | Plus, it's gloriously sunny outside, and you can smell the grass from
Floyd | in here.  It's just not fair.  All the servants have the day off
Floyd | because Uncle Stephen and Aunt Emma don't believe in making people do
Floyd | any real work on Sundays, and you can bet that they -- Janet and
Floyd | Morris and Cookie, each of whom is loads more fun than Uncle Stephen
Floyd | and Aunt Emma put together -- are probably not all cooped up indoors
Floyd | in their Sunday best.
Floyd |
Floyd | If only there were some way you could escape....
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | (Type "HELP" for further information, instructions or hints)
Floyd |
Floyd | Sunday Afternoon
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Christopher Huang (originally writing as
Floyd | "Virgil Hilts")
Floyd | Release 3 / Serial number 121213 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour (in the armchair)
Floyd | The parlour is Aunt Emma's domain, and is wonderfully comfortable and
Floyd | cosy on cold winter nights, especially when there's a fire going in
Floyd | the fireplace.  On warm summer afternoons, however, it gets stiflingly
Floyd | claustrophobic.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are ensconced in an armchair near the fireplace.  Escape seems
Floyd | most likely either east into the hall or north into the dining room.
Floyd |
Floyd | From her portrait above the fireplace mantel, Queen Victoria gazes
Floyd | benignly down on the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma sits by the window, dutifully reading her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		inky | [LINK]
		inky says, "I don't really get why he's so upset, though"
		inky says, "I guess because it involves adultery and death"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | Among the many souvenirs of ancient history, you spot a duelling
Floyd | pistol.  That doesn't look like the sort of thing boring people like
Floyd | Aunt Emma or Uncle Stephen (or, let's face it, anyone in your whole
Floyd | family) are likely to keep around the house!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sunlight glints off a glass unicorn.  Now that's more the sort of
Floyd | pointless ornament you'd expect to find in Aunt Emma's collection.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | You spot a statuette of a black falcon in the midst of all the
Floyd | clutter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | Here's something that's not so bad: a painting of a ship sailing into
Floyd | the sunrise.  Or sunset.  One of the two.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a saucer leaning against the wall at the back of the mantel.
Floyd | Normally you wouldn't give it a second glance, but there's something
Floyd | odd about the design.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a wooden goblet standing at one end of the mantel.  It's very
Floyd | plain, but on the other hand you didn't think people made goblets out
Floyd | of wood.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice a white porcelain cat sitting on the mantel, looking down
Floyd | at you with an expression which might be all-too-human if it only had
Floyd | a mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's that old locket with the snake on the front.  You remember
Floyd | playing with it when you were very small, and now it's just another
Floyd | memory on Aunt Emma's mantel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | How odd, there's a gnomon here, the triangular shadow-casting bit from
Floyd | a sundial, but no sundial.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert asks, "Which one reminded her of Owen?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about owen" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT OWEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about pistol" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT PISTOL
Floyd |
Floyd | "That used to belong to an old friend.  I don't normally hold with
Floyd | duelling, but he was a very dear friend and ... you really should get
Floyd | back to your reading, Hector."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about owen" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT OWEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about duelling" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT DUELLING
Floyd |
Floyd | "That used to belong to an old friend.  I don't normally hold with
Floyd | duelling, but he was a very dear friend and ... you really should get
Floyd | back to your reading, Hector."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about india" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT INDIA
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about wear" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT WEAR
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about friend" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT FRIEND
Floyd |
Floyd | "You are referring to a dear, old friend of the family," says Aunt
Floyd | Emma, not looking at you.  "He got a commission with the army and went
Floyd | to India and ... war is a nasty, nasty business, Hector.  I hope and
Floyd | pray that you never have to see it."  Well, perhaps, but it would be
Floyd | really exciting....
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about family" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT FAMILY
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about army" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT ARMY
Floyd |
Floyd | "A uniform adds a good deal of dash to a character, I'm sure, and the
Floyd | discipline is much to be recommended."  Aunt Emma pauses for just a
Floyd | little too long before going on.  "All the same, I cannot say I am at
Floyd | all pleased with the reasons for armies to exist in the first
Floyd | place.  However you look at it, war is an absolutely dreadful
Floyd | business."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about war" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT WAR
Floyd |
Floyd | "That," says Aunt Emma firmly, "is thankfully something about which I
Floyd | know absolutely nothing."
Floyd |
Floyd | Your family is so boring.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about uniform" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT UNIFORM
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about wales" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT WALES
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about davis" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT DAVIS
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x ornaments" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ORNAMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Absolutely everything has some sort of sentimental value.  It boggles
Floyd | the mind how any one person can have this much sentiment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x mantle" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MANTLE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's one of those extraordinarily sturdy oak affairs.  Every time you
Floyd | visit, it looks as though it could not possibly hold even one more
Floyd | little ornament without collapsing; and yet, every time you visit, it
Floyd | looks as though Aunt Emma has managed to fit one more thing on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, an owl saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a glass
Floyd | unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of other
Floyd | little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about unicorn" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT UNICORN
Floyd |
Floyd | "That used to be part of a much larger glass menagerie," says Aunt
Floyd | Emma, "but, well, the less said about that the better."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about falcon" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT FALCON
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma seems to hesitate.  "An ... old friend picked that up years
Floyd | ago when he was in Malta, and brought it back as present."
Floyd |
Floyd | You're sure you hear Aunt Emma say something about "dear old Captain
Floyd | Davis..." as she turns back to her Bible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about malta" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT MALTA
Floyd |
Floyd | "I've never been there, but I've heard that it's quite fascinating."
Floyd | Aunt Emma recounts a few vague memories of stories told to her years
Floyd | and years ago, when the earth was young.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about ship" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT SHIP
Floyd |
Floyd | "It's a little fantastic for my tastes.  But I suppose, as your Uncle
Floyd | Stephen says, the fantastic is a reminder of the wonder and majesty of
Floyd | our Lord, and who am I to argue?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about saucer" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT SAUCER
Floyd |
Floyd | "That's from Wales.  There used to be a whole dinner service, but ...
Floyd | well."  Aunt Emma seems to be blushing slightly, and you guess it must
Floyd | be because she broke all the rest of the dishes and doesn't want to
Floyd | admit it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about wales" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT WALES
Floyd |
Floyd | "Your Uncle and I, when we were children, spent a summer in Wales.  I
Floyd | remember...." Aunt Emma pauses to stare out the window, but before you
Floyd | can seize the opportunity, she turns back to you and continues,
Floyd | "That's where we met dear old Owen Davis...."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about owen" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT OWEN
Floyd |
Floyd | "Captain Davis was a dear, old friend of the family," says Aunt Emma,
Floyd | not looking at you.  "He got a commission with the army and went to
Floyd | India and ... war is a nasty, nasty business, Hector.  I hope and pray
Floyd | that you never have to see it."  Well, perhaps, but it would be really
Floyd | exciting....
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about wales" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT WALES
Floyd |
Floyd | "Your Uncle and I, when we were children, spent a summer in Wales.  I
Floyd | remember...." Aunt Emma pauses to stare out the window, but before you
Floyd | can seize the opportunity, she turns back to you and continues,
Floyd | "That's where we met dear old Owen Davis...."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "x mantlepiece" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MANTLEPIECE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's one of those extraordinarily sturdy oak affairs.  Every time you
Floyd | visit, it looks as though it could not possibly hold even one more
Floyd | little ornament without collapsing; and yet, every time you visit, it
Floyd | looks as though Aunt Emma has managed to fit one more thing on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the mantel are a displaced gnomon, a snake locket, a white cat, a
Floyd | wooden goblet, an owl saucer, a ship painting, a black falcon, a glass
Floyd | unicorn and a duelling pistol, all half hidden in a crowd of other
Floyd | little ornaments.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about goblet" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT GOBLET
Floyd |
Floyd | "That is the cup of a carpenter," says Aunt Emma.  You wait for her to
Floyd | continue, but she doesn't seem to want to say any more than that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about cat" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | "Charming, is it not?  I always imagine it's saying hello to me when I
Floyd | come into the parlour in the mornings."  But how can it, when it has
Floyd | no mouth?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about locket" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT LOCKET
Floyd |
Floyd | "That thing was in the house when we moved in, and we've never been
Floyd | able to track down the owners.  Well.  I suppose we're duty-bound to
Floyd | hold on to it until its true owner shows up."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about gnomon" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT GNOMON
Floyd |
Floyd | "Your Uncle Stephen picked that up while on holiday in London.  I
Floyd | don't claim to understand everything about your uncle, but this gnomon
Floyd | clearly means something to him."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert asks, "OK, does anyone remember how we got her to be distracted the first time?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about wales" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT WALES
Floyd |
Floyd | "Your Uncle and I, when we were children, spent a summer in Wales.  I
Floyd | remember...." Aunt Emma pauses to stare out the window, but before you
Floyd | can seize the opportunity, she turns back to you and continues,
Floyd | "That's where we met dear old Owen Davis...."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about service" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT SERVICE
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask emma about mother" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT MOTHER
Floyd |
Floyd | Aunt Emma wouldn't have anything interesting to say about that,
Floyd | surely; at least, nothing that you would find interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "I could look it up."
		Jacqueline says, "The first time, I think, was when we asked her about Wales."
		Bert says, "Huh."
		Jacqueline says, "Which we were prompted to do because of the saucer, which she told us is from Wales."
		Bert says, "It seems like we must be missing something."
		Jacqueline asks, "Does it? What are you trying to trigger?"
		Bert says, "I want her to be distracted so we can leave the room."
Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Emma gives you a stern glare that quite effectively puts you in your
Floyd | place.  Or keeps you there, at least.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about saucer" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT SAUCER
Floyd |
Floyd | "That's from Wales.  There used to be a whole dinner service, but ...
Floyd | well."  Aunt Emma seems to be blushing slightly, and you guess it must
Floyd | be because she broke all the rest of the dishes and doesn't want to
Floyd | admit it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about wales" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT WALES
Floyd |
Floyd | "Your Uncle and I, when we were children, spent a summer in Wales.  I
Floyd | remember...." Aunt Emma pauses to stare out the window, but before you
Floyd | can seize the opportunity, she turns back to you and continues,
Floyd | "That's where we met dear old Owen Davis...."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask about owen" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK ABOUT OWEN
Floyd |
Floyd | "Captain Davis was a dear, old friend of the family," says Aunt Emma,
Floyd | not looking at you.  "He got a commission with the army and went to
Floyd | India and ... war is a nasty, nasty business, Hector.  I hope and pray
Floyd | that you never have to see it."  Well, perhaps, but it would be really
Floyd | exciting....
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "None of that seems to make her look out the window."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask emma about owen" 		

Floyd ]  Parlour                                              July, 1892
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK EMMA ABOUT OWEN
Floyd |
Floyd | "Captain Davis was a dear, old friend of the family," says Aunt Emma,
Floyd | not looking at you.  "He got a commission with the army and went to
Floyd | India and ... war is a nasty, nasty business, Hector.  I hope and pray
Floyd | that you never have to see it."  Well, perhaps, but it would be really
Floyd | exciting....
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Oh, you just did that."
		Jacqueline says, "Well, I am fulfilled enough at this point, myself."
		Bert nods.
		Jacqueline says, "At this point I would either be up for a one word story session or a nap and then some IF writin'."
		Bert says, "We also never found out precisely what the deal was with Stephen and the money and that clerk's wife and our Mother."
		Jacqueline says, "True. But I'm not sure we can."
		Jacqueline says, "I had hope that you unclogging the flue would let us hear more, but it just ended the game."


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NightFloyd Transcript:
Sentencing Mr Liddell by I-K. Huuhtanen
As played on ifMUD on December 19, 2012

Like ClubFloyd, the idea behind NightFloyd is that a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction.

Unlike ClubFloyd, NightFloyd often takes on significantly larger works of interactive fiction, knowing going in that each one will take multiple sessions (but not always, as you'll see in this transcript). NightFloyd is also a bit more informal than ClubFloyd in that it's only announced on the ifMUD #clubfloyd bulletin board, and the time shifts around to meet player's schedules far more than ClubFloyd does. NightFloyd is organized by genericgeekgirl, aka Adri.

Below is a transcript of Sentencing Mr Liddell written by I-K. Huuhtanen. Sentencing Mr Liddell was released as part of the 2011 Interactive Fiction Competition, in which it took nineteenth place. It was nominated for a Best Individual PC Xyzzy. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki.

WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page.
ToyShop & Floyditorium
		
#ClubFloyd Discussion
		
		genericgeekgirl says, "Ok, Sentencing Mr Liddell, it is."
		genericgeekgirl says, "And next week, I expect lots of new suggestions!"
		genericgeekgirl says, "And none of this "it's the day after Christmas" nonsense."
		Zach says, "Yes, ma'am!"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yay!"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask sentencing" 		

Floyd ]  The Liddell Hat Shop
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Closing time. You have just finished going through the invoices, and
Floyd | Uncle Marty is counting the register. Cousin Dermot is hunched over
Floyd | the counter, asleep.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You go, Alistair", Uncle Marty says, "us two will lock up. Don't want
Floyd | to keep the wife waiting, do you?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You are going to the funfair. You promised Catherine.
Floyd |
Floyd | The clock strikes six: you are late, once more.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sentencing Mr Liddell
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by I-K. Huuhtanen
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 111001 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | The Liddell Hat Shop
Floyd | Just a small business, but it's yours. Founded by your late father
Floyd | some forty years ago, it still offers a wide range of headgear for
Floyd | discerning gentlemen, all crafted by hand. The walls up to the ceiling
Floyd | are lined with top hats and bowlers, fedoras and homburgs, panamas and
Floyd | boaters. At the moment, at the end of the day, the space a bit untidy,
Floyd | with the counter stacked with miscellaneous papers and textile samples
Floyd | and the rubbish bin scouring with crumpled notes and order sheets.
Floyd | Marty promises to tidy up.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door outside onto the street is to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | [If this is your first time playing 'Sentencing Mr Liddell', type MENU
Floyd | to learn more about the game.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Oooh, trying on hats montage"
Firion arrives, full of fun, but no funk. 		Zach asks, "Should we try 'menu'?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "menu" 		

Floyd ]                             Main Menu
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |  > About the game
Floyd |    Hints
Floyd |    Walkthrough
Floyd |    Introduction to interactive fiction
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Choose a menu item and press ENTER, or press Q to return to the game.

		DavidW says, "sure"
		Zach says, "Skipping the middle two"
		genericgeekgirl says, "And the last one. All we really want is 'about'."
genericgeekgirl presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]                           About the game
Floyd | Sentencing Mr Liddell is an interactive fiction by I-K. Huuhtanen.
Floyd | First public release is for 17th Annual Interactive Fiction
Floyd | Competition, 2011.
Floyd |
Floyd | The game is loosely based on the Alice books by Lewis Carroll and
Floyd | often quotes them, but is not an adaptation of those novels. Knowing
Floyd | your Alices will enhance your reading experience, but is in no way
Floyd | required to play the game.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some useful commands:
Floyd | MENU  access the Main Menu
Floyd | HINT  access the Hint Menu
Floyd | WALKTHRU  see a straightforward walkthrough for the game
Floyd |
Floyd | If you are new to IF, you might want to take a look at the
Floyd | 'Introduction to interactive fiction' in the Main Menu.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sentencing Mr Liddell is written in Inform 7. The following extensions
Floyd | are included:
Floyd | Glulx Text Effects by Emily Short
Floyd | Undo Output Control by Erik Temple
Floyd | Default Messages by Ron Newcomb
Floyd | Disambiguation Control by Jon Ingold
Floyd | Also: the text of "Introduction to interactive fiction" is taken from
Floyd | Basic Help Menu by Emily Short.
Floyd |
Floyd | A great many thanks to the beta testers:
Floyd | Pekka Oilinki
Floyd | Anna Back
Floyd | Elis P.
Floyd | Mia Jonse
Floyd |
Floyd | For any feedback, please do email the author at
Floyd | ikscorrespondance@gmail.com
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                             Main Menu
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |  > About the game
Floyd |    Hints
Floyd |    Walkthrough
Floyd |    Introduction to interactive fiction
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Choose a menu item and press ENTER, or press Q to return to the game.

		Zach says, "An in-game walkthrough is a nice idea"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "q" 		

Floyd ]  The Liddell Hat Shop
Floyd | The Liddell Hat Shop
Floyd | The walls up to the ceiling are lined with various kinds of hats. The
Floyd | counter is stacked with miscellaneous papers and textile samples and
Floyd | the rubbish bin is scouring with crumpled notes and order sheets.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door outside onto the street is to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Especially in a comp game"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  The Liddell Hat Shop
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x hats" 		

Floyd ]  The Liddell Hat Shop
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X HATS
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice nothing interesting about the hats.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear hats" 		

Floyd ]  The Liddell Hat Shop
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WEAR HATS
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking the hats)
Floyd | The hats are not worth too much attention.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x bin" 		

Floyd ]  The Liddell Hat Shop
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BIN
Floyd |
Floyd | The bin is scouring with crumpled paper: miscellaneous notes, order
Floyd | confirmations, wrapping sheets, receipts. You notice your funfair
Floyd | ticket has ended up in here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "> wear all the hats"
		DavidW says, "hatter hatter hatter hatter hatter hatther mushroom mushroom"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x papers" 		

Floyd ]  The Liddell Hat Shop
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PAPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to examine: the invoices or the crumpled papers?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "heehee"
Zach says (to Floyd), "take ticket" 		

Floyd ]  The Liddell Hat Shop
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE TICKET
Floyd |
Floyd | You dig the ticket out of the bin.
Floyd |
Floyd | "So, that's where I put it", says Uncle Marty, apologetic. "These
Floyd | things are important to children", he continues, "funfairs and such. I
Floyd | remember when Dermot was little... Then we get old and, before you
Floyd | know it, everything new and unexpected becomes..." He loses the count
Floyd | of the money. "You go now. Don't you worry about me, little Alistair.
Floyd | You've got too much worries as it is, with the shop and the family and
Floyd | your mother having taken ill. I know how it is with me, I do. It's not
Floyd | every man who'd take on two such employees as me and your cousin
Floyd | Dermot there. Your father would have been proud."
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not too sure about that. But it's your business now. You need
Floyd | to go.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "heh"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x invoices" 		

Floyd ]  The Liddell Hat Shop
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X INVOICES
Floyd |
Floyd | Just some bills for purchased materials.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Oh, Alistair, you don't need worry about those", says Uncle Marty, "I
Floyd | will go through them tonight. I've got time."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "All the time.. in the world?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Dun dun dun."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x crumpled invoices" 		

Floyd ]  The Liddell Hat Shop
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CRUMPLED INVOICES
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the crumpled
Floyd | papers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x crumpled papers" 		

Floyd ]  The Liddell Hat Shop
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CRUMPLED PAPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | Sometimes Uncle Marty throws something important in the bin, but
Floyd | usually it's just useless paperwaste.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "take crumpled papers" 		

Floyd ]  The Liddell Hat Shop
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE CRUMPLED PAPERS
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Marty will take out the rubbish eventually.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd ]  The Liddell Hat Shop
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   the funfair ticket
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x marty" 		

Floyd ]  The Liddell Hat Shop
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X MARTY
Floyd |
Floyd | Apparently Uncle Marty used to be quite a dashing chap, but one sad
Floyd | March of 1961 things happened -- things that were never spoken of in
Floyd | front of you children. Be that as it may, Marty was never the same
Floyd | after that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask marty about things" 		

Floyd ]  The Liddell Hat Shop
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK MARTY ABOUT THINGS
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Marty does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Heavy, man"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x samples" 		

Floyd ]  The Liddell Hat Shop
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SAMPLES
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice nothing interesting about the textile samples.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x ticket" 		

Floyd ]  The Liddell Hat Shop
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X TICKET
Floyd |
Floyd | A white paper, on it the text:
Floyd | FunFair
Floyd | Complimentary
Floyd | Admit 1 child 2 adults
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "Not a Golden Ticket? Rats."
		DavidW says, "I assume we should, y'know, go west."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  The Liddell Hat Shop
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | The Liddell Hat Shop
Floyd | The walls up to the ceiling are lined with various kinds of hats. The
Floyd | counter is stacked with miscellaneous papers and textile samples and
Floyd | the rubbish bin is scouring with crumpled notes and order sheets.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door outside onto the street is to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Yeah"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Seems likely."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  The Street
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door)
Floyd | "Tea on Sunday, as usual?" asks Uncle Marty.
Floyd |
Floyd | Yes, as usual. Dermot has promised to get his act together after last
Floyd | Sunday when Marty threatened to dunk his head in the teapot if he
Floyd | dozes off again.
Floyd |
Floyd | "See you there, then." Uncle Marty smiles and waves his hand goodbye.
Floyd | It's like he's relieved every time you say you'll come, thought you've
Floyd | never said no.
Floyd |
Floyd | You step outside onto the street.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Street (in front of the Hat Shop)
Floyd | The sign above the door reads in bright red letters: "LIDDELL HAT
Floyd | SHOP". The street leads down south to the riverside.The town spreads
Floyd | all around on the hillside, the black silhouette of the Ferris wheel
Floyd | is drawn against the red of the sky at the south-western horizon.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a chill in the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | Catherine is staring at the distance, completely in her thoughts,
Floyd | running her fingers through Liz's hair as the girl sleeps in the
Floyd | stroller.
Floyd |
Floyd | "There you are", your wife awakens to you arriving. She looks tired.
Floyd | "We've been waiting for... oh, who cares. I don't feel like explaining
Floyd | this to you any more. I've been pushing Liz around in this thing since
Floyd | eleven o'clock. It's pretty cold, you know", Cat says.
Floyd |
Floyd | The summer is turning into autumn. Yesterday you had noticed how the
Floyd | cold breeze from the river travels up the hill and creeps under your
Floyd | cardigan. You sigh and say the girls could have just come into the
Floyd | shop to get out of the cold.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat gives you the same answer you've heard many times before: "You
Floyd | know your uncle. I didn't want to him to wake up Liz."
Floyd |
Floyd | Catherine straightens her torso and tucks her skirt. "You've got the
Floyd | ticket? Let's go then."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "To the child!"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "smack cat" 		

Floyd ]  The Street
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SMACK CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "go" 		

Floyd ]  The Street
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GO
Floyd |
Floyd | You'll have to say which compass direction to go in.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "SW?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x Liz" 		

Floyd ]  The Street
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X LIZ
Floyd |
Floyd | A cute two-year-old: she's wearing a white dress and has a black silk
Floyd | ribbon in her hair. Now she's asleep.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wake liz up" 		

Floyd ]  The Street
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WAKE LIZ UP
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat stops you. "Don't wake her up", she whispers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Aw"
		DavidW says, "The fair appears to be sw."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd ]  The Street
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd | This street leads down towards the river. West of here is a web of
Floyd | small streets that would only lengthen your journey.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "West!"
		Zach says, ">GET DNA TEST"
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  The Street
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | This street leads down towards the river. West of here is a web of
Floyd | small streets that would only lengthen your journey.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You leave the stroller and go.
Floyd |
Floyd | Catherine lifts her hands in the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes, I'll push this god-awful buggy for a mile still. Clearly it's my
Floyd | responsibility, once again."
Floyd |
Floyd | She grabs hold of Liz's stroller and begins trotting down the hill
Floyd | after you.
Floyd |
Floyd | River Walk
Floyd | The riverside walk begins here. A lonely bench stands at the at the
Floyd | end of the walkway for the weary to rest on. A street rises up north
Floyd | to the hills. The river runs east to west, splitting the town in half:
Floyd | to the north, the hills, to the south, the industry and the suburbs.
Floyd | The river walk follows the bank stretching west. The Ferris wheel is
Floyd | visible against the western sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your little bunny rabbit is still fast asleep in the stroller. Cat
Floyd | notices the way you look at your daughter, and softens her tone of
Floyd | voice: "She's been sleeping since we left home. Good, though: she's
Floyd | going to need the energy."
Floyd |
Floyd | You remember the last time you went to the funfair: how scared Liz was
Floyd | to see her reflections in the House of Mirrors -- she thought she was
Floyd | actually growing in all these weird directions. You mention this to
Floyd | Catherine, and she replies: "That was a year ago. She's a big girl
Floyd | now." A faint smile on your wife's face.
Floyd |
Floyd | Has it really been a year already...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "Cat. Bunny rabbit. Okay."
		DavidW says, "And Uncle was the mad hatter, and cuz Dermot was the dormouse."
		Zach says, "Dang, I need to reread Alice"
		DavidW asks, "Should we >push stroller west?"
		Zach says, "I guess the fair is to the west"
		Zach asks, "Or maybe just go west?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | River Walk
Floyd | The walkway runs east to west along the riverside. The funfair gates
Floyd | are ahead to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat follows you, pushing Liz.
Floyd |
Floyd | You stroll along the riverside, and Catherine says: "Remind me to pick
Floyd | up some eggs on the way home. I promised your mother we would visit
Floyd | her at the nursing home on Sunday. I said I'd bring apple tarts for
Floyd | tea."
Floyd |
Floyd | You tell Cat that on Sunday you're having tea at Uncle Marty's. In a
Floyd | flash, the anger is back in Cat's eyes, but she doesn't reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "apologize" 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | >
Floyd | > APOLOGIZE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kiss cat" 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | >
Floyd | > KISS CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | Keep your mind on the game.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "I think our relationship has deeper issues"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "grovel" 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GROVEL
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "file for divorce" 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FILE FOR DIVORCE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Moving on.."
		Zach says, "Aw"
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | River Walk
Floyd | The walkway runs east to west along the riverside and ends here at the
Floyd | funfair gates.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat follows you, pushing Liz.
Floyd |
Floyd | Finally Cat says something: "Can't you spend one day with your
Floyd | daughter and your old mother instead of those never-ending tea parties
Floyd | with your loony uncle and good-for-nothing cousin?" she sighs.
Floyd |
Floyd | They are counting on me, Cat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat stops. "We are counting on you, Alistair! Besides, do you think
Floyd | your mother is going to live forever? She doesn't have long, you know
Floyd | that. Ever since your father died, you've seen how she's been waiting
Floyd | to follow him. And Liz: she's going to grow up and leave us sooner
Floyd | than you think."
Floyd |
Floyd | I see you and Liz every day, Cat.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Oh, I wonder if you ever truly see me, Alistair." Cat turns around
Floyd | and starts pushing the stroller to the opposite direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "follow cat" 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FOLLOW CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cat, come back" 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CAT, COME BACK
Floyd |
Floyd | She is too far.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the east end of the walkway you see Cat sitting down on a bench.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sit on bench" 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SIT ON BENCH
Floyd |
Floyd | That is too far.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "east?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | River Walk
Floyd | The walkway runs east to west along the riverside. The funfair gates
Floyd | are behind you to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see your wife hasn't moved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sit on bench" 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SIT ON BENCH
Floyd |
Floyd | That is too far.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "sit" 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SIT
Floyd |
Floyd | (on the bench)
Floyd | That is too far.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | River Walk
Floyd | The riverside walk ends here. A lonely bench stands at the at the end
Floyd | of the walkway for the weary to rest on. A street rises up north to
Floyd | the hills. The river runs east to west, splitting the town in half: to
Floyd | the north, the hills, to the south, the industry and the suburbs. The
Floyd | river walk follows the bank stretching west. The Ferris wheel is
Floyd | visible against the western sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | Catherine is sitting here on the bench, covering her face with her
Floyd | hands so that the passers-by would not see her crying. She's left the
Floyd | stroller in the middle of the walkway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x stroller" 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X STROLLER
Floyd |
Floyd | In the stroller is Liz.
Floyd |
Floyd | Catherine keeps sobbing.
Floyd |
Floyd | The walkway slopes slightly towards the edge of the river. You notice
Floyd | Liz's stroller has begun to slowly move.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "take stroller" 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE STROLLER
Floyd |
Floyd | As you grab the stroller, it falls down the bank into the river and
Floyd | disappears under water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Catherine runs to the edge of the bank and is screaming, terrified:
Floyd |
Floyd | "Liz! Alistair, do something!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Catherine is frozen still. She stares at the water, unable to move.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "uh-ohhh"
		Zach says, "Ahh!"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Wow."
		DavidW says, ">div3"
		DavidW says, "er dive"
		mwmiller says, "We're...really clumsy. Okay."
Zach says (to Floyd), "enter water" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER WATER
Floyd |
Floyd | You cannot swim, but that's the least of your worries now. You dive in
Floyd | after Liz.

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "take liz" 		

Floyd ]  Underwater
Floyd | Underwater
Floyd | The water is black -- even blacker than it looked like from above.
Floyd | Briefly you think your foot hit the pebbles at the riverbed, but you
Floyd | find out the water seems to expand indefinitely in nearly all
Floyd | directions. There's a faint glimmer of light above you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly you see a glimpse of a white dress, somewhere to the east.
Floyd | You feel like shouting after your daughter but then remember you would
Floyd | drown were you to do that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Underwater
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | The shape of Liz disappears as you swim closer. Your feet hit the
Floyd | bottom: smooth concrete. The water's surprisingly shallow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "take liz" 		

Floyd ]  Underwater
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE LIZ
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Underwater
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel the cold water aching your limbs. No sign of Liz.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Eek"
		DavidW says, "you're late"
		DavidW says, "for a very important date"
		Zach says, "Indeed"
		Zach says, "At least there are puns, hooray"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "find liz" 		

Floyd ]  Underwater
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FIND LIZ
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller asks, "Oh dear, where's the Crusader when you really need her?"
		DavidW asks, "up?"
		Zach says, "heh"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Overflow Chamber
Floyd |
Floyd | Overflow Chamber
Floyd | You emerge from a pool of water. This seems to be the sewers: a
Floyd | spacious chamber with drain tunnels leading to it from both sides. No
Floyd | water is coming in, there's only what's left in this overflow pool
Floyd | after last weeks storms that swept the town.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a train waiting by the platform on the north side of the
Floyd | chamber. The white steam licks the curving walls as the engine is
Floyd | being warmed.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's Liz. She's climbed to the platform, with her white dress
Floyd | dripping wet, and boards the train. The Guard courteously lifts his
Floyd | cap for her. Then he pulls out a large pocket watch and blows his
Floyd | whistle.
Floyd |
Floyd | "All aboard!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach asks, "There's the rabbit?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x liz" 		

Floyd ]  Overflow Chamber
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X LIZ
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "How old is she now?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "board train" 		

Floyd ]  Overflow Chamber (on the platform)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > BOARD TRAIN
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb onto the metal platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | Overflow Chamber (on the platform)
Floyd | The engine puffs and hisses as it is prepared for departure.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "board train" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd |
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | You step into a small space at the end of the train. Oak panelled
Floyd | walls are dark, the linoleum on the floor is worn-down. A corridor
Floyd | leads east from here, the door outside is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Guard takes a last look from the steps and jumps aboard. The train
Floyd | begins to move.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your daughter is nowhere to be seen. The Guard surely knows something.
Floyd | The man doesn't seem too helpful, though, standing here and sizing you
Floyd | with his eyes from head to tow.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Ticket, please."
Floyd |
Floyd | Then he coughs, as to be polite.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "We're too busy to know"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Hm. Think he'll take our funfair ticket?"
		DavidW asks, "maybe?"
		Zach says, "Might as well try"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x ticket" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X TICKET
Floyd |
Floyd | A white paper, on it the text:
Floyd | FunFair
Floyd | Complimentary
Floyd | Admit 1 child 2 adults
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give ticket to man" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GIVE TICKET TO MAN
Floyd |
Floyd | The Guard takes the piece of paper. His whiskers tremble a bit.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Thank you, sir."
Floyd |
Floyd | The Guard keeps shaking his head for a while to show his overall
Floyd | disapproval of you being here, and then says: "Be sure to have the
Floyd | ticket ready. You never know when I'll be back to inspect it."
Floyd |
Floyd | The man takes off to the eastern corridor and disappears through a
Floyd | compartment door at the end of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller asks, "Sooooo...dream logic?"
		DavidW says, "perhaps"
		Zach says, "Hopefully a step up from dream logic"
		DavidW says, "I was expecting the ticket itself to change."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Me, too."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x Liz" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X LIZ
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "I suppose we can go east or west?"
		Zach asks, "East I guess?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | You don't see Liz. The corridor extends east from the vestibule to a
Floyd | door at the west. Another door leads south. The lamps on the wall shed
Floyd | a dim yellow light.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x lamps" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X LAMPS
Floyd |
Floyd | Small sconces with opaque shades.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach asks, "South?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x e" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X E
Floyd |
Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door to a private compartment)
Floyd |
Floyd | Private Compartment
Floyd | Liz doesn't seem to be here. You can smell the dust in the air. The
Floyd | room is dark: the small skylight above is so blackened with coal dust
Floyd | is doesn't let in much light.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door swings closed behind you, as these train doors are designed
Floyd | to do.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mr Larvington -- ?
Floyd |
Floyd | Slouching behind a huge oak desk is your old school teacher Mr
Floyd | Larvington, smoking a hookah.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes, u-hum, I shall take the roll", mutters Mr Larvington, "Leo
Floyd | Liddell?" He takes a look around, as do you. "No? Excellent. Alistair
Floyd | Liddell?"
Floyd |
Floyd | He sees you. "Alistair, still not showing up in time."
Floyd |
Floyd | You point out that Leo is even more late.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mr Larvington sucks his pipe as a deliberate gesture and explains:
Floyd | "Exactly, Mr Liddell. And look at you still: trying to squeal on your
Floyd | brother, you little pig."
Floyd |
Floyd | As always, Leo gets the royal treatment and you get scolded, no matter
Floyd | what you do. That obnoxious bully.
Floyd |
Floyd | "But now, young Liddell: let's see your paper", says Mr Larvington and
Floyd | holds out his hand demandingly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Isn't south off the train? oh, maybe not."
		Zach says, "Dreams it seems to be"
Zach says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Class Room
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   the train ticket
Floyd |
Floyd | Your Teacher looks at you amidst the smoke. "You do have the paper, Mr
Floyd | Liddell, do you not?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Caterpillar wants an essay, huh?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "teacher, our dog ate it" 		

Floyd ]  Class Room
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TEACHER, OUR DOG ATE IT
Floyd |
Floyd | Mr Larvington does not reply. Perhaps it would be better to ask about
Floyd | something.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mr Larvington is looking impatient.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "ask larvington about paper" 		

Floyd ]  Class Room
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK LARVINGTON ABOUT PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | Mr Larvington does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "ask teacher about paper" 		

Floyd ]  Class Room
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK TEACHER ABOUT PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | Mr Larvington does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | "The paper, Mr Liddell."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "ask teacher about liz" 		

Floyd ]  Class Room
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK TEACHER ABOUT LIZ
Floyd |
Floyd | Mr Larvington does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mr Larvington lays his hookah on the desk and says: "You haven't
Floyd | forgotten it, have you? We've talked about this, Mr Liddell."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "This isn't much like Alice so far. No witty bantering talk! Not much talk at all in fact. :("
		DavidW says, "We may be able to find the paper elsewhere."
		mwmiller says, "Larvington. Larva. Caterpillar. I see what you did there."
		Zach asks, "True. Some exploring?"
		DavidW says, "The train is from the Looking-Glass."
		DavidW says (to mwmiller), "yeah"
		DavidW says, "I think we should leave and come back when we have a paper."
Zach says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door)
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor extends east from the vestibule to a door at the west. Mr
Floyd | Larvington's private compartment is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear Mr Larvington yelling behind the door: "So, you think you can
Floyd | just run off? Show some respect, Liddell!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door to the east)
Floyd |
Floyd | Passenger Compartment
Floyd | Liz is nowhere to be seen. The rows of seats on two sides of the
Floyd | compartment are empty, apart from a bed that has been laid between
Floyd | them at the middle. There lies your Mother, hardly visible from under
Floyd | her thick red quilt.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mummy? Really?
Floyd |
Floyd | "Alistair, are you skipping school again? Come and take care of your
Floyd | responsibilities. I'm too old and tired for this."
Floyd |
Floyd | As you cautiously step closer, you see Mother is trying to hold down a
Floyd | little Piglet wriggling and squealing horrendously under the quilt.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'm trying to knit a sweater for her, but the ungrateful little
Floyd | bastard won't wear it, and now she will not stop screaming."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x piglet" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PIGLET
Floyd |
Floyd | Small and squiggly. There's something very familiar about the animal.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mummy lifts the loud pig from under the covers.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Your responsibility!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I guess Mummy is the Duchess."
		mwmiller says, "Dreadfully ugly child, but rather a handsome pig, I think."
Zach says (to Floyd), "take piglet" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE PIGLET
Floyd |
Floyd | You grab hold of the wriggling animal. It tries to bite you -- then
Floyd | again, your Mother would have tried that, too, and most certainly
Floyd | succeeded, had you not relieved her of this burden.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Now, make it shut up. You see: this is what happens when you don't
Floyd | give them a proper upbringing", says Mummy, holding her ears.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask mummy about piglet" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK MUMMY ABOUT PIGLET
Floyd |
Floyd | Mother does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | The animal is so very loud you can hardly hear your own thoughts. What
Floyd | am I supposed to do with this?
Floyd |
Floyd | "Don't look at me", your Mother says, "that's your problem."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "spank piglet" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SPANK PIGLET
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake piglet" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHAKE PIGLET
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x quilt" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X QUILT
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice nothing interesting about the quilt.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "take guilt" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE GUILT
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x mom" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X MOM
Floyd |
Floyd | Your Mother is a frail old woman.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mummy tries to sit up in her bed, but immediately slumps back down on
Floyd | the mattress.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Oh, just hit it, for goodness' sake!"
Floyd |
Floyd | But it's so tiny.
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel someone grabbing your shoulder from behind. It's your brother
Floyd | Leo, who leans over to poke at the Piglet.
Floyd |
Floyd | "What's the matter, Alice?" he says to you and laughs as the Piglet
Floyd | gets more scared, "has your baby turned into a swine?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Mum, tell him not to!
Floyd |
Floyd | "Don't be such a girl, Alistair. Hit it. Your brother would."
Floyd |
Floyd | Leo starts trolling:
Floyd |
Floyd | Hush-a-by baby, in Alice's lap!
Floyd | Till the tea's ready, there's time for a nap:
Floyd | When the tea's over, we'll go to war -
Floyd | And now I shall beat you 'till you're achy and sore!
Floyd |
Floyd | Your brother adverts his frustration from the pig to you and starts
Floyd | punching your arm. "Hit it, Alice, hit it! I would."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "I don't want to"
Zach says (to Floyd), "hit leo" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > HIT LEO
Floyd |
Floyd | You defend yourself, for once, but Leo just laughs. He does stop
Floyd | hitting you, nonetheless.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Am I to be the villian?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit piglet" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > HIT PIGLET
Floyd |
Floyd | You smack the tiny Piglet in the face. It immediately goes silent,
Floyd | stares at you with its frightened eyes and then, fearing for its
Floyd | life, flees your violent grip.
Floyd |
Floyd | Liz!
Floyd |
Floyd | You now see it is your little daughter running away from you, not a
Floyd | pig. A quick glimpse of her white dress as she dissappears into the
Floyd | vestibule in the east end of the car.
Floyd |
Floyd | "O-oh!" says Leo, grinning.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mother laughs from the bed: "Come on, don't look so shocked, Alistair.
Floyd | It's not like you've never done that before... And, like I always used
Floyd | to say:
Floyd |
Floyd | Speak roughly to your little boy,
Floyd | And beat him when he sneezes:
Floyd | He only does it to annoy,
Floyd | because he know it teases!
Floyd |
Floyd | And look at you and your brother now: you turned out just fine.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh dear"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x liz" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X LIZ
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach asks, "Go east after Liz?"
		DavidW says, "I'm confused; I thought *this* was the east compartment."
		mwmiller says, "I guess being railroaded into hurting a defenseless child is better than being railroaded into murdering someone, but worse than being railroaded into flooding an apartment with sand."
		Zach says, "I guess she's on the east side of the east car"
		Zach says, "No, the apartment had great carpet"
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | This is a small space at the east-end of the train car, with a door
Floyd | leading outside and another through the gangway to the next carriage.
Floyd | The passanger compartment extends from here to the west. There's small
Floyd | placard of some sort on the gangway entrance. There's a door leading
Floyd | outside, but it's locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x placard" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PLACARD
Floyd |
Floyd | It says "Private Party" in fancy letters.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach asks, "A tea party perhaps?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "open door" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to open: the gangway or the door leading outside?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Or the cake party."
Zach says (to Floyd), "open outside door" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN OUTSIDE DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | In general, the train doors won't open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door leading outside)
Floyd | It seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "I guess we need to find a key"
		DavidW asks, "Is the gangway to the east?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the gangway door)
Floyd | It won't open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "We probably need an invite, not a key."
Zach says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | This is a small space at the east-end of the train car, with a gangway
Floyd | leading to the next carriage. The passanger compartment extends from
Floyd | here to the west. There's a door leading outside, but it's locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I suggest heading back west. We missed some places."
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Passenger Compartment
Floyd | The compartment is poorly lit: the shutters are closed and there's
Floyd | only a small lamp by the bed. The rows of seats on two sides of the
Floyd | compartment are empty, apart from a bed that has been laid between
Floyd | them at the middle. In the bed lies your Mother. The Piglet's sweater
Floyd | is on the bed, unfinished: you see the red yarn in the knitting basket
Floyd | on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "take yarn" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE YARN
Floyd |
Floyd | The ball of yarn is not worth too much attention.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x basket" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BASKET
Floyd |
Floyd | In the knitting basket are the scissors, a ball of yarn and some
Floyd | needles.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take basket" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE BASKET
Floyd |
Floyd | The knitting basket is not worth too much attention.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x scissors" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SCISSORS
Floyd |
Floyd | They look sharp.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "take scissors" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE SCISSORS
Floyd |
Floyd | You take the scissors.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "take needles" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE NEEDLES

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take needles" 		

Floyd |
Floyd | The needles are not worth too much attention.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE NEEDLES
Floyd |
Floyd | The needles are not worth too much attention.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x needles" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X NEEDLES
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice nothing interesting about the needles.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "Why not take the basket? We're obviously a basket case."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x sweater" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SWEATER
Floyd |
Floyd | Unfinished. The red wool is the itchy kind.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "ok, scissors are interesting, the rest isn't."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x bed" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BED
Floyd |
Floyd | On the bed are a quilt and a sweater.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x quilt" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X QUILT
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice nothing interesting about the quilt.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door to the corridor)
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor runs east-west between the vestibule and the passenger
Floyd | compartment. Mr Larvington's private compartment is to the south. The
Floyd | lamps on the wall shed a dim yellow light.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Firion asks, "What game are we playing?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | A small space at the end of the train. The corridor leads east from
Floyd | here. There's a door leading outside, but it's locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Sentencing Mr Liddell."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x door" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice nothing interesting about the train door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "open door with scissors" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR WITH SCISSORS
Floyd |
Floyd | That doesn't seem to be something you can unlock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   the scissors
Floyd |   the train ticket
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x scissors" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SCISSORS
Floyd |
Floyd | They look sharp.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "And it seems this sentence may end with a question mark?"
		Zach asks, "Maybe we could have cut the thread?"
		DavidW asks, "What thread?"
		Zach says, "Err, red yarn."
		DavidW says, "The yarn wasn't important."
		Zach says, "I don't know what else we'd do with scissors"
		Zach says, "Unless we have to be violent again"
		DavidW says, "I use scissors every day, and rarely to cut yarn."
		DavidW says, "Keep exploring back west."
		Zach says, "Well, I just cut out an infotater, but our PC doesn't seem to have the same interests"
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go in that direction. A corridor runs east from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x door" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice nothing interesting about the train door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I thought there was a west door here earlier."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | A small space at the end of the train. The corridor leads east from
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "It's locked"
Zach says (to Floyd), "open door" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | It seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "But is that the south door or the west door?"
		DavidW asks, "The south door is how we entered the train in the first place, no?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door leading outside)
Floyd | It seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go in that direction. A corridor runs east from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "No, we started out to the east of here"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go in that direction. A corridor runs east from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "After giving the ticket"
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor runs east-west between the vestibule and the passenger
Floyd | compartment. Mr Larvington's private compartment is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "I believe"
		DavidW says, "I find the geography on this train a bit confusing."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go in that direction. The corridor leads east to the
Floyd | passenger compartment and ends at the vestibule in the west. Mr
Floyd | Larvington's private compartment is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "hm. Surely we can't have gone everywhere?"
		Zach says, "I think the direction we entered from is no longer relevant."
		Zach says, "Well, my fear is that we might have to use the scissors in an unpleasant way."
		Zach says, "The bit with the 'piglet' was enough to remind me of Emily's review of this game, even though I had forgotten the title."
		DavidW says, "well, if we do, I'm sure the game will make it clear, so no poking eyes out just yet, if you please."
mwmiller says (to Floyd), "stab me with scissors" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > STAB ME WITH SCISSORS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller exclaims, "Curses, foiled again!"
Zach says (to Floyd), "scissor me" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SCISSOR ME
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cut me with scissors" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CUT ME WITH SCISSORS
Floyd |
Floyd | That will get you nowhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh gross. I'm going to leave if this continues."
		mwmiller asks, "So it *does* understand 'cut'?"
mwmiller says (to Floyd), "cut yarn with scissors" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CUT YARN WITH SCISSORS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the the passenger compartment door)
Floyd |
Floyd | Passenger Compartment
Floyd | The compartment is poorly lit: the shutters are closed and there's
Floyd | only a small lamp by the bed. The rows of seats on two sides of the
Floyd | compartment are empty, apart from a bed that has been laid between
Floyd | them at the middle. In the bed lies your Mother. The Piglet's sweater
Floyd | is on the bed, unfinished: you see the red yarn in the knitting basket
Floyd | on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "cut yarn" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CUT YARN
Floyd |
Floyd | The ball of yarn is not worth too much attention.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under bed" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BED
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x seats" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SEATS
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice nothing interesting about the benches.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
mwmiller says (to Floyd), "cut sweater with scissors" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CUT SWEATER WITH SCISSORS
Floyd |
Floyd | That will get you nowhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under benches" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BENCHES
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
mwmiller says (to Floyd), "cut quilt with scissors" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CUT QUILT WITH SCISSORS
Floyd |
Floyd | The quilt is not worth too much attention.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask mummy about paper" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK MUMMY ABOUT PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | Mother does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask mummy about leo" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK MUMMY ABOUT LEO
Floyd |
Floyd | Mother does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x leo" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X LEO
Floyd |
Floyd | Your brother is taller than you -- and stronger and meaner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "That's awkward. Leo isn't even mentioned in the room description."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Passenger Compartment
Floyd | The compartment is poorly lit: the shutters are closed and there's
Floyd | only a small lamp by the bed. The rows of seats on two sides of the
Floyd | compartment are empty, apart from a bed that has been laid between
Floyd | them at the middle. In the bed lies your Mother. The Piglet's sweater
Floyd | is on the bed, unfinished: you see the red yarn in the knitting basket
Floyd | on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open shutters" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN SHUTTERS
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to open: the shutters in the north windows or the
Floyd | shutters in the south windows?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "north" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NORTH
Floyd |
Floyd | "Oh, my eyes!" your Mother cries from the bed. "Leave the shutters
Floyd | closed!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Yeah, but he was there earlier."
		genericgeekgirl says, "He probably turned off the room contents, and Leo isn't always here. Oops."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open south shutters" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN SOUTH SHUTTERS
Floyd |
Floyd | "Oh, my eyes!" your Mother cries from the bed. "Leave the shutters
Floyd | closed!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Passenger Compartment
Floyd | The compartment is poorly lit: the shutters are closed and there's
Floyd | only a small lamp by the bed. The rows of seats on two sides of the
Floyd | compartment are empty, apart from a bed that has been laid between
Floyd | them at the middle. In the bed lies your Mother. The Piglet's sweater
Floyd | is on the bed, unfinished: you see the red yarn in the knitting basket
Floyd | on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Mother is hung over dear"
		DavidW asks, "so are the shutters open or closed now?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x shutters" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SHUTTERS
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to examine: the shutters in the north windows or the
Floyd | shutters in the south windows?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x south" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SOUTH
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to examine: the windows to the south or the shutters
Floyd | in the south windows?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh come on."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x south shutters" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SOUTH SHUTTERS
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice nothing interesting about the shutters in the south
Floyd | windows.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open south window" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN SOUTH WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | The train windows don't open. Only the shutters can be opened and
Floyd | closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm. So no climbing on top of the train car."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "break south window" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > BREAK SOUTH WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | Little good would it do you breaking the glass. The shutters would
Floyd | stay in place nonetheless.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Dang, I was hoping there would be an action scene with a helicopter up there"
		Zach says, "I hope we didn't miss locations early on"
		DavidW says, "I'm unclear on what to do, if there's no paper to give to Mr Larva."
		Zach says, "There were a number of directions going out after we left the hat shop"
		DavidW says, "yeah, but Cat and Liz were already there waiting for us."
		DavidW says, "It's not like we could play search-the-town when other NPCs want you elsewhere."
		mwmiller says, "The problem with making a game with dream logic is that...well...you can't just do whatever like in a real dream."
		Zach says, "Yeah, but I was just wondering. We did make the clear choice"
		Zach says, "I don't think I can in real dreams either"
		DavidW asks (of mwmiller), "Are you suggesting we 'give paper' even though we have no paper in inventory anyway?"
		Zach says, "My dreams always have some plot to follow as well."
		Zach says (to DavidW), "hmm that's an idea"
		mwmiller says, "I'm suggesting I'm totally stumped. :)"
mwmiller says (to Floyd), "examine paper" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EXAMINE PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | A white paper, on it the text:
Floyd | FunFair
Floyd | Complimentary
Floyd | Admit 1 child 2 adults
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "Ticket == paper. Okay."
		DavidW says, "Well, I feel we must've missed a room somewhere, but feel free to try. Ah."
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door to the corridor)
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor runs east-west between the vestibule and the passenger
Floyd | compartment. Mr Larvington's private compartment is to the south. The
Floyd | lamps on the wall shed a dim yellow light.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Class Room
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door to a private compartment)
Floyd |
Floyd | Class Room
Floyd | The room is dark: the blackened skylight lets in only a faint
Floyd | suggestion of light. Mr Larvington slouches behind the desk, smoking
Floyd | his pipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mr Larvington is waiting for you. "So, you decided to drop back at
Floyd | your house and fetch the paper, did you, Mr Liddell? It better be one
Floyd | damn fine essay, it better."
Floyd |
Floyd | Your Teacher leans toward you. "Do I have to make you write 'I will
Floyd | not disobey in the matters of paper' a hundred times? Enough with
Floyd | these antics."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "give ticket to teacher" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GIVE TICKET TO TEACHER
Floyd |
Floyd | The Teacher pulls the paper from your hand and gives it a good long
Floyd | look. "You haven't put any words down? Of course it's early on, but
Floyd | you ought have at least something."
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't even know what the subject is supposed to be -- how are you
Floyd | to write a paper?
Floyd |
Floyd | "Precisely that, Mr Liddell", says Mr Larvington, "the subject of the
Floyd | paper is 'What is the Subject?' How difficult can that be? The
Floyd | words will come to you, if you just listen. Don't you know
Floyd | that the meaning of things always comes from the outside, it is only
Floyd | the meaningfulness of them that you get to judge for yourself. Or do
Floyd | you still think this is just about you, poor little Alistair Liddell?"
Floyd |
Floyd | He returns the paper to you and also gives you a pen -- he ventures a
Floyd | guess that you have probably lost your own. "You run along, now."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Nice"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pen" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Writes black.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mr Larvington turns his attention to the smoke that twirls upon the
Floyd | desk and no longer sees you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "write on paper" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WRITE ON PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | You prepare to write on the school assignment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | You prepare to write on the school assignment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "write assignment" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WRITE ASSIGNMENT
Floyd |
Floyd | The word "assignment" may appear to have come to you, but it is of no
Floyd | significance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "write "invitation" on paper" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WRITE "INVITATION" ON PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | The word ""invitation"" may appear to have come to you, but it is of
Floyd | no significance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "write invite on paper" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WRITE INVITE ON PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | The word "invite" may appear to have come to you, but it is of no
Floyd | significance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "write liz on paper" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WRITE LIZ ON PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | The word "liz" may appear to have come to you, but it is of no
Floyd | significance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach asks, "Invitation for party?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "write party on paper" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WRITE PARTY ON PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | The word "party" may appear to have come to you, but it is of no
Floyd | significance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "write i" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WRITE I
Floyd |
Floyd | The word "i" may appear to have come to you, but it is of no
Floyd | significance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh, he said to LISTEN, and the words will come to us."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I tried that."
		Zach asks, "Listen outside the party?"
		DavidW says, "so let's listen elsewhere."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Where is there a party?"
		Zach says, "n, e, e"
		DavidW says, "yeah, we can't get into it yet."
mwmiller says (to Floyd), "write the party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the party of the first part" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WRITE THE PARTY OF THE FIRST PART SHALL BE KNOWN IN THIS CONTRACT AS
Floyd | THE PARTY OF THE FIRST PART

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ah."

Floyd |
Floyd | Only a single word at a time, please.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "I mean, listen outside of it"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door)
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor runs east-west between the vestibule and the passenger
Floyd | compartment. Mr Larvington's private compartment is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the the passenger compartment door)
Floyd |
Floyd | Passenger Compartment
Floyd | The compartment is poorly lit: the shutters are closed and there's
Floyd | only a small lamp by the bed. The rows of seats on two sides of the
Floyd | compartment are empty, apart from a bed that has been laid between
Floyd | them at the middle. In the bed lies your Mother. The Piglet's sweater
Floyd | is on the bed, unfinished: you see the red yarn in the knitting basket
Floyd | on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | This is a small space at the east-end of the train car, with a gangway
Floyd | leading to the next carriage. The passanger compartment extends from
Floyd | here to the west. There's a door leading outside, but it's locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | This is where you saw Liz flee from you, but now she's gone. Instead,
Floyd | in front of the train car door appears a figure from thin air. As it
Floyd | takes proper shape, you see it's Catherine.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You seem to have misplace our daughter." Cat sounds sarcastic. "Just
Floyd | keep listening to your mother's advice, and she will run from you
Floyd | forever."
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat seems to be losing shape again: her body begins to fade, leaving
Floyd | visible only her head.
Floyd |
Floyd | The head speaks: "Since I'm here, you must want help in some matter.
Floyd | That is why you have summoned me, isn't it? Speak, then."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "of course."
		mwmiller says, "This game has no appreciation for classic comedy routines. =("
		genericgeekgirl says, "Uh.."
		Zach | Don't you know that the meaning of things always comes from the outside,
		Zach says, "heh"
		mwmiller says, "Yes game, she's a Cheshire Cat, we figured that out already."
		DavidW says, "Cheshire Catherine."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "speak" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SPEAK
Floyd |
Floyd | Perhaps it would be better to ask about something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "ask cat about liz" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT LIZ
Floyd |
Floyd | "I've never lost her so I wouldn't know how to find her", says Cat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "ask cat about party" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT PARTY
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask cat about madness" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT MADNESS
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about words" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT WORDS
Floyd |
Floyd | "Remember to listen to us", Cat replies.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "Somehow, the mix of Alice namedrops and OH EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE :( is rubbing me the wrong way."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | "I will try to help you, if there's something you need help with. That
Floyd | is, after all, what I do in life", your wife says.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear a strange, quiet suffling sound approaching from the
Floyd | passenger compartment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "write life" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WRITE LIFE
Floyd |
Floyd | You scribble the word "life" on the paper.
Floyd |
Floyd | Catherine says, in all her physical inconsistence: "I won't be here
Floyd | forever. Speak now."
Floyd |
Floyd | An endless queue of people dressed black arrive slowly and silently
Floyd | from the passenger compartment and push past you into the vestibule.
Floyd | The gangway to the east opens up, letting in one person, then closes
Floyd | again. You see a black velvet curtain behind the door, nothing else,
Floyd | as yet another dark traveller enters the corridor connection.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "write us" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WRITE US
Floyd |
Floyd | You scribble the word on the school assignment in the form of
Floyd | "we".
Floyd |
Floyd | Your wife is increasingly translucent.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "write words" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WRITE WORDS
Floyd |
Floyd | You prepare to write on the school assignment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Drat."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | The feet of the people in black make that quiet suffle, otherwise they
Floyd | are completely silent.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | This is a small space at the east-end of the train car, with a gangway
Floyd | leading to the next carriage. The passanger compartment extends from
Floyd | here to the west. There's a door leading outside, but it's locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | The black queue of people slowly moves through the connection to the
Floyd | next car.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen to cat" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LISTEN TO CAT
Floyd |

		mwmiller says, "The <em> tagged words are ones we can write, I suppose."

Floyd | The feet of the people in black make that quiet suffle, otherwise they
Floyd | are completely silent.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah."
Zach says (to Floyd), "write live" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WRITE LIVE
Floyd |
Floyd | You scribble the word "live" on the paper.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Is suffle like a shuffle or a souffle'?"
mwmiller says (to Floyd), "examine paper" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EXAMINE PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | A white paper, on it the text:
Floyd |
Floyd | life
Floyd | we
Floyd | live
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Oops, I had forgotten about 'life'"
		Zach says, "Thought that could work"
		Zach says, "*Though"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat, or what is present of her, follows by your side.
Floyd |
Floyd | Passenger Compartment
Floyd | The compartment is poorly lit: the shutters are closed and there's
Floyd | only a small lamp by the bed. The rows of seats on two sides of the
Floyd | compartment are empty, apart from a bed that has been laid between
Floyd | them at the middle. In the bed lies your Mother. The Piglet's sweater
Floyd | is on the bed, unfinished: you see the red yarn in the knitting basket
Floyd | on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | The black ribbon slowly winds towards the vestibule in the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | The feet of the people in black make that quiet suffle, otherwise they
Floyd | are completely silent.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x ribbon" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X RIBBON
Floyd |
Floyd | A black ribbon moving very slowly and silently towards the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Lost."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "show assignment to mother" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHOW ASSIGNMENT TO MOTHER
Floyd |
Floyd | Mother is unimpressed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "take ribbon" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE RIBBON
Floyd |
Floyd | You take the queue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "uh"
Zach says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   the queue
Floyd |   a pen
Floyd |   the scissors
Floyd |   the school assignment
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hm."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cut queue" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CUT QUEUE
Floyd |
Floyd | That will get you nowhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
mwmiller says (to Floyd), "listen to mother" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LISTEN TO MOTHER
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear that quiet suffle, nothing else.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I'm getting confused."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cut queue with scissors" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CUT QUEUE WITH SCISSORS
Floyd |
Floyd | That will get you nowhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Where is the room outside the party?"
		DavidW says, "East."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | This is a small space at the east-end of the train car, with a gangway
Floyd | leading to the next carriage. The passanger compartment extends from
Floyd | here to the west. There's a door leading outside, but it's locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | The black queue of people slowly moves through the connection to the
Floyd | next car.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | The people in queue look at you angrily as you try to cut in line.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x placard" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PLACARD
Floyd |
Floyd | It says "Private Party" in fancy letters.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh."
mwmiller says (to Floyd), "cut queue" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CUT QUEUE
Floyd |
Floyd | That will get you nowhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "That used to be in the room description"
		mwmiller says, "Pbpbpbpbt."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take placard" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE PLACARD
Floyd |
Floyd | That seems to be a part of the gangway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I think we need to find a quiet spot and listen to Cat so we can finish the assignment."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x cat" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | More beautiful than ever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to cat" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TALK TO CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | Perhaps it would be better to ask about something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask cat about assignment" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT ASSIGNMENT
Floyd |
Floyd | Catherine says thinks for a while. "You have an assignment? Let me see
Floyd | it."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "show assignment to cat" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHOW ASSIGNMENT TO CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | Catherine takes a look at your paper.
Floyd |
Floyd | "What is the Subject? All I know is that it isn't me: for what I've
Floyd | become is the object of your dream, yours and Liz's -- I've
Floyd | so emerged myself in us, that without you I seize to exist.
Floyd | Should you not think of any more, I -- or the thing I've transformed
Floyd | into -- would vanish into thin air. Should I be reborn after that, I
Floyd | would certainly be something utterly different, a stranger. Though,
Floyd | for myself, I've been a stranger for years now, and what once was, I
Floyd | fear, is forever lost to me."
Floyd |
Floyd | Her head looks to be fading: it's only her body that's visible to you
Floyd | now.
Floyd |
Floyd | "So, I think the real question is: What is the Object?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "write dream" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WRITE DREAM
Floyd |
Floyd | You scribble the word "dream" on the paper.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "show assignment to cat" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHOW ASSIGNMENT TO CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat's body replies: "Think of us when you think of yourself."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "show assignment to cat" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHOW ASSIGNMENT TO CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat's body replies: "Think of us when you think of yourself."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "think about us" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > THINK ABOUT US
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to think.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "think" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > THINK
Floyd |
Floyd | What a good idea.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "think of us" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > THINK OF US
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to think.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "write us" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WRITE US
Floyd |
Floyd | You have already written down this word in the form of "we".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "'we dream life'?"
		mwmiller asks, "Are we reeeeeally supposed to write something resembling a complete sentence that the game will somehow deign to accept?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "I don't think the order matters, at least."
		genericgeekgirl says, "So we're just collecting words."
		Zach says, "Yeah, I am doubtful too. Maybe as we have some form of all the need words."
		DavidW says, "I don't think so. But I expect the words will unscramble for us when we give the paper back."
		mwmiller says, "Might as well ask about different things, then."
mwmiller says (to Floyd), "ask cat about larvington" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT LARVINGTON
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat's body replies: "Think of us when you think of yourself."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about object" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT OBJECT
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
mwmiller says (to Floyd), "ask cat about us" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT US
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about subject" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT SUBJECT
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat's body replies: "Think of us when you think of yourself."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "think of us" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > THINK OF US
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to think.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "think" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > THINK
Floyd |
Floyd | What a good idea.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "think of me" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > THINK OF ME
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to think.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
mwmiller says (to Floyd), "think about cat" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > THINK ABOUT CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to think.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Maybe we have enough words."
		mwmiller says, "I think 'think' is a red herring."
mwmiller says (to Floyd), "examine paper" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EXAMINE PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | A white paper, on it the text:
Floyd |
Floyd | life
Floyd | we
Floyd | live
Floyd | dream
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach asks, "I wonder what >CUT PAPER would do?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf2" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | > SAVEOk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut paper" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CUT PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | Never know when you're going to need the school assignment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "Anticlimactic."
		Zach says, "Ah, so we're a hoarder"
		DavidW says, "I'm sure we'll use the scissors later."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door leading outside)
Floyd | It seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Passenger Compartment
Floyd | The compartment is poorly lit: the shutters are closed and there's
Floyd | only a small lamp by the bed. The rows of seats on two sides of the
Floyd | compartment are empty, apart from a bed that has been laid between
Floyd | them at the middle. In the bed lies your Mother. The Piglet's sweater
Floyd | is on the bed, unfinished: you see the red yarn in the knitting basket
Floyd | on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | The black ribbon slowly winds towards the vestibule in the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door to the corridor)
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor runs east-west between the vestibule and the passenger
Floyd | compartment. Mr Larvington's private compartment is to the south. The
Floyd | lamps on the wall shed a dim yellow light.
Floyd |
Floyd | The queue moves slowly east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door to a private compartment)
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Private Compartment
Floyd | The room is dark: the blackened skylight lets in only a faint
Floyd | suggestion of light. Mr Larvington slouches behind the desk, smoking
Floyd | his pipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "show paper to larvington" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHOW PAPER TO LARVINGTON
Floyd |
Floyd | "Never return an unfinished paper, Mr Liddell", says your Teacher and
Floyd | dismisses you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "close door" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CLOSE DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | That's already closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask larvington about assignment" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK LARVINGTON ABOUT ASSIGNMENT
Floyd |
Floyd | Mr Larvington pays no attention to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about liz" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT LIZ
Floyd |
Floyd | "It is your responcibility now."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about dream" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT DREAM
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pen" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PEN
Floyd |
Floyd | Writes black.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about paper" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat's body replies: "Think of us when you think of yourself."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen to cat" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LISTEN TO CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear that quiet suffle, nothing else.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about mother" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT MOTHER
Floyd |
Floyd | "Just keep listening to her, and Liz will always run from you."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about leo" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT LEO
Floyd |
Floyd | "Finally!" your wife laughs, "it took you this long to stand up for
Floyd | yourself. I bet you had dreamed of beating him all your
Floyd | life."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Damnit, Cat. Tell me something new."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask cat about livington" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT LIVINGTON
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask cat about larvington" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT LARVINGTON
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat's body replies: "Think of us when you think of yourself."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "write dreamed on paper" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WRITE DREAMED ON PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | You have already written down this word in the form of
Floyd | "dream".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask cat about cat" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask cat about me" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT ME
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about uncle" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT UNCLE
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, that is important", answers Cat dryly, "having tea -- oh, boy
Floyd | that's the way to live. I'm sure your uncle and cousin are
Floyd | eagerly waiting for you to join the fun."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask cat about love" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT LOVE
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "Cat does not give a darn about our wobegone self-pity."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cat, I love you" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CAT, I LOVE YOU
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not reply. Perhaps it would be better to ask about something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about fair" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT FAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "dance" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DANCE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about father" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT FATHER
Floyd |
Floyd | "He's been dead for ages and still he haunts you. I wish you could
Floyd | just let go and live your own life."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about mother" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT MOTHER
Floyd |
Floyd | "Just keep listening to her, and Liz will always run from you."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about cat" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about train" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT TRAIN
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about me" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT ME
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about family" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT FAMILY
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
mwmiller says (to Floyd), "ask cat about cat" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about hats" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT HATS
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hmmm. I hate guess-the-topic."
		mwmiller says, "Catherine's not very introspective."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x paper" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | A white paper, on it the text:
Floyd |
Floyd | life
Floyd | we
Floyd | live
Floyd | dream
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "We haven't written 'words' yet"
		DavidW asks, "Was that in <em> tags?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "write words on paper" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WRITE WORDS ON PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | You prepare to write on the school assignment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "I think the bold words I found were "live dream life words us we""
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about queue" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT QUEUE
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about stroller" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT STROLLER
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Ellison has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about job" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT JOB
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about love" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT LOVE
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Where did you see 'live'? It's not in my transcript."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I mean, before she just said it."
		genericgeekgirl says, "You'd used it earlier."
		mwmiller says, "When talking about the uncle."
		Zach | that's the way to <em>live</em>. I'm sure your uncle and cousin are
		DavidW says, "it's in the reply to 'ask about father', at least."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yes, that was recent, though."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Not back when it was written."
		mwmiller says, "Ah. I guess you don't HAVE to ask about a topic, you can just guess them."
		Zach says, "Oh, earlier I was thinking that other forms of words might be needed"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Ah, ok."
		mwmiller exclaims, "The mother of all guess-the-word puzzles!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "write the on paper" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WRITE THE ON PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | You prepare to write on the school assignment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "noun-verb-adj"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "write dance" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WRITE DANCE
Floyd |
Floyd | The word "dance" may appear to have come to you, but it is of no
Floyd | significance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Lies."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x body" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BODY
Floyd |
Floyd | More beautiful than ever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Where is Mister Train Conductor?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a pen
Floyd |   the queue
Floyd |   the scissors
Floyd |   the school assignment
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "He was last seen going east."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x queue" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X QUEUE
Floyd |
Floyd | A black ribbon moving very slowly and silently towards the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "As was Liz."
		Zach says, "Oh, we did take the 'ribbon'"
		DavidW says, "wear ribbon"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear ribbon" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WEAR RIBBON
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't wear that!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "heh"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen to ribbon" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LISTEN TO RIBBON
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear that quiet suffle, nothing else.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "tie ribbon" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TIE RIBBON
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to tie the queue to?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen to larvington" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LISTEN TO LARVINGTON
Floyd |
Floyd | Mr Larvington pays no attention to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "tie ribbon to hair" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TIE RIBBON TO HAIR
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
mwmiller says (to Floyd), "tie ribbon around the ole oak tree" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TIE RIBBON AROUND THE OLE OAK TREE
Floyd |
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "'yellow ribbon'"
		mwmiller says, "This game hasn't any appreciation for classic music, either."
		DavidW says, "This is a black ribbon."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give ribbon to cat" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GIVE RIBBON TO CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat doesn't seem interested.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door)
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor runs east-west between the vestibule and the passenger
Floyd | compartment. Mr Larvington's private compartment is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The queue moves slowly east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | A small space at the end of the train. The corridor leads east from
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The queue lengthens as new people arrive from the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop queue" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DROP QUEUE
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door leading outside)
Floyd | It seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go in that direction. A corridor runs east from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go in that direction. A corridor runs east from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "stand on queue" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > STAND ON QUEUE
Floyd |
Floyd | The people in queue look at you angrily as you try to cut in line.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "stand on end of queue" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > STAND ON END OF QUEUE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Probably true."
		DavidW says, "yeah, I don't understand some of the stuff that shouldn't be opaque."
		Zach says, "We do have a handy hint system"
		DavidW says, "If the queue is coming in the door, the door ought to be open."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss cat" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > KISS CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | Keep your mind on the game.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "Well, that's no fun. :("
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about work" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT WORK
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "ask cat about play" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT PLAY
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | A small space at the end of the train. The corridor leads east from
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see the queue here.
Floyd |
Floyd | A dark figure after another joins the line: men, women, people of all
Floyd | ages, in shared silence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I suppose a hint might be acceptable to get past this point."
		Zach says, "Yeah, I think that's acceptable considering the confusion and bugs"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hint" 		

Floyd ]                               Hints
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |  > Where next
Floyd |    What to do with your wife
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Choose a goal and press ENTER to show hints, or press Q to exit the
Floyd | Hint Menu.

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Which do we need?"
		DavidW says, "'What to do with your wife' sounds like a blog title."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Hehe."
		Zach asks, "I guess next? We haven't seen our wife lately, have we?"
		Zach says, "heh"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x cat" 		

Floyd ]                               Hints
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |  > Where next
Floyd |    What to do with your wife
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Choose a goal and press ENTER to show hints, or press Q to exit the
Floyd | Hint Menu.

		DavidW says, "Cat is our wife."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I think she's following us around."
genericgeekgirl presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]                             Where next
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | 1/4   There's always something interesting going on in private
Floyd | parties.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Press SPACE to return to the Hint Menu or H to reveal another hint.

		Zach says, "Ah, sorry. I am confused."
		Zach says, "Maybe 'wife' is a needed hint then."
		DavidW says, "er, this is not the topic to look at."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "q" 		
DavidW presses the yellow enter button. 		
Zach says (to Floyd), "hint" 		

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | 1/4   There's always something interesting going on in private
Floyd | parties.
Floyd | 2/4   There's no cutting in line.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Press SPACE to return to the Hint Menu or H to reveal another hint.

		
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                               Hints
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |  > Where next
Floyd |    What to do with your wife
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Choose a goal and press ENTER to show hints, or press Q to exit the
Floyd | Hint Menu.

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Wife?"
		DavidW says, "yeah"
		Zach says, "Yeah"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press n" 		

Floyd ]                               Hints
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |  > Where next
Floyd |    What to do with your wife
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Choose a goal and press ENTER to show hints, or press Q to exit the
Floyd | Hint Menu.

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press n" 		

Floyd ]                               Hints
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |  > Where next
Floyd |    What to do with your wife
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Choose a goal and press ENTER to show hints, or press Q to exit the
Floyd | Hint Menu.

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                               Hints
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |    Where next
Floyd |  > What to do with your wife
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Choose a goal and press ENTER to show hints, or press Q to exit the
Floyd | Hint Menu.

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh."
DavidW presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]                     What to do with your wife
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | 1/4   You can ask Cat about what ever you like.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Press SPACE to return to the Hint Menu or H to reveal another hint.

		genericgeekgirl says, "Duh."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "h" 		

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | 1/4   You can ask Cat about what ever you like.
Floyd | 2/4   The command is ASK CAT ABOUT [something].
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Press SPACE to return to the Hint Menu or H to reveal another hint.

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "h" 		

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | 1/4   You can ask Cat about what ever you like.
Floyd | 2/4   The command is ASK CAT ABOUT [something].
Floyd | 3/4   Useful subjects for conversation might include your family
Floyd | members and the things you've encountered so far in the story.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Note: the last hint will tell you exactly what to do. Don't
Floyd | look it up if you want to figure it out by yourself.
Floyd |
Floyd | Press SPACE to return to the Hint Menu or H to reveal another hint.

		Zach says, "YES"
		Zach asks, "Liz, Leo, Mom?"
		DavidW says, "We haven't asked about great-uncles or grandparents."
		Zach says, ">ASK ABOUT INHERITANCE"
Zach says (to Floyd), "w" 		DavidW says, "Still in the menu."
		Zach says, "Ah, oops"
		Zach asks, "Have we asked about all the family members?"
		DavidW says, "We asked about mother, father, cat, liz, leo."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Also asked about uncle."
		DavidW says, "I'm not sure about Dermot."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Who or what is a Dermot?"
		DavidW says, "Our cousin the 'dormouse'."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Ah."
		DavidW says, "He was asleep in the hat shop."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I didn't even realize he was there."
		DavidW says, "yeah, he was easy to miss."
		Zach says, "(that's what she said)"
		Zach asks, "Ask Cat about Dermot?"
		DavidW says, "sure"
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                               Hints
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |    Where next
Floyd |  > What to do with your wife
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Choose a goal and press ENTER to show hints, or press Q to exit the
Floyd | Hint Menu.

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "q" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | A small space at the end of the train. The corridor leads east from
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see the queue here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask cat about dermot" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT DERMOT
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, that is important", answers Cat dryly, "having tea -- oh, boy
Floyd | that's the way to live. I'm sure your uncle and cousin are
Floyd | eagerly waiting for you to join the fun."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Same response as uncle."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x paper" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | A white paper, on it the text:
Floyd |
Floyd | life
Floyd | we
Floyd | live
Floyd | dream
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about scissors" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT SCISSORS
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about ticket" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT TICKET
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about party" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT PARTY
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "join queue" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > JOIN QUEUE
Floyd |
Floyd | The people in queue look at you angrily as you try to cut in line.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about guard" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT GUARD
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about river" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT RIVER
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Where is the end of the line? Have we seen one?"
		DavidW says, "This is as close to the end as we can get."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x queue" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X QUEUE
Floyd |
Floyd | A black ribbon moving very slowly and silently towards the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "They're coming in from the door, even though the door is closed, locked, leads outside of a moving train."
		Zach asks, "Oh maybe a pun with ribbon?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x yarn" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X YARN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x needles" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X NEEDLES
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Those aren't here."
		Zach says, "Ah, right, to the west."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about me" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT ME
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "I guess that wouldn't have anything to do with Cat anyway."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "exits" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EXITS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | A small space at the end of the train. The corridor leads east from
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see the queue here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some of the people glance at you as they step in, most of them don't.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor runs east-west between the vestibule and the passenger
Floyd | compartment. Mr Larvington's private compartment is to the south. The
Floyd | lamps on the wall shed a dim yellow light.
Floyd |
Floyd | The queue moves slowly east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go in that direction. A corridor runs east from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "no east"
		DavidW says, "There's two locations called Vestibule."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go in that direction. A corridor runs east from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Just checking."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x placard" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PLACARD
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "East?"
		Zach says, "Ah, yeah"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor runs east-west between the vestibule and the passenger
Floyd | compartment. Mr Larvington's private compartment is to the south. The
Floyd | lamps on the wall shed a dim yellow light.
Floyd |
Floyd | The queue moves slowly east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Sorry, I was thinking of the Eastern one"
		DavidW says, "We probably need to get the explicit hint,"
		Zach says, "Yeah"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Ok, one sec. Just exploring."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the the passenger compartment door)
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Passenger Compartment
Floyd | The compartment is poorly lit: the shutters are closed and there's
Floyd | only a small lamp by the bed. The rows of seats on two sides of the
Floyd | compartment are empty, apart from a bed that has been laid between
Floyd | them at the middle. In the bed lies your Mother. The Piglet's sweater
Floyd | is on the bed, unfinished: you see the red yarn in the knitting basket
Floyd | on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | The black ribbon slowly winds towards the vestibule in the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Sure"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take yarn" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE YARN
Floyd |
Floyd | The ball of yarn is not worth too much attention.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take sweater" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE SWEATER
Floyd |
Floyd | You take the sweater.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take pig" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE PIG
Floyd |

		DavidW says, "And I'm jonesing for pasta or something to eat."

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | This is a small space at the east-end of the train car, with a gangway
Floyd | leading to the next carriage. The passanger compartment extends from
Floyd | here to the west. There's a door leading outside, but it's locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | The black queue of people slowly moves through the connection to the
Floyd | next car.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear sweater" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WEAR SWEATER
Floyd |
Floyd | The sweater would not fit you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Oh, we can take the sweater"
		DavidW says, "That's sweater wasn't takeable before, was it?!"
		genericgeekgirl says, "I don't know."
		Zach says, "I don't think so"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | The people in queue look at you angrily as you try to cut in line.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I thought for sure we tried to get it."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "join queue" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > JOIN QUEUE
Floyd |
Floyd | The people in queue look at you angrily as you try to cut in line.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about sweater" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT SWEATER
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat does not answer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | The people in queue look at you angrily as you try to cut in line.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | The people in queue look at you angrily as you try to cut in line.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Just gonna keep trying until they back off~"
		DavidW says, "We can't go east."
		Zach asks, "Maybe we just tried to 'x' it and found it unimportant?"
		DavidW says (to Zach), "Maybe."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I think we tried to cut it, and it told us not to."
Zach says (to Floyd), "x sweater" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SWEATER
Floyd |
Floyd | Unfinished. The red wool is the itchy kind.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "finish sweater" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FINISH SWEATER
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't know how to knit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I really think we can't go to the party until the business with Larvington is concluded."
Zach says (to Floyd), "wear sweater" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WEAR SWEATER
Floyd |
Floyd | The sweater would not fit you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x wool" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WOOL
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | The feet of the people in black make that quiet suffle, otherwise they
Floyd | are completely silent.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Passenger Compartment
Floyd | The compartment is poorly lit: the shutters are closed and there's
Floyd | only a small lamp by the bed. The rows of seats on two sides of the
Floyd | compartment are empty, apart from a bed that has been laid between
Floyd | them at the middle. In the bed lies your Mother.
Floyd |
Floyd | The black ribbon slowly winds towards the vestibule in the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door to the corridor)
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor runs east-west between the vestibule and the passenger
Floyd | compartment. Mr Larvington's private compartment is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The queue moves slowly east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | A small space at the end of the train. The corridor leads east from
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see the queue here.
Floyd |
Floyd | More people join the queue from the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go in that direction. A corridor runs east from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "join queue" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > JOIN QUEUE
Floyd |
Floyd | The people in queue look at you angrily as you try to cut in line.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "join line" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > JOIN LINE
Floyd |
Floyd | The people in queue look at you angrily as you try to cut in line.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Explicit hint, I guess."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "help" 		

Floyd ]                               Hints
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |  > Where next
Floyd |    What to do with your wife
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Choose a goal and press ENTER to show hints, or press Q to exit the
Floyd | Hint Menu.

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                               Hints
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |    Where next
Floyd |  > What to do with your wife
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Choose a goal and press ENTER to show hints, or press Q to exit the
Floyd | Hint Menu.

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "h" 		

Floyd ]                               Hints
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |    Where next
Floyd |  > What to do with your wife
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Choose a goal and press ENTER to show hints, or press Q to exit the
Floyd | Hint Menu.

		
DavidW presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]                     What to do with your wife
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | 1/4   You can ask Cat about what ever you like.
Floyd | 2/4   The command is ASK CAT ABOUT [something].
Floyd | 3/4   Useful subjects for conversation might include your family
Floyd | members and the things you've encountered so far in the story.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Note: the last hint will tell you exactly what to do. Don't
Floyd | look it up if you want to figure it out by yourself.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Press SPACE to return to the Hint Menu or H to reveal another hint.

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "h" 		

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | 1/4   You can ask Cat about what ever you like.
Floyd | 2/4   The command is ASK CAT ABOUT [something].
Floyd | 3/4   Useful subjects for conversation might include your family
Floyd | members and the things you've encountered so far in the story.
Floyd | 4/4   Some examples on what you could ask Cat about: school
Floyd | assignment, Liz, tea party, Mother, Father, Cat.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Press SPACE to return to the Hint Menu.

		mwmiller says, "'Some examples'? Oh, game."
		DavidW says, "hm. I suppose we didn't do 'tea party'."
		Zach says, "hooray"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "q" 		mwmiller says, "Probably same as 'uncle' but whattheheck."
		Zach asks, "Or 'school assignment'?"
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                               Hints
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |    Where next
Floyd |  > What to do with your wife
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Choose a goal and press ENTER to show hints, or press Q to exit the
Floyd | Hint Menu.

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "q" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | A small space at the end of the train. The corridor leads east from
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see the queue here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about tea party" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT TEA PARTY
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, that is important", answers Cat dryly, "having tea -- oh, boy
Floyd | that's the way to live. I'm sure your uncle and cousin are
Floyd | eagerly waiting for you to join the fun."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about school assignment" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT SCHOOL ASSIGNMENT
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat's body replies: "Think of us when you think of yourself."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller asks, "SURE ENOUGH. And 'ask cat about cat' doesn't work does it?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cat about catherine" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK CAT ABOUT CATHERINE
Floyd |
Floyd | "This is not about me and not about you -- this is about all of
Floyd | us", she says.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller asks, "All right so it does. Well that's pretty much all we have innit?"
		DavidW says, "I think so, yeah."
		DavidW says, "But Larvington didn't like it."
		Zach asks, "Ah, just <em> words. Maybe the order does matter? Can we erase the paper and start over?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "erase paper" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ERASE PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat paper" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EAT PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | That's plainly inedible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "cross out words" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CROSS OUT WORDS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller asks, "I get the feeling we're supposed to eventually play William S. Burroughs and cut the words up and re-order them. Try showing the paper to Larvington again?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cut paper" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CUT PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | Never know when you're going to need the school assignment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Have we added anything since we last showed it to him?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor runs east-west between the vestibule and the passenger
Floyd | compartment. Mr Larvington's private compartment is to the south. The
Floyd | lamps on the wall shed a dim yellow light.
Floyd |
Floyd | The queue moves slowly east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door to a private compartment)
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Private Compartment
Floyd | The room is dark: the blackened skylight lets in only a faint
Floyd | suggestion of light. Mr Larvington slouches behind the desk, smoking
Floyd | his pipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Play Burroughs in a game of William Tell"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "show assignment to larvington" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHOW ASSIGNMENT TO LARVINGTON
Floyd |
Floyd | "Never return an unfinished paper, Mr Liddell", says your Teacher and
Floyd | dismisses you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear that quiet suffle, nothing else.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "write a on paper" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WRITE A ON PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | You prepare to write on the school assignment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "So much for that idea. >:("
		Zach says, "haha"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask larvington about object" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ASK LARVINGTON ABOUT OBJECT
Floyd |
Floyd | Mr Larvington pays no attention to you. "Just keep working on that
Floyd | paper, Mr Liddell."
Floyd | .
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x paper" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | A white paper, on it the text:
Floyd |
Floyd | life
Floyd | we
Floyd | live
Floyd | dream
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "At this point, the discomfort about violence toward a defenseless baby has worn off, replaced by pure frustration."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pipe" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice nothing interesting about the hookah.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "well, I dunno. I want food."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hit larvington" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > HIT LARVINGTON
Floyd |
Floyd | That will get you nowhere. "Just keep working on that paper, Mr
Floyd | Liddell."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hit cat" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > HIT CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | That will get you nowhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "smoke hookah" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SMOKE HOOKAH
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "I disagree."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "use hookah" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > USE HOOKAH
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "(Kidding!)"
		Zach asks, "We haven't written 'us' yet, or does 'we' count for that?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "show sweater to larvington" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHOW SWEATER TO LARVINGTON
Floyd |
Floyd | Mr Larvington pays no attention to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cut sweater" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CUT SWEATER
Floyd |
Floyd | That will get you nowhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Other hint?"
Zach says (to Floyd), "cut wool" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CUT WOOL
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Yeah"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hint" 		

Floyd ]                               Hints
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |  > Where next
Floyd |    What to do with your wife
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Choose a goal and press ENTER to show hints, or press Q to exit the
Floyd | Hint Menu.

		
genericgeekgirl presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]                             Where next
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | 1/4   There's always something interesting going on in private
Floyd | parties.
Floyd | 2/4   There's no cutting in line.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Press SPACE to return to the Hint Menu or H to reveal another hint.

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "h" 		

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | 1/4   There's always something interesting going on in private
Floyd | parties.
Floyd | 2/4   There's no cutting in line.
Floyd | 3/4   Get in line and wait for your turn.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Note: the last hint will tell you exactly what to do. Don't
Floyd | look it up if you want to figure it out by yourself.
Floyd |
Floyd | Press SPACE to return to the Hint Menu or H to reveal another hint.

		genericgeekgirl says, "I TRIED THAT."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Final hint?"
		mwmiller says, "DO IT"
		Zach says, "Us, We Live, Dream Life Words"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "h" 		

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | 1/4   There's always something interesting going on in private
Floyd | parties.
Floyd | 2/4   There's no cutting in line.
Floyd | 3/4   Get in line and wait for your turn.
Floyd | 4/4   To join the queue, go to the vestibule at the west end of the
Floyd | train. Join the line and move with it through the car to the next
Floyd | vestibule. Now it's your turn to go in.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Press SPACE to return to the Hint Menu.

		genericgeekgirl says, "I DID THAT, TOO."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I went as far west as possible and tried to join queue, and it told me people scowled at me."
		Zach asks, "Maybe we bugged the game by taking the queue?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh man."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I wonder. Maybe we can take it again and drop it in various rooms until it works.."
		Zach says, "I think we did drop it"
		mwmiller says, "Aaaghagrhagrhgh I hope not."
Zach says (to Floyd), "i" 		genericgeekgirl asks, "But maybe not in the right place?"
		Zach says, "Oops, sorry, menu"
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                               Hints
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |  > Where next
Floyd |    What to do with your wife
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Choose a goal and press ENTER to show hints, or press Q to exit the
Floyd | Hint Menu.

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "q" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | Private Compartment
Floyd | The room is dark: the blackened skylight lets in only a faint
Floyd | suggestion of light. Mr Larvington slouches behind the desk, smoking
Floyd | his pipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go in that direction. The door is to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door)
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor runs east-west between the vestibule and the passenger
Floyd | compartment. Mr Larvington's private compartment is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The queue moves slowly east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take queue" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE QUEUE
Floyd |
Floyd | You take the queue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | A small space at the end of the train. The corridor leads east from
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see the queue here.
Floyd |
Floyd | More people join the queue from the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "join queue" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > JOIN QUEUE
Floyd |
Floyd | The people in queue look at you angrily as you try to cut in line.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop queue" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DROP QUEUE
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | A small space at the end of the train. The corridor leads east from
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see two queues here.
Floyd |
Floyd | More people join the queue from the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Haha."
		DavidW says, "yeah, it's possible that taking the queue made the game logic go astray."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x door" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice nothing interesting about the train door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take queue" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE QUEUE
Floyd |
Floyd | You take the queue.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | A small space at the end of the train. The corridor leads east from
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see the queue here.
Floyd |
Floyd | More people join the queue from the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "two queues? uh-oh"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Is a room missing one?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor runs east-west between the vestibule and the passenger
Floyd | compartment. Mr Larvington's private compartment is to the south. The
Floyd | lamps on the wall shed a dim yellow light.
Floyd |
Floyd | The queue moves slowly east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the the passenger compartment door)
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Passenger Compartment
Floyd | The compartment is poorly lit: the shutters are closed and there's
Floyd | only a small lamp by the bed. The rows of seats on two sides of the
Floyd | compartment are empty, apart from a bed that has been laid between
Floyd | them at the middle. In the bed lies your Mother.
Floyd |
Floyd | The black ribbon slowly winds towards the vestibule in the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "Bleedin' stupid game expects us to do off-the-wall things in one place and not take anything in another place."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop queue" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DROP QUEUE
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | This is a small space at the east-end of the train car, with a gangway
Floyd | leading to the next carriage. The passanger compartment extends from
Floyd | here to the west. There's a door leading outside, but it's locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | The black queue of people slowly moves through the connection to the
Floyd | next car.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Passenger Compartment
Floyd | The compartment is poorly lit: the shutters are closed and there's
Floyd | only a small lamp by the bed. The rows of seats on two sides of the
Floyd | compartment are empty, apart from a bed that has been laid between
Floyd | them at the middle. In the bed lies your Mother.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see the queue here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The black ribbon slowly winds towards the vestibule in the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door to the corridor)
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor runs east-west between the vestibule and the passenger
Floyd | compartment. Mr Larvington's private compartment is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The queue moves slowly east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | A small space at the end of the train. The corridor leads east from
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see the queue here.
Floyd |
Floyd | More people join the queue from the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "join queue" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > JOIN QUEUE
Floyd |
Floyd | The people in queue look at you angrily as you try to cut in line.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "I figured we got it from the room that talks about ribbon."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh no. Granted, we haven't actually done much."
		DavidW asks, "Which queue do you mean, the queue or the queue?"
		DavidW says, "sorry, but the lag is INSANE"
		Zach says, "I can't remember if it was the -- yeah..."
		genericgeekgirl says, "We did unfortunately save after we took the queue. But, I don't know. It's late, but I feel like we've done something like 10 useful steps in all of that."
		DavidW says, "yeah, might have to restart or just try it another night."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf3" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | > SAVEOk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf2" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oops. Didn't mean that."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restart" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTART
Floyd |
Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart?

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd ]  The Liddell Hat Shop
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Closing time. You have just finished going through the invoices, and
Floyd | Uncle Marty is counting the register. Cousin Dermot is hunched over
Floyd | the counter, asleep.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You go, Alistair", Uncle Marty says, "us two will lock up. Don't want
Floyd | to keep the wife waiting, do you?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You are going to the funfair. You promised Catherine.
Floyd |
Floyd | The clock strikes six: you are late, once more.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sentencing Mr Liddell
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by I-K. Huuhtanen
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 111001 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | The Liddell Hat Shop
Floyd | Just a small business, but it's yours. Founded by your late father
Floyd | some forty years ago, it still offers a wide range of headgear for
Floyd | discerning gentlemen, all crafted by hand. The walls up to the ceiling
Floyd | are lined with top hats and bowlers, fedoras and homburgs, panamas and
Floyd | boaters. At the moment, at the end of the day, the space a bit untidy,
Floyd | with the counter stacked with miscellaneous papers and textile samples
Floyd | and the rubbish bin scouring with crumpled notes and order sheets.
Floyd | Marty promises to tidy up.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door outside onto the street is to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | [If this is your first time playing 'Sentencing Mr Liddell', type MENU
Floyd | to learn more about the game.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Let me see about just going through it up to that point."
		Zach says, "OK"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Looks like we can add all the words to the paper without asking getting them first."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x bin" 		

Floyd ]  The Liddell Hat Shop
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BIN
Floyd |
Floyd | The bin is scouring with crumpled paper: miscellaneous notes, order
Floyd | confirmations, wrapping sheets, receipts. You notice your funfair
Floyd | ticket has ended up in here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take ticket" 		

Floyd ]  The Liddell Hat Shop
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE TICKET
Floyd |
Floyd | You dig the ticket out of the bin.
Floyd |
Floyd | "So, that's where I put it", says Uncle Marty, apologetic. "These
Floyd | things are important to children", he continues, "funfairs and such. I
Floyd | remember when Dermot was little... Then we get old and, before you
Floyd | know it, everything new and unexpected becomes..." He loses the count
Floyd | of the money. "You go now. Don't you worry about me, little Alistair.
Floyd | You've got too much worries as it is, with the shop and the family and
Floyd | your mother having taken ill. I know how it is with me, I do. It's not
Floyd | every man who'd take on two such employees as me and your cousin
Floyd | Dermot there. Your father would have been proud."
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not too sure about that. But it's your business now. You need
Floyd | to go.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  The Street
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door)
Floyd | "Tea on Sunday, as usual?" asks Uncle Marty.
Floyd |
Floyd | Yes, as usual. Dermot has promised to get his act together after last
Floyd | Sunday when Marty threatened to dunk his head in the teapot if he
Floyd | dozes off again.
Floyd |
Floyd | "See you there, then." Uncle Marty smiles and waves his hand goodbye.
Floyd | It's like he's relieved every time you say you'll come, thought you've
Floyd | never said no.
Floyd |
Floyd | You step outside onto the street.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Street (in front of the Hat Shop)
Floyd | The sign above the door reads in bright red letters: "LIDDELL HAT
Floyd | SHOP". The street leads down south to the riverside.The town spreads
Floyd | all around on the hillside, the black silhouette of the Ferris wheel
Floyd | is drawn against the red of the sky at the south-western horizon.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a chill in the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | Catherine is staring at the distance, completely in her thoughts,
Floyd | running her fingers through Liz's hair as the girl sleeps in the
Floyd | stroller.
Floyd |
Floyd | "There you are", your wife awakens to you arriving. She looks tired.
Floyd | "We've been waiting for... oh, who cares. I don't feel like explaining
Floyd | this to you any more. I've been pushing Liz around in this thing since
Floyd | eleven o'clock. It's pretty cold, you know", Cat says.
Floyd |
Floyd | The summer is turning into autumn. Yesterday you had noticed how the
Floyd | cold breeze from the river travels up the hill and creeps under your
Floyd | cardigan. You sigh and say the girls could have just come into the
Floyd | shop to get out of the cold.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat gives you the same answer you've heard many times before: "You
Floyd | know your uncle. I didn't want to him to wake up Liz."
Floyd |
Floyd | Catherine straightens her torso and tucks her skirt. "You've got the
Floyd | ticket? Let's go then."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd ]  The Street
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd | This street leads down towards the river. West of here is a web of
Floyd | small streets that would only lengthen your journey.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You leave the stroller and go.
Floyd |
Floyd | Catherine lifts her hands in the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes, I'll push this god-awful buggy for a mile still. Clearly it's my
Floyd | responsibility, once again."
Floyd |
Floyd | She grabs hold of Liz's stroller and begins trotting down the hill
Floyd | after you.
Floyd |
Floyd | River Walk
Floyd | The riverside walk begins here. A lonely bench stands at the at the
Floyd | end of the walkway for the weary to rest on. A street rises up north
Floyd | to the hills. The river runs east to west, splitting the town in half:
Floyd | to the north, the hills, to the south, the industry and the suburbs.
Floyd | The river walk follows the bank stretching west. The Ferris wheel is
Floyd | visible against the western sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your little bunny rabbit is still fast asleep in the stroller. Cat
Floyd | notices the way you look at your daughter, and softens her tone of
Floyd | voice: "She's been sleeping since we left home. Good, though: she's
Floyd | going to need the energy."
Floyd |
Floyd | You remember the last time you went to the funfair: how scared Liz was
Floyd | to see her reflections in the House of Mirrors -- she thought she was
Floyd | actually growing in all these weird directions. You mention this to
Floyd | Catherine, and she replies: "That was a year ago. She's a big girl
Floyd | now." A faint smile on your wife's face.
Floyd |
Floyd | Has it really been a year already...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | River Walk
Floyd | The walkway runs east to west along the riverside. The funfair gates
Floyd | are ahead to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat follows you, pushing Liz.
Floyd |
Floyd | You stroll along the riverside, and Catherine says: "Remind me to pick
Floyd | up some eggs on the way home. I promised your mother we would visit
Floyd | her at the nursing home on Sunday. I said I'd bring apple tarts for
Floyd | tea."
Floyd |
Floyd | You tell Cat that on Sunday you're having tea at Uncle Marty's. In a
Floyd | flash, the anger is back in Cat's eyes, but she doesn't reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | River Walk
Floyd | The walkway runs east to west along the riverside and ends here at the
Floyd | funfair gates.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat follows you, pushing Liz.
Floyd |
Floyd | Finally Cat says something: "Can't you spend one day with your
Floyd | daughter and your old mother instead of those never-ending tea parties
Floyd | with your loony uncle and good-for-nothing cousin?" she sighs.
Floyd |
Floyd | They are counting on me, Cat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat stops. "We are counting on you, Alistair! Besides, do you think
Floyd | your mother is going to live forever? She doesn't have long, you know
Floyd | that. Ever since your father died, you've seen how she's been waiting
Floyd | to follow him. And Liz: she's going to grow up and leave us sooner
Floyd | than you think."
Floyd |
Floyd | I see you and Liz every day, Cat.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Oh, I wonder if you ever truly see me, Alistair." Cat turns around
Floyd | and starts pushing the stroller to the opposite direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | River Walk
Floyd | The walkway runs east to west along the riverside. The funfair gates
Floyd | are behind you to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | River Walk
Floyd | The riverside walk ends here. A lonely bench stands at the at the end
Floyd | of the walkway for the weary to rest on. A street rises up north to
Floyd | the hills. The river runs east to west, splitting the town in half: to
Floyd | the north, the hills, to the south, the industry and the suburbs. The
Floyd | river walk follows the bank stretching west. The Ferris wheel is
Floyd | visible against the western sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | Catherine is sitting here on the bench, covering her face with her
Floyd | hands so that the passers-by would not see her crying. She's left the
Floyd | stroller in the middle of the walkway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go in that direction. The walkway continues west along the
Floyd | river. To the north, the street leads up to the hill.
Floyd |
Floyd | Catherine keeps sobbing.
Floyd |
Floyd | The walkway slopes slightly towards the edge of the river. You notice
Floyd | Liz's stroller has begun to slowly move.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | >
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat mumbles something you interpret as "Why did you have to spoil this
Floyd | one, too? You can't even push the god-damn stroller."
Floyd |
Floyd | The stroller is getting dangerously close to the river's edge.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | >
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly Catherine cries: "Liz!"
Floyd |
Floyd | The stroller falls down the bank into the river and disappears under
Floyd | water.
Floyd |
Floyd | Catherine runs to the edge  and is screaming, terrified:
Floyd |
Floyd | "Liz! Alistair, do something!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "dive" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > DIVE
Floyd |
Floyd | You cannot swim, but that's the least of your worries now. You dive in
Floyd | after Liz.

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Underwater
Floyd | Underwater
Floyd | The water is black -- even blacker than it looked like from above.
Floyd | Briefly you think your foot hit the pebbles at the riverbed, but you
Floyd | find out the water seems to expand indefinitely in nearly all
Floyd | directions. There's a faint glimmer of light above you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly you see a glimpse of a white dress, somewhere to the east.
Floyd | You feel like shouting after your daughter but then remember you would
Floyd | drown were you to do that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Underwater
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | The light above you is just as faint as before.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ugh, laggy."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Underwater
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | The shape of Liz disappears as you swim closer. Your feet hit the
Floyd | bottom: smooth concrete. The water's surprisingly shallow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Overflow Chamber
Floyd |
Floyd | Overflow Chamber
Floyd | You emerge from a pool of water. This seems to be the sewers: a
Floyd | spacious chamber with drain tunnels leading to it from both sides. No
Floyd | water is coming in, there's only what's left in this overflow pool
Floyd | after last weeks storms that swept the town.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a train waiting by the platform on the north side of the
Floyd | chamber. The white steam licks the curving walls as the engine is
Floyd | being warmed.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's Liz. She's climbed to the platform, with her white dress
Floyd | dripping wet, and boards the train. The Guard courteously lifts his
Floyd | cap for her. Then he pulls out a large pocket watch and blows his
Floyd | whistle.
Floyd |
Floyd | "All aboard!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Overflow Chamber (on the platform)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb onto the metal platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | Overflow Chamber (on the platform)
Floyd | The engine puffs and hisses as it is prepared for departure.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd |
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | You step into a small space at the end of the train. Oak panelled
Floyd | walls are dark, the linoleum on the floor is worn-down. A corridor
Floyd | leads east from here, the door outside is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Guard takes a last look from the steps and jumps aboard. The train
Floyd | begins to move.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your daughter is nowhere to be seen. The Guard surely knows something.
Floyd | The man doesn't seem too helpful, though, standing here and sizing you
Floyd | with his eyes from head to tow.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Ticket, please."
Floyd |
Floyd | Then he coughs, as to be polite.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "show ticket to man" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHOW TICKET TO MAN
Floyd |
Floyd | The Guard takes the piece of paper. His whiskers tremble a bit.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Thank you, sir."
Floyd |
Floyd | The Guard keeps shaking his head for a while to show his overall
Floyd | disapproval of you being here, and then says: "Be sure to have the
Floyd | ticket ready. You never know when I'll be back to inspect it."
Floyd |
Floyd | The man takes off to the eastern corridor and disappears through a
Floyd | compartment door at the end of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go in that direction. A corridor runs east from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | You don't see Liz. The corridor extends east from the vestibule to a
Floyd | door at the west. Another door leads south. The lamps on the wall shed
Floyd | a dim yellow light.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door to a private compartment)
Floyd |
Floyd | Private Compartment
Floyd | Liz doesn't seem to be here. You can smell the dust in the air. The
Floyd | room is dark: the small skylight above is so blackened with coal dust
Floyd | is doesn't let in much light.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door swings closed behind you, as these train doors are designed
Floyd | to do.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mr Larvington -- ?
Floyd |
Floyd | Slouching behind a huge oak desk is your old school teacher Mr
Floyd | Larvington, smoking a hookah.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes, u-hum, I shall take the roll", mutters Mr Larvington, "Leo
Floyd | Liddell?" He takes a look around, as do you. "No? Excellent. Alistair
Floyd | Liddell?"
Floyd |
Floyd | He sees you. "Alistair, still not showing up in time."
Floyd |
Floyd | You point out that Leo is even more late.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mr Larvington sucks his pipe as a deliberate gesture and explains:
Floyd | "Exactly, Mr Liddell. And look at you still: trying to squeal on your
Floyd | brother, you little pig."
Floyd |
Floyd | As always, Leo gets the royal treatment and you get scolded, no matter
Floyd | what you do. That obnoxious bully.
Floyd |
Floyd | "But now, young Liddell: let's see your paper", says Mr Larvington and
Floyd | holds out his hand demandingly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "show ticket to man" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHOW TICKET TO MAN
Floyd |
Floyd | The Teacher pulls the paper from your hand and gives it a good long
Floyd | look. "You haven't put any words down? Of course it's early on, but
Floyd | you ought have at least something."
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't even know what the subject is supposed to be -- how are you
Floyd | to write a paper?
Floyd |
Floyd | "Precisely that, Mr Liddell", says Mr Larvington, "the subject of the
Floyd | paper is 'What is the Subject?' How difficult can that be? The
Floyd | words will come to you, if you just listen. Don't you know
Floyd | that the meaning of things always comes from the outside, it is only
Floyd | the meaningfulness of them that you get to judge for yourself. Or do
Floyd | you still think this is just about you, poor little Alistair Liddell?"
Floyd |
Floyd | He returns the paper to you and also gives you a pen -- he ventures a
Floyd | guess that you have probably lost your own. "You run along, now."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "write dream" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WRITE DREAM
Floyd |
Floyd | You choose the school assignment as writing paper, since it seems to
Floyd | be the only sensible option.
Floyd |
Floyd | You scribble the word "dream" on the paper.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mr Larvington turns his attention to the smoke that twirls upon the
Floyd | desk and no longer sees you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "write life" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WRITE LIFE
Floyd |
Floyd | You scribble the word "life" on the paper.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "write live" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WRITE LIVE
Floyd |
Floyd | You scribble the word "live" on the paper.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "write us" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WRITE US
Floyd |
Floyd | You scribble the word on the school assignment in the form of
Floyd | "we".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x paper" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | A white paper, on it the text:
Floyd |
Floyd | dream
Floyd | life
Floyd | live
Floyd | we
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door)
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor extends east from the vestibule to a door at the west. Mr
Floyd | Larvington's private compartment is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | A small space at the end of the train. The corridor leads east from
Floyd | here. There's a door leading outside, but it's locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x door" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice nothing interesting about the train door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor extends east from the vestibule to a door at the west. Mr
Floyd | Larvington's private compartment is to the south. The lamps on the
Floyd | wall shed a dim yellow light.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "I wish you'd saved before writing any words. What if the word order does matter?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "I doubt it does."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I feel like the hint would have said something about it. Like talk to Cat in *this* order."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Where is the room with mother?"
		DavidW says, "east"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door to the east)
Floyd |
Floyd | Passenger Compartment
Floyd | Liz is nowhere to be seen. The rows of seats on two sides of the
Floyd | compartment are empty, apart from a bed that has been laid between
Floyd | them at the middle. There lies your Mother, hardly visible from under
Floyd | her thick red quilt.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mummy? Really?
Floyd |
Floyd | "Alistair, come and take care of your responsibilities. I'm too old
Floyd | and tired for this."
Floyd |
Floyd | As you cautiously step closer, you see Mother is trying to hold down a
Floyd | little Piglet wriggling and squealing horrendously under the quilt.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'm trying to knit a sweater for her, but the ungrateful little
Floyd | bastard won't wear it, and now she will not stop screaming."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "It didn't let me go this way earlier.."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take sweater" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE SWEATER
Floyd |
Floyd | You take the sweater.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mummy lifts the loud pig from under the covers.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Your responsibility!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take pig" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE PIG
Floyd |
Floyd | You grab hold of the wriggling animal. It tries to bite you -- then
Floyd | again, your Mother would have tried that, too, and most certainly
Floyd | succeeded, had you not relieved her of this burden.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Now, make it shut up. You see: this is what happens when you don't
Floyd | give them a proper upbringing", says Mummy, holding her ears.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | The Piglet escapes your grip and quickly runs to the other end of the
Floyd | compartment to hide under a seat, yet still screaming so loudly,
Floyd | there's no mistaking where it's hiding.
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door to the corridor)
Floyd | "I hope you didn't come to visit only to cut class, Alistair", your
Floyd | Mother says dryly as you return to the corridor.
Floyd |
Floyd | "But don't be late for Uncle Marty's tea party!" Leo hollers after
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor runs east-west between the vestibule and the passenger
Floyd | compartment. Mr Larvington's private compartment is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Aw."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I was trying to rescue her."
		Zach asks, "Uncle Marty? Did we ask about him?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah."
		genericgeekgirl says, "We got 'live'."
		Zach says, "Ah"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the the passenger compartment door)
Floyd |
Floyd | Passenger Compartment
Floyd | The compartment is poorly lit: the shutters are closed and there's
Floyd | only a small lamp by the bed. The rows of seats on two sides of the
Floyd | compartment are empty, apart from a bed that has been laid between
Floyd | them at the middle. In the bed lies your Mother.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Catch it, Alistair!" Mother shouts and points to the Piglet that's
Floyd | running wildly between the seats.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mummy lifts her head off the pillow with an exaggerated moan. "How
Floyd | nice of you to bother with your old, dying mother."
Floyd | You can hear the little Pig's cries from under a nearby seat. As you
Floyd | step in, the animal springs out from its hiding place and begins
Floyd | galloping around the compartment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take pig" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE PIG
Floyd |
Floyd | The little thing gets scared and louder as you manage to catch it.
Floyd | It's desperately trying to flee, but your grip holds.
Floyd |
Floyd | The animal is so very loud you can hardly hear your own thoughts. What
Floyd | am I supposed to do with this?
Floyd |
Floyd | "Don't look at me", your Mother says, "that's your problem."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Avert your eyes."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hit pig" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > HIT PIG
Floyd |
Floyd | But it's so tiny...
Floyd | You hesitate.
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel someone grabbing your shoulder from behind. It's your brother
Floyd | Leo, who leans over to poke at the Piglet.
Floyd |
Floyd | "What's the matter, Alice?" he says to you and laughs as the Piglet
Floyd | gets more scared, "has your baby turned into a swine?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Mum, tell him not to!
Floyd |
Floyd | "Don't be such a girl, Alistair. Hit it. Your brother would."
Floyd |
Floyd | Leo starts trolling:
Floyd |
Floyd | Hush-a-by baby, in Alice's lap!
Floyd | Till the tea's ready, there's time for a nap:
Floyd | When the tea's over, we'll go to war -
Floyd | And now I shall beat you 'till you're achy and sore!
Floyd |
Floyd | Your brother adverts his frustration from the pig to you and starts
Floyd | punching your arm. "Hit it, Alice, hit it! I would."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | You smack the tiny Piglet in the face. It immediately goes silent,
Floyd | stares at you with its frightened eyes and then, fearing for its
Floyd | life, flees your violent grip.
Floyd |
Floyd | Liz!
Floyd |
Floyd | You now see it is your little daughter running away from you, not a
Floyd | pig. A quick glimpse of her white dress as she dissappears into the
Floyd | vestibule in the east end of the car.
Floyd |
Floyd | "O-oh!" says Leo, grinning.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mother laughs from the bed: "Come on, don't look so shocked, Alistair.
Floyd | It's not like you've never done that before... And, like I always used
Floyd | to say:
Floyd |
Floyd | Speak roughly to your little boy,
Floyd | And beat him when he sneezes:
Floyd | He only does it to annoy,
Floyd | because he know it teases!
Floyd |
Floyd | And look at you and your brother now: you turned out just fine.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door to the corridor)
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor runs east-west between the vestibule and the passenger
Floyd | compartment. Mr Larvington's private compartment is to the south. The
Floyd | lamps on the wall shed a dim yellow light.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "C'mon queue."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Where is Cat?"
		mwmiller says, "Need to trigger Cat showing up again, somehow, I think."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the the passenger compartment door)
Floyd |
Floyd | Passenger Compartment
Floyd | The compartment is poorly lit: the shutters are closed and there's
Floyd | only a small lamp by the bed. The rows of seats on two sides of the
Floyd | compartment are empty, apart from a bed that has been laid between
Floyd | them at the middle. In the bed lies your Mother.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | This is a small space at the east-end of the train car, with a door
Floyd | leading outside and another through the gangway to the next carriage.
Floyd | The passanger compartment extends from here to the west. There's small
Floyd | placard of some sort on the gangway entrance. There's a door leading
Floyd | outside, but it's locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | This is where you saw Liz flee from you, but now she's gone. Instead,
Floyd | in front of the train car door appears a figure from thin air. As it
Floyd | takes proper shape, you see it's Catherine.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You seem to have misplace our daughter." Cat sounds sarcastic. "Just
Floyd | keep listening to your mother's advice, and she will run from you
Floyd | forever."
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat seems to be losing shape again: her body begins to fade, leaving
Floyd | visible only her head.
Floyd |
Floyd | The head speaks: "Since I'm here, you must want help in some matter.
Floyd | That is why you have summoned me, isn't it? Speak, then."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, hello there."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "show assignment to cat" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHOW ASSIGNMENT TO CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | Catherine takes a look at your paper.
Floyd |
Floyd | "What is the Subject? All I know is that it isn't me: for what I've
Floyd | become is the object of your dream, yours and Liz's -- I've
Floyd | so emerged myself in us, that without you I seize to exist.
Floyd | Should you not think of any more, I -- or the thing I've transformed
Floyd | into -- would vanish into thin air. Should I be reborn after that, I
Floyd | would certainly be something utterly different, a stranger. Though,
Floyd | for myself, I've been a stranger for years now, and what once was, I
Floyd | fear, is forever lost to me."
Floyd |
Floyd | Her head looks to be fading: it's only her body that's visible to you
Floyd | now.
Floyd |
Floyd | "So, I think the real question is: What is the Object?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat, or what is present of her, follows by your side.
Floyd |
Floyd | Passenger Compartment
Floyd | The compartment is poorly lit: the shutters are closed and there's
Floyd | only a small lamp by the bed. The rows of seats on two sides of the
Floyd | compartment are empty, apart from a bed that has been laid between
Floyd | them at the middle. In the bed lies your Mother.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I will try to help you, if there's something you need help with. That
Floyd | is, after all, what I do in life", your wife says.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door to the corridor)
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor runs east-west between the vestibule and the passenger
Floyd | compartment. Mr Larvington's private compartment is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | Catherine says, in all her physical inconsistence: "I won't be here
Floyd | forever. Speak now."
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear a strange, quiet suffling sound approaching from the eastern
Floyd | vestibule.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ah."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "speak to catherine" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SPEAK TO CATHERINE
Floyd |
Floyd | Perhaps it would be better to ask about something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | A small space at the end of the train. The corridor leads east from
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your wife is increasingly translucent.
Floyd |
Floyd | Now you see what the sound was about: a continuous flow of people, all
Floyd | dressed in black, arrives from the outside and continues to slowly
Floyd | form a queue along the corridor. No one speaks a word -- there's only
Floyd | the hushed shuffle of their feet against the linoleum.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go in that direction. A corridor runs east from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | A dark figure after another joins the line: men, women, people of all
Floyd | ages, in shared silence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "join queue" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > JOIN QUEUE
Floyd |
Floyd | You go stand at the end of the line behind a young woman, cutting in
Floyd | front of a young man who has just stepped in from the door. The queue
Floyd | ahead of you moves slowly forward from the vestibule towards the
Floyd | corridor.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some of the people glance at you as they step in, most of them don't.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf4" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | > SAVEOk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Nice"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The young man behind you accidently steps on your heels.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor runs east-west between the vestibule and the passenger
Floyd | compartment. Mr Larvington's private compartment is to the south. The
Floyd | lamps on the wall shed a dim yellow light.
Floyd |
Floyd | The queue runs along the corridor to the passenger compartment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "I guess we walk east now."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the the passenger compartment door)
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Passenger Compartment
Floyd | The compartment is poorly lit: the shutters are closed and there's
Floyd | only a small lamp by the bed. The rows of seats on two sides of the
Floyd | compartment are empty, apart from a bed that has been laid between
Floyd | them at the middle. In the bed lies your Mother.
Floyd |
Floyd | The black ribbon winds towards the vestibule at the end of the
Floyd | compartment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "> wave at mommy"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat follows.
Floyd |
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | This is a small space at the east-end of the train car, with a gangway
Floyd | leading to the next carriage. The passanger compartment extends from
Floyd | here to the west. There's small placard of some sort on the gangway
Floyd | entrance. There's a door leading outside, but it's locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | The gangway to the east opens up, letting in one person, then closes
Floyd | again. You see a black velvet curtain behind the door, nothing else,
Floyd | as yet another dark traveller enters the corridor connection.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cat begins to fade altogether.
Floyd |
Floyd | "It's your turn, Alistair. You'd better go now..."
Floyd |
Floyd | Catherine has disappeared from sight, but her voice lingers on to say:
Floyd |
Floyd | "... you'll be late."
Floyd |
Floyd | The gangway opens in front of you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Hooray"
Zach says (to Floyd), "score" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SCORE
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no score in this story.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "Oh, my ears and whiskers, I shall be so very late."
		Zach asks, "I guess east again?"
		DavidW asks, "I was away from keyboard. Did we finish the school assignment or not?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Not yet."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]
Floyd | You are in almost complete darkness for those few seconds it takes you
Floyd | to cross the gangway: only the glimpse of the rails speeding by on
Floyd | both sides below you as you balance on the swaying bridge connecting
Floyd | the two train cars. The noice is overwhelming.

		genericgeekgirl says, "The noice."
		Zach says, "But we got into the party I think"
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | The black curtain opens up into brightness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Funeral Car
Floyd | The Funeral Director -- a tall, bulky man wearing a tophat and a suite
Floyd | he has outgrown many years ago -- stands at the door and bows to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Let's see some identification", he whispers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller exclaims, "I guess we *are* late, at that!"
Zach says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a sweater
Floyd |   a pen
Floyd |   the school assignment
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "show assignment to director" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHOW ASSIGNMENT TO DIRECTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You show your paper to the man. He studies it carefully, then
Floyd | whispers: "Alright, you can go in."
Floyd |
Floyd | The Funeral Director steps aside.
Floyd |
Floyd | Funeral Car
Floyd | The room is brighter than the ones earlier on: the shutters on the
Floyd | windows are open, letting in the light from the outside. The space is
Floyd | crowded with people dressed in black, and there are large black bows
Floyd | of silk ribbon tied to the windowpanes. At the centre of the car sits
Floyd | a huge mound of red poppies, blocking the view to the far end of the
Floyd | carriage. No sign of Liz, at least not in this part of the room,
Floyd | although you're sure this is where she must have run.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sombrely-attired people seem to be conversing with one another,
Floyd | but there is no sound. As you listen more carefully, you make out
Floyd | faint talking further back in the car, but you are not sure where it's
Floyd | coming from.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "I guess this is dream logic indent"
		Zach says, "*ident. Ah, OK."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | The faint voices say:
Floyd |
Floyd | "They told us you had been to her,
Floyd | And tried to squeal on him.
Floyd | She gave you your poor character,
Floyd | And made sure you could not swim."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x poppies" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X POPPIES
Floyd |
Floyd | Red poppies all of them.
Floyd |
Floyd | The choir of poppies say:
Floyd |
Floyd | "Don't let him know she liked him best,
Floyd | For this must ever be
Floyd | A secret, kept from all the rest,
Floyd | Between myself and thee."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Eek"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x people" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PEOPLE
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to examine: the Funeral Director, the funeral party
Floyd | or the flowers?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x funeral party" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X FUNERAL PARTY
Floyd |
Floyd | All silent and dressed in black.
Floyd |
Floyd | This is what the poppies say now:
Floyd |
Floyd | "Our notion was that you had been
Floyd | (Before she had this fit)
Floyd | An obstacle that came between
Floyd | Him, and her, and it."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "She? Him? Darn it stop trying to imitate Carroll and actually say something straight out, game."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | As a choir, the flowers say:
Floyd |
Floyd | "If I or you should chance to be
Floyd | Involved in this affair,
Floyd | She trusts to you to set her free,
Floyd | Exactly as we were."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x Funeral Director" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | A large man in a bowler and a suite.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "Keep on listenin', I guess."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "listen" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LISTEN
Floyd |
Floyd | The mourners converse without sound. There's only the silent clacking
Floyd | of the train in the background.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x flowers" 		mwmiller says, "Right then."

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X FLOWERS
Floyd |
Floyd | Red poppies all of them.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat flowers" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EAT FLOWERS
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking the flowers)
Floyd | "No, not us! Let us live!" the poppies scream.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says (to mwmiller), "I'm not sure what this game is trying to say"
		genericgeekgirl says, "'Don't stop and eat the flowers,' clearly."
		Zach says, "heh"
		Zach says, "I'm scared to take anything"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf5" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | > SAVEOk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take all" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | There are none at all available!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "take poppies" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE POPPIES
Floyd |
Floyd | "No, not us! Let us live!" the poppies scream.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take director" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE DIRECTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Adults don't like to be treated as babies.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cry" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CRY
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "listen to poppies" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LISTEN TO POPPIES
Floyd |
Floyd | The poppies say nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "hit director" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > HIT DIRECTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | That will get you nowhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | The way to the other end of the car is blocked by the mound of
Floyd | flowers, and the poppies even bend their stems as if trying to stand
Floyd | in your path.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cut poppies" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CUT POPPIES
Floyd |
Floyd | That will get you nowhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
mwmiller says (to Floyd), "examine liz" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EXAMINE LIZ
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search poppies" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH POPPIES
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hey, mister", says a poppy, "what's this? Grabbing us things
Floyd | like a piece o' flora! Don't hurt to say please..." The flowers are
Floyd | annoyed by your rudeness -- but what can they do? They try to bend
Floyd | their stems to the side to keep them from snapping under your heavy
Floyd | hand. As you rummage the mound you see something under them: a piece
Floyd | of red cloth, and, what's this, a hat, and a teacup, and, holding the
Floyd | saucer it's on, a hand. You sweep the last poppies to reveal all and
Floyd | find, looking straight at you, your Father.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Alistair, my boy! Marty's pretty pissed off with you being so late."
Floyd |
Floyd | Father takes a sip from his cup and continues: "He's been baking for
Floyd | hours."
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind the flowers is revealed a tea table with a couple of chairs.
Floyd | Father jumps up and moves over to the table. "Sit down, son, and have
Floyd | some tea. Marty will be down soon with the apple tarts."
Floyd |
Floyd | You say have no time: you have to find Liz.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Has the little wife you running errands for her again? You should
Floyd | know there's always Time, no matter what the women say -- Time to
Floyd | kill, if nothing else."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kill father" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > KILL FATHER
Floyd |
Floyd | That will get you nowhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | Father pulls a chair for you. "Sit, sit, live a little."
Floyd |
Floyd | Father picks up the teapot and pours you a cupper. "Now, where's your
Floyd | uncle? I'm in mood for an apple tart. And the pot's empty."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "I'm going to stop saying 'eek': just assume that's my reaction to the game"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x father" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X FATHER
Floyd |
Floyd | Wearing his tophat and a red vest, the man looks very much alive.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Very well, don't sit. You're your own man."
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Marty shows up, carrying a tray full of apple tarts, stepping
Floyd | carefully so not the drop them.
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly the train begins to shake -- people and teacups are tumbling
Floyd | over, with them Uncle Marty and his tarts. The train comes to a
Floyd | screeching halt. Your teacup, among other china, falls to the floor
Floyd | and breaks to pieces.
Floyd |
Floyd | Father jumps up. "This is it! Now we're really killing Time!"
Floyd |
Floyd | He knocks down the table and takes cover behind it, surprisingly
Floyd | managing not to wake up Cousin Dermot. Then he picks up a chair and
Floyd | throws it into the eastern vestibule, as to let someone know you are
Floyd | prepared to fight back.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Duck, Alistair, or you'll get your mind blown off!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "duck" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DUCK
Floyd |
Floyd | You squat behind the tea table.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see Leo dashing into the car from behind the enemy lines. That
Floyd | figures: when was the last time your brother willingly missed out on a
Floyd | fight? He finds himself a cup and saucer and runs to the window,
Floyd | squatting under it to stay undetected.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Marty is curled up in the corner, desperately hugging his apple
Floyd | tarts. "All the Kings horses..."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take cup" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE CUP
Floyd |
Floyd | The teacup has already been picked out for ammunition by Leo.
Floyd |
Floyd | Father scouts for tableware. "You take care of the ammunition", he
Floyd | says and grabs his teacup.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Ready!
Floyd | Aim!
Floyd | Fire!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Father throws the cup towards the vestibule, then grabs the teapot.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Ready!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Funeral Car (behind the table)
Floyd |
Floyd | Everyone has taken cover: your Father squats behind the tea table
Floyd | almost squashing Cousin Dermot, who's still sound asleep. Uncle Marty
Floyd | is curled up at the other side of the room, hugging his apple tarts
Floyd | and mumbling to himself. The funeral party is trying to hide by lying
Floyd | as flat as possible. Leo is the only one doesn't bother shielding
Floyd | himself: he leans against the wall by the window and grins.
Floyd |
Floyd | Most of the tableware is smashed to shards. On the floor is the tea
Floyd | tray.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Aim!" Father shouts, and he lifts up his teapot and Leo a saucer.
Floyd | "Fire!" Your family in arms throw the ammunition towards the enemy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take tray" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE TRAY
Floyd |
Floyd | You take the tea tray.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Reload!" yells Father and grabs the saucer from you. "All men to
Floyd | arms. You too, Alistair."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Ready!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "I guess we're going to throw the tea tray?"
		mwmiller asks, "A tea-tray in the sky. Sure, why not?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "aim teatray" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > AIM TEATRAY
Floyd |
Floyd | You lift up the tea tray.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Aim!" Father shouts, and he lifts up his saucer and Leo a teacup.
Floyd | "Fire!" Your family in arms throw the ammunition towards the enemy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "fire teatray" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FIRE TEATRAY
Floyd |
Floyd | You throw the tea tray into the vestibule.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Reload!" yells Father and extends his hand in waiting for more
Floyd | ammunition. "Keep them coming, Alistair."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, good."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Funeral Car (behind the table)
Floyd |
Floyd | Everyone has taken cover: your Father squats behind the tea table
Floyd | almost squashing Cousin Dermot, who's still sound asleep. Uncle Marty
Floyd | is curled up at the other side of the room, hugging his apple tarts
Floyd | and mumbling to himself. The funeral party is trying to hide by lying
Floyd | as flat as possible. Leo is the only one doesn't bother shielding
Floyd | himself: he leans against the wall by the window and grins.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Come on, son", Father says, peering for the enemy as he hold out his
Floyd | hand toward you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x dermot" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DERMOT
Floyd |
Floyd | Your cousin is curled up behind the table, still fast asleep,
Floyd | squeezing his teacup close to his chest.
Floyd |
Floyd | Father is getting aggravated: "There's no time for your gimmicks,
Floyd | Alistair -- reload, now!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take teacup" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE TEACUP
Floyd |
Floyd | Dermot has a near death grip on the teacup, but you manage to pry it
Floyd | out of his hands without waking him up.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see your Father is starting to look nervous, squatting there, able
Floyd | to do nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Yay"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "aim teacup" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > AIM TEACUP
Floyd |
Floyd | You lift up Dermot's cup.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your Father protests your selfishness: "Come on, son, keep them
Floyd | coming! I need some ammunition here!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Leo shouts at you: "Get a move on, Alice! We haven't got all
Floyd | day. Dad needs ammunition, so get it for him."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give teacup to dad" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GIVE TEACUP TO DAD
Floyd |
Floyd | "Now we're talking!" Father gets excited and grabs Dermot's cup.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Ready!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look under table" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK UNDER TABLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Aim! Fire!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x flowers" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X FLOWERS
Floyd |
Floyd | Red poppies all of them.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Reload!" yells Father and extends his hand in waiting for more
Floyd | ammunition. "Keep them coming, Alistair."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search flowers" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH FLOWERS
Floyd |
Floyd | Midst the poppies lies a lonely saucer -- left there by your Father as
Floyd | he awakened.
Floyd |
Floyd | Father still waits for a reload.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take saucer" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE SAUCER
Floyd |
Floyd | You take Father's saucer.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your Father still needs ammunition.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give saucer to father" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GIVE SAUCER TO FATHER
Floyd |
Floyd | "Now we're talking!" Father gets excited and grabs the saucer.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Ready!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Kind of weird."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Funeral Car (behind the table)
Floyd |
Floyd | Everyone has taken cover: your Father squats behind the tea table
Floyd | almost squashing Cousin Dermot, who's still sound asleep. Uncle Marty
Floyd | is curled up at the other side of the room, hugging his apple tarts
Floyd | and mumbling to himself. The funeral party is trying to hide by lying
Floyd | as flat as possible. Leo is the only one doesn't bother shielding
Floyd | himself: he leans against the wall by the window and grins.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Aim! Fire!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "> throw dermot"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take tarts" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE TARTS
Floyd |
Floyd | Your uncle scrapes the remaining tarts from the floor in his lap so
Floyd | swiftly, you fail to grab even one of them.
Floyd |
Floyd | "... stole those tarts, and took them quite away", Marty mumbles and
Floyd | hugs the tartlets.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Reload!" yells Father and extends his hand in waiting for more
Floyd | ammunition. "Keep them coming, Alistair."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a sweater
Floyd |   a pen
Floyd |   the paper
Floyd |
Floyd | Your Father still needs ammunition.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Funeral Director who is grouched on the floor nearby notices
Floyd | you've run out of ammunition. He reaches for his pocket and pulls out
Floyd | an Egg.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Use this, sir."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take egg" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE EGG
Floyd |
Floyd | The man gently passes the Egg to you. "It will break", he whispers and
Floyd | slides back under the chair.
Floyd |
Floyd | Father, looking more nervous than before, turns to you and your
Floyd | brother and says: "Listen, men. The enemy is closing in on us
Floyd | and we are out of ammunition. You have a choice to make", and
Floyd | he looks straight at you when he says this, "kill or be killed." He
Floyd | turns his demanding eyes to the Egg.
Floyd |
Floyd | ... but it's so fragile, you almost say.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf6" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | > SAVEOk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give egg to dad" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GIVE EGG TO DAD
Floyd |
Floyd | "No, son, this is a task for you", says your Father.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "aim egg" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > AIM EGG
Floyd |
Floyd | You lift up the Egg.
Floyd |
Floyd | "This is war", says your Father "and in war there is no room for
Floyd | fragility. Now, finish them off so that all the King's horses and all
Floyd | the King's men can't put them together again."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "fire egg" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FIRE EGG
Floyd |
Floyd | You take a last look at the fragile little thing in the palm of your
Floyd | hand, then throw it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Everything goes quiet. Cousin Dermot almost wakes up but doesn't get
Floyd | his eyes open, so he goes back to sleep.
Floyd |
Floyd | Uncle Marty is curled up by the wall, mumbling to himself: "All the
Floyd | kings horses and all the kings men couldn't..."
Floyd |
Floyd | Leo is leaning onto the wall by the window and laughing as the smashed
Floyd | Egg drips down from above the vestibule entrance. Leo catches a drip
Floyd | with his finger and licks it. "Yummy."
Floyd |
Floyd | So fragile...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x egg" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X EGG
Floyd |
Floyd | You see it's Liz.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "....."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take liz" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE LIZ
Floyd |
Floyd | You step out from behind the tea table.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your brother squeezes the dripping remains of the Egg in his fist and
Floyd | holds his hand so high up you can't reach it. "You want this? Well,
Floyd | come and get it."
Floyd |
Floyd | Leo takes off to the eastern vestibule.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "I am very disturbed."
		Zach says, "Indeed"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | This is a small dark space at the east-end of the funeral car, with a
Floyd | door leading outside and another through the gangway to the next
Floyd | carriage.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your brother pushes through the gangway into the next car.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Luggage Van
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the gangway door)
Floyd |
Floyd | Luggage Van
Floyd | The unheated carriage feels damp. The south wall consists of a pair of
Floyd | sliding doors for loading the van.
Floyd |
Floyd | Leonard runs ahead of you, jokingly grouching behind boxes and crates.
Floyd | "Catch me if you can!"
Floyd |
Floyd | The Egg drips from between his fingers, stains the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take egg" 		

Floyd ]  Luggage Van
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE EGG
Floyd |
Floyd | Leo looks at the Egg, then you, and says: "You want your precious
Floyd | little baby?"
Floyd |
Floyd | He shakes the dripping Egg in his hand.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'll play you for it."
Floyd |
Floyd | Leo searches his pocket and pulls out something, quickly hiding it
Floyd | behind his back so you cannot see what it is. Then he extends his arm
Floyd | in front of him, fist closed, and counts:
Floyd |
Floyd | "One -- two -- three!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "I'm starting to think we should've hit the 'piglet' less and jerkwad Leo more."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf7" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Luggage Van
Floyd | > SAVEOk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says (to mwmiller), "I did the first time through"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Well, we have scissors and paper.."
		mwmiller asks, "Just once, though?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Paper seems to be the ticket. Heh, pun not actually intended."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "show paper to leo" 		

Floyd ]  Luggage Van
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHOW PAPER TO LEO
Floyd |
Floyd | You choose paper -- not like you had any other choice.
Floyd |
Floyd | Leo grins, victorious: his choice was scissors. "Scissors cut paper!"
Floyd | He holds down your hand, makes cut in the paper just to show you who
Floyd | won, and Leo turns his eyes to the smashed Egg in his hand, tilts his
Floyd | head theatrically and says: "Looks like Alice's little cuddly toy
Floyd | stays with me... Oh, Mr Guard, sir!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Leo stashes the Egg behind his back, giving you a discrete wink.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Mr Guard, as I, sir, would never consider such a vile deed as
Floyd | smuggling luggage out of the luggage van, you might nonetheless wish
Floyd | to keep an eye on my brother, there -- he is young and prone to
Floyd | mischief."
Floyd |
Floyd | The Guard looks at you, his whiskers trembling. "Let's see it then,
Floyd | good sir, your luggage. No taking it out."
Floyd |
Floyd | He steps closer, and Leo slips out the door, unnoticed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Once, yeah"
mwmiller says (to Floyd), "examine paper" 		

Floyd ]  Luggage Van
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EXAMINE PAPER
Floyd |
Floyd | A white paper, on it the text:
Floyd |
Floyd | dream
Floyd | life
Floyd | live
Floyd | we
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Neat. The link for Ghosterington Night has been fixed."
		genericgeekgirl says, "But we should wait until after Jan 5 or so."
		genericgeekgirl says, "So he can watch."
		Zach asks, "Cool. You e-mailed the author?"
		Zach says, "Ah, that's fine."
		genericgeekgirl says, "So maybe the 9th."
		Zach asks, "Is that going to work his time?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah. It's in the afternoon."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Luggage Van
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Luggage Van
Floyd | The van is loaded with boxes and crates, all pushed to one side to
Floyd | leave free space by the doors to the south. The unheated carriage
Floyd | feels damp.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Very good. Carry on."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "South?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x boxes" 		

Floyd ]  Luggage Van
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BOXES
Floyd |
Floyd | The smell of raw wood from the unsanded planks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x crates" 		

Floyd ]  Luggage Van
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CRATES
Floyd |
Floyd | The smell of raw wood from the unsanded planks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "x planks" 		

Floyd ]  Luggage Van
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PLANKS
Floyd |
Floyd | The smell of raw wood from the unsanded planks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "smell" 		

Floyd ]  Luggage Van
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SMELL
Floyd |
Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Sure"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Luggage Van
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | The Guard, once again, materializes from the sewers. "Tut tut, Mr
Floyd | Liddell", he says and points at the plaque on the door: "Leave Your
Floyd | Baggage".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x plaque" 		

Floyd ]  Luggage Van
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PLAQUE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf8" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Luggage Van
Floyd | > SAVEOk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "drop all" 		

Floyd ]  Luggage Van
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DROP ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | sweater: Dropped.
Floyd | pen: Dropped.
Floyd | paper: Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Our *emotional* baggage I'm guessing"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Aw. Isn't that what the assignment is?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Unfinished Tunnel
Floyd | This part of the sewer system is still under construction. Where
Floyd | you're standing, the walls are still bare, only the temporary
Floyd | reinforcement beams are in place. An earthy smell is in the cold air:
Floyd | you see the ground here is not of solid stone but of soil and rubble,
Floyd | with broken roots of trees sticking out from the walls above you. The
Floyd | construction lights reveal the tunnel extends far back west and into
Floyd | darkness ahead in the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The train stands here, hissing calmly. The locomotive is the east and
Floyd | the carriages are lined up west from there. Right here is the
Floyd | connection between the tender and the luggage van. The doors to the
Floyd | luggage van are open.
Floyd |
Floyd | Further back into the west you see the wall has partly collapsed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, ""We Live a Dream Life"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Clearly we are Yoda."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Dream life live we."
		Zach says, "Dream Life Live We, Egg Baby"
Zach says (to Floyd), "x wall" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WALL
Floyd |
Floyd | The walls here are bare soil, only the temporary reinforcement beams
Floyd | are in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "goo goo g'joob"
		Zach says, "heh"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x beams" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BEAMS
Floyd |
Floyd | Wooden beams on the east end of the stretch, steel covering in the
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach asks, "Maybe we can enter the luggage van and get our stuff?"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Without exploring?"
		Zach says, "Hmm, both"
		Zach asks, "East?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Unfinished Tunnel
Floyd | You stand next to the locomotive. There are steps leading up to the
Floyd | cabin.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's someone moving inside the cabin. You think it might be Liz.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | It's Mr Larvington at the cabin door. "U-hum, Mr Liddell, have you the
Floyd | words? Let's see your court documents, then."
Floyd |
Floyd | Court documents?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh no."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "West?"
		Zach says, "Yeah"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Unfinished Tunnel
Floyd | The locomotive is to the east and the carriages are lined up west from
Floyd | there. Right here is the connection between the tender and the luggage
Floyd | van. The doors the luggage van are open. The walls of the tunnel are
Floyd | bare at this end. Stringlights run along the tunnel and you see
Floyd | there's a floodlight on the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x floodlight" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X FLOODLIGHT
Floyd |
Floyd | Stringlights run on the walls. There are floodlights placed here and
Floyd | there along the tunnel to provide extra illumination.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Unfinished Tunnel
Floyd | Part of the wall has collapsed down, right at the edge of steel
Floyd | reinforcement rings that extend to here from the west. As you look up,
Floyd | you see it's not only tree roots sticking out of the soft wall, but
Floyd | old, decomposed wooden planks. Suddenly you realise where the sewer
Floyd | line is being dug: under the town's old graveyard. The dirt and rubble
Floyd | from the wall form a big pile by the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | The train extends eastward, you are by the passenger car at the west
Floyd | end.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach says (to Floyd), "enter" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER
Floyd |
Floyd | You must supply a noun.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "They moved the headstones, but not the graves! D:"
Zach says (to Floyd), "enter van" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER VAN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search rubble" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SEARCH RUBBLE
Floyd |
Floyd | Among the rubble you notice two large stone plates: a headstone split
Floyd | in half. Also a smaller piece has broken off the other half.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x headstone" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X HEADSTONE
Floyd |
Floyd | The black headstone is split in half. There's some carving on the
Floyd | stone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x piece" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PIECE
Floyd |
Floyd | The rock is flat and of a triangular shape. The surface is smooth.
Floyd |
Floyd | For a second, there, you think your feet hit the riverbed.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would just about fit in your fist, the rock. There's a carving: "ice
Floyd | dream".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x carving" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CARVING
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to examine: the carving on the headstone or the
Floyd | carving on the rock?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "headstone" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel
Floyd | >
Floyd | > HEADSTONE
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the headstone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "So, the rock from the rock, paper, scissors game?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x carving on headstone" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CARVING ON HEADSTONE
Floyd |
Floyd | The carving on one half of the headstone says "h! such a n" and on the
Floyd | other "You woke me out of o".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hm."
		Zach says, "Ah, yes"
		mwmiller says, "'You woke me out of oh! such a nice dream'."
		Zach says, "So many layers"
		mwmiller says, "Like an onion. Or an ogre."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x cat" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CAT
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take headstone" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE HEADSTONE
Floyd |
Floyd | It is far too heavy for you to lift.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take rock" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE ROCK
Floyd |
Floyd | You take the rock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		mwmiller says, "Now wind a piece of string around it."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Heh"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Unfinished Tunnel
Floyd | The wall reinforcement ends here where part of the wall has collapsed.
Floyd | There's a large pile of rubble on the ground, almost blocking your
Floyd | way.
Floyd |
Floyd | The train extends eastward, you are by the passenger car at the west
Floyd | end.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (The tail of train)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | (actually curving northwest to the back of the train)
Floyd | Unfinished Tunnel (The tail of train)
Floyd | The train extends east from here. The walls of the tunnel are covered
Floyd | in steel reinforcement, leading back west. It's impossible to see the
Floyd | end of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Back into luggage van?"
		Zach says, "Sure"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (The tail of train)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no door on this side of the train.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Firion goes home. 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (The tail of train)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | There's nothing in that direction but the endless tunnel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (The tail of train)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no door on this side of the train.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (The tail of train)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OUT
Floyd |
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Didn't it say "the train extends east from here"?"
		mwmiller says, "Probably means the train *runs* eastward, not that it's to the east of you."
mwmiller says (to Floyd), "enter train" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (The tail of train)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > ENTER TRAIN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go in that direction. You can move to the south side of the
Floyd | train by going southeast or to the north side by going northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Bleh."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ne" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (North of train)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Unfinished Tunnel (North of train)
Floyd | You are by the passenger car. The train extends eastward.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Or se?"
		mwmiller says, "Blimey keep going east, maybe there's something on this side."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (North of train)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Unfinished Tunnel (North of train)
Floyd | You stand next to the tender. The locomotive is to the east and rest
Floyd | of the train to the west. Metal steps lead up to the roof of the
Floyd | tender.
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice the scissors on the ground. Leo must have dropped them
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take scissors" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (North of train)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE SCISSORS
Floyd |
Floyd | You take the scissors.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "So, if we'd taken the scissors earlier--which we clearly weren't meant to, I think, oops--I wonder how that would have played out."
		Zach says, "Hmm"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Two scissors!"
		mwmiller exclaims, "Got rock and scissors, paper must be nearer!"
		Zach asks, "Alice Scissor Hands?"
mwmiller says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (North of train)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Unfinished Tunnel (North of train)
Floyd | You are on the north side of the locomotive. The tender and the
Floyd | carriages are to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "There was an up."
mwmiller says (to Floyd), "w. up" 		

Floyd ]  Roof above the Tender
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W. UP
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Unfinished Tunnel (North of train)
Floyd | You stand next to the tender. The locomotive is to the east and rest
Floyd | of the train to the west. Metal steps lead up to the roof of the
Floyd | tender.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roof above the Tender
Floyd | The tender is right behind the locomotive. The carriages extend west
Floyd | from here. Steps lead down to the north side of the train.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "It'd be weird if there were items from the extended versions of RPS games."
		Zach asks, "Dynamite?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "> take spock"
		DavidW | You see a Spock, a lizard, and a dynamite here.
		genericgeekgirl | Keep your hands to yourself.
		Zach says, "heehee"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  On top of the Locomotive
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You leap onto the roof of the next car.
Floyd |
Floyd | On top of the Locomotive
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "That's it? No description?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  On top of the Locomotive
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | On top of the Locomotive
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach asks, "I haven't played with Spock before. What does he defeat?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  On top of the Locomotive
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go in that direction. The train extends west from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh, we DO get to go on top."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Roof above the Tender
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You jump onto the roof of the next car.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roof above the Tender
Floyd | The tender is right behind the locomotive. The carriages extend west
Floyd | from here. Steps lead down to the north side of the train.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Yup!"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Roof above the Luggage Van
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You leap onto the roof of the next car.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roof above the Luggage Van
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Roof above the Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You leap onto the roof of the next car.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roof above the Funeral Car
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Roof above the Passenger Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You jump onto the roof of the next car.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roof above the Passenger Car
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Roof above the Passenger Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go in that direction. The train extends east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "So anti-climatic."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Roof above the Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You leap onto the roof of the next car.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roof above the Funeral Car
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Roof above the Luggage Van
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You leap onto the roof of the next car.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roof above the Luggage Van
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Roof above the Tender
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You leap onto the roof of the next car.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roof above the Tender
Floyd | The tender is right behind the locomotive. The carriages extend west
Floyd | from here. Steps lead down to the north side of the train.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "down" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (North of train)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Unfinished Tunnel (North of train)
Floyd | You stand next to the tender. The locomotive is to the east and rest
Floyd | of the train to the west. Metal steps lead up to the roof of the
Floyd | tender.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "can you go east of above the Tender?"
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Around the rest of the train to the luggage van entrance?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yes, we went to the locomotive."
		genericgeekgirl says, "And from there nothing."
		DavidW says, "hm"
		DavidW says, "perhaps the stuff was invisible, like Leo."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Heh"
		DavidW says, "I suppose if the topside is important, it'll become more obvious."
		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, I hope so."
		genericgeekgirl says, "I assume it was included for a reason."
		DavidW asks, "Maybe to throw momma from the train?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (North of train)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Unfinished Tunnel (North of train)
Floyd | You are on the north side of the locomotive. The tender and the
Floyd | carriages are to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (in front of the locomotive)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (actually curving southeast in front of the train)
Floyd | Unfinished Tunnel (in front of the locomotive)
Floyd | The tunnel extends into darkness ahead.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (in front of the locomotive)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | The tunnel leads only into the unknown darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Aw."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (North of train)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Unfinished Tunnel (North of train)
Floyd | You are on the north side of the locomotive. The tender and the
Floyd | carriages are to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (in front of the locomotive)
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (South of Train)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Unfinished Tunnel (South of Train)
Floyd | You stand next to the locomotive. There are steps leading up to the
Floyd | cabin.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (South of Train)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Unfinished Tunnel (South of Train)
Floyd | The locomotive is to the east and the carriages are lined up west from
Floyd | there. Right here is the connection between the tender and the luggage
Floyd | van. The doors the luggage van are open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Luggage Van
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Luggage Van
Floyd | The van is loaded with boxes and crates, all pushed to one side to
Floyd | leave free space by the doors to the south. The unheated carriage
Floyd | feels damp.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see the paper, a pen and a sweater here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take paper and pen and sweater" 		

Floyd ]  Luggage Van
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE PAPER AND PEN AND SWEATER
Floyd |
Floyd | paper: You take the paper.
Floyd | pen: You take the pen.
Floyd | sweater: You take the sweater.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf9" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Luggage Van
Floyd | > SAVEOk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Luggage Van
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Luggage Van
Floyd | The van is loaded with boxes and crates, all pushed to one side to
Floyd | leave free space by the doors to the south. The unheated carriage
Floyd | feels damp.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Luggage Van
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go in that direction. A gangway to the west leads to another
Floyd | carriage. The southern wall consists of a pair of sliding doors.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | This is a small dark space at the east-end of the funeral car, with a
Floyd | gangway leading to the next carriage.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | This is a small dark space at the east-end of the funeral car, with a
Floyd | gangway leading to the next carriage.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Funeral Car
Floyd | The car is completely cleared from people: only the poppies slowly
Floyd | sway in the silence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "The classroom and private compartments had skylights."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x gangway" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X GANGWAY
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice nothing interesting about the gangway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Funeral Car
Floyd | The car is completely cleared from people: only the poppies slowly
Floyd | sway in the silence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Vestibule
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the gangway door)
Floyd |
Floyd | Vestibule
Floyd | This is a small space at the east-end of the train car, with a gangway
Floyd | leading to the next carriage. The passanger compartment extends from
Floyd | here to the west. There's small placard of some sort on the gangway
Floyd | entrance. There's a door leading outside, but it's locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Passenger Compartment
Floyd | The compartment is poorly lit: the shutters are closed and there's
Floyd | only a small lamp by the bed. The bed is empty: your Mother is no
Floyd | longer here. There's that slight sinking feeling.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Do you think your mother is going live forever? She
Floyd | doesn't have long, you know that. Ever since your father died, you've
Floyd | seen how she's been waiting to follow him."
Floyd |
Floyd | The bed is made neatly, the red blanket is stretched smoothly across
Floyd | the mattress.
Floyd |
Floyd | The knitting basket lies next to the bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Aw."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x blanket" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BLANKET
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x basket" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BASKET
Floyd |
Floyd | In the knitting basket are a ball of yarn and some needles.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x yarn" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X YARN
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice nothing interesting about the ball of yarn.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x needles" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X NEEDLES
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice nothing interesting about the needles.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sit on bed" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SIT ON BED
Floyd |
Floyd | You get onto the bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x skylight" 		

Floyd ]  Passenger Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SKYLIGHT
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Corridor
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | (first getting off the bed)
Floyd | (first opening the door to the corridor)
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor runs east-west between the vestibule and the passenger
Floyd | compartment. Mr Larvington's private compartment is to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door to a private compartment)
Floyd |
Floyd | Private Compartment
Floyd | The blackened skylight casts only a faint light over the desk in the
Floyd | middle of the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | The compartment is empty, only the smoke of Mr Larvington's hookah
Floyd | still lingers on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x skylight" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SKYLIGHT
Floyd |
Floyd | A round window in the compartment ceiling, too blackened with coal
Floyd | dust to see through.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x desk" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DESK
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice nothing interesting about the desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "stand on desk" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > STAND ON DESK
Floyd |
Floyd | You get onto the desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open skylight" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN SKYLIGHT
Floyd |
Floyd | It won't open, no matter how hard you push or pull.
Floyd | Pretty soon you notice why this is: there are no hinges, the skylight
Floyd | is not meant to be opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Break it?"
		mwmiller says, "Why not? The worst that could happen is that shards of glass fall down and put us out of our misery."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf10" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | > SAVEOk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "break skylight" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > BREAK SKYLIGHT
Floyd |
Floyd | You try to break the window, but to no effect. It is stronger than
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "break skylight with rock" 		

Floyd ]  Private Compartment
Floyd | >
Floyd | > BREAK SKYLIGHT WITH ROCK
Floyd |
Floyd | You hammer the glass and eventually it gives in. The shards hit your
Floyd | face, but you manage not to get cut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Roof above the Passenger Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Roof above the Passenger Car
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Roof above the Funeral Car
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You leap onto the roof of the next car.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roof above the Funeral Car
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Roof above the Luggage Van
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You jump onto the roof of the next car.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roof above the Luggage Van
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Roof above the Tender
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You jump onto the roof of the next car.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roof above the Tender
Floyd | The tender is right behind the locomotive. The carriages extend west
Floyd | from here. Steps lead down to the north side of the train.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "down" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (North of train)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Unfinished Tunnel (North of train)
Floyd | You stand next to the tender. The locomotive is to the east and rest
Floyd | of the train to the west. Metal steps lead up to the roof of the
Floyd | tender.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (North of train)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Unfinished Tunnel (North of train)
Floyd | You are on the north side of the locomotive. The tender and the
Floyd | carriages are to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (in front of the locomotive)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | (actually curving southeast in front of the train)
Floyd | Unfinished Tunnel (in front of the locomotive)
Floyd | The tunnel extends into darkness ahead.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (in front of the locomotive)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go in that direction. You can move to the south side of the
Floyd | train by going southwest or to the north side by going northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sw" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (South of Train)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Unfinished Tunnel (South of Train)
Floyd | You stand next to the locomotive. There are steps leading up to the
Floyd | cabin.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (South of Train)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | Mr Larvington taps his pipe. "No access without the court documents."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "show papers to larvington" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (South of Train)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHOW PAPERS TO LARVINGTON
Floyd |
Floyd | "U-hum, yes, yes..." Mr Larvington mutters, "you may approach the
Floyd | court, Mr Liddell."
Floyd |
Floyd | He gestures you to follow him up into the locomotive cab.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (South of Train)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a sweater
Floyd |   a pen
Floyd |   the court documents
Floyd |   the scissors
Floyd |   a rock
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x documents" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (South of Train)
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DOCUMENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | A white paper, on it the text:
Floyd |
Floyd | dream
Floyd | life
Floyd | live
Floyd | we
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Shall we?"
		Zach says, "Sorry, left for a minute. Sure."
		mwmiller says, "Ehhhhh save first."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf11" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (South of Train)
Floyd | > SAVEOk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Locomotive Cab
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Locomotive Cab
Floyd | As the Teacher gives you room to step in, you see a tiny figure by the
Floyd | firebox: it's Liz. Her dress has turned from white to black of coal
Floyd | dust and her hair is sweaty and tangled. She goes between the coal
Floyd | bunker and the firebox, shoveling coal into the furnace. "She's almost
Floyd | done", says Mr Larvington.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mr Larvington pulls the door shut. "Now we leave." He nods to Liz and
Floyd | pulls a lever. The girl shovels coal even more vigorously and the
Floyd | train begins to move.
Floyd |
Floyd | "The time has come", the Teacher says, "to talk of many sins:
Floyd | of wives and mums and unloved sons
Floyd | (of where it all begins),
Floyd | and why it's really all your fault,
Floyd | and whether no-one wins."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | It is time for you to sentence yourself, Mr Liddell. Let's see your
Floyd | words."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shower paper to larvington" 		

Floyd ]  Locomotive Cab
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHOWER PAPER TO LARVINGTON
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "show paper to larvington" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SHOW PAPER TO LARVINGTON
Floyd |
Floyd | Mr Larvington carefully studies the documents.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mr Larvington takes a look. "U-hum, yes. You have collected the words.
Floyd | Now, you sentence."
Floyd |
Floyd | Press SPACE for your sentencing.

		genericgeekgirl groans.
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Locomotive Cab
Floyd |
Floyd | He hands you the document back.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You look at the paper:
Floyd |
Floyd | dream  life  live  we
Floyd |
Floyd | There's only room for a three-word sentence, and only if you scribble
Floyd | very neatly.
Floyd |
Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >

		mwmiller asks, "'we live life'?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Or we live dream."
		mwmiller says, "Or 'we dream life'."
		Zach says, "dream life we live"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Live Dream Life!"
		Zach says, "At this time we need it necessary to live a life mostly made of dreams"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf12" 		

Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:
Floyd ]  Locomotive Cab
Floyd | > SAVEOk.
Floyd |
Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >

		Zach says, "s/need/feel"
		DavidW says, "yeah, that's been difficult"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "we dream life" 		

Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >
Floyd | > WE DREAM LIFE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The sentence you have chosen:
Floyd |
Floyd | WE DREAM LIFE
Floyd |
Floyd | If you stand on your conviction, answer "YES" now to sentence
Floyd | yourself. If you wish to revise your sentence, answer "NO" to rewrite
Floyd | it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh man, we have options. we'll have to come back"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "no" 		

Floyd ]  Locomotive Cab
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Although that's not what I meant to type."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "we live dream" 		

Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >
Floyd | > WE LIVE DREAM
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The sentence you have chosen:
Floyd |
Floyd | WE LIVE DREAM
Floyd |
Floyd | If you stand on your conviction, answer "YES" now to sentence
Floyd | yourself. If you wish to revise your sentence, answer "NO" to rewrite
Floyd | it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Clearly it's late."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "You hereby sentence yourself to..." says Mr Larvington, and is no
Floyd | longer here.
Floyd |
Floyd | All is very bright.

		
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The water is black. For a moment you think your feet hit the riverbed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The light is above you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Drifting down the stream
Floyd | Drifting down the stream
Floyd | This black ribbon divides the town in half. On the southern shore, the
Floyd | suburbs, to the north, the hills.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are in a small white row boat. It's drifting slowly with the
Floyd | current towards the sea somewhere in the western distance. And in
Floyd | there beside you: Liz.
Floyd |
Floyd | You have one more choice to make:
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you swim to shore or stay in the boat with Liz?
Floyd |
Floyd | Choose SWIM or STAY.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh my"
		Zach says, "STAY!"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "stay" 		

Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You wrap your arms around your little girl.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to drift on.

		
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In a Wonderland they lie,
Floyd | Dreaming as the days go by,
Floyd | Dreaming as the summers die.

		
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd | Dreaming as the summers die.Ever drifting down the stream
Floyd | --
Floyd | Lingering in the golden gleam --
Floyd | Life, what is it but a dream?

		
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Ever drifting down the stream
Floyd | Life, what is it but a dream?The lights of the ambulance
Floyd | flash on the shore -- Catherine stands there, peering at the river.
Floyd | Someone brings her a shawl: the air is turning chilly. The boat drifts
Floyd | forward.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The game ends here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The choice presented to you in the boat depends on the sentence you
Floyd | wrote. If you wish, you can go back and rewrite the sentence. You can
Floyd | also undo only your final choice.
Floyd |
Floyd | Please choose from the following commands:
Floyd |
Floyd | SENTENCE yourself again
Floyd | UNDO your final choice
Floyd | TIPS for different solutions
Floyd | RESTART this game from the beginning
Floyd | RESTORE a previously saved game
Floyd | QUIT the game
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  Ever drifting down the stream
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no turning back now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "swim" 		

Floyd ]  Ever drifting down the stream
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SWIM
Floyd |
Floyd | You cannot swim on dry land.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Wah"
		genericgeekgirl says, "You just said I could undo the final choice. Jerk."
		DavidW says, "it lied"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sentence" 		

Floyd ]  Locomotive Cab
Floyd | Locomotive Cab
Floyd | A cramped, black space that holds the controls and the firebox. The
Floyd | train speeds ahead.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You look at the paper:
Floyd |
Floyd | dream  life  live  we
Floyd |
Floyd | There's only room for a three-word sentence, and only if you scribble
Floyd | very neatly.
Floyd |
Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "we live dream" 		

Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >
Floyd | > WE LIVE DREAM
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The sentence you have chosen:
Floyd |
Floyd | WE LIVE DREAM
Floyd |
Floyd | If you stand on your conviction, answer "YES" now to sentence
Floyd | yourself. If you wish to revise your sentence, answer "NO" to rewrite
Floyd | it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "You hereby sentence yourself to..." says Mr Larvington, and is no
Floyd | longer here.
Floyd |
Floyd | All is very bright.

		
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The water is black. For a moment you think your feet hit the riverbed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The light is above you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]
Floyd | >
Floyd | >
Floyd |
Floyd | I beg your pardon?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Drifting down the stream
Floyd | Drifting down the stream
Floyd | This black ribbon divides the town in half. On the southern shore, the
Floyd | suburbs, to the north, the hills.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are in a small white row boat. It's drifting slowly with the
Floyd | current towards the sea somewhere in the western distance. And in
Floyd | there beside you: Liz.
Floyd |
Floyd | You have one more choice to make:
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you swim to shore or stay in the boat with Liz?
Floyd |
Floyd | Choose SWIM or STAY.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "swim" 		

Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You drop down to the water. Liz watches you swim away -- you don't
Floyd | have the heart to look back.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to swim to shore.

		
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Floyd | as she's moving under skies
Floyd | Never seen by waking eyes.

		
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd | Never seen by waking eyes.Ever drifting down the stream
Floyd | --
Floyd | Lingering in the golden gleam --
Floyd | Life, what is it but a dream?

		
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | Life, what is it but a dream?
Floyd |
Floyd | River Walk
Floyd | "She's not breathing. Again: One -- two -- three -- "
Floyd |
Floyd | As you come to, you see Liz lying next to you on the pavement. On the
Floyd | background stands Catherine and watches her daughter being
Floyd | resuscitated. She looks at you for a while in terror and wraps her
Floyd | arms around you. Liz doesn't wake up. From the corner of your eye you
Floyd | see a glimpse of a white boat disappearing into the western distance.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The game ends here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The choice presented to you in the boat depends on the sentence you
Floyd | wrote. If you wish, you can go back and rewrite the sentence. You can
Floyd | also undo only your final choice.
Floyd |
Floyd | Please choose from the following commands:
Floyd |
Floyd | SENTENCE yourself again
Floyd | UNDO your final choice
Floyd | TIPS for different solutions
Floyd | RESTART this game from the beginning
Floyd | RESTORE a previously saved game
Floyd | QUIT the game
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Eek."
		genericgeekgirl asks, "Other sentences?"
		Zach says, "That's what I said"
		genericgeekgirl says, "We dream eek."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sentence" 		

Floyd ]  Locomotive Cab
Floyd | Locomotive Cab
Floyd | A cramped, black space that holds the controls and the firebox. The
Floyd | train speeds ahead.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You look at the paper:
Floyd |
Floyd | dream  life  live  we
Floyd |
Floyd | There's only room for a three-word sentence, and only if you scribble
Floyd | very neatly.
Floyd |
Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "we live life" 		

Floyd ]  Locomotive Cab
Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >
Floyd | > WE LIVE LIFE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | WE LIVE LIFE is not an acceptable sentence. Please try again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your list of significant words is:
Floyd | dream  life  live  we
Floyd |
Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >

		Zach asks, "dream life we live?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "We get three words"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "we live dream" 		

Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >
Floyd | > WE LIVE DREAM
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The sentence you have chosen:
Floyd |
Floyd | WE LIVE DREAM
Floyd |
Floyd | If you stand on your conviction, answer "YES" now to sentence
Floyd | yourself. If you wish to revise your sentence, answer "NO" to rewrite
Floyd | it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Hmm"
		genericgeekgirl says, "undo"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "no" 		

Floyd ]  Locomotive Cab
Floyd | >
Floyd | > NO
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "we dream life" 		

Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >
Floyd | > WE DREAM LIFE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The sentence you have chosen:
Floyd |
Floyd | WE DREAM LIFE
Floyd |
Floyd | If you stand on your conviction, answer "YES" now to sentence
Floyd | yourself. If you wish to revise your sentence, answer "NO" to rewrite
Floyd | it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "You hereby sentence yourself to..." says Mr Larvington, and is no
Floyd | longer here.
Floyd |
Floyd | All is very bright.

		
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The water is black. For a moment you think your feet hit the riverbed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The light is above you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Drifting down the stream
Floyd | Drifting down the stream
Floyd | This black ribbon divides the town in half. On the southern shore, the
Floyd | suburbs, to the north, the hills.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are in a small white row boat. It's drifting slowly with the
Floyd | current towards the sea somewhere in the western distance. And in
Floyd | there beside you: Liz.
Floyd |
Floyd | You have one more choice to make:
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you swim to shore or stay in the boat with Liz?
Floyd |
Floyd | Choose SWIM or STAY.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "swim" 		

Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You drop down to the water. Liz watches you swim away -- you don't
Floyd | have the heart to look back.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to swim to shore.

		
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Floyd | as she's moving under skies
Floyd | Never seen by waking eyes.

		
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd | Never seen by waking eyes.Ever drifting down the stream
Floyd | --
Floyd | Lingering in the golden gleam --
Floyd | Life, what is it but a dream?

		
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | Life, what is it but a dream?
Floyd |
Floyd | River Walk
Floyd | "She's not breathing. Again: One -- two -- three -- "
Floyd |
Floyd | As you come to, you see Liz lying next to you on the pavement. On the
Floyd | background stands Catherine and watches her daughter being
Floyd | resuscitated. She looks at you for a while in terror and wraps her
Floyd | arms around you. Liz doesn't wake up. From the corner of your eye you
Floyd | see a glimpse of a white boat disappearing into the western distance.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The game ends here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The choice presented to you in the boat depends on the sentence you
Floyd | wrote. If you wish, you can go back and rewrite the sentence. You can
Floyd | also undo only your final choice.
Floyd |
Floyd | Please choose from the following commands:
Floyd |
Floyd | SENTENCE yourself again
Floyd | UNDO your final choice
Floyd | TIPS for different solutions
Floyd | RESTART this game from the beginning
Floyd | RESTORE a previously saved game
Floyd | QUIT the game
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "We live dream. Dream we live. Life we dream. We dream life. We live life. Life we live."
		genericgeekgirl says, "We live dream and we dream life seem to be the same"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "sentence" 		

Floyd ]  Locomotive Cab
Floyd | Locomotive Cab
Floyd | A cramped, black space that holds the controls and the firebox. The
Floyd | train speeds ahead.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You look at the paper:
Floyd |
Floyd | dream  life  live  we
Floyd |
Floyd | There's only room for a three-word sentence, and only if you scribble
Floyd | very neatly.
Floyd |
Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >

		genericgeekgirl says, "We live life wasn't allowed."
		Zach says, "Ah"
		mwmiller asks, "'life we live', then?"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "life we live" 		

Floyd ]  Locomotive Cab
Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >
Floyd | > LIFE WE LIVE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | LIFE WE LIVE is not an acceptable sentence. Please try again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your list of significant words is:
Floyd | dream  life  live  we
Floyd |
Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "live dream life" 		

Floyd ]  Locomotive Cab
Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >
Floyd | > LIVE DREAM LIFE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | LIVE DREAM LIFE is not an acceptable sentence. Please try again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your list of significant words is:
Floyd | dream  life  live  we
Floyd |
Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "live live live" 		

Floyd ]  Locomotive Cab
Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >
Floyd | > LIVE LIVE LIVE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | LIVE LIVE LIVE is not an acceptable sentence. Please try again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your list of significant words is:
Floyd | dream  life  live  we
Floyd |
Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >

		Zach says, "Also, this is one of those times when 'dream' looks really weird after seeing it so many times"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "we live" 		

Floyd ]  Locomotive Cab
Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >
Floyd | > WE LIVE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The sentence requires three words.
Floyd |
Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "dream a life" 		

Floyd ]  Locomotive Cab
Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >
Floyd | > DREAM A LIFE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | DREAM A LIFE is not an acceptable sentence. Please try again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your list of significant words is:
Floyd | dream  life  live  we
Floyd |
Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Tips?"
		Zach says, "So much for 'We Live the Dream Life'"
		DavidW says, "sure"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "Dream! Live Life!" 		

Floyd ]  Locomotive Cab
Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >
Floyd | > DREAM! LIVE LIFE!
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | DREAM! LIVE LIFE! is not an acceptable sentence. Please try again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your list of significant words is:
Floyd | dream  life  live  we
Floyd |
Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ok, going to go through with we live dream again to get to the end."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "we live dream" 		

Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >
Floyd | > WE LIVE DREAM
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The sentence you have chosen:
Floyd |
Floyd | WE LIVE DREAM
Floyd |
Floyd | If you stand on your conviction, answer "YES" now to sentence
Floyd | yourself. If you wish to revise your sentence, answer "NO" to rewrite
Floyd | it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "You hereby sentence yourself to..." says Mr Larvington, and is no
Floyd | longer here.
Floyd |
Floyd | All is very bright.

		
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The water is black. For a moment you think your feet hit the riverbed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The light is above you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Drifting down the stream
Floyd | Drifting down the stream
Floyd | This black ribbon divides the town in half. On the southern shore, the
Floyd | suburbs, to the north, the hills.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are in a small white row boat. It's drifting slowly with the
Floyd | current towards the sea somewhere in the western distance. And in
Floyd | there beside you: Liz.
Floyd |
Floyd | You have one more choice to make:
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you swim to shore or stay in the boat with Liz?
Floyd |
Floyd | Choose SWIM or STAY.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "Maybe there is only one correct answer"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "swim" 		

Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You drop down to the water. Liz watches you swim away -- you don't
Floyd | have the heart to look back.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to swim to shore.

		
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Floyd | as she's moving under skies
Floyd | Never seen by waking eyes.

		
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd | Never seen by waking eyes.Ever drifting down the stream
Floyd | --
Floyd | Lingering in the golden gleam --
Floyd | Life, what is it but a dream?

		
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | Life, what is it but a dream?
Floyd |
Floyd | River Walk
Floyd | "She's not breathing. Again: One -- two -- three -- "
Floyd |
Floyd | As you come to, you see Liz lying next to you on the pavement. On the
Floyd | background stands Catherine and watches her daughter being
Floyd | resuscitated. She looks at you for a while in terror and wraps her
Floyd | arms around you. Liz doesn't wake up. From the corner of your eye you
Floyd | see a glimpse of a white boat disappearing into the western distance.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The game ends here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The choice presented to you in the boat depends on the sentence you
Floyd | wrote. If you wish, you can go back and rewrite the sentence. You can
Floyd | also undo only your final choice.
Floyd |
Floyd | Please choose from the following commands:
Floyd |
Floyd | SENTENCE yourself again
Floyd | UNDO your final choice
Floyd | TIPS for different solutions
Floyd | RESTART this game from the beginning
Floyd | RESTORE a previously saved game
Floyd | QUIT the game
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "tips" 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | - The way you treat your family affects their attitude towards you.
Floyd | - There are two ways to silence the Piglet.
Floyd | - The key to keeping the Egg intact is to keep Uncle Marty happy.
Floyd | - There are two ways to beat Leo in rock-paper-scissors.
Floyd | - There are altogether four categories of sentences, which all lead to
Floyd | a different situation on the river.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please choose from the following commands:
Floyd |
Floyd | SENTENCE yourself again
Floyd | UNDO your final choice
Floyd | TIPS for different solutions
Floyd | RESTART this game from the beginning
Floyd | RESTORE a previously saved game
Floyd | QUIT the game
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Four categories.. what?"
		Zach says, "Huuhhh"
		mwmiller asks, "Okay, I don't have the stomach to play this out a dozen times to figure out all these vague assertions. Shall we declare it finished?"
		Zach asks, "Different words we can have at the end?"
		genericgeekgirl says, "I dunno. I'm going to peek at the walkthrough and hints if we're done here."
		Zach says, "Sure"
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | >
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no turning back now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hint" 		

Floyd ]  River Walk
Floyd | >
Floyd | > HINT
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The Help Menu is no longer available, but have a look at the TIPS.
Floyd |
Floyd | Please choose from the following commands:
Floyd |
Floyd | SENTENCE yourself again
Floyd | UNDO your final choice
Floyd | TIPS for different solutions
Floyd | RESTART this game from the beginning
Floyd | RESTORE a previously saved game
Floyd | QUIT the game
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "yeah, I feel done for tonight."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf12" 		

Floyd ]  Locomotive Cab
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restore" 		

Floyd | YOUR SENTENCE >
Floyd | > RESTORE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read:

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf11" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (South of Train)
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Zach says, "I mean, I think it's great for IF to take on a serious subject like this, but I think it needs to be done in a serious manner."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hint" 		

Floyd ]                               Hints
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |  > To get into the Locomotive Cab
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Press ENTER to show hints for the goal or Q to exit the Hint Menu.

		DavidW says, "Possibly we'd get more words if we did things differently."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "q" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (South of Train)
Floyd | Unfinished Tunnel (South of Train)
Floyd | You stand next to the locomotive. There are steps leading up to the
Floyd | cabin.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "help" 		

Floyd ]                               Hints
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |  > To get into the Locomotive Cab
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Press ENTER to show hints for the goal or Q to exit the Hint Menu.

		Zach says, "And not as part of an Alice in Wonderland parody."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "q" 		

Floyd ]  Unfinished Tunnel (South of Train)
Floyd | Unfinished Tunnel (South of Train)
Floyd | You stand next to the locomotive. There are steps leading up to the
Floyd | cabin.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "about" 		

Floyd ]                             Main Menu
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |  > About the game
Floyd |    Hints
Floyd |    Walkthrough
Floyd |    Introduction to interactive fiction
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Choose a menu item and press ENTER, or press Q to return to the game.

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                             Main Menu
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |    About the game
Floyd |  > Hints
Floyd |    Walkthrough
Floyd |    Introduction to interactive fiction
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Choose a menu item and press ENTER, or press Q to return to the game.

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]                             Main Menu
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |    About the game
Floyd |    Hints
Floyd |  > Walkthrough
Floyd |    Introduction to interactive fiction
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Choose a menu item and press ENTER, or press Q to return to the game.

		
genericgeekgirl presses the yellow enter button. 		

Floyd ]                            Walkthrough
Floyd | This is a basic walkthrough for Sentencing Mr Liddell. For the sake of
Floyd | clarity it doesn't demonstrate nearly all possibilities in the game,
Floyd | but gets you through.
Floyd |
Floyd | x bin
Floyd | take ticket
Floyd | w
Floyd | s
Floyd | w
Floyd | w
Floyd | e
Floyd | e
Floyd | take stroller
Floyd | dive
Floyd | (any key)
Floyd |
Floyd | e
Floyd | u
Floyd |
Floyd | u
Floyd | u
Floyd |
Floyd | show ticket to guard
Floyd | e
Floyd | s
Floyd | show ticket to teacher
Floyd | n
Floyd | e
Floyd |
Floyd | take piglet
Floyd | hit piglet
Floyd | hit piglet
Floyd | write life
Floyd | e
Floyd |
Floyd | ask cat about assignment
Floyd | show assignment to cat
Floyd | write dream
Floyd | w
Floyd | w
Floyd | w
Floyd |
Floyd | join line
Floyd | e
Floyd | e
Floyd | e
Floyd | e
Floyd | (any key)
Floyd |
Floyd | show assignment to funeral director
Floyd | x flowers
Floyd | write us
Floyd | search flowers
Floyd | sit on chair
Floyd | take teapot
Floyd |
Floyd | look
Floyd | take tea tray
Floyd | look
Floyd | fire tray
Floyd | look
Floyd | x dermot
Floyd | take cup
Floyd | give cup to father
Floyd | look under flowers
Floyd | take saucer
Floyd | look
Floyd | z
Floyd | z
Floyd | take egg
Floyd | fire egg
Floyd |
Floyd | take egg
Floyd | e
Floyd | e
Floyd | take egg
Floyd | show paper to leo
Floyd |
Floyd | s
Floyd | drop all
Floyd | s
Floyd | e
Floyd | u
Floyd | w
Floyd | w
Floyd | x rubble
Floyd | x headstone
Floyd | x carving
Floyd | take piece
Floyd | e
Floyd | u
Floyd |
Floyd | take paper
Floyd | take pen
Floyd | w
Floyd | w
Floyd | w
Floyd | w
Floyd | x paper
Floyd | write live
Floyd | w
Floyd | s
Floyd |
Floyd | stand on desk
Floyd | break skylight with rock
Floyd | u
Floyd | e
Floyd | e
Floyd | e
Floyd | d
Floyd | e
Floyd | se
Floyd | sw
Floyd |
Floyd | u
Floyd | show paper to teacher
Floyd | u
Floyd | show words to teacher
Floyd | (space)
Floyd |
Floyd | we live a dream
Floyd | yes
Floyd | (any key)
Floyd |
Floyd | u
Floyd | swim
Floyd | (space)
Floyd | (any key)
Floyd | (any key)
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.

		DavidW says (to Zach), "It reminds me of The Baron, a bit."
Lionheart arrives, full of funk, but no fun. 		genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, I thought about that."
genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]                             Main Menu
Floyd ]
Floyd ]  N = Next                                              Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ]  P = Previous                                          ENTER = Select
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |    About the game
Floyd |    Hints
Floyd |  > Walkthrough
Floyd |    Introduction to interactive fiction
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Choose a menu item and press ENTER, or press Q to return to the game.

		Zach says (to DavidW), "I haven't played The Baron"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Well, I 'unno."
		mwmiller says, "But 'we live a dream' wouldn't work! Aaaaargh."
		mwmiller says, "Author didn't playtest his own walkthrough! ;)"
		Zach says, "Yeah, the bugs just add to the sense of 'meh'"
		mwmiller says, "Well...an interesting experiment, at least. Not really a SUCCESSFUL experiment, but something to consider for future ventures."
		Zach says, "We found one the first time through, but I wouldn't be surprised if more could be found after that."
		DavidW says, "Any game with altered reality really does need to be debugged really thoroughly."
		Zach says, "Oh, it was definitely an interesting game"
		Zach says, "I do think the biggest problem was the mix of tone"
		genericgeekgirl says, "Baron really fucked me up. This just left me mildly squicked and uncertain what was being implied."
		Zach says, "Hmmm. Maybe a part of the problem is the choice of PC."
		Zach says, "If we played the 'piglet' it would have been a very different and perhaps more sympathetic experience."
		Zach says, "Or perhaps an observer."
		mwmiller says, "Reading about The Baron now, sounds interesting and a bit reminiscent of Alter Ego."
		Zach says, "Also, I really wanted some motivation for the characters."
		Zach says, "I know running a hat shop is stressful and all, but..."
		mwmiller says, "Yeeeaaah kind of get the feeling the author put in skeletal descriptive text but ran out of time to flesh it out properly. (which admittedly is a common problem in the compo crunch)"
		Zach says, "Yeah. I want to know why the PC and Cat are fighting."
		DavidW says, "yeah, that wasn't clear."
		Zach says, "Maybe there should be a post-comp comp to encourage authors to flesh out their games."
		Zach says (to DavidW), "Or the family as a whole. I feel like there needs to be a back story to get the player invested in the drama."
		Zach says, "I did like the bit about the teacher. I'm just now starting to not have nightmares about school."
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "quit" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > QUIT
Floyd |
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?

		
genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "yes" 		

Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?
Floyd | > YES
Floyd | cheapglulxe quit with exit status: 0

		
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" 			


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ClubFloyd Transcript:
Spiral by Justin Morgan
As played on ifMUD on December 23, 2012

The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction.

Below is a transcript of Spiral written by Justin Morgan. Spiral was released as part of the 2012 Interactive Fiction Competition, in which it took sixth place. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki.

WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page.
ToyShop & Floyditorium
		
#ClubFloyd Discussion
		
Jacqueline hollers, "ClubFloyd begins in less than ten minutes (at half past the hour). We'll be playing Spiral, by Justin Morgan." 		* Doug has joined the channel.
		Doug asks, "was this a comp entry?"
		Jacqueline says, "Yes! And we have the author here with us this morning."
		DavidW says, "I think so. Also one that I missed."
		Jacqueline says, "(And BRB - gotta refill the egg nog. Presidential directive, and all that.)"
		Baryon says, "Hi David"
		DavidW says, "Hi Baryon"
		Doug says (to Baryon), "nice to meet you!"
		Baryon says, "Hello"
		Jacqueline says, "Mmkay. Back. One more minute before half past. So, Baryon, the way this works is that we have this bot who facilitates the game, and any player can enter commands, though we don't want any hints or spoilers so it's probably best that you not suggest any commands until after we've decided we need one or we've finished the game and there's stuff we missed that you'd like us to see."
		Jacqueline says, "All conversation about the game will take place here, on this channel."
		Baryon says, "Yes, great. I should definitely come here more often..."
		Jacqueline says, "There are some other etiquette things, but they mostly apply to players, so I don't think I'll bore you with those this morning."
		Jacqueline says, "If you come back for a future game that you *didn't* write, then I'll bore you with all that."
		Baryon says, "Ok thanks"
		Jacqueline asks, "So, shall we?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load spiral" 		

Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Spiral
Floyd | by Justin Morgan
Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 121106 / Inform v6.32 Library 6/11 S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Hint: important commands are THINK and REMEMBER ]
Floyd |

		Jacqueline says, "Oops - wait a sec."
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd | [ Please press a key ]
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | And then you hear something. The low, steady rumbling of a train. As
Floyd | your eyelids slowly peel back, you feel like you're swimming up to the
Floyd | surface of a deep, black ocean. For a while, the disorientation is
Floyd | overwhelming, and you can't think about anything. But once you start
Floyd | thinking, you can't stop.
Floyd |
Floyd | Carriage
Floyd | It's dark, and the only artificial light is flickering, but it doesn't
Floyd | take much light for you to know that you're in trouble. Most of your
Floyd | body is numb. Directly opposite you is a man, plastered with fear,
Floyd | gagged. His arms are tied to his sides, his legs bound together in
Floyd | three different places. The numbness gives way to pain, as though
Floyd | needles are shooting out of all your blood vessels and you start to
Floyd | feel more than just your pounding heart: the tight ropes digging into
Floyd | you, the rigid metal floor, the stale air, the gag over your mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" 		

Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" 		

Floyd |

		
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" 		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask spiral" 		

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Spiral
Floyd | by Justin Morgan
Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 121106 / Inform v6.32 Library 6/11 S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Hint: important commands are THINK and REMEMBER ]
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Please press a key ]

		Jacqueline says, "There."
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 0
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | And then you hear something. The low, steady rumbling of a train. As
Floyd | your eyelids slowly peel back, you feel like you're swimming up to the
Floyd | surface of a deep, black ocean. For a while, the disorientation is
Floyd | overwhelming, and you can't think about anything. But once you start
Floyd | thinking, you can't stop.
Floyd |
Floyd | Carriage
Floyd | It's dark, and the only artificial light is flickering, but it doesn't
Floyd | take much light for you to know that you're in trouble. Most of your
Floyd | body is numb. Directly opposite you is a man, plastered with fear,
Floyd | gagged. His arms are tied to his sides, his legs bound together in
Floyd | three different places. The numbness gives way to pain, as though
Floyd | needles are shooting out of all your blood vessels and you start to
Floyd | feel more than just your pounding heart: the tight ropes digging into
Floyd | you, the rigid metal floor, the stale air, the gag over your mouth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh wait, I did play some of this, but I didn't get very far."
		Jacqueline says, "Mmkay, well, jump in when you feel it's safe."
		Jacqueline asks, "Doug, have you played any of this?"
		Jacqueline says, "(I know maga has, he played all the comp games...)"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 1
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see your legs stretched out in front of you, tied together at
Floyd | the ankles, shins and thighs with thick ropes that really seem to bite
Floyd | into your skin. Just looking at it makes you shuffle in discomfort,
Floyd | but it doesn't make it any better. In the dark light you can't tell if
Floyd | you're wearing blue jeans or black ones - you think black - but either
Floyd | way they're very dusty. You look down at your similarly hue-ambiguous
Floyd | sweater, which is also marked by tight ropes around your upper and
Floyd | lower arms. Your mouth is covered by a patch that is stuck right over
Floyd | your lips: you can only make muffled, incoherent groaning noises.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "It took me ages to just get started past this opening scene."
		Jacqueline says, "I guess if I take inventory I will have some ropes (being worn). (Or not.)"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 2
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | Your hands are bound to your sides, and honestly, there's nothing here
Floyd | that you'd want to pick up anyway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 3
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Carriage
Floyd | You look around again. The carriage is small and is practically empty.
Floyd | On the floor in front of you is a sea of dead wasps - there's not a
Floyd | live one to be found. You look over at your only living companion,
Floyd | tied up and leaning against the wall opposite you. Your eyes meet, and
Floyd | you try to convey sympathy, and you try to read sympathy from his, but
Floyd | that wouldn't do either of you any good even if you could
Floyd | hide the fear. The light flickers off for a second, sending you
Floyd | temporarily into darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "So, we're on the train, it would seem."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x wasps" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 4
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WASPS
Floyd |
Floyd | Disgustingly, there are about a hundred dead things on the floor -
Floyd | concentrated in the centre of the carriage - bobbing up and down with
Floyd | the train's movement in a grotesque dance. They're bigger than wasps,
Floyd | and they're red, with menacing needles for stinging. It's a good thing
Floyd | they're all dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x man" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 5
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MAN
Floyd |
Floyd | You look over at your only companion. He's looking as battered as you
Floyd | feel, with disheveled black hair, a grimy face and crumpled clothes,
Floyd | dusty and discoloured. He's not agitated, or nervous, but you can just
Floyd | about see a forlorn, almost despairing expression if you catch his
Floyd | eyes at the right moment. Something about him is familiar, but you're
Floyd | damned if you know what it is.
Floyd |
Floyd | [ To switch perspective, use the BE command. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 6
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | Your legs are tied together at the ankles, shins and thighs with thick
Floyd | ropes that really seem to bite into your skin. In the dark light you
Floyd | can't tell if you're wearing blue jeans or black ones - you think
Floyd | black - but either way they're very dusty. Further ropes bind your
Floyd | upper and lower arms, and you can feel your dry skin and lips where
Floyd | the gag is stuck over them.
Floyd |
Floyd | Panic is setting in. Breathing getting heavy, blood pumping faster and
Floyd | faster. Thoughts and possibilities, each more frightening than the
Floyd | last, are starting to bombard you, and frankly, you'd rather die and
Floyd | be free of it forever. Each dread is coming at you, like a spectre
Floyd | from the air that wants to wrap its cold hands around your brain and
Floyd | banish you to a place of endless torment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 7
Floyd |
Floyd | > THINK
Floyd |
Floyd | For a moment, everything is blank. Tabula rasa. You could be anyone -
Floyd | a terrorist, a psychopath, a drug addict, a prostitute, a mugger. But
Floyd | then memories flood in all at once, as if you'd asked to borrow a
Floyd | lighter and got your house set on fire instead. You're Helen Wright.
Floyd | You can picture the faces of your mum and dad and your older sister
Floyd | Mary in your house in London; you can see the bright white walls of
Floyd | that house - everything white and pristine, like a hospital; you can
Floyd | see yourself playing with dolls at the foot of your bed; you can see
Floyd | yourself telling Mary to leave you alone; you see the park, you're on
Floyd | the swings, you're down the slide, you're on your own, playing with
Floyd | the playground grass; you're at school, you're scribbling in your
Floyd | book, you're the last one out of the classroom, and the first one in.
Floyd | You're eight years old, and the memories are still coming...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "make muffled, incoherent groaning noises" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 7
Floyd |
Floyd | > MAKE MUFFLED, INCOHERENT GROANING NOISES
Floyd |
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "dang, this game is so under-implemented!"
		Jacqueline says, "snrk"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 8
Floyd |
Floyd | > THINK
Floyd |
Floyd | Faster and faster, your memories are coming back, and you can't keep
Floyd | up with them. Then, suddenly, they stop. The last one is just an
Floyd | ordinary day on the London Underground and you're going to lectures.
Floyd | How did you get from there to here? That can't be the end - that can't
Floyd | have been the last thing that happened. Unless perhaps some random
Floyd | madman came along, beat you up and locked you in here. But who would
Floyd | want to kidnap you? There's nothing special about you - far from it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Baryon says, "I know - surely every game implements that one these days"
		DavidW says, "There is more than this one room. I hope that's not a spoiler."
Zach arrives, ready to play with the toys. 		Jacqueline says, "There will be more than one room if we don't die, you mean."
		DavidW says, "no comment"
		Baryon says, "In my original design, this was going to be the only room. But this isn't the original design..."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "remember" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 9
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER
Floyd |
Floyd | There aren't any particular memories going through your head at the
Floyd | moment. [ You can REMEMBER things. If you see something in bold
Floyd | print in the description of a memory, then you can use the remember
Floyd | command with that too. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "So, think and remember are kinda synonymous?"
		Jacqueline says, "(That is an okay question for you to answer, Baryon.)"
		Baryon says, "No, they're not"
genericgeekgirl arrives, ready to play with the toys. 		Jacqueline says, "Okay."
Doug says (to Floyd), "be a mugger" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 9
Floyd |
Floyd | > BE A MUGGER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't become that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 10
Floyd |
Floyd | > THINK
Floyd |
Floyd | You know who you are now: Helen Wright, just another horrible person.
Floyd | Your memories have come back, though apparently not all of them.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a sudden clanging noise, and the room flashes momentarily red.
Floyd | Your heart rate goes up. Something's happening. The red light keeps
Floyd | flashing in a regular cycle, and two small vents opens on the wall,
Floyd | just little circular holes. There's the sound of rushing air, and you
Floyd | fear what might come out of those dark tubes. You feel a certain
Floyd | warmth in the air as it hits you, and a vile, acrid smell. It's
Floyd | certainly not the ventilation. Then the flashing light suddenly stops,
Floyd | the vent covers slide back into place, and the train rumbles on along
Floyd | as though nothing happened at all.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "this game keeps lying about things I could do."
		Jacqueline says (to Doug), "You are in rare form this morning."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "be the man" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 11
Floyd |
Floyd | > BE THE MAN
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Carriage (as Ross)
Floyd | When you look around again, the most striking thing is the floor:
Floyd | dozens of dead insects are scattered around it, and you can't see a
Floyd | single living one. What does that mean? That you've been here for
Floyd | ages? Or is there a fly trap? You try not to dwell on it, and look
Floyd | around the whole carriage. It's not big, and it doesn't take long to
Floyd | realise that there's nothing else here, except the other captive and
Floyd | the flickering light. The shadows are deep, oppressive. The noise of
Floyd | the train's movement is a dull but constant clanking. The air is
Floyd | stale.
Floyd |
Floyd | You try to think about what happened. But nothing is coming.
Floyd | Literally, nothing. And who is that over there?
Floyd |
Floyd | Since it doesn't seem like anything is happening, you wonder if it
Floyd | might be OK to get some sleep.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "remember" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 12
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER
Floyd |
Floyd | Who are you? The question bounces around in your mind for a moment,
Floyd | with no answer forthcoming. But then it's as though someone opens a
Floyd | tap, and things start trickling back. Your name is Ross. You can see
Floyd | your flat in London, your mum and dad, arguing, doors slamming,
Floyd | crumpled pieces of paper on the floor. There's your brother, hitting
Floyd | and kicking you, and you trying to fight back. You can see yourself,
Floyd | six or seven years old, looking at a large rash, going to the
Floyd | hospital. But then the memories stop, and you feel drained. For God's
Floyd | sake, why is this so hard to remember? It's there, and it's coming
Floyd | back, but it's just so much effort to get it.
Floyd |
Floyd | As your mind begins to wake up, thoughts and possibilities start
Floyd | whirling around, bombarding and confusing you. Your limbs feel so
Floyd | stiff, but are slowly getting better.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 13
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | It really is as bad as it feels. Your arms are bound to your sides
Floyd | with one rope that crosses your chest and one over the stomach, and
Floyd | both are hurting like hell as they dig into your skin through your
Floyd | shirt. You wouldn't rate your chances of being able to wriggle free,
Floyd | and you don't think you could even move anywhere: three more ropes are
Floyd | bound tightly around your ankles, shins and thighs. The worst thing,
Floyd | though, is the thick tape covering your mouth. If it ever does come
Floyd | off, it'll probably rip off your lips with it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x her" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 14
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HER
Floyd |
Floyd | She looks frightened, of course. Her eyes are wide and she's looking
Floyd | around everywhere, presumably trying to see a way out. There's
Floyd | something familiar about her, but you don't know what it is.
Floyd | She's quite tall. Very, very pale. Shoulder-length brown hair. You get
Floyd | the impression that it's only as tangled as it is because of the
Floyd | situation - knocked out, gagged, tied up and thrown into this place.
Floyd | You flinch just thinking about it. You hope this isn't your fault. You
Floyd | don't know why it would be.
Floyd |
Floyd | You're feeling quite sleepy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "sleep" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 14
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not getting anywhere by being awake, so you don't think it will
Floyd | matter to try getting some sleep. It's hardly comfortable, but it
Floyd | isn't noisy - in fact it's far quieter than London. You push yourself
Floyd | over onto your side and shut your eyes.

		Jacqueline says, "Wonder if that's the gas or just trying to remember or we're just the sort that gets sleepy when things seem scary."
Doug says (to Floyd), "wake" 		

Floyd ]  Platform                                 Ross          Moves: 15
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The beast hisses. Something rips through you, wrenching out your soul,
Floyd | which floats through the vacuum of space to become part of the
Floyd | machine. There's the Earth, with a whirlwind of nature being sucked
Floyd | into one end of the machine, and there's a big tube running along the
Floyd | top of it, until it gets to the beast at the other end. The beast
Floyd | snarls. It wants more, and then more still, and then more and more,
Floyd | and the machine has to go faster and faster. It has your soul now too.
Floyd | You're being pulled in towards the machine, and you don't want to go
Floyd | there, you don't want to! The beast roars.
Floyd |
Floyd | Platform (as Ross)
Floyd | You're on a ledge jutting out from the machine, a metal platform. You
Floyd | get a real sense of the enormity of the machine from this perspective,
Floyd | as it stretches as far as you can see in both directions. The Earth
Floyd | and the beast themselves are just out of sight.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's an unusual archway in the east wall, which is doing something
Floyd | to the light so that you can't see through it.
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not going to sell yourself to the machine. You've got to get
Floyd | your soul back.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Ah. I never saw any of Ross's 'dream', if dream it is."
Doug says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Platform                                 Ross          Moves: 16
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x ledge" 		

Floyd ]  Platform                                 Ross          Moves: 17
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LEDGE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Platform (as Ross)
Floyd | You're on a ledge jutting out from the machine, a metal platform. You
Floyd | get a real sense of the enormity of the machine from this perspective,
Floyd | as it stretches as far as you can see in both directions. The Earth
Floyd | and the beast themselves are just out of sight.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's an unusual archway in the east wall, which is doing something
Floyd | to the light so that you can't see through it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "look down" 		

Floyd ]  Platform                                 Ross          Moves: 18
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd | The everlasting nothingness is out there, dotted with stars.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think" 		

Floyd ]  Platform                                 Ross          Moves: 19
Floyd |
Floyd | > THINK
Floyd |
Floyd | Just another idiotic idealist here, who thinks he can make a
Floyd | difference but is just as powerless as everyone else, if not more so
Floyd | for being such a fucking weakling.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x archway" 		

Floyd ]  Platform                                 Ross          Moves: 20
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ARCHWAY
Floyd |
Floyd | The archway in the east wall is an unusual shape, and is distorting
Floyd | the light so much that you can't see through it. The edges are very
Floyd | clearly defined though, so that the whole thing looks a bit like a
Floyd | sticker.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x machine" 		

Floyd ]  Platform                                 Ross          Moves: 21
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MACHINE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a monstrosity, groaning and clanking and humming as it tears away
Floyd | all the beauty from the Earth. The machine gets ever faster, to
Floyd | satisfy the growing hunger of the beast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch archway" 		

Floyd ]  Platform                                 Ross          Moves: 22
Floyd |
Floyd | > TOUCH ARCHWAY
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Baryon says, "Cringe at default response"
Doug says (to Floyd), "peel sticker" 		

Floyd ]  Platform                                 Ross          Moves: 23
Floyd |
Floyd | > PEEL STICKER
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel around the edges of the arch, then peel it away, removing the
Floyd | way to the east. You now have a sickle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "ooh, new toy"
		Doug says, "huh, wasn't expecting that to work."
		Jacqueline says, "You can emote that with ; (on the channel it'd be ;: to make sure you cringe on the channel, not in the room)... ;:cringes at the default response."
		DavidW says, "It's a dream. Wile E Coyote logic has a chance at working."
Doug says (to Floyd), "x sticker" 		

Floyd ]  Platform                                 Ross          Moves: 23
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STICKER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x sickle" 		

Floyd ]  Platform                                 Ross          Moves: 24
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SICKLE
Floyd |
Floyd | A dependable worker's tool. You got it by removing an arch from the
Floyd | wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Platform                                 Ross          Moves: 25
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Platform (as Ross)
Floyd | You're on a ledge jutting out from the machine, a metal platform. You
Floyd | get a real sense of the enormity of the machine from this perspective,
Floyd | as it stretches as far as you can see in both directions. The Earth
Floyd | and the beast themselves are just out of sight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "So, east to the fields of milk and honey or wheat and windmills, or whatever's east?"
		Doug says, "can we still go east? the archway's gone"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Platform                                 Ross          Moves: 26
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You bang your fist against the closed wall of the machine. It feels
Floyd | somehow delicate, as though it could easily be cut open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Maybe we can put the sticker up wherever."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut machine" 		

Floyd ]  Platform                                 Ross          Moves: 27
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT MACHINE
Floyd |
Floyd | You'd love to, but you're not sure you can do it with just your hands.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut machine with sickle" 		

Floyd ]  Platform                                 Ross          Moves: 28
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT MACHINE WITH SICKLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't think that would do much damage.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "oh, we can cut it. But I'm kind of wondering what it would have said if we'd tried to go through the sticker."
		Jacqueline shrugs. "You could always put it back and see."
		Doug says, "hm"
		DavidW asks, "Or put it on another wall. Portable hole, maybe?"
Doug says (to Floyd), "put sickle back" 		

Floyd ]  Platform                                 Ross          Moves: 28
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SICKLE BACK
Floyd |
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "put sickle on wall" 		

Floyd ]  Platform                                 Ross          Moves: 29
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SICKLE ON WALL
Floyd |
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "I don't think we can"
		Doug asks, "or did you mean undo/restart?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x east wall" 		

Floyd ]  Platform                                 Ross          Moves: 30
Floyd |
Floyd | > X EAST WALL
Floyd |
Floyd | The closed wall of the machine. It looks somehow spongy, as though you
Floyd | could easily cut into it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take sickle" 		

Floyd ]  Platform                                 Ross          Moves: 31
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE SICKLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You expropriate the sickle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "cut wall" 		

Floyd ]  Platform                                 Ross          Moves: 32
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT WALL
Floyd |
Floyd | [ You should specify a compass direction. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "cut east" 		

Floyd ]  Platform                                 Ross          Moves: 33
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | You plunge the sickle into the wall, and it cuts itself into the shape
Floyd | of an arch, leading east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "look east" 		

Floyd ]  Platform                                 Ross          Moves: 34
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | The archway in the east wall is an unusual shape, and is distorting
Floyd | the light so much that you can't see through it. The edges are very
Floyd | clearly defined though, so that the whole thing looks a bit like a
Floyd | sticker.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take sponge" 		

Floyd ]  Platform                                 Ross          Moves: 34
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE SPONGE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "oh huh, it still looks like a sticker"
Doug says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Platform                                 Ross          Moves: 35
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Interesting."
		Doug says, "yay for reversibility."
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 36
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: West (as Ross)
Floyd | Complicated machinery is everywhere, clunking and scraping and turning
Floyd | and chugging away at the task of destroying the planet. At the north
Floyd | end of the room is a single stake, standing upright, and just beyond
Floyd | it is a gap in the floor, so that you can see through to the void of
Floyd | space below. A set of stairs leads up, and the machine room itself
Floyd | extends eastward.
Floyd |
Floyd | An archway leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x machinery" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 37
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MACHINERY
Floyd |
Floyd | Cogs are turning, machines whirring, lights flashing and pistons
Floyd | hammering, in service to the beast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stake" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 38
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a single pole in the ground, and a round hole next to it where
Floyd | another one could go.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x gap" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 39
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GAP
Floyd |
Floyd | The everlasting nothingness is out there, dotted with stars.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stairs" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 40
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STAIRS
Floyd |
Floyd | A long, metal staircase.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x hole" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 41
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | The archway in the west wall is an unusual shape, and is distorting
Floyd | the light so much that you can't see through it. The edges are very
Floyd | clearly defined though, so that the whole thing looks a bit like a
Floyd | sticker.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x round hole" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 41
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ROUND HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the upright stake.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get pole" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 42
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET POLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You give the stake an experimental wobble, and it looks like it would
Floyd | come free, but you think it would make more sense to complete the
Floyd | pair, rather than remove it completely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "new quest!"
		DavidW asks, "so, east or up?"
		Doug says, "east"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 43
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: Central (as Ross)
Floyd | Giant cogs are turning, forming a messy pattern that snakes around the
Floyd | room, interspersed with other machines whose function is entirely
Floyd | opaque to you. Some are spewing steam, some are making horrid
Floyd | squelching noises, some have bright flashing lights. There is a wall
Floyd | to the east, and many of the cogs cut right through it. You can go
Floyd | back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | A small crystal is here - a part of your soul ready to be taken back.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x crystal" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 44
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CRYSTAL
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not sure it'll ever be the same after being ravaged by the
Floyd | beast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get it" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 45
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET IT
Floyd |
Floyd | This part of you is encased in crystal, and you snatch it up from the
Floyd | floor, wondering where the other pieces might be. They're probably in
Floyd | the clutches of the machine already.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cogs" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 46
Floyd |
Floyd | > X COGS
Floyd |
Floyd | You walk up close to one of the machines. A face stares back at you,
Floyd | anguished and pale, frozen in the act of screaming. You step back.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x east wall" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 47
Floyd |
Floyd | > X EAST WALL
Floyd |
Floyd | (the patch on the wall)
Floyd | There's a wall to the east, but some of the cogs and other machines
Floyd | cut right through it, so maybe there is another area on the other
Floyd | side. What's more, there's a rectangular patch on the wall where a
Floyd | door might once have been.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 48
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a wall to the east, but some of the cogs and other machines
Floyd | cut right through it, so maybe there is another area on the other
Floyd | side. What's more, there's a rectangular patch on the wall where a
Floyd | door might once have been.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut patch" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 49
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT PATCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You'd love to, but you're not sure you can do it with just your hands.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut patch with sickle" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 49
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT PATCH WITH SICKLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 50
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: West (as Ross)
Floyd | Complicated machinery is everywhere, clunking and scraping and turning
Floyd | and chugging away at the task of destroying the planet. At the north
Floyd | end of the room is a single stake, standing upright, and just beyond
Floyd | it is a gap in the floor, so that you can see through to the void of
Floyd | space below. A set of stairs leads up, and the machine room itself
Floyd | extends eastward.
Floyd |
Floyd | An archway leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "peel" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 50
Floyd |
Floyd | > PEEL
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to peel?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "sticker" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 51
Floyd |
Floyd | > STICKER
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel around the edges of the arch, then peel it away, removing the
Floyd | way to the west. You now have a sickle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 52
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: Central (as Ross)
Floyd | Giant cogs are turning, forming a messy pattern that snakes around the
Floyd | room, interspersed with other machines whose function is entirely
Floyd | opaque to you. Some are spewing steam, some are making horrid
Floyd | squelching noises, some have bright flashing lights. There is a wall
Floyd | to the east, and many of the cogs cut right through it. You can go
Floyd | back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "cut door" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 53
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You plunge the sickle into the wall, and it cuts itself into the shape
Floyd | of an arch, leading east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "so it *is* a portable hole."
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 54
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: East (as Ross)
Floyd | It's a continuation of the machine room, with more of the squeaking,
Floyd | pulsing mechanisms and gizmos. A trapdoor in the floor leads into
Floyd | darkness via a ladder. Emanating from it is a symphony of slicing,
Floyd | cutting and crashing sounds, and there's a machine up here that's
Floyd | buzzing and shaking in time with it.
Floyd |
Floyd | An archway leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gizmos" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 55
Floyd |
Floyd | > X GIZMOS
Floyd |
Floyd | Cogs are turning, machines whirring, lights flashing and pistons
Floyd | hammering, in service to the beast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "down?" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 55
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOWN?
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Verb not available. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "oops. down?"
Doug says (to Floyd), "x machine" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 56
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MACHINE
Floyd |
Floyd | The machine is buzzing, whirring and even shaking. No wires are
Floyd | visible, but there's a raised bit of the floor connecting the machine
Floyd | to the hole in the floor. You imagine this machine is controlling the
Floyd | slicing you can hear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "sure"
		Jacqueline says, "'symphony of slicing' is great"
		DavidW asks, "oh wait. Will going down slice US?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x raised bit" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 57
Floyd |
Floyd | > X RAISED BIT
Floyd |
Floyd | The machine is buzzing, whirring and even shaking. No wires are
Floyd | visible, but there's a raised bit of the floor connecting the machine
Floyd | to the hole in the floor. You imagine this machine is controlling the
Floyd | slicing you can hear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "save" 		

Floyd | >
Floyd | > SAVE
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write:

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "1" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 57
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 58
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You look down the hole. The ladder just vanishes into blackness, but
Floyd | you can hear the sounds of slicing blades and other destructive
Floyd | machinery. Now, now. Let's hold on for... just a moment longer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "yeah, we want this machine off first."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x north wall" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 59
Floyd |
Floyd | > X NORTH WALL
Floyd |
Floyd | There are just more machines that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn machine off" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 60
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN MACHINE OFF
Floyd |
Floyd | There are no visible controls on the machine. You'll have to take a
Floyd | more physical approach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x east wall" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 61
Floyd |
Floyd | > X EAST WALL
Floyd |
Floyd | There are just more machines that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ladder" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 62
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LADDER
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a trapdoor in the floor with a ladder that leads down into
Floyd | darkness. The music of slashing, grinding and cutting is emanating
Floyd | from it. There's a raised part of the floor connecting the hole to a
Floyd | particularly loud machine here in the room, which you assume is in
Floyd | control of the slicing action.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x w" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 63
Floyd |
Floyd | > X W
Floyd |
Floyd | You've cut an archway through the wall there, so you can go to the
Floyd | rest of the machine room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "close trapdoor" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 64
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLOSE TRAPDOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can close.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "peel sticker" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 65
Floyd |
Floyd | > PEEL STICKER
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel around the edges of the arch, then peel it away, removing the
Floyd | way to the west. You now have a sickle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "cut machine" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 66
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT MACHINE
Floyd |
Floyd | You'd love to, but you're not sure you can do it with just your hands.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "cut machine with sickle" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 67
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT MACHINE WITH SICKLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't think that would do much damage.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "cut east" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 68
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | You plunge the sickle into the wall, and it cuts itself into the shape
Floyd | of an arch, leading east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x e" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 69
Floyd |
Floyd | > X E
Floyd |
Floyd | There are just more machines that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 69
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You fall through the hole, and drop into space outside the machine.
Floyd | You can't scream, and you can't breathe.

		DavidW says, "yeah, it won't be that easy. We need a spanner, a monkey wrench, at the very least."
		Doug says, "whoops"
Doug says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 70
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You bolt awake. Still in the train carriage, trundling along. You
Floyd | manage to push yourself back into a sitting position.
Floyd |
Floyd | Carriage (as Ross)
Floyd | The metal carriage is a deep grey with shadowy corners, and the
Floyd | fluorescent lamp on the ceiling is on the blink, so that every so
Floyd | often you're sent into total darkness. Your only company is the girl
Floyd | opposite you and a sea of dead wasps. You don't know where you're
Floyd | going or how you got here.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's that clanking sound again. As before, a red light fills the
Floyd | room every second, and little vents open on the walls. There's the
Floyd | sound of rushing air, a horrid smell, and then they shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x vents" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 71
Floyd |
Floyd | > X VENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can just about see the outline of the circular covers of those
Floyd | tubes. You have no idea what they're for, but the way that red light
Floyd | comes on and the way the air gets so foul when they're open suggests
Floyd | that they're not your friends.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug asks, "sorry... should we restore? or see where we can go now?"
		Baryon says, "It was a dream, so you can go back to sleep any time"
		DavidW says, "Dying in the dream didn't kill us."
		Doug says, "yeah, I figured we could return to the dream, but wasn't sure if it would restart at the beginning"
		DavidW says, "well, only one way to find out."
Doug says (to Floyd), "sleep" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 71
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not getting anywhere by being awake, so you don't think it will
Floyd | matter to try getting some sleep. It's hardly comfortable, but it
Floyd | isn't noisy - in fact it's far quieter than London. You push yourself
Floyd | over onto your side and shut your eyes.

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 72
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: East (as Ross)
Floyd | It's a continuation of the machine room, with more of the squeaking,
Floyd | pulsing mechanisms and gizmos. A trapdoor in the floor leads into
Floyd | darkness via a ladder. Emanating from it is a symphony of slicing,
Floyd | cutting and crashing sounds, and there's a machine up here that's
Floyd | buzzing and shaking in time with it.
Floyd |
Floyd | An archway leads east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "cool"
smartgenes arrives, full of fun and funk. 		smartgenes says, "hey"
Doug says (to Floyd), "peel sticker" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 73
Floyd |
Floyd | > PEEL STICKER
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel around the edges of the arch, then peel it away, removing the
Floyd | way to the east. You now have a sickle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Nice."
Doug says (to Floyd), "cut west" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 74
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT WEST
Floyd |
Floyd | You plunge the sickle into the wall, and it cuts itself into the shape
Floyd | of an arch, leading west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug asks, "want to go up the stairs?"
		smartgenes asks, "have i missed much?"
		DavidW says (to smartgenes), "Not too much."
		DavidW says, "We're playing Spiral."
		Doug says, "we're in Ross's dream. it's wacky."
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 75
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: Central (as Ross)
Floyd | Giant cogs are turning, forming a messy pattern that snakes around the
Floyd | room, interspersed with other machines whose function is entirely
Floyd | opaque to you. Some are spewing steam, some are making horrid
Floyd | squelching noises, some have bright flashing lights. There is a wall
Floyd | to the east, and many of the cogs cut right through it. You can go
Floyd | back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | An archway leads east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 76
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: West (as Ross)
Floyd | Complicated machinery is everywhere, clunking and scraping and turning
Floyd | and chugging away at the task of destroying the planet. At the north
Floyd | end of the room is a single stake, standing upright, and just beyond
Floyd | it is a gap in the floor, so that you can see through to the void of
Floyd | space below. A set of stairs leads up, and the machine room itself
Floyd | extends eastward.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 77
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb the stairs, and the stairs themselves fly upwards, so that
Floyd | with each footfall you're much higher up. Eventually the staircase
Floyd | halts, and you step off onto a platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | Beneath the Pipe (as Ross)
Floyd | You're standing on a small platform, watching severed parts of Earth
Floyd | shoot past through the pipe just above you that leads to the beast. By
Floyd | this point in their processing, things are barely recognisable as
Floyd | belonging to Nature - there are some earthy colours and familiar
Floyd | shapes, but it's mostly just a kind of tangled mush. Bits of it escape
Floyd | the flow and trickle onto the floor, creating a pungent deathly odour.
Floyd | A tiny ladder will take you right into the flow.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a loud sucking noise, and a small crystal suddenly drops out
Floyd | of the flow, strangely intact.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x crystal" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 78
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CRYSTAL
Floyd |
Floyd | (the piece of soul)
Floyd | You're not sure it'll ever be the same after being ravaged by the
Floyd | beast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get it" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 79
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET IT
Floyd |
Floyd | Now you've got two of these soul things. Something tells you there are
Floyd | seven in total... at least, that's what you're going to aim for.
Floyd |
Floyd | You suddenly see a burst of colour floating past you, and it turns out
Floyd | to be a glass sphere drifting up towards the pipe. Presumably
Floyd | someone's soul is within. You have no time to save it before it is
Floyd | caught by the flow and vanishes down the tube.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x flow" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 80
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FLOW
Floyd |
Floyd | Material from the Earth is gushing through this pipe, on its way to
Floyd | the beast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x ladder" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 81
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LADDER
Floyd |
Floyd | A little ladder leads up to the material surging through the tube.
Floyd |
Floyd | You suddenly catch sight of a human face, burnt and disfigured,
Floyd | shooting past in the tube.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 81
Floyd |
Floyd | > EXITS
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Verb not available. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "so, up or back down, I guess."
Doug says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 81
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | Is this really the only option? You hesitate a minute and let the
Floyd | Earth gush past your eyes. Then you step in. The flow instantly
Floyd | arrests you, seizes you, hurls you, compacts you, bashes you, forces
Floyd | you into compliance. The beast and its insatiable hunger is waiting.
Floyd | Waiting for you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hello, lost one," it hisses. "You should have known there's no
Floyd | escape..."
Floyd |
Floyd | You fly between its jaws and for a moment find yourself hanging at the
Floyd | top of its digestive tract, looking down at a fiery, rocky end. Then
Floyd | you scream.

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "scream" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 82
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You bolt awake. Still in the train carriage, trundling along. You
Floyd | manage to push yourself back into a sitting position.
Floyd |
Floyd | Carriage (as Ross)
Floyd | The metal carriage is a deep grey with shadowy corners, and the
Floyd | fluorescent lamp on the ceiling is on the blink, so that every so
Floyd | often you're sent into total darkness. Your only company is the girl
Floyd | opposite you and a sea of dead wasps. You don't know where you're
Floyd | going or how you got here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "hm, not quite what we wanted to do, was it?"
		Doug says, "guess not."
Doug says (to Floyd), "sleep" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 82
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |

		Baryon says, "There's a press any key moment every time you die"

Floyd | You're not getting anywhere by being awake, so you don't think it will
Floyd | matter to try getting some sleep. It's hardly comfortable, but it
Floyd | isn't noisy - in fact it's far quieter than London. You push yourself
Floyd | over onto your side and shut your eyes.

		
Doug presses the large red button on the FREE DONUTS machine. Within seconds, the room is flooded with a thousand tiny, happy donuts, running about your feet in an exuberant dance of freedom. They then disappear as quickly as they had arrived. 		Jacqueline says, "Wrong button."
		Doug says, "haha"
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 83
Floyd |
Floyd | Beneath the Pipe (as Ross)
Floyd | You're standing on a small platform, watching severed parts of Earth
Floyd | shoot past through the pipe just above you that leads to the beast. By
Floyd | this point in their processing, things are barely recognisable as
Floyd | belonging to Nature - there are some earthy colours and familiar
Floyd | shapes, but it's mostly just a kind of tangled mush. Bits of it escape
Floyd | the flow and trickle onto the floor, creating a pungent deathly odour.
Floyd | A tiny ladder will take you right into the flow.
Floyd |
Floyd | You suddenly catch sight of a human face, burnt and disfigured,
Floyd | shooting past in the tube.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "thanks"
		Jacqueline says, "Absolutely."
		Doug says, "now I want a donut."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "get on pipe" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 83
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET ON PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | Are they right? Is there no other way? You hesitate a minute and let
Floyd | the Earth gush past your eyes. Then you step in. The flow instantly
Floyd | arrests you, seizes you, hurls you, compacts you, bashes you, forces
Floyd | you into compliance. The beast and its insatiable hunger is waiting.
Floyd | Waiting for you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hello, lost one," it hisses. "You should have known there's no
Floyd | escape..."
Floyd |
Floyd | You fly between its jaws and for a moment find yourself hanging at the
Floyd | top of its digestive tract, looking down at a fiery, rocky end. Then
Floyd | you scream.

		DavidW says, "oops. That was a mistake."
Doug pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 84
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You bolt awake. Still in the train carriage, trundling along. You
Floyd | manage to push yourself back into a sitting position.
Floyd |
Floyd | Carriage (as Ross)
Floyd | The metal carriage is a deep grey with shadowy corners, and the
Floyd | fluorescent lamp on the ceiling is on the blink, so that every so
Floyd | often you're sent into total darkness. Your only company is the girl
Floyd | opposite you and a sea of dead wasps. You don't know where you're
Floyd | going or how you got here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Sorry."
		Doug asks, "maybe we can cut the pipe with the sickle?"
		Doug asks, "also, will the sickle fit into the hole next to the pole?"
		DavidW says, "Or block it. Or grab something new from the flow. Or give it something indigestible."
Doug says (to Floyd), "sleep" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 84
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not getting anywhere by being awake, so you don't think it will
Floyd | matter to try getting some sleep. It's hardly comfortable, but it
Floyd | isn't noisy - in fact it's far quieter than London. You push yourself
Floyd | over onto your side and shut your eyes.

		
Doug pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 85
Floyd |
Floyd | Beneath the Pipe (as Ross)
Floyd | You're standing on a small platform, watching severed parts of Earth
Floyd | shoot past through the pipe just above you that leads to the beast. By
Floyd | this point in their processing, things are barely recognisable as
Floyd | belonging to Nature - there are some earthy colours and familiar
Floyd | shapes, but it's mostly just a kind of tangled mush. Bits of it escape
Floyd | the flow and trickle onto the floor, creating a pungent deathly odour.
Floyd | A tiny ladder will take you right into the flow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "The stake hole wanted another stake, I think."
Doug says (to Floyd), "x ladder" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 86
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LADDER
Floyd |
Floyd | A little ladder leads up to the material surging through the tube.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x material" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 87
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MATERIAL
Floyd |
Floyd | This material has been sucked out of the Earth and processed into a
Floyd | barely recognisable mush. Every so often a human form, or just a face
Floyd | flashes past, usually disfigured, burnt and incomplete. Except for the
Floyd | bits that have slipped out and coated the floor in a deathly crust,
Floyd | it's all headed for the beast's stomach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get ladder" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 88
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET LADDER
Floyd |
Floyd | It seems to be firmly attached there.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x crust" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 89
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CRUST
Floyd |
Floyd | This material has been sucked out of the Earth and processed into a
Floyd | barely recognisable mush. Every so often a human form, or just a face
Floyd | flashes past, usually disfigured, burnt and incomplete. Except for the
Floyd | bits that have slipped out and coated the floor in a deathly crust,
Floyd | it's all headed for the beast's stomach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search material" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 90
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH MATERIAL
Floyd |
Floyd | This material has been sucked out of the Earth and processed into a
Floyd | barely recognisable mush. Every so often a human form, or just a face
Floyd | flashes past, usually disfigured, burnt and incomplete. Except for the
Floyd | bits that have slipped out and coated the floor in a deathly crust,
Floyd | it's all headed for the beast's stomach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take material" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 91
Floyd |
Floyd | > TAKE MATERIAL
Floyd |
Floyd | You wouldn't be able to scrape up the bits that have fallen out of the
Floyd | stream, and besides, it's too late to save it now.
Floyd |
Floyd | A burnt body shoots through the flow of material in the tube above
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 92
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   2 pieces of soul (of 7)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "eat soul" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 93
Floyd |
Floyd | > EAT SOUL
Floyd |
Floyd | Disgusting thought. Not even going to try.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put soul in me" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 94
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SOUL IN ME
Floyd |
Floyd | Oh no - you're not letting the machine get hold of it again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 95
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | As you climb down the stairs, the entire staircase shoots down,
Floyd | landing in the huge machine room you came from.
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: West (as Ross)
Floyd | Complicated machinery is everywhere, clunking and scraping and turning
Floyd | and chugging away at the task of destroying the planet. At the north
Floyd | end of the room is a single stake, standing upright, and just beyond
Floyd | it is a gap in the floor, so that you can see through to the void of
Floyd | space below. A set of stairs leads up, and the machine room itself
Floyd | extends eastward.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 96
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: Central (as Ross)
Floyd | Giant cogs are turning, forming a messy pattern that snakes around the
Floyd | room, interspersed with other machines whose function is entirely
Floyd | opaque to you. Some are spewing steam, some are making horrid
Floyd | squelching noises, some have bright flashing lights. There is a wall
Floyd | to the east, and many of the cogs cut right through it. You can go
Floyd | back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | An archway leads east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get sickle" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 97
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET SICKLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel around the edges of the arch, then peel it away, removing the
Floyd | way to the east. You now have a sickle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 98
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: West (as Ross)
Floyd | Complicated machinery is everywhere, clunking and scraping and turning
Floyd | and chugging away at the task of destroying the planet. At the north
Floyd | end of the room is a single stake, standing upright, and just beyond
Floyd | it is a gap in the floor, so that you can see through to the void of
Floyd | space below. A set of stairs leads up, and the machine room itself
Floyd | extends eastward.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 99
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb the stairs, and the stairs themselves fly upwards, so that
Floyd | with each footfall you're much higher up. Eventually the staircase
Floyd | halts, and you step off onto a platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | Beneath the Pipe (as Ross)
Floyd | You're standing on a small platform, watching severed parts of Earth
Floyd | shoot past through the pipe just above you that leads to the beast. By
Floyd | this point in their processing, things are barely recognisable as
Floyd | belonging to Nature - there are some earthy colours and familiar
Floyd | shapes, but it's mostly just a kind of tangled mush. Bits of it escape
Floyd | the flow and trickle onto the floor, creating a pungent deathly odour.
Floyd | A tiny ladder will take you right into the flow.
Floyd |
Floyd | A burnt body shoots through the flow of material in the tube above
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "cut pipe with sickle" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 100
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT PIPE WITH SICKLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't think that would do much damage.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "didn't think so."
		Jacqueline says, "hm"
Doug says (to Floyd), "x wall" 		DavidW asks, "We might try north or south of the central room?"

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 100
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WALL
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 101
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | As you climb down the stairs, the entire staircase shoots down,
Floyd | landing in the huge machine room you came from.
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: West (as Ross)
Floyd | Complicated machinery is everywhere, clunking and scraping and turning
Floyd | and chugging away at the task of destroying the planet. At the north
Floyd | end of the room is a single stake, standing upright, and just beyond
Floyd | it is a gap in the floor, so that you can see through to the void of
Floyd | space below. A set of stairs leads up, and the machine room itself
Floyd | extends eastward.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 102
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: Central (as Ross)
Floyd | Giant cogs are turning, forming a messy pattern that snakes around the
Floyd | room, interspersed with other machines whose function is entirely
Floyd | opaque to you. Some are spewing steam, some are making horrid
Floyd | squelching noises, some have bright flashing lights. There is a wall
Floyd | to the east, and many of the cogs cut right through it. You can go
Floyd | back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x n" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 103
Floyd |
Floyd | > X N
Floyd |
Floyd | There are just more machines that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh"
		Doug says, "I think we'll just fall into the void that way"
		DavidW says, "It's hard to be sure."
Doug says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 104
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | Can you honestly say you're above all this? Ross, you're an idiot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember soul" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 104
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER SOUL
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "think" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 105
Floyd |
Floyd | > THINK
Floyd |
Floyd | Can you honestly say you're above all this? Ross, you're an idiot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 106
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER
Floyd |
Floyd | Remember? Was there a past?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 107
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | Remember? Was there a past?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "maybe we have to do something in her dream before we can progress here"
		DavidW says, "Maybe."
		Jacqueline asks, "She's gonna sleep through her panic?"
		Doug says, "I'm out of ideas here"
		Jacqueline says, "Can we switch from within the dream."
		DavidW says, "I don't know if the dreamscapes are conjoined or not."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "be her" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 107
Floyd |
Floyd | > BE HER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't become that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Baryon says, "You can"
		Doug says, "probably have to wake up first"
		Jacqueline asks, "What's her name? Helen?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "be Helen" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 108
Floyd |
Floyd | > BE HELEN
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Carriage (as Helen)
Floyd | It's a grey, metal carriage, only slightly longer than it is wide.
Floyd | There's no window, so the only light is from a slim fluorescent lamp
Floyd | in the ceiling that flickers every so often, periodically plunging you
Floyd | into darkness.The floor is littered with dead wasps, but they're not
Floyd | you're only company: a man, probably in his early twenties, is in the
Floyd | same state, leaning against the opposite wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "ah"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sleep" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 108
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You're feeling surprisingly tired, so even though you'd rather not be
Floyd | off your guard in a situation like this, you can't be bothered to
Floyd | worry about it. You fall down onto your side, shut your eyes, and try
Floyd | to let the train's steady movement send you off.

		
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Mountainside                             Helen         Moves: 109
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You're walking up the mountain along with all the other dead people,
Floyd | heading for judgement at the summit. Grimy fear and sweat-soaked
Floyd | resignation are trooping up with you. The dust sweeps around your head
Floyd | and blinds you every now and then until you blink. Suddenly, you're at
Floyd | the top. There are countless books open on the table. A bony hand is
Floyd | holding your book in front of your eyes.
Floyd |
Floyd | "NO!" the judge shrieks, and you're thrown forwards, and the book is
Floyd | flying with you. As you soar through the air, you can see its pages
Floyd | fluttering down over the rocky landscape. You manage to snatch one
Floyd | from the air just before you crash into the mountainside and roll over
Floyd | and over, and stop yourself before you shoot over into the pit of fire
Floyd | below.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mountainside (as Helen)
Floyd | You're looking out upon the enormous pit of fire surrounding the
Floyd | mountain. Rocks of various sizes litter the ground, and an acrid dust
Floyd | suffuses your senses. It looks like you could probably scramble down
Floyd | to the south without much injury. Up above, the judgement continues.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear a noise from up the mountain, and see a colourful glass
Floyd | sphere tumbling down towards you. The sphere instantly smashes into a
Floyd | million shards, which disappear in the dust.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "I like this one slightly better already."
		DavidW says, "I did play some of Helen's dream, so this'll be sandwich time for me. bbiab."
Doug says (to Floyd), "get sandwich" 		

Floyd ]  Mountainside                             Helen         Moves: 109
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET SANDWICH
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see anything of the sort.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd ]  Mountainside                             Helen         Moves: 110
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You look at yourself and immediately look away. You don't want to be
Floyd | reminded of what an ugly thing you are. You're wearing shitty clothes
Floyd | as usual and are taking up too much of the universe's precious space
Floyd | with your good-for-nothing body.
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't know why, but something's telling you that you want your
Floyd | book back. You want to see your life, work out where you went wrong.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Mountainside                             Helen         Moves: 111
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a page
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x page" 		

Floyd ]  Mountainside                             Helen         Moves: 112
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PAGE
Floyd |
Floyd | A page from your book, a piece of you. But the words are blurred and
Floyd | you can't read them properly. Maybe if you were awake you'd be able to
Floyd | concentrate on it?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "wake" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 113
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly you're awake, and you struggle back into a sitting position,
Floyd | but it feels like you've just come from one nightmare to another.
Floyd | Images and memories from your dreams are parading through your mind,
Floyd | as if you didn't have enough torment. [ Use the REMEMBER command,
Floyd | with or without a memory. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | Carriage (as Helen)
Floyd | It's a grey, metal carriage, only slightly longer than it is wide.
Floyd | There's no window, so the only light is from a slim fluorescent lamp
Floyd | in the ceiling that flickers every so often, periodically plunging you
Floyd | into darkness.The floor is littered with dead wasps, but they're not
Floyd | you're only company: a man, probably in his early twenties, is in the
Floyd | same state, leaning against the opposite wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "remember page" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 113
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER PAGE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "aw"
		Jacqueline says, "mah"
Doug says (to Floyd), "sleep" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 113
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You're feeling surprisingly tired, so even though you'd rather not be
Floyd | off your guard in a situation like this, you can't be bothered to
Floyd | worry about it. You fall down onto your side, shut your eyes, and try
Floyd | to let the train's steady movement send you off.

		
Doug pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  Mountainside                             Helen         Moves: 114
Floyd |
Floyd | Mountainside (as Helen)
Floyd | You're looking out upon the enormous pit of fire surrounding the
Floyd | mountain. Rocks of various sizes litter the ground, and an acrid dust
Floyd | suffuses your senses. It looks like you could probably scramble down
Floyd | to the south without much injury. Up above, the judgement continues.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Baryon says, "That's not quite how it works"
		Baryon says, "Sorry"
		Jacqueline smiles.
Doug says (to Floyd), "x rock" 		

Floyd ]  Mountainside                             Helen         Moves: 115
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ROCK
Floyd |
Floyd | The whole landscape is strewn with dusty rocks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get rock" 		

Floyd ]  Mountainside                             Helen         Moves: 116
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET ROCK
Floyd |
Floyd | You touch one, and find that it's too hot to handle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: South              Helen         Moves: 117
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: South (as Helen)
Floyd | Down here, the pit of fire attacks all your senses at once, your eyes
Floyd | with its intense colour, your ears with the sound of its bubbling and
Floyd | popping, your skin with its searing heat. Just a short distance away
Floyd | over the fire is a small island with a small church on it, and indeed
Floyd | no room for anything else. You can reach it by a wooden bridge to the
Floyd | southeast, which is held up by two anchoring poles lodged into the
Floyd | ground. There are also paths around the base of the mountain to the
Floyd | west and east, and a way back up to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "more poles!"
Doug says (to Floyd), "x pole" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: South              Helen         Moves: 118
Floyd |
Floyd | > X POLE
Floyd |
Floyd | The bridge is connected to two anchors on this side and two on the
Floyd | other side. The stakes are lodged into recesses in the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get pole" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: South              Helen         Moves: 119
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET POLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You pull out one of the stakes, and the bridge to the southeast burns
Floyd | up, disappearing in an instant.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "huh"
Doug says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: South              Helen         Moves: 120
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: South (as Helen)
Floyd | Down here, the pit of fire attacks all your senses at once, your eyes
Floyd | with its intense colour, your ears with the sound of its bubbling and
Floyd | popping, your skin with its searing heat. Just a short distance away
Floyd | over the fire is a small island with a small church on it, and indeed
Floyd | no room for anything else. There's no way over to it, but there is an
Floyd | upright stake lodged in the ground, and a recess next to it where
Floyd | another one might go. There are also paths around the base of the
Floyd | mountain to the west and east, and a way back up to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "put stake in hole" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: South              Helen         Moves: 121
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT STAKE IN HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | (the wooden stake in the recess)
Floyd | You lodge the stake into the recess, and a bridge shimmers into
Floyd | existence, leading southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | A body rolls down the mountain, screeching desperately, before
Floyd | expiring in the flames below.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes asks, "not want to go southeast instead?"
		Jacqueline says, "Well lookie there. Guess we didn't need the bridge anyway."
		Jacqueline says, "I'm fine with whatever."
Doug says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 122
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Church Isle (as Helen)
Floyd | A small hexagonal stone church stands here, filling up almost the
Floyd | whole surface area of the island. It's somewhat crooked, and seems to
Floyd | get thinner and more distant the higher up you look, until the spire
Floyd | is like a spindly wire reaching up to the sky. The church is
Floyd | surrounded by a spiky wire mesh fence; there might be an opening
Floyd | around the back, but you can't tell. You can only walk back across the
Floyd | bridge to the northwest. Flames are licking up at the church's
Floyd | foundations, and you have to be careful that they don't claim you too.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Oh, and the bridge comes back. Dreams are trippy."
Doug says (to Floyd), "x fence" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 123
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FENCE
Floyd |
Floyd | A wire mesh fence topped with spikes is hugging the walls of the
Floyd | church.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get fence" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 124
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET FENCE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "climb fence" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 125
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLIMB FENCE
Floyd |
Floyd | There are no footholds, and besides, the spikes at the top of the
Floyd | fence are not very inviting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x church" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 126
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CHURCH
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Church Isle (as Helen)
Floyd | A small hexagonal stone church stands here, filling up almost the
Floyd | whole surface area of the island. It's somewhat crooked, and seems to
Floyd | get thinner and more distant the higher up you look, until the spire
Floyd | is like a spindly wire reaching up to the sky. The church is
Floyd | surrounded by a spiky wire mesh fence; there might be an opening
Floyd | around the back, but you can't tell. You can only walk back across the
Floyd | bridge to the northwest. Flames are licking up at the church's
Floyd | foundations, and you have to be careful that they don't claim you too.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x flames" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 127
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FLAMES
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a colossal pit of constant flame. You can feel its heat from
Floyd | here, and hear the blaze as loudly as if it were already consuming
Floyd | you. You know that it will do so. You belong there.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "go around back" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 127
Floyd |
Floyd | > GO AROUND BACK
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see anything of the sort.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x pull fence" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 127
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PULL FENCE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see anything of the sort.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "pull fence" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 128
Floyd |
Floyd | > PULL FENCE
Floyd |
Floyd | It is fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "shrug."
		Jacqueline says, "This is a cheerful game to play 'round Baby Jesus Day."
		Doug asks, "around the mountain then?"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "fly above church" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 128
Floyd |
Floyd | > FLY ABOVE CHURCH
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to fly the up above.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "mmkay"
Doug says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: South              Helen         Moves: 129
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: South (as Helen)
Floyd | Down here, the pit of fire attacks all your senses at once, your eyes
Floyd | with its intense colour, your ears with the sound of its bubbling and
Floyd | popping, your skin with its searing heat. Just a short distance away
Floyd | over the fire is a small island with a small church on it, and indeed
Floyd | no room for anything else. You can reach it by a wooden bridge to the
Floyd | southeast, which is held up by two anchoring poles lodged into the
Floyd | ground. There are also paths around the base of the mountain to the
Floyd | west and east, and a way back up to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: East               Helen         Moves: 130
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You follow the rocky path around the base of the mountain, until it
Floyd | suddenly becomes impassable.
Floyd |
Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: East (as Helen)
Floyd | In front of a line of heavy boulders, there's a cage. A cage, large
Floyd | enough for you to get into, and indeed with a door hanging invitingly
Floyd | open. A thick wire is connected to the top of the cage and runs right
Floyd | up into the sky, disappearing into thick cloud. You can still ignore
Floyd | it all and go back to the west, of course.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x cage" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: East               Helen         Moves: 131
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CAGE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a cage, cube-shaped and made of vertical metal bars. A thick
Floyd | cable is tied to the top of it, running all the way up into the clouds
Floyd | above. A door, also made of vertical bars, is hanging open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "We may want a pole."
		Doug says, "good point"
		smartgenes asks, "a lift?"
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: South              Helen         Moves: 132
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: South (as Helen)
Floyd | Down here, the pit of fire attacks all your senses at once, your eyes
Floyd | with its intense colour, your ears with the sound of its bubbling and
Floyd | popping, your skin with its searing heat. Just a short distance away
Floyd | over the fire is a small island with a small church on it, and indeed
Floyd | no room for anything else. You can reach it by a wooden bridge to the
Floyd | southeast, which is held up by two anchoring poles lodged into the
Floyd | ground. There are also paths around the base of the mountain to the
Floyd | west and east, and a way back up to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get pole" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: South              Helen         Moves: 133
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET POLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You pull out one of the stakes, and the bridge to the southeast burns
Floyd | up, disappearing in an instant.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a scream, and someone rolls down the mountain into the fire.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: East               Helen         Moves: 134
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You follow the rocky path around the base of the mountain, until it
Floyd | suddenly becomes impassable.
Floyd |
Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: East (as Helen)
Floyd | In front of a line of heavy boulders, there's a cage. A cage, large
Floyd | enough for you to get into, and indeed with a door hanging invitingly
Floyd | open. A thick wire is connected to the top of the cage and runs right
Floyd | up into the sky, disappearing into thick cloud. You can still ignore
Floyd | it all and go back to the west, of course.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "enter cage" 		

Floyd ]  On the Cloud                             Helen         Moves: 135
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER CAGE
Floyd |
Floyd | No sooner have you stepped into the cage than the door slams shut, and
Floyd | you start moving upwards. You look out at the side of the mountain,
Floyd | and then the movement gathers pace and before you know it, you've
Floyd | passed the summit. You look up through the bars and see the clouds
Floyd | getting nearer. Far below, the pit of fire is still bubbling and
Floyd | spitting away. You can see the great line of the dead, queuing all the
Floyd | way down the mountainside, waiting to be judged at the top, but now
Floyd | even the judges and the judging table look small and insignificant.
Floyd | Suddenly the vision disappears as you shoot into a cloud. The cage
Floyd | keeps on moving up, and you see the clouds changing colour: the first
Floyd | ones red and fiery, the next ones gradually cooler, whiter, bluer.
Floyd | Then you see people. People looking at you, resting on the clouds and
Floyd | looking at you, pointing at you. Angels casting murderous glances at
Floyd | you. People laughing.
Floyd |
Floyd | Then the cage stops, and you're looking out at a familiar group of
Floyd | people, playing cards on this white fluffy cloud. Mark is there.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Cloud (in the cage) (as Helen)
Floyd | Mark, and a couple of unimportant cronies, are playing cards here,
Floyd | here on this cloud. This must be the little place in heaven they've
Floyd | been granted for their unshakeable faith. You get the feeling you
Floyd | should be guilty, but shameless or not, there's only one thing that
Floyd | interests you about the whole scene: the page of your book that's on
Floyd | the table.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh this. I couldn't figure out what to do in this location."
Doug says (to Floyd), "get page" 		

Floyd ]  On the Cloud                             Helen         Moves: 136
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET PAGE
Floyd |
Floyd | (the page)
Floyd | You can't reach that from inside the cage.
Floyd |
Floyd | "What's that whore even doing here?" says one of Mark's cronies.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x page" 		

Floyd ]  On the Cloud                             Helen         Moves: 137
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PAGE
Floyd |
Floyd | (the page)
Floyd | A page from your book, a piece of you. But the words are blurred and
Floyd | you can't read them properly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x mark" 		

Floyd ]  On the Cloud                             Helen         Moves: 138
Floyd |
Floyd | > X MARK
Floyd |
Floyd | Mark is sitting at the table, playing cards with two of his friends.
Floyd | He's completely ignoring the page that's right next to him, but
Floyd | something also makes you feel that he's guarding it.
Floyd |
Floyd | "What's that whore even doing here?" says one of Mark's cronies.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "remember mark" 		

Floyd ]  On the Cloud                             Helen         Moves: 138
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER MARK
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "remember" 		

Floyd ]  On the Cloud                             Helen         Moves: 139
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't seem to do that. Your mind's gone blank.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to mark" 		

Floyd ]  On the Cloud                             Helen         Moves: 140
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO MARK
Floyd |
Floyd | "Mark, look, I'm sorry about what happened. I'm really sorry. But I
Floyd | was wondering... could I have that page please?"
Floyd |
Floyd | One of Mark's friends snickers. That's all the response you get.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Mark's friends say mean things to us. And Mark, sniff, acts like we don't exist!"
Doug says (to Floyd), "x cronies" 		

Floyd ]  On the Cloud                             Helen         Moves: 141
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CRONIES
Floyd |
Floyd | Two of Mark's friends are also sat at the table, concentrating hard on
Floyd | their game. You think one of them is Chris, and the other one is Paul.
Floyd | Or is it Luke? You're not sure. They're all pretty much the same
Floyd | anyway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to cronies" 		

Floyd ]  On the Cloud                             Helen         Moves: 142
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO CRONIES
Floyd |
Floyd | "Would one of you be able to let me out of here please?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Did you hear something?" says one of Mark's friends.
Floyd |
Floyd | "No," he replies. Perhaps if you could somehow prove to Mark that he
Floyd | once cared about you... Which you're fairly sure is true, even if it's
Floyd | incomprehensible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "I love the thought that people so judgmental and crass as to publically call someone a whore get a spot in heaven."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "apologize to mark" 		

Floyd ]  On the Cloud                             Helen         Moves: 142
Floyd |
Floyd | > APOLOGIZE TO MARK
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Verb not available. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Baryon says, "It's the faith alone thing"
		Jacqueline says, "Yeah"
		Doug says, "guessing we have to find something to show him"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask mark about tattoo on left bicep" 		

Floyd ]  On the Cloud                             Helen         Moves: 143
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK MARK ABOUT TATTOO ON LEFT BICEP
Floyd |
Floyd | [ You cannot specify topics to talk about. ]
Floyd | "Mark, that page you've got there... it's useless to you. Let me have
Floyd | it. Please!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Nobody answers you, but you notice Mark slowly shaking his head. Maybe
Floyd | you could somehow prove to Mark that he once cared for you. He goes in
Floyd | for that soppy stuff.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x cage" 		

Floyd ]  On the Cloud                             Helen         Moves: 144
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CAGE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a cage, cube-shaped and made of vertical metal bars. A thick
Floyd | cable is tied to the top of it, running all the way up into the clouds
Floyd | above. The cage is currently shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "open it" 		

Floyd ]  On the Cloud                             Helen         Moves: 145
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN IT
Floyd |
Floyd | It's locked! "Hey there!" you call. "Please can I come out for a
Floyd | little bit?"
Floyd |
Floyd | They ignore you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "What's that whore even doing here?" says one of Mark's cronies.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  On the Cloud                             Helen         Moves: 146
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a wooden stake
Floyd |   a page
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x stake" 		

Floyd ]  On the Cloud                             Helen         Moves: 147
Floyd |
Floyd | > X STAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a simple wooden stake that used to be holding up a bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sing" 		

Floyd ]  On the Cloud                             Helen         Moves: 148
Floyd |
Floyd | > SING
Floyd |
Floyd | You have an awful singing voice.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Can't we get rid of that horrible thing over there? I swear I'm going
Floyd | to puke in a minute."
Floyd |
Floyd | "She's insignificant enough just to ignore," says Mark coolly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cry" 		

Floyd ]  On the Cloud                             Helen         Moves: 149
Floyd |
Floyd | > CRY
Floyd |
Floyd | You want to cry out in pain, but you also don't want to attract the
Floyd | attention of the judges.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "throw stake at mark" 		

Floyd ]  On the Cloud                             Helen         Moves: 150
Floyd |
Floyd | > THROW STAKE AT MARK
Floyd |
Floyd | No! You might not be able to get it back.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "show page to mark" 		

Floyd ]  On the Cloud                             Helen         Moves: 151
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOW PAGE TO MARK
Floyd |
Floyd | (the page to Mark)
Floyd | "Hey, look at this!" you call. But he doesn't pay any attention.
Floyd |
Floyd | "We've got to be thankful for the Lord's protection," says Mark.
Floyd | "There's so much evil around."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd ]  On the Cloud                             Helen         Moves: 152
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You're just as useless in the dream world as in reality.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug asks, "let's keep exploring? west of the mountain?"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember me" 		

Floyd ]  On the Cloud                             Helen         Moves: 152
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER ME
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug asks, "I think we can only rememebr when awake?"
		Baryon says, "What a bad response"
		Baryon says, "Yes Doug"
		Doug says, "I guess we could wake up and try to remember Mark"
		DavidW says, "oh. I never tried that."
		Doug says, "but I kinda want to explore first"
		DavidW says, "feel free"
		Doug asks (of smartgenes), "want to drive?"
		smartgenes says, "ok"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wake up" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 153
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly you're awake, and you struggle back into a sitting position,
Floyd | but it feels like you've just come from one nightmare to another.
Floyd | Images and memories from your dreams are parading through your mind,
Floyd | as if you didn't have enough torment.
Floyd |
Floyd | Carriage (as Helen)
Floyd | It's a grey, metal carriage, only slightly longer than it is wide.
Floyd | There's no window, so the only light is from a slim fluorescent lamp
Floyd | in the ceiling that flickers every so often, periodically plunging you
Floyd | into darkness.The floor is littered with dead wasps, but they're not
Floyd | you're only company: a man, probably in his early twenties, is in the
Floyd | same state, leaning against the opposite wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember mark" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 153
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER MARK
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes asks, "where did we start?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think about mark" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 153
Floyd |
Floyd | > THINK ABOUT MARK
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x wasps" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 154
Floyd |
Floyd | > X WASPS
Floyd |
Floyd | Disgustingly, there are about a hundred dead things on the floor -
Floyd | concentrated in the centre of the carriage - bobbing up and down with
Floyd | the train's movement in a grotesque dance. They're bigger than wasps,
Floyd | and they're red, with menacing needles for stinging. It's a good thing
Floyd | they're all dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "remember" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 155
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER
Floyd |
Floyd | Pictures and memories of being a bully are lingering in your head, for
Floyd | whatever reason.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "We started right here, on the train, as Helen."
Doug says (to Floyd), "think" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 156
Floyd |
Floyd | > THINK
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not feeling hungry at the moment - not in the slightest - but
Floyd | what's going to happen when you are? Will the train stop before that
Floyd | happens, and you'll be hauled into a creepy nightmarish abandoned
Floyd | mansion in the middle of nowhere, where your screams will echo
Floyd | throughout the valleys, startling sheep and assorted wildlife but
Floyd | reaching not a single human ear, and you'll be kept barely alive by
Floyd | stringy, tasteless sludge that's shoved under the door once a day? Or
Floyd | will you be lucky and starve to death?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "talk to man" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 157
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO MAN
Floyd |
Floyd | You so wish that you could talk. Of course, you have no idea what he's
Floyd | like, but he can't be the bad guy around here. Just having somebody to
Floyd | talk to would make things so much more bearable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get wasp" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 158
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET WASP
Floyd |
Floyd | Even if your hands weren't incapacitated, you still wouldn't want to
Floyd | touch those things.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get up" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 159
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET UP
Floyd |
Floyd | You might be able to stand up, but there's no way you can walk
Floyd | anywhere without tripping: your legs are tied together with no fewer
Floyd | than three ropes. And even if you could walk, there is nowhere to go.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x ropes" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 160
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ROPES
Floyd |
Floyd | The ropes around you and him are the same and are in the same places -
Floyd | two are binding your arms to your sides and three are sticking your
Floyd | legs together. They are all excruciatingly tight.
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly that loud noise comes back, and the red light fills the room
Floyd | again. You can't help your pulse raising. But it happens just like
Floyd | last time: there are little tubes leading into the wall, and some sort
Floyd | of gas is being pumped out of them, but nothing happens. Then they
Floyd | shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 161
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER
Floyd |
Floyd | Pictures and memories of being a bully are lingering in your head, for
Floyd | whatever reason.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "scootch" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 161
Floyd |
Floyd | > SCOOTCH
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Verb not available. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "aw"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember bully" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 162
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER BULLY
Floyd |
Floyd | Your primary school. A drab single-storey building surrounded
Floyd | on all sides by the most garish green fence. You were standing next to
Floyd | that little extension on the side - you think it was the
Floyd | secretary's office or something - and you were trying to count the
Floyd | bricks. A girl came up to you, and then she ran off because you
Floyd | told her to go away.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You can't join me because you can't count," you said. "You're too
Floyd | stupid." You don't know what happened next. You didn't care. Maybe she
Floyd | went and cried in a corner, or maybe she just played with someone
Floyd | else.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember girl" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 163
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER GIRL
Floyd |
Floyd | Rhiane was her name. One of many people you looked down on. She
Floyd | was stupid, though. She always got the teachers' questions
Floyd | wrong. She was enthusiastic, always wanted to answer, but even simple
Floyd | arithmetic eluded her. Still, you were mean to her. You never saw her
Floyd | again after you went to secondary school.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "remember was" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 163
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER WAS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember extension" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 164
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER EXTENSION
Floyd |
Floyd | It was just a little block jutting out from the main building. The
Floyd | curtains were almost always shut. You think it was the secretary's
Floyd | office.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember primary school" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 165
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER PRIMARY SCHOOL
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't have too many memories of that place. The building was from
Floyd | the eighties: it was ugly, but not intolerable. The playground was
Floyd | just concrete with hopscotch painted on it and stuff like that; you
Floyd | remember it got really hot in the summer. You spent minimal time
Floyd | outdoors. You were first in line to get in, and you just put your head
Floyd | down and worked, storming through arithmetic workbooks and leaving
Floyd | everyone behind.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember secretary" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 166
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER SECRETARY
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't remember how many bricks it had. You did get an answer, but
Floyd | you can't remember it, nor even how you felt when you finally got it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember curtains" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 167
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER CURTAINS
Floyd |
Floyd | The curtains were almost always shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "remember hopscotch" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 168
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER HOPSCOTCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't have too many memories of that place. The building was from
Floyd | the eighties: it was ugly, but not intolerable. The playground was
Floyd | just concrete with hopscotch painted on it and stuff like that; you
Floyd | remember it got really hot in the summer. You spent minimal time
Floyd | outdoors. You were first in line to get in, and you just put your head
Floyd | down and worked, storming through arithmetic workbooks and leaving
Floyd | everyone behind.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "remember mark" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 168
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER MARK
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember tubes" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 168
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER TUBES
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "think" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 169
Floyd |
Floyd | > THINK
Floyd |
Floyd | Time to take stock. Here you are, tied up, gagged, sitting on the
Floyd | floor in an iron train car, with only a load of dead wasps and a
Floyd | complete stranger who is similarly incapacitated for company. Now,
Floyd | what does this mean? Can you solve this one by induction? Stop being
Floyd | silly, Helen, this is bloody serious. It means you've been kidnapped.
Floyd | But why would that happen? You can't understand why a kidnapping of
Floyd | this magnitude would happen to a nobody like you. You would expect a
Floyd | random psychopath to just hack your limbs off and be done with it; if
Floyd | somebody is actually keeping you alive, it makes you think they need
Floyd | you for something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember arithmetic" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 169
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER ARITHMETIC
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 170
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | Your hands are bound to your sides, and honestly, there's nothing here
Floyd | that you'd want to pick up anyway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly that loud noise comes back, and the red light fills the room
Floyd | again. You can't help your pulse raising. But it happens just like
Floyd | last time: there are little tubes leading into the wall, and some sort
Floyd | of gas is being pumped out of them, but nothing happens. Then they
Floyd | shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember kidnapping" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 170
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER KIDNAPPING
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "hold breath" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 170
Floyd |
Floyd | > HOLD BREATH
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see anything of the sort.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Maybe remembering being a bully will add something new to the dreamscape?"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "sleep" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 170
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You're feeling surprisingly tired, so even though you'd rather not be
Floyd | off your guard in a situation like this, you can't be bothered to
Floyd | worry about it. You fall down onto your side, shut your eyes, and try
Floyd | to let the train's steady movement send you off.

		Jacqueline asks, "So, we deserve to be kidnapped by that stupid girl. WHO'S STUPID NOW, HELEN?"
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		

Floyd ]  On the Cloud                             Helen         Moves: 171
Floyd |
Floyd | On the Cloud (in the cage) (as Helen)
Floyd | You're looking out of your prison at the little piece of heaven that
Floyd | Mark and his friends have been given. They're sat at a small table,
Floyd | completely ignoring you, having a game of cards. One of your pages is
Floyd | on the table. If the situation seems hopeless, then you think the
Floyd | lever that's poking through the bars of your cage would send you back
Floyd | down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x cards" 		

Floyd ]  On the Cloud                             Helen         Moves: 172
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CARDS
Floyd |
Floyd | The card game seems placid, but serious. Mark's hand is unreasonably
Floyd | good. You can't see what the others have got.
Floyd |
Floyd | "We've got to be thankful for the Lord's protection," says Mark.
Floyd | "There's so much evil around."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "call tichu" 		

Floyd ]  On the Cloud                             Helen         Moves: 173
Floyd |
Floyd | > CALL TICHU
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't have a phone.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Can you smell something?" says a friend of Mark. "It's horrid."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "haha"
Doug says (to Floyd), "down" 		

Floyd ]  On the Cloud                             Helen         Moves: 174
Floyd |
Floyd | > DOWN
Floyd |
Floyd | How do you propose to get down?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "pull lever" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: East               Helen         Moves: 175
Floyd |
Floyd | > PULL LEVER
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly the whole scene disappears as the cage shoots down into the
Floyd | cloud. It's swaying violently from side to side, shooting down between
Floyd | the clouds, barely giving the other residents chance to see you. Soon
Floyd | you're looking down at the pit of fire far below you, but before you
Floyd | know it the cage has slammed back into the ground and you're back at
Floyd | the side of the mountain.
Floyd |
Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: East (as Helen)
Floyd | In front of a line of heavy boulders, there's a cage. A cage, large
Floyd | enough for you to get into, and indeed with a door hanging invitingly
Floyd | open. A thick wire is connected to the top of the cage and runs right
Floyd | up into the sky, disappearing into thick cloud. You can still ignore
Floyd | it all and go back to the west, of course.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Perhaps we get a phone later."
		Doug says, "I'm guessing that's an I7 default response"
		DavidW says, "Don't think so."
		Baryon says, "This is I6 anyway"
		Doug says, "(Tichu is a card game, and one of the things you can do in it is call tichu)"
		Doug says, "(i.e. lame joke)"
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: South              Helen         Moves: 176
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: South (as Helen)
Floyd | Down here, the pit of fire attacks all your senses at once, your eyes
Floyd | with its intense colour, your ears with the sound of its bubbling and
Floyd | popping, your skin with its searing heat. Just a short distance away
Floyd | over the fire is a small island with a small church on it, and indeed
Floyd | no room for anything else. There's no way over to it, but there is an
Floyd | upright stake lodged in the ground, and a recess next to it where
Floyd | another one might go. There are also paths around the base of the
Floyd | mountain to the west and east, and a way back up to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: West               Helen         Moves: 177
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: West (as Helen)
Floyd | Looking west you can see an island, floating on the surface of the
Floyd | fiery sea. A single wooden stake is lodged into the ground here, with
Floyd | a recess next to it, and directly opposite you on the island's shores
Floyd | are two more stakes. You can continue around the mountain to the
Floyd | north, or go back where you came from to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "stake" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: West               Helen         Moves: 177
Floyd |
Floyd | > STAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Verb not available. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "put stake in hole" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: West               Helen         Moves: 178
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT STAKE IN HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | (the wooden stake in the recess)
Floyd | You lodge the stake into the recess, and a bridge shimmers into
Floyd | existence, leading west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Coast                                    Helen         Moves: 179
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Coast (as Helen)
Floyd | You're on the shores of an island, bigger than the church isle you saw
Floyd | earlier, floating in the pit of fire. The great mountain is visible to
Floyd | the east, and a bridge leads over to its base. There's a crater here,
Floyd | with a signpost next to it that has an arrow pointing down.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's one of your pages here, glowing faintly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get page" 		

Floyd ]  Coast                                    Helen         Moves: 180
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET PAGE
Floyd |
Floyd | (the page)
Floyd | That was the second of your pages. Somehow, you know there are seven.
Floyd | There's always seven.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "The Snowman is on TV at the same time for the ultimate dfreamscape"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get sign" 		

Floyd ]  Coast                                    Helen         Moves: 181
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET SIGN
Floyd |
Floyd | The signpost is lodged firmly in the ground, but you have a feeling
Floyd | you don't need it anyway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x sign" 		

Floyd ]  Coast                                    Helen         Moves: 182
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SIGN
Floyd |
Floyd | The arrow is pointing straight down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x crater" 		

Floyd ]  Coast                                    Helen         Moves: 183
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CRATER
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a crater, with a radius of almost a metre, and there's a
Floyd | signpost next to it with an arrow pointing straight down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "read page" 		

Floyd ]  Coast                                    Helen         Moves: 184
Floyd |
Floyd | > READ PAGE
Floyd |
Floyd | A page from your book, a piece of you. But the words are blurred and
Floyd | you can't read them properly. Maybe if you were awake you'd be able to
Floyd | concentrate on it?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "Did we try >CONCENTRATE ON PAGE ?"
		Jacqueline says, "(Once awake?)"
		Baryon says, "No, but you already succeeded"
		Jacqueline says, "Oh, damn. I missed that."
		Baryon says, "No, I mean you remembered the bullying episode"
		Doug asks, "ohh, each page gives us new memories?"
		DavidW says, "oh, is *that* why we had the new memory."
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wake" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 185
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly you're awake, and you struggle back into a sitting position,
Floyd | but it feels like you've just come from one nightmare to another.
Floyd | Images and memories from your dreams are parading through your mind,
Floyd | as if you didn't have enough torment.
Floyd |
Floyd | Carriage (as Helen)
Floyd | It's a grey, metal carriage, only slightly longer than it is wide.
Floyd | There's no window, so the only light is from a slim fluorescent lamp
Floyd | in the ceiling that flickers every so often, periodically plunging you
Floyd | into darkness.The floor is littered with dead wasps, but they're not
Floyd | you're only company: a man, probably in his early twenties, is in the
Floyd | same state, leaning against the opposite wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "I guess the crystals give Ross new memories too"
		DavidW says, "I didn't clue into that. And I suppose Ross can... tmg"
		Doug asks, "tmg?"
		DavidW says, "tmg, timing = You already said what I was about to say."
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 186
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER
Floyd |
Floyd | Images from your wretched past are swimming around in your mind: the
Floyd | holiday in Turkey and being a bully. Most prominent are the memories
Floyd | of being a bully.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember turkey" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 187
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER TURKEY
Floyd |
Floyd | There was that nuclear furnace we call the Sun, and though you knew it
Floyd | was the same one, it definitely felt different, beating down on you on
Floyd | the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. You felt very dizzy on that walk,
Floyd | because of the heat. You'd gone out of your little holiday cottage on
Floyd | your own, hadn't told your parents where you were going. Mary was in
Floyd | the pool, and you didn't like swimming, so you just left. You walked
Floyd | through the town, wandered in and out of shops, tried to talk to
Floyd | random locals, who didn't answer you, not even if you said "merhaba"
Floyd | or some of the other phrasebook things that you can't remember now.
Floyd | You ended up on this beautiful coastal path, looking out at the
Floyd | glimmering sea and the beautiful rocks poking out of it.
Floyd | You were fourteen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember sea" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 188
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER SEA
Floyd |
Floyd | You remember looking down at the sea, and all you could think about
Floyd | was what it would be like to jump in. It was a really long way up, and
Floyd | you weren't scared. There was no fence on the side of the cliff - it
Floyd | would have been so easy to just dive down. You knew you wouldn't do
Floyd | it, but you couldn't resist thinking about it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Usually you wouldn't want to be asleep when you feel in danger, but
Floyd | you've somehow ceased to care. You could do with a nap.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember rocks" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 189
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER ROCKS
Floyd |
Floyd | You thought about the rocks poking out from the water. You thought
Floyd | about your jumping trajectory. You imagined what it would be like to
Floyd | fall straight onto the rocks, your blood flowing out to sea.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember mary" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 189
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER MARY
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember parents" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 189
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER PARENTS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Morbid little child."
		Baryon says, "She was 14"
Doug says (to Floyd), "remember merhaba" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 189
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER MERHABA
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Children are often pretty morbid."
Doug says (to Floyd), "sleep" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 189
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You're feeling surprisingly tired, so even though you'd rather not be
Floyd | off your guard in a situation like this, you can't be bothered to
Floyd | worry about it. You fall down onto your side, shut your eyes, and try
Floyd | to let the train's steady movement send you off.

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "" 		

Floyd ]  Coast                                    Helen         Moves: 190
Floyd |
Floyd | Coast (as Helen)
Floyd | You're on the shores of an island, bigger than the church isle you saw
Floyd | earlier, floating in the pit of fire. The great mountain is visible to
Floyd | the east, and a bridge leads over to its base. There's a crater here,
Floyd | with a signpost next to it that has an arrow pointing down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Coast                                    Helen         Moves: 191
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | You step into the crater experimentally, finding the ground to be
Floyd | somewhat elastic, almost like fabric. Nothing happens though, so you
Floyd | step out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Coast                                    Helen         Moves: 192
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   2 pages (of 7)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Shame Helen doesn't have the sickle."
		Doug says, "well hm."
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: West               Helen         Moves: 193
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: West (as Helen)
Floyd | Looking west you can see an island, floating on the surface of the
Floyd | fiery sea. A wooden bridge leads over to its shores. You can continue
Floyd | around the mountain to the north, or go back where you came from to
Floyd | the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: West               Helen         Moves: 194
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | You continue walking around the mountain, clambering over fallen rocks
Floyd | and picking your way through dead bushes. You look ahead, and stop
Floyd | dead in your tracks. In the distance you can see that parade of death
Floyd | that you came from: the dead, clambering up the mountainside towards
Floyd | judgement. Nobody's seen you, and you'd rather it stay that way. Your
Floyd | heart beating fast with terror, you scurry back around to where you
Floyd | came from, moving so recklessly that you almost fall into the fire.
Floyd |
Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: West (as Helen)
Floyd | Looking west you can see an island, floating on the surface of the
Floyd | fiery sea. A wooden bridge leads over to its shores. You can go back
Floyd | where you came from to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: West               Helen         Moves: 195
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | Your climbing skills are too pathetic. You might as well just jump
Floyd | straight into the fire to save yourself the bother of falling in
Floyd | accidentally.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: South              Helen         Moves: 196
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: South (as Helen)
Floyd | Down here, the pit of fire attacks all your senses at once, your eyes
Floyd | with its intense colour, your ears with the sound of its bubbling and
Floyd | popping, your skin with its searing heat. Just a short distance away
Floyd | over the fire is a small island with a small church on it, and indeed
Floyd | no room for anything else. There's no way over to it, but there is an
Floyd | upright stake lodged in the ground, and a recess next to it where
Floyd | another one might go. There are also paths around the base of the
Floyd | mountain to the west and east, and a way back up to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get stake" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: South              Helen         Moves: 197
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET STAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | The stake looks as though it would be easy to pull out, but there's
Floyd | that other recess right next to it: you'd rather put another in than
Floyd | have both recesses empty.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Mountainside                             Helen         Moves: 198
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Mountainside (as Helen)
Floyd | You're looking out upon the enormous pit of fire surrounding the
Floyd | mountain. Rocks of various sizes litter the ground, and an acrid dust
Floyd | suffuses your senses. It looks like you could probably scramble down
Floyd | to the south without much injury. Up above, the judgement continues.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Mountainside                             Helen         Moves: 199
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't want to return to the judging table.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "hm, still haven't found anything to show Mark"
		Doug says, "or a way to get into the church or the crater."
		DavidW asks, "You haven't been in the church yet?"
		Doug asks, "nope?"
Doug says (to Floyd), "put stake in hole" 		

Floyd ]  Mountainside                             Helen         Moves: 199
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT STAKE IN HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see anything of the sort.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: South              Helen         Moves: 200
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: South (as Helen)
Floyd | Down here, the pit of fire attacks all your senses at once, your eyes
Floyd | with its intense colour, your ears with the sound of its bubbling and
Floyd | popping, your skin with its searing heat. Just a short distance away
Floyd | over the fire is a small island with a small church on it, and indeed
Floyd | no room for anything else. There's no way over to it, but there is an
Floyd | upright stake lodged in the ground, and a recess next to it where
Floyd | another one might go. There are also paths around the base of the
Floyd | mountain to the west and east, and a way back up to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "put stake in hole" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: South              Helen         Moves: 201
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT STAKE IN HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You need to be holding the recess before you can put it into something
Floyd | else.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: South              Helen         Moves: 202
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   2 pages (of 7)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "there isnt a clear way into church, DavidW"
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: West               Helen         Moves: 203
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: West (as Helen)
Floyd | Looking west you can see an island, floating on the surface of the
Floyd | fiery sea. A wooden bridge leads over to its shores. You can go back
Floyd | where you came from to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get stake" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: West               Helen         Moves: 204
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET STAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | You pull out one of the stakes, and the bridge to the west burns up,
Floyd | disappearing in an instant.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: South              Helen         Moves: 205
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: South (as Helen)
Floyd | Down here, the pit of fire attacks all your senses at once, your eyes
Floyd | with its intense colour, your ears with the sound of its bubbling and
Floyd | popping, your skin with its searing heat. Just a short distance away
Floyd | over the fire is a small island with a small church on it, and indeed
Floyd | no room for anything else. There's no way over to it, but there is an
Floyd | upright stake lodged in the ground, and a recess next to it where
Floyd | another one might go. There are also paths around the base of the
Floyd | mountain to the west and east, and a way back up to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "put stake in hole" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: South              Helen         Moves: 206
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT STAKE IN HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | (the wooden stake in the recess)
Floyd | You lodge the stake into the recess, and a bridge shimmers into
Floyd | existence, leading southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | Another body wordlessly accepts its fate, and flies down into the pit
Floyd | of fire.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 207
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Church Isle (as Helen)
Floyd | A small hexagonal stone church stands here, filling up almost the
Floyd | whole surface area of the island. It's somewhat crooked, and seems to
Floyd | get thinner and more distant the higher up you look, until the spire
Floyd | is like a spindly wire reaching up to the sky. The church is
Floyd | surrounded by a spiky wire mesh fence; there might be an opening
Floyd | around the back, but you can't tell. You can only walk back across the
Floyd | bridge to the northwest. Flames are licking up at the church's
Floyd | foundations, and you have to be careful that they don't claim you too.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "enter church" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 208
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER CHURCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You bump into the fence surrounding the church. Your vision blurs
Floyd | momentarily.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I didn't know what to do here, but it seemed significant."
Doug says (to Floyd), "x flames" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 209
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FLAMES
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a colossal pit of constant flame. You can feel its heat from
Floyd | here, and hear the blaze as loudly as if it were already consuming
Floyd | you. You know that it will do so. You belong there.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "follow fence" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 209
Floyd |
Floyd | > FOLLOW FENCE
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Verb not available. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "cut wire" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 209
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT WIRE
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the church or the fence?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Have we tried going 'around back?'"
Doug says (to Floyd), "fence" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 210
Floyd |
Floyd | > FENCE
Floyd |
Floyd | Things do seem quite soft here, as though you could easily cut into
Floyd | them. But you'd still need a tool of some kind.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "I think so"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "go around back" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 210
Floyd |
Floyd | > GO AROUND BACK
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see anything of the sort.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes says, "yes to around back"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 211
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd | You bump into the fence surrounding the church. Your vision blurs
Floyd | momentarily.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fence" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 212
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FENCE
Floyd |
Floyd | A wire mesh fence topped with spikes is hugging the walls of the
Floyd | church.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get stake" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 213
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET STAKE
Floyd |
Floyd | If you did that, you wouldn't be able to get back.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "get spike" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 214
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET SPIKE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "remember sickle" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 214
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER SICKLE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x spire" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 215
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SPIRE
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Church Isle (as Helen)
Floyd | A small hexagonal stone church stands here, filling up almost the
Floyd | whole surface area of the island. It's somewhat crooked, and seems to
Floyd | get thinner and more distant the higher up you look, until the spire
Floyd | is like a spindly wire reaching up to the sky. The church is
Floyd | surrounded by a spiky wire mesh fence; there might be an opening
Floyd | around the back, but you can't tell. You can only walk back across the
Floyd | bridge to the northwest. Flames are licking up at the church's
Floyd | foundations, and you have to be careful that they don't claim you too.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 216
Floyd |
Floyd | > IN
Floyd |
Floyd | You bump into the fence surrounding the church. Your vision blurs
Floyd | momentarily.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb spire" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 217
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLIMB SPIRE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's much too high, and you imagine it would just get keep getting
Floyd | taller if you climbed up, so that you'd never reach the top.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "go around church" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 217
Floyd |
Floyd | > GO AROUND CHURCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see anything of the sort.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "pray" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 218
Floyd |
Floyd | > PRAY
Floyd |
Floyd | God's dead, remember?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search church" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 219
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH CHURCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't think that's really searchable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter church" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 220
Floyd |
Floyd | > ENTER CHURCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You bump into the fence surrounding the church. Your vision blurs
Floyd | momentarily.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember god" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 220
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER GOD
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn church" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 221
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN CHURCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You are unable to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "church, open" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 221
Floyd |
Floyd | > CHURCH, OPEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't talk to the church.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "deny church" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 221
Floyd |
Floyd | > DENY CHURCH
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Verb not available. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Perhaps Ross's memories are more helpful just now."
		Jacqueline asks, "WWJD?"
		DavidW asks (of Jacqueline), "Besides sandwiches, you mean?"
		Doug says, "get right church"
Doug says (to Floyd), "get right church" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 221
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET RIGHT CHURCH
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see anything of the sort.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		smartgenes asks, "wwjd?"
		DavidW says, "What Would Jesus Do"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "walk through fence" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 222
Floyd |
Floyd | > WALK THROUGH FENCE
Floyd |
Floyd | You bump into the fence surrounding the church. Your vision blurs
Floyd | momentarily.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "yeah, let's hop to Ross"
		Jacqueline says, "mmkay"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "be ross" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 223
Floyd |
Floyd | > BE ROSS
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: Central (as Ross)
Floyd | Giant cogs are turning, forming a messy pattern that snakes around the
Floyd | room, interspersed with other machines whose function is entirely
Floyd | opaque to you. Some are spewing steam, some are making horrid
Floyd | squelching noises, some have bright flashing lights. There is a wall
Floyd | to the east, and many of the cogs cut right through it. You can go
Floyd | back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Do we have to wake up to remember?"
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 224
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER
Floyd |
Floyd | Remember? Was there a past?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "pull cog" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 224
Floyd |
Floyd | > PULL COG
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "I... think so."
		DavidW says, "yeah, I guess we need to wake up."
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "wake" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 225
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You bolt awake. Still in the train carriage, trundling along. You
Floyd | manage to push yourself back into a sitting position.
Floyd |
Floyd | Carriage (as Ross)
Floyd | The metal carriage is a deep grey with shadowy corners, and the
Floyd | fluorescent lamp on the ceiling is on the blink, so that every so
Floyd | often you're sent into total darkness. Your only company is the girl
Floyd | opposite you and a sea of dead wasps. You don't know where you're
Floyd | going or how you got here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x helen" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 226
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HELEN
Floyd |
Floyd | The girl is up against the wall directly opposite you, with the same
Floyd | tight ropes binding her limbs together, and the gag over her mouth.
Floyd | There's a nagging familiarity about her, but no matter how many times
Floyd | you cast your eyes over her tangled brown hair, pale face, the
Floyd | expensive-looking navy blue jumper or surprisingly intact jeans, you
Floyd | cannot work out who she is. She looks to be in her early twenties, and
Floyd | generally, you feel she doesn't deserve to be here. Not that anyone
Floyd | does.
Floyd |
Floyd | She's currently lying on her side, getting some sleep.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "x me" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 227
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | It really is as bad as it feels. Your arms and legs are tightly bound;
Floyd | you've got no chance of shaking yourself free or even being able to
Floyd | move around. And worst of all, you can't even talk to the only other
Floyd | person in the room. The gag feels like a permanent attachment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 228
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER
Floyd |
Floyd | You decide to give it another go. Shutting your eyes tightly, you
Floyd | devote all your energy to the task of remembering, and this time the
Floyd | memories come in thick and fast, so quickly you can scarcely keep up.
Floyd | And that's it. Your sad, sorry life. You're just another idealistic
Floyd | idiot who thinks he can make a difference. You've achieved nothing,
Floyd | done nothing wrong and nothing right. Your last memory is of racing to
Floyd | the Underground and fighting your way through the carriage to stop
Floyd | Reth's stupid, stupid plan from working. And you did, didn't you? You
Floyd | did it. And that's all you remember. Don't say this is his silly
Floyd | messed-up idea of revenge... Reth isn't like that. No, you just don't
Floyd | get it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some memories seem particularly clear in your mind now. Usually you
Floyd | have no interest in the past, especially your own.
Floyd |
Floyd | You're feeling quite sleepy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember reth" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 228
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER RETH
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 229
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER
Floyd |
Floyd | Various memories are running around your head: the climate change talk
Floyd | and the anti-war march.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember climate change talk" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 230
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER CLIMATE CHANGE TALK
Floyd |
Floyd | The talk was over and you were pretty much exhausted, especially after
Floyd | all the long, technical and boring questions that had been asked at
Floyd | the end. Various campaign groups had stalls in the entrance
Floyd | hall area and you quickly lost Caroline in the crowd. You'd
Floyd | been loitering in the middle of the room for a while, not knowing
Floyd | where to go, too jaded to go and read the posters and leaflets that
Floyd | had been set out, when a youngish or middle-aged woman spotted
Floyd | you and started talking to you, for whatever reason.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's that clanking sound again. As before, a red light fills the
Floyd | room every second, and little vents open on the walls. There's the
Floyd | sound of rushing air, a horrid smell, and then they shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember woman" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 231
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER WOMAN
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You'd never seen her before and you never saw her again. She was
Floyd | wearing a shirt and a jacket like a businesswoman but she still seemed
Floyd | a bit scruffy. She had short hair and a rucksack over one shoulder.
Floyd | Her voice was quite deep, full and stern, but it was so busy in there
Floyd | that you doubt anyone else heard what she was saying to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Maybe you could try going to sleep... Maybe when you wake up you'll
Floyd | have arrived. Somewhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember rucksack" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 232
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER RUCKSACK
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't remember everything you talked about, but some of it sticks
Floyd | out.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I just want to know the answer," you remember saying. "All this talk
Floyd | about the problems and about how deeply ingrained they are in our
Floyd | society, but what do you do about that?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "You should go over there," she said, pointing to the socialist youth
Floyd | stall. "Far as I'm concerned, that is the place to start."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember stalls" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 233
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER STALLS
Floyd |
Floyd | There were stalls for all kinds of things, from political parties to
Floyd | environmental campaign groups to home solar panel installation
Floyd | companies.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember socialist youth" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 234
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER SOCIALIST YOUTH
Floyd |
Floyd | You were too tired to look carefully or to speak to them there and
Floyd | then, so you just snatched up one of each of the leaflets and fliers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember leaflets" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 234
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER LEAFLETS
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, the stalls or the socialist youth stall?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "socialist youth" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 235
Floyd |
Floyd | > SOCIALIST YOUTH
Floyd |
Floyd | You were too tired to look carefully or to speak to them there and
Floyd | then, so you just snatched up one of each of the leaflets and fliers.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember caroline" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 236
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER CAROLINE
Floyd |
Floyd | Caroline wasn't in the best of moods that day, and you can hardly go
Floyd | to a talk on climate change to unwind. You'd just recently caved in to
Floyd | getting a soul-destroying job at a supermarket, just for the money,
Floyd | and as soon as her ex-husband heard about it, he stopped sending
Floyd | Caroline the money packets that were only just keeping you afloat as
Floyd | it was. So, money was as tight as ever, if not more so.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember supermarket" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 236
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER SUPERMARKET
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember march" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 237
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER MARCH
Floyd |
Floyd | The memory has been overtaken a bit by all the other demos you've been
Floyd | on since, but the first one always sticks out, of course. The anger on
Floyd | the streets was probably more palpable than you've ever felt it. You
Floyd | remember loving the crowd, being able to voice that anger along
Floyd | with so many others. The streets were familiar but transformed. You
Floyd | all felt so powerful; you could make a difference; surely they
Floyd | couldn't ignore you, the people. Best of all, Caroline was
Floyd | there all the way, shouting along with you. You loved having a mother
Floyd | who felt the same way as you.
Floyd |
Floyd | What you learned from it all was: the government can't be trusted.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remeember crowd" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 237
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEEMBER CROWD
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Verb not available. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember crowd" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 238
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER CROWD
Floyd |
Floyd | It's strange that the first march you went on was also the biggest.
Floyd | You suppose it was something that tended to cut across political
Floyd | differences. You weren't 'political' at 11 years old, after all, so
Floyd | you suppose there were plenty of older people who were similarly
Floyd | apolitical but just knew injustice when they saw it. The streets were
Floyd | simply packed full. You remember catching glimpses of the sidelines;
Floyd | the police were always there.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "remember police" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 239
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER POLICE
Floyd |
Floyd | It's strange that the first march you went on was also the biggest.
Floyd | You suppose it was something that tended to cut across political
Floyd | differences. You weren't 'political' at 11 years old, after all, so
Floyd | you suppose there were plenty of older people who were similarly
Floyd | apolitical but just knew injustice when they saw it. The streets were
Floyd | simply packed full. You remember catching glimpses of the sidelines;
Floyd | the police were always there.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember caroline" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 240
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER CAROLINE
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not really sure how it started, but you can scarcely imagine it
Floyd | any other way. It's not like she dragged you into this or that you
Floyd | dragged her into it: together you saw what was going on around you and
Floyd | together you acted. You were sounding boards for each other, trying to
Floyd | disentangle the politics. You learnt from each other. Even then, you
Floyd | called her Caroline. Her husband - you didn't call him dad, let alone
Floyd | Steve - was out of the picture. You didn't talk about him and didn't
Floyd | need to.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's that clanking sound again. As before, a red light fills the
Floyd | room every second, and little vents open on the walls. There's the
Floyd | sound of rushing air, a horrid smell, and then they shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember sidelines" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 241
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER SIDELINES
Floyd |
Floyd | It's strange that the first march you went on was also the biggest.
Floyd | You suppose it was something that tended to cut across political
Floyd | differences. You weren't 'political' at 11 years old, after all, so
Floyd | you suppose there were plenty of older people who were similarly
Floyd | apolitical but just knew injustice when they saw it. The streets were
Floyd | simply packed full. You remember catching glimpses of the sidelines;
Floyd | the police were always there.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "remember packets" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 241
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER PACKETS
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "remember injustice" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 241
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER INJUSTICE
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "didentangle politics" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 241
Floyd |
Floyd | > DIDENTANGLE POLITICS
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Verb not available. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "disentangle politics" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 241
Floyd |
Floyd | > DISENTANGLE POLITICS
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Verb not available. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Baryon says, "I think the remember command is a bit of a sham"
Doug says (to Floyd), "think" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 242
Floyd |
Floyd | > THINK
Floyd |
Floyd | You've established you're called Ross, you're twenty-one, a Londoner,
Floyd | a worker, a servant, a groundsman. Just another cog in a big
Floyd | world-destroying machine, and that's all you'll ever be.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
smartgenes says (to Floyd), "remember machines" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 242
Floyd |
Floyd | > REMEMBER MACHINES
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not in the foreground of your memory, if it ever was.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "?"
		DavidW says, "I'm still not sure if the memories are just rewards for story progress, or if they actually help us advance."
Doug says (to Floyd), "be reth" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 242
Floyd |
Floyd | > BE RETH
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't become that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "be caroline" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 242
Floyd |
Floyd | > BE CAROLINE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't become that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "be beast" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 242
Floyd |
Floyd | > BE BEAST
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't become that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "be" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 243
Floyd |
Floyd | > BE
Floyd |
Floyd | (the person opposite you)
Floyd |
Floyd | Church Isle (as Helen)
Floyd | A small hexagonal stone church stands here, filling up almost the
Floyd | whole surface area of the island. It's somewhat crooked, and seems to
Floyd | get thinner and more distant the higher up you look, until the spire
Floyd | is like a spindly wire reaching up to the sky. The church is
Floyd | surrounded by a spiky wire mesh fence; there might be an opening
Floyd | around the back, but you can't tell. You can only walk back across the
Floyd | bridge to the northwest. Flames are licking up at the church's
Floyd | foundations, and you have to be careful that they don't claim you too.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "oops, was hoping it would give us a list."
		Doug says, "probably we can only be Ross of Helen"
		Doug says, "or"
		Doug says, "so Helen needs the sickle, and Ross needs the pole"
Doug says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 244
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   2 pages (of 7)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Church Isle                              Helen         Moves: 245
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | If you go that way, you'll fall headlong into the fire. You can sense
Floyd | the pain already.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug nw 		
Doug says (to Floyd), "nw" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: South              Helen         Moves: 246
Floyd |
Floyd | > NW
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: South (as Helen)
Floyd | Down here, the pit of fire attacks all your senses at once, your eyes
Floyd | with its intense colour, your ears with the sound of its bubbling and
Floyd | popping, your skin with its searing heat. Just a short distance away
Floyd | over the fire is a small island with a small church on it, and indeed
Floyd | no room for anything else. You can reach it by a wooden bridge to the
Floyd | southeast, which is held up by two anchoring poles lodged into the
Floyd | ground. There are also paths around the base of the mountain to the
Floyd | west and east, and a way back up to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get pole" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: South              Helen         Moves: 247
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET POLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You pull out one of the stakes, and the bridge to the southeast burns
Floyd | up, disappearing in an instant.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "be ross" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 248
Floyd |
Floyd | > BE ROSS
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Carriage (as Ross)
Floyd | The metal carriage is a deep grey with shadowy corners, and the
Floyd | fluorescent lamp on the ceiling is on the blink, so that every so
Floyd | often you're sent into total darkness. Your only company is the girl
Floyd | opposite you and a sea of dead wasps. You don't know where you're
Floyd | going or how you got here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "sleep" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 248
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not getting anywhere by being awake, so you don't think it will
Floyd | matter to try getting some sleep. It's hardly comfortable, but it
Floyd | isn't noisy - in fact it's far quieter than London. You push yourself
Floyd | over onto your side and shut your eyes.

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 249
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: Central (as Ross)
Floyd | Giant cogs are turning, forming a messy pattern that snakes around the
Floyd | room, interspersed with other machines whose function is entirely
Floyd | opaque to you. Some are spewing steam, some are making horrid
Floyd | squelching noises, some have bright flashing lights. There is a wall
Floyd | to the east, and many of the cogs cut right through it. You can go
Floyd | back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 250
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a sickle
Floyd |   2 pieces of soul (of 7)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "hm, I guess Ross already had the sickle."
		Doug says, "I was thinking the sickle/pole would have the same status in both, a la Dual Transform"
		DavidW asks, "hm. If we roll and physically touch the other on the train, will that let us trade items in the dream?"
Doug says (to Floyd), "wake" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 251
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You bolt awake. Still in the train carriage, trundling along. You
Floyd | manage to push yourself back into a sitting position. Pictures from
Floyd | your past, things you saw in your dream, are still in the front of
Floyd | your mind.
Floyd |
Floyd | Carriage (as Ross)
Floyd | The metal carriage is a deep grey with shadowy corners, and the
Floyd | fluorescent lamp on the ceiling is on the blink, so that every so
Floyd | often you're sent into total darkness. Your only company is the girl
Floyd | opposite you and a sea of dead wasps. You don't know where you're
Floyd | going or how you got here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "roll" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 251
Floyd |
Floyd | > ROLL
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Verb not available. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "touch girl" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 252
Floyd |
Floyd | > TOUCH GIRL
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't reach her... You're tied up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "I tried scootching."
Doug says (to Floyd), "untie" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 252
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNTIE
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to untie?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "ropes" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 253
Floyd |
Floyd | > ROPES
Floyd |
Floyd | If only. But there's no way you can do anything with the ropes. Your
Floyd | arms are bound to your sides, and your hands come down frustratingly
Floyd | short of the rope around your shins, so you can't even touch it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "crawl" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 253
Floyd |
Floyd | > CRAWL
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Verb not available. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "untie helen" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 254
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNTIE HELEN
Floyd |
Floyd | So, if you weren't tied up, you'd pick her up and take her... where
Floyd | exactly? This plan seems doomed to failure.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wriggle" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 255
Floyd |
Floyd | > WRIGGLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You try scraping the ropes against the wall, and the floor, but it's
Floyd | not working. They're much too strong.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Oh wow, wriggle was in there."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "bite gag" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 256
Floyd |
Floyd | > BITE GAG
Floyd |
Floyd | Even if your hands weren't bound to your sides, you reckon taking it
Floyd | off would be extremely painful and might also remove your lips. It
Floyd | would probably be worth it, all the same.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "lick gag" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 256
Floyd |
Floyd | > LICK GAG
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Verb not available. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "shout" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 257
Floyd |
Floyd | > SHOUT
Floyd |
Floyd | You cry out, wanting to release some anger, but the gag over your
Floyd | mouth is so thick that it muffles and enfeebles every sound you make.
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel so tired.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "sleep" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Ross          Moves: 257
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not getting anywhere by being awake, so you don't think it will
Floyd | matter to try getting some sleep. It's hardly comfortable, but it
Floyd | isn't noisy - in fact it's far quieter than London. You push yourself
Floyd | over onto your side and shut your eyes.

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 258
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: Central (as Ross)
Floyd | Giant cogs are turning, forming a messy pattern that snakes around the
Floyd | room, interspersed with other machines whose function is entirely
Floyd | opaque to you. Some are spewing steam, some are making horrid
Floyd | squelching noises, some have bright flashing lights. There is a wall
Floyd | to the east, and many of the cogs cut right through it. You can go
Floyd | back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 259
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: West (as Ross)
Floyd | Complicated machinery is everywhere, clunking and scraping and turning
Floyd | and chugging away at the task of destroying the planet. At the north
Floyd | end of the room is a single stake, standing upright, and just beyond
Floyd | it is a gap in the floor, so that you can see through to the void of
Floyd | space below. A set of stairs leads up, and the machine room itself
Floyd | extends eastward.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "put sickle in hole" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 260
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SICKLE IN HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | That can't contain things.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x hole" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 261
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a single pole in the ground, and a round hole next to it where
Floyd | another one could go.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x sickle" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 262
Floyd |
Floyd | > X SICKLE
Floyd |
Floyd | A dependable worker's tool.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "put sickle in round hole" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 262
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SICKLE IN ROUND HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to put the sickle in the
Floyd | upright stake.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Can we jam the machine east so we can go down the trapdoor?"
		Doug asks, "I tried cutting it with the sickle. Maybe if it were a pole?"
		DavidW says, "I mean, JAM MACHINE WITH SICKLE or PUT SICKLE IN MACHINE"
		Jacqueline asks, "I don't think we've tried to jam the machine, have we?"
		DavidW says, "no. Which is why I'm suggesting it."
		DavidW says, "We could also try PUT SICKLE IN PIPE."
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 263
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: Central (as Ross)
Floyd | Giant cogs are turning, forming a messy pattern that snakes around the
Floyd | room, interspersed with other machines whose function is entirely
Floyd | opaque to you. Some are spewing steam, some are making horrid
Floyd | squelching noises, some have bright flashing lights. There is a wall
Floyd | to the east, and many of the cogs cut right through it. You can go
Floyd | back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "cut east" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 264
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT EAST
Floyd |
Floyd | You plunge the sickle into the wall, and it cuts itself into the shape
Floyd | of an arch, leading east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 265
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: East (as Ross)
Floyd | It's a continuation of the machine room, with more of the squeaking,
Floyd | pulsing mechanisms and gizmos. A trapdoor in the floor leads into
Floyd | darkness via a ladder. Emanating from it is a symphony of slicing,
Floyd | cutting and crashing sounds, and there's a machine up here that's
Floyd | buzzing and shaking in time with it.
Floyd |
Floyd | An archway leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get sickle" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 266
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET SICKLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel around the edges of the arch, then peel it away, removing the
Floyd | way to the west. You now have a sickle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "jam machine with sickle" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 266
Floyd |
Floyd | > JAM MACHINE WITH SICKLE
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Verb not available. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "put sickle in machine" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 267
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SICKLE IN MACHINE
Floyd |
Floyd | (the sickle in the loud machine)
Floyd | You'd rather put things on the floor than on the machines.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "put sickle on floor" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 268
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SICKLE ON FLOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | (the trapdoor)
Floyd | If possible you'd rather not drop anything important in there.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "block machine with sickle" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 268
Floyd |
Floyd | > BLOCK MACHINE WITH SICKLE
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Verb not available. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x trapdoor" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 269
Floyd |
Floyd | > X TRAPDOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a trapdoor in the floor with a ladder that leads down into
Floyd | darkness. The music of slashing, grinding and cutting is emanating
Floyd | from it. There's a raised part of the floor connecting the hole to a
Floyd | particularly loud machine here in the room, which you assume is in
Floyd | control of the slicing action.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put sickle in gears" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 269
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SICKLE IN GEARS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get ladder" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 270
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET LADDER
Floyd |
Floyd | How on earth could you carry that?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put sickle in trapdoor" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 271
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SICKLE IN TRAPDOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | If possible you'd rather not drop anything important in there.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "open trapdoor" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 272
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN TRAPDOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "hrm"
		DavidW says, "It's already open."
Doug says (to Floyd), "close trapdoor" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 273
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLOSE TRAPDOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not something you can close.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn off machine" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 274
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN OFF MACHINE
Floyd |
Floyd | There are no visible controls on the machine. You'll have to take a
Floyd | more physical approach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "kick machine" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 275
Floyd |
Floyd | > KICK MACHINE
Floyd |
Floyd | It is fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "break machine" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 276
Floyd |
Floyd | > BREAK MACHINE
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not going to be able to shut it down with your bare hands.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "kiss machine" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 277
Floyd |
Floyd | > KISS MACHINE
Floyd |
Floyd | Disgusting thought. Not even going to try.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "attack machine" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 278
Floyd |
Floyd | > ATTACK MACHINE
Floyd |
Floyd | You're not going to be able to shut it down with your bare hands.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 279
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a sickle
Floyd |   2 pieces of soul (of 7)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "wield sickle" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 279
Floyd |
Floyd | > WIELD SICKLE
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Verb not available. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "say BAD MACHINE to machine" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 280
Floyd |
Floyd | > SAY BAD MACHINE TO MACHINE
Floyd |
Floyd | There's no use talking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Zach would probably drive 4.5 hours in astronaut diapers just to have a sip of chai. 		
Zach has disconnected. 		
DavidW says (to Floyd), "try going to the pipe and putting the sickle in it." 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 280
Floyd |
Floyd | > TRY GOING TO THE PIPE AND PUTTING THE SICKLE IN IT.
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Verb not available. ]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 281
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a wall to the west, but you know how to get to the other side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "cut w; w" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 281
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT W; W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "cut w then w" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 283
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT W THEN W
Floyd |
Floyd | You plunge the sickle into the wall, and it cuts itself into the shape
Floyd | of an arch, leading west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: Central (as Ross)
Floyd | Giant cogs are turning, forming a messy pattern that snakes around the
Floyd | room, interspersed with other machines whose function is entirely
Floyd | opaque to you. Some are spewing steam, some are making horrid
Floyd | squelching noises, some have bright flashing lights. There is a wall
Floyd | to the east, and many of the cogs cut right through it. You can go
Floyd | back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | An archway leads east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "sorry. I'm getting tired."
		Jacqueline asks, "Hm. 2/7ths of the way to our soul... and this is a 2 hour comp game, eh?"
		Doug says, "well, we've been somewhat slow"
Doug says (to Floyd), "get sickle" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 284
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET SICKLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel around the edges of the arch, then peel it away, removing the
Floyd | way to the east. You now have a sickle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "w" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 285
Floyd |
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: West (as Ross)
Floyd | Complicated machinery is everywhere, clunking and scraping and turning
Floyd | and chugging away at the task of destroying the planet. At the north
Floyd | end of the room is a single stake, standing upright, and just beyond
Floyd | it is a gap in the floor, so that you can see through to the void of
Floyd | space below. A set of stairs leads up, and the machine room itself
Floyd | extends eastward.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Baryon asks, "Shall I start helping now?"
Doug says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 286
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb the stairs, and the stairs themselves fly upwards, so that
Floyd | with each footfall you're much higher up. Eventually the staircase
Floyd | halts, and you step off onto a platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | Beneath the Pipe (as Ross)
Floyd | You're standing on a small platform, watching severed parts of Earth
Floyd | shoot past through the pipe just above you that leads to the beast. By
Floyd | this point in their processing, things are barely recognisable as
Floyd | belonging to Nature - there are some earthy colours and familiar
Floyd | shapes, but it's mostly just a kind of tangled mush. Bits of it escape
Floyd | the flow and trickle onto the floor, creating a pungent deathly odour.
Floyd | A tiny ladder will take you right into the flow.
Floyd |
Floyd | You suddenly see a burst of colour floating past you, and it turns out
Floyd | to be a glass sphere drifting up towards the pipe. Presumably
Floyd | someone's soul is within. You have no time to save it before it is
Floyd | caught by the flow and vanishes down the tube.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "put sickle in pipe" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 287
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT SICKLE IN PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | You stretch your arm out and let the torrent seize the sickle. It
Floyd | disappears down the pipe in an instant.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "ding."
		Jacqueline says (to Baryon), "Not just yet, I don't think. Thanks, though."
Doug says (to Floyd), "l" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 288
Floyd |
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beneath the Pipe (as Ross)
Floyd | You're standing on a small platform, watching severed parts of Earth
Floyd | shoot past through the pipe just above you that leads to the beast. By
Floyd | this point in their processing, things are barely recognisable as
Floyd | belonging to Nature - there are some earthy colours and familiar
Floyd | shapes, but it's mostly just a kind of tangled mush. Bits of it escape
Floyd | the flow and trickle onto the floor, creating a pungent deathly odour.
Floyd | A tiny ladder will take you right into the flow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "ok, let's see what the machine does below."
		Doug says, "I bet Helen will get it now"
		DavidW asks, "oh?"
		Jacqueline says, "That would be cool."
		Doug says, "we can't get back to the machine, without the sickle to cut the archway"
Doug says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 289
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   2 pieces of soul (of 7)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x flow" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 290
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FLOW
Floyd |
Floyd | Material from the Earth is gushing through this pipe, on its way to
Floyd | the beast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x floor" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 291
Floyd |
Floyd | > X FLOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a staircase.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x bits" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 291
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BITS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "be helen" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: South              Helen         Moves: 292
Floyd |
Floyd | > BE HELEN
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: South (as Helen)
Floyd | Down here, the pit of fire attacks all your senses at once, your eyes
Floyd | with its intense colour, your ears with the sound of its bubbling and
Floyd | popping, your skin with its searing heat. Just a short distance away
Floyd | over the fire is a small island with a small church on it, and indeed
Floyd | no room for anything else. There's no way over to it, but there is an
Floyd | upright stake lodged in the ground, and a recess next to it where
Floyd | another one might go. There are also paths around the base of the
Floyd | mountain to the west and east, and a way back up to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear a noise from up the mountain, and see a pair of scissors and
Floyd | a colourful glass sphere tumbling down towards you. The sphere
Floyd | instantly smashes into a million shards, which disappear in the dust.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get scissors" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: South              Helen         Moves: 293
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET SCISSORS
Floyd |
Floyd | You bend down and retrieve the pair of scissors.
Floyd |
Floyd | Another body wordlessly accepts its fate, and flies down into the pit
Floyd | of fire.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x it" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: South              Helen         Moves: 294
Floyd |
Floyd | > X IT
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a big pair of scissors that came over the mountaintop.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: South              Helen         Moves: 295
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd | If you go that way, you'll fall headlong into the fire. Perhaps it's
Floyd | time.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "se" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: South              Helen         Moves: 295
Floyd |
Floyd | > SE
Floyd |
Floyd | Time to stop fooling around here. You step to the edge and let the
Floyd | flames lick your feet. You get used to the burns, almost enjoy it, and
Floyd | then you sway forward and let yourself go. The heat surges inside you,
Floyd | an intense pain eating through you, snaking round your blood vessels
Floyd | and turning you to death. You still have the sensation of falling, and
Floyd | falling, and you think you see something metal. Something big and
Floyd | metal, floating in space, consuming the Earth, but that's all you have
Floyd | time to notice before you scream your way into oblivion.

		DavidW says, "huh. A different cutting tool. I suppose it is really the same thing."
		Doug says, "oops"
Doug says (to Floyd), "" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 296
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly you're awake, and you struggle back into a sitting position,
Floyd | but it feels like you've just come from one nightmare to another.
Floyd | Images and memories from your dreams are parading through your mind,
Floyd | as if you didn't have enough torment.
Floyd |
Floyd | Carriage (as Helen)
Floyd | It's a grey, metal carriage, only slightly longer than it is wide.
Floyd | There's no window, so the only light is from a slim fluorescent lamp
Floyd | in the ceiling that flickers every so often, periodically plunging you
Floyd | into darkness.The floor is littered with dead wasps, but they're not
Floyd | you're only company: a man, probably in his early twenties, is in the
Floyd | same state, leaning against the opposite wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "sleep" 		

Floyd ]  Carriage                                 Helen         Moves: 296
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You're feeling surprisingly tired, so even though you'd rather not be
Floyd | off your guard in a situation like this, you can't be bothered to
Floyd | worry about it. You fall down onto your side, shut your eyes, and try
Floyd | to let the train's steady movement send you off.

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: South              Helen         Moves: 297
Floyd |
Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: South (as Helen)
Floyd | Down here, the pit of fire attacks all your senses at once, your eyes
Floyd | with its intense colour, your ears with the sound of its bubbling and
Floyd | popping, your skin with its searing heat. Just a short distance away
Floyd | over the fire is a small island with a small church on it, and indeed
Floyd | no room for anything else. There's no way over to it, but there is an
Floyd | upright stake lodged in the ground, and a recess next to it where
Floyd | another one might go. There are also paths around the base of the
Floyd | mountain to the west and east, and a way back up to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "put stake in hole" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: South              Helen         Moves: 298
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT STAKE IN HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | You need to be holding the recess before you can put it into something
Floyd | else.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: South              Helen         Moves: 299
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   2 pages (of 7)
Floyd |
Floyd | Another body wordlessly accepts its fate, and flies down into the pit
Floyd | of fire.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug asks, "crap, did we lose the scissors and the pole?"
		DavidW asks, "uh, did you not take the scissors?"
Doug says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Mountainside                             Helen         Moves: 300
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Mountainside (as Helen)
Floyd | You're looking out upon the enormous pit of fire surrounding the
Floyd | mountain. Rocks of various sizes litter the ground, and an acrid dust
Floyd | suffuses your senses. It looks like you could probably scramble down
Floyd | to the south without much injury. Up above, the judgement continues.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "no, I got them before"
Doug says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Foot of the Mountain: South              Helen         Moves: 301
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Foot of the Mountain: South (as Helen)
Floyd | Down here, the pit of fire attacks all your senses at once, your eyes
Floyd | with its intense colour, your ears with the sound of its bubbling and
Floyd | popping, your skin with its searing heat. Just a short distance away
Floyd | over the fire is a small island with a small church on it, and indeed
Floyd | no room for anything else. There's no way over to it, but there is an
Floyd | upright stake lodged in the ground, and a recess next to it where
Floyd | another one might go. There are also paths around the base of the
Floyd | mountain to the west and east, and a way back up to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "oh, right, you died again."
		Jacqueline asks, "undo a few?"
		Baryon says, "It's fine"
Doug says (to Floyd), "be ross" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 302
Floyd |
Floyd | > BE ROSS
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Beneath the Pipe (as Ross)
Floyd | You're standing on a small platform, watching severed parts of Earth
Floyd | shoot past through the pipe just above you that leads to the beast. By
Floyd | this point in their processing, things are barely recognisable as
Floyd | belonging to Nature - there are some earthy colours and familiar
Floyd | shapes, but it's mostly just a kind of tangled mush. Bits of it escape
Floyd | the flow and trickle onto the floor, creating a pungent deathly odour.
Floyd | A tiny ladder will take you right into the flow.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a loud sucking noise, and a sickle and a metal pole suddenly
Floyd | drop out of the flow, strangely intact.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "They gotta be here somewhere."
		Doug says, "aha, we got the pole"
Doug says (to Floyd), "get all" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 303
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET ALL
Floyd |
Floyd | metal pole: You expropriate the metal pole.
Floyd | sickle: You expropriate the sickle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "oh. Helen passed them back?"
Doug says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 304
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | As you climb down the stairs, the entire staircase shoots down,
Floyd | landing in the huge machine room you came from.
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: West (as Ross)
Floyd | Complicated machinery is everywhere, clunking and scraping and turning
Floyd | and chugging away at the task of destroying the planet. At the north
Floyd | end of the room is a single stake, standing upright, and just beyond
Floyd | it is a gap in the floor, so that you can see through to the void of
Floyd | space below. A set of stairs leads up, and the machine room itself
Floyd | extends eastward.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "put pole in hole" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 305
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT POLE IN HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | (the metal pole in the recess)
Floyd | You lodge the stake into the recess, and a bridge shimmers into
Floyd | existence, leading north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x bridge" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 306
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BRIDGE
Floyd |
Floyd | A simple metal walkway leads north, with bars along it that are bolted
Floyd | to two upright stakes at either end.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 307
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Over the Gap (as Ross)
Floyd | You've crossed the abyss to get over here, and there's just a
Floyd | boarded-up door to the north and, slightly more intriguingly, a
Floyd | strange device hanging through the ceiling - a column of metal with
Floyd | handles at the bottom. You could get back via the bridge to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | A small crystal is here - a part of your soul ready to be taken back.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "get crystal" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 308
Floyd |
Floyd | > GET CRYSTAL
Floyd |
Floyd | (the piece of soul)
Floyd | You've found another part of your 'soul'.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Bet Helen could pass over a stake too."
		Jacqueline says, "woo"
		Doug says (to DavidW), "yeah, when she died she dropped both the scissors and the stake, which became the sickle and the pole"
Doug says (to Floyd), "x door" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 309
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | The door has been blocked, so thoroughly that there are no gaps
Floyd | between the boards.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "open door" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 310
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You tug at the boards, but they don't budge.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x column" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 311
Floyd |
Floyd | > X COLUMN
Floyd |
Floyd | A strange column of metal is hanging down from the ceiling, a bit like
Floyd | a periscope, with handles at the bottom as though you could turn it.
Floyd | You imagine it goes up into one of the pipes, but you're not sure what
Floyd | effect turning it has.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn it" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 312
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You get a grip on the handles and try turning the machine in an
Floyd | anticlockwise direction. It's stiff, but you put in all your might and
Floyd | it finally budges, moving around by a set amount and clicking into a
Floyd | new position. The handles are strangely hot, as though the machine is
Floyd | connected to a furnace or something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "look into it" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 313
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK INTO IT
Floyd |
Floyd | That sounds like a waste of time.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "haha. guess it's not actually a periscope"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 314
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | The door has been blocked, so thoroughly that there are no gaps
Floyd | between the boards.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn it" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 315
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You are unable to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 316
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN COLUMN
Floyd |
Floyd | You get a grip on the handles and try turning the machine in an
Floyd | anticlockwise direction. It's stiff, but you put in all your might and
Floyd | it finally budges, moving around by a set amount and clicking into a
Floyd | new position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 317
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN COLUMN
Floyd |
Floyd | You get a firm grip on the handles and rotate the mechanism
Floyd | anticlockwise, which clicks sharply into a new position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "I'm guessing this changes something about the pipe"
Doug says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 318
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: West (as Ross)
Floyd | Complicated machinery is everywhere, clunking and scraping and turning
Floyd | and chugging away at the task of destroying the planet. At the north
Floyd | end of the room is a bridge across a wide gap in the floor. A set of
Floyd | stairs leads up, and the machine room itself extends eastward.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "up" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 319
Floyd |
Floyd | > UP
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb the stairs, and the stairs themselves fly upwards, so that
Floyd | with each footfall you're much higher up. Eventually the staircase
Floyd | halts, and you step off onto a platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | Beneath the Pipe (as Ross)
Floyd | You're standing on a small platform, watching severed parts of Earth
Floyd | shoot past through the pipe just above you that leads to the beast. By
Floyd | this point in their processing, things are barely recognisable as
Floyd | belonging to Nature - there are some earthy colours and familiar
Floyd | shapes, but it's mostly just a kind of tangled mush. Bits of it escape
Floyd | the flow and trickle onto the floor, creating a pungent deathly odour.
Floyd | A tiny ladder will take you right into the flow.
Floyd |
Floyd | You suddenly see a burst of colour floating past you, and it turns out
Floyd | to be a glass sphere drifting up towards the pipe. Presumably
Floyd | someone's soul is within. You have no time to save it before it is
Floyd | caught by the flow and vanishes down the tube.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "maybe not."
Doug says (to Floyd), "x pipe" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 320
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PIPE
Floyd |
Floyd | Material from the Earth is gushing through this pipe, on its way to
Floyd | the beast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I need to lie down. I'm just too tired to continue right now."
		Doug says (to DavidW), "pleasant dreams!"
		Baryon says, "Bye David"
		Doug says (to DavidW), "watch out for the abyss and the fire."
		Baryon laughs
Doug says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 321
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | As you climb down the stairs, the entire staircase shoots down,
Floyd | landing in the huge machine room you came from.
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: West (as Ross)
Floyd | Complicated machinery is everywhere, clunking and scraping and turning
Floyd | and chugging away at the task of destroying the planet. At the north
Floyd | end of the room is a bridge across a wide gap in the floor. A set of
Floyd | stairs leads up, and the machine room itself extends eastward.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "n" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 322
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Over the Gap (as Ross)
Floyd | You've crossed the abyss to get over here, and there's just a
Floyd | boarded-up door to the north and, slightly more intriguingly, a
Floyd | strange device hanging through the ceiling - a column of metal with
Floyd | handles at the bottom. You could get back via the bridge to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x handles" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 323
Floyd |
Floyd | > X HANDLES
Floyd |
Floyd | A strange column of metal is hanging down from the ceiling, a bit like
Floyd | a periscope, with handles at the bottom as though you could turn it.
Floyd | You imagine it goes up into one of the pipes, but you're not sure what
Floyd | effect turning it has.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 323
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN
Floyd |
Floyd | What do you want to turn?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 324
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN COLUMN
Floyd |
Floyd | You get a grip on the handles and try turning the machine in an
Floyd | anticlockwise direction. It's stiff, but you put in all your might and
Floyd | it finally budges, moving around by a set amount and clicking into a
Floyd | new position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column clockwise" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 325
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN COLUMN CLOCKWISE
Floyd |
Floyd | You get a grip on the handles and try turning the machine in a
Floyd | clockwise direction. It's stiff, but you put in all your might and it
Floyd | finally budges, moving around by a set amount and clicking into a new
Floyd | position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column clockwise" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 326
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN COLUMN CLOCKWISE
Floyd |
Floyd | You get a firm grip on the handles and rotate the mechanism clockwise,
Floyd | which clicks sharply into a new position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column clockwise" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 327
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN COLUMN CLOCKWISE
Floyd |
Floyd | You get a firm grip on the handles and rotate the mechanism clockwise,
Floyd | which clicks sharply into a new position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column clockwise" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 328
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN COLUMN CLOCKWISE
Floyd |
Floyd | You get a firm grip on the handles and rotate the mechanism clockwise,
Floyd | which clicks sharply into a new position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Hm, I have to say that I should probably go in a bit as well. We've been going two hours now. We could always set a time to resume."
		Jacqueline says, "Though I can stay for a bit."
		Doug says, "not actually sure if turning more than once does something different."
		Doug says, "I'm happy to pause until DavidW comes back (or whenever)."
		Jacqueline asks, "That one time it talked about the column getting hot, right? But not thereafter?"
		Baryon says, "It did say that"
		Doug says (to Jacqueline), "ohh, right."
		Jacqueline asks, "Baryon, where are you located, the UK?"
		Baryon says, "Yes"
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 329
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN COLUMN
Floyd |
Floyd | You get a firm grip on the handles and rotate the mechanism
Floyd | anticlockwise, which clicks sharply into a new position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 330
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN COLUMN
Floyd |
Floyd | You get a grip on the handles and try turning the machine in an
Floyd | anticlockwise direction. It's stiff, but you put in all your might and
Floyd | it finally budges, moving around by a set amount and clicking into a
Floyd | new position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 331
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN COLUMN
Floyd |
Floyd | You get a firm grip on the handles and rotate the mechanism
Floyd | anticlockwise, which clicks sharply into a new position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 332
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN COLUMN
Floyd |
Floyd | You get a firm grip on the handles and rotate the mechanism
Floyd | anticlockwise, which clicks sharply into a new position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 333
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN COLUMN
Floyd |
Floyd | You get a grip on the handles and try turning the machine in an
Floyd | anticlockwise direction. It's stiff, but you put in all your might and
Floyd | it finally budges, moving around by a set amount and clicking into a
Floyd | new position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 334
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN COLUMN
Floyd |
Floyd | You get a grip on the handles and try turning the machine in an
Floyd | anticlockwise direction. It's stiff, but you put in all your might and
Floyd | it finally budges, moving around by a set amount and clicking into a
Floyd | new position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 335
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN COLUMN
Floyd |
Floyd | You get a grip on the handles and try turning the machine in an
Floyd | anticlockwise direction. It's stiff, but you put in all your might and
Floyd | it finally budges, moving around by a set amount and clicking into a
Floyd | new position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 336
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN COLUMN
Floyd |
Floyd | You get a firm grip on the handles and rotate the mechanism
Floyd | anticlockwise, which clicks sharply into a new position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 337
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN COLUMN
Floyd |
Floyd | You get a grip on the handles and try turning the machine in an
Floyd | anticlockwise direction. It's stiff, but you put in all your might and
Floyd | it finally budges, moving around by a set amount and clicking into a
Floyd | new position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 338
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN COLUMN
Floyd |
Floyd | You get a grip on the handles and try turning the machine in an
Floyd | anticlockwise direction. It's stiff, but you put in all your might and
Floyd | it finally budges, moving around by a set amount and clicking into a
Floyd | new position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "sorry for the spam..."
		Jacqueline asks, "Huh. Not sure we'll get... can you turn it the other way?"
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 339
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN COLUMN
Floyd |
Floyd | You get a firm grip on the handles and rotate the mechanism
Floyd | anticlockwise, which clicks sharply into a new position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 340
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN COLUMN
Floyd |
Floyd | You get a grip on the handles and try turning the machine in an
Floyd | anticlockwise direction. It's stiff, but you put in all your might and
Floyd | it finally budges, moving around by a set amount and clicking into a
Floyd | new position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column until hot" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 340
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN COLUMN UNTIL HOT
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to turn the mechanism.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn column clockwise" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 341
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN COLUMN CLOCKWISE
Floyd |
Floyd | You get a firm grip on the handles and rotate the mechanism clockwise,
Floyd | which clicks sharply into a new position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline scrunches her nose and narrows her eyes.
		Doug says, "not sure how much it turns each time."
		Jacqueline says, "yeah"
		Doug says, "oh, we turned it anticlockwise 5 times, then clockwise 4 times, then anticlockwise a bunch more"
		Jacqueline asks, "But it never got hot again?"
		Doug says, "so we should either turn it anticlockwise until it wraps around, or clockwise a bunch"
		Doug says, "not sure which would be shorter."
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column clockwise five times" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 341
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN COLUMN CLOCKWISE FIVE TIMES
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to turn the mechanism.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "aw"
		Baryon says, "It only printed that message once"
		Jacqueline says, "f turn clockwise.g.g.g.g."
Doug says (to Floyd), "turn column clockwise" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 342
Floyd |
Floyd | > TURN COLUMN CLOCKWISE
Floyd |
Floyd | You get a grip on the handles and try turning the machine in a
Floyd | clockwise direction. It's stiff, but you put in all your might and it
Floyd | finally budges, moving around by a set amount and clicking into a new
Floyd | position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "g.g.g.g.g." 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 343
Floyd |
Floyd | > G.G.G.G.G.
Floyd |
Floyd | You get a grip on the handles and try turning the machine in a
Floyd | clockwise direction. It's stiff, but you put in all your might and it
Floyd | finally budges, moving around by a set amount and clicking into a new
Floyd | position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "g" 		

Floyd ]  Over the Gap                             Ross          Moves: 344
Floyd |
Floyd | > G
Floyd |
Floyd | You get a firm grip on the handles and rotate the mechanism clockwise,
Floyd | which clicks sharply into a new position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Maybe it only does stuff once to prevent spamming."
		Doug says, "hm"
		Doug asks (of Baryon), "so it won't ever print it again?"
		Doug says, "maybe we already triggered whatever it was"
		Jacqueline says, "I guess that's possible."
Doug says (to Floyd), "s" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 345
Floyd |
Floyd | > S
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: West (as Ross)
Floyd | Complicated machinery is everywhere, clunking and scraping and turning
Floyd | and chugging away at the task of destroying the planet. At the north
Floyd | end of the room is a bridge across a wide gap in the floor. A set of
Floyd | stairs leads up, and the machine room itself extends eastward.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Baryon says, "The handles are strangely hot, as though the machine is connected to a furnace or something."
Doug says (to Floyd), "u" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 346
Floyd |
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd | You climb the stairs, and the stairs themselves fly upwards, so that
Floyd | with each footfall you're much higher up. Eventually the staircase
Floyd | halts, and you step off onto a platform.
Floyd |
Floyd | Beneath the Pipe (as Ross)
Floyd | You're standing on a small platform, watching severed parts of Earth
Floyd | shoot past through the pipe just above you that leads to the beast. By
Floyd | this point in their processing, things are barely recognisable as
Floyd | belonging to Nature - there are some earthy colours and familiar
Floyd | shapes, but it's mostly just a kind of tangled mush. Bits of it escape
Floyd | the flow and trickle onto the floor, creating a pungent deathly odour.
Floyd | A tiny ladder will take you right into the flow.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x beast" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 346
Floyd |
Floyd | > X BEAST
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "x ladder" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 347
Floyd |
Floyd | > X LADDER
Floyd |
Floyd | A little ladder leads up to the material surging through the tube.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Baryon says, "It was supposed to be a one-off hint"
		Doug asks, "yeah, ok. Have we seen a furnace?"
		Jacqueline asks, "Can we shove stuff into the column?"
		Doug asks, "or is that the fire in Helen's dream?"
Doug says (to Floyd), "i" 		

Floyd ]  Beneath the Pipe                         Ross          Moves: 348
Floyd |
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   3 pieces of soul (of 7)
Floyd |   a sickle
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "I don---- ah, yeah"
		Jacqueline says, "I like that idea."
		Doug says, "let's see if the machine shut off, maybe"
Doug says (to Floyd), "d" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: West                       Ross          Moves: 349
Floyd |
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | As you climb down the stairs, the entire staircase shoots down,
Floyd | landing in the huge machine room you came from.
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: West (as Ross)
Floyd | Complicated machinery is everywhere, clunking and scraping and turning
Floyd | and chugging away at the task of destroying the planet. At the north
Floyd | end of the room is a bridge across a wide gap in the floor. A set of
Floyd | stairs leads up, and the machine room itself extends eastward.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 350
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: Central (as Ross)
Floyd | Giant cogs are turning, forming a messy pattern that snakes around the
Floyd | room, interspersed with other machines whose function is entirely
Floyd | opaque to you. Some are spewing steam, some are making horrid
Floyd | squelching noises, some have bright flashing lights. There is a wall
Floyd | to the east, and many of the cogs cut right through it. You can go
Floyd | back to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "cut e" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: Central                    Ross          Moves: 351
Floyd |
Floyd | > CUT E
Floyd |
Floyd | You plunge the sickle into the wall, and it cuts itself into the shape
Floyd | of an arch, leading east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
Doug says (to Floyd), "e" 		

Floyd ]  Machine Room: East                       Ross          Moves: 352
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room: East (as Ross)
Floyd | It's a continuation of the machine room, with more of the squeaking,
Floyd | pulsing mechanisms and gizmos. A trapdoor in the floor leads into
Floyd | darkness via a ladder. Emanating from it is a symphony of slicing,
Floyd | cutting and crashing sounds, and there's a machine up here that's
Floyd | buzzing and shaking in time with it.
Floyd |
Floyd | An archway leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Doug says, "nope."
		Jacqueline says, "No, doesn't look like it."
		Doug asks, "anyway, shall we pause?"
		Jacqueline says, "But is the column solid? Or can we put things in it to give them to Helen, or is it just the pipe that does that."
		Baryon says, "It's just the pipe that does that"
		Jacqueline says, "We could pause, I guess. Though with Baryon several hours ahead of us, he may have to wait for the gripping conclusion via transcript."
		Jacqueline says, "I have to work out, and I have to visit a friend in the hospital."
		Jacqueline says, "So I'm not sure what my schedule will be."
		Doug says, "I should get lunch,"
		Baryon asks, "When did you want to continue?"
		Jacqueline says, "But if you and David pick it back up later I would be fine with that. I'll leave the transcript log going."
		Jacqueline says (to Baryon), "I think we were thinking of resuming fluidly when David returned. That might only be half an hour to an hour, or it might be tomorrow. Not exactly precise, I realize. Unless we want to set a time. I'd be fine with playing tomorrow at the same time."
		Doug says, "I'm fine waiting for DavidW, or whenever."
		Baryon says, "OK, I don't mind. Sorry the game wasn't comp length"
		Jacqueline says, "No worries - it's an interesting dynamic, and I've been wanting more dream games."
		Jacqueline asks, "Why don't we just say same time tomorrow, Doug, if you're off of work and around and such?"
		Doug says, "I think we're unstuck, for now"
		Doug says, "I won't be around tomorrow until 3 or 4. having a late lunch with family"
		Doug says, "but you can play wthout me, of course."
		Jacqueline says, "Okay, well, I will leave the transcript running. If you and David are both on, feel free to continue. I may be away quite a bit today."
		Doug says, "okey doke. seeya."
		Jacqueline says (to Baryon), "I'll let you know when the transcript gets posted, and of course feel free to leave your mudwindow open and see if they pick it back up."
		Baryon says, "Yeah, OK. Thanks Jacqueline"
		Jacqueline asks, "Has it been at all interesting to watch other people play it in real time?"
		Baryon exclaims, "Yes, it's been amazing!"
		Jacqueline says, "Well, there's that, at least. Yay. Thanks, Baryon."
		Baryon says, "See you"
		Jacqueline says, "See ya."
		
*** LATER *** 		
		
Miseri arrives, full of fun and funk. 		Miseri says, "Aw, I missed Justin Morgan? I wanted to give him the third degree on What Does It All Mean."
		
*** LATER *** 		
		DavidW asks, "So, I'm awake again. (It's 8pm now.) How did it go?"
		Doug says (to DavidW), "good morning!"
		Doug says, "we played a little more, then decided to pause"
		Jacqueline says, "We broke it off not long after you went to lie down."
		Amanda asks, "what are you guys up to right now?"
		Doug says, "I just ordered dinner, but I'd be up for resuming after 30 mins or so"
		Jacqueline says, "I was about to play something, but the transcript is still going and I would be watching."
		Jacqueline says, "I wasn't contributing too much, but am interested in where it goes."
		Amanda says, "I heard ya'll were doin the comp games"
		Jacqueline says, "Oh, yeah. We were doing Spiral."
		DavidW says, "I was hoping that once you guys figured out how to pass objects between the PCs that the rest of the game would be a lot easier."
		Jacqueline says, "Oh, we really didn't play much longer."
		Jacqueline says, "Like, at all."
		Amanda says, "Oh, Spiral is an interesting one"
		DavidW says, "hi Amanda"
		Jacqueline asks, "Amanda, have you finished it?"
		Jacqueline says, "Spiral, I mean."
		Amanda says, "I have! I was in the comp, so, I won't spoil anything"
		Amanda says, "Though I will say, without spoiling, that I found the ending moves a little buggy"
		Jacqueline says, "Okay. Yeah, we don't want spoilers... though I can't say as I think we won't eventually want them. . o O (How's that for crazy sentence construction?)"
		Amanda exclaims, "Makes sense!"
		Amanda says, "I need to get out a post-comp release of my buggy game"
		Doug says, "me too! :("
		DavidW says, "Sorry that I had to crash, but I really did fall asleep shortly after I stopped talking."
		Ellison says (to DW), "I think the point is, while you sleep, there's supposed to be another person trying to solve things (or is it vice versa?)"
		DavidW asks (of Ellison), "uh, everyone should be trying to solve things, no?"
		Jacqueline says, "heh"
		Jacqueline says, "Well, we didn't want him to MISS ANYTHING"
		Ellison says (to DavidW), "I was trying to make a joke about the game mechanics"
		DavidW says, "ooooh"
		Jacqueline narrows her eyes. "... but ... we're helpless and self-doubting (either player, take your pick)."
		Doug says (to Ellison), "nice"
		
*** LATER *** 		
		DavidW says, "ok, I have a partial map of Spiral cobbled together from my notes. [LINK]"
		
*** LATER *** 		
		DavidW says, "uh, hope people won't be too upset with me, but I continued Spiral on my own last night."
		Jacqueline asks, "How did it go for you? Did you finish, David?"
		DavidW says, "I finished, but I got one of four unsatisfactory endings. The game said there's two satisfactory endings."
		DavidW says, "I know how to acquire all 7 soul parts for both PCs."
		Zach says, "How was the session? I ended up being too busy to follow or play."
		DavidW says, "The session was good until the point I had to lie down because of exhaustion."
		Zach says, "No wonder you've been so hungry."
		DavidW says, "I was quite pleased that the mechanic of exchanging items was discovered just before that point, because I was sure that was a major breakthrough."
		Baryon says, "The item-exchanging mechanic has been rightly criticised..."
		DavidW says, "oh? I rather liked that part. It just took ages to discover it."
		Baryon says, "Because it feels like destroying the items"
		Baryon says, "It was hinted, but still"
		DavidW says, "hm. Yes, I can see that being confusing for some players."
		DavidW says, "IF players are trained to be hoarders and kleptos. They don't like destroying their hard-won booty, it's true."
		DavidW says, "Anyway, once item exchange was possible, it wasn't too difficult to find most of the soul parts. I was a bit stuck getting into the church, but that's because I forgot something discovered much earlier."
		DavidW says, "And then some of the game rules, uh, changed, so I'm still puzzling out the endgame, thinking of possible options."
		Jacqueline says, "Well, I suspect I should probably just wrap up the transcript as is, as we probably won't continue it, but that happens from time to time - less because of the game's quality than just because of its length (and CF always goes through games far slower than a single person generally would)."
		Baryon says, "OK, that's all fine"
		Baryon says (to DavidW), "Finding a successful ending shouldn't be too hard now, if you wanted to"
		Jacqueline says, "So I guess I should say, while you're here, that I thought the dream sequences were very well done. Perhaps a bit more randomization on dialog and bodies rolling by, but really well done."
		DavidW says, "I've updated my maps and added rough notes: [LINK]"
		Baryon says, "Thanks"
		DavidW says, "Spoilers galore, of course."
		Jacqueline asks, "For the CF transcript, is that a temp link, or one of those 'tmp' links that will stay there for ever?"
		DavidW says, "That's temporary. I'll want to rename it to spira12.html later."
		Baryon says, "Wow, those are detailed notes"
		Jacqueline asks, "So the eventual link will probably be... [LINK] ?"
		DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "yes"
		Baryon says, "The game's written in I6 by the way"
		DavidW says (to Baryon), "oh right, you said that."
		Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I heard you mention that yesterday."
		Jacqueline says, "I'm curious why you went with I6."
		Baryon says, "It was the only I6 game in the comp"
		Baryon says, "I tried to learn I7 but I didn't like it"
		Jacqueline says, "I used to code in I6, but don't go back to it very much at all these days..."
		Jacqueline says, "Ah, okay. Fair enough."
		Baryon says, "It's funny I seem to be the only one who hasn't switched to I7"
		Jacqueline says, "I don't think you're entirely alone."
		Jacqueline says, "For some people it just feels like too big a deviation from code to still be code even though it's very much code."
		Baryon says, "That's my feeling exactly"
		Jacqueline says, "I don't know if that's your reason for not liking it, but I've -- well there you go."
		Jacqueline says, "heh"
		DavidW says, "I7 is a different *type* of code. It took me ages to figure out how to think that way for it. But it does get easier over time."
		Baryon asks (of DavidW), "Have you written games in it then?"
		DavidW says, "Still, I6 has its good points too."
		DavidW says (to Baryon), "uhhhh, I haven't written any new games in I7, but I did port an ADRIFT game to I7."
		Baryon says, "OK"
		DavidW says, "And I have some WIPs that I'm also porting from I6 to I7."
		Baryon says, "I7 has some attractive features, for sure"
		DavidW says, "I suspect two of the pushes behind I7 was to get rid of parse_name and objectloop from the syntax."
		zarf says, "I know Emily specifically asked Graham to never have to write a parse_name again"
		DavidW says, "yes, I remember Emily saying that very thing once."
		Baryon says, "I can certainly appreciate that"
		zarf says, "(unfortunately we occasionally get coding questions to which the answer is 'well, you could do that in I6 by writing a parse_name routine, but not in I7'"
		Baryon says, "Oh, that's interesting"
		DavidW says, "Although I have to say, I found parse_name and your (zarf's) parse_name examples extremely helpful in writing 69,105 Keys."
		DavidW says, "I wrote 69,105 Key in I6 because I didn't see how it could be written in I7. Emily suggested that a Before parsing the player's command rule could be a way I could've written it in I7."
		zarf says, "If I had to write it in I7, I'd write an I6 function and manually change the objects' parse_name routine to that address at startup time."
		DavidW says, "heh. Some might call that cheating, but of course all is fair behind the curtain."
		zarf says, "the first rule of IF coding is: get it to do what you need and move on."
		DavidW says, "mmhm. Wise words."
		Roger says, "I'm always a fan of brutalism"
		DavidW says, "I remember once finding a website that had pictures that a fan had taken during a backstage tour of The Price Is Right game show, and suffice it to say, the back views of all those fancy pricing games look a lot less pretty than the side that faces the audience."


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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The penultimate not numbered New Year's Speed IF (Session I) by Various Authors
As played on ifMUD on January 1, 2012

The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction.

Below is the first of two transcripts of the games in the penultimate not numbered New Year's Speed IF, written by various authors (the second session transcript can be found here). You can learn more about these games, including how to download them, by visiting the ifWiki.

If you would like to jump straight to a particular game in the transcript, please click its title:
Birth of Mind by Justin de Visine
Ragnarok: Twilight of the Gods by Admiral Jota
Being the Ending of the Beginning by Chris Conley
Danse Nocturne by Eggerich von Eggermond
Stupid Creek. Stupid Christmas by Troy Jones III
Dash Slapney, Patrol Leader by Andrew Schultz

WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page.


		
	
ToyShop & Floyditorium
		
#ClubFloyd Discussion
	
			
	 		
			Jacqueline says, "Big day on ClubFloyd today." 	
			Jacqueline says, "It occurs to me that I got the games Thurs/Fri, and uploaded, them, but really should have posted to the RSS once I knew that we were, in fact, doing New Year's stuff." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Twelve games today (or today and next week, depending on how things go)." 	
			ChrisC asks, "I thought Tales said 13?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "He told me 13, too, and there were 13 files, but one of them, I think, was two copies of the same game, one in z-code, one the raw Inform code." 	
			ChrisC says, "have there been ridiculously big speedif entries in the past? this does seem like an unusually large crop too" 	
			DavidW says, "We've had large crops before, but not often or recently." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Well, there were quite a few for the speed I ran this summer." 	
			DavidW says, "The New Language Indigo one." 	
			Tale says, "Hello, cats and kittens" 	
			DavidW says, "meow meow meow" 	
			ChrisC says, "The other one I participated in! :)" 	
			Tale says, "I might have miscounted the files, yeah" 	
			Tale says, "Someone gave me the source to his game, so I may have counted that" 	
			Tale says, "The last days were crazily busy" 	
			Jacqueline says, "I think INLS got ten." 	
			Jacqueline says (to Tale), "Ah, okay." 	
			Tale asks, "You do have mine, right?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Yep" 	
			Jacqueline says, "They're all on there with a prefix of psi" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Which is why you can't find it if you whisper for, say, t games." 	
			DavidW asks, "Why 'psi'?" 	
			Jacqueline says (to DW), "Penultimate Speed=IF." 	
			Tale says, "The list looks good" 	
			ChrisC asks, "why is it called penultimate, anyway? as if there's only going to be one more?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "If we want to after we play, we can have someone change the names on Floyd, but I like having them all in one spot. It's just easier on days like this." 	
			Tale says, "penultimate not numbered New Year's Speed IF is the full title" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Right. Not penultimate speed-IF, but penultimate New Year's speed." 	
			vimes says, "Good moning, folks." 	
			Jacqueline exclaims, "G'morning!" 	
			Tale says, "Hey vimes" 	
			Tale says, "I can't believe how good the turnout was this year. Plus, I have leftover Chili. Plus, I'm wearing a bowler. This is bascially a very grand evening." 	
			ASchultz says, "Hello everyone! It was tough, but I finally pushed my cat off me and got out of bed." 	
			vimes says (to Tale), "Jaunty and delicious!" 	
			cyberskunk says, "'and nothing else'" 	
			DavidW says, "I don't have any tea made. :(" 	
			Jacqueline says, "maga and I worked on one when we went on vacation last week, but we ultimately just weren't feeling it. Now that we have so many entries I don't feel so bad about that." 	
			Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Well, we have a guest who needs account help, so how long do you need?" 	
			ASchultz says, "Well, it can maybe be saved for next time" 	
			Jacqueline says, "We could start at 5-10 after. Would give me a chance to get banana bread..." 	
			DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "I can't do it now anyways; roommate has the kitchen." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Oh" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Well, I shall go without as well (I'm kind of pinned down by a cat and blocked into a corner by a sleeping maga), so we'll just wait for the guests to be dealt with." 	
			DavidW says, "And I just had to re-close the bedroom door to keep out the onion fumes." 	
			Jacqueline says, "mmmmm.... onions and garlic" 	
			DavidW says, "Also, I may have eaten too many candy canes last night." 	
			Tale says, "I'm not allowed to eat sweets at the moment," 	
			* Jacqueline has added JamesPKing to the channel. 	
			Jacqueline says, "There he is." 	
			cyberskunk says, "i should organize lunch for the hung over. have fun jacqal and friends" 	
			Bert says, "Presumably no relation to Nosmo." 	
			Jacqueline says, "I wonder if jojo is similarly here for cf." 	
			Jacqueline says, "I'm trying to suss out if this jojo needs to be added, too, before I start explaining stuff." 	
			JamesPKing says, "thx a lot" 	
			JamesPKing says, "hey andrew" 	
			ASchultz exclaims (at jamespking), "Glad you made it!" 	
			* Paulinus has joined the channel. 	
			* Jacqueline has added jojo to the channel. 	
			Jacqueline says, "Okay, we have some new folks this morning, so I'll take a second to explain how this works." 	
			JamesPKing says, "hey hey hey, santa is back in town" 	
			DavidW says, "I'd also like to protest in advance that I haven't played any of these games." 	
			Jacqueline says, "To speak on the channel, you have to designate a channel first. So the first time you speak here, you type #CLUBFLOYD HELLO and then after that you can just use a semi-colon, like so... ;HELLO AGAIN" 	
			JamesPKing says, "trying" 	
			Jacqueline says, "When we play, *all* conversation about the games, what we want to do, etc, occurs here, on the channel." 	
			Jacqueline says (to JPK), "yay" 	
			cyberskunk says, "davidw doth protest too much, methinks" 	
			vimes says, "I'd like to mention that you put a really crappy game in this lineup, and that you really shouldn't take Birth of Mind as indicative of the general quality of the community's efforts. Justin de Vesine is a hack." 	
			Bert says (to cyberskunk), "Protest early; protest often." 	
			Ellison says (to vimes), "heh" 	
			DavidW asks (of cyberskunk), "meow?" 	
			vimes says, "(Also, Jacq is jaunty and stylish.)" 	
			Jacqueline says, "As for inputting commands into floyd, you type those by being in the Toyshop and prefixing your command with F. So, to tell Floyd you want the PC to look, you'd type F LOOK" 	
			DavidW says (to vimes), "and isquiesque" 	
			Jacqueline says (to vimes), "Huzzah" 	
			Tale says (to vimes), "Whoa, The Day I saved Elvis is clearly worse" 	
			Bert asks (of vimes), "Yeah, Jacq already sent around a notice about that to everyone earlier. I guess you, er, didn't get a copy of that?" 	
			Ellison says, "to emote on channel, it's ';: nods in agreement.'" 	
			Tale says, "test" 	
			jojo takes it all in. 	
			Tale says, "Hm, MUD is a bit wonky." 	
			Nitku says, "To emote off channel, move your head down and up in succession" 	
			Ellison says, "ha" 	
			Jacqueline says, "As for playing etiquette, if a game seems to be under a timer or something, we'll often designate a 'driver'. If we do that, only that person can enter commands, though they take input from us." 	
			Jacqueline says, "If there's no driver, you can enter commands without asking, but don't go too fast such that people don't have time to read the output, and don't change game locations without making sure everyone's done with that location." 	
			Jacqueline asks, "That's pretty much it, I think - can you think of anything else, veteran CFers?" 	
			ChrisC asks, "How many submitted authors are on today?" 	
			ASchultz didn't know about emoting, Ellison, thanks. 	
			Tale says, "A lot." 	
			DavidW says, "Don't whisper to Floyd or we won't see your command." 	
			cyberskunk says, "changing locations and equivalent serious changes. burn bridges when we're sure theyre behind us not under us" 	
			JamesPKing says, "i think i have tutorial mode off and survey mode on" 	
			DavidW says, "Oh, explain saving and restoring." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Oh, yeah." 	
	Jacqueline clears the save counter. 		vimes says, "Also, spoiler etiquette, perhaps" 	
			Jacqueline says, "So, we have a save counter." 	
			djfletch says, "I hope there's a game where we can >burn bridges" 	
			Bert asks, "Will there be much saving and restoring in speedIF?" 	
			vimes says (to Bert), "Some people actually took the time to implement real games, so there might be." 	
			Bert asks (of vimes), "Seriously? Shouldn't they be disqualified?" 	
			ChrisC says, "I know at least one game has at least one timed puzzle..." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Right. I hadn't used it in awhile. So, to save the game, you type 'press save' (not to Floyd, just in general in the Toyshop)" 	
			vimes says, "Also, you never know when you might be able to break the game by trying to >EAT IMPORTANT NPC and have it unexpectedly succeed" 	
			Jacqueline says, "It will keep track of our saves by assigning a numeric save name." 	
			cyberskunk says, "its a math game. u have to burn all the bridges of konigsberg before the cops and immanuel kant can stop you" 	
			jojo says, "I would play that game." 	
			Bert says (to vimes), "That's the author's fault for making an NPC out of delicious horseradish." 	
			ChrisC asks, "how does the save counter work? Does it get cleared every day, or only if CF<x> gets overwritten?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "And then yes, don't spoil everyone if you know what's coming up - there's another channel for that, #cf-spoilers. You can join it by typing @joinc cf-spoilers" 	
			vimes says (to Bert), "[LINK]" 	
			cyberskunk says, "important npcs are the most delicious" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Anaything else?" 	
			DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "maga's awake now." 	
			Bert says (to W), "She probably knew that already." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Ha. So I see... but he's still blocking my access to coffee and banana bread." 	
			Jacqueline says (to Bert), "heehee" 	
			Tale says, "That cad!" 	
			vimes says, "He might be mudding in his sleep. It's happened before!" 	
			JamesPKing says, "let's hope there is a PUSH CLIFF game" 	
			Ellison asks, "the 'best ever' banana bread?" 	
			djfletch says, "I don't suppose Cliff would care for that." 	
			Bert asks, "Should we begin?" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Okay, so, I guess we'll just play them in the order I uploaded them, unless someone here is an author and due to their time zone are close to going to bed so they'd like us to play their game first. Anyone in that category?" 	
			Tale says, "I've got about 5 hrs" 	
			Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "Yes, that banana bread." 	
			Bert says, "Due to my time zone I am eating lunch." 	
			vimes says, "I have puppy class to go to in not too long, so I'd request mine be either early, to get it over with, or late, so I don't have to be embarassed." 	
			DavidW asks, "The banana bread has a rep?" 	
			cyberskunk says, "extending creepily long arms from under the bed, tentacle-like, like shadows growing at dusk. they slide over the carpet towards an open terminal, like a beast slouching towards bethlehem...." 	
			vimes says (to DavidW), "And a posse." 	
			DavidW says, "goodness" 	
			cyberskunk has used up all its metaphors. 	
			ChrisC says, "eh it's 8PM here but I can go a while, hopefully I'll be able to see everyon'es but I'll let you know if I'm fading" 	
			maga says, "I am too groggy to respond to any of this" 	
			jojo says, "It's 5PM here and I've got all evening" 	
			Jacqueline asks (of vimes), "Okay, yeah, let's play that horrible Justin de Vesine game first - do you remember what it's called?" 	
			vimes says, "Birth of Mind." 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load psibirthofmind" 		
	

Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You awake, the pain in your eyes gone after...you can't even remember
Floyd | how long.
Floyd |
Floyd | Birth of Mind
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Justin de Vesine
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 111230 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | In the Mist
Floyd | Distant flashes of light tumble through the unending dark mist.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a copper coin
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" 		
	

Floyd | You are Jack.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x coin" 		
	

Floyd | A tiny copper coin, blank on one side and stamped with a thorn on the
Floyd | other.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "i hope its a combination of a a mind forever voyaging and birth of a nation, pressing the envelope of if design ahead by years through terrible racism" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x me" 		
	

Floyd | You are Jack.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Old English thorn?" 	
			Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "If you must shorten it, it's 'Jacq'" 	
			Bert says, "(I will sit this one out because I have played it.)" 	
			vimes says (to DavidW), "So I envisioned." 	
			Jacqueline asks (of Bern), "Wait, you've... did you beta test it? Is this a beta-tested speed?" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a copper coin
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "flip coin" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "flip coin" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "toss coin" 		
	

Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x mist" 		
	

Floyd | Light and darkness tumble over each other in the seething mist.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "take coin" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says (to Jacq), "No, vimes and I just wrote ours at the same time, so we've played each others." 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "take mist" 		
	

Floyd | [Those are just scenery, and can't be taken.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "o no. the mist is mad" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x light" 		
	

Floyd | Light and darkness tumble over each other in the seething mist.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to Bert), "ah" 	
			DavidW says, "I think we must head in a random direction." 	
			Tale asks, "Shall we try to go anywhere?" 	
	maga says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd | You stumble through the endless, changeless mist.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert asks, "Should we point out that this one doesn't follow the standard parameters for this event?" 	
			cyberskunk says, "eat the coin and wait for charon to tell us where to go" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Evidently not." 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x coin" 		
	

Floyd | A tiny copper coin, blank on one side and stamped with a thorn on the
Floyd | other.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "(What's the command for telling Floyd what to do?)" 	
			Tale asks (of bert), "In what way?" 	
			cyberskunk asks, "im going to go north. ok?" 	
			Tale says, "I sure you followed the "everything is allowed rule", youngsters" 	
			Jacqueline says (to jojo), "F LOOK" 	
			Bert says (to Tale), "Instead of the tanning bed and Tiny Tim and all, it's based around:" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Just put a F in front of what you want to say. No quote, no semi-colon." 	
			jojo says (to Jacq), "Thanks" 	
			Bert | vimes says, "Hm. Kernels, Ragnarok, mind, a copper coin, and a badly-implemented NPC." 	
			Jacqueline says, "*An* F, rather." 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x thorn" 		
	

Floyd | [You don't need to use the word "thorn" in that way.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "trying to move...." 	
			vimes says, "Badly implemented everything, in my case." 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd | You stumble through the endless, changeless mist.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "What an oddly specific error message" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "wake" 		
	

Floyd | As far as you know, you're already awake.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "sleep" 		
	

Floyd | You can't sleep right now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "u" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Yggdrasil
Floyd | The world-tree's roots span off into the distance, and the branches
Floyd | reach into the heavens. Bleak mist curls up from below the roots of the
Floyd | tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "sing" 		
	

Floyd | [Singing would have no effect in these circumstances.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pray" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "Aha" 	
	TheXenographer arrives, full of funk, but no fun. 		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "climb Yggdrasil" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not something you can see now, or I misunderstood you.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		vimes says, "That's actually clued if you stumble in the wrong direction three times, I believe." 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "look mist" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not something you can see now, or I misunderstood you.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Up the Ash Trunk
Floyd | The trunk of Yggdrasil stretches up to the heavens and down to where
Floyd | the roots are obscured by mist.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "hm. Wasn't something gnawing or chopping down the tree under the roots in the old stories?" 	
	inky arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. 		cyberskunk says, "its dark here. youll probably be eaten by a Jormungandr" 	
			Tale says, "he he" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x trunk" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not something you can see now, or I misunderstood you.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "if we meet a squirrel along the way, i swear anything it says about me is a lie" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "bark" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "up" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | In the Heavens
Floyd | The branches of Yggdrasil mingle with the clouds of the heavens, and
Floyd | the mist below is a distant memory.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see an ice giant here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		vimes says (to cyberskunk), "yay" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "pet giant" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x ice giant" 		
	

Floyd | One of the ice giants who will stand by you in the final battle.  He
Floyd | looks irritated.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Squirrels are notoriously speciesist against skunks." 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "ask giant about his feelings" 		
	

Floyd | The giant grunts. "Leave me be, little god.  I have no reason to speak
Floyd | with you."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale asks, "Where did your list of things come from, vimes & jota?" 	
			Bert says, "An ice giant but not a nice giant." 	
			vimes says (to Tale), "I had taken a big dose of cold medicine an hour before." 	
			Bert says, "Hee." 	
			cyberskunk says, "lets steal his hen that lays golden eggs and head to vegas" 	
			Tale says, "ha" 	
	Nitku says (to Floyd), "push giant" 		
	

Floyd | [You can't normally push other characters.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "give coin to giant" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "ask giant about hen" 		
	

Floyd | The giant grunts. "Leave me be, little god.  I have no reason to speak
Floyd | with you."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "give coin to giant" 		
	

Floyd | The giant takes the coin delicately from your outstretched hand and
Floyd | pops it into his mouth.  "Very well, little god - what can I do for
Floyd | you?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "So we're a little god. Nice." 	
			DavidW says, "I think we need to go under the roots." 	
	Nitku says (to Floyd), "giant, give me the coin" 		
	

Floyd | You speak.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "giant, follow me" 		
	

Floyd | You speak.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "It's a little known god. You usually don't know Jack." 	
			Jacqueline says (to DW), "I would be fine with that... except, hm, what Tale just did." 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "giant, follow me" 		
	

Floyd | You speak.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "nice" 	
			cyberskunk says, "tale++" 	
			vimes says, "(The cold medicine is also why there's some very inconsistent nonsense in this game, more than usual.)" 	
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "talk to giant" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "take giant" 		
	

Floyd | [You can't normally pick up other characters.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale asks, "Maybe he's now following automatically?" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell giant about ragnarok" 		
	

Floyd | You learn nothing new.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "we're already in godmode. why do we need to be root davidw" 	
			Tale asks, "Or maybe we can go down from the roots?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Yeah." 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | In the Heavens
Floyd | The branches of Yggdrasil mingle with the clouds of the heavens, and
Floyd | the mist below is a distant memory.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see an ice giant here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "ask giant about giant" 		
	

Floyd | The giant grunts. "Well, you gave me a coin.  Fine.  Get the four
Floyd | kernels - self-reliance, belief, thought, and memory - and put them on.
Floyd | Then we can get Ragnarok started.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "Aha, plot!" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x heavens" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not something you can see now, or I misunderstood you.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Let's try down below the roots before we go farther up." 	
			cyberskunk says, "sure" 	
			Tale says, "Okay." 	
			ChrisC says, "ok" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Up the Ash Trunk
Floyd | The trunk of Yggdrasil stretches up to the heavens and down to where
Floyd | the roots are obscured by mist.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "kernels are a root function, I think." 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Yggdrasil
Floyd | The world-tree's roots span off into the distance, and the branches
Floyd | reach into the heavens. Bleak mist curls up from below the roots of the
Floyd | tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		vimes says, "hee hee" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | In the Mist
Floyd | Distant flashes of light tumble through the unending dark mist, and the
Floyd | roots of the World Tree are just barely visible above.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		vimes says, "RAGNAROK LINUX: THE LAST OPERATING SYSTEM YOU'LL EVER NEED" 	
			cyberskunk says, "thought and memory are ravens in norse myth" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x roots" 		
	

Floyd | [You don't need to use the word "roots" in that way.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "ragnarok is bad. i don't want ragnarok" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" 		
	

Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" 		
	

Floyd | You meander through the mist, gazing up at the endless roots of
Floyd | Yggdrasil.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "watch out for any black birds overly fond of hugging or mugging" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" 		
	

Floyd | You meander through the mist, gazing up at the endless roots of
Floyd | Yggdrasil.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" 		
	

Floyd | You meander through the mist, gazing up at the endless roots of
Floyd | Yggdrasil.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x roots" 		
	

Floyd | [You don't need to use the word "roots" in that way.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "root" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "Oh a little Ragnarok never hurt anyone (who lived to complain)." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "look" 		
	

Floyd | In the Mist
Floyd | Distant flashes of light tumble through the unending dark mist, and the
Floyd | roots of the World Tree are just barely visible above.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x light" 		
	

Floyd | Light and darkness tumble over each other in the seething mist.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "jump" 		
	

Floyd | [Jumping would have no effect, or that's not the way to do so.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "going up one" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "u" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Yggdrasil
Floyd | The world-tree's roots span off into the distance, and the branches
Floyd | reach into the heavens. Bleak mist curls up from below the roots of the
Floyd | tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "mmkay" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "I" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x roots" 		
	

Floyd | [You don't need to use the word "roots" in that way.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "search" 		
	

Floyd | [What do you want to search?]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "in" 		
	

Floyd | [Part of your command is not a physical part of the story world, so you
Floyd | can't act on it in that way.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		vimes says, "Things I did not have an opportunity to implement propely: further cluing of getting the kernels" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "search roots" 		
	

Floyd | [You don't need to use the word "roots" in that way.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "search mist" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not something you can see now, or I misunderstood you.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "dig" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "going up seems to make sense. You can't fly off a tree usually" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tree" 		
	

Floyd | [You don't need to use the word "tree" in that way.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to vimes), "heh" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x me" 		
	

Floyd | You are Jack.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk is bad @ video games 	
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "in" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I'm ready to go up whenever." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "u" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Up the Ash Trunk
Floyd | The trunk of Yggdrasil stretches up to the heavens and down to where
Floyd | the roots are obscured by mist.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "sell cow" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to jojo), "I'm not sure DW was done." 	
			Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Are you done with the roots?" 	
			Tale asks, "Maybe further up?" 	
			cyberskunk says, "okay lets steal thought and memory from odin or something in assgaurd" 	
			DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "for now" 	
			Jacqueline says, "mmkay" 	
			Jacqueline says (to Tale), "Yeah, I think we should go up at least as high as the giant again." 	
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "u.u." 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | In the Heavens
Floyd | The branches of Yggdrasil mingle with the clouds of the heavens, and
Floyd | the mist below is a distant memory.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see an ice giant here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		vimes says, "assguard, the reinforced pants of the gods" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "buy magic beans" 		
	

Floyd | [You don't need to use the word "magic" in that way.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I have no clear plan yet." 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x magic" 		
	

Floyd | [You don't need to use the word "magic" in that way.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x clouds" 		
	

Floyd | [You don't need to use the word "clouds" in that way.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "ask giant about kernels" 		
	

Floyd | The giant grunts. "Well, you gave me a coin.  Fine.  Get the four
Floyd | kernels - self-reliance, belief, thought, and memory - and put them on.
Floyd | Then we can get Ragnarok started.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo asks, "Can we go any further up from here?" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "ask about thought" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not something you can see now, or I misunderstood you.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Ellison says, "no" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask giant about belief" 		
	

Floyd | The giant grunts. "Well, you gave me a coin.  Fine.  Get the four
Floyd | kernels - self-reliance, belief, thought, and memory - and put them on.
Floyd | Then we can get Ragnarok started.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "think" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "fly" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz asks, "Did we xyzzy?" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | In the Heavens
Floyd | The branches of Yggdrasil mingle with the clouds of the heavens, and
Floyd | the mist below is a distant memory.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see an ice giant here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "remember" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "plover" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear belief" 		
	

Floyd | Foo!
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking the kernel of belief)
Floyd | You reach for belief, hardly trusting it not to vanish, but it settles
Floyd | into your hand.  You clutch it tightly, warmth flowing up your arm and
Floyd | into your body.
Floyd |
Floyd | You wear it close to your heart.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "u" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "plugh" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert exclaims, "One kernel down!" 	
			DavidW asks, "uh. Why did what I did work?" 	
			vimes says, "...I forgot to take out the 'Foo!'" 	
			Jacqueline says, "I am not at all sure." 	
			ChrisC asks, "wait where did that come from?" 	
			Bert says, "Hee hee." 	
			Jacqueline says, "OH" 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "take thought" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not something you can see now, or I misunderstood you.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "hahaha" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "get self-reliance" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not something you can see now, or I misunderstood you.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "fee" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		vimes says, "That's...hilarious." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "fie" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		TheXenographer says, "I'm so confused." 	
			cyberskunk says, "wait" 	
			cyberskunk says, "lets go try to get memory from the mists" 	
			cyberskunk says, "since theyre a 'distant memory'" 	
			vimes says, "(I was trying to figure out when exactly something triggered)" 	
			Tale says, "Good thinking" 	
			jojo exclaims, "Good plan!" 	
			ChrisC says, ".cyberskunk that's an idea" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "foo" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "BAR" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "i get idears sometimes" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "d" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Up the Ash Trunk
Floyd | The trunk of Yggdrasil stretches up to the heavens and down to where
Floyd | the roots are obscured by mist.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "d" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Yggdrasil
Floyd | The world-tree's roots span off into the distance, and the branches
Floyd | reach into the heavens. Bleak mist curls up from below the roots of the
Floyd | tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "d" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | In the Mist
Floyd | Distant flashes of light tumble through the unending dark mist, and the
Floyd | roots of the World Tree are just barely visible above.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x kernels" 		
	

Floyd | [You don't need to use the word "kernels" in that way.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "get memory" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not something you can see now, or I misunderstood you.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "wear memory" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not something you can see now, or I misunderstood you.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	inky says (to Floyd), "make self-reliance" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "get kernel" 		
	

Floyd | (the kernel of belief)
Floyd | [You already have that.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a kernel of belief (worn close to your heart)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "remember mist" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	inky says (to Floyd), "x mist" 		
	

Floyd | Light and darkness tumble over each other in the seething mist.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "believe" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x kernel" 		
	

Floyd | (the kernel of belief)
Floyd | Brilliant and sustaining.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "touch mist" 		
	

Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo asks, "Was it in another misty location?" 	
			cyberskunk says, "okay. still bad @ video games" 	
	maga says (to Floyd), "wear memory" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not something you can see now, or I misunderstood you.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "search mist" 		
	

Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Is the belief a light source, then?" 	
			vimes says (to cyberskunk), "good idea, thwarted by cold medicine" 	
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "get all" 		
	

Floyd | (the kernel of belief)
Floyd | [You already have that.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "i never saw it" 	
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd | You meander through the mist, gazing up at the endless roots of
Floyd | Yggdrasil.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "get mist" 		
	

Floyd | [Those are just scenery, and can't be taken.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "believe" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "open mist" 		
	

Floyd | [They're not something you can open.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk asks, "ok lets try to wear things in other places?" 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "blow mist" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert asks, "How many mists are there, anyway?" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "wear thought" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not something you can see now, or I misunderstood you.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "inhale mist" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo asks, "Have we checked below the roots again?" 	
			DavidW says, "yeah" 	
			ASchultz says, "I don't know but there are 4 items. I suppose you could use brute force" 	
			Bert says, "I believe you're below the roots right now." 	
			inky says, "it was actually taking it, not wearing it, that was the significant thing" 	
	inky says (to Floyd), "think about kernel" 		ChrisC says, "we are below the roots" 	
	

Floyd | [I can't understand your entire command: the first part might be an
Floyd | action I know, but I didn't expect the word "about" next.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | In the Mist
Floyd | Distant flashes of light tumble through the unending dark mist, and the
Floyd | roots of the World Tree are just barely visible above.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	inky says (to Floyd), "think" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "take memory" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not something you can see now, or I misunderstood you.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "take all" 		
	

Floyd | (the kernel of belief)
Floyd | [You already have that.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "mist" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "take a kitkat break" 		
	

Floyd | [I didn't recognise all of the words in that command.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x light" 		
	

Floyd | Light and darkness tumble over each other in the seething mist.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x mist" 		
	

Floyd | Light and darkness tumble over each other in the seething mist.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "take light" 		
	

Floyd | [Those are just scenery, and can't be taken.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo asks, "Go back up again?" 	
			Tale asks, "What said the mists where like a distant memory?" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "verbose" 		
	

Floyd | [Birth of Mind is now in its normal "verbose"  mode, which always gives
Floyd | long descriptions of locations (even if you've been there before).]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says (to Tale), "I missed that." 	
			cyberskunk says, "for being a god bringing about ragnarok we keep a rather low-key profile" 	
			TheXenographer says (to Tale), "That was the top of the tree, I think" 	
			cyberskunk says, "when we were up with the giant tale. but i dont think it was meant as a hint" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mist" 		
	

Floyd | Light and darkness tumble over each other in the seething mist.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "hug tree" 		
	

Floyd | [You don't need to use the word "tree" in that way.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "remember mist" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "that is i no longer think it was a hint" 	
			jojo asks, "Are we done down here?" 	
			DavidW says, "well, try going to the top again and examine the mist." 	
			Tale says, "Did we get belief from the giant" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "u" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Yggdrasil
Floyd | The world-tree's roots span off into the distance, and the branches
Floyd | reach into the heavens. Bleak mist curls up from below the roots of the
Floyd | tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "tree" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "u" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Up the Ash Trunk
Floyd | The trunk of Yggdrasil stretches up to the heavens and down to where
Floyd | the roots are obscured by mist.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I don't know where I took the belief from." 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "u" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | In the Heavens
Floyd | The branches of Yggdrasil mingle with the clouds of the heavens, and
Floyd | the mist below is a distant memory.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see an ice giant here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x giant" 		
	

Floyd | One of the ice giants who will stand by you in the final battle.  He
Floyd | looks receptive to your questions.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "ls" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		inky says, "we just spontaneously plucked it from thin air" 	
	inky says (to Floyd), "x mist" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not something you can see now, or I misunderstood you.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "take memory" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not something you can see now, or I misunderstood you.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	inky says (to Floyd), "look down" 		
	

Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "ask where are kernels" 		
	

Floyd | [You don't need to use the word "where" in that way.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x mist" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not something you can see now, or I misunderstood you.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Yeah, what inky said." 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "ask giant about memory" 		
	

Floyd | The giant grunts. "Well, you gave me a coin.  Fine.  Get the four
Floyd | kernels - self-reliance, belief, thought, and memory - and put them on.
Floyd | Then we can get Ragnarok started.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "ask giant about belief" 		
	

Floyd | The giant grunts. "Well, you gave me a coin.  Fine.  Get the four
Floyd | kernels - self-reliance, belief, thought, and memory - and put them on.
Floyd | Then we can get Ragnarok started.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "sudo" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "ask about mist" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not something you can see now, or I misunderstood you.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Ah, there's the distant memory bit." 	
	inky says (to Floyd), "create self-reliance" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear memory" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not something you can see now, or I misunderstood you.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	inky says (to Floyd), "think kernel" 		
	

Floyd | [I can't understand your entire command: the first part might be an
Floyd | action I know, but I didn't expect the word "kernel" next.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear mist" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not something you can see now, or I misunderstood you.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "kill giant" 		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "ask giant about thought" 		
	

Floyd | [Attacking the ice giant would have no effect, or that's not the way to
Floyd | do so.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | The giant grunts. "Well, you gave me a coin.  Fine.  Get the four
Floyd | kernels - self-reliance, belief, thought, and memory - and put them on.
Floyd | Then we can get Ragnarok started.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "wear giant" 		
	

Floyd | (first taking the ice giant)
Floyd | [You can't normally pick up other characters.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	maga says (to Floyd), "think" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "if we kill all our friends we have to be self-reliant" 	
			DavidW asks, "Go down one and wear memory?" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "climb giant" 		
	

Floyd | [He can't be climbed in that way. Sometimes a direction like "up" or
Floyd | "down" works instead.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "d" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Up the Ash Trunk
Floyd | The trunk of Yggdrasil stretches up to the heavens and down to where
Floyd | the roots are obscured by mist.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert asks (of W), "Aren't you already wearing memory?" 	
	Jacqueline gets bored and wanders off to the Toyshop. 		
	Jacqueline arrives, ready to play with the toys. 		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "wear memory" 		
	

Floyd | (first taking the kernel of memory)
Floyd | You wear it over your left shoulder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "get all" 		
	

Floyd | [There is nothing available to get.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "So, how the map looks is: Heavens down to Ash Trunk down to Base of Tree" 	
			DavidW says, "No, we had belief before." 	
			cyberskunk asks, "down again and wear something else?" 	
			ChrisC asks, "so we just wear memory in each place?" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x memory" 		
	

Floyd | Brilliant and sustaining.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a kernel of memory (worn over your left shoulder)
Floyd |   a kernel of belief (worn close to your heart)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "d" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Yggdrasil
Floyd | The world-tree's roots span off into the distance, and the branches
Floyd | reach into the heavens. Bleak mist curls up from below the roots of the
Floyd | tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "hat's my thinking,yeah" 	
			Bert says, "Also, I believe that we should all be congratulating vimes for how well he met the 'badly-implemented NPC' requirement." 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "wear thought" 		
	

Floyd | (first taking the kernel of thought)
Floyd | You wear it over your right shoulder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "yay" 	
			vimes says, "yay" 	
			Ellison says, "heh" 	
			jojo exclaims, "Huzzah!" 	
			cyberskunk unlocks vimes's achievement! 	
			Tale asks, "Okay, who'll do the last one?" 	
			DavidW says, "What was the 4th? self- something" 	
			ChrisC says, "-reliance" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear self-" 		
	

Floyd | [You don't need to use the word "self-" in that way.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "i hope it was loathing" 	
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "d" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | In the Mist
Floyd | Distant flashes of light tumble through the unending dark mist, and the
Floyd | roots of the World Tree are just barely visible above.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear self-reliance" 		
	

Floyd | (first taking the kernel of self-reliance)
Floyd | You wear it about your loins.
Floyd |
Floyd | You have all the kernels!
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** Ragnarok comes. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		vimes says, "self-fear and self-loathing in laself vegas" 	
			Jacqueline exclaims, "Hooray for a sudden ending!" 	
			Bert exclaims, "Loined!" 	
			Jacqueline asks (of vimes), "Anything we missed?" 	
			vimes says, "Better than my last speed which had no ending! Just an apology!" 	
			DavidW says, "ok, I have no idea how we found anything." 	
			jojo says, "That's where I keep my self-reliance." 	
			ASchultz says, "Yay! We win." 	
			cyberskunk says, "wearing selfreliance around your loins suggests a lack of success in ones personal life" 	
			vimes says (to Jacq), "Belief, at least, responds to most verbs" 	
			jojo says, "Or an *abundance*" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" 		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" 		
	

Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pet belief" 		
	

Floyd | [That's not a verb I recognise.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "ok. going out for lunch. bye" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q" 		
	

Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" 		
	

Floyd |

		
	Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" 		cyberskunk exclaims, "thanks!" 	
			jojo exclaims (at Skunk), "Toodles!" 	
			vimes says, "(and there is the cluing for going up if you go the wrong way several times before you discove you can go up)" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Okay... anyone else have one they want moved up to the front of the queue?" 	
			ASchultz exclaims, "later Cyberskunk!" 	
			vimes says, "but otherwise, nope" 	
	cyberskunk has had its fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		Jacqueline says (to cs), "Laters." 	
			Tale says, "No." 	
			vimes says, "Play the other ragnarok one, so you can see how /good/ speedif woks" 	
			Bert says (to Jacq), "Since mine and vimes' used the same parameters, it might make sense to play them together." 	
			vimes says, "and works" 	
			jojo says, "Speedif woks would make an interesting stir fry" 	
	trojo arrives, ready to play with the toys. 		ChrisC says, "I like the bert/vime plan" 	
			Bert says, "Oh, by the way, for anyone who didn't know: I'm Jota." 	
			TheXenographer says, "It's funny that there are two Ragnarok-related games; mine references Norse mythology too" 	
			vimes asks, "isn't that the premise of Iron Chef and so forth?" 	
			vimes says, "(speed-if wokking)" 	
			Jacqueline asks (of Bern), "mmkay - what's your title?" 	
			Bert says, "'Admiral'." 	
			ASchultz says, "I'd like another Ragnarok too" 	
			vimes says, "har" 	
			Jacqueline says, "snrk" 	
			Bert says, "(psiragnarok)" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load psiragnarok" 		
	

Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Late night movie night at your place! It's two AM, your friends are
Floyd | here, the DVD is already in the machine, and you're ready to watch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Or are you?
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Ragnarok: Twilight of the Gods
Floyd | A New Year's SpeedIF Game (with non-standard parameters: type XYZZY for
Floyd | details)
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 111230 / Inform v6.30 Library 6/11 S
Floyd |
Floyd | Your Kitchen
Floyd | This is the place where you prepare food. And by "prepare food", of
Floyd | course, I mean "microwave frozen burritos" and "call for pizza". It's
Floyd | fitted out with all the usual amenities: refrigerator, stove,
Floyd | microwave, cabinets, a large disembodied brain floating in the corner.
Floyd | Pretty much your standard IF protagonist's kitchen. The living room is
Floyd | to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mindo is floating placidly in the corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "x self" 		
	

Floyd | As good-looking as ever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "pet brain" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" 		
	

Floyd | vimes says, "Hm.  Kernels, Ragnarok, mind, a copper coin, and a
Floyd | badly-implemented NPC."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "tickle brain" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "rub brain" 		
	

Floyd | You achieve nothing by this.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "x brain" 		
	

Floyd | Ah, Mindo The Mind. You and Mindo have been friends ever since third
Floyd | grade, when a bunch of bigger kids were picking on you for not knowing
Floyd | how to balance a checkbook, and Mindo defended you by telekinetically
Floyd | flinging all of the bullies through the air into the community swimming
Floyd | hole on the other side of town. Good times. He's never been much of a
Floyd | conversationalist, but he's an awesome roommate and the coolest
Floyd | disembodied brain you've ever met.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "aww" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask brain about pizza" 		
	

Floyd | Mindo telepathically communicates, "I don't know much about that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		inky says, "ha ha" 	
	Nitku says (to Floyd), "ask brain about himself" 		
	

Floyd | Mindo telepathically communicates, "I don't know much about that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	inky says (to Floyd), "think about cheese" 		
	

Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to think.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	inky says (to Floyd), "think" 		
	

Floyd | What a good idea.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "ask brain about me" 		
	

Floyd | Mindo telepathically communicates, "I don't know much about that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "ask brain about his feelings" 		
	

Floyd | Mindo telepathically communicates, "I don't know much about that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "If he's telepathic, maybe we can speak to him from all locations?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "That would be cool." 	
			jojo says, "One can only hope." 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "show me to mindo" 		
	

Floyd | (first taking yourself)
Floyd | You are always self-possessed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" 		
	

Floyd | As good-looking as ever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Do we have a goal?" 	
			Tale says, "and then jota needs to tell everyone how he pulled that one off" 	
			vimes says, "you know, it occurs to me that a speed-if for the purpose of plotting your game's twists would be awesome" 	
			Nitku says, "Where ever we are, we can always find out how little he knows about things." 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Your Kitchen
Floyd | This is the place where you prepare food. And by "prepare food", of
Floyd | course, I mean "microwave frozen burritos" and "call for pizza". It's
Floyd | fitted out with all the usual amenities: refrigerator, stove,
Floyd | microwave, cabinets, a large disembodied brain floating in the corner.
Floyd | Pretty much your standard IF protagonist's kitchen. The living room is
Floyd | to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mindo is floating placidly in the corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "prepare food" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "take all" 		
	

Floyd | Mindo: I don't suppose Mindo would care for that.
Floyd | lights: They're hardly portable.
Floyd | refrigerator: That's hardly portable.
Floyd | freezer: That's hardly portable.
Floyd | telephone: It's two in the morning. It's too late to be calling anyone
Floyd | on the phone.
Floyd | stove: That's hardly portable.
Floyd | microwave oven: That's hardly portable.
Floyd | cabinets: They're hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		TheXenographer asks, "did we ever find out what the non-standard parameters were?" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "call for pizza" 		
	

Floyd | It's two in the morning. It's too late to be calling anyone on the
Floyd | phone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "open fridge" 		
	

Floyd | That seems like a monumentally unwise idea. The last time you opened
Floyd | the fridge, you ended up spending a week in the hospital and lost all
Floyd | memories for thirty-six hours before and after the event. But hey, if
Floyd | you want to give it a shot, it's your funeral.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "open freezer" 		
	

Floyd | Dang, no more burritos. You'll have to go to the store.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says (to Xeno), "Yeah, type 'xyzzy'." 	
			jojo exclaims, "A goal!" 	
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "open cabinets" 		
	

Floyd | You open the cabinets, revealing a bowl of unpopped popcorn kernels and
Floyd | a fuse box.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x box" 		
	

Floyd | (the microwave oven)
Floyd | A black box with a door and numbers on the front. You use it to reheat
Floyd | schezuan shrimp, nuke frozen burritos and pop popcorn.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "take kernels" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x fuse" 		
	

Floyd | Which do you mean, the fuse box or the dusty fuse?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "what." 	
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "wear kernels" 		
	

Floyd | You can't wear that!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "open fuse box" 		
	

Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "eat kernels" 		
	

Floyd | You try one. Ow! No wonder people pop these first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x dusty" 		
	

Floyd | It's a dusty old fuse that has served you well for years.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Yeah, the 'nonstandard parameters' are the list of words used for the game." 	
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "open microwave" 		
	

Floyd | Fortunately, you haven't accidentally left anything in there overnight.
Floyd | This time.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		vimes | You wear them about your teeth. 	
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "put kernals in microwave" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Ellison says, "oops" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "get kernels" 		
	

Floyd | You already have that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "put kernels in microwave" 		
	

Floyd | You're about to put the bowl of popcorn kernels into the microwave when
Floyd | you feel a telekinetic tug at your arm.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mindo telepathically communicates, "You shouldn't make popcorn without
Floyd | oil. Unless you have an air popper. Which we don't."
Floyd |
Floyd | Mindo is, as usual, correct.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says (to vimes), "Mmm, crunchy." 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "get oil" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Nice." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Ah, kernals." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "comb hair" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "remove oil from hair" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "timing!" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x stove" 		
	

Floyd | You have mixed emotions when you think back to the day you last used
Floyd | this stove. You were making tuna noodle casserole. You're still not
Floyd | exactly sure why the contents exploded, but you haven't been able to
Floyd | pry the oven open since.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to trojo), "ew" 	
			jojo asks, "Should we investigate the living room?" 	
			ASchultz says, "So where is the oil, then..." 	
			jojo says, "I lived in a house like that once." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Your Kitchen
Floyd | This is the place where you prepare food. And by "prepare food", of
Floyd | course, I mean "microwave frozen burritos" and "call for pizza". It's
Floyd | fitted out with all the usual amenities: refrigerator, stove,
Floyd | microwave, cabinets, a large disembodied brain floating in the corner.
Floyd | Pretty much your standard IF protagonist's kitchen. The living room is
Floyd | to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mindo is floating placidly in the corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Let's make sure we've seen everything here first" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "We have a trojo and a jojo?" 	
			ChrisC says, "I think we have" 	
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "ask mindo about oil" 		
	

Floyd | Mindo telepathically communicates, "I don't know much about that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Check the living room?" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "ask mindo about store" 		
	

Floyd | Mindo telepathically communicates, "I don't know much about that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "ask mindo about popcorn" 		
	

Floyd | Mindo telepathically communicates, "I don't know much about that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo asks, "Yeah, maybe I should change that?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Nah, it's fine" 	
			DavidW says, "Maybe we left oil by the 'entertainment station'." 	
			Tale says, "Yeah, to the living room." 	
	trojo says (to Floyd), "i hear they have lots of oil in texas" 		
	

Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to take inventory.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing goes home. 		ASchultz says, "pictures Eduard Khil singing "Trojojo"" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | Everyone is here! Lisa's settled into the big armchair, Thor is hanging
Floyd | out on the couch, Mindo is -- well, Mindo's still in the kitchen, but
Floyd | he'll come in when the movie starts, undoubtedly. You've already got
Floyd | the DVD in your combination TV/DVD player, so you just need to turn it
Floyd | on and late night movie night can begin!
Floyd |
Floyd | Thor rumbles, "The time has come for time for Ragnarok, Twilight of the
Floyd | Gods! THOR MUST NOT BE KEPT WAITING!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Your reflexes serve you well, as you duck just before a lightning bolt
Floyd | arcs from Thor's fingers, passing inches from your head, and striking
Floyd | someplace in the kitchen behind you. Instantly, all the lights go dark.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Oops," rumbles Thor, "Did I do that?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing arrives, full of fun, but no funk. 		ASchultz forgot to start with a colon. Oops. 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "ask mindo about mindo" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "A that Thor, always up to something" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "think about mindo" 		
	

Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to think.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "p" 	
	trojo says (to Floyd), "short-range telepathy" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask lisa about oil" 		
	

Floyd | Lisa mumbles, "Wake me up when it's time for the popcorn and the movie,
Floyd | 'K?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Rats, not that telepathic" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lisa" 		
	

Floyd | Lisa is dozing in the big armchair.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x thor" 		
	

Floyd | Thor, the Norse god of thunder, is hanging out on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "How will we make the popcorn now?" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "get oil" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask thor about oil" 		
	

Floyd | Thor rumbles, "The time has come for Ragnarok, Twilight of the Gods!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "look under couch" 		
	

Floyd | You poke around between the couch cushions.
Floyd |
Floyd | Thor rumbles, "This is an indignity up with which I should not have to
Floyd | put!" But he still lifts his butt cheek enough to let you check
Floyd | underneath the cushion he's sitting on.
Floyd |
Floyd | Jackpot! You come away with a candy wrapper, a quarter, a small bottle
Floyd | of oil, a penny, a dime and a wad of cat hair!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "yay oil" 	
			Tale says, "Ha ha ha,ew" 	
			DavidW says, "ha ha" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "eat chair hair" 		
	

Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to eat Lisa.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "eat cat" 		
	

Floyd | That's plainly inedible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "haha" 	
			Jacqueline says, "yay not ending sentences with a preposition" 	
			trojo says, "hehe" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x cat" 		
	

Floyd | Odd, really, as neither you nor Mindo has ever actually owned a cat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "oh dear. We're gonna be bad and put the penny in the fuse, aren't we?" 	
			Jacqueline says (to DW), "Prolly" 	
			Tale asks, "What for?" 	
			ChrisC says, "Thor shorted out our power" 	
			DavidW says, "Thor blew out the fuse." 	
			Jacqueline says (to Tale), "Well, Thor just blew the fuses." 	
			jojo exclaims, "To the kitchen!" 	
			Tale says, "Yes" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Your Kitchen
Floyd | This is the place where you prepare food. And by "prepare food", of
Floyd | course, I mean "microwave frozen burritos" and "call for pizza". It's
Floyd | fitted out with all the usual amenities: refrigerator, stove,
Floyd | microwave, cabinets, a large disembodied brain floating in the corner.
Floyd | Pretty much your standard IF protagonist's kitchen. The living room is
Floyd | to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | It's also pretty dark in here. It's a good thing you've got excellent
Floyd | night vision, or else that could be somewhat inconvenient.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mindo is floating placidly in the corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x me" 		
	

Floyd | As good-looking as ever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "put coin in fuse" 		
	

Floyd | Which do you mean, the fuse box or the burnt-out fuse?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "get burnt-out fuse" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "put coin in fuse box" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "put penny in fuse box" 		
	

Floyd | Yowch! You suck your fingers for a moment, wondering if maybe you
Floyd | should get a trained electrician to stick pennies in your fuse box in
Floyd | the future.
Floyd |
Floyd | But on the plus side, the lights are back on!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a burnt-out fuse
Floyd |   a wad of cat hair
Floyd |   a dime
Floyd |   a small bottle of oil
Floyd |   a quarter
Floyd |   a candy wrapper
Floyd |   a bowl of unpopped popcorn kernels
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "put oil on popcorn" 		
	

Floyd | You pour the oil over the popcorn kernels and dispose of the bottle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "ha" 	
			jojo exclaims, "Fighting against the tyranny of mandatory elecrtical certification!" 	
	TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "put popcorn in microwave" 		
	

Floyd | You put the bowl of oiled popcorn kernels into the microwave, set it
Floyd | for two minutes and thirty-four seconds, and close the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | A few moments later, you hear a sizzling, popping noise.
Floyd |
Floyd | A few moments after that, the microwave explodes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hrm. I probably should have mentioned that it was a metal bowl. My bad.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hee" 	
			Tale says, "ha ha" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Your Kitchen
Floyd | This is the place where you prepare food. And by "prepare food", of
Floyd | course, I mean "microwave frozen burritos" and "call for pizza". It's
Floyd | fitted out with all the usual amenities: refrigerator, stove, exploded
Floyd | microwave, cabinets, a large disembodied brain floating in the corner.
Floyd | Pretty much your standard IF protagonist's kitchen. The living room is
Floyd | to the east
Floyd |
Floyd | Mindo is floating placidly in the corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo asks, "But we've got some popcorn now, right?" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x microwave" 		
	

Floyd | A total mess. The door hangs off at a decorative (but non-functional)
Floyd | angle, the timer display is cracked down the middle, and every part of
Floyd | it is pitted with black scorch marks. On the plus side, the microwave
Floyd | is full of freshly-popped popcorn.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" 		
	

Floyd | That's hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "get popcorn" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, ""exploded microwave" is a nice touch" 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "eat popcorn" 		
	

Floyd | You try a mouthful. It's tasty! Admittedly, it could use some salt, but
Floyd | you've already done enough for this puzzle, so we'll just call it
Floyd | tasty.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x bowl" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo exclaims, "Ha!" 	
			Tale says, "ha ha" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | Everyone is here! Lisa's settled into the big armchair, Thor is hanging
Floyd | out on the couch, Mindo is -- well, Mindo's still in the kitchen, but
Floyd | he'll come in when the movie starts, undoubtedly. You've already got
Floyd | the DVD in your combination TV/DVD player, so you just need to turn it
Floyd | on and late night movie night can begin!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "wake lisa" 		
	

Floyd | Lisa mumbles, "Wake me up when it's time for the popcorn and the movie,
Floyd | 'K?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "turn on player" 		
	

Floyd | Lisa immediately kicks the power button with her foot, turning it back
Floyd | off again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Lisa mumbles, "Can't watch a movie without popcorn..."
Floyd |
Floyd | Thor rumbles, "But The time has come for Ragnarok, Twilight of the
Floyd | Gods!"
Floyd |
Floyd | From the other room, Mindo telepathically communicates, "Providing
Floyd | snacks is one of your duties as a host."
Floyd |
Floyd | Mindo is, as usual, correct.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x player" 		
	

Floyd | The DVD is already in the player. You just need to turn it on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "give popcron to lisa" 	
	TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "give popcorn to lisa" 		
	

Floyd | Lisa mumbles, "Rock on. Let's start the flick, guys."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "turn on player" 		
	

Floyd | You turn on the DVD player and TV, then join Thor on the couch. Mindo
Floyd | drifts in from the kitchen as the copyright notice plays. Lisa munches
Floyd | her popcorn, and the opening title sequence finally begins:
Floyd |
Floyd | RAGNAROK: TWILIGHT OF THE GODS
Floyd |
Floyd | Thor rumbles, "Huzzah!"
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have won ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 1 out of a possible 1, in 59 turns.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | Please give one of the answers above.
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "yay" 	
			jojo says, "That was fun." 	
			Jacqueline says, "yay" 	
			jojo says, "Good writing, very droll." 	
	

Floyd | Please give one of the answers above.
Floyd | >

		Tale asks, "is there a movie with that name?" 	
			djfletch rumbles, "Huzzah!" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q" 		
	

Floyd |

		
	Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" 		inky asks, "who was that one by?" 	
			ASchultz exclaims, "Good laughs there. Yay!" 	
			Tale asks, "are all gods sparkling in it?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "That was Jota." 	
			trojo says, "there's an opera with that name i think" 	
			inky says, "hunh, I wonder what the thing was that was inside the other thing" 	
			Nitku says, "You know, a thing" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Want to reload and try?" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Or are we good?" 	
			jojo says (to inky), "I only understood you as referring to a thing" 	
			Bert says (to inky), "Oh, that's a totally different game." 	
			ASchultz says, "I'm curious what the other items were for" 	
			ASchultz says, "Like the quarter and dime and so forth" 	
			Bert says (to inky), "I had already finished the speedIF by that point." 	
			Jacqueline says, "I was curious about putting the cat hair in the microwave, sorta." 	
			ASchultz says, "But I don't want to hold anyone up" 	
			Tale says, "We missed the whole going to the shop puzzle" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load psiragnarok" 		
	

Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Late night movie night at your place! It's two AM, your friends are
Floyd | here, the DVD is already in the machine, and you're ready to watch.
Floyd |
Floyd | Or are you?
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Ragnarok: Twilight of the Gods
Floyd | A New Year's SpeedIF Game (with non-standard parameters: type XYZZY for
Floyd | details)
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 111230 / Inform v6.30 Library 6/11 S
Floyd |
Floyd | Your Kitchen
Floyd | This is the place where you prepare food. And by "prepare food", of
Floyd | course, I mean "microwave frozen burritos" and "call for pizza". It's
Floyd | fitted out with all the usual amenities: refrigerator, stove,
Floyd | microwave, cabinets, a large disembodied brain floating in the corner.
Floyd | Pretty much your standard IF protagonist's kitchen. The living room is
Floyd | to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mindo is floating placidly in the corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		inky says (to Bert), "oh, ok" 	
			DavidW says (to ASchultz), "I'm guessing they were there to make the penny less obvious as a puzzle piece." 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | Everyone is here! Lisa's settled into the big armchair, Thor is hanging
Floyd | out on the couch, Mindo is -- well, Mindo's still in the kitchen, but
Floyd | he'll come in when the movie starts, undoubtedly. You've already got
Floyd | the DVD in your combination TV/DVD player, so you just need to turn it
Floyd | on and late night movie night can begin!
Floyd |
Floyd | Thor rumbles, "The time has come for time for Ragnarok, Twilight of the
Floyd | Gods! THOR MUST NOT BE KEPT WAITING!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Your reflexes serve you well, as you duck just before a lightning bolt
Floyd | arcs from Thor's fingers, passing inches from your head, and striking
Floyd | someplace in the kitchen behind you. Instantly, all the lights go dark.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Oops," rumbles Thor, "Did I do that?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "go to the shop" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look under couch" 		
	

Floyd | You poke around between the couch cushions.
Floyd |
Floyd | Thor rumbles, "This is an indignity up with which I should not have to
Floyd | put!" But he still lifts his butt cheek enough to let you check
Floyd | underneath the cushion he's sitting on.
Floyd |
Floyd | Jackpot! You come away with a candy wrapper, a quarter, a small bottle
Floyd | of oil, a penny, a dime and a wad of cat hair!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take all" 		
	

Floyd | lights: They're hardly portable.
Floyd | Lisa: I don't suppose Lisa would care for that.
Floyd | Thor: I don't suppose Thor would care for that.
Floyd | (couch): Alas, there are no more treasures to be found in the sofa for
Floyd | the time being.
Floyd | combination TV/DVD player: That's hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "The other things in the sofa were mainly for having more things in the sofa because it seemed like the sort of sofa that would have a lot of things lost down it." 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a wad of cat hair
Floyd |   a dime
Floyd |   a penny
Floyd |   a small bottle of oil
Floyd |   a quarter
Floyd |   a candy wrapper
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x wrapper" 		
	

Floyd | It's apparently from an Almond Joy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x quarter" 		
	

Floyd | Twenty-five cents! That's enough to buy a Garfield phone at a yard
Floyd | sale. Too bad it's Canadian.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x dime" 		
	

Floyd | Ten cents. At one time, this is what you needed if you wanted to make a
Floyd | phone call.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "hee" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x oil" 		
	

Floyd | You're not really sure what kind of oil this is, but you think it might
Floyd | be left over from when Mindo took that massage class. It's amazing what
Floyd | he was able to do for the knots in your shoulders despite not actually
Floyd | possessing hands.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "That's what we put on the pop corn?" 	
			inky says, "hmm" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "sit on couch" 		
	

Floyd | You get onto the (couch).
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "yep" 	
			inky asks, "do you need oil if you are doing telepathic massage?" 	
			Jacqueline says, ";:makes a mental note not to eat at Jota's house." 	
			Tale says, "Imaginary oil, yeah" 	
			Jacqueline makes another note to emote better in the future. 	
			DavidW says (to inky), "Yes." 	
			Bert says (to Jacq), "Hee." 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd | You'll have to get off the (couch) first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "stand" 		
	

Floyd | You get off the (couch).
Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | Everyone is here! Lisa's settled into the big armchair, Thor is hanging
Floyd | out on the couch, Mindo is -- well, Mindo's still in the kitchen, but
Floyd | he'll come in when the movie starts, undoubtedly. You've already got
Floyd | the DVD in your combination TV/DVD player, so you just need to turn it
Floyd | on and late night movie night can begin!
Floyd |
Floyd | It's also pretty dark in here. It's a good thing you've got excellent
Floyd | night vision, or else that could be somewhat inconvenient.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz the masseur just needs to imagine the sort of oil he wants 	
			Bert says (to Jacq), "*I'm* not the one who put it on the popcorn." 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "put quarter in fuse" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a wad of cat hair
Floyd |   a dime
Floyd |   a penny
Floyd |   a small bottle of oil
Floyd |   a quarter
Floyd |   a candy wrapper
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x fuse box" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Well, true." 	
			Bert says, "Also, I recommend opening the fridge for reals at some point." 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | Everyone is here! Lisa's settled into the big armchair, Thor is hanging
Floyd | out on the couch, Mindo is -- well, Mindo's still in the kitchen, but
Floyd | he'll come in when the movie starts, undoubtedly. You've already got
Floyd | the DVD in your combination TV/DVD player, so you just need to turn it
Floyd | on and late night movie night can begin!
Floyd |
Floyd | It's also pretty dark in here. It's a good thing you've got excellent
Floyd | night vision, or else that could be somewhat inconvenient.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Room" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Your Kitchen
Floyd | This is the place where you prepare food. And by "prepare food", of
Floyd | course, I mean "microwave frozen burritos" and "call for pizza". It's
Floyd | fitted out with all the usual amenities: refrigerator, stove,
Floyd | microwave, cabinets, a large disembodied brain floating in the corner.
Floyd | Pretty much your standard IF protagonist's kitchen. The living room is
Floyd | to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | It's also pretty dark in here. It's a good thing you've got excellent
Floyd | night vision, or else that could be somewhat inconvenient.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mindo is floating placidly in the corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "open fridge" 		
	

Floyd | That seems like a monumentally unwise idea. The last time you opened
Floyd | the fridge, you ended up spending a week in the hospital and lost all
Floyd | memories for thirty-six hours before and after the event. But hey, if

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open microwave" 		
	

Floyd | you want to give it a shot, it's your funeral.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | Fortunately, you haven't accidentally left anything in there overnight.
Floyd | This time.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "put quarter in fuse box" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	inky says (to Floyd), "open fridge" 		
	

Floyd | You take a deep breath, brace yourself against the unknown, and open
Floyd | the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you remember that scene near the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark?
Floyd |
Floyd | Yeah, well. This ain't the glory of God here, but the outcome is
Floyd | otherwise strikingly similar. Better luck next time around.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have died ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 1, in 18 turns.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT?
Floyd | >

		inky says, "ha ha" 	
			Bert says, "And putting the oil on anything/anyone else." 	
	inky says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd | Your Kitchen
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Awesome" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" 		
	

Floyd | You open the cabinets, revealing a bowl of unpopped popcorn kernels and
Floyd | a fuse box.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "put oil on mindo" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Oh right, we could try massaging people." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "get bowl and box" 		
	

Floyd | bowl of unpopped popcorn kernels: Taken.
Floyd | microwave oven: That's hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "massage mindo" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x bowl" 		
	

Floyd | What the heck? Aren't popcorn kernels supposed to come in a paper bag?
Floyd | With microwave instructions on the back?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "put oil on mindo" 		
	

Floyd | It might be fun to oil Mindo up, but you have other things to worry
Floyd | about right now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "put oil on me" 		
	

Floyd | It might be fun to oil yourself up, but you have other things to worry
Floyd | about right now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open microwave" 		
	

Floyd | That's already open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | Everyone is here! Lisa's settled into the big armchair, Thor is hanging
Floyd | out on the couch, Mindo is -- well, Mindo's still in the kitchen, but
Floyd | he'll come in when the movie starts, undoubtedly. You've already got
Floyd | the DVD in your combination TV/DVD player, so you just need to turn it
Floyd | on and late night movie night can begin!
Floyd |
Floyd | It's also pretty dark in here. It's a good thing you've got excellent
Floyd | night vision, or else that could be somewhat inconvenient.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put cat hair in microwave" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "oil liza" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline exclaims, "Tale !" 	
			Tale says, "Whoops, sorry" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Oh, yeah." 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Your Kitchen
Floyd | This is the place where you prepare food. And by "prepare food", of
Floyd | course, I mean "microwave frozen burritos" and "call for pizza". It's
Floyd | fitted out with all the usual amenities: refrigerator, stove,
Floyd | microwave, cabinets, a large disembodied brain floating in the corner.
Floyd | Pretty much your standard IF protagonist's kitchen. The living room is
Floyd | to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | It's also pretty dark in here. It's a good thing you've got excellent
Floyd | night vision, or else that could be somewhat inconvenient.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mindo is floating placidly in the corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Well, I want to do that too." 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put cat hair in microwave" 		
	

Floyd | You won't be microwaving anything without electricity.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "take broken fuse" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "open fuse box" 		
	

Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x fuse box" 		
	

Floyd | An open-faced fuse box. Conveniently, your entire home runs on just one
Floyd | fuse. In the fuse box is a burnt-out fuse.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "ha" 	
			Bert says, "I think you've found just about everything else, though. Except for the telephone." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "get burnt-out fuse" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "Telephone?" 	
			Bert says, "But that's not that exciting." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "put quarter in fuse box" 		
	

Floyd | Good thought, but it's not quite the right size to fit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "put il in fuse box" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale asks (of bert), "So we can call someone?" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "eat dime" 		
	

Floyd | That's plainly inedible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "x telephone" 		
	

Floyd | A telephone in the shape of Garfield the cat which you picked up for
Floyd | only a quarter at a yard sale. Cha-ching!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "oops oil" 		
	

Floyd | Sorry, that can't be corrected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert exclaims, "You can try!" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "put oil in fuse box" 		
	

Floyd | It might be fun to oil the fuse box up, but you have other things to
Floyd | worry about right now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "call thor" 		
	

Floyd | It's two in the morning. It's too late to be calling anyone on the
Floyd | phone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "phone for pizza" 		
	

Floyd | It's two in the morning. It's too late to be calling anyone on the
Floyd | phone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "put phone in microwave" 		
	

Floyd | You need to be holding the telephone before you can put it into
Floyd | something else.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	inky says (to Floyd), "call police" 		Bert says, "(I warned you the phone wasn't that exciting.)" 	
	

Floyd | It's two in the morning. It's too late to be calling anyone on the
Floyd | phone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "get phone" 		
	

Floyd | It's two in the morning. It's too late to be calling anyone on the
Floyd | phone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "put cat in microwave" 		
	

Floyd | (the wad of cat hair in the microwave oven)
Floyd | You won't be microwaving anything without electricity.
Floyd |

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "hit phone" 		
	

Floyd | >
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "put penny in fuse" 		
	

Floyd | (the burnt-out fuse)
Floyd | That can't contain things.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo asks, "Shall we leave it at that then?" 	
			Tale says, "Hm" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "eat oil" 		
	

Floyd | That's plainly inedible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "heh" 	
			Bert says, "Yeah, I think you're pretty much through." 	
			Tale asks, "maybe try oiling people?" 	
			Jacqueline says (to jojo), "I'm thinking we're probably pretty much done, yeah." 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | Everyone is here! Lisa's settled into the big armchair, Thor is hanging
Floyd | out on the couch, Mindo is -- well, Mindo's still in the kitchen, but
Floyd | he'll come in when the movie starts, undoubtedly. You've already got
Floyd | the DVD in your combination TV/DVD player, so you just need to turn it
Floyd | on and late night movie night can begin!
Floyd |
Floyd | It's also pretty dark in here. It's a good thing you've got excellent
Floyd | night vision, or else that could be somewhat inconvenient.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "We haven't tried to massage Lisa and Thor, but I'd guess the same response as for Mindo" 	
			ChrisC says, "We did" 	
			Jacqueline says (to Tale), "I thought you tried that." 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "put oil on thor" 		
	

Floyd | It might be fun to oil Thor up, but you have other things to worry
Floyd | about right now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Ellison says, "at this rate, only five and a half hours of ClubFloyd left!" 	
			Tale says, "I thought they had special massages. Er, messages." 	
			Jacqueline asks, "So, next game?" 	
			ChrisC says, "sure" 	
			Tale says, "Sure." 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" 		
	

Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?

		jojo says, "Yep" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" 		
	

Floyd |

		
	Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" 		ASchultz says, "Yes" 	
			jojo asks, "Who's up next?" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load psibeingtheending" 		
	

Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Being the Ending of the Beginning
Floyd | A Bad Idea by Chris Conley
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 111230 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Type ABOUT for information about this ridiculous thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | Darkness
Floyd | It is pitch black. The only sound is an electrical hum.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "listen" 		
	

Floyd | What a curious sound. Maddeningly amplified by the walls of this
Floyd | chamber. You can hardly stand it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "about" 		
	

Floyd | This is my submission for the 2011 Penultimate Not Numbered New Year's
Floyd | Speed IF. Entries had to include a particular list of items (or at
Floyd | least a subset thereof), or be programmed within 2 hours, or somewhere

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | in between. I went with the former restriction, just for fun.
Floyd |
Floyd | Note: fun not guaranteed. Offer not valid in Texas.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "about" 		
	

Floyd | You are wearing:
Floyd |   your mum's shoes
Floyd |   nothing else
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | This is my submission for the 2011 Penultimate Not Numbered New Year's
Floyd | Speed IF. Entries had to include a particular list of items (or at
Floyd | least a subset thereof), or be programmed within 2 hours, or somewhere
Floyd | in between. I went with the former restriction, just for fun.
Floyd |
Floyd | Note: fun not guaranteed. Offer not valid in Texas.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "x shoes" 		
	

Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "score" 		
	

Floyd | You have so far scored 0 out of a possible 0, in 6 turns.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x shoes" 		
	

Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "nothing else" 		
	

Floyd | You will need to be more specific. Try typing LOOK to get a description
Floyd | of your surroundings.
Floyd |
Floyd | To stop these messages entirely, type NOVICE OFF.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	inky says (to Floyd), "turn on lights" 		
	

Floyd | I only understood the first part of that-- trying anyway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Retrying as:
Floyd | >TURN ON
Floyd |
Floyd | Type UNDO if this isn't what you wanted to do, or CORRECT OFF to stop
Floyd | automatically correcting commands.
Floyd |
Floyd | (your mum's shoes)
Floyd | They're not something you can switch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x nothing else" 		
	

Floyd | You will need to be more specific. Try typing LOOK to get a description
Floyd | of your surroundings.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "look" 		
	

Floyd | Darkness
Floyd | It is pitch black. The only sound is an electrical hum.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "remove shoes" 		
	

Floyd | Not on your life. You've safely kept these shoes for 27 years and
Floyd | you're not about to let them out of your sight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x hum" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd | You'll have to get out of the tanning bed first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "get hum" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x bed" 		
	

Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "out" 		
	

Floyd | You can't get out of the closed tanning bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "ha ha" 	
			inky says, "it seems like newbie mode isn't a great idea to turn on if you have an unusual setting" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "open bed" 		
	

Floyd | The humming noise mercifully stops.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tanning Salon (in the tanning bed)
Floyd | The walls feature a few posters of smiling tanned blonde people walking
Floyd | down streets, along beaches, eating ice cream, etc. The room itself is
Floyd | fairly cold and uninviting. You can get back to the shopping center
Floyd | through the hall to the south, and perhaps that would be for the best.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your discarded clothing lies in a heap on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "open bed" 		
	

Floyd | That's already open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	inky says (to Floyd), "x clothing" 		
	

Floyd | Your clothes are all wrinkly and yecch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "get clothing" 		
	

Floyd | You quickly gather up your clothes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "posters" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x posters" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale asks, "Go out naked?" 	
	TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "wear clothing" 		
	

Floyd | You feel much more at ease with your wardrobe properly arranged on your
Floyd | person. This even despite its present condition.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hold, what's this in your pocket?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "wear clothing" 		
	

Floyd | You're already wearing those!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "So, we're naked except for our mum's shoes, and tanning." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x pocket" 		
	

Floyd | In the pockets, you find a genuine 1932 Shiny Time brass harmonica, a
Floyd | pair of carved bone dice, a single chopstick, a small can of liver
Floyd | patÃ©, four small smooth stones, and a resin-encased quantity of hare's
Floyd | fur.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "remove clothing" 		
	

Floyd | You're not feeling particularly daring.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Man, you people and your prudish ways." 	
	inky says (to Floyd), "x dice" 		
	

Floyd | They currently display 0 and 0.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		TheXenographer exclaims, "Sorry!" 	
			jojo says, "She's a real adventurer." 	
			Jacqueline says, "This is a unique start to an IF game that I don't believe has been explored previously. Someone note this for the next theory book." 	
			inky says, "wow" 	
	trojo says (to Floyd), "roll dice" 		
	

Floyd | You roll a 1 and a 2.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert asks (of Jacq), "What, nudity?" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "play d&d" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x harmonica" 		
	

Floyd | You see nothing special about the genuine 1932 Shiny Time brass
Floyd | harmonica.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "No, tanning bed." 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "play it" 		
	

Floyd | A very unfortunate sound blares from the harmonica.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "play harmonica" 		
	

Floyd | A very unfortunate sound blares from the harmonica.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x choptick" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sing" 		
	

Floyd | Your singing is abominable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x chopstick" 		
	

Floyd | You see nothing special about the single chopstick.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "play harmonica" 		
	

Floyd | A very unfortunate sound blares from the harmonica.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x liver" 		
	

Floyd | You see nothing special about the small can of liver patÃ©.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "open can" 		
	

Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x fur" 		
	

Floyd | You see nothing special about the resin-encased quantity of hare's fur.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x stones" 		
	

Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x stone" 		
	

Floyd | You see nothing special about the small smooth stone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "eat stone" 		
	

Floyd | That's plainly inedible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale asks, "Hm, so let's try >south?" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "eat liver" 		
	

Floyd | You eat the small can of liver patÃ©. Not bad.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd | Tanning Salon
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd | You'll have to get out of the tanning bed first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "out" 		
	

Floyd | You get out of the tanning bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tanning Salon
Floyd | The walls feature a few posters of smiling tanned blonde people walking
Floyd | down streets, along beaches, eating ice cream, etc. The room itself is
Floyd | fairly cold and uninviting. You can get back to the shopping center
Floyd | through the hall to the south, and perhaps that would be for the best.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a pair of carved bone dice and a tanning bed (empty) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "exit bed" 		
	

Floyd | I only understood the first part of that-- trying anyway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Retrying as:
Floyd | >EXIT
Floyd | Wrightsville Town Shopping Center
Floyd | Bleh. Capitalistic excess at its worst. The Video Head shop hawks its
Floyd | degenerate wares to the west; a corporate paint shop sells overpriced
Floyd | colors (colors!) to the south; the tanning salon is north and the food
Floyd | court is east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Given that we can't open it, eating the can seems like a digestively dangerous move." 	
	trojo says (to Floyd), "ate the whole can... guess we are a goat" 		
	

Floyd | You typed a rather long command and I didn't understand it. It's better
Floyd | to stick to simpler things like TAKE SMALL SMOOTH STONE.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Lionheart arrives, full of fun, but no funk. 		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "get dice and bed" 		
	

Floyd | I only understood the first part of that-- trying anyway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Retrying as:
Floyd | >GET DICE
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Wrightsville Town Shopping Center
Floyd | Bleh. Capitalistic excess at its worst. The Video Head shop hawks its
Floyd | degenerate wares to the west; a corporate paint shop sells overpriced
Floyd | colors (colors!) to the south; the tanning salon is north and the food
Floyd | court is east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline now has some of the best banana bread ever. Sadly, she has the last two pieces of it. 	
	genericgeekgirl arrives, full of funk, but no fun. 		Bert asks, "Whoops, did we lose the tanning salon without getting our stuff first?" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Tanning Salon
Floyd | The walls feature a few posters of smiling tanned blonde people walking
Floyd | down streets, along beaches, eating ice cream, etc. The room itself is
Floyd | fairly cold and uninviting. You can get back to the shopping center
Floyd | through the hall to the south, and perhaps that would be for the best.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a pair of carved bone dice and a tanning bed (empty) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You possess:
Floyd |   a resin-encased quantity of hare's fur
Floyd |   four small smooth stones

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "get dice and bed" 		
	

Floyd |   a small can of liver patÃ©
Floyd |   a single chopstick
Floyd |   a genuine 1932 Shiny Time brass harmonica
Floyd | You are wearing:
Floyd |   some dissheveled clothing
Floyd |   your mum's shoes
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | pair of carved bone dice: Taken.
Floyd | tanning bed: That's fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "Seems a bit hypocritical coming from someone who's just been in a tanning salon" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Wrightsville Town Shopping Center
Floyd | Bleh. Capitalistic excess at its worst. The Video Head shop hawks its
Floyd | degenerate wares to the west; a corporate paint shop sells overpriced
Floyd | colors (colors!) to the south; the tanning salon is north and the food
Floyd | court is east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "it's a socialst tan" 	
			jojo says, "Extra red." 	
			trojo asks, "sunburn salon?" 	
			Tale asks, "Do we have any kind of goal?" 	
			DavidW says, "There's a thing called the sun that gives tans for free." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "about" 		
	

Floyd | This is my submission for the 2011 Penultimate Not Numbered New Year's
Floyd | Speed IF. Entries had to include a particular list of items (or at
Floyd | least a subset thereof), or be programmed within 2 hours, or somewhere
Floyd | in between. I went with the former restriction, just for fun.
Floyd |
Floyd | Note: fun not guaranteed. Offer not valid in Texas.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale asks, "So, exploring?" 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Food Court
Floyd | A dozen garish illuminated signs advertise overcooked and overpriced
Floyd | foods from various stalls. Out of all of them, there's only one place
Floyd | here in which you would be caught dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | The familiar golden arches beckon onwards.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "read signs" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x stalls" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x arches" 		
	

Floyd | You see nothing special about the golden arches.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd | You dutifully take your place in line.
Floyd |
Floyd | McDonalds (in line)
Floyd | The thoughts of has occured here in days gone by and what will occur in
Floyd | the imminent future fill you with a warm feeling of contentment. This
Floyd | is good.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a cashier here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x arches" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "cashier" 		
	

Floyd | >EXAMINE CASHIER
Floyd | She is wearing a T-shirt reading "I killed my father and all I got was
Floyd | this lousy t-shirt" and a dull expression.
Floyd |
Floyd | A woman and three even larger children waddle to the nearest table,
Floyd | bags of food in tow. Disgusting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Do we have money?" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "eat cashier" 		
	

Floyd | (first taking the cashier)
Floyd | I don't suppose the cashier would care for that.
Floyd |
Floyd | A tall, thin man takes his salad and practically sprints to a table in
Floyd | the middle of the dining area. Deplorable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz asks, "So do we have money to pay for food?" 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "ask cashier for a happy meal" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "buy happy meal" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "buy food" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | At last, your turn has arrived. "How may I take your order?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "no" 		
	

Floyd | That was a rhetorical question.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "cashier, no" 		
	

Floyd | The cashier has better things to do.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "order food" 		
	

Floyd | "That's not on the menu." The cashier points above her head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x menu" 		
	

Floyd | The usual. Burgers, happy meals, shakes, salads, sodas...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x menu" 		
	

Floyd | The usual. Burgers, happy meals, shakes, salads, sodas...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "order happy meal" 		
	

Floyd | You wait a moment for your order to be prepared, then gleefully take
Floyd | the Happy Meal with you to your usual table in the back of the dining
Floyd | area.
Floyd |
Floyd | McDonalds (in the booth)
Floyd | The thoughts of has occured here in days gone by and what will occur in
Floyd | the imminent future fill you with a warm feeling of contentment. This
Floyd | is good.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a cashier here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "order shake" 		
	

Floyd | There's no one here to take your order.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "open happy meal" 		
	

Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd | You'll have to get out of the booth first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You possess:
Floyd |   a shake
Floyd |   a pair of carved bone dice
Floyd |   a resin-encased quantity of hare's fur
Floyd |   four small smooth stones
Floyd |   a small can of liver patÃ©
Floyd |   a single chopstick
Floyd |   a genuine 1932 Shiny Time brass harmonica
Floyd | You are wearing:
Floyd |   some dissheveled clothing
Floyd |   your mum's shoes
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x shake" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat meal" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "I didn't know McDonald's had booths" 	
			Bert asks, "Wait, huh?" 	
			trojo says, "some do" 	
			Bert says, "I guess they got our order wrong." 	
			DavidW asks, "We ordered a meal and got a shake?" 	
			Bert says (to ASchulz), "This is a mall food court." 	
			Tale asks, "Also, we can't examine the shake we're carrying?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Man, I haven't been in a McDonald's in several years. Now I feel all dirty." 	
			trojo says, "yeah so much for immersion haha" 	
			ChrisC says, "hmm? that should say happy meal, weird" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "happy meal" 		
	

Floyd | Enclosed in a delightful chatreuse box.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says (to Bert), "Ah, I was thinking something more formal" 	
			Bert says, "(Although I've seen McDonald'ses with booths, but not mall food courts with booths.)" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "eat happy meal" 		
	

Floyd | (first placing the shake on the table)
Floyd | Delicious.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you finish, you are overcome by an extreme feeling of dread.
Floyd | Suddenly, Tiny Tim bursts from the floor, destroying half of the dining
Floyd | area in an explosion of magma and ash. Your hair is nearly singed by a
Floyd | burning chunk of formica flying past your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | "LESLIE!" he screams, pointing at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Er... yes?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Apocalypse
Floyd | Most of the restaurant is a smoking crater. A few upturned tables and
Floyd | chairs are scattered around the perimeter. The roof is now open to the
Floyd | sky, which seems to be turning an unpleasant shade of red. The exit
Floyd | back to the mall has been blocked with what seems to be a stack of
Floyd | bodies.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tiny Tim hovers a foot off the crater floor, his long hair sticking out
Floyd | wildly in all directions. Dust and debris orbits slowly around him.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fallen brick lies close at hand.
Floyd |
Floyd | "LESLIE! I HAVE COME FOR YOU!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline exclaims, "!" 	
			ChrisC exclaims, "here's a goal for you!" 	
			Tale says, "Whoops!" 	
	TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "get brick" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | A sizable piece of the ceiling falls on the really rather poorly named
Floyd | former singer. He's stunned for a moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Ah, much better." 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x bodies" 		
	

Floyd | The former McDonalds customers are piled here in front of the exit to
Floyd | the mall. You'll neer be able to move them in time.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		djfletch asks, "did we bring about Ragnarok again?" 	
			Tale says, "I new eating a McDonalds was dangerous, but this is just ridiculous" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "throw brick at tim" 		
	

Floyd | Being struck by this latest weight proves too much for him to absorb
Floyd | the momentum of. He loses his balance and collapses to the ground in a
Floyd | pile of rubble.
Floyd |
Floyd | Apocalypse
Floyd | Most of the restaurant is a smoking crater. A few upturned tables and
Floyd | chairs are scattered around the perimeter. The roof is now open to the
Floyd | sky, which seems to be turning an unpleasant shade of red. The exit
Floyd | back to the mall has been blocked with what seems to be a stack of
Floyd | bodies.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large pile of rubble fills the crater.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a brick here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Okay, see, that bit was delightfully unexpected." 	
			ASchultz asks, "oops, did I go too soon?" 	
			jojo says, "We're being really irresponsible this evening." 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x brick" 		
	

Floyd | You see nothing special about the brick.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x tim" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x rubble" 		
	

Floyd | (the pile of rubble)
Floyd | The pile of debris that was once a McDonalds reaches nearly to the
Floyd | ceiling.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb rubble" 		
	

Floyd | (the pile of rubble)
Floyd | You clamber up the side of the pile, nearly tripping as some bricks
Floyd | shift under your foot. At last you reach the top of the pile.
Floyd |
Floyd | Apocalypse (on the pile of rubble)
Floyd | Most of the restaurant is a smoking crater. A few upturned tables and
Floyd | chairs are scattered around the perimeter. The roof is now open to the
Floyd | sky, which seems to be turning an unpleasant shade of red. The exit
Floyd | back to the mall has been blocked with what seems to be a stack of
Floyd | bodies.
Floyd |
Floyd | From this vantage point, you notice a bent and twisted girder dangling
Floyd | from the hole in the ceiling.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a brick here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x girder" 		
	

Floyd | It lies just out of reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "get it" 		
	

Floyd | It is too far below you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump" 		
	

Floyd | You manage to grab the girder and shimmy your way to freedom.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roof
Floyd | You are standing on the very sparsely implemented roof of the shopping
Floyd | center. Vultures are still circling overhead in the quickly darkening
Floyd | sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | Every so often, a piece of debris or stream of dust falls from the
Floyd | great gaping hole in the roof.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large pyramidal skylight stands before you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "jump" 		
	

Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "u" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x skylight" 		
	

Floyd | A geometric construction of steel and glass.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x vulture" 		
	

Floyd | A dozen or so vey large birds make lazy loops in the sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "enter skylight" 		
	

Floyd | How?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "open skylight" 		
	

Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "open skyligh" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "open skylight" 		
	

Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "u" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You possess:
Floyd |   a pair of carved bone dice
Floyd |   a resin-encased quantity of hare's fur
Floyd |   four small smooth stones
Floyd |   a small can of liver patÃ©
Floyd |   a single chopstick
Floyd |   a genuine 1932 Shiny Time brass harmonica
Floyd | You are wearing:
Floyd |   some dissheveled clothing
Floyd |   your mum's shoes
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "break skylight" 		
	

Floyd | That's far too dangerous. Perhaps if you used another implement...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "dive through skylight" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "play harmonica" 		
	

Floyd | A very unfortunate sound blares from the harmonica.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert asks, "Should we go back for the brick?" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "throw stones at skylight" 		
	

Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "maybe" 	
			jojo says, "Sure" 	
			Tale says, "Yup" 	
	trojo says (to Floyd), "throw rock at skylight" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "d" 		
	

Floyd | You have no desire to return to that place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		olethros says, "I seem to be missing out!" 	
	olethros arrives, full of fun, but no funk. 		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw pate at skylight" 		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "throw stone at skylight" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | An impressive spray of glass falls to the floor below as the small
Floyd | smooth stone shatters the pyramidal skylight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "u" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x liver" 		
	

Floyd | You see nothing special about the small can of liver patÃ©.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "enter skylight" 		
	

Floyd | How?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to olethros), "Hello, Mr. Married Person." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" 		
	

Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "climb skylight" 		
	

Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Roof
Floyd | You are standing on the very sparsely implemented roof of the shopping
Floyd | center. Vultures are still circling overhead in the quickly darkening
Floyd | sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | Every so often, a piece of debris or stream of dust falls from the
Floyd | great gaping hole in the roof.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large pyramidal skylight stands before you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		olethros says, "the benefits of marriage" 	
			ASchultz says, "just checking--looks like the accented e is out" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "x skylight" 		
	

Floyd | A geometric construction of steel and glass. Rather more steel than
Floyd | glass, at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "enter skylight" 		
	

Floyd | How?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "jump" 		
	

Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "climb skylight" 		
	

Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "jump through skylight" 		
	

Floyd | I only understood the first part of that-- trying anyway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Retrying as:
Floyd | >JUMP
Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I'm unsure which direction is 'before' us." 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You possess:
Floyd |   a pair of carved bone dice
Floyd |   a resin-encased quantity of hare's fur
Floyd |   three small smooth stones
Floyd |   a small can of liver patÃ©
Floyd |   a single chopstick
Floyd |   a genuine 1932 Shiny Time brass harmonica
Floyd | You are wearing:
Floyd |   some dissheveled clothing
Floyd |   your mum's shoes
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to Aschultz), "Some clients can display it, depends on your settings. I see I still haven't fixed my settings on this new setup, for instance. Meh" 	
	trojo says (to Floyd), "throw stone at skylight" 		
	

Floyd | Futile.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "skylight" 		
	

Floyd | >EXAMINE SKYLIGHT
Floyd | A geometric construction of steel and glass. Rather more steel than
Floyd | glass, at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "climb skylight" 		
	

Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "fly" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "play harmonica" 		
	

Floyd | A very unfortunate sound blares from the harmonica.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "open skylight" 		
	

Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "enter skylight" 		
	

Floyd | How?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "Hmm. Tricksome." 	
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "go through skylight" 		
	

Floyd | How?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "d" 		
	

Floyd | You have no desire to return to that place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump" 		
	

Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "look in skylight" 		
	

Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Roof
Floyd | You are standing on the very sparsely implemented roof of the shopping
Floyd | center. Vultures are still circling overhead in the quickly darkening
Floyd | sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | Every so often, a piece of debris or stream of dust falls from the
Floyd | great gaping hole in the roof.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large pyramidal skylight stands before you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "play high c using harmonica" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "climb skylight" 		
	

Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "go skylight" 		
	

Floyd | How?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "enter skylight" 		
	

Floyd | How?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x debris" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump through skylight" 		
	

Floyd | I only understood the first part of that-- trying anyway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Retrying as:
Floyd | >JUMP
Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Hope we didn't miss anything in the other areas." 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "go through skylight" 		
	

Floyd | How?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You possess:
Floyd |   a pair of carved bone dice
Floyd |   a resin-encased quantity of hare's fur
Floyd |   three small smooth stones
Floyd |   a small can of liver patÃ©
Floyd |   a single chopstick
Floyd |   a genuine 1932 Shiny Time brass harmonica
Floyd | You are wearing:
Floyd |   some dissheveled clothing
Floyd |   your mum's shoes
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb skylight" 		
	

Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "remove clothing" 		
	

Floyd | You take off the dissheveled clothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x me" 		
	

Floyd | Tanned bronze. Ignoring for a moment what you're wearing, a fine
Floyd | physical specimen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo asks, "Is the author with us?" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x fur" 		
	

Floyd | You see nothing special about the resin-encased quantity of hare's fur.
Floyd |

		ChrisC says, "I am" 	
	

Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "eat fur" 		
	

Floyd | That's plainly inedible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "tie clothing to girders" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "out" 		
	

Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo asks, "Have we got the game into an unwinnable?" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "open fur" 		
	

Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "tie clothing to skylight" 		
	

Floyd | You would achieve nothing by this.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "call 911" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "break resin" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Paulinus says, "could we tempt the vultures down with the pate" 	
			ChrisC says, "no, you guys are close" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x vultures" 		
	

Floyd | A dozen or so vey large birds make lazy loops in the sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "give can to vulture" 		
	

Floyd | You can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "play harmonica" 		
	

Floyd | A very unfortunate sound blares from the harmonica.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "get vulture" 		
	

Floyd | That's hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "ride vulture" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "show can to vultures" 		
	

Floyd | You can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "vulture, hi" 		
	

Floyd | You can't talk to the birds.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You possess:
Floyd |   a pair of carved bone dice
Floyd |   a resin-encased quantity of hare's fur
Floyd |   three small smooth stones
Floyd |   a small can of liver patÃ©
Floyd |   a single chopstick
Floyd |   a genuine 1932 Shiny Time brass harmonica
Floyd |   some dissheveled clothing
Floyd | You are wearing:
Floyd |   your mum's shoes
Floyd |   nothing else
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "open can" 		
	

Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "ask vulture about me" 		
	

Floyd | You can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x nothing else" 		
	

Floyd | You will need to be more specific. Try typing LOOK to get a description
Floyd | of your surroundings.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz asks, "So, what are these other items for?" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "show can to vultures" 		
	

Floyd | You can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "throw stone at vulture" 		
	

Floyd | Futile.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale asks, "Maybe EAT LIVER will attract them?" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "feed vultures" 		
	

Floyd | (to yourself)
Floyd | (first taking the birds)
Floyd | That's hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "forward" 		
	

Floyd | If you can see an object, you can usually just interact with it
Floyd | directly without worrying about your position. Try a command like
Floyd | EXAMINE SMALL SMOOTH STONE for a closer look at something, or LOOK to
Floyd | show the description of this location again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "lie down" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "lie under skylight" 		
	

Floyd | If you can see an object, you can usually just interact with it
Floyd | directly without worrying about your position. Try a command like
Floyd | EXAMINE PYRAMIDAL SKYLIGHT for a closer look at something, or LOOK to
Floyd | show the description of this location again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "open can" 		
	

Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "fighting Tiny Tim, mostly" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x steel" 		
	

Floyd | A geometric construction of steel and glass. Rather more steel than
Floyd | glass, at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "show can to vultures" 		
	

Floyd | You can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear can" 		
	

Floyd | You can't wear that!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "d" 		
	

Floyd | You have no desire to return to that place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale asks, "Can we try eat?" 	
			jojo says, "eat vultures" 	
			Bert says (to Tale), "Paging Prometheus..." 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "eat liver" 		
	

Floyd | You eat the small can of liver patÃ©. Not bad.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd | Roof
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "throw can at vulture" 		
	

Floyd | Futile.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "feed vultures" 		
	

Floyd | (to yourself)
Floyd | (first taking the birds)
Floyd | That's hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "hit can with chopstick" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Roof
Floyd | You are standing on the very sparsely implemented roof of the shopping
Floyd | center. Vultures are still circling overhead in the quickly darkening
Floyd | sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | Every so often, a piece of debris or stream of dust falls from the
Floyd | great gaping hole in the roof.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large pyramidal skylight stands before you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "hit can with chopstick" 		
	

Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hit the small can of liver
Floyd | patÃ©.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x debris" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "enter hole" 		
	

Floyd | You have no desire to return to that place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "x hole" 		
	

Floyd | You see nothing special about the hole.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "hit can" 		
	

Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "sit on skylight" 		
	

Floyd | How?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "stand on skylight" 		
	

Floyd | How?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "wave can" 		
	

Floyd | You look ridiculous waving the small can of liver patÃ©.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "look ridiculous" 		
	

Floyd | I only understood the first part of that-- trying anyway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Retrying as:
Floyd | >LOOK
Floyd | Roof
Floyd | You are standing on the very sparsely implemented roof of the shopping
Floyd | center. Vultures are still circling overhead in the quickly darkening
Floyd | sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | Every so often, a piece of debris or stream of dust falls from the
Floyd | great gaping hole in the roof.
Floyd |
Floyd | A large pyramidal skylight stands before you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "pray" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "dance" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "sing" 		
	

Floyd | Your singing is abominable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "throw can at skylight" 		
	

Floyd | Futile.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale waves. 		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "put can in skylight" 		
	

Floyd | That can't contain things.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "dive" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "wave" 		
	

Floyd | You wave, feeling foolish.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "take glass" 		
	

Floyd | That's fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "break can" 		
	

Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "look under skylight" 		
	

Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "pry can" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "break glass" 		
	

Floyd | That's far too dangerous. Perhaps if you used another implement...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You possess:
Floyd |   a pair of carved bone dice
Floyd |   a resin-encased quantity of hare's fur
Floyd |   three small smooth stones
Floyd |   a small can of liver patÃ©
Floyd |   a single chopstick
Floyd |   a genuine 1932 Shiny Time brass harmonica
Floyd |   some dissheveled clothing
Floyd | You are wearing:
Floyd |   your mum's shoes
Floyd |   nothing else
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "hit glass with chopstick" 		
	

Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hit the pyramidal skylight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "remove shoes" 		
	

Floyd | Not on your life. You've safely kept these shoes for 27 years and
Floyd | you're not about to let them out of your sight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "play harmonica" 		
	

Floyd | A very unfortunate sound blares from the harmonica.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "throw stone at vulture" 		
	

Floyd | Futile.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "tap shoes" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "roll dice" 		
	

Floyd | You roll a 1 and a 2.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "search glass" 		
	

Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "roll dice" 		
	

Floyd | (first taking the pair of carved bone dice)
Floyd | You roll a 1 and a 3.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "roll dice" 		
	

Floyd | (first taking the pair of carved bone dice)
Floyd | You roll a 1 and a 2.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear fur" 		
	

Floyd | You can't wear that!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "roll dice" 		
	

Floyd | (first taking the pair of carved bone dice)
Floyd | You roll a 2 and a 3.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x vultures" 		
	

Floyd | A dozen or so vey large birds make lazy loops in the sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "get die" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "get dice" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "shout" 		
	

Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "scream" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "pray" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "bother" 		
	

Floyd | Quite.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "poke me with chopstick" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "throw stone at vulture" 		
	

Floyd | Futile.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "hit me" 		
	

Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "feed vulture" 		
	

Floyd | (to yourself)
Floyd | (first taking the birds)
Floyd | That's hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw stones at vultures" 		ASchultz says, "open liver with chopsticks" 	
	

Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo asks, "What now, fictioneros?" 	
			JamesPKing says, "i sense frustration" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw stone at vultures" 		
	

Floyd | Futile.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Paulinus says (to Floyd), "feed can to vulture" 		
	

Floyd | You can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "I'm running out of ideas." 	
			ASchultz asks, "Anyone want to try the HELP?" 	
			jojo asks, "Do we think we have to break the glass?" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "help" 		
	

Floyd | Try typing LOOK for a description of your surroundings. Any directions
Floyd | indicate exits which you can use by typing (for example) NORTH (or N).
Floyd | Some of the objects mentioned in the description might be worth a
Floyd | closer look with a command like EXAMINE SMALL SMOOTH STONE. You can
Floyd | also TAKE or DROP some things, type INVENTORY to see a list of what
Floyd | you're carrying already, OPEN or CLOSE containers or doors, and so on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "it's already broken" 	
			DavidW says, "We broke the glass already." 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "hint" 		
	

Floyd | Try typing LOOK for a description of your surroundings. Any directions
Floyd | indicate exits which you can use by typing (for example) NORTH (or N).
Floyd | Some of the objects mentioned in the description might be worth a
Floyd | closer look with a command like EXAMINE SMALL CAN OF LIVER PATÃ‰. You
Floyd | can also TAKE or DROP some things, type INVENTORY to see a list of what
Floyd | you're carrying already, OPEN or CLOSE containers or doors, and so on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		trojo says, "throwing the stone broke it" 	
			djfletch says, "I kind of liked DavidW's idea of using the clothes somehow" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "throw me at skylight" 		
	

Floyd | (first taking yourself)
Floyd | You are always self-possessed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		djfletch says, "since it let us take them off here" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x clothes" 		
	

Floyd | Your clothes are all wrinkly and yecch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "throw clothes" 		
	

Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "iron clothes" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "wrap hands with clothes" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "Put clothes on glass" 	
			ASchultz says, "throw clothes at vultures" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "give clothes to vulture" 		
	

Floyd | You can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "tie clothes together" 		
	

Floyd | After a few minutes' work, you've created a decently long rope out of
Floyd | your own clothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "put clothes in skylight" 		
	

Floyd | That can't contain things.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "rub liver on clothes" 		
	

Floyd | I only understood the first part of that-- trying anyway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Retrying as:
Floyd | >RUB LIVER
Floyd | You achieve nothing by this.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Oho." 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x rope" 		
	

Floyd | It was once, an eternity ago, a quite fashionable wardrobe. Has it
Floyd | really come to this? Making fine clothing into arts and crafts as the
Floyd | world crumbles around you?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "yay" 	
			DavidW says (to TheXeno), "yay" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Sweet" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "tie rope to skylight" 		
	

Floyd | You fix one end to the steel frame of the skylight and let the other
Floyd | end dangle down into the shopping center.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "climb rope" 		
	

Floyd | You rappel off the steel frame of the skylight and make about three
Floyd | handfulls worth of progress down into the mall before some piece of
Floyd | clothing gives way. You never did earn your knot-tying merit badge.
Floyd |

		
	Bert pushes the green 'space' button. 		
	

Floyd | Some time later, you come to...
Floyd |
Floyd | Ghosts of the Past
Floyd | A cold wind blows through the ruins of the shopping center. Shards of
Floyd | glass, fallen bricks, and bodies litter the ground. The power is out,
Floyd | and you can barely see anything in the twilight. Every so often, an
Floyd | animal howls in the distance. Something seems disturbingly familiar
Floyd | about the smell of death and decay here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The only way that has not been ruined or blocked by debris is the Video
Floyd | Head shop, to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a small smooth stone here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "get stone" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd | The electricity suddenly flickers on as you enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | Video Head
Floyd | Rows and rows of vapid entertainment titles fill every square foot of
Floyd | this drab, depressing store. The full extent of the design imperative
Floyd | in decorating this place was apparently "gray".
Floyd |
Floyd | A single, solitary copy of Doom III lies dejectedly in the back corner
Floyd | of the store.
Floyd |
Floyd | A pale man, reigning over all he sees from his perch behind the
Floyd | counter, sneers at your presence in his fine establishment.
Floyd |
Floyd | Wait. You realize, with dawning horror, that standing behind the
Floyd | counter is in fact not the Video Head clerk at all, but your evil twin!
Floyd |
Floyd | "Leslie, dear, what ARE you wearing?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "howl" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo exclaims, "Uh oh!" 	
	trojo says (to Floyd), "smell twin" 		
	

Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You know what, Leslie, I think we've been too hard on each other over
Floyd | the years. How about a truce?" Sam pauses for a second, but before you
Floyd | can respond: "Well, that was fun! What do you want to play now?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x doom" 		
	

Floyd | It's a cardboard box.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sam does that eyeball thing that you hate. So aggravating!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "punch twin" 		
	

Floyd | Deftly parried by the e-peen hammer.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You know what, Leslie, I think we've been too hard on each other over
Floyd | the years. How about a truce?" Sam pauses for a second, but before you
Floyd | can respond: "Well, that was fun! What do you want to play now?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "open box" 		
	

Floyd | You open the copy of Doom III, revealing a fine pewter space marine,
Floyd | some depleted uranium dog tags, an Official Doom III Strategy guide, an
Floyd | Unofficial Doom III Strategy Guide, a jewel case, an order form, and an
Floyd | ID code.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin takes a product from one of the shelves and dropkicks it
Floyd | out the door. "Not that I don't appreciate this fine establishment, but
Floyd | you know what they say: if you've seen one shopping center, you've seen
Floyd | the mall!" Deplorable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "yay Doom III" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "get all from bo" 		
	

Floyd | I only understood the first part of that-- trying anyway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Retrying as:
Floyd | >GET ALL
Floyd | copy of Doom III: Taken.
Floyd | e-peen hammer: That seems to belong to your evil twin.
Floyd | fine pewter space marine: Taken.
Floyd | depleted uranium dog tags: Taken.
Floyd | Official Doom III Strategy guide: Taken.
Floyd | Unofficial Doom III Strategy Guide: Taken.
Floyd | jewel case: Taken.
Floyd | Doom III DVD: The jewel case isn't open.
Floyd | Making of Doom III Featurette DVD: The jewel case isn't open.
Floyd | order form: Taken.
Floyd | ID code: Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sam chortles in glee.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Nitku says (to Floyd), "give box to sam" 		
	

Floyd | You can't bring yourself to perform such a charitable act to your evil
Floyd | twin. Perhaps in a less direct manner...
Floyd |
Floyd | Your twin crushes a fly that had landed on the counter. Now we can add
Floyd | animal cruelty to the list of atrocities comitted.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Also, ha I had never heard that terrible joke before." 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "ask sam about her feelings" 		
	

Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin twirls an imaginary moustache. The fiend!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Neither had I & I'm surprised I didn't" 	
			ASchultz says, "It's a very good bad joke" 	
			DavidW says, "I seem to be missing the joke." 	
			ChrisC says, "the magic of google" 	
			Tale says, "put box on table" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "put box on table" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "What joke are people referring to?" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "put box on counter" 		
	

Floyd | "How utterly boring. Can't you find something more interesting?" Sam
Floyd | swats the copy of Doom III off of the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sam does that eyeball thing that you hate. So aggravating!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Jacqueline gets bored and wanders off to the Toyshop. 		
	Jacqueline arrives, ready to play with the toys. 		Bert says (to W), "'if you've seen one shopping center, you've seen the mall'." 	
			Jacqueline says (to DW), "If you've seen one shopping center, you've seen the mall." 	
			DavidW says, "oh. I missed that." 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x sam" 		
	

Floyd | Yes, it's none other than your evil twin Sam, menacing with an e-peen
Floyd | hammer! How monstrous, the duplicity! How devious, the deception! How
Floyd | terrible, the fashion sense!
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin twirls an imaginary moustache. The fiend!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "kiss sam" 		
	

Floyd | Keep your mind on the game.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You know what, Leslie, I think we've been too hard on each other over
Floyd | the years. How about a truce?" Sam pauses for a second, but before you
Floyd | can respond: "Well, that was fun! What do you want to play now?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline exclaims (at DW), "It's the very sort of joke you generally like!" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "play harmonica" 		
	

Floyd | A very unfortunate sound blares from the harmonica.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your twin crushes a fly that had landed on the counter. Now we can add
Floyd | animal cruelty to the list of atrocities comitted.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "hammer" 		
	

Floyd | >EXAMINE HAMMER
Floyd | You see nothing special about the e-peen hammer.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sam does that eyeball thing that you hate. So aggravating!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You possess:
Floyd |   an ID code
Floyd |   an order form
Floyd |   a jewel case (closed)
Floyd |     a Doom III DVD
Floyd |     a Making of Doom III Featurette DVD
Floyd |   an Unofficial Doom III Strategy Guide
Floyd |   an Official Doom III Strategy guide
Floyd |   some depleted uranium dog tags
Floyd |   a fine pewter space marine
Floyd |   four small smooth stones
Floyd |   a pair of carved bone dice
Floyd |   a resin-encased quantity of hare's fur
Floyd |   a small can of liver patÃ©
Floyd |   a single chopstick
Floyd |   a genuine 1932 Shiny Time brass harmonica
Floyd | You are wearing:
Floyd |   your mum's shoes
Floyd |   nothing else
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin takes a product from one of the shelves and dropkicks it
Floyd | out the door. "Not that I don't appreciate this fine establishment, but
Floyd | you know what they say: if you've seen one shopping center, you've seen
Floyd | the mall!" Deplorable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x form" 		
	

Floyd | "Register your game now!" Somehow it doesn't seem like a very urgent
Floyd | task, at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your twin crushes a fly that had landed on the counter. Now we can add
Floyd | animal cruelty to the list of atrocities comitted.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "poke eyeball with chopstick" 		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "rolldice" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Nitku says (to Floyd), "open case" 		
	

Floyd | You open the jewel case.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sam does that eyeball thing that you hate. So aggravating!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x code" 		
	

Floyd | "To access the special unique Collector's Edition-only weapon in
Floyd | single- and multi-player, log on with this code on the following
Floyd | website: ..." You eyes are already starting to glaze over.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin twirls an imaginary moustache. The fiend!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "roll dice" 		
	

Floyd | You roll a 1 and a 5.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your twin crushes a fly that had landed on the counter. Now we can add
Floyd | animal cruelty to the list of atrocities comitted.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "official guide" 		
	

Floyd | You see nothing special about the Official Doom III Strategy guide.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You know what, Leslie, I think we've been too hard on each other over
Floyd | the years. How about a truce?" Sam pauses for a second, but before you
Floyd | can respond: "Well, that was fun! What do you want to play now?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "unofficial" 		
	

Floyd | >EXAMINE UNOFFICIAL
Floyd | You see nothing special about the Unofficial Doom III Strategy Guide.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your twin crushes a fly that had landed on the counter. Now we can add
Floyd | animal cruelty to the list of atrocities comitted.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "play doom" 		
	

Floyd | Which do you mean, the copy of Doom III, the Doom III DVD, the Making
Floyd | of Doom III Featurette DVD, the Unofficial Doom III Strategy Guide, or
Floyd | the Official Doom III Strategy guide?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "play yahtzee with dice" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x case" 		
	

Floyd | In the jewel case are a Doom III DVD and a Making of Doom III
Floyd | Featurette DVD.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin twirls an imaginary moustache. The fiend!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "give dice to twin" 		
	

Floyd | (first taking the pair of carved bone dice)
Floyd | You can't bring yourself to perform such a charitable act to your evil
Floyd | twin. Perhaps in a less direct manner...
Floyd |
Floyd | Sam does that eyeball thing that you hate. So aggravating!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Video Head
Floyd | Rows and rows of vapid entertainment titles fill every square foot of
Floyd | this drab, depressing store. The full extent of the design imperative
Floyd | in decorating this place was apparently "gray".
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin leers at you from behind the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a copy of Doom III (empty) and a counter here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin takes a product from one of the shelves and dropkicks it
Floyd | out the door. "Not that I don't appreciate this fine establishment, but
Floyd | you know what they say: if you've seen one shopping center, you've seen
Floyd | the mall!" Deplorable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x doom iii dvd" 		
	

Floyd | Which do you mean, the Doom III DVD or the Making of Doom III
Floyd | Featurette DVD?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "show dice to twin" 		
	

Floyd | Your evil twin is unimpressed.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin twirls an imaginary moustache. The fiend!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Nitku says (to Floyd), "put dice on counter" 		
	

Floyd | "How utterly boring. Can't you find something more interesting?" Sam
Floyd | swats the pair of carved bone dice off of the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You know what, Leslie, I think we've been too hard on each other over
Floyd | the years. How about a truce?" Sam pauses for a second, but before you
Floyd | can respond: "Well, that was fun! What do you want to play now?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Tricky one." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "throw dice at twin" 		
	

Floyd | (first taking the pair of carved bone dice)
Floyd | Wielding the hammer like a tennis racket, Sam bats the pair of carved
Floyd | bone dice harmlessly into the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sam chortles in glee.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "play doom iii dvd" 		
	

Floyd | Which do you mean, the Doom III DVD or the Making of Doom III
Floyd | Featurette DVD?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "How many games were submitted? (And how many have you played already?)" 	
	Nitku says (to Floyd), "put all on counter" 		
	

Floyd | pair of carved bone dice: "How utterly boring. Can't you find something
Floyd | more interesting?" Sam swats the pair of carved bone dice off of the
Floyd | counter.
Floyd | ID code: "How utterly boring. Can't you find something more
Floyd | interesting?" Sam swats the ID code off of the counter.
Floyd | order form: "How utterly boring. Can't you find something more
Floyd | interesting?" Sam swats the order form off of the counter.
Floyd | jewel case: "How utterly boring. Can't you find something more
Floyd | interesting?" Sam swats the jewel case off of the counter.
Floyd | Unofficial Doom III Strategy Guide: "How utterly boring. Can't you find
Floyd | something more interesting?" Sam swats the Unofficial Doom III Strategy
Floyd | Guide off of the counter.
Floyd | Official Doom III Strategy guide: "How utterly boring. Can't you find
Floyd | something more interesting?" Sam swats the Official Doom III Strategy
Floyd | guide off of the counter.
Floyd | depleted uranium dog tags: "I do so love dress-up!" Your evil twin
Floyd | takes the depleted uranium dog tags and tries them on, practically
Floyd | giddy with excitement.
Floyd | fine pewter space marine: "How utterly boring. Can't you find something
Floyd | more interesting?" Sam swats the fine pewter space marine off of the
Floyd | counter.
Floyd | small smooth stone: "How utterly boring. Can't you find something more
Floyd | interesting?" Sam swats the small smooth stone off of the counter.
Floyd | resin-encased quantity of hare's fur: "How utterly boring. Can't you
Floyd | find something more interesting?" Sam swats the resin-encased quantity
Floyd | of hare's fur off of the counter.
Floyd | small smooth stone: "How utterly boring. Can't you find something more
Floyd | interesting?" Sam swats the small smooth stone off of the counter.
Floyd | small smooth stone: "How utterly boring. Can't you find something more
Floyd | interesting?" Sam swats the small smooth stone off of the counter.
Floyd | small smooth stone: "How utterly boring. Can't you find something more
Floyd | interesting?" Sam swats the small smooth stone off of the counter.
Floyd | small can of liver patÃ©: Sam promptly wolfs down the small can of liver
Floyd | patÃ©, completely unselfconsciously. It's really a disgusting sight.
Floyd | single chopstick: "How utterly boring. Can't you find something more
Floyd | interesting?" Sam swats the single chopstick off of the counter.
Floyd | genuine 1932 Shiny Time brass harmonica: "How utterly boring. Can't you
Floyd | find something more interesting?" Sam swats the genuine 1932 Shiny Time
Floyd | brass harmonica off of the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sam does that eyeball thing that you hate. So aggravating!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Nitku says, "oops" 	
			Jacqueline says, "AIE" 	
			Jacqueline says, "hahaha" 	
			ASchultz says, "We've played 2. There are 13 I think" 	
			Jacqueline says, "It *is* quite the prolific inventory, fwiw." 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x tags" 		
	

Floyd | Supposedly stamped from real depleted uranium. The number on the dog
Floyd | tags is ALK-1360053.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your twin crushes a fly that had landed on the counter. Now we can add
Floyd | animal cruelty to the list of atrocities comitted.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "So, that wasn't it" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all" 		
	

Floyd | genuine 1932 Shiny Time brass harmonica: Taken.
Floyd | single chopstick: Taken.
Floyd | small smooth stone: Taken.
Floyd | small smooth stone: Taken.
Floyd | small smooth stone: Taken.
Floyd | resin-encased quantity of hare's fur: Taken.
Floyd | small smooth stone: Taken.
Floyd | fine pewter space marine: Taken.
Floyd | Official Doom III Strategy guide: Taken.
Floyd | Unofficial Doom III Strategy Guide: Taken.
Floyd | jewel case: Taken.
Floyd | order form: Taken.
Floyd | ID code: Taken.
Floyd | pair of carved bone dice: Taken.
Floyd | copy of Doom III: Taken.
Floyd | Doom III DVD: Taken.
Floyd | Making of Doom III Featurette DVD: Taken.
Floyd | e-peen hammer: That seems to belong to your evil twin.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sam chortles in glee.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Nitku says, "he did take the dog tags" 	
			Bert says, "Sam took the tags." 	
			ASchultz says, "Well, Sam ate the liver pate" 	
			ChrisC says, "actually one of those responses was different" 	
			Tale asks, "maybe we need to combine someting?" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x sam" 		
	

Floyd | Yes, it's none other than your evil twin Sam, menacing with an e-peen
Floyd | hammer! How monstrous, the duplicity! How devious, the deception! How
Floyd | terrible, the fashion sense!
Floyd |
Floyd | Sam does that eyeball thing that you hate. So aggravating!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "shake hand" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "eyeball" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Nitku says (to Floyd), "x tags" 		
	

Floyd | Supposedly stamped from real depleted uranium. The number on the dog
Floyd | tags is ALK-1360053.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin twirls an imaginary moustache. The fiend!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "accept truce" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "twirl moustache" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on counter" 		
	

Floyd | That's not something you can sit down on.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin takes a product from one of the shelves and dropkicks it
Floyd | out the door. "Not that I don't appreciate this fine establishment, but
Floyd | you know what they say: if you've seen one shopping center, you've seen
Floyd | the mall!" Deplorable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "play" 		
	

Floyd | What do you want to play?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "twirl imaginary moustache" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "shelves" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x making" 		
	

Floyd | You see nothing special about the Making of Doom III Featurette DVD.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin twirls an imaginary moustache. The fiend!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "play doom" 		
	

Floyd | Which do you mean, the Making of Doom III Featurette DVD, the Doom III
Floyd | DVD, the copy of Doom III, the Unofficial Doom III Strategy Guide, or
Floyd | the Official Doom III Strategy guide?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "talk to twin" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x twin" 		
	

Floyd | Yes, it's none other than your evil twin Sam, menacing with an e-peen
Floyd | hammer! How monstrous, the duplicity! How devious, the deception! How
Floyd | terrible, the fashion sense!
Floyd |
Floyd | "You know what, Leslie, I think we've been too hard on each other over
Floyd | the years. How about a truce?" Sam pauses for a second, but before you
Floyd | can respond: "Well, that was fun! What do you want to play now?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x marine" 		
	

Floyd | It's a toy soldier. How quaint.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin takes a product from one of the shelves and dropkicks it
Floyd | out the door. "Not that I don't appreciate this fine establishment, but
Floyd | you know what they say: if you've seen one shopping center, you've seen
Floyd | the mall!" Deplorable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "play all" 		
	

Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "kill twin" 		
	

Floyd | Deftly parried by the e-peen hammer.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sam does that eyeball thing that you hate. So aggravating!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "play the copy of doom" 		
	

Floyd | Not possible.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your twin crushes a fly that had landed on the counter. Now we can add
Floyd | animal cruelty to the list of atrocities comitted.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "play doom iii dvd" 		
	

Floyd | Which do you mean, the Making of Doom III Featurette DVD or the Doom
Floyd | III DVD?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "both" 		
	

Floyd | Sorry, you can only have one item here. Which exactly?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "second" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "play making of" 		
	

Floyd | Not possible.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin takes a product from one of the shelves and dropkicks it
Floyd | out the door. "Not that I don't appreciate this fine establishment, but
Floyd | you know what they say: if you've seen one shopping center, you've seen
Floyd | the mall!" Deplorable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "throw stone at twin" 		
	

Floyd | Wielding the hammer like a tennis racket, Sam bats the small smooth
Floyd | stone harmlessly into the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your twin crushes a fly that had landed on the counter. Now we can add
Floyd | animal cruelty to the list of atrocities comitted.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "wear tag" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "throw all at twin" 		
	

Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "I think you could just say game dvd" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x game" 		
	

Floyd | Which do you mean, the Doom III DVD or the copy of Doom III?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Nice use of gender ambiguity" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x game dvd" 		
	

Floyd | You see nothing special about the Doom III DVD.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin takes a product from one of the shelves and dropkicks it
Floyd | out the door. "Not that I don't appreciate this fine establishment, but
Floyd | you know what they say: if you've seen one shopping center, you've seen
Floyd | the mall!" Deplorable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "play it" 		
	

Floyd | Not possible.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin twirls an imaginary moustache. The fiend!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "play game dvd" 		
	

Floyd | Not possible.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sam chortles in glee.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "play game dvd" 		
	

Floyd | Not possible.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin takes a product from one of the shelves and dropkicks it
Floyd | out the door. "Not that I don't appreciate this fine establishment, but
Floyd | you know what they say: if you've seen one shopping center, you've seen
Floyd | the mall!" Deplorable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Video Head
Floyd | Rows and rows of vapid entertainment titles fill every square foot of
Floyd | this drab, depressing store. The full extent of the design imperative
Floyd | in decorating this place was apparently "gray".
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin leers at you from behind the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a counter here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your twin crushes a fly that had landed on the counter. Now we can add
Floyd | animal cruelty to the list of atrocities comitted.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You possess:
Floyd |   a Making of Doom III Featurette DVD
Floyd |   a Doom III DVD
Floyd |   a copy of Doom III (open but empty)
Floyd |   a pair of carved bone dice
Floyd |   an ID code
Floyd |   an order form
Floyd |   a jewel case (open but empty)
Floyd |   an Unofficial Doom III Strategy Guide
Floyd |   an Official Doom III Strategy guide
Floyd |   a fine pewter space marine
Floyd |   four small smooth stones
Floyd |   a resin-encased quantity of hare's fur
Floyd |   a single chopstick
Floyd |   a genuine 1932 Shiny Time brass harmonica
Floyd | You are wearing:
Floyd |   your mum's shoes
Floyd |   nothing else
Floyd |
Floyd | Sam chortles in glee.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison asks, "twin about store" 		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "throw dice at twin" 		
	

Floyd | Wielding the hammer like a tennis racket, Sam bats the pair of carved
Floyd | bone dice harmlessly into the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sam does that eyeball thing that you hate. So aggravating!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Ellison says, "oops" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x marine" 		
	

Floyd | It's a toy soldier. How quaint.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You know what, Leslie, I think we've been too hard on each other over
Floyd | the years. How about a truce?" Sam pauses for a second, but before you
Floyd | can respond: "Well, that was fun! What do you want to play now?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "ask twin about store" 		
	

Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your twin crushes a fly that had landed on the counter. Now we can add
Floyd | animal cruelty to the list of atrocities comitted.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "get tags" 		
	

Floyd | Those seem to belong to your evil twin.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sam chortles in glee.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Perhaps go elsewhere in the mall?" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "throw code at twin" 		
	

Floyd | Wielding the hammer like a tennis racket, Sam bats the ID code
Floyd | harmlessly into the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin twirls an imaginary moustache. The fiend!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "cyoa neat, marked for later definitely" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "throw chopstick at twin" 		
	

Floyd | Wielding the hammer like a tennis racket, Sam bats the single chopstick
Floyd | harmlessly into the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sam does that eyeball thing that you hate. So aggravating!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Sorry, misfire" 	
			Bert says (to W), "Maybe." 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "get all" 		
	

Floyd | e-peen hammer: That seems to belong to your evil twin.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin takes a product from one of the shelves and dropkicks it
Floyd | out the door. "Not that I don't appreciate this fine establishment, but
Floyd | you know what they say: if you've seen one shopping center, you've seen
Floyd | the mall!" Deplorable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Ghosts of the Past
Floyd | A cold wind blows through the ruins of the shopping center. Shards of
Floyd | glass, fallen bricks, and bodies litter the ground. The power is out,
Floyd | and you can barely see anything in the twilight. Every so often, an
Floyd | animal howls in the distance. Something seems disturbingly familiar
Floyd | about the smell of death and decay here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The only way that has not been ruined or blocked by debris is the Video
Floyd | Head shop, to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz asks, "did we visit the paint shop yet?" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "smell" 		
	

Floyd | Ah, yes. The old familiar scent of evil. You can almost remember --
Floyd | what IS that?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "no" 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "I think it was destroyed" 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale asks, "Maybe we missed something before?" 	
			ChrisC says, "it was" 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Ghosts of the Past
Floyd | A cold wind blows through the ruins of the shopping center. Shards of
Floyd | glass, fallen bricks, and bodies litter the ground. The power is out,
Floyd | and you can barely see anything in the twilight. Every so often, an
Floyd | animal howls in the distance. Something seems disturbingly familiar
Floyd | about the smell of death and decay here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The only way that has not been ruined or blocked by debris is the Video
Floyd | Head shop, to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x bodies" 		
	

Floyd | Shopped til they dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		trojo says, "hehe" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" 		
	

Floyd | Ah, yes. The old familiar scent of evil. You can almost remember --
Floyd | what IS that?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "Grim." 	
			JamesPKing says, "will there be a transcript for this CF? I need to go to dinner." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell evil" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "u" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to JPK), "Yep" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "d" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "I'm pretty sure it's impossible to get into an unwinnable state in this game, and anyway you aren't in one now" 	
			DavidW says (to JPK), "yes" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		trojo says, "that must the be smell of our evil twin" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Ghosts of the Past
Floyd | A cold wind blows through the ruins of the shopping center. Shards of
Floyd | glass, fallen bricks, and bodies litter the ground. The power is out,
Floyd | and you can barely see anything in the twilight. Every so often, an
Floyd | animal howls in the distance. Something seems disturbingly familiar
Floyd | about the smell of death and decay here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The only way that has not been ruined or blocked by debris is the Video
Floyd | Head shop, to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "and i wanna know how this ends" 	
			jojo asks, "Back to the west?" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "get bodies" 		
	

Floyd | That's hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You possess:
Floyd |   a Making of Doom III Featurette DVD
Floyd |   a Doom III DVD
Floyd |   a copy of Doom III (open but empty)
Floyd |   a pair of carved bone dice
Floyd |   an ID code
Floyd |   an order form
Floyd |   a jewel case (open but empty)
Floyd |   an Unofficial Doom III Strategy Guide
Floyd |   an Official Doom III Strategy guide
Floyd |   a fine pewter space marine
Floyd |   four small smooth stones
Floyd |   a resin-encased quantity of hare's fur
Floyd |   a single chopstick
Floyd |   a genuine 1932 Shiny Time brass harmonica
Floyd | You are wearing:
Floyd |   your mum's shoes
Floyd |   nothing else
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "listen" 		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "search bodies" 		
	

Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Video Head
Floyd | Rows and rows of vapid entertainment titles fill every square foot of
Floyd | this drab, depressing store. The full extent of the design imperative
Floyd | in decorating this place was apparently "gray".
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin leers at you from behind the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a counter here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sam chortles in glee.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "register game" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "fill out form" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says, "cya l8r" 		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x counter" 		
	

Floyd | An unassuming gray crescent extending down half the length of the
Floyd | store.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your twin crushes a fly that had landed on the counter. Now we can add
Floyd | animal cruelty to the list of atrocities comitted.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "x counter" 		
	

Floyd | An unassuming gray crescent extending down half the length of the
Floyd | store.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin twirls an imaginary moustache. The fiend!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "look behind counter" 		
	

Floyd | What do you know. They are indeed fine Italian leather imports.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Whoa, keep your eyes on the prize!" The pale man directs your gaze
Floyd | upwards.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin takes a product from one of the shelves and dropkicks it
Floyd | out the door. "Not that I don't appreciate this fine establishment, but
Floyd | you know what they say: if you've seen one shopping center, you've seen
Floyd | the mall!" Deplorable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo exclaims (at james), "seeya!" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "show fur to twin" 		
	

Floyd | Your evil twin is unimpressed.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sam does that eyeball thing that you hate. So aggravating!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "play russian roulette" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "whoops, that was from the original incarnation of the video head shop" 	
			Bert says, "I suspect that response was intended for people who visited here before Tiny Tim." 	
			Bert says, "Timing." 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "look up" 		
	

Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sam chortles in glee.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "We probably missed a bunch by going straight to lunch." 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "climb counter" 		
	

Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin takes a product from one of the shelves and dropkicks it
Floyd | out the door. "Not that I don't appreciate this fine establishment, but
Floyd | you know what they say: if you've seen one shopping center, you've seen
Floyd | the mall!" Deplorable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "kick twin" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz exclaims, "Later JamesP!" 		Jacqueline says (to Bert), "There was the lure of the Happy Meal. It couldn't be helped." 	
			jojo asks, "is there a DVD drive to play the dvd's on?" 	
	Binder arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. 		ChrisC says, "no, sorry" 	
	trojo says (to Floyd), "play frisbee with dvd" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "throw making at twin" 		
	

Floyd | Wielding the hammer like a tennis racket, Sam bats the Making of Doom
Floyd | III Featurette DVD harmlessly into the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sam chortles in glee.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You possess:
Floyd |   a Making of Doom III Featurette DVD
Floyd |   a Doom III DVD
Floyd |   a copy of Doom III (open but empty)
Floyd |   a pair of carved bone dice
Floyd |   an ID code
Floyd |   an order form
Floyd |   a jewel case (open but empty)
Floyd |   an Unofficial Doom III Strategy Guide
Floyd |   an Official Doom III Strategy guide
Floyd |   a fine pewter space marine
Floyd |   four small smooth stones
Floyd |   a resin-encased quantity of hare's fur
Floyd |   a single chopstick
Floyd |   a genuine 1932 Shiny Time brass harmonica
Floyd | You are wearing:
Floyd |   your mum's shoes
Floyd |   nothing else
Floyd |
Floyd | "You know what, Leslie, I think we've been too hard on each other over
Floyd | the years. How about a truce?" Sam pauses for a second, but before you
Floyd | can respond: "Well, that was fun! What do you want to play now?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "talk to sam" 		
	

Floyd | If you're trying to talk to someone, you might try ASK TWIN ABOUT
Floyd | something, the traditional conversation syntax. Type ABOUT to see if
Floyd | this story offers more detailed instructions for conversation.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "read unofficial" 		
	

Floyd | You see nothing special about the Unofficial Doom III Strategy Guide.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sam chortles in glee.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Can we fill out the registeration form with the dogtag id number?" 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "ask sam about armageddon" 		
	

Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin takes a product from one of the shelves and dropkicks it
Floyd | out the door. "Not that I don't appreciate this fine establishment, but
Floyd | you know what they say: if you've seen one shopping center, you've seen
Floyd | the mall!" Deplorable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert asks, "Is there anything here that's likely to react to being hit with an e-peen hammer?" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "ask twin about play" 		
	

Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You know what, Leslie, I think we've been too hard on each other over
Floyd | the years. How about a truce?" Sam pauses for a second, but before you
Floyd | can respond: "Well, that was fun! What do you want to play now?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x e-peen hammer" 		
	

Floyd | You see nothing special about the e-peen hammer.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin twirls an imaginary moustache. The fiend!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "kick sam" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "ask twin about hammer" 		
	

Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin takes a product from one of the shelves and dropkicks it
Floyd | out the door. "Not that I don't appreciate this fine establishment, but
Floyd | you know what they say: if you've seen one shopping center, you've seen
Floyd | the mall!" Deplorable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "ask sam about tiny tim" 		
	

Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sam does that eyeball thing that you hate. So aggravating!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "ask twin about game" 		
	

Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin twirls an imaginary moustache. The fiend!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "do that eyeball thing" 		
	

Floyd | You can't ask direct questions to the game. Type a verb - noun command
Floyd | like EXAMINE DEPLETED URANIUM DOG TAGS to interact with the story
Floyd | world, or LOOK to get a description of your surroundings.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask sam about sam" 		
	

Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your twin crushes a fly that had landed on the counter. Now we can add
Floyd | animal cruelty to the list of atrocities comitted.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask sam about eye" 		
	

Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin twirls an imaginary moustache. The fiend!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "There sure are a lot of flies around." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask sam about mom" 		
	

Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You know what, Leslie, I think we've been too hard on each other over
Floyd | the years. How about a truce?" Sam pauses for a second, but before you
Floyd | can respond: "Well, that was fun! What do you want to play now?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "throw dog tag at sam" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "I guess piles of corpses will do that." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "play tag" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "hit sam" 		
	

Floyd | Deftly parried by the e-peen hammer.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin twirls an imaginary moustache. The fiend!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale asks, "Throw all at him?" 	
	trojo says (to Floyd), "play game" 		
	

Floyd | Which do you mean, the Doom III DVD or the copy of Doom III?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says (to Tale), "You can't use multiple objects with that verb." 	
			ASchultz asks, "We tried that I think. Or was that put all on counter?" 	
			Bert says (to ASchult), "We did PUT ALL ON COUNTER." 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You possess:
Floyd |   a Making of Doom III Featurette DVD
Floyd |   a Doom III DVD
Floyd |   a copy of Doom III (open but empty)
Floyd |   a pair of carved bone dice
Floyd |   an ID code
Floyd |   an order form
Floyd |   a jewel case (open but empty)
Floyd |   an Unofficial Doom III Strategy Guide
Floyd |   an Official Doom III Strategy guide
Floyd |   a fine pewter space marine
Floyd |   four small smooth stones
Floyd |   a resin-encased quantity of hare's fur
Floyd |   a single chopstick
Floyd |   a genuine 1932 Shiny Time brass harmonica
Floyd | You are wearing:
Floyd |   your mum's shoes
Floyd |   nothing else
Floyd |
Floyd | Your twin crushes a fly that had landed on the counter. Now we can add
Floyd | animal cruelty to the list of atrocities comitted.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "you tried put all on counter" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "throw making at sam" 		
	

Floyd | Wielding the hammer like a tennis racket, Sam bats the Making of Doom
Floyd | III Featurette DVD harmlessly into the air.
Floyd |

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | Your evil twin takes a product from one of the shelves and dropkicks it
Floyd | out the door. "Not that I don't appreciate this fine establishment, but
Floyd | you know what they say: if you've seen one shopping center, you've seen
Floyd | the mall!" Deplorable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | You possess:
Floyd |   a Making of Doom III Featurette DVD
Floyd |   a Doom III DVD
Floyd |   a copy of Doom III (open but empty)
Floyd |   a pair of carved bone dice
Floyd |   an ID code
Floyd |   an order form
Floyd |   a jewel case (open but empty)
Floyd |   an Unofficial Doom III Strategy Guide
Floyd |   an Official Doom III Strategy guide
Floyd |   a fine pewter space marine
Floyd |   four small smooth stones
Floyd |   a resin-encased quantity of hare's fur
Floyd |   a single chopstick
Floyd |   a genuine 1932 Shiny Time brass harmonica
Floyd | You are wearing:
Floyd |   your mum's shoes
Floyd |   nothing else
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin twirls an imaginary moustache. The fiend!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "throw stone at sam" 		
	

Floyd | Wielding the hammer like a tennis racket, Sam bats the small smooth
Floyd | stone harmlessly into the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sam chortles in glee.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "throw game dvd at sam" 		
	

Floyd | Wielding the hammer like a tennis racket, Sam bats the Doom III DVD
Floyd | harmlessly into the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sam does that eyeball thing that you hate. So aggravating!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "play harmonica" 		
	

Floyd | A very unfortunate sound blares from the harmonica.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your twin crushes a fly that had landed on the counter. Now we can add
Floyd | animal cruelty to the list of atrocities comitted.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "throw dice at sam" 		
	

Floyd | Wielding the hammer like a tennis racket, Sam bats the pair of carved
Floyd | bone dice harmlessly into the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin takes a product from one of the shelves and dropkicks it
Floyd | out the door. "Not that I don't appreciate this fine establishment, but
Floyd | you know what they say: if you've seen one shopping center, you've seen
Floyd | the mall!" Deplorable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "throw harmonica at sam" 		
	

Floyd | Wielding the hammer like a tennis racket, Sam bats the genuine 1932
Floyd | Shiny Time brass harmonica harmlessly into the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sam does that eyeball thing that you hate. So aggravating!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "put shoes on counter" 		
	

Floyd | (your mum's shoes on the counter)
Floyd | (first taking them off)
Floyd | Desperate times call for desperate measures. Your evil twin watches
Floyd | intently as you unlace and remove your darling mother's shoes.
Floyd | "Those... why, those are..."
Floyd |
Floyd | Your evil twin takes your mum's shoes and tries them on, practically
Floyd | giddy with excitement.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sam looks absolutely ridiculous wearing the dog tags and mother's
Floyd | favorite shoes. A fact which your pointedly point out. Eyes wide, Sam
Floyd | runs screaming out into the night.
Floyd |
Floyd | Great. Now you need a ride home.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** Sam's reign of terror is finally ended ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 0, in 280 turns.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "My." 	
			Tale says, "Yay." 	
			ASchultz says, "Haha, now that I think of it, it makes sense" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Okay, didn't see that coming." 	
			ChrisC says, "yeah it's a ridiculous copout ending" 	
			Tale says (to davidW), "Good thinking!" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Well done, troops." 	
			Tale says, "Nice game!" 	
			ChrisC says, "perfect for speed-if I guess, like all the missing objects and implementation bugs" 	
			jojo says, "I liked the writing, and the sudden armageddon was SUDDEN" 	
			DavidW says, "I guessed that they would be his mom's shoes too." 	
			Jacqueline says, "It brought up memories of Necrotic Drift and Nord & Bert for me." 	
			Tale says, "we could go back and check the shops pre-apocalypse" 	
			ASchultz says, "I'd like that, a quick look through" 	
			jojo nods. 	
			Jacqueline says, "Yeah, the armageddon part was great." 	
			DavidW says, "I'm gonna be afk for a few to eat something." 	
			ChrisC says (to tale), "yes you can, not much but there's a bit you missed there" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restart" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Being the Ending of the Beginning
Floyd | A Bad Idea by Chris Conley
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 111230 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Type ABOUT for information about this ridiculous thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | Darkness
Floyd | It is pitch black. The only sound is an electrical hum.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "exit" 		
	

Floyd | You can't get out of the closed tanning bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "open bed" 		
	

Floyd | The humming noise mercifully stops.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tanning Salon (in the tanning bed)
Floyd | The walls feature a few posters of smiling tanned blonde people walking
Floyd | down streets, along beaches, eating ice cream, etc. The room itself is
Floyd | fairly cold and uninviting. You can get back to the shopping center
Floyd | through the hall to the south, and perhaps that would be for the best.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your discarded clothing lies in a heap on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert asks, "This time, can we try to avoid those pesky clothes?" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd | You may be many things, but an exhibitionist is not one of them.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "exit bed" 		
	

Floyd | I only understood the first part of that-- trying anyway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Retrying as:
Floyd | >EXIT
Floyd |
Floyd | Type UNDO if this isn't what you wanted to do, or CORRECT OFF to stop
Floyd | automatically correcting commands.
Floyd |
Floyd | To stop these messages entirely, type NOVICE OFF.
Floyd |
Floyd | You get out of the tanning bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tanning Salon
Floyd | The walls feature a few posters of smiling tanned blonde people walking
Floyd | down streets, along beaches, eating ice cream, etc. The room itself is
Floyd | fairly cold and uninviting. You can get back to the shopping center
Floyd | through the hall to the south, and perhaps that would be for the best.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your discarded clothing lies in a heap on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a tanning bed (empty) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo is a newbie. 		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd | You may be many things, but an exhibitionist is not one of them.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Darn." 	
			Tale says, "Boh" 	
			Jacqueline says, "heh" 	
	trojo says (to Floyd), "novice off" 		
	

Floyd | Novice mode disabled.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "take all" 		
	

Floyd | dissheveled clothing: You quickly gather up your clothes.
Floyd | genuine 1932 Shiny Time brass harmonica: Taken.
Floyd | pair of carved bone dice: Taken.
Floyd | single chopstick: Taken.
Floyd | small can of liver patÃ©: Taken.
Floyd | small smooth stone: Taken.
Floyd | small smooth stone: Taken.
Floyd | small smooth stone: Taken.
Floyd | small smooth stone: Taken.
Floyd | resin-encased quantity of hare's fur: Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "That is disappointing." 	
			Bert says, "exhibitionist on" 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "wear clothes" 		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "get clothes" 		
	

Floyd | You feel much more at ease with your wardrobe properly arranged on your
Floyd | person. This even despite its present condition.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hold, what's this in your pocket?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | You already have those.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "exhibitionist on" 		
	

Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Wrightsville Town Shopping Center
Floyd | Bleh. Capitalistic excess at its worst. The Video Head shop hawks its
Floyd | degenerate wares to the west; a corporate paint shop sells overpriced
Floyd | colors (colors!) to the south; the tanning salon is north and the food
Floyd | court is east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Video Head
Floyd | Rows and rows of vapid entertainment titles fill every square foot of
Floyd | this drab, depressing store. The full extent of the design imperative
Floyd | in decorating this place was apparently "gray".
Floyd |
Floyd | A single, solitary copy of Doom III lies dejectedly in the back corner
Floyd | of the store.
Floyd |
Floyd | A pale man, reigning over all he sees from his perch behind the
Floyd | counter, sneers at your presence in his fine establishment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "buy doom iii" 	
			trojo says, "the clothes are needed to make the rope" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "buy doom iii" 		
	

Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "get doom III" 		
	

Floyd | The pale man sneers even harder. "You think I would let someone like
Floyd | you even touch such an artifact? It's a collector's edition, the
Floyd | super-rare "Ultraviolent" release. Only 25 of these were ever produced.
Floyd | Fine pewter space marine, depleted uranium dog tags, official and
Floyd | unofficial strategy guide, and the Making-of featurette, AND an extra
Floyd | weapon you can equip in both single and multiplayer."
Floyd |
Floyd | He looks you up and down, slowly, exhaustively, as if he was mentally
Floyd | cataloging every atom. "No. You wouldn't appreciate it."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x man" 		
	

Floyd | Two eyes; one nose; one mouth; two ears; two arms; two legs; far too
Floyd | much hair. He wears a smart blue button-down shirt and deep red tie,
Floyd | khaki pants and a black belt. You can't see from back here, but you
Floyd | imagine his shoes must be fine Italian leather imports.
Floyd |  The presentation is ruined by the cheap name tag sticker over his
Floyd | shirt pocket.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x sticker" 		
	

Floyd | HELLO my name is bOb S.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "kiss man" 		
	

Floyd | Keep your mind on the game.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Mentally cataloging every atom. Nice." 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x italian shoes" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "ask man about his feelings" 		
	

Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "ask man about apocalypse" 		
	

Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "get sticker" 		
	

Floyd | That seems to belong to Bob.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "look" 		
	

Floyd | Video Head
Floyd | Rows and rows of vapid entertainment titles fill every square foot of
Floyd | this drab, depressing store. The full extent of the design imperative
Floyd | in decorating this place was apparently "gray".
Floyd |
Floyd | A single, solitary copy of Doom III lies dejectedly in the back corner
Floyd | of the store.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bob, reigning over all he sees from his perch behind the counter,
Floyd | sneers at your presence in his fine establishment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "oh yeah, at one point I was going to implement a name puzzle of some kind, which is why he's now described as bob" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "ask man about doom iii" 		
	

Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "get doom" 		
	

Floyd | Bob looks you up and down, slowly, exhaustively, as if he was mentally
Floyd | cataloging every atom. "No. You wouldn't appreciate it."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "ha" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "kill bob" 		
	

Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "give dice to bob" 	
			jojo asks, "To the paint shop?" 	
			ASchultz says, "Sorry, flaking here" 	
			Bert says (to jojo), "Let's." 	
			Tale says (to jojo), "Yeah" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "give dice to bob" 		
	

Floyd | Bob doesn't seem interested.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Wrightsville Town Shopping Center
Floyd | Bleh. Capitalistic excess at its worst. The Video Head shop hawks its
Floyd | degenerate wares to the west; a corporate paint shop sells overpriced
Floyd | colors (colors!) to the south; the tanning salon is north and the food
Floyd | court is east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd | Closed for renovations.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Aw." 	
			jojo says, "Now we know." 	
			ASchultz makes a "wah wah wah" sound 	
			jojo says, "And knowing is half the battle." 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Tanning Salon
Floyd | The walls feature a few posters of smiling tanned blonde people walking
Floyd | down streets, along beaches, eating ice cream, etc. The room itself is
Floyd | fairly cold and uninviting. You can get back to the shopping center
Floyd | through the hall to the south, and perhaps that would be for the best.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a tanning bed (empty) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "enter bed" 		
	

Floyd | Oh, no. You've had quite enough of that. Any longer and you'd develop a
Floyd | crick in your back, and you wouldn't be confortable again all day.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "I was hoping for some colorful descriptions." 	
			ChrisC says, "the apocalyptic fight lasts a few more rounds, but that's about all you've missed" 	
			jojo says, "I never feel confortable" 	
			ChrisC says, "oh examine the shoes" 	
			Bert asks, "Anything else we should do, or on to the next game?" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "close bed" 		
	

Floyd | You close the tanning bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x shoes" 		
	

Floyd | Ah, yes. You had, not two hours ago whilst bathing (and truly: is that
Floyd | not always the most productive time for cogitation?) an utterly
Floyd | marvelous idea. You would acquire a tan while adorned with your dearest
Floyd | mother's dearest shoes, lying on a beach and sipping from a tall glass
Floyd | of coconut cream spritzer until the point at which you would drift off
Floyd | into serenely dizziful bliss, awakening to find impressed upon your
Floyd | pliant skin the intricate interlocking paisley pattern of wistful
Floyd | bygone years.
Floyd |
Floyd | But there's no goddamn sun in winter here in Finland so you had to go
Floyd | with plan B.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale pulls of ChrisC's mask. It's nitku! 	
			jojo says, "Somehow I knew we were in Finland." 	
			Jacqueline says, "ha" 	
			Bert goes AFK for a few. 	
			Nitku says, "whuh" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "okay so... next game?" 	
			jojo says, "He woulda gotten away with it if it weren't for us pesky kids." 	
			Tale says, "yes" 	
			ChrisC says, "So yeah. I'm very sorry" 	
			Jacqueline says (to jojo), "hee" 	
			jojo Yes, lets. 	
			Jacqueline says (to Chris), "Snrk" 	
			Tale says, "10 more to go, chop-chop people" 	
			ASchultz says, "Don't be. It was fun." 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" 		
	

Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" 		
	

Floyd |

		
	Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" 		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "list p" 		
	Floyd says (to Jacqueline), "packrat pad paint paperchase parade parrot partyfoul pathway pathway2 paxapoptosis paxbored paxbrain paxdelusions paxdigging paxfoodmagic paxhelpfulman paxless paxlobster paxmango paxmerk paxmidairmad paxqueuelty paxrighttool paxsafehouse paxscurvy paxvohii paxvortex paxvwspeedif paxwizshop pcontest pcu penandpaint pentari pepper permagic pesach petalthrone petalthrone-java14 petalthrone-java16 pets phlegm phoenix photograph photopia piece_v3 pintown piracy_2 pirate pizza planmind plant plundered poet pots ppocket praser5 primrose princesse prodly profesee progressive1 promoted psibeingtheending psibirthofmind psidansenocturne psidashslapney psidayisavedelvis psimammothvacuum psiparty psipostchristmas psiragnarok psisilenceofgods psistupidcreek psithreemor pspy5 pumping punkpnts pytho" 		TheXenographer exclaims, "Wow, ten? We're gonna be here all day!" 	
			Tale says, "It was a cool game Chris!" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Whoops, meant to whisper that." 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load psidansenocturne" 		
	

Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Danse Nocturne
Floyd |
Floyd | It is always twilight in Ingelheim,
Floyd | in the forest the lady slides across
Floyd | the crumpled leaves entranced by Elbegast.
Floyd | Her nightclothes sweep the same old lemniscate,
Floyd | with Elbegast's wood gauntlets at her waist.
Floyd | Tired eyes gaze listlessly, with lips shut tight.
Floyd | The lady longs to end the dance but she
Floyd | cannot. The only thing she does is dance
Floyd | and dance and dance. But oh how she can dance!
Floyd | Gracefully and sweetly; solemnly or
Floyd | perkily; eagerly, or most often,
Floyd | reluctantly. However she dances,
Floyd | she always dances inevitably.
Floyd |

		ASchultz says, "It definitely had the fun bits--the polish can come later" 	
			jojo says, "I'm, um, an associate of Mr Eggermond, and he says the information on how to play the game is in the status bar and splash screen. He told me that the only commands the game understands are adverbs." 	
	trojo says (to Floyd), "quickly" 		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "jauntily" 		
	

Floyd | One two three steps, beneath the willow tree.
Floyd | Right foot forward, eyes staring straight through him.
Floyd |

		Tale says, "aboutly" 	
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "aboutly" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "gracefully" 		
	

Floyd | A swan is just a swan, an angry bird.
Floyd | The moon is just the moon, a glowing rock.
Floyd | But the lady is a graceful swan and
Floyd | when dancing she becomes his moon and stars.
Floyd |

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "coyly" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "clumsily" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "reluctantly" 		
	

Floyd | The black knight clasps the lady tighter still.
Floyd | "Sweet," he whispers, "did I not win you fair?"
Floyd |

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "fairly" 		
	

Floyd | "Well, you are just my wife," says Elbegast.
Floyd | "You're just my partner, sharing life and death."
Floyd |

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "inadvertantly" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "suspiciously" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "angrily" 		
	

Floyd | With vicious strides the lady looks around,
Floyd | and hopes to find, observe, the means to kill.
Floyd |
Floyd |

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "xyzzyly" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	Paulinus says (to Floyd), "badly" 		
	

Floyd | "Is this how you once danced with Eggerich?"
Floyd | says Elbegast a tad resentfully.
Floyd |

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "sensually" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "resentfully" 		
	

Floyd | The lady barely lets herself be dragged
Floyd | across the leaves that lie beneath their treading feet.
Floyd |

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "energetically" 		
	

Floyd | Four five six steps along the trickling stream.
Floyd | Her spine aligned: left turn, right turn, now twist.
Floyd |

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "gracefully" 		
	

Floyd | Although he is afixed by beauty clearly,
Floyd | he could not love a mortal woman, could he?
Floyd |

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "lovingly" 		
	

Floyd | Was Eggerich a violent plotting man?
Floyd | Should now the lady thank Elbegast?
Floyd |

		
	TheXenographer says (to Floyd), "gratefully" 		
	

Floyd | The lady holds her brand new husband dear,
Floyd | although his hands once slew a man she'd loved.
Floyd |

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "viennese-waltzfully" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		ASchultz says, "So it looks like we have a whole poem to put together" 	
	maga says (to Floyd), "lustily" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "dangerously" 		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "safely" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "pointedly" 		
	

Floyd | The beady owls in trees behold the star
Floyd | that shines out even Elbegast himself.
Floyd |

		maga says (to trojo), "awwwww" 	
			Tale asks, "Is there a way to "win" this?" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "well" 		
	

Floyd | The lady always dances well, except
Floyd | when she's attempting sprightly twisting turns.
Floyd |

		
	maga says (to Floyd), "naughtily" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "david brent style" 		
	

Floyd |

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "again" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		jojo says, "Eggermond tells me that there about ten different endings." 	
	trojo says (to Floyd), "sprightly" 		
	

Floyd | Quite gaily she forgets her Eggermond!
Floyd | This brand new man in hand: she eggs him on.
Floyd |

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "ruefully" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "mercifully" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "rhythmically" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		ChrisC says, "not sure if it's like pygmalion with different variables and you're trying to get the story into a certain state" 	
	trojo says (to Floyd), "gaily" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x woman" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "not at all" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		ChrisC says, "err, galatea. but it sounds like it" 	
			Bert says, "regretfully" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "regretfully" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "powerfully" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "wearily" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "stiffly" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "slowly" 		
	

Floyd | Now when a lady steps so slowly with
Floyd | a man she's meant to love, does reason fill
Floyd | her sleepy head or has she met defeat?
Floyd |

		
	maga says (to Floyd), "crump" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "sleepily" 		
	

Floyd | Is she sleepwalking in her waking life?
Floyd | Or twilight dreaming in her sleeping time?
Floyd |

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "defeatedky" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "defeatedly" 		
	

Floyd | The lady lets herself be led across,
Floyd | by Elbegast, the damp and leaf-strewn ground.
Floyd | "Finally love, are you acquiescent?"
Floyd |

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "lustily" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "acquiescently" 		
	

Floyd | Her shoulders slump. Does she accept defeat?
Floyd |

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "finally" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	maga says (to Floyd), "no" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "victoriously" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "defiantly" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "lucidly" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	maga says (to Floyd), "angrily" 		
	

Floyd | With vicious strides the lady looks around,
Floyd | and hopes to find, observe, the means to kill.
Floyd |
Floyd |

		Jacqueline asks, "Gosh, do we have to keep track of which ones work and arrange them into some sort of meaningful verse?" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "sneakily" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "murderously" 		
	

Floyd | With vicious strides the lady looks around,
Floyd | and hopes to find, observe, the means to kill.
Floyd |
Floyd |

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "dangerously" 		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "observantly" 		
	

Floyd | A gnarled oak grows beside the clearing where
Floyd | the mismatched partners shuffle slowly past.
Floyd | A vicious branch oft points towards the back
Floyd | of Elbegast who tugs his newly wed.
Floyd | A newly wed who's stronger than she looks...
Floyd |
Floyd |

		Jacqueline says, "That would be clever but fairly involved for a speed..." 	
			Bert says, "I don't think so." 	
	maga says (to Floyd), "strongly" 		
	

Floyd | The time has come the noble lady thinks,
Floyd | to end for good this horrifying dance.
Floyd | They dance a final lemniscate across
Floyd | the twilight forest floor of Ingelheim.
Floyd | She dances "til his back is to the spike
Floyd | with strength so hideous she shoves him hard!
Floyd | He cries a tear, the spike ripping a tear
Floyd | through now bloodstained gut besmirched evening wear.
Floyd | Her second husband dead before her hands,
Floyd | the sun now rises first on Ingelheim.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** *** ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?

		Bert says, "I think we're just trying to -- that." 	
			Tale says, "wow" 	
			ChrisC says, "that is an interesting construction though, the poetic form is a good reason why only adverbs are valid input" 	
			Tale asks, "try to find the defeated ending?" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Was it just a matter of finding them all?" 	
			trojo says, "i hate it when i impale my dance partner on a spike" 	
			maga says, "yeah, that was pretty cool" 	
			Bert asks, "Did we never try 'inevitably'?" 	
			ChrisC says (to jacq), "I think it's more like space under the window, certain actions reveal other options and the last one triggers the ending" 	
			Jacqueline says, "That was very lovely." 	
			ChrisC says, "for that specific branch" 	
			Jacqueline says (to Chris), "ah" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Beautiful. Anyway, next..." 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q" 		
	

Floyd | > Please give one of the answers above.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last

		jojo says, "Eggermond tells me that the killing ending is the most complicated to achieve, as it involves doing things in the right order." 	
	

Floyd | command?

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" 		
	

Floyd | > Please give one of the answers above.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" 		
	Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" 		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	Floyd says (to Bert), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." 		Jacqueline asks (of Bert), "Oops - were you wanting to try something?" 	
			Bert says, "Yeah, but nothing important." 	
			Jacqueline asks, "You sure?" 	
			ASchultz says, "I'd like to see the other endings, but we have so many games to get through...and it looks liek we could try a lot of combos here" 	
			Jacqueline says, "We could do one more playthrough." 	
			Jacqueline says, "If we need to play some of the games next week, that is fine." 	
			Jacqueline says, "We shouldn't short-change games due to perceived time limits." 	
			ASchultz says, "Oh, well then, if we could be here next week that'd be great" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "load psidansenocturne" 		
	

Floyd | > Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Danse Nocturne
Floyd |
Floyd | It is always twilight in Ingelheim,
Floyd | in the forest the lady slides across
Floyd | the crumpled leaves entranced by Elbegast.
Floyd | Her nightclothes sweep the same old lemniscate,
Floyd | with Elbegast's wood gauntlets at her waist.
Floyd | Tired eyes gaze listlessly, with lips shut tight.
Floyd | The lady longs to end the dance but she
Floyd | cannot. The only thing she does is dance
Floyd | and dance and dance. But oh how she can dance!
Floyd | Gracefully and sweetly; solemnly or
Floyd | perkily; eagerly, or most often,
Floyd | reluctantly. However she dances,
Floyd | she always dances inevitably.
Floyd |

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "inevitably" 		
	

Floyd | The lady lets herself be led across,
Floyd | by Elbegast, the damp and leaf-strewn ground.
Floyd | "Finally love, are you acquiescent?"
Floyd |

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "acquiestently" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances many other ways.
Floyd |

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "acquiescently" 		
	

Floyd | Her shoulders slump. Does she accept defeat?
Floyd |

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "defeatedly" 		
	

Floyd | The lady dances so defeatedly
Floyd | that Elbegast knows her to be his wife.
Floyd | "A fitting prize you were from Charlemagne,"
Floyd | he says and smiles as she forgets the name
Floyd | and face of Eggerich von Eggermond.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** *** ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?

		Bert says, "(That's all I wanted to try.)" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Nice." 	
			ChrisC says, "ah, cool" 	
			Ellison says, "if we wanted to do Hugo Comp games next week, my game could wait until then (as it was written for both)" 	
			ChrisC asks, "is that the plan?" 	
			ASchultz says, "I have no problem having games to look forward to for a while." 	
			Tale says, "these names sound familiar" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Which one is yours?" 	
	olethros has ordered three mega-generators to be installed in his boathouse. 		Tale says, "the sucky one *zing*" 	
			Ellison says, "party.hex" 	
			Jacqueline says (to Tale), "snrk" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "list p" 		
	

Floyd | > Please give one of the answers above.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?

		Bert asks, "Is there anyone who thinks they're unlikely to be here next week?" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" 		
	Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" 		Bert says, "If so, maybe we should do theirs next." 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Yeah... anyone?" 	
			trojo says, "i may not be able to make it next week" 	
			Tale asks, "So,next week will be rest of these and Hugo games?" 	
			ASchultz says, "I'll likely be here next week, so I can wait for sure" 	
			Jacqueline says, "We could play the other Hugo games, sure." 	
			Jacqueline asks (of trojo), "Which one is yours?" 	
			trojo says, "stupidcreek" 	
			trojo says, "it's short" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Oh, that stupid game." 	
			Jacqueline says, "I will load the stupid game on the stupid bot." 	
			Tale asks (of trojo), "Is this about Alan Davis?" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load psistupidcreek" 		
	

Floyd | > Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Stupid Mom made you take your stupid little brother to town for stupid
Floyd | Christmas shopping in the freezing cold. And now you have to cross this
Floyd | stupid freezing-cold creek in a stupid boat to get back home.
Floyd |
Floyd | Stupid Creek. Stupid Christmas.
Floyd | A Christmas puzzle by Troy Jones III
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 111225 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | East Bank of the Creek
Floyd | It's starting to snow, but the ground is too warm for it to stick.
Floyd |
Floyd | The stupid rowboat sits here on the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tim plays his stupid video game thingy, seemingly completely oblivious
Floyd | to everything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo asks, "This game is stupid. Why are we even...?" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "tim" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x tim" 		
	

Floyd | Mom says you and Tim are "Irish twins" since you were born less than a
Floyd | year apart. You call him your evil twin since he's ALWAYS trying to get
Floyd | you in trouble. Some of the kids at school call him "Tiny Tim", which
Floyd | is from a movie or whatever. He's wearing a black shirt that says "I
Floyd | killed my father and all I got was this lousy t-shirt", and he also has
Floyd | on a dark gray winter jacket, faded black jeans, black sneakers, and a
Floyd | knit cap with a black and purple zigzag pattern. (Nothing says dark
Floyd | edgy goth dude like a black-and-purple knit cap). His stupid pimply
Floyd | nose is in his stupid video game player thing as usual. Also as usual,
Floyd | he smells like stupid Axe body-spray.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "push tim" 		
	

Floyd | That would be less than courteous.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" 		
	

Floyd | You're wearing a long chartreuse sweater, black wool leggings, adorable
Floyd | white fluffy earmuffs, white mittens, and a pair of uggs. You hate how
Floyd | stupidly pale you look in the winter-- if Mom weren't so cruel and
Floyd | hearltess, she'd bring you with her to the spa and let you spend some
Floyd | quality time in a tanning bed. In your mittens you're carrying a copy
Floyd | of Doom III and some fake designer Italian shoes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hee." 	
			ChrisC says, "I'm reminded of the crossing a river with a bunch of antagonistic creatures puzzle" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x boat" 		
	

Floyd | A stupid-looking boat with stupid oars to make it go.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "enter boat" 		
	

Floyd | You know from experience that trying to get in the boat while holding
Floyd | something is a bad idea. You don't want to risk falling into the creek.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to ChrisC), "Yeah, I was thinking that as well." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "> Put the stupid goat in the stupid boat with the stupid duck." 	
			Tale says, "ha ha, it is that" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "put doom in creek" 		
	

Floyd | That can't contain things.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "drop all" 		
	

Floyd | copy of Doom III: You toss the stupid copy of Doom III on the ground.
Floyd | fake designer Italian shoes: You hurl them to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		trojo says, "yeah it is that puzzle" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "get time" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "take time" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "put all in boat" 		
	

Floyd | There are none at all available!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x earmuffs" 		
	

Floyd | They're cute AND they keep you warm.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "remove them" 		
	

Floyd | It's a chilly December day. Getting undressed now would be stupid.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "get tim" 		
	

Floyd | I don't suppose Tiny Tim would care for that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Nitku says, "I gotta go now. These were pretty cool." 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "tim, enter boat" 		
	

Floyd | Tim waits just long enough to make you think he ignored you. But just
Floyd | as you start to open your mouth to repeat the order (with a few choice
Floyd | insults added), he starts to slowly drag his feet toward the boat, not
Floyd | taking his eyes off the stupid video game thing in his hand. And then
Floyd | finally stupid Tiny Tim gets into the stupid rowboat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "laters, niku" 	
			Jacqueline exclaims (at Nitku), "See ya!" 	
	Nitku leaves. 		jojo exclaims (at Nitku), "Tara!" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Stupid East Bank
Floyd | It's snowing, but the ground is too warm for it to stick.
Floyd |
Floyd | The stupid rowboat sits here stupidly with your stupid little brother
Floyd | in it, playing his stupid handheld video game thingy.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see some fake designer Italian shoes and a copy of Doom
Floyd | III here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "get shoes" 		
	

Floyd | Shaking your head at the ridiculousness of this whole situation, you
Floyd | snatch up the stupid fake designer Italian shoes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "put shoes in boat" 		
	

Floyd | You impatiently stuff the stupid fake designer Italian shoes into the
Floyd | stupid boat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "enter boat" 		
	

Floyd | There's not enough room left in the stupid boat for you to get in.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "push boat" 		
	

Floyd | It is fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x boat" 		
	

Floyd | A stupid-looking boat with stupid oars to make it go. The stupid fake
Floyd | designer Italian shoes are in the bottom of the stupid boat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "wear shoes" 		
	

Floyd | (first taking the fake designer Italian shoes)
Floyd | Patience nearly gone, you grab the stupid fake designer Italian shoes.
Floyd |
Floyd | They're not the right size for you; Mom has big clumsy feet. Besides
Floyd | that, you wouldn't be caught dead in these stupid things.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "tim, cross creek" 		
	

Floyd | Tiny Tim has better things to do.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "tim, e" 		
	

Floyd | He just goes on playing that stupid game like he didn't even hear you.
Floyd | Honestly, he makes you want to throw things at him sometimes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "tim, paddle the boat" 		
	

Floyd | He just goes on playing that stupid game like he didn't even hear you.
Floyd | Honestly, he makes you want to throw things at him sometimes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "throw shoes at tim" 		
	

Floyd | Good plan. The fake designer Italian shoes sail gracefully through the
Floyd | air after leaving your mittened hand and bounce off Tim's shoulder.
Floyd | "Ow! Hey! Knock it off, Triniti!" he whines.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "enter boat" 		
	

Floyd | You get into the stupid rowboat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tim plays his stupid video game thingy. It makes stupid
Floyd | bleep-bloop-bloop noises.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Poor girl." 	
			jojo asks, "Triniti? Reaaaaallly?" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd | You row the boat across to the other shore, muttering darkly to
Floyd | yourself the whole way about how much your life really and truly sucks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "No one should have to go through life named 'Triniti'." 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Stupid West Bank (in the stupid rowboat)
Floyd | You've made it to this side. Now to get everything else across.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tim plays his stupid video game thingy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "time, get out" 		
	

Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Aw." 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "tim, get out" 		
	

Floyd | Tiny Tim gets out of the stupid rowboat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "It's not that bad." 	
			TheXenographer says, "yeah, no wonder she hates everything" 	
			Jacqueline says, "I mean, a y on the end would be better." 	
			Ellison says, "oh, I forgot that Doom III was one of the suggested requirements, so now it's not quite as surprising to see it pop up. what a stupid comp!" 	
			Tale says, "It works for the father, the son and the holy ghost" 	
			Bert says (to Jacq), "With a 'y' on the end, it'd be fine." 	
			ASchultz says, "Trynyti would be a bit odd tho'" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x boat" 		
	

Floyd | A stupid-looking boat with stupid oars to make it go.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Stupid West Bank (in the stupid rowboat)
Floyd | You've made it to this side. Now to get everything else across.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tim plays his stupid video game thingy.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Don't you ever get tired of that stupid thing?" you ask.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Shut up," he replies.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd | This is no time to go wandering off. Mom expects you to get these
Floyd | presents and your stupid brother home!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "row boat" 		
	

Floyd | You row the boat across to the other shore, grumbling to yourself the
Floyd | whole way about this stupid freezing cold weather.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "get game" 		
	

Floyd | Leaning out of the boat to try and reach something on the shore might
Floyd | tip the boat over. Mom says she'll kill you if you ruin the presents or
Floyd | drown in the creek-- better not risk it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "get out" 		
	

Floyd | You get out of the stupid rowboat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Stupid East Bank
Floyd | It's snowing, but the ground is too warm for it to stick.
Floyd |
Floyd | The stupid rowboat sits here stupidly.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see some fake designer Italian shoes and a copy of Doom
Floyd | III here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "put shoes in boat" 		
	

Floyd | (first taking the fake designer Italian shoes)
Floyd |
Floyd | Sighing, you snag the stupid fake designer Italian shoes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hastily toss the stupid fake designer Italian shoes into the stupid
Floyd | boat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "put game in boat" 		
	

Floyd | (first taking the copy of Doom III)

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "get game" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Patience nearly gone, you seize the stupid copy of Doom III.
Floyd |
Floyd | You sigh and stuff the stupid copy of Doom III into the stupid boat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | Silently fuming, you snag the stupid copy of Doom III.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "enter boat" 		
	

Floyd | You know from experience that trying to get in the boat while holding
Floyd | something is a bad idea. You don't want to risk falling into the creek.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "put game in boat" 		
	

Floyd | You unceremoniously throw the stupid copy of Doom III into the stupid
Floyd | boat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "get in boat" 		
	

Floyd | There's not enough room left in the stupid boat for you to get in.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "get game. drop it. enter boat. row boat" 		
	

Floyd | Sighing heavily, you grab the stupid copy of Doom III.
Floyd |
Floyd | You ditch the copy of Doom III.
Floyd |
Floyd | You get into the stupid rowboat.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the stupid rowboat you can see some fake designer Italian shoes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You row the boat across to the other shore, griping to yourself the
Floyd | whole way about how ridiculously unfair life is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "get out. get shoes. drop shoes." 		
	

Floyd | You get out of the stupid rowboat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Stupid West Bank
Floyd | You've made it to this side. Now to get everything else across.
Floyd |
Floyd | The stupid rowboat sits here stupidly. The stupid fake designer Italian
Floyd | shoes are in the bottom of the stupid boat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tim plays his stupid video game thingy stupidly.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sighing, you seize the stupid fake designer Italian shoes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You toss the stupid fake designer Italian shoes on the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale asks, "So, we get the shoes across, then take Timmy from the other end?" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "get game" 		
	

Floyd | "Hey, quit it! I'm fighting a boss!"
Floyd |
Floyd | You decide now is not the best time to pick this particular fight so
Floyd | you let him keep it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "get doom" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "enter boat. row boat. get out. put game in boat." 		
	

Floyd | You get into the stupid rowboat.
Floyd |
Floyd | You row the boat across to the other shore, grousing to yourself the
Floyd | whole way about how much your life really and truly sucks.
Floyd |
Floyd | Left alone with a present on the western shore of the creek, Tim
Floyd | suddenly picks up the fake designer Italian shoes and throws them in
Floyd | the water! Oh no! The creek quickly sweeps them downstream. And stupid
Floyd | Tim just laughs and laughs as you scream at him.
Floyd |
Floyd | When you finally get home much later and try to explain what happened,
Floyd | Mom blames you for it, of course. She says you should have kept a
Floyd | better eye on stupid evil Tiny Tim since you are supposed to be the
Floyd | responsible one. In fact, he isn't even grounded as long as you are.
Floyd | Typical.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have ruined Christmas for the whole family. Go to your room
Floyd | and think about that, young lady. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "This is making me want to code." 	
			ASchultz says, "I'd guess so" 	
			ChrisC says, "doom is other side" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Like, not just this game, the lot of them." 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd | Stupid West Bank
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		TheXenographer says, "Oh, this is the wolf, goat, and cabbage puzzle." 	
			Tale says, "We should've taken tim back across with us" 	
			trojo says, "yes" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Stupid West Bank
Floyd | You've made it to this side. Now to get everything else across.
Floyd |
Floyd | The stupid rowboat sits here stupidly.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tim plays his stupid video game thingy.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see some fake designer Italian shoes here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to TX), "Yeah" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "tim, get in boat" 		
	

Floyd | Still dragging his feet, Tim slowly starts toward the boat again.
Floyd | You're pretty sure he wants to get home as much as you do-- he's only
Floyd | being difficult to annoy you. Finally stupid Tiny Tim gets into the
Floyd | stupid rowboat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "enter boat" 		
	

Floyd | You get into the stupid rowboat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tim plays his stupid video game thingy, seemingly completely oblivious
Floyd | to everything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "row" 		
	

Floyd | (the stupid rowboat)
Floyd | You row the boat across to the other shore, grousing to yourself the
Floyd | whole way about how much your life really and truly sucks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "tim, get out" 		
	

Floyd | Tiny Tim gets out of the stupid rowboat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "out" 		
	

Floyd | You get out of the stupid rowboat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Stupid East Bank
Floyd | It's snowing, but the ground is too warm for it to stick.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tim plays his stupid video game thingy. It makes stupid
Floyd | bleep-bloop-bloop noises.
Floyd |
Floyd | The stupid rowboat sits here stupidly.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a copy of Doom III here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "put doom in boat" 		
	

Floyd | (first taking the copy of Doom III)
Floyd |
Floyd | Sighing heavily, you snag the stupid copy of Doom III.
Floyd |
Floyd | You chuck the stupid copy of Doom III into the stupid boat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "enter boat. row." 		
	

Floyd | You get into the stupid rowboat.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the stupid rowboat you can see a copy of Doom III.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "row" 		
	

Floyd | (the stupid rowboat)
Floyd | You row the boat across to the other shore, griping to yourself the
Floyd | whole way about how much you hate, hate, hate stupid Christmas.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "get out. get game. drop game. enter boat. row" 		
	

Floyd | You get out of the stupid rowboat.
Floyd |
Floyd | Stupid West Bank
Floyd | You've made it to this side. Now to get everything else across.
Floyd |
Floyd | The stupid rowboat sits here stupidly. The stupid copy of Doom III is
Floyd | in the bottom of the stupid boat.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see some fake designer Italian shoes here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Patience nearly gone, you grab the stupid copy of Doom III.
Floyd |
Floyd | You ditch the copy of Doom III.
Floyd |
Floyd | You get into the stupid rowboat.
Floyd |
Floyd | (the stupid rowboat)
Floyd | You row the boat across to the other shore, grumbling to yourself the
Floyd | whole way about how much your life really and truly sucks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "this is not a happy game" 	
			Bert asks, "Er, sorry, am I monopolizing too much?" 	
			ChrisC says, "this is a stupid game." 	
			Tale says, "nOPE" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "tim, enter boat" 		
	

Floyd | Still dragging his feet, Tim slowly starts toward the boat again.
Floyd | You're pretty sure he wants to get home as much as you do-- he's only
Floyd | being difficult to annoy you. Finally stupid Tiny Tim gets into the
Floyd | stupid rowboat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "enter boat" 		
	

Floyd | There's not enough room left in the stupid boat for you to get in.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "nah, there's not many decision points for us to worry about" 	
			ASchultz says, "No problem Bert. I think we know what to do. I can read quickly enough" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x boat" 		
	

Floyd | A stupid-looking boat with stupid oars to make it go with your stupid
Floyd | little brother in it, playing his stupid handheld video game thingy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "It's a good representation of what its like to be a teenage girl." 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "hit tim with oar" 		
	

Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hit Tiny Tim.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "row" 		
	

Floyd | (the stupid rowboat)
Floyd | You row the boat across to the other shore, grousing to yourself the
Floyd | whole way about how ridiculously unfair life is.
Floyd |
Floyd | You row the boat ashore. Somehow, at long last, by some miracle, you
Floyd | managed to get the stupid presents and your stupid brother across the
Floyd | creek in one piece. If anyone's going to ruin Christmas this year it
Floyd | won't be you.
Floyd |
Floyd | When Christmas morning does eventually roll around, you roll your eyes
Floyd | as your younger siblings and cousins tear eagerly into their presents.
Floyd | You are so over this. But when it comes time for you to open your
Floyd | present, you are surprised and delighted to find...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You got a spa treatment and tanning session for Christmas!
Floyd | Love, Mom. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions
Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT, or UNDO the last command?
Floyd | >

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "amusing" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Sing, dance, pray. Tim will react to these if you do them in his
Floyd | presence. Also: attack Tim, kiss Tim, throw shoes at Tim, X stupid.
Floyd |
Floyd | BONUS SUPER SECRET PUZZLE: If you haven't already stumbled on it, there
Floyd | are several ways to find out the protagonist's name. For a hint as to
Floyd | the most awesome way, think magic words...
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions
Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT, or UNDO the last command?
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Aww, a little life affirmation at the end" 	
			Jacqueline says, "woo" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd |

		
	Bert pushes the green 'space' button. 		
	

Floyd | Please give one of the answers above.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions
Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT, or UNDO the last command?
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd |

		Bert says, "Uh." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" 		
	

Floyd | Please give one of the answers above.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions
Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT, or UNDO the last command?
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "I think we just need to restart" 	
			trojo says, "weird" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "restart" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Stupid Mom made you take your stupid little brother to town for stupid
Floyd | Christmas shopping in the freezing cold. And now you have to cross this
Floyd | stupid freezing-cold creek in a stupid boat to get back home.
Floyd |
Floyd | Stupid Creek. Stupid Christmas.
Floyd | A Christmas puzzle by Troy Jones III
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 111225 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | East Bank of the Creek
Floyd | It's starting to snow, but the ground is too warm for it to stick.
Floyd |
Floyd | The stupid rowboat sits here on the shore.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tim plays his stupid video game thingy, seemingly completely oblivious
Floyd | to everything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "sing" 		
	

Floyd | You sing a few lines from the latest Justin Bieber hit, since he's
Floyd | simply the greatest talent who's ever lived. Ever.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tim makes disgusted choking sounds.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "dance" 		
	

Floyd | You bust out some fly moves you saw in the latest Justin Bieber video.
Floyd | You heart Justin! Sometimes you feel as though he's the only light in
Floyd | this stupid world.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tim turns his back to avoid seeing you in his peripheral vision.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" 		
	

Floyd | Magic words are for stupid "LIGHTNING BOLT" nerds.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "pray" 		
	

Floyd | You close your eyes and bow your head. "Dear Lord, please help me to
Floyd | not ruin Christmas again this year. Please. In Jesus' name, amen," you
Floyd | pray.

		ASchultz says, "I'm up for finding a few more ways to find her name" 	
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Tim looks up from his video game. "Really? Seriously? That just
Floyd | happened," he says sarcastically.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You shut up!" you snap.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "I have lost all respect for this girl." 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "plugh" 		
	

Floyd | Magic words are for stupid "LIGHTNING BOLT" nerds.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "hit tim" 		
	

Floyd | Better not. Mom says if you bring him home with a black eye again,
Floyd | you'll be grounded literally forever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "lightning bolt" 		
	

Floyd | (Tiny Tim)
Floyd | You pull off a mitten and rub your sweater vigorously, building up a
Floyd | good static charge. Then when he least suspects it, you reach out and
Floyd | touch Tim on the neck. Bzzt!
Floyd |
Floyd | "LIGHTNING BOLT!" you call.
Floyd |
Floyd | He flinches away. "Ow! Quit it, Triniti! You almost made me die!" He
Floyd | resumes playing his video game while you snicker.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "plover" 		
	

Floyd | Magic words are for stupid "LIGHTNING BOLT" nerds.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "he he, yay" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "kiss tim" 		
	

Floyd | Ugh. How about NO.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Gunther arrives, full of fun and funk. 		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x stupid" 		
	

Floyd | Which do you mean, stupid dead grass, stupid snow, the stupid creek,
Floyd | the stupid rowboat, the stupid oars, Tiny Tim, Tim's stupid handheld
Floyd | video game player thingy, the copy of Doom III, or the fake designer
Floyd | Italian shoes?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	IfMaster arrives, full of funk, but no fun. 		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "grass" 		
	

Floyd | Lots of dead grass. Who cares.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "push tim" 		
	

Floyd | That would be less than courteous.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "haha" 	
			jojo says, "There's really high production values for this little game." 	
	Gunther has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		ChrisC says, "Yeah, it's nice" 	
			Bert says, "Yeah." 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "throw shoes at tim" 		
	

Floyd | Good plan. The fake designer Italian shoes soar gracefully through the
Floyd | air after leaving your mittened hand and bounce off Tim's forearm. "Ow!
Floyd | Hey! Knock it off, Triniti!" he whines.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "throw doom at tim" 		
	

Floyd | Good plan. The copy of Doom III sails majestically through the air
Floyd | after leaving your mittened hand and bounces off Tim's forearm. "Ow!
Floyd | Hey! Quit it, Triniti!" he whines.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "Cool little game" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "dive" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x me" 		
	

Floyd | You're wearing a long chartreuse sweater, black wool leggings, adorable
Floyd | white fluffy earmuffs, white mittens, and a pair of uggs. You hate how
Floyd | stupidly pale you look in the winter-- if Mom weren't so cruel and
Floyd | hearltess, she'd bring you with her to the spa and let you spend some
Floyd | quality time in a tanning bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "enter creek" 		
	

Floyd | It's just the stupid creek.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "swim" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "give game to tim" 		
	

Floyd | (the copy of Doom III to Tiny Tim)
Floyd | (first taking the copy of Doom III)
Floyd | Sighing, you snatch up the stupid copy of Doom III.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tim can't be trusted with the presents. He's EVIL.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Lionheart says, "heh" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "play DoomIII" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "Oh I didn't read that before" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "play doom" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "open doom" 		
	

Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "smash doom iii" 		
	

Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x doom" 		
	

Floyd | Some stupid video game or some junk. Your stupid older brother wants it
Floyd | for Christmas.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale asks, "Was there anymore AMUSING stuff?" 	
	IfMaster asks, " What do people do here? What's up with the robot?" 		Bert says, "I think we did it all." 	
	trojo says (to Floyd), "x shoes" 		
	

Floyd | Mom wants these stupid knock-offs for Christmas for some reason, which
Floyd | were NOT in fact designed by Italians.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "tim, wear shoes" 		
	

Floyd | (Tiny Tim first taking the fake designer Italian shoes)
Floyd | "Get the stupid thing yourself. Can't you see I'm busy?" he says.
Floyd |
Floyd | You growl wordlessly under your breath.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		trojo says, "i think y'all have seen everything" 	
			jojo asks, "Next game?" 	
			Tale says, "sure" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "quit" 		
	

Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "y" 		
	

Floyd |

		
	Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" 		Tale asks, "where's Jacq gotten to?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Here" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Looking behind the scenes..." 	
	trojo asks, "IFMaster, are you in the clubFloyd channel?" 		Jacqueline asks, "Dash Slapney next?" 	
			Bert says, "Alright." 	
			jojo exclaims, "Sounds good!" 	
			Tale says, "Sure" 	
	IfMaster says, " Is that If? I swear I've heard those lines before." 		Tale asks, "Wasn't there a game with that name in Ectocomp?" 	
			* Jacqueline has added IfMaster to the channel. 	
			Bert says, "Oh, wait, we never tried to smell Tim." 	
	trojo says (to Floyd), "smell tim" 		
	Floyd says (to trojo), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." 		Jacqueline says (to IFMaster,), "since this is your first time, just hang out and watch at first, okay. I'll whisper how things work as we go along." 	
			ChrisC asks, "he can't be your evil twin and your younger brother, can he?" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load psidashslapney" 		
	

Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Dash Slapney, Patrol Leader
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Andrew
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 111230 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Man! You forgot about the Klondike Derby today! Your father banged on
Floyd | the door to get you up. There was a bunch of stuff you meant to study
Floyd | and pick up, but it's all helter-skelter now. Your Senior Patrol Leader
Floyd | also dropped some stuff off, too. Something about learning to get by,
Floyd | and it's not really cheating but memory aides. All the same, if you do
Floyd | too much of it, you'll get caught. He also explains that a leader
Floyd | prepares stuff beforehand and pretty much can just WAIT and bark out
Floyd | orders once it's all set.
Floyd |
Floyd | You just showered, and now you only have a bit of time to grab stuff.
Floyd | Your SPL reckoned that you could win four of seven events in the
Floyd | Klondike Derby and slip by. Any more might be suspicious. Nothing
Floyd | against your leadership skills--just, your patrol's too young, and,
Floyd | well, brains-over-brawn.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your Bedroom
Floyd | It's kind of messy here. You probably don't want to look much at your
Floyd | desk or your bed. You probably should just grab what you can and get
Floyd | going before going outside.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a roll call list, a Klondike Derby Itinerary, a bag of
Floyd | candy wrappers, a pocket trigonometric calculator, a can of Blue River
Floyd | soda (closed), a first aid cheat sheet, a small string of knots, a
Floyd | lashings log, and a techno wheels kit here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says (to Chris), "You're 'Irish twins'." 	
	IfMaster has had its fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		trojo says, "he is your irish twin" 	
			ChrisC says, "I must have missed that" 	
			ASchultz says, "Ok, I only implemented some suggestions, and I probably took a little over 3 hours. But I hope you all enjoy it." 	
			ASchultz says, "I'll sit in the background and give help if you need it." 	
			Jacqueline asks, "What's a Klondike Derby?" 	
			Tale says, "Yeah, never heard of that." 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x desk" 		
	

Floyd | Nothing fancy to do here--just take stuff and get out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x bed" 		
	

Floyd | Nothing fancy to do here--just take stuff and get out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "get all" 		
	

Floyd | A good scout doesn't bite off more than he can chew. One thing at a
Floyd | time!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take all" 		
	

Floyd | A good scout doesn't bite off more than he can chew. One thing at a
Floyd | time!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "list" 		
	

Floyd | Nothing fancy to do here--just take stuff and get out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x derby" 		
	

Floyd | You glance over it for a refresher of the tasks you'll be doing.
Floyd | Thankfully there's nothing like building a big ol' pinata a bear can't
Floyd | reach overnight, or having to haul a fellow patrol member around.
Floyd |
Floyd | 1 - trashpicking
Floyd | 2 - Orienteering
Floyd | 3 - Firestarting
Floyd | 4 - First Aid Knowledge
Floyd | 5 - Knot Tying
Floyd | 6 - Rope Lashing
Floyd | 7 - Sledding
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Oh, oops...it's a Scouting event where people try scout skills." 	
			Jacqueline says, "ah" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "get list" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need it. But you glance over it to remember who's who.
Floyd |
Floyd | It's enough to remember your patrol members: Timmy Tines, the eighth
Floyd | grader in Trigonometry. Ted Banning, the science whiz who doesn't just
Floyd | get good grades but makes gadgets. Mikey Mims, annoying know it all--so
Floyd | annoying, people don't want to seem like they know less than he does.
Floyd | Fatty Potter, well, he's not good for much. He eats a lot, you guess.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a distinct lack of applied life skills here, but that just
Floyd | makes you plucky underdogs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "get bag" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "Ah, I wasn't sure if this was a scouting game or a quasi-military organization." 	
			Jacqueline's job revolves quite a bit around the Klondike gold rush, and she was wondering if they were related. 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x bag" 		
	

Floyd | It's a mess of second-rate candies partially ashamed of their wrappers.
Floyd | You got rid of the good stuff months ago, and the selection of weird
Floyd | hard candies and root beer barrels wasn't all that bad. Still, it's a
Floyd | mess...but wait, there're a few random ones left.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "get knots" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		maga says, "Fatty Potter and the Order of Fries" 	
			Tale says, "ha ha" 	
			ASchultz says, "Sort of. Sometimes scouts get "gold nuggets" rewards for doing well on pop quizzes as they go between stations" 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "get cheat sheet" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "huh" 	
			ASchultz says, "Never made the connection between Fatty and Harry." 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x sheet" 		
	

Floyd | It's got all the points of what to do to rescue people if things go
Floyd | wrong in the wilderness, which you're determined never to get close to
Floyd | once you leave Boy Scouts. It's terribly common-sensical when you're
Floyd | reading it but easy to forget once you're not. Still, you can remember
Floyd | everything for about two hours after, and it's also handily rippable so
Floyd | you can destroy the evidence, so to speak. And even if you don't
Floyd | remember, a gung-ho junior patrol member should be able to--or to
Floyd | embarrass you into remembering it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "get sheet" 		
	

Floyd | You already have that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "It's more about being able to survive wintertime conditions and adverse situations" 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "get log" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | You've got as much as you need, now.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hope what you've got can win enough events. You stumble out to the
Floyd | assistant scoutmaster's van, and after a five-minute drive where
Floyd | everyone's subject to his harangue you heard before, you're dropped off
Floyd | at the pickup area. Your Klondike Derby sled is there and packed--it'll
Floyd | pass inspection. That's more due to your Senior Patrol Leader than you,
Floyd | but what the hey.
Floyd |
Floyd | Registration Area
Floyd | A big BE PREPARED sign hovers in the large three-quarters log cabin
Floyd | where troops must register. It seems like a pretty serious hint to hand
Floyd | out assignments before you get going. There may not be time when you
Floyd | are on the trail.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing back. what are you playing? 		maga says, "I think there's a US meme where Yukon/Klondike is sort of the default for a big outdoorsy expedition" 	
			Jacqueline asks (of ASchultz), "So, are you an Eagle Scout or something?" 	
			maga says, "as in the Calvin & Hobbes collection Yukon Ho" 	
			DavidW says, "back" 	
			ASchultz says, "No. I got to Life Scout." 	
			jojo says (to James), "A game about scouting." 	
			ASchultz says, "I guess I sort of miss scouting and didn't realize the good parts--but there were bad parts too" 	
	JamesPKing thx 		Jacqueline exclaims (at DW), "Welcome back. We're playing You Are a Boy Scout!" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Registration Area
Floyd | There's not much to do here except register, if that big REGISTER sign
Floyd | next to the BE PREPARED sign means anything. Well, you could wait
Floyd | around until a scoutmaster horse collars you and makes you register.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Ted Banning, Fatty Potter, Mikey Mims, and Timmy Tines
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x ted" 		
	

Floyd | Surly, with a touch of acne...he's rather skinny but the puffy coat
Floyd | he's wearing hides that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "it's the place uncle scrooge goes mining gold, too. klondike, i mean" 	
			Jacqueline says (to JPK), "Yes." 	
			jojo asks (of ASchultz), "So this is about the gritty underbelly of scouting?" 	
			maga says (to Jacq), "now I'm flashing back to Jeremy's story with the Thor-worshipping knife enthusiast" 	
			ASchultz says, "Warning here that you can get the game in an unwinnable state, but once you figure what to do, hopefully it'll all fall in place" 	
			Tale asks, "So, wee need to hand out assignments to the other boys?" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a lashings log
Floyd |   a first aid cheat sheet
Floyd |   a small string of knots
Floyd |   a bag of candy wrappers
Floyd |   a warm coat (being worn)
Floyd |   your scout uniform (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says (to tale), "Looks like it" 	
			ASchultz says, "There's some gritty underbelly but nothing R rated I think" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "give log to ted" 		
	

Floyd | "Whoah. That's something I've always been a little confused about."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		maga says (to ASchultz), "then I'm guessing that 'lashings log' is not what I think it is" 	
			Tale says, "I... I'm a bit confused. Not sure how to proceed here." 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "give wrappers to potter" 		
	

Floyd | "Whoah! Candy! Sucky candy but I could eat about anything right now."
Floyd | He can, and he does, before thoughtlessly tossing the mass of plastic
Floyd | on the ground. "Say! I got an idea! I--I didn't mean to do this, but
Floyd | it's litter now."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "Do we want to give the wrappers to... yup" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "potter, pick up wrappers" 		
	

Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x log" 		
	

Floyd | It's a log, foot long and three inches thick, with the various lashings
Floyd | on it. They look simpler than knots, but the effort in cinching them
Floyd | makes you lose your stream of thought. Might get the lashings confused
Floyd | with the knots, though.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "give log to timmy" 		
	

Floyd | "Whoah. That's something I've always been a little confused about."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "give log to mims" 		
	

Floyd | He looks at it, nods, and finds about ten different ways to say "of
Floyd | course," none particularly pleasant. Then he finds ten different ways
Floyd | to show everyone why things should work--he divides up the tasks, a
Floyd | couple hitches per person, and you're surprised how quick it all is.
Floyd | You think you delegated effectively. Mikey slips the log inside his
Floyd | coat (weird pockets there) so nobody accuses anyone of cheating.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Registration Area
Floyd | There's not much to do here except register, if that big REGISTER sign
Floyd | next to the BE PREPARED sign means anything. Well, you could wait
Floyd | around until a scoutmaster horse collars you and makes you register.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Ted Banning, Fatty Potter, Mikey Mims, and Timmy Tines
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a first aid cheat sheet
Floyd |   a small string of knots
Floyd |   a warm coat (being worn)
Floyd |   your scout uniform (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Ouch maga--yeah, there's a potential double meaning I didn't catch" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "give knots to ted" 		
	

Floyd | Ted Banning doesn't seem interested.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "sing" 		
	

Floyd | Your singing is abominable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "give knots to timmy" 		
	

Floyd | Timmy Tines doesn't seem interested.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "give cheat sheet to ted" 		
	

Floyd | Ted Banning studies the cheat sheet and starts convincing the rest of
Floyd | your patrol that you'd have to be dumb not to figure this out quickly.
Floyd | He's surprisingly persuasive, and motivated by not wanting to get left
Floyd | behind, you go along too. You've been shown it all before, and you're
Floyd | not liable to forget it, and you think you can remember to be decisive
Floyd | and all that. Ted disposes of the cheat sheet--won't do to get caught
Floyd | with it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "doff uniform" 		
	

Floyd | You'll have to wear it til the Klondike Derby ends.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "give uniform to timmy" 		
	

Floyd | (first taking your scout uniform off)
Floyd | You'll have to wear it til the Klondike Derby ends.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a small string of knots
Floyd |   a warm coat (being worn)
Floyd |   your scout uniform (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "give coat to timmy" 		
	

Floyd | (first taking the warm coat off)
Floyd | You shoulda put in on just before leaving, yeah, but you didn't. Enough
Floyd | time wasted already.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x timmy" 		
	

Floyd | He only failed to skip a grade because he was born at the tail-end of
Floyd | acceptance to kindergarten, so he's the shortest kid here. You wonder
Floyd | what he's doing in scouts, or why. You remember an argument he had with
Floyd | his mother about getting Eagle Scout the summer before college. He's
Floyd | wearing a wool hat with a "MATH" patch shaped like the "LOVE"
Floyd | sculpture.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Oops, thought I got rid of the default giving messages." 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "give string to timmy" 		
	

Floyd | Timmy Tines doesn't seem interested.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "And another oops about taking the coat off." 	
			Bert says, "It seems like there should be something for Timmy." 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "give knots to potter" 		
	

Floyd | Fatty Potter doesn't seem interested.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "x knots" 		
	

Floyd | They're all the knots you need to know, and sensibly organized, too.
Floyd | But it's still quite possible to mess them up without a refresher.
Floyd | Knots are weird. There're only so many ways rope can go over itself and
Floyd | back, so you should be able to remember them, but there're even more
Floyd | granny knots.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "give plastic to timmy" 		
	

Floyd | Actually, you don't need to do much more than sit and wait. No need for
Floyd | fancy stuff. Maybe give patrol members items they might find useful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "give knots to everyone" 		
	

Floyd | Actually, you don't need to do much more than sit and wait. No need for
Floyd | fancy stuff. Maybe give patrol members items they might find useful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "sit" 		
	

Floyd | What do you want to sit on?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x me" 		
	

Floyd | You're wearing your scout uniform and a warm coat over that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" 		
	

Floyd | There's no magic in Scouting, Dash. If you wanted to fear the cold,
Floyd | stay indoors and play a computer game, you made the wrong choice.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert asks, "Oops. Should we quit this game and try another?" 	
			ASchultz says, "Hm, that's a problem...tried to give a generic error message and made it too generic." 	
			ASchultz says, "It's still winnable" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a small string of knots
Floyd |   a warm coat (being worn)
Floyd |   your scout uniform (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Registration Area
Floyd | There's not much to do here except register, if that big REGISTER sign
Floyd | next to the BE PREPARED sign means anything. Well, you could wait
Floyd | around until a scoutmaster horse collars you and makes you register.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Ted Banning, Fatty Potter, Mikey Mims, and Timmy Tines
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says (to ASchultz), "I was referring to the XYZZY response." 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "register" 		
	

Floyd | "Inspection time!"
Floyd | The scout leader inspects your sled and gives it the thumbs-up. He
Floyd | explains that you will be competing against the Beastie Boys, WWF,
Floyd | Camel and Ninja Turtles patrols. You won't know what order your events
Floyd | are in 'til you get there. A scout needs to be prepared for this sort
Floyd | of thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | Litterbug Meadow
Floyd | This meadow lives up to its name. You were assigned this at random,
Floyd | while other patrols got Trash Trail, Cluttered Creek and Junk Gully.
Floyd | Hope you can pick up trash.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "Oops, maybe too early" 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "get trash" 		
	

Floyd | Actually, you don't need to do much more than sit and wait. No need for
Floyd | fancy stuff. Maybe give patrol members items they might find useful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC asks, "what?" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "sit" 		
	

Floyd | What do you want to sit on?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "ground" 		
	

Floyd | Actually, you don't need to do much more than sit and wait. No need for
Floyd | fancy stuff. Maybe give patrol members items they might find useful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Your patrol starts combing through Litterbug Meadow. You don't dump the
Floyd | candy wrappers in your trash sack all at once, of course. In fact, you
Floyd | have Fatty split them up so everyone gets some candy wrappers. It's
Floyd | enough to put you over the top.
Floyd |
Floyd | (the score has been updated. Type SCORE to see it.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Fungal Forest
Floyd | A lot of trees block your way here, but apparently you should be able
Floyd | to slip through them to find the landmarks you need to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "He means, that we shoulda kept the sweets for now." 	
			Tale says, "we didn't give timmy somehting" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "score" 		
	

Floyd |                |TRAS|TOTAL
Floyd | Beastie Boys   | 40 |40
Floyd | Camels         | 30 |30
Floyd | Ninja Turtles  | 20 |20
Floyd | WWF            | 10 |10
Floyd | Smurfs         | 50 |50
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert says, "I guess the sweets worked out OK." 	
			Bert says (to Tale), "He wouldn't take anything we had." 	
			jojo says, "I like the score breakdown." 	
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "x list" 		
	

Floyd | Actually, you don't need to do much more than sit and wait. No need for
Floyd | fancy stuff. Maybe give patrol members items they might find useful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "Okay" 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | You get the feeling that with someone like Timmy, you should've done
Floyd | better than you did, but you left the calculator at home. But you wind
Floyd | up wandering, and with a wobbly compass "guided" by some metal bits you
Floyd | all forgot you had, you never really had a chance.
Floyd |
Floyd | (the score has been updated. Type SCORE to see it.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Knot Nook
Floyd | In this small cabin, you see a poster with a bunch of names of knots,
Floyd | presumably ones you need to tie.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		trojo says, "i see... we are cheating at a scout competition" 	
			Bert says, "Apparently." 	
			ASchultz says, "Thanks. It was the main thing I wanted to try. But looks like there's other stuff I could tune up." 	
			trojo says, "always prepared hehe" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | There should be a lose message here, but there isn't.
Floyd |
Floyd | (the score has been updated. Type SCORE to see it.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Strawy Field
Floyd | Bleah. There's been no snow, so there're still smashed stalks of straw
Floyd | that didn't get cleared for the summer harvest. But actually, that
Floyd | might be a break--you'd have stood no chance if it was about pushing
Floyd | your sled.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Ouch, again." 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "score" 		
	

Floyd |                |TRAS|ORIEN|KNOT|TOTAL
Floyd | Beastie Boys   | 40 | 50 | 40 |130
Floyd | Camels         | 30 | 20 | 50 |100
Floyd | Ninja Turtles  | 20 | 30 | 20 |70
Floyd | WWF            | 10 | 40 | 30 |80
Floyd | Smurfs         | 50 | 10 | 10 |70
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC asks, "the lose message shouldn't be there after all?" 	
			jojo says, "I hope we're the beastie boys." 	
			ASchultz says, "Yes, I wanted to have a lose and win message for each competition" 	
			trojo says, "we are the smurfs" 	
			Tale asks, "So, we just z and then try again?" 	
			jojo looks despondentally at the scoring. 	
			ASchultz says, "I should've had a way to remember what is said initially. It's important." 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | You're not sure what Ted did with the wheels, and you're not sure if
Floyd | it's legal for the competition or in general. But ot works. The wheels
Floyd | seem to cut through the solid ground, and the sled darned near to
Floyd | hydroplanes to victory. The big kids can't believe it!
Floyd |
Floyd | (the score has been updated. Type SCORE to see it.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Ramshackle Fire Pit
Floyd | This is a small clearing with a circle of rocks where your nascent fire
Floyd | will, hopefully, go.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Paulinus says, "This seems depressingly realistic" 	
			JamesPKing says, "i understand if i had a game running in this speedIF i would be shakin in fear. how can one POLISH a game in 2 hrs? i left big bugs in a game i worked on for months..." 	
	trojo says (to Floyd), "score" 		
	

Floyd |                |TRAS|ORIEN|KNOT|SLED|TOTAL
Floyd | Beastie Boys   | 40 | 50 | 40 | 30 |160
Floyd | Camels         | 30 | 20 | 50 | 40 |140
Floyd | Ninja Turtles  | 20 | 30 | 20 | 20 |90
Floyd | WWF            | 10 | 40 | 30 | 50 |130
Floyd | Smurfs         | 50 | 10 | 10 | 10 |80
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Well, bugs are forgiven in Speed IF particularly because of that." 	
			Jacqueline says, "So the pressure is off." 	
			maga says (to JamesPKing), "speedIF is not expected to be polished" 	
			maga says, "or even any good, really" 	
			jojo says, "We should put laxatives in the Beastie Boys hot cocoa" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a small string of knots
Floyd |   a warm coat (being worn)
Floyd |   your scout uniform (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		trojo says, "hmm, i thought we had won the sledding" 	
			ChrisC says (to JPK), "that's part of the idea, brush up on your quick implementation and try to get over fear of bugs etc" 	
			ASchultz says, "Yeah, that is a bug too. I thought I tested it, honest" 	
			maga says, "if you make something cool, that's nice, but if you make something crap, no shame" 	
			ASchultz exclaims, "I had test commands too and everything!" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | You do okay, you suppose, or you would've if you'd been allowed to use
Floyd | more than five matches. You have decent enough kindling, but despite
Floyd | blowing, all you can say is that it worked in theory.
Floyd |
Floyd | (the score has been updated. Type SCORE to see it.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Deceptive Ditch
Floyd | This is a small gully with various dummies and staged accidents. A
Floyd | scoutmaster is watching and taking notes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "I love the concept here of scout cheating in a scored competition." 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "x dummies" 		
	

Floyd | Actually, you don't need to do much more than sit and wait. No need for
Floyd | fancy stuff. Maybe give patrol members items they might find useful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Ted had enough time to study and yell what to do. He whispers some
Floyd | stuff to you so it looks like you're delegating and listening equally
Floyd | well. Everything goes off without a hitch.
Floyd |
Floyd | (the score has been updated. Type SCORE to see it.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Rope Bridge That Always Scared You
Floyd | This is a small clearing with a rope bridge that is pretty scary
Floyd | despite not being over a cavern.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says (to aschultz), "No sweat. This has the embarassement of public beta-testing." 	
	trojo says (to Floyd), "score" 		
	

Floyd |                |TRAS|ORIEN|KNOT|SLED|FIRE|1AID|TOTAL
Floyd | Beastie Boys   | 40 | 50 | 40 | 30 | 20 | 30 |210
Floyd | Camels         | 30 | 20 | 50 | 40 | 30 | 10 |180
Floyd | Ninja Turtles  | 20 | 30 | 20 | 20 | 50 | 40 |180
Floyd | WWF            | 10 | 40 | 30 | 50 | 40 | 20 |190
Floyd | Smurfs         | 50 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 50 |140
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says (to Tale), "Thanks. I'm having fun, even with all that's being exposed." 	
			Jacqueline says, "heh" 	
			Tale says, "It's a cool little game" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | There should be a win message here, but there isn't.
Floyd |
Floyd | You've made it to the end of the Klondike Derby and won 3 events!
Floyd |
Floyd | Sadly, it wasn't enough to avoid the shame of being dead last. A close
Floyd | dead last, but dead last nonetheless. It's the sort of excuse you
Floyd | wanted, to get around to quitting scouting without guilt, but on the
Floyd | other hand, you sort of want redemption.
Floyd |
Floyd |                |TRAS|ORIEN|KNOT|SLED|FIRE|1AID|LASH|TOTAL
Floyd | Beastie Boys   | 40 | 50 | 40 | 30 | 20 | 30 | 10 |220
Floyd | Camels         | 30 | 20 | 50 | 40 | 30 | 10 | 20 |200
Floyd | Ninja Turtles  | 20 | 30 | 20 | 20 | 50 | 40 | 30 |210
Floyd | WWF            | 10 | 40 | 30 | 50 | 40 | 20 | 40 |230
Floyd | Smurfs         | 50 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 50 | 50 |190
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** The End ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "There there. It's always a bit difficult, I think, wathcing people play your game while you watch." 	
			ChrisC says, "yeah my favorite part of clubfloyd is watching other people play my game" 	
			JamesPKing says, "understood. anyway, i had a game in this speedIF, after Andrew being betatested i would feel better anyway :P" 	
			TheXenographer says, "Yeah, I've never had ClubFloyd play one of my games before, and I'm a little nervous about it" 	
			ASchultz says, "It was nice to see, yes." 	
			djfletch says, "damn we were nearly not last" 	
			Jacqueline says (to ChrisC), "Yeah? Cool." 	
			ASchultz says, "Reading the transcripts, people seemed quite forgiving, whihc made me much more willing" 	
			jojo says, "I recently looked over the club floyd playthrough of my old Chinese Room game. Shame at lack of synonyms was immense." 	
			Tale says, "I like the instant commentary you get on stuff that does and doesn't work" 	
			ChrisC exclaims, "Jacq Yup. And this time there weren't any showstopping bugs crashing the whole interpreter!" 	
			jojo exclaims, "It's been good so far!" 	
			Tale asks (of aschultz), "Should we try again and win? Or do you think there's a bug preventing that?" 	
			Jacqueline says (to ChrisC), "Heh" 	
			JamesPKing says, "well ofc noone can be blamed in IF but... i'd still have shivers. 'ouch what if i forgot that door? what if i forgot that pther thing?'" 	
			JamesPKing says, "part of the fun, i think" 	
			JamesPKing says, "blamed in speedif i mean" 	
			ASchultz says, "Sorry, afk a bit" 	
			ASchultz says, "I tested 2 wins" 	
			ASchultz says, "I also believe that you can win no matter what items you take along" 	
			JamesPKing asks, "anyway: what team were we playin on?" 	
			jojo says, "The losing team." 	
			ASchultz says, "If you'd like some small hints let me know. It was intended to be quick." 	
			jojo sobs uncontrollably. 	
			JamesPKing asks, "the camels?" 	
			Tale asks, "So, do we restart?" 	
			trojo says, "it was the smurfs... at one point it listed who we were up against" 	
			Jacqueline says (to jojo), "Thanks for putting it so diplomatically. ;)" 	
			JamesPKing says, "so you peeps managed to lose while cheating? :D" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "score" 		
	

Floyd | Please give one of the answers above.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "The smurfs" 	
			djfletch says, "the other teams cheated better, obviously." 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Want to try again?" 	
			ASchultz says, "Well, I forgot to add the understory that others did too" 	
			ASchultz says, "Got it, djfletch :)" 	
			jojo says, "I can see where the gritty underbelly is coming in." 	
			jojo exclaims, "Does such blatant cheating really occur?!" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Surely not." 	
			ASchultz says, "You'd be surprised...unfortunately, it can be contagious" 	
			trojo says, "the BSA would probably say not" 	
			jojo says, "Like a benign mushroom." 	
			Jacqueline asks, "So... another go or the next game?" 	
			TheXenographer says, "tsk, tsk.... if they were Girl Scouts, they'd be in violation of the Girl Scout Pledge" 	
			Tale asks, "So, shall we try again?" 	
			TheXenographer says, "I don't know if Boy Scouts have a similar thing, but" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Sure" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restart" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
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Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Dash Slapney, Patrol Leader
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Andrew
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 111230 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Man! You forgot about the Klondike Derby today! Your father banged on
Floyd | the door to get you up. There was a bunch of stuff you meant to study
Floyd | and pick up, but it's all helter-skelter now. Your Senior Patrol Leader
Floyd | also dropped some stuff off, too. Something about learning to get by,
Floyd | and it's not really cheating but memory aides. All the same, if you do
Floyd | too much of it, you'll get caught. He also explains that a leader
Floyd | prepares stuff beforehand and pretty much can just WAIT and bark out
Floyd | orders once it's all set.
Floyd |
Floyd | You just showered, and now you only have a bit of time to grab stuff.
Floyd | Your SPL reckoned that you could win four of seven events in the
Floyd | Klondike Derby and slip by. Any more might be suspicious. Nothing
Floyd | against your leadership skills--just, your patrol's too young, and,
Floyd | well, brains-over-brawn.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your Bedroom
Floyd | It's kind of messy here. You probably don't want to look much at your
Floyd | desk or your bed. You probably should just grab what you can and get
Floyd | going before going outside.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a roll call list, a Klondike Derby Itinerary, a bag of
Floyd | candy wrappers, a pocket trigonometric calculator, a can of Blue River
Floyd | soda (closed), a first aid cheat sheet, a small string of knots, a
Floyd | lashings log, and a techno wheels kit here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Boy Scouts have the Scout Oath and Scout Law" 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "get wheels" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x soda" 		
	

Floyd | It advertises the cleanliness of Blue River, wherever that is, in a
Floyd | blue raspberry-flavored concoction which can't be natural. You bought a
Floyd | six-pack a month ago, at a huge discount. You couldn't stomach this
Floyd | last one, but it's still shiny and polished. You look at the bottom of
Floyd | the can for an expiration date, and somehow, a reflection of the
Floyd | sunlight from the window hits you in the eyes. At least it wasn't
Floyd | concentrated in one place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "x wheels" 		
	

Floyd | You got this for Christmas last year from your grandparents but never
Floyd | used it. It has a bunch of parts you don't understand how they fit
Floyd | together, and you suspect you never will.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		TheXenographer asks (of ASchultz), "does any of that have a bit about not cheating?" 	
	trojo says (to Floyd), "get wrappers" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "get calculator" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "get cheat sheet" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | You've got as much as you need, now.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hope what you've got can win enough events. You stumble out to the
Floyd | assistant scoutmaster's van, and after a five-minute drive where
Floyd | everyone's subject to his harangue you heard before, you're dropped off
Floyd | at the pickup area. Your Klondike Derby sled is there and packed--it'll
Floyd | pass inspection. That's more due to your Senior Patrol Leader than you,
Floyd | but what the hey.
Floyd |
Floyd | Registration Area
Floyd | A big BE PREPARED sign hovers in the large three-quarters log cabin
Floyd | where troops must register. It seems like a pretty serious hint to hand
Floyd | out assignments before you get going. There may not be time when you
Floyd | are on the trail.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "a scout is trustworthy loyal helpful friendly courteous kind obedient cheerful thrifty brave clean and reverent" 	
			trojo asks, "was the log useful?" 	
			Tale says, "can we give items during the competiton? we could save after every win" 	
			ASchultz says, "It should've been, yes" 	
			djfletch says, "oh, that soda message is a clue, you must be able to light a fire with it" 	
			ASchultz says, "You can, but you can't be obvious about it" 	
	trojo says (to Floyd), "get log" 		
	

Floyd | Actually, you don't need to do much more than sit and wait. No need for
Floyd | fancy stuff. Maybe give patrol members items they might find useful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	IfMaster arrives, full of fun and funk. 		Tale asks, "How can we win if we don't have the right item?" 	
			jojo asks, "so, shall we register and give things in-game?" 	
	trojo says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a first aid cheat sheet
Floyd |   a pocket trigonometric calculator
Floyd |   a bag of candy wrappers
Floyd |   a techno wheels kit
Floyd |   a warm coat (being worn)
Floyd |   your scout uniform (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "You always have enough items to win" 	
			jojo says, "I wonder where we went wrong last time." 	
			ChrisC says (to jojo), "I think there was a bug that recorder one of our wins as a loss" 	
	IfMaster says, " What on earth are you guys doing here." 		trojo says, "we couldn't give away the string and the sled was bugged" 	
			DavidW says, "Someone had been deal with IfMaster soon." 	
	trojo says, "Floyd is a chatbot that plays IF games" 		Jacqueline says, "I've been trying in whispers." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Trying again." 	
			Jacqueline says, "You guys ignore him, I'll deal. Just play." 	
			ASchultz says, "However it's possible if you don't use them right ... they work wrong" 	
			ASchultz exclaims, "Also, I switched the winning and losing sledding messages. Aigh!" 	
			ASchultz says, "I focused too much on the scoring part of the code." 	
			jojo asks, "so should we just play and give items as needs call for it?" 	
			Tale says (to jojo), "Could call! And we should save." 	
			trojo asks, "can we give items after registering?" 	
			ASchultz says, "Yes" 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | "Inspection time!"
Floyd | "No food or drink on the trail, scouts. Especially junk food." The
Floyd | adult leader checking you in takes your candy!
Floyd | The scout leader inspects your sled and gives it the thumbs-up. He
Floyd | explains that you will be competing against the Beastie Boys, WWF,
Floyd | Camel and Ninja Turtles patrols. You won't know what order your events
Floyd | are in 'til you get there. A scout needs to be prepared for this sort
Floyd | of thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | Strawy Field
Floyd | Bleah. There's been no snow, so there're still smashed stalks of straw
Floyd | that didn't get cleared for the summer harvest. But actually, that
Floyd | might be a break--you'd have stood no chance if it was about pushing
Floyd | your sled.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		trojo says, "oops we lost the wrappers" 	
			jojo exclaims, "Oh no! He took our candy!" 	
			ChrisC asks, "undo?" 	
			jojo asks, "undo and give them to fatty?" 	
	trojo says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd | Registration Area
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "give wrappers to potter" 		
	

Floyd | "Whoah! Candy! Sucky candy but I could eat about anything right now."
Floyd | He can, and he does, before thoughtlessly tossing the mass of plastic
Floyd | on the ground. "Say! I got an idea! I--I didn't mean to do this, but

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "give candy to fatty" 		
	

Floyd | it's litter now."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	IfMaster asks, " What rules?" 		
	

Floyd | Actually, you don't need to do much more than sit and wait. No need for
Floyd | fancy stuff. Maybe give patrol members items they might find useful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "I hope that doesn't overemphasize 'be prepared'" 	
	IfMaster asks, " What rules?" 		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "get litter" 		
	

Floyd | Actually, you don't need to do much more than sit and wait. No need for
Floyd | fancy stuff. Maybe give patrol members items they might find useful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | "Inspection time!"
Floyd | The scout leader inspects your sled and gives it the thumbs-up. He
Floyd | explains that you will be competing against the Beastie Boys, WWF,
Floyd | Camel and Ninja Turtles patrols. You won't know what order your events
Floyd | are in 'til you get there. A scout needs to be prepared for this sort
Floyd | of thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | Fungal Forest
Floyd | A lot of trees block your way here, but apparently you should be able
Floyd | to slip through them to find the landmarks you need to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a first aid cheat sheet
Floyd |   a pocket trigonometric calculator
Floyd |   a techno wheels kit
Floyd |   a warm coat (being worn)
Floyd |   your scout uniform (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "cf2" 		
	

Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		trojo asks, "need calculator?" 	
			jojo asks, "give it to the smart kid?" 	
			ASchultz says, "If you guys don't win, I can show you a quick way through. I don't want to get in the way of the next game." 	
			Tale says, "yep. give it to the smart kid" 	
			ASchultz says, "You've got the basic idea." 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Fungal Forest
Floyd | A lot of trees block your way here, but apparently you should be able
Floyd | to slip through them to find the landmarks you need to.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Fatty Potter, Ted Banning, Timmy Tines, and Mikey Mims
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x timmy" 		
	

Floyd | He only failed to skip a grade because he was born at the tail-end of
Floyd | acceptance to kindergarten, so he's the shortest kid here. You wonder
Floyd | what he's doing in scouts, or why. You remember an argument he had with

		jojo says, "x ted" 	
	

Floyd | his mother about getting Eagle Scout the summer before college. He's
Floyd | wearing a wool hat with a "MATH" patch shaped like the "LOVE"
Floyd | sculpture.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "give calculator to timmy" 		
	

Floyd | "Hey! Yeah! That's a lot easier than using a fiddly old compass and
Floyd | whatnot!" Timmy snatches the calculator and begins to tap away, given
Floyd | the instructions and rotations and so forth. He coordinates it to the
Floyd | map and it's pretty clear about where you'll wind up, where you're
Floyd | going, and so forth. Timmy obviously needs to keep the calculator so
Floyd | there's no way you can lose.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Timmy's worked it all out. You know where to go, and when you're off a
Floyd | bit, the landmarks that the organizers laid out are pretty clear. It's
Floyd | a snap. Full points for the Smurf patrol!
Floyd |
Floyd | (the score has been updated. Type SCORE to see it.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Deceptive Ditch
Floyd | This is a small gully with various dummies and staged accidents. A
Floyd | scoutmaster is watching and taking notes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "score" 		
	

Floyd |                |ORIEN|TOTAL
Floyd | Beastie Boys   | 30 |30
Floyd | Camels         | 10 |10
Floyd | Ninja Turtles  | 40 |40
Floyd | WWF            | 20 |20
Floyd | Smurfs         | 50 |50
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "; now understand the value of cheating." 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a first aid cheat sheet
Floyd |   a techno wheels kit
Floyd |   a warm coat (being worn)
Floyd |   your scout uniform (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo now understand the value of cheating. 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "read sheet" 		
	

Floyd | It's got all the points of what to do to rescue people if things go
Floyd | wrong in the wilderness, which you're determined never to get close to
Floyd | once you leave Boy Scouts. It's terribly common-sensical when you're
Floyd | reading it but easy to forget once you're not. Still, you can remember
Floyd | everything for about two hours after, and it's also handily rippable so
Floyd | you can destroy the evidence, so to speak. And even if you don't
Floyd | remember, a gung-ho junior patrol member should be able to--or to
Floyd | embarrass you into remembering it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale asks, "Rip the sheet?" 	
			trojo says, "giving the sheet worked last time" 	
			jojo says, "give the sheet to the gung ho scout" 	
			trojo says, "i think" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Deceptive Ditch
Floyd | This is a small gully with various dummies and staged accidents. A
Floyd | scoutmaster is watching and taking notes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Fatty Potter, Ted Banning, Timmy Tines, and Mikey Mims
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x ted" 		
	

Floyd | Surly, with a touch of acne...he's rather skinny but the puffy coat
Floyd | he's wearing hides that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x mikey" 		
	

Floyd | He's got a sly leer behind these glasses, but it's more looking for
Floyd | prey to outsmart than to molest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "x tines" 		
	

Floyd | He only failed to skip a grade because he was born at the tail-end of
Floyd | acceptance to kindergarten, so he's the shortest kid here. You wonder
Floyd | what he's doing in scouts, or why. You remember an argument he had with
Floyd | his mother about getting Eagle Scout the summer before college. He's
Floyd | wearing a wool hat with a "MATH" patch shaped like the "LOVE"
Floyd | sculpture.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert asks, "We had something saying which scout was which... did we lose that?" 	
			jojo asks, "give to mikey?" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "cf3" 		
	

Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "give sheet to mikey" 		
	

Floyd | Nah, that's too practical for him. He'd take too long to learn it, and
Floyd | he couldn't share it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Good point, Bert. I should've put more in the descriptions" 	
			ChrisC says (to bert), "I think we couldn't take it from the starting room because we have a carrying limit" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "give sheet to ted" 		
	

Floyd | That'd be like pulling out a cheat sheet during a test.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Timmy = math Mikey = weird facts Ted = science Fatty = food" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "drop sheet" 		
	

Floyd | Actually, you don't need to do much more than sit and wait. No need for
Floyd | fancy stuff. Maybe give patrol members items they might find useful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x ted" 		
	

Floyd | Surly, with a touch of acne...he's rather skinny but the puffy coat
Floyd | he's wearing hides that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "rip shtee" 		
	

Floyd | Actually, you don't need to do much more than sit and wait. No need for
Floyd | fancy stuff. Maybe give patrol members items they might find useful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		djfletch says, "hmm maybe we're too late to use it now" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "put sheet in coat" 		
	

Floyd | Actually, you don't need to do much more than sit and wait. No need for
Floyd | fancy stuff. Maybe give patrol members items they might find useful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "rip sheet" 		
	

Floyd | Actually, you don't need to do much more than sit and wait. No need for
Floyd | fancy stuff. Maybe give patrol members items they might find useful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "let's hope reading it was enough" 	
			ASchultz says, "Ouch. I think it's getting off the rails here." 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Well, you get credit for trying, but unfortunately, that's only about
Floyd | ten percent. Every fifty-fifty choice you make seems to go against you,
Floyd | and of course it makes sense when it's explained--too late for you to
Floyd | do anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | (the score has been updated. Type SCORE to see it.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Rope Bridge That Always Scared You
Floyd | This is a small clearing with a rope bridge that is pretty scary
Floyd | despite not being over a cavern.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "Was there a way we coulda won that last one." 	
			Tale says, "doh, should've given the sheet right at the start,too" 	
			ASchultz says, "Yes. You need to read the hint sheet before getting there" 	
			trojo says, "giving the sheet before registration" 	
	IfMaster says, " Seriously, what are the rules" 		ASchultz says, "I meant to have the scout leader yelling at you for pulling the sheet out then and there" 	
			ASchultz says, "Unfortunately, it didn't get implemented." 	
			jojo asks, "Gotcha. Do we have to win every event to win?" 	
			ASchultz says, "Well, you only need to win 4, and you can take 4 items" 	
			Tale says, "we can only cheat at three or so." 	
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "x bridge" 		
	

Floyd | Actually, you don't need to do much more than sit and wait. No need for
Floyd | fancy stuff. Maybe give patrol members items they might find useful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "I put it in the intro, but I should've made it clearer" 	
			Tale says, "So, it's restarting time..." 	
			ASchultz says, "Blah, lots of unimplemented stuff here, sorry guys" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "restart" 		
	

Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart?

		jojo says, "It goes with the territory." 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "y" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |
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Floyd |
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Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Dash Slapney, Patrol Leader
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Andrew
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 111230 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Man! You forgot about the Klondike Derby today! Your father banged on
Floyd | the door to get you up. There was a bunch of stuff you meant to study
Floyd | and pick up, but it's all helter-skelter now. Your Senior Patrol Leader
Floyd | also dropped some stuff off, too. Something about learning to get by,
Floyd | and it's not really cheating but memory aides. All the same, if you do
Floyd | too much of it, you'll get caught. He also explains that a leader
Floyd | prepares stuff beforehand and pretty much can just WAIT and bark out
Floyd | orders once it's all set.
Floyd |
Floyd | You just showered, and now you only have a bit of time to grab stuff.
Floyd | Your SPL reckoned that you could win four of seven events in the
Floyd | Klondike Derby and slip by. Any more might be suspicious. Nothing
Floyd | against your leadership skills--just, your patrol's too young, and,
Floyd | well, brains-over-brawn.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your Bedroom
Floyd | It's kind of messy here. You probably don't want to look much at your
Floyd | desk or your bed. You probably should just grab what you can and get
Floyd | going before going outside.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a roll call list, a Klondike Derby Itinerary, a bag of
Floyd | candy wrappers, a pocket trigonometric calculator, a can of Blue River
Floyd | soda (closed), a first aid cheat sheet, a small string of knots, a
Floyd | lashings log, and a techno wheels kit here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		trojo says, "leave the wheels since that event is bugged" 	
			Tale asks, "Maybe someone should drive?" 	
			jojo says, "So, first aid sheet and calculator" 	
			Bert says, "Let's grab the soda, since it seems clear how to use that." 	
			Tale says, "And the can and the wrappers" 	
			trojo says, "say and wrappers" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "get aid sheet and calculator and can and wrappers" 		
	

Floyd | first aid cheat sheet: Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | pocket trigonometric calculator: Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | can of Blue River soda: Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | bag of candy wrappers: Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | You've got as much as you need, now.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hope what you've got can win enough events. You stumble out to the
Floyd | assistant scoutmaster's van, and after a five-minute drive where
Floyd | everyone's subject to his harangue you heard before, you're dropped off
Floyd | at the pickup area. Your Klondike Derby sled is there and packed--it'll
Floyd | pass inspection. That's more due to your Senior Patrol Leader than you,
Floyd | but what the hey.
Floyd |
Floyd | Registration Area
Floyd | A big BE PREPARED sign hovers in the large three-quarters log cabin
Floyd | where troops must register. It seems like a pretty serious hint to hand
Floyd | out assignments before you get going. There may not be time when you
Floyd | are on the trail.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Soda's the trickiest puzzle so to speak." 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "give wrappers to potter" 		
	

Floyd | "Whoah! Candy! Sucky candy but I could eat about anything right now."
Floyd | He can, and he does, before thoughtlessly tossing the mass of plastic
Floyd | on the ground. "Say! I got an idea! I--I didn't mean to do this, but
Floyd | it's litter now."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "open can" 		
	

Floyd | Nah, it's too nasty. The rest of the six-pack was enough.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "give sheet to ted" 		
	

Floyd | Ted Banning studies the cheat sheet and starts convincing the rest of
Floyd | your patrol that you'd have to be dumb not to figure this out quickly.
Floyd | He's surprisingly persuasive, and motivated by not wanting to get left
Floyd | behind, you go along too. You've been shown it all before, and you're
Floyd | not liable to forget it, and you think you can remember to be decisive
Floyd | and all that. Ted disposes of the cheat sheet--won't do to get caught
Floyd | with it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "give calculator to mims" 		
	

Floyd | "I'm not the Math Guy. Timmy is. Duh."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "cf4" 		
	

Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "give calculator to timmy" 		
	

Floyd | "I know, I know, I'm a math guy. What's that got to do with what we're
Floyd | doing NOW?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "FWIW, this is our last game for today, so fiddle with it as much as you guys want." 	
			Jacqueline says, "We're halfway through the entries, so." 	
	trojo says (to Floyd), "break can" 		
	

Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "Okeydoke" 	
			jojo says, "give the can to the fourth scout" 	
	trojo says (to Floyd), "give can to potter" 		
	

Floyd | "Oh, man! Haven't had one of these for a while." He guzzles it down and
Floyd | wipes his mouth. Then he hands you back the empty can. Well, at least
Floyd | it won't get confiscated as outside food, now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo asks, "Was that what we wanted to happen?" 	
			ASchultz says, "So far, yes" 	
			trojo says, "potter is a human garbage disposal" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "give can to mims" 		
	

Floyd | "No way, Dash! That's disgusting. Even Fatty might not drink it."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	trojo says (to Floyd), "x can" 		
	

Floyd | It advertises the cleanliness of Blue River, wherever that is, in a
Floyd | blue raspberry-flavored concoction which can't be natural. You bought a
Floyd | six-pack a month ago, at a huge discount. You couldn't stomach this
Floyd | last one, but it's still shiny and polished. You look at the bottom of
Floyd | the can for an expiration date, and somehow, a reflection of the
Floyd | sunlight from the window hits you in the eyes. At least it wasn't
Floyd | concentrated in one place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "give can to ted" 		
	

Floyd | "No way, Dash! That's disgusting. Even Fatty might not drink it."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "x can" 		
	

Floyd | It advertises the cleanliness of Blue River, wherever that is, in a
Floyd | blue raspberry-flavored concoction which can't be natural. You bought a
Floyd | six-pack a month ago, at a huge discount. You couldn't stomach this
Floyd | last one, but it's still shiny and polished. You half-heartedly try to
Floyd | shine the can in your eyes again, but there's probably some weird
Floyd | mathematical formula behind it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo asks, "keep the can until the fire scene?" 	
	Bert says (to Floyd), "give can to timmy" 		
	

Floyd | "No way, Dash! That's disgu..." ... Timmy takes a closer look at it and
Floyd | realizes it might be handy for focusing light at the vertex of the
Floyd | parabola. The can's his now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale asks, "who was the scienc-y guy?" 	
			ASchultz says, "oops, "from the window" should not be in there if you're outside." 	
			jojo says, "Done." 	
			trojo says, "yay" 	
			jojo says, "f i" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "cf5" 		
	

Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a pocket trigonometric calculator
Floyd |   a warm coat (being worn)
Floyd |   your scout uniform (being worn)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | "Inspection time!"
Floyd | The scout leader inspects your sled and gives it the thumbs-up. He
Floyd | explains that you will be competing against the Beastie Boys, WWF,
Floyd | Camel and Ninja Turtles patrols. You won't know what order your events
Floyd | are in 'til you get there. A scout needs to be prepared for this sort
Floyd | of thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | Deceptive Ditch
Floyd | This is a small gully with various dummies and staged accidents. A
Floyd | scoutmaster is watching and taking notes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Ted had enough time to study and yell what to do. He whispers some
Floyd | stuff to you so it looks like you're delegating and listening equally
Floyd | well. Everything goes off without a hitch.
Floyd |
Floyd | (the score has been updated. Type SCORE to see it.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Strawy Field
Floyd | Bleah. There's been no snow, so there're still smashed stalks of straw
Floyd | that didn't get cleared for the summer harvest. But actually, that
Floyd | might be a break--you'd have stood no chance if it was about pushing
Floyd | your sled.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Bert asks, "Do we just Z until the fire scene?" 	
			ASchultz says, "BTW, some events you can't help losing" 	
			Tale says, "yeah" 	
			ASchultz says, "You have 1 thing that needs to be done" 	
			jojo says, "No, we've got to calculator give" 	
			Bert says (to jojo), "Er, right. You drive." 	
			Tale says, "Oh right" 	
			jojo asks, "We z this one though, right?" 	
			Tale says, "yes" 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | You're not sure what Ted did with the wheels, and you're not sure if
Floyd | it's legal for the competition or in general. But ot works. The wheels
Floyd | seem to cut through the solid ground, and the sled darned near to
Floyd | hydroplanes to victory. The big kids can't believe it!
Floyd |
Floyd | (the score has been updated. Type SCORE to see it.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Fungal Forest
Floyd | A lot of trees block your way here, but apparently you should be able
Floyd | to slip through them to find the landmarks you need to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "give calculator to timmy" 		
	

Floyd | "Hey! Yeah! That's a lot easier than using a fiddly old compass and
Floyd | whatnot!" Timmy snatches the calculator and begins to tap away, given
Floyd | the instructions and rotations and so forth. He coordinates it to the
Floyd | map and it's pretty clear about where you'll wind up, where you're
Floyd | going, and so forth. Timmy obviously needs to keep the calculator so
Floyd | there's no way you can lose.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Bert says (to Floyd), "give calculator to timmy" 		
	

Floyd | Actually, you don't need to do much more than sit and wait. No need for
Floyd | fancy stuff. Maybe give patrol members items they might find useful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Timmy's worked it all out. You know where to go, and when you're off a
Floyd | bit, the landmarks that the organizers laid out are pretty clear. It's
Floyd | a snap. Full points for the Smurf patrol!
Floyd |
Floyd | (the score has been updated. Type SCORE to see it.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Knot Nook
Floyd | In this small cabin, you see a poster with a bunch of names of knots,
Floyd | presumably ones you need to tie.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "score" 		
	

Floyd |                |1AID|SLED|ORIEN|TOTAL
Floyd | Beastie Boys   | 10 | 50 | 10 |70
Floyd | Camels         | 20 | 20 | 20 |60
Floyd | Ninja Turtles  | 40 | 30 | 30 |100
Floyd | WWF            | 30 | 40 | 40 |110
Floyd | Smurfs         | 50 | 10 | 50 |110
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo asks, "we didn't get the knot book, so z?" 	
			Bert says, "Woo, we're tied for not last place." 	
			Tale says, "yeah" 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "Z" 		
	

Floyd | There should be a lose message here, but there isn't.
Floyd |
Floyd | (the score has been updated. Type SCORE to see it.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Rope Bridge That Always Scared You
Floyd | This is a small clearing with a rope bridge that is pretty scary
Floyd | despite not being over a cavern.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	olethros arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. 		jojo asks, "Nothing here so Z?" 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | There should be a lose message here, but there isn't.
Floyd |
Floyd | (the score has been updated. Type SCORE to see it.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Litterbug Meadow
Floyd | This meadow lives up to its name. You were assigned this at random,
Floyd | while other patrols got Trash Trail, Cluttered Creek and Junk Gully.
Floyd | Hope you can pick up trash.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "score" 		
	

Floyd |                |1AID|SLED|ORIEN|KNOT|LASH|TOTAL
Floyd | Beastie Boys   | 10 | 50 | 10 | 50 | 40 |160
Floyd | Camels         | 20 | 20 | 20 | 40 | 20 |120
Floyd | Ninja Turtles  | 40 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 50 |180
Floyd | WWF            | 30 | 40 | 40 | 20 | 30 |160
Floyd | Smurfs         | 50 | 10 | 50 | 10 | 10 |130
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Your patrol starts combing through Litterbug Meadow. You don't dump the
Floyd | candy wrappers in your trash sack all at once, of course. In fact, you
Floyd | have Fatty split them up so everyone gets some candy wrappers. It's
Floyd | enough to put you over the top.
Floyd |
Floyd | (the score has been updated. Type SCORE to see it.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Ramshackle Fire Pit
Floyd | This is a small clearing with a circle of rocks where your nascent fire
Floyd | will, hopefully, go.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	IfMaster asks, " What are the rules? What on earth is club Floyd?" 		jojo says, "It's crunch time with the can." 	
			ASchultz says, "Oh no. I'm sure I put that in the game. The 2 lose messages..." 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "score" 		
	

Floyd |                |1AID|SLED|ORIEN|KNOT|LASH|TRAS|TOTAL
Floyd | Beastie Boys   | 10 | 50 | 10 | 50 | 40 | 30 |190
Floyd | Camels         | 20 | 20 | 20 | 40 | 20 | 40 |160
Floyd | Ninja Turtles  | 40 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 50 | 10 |190
Floyd | WWF            | 30 | 40 | 40 | 20 | 30 | 20 |180
Floyd | Smurfs         | 50 | 10 | 50 | 10 | 10 | 50 |180
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	IfMaster has had its fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		jojo asks, "so z and hope the can works?" 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Timmy knows what he's doing. He takes the empty can of Blue River soda
Floyd | and focuses it on the kindling, which erupts in flame. You're able to
Floyd | stoke it to get it going, and you wind up boiling the water you need to
Floyd | pretty quickly.
Floyd |
Floyd | You've made it to the end of the Klondike Derby and won 4 events!
Floyd |
Floyd | Congratulations! You managed to squeeze out a victory. It would've been
Floyd | suspicious if you'd have won five events, but now, the other patrols
Floyd | are squabbling over what they could've done better and how on earth
Floyd | they could've lost to a bunch of dorks.
Floyd |
Floyd | Still, you shudder to think how you'd have done in the advanced
Floyd | division, where you have to do stuff like build suspensions that bears
Floyd | can't reach or transport "injured" patrol members or even do those
Floyd | tasks that require communication. Whew.
Floyd |
Floyd | Of course, it's the fear of this sort of thing (and the merit badges
Floyd | that require swimming) that stall your progress to Eagle Scout. But you
Floyd | did learn some valuable lessons about how random items can help you
Floyd | solve weird puzzles. Maybe it'll come in handy later.
Floyd |
Floyd |                |1AID|SLED|ORIEN|KNOT|LASH|TRAS|FIRE|TOTAL
Floyd | Beastie Boys   | 10 | 50 | 10 | 50 | 40 | 30 | 20 |210
Floyd | Camels         | 20 | 20 | 20 | 40 | 20 | 40 | 40 |200
Floyd | Ninja Turtles  | 40 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 50 | 10 | 30 |220
Floyd | WWF            | 30 | 40 | 40 | 20 | 30 | 20 | 10 |190
Floyd | Smurfs         | 50 | 10 | 50 | 10 | 10 | 50 | 50 |230
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** The End ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Nice work everyone and thanks for working through the bugs in my game" 	
			djfletch says, "hurrah" 	
			jojo fist pumps the air in triumph. 	
			Tale says, "Yay, cool premise" 	
			jojo says, "I'm glad we got there in the end." 	
			ChrisC says, "yeah" 	
	IfMaster arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. 		trojo says, "yeah that's a neat game" 	
			Jacqueline says, "woo" 	
	ASchultz says, "I hope you were able to enjoy my game around as much as I enjoyed the other games played today" 		Paulinus says, "good job" 	
			ChrisC says, "It's a good premise for making into a longer game with more involved scenes maybe" 	
			Jacqueline says, "So, next week, the remaining six speeds." 	
			Tale says, "This was a good round of entries" 	
	IfMaster asks, " What is club Floyd? What are these rules?" 		
	Bert has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		jojo says, "I was impressed with the calibre." 	
			ASchultz says, "I'll want to be back for sure--see what everyone else did" 	
	Jacqueline says (to ifmaster), "Hang out a sec, we're wrapping up. I'll explain to you here in a moment." 		Tale says, "Once we floyed them all, I'll put them on ifdb" 	
			ChrisC says, "these submissions were all surprisingly well polished I think" 	
			Tale asks (of Jacqueline), "Same time next week?" 	
			jojo asks, "Any favourite moments?" 	
			Jacqueline says (to Tale), "Sounds good." 	
			TheXenographer says, "Well, we did get the challenge early enough that people who weren't doing the two-hour thing had some time to work on them" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Yeah, same time." 	
			Paulinus says, "i'll try to be back to watch mine shamefully next week" 	
			ASchultz says, "Yes. I'd heard stories. But this was a lot of fun." 	
			Ellison says, "yeah, some interesting ideas today." 	
	Jacqueline asks (of IfMaster), "Okay. You still here?" 		TheXenographer says, "Which didn't keep me from running up against the deadline." 	
	ASchultz has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		
	IfMaster says, " Yeah." 		Tale says, "Same here, I coded mine in three days or so." 	
	Jacqueline says, "So, ClubFloyd is a weekly game group that meets here in the Toyshop." 		ASchultz says, "Me neither. I put the game aside a bit after coding the scoring." 	
			Ellison says, "I coded mine in two days" 	
			Jota says, "I think my favorite was the stupid one." 	
	Jacqueline says, "I'll give you a link to an example transcript so you can kind of see how it works." 		Ellison says, "what a mean thing to say" 	
			Jota says, "Despite the stupid puzzle, it was nicely polished and amusing." 	
			TheXenographer says, "I started mine well in advance, took a long break for the holidays, and did the rest of it on the night it was due." 	
			ASchultz says, "It definitely had a nice take on the old puzzle." 	
			jojo says, "Eggermond tells me his dancing with adverbs game took far too long to make." 	
	Jacqueline says, "Here in a second, that is, when I can get my site to load. Hrm." 		
	IfMaster asks, " Cool. How do I join?" 		
	Jacqueline says, "Well, here's how it works." 		Paulinus says, "the dancing adverbs one must have taken forever" 	
			ASchultz says, "It must've been tricky--I'd be interested to plot all the adverb paths out." 	
			Jota says, "I coded mine in 3.5 hours. But I did try to do it in 2, despite failing." 	
			TheXenographer says, "when we play, I'm sure it'll be obvious which parts I codede when." 	
	Jacqueline says, "We play a game in this room, on a bot named Floyd." 		
	Jacqueline says, "People can type commands by talking to Floyd and he tells us what the game result is." 		
	Jacqueline says, "The only things we say in the room itself are those commands we give Floyd." 		jojo says, "Eggermond tells me there were fifteen different endings and over three hundred adverbs understood." 	
	Jacqueline says, "All conversation -- all of it -- happens on a channel." 		Jota says, "Wow." 	
			TheXenographer says, "Wow, that's impressive." 	
	Jacqueline asks, "I've added you to that channel. Do you know how to use channels yet?" 		Jota says, "I am not sure if Eggermond understood the principle of speedIF." 	
			jojo says, "Not really if you think that there are thousands of adverbs in the English language..." 	
			TheXenographer says, "Well, even so, that's a lot of commands to implement." 	
			Tale says (to jota), "He followed the rules!" 	
	Ellison says, "hmmm, before we add him to a channel, maybe we should have checked to make sure he isn't blind" 		
	Jacqueline says, "Why would that matter? We have other blind folks on channels." 		jojo says, "I think Eggermond was following the loose version of the rules." 	
	IfMaster asks, " Not really. I'm willing" What's wrong with blind people?" 		
	olethros asks, "they can't see? </tasteless?" 		
	Jacqueline says (to IfMaster), "Nothing, they just hear the mud differently because they're listening to it on a screen reader." 		JamesPKing says, "adverbs path the road to hell, stephen king says" 	
	IfMaster says, " What? What's so bad about blind people? They're not terrorists, after all." 		
	Jacqueline says, "We do have at least one regular to the game group who's blind... but yeah, now that you mention it, I do think he has something set up to deal with that." 		
	Ellison says, "it's just that #clubfloyd, during a session, has a lot of traffic. that's part of the reason Jaybird doesn't do Clubfloyd anymore." 		TheXenographer says, "I like adverbs. Possibly a little too much." 	
			jojo says, "I've got a few choice adverbs I could say to Mr King..." 	
	Jacqueline says, "Oh, huh." 		
	Jacqueline asks, "IfMaster Can I ask you something?" 		
	IfMaster says, " Sure." 		
	JamesPKing asks (of jojo), "like?" 		TheXenographer says, "I feel that adverbs are unfairly maligned." 	
			jojo says, "Verily." 	
	Ellison says (to IfMaster), "nothing is wrong with blind people. it's just that the text sometimes scrolls too fast for screen readers to work comfortably when we play games." 		
	IfMaster says, " I don't wish to give out that information." 		
	Jacqueline says, "Also, ah, here we go! Transcripts." 		
	Jacqueline says, "Here, you can see kind of how these things roll:" 		
	Jacqueline | [LINK] 		
	Jacqueline says, "Pick a transcript, and you'll get a sense of the etiquette." 		JamesPKing says, "guess that king talks about the "he shouted angrily". which ultimately sucks." 	
			jojo says (to James), "Actually, I am sympathetic to that kin of point." 	
			jojo says, "(kind)" 	
			ASchultz says, "At least King didn't say "Adverbs quickly pave the road to hell."" 	
			JamesPKing says, "mmmm im not sure. i think there WAS an adverb in there" 	
	Jacqueline says (to IfMaster), "Okay, fair enough. You don't have to tell me. But I'll just say this: you seem like you're kind of new to this medium, and most of the people here are 20+ and generally very well educated. When you're new to a place or a community, it's often best to sit back, watch, see how things work... because if you just jump in and try to be the center of attention you will possibly upset the apple cart. It's not that we don't want people to be themselves, but there is sort of a feel here that we all get." 		JamesPKing says, "look for On Wrinting, his book about writing" 	
			ASchultz says, "I also like the occasional neologism-adverb, but it can get overdone quickly" 	
			ASchultz says, "I've meant to read that for a while now" 	
	Jacqueline says, "So if you need help, please do ask, but just a word of advice: if you waltz into a room and say 'What on earth are you people doing?' a few times when they've been trying to explain... well, that can wear on people." 		
	Jacqueline says, "We were all new once, though." 		
	Jacqueline says, "We get that." 		trojo says, "i also like to neologismally adverbify" 	
	Jacqueline says, "And we'll help you." 		ChrisC exclaims, "Well it's been fun but I'm going to bed now. I think I'll be on next week though!" 	
			jojo says (to Trojo), "My eyes just melted a little, abysmally." 	
	Jacqueline says, "Also, don't accept any candy from anyone named Gunther." 		ASchultz says, "Good night! Hope to see you, too" 	
			jojo exclaims (at Chris), "Nighty night!" 	
			JamesPKing says, "grrr" 	
	Tale says, "also, you might think about changing your nickname" 		JamesPKing says, "i wanned more gaimz" 	
	JamesPKing says (to tale), "LOL" 		ASchultz says, "We'll get them. I'd rather spend enough time on each." 	
			JamesPKing says, "but its ONE WEEK" 	
			ASchultz says, "Besides, more and different people around next week, maybe" 	
			jojo says, "I'm really looking forward to playing the other seven games." 	
	Jacqueline asks (of IfMaster), "I noticed your nickname, too. Have you written a bunch of stuff or played a ton or... where's the handle come from?" 		JamesPKing says, "i wanna act 5yo. it is ONE WEEK" 	
			jojo says, "A week is a really long time if you pack a lot of things into it." 	
			trojo says, "one whole week is like literally FOREVER... literally" 	
			JamesPKing says, "INDEED" 	
	IfMaster says, " I've played more If games than you can count. From Zork to Yomomma, I've played it all." 		ASchultz says, "I'll be working on my TMBG game to pass the time." 	
			JamesPKing says, "AND DON LEMME STARTED FULL CAPS PUH-LEASE" 	
	Jacqueline says (to IfMaster), "Cool." 		ASchultz says, "I do sort of feel like a kid again after this. It's always neat to have a bunch of games to look forward to, or to have just played" 	
	Tale asks, "Do we know you from r*if or intfiction?" 		
	JamesPKing asks (of IfMaster), "did you ever PUSH a CLIFF?" 		
	Jacqueline says (to IfMaster), "I think what Tale's getting at is that having a handle like I'mMrAwesome comes across as somewhat holier than thou in a place where there are actually some people who *are* IF Masters. Humble humility and all that." 		
	IfMaster asks, " What are you talking about?" 		
	JamesPKing says, "I think in intfict you go by the same name" 		
	JamesPKing says, "IfMaster. i've read it in intfiction.org" 		
	JamesPKing says, "anyway don't bother. mine was a lame joke at a lame game" 		
	JamesPKing says, "in which you had to push a cliff to go on" 		jojo says, "Well, I've got to take the bin out and do other exciting things excitingly, so I'll see y'all next week if not before..." 	
			JamesPKing says, "byebye" 	
			Ellison says, "later all" 	
			JamesPKing says, "had fun" 	
	IfMaster says, " Not that I know of. It's been a while." 		JamesPKing says, "i missed one game. but those won't be available for another wook, right? in ifdb" 	
	jojo goes home. 		JamesPKing says, "a wook is a week" 	
			ASchultz says, "I think so but I bet transcripts will be up" 	
			JamesPKing says, "rrright" 	
			Tale says, "Yeah, I was planning of uploading them all once everything is played" 	
	IfMaster says, " I might have played that game, but I can't remember." 		JamesPKing says, "yeah ofc. nvm." 	
	IfMaster ooks itself into the ether. 		
	JamesPKing says, "hey really. dont bother about the push cliff thing. the joke's on me not you :)" 		Tale says, "i'm 28 and I feel like I'm one of the yung'uns here" 	
	DavidW has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		TheXenographer says, "I'm 23, I think I win" 	
			Tale says, "ilac" 	
			JamesPKing says, "im 39. today." 	
			JamesPKing says, "sigh" 	
			ASchultz exclaims, "Happy birthday!" 	
	IfMaster arrives, ready to play with the toys. 		Tale says, "Happy Birthday!" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Yeah, happy new year, you old new year's baby you." 	
	IfMaster asks, " Who's birthday is it?" 		JamesPKing says, "thx *blshes" 	
			JamesPKing blushes 	
	Ellison says, "Baby New Year" 		
	Tale says (to IfMaster), "JamesPKing" 		
	Jacqueline asks (of IfMaster), "To speak on the channel type #clubfloyd Who's birthday is it?" 		
	JamesPKing says, "mine" 		trojo says, "if-master sounds like a chatbot, picking up on keywords" 	
			ASchultz says, "Ilac? Alex doesn't seem to know that...and neither does acronymfinder.com" 	
			Tale says, ""I like a channel"" 	
			Jota asks (of Alex), "Ilac?" 	
			Jota exclaims, "Huh!" 	
			JamesPKing says, "lol nope he isnt. im really sure he posted in intfiction" 	
			Ellison says (to JamesPKing), "happy birthday!" 	
			Jota asks (of Alex), "What's wrong with you?" 	
			Jota says, "Oh, he's not on the channel." 	
			ASchultz exclaims (at Tale), "Thanks!" 	
			Jacqueline says, "No. For a reason." 	
			Tale says, "Yeah, for good reason." 	
			Jacqueline says, "He's not on the channel for a reason. heh" 	
			Jota says, "(It means 'I like a channel', and is used to acknowledge when one has just accidentally said something that was intended for a different channel.)" 	
			Jacqueline says, "38 next month here." 	
			Tale says (to Jacqueline), "Huh!" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Wait, make that this month." 	
			Tale says, "ILAC again!" 	
			trojo says, "35 here" 	
			ASchultz says, "37" 	
			JamesPKing says, "you know what? it's been almost 10 years since my last chat in irc or something. if you drop WOW, or UltimaOnline, that's the first i do since ages" 	
			JamesPKing says, "feels like having sex 3 years after a divorce" 	
			ASchultz says, "I missed most of the IRC stuff. So I'm still sort of learning. But it's great not to be flooded with stuff" 	
			Jacqueline goes to take a shower. 	
			JamesPKing says, "gets a smoke" 	
			JamesPKing learns to emote 	
			JamesPKing then gets a smoke 	
	Paulinus disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. 		JamesPKing says, "wow, i'm in clubfloyd. feels like a dream" 	
	Tale has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		
	JamesPKing has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		
	TheXenographer goes home. 		
	IfMaster exclaims, " My stupid mud client won't let me talk directly on the channel!" 		
	IfMaster has had its fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		ASchultz says, "Yay, I was able to fix a few bugs right away. Thanks again, guys." 	
	Ellison has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		Jacqueline says, "yay" 	
			Tale says (to ASchultz), "Cool" 	
			Tale says, "If it's a picture of woodchopping, it's a logout" 	
			Ellison asks, "will you guys wait until after next week to upload the games or will they be going up sooner?" 	
	ChrisC becomes covered in cross-hatching 		Jacqueline asks, "The remaining speeds?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "They all got uploaded last night." 	
			Tale says, "I was planning on uploading them all to IFDB once we played them all." 	
			JamesPKing asks, "you mean knowing the names one could play?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Or if you mean to the archive, Tale was going to wait until all of them - yeah, that." 	
			Ellison says, "yeah, that's what I meant" 	
			Tale says, "Huh, Internet archive, always forget that." 	
			JamesPKing says, "andrew you are to fast to make me feel comfortable" 	
			JamesPKing says, "too*" 	
			Jacqueline says (to Tale), "Fugeddaboutit. I waited, like, six months to upload Indigo New Language Speed IF. It only annoyed the fuck out of people, but they were too polite to say." 	
			Jacqueline says, "I'm sure you'd have the same pleasant experience." 	
			Tale says, "I try to do IFDB very quickly, because that" 	
			Tale says, "is the thing people seem to be using these days." 	
			Jacqueline says, "And then people are REALLY HAPPY when you finally get off your ass and upload the games, so you get all warm and fuzzy after all your procrastination." 	
			Tale says, "Yeah." 	
			Jacqueline says, "See, I still don't use IFDB." 	
			JamesPKing says, "well, six months seems a bit harsh" 	
			ASchultz says, "clubfloyd James, I looked at it as silly changes I should've made/seen in the first place" 	
			Jacqueline says, "I completely don't even think about that site. Fortunately someone else generally takes care of it when something I do should be on there." 	
			Tale says, "I think Jacq is desperately hinting on something I forgot to uploadf" 	
			Jacqueline says (to JPK), "Yes, it was harsh. I just got a new job, moved a thousand miles, etc. Life intervened." 	
			ASchultz squashes a few bugs, and other stuff pops up :P 	
			Jota says, "Mmm, uploaf." 	
			Jacqueline says, "I wouldn't suggest anyone do what I did. I was just being sarcastic." 	
			Tale says (to jota), "hah" 	
			JamesPKing says, "hehe mee too :)" 	
			ASchultz says (to Jacqueline), "Well, real life needs to take priority...I've had far less reason to put off other stuff. There's enough to browse through in the archives for sure" 	
			JamesPKing asks, "Andrew did u have a chance at replaying AA?" 	
			JamesPKing says, "i've got one really happy betatester these days, but i fear he was too good again to find errors" 	
			ASchultz says, "No, I want to though" 	
			ASchultz says, "Writing the Apollo stuff and even the speed-if took a chunk out of me" 	
			JamesPKing asks, "you want to what?" 	
			ASchultz says, "I want to replay AA." 	
			JamesPKing says, "ah ok lol. np, really" 	
			JamesPKing says, "no hurry. i'm adding a whole new section to the endgame. but i got taken away by work and holidays" 	
			ASchultz says, "Yeah, I've had a lot of year end cleanup to do too. Like installing a new dryer vent. Not stuff I -want- to do, mind" 	
	trojo goes home. 		* Paulinus has left the channel.	
	



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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The penultimate not numbered New Year's Speed IF (Session II) by Various Authors
As played on ifMUD on January 8, 2012

The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction.

Below is the second of two transcripts of the games in the penultimate not numbered New Year's Speed IF, written by various authors (the first session transcript can be found here). You can learn more about these games, including how to download them, by visiting the ifWiki.

If you would like to jump straight to a particular game in the transcript, please click its title:
The Day I saved Elvis by Marius Müller
Mammoth Vacuum Button of Death by Daniel Airey
Party Arty, Man of La Munchies by Jonathan Blask as "Roody Yogurt"
Post-Christmas Letdown by E. Joyce
Three More Visitors by Paul Stanley
The Silence of the Gods by Adele Riquefort

WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page.

ANOTHER WARNING! A lot (most!) of the transcripts contained on this site are, shall we say, family-friendly. This is not one of those family-friendly transcripts. Just so we're clear.


		
	
ToyShop & Floyditorium
		
#ClubFloyd Discussion
	
			
	 		
			Nitku asks, "How many games did you have time to play last week?" 	
			jojo says, "7" 	
			* Paulinus has joined the channel. 	
			JamesPKing says, "i think 6" 	
			JamesPKing says, "hello" 	
			JamesPKing says, "jojo, I've sent you the finished game" 	
			jojo exclaims, "..James Yeah, I've been playing it!" 	
			JamesPKing exclaims, "already? nice!" 	
			jojo says (to james), "Expect a transcript some time soon." 	
			ChrisC asks, "how many games are left this week?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Six, i think." 	
			Jacqueline says, "er, I think." 	
			JamesPKing says, "thx jo" 	
			Jacqueline says, "I'm looking." 	
			cyberskunk helos 	
			Tale says, "Yeah, should be six." 	
			cyberskunk says, "hi" 	
			jojo says, "That's my count." 	
			ChrisC asks, "Did anyone else use the Ragnarok etc. paradigm?" 	
			Tale says, "Not that I'm aware of" 	
			JamesPKing says, "last time we played the 2 ragnaroks, the one in the exploded mall, the baseball, and the stupid. and...? i'm missing something" 	
			Tale says, "With the boy scouts" 	
			jojo asks, "Dancing?" 	
			JamesPKing says, "sorry, freudian mistake. baseball = scouts" 	
			JamesPKing says, "i missed the dancing one" 	
			ChrisC says, "That's six..." 	
			cyberskunk sniffs at it with a noisy snuffling and then devours, crumbs spilling out the sides of its mouth. It licks its sticky whiskers. 	
			cyberskunk says, "[Ignore that. It's early.]" 	
			ASchultz exclaims, "Hello, everyone!" 	
			JamesPKing says, "hey" 	
			ASchultz says, "Yes, I remember those 6 too for what it's worth." 	
			jojo says, "Actually, I think we only played 6, now that I think about it." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Looks like we've played (in this order) Birth of Mind, Ragnarok, Being the Ending, Danse Nocturne, Stupid Creek, Dash Slapney" 	
			cyberskunk asks, "speed eschaton immanetization theme?" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Which means first up, I beleive, is Post-Chrismas Letdown, unless someone else wants to go first?" 	
			Tale says, "not me" 	
			jojo says, "I'm feeling ready to be let down." 	
			Jacqueline asks (of cyberskunk), "Gesundheit?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Tale could tell you the constraints." 	
			Tale says, "Yeah. NONE AT ALL." 	
			Jacqueline says, "There you go." 	
	Jacqueline clears the save counter. 		jojo says (to Tale), "I felt particularly constrained by that constraint." 	
			JamesPKing says, "thus far i'm deluded by these speed ifs. im here to look at games with ITALINS inside, but none had, up to now" 	
			JamesPKing says, "only that mum's shoes and tiny timmy. sigh" 	
			cyberskunk says, "i could go with some italin food with these games" 	
			djfletch says, "I remember a tanning bed or two." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Actually, let's do them in the order they are on Floyd, just to make it easier to keep track - which would make the next one Tale's." 	
			ChrisC says, "oh man, I totally forgot about the Italians! I did have italian leather shoes which sort of counts" 	
			jojo exclaims, "Let Tale's Tale begin!" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load psidayisavedelvis" 		
	

Floyd | > Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Dear Blogreaders,
Floyd |  last time I told you how I and my husband Paul went by yacht to the
Floyd | island of St. Lincoln (quite near Voodoo Island), to deliver the corpse
Floyd | of his late uncle Wally. Well, as you might imagine, it all ended with
Floyd | the yacht being eaten by a demon-possessed kraken. So there I was,
Floyd | confused, and sinking into the lightless depths, not in the least
Floyd | expecting that this might be...
Floyd | The Day I saved Elvis
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Taleslinger
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 111231 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Shapeless Void
Floyd | You are in a shapeless void. Oh no. This is one of those games.
Floyd |
Floyd | Before you lingers the unfathomable, nine-armed monstrosity of the
Floyd | giant kraken!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	olethros arrives, full of funk, but no fun. 		Jacqueline says, "Nice way to bring people back up to speed." 	
			JamesPKing says, "i love the title in this one" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "fathom the kraken" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "i didnt read too carefully but i want to save elvis" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Should we have a moment of silence for Uncle Wally?" 	
			cyberskunk says, "we can trade him in for cash prizes" 	
			Nitku asks, "up to "speed", eh? Eh?" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" 		
	

Floyd | As good-looking as ever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "ask Kraken about it's feelings" 		
	

Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "x kraken" 		
	

Floyd | Pretty much what's in his intial appearance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "pet kraken" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | Well, nice, not one item survived from the first game. Looks like you
Floyd | have only your sharp wit to guide you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The kraken attacks you and you discover that, not only is he tall as a
Floyd | small house (you know, the one you downgraded to after the recession),
Floyd | but also has far more arms than you. Think of all the bonuses he'd get
Floyd | in D&D. Yes. Ouch.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have died ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Well, okay then." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "restart" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Dear Blogreaders,
Floyd |  last time I told you how I and my husband Paul went by yacht to the
Floyd | island of St. Lincoln (quite near Voodoo Island), to deliver the corpse
Floyd | of his late uncle Wally. Well, as you might imagine, it all ended with
Floyd | the yacht being eaten by a demon-possessed kraken. So there I was,
Floyd | confused, and sinking into the lightless depths, not in the least
Floyd | expecting that this might be...
Floyd | The Day I saved Elvis
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Taleslinger
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 111231 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Shapeless Void
Floyd | You are in a shapeless void. Oh no. This is one of those games.
Floyd |
Floyd | Before you lingers the unfathomable, nine-armed monstrosity of the
Floyd | giant kraken!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "exit" 		
	

Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x elvis" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "punch kraken" 		
	

Floyd | As you confront the kraken bare-handed, you discover that, not only is
Floyd | he tall as a small house , but also has far more arms than you, and is
Floyd | also in his home element. Think of all the bonuses he'd get in D&D.
Floyd | Yes. Ouch.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have died ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "This is starting out like one of my speed IFs." 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "restart" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Dear Blogreaders,
Floyd |  last time I told you how I and my husband Paul went by yacht to the
Floyd | island of St. Lincoln (quite near Voodoo Island), to deliver the corpse
Floyd | of his late uncle Wally. Well, as you might imagine, it all ended with
Floyd | the yacht being eaten by a demon-possessed kraken. So there I was,
Floyd | confused, and sinking into the lightless depths, not in the least
Floyd | expecting that this might be...
Floyd | The Day I saved Elvis
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Taleslinger
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 111231 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Shapeless Void
Floyd | You are in a shapeless void. Oh no. This is one of those games.
Floyd |
Floyd | Before you lingers the unfathomable, nine-armed monstrosity of the
Floyd | giant kraken!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "wake up" 		
	

Floyd | The dreadful truth is, this is not a dream.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Like a couple of them, actually." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x paul" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "swim" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Nitku says (to Floyd), "u" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Ocean Surface
Floyd | There are a lot of blocked exits, but the island to the southeast looks
Floyd | promising. There's a crumpled figure on the bach. Paul!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "yay" 	
			Jacqueline exclaims, "!" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x paul" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "se" 		
	

Floyd | You stumble upon the beach, warm water lapping at your soaked khakis.
Floyd | The figure is indeed Paul. You kneel beside him and gently turn him
Floyd | over. He looks a little worse for wear, but still very much alive. You
Floyd | put a hand on his heart and feel it flutter. Better do some
Floyd | mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, just to be sure. As you come back up,
Floyd | having checked if his tongue is okay in the process, some shadows fall
Floyd | upon you.
Floyd | You look up and see yourself surrounded by a group of well-armed
Floyd | sharkmen. Mensharks? You are aware of neither the scientific
Floyd | possibility of there being a tribe of undiscovered sharkmen, nor the
Floyd | politically correct term for them.
Floyd |  As you  sit there, gaping at them, quite aware you are staring,
Floyd | another person comes from their lines. It's a creature in a robe with
Floyd | tentacles for a face, but her commanding voice is clearly female:
Floyd | "Get the cute one. Kill the other."
Floyd |  Having no illusions about your looks, you get ready to take a few of
Floyd | them with you. So you stand up and read your wit. A group of them, lead
Floyd | by the tentacle-faced lady, leave with an unconscious Paul carried
Floyd | between them.
Floyd | There is a moment of silence, with only the lapping of the  waves as
Floyd | sound. You never knew there could be uncomfortable silence with a bunch
Floyd | of people about to kill you, but there you have it. Finally you realize
Floyd | they're looking behind you, and as you turn, one swipe from the kraken
Floyd | hurls you screaming into the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hurling
Floyd | Down -island, up- clouds, no, down - clouds, up - island - oh no
Floyd | wait...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "Oops, forgot to block that exit properly" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x paul" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | You are hurling screaming through the air!
Floyd |
Floyd | You land in a treetop with a thud. Luckily your fall was broken by the
Floyd | thick canopy of leaves.
Floyd |
Floyd | Top of Tree
Floyd | You are in the top of some tropical tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | A liana is hanging from the tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | A lemon grows from a branch here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ah." 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x liana" 		
	

Floyd | You see nothing special about the Liana.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x lemon" 		
	

Floyd | It's a lemon. A fruit. You know a few of those.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear noises from the northwest. Must be some guards around the
Floyd | front of the base. "So, Jim, did you ever regret becoming a sharkman in
Floyd | Dr. FrenesiÃ©'s army?"
Floyd | "Well, it somewhat limits your social circles, but c'mon, I'm a real
Floyd | sharkman! A furries wet dream."
Floyd | "You're a furry, man? I had no idea!"
Floyd | "What was that sound?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "take lemon" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "It came from the beach."
Floyd | "Should we check it out?"
Floyd | "Looks like it's coming our wa- Oh my God!"
Floyd | "CONTAIN THE KRAKEN!"
Floyd |  There's gunfire.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take all" 		
	

Floyd | There are none at all available!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Timing" 	
			olethros says, "ha ha what is this" 	
			jojo asks, "Down?" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "pull liana" 		
	

Floyd | It is fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a horrible screeching of metal as the front gate realizes it
Floyd | isn't kraken-proof. Looks like the beast has managed to get into the
Floyd | base. Should be a good distraction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "This is what you'd expect it to be, olethros." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Tale's game." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x liana" 		
	

Floyd | You see nothing special about the Liana.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "ill never eat calamari again" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "climb liana" 		
	

Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC asks, "Liana is a hanging vine, right?" 	
			jojo asks, "What is a liana?" 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "d" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Side of Secret Base
Floyd | Besides you looms the wall of some sort of Secret Base, seemingly build
Floyd | in the shape of a volcano. A worn path leads northward towards some
Floyd | sort of main gate, but you can't really see due to undergrowth.
Floyd |
Floyd | An air vent grating is in the wall. It's fastened somewhat loosely.
Floyd | Lousy handiworks. Must be hard to get good craftsmen on Voodoo Island.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "oops" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x grate" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x vent" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open vent" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open grating" 		
	

Floyd | You pull with your knees, not your back, but the grating just isn't
Floyd | that loose.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "x grating" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "peel lemon" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Oops." 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "hit grating with lemon" 		
	

Floyd | >

		jojo asks, "Go north?" 	
			cyberskunk says, "i have a zest for life" 	
			cyberskunk says, "ok" 	
	Nitku says (to Floyd), "eat lemon" 		
	

Floyd | You're sour enough.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "We should be able to GRATE THE LEMON..." 	
			Jacqueline says, "I have a weird lemon thing coming to my apartment in a grocery delivery this morning." 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "grate lemon zest over daiquiri" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk asks, "citron? sukkot already?" 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Side of Secret Base
Floyd | Besides you looms the wall of some sort of Secret Base, seemingly build
Floyd | in the shape of a volcano. A worn path leads northward towards some
Floyd | sort of main gate, but you can't really see due to undergrowth.
Floyd |
Floyd | An air vent grating is in the wall. It's fastened somewhat loosely.
Floyd | Lousy handiworks. Must be hard to get good craftsmen on Voodoo Island.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Is it a calcium-enhanced lemon?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "It is called a hand of Buddha, I think, and looks like Cthulu." 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "hit grating" 		
	

Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "oh yeah. no idea buddha had so many fingers" 	
	Nitku says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a lemon
Floyd |
Floyd | Well, nice, not one item survived from the first game. Looks like you
Floyd | have only your sharp wit to guide you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo asks, "I feel that we're supposed to go through the vent to the lair. Perhaps there's a crowbar in the next location?" 	
			JamesPKing asks, "what about going north?" 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd | You don't feel like attacking the main gate, unarmed, with no idea of
Floyd | the security. You tried that in the Philippines once. You still have
Floyd | some scars.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Yeah, this: [LINK]" 	
			jojo says, "Now we know." 	
			ChrisC asks, "I thought the kraken already attacked the main gate? Utterly?" 	
			cyberskunk says, "gonna go up and try to climb that liana" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "I did that." 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "well u rule and im not gonna now" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "we were there before. the liana hanged towards the grond" 	
			cyberskunk says, "well u rule and im not gonna now" 	
			Jacqueline says, "I am unfortunately going to have to step away. (meh) Back in a few." 	
			jojo exclaims (at Jacq), "The horror, the horror!" 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "x grating" 		
	

Floyd | You see nothing special about the grating.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "search undergrowth" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "turn grating" 		
	

Floyd | It is fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x wall" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "There should be a channel called #authors-prayers, where you can pray that you included some snyoyms" 	
			ASchultz says, "I forgot what this room looks like." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "look" 		
	

Floyd | Side of Secret Base
Floyd | Besides you looms the wall of some sort of Secret Base, seemingly build
Floyd | in the shape of a volcano. A worn path leads northward towards some
Floyd | sort of main gate, but you can't really see due to undergrowth.
Floyd |
Floyd | An air vent grating is in the wall. It's fastened somewhat loosely.
Floyd | Lousy handiworks. Must be hard to get good craftsmen on Voodoo Island.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x path" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x vent" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a your sharp wit
Floyd |   a lemon
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x grate" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x wit" 		
	

Floyd | This is your sharp wit, which has kept you alive all these years and
Floyd | also makes you quite good at charade.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x wit" 		
	

Floyd | This is your sharp wit, which has kept you alive all these years and
Floyd | also makes you quite good at charade.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "open grating with wit" 		
	

Floyd | That doesn't seem to be something you can unlock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "cut grating wit hwit" 		
	

Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to cut the grating.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "cut grating with wit" 		
	

Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to cut the grating.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "search undergrowth" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "cut grating" 		
	

Floyd | Cutting that up would achieve little.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "dig" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "climb wall" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Wait, where did the wit come from?" 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "kick grating" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Nitku says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a your sharp wit
Floyd |   a lemon
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "slice lemon" 		
	

Floyd | Cutting that up would achieve little.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "cut lemon with wit" 		
	

Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to cut the lemon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "dunno, but >I also stopped displaying the message about keeping nothing from the last game" 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "kick grating" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Nitku says, ""You have only your sharp wit to guide you"" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "sharpen wit" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "follow wit" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "cut lemon" 		
	

Floyd | Cutting that up would achieve little.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "hit grating" 		
	

Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "checking our inventory i think. we didnt notice before because we kept getting kraken snacked between checks" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "u" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Top of Tree
Floyd | You are in the top of some tropical tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | A liana is hanging from the tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "cut liana" 		
	

Floyd | Cutting that up would achieve little.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "shake liana" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "climb liana" 		
	

Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "throw lemon at grating" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "hang self with liana" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pull liana" 		
	

Floyd | It is fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "search canopy" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz asks, "What's north of the area below? Did we try going north?" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Top of Tree
Floyd | You are in the top of some tropical tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | A liana is hanging from the tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "yeah, the gate is north" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x tree" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "Yes. We aren't willing to attack the main heaily armed gate" 	
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "follow wit" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "climb liana" 		
	

Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "use wit on liana" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cut self" 		
	

Floyd | Cutting you up would achieve little.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "attack liana with wit" 		
	

Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "wield wit" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "nice." 	
			cyberskunk says, "self-violence isnt the answer to this one ggg" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "swing on liana" 		
	

Floyd | You swing down from the tree and gracefully kick in the grating which
Floyd | breaks apart with  a satisfying *smash*.
Floyd |
Floyd | Side of Secret Base
Floyd | Besides you looms the wall of some sort of Secret Base, seemingly build
Floyd | in the shape of a volcano. A worn path leads northward towards some
Floyd | sort of main gate, but you can't really see due to undergrowth.You can
Floyd | enter the air vent to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a galvanized nail here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "tarzan my hero" 	
			genericgeekgirl exclaims, "A ha!" 	
			jojo says, "Awesome" 	
			ChrisC says, "Buh." 	
	Nitku says (to Floyd), "get nail" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Nitku says (to Floyd), "x it" 		
	

Floyd | It's a galvanized nail with a zinc covering. Must be from the broken
Floyd | grating, which, oddly, isn't implemented.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo exclaims, "Hah!" 	
			JamesPKing says, "hahaha" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "excellent. soon the Lemon Clock Of Destiny will be complete." 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "excellent. soon the Lemon Clock Of Destiny will be complete." 	
			cyberskunk is good at videogames 	
	Nitku says (to Floyd), "put nail in lemon" 		
	

Floyd | You stick the nail into the lemon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Nitku says, "yay" 	
			cyberskunk says, "now we need a police man to stick in the other side" 	
			JamesPKing says, "anyway i can't see no italians. or mum's shoes." 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "enter grate" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "The last text adventure I played with a lemon clock was that game that even implement rooms." 	
			cyberskunk says, "going northwest" 	
			jojo says, "ok" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "nw" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Air duct
Floyd | It's terribly hot and dusty in here. Looks like you can crawl towards
Floyd | the northeast, where there's a junction. You can't detect any security
Floyd | measures so far.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "So", this is Paul voice, relayed to you through some tricks of
Floyd | acoustic and dramaturgy, from somewhere deep within this hellish place,
Floyd | "is it hard being a female supervillian?"
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "cf1" 		
	

Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Ellison says, "I just hopped on to say that I can't make ClubFloyd today. have fun!" 	
			ASchultz says, "I now have that song from Strawberry Alarm Clock in my head. Well, the words I remember." 	
			jojo exclaims (at Ell), "And you!" 	
			Tale says, "But, you or Recci need to be here!" 	
			cyberskunk says, "youre proclamation is self contradictory. have fun" 	
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "no" 		
	

Floyd | That was a rhetorical question.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, y'know, I have no problem with all the torturing of the
Floyd | innocent, holding whole countries hostage and the logistics of an
Floyd | indoor piranha pool are grim, but managable - but my mother was very
Floyd | hard on me when I told her she wouldn't have grandchildren."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says (to ASchultz), "they actually were around for like a decade and never used that singer again" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "ne" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Duct Junction
Floyd | You can crawl to the west, or further to the northeast, where there's
Floyd | another junction. The way back out is sw.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "Because of your demanding job?"
Floyd | "No, when I crossed my DNA with squid DNA to show everyone at the
Floyd | institute, I became infertile."
Floyd | "Oh."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh good, they have somethign to bond over." 	
			ASchultz says, "Oo, I need to start drawing a map now" 	
			cyberskunk says, "westing" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Above the cell
Floyd | You look down through a grating, easily openable from this side, into a
Floyd | cell.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well", Alex starts up again, ever so helpful, "How about adoption?"
Floyd | "You know, you got me there, in a certain way, I think I never really
Floyd | wanted children. I find this life of death and destruction, and
Floyd | unethical science quite fullfilling."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "Maps are for the WEAK. We must remember every twist and turn mentally." 	
			Tale says (to aschultz), "You should manage without one" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open grating" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC asks (of ggg), "Paul is infertile?" 	
			cyberskunk asks, "Alex?" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x cell" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo asks, "down?" 	
			Tale says, "Damn, that should read Paul" 	
			ChrisC says, "I think we can just go d" 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "d" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | cell
Floyd | Metal bars leading through an unremarkable hallway, a cot, a toilet,
Floyd | nice classic IF design like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | Why, there's the skeleton of the famous adventurer Conathan Cask here!
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "Sure, why not. So, er, speaking of unethical science, what exactly are
Floyd | your plans with me? Do you want to turn me into a shark man?"
Floyd | "No, far better."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "i dont know if jumping into a cell is a good idea, but its funny." 	
			genericgeekgirl says (to ChrisC), "I feel like that's a common complaint when you come out to your parents, no matter how accepting they are. "What about my grandkids?"" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "search skeleton" 		
	

Floyd | You found a scrap of paper on the skeleton, and a copper coin.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "Bet...Better?"
Floyd | "Yeah, but it would spoil the surprise!"
Floyd | A pause.
Floyd | "Aren't you the least bit mad I killed you husband?"
Floyd | "Paul? You haven't killed Paul. You think an army of shark men can stop
Floyd | him? He fought dictators, aliens and Dagon cultists to save me."
Floyd | "So, he is some kind of badass?"
Floyd | "He once killer someone, -spoiler alert - jvgu n phcpnxr."
Floyd | Dr. Frenesie whistles softly.
Floyd | You smile grimly. Yeah, that was a cool move.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x coin" 		
	

Floyd | As you touch the coin, you remember two things, 1) Seeing  No country
Floyd | for old men  in the cinema with Paul (he didn't like it) 2) some school
Floyd | experiment. Something about electricity.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "So, Alex, how did you guys end up here, anyway?"
Floyd | "Well, you see, Paul killed my Uncle Wally."
Floyd | "He did WHAT?"
Floyd | "Yeah, he has this adorbale sociopathic streak."
Floyd | "Oh-okay..."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Oo, Rot13" 	
			Tale says, "Damn, I switched the names around big time. This'll teach me about late night coding." 	
			ChrisC says, "I am utterly lost in this conversation" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "put coin in lemon" 		
	

Floyd | You stick the coin into the lemon.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "Then, a year later, when his body was discovered, we wanted to get him
Floyd | buried at St. Lincoln."
Floyd | "That's only a few miles from here. Lovely place. They have some good
Floyd | bars. You should go there, if you escape my deadly clutches one day."
Floyd | "We were planning to, actually."
Floyd | "Be sure to try their cocktails. They mix a mean Singapore Sling."
Floyd | "Thanks. I'd write that down, but you have me tied to this chair."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x lemon" 		
	

Floyd | It's a lemon. A fruit. You know a few of those.You've stuck a
Floyd | galvanized nail and a copper coin into it.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "So" Alex starts up again. "You realize that Paul will kill you without
Floyd | batting an eye - and if he does that, it's only to aim whatever weapon
Floyd | he happened to find?"
Floyd | "Sure, that's a risk you have to deal with, daily, as a supervillian.
Floyd | I'm quite aware of that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Back." 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "read paper" 		
	

Floyd | Hm, it has a strange email address on it. Something about ice cream.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "Aren't you the least bit scared?"
Floyd | "Aren't you?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo exclaims, "that's an excellent spoiler!" 	
			ASchultz says, "Ha, yes, I just decoded it too" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x cot" 		
	

Floyd | You can not sleep on it, and neither is something hidden inside or
Floyd | underneath it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x toilet" 		
	

Floyd | You can neither pee in it, nor flush it, nor take the water from it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo asks, "back up then?" 	
			Tale says, "To clear up some confusing. Alex and Paul are the people involved. Alex is the protagonist and Paul the one you need to save." 	
			cyberskunk says, "the construction is terrible here on voodoo island" 	
			cyberskunk says, "yes" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "u" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Above the cell
Floyd | You look down through a grating, easily openable from this side, into a
Floyd | cell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "IRTA shave and was wondering what I'd missed while I was away." 	
			ASchultz says, "Well we swung into the base on the liana" 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Duct Junction
Floyd | You can crawl to the west, or further to the northeast, where there's
Floyd | another junction. The way back out is sw.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "ne" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Second Junction
Floyd | From here, you can crawl to the east, to another death end, or even
Floyd | further northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "yeah I think we have to go crawling again" 	
			JamesPKing says, "e" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "cf2" 		
	

Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "o! dead end. lets go that way" 	
			ASchultz says, "Maybe the grating is in a room where it isn't mentioned. That'd make a cool sort of metapuzzle" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Above the Cryo chamber
Floyd | Yeah, that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "down" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Cryo chamber
Floyd | Not unsurprinsgly, it's pretty cold here. All the walls are covered
Floyd | with complicated equipment, screens, keyboards, readouts.
Floyd |
Floyd | The heart of this room is a cryo pod, standing on 4 blocks of cement to
Floyd | allow the air to circulate beneath it. 3 huge power cables lead from it
Floyd | into into the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x cables" 		
	

Floyd | After examining the power cables for a moment, you realize that the
Floyd | cool blue pulsing light actually goes from the pod to the wall, meaning
Floyd | that the base isn't powering the pod - the pod is powering the base.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to ASchultz), "That's the sort of metapuzzle that makes people type quit and then write a not flattering review." 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x pod" 		
	

Floyd | In the cryo pod is Elvis.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Yes, it's much funnier in theory I suppose" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x blocks" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "open pod" 		
	

Floyd | There are some magnetic locks, and you don't feel like opening it
Floyd | anyway. This probably needs some complicated procedure you're unaware
Floyd | of.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "x elvis" 		
	

Floyd | Holy Moses! All those conspiracy theorists where right - Elvis IS
Floyd | alive! But in cryo sleep. So all those sightings were still hoaxes.
Floyd |  And personally, you'd rather have found Jim Morrison.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says (to Jacqueline), "Oh." You hear the sound of furious scribbling and crossing things out. "Of course." 	
			jojo says, "It's true. RIP Jim." 	
			Jacqueline says, "haha" 	
			cyberskunk says, "looks like he's having a blue blue blue christmas" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "save elvis" 		
	

Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to save.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to ggg), "heehee" 	
			cyberskunk says, "aw" 	
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "sing" 		
	

Floyd | Your singing is abominable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "unplug cables" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "disconnect cables" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "pull cables" 		
	

Floyd | It is fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "slice cables" 		
	

Floyd | Cutting that up would achieve little.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "slice cables with wit" 		
	

Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to slice the power cables.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "get cables" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "use wit on cables" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "get cables" 		
	

Floyd | That's hardly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Cryo chamber
Floyd | Not unsurprinsgly, it's pretty cold here. All the walls are covered
Floyd | with complicated equipment, screens, keyboards, readouts.
Floyd |
Floyd | The heart of this room is a cryo pod, standing on 4 blocks of cement to
Floyd | allow the air to circulate beneath it. 3 huge power cables lead from it
Floyd | into into the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x equipment" 		
	

Floyd | Man, this is a really confusing mass of screen, readouts, blinking
Floyd | lights, servers and all that. Hm, if you read this correctly, the base
Floyd | is powered by Elvis' sheer awesomeness.
Floyd | Huh! You note a small button reading "UNFREEZE"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "push unfreeze" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "push button" 		
	

Floyd | Machines begin to hum and whine, and the readout changes.
Floyd | One of the machines begins to rumble, and something bonks you on the
Floyd | head and falls to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Cryo chamber
Floyd | Not unsurprinsgly, it's pretty cold here. All the walls are covered
Floyd | with complicated equipment, screens, keyboards, readouts.
Floyd |
Floyd | The heart of this room is a cryo pod, standing on 4 blocks of cement to
Floyd | allow the air to circulate beneath it. 3 huge power cables lead from it
Floyd | into into the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see an electric screwdriver here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Cryo chamber
Floyd | Not unsurprinsgly, it's pretty cold here. All the walls are covered
Floyd | with complicated equipment, screens, keyboards, readouts.
Floyd |
Floyd | The heart of this room is a cryo pod, standing on 4 blocks of cement to
Floyd | allow the air to circulate beneath it. 3 huge power cables lead from it
Floyd | into into the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see an electric screwdriver here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take screwdriver" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x screwdriver" 		
	

Floyd | It's an electric screwdriver, powerless, of course.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "connect lemon to screwdriver" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x pod" 		
	

Floyd | In the cryo pod is Elvis.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "put lemon in screwdriver" 		
	

Floyd | That can't contain things.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "put screwdriver in lemon" 		
	

Floyd | That can't contain things.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x elvis" 		
	

Floyd | You see nothing special about Elvis.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "screw elvis" 		
	

Floyd | That would be less than courteous.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "It certainly can >:(" 	
			cyberskunk says, "wow" 	
			JamesPKing says, "i'm sure many in the 50s would have done it" 	
	TheXenographer arrives, ready to play with the toys. 		Jacqueline asks, "Do lemons conduct electricity?" 	
			cyberskunk says, "you can use them to make a potato clock" 	
			Paulinus says, "yeah i think they can make electricity in some way" 	
			Jacqueline says, "huh" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "It's the acid." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Yeah" 	
			cyberskunk says, "thats why weve shoved stuff innit" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "l lemon" 		
	

Floyd | It's a lemon. A fruit. You know a few of those.You've stuck a
Floyd | galvanized nail and a copper coin into it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x concrete" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Ah, so you have." 	
			Tale says, "Damn, elvis had a description, or so I thought." 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "open po" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "I think we need some cables for it though." 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x block" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "open pod" 		
	

Floyd | There are some magnetic locks, and you don't feel like opening it
Floyd | anyway. This probably needs some complicated procedure you're unaware
Floyd | of.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "I was away when that happened, sorry." 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "x elvis" 		
	

Floyd | You see nothing special about Elvis.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "talk to elvis" 		
	

Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x locks" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "long live the king" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "power screwdriver with lemon" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "use screwdriver on pod" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x wall" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "charge screwdriver" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Cryo chamber
Floyd | Not unsurprinsgly, it's pretty cold here. All the walls are covered
Floyd | with complicated equipment, screens, keyboards, readouts.
Floyd |
Floyd | The heart of this room is a cryo pod, standing on 4 blocks of cement to
Floyd | allow the air to circulate beneath it. 3 huge power cables lead from it
Floyd | into into the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x cables" 		
	

Floyd | After examining the power cables for a moment, you realize that the
Floyd | cool blue pulsing light actually goes from the pod to the wall, meaning
Floyd | that the base isn't powering the pod - the pod is powering the base.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "put lemon in screwdriver" 		
	

Floyd | That can't contain things.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "unplug cables" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		djfletch says, "I think there was another exit in the tunnel, maybe we need to look there." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "put screwdriver in lemon" 		
	

Floyd | That can't contain things.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x readouts" 		
	

Floyd | Man, this is a really confusing mass of screen, readouts, blinking
Floyd | lights, servers and all that. Hm, if you read this correctly, the base
Floyd | is powered by Elvis' sheer awesomeness.
Floyd | Huh! You note a small button reading "UNFREEZE"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to Tale), "By the way, I know this is all fiction, but it's a bit scandalous. I'll have you know that I personally spoke to Elvis in a bowling alley in Peoria, Illinois in the late 1980s." 	
			ASchultz says, "Good call, to the NE" 	
			Tale says, "ha ha" 	
			Tale says, "This isn't fiction, it's all from Alex' blog." 	
			jojo says (to Jacq,), "that sound believable." 	
			cyberskunk asks, "ok. up and ne?" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah" 	
			ChrisC asks, "Yeh we haven't been to the other intersection, right?" 	
			jojo says, "hop to it." 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "u" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Above the Cryo chamber
Floyd | Yeah, that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Second Junction
Floyd | From here, you can crawl to the east, to another death end, or even
Floyd | further northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "ne" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Beneath the Hangar (wait, how would you know that now? Ah, nevermind)
Floyd | The crawlway ends here at a ventilator, whose fresh air is really
Floyd | refreshing after that long crawl. Above you is some floor plating.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Jacqueline says (to jojo), "He was really torn about his daugher's relationship with Michael Jackson at the time. Can't recall the year exactly." 		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x ventilator" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x plating" 		
	

Floyd | Some metal floor plating, throuh which you can hear muffled sounds,
Floyd | like a hangar or so.It's secured with a padlock.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x breathe air" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to jojo), "He was really torn about his daugher's relationship with Michael Jackson at the time. Can't recall the year exactly." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "breathe air" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x padlock" 		
	

Floyd | It's a old-fashioned metal pad-lock. Oddly enough, it's held together
Floyd | by a single screw.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "unscrew plating" 		
	

Floyd | You must supply a second noun.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "open screwdriver" 		
	

Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "unscrew plating with screwdriver" 		
	

Floyd | The screwdriver has no power.
Floyd |
Floyd | You better save what little power the screwdriver has.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says (to Jacq), "I'd be a little upset if my daughter was going out with MJ." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Yeah." 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "charge screwdriver with lemon" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk asks, "is your daughter 12?" 	
			Tale says, "Especially since he's dead." 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "open screwdriver" 		
	

Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "charge screwdriver" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "remove battery from screwdriver" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "'no' 'i dont think you have to worry.'" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "recharge screwdriver" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "power screwdriver" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "Well, I would be uspet. But I don't actually have a daughter, so it's an especially counterfactual counterfactual." 	
			JamesPKing asks, "couldn't we find the usual manual screwdriver?" 	
			cyberskunk says, "thats ok. i dont actually have a michael jackson either" 	
	Nitku says (to Floyd), "put lemon in screwdriver" 		
	

Floyd | That can't contain things.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x screw" 		
	

Floyd | It's a old-fashioned metal pad-lock. Oddly enough, it's held together
Floyd | by a single screw.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x screwdriver" 		
	

Floyd | It's an electric screwdriver, powerless, of course.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Nitku says (to Floyd), "attach lemon to screwdriver" 		
	

Floyd | You can't attach that to that!
Floyd | Okay, that was the easy way out:
Floyd |  You can't attach the lemon to the electric screwdriver.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "Can't you just use an electric screwdriver like you would a manual one?" 	
			cyberskunk says, "nitku++" 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "unscrew screw" 		
	

Floyd | You must supply a second noun.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC asks, "doesn't an electric screwdriver become a manual screwdriver when it's unpowered?" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "An elecdtric screwdriver without power *is* a manual screwdriver :(" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Timing." 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "unscrew screw with screwdriver" 		
	

Floyd | You unscrew the singular screw, and the whole padlock falls apart into
Floyd | a myriad pieces, convieniently not mentioned in the room
Floyd | description.The floor plating swings down and bonks you on the head.
Floyd |
Floyd | ***You have died***
Floyd |
Floyd | Just kidding, though it did hurt a lot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "its mysterious dramaturgy guys" 	
			Tale asks, "WHAT?" 	
			genericgeekgirl asks, "Wait, we didn't try that before?" 	
			Tale says, "No no no" 	
			Jacqueline says, "hahahaha" 	
			Jacqueline says, "That was a yay" 	
			JamesPKing says, "hahahaa" 	
			jojo exclaims, "Makes sense to me!" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Excellent, Tale." 	
			Tale says, "I hate, hate hate this. Code that compiles but doesn't work. And I checked this!" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Haha. Sorry, Tale." 	
	Rotonoto arrives, full of fun and funk. 		Nitku says, "Actually you can't use (some) electrical screwdrivers without power" 	
			ChrisC asks (of Tale), "How many of your puzzles have we accidentally bypassed already?" 	
			Tale says, "I swear I checked this, and it blocked that action." 	
			Tale says, "This is the 2nd one," 	
			Jacqueline says, "Oh, huh." 	
			jojo laugh heartily. 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Beneath the Hangar (wait, how would you know that now? Ah, nevermind)
Floyd | The crawlway ends here at a ventilator, whose fresh air is really
Floyd | refreshing after that long crawl. Above you is some floor plating.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Nitku says, "because there's no resistance when you turn it" 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "u" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Hangar
Floyd | This is a huge hangar, painted a lively grey, stacked to the ceiling
Floyd | with boxes. Far to the west someone left his laptop on a box. But you
Floyd | are somewhat distracted from the lovely room description because -
Floyd |
Floyd | The kraken is here! And it is in a huge firefight with the sharkmen
Floyd | guards.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Well, Tale, the joke is still a good one." 	
			ASchultz says, "And you're not the only one it ever happened to" 	
			Tale says, "You guys were pretty close, though. There were some electrodes under the pod,and then you'd use the lemon as a battery." 	
			ASchultz says, "I'd definitely play a re-release" 	
			cyberskunk says, "ooooh. thats why it mentions the blocks" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x kraken" 		
	

Floyd | Pretty much what's in his intial appearance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cut kraken" 		
	

Floyd | Cutting him up would achieve little.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "to draw attention to the place under the pod" 	
			ChrisC says, "Yeah, I wondered about those." 	
			jojo asks, "westwards ho?" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x sharkmen" 		
	

Floyd | The sharkmen are hiding behind boxes and stuff and fire at him with
Floyd | their vintage Tommy guns, but it's no use - The kraken is just swiping
Floyd | them left and right with his mighty tentacles!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "I'm loving this game." 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "release the kraken" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "Kraken kills 1d4 Sharkmen each round." 	
	Tale pushes the green 'space' button. 		
	

Floyd | I beg your pardon?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "cf3" 		
	

Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd | Imagine this as sneak scene from an FPS - sticking to the shadows, one
Floyd | eye on the lightmeter, one savepoint at the end of this annoying
Floyd | sequence, and every step into the light means instadeath. And you jerk
Floyd | around and fight the controls, and die over and over again. And now
Floyd | imagine a smooth cutscene, showing this, you, like a only slightly
Floyd | lighter shadow among all the others, unseen, unheard, a whisper in the
Floyd | wind. The truth is somewhere in the middle. You arrive at the laptop.
Floyd |
Floyd | Box
Floyd | You sit before an unremarkable box.
Floyd |
Floyd | A laptop sits on it!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x laptop" 		
	

Floyd | On the laptop screen you see Facebook, open on an impressive Farmville
Floyd | farm - and above that the user has Outlook open. In the top right
Floyd | corner you see the battery level - 1 %. Oh great.
Floyd |
Floyd | The laptop is currently switched on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x outlook" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "I love that description." 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "switch off laptop" 		
	

Floyd | You switch the laptop off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x laptop" 		
	

Floyd | On the laptop screen you see Facebook, open on an impressive Farmville
Floyd | farm - and above that the user has Outlook open. In the top right
Floyd | corner you see the battery level - 1 %. Oh great.
Floyd |
Floyd | The laptop is currently switched off.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "burnin is a hell of a thing" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Heh." 	
			ChrisC says, "Oh no, it's a quantum computer" 	
			jojo says, "That's an impressive amount of screen-burn" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "attach lemon to laptop" 		
	

Floyd | You can't attach that to that!
Floyd | Okay, that was the easy way out:
Floyd |  You can't attach the lemon to the laptop.
Floyd |
Floyd | You blew your chance for a deus ex machina. Sooner or later the kraken
Floyd | devours you quite gruesomely. But mother nature is cruel like that.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "Of course *cough*" 	
			cyberskunk eeps! 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd | Box
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "I onc owned a television that permanently displayed teletext financial news." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take laptop" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | You blew your chance for a deus ex machina. Sooner or later the kraken
Floyd | devours you quite gruesomely. But mother nature is cruel like that.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "you could use that to short sell into the past" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd | Box
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | Box
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Pick up the laptop and die." 	
			jojo asks, "undo twice?" 	
			JamesPKing says, "i'm after the deus ex machina" 	
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "x email" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd | Box
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "open email" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Rotonoto says, "You saved recently." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "cut kraken with with" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "throw laptop at kraken" 		
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "x facebook" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Box
Floyd | You sit before an unremarkable box.
Floyd |
Floyd | A laptop sits on it!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "close laptop" 		
	

Floyd | That's not something you can close.
Floyd |
Floyd | You blew your chance for a deus ex machina. Sooner or later the kraken
Floyd | devours you quite gruesomely. But mother nature is cruel like that.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd | Box
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd | Box
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "x box" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "rite" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "click outlook" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo asks, "We could try going back and hiding in the tunnels until it all blows over?" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "close farmville" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "type" 		
	

Floyd | What do you want to type on?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "Gee" 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "laptop" 		
	

Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "I was hoping we could abscond with the laptop." 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Hangar
Floyd | This is a huge hangar, painted a lively grey, stacked to the ceiling
Floyd | with boxes. Far to the west someone left his laptop on a box. But you
Floyd | are somewhat distracted from the lovely room description because -
Floyd |
Floyd | The kraken is here! And it is in a huge firefight with the sharkmen
Floyd | guards.
Floyd |
Floyd | You blew your chance for a deus ex machina. Sooner or later the kraken
Floyd | devours you quite gruesomely. But mother nature is cruel like that.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd | Box
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		djfletch says, "yeah, take the laptop and plug it into Elvis." 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd | Box
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "I was hoping we could recharge the laptop with the lemon and then destroy the farmville farm." 	
			Tale says (to Jacqueline), "That's just evil" 	
			jojo says, "Thorougly deserved, but it wouldn't help us with the kraken." 	
			ChrisC asks (of Tale), "So uh, do we need to do something in a different area and this kraken fight is one long timed puzzle?" 	
			JamesPKing says, "bet the lemon doesn't work here, as it was made for the screwdriver" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "unplug laptop" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "hm, maybe we could get the kraken more interested in Farmville than mass destruction" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "plug laptop in" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "give laptop to kraken" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "You have everything you need" 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "show laptop to kraken" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   an electric screwdriver
Floyd |   a scrap of paper
Floyd |   a your sharp wit
Floyd |   a lemon
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd | Box
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo exclaims, "we have the email address on the paper!" 	
			ChrisC exclaims, "What's that paper? Oh yeah!" 	
			djfletch says, ">post wit on facebook" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x paper" 		
	

Floyd | Hm, it has a strange email address on it. Something about ice cream.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "undo. read paper" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "send email" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "read paper" 		
	

Floyd | Hm, it has a strange email address on it. Something about ice cream.
Floyd |
Floyd | You blew your chance for a deus ex machina. Sooner or later the kraken
Floyd | devours you quite gruesomely. But mother nature is cruel like that.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd | Box
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd | Box
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd | Box
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "read address" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "I haven't died so much in a very long time." 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "type email address on laptop" 		
	

Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "type on laptop keyboard" 		
	

Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to type on the laptop.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Nitku says (to Floyd), "send email" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Nitku says (to Floyd), "write email" 		
	

Floyd | You write an email to the strange address you found on Conathan Casks
Floyd | corpse, basically saying: "HELP!"
Floyd | At that moment, the laptop powers down. You can't be sure if it was
Floyd | sent or not. Than you notice the eerie quiet. And you look up -
Floyd | And above you towers the huge, monstrous form of the kraken, its red
Floyd | eyes burning with demon possession. So that's how it'll end. You try to
Floyd | steady yourself, mentally preparing to fast forward through the boring
Floyd | bits when your life flashes before your eyes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Then a golden crack opens in reality, right next to the kraken. A
Floyd | figure steps through it, more of a stroll really, but he's hard to see
Floyd | due to the intense white light behind him. You cover your eyes, but the
Floyd | kraken turns its massive form around to face this new foe. But it is no
Floyd | foe- the figure has one hand in its pocket. You glimpse a football
Floyd | jersey behind the golden illumination - holy crap, it's Robb Sherwin!
Floyd | He pulls the kraken on one tentacles, and the creature bows down to
Floyd | him. "Hey buddy! I know a place for creatures like you. Come with me
Floyd | and visit my friend Vest, he'll help you." The kraken nods it's head
Floyd | and follows Robb into the golden crack, but not before punching a hole
Floyd | into the wall, followed by a meaningful look towards you.
Floyd | "Robb!" you shout, "how can I ever thank you?" He turns around, and his
Floyd | wise eyes judge you for a moment, "No problem, buddy. No fucking
Floyd | problem." He gives you a fingergun and is gone. You straighten up. You
Floyd | feel like a better person already.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Box
Floyd | You sit before an unremarkable box.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "enter email address into laptop" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "Now we know." 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x fingergun" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Nitku says, "heh" 	
			ChrisC says, "Oh it was a hand gesture." 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Ah, that ice cream." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Hangar
Floyd | This is a huge hangar, painted a lively grey, stacked to the ceiling
Floyd | with boxes. Far to the west someone left his laptop on a box. But you
Floyd | are somewhat distracted from the lovely room description because
Floyd | there's a huge hole in the eastern wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk asks, "were you already to 'f staunch bleeding'?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Yay Robb cameo." 	
			Jacqueline says, "And yay him saving us." 	
			cyberskunk says, "domo aritgato mister robboto" 	
	JamesPKing e? 		Jacqueline stares at cyberskunk. 	
			cyberskunk says, "sure" 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | FrenesiÃ©s Lair
Floyd | This is a tastefully decoreated lair. Bookshelves on the walls, lush
Floyd | red carpet, impressive murals on the walls, depicting the development
Floyd | of Dr. FrenesiÃ©s genetic experiments. Behind the desk, the room opens
Floyd | up towards a rocket silo. Paul is visible through an open bulkhead.
Floyd | He's tied to a zero-g chair.
Floyd |
Floyd | Dr. Frenesie seems to be stunned from the recent, redecoration and
Floyd | waves a futuristic gun in your general direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | "No, Alex!" screams Paul, "it's a trap..."
Floyd |  But you have already noted that Dr. Frenesie isn't as stunned as she
Floyd | seems, and with a quick flick of the wrist, you throw your sharp wit
Floyd | and hit her somewhere in the tentacled mass of her face. She sprays ink
Floyd | everyhwere and slumps onto the desk. You grin at Paul. "See, darling,
Floyd | absolutely no..."
Floyd | "...door." The ground gives way, and you fall, screaming.
Floyd |
Floyd | Maze121
Floyd | You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike. Yes, seriously.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hee, Conathan Cask." 	
			cyberskunk looks ridiculously innocent. 	
			Rotonoto says, "literally a god out of a machine" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   an electric screwdriver
Floyd |   a scrap of paper
Floyd |   a lemon
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Looks like it's a maze. It's really a bloody maze.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "always go left" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "It's not really a bloody maze." 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "x blood" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "up" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Maze61
Floyd | You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike. Yes, seriously.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | He can't be serious! He is. A maze. You feel your blood boilling.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put my right hand on the wall and don't remove it." 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | They went out of fashion in the 90s at the latest. And even parodying
Floyd | them grew old very, very quickly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Rotonoto exclaims, "Would it were!" 	
			Tale says, "Yay I got the names right here." 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "up" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | There were a few games who tried to do something clever with the idea
Floyd | lately - they all sucked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "in" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ARE THESE ROOM NUMBERS RANDOM?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You're pretty sure they're random. Great, so there is some super secret
Floyd | trick here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Nitku says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Maze151
Floyd | You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike. Yes, seriously.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Maybe you missed something earlier. Oh joy! Maybe you need to replay
Floyd | some bits.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You especially hated the hidden panther. God, that puzzle was annoying.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "hahahhahaha" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Maze111
Floyd | You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike. Yes, seriously.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You really, really feel like breaking the fourth wall and punching the
Floyd | author in the face.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Nitku says (to Floyd), "out" 		
	

Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "sw" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Maze34
Floyd | You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike. Yes, seriously.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "punch tale" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "enter lemon" 		
	

Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "break fourth wall" 		
	

Floyd | The fourth wall crumples!
Floyd |
Floyd | Living room
Floyd | You stand in a living room. The walls are painted orange to about
Floyd | head-height. It's rather crowded here -  A large wooden cupboard, a
Floyd | sofa and a rack are on one wall, a desk and a tv and an armchair are on
Floyd | the other. A red curtain leads eastwards to the rest of the apartment.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see Author here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to cyberskunk), "Don't direct that at Floyd, Tale is *right* *here*" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x author" 		
	

Floyd | He's a tall and thin guy in an oversized pullover and jeans. He badly
Floyd | needs a haircut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Oh, and he's there, too." 	
			ASchultz says, "cut author with wit" 	
			cyberskunk says, "we're surrounded" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "cut author with wit" 		
	

Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to cut Author.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "punch author" 		
	

Floyd | The author jumps up and screams: "Was zur HÃ¶lle machst du denn hier?"
Floyd | As with most strange men discovering you in their living rooms, you
Floyd | knock him out cold!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "oops" 	
			cyberskunk says, "hardboiled" 	
			ASchultz says, "the punch is mightier than the pun" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "search author" 		
	

Floyd | better leave him alone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hahaha." 	
			cyberskunk says, "but he probably has snacks and loose change" 	
			ASchultz says, "Well, now he can't implement too many more rooms, so we must be close to the end" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Living room
Floyd | You stand in a living room. The walls are painted orange to about
Floyd | head-height. It's rather crowded here -  A large wooden cupboard, a
Floyd | sofa and a rack are on one wall, a desk and a tv and an armchair are on
Floyd | the other. A red curtain leads eastwards to the rest of the apartment.
Floyd |
Floyd | The author lies here, knocked out cold.
Floyd |
Floyd | The laws of metafictionality take hold, and the fourth wall
Floyd | reassembles.
Floyd |
Floyd | Maze185
Floyd | You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike. Yes, seriously.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x cupboard" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "break fourth wall" 		
	

Floyd | The fourth wall crumples!
Floyd |
Floyd | Living room
Floyd | You stand in a living room. The walls are painted orange to about
Floyd | head-height. It's rather crowded here -  A large wooden cupboard, a
Floyd | sofa and a rack are on one wall, a desk and a tv and an armchair are on
Floyd | the other. A red curtain leads eastwards to the rest of the apartment.
Floyd |
Floyd | The author lies here, knocked out cold.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "search sofa" 		
	

Floyd | There is nothing on the sofa.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd | The laws of metafictionality take hold, and the fourth wall
Floyd | reassembles.
Floyd |
Floyd | Maze122
Floyd | You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike. Yes, seriously.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "break fourth wall" 		
	

Floyd | The fourth wall crumples!
Floyd |
Floyd | Living room
Floyd | You stand in a living room. The walls are painted orange to about
Floyd | head-height. It's rather crowded here -  A large wooden cupboard, a
Floyd | sofa and a rack are on one wall, a desk and a tv and an armchair are on
Floyd | the other. A red curtain leads eastwards to the rest of the apartment.
Floyd |
Floyd | The author lies here, knocked out cold.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x all" 		
	

Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x cupboard" 		
	

Floyd | This old cupboard houses an impressive number of DVDs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x rack" 		
	

Floyd | This is a cheap ikea rack, a mismatch with the rest of room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC asks, "So, east?" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x tv" 		
	

Floyd | It is a large, heavy, TV, looking used like everything here. It's one
Floyd | of the first 5:1 systems.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x armchair" 		
	

Floyd | Some cat had some hours of fun with the leather of this chair. It's
Floyd | look incredible comfy.
Floyd |
Floyd | The laws of metafictionality take hold, and the fourth wall
Floyd | reassembles.
Floyd |
Floyd | Maze14
Floyd | You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike. Yes, seriously.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd | Living room
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Rotonoto says, "Revive him with the electric screwdriver." 	
			ASchultz says, "I think we've examined everything (?)" 	
			ChrisC says, "There's an east exit here" 	
			JamesPKing asks, "e?" 	
			cyberskunk says, "try it" 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd | The laws of metafictionality take hold, and the fourth wall
Floyd | reassembles.
Floyd |
Floyd | Maze75
Floyd | You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike. Yes, seriously.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "grrr" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "break fourth wall" 		
	

Floyd | The fourth wall crumples!
Floyd |
Floyd | Living room
Floyd | You stand in a living room. The walls are painted orange to about
Floyd | head-height. It's rather crowded here -  A large wooden cupboard, a
Floyd | sofa and a rack are on one wall, a desk and a tv and an armchair are on
Floyd | the other. A red curtain leads eastwards to the rest of the apartment.
Floyd |
Floyd | The author lies here, knocked out cold.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd | The laws of metafictionality take hold, and the fourth wall
Floyd | reassembles.
Floyd |
Floyd | Maze35
Floyd | You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike. Yes, seriously.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Maze3
Floyd | You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike. Yes, seriously.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "nope" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "break fourth wall" 		
	

Floyd | The fourth wall crumples!
Floyd |
Floyd | Living room
Floyd | You stand in a living room. The walls are painted orange to about
Floyd | head-height. It's rather crowded here -  A large wooden cupboard, a
Floyd | sofa and a rack are on one wall, a desk and a tv and an armchair are on
Floyd | the other. A red curtain leads eastwards to the rest of the apartment.
Floyd |
Floyd | The author lies here, knocked out cold.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "break fourth wall" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "looks like that always happens" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "get author" 		
	

Floyd | better leave him alone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "I got nothing." 	
			TheXenographer says, "I think that's an easter egg" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x desk" 		
	

Floyd | This desk houses a printer, a monitor and a PC, and a large number of
Floyd | small items. It looks rather cluttered.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "search desk" 		
	

Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | The laws of metafictionality take hold, and the fourth wall
Floyd | reassembles.
Floyd |
Floyd | Maze51
Floyd | You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike. Yes, seriously.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "I'm with X." 	
			TheXenographer says, "and not something we actually have to do anything with" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd | Living room
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "x pc" 		
	

Floyd | Wow...this is your whole life. The source code to your life. Holy fuck!
Floyd |
Floyd | The laws of metafictionality take hold, and the fourth wall
Floyd | reassembles.
Floyd |
Floyd | Maze100
Floyd | You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike. Yes, seriously.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "turn on pc" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "use PC" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "rewrite game" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "break fourth wall" 		
	

Floyd | The fourth wall crumples!
Floyd |
Floyd | Living room
Floyd | You stand in a living room. The walls are painted orange to about
Floyd | head-height. It's rather crowded here -  A large wooden cupboard, a
Floyd | sofa and a rack are on one wall, a desk and a tv and an armchair are on
Floyd | the other. A red curtain leads eastwards to the rest of the apartment.
Floyd |
Floyd | The author lies here, knocked out cold.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "type on pc" 		
	

Floyd | "Carry out hacking the pc:
Floyd |  now Alex is in FrenesiÃ©s Lair;
Floyd |  now Alex is carrying the futuristic gun.

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "use pc" 		
	

Floyd | "
Floyd |  As you hit F9, the fourth wall reassembles itself.
Floyd |
Floyd | FrenesiÃ©s Lair
Floyd | This is a tastefully decoreated lair. Bookshelves on the walls, lush
Floyd | red carpet, impressive murals on the walls, depicting the development
Floyd | of Dr. FrenesiÃ©s genetic experiments. Behind the desk, the room opens
Floyd | up towards a rocket silo. Paul is visible through an open bulkhead.
Floyd | He's tied to a zero-g chair.
Floyd |
Floyd | Frenesie stands here, leaning on her ink-splattered desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "hm, a timing puzzle in speed-if" 	
			JamesPKing says, "that was nice" 	
			jojo says, "Another timing puzzle. There was the kraken." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "shoot paul with gun" 		
	

Floyd | You can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "there we go. we made a change in the matrix. watch out for a deja vu" 	
			cyberskunk says, "there we go. we made a change in the matrix. watch out for a deja vu" 	
			Tale says, "hah" 	
			Jacqueline says, "heh" 	
			ChrisC says (to Jojo), "both times with the kraken, in fact" 	
			Tale says, "hah" 	
			cyberskunk says, "whoah" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x frenesie" 		
	

Floyd | She has a tentacle head and wears long-flowing robes. She is holding a
Floyd | futustic gun in her hand.
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly, Frenesie pulls your wit from her face, which doesn't seem to
Floyd | be as damaged as you hoped, and throws it back at you. Impaled by your
Floyd | own wit, the last thing you hear is Paul screaming your name.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have died ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd | FrenesiÃ©s Lair
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "shoot frenesia" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shoot frenesie" 		
	

Floyd | You level the gun at Dr. Frenesie. "Hands up, Doc!"
Floyd | "You can't kill me!"
Floyd | "Okay, let's hear it."
Floyd | "First off, I'm a single mom! Secondly, the moment I'm killed, I will
Floyd | press a hidden remote and this rocket will launch, sending your husband
Floyd | off to my secret base on Mercury, where he will be transformed into a
Floyd | genetic mixture of human and Mercury Man, called a ... Mercury Man.
Floyd | Dammit! PR hasn't gotten back to me about that name."
Floyd | "ALEX! She is bluffing!" You blast FrenesiÃ© with the energy ray, and
Floyd | she topples over her desk.
Floyd | There is a hissing of starting rocket engines.
Floyd | Paul screams : "You idiot! I meant about being a single mom!" You have
Floyd | to watch helplessly (hence a non-interactive cutscene) as the door
Floyd | closes on Paul and soon, the rocket is launched into space. The gun
Floyd | clutters from your lifeless hand. He's gone. Gone to Mercury. And no
Floyd | chance to get him back.
Floyd |
Floyd | With tear filled eyes, you turn towards the desk, where Dr. FrenesiÃ© is
Floyd | rising again, a smoking hole in her belly. She has a smaller, but still
Floyd | futuristic gun in her hand.
Floyd | "You thought you could kill me? ME? Do you have any idea who I am?"
Floyd | There is a voice behind you, one that millions recognize instantly:
Floyd | "(You're) The Devil in disguise." The energy gun flashes again, and you
Floyd | are pretty sure Frenesie can't repair that damage to her face.
Floyd | Elvis puts a heavy hand on your shoulder, and together you stare up at
Floyd | the skylight.
Floyd |  "I need to get him back, man" you whisper hoarsely.
Floyd | "A little less conversation, a little more action."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** To be continued...A Happy New Year 2012! ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		ASchultz finally sees what you did there, cyberskunk :) 	
			Rotonoto says, "Neato." 	
			genericgeekgirl exclaims, "Yay!" 	
			jojo says, "I look forward to the sequel where me and Elvis team up and go to space." 	
			cyberskunk exclaims, "yay!" 	
			Tale says (to jojo), "That'll be next year" 	
			JamesPKing exclaims, "that was fun! nicely done!" 	
			ASchultz says, "Or next speed-if." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Wow - that's the good ending. Huh." 	
			ChrisC asks (of Tale), "and by next year you mean 2012?" 	
			JamesPKing says, "although it didn't have italians" 	
			jojo says, "The calibre of these speed games is quite impressive." 	
			cyberskunk says, "husband launched into space in time to have a tender moment with the king? ill say it is" 	
			Jacqueline says (to JPK), "Have you seen Elvis' hair? I'm pretty sure there's some Italian in there." 	
			Tale says (to chrisC), "Nope, I write these for the New Year's Speed traditionally." 	
			JamesPKing says, "ouch jacq" 	
			JamesPKing says, "i'm italian and almost bald" 	
			cyberskunk says, "what happens on planet voodoo stays on planet voodoo (because tale empties our inventory between games)" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Sorry, just paying it forward on those bad jokes cyberskunk made earlier, JPK." 	
			cyberskunk says, "s/planet voodoo/voodoo island/g" 	
			ChrisC says, "Oh sorry, I'm still a newcomer round these parts." 	
			Jacqueline asks, "So, next game?" 	
			Rotonoto says, "Ohhhhhhh, I thought you were ON speed when you wrote it ..." 	
			Tale says, "Suree" 	
			ASchultz says, "Yes please" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" 		
	

Floyd |

		
	Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" 		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load psimammothvacuum" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Loading game...
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Mammoth Vacuum Button of Death
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Lovely Meadow
Floyd | I am sitting on a red and black checkered blanket in the middle of a
Floyd | beautiful meadow. A giant (i.e. the size of your ugly gut) cake waits
Floyd | infront of me. For no explainable reason whatsoever, a note has been
Floyd | left on the cake. It reads 'THERE WILL BE CAKE, SO YOU SHOULD EAT IT.
Floyd | From Father'. Blatant Portal (TM) reference aside, I reckon 'Father' is
Floyd | onto something. Any excuse to eat cake right?
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Lovely Meadow | Score: 0 ]
Floyd | >

		ASchultz asks, "ok, whose is this?" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "about" 		
	

Floyd | "Mammoth Vacuum Button of Death", 22 Dec 2011, Daniel Airey.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" 		
	

Floyd | I am as well as can be expected, considering the circumstances.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | I am carrying nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" 		
	

Floyd | I'm sorry, but XYZZY doesn't do anything special in this game!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "eat cake" 		
	

Floyd | You eat half of the delicious cake, revealing a small key in the other
Floyd | half.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "plugh" 		
	

Floyd | What are you on about?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take key" 		
	

Floyd | BOOM! I'm dead! Just kidding. I took the key (just like that sly jock
Floyd | from highschool called 'TOM' took your sisters virginity).
Floyd | Wait...WHAT'S HAPPENING!?!? Oh...I'm just waking up...
Floyd | Solitary Cell
Floyd | I'm in my cell. The same cell I've been in for 8 years. My semen-soaked
Floyd | sheets lay strewn over the cold concrete floor. Years of food trays are
Floyd | stacked in the corner. To the north I can see the bane of my existence.
Floyd | THE DOOR. Metal. Cold. Featureless (apart from the tiny keyhole). Void
Floyd | of personality (much like your wife). Ugly (refer to previous). My main
Floyd | road-block to freedom.
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Solitary Cell | Score: 0 ]
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "On a wild guess, this was the 14 yr old who was the first entrant." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "..." 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | I am carrying a key.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x key" 		
	

Floyd | A tiny (i.e. the size of your brain) key with the word 'SOLITARY'
Floyd | engraved on the head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x sheets" 		
	

Floyd | I see no such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Paulinus says, "thank goodness for that" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x trays" 		
	

Floyd | I see no such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "What ggg said." 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "unlock door" 		
	

Floyd | Unlocked! The dim, grey glimmer of light from the hallway sails into
Floyd | your cramped asylum cell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "i know how to 'undo' but not 'unsee'" 	
			Jacqueline says, "hahaha" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "out" 		
	

Floyd | I can't go in that direction, but I can move north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x bed" 		
	

Floyd | I see no such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x trays" 		
	

Floyd | I see no such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "north" 		
	

Floyd | I move north.
Floyd | Utterly Pointless Hallway
Floyd | Seriously? Why do they even put these hallways in games? It's simply a
Floyd | bore to trudge through lengths of non-descript hall. I don't see why
Floyd | the game creator didn't just make the cell connect straight to the
Floyd | guard station, which, if you're wondering is north of here. No, there's
Floyd | no other way to go, because I've only got two hours to make this damn
Floyd | game, and can't start throwing in rooms willy-nilly with no regard
Floyd | whatsoever to my semi self-imposed time restraints. So make your damn
Floyd | choice. You can either go south, and wallow in self-pity in your
Floyd | pathetic little cell, or GO NORTH TO ENTER THE GUARD STATION.
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Utterly Pointless Hallway | Score: 0 ]
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "i do like a good wallow" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "North it is." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd | I move north.
Floyd | Guard Station
Floyd | A guard sits infront of a row of buttons, of which one is clearly
Floyd | labelled in bigger-than-your-penis letters saying 'UNLOCK'. A metal
Floyd | door sits to the west, with a sign saying 'EXIT' above it. I can tell
Floyd | it's locked. The important doors/exits are always locked in games like
Floyd | this. Looks like I'll need to solve some kind of nonsensical puzzle to
Floyd | open it, unless I kill myself out of frustration at the incredibly
Floyd | impossible-without-a-walkthrough difficulty first. I guess I could
Floyd | always start by talking to the guard?
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Guard Station | Score: 0 ]
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Guard Station
Floyd | A guard sits infront of a row of buttons, of which one is clearly
Floyd | labelled in bigger-than-your-penis letters saying 'UNLOCK'. A metal
Floyd | door sits to the west, with a sign saying 'EXIT' above it. I can tell
Floyd | it's locked. The important doors/exits are always locked in games like
Floyd | this. Looks like I'll need to solve some kind of nonsensical puzzle to
Floyd | open it, unless I kill myself out of frustration at the incredibly
Floyd | impossible-without-a-walkthrough difficulty first. I guess I could
Floyd | always start by talking to the guard?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "wallow in self-pity" 		
	

Floyd | What are you on about?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "talk to guard" 		
	

Floyd | "You shouldn't be out of your cell! But.....seeing as it's just
Floyd | us....on our own.....I'd like you to show me something....if you know
Floyd | what I mean..."
Floyd | You think you know exactly what he means....
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "talk to guard" 		
	

Floyd | No-one listens to my rabblings.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "push unlock button" 		
	

Floyd | Guard: "Get your hot sexy ass away from that button!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "Gay people in games? I'm offended" 	
			jojo says, "I rabbled once. Didn't get much done that day." 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "seduce guard" 		
	

Floyd | I don't understand what you want to do with Guard.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "kiss guard" 		
	

Floyd | I'm not sure he would appreciate that!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "maybe you will when you're older than 14" 	
			TheXenographer says, "No, I'm pretty sure he would." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Well. I *don't* know what he means." 	
			ChrisC says, "Somehow that error message is still disturbing." 	
			Jacqueline asks, "It doesn't understand what we want to do with the guard. Perhaps if we drew a diagram?" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "kill guard" 		
	

Floyd | Now that isn't very nice.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "guard, push button" 		
	

Floyd | I don't understand what you want to do with Guard.
Floyd |
Floyd | Guard: "Get your hot sexy ass away from that button!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "sleep with guard" 		
	

Floyd | Zzzzz.  Bored are you?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "ha ha ha" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "have sex" 		
	

Floyd | What are you on about?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | I am carrying a key.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x guard" 		
	

Floyd | Just a regular guard....but...he seems a bit odd....in a queer sort of
Floyd | way......
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "give key to guard" 		
	

Floyd | Guard doesn't seem interested in the key.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Makes perfect sense. That's the only reason *I* sleep with anyone." 	
			Jacqueline sighs and goes to find an example of the disclaimer she puts on transcripts like this one is going to be. 	
			cyberskunk asks, "to push their buttons?" 	
	Rotonoto says (to floyd), "show ass to guard" 		
	

Floyd | I don't understand what you want to do with Guard.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "Apologies in advance for rude language" 	
			Jacqueline says (to cyberskunk), "To sleep." 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x clothing" 		
	

Floyd | I see no such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "fuck guard" 		
	

Floyd | Yeah, he'd like that wouldn't he?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "(Out of boredom.)" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "show me to guard" 		
	

Floyd | I don't understand what you want to do with Guard.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "I don't think that's the way to progress." 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Guard Station
Floyd | A guard sits infront of a row of buttons, of which one is clearly
Floyd | labelled in bigger-than-your-penis letters saying 'UNLOCK'. A metal
Floyd | door sits to the west, with a sign saying 'EXIT' above it. I can tell
Floyd | it's locked. The important doors/exits are always locked in games like
Floyd | this. Looks like I'll need to solve some kind of nonsensical puzzle to
Floyd | open it, unless I kill myself out of frustration at the incredibly
Floyd | impossible-without-a-walkthrough difficulty first. I guess I could
Floyd | always start by talking to the guard?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "kill guard" 		
	

Floyd | Now that isn't very nice.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "i dunno if im really into watching at a guy being raped in jail." 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "punch guard" 		
	

Floyd | Who do you think you are, Mike Tyson?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "yes" 		
	

Floyd | That's interesting, but it doesn't mean much.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "ask guard about his feelings" 		
	

Floyd | Guard does not respond to my question.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Guard Station
Floyd | A guard sits infront of a row of buttons, of which one is clearly
Floyd | labelled in bigger-than-your-penis letters saying 'UNLOCK'. A metal
Floyd | door sits to the west, with a sign saying 'EXIT' above it. I can tell
Floyd | it's locked. The important doors/exits are always locked in games like
Floyd | this. Looks like I'll need to solve some kind of nonsensical puzzle to
Floyd | open it, unless I kill myself out of frustration at the incredibly
Floyd | impossible-without-a-walkthrough difficulty first. I guess I could
Floyd | always start by talking to the guard?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "west" 		
	

Floyd | The security door is locked. I bet that big juicy button over there
Floyd | infront of the guard opens it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Rotonoto says (to floyd), "show penis to guard" 		
	

Floyd | Turns out all those long night shifts has turned this guard's sexuality
Floyd | sideways. He's passing out in his excitement, right infront of my
Floyd | rockin' naked body. I don't even want to guess what he's dreaming
Floyd | about.
Floyd | Guard Station
Floyd | The guard is lying unconscious at my feet, leaving the 'UNLOCK' button
Floyd | free for the pushing! With the guard out of the way, you also spot a
Floyd | small blue button, which upon further inspection is labelled 'Mammoth
Floyd | Vacuum'. Hmm.....sounds dangerous....
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "I'm a little unsettled." 	
			genericgeekgirl exclaims, "Blue button!" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Wow. Just... wow." 	
			cyberskunk needs an adult. 	
			ChrisC asks, "Sideways?" 	
			Tale says, "Me too. being gay is not something happens when you do a lot of nightshifts." 	
			djfletch says, "It wasn't even glowing blue." 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "push blue button" 		
	

Floyd | I push, but nothing happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Yeah, I sort of wish the absurdism took a different tangent" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "push unlock" 		
	

Floyd | I push, but nothing happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "push button" 		
	

Floyd | The security door leading west is now unlocked. And all it took was
Floyd | losing all dignity and credibility in the eyes of your peers.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "Is there something we could do to kill the protagonist and then feel okay about moving on to the next game?" 	
			TheXenographer says, "It's all very... teenager trying to be edgy, isn't it." 	
			cyberskunk says, "i miss the carefree days of our youth when my greatest conception of vice and transgression was eatting a lot of cake" 	
			cyberskunk says, "so five minutes ago" 	
			Paulinus says, "that i think was where it started" 	
			ASchultz pictures George Carlin explaining "they do get better" after Wyld Stallyns' first jam session 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd | I move west.
Floyd | Utterly Pointless Hallway #2
Floyd | Are you kidding me? No seriously? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Was there too
Floyd | much concrete when they were building this place? Did they have to use
Floyd | up the extra materials because some lazy bugger couldn't be bothered
Floyd | dumping it, or taking it to his next building site? OR WAS IT THE GAME
Floyd | CREATOR AGAIN!? Is he trying to stall me, so I take the extra time to
Floyd | read this, thus making the game SEEM longer and have 'more depth'? Or
Floyd | is he merely adding these pointless rooms to give himself the
Floyd | opportunity for a good ol' game-industry social commentary, which
Floyd | questions the use of boring, actionless, storyless, and ultimately
Floyd | POINTLESS sections of gameplay to pad out the length of a designer's
Floyd | pathetically short game?
Floyd | Hmm, na, can't be that. Regardless, the exit to the foyer is to the
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Utterly Pointless Hallway #2 | Score: 0 ]
Floyd | >

		Tale asks, "How will my peers know what I did? And what kind of peers wouldn't be okay with exposing myself after 8 yrs of captivity?" 	
			Jacqueline says (to X), "I think you mean to say, 'Hooray that the next generation is embracing the text-based medium and saying no to reality TV.'" 	
			cyberskunk says, "the grammar and typing is pretty good for two hours at 14" 	
			jojo says, "I suspet this room is just padding." 	
			jojo says, "Let's go south." 	
			Tale asks, "South?" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd | I move south.
Floyd | Foyer
Floyd | A typical foyer. You know the kind. The type that you waited in while
Floyd | Aunt Maggie had one of her kidneys removed, or while Grandpa Joe
Floyd | acquired a new set of false teeth. There's an ENTIRELY HETEROSEXUAL
Floyd | guard sitting behind the desk, keeping an eye on the exit to the west
Floyd | (a.k.a your freedom).
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Foyer | Score: 0 ]
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "Yeah, the ironic genre-awareness isn't bad" 	
			ASchultz says, "As long as there isn't another prisoner to "outsmart," I'll be ok with this game, definitely" 	
			Jacqueline exclaims, "Quick! Break the fourth wall!" 	
			cyberskunk says, "i would basically have a bunch of typos holding hands singing, 'We rae teh worl,d we are the chiildren'" 	
			Rotonoto asks, "Did anyone here think gay people were funny when you were 14?" 	
			TheXenographer says, "No, but that was because I was one." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, that." 	
			Tale says, "I guess you make a lot of insensitive jokes at that age." 	
			cyberskunk says, "yes. but only because i loved paul lynde's comedy hilarious" 	
			Jacqueline says, "No, but that's because I was doing a good job of being a covergirl." 	
			ChrisC says, "nope" 	
			ASchultz says, "Well when I was younger Eddie Murphy had routines about gays, so people laughed at that" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x guard" 		
	

Floyd | I see no such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Rotonoto says, "This apparently did not even occur to the author." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Two of the cutest guys I went out with in high school turned out to not be on my team, sadly." 	
			Tale asks, "Did you guys notice the description of the lemon in my game?" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd | Heterosexual guard: "Get your astoundingly non-sexy ass away from that
Floyd | door! You can't go through there unless you're a guard like me or my
Floyd | buddy at the guard station!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says (to Tale), "Yup." 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Wait, what was the lemon description again?" 	
			cyberskunk says, "n" 	
			ASchultz asks, "oh dear. Do we need to take the guard uniform?" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd | I move north.
Floyd | Utterly Pointless Hallway #2
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Utterly Pointless Hallway #2 | Score: 0 ]
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Something about fruits." 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Utterly Pointless Hallway #2
Floyd | Are you kidding me? No seriously? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Was there too
Floyd | much concrete when they were building this place? Did they have to use
Floyd | up the extra materials because some lazy bugger couldn't be bothered
Floyd | dumping it, or taking it to his next building site? OR WAS IT THE GAME
Floyd | CREATOR AGAIN!? Is he trying to stall me, so I take the extra time to
Floyd | read this, thus making the game SEEM longer and have 'more depth'? Or
Floyd | is he merely adding these pointless rooms to give himself the
Floyd | opportunity for a good ol' game-industry social commentary, which
Floyd | questions the use of boring, actionless, storyless, and ultimately
Floyd | POINTLESS sections of gameplay to pad out the length of a designer's
Floyd | pathetically short game?
Floyd | Hmm, na, can't be that. Regardless, the exit to the foyer is to the
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd | I move east.
Floyd | Guard Station
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Guard Station | Score: 0 ]
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "undress guard" 		
	

Floyd | I don't understand what you want to do with Guard.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "strip guard" 		
	

Floyd | I remove the guards clothes (doing a better job than your sister,
Floyd | despite all her experience), and put them on myself.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says (to lemon), "You've known a few in your time." 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "l guard" 		
	

Floyd | I don't understand what you want to do with Guard.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "x guard" 		
	

Floyd | He's lying unconscious, dreaming about my pubic hair.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd | I move west.
Floyd | Utterly Pointless Hallway #2
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Utterly Pointless Hallway #2 | Score: 0 ]
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd | I move south.
Floyd | Foyer
Floyd |
Floyd | [ Foyer | Score: 0 ]
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Foyer
Floyd | A typical foyer. You know the kind. The type that you waited in while
Floyd | Aunt Maggie had one of her kidneys removed, or while Grandpa Joe
Floyd | acquired a new set of false teeth. There's an ENTIRELY HETEROSEXUAL
Floyd | guard sitting behind the desk, keeping an eye on the exit to the west
Floyd | (a.k.a your freedom).
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "talk to guard" 		
	

Floyd | No-one listens to my rabblings.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "Not a healthy dream." 	
			Jacqueline says, "That is indeed a pretty good room description for UPH#2, though." 	
	jojo says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd | I'm free. After many testing trials, I'm finally free. But who is this
Floyd | mysterious 'Father' who delivered the key to my cell in my dream?
Floyd | There's something strange about this. I must investigate. I will find
Floyd | you 'Father', or my name ain't Luke Skywalker.
Floyd |

		Rotonoto asks, "Could we create a genre for homophobic IF on the database, so people WON'T play it?" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "l" 		JamesPKing says, "think ill go to the john. cya in 2 mins." 	
			ChrisC asks, "Oh yeah when floyd prints the status line is that new functionality? Or unique to this game?" 	
			Tale says, "wah wah wah" 	
			ASchultz has to wash his hands a bit after this game, but, well, my efforts when I was 14... 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	Jacqueline says, "Wait, did it - it crashed? No, wait." 		
	Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		
	Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. 		cyberskunk says, "outside of the insults and homophobia it wasnt bad for a speed if" 	
			djfletch asks, "did we win?" 	
			jojo experiencing flash backs to his fourteen year old self, wakes up screaming. 	
			ASchultz says, "Nothing vulgar, just, you know, take-quests" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Um, okay, maybe it's over and we 'won'" 	
			ChrisC says, "I don't really want to keep playing even if we didn't" 	
			Paulinus says, "im not sure it was really homophobic, more sophomoric" 	
			cyberskunk says, "if we're done playing then yes. we are all winners" 	
			Jacqueline says, "I am fine with thinking we're done, but maybe you people think otherwise..." 	
			TheXenographer says, "No, I think we're all cool with being done." 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/quit" 		ASchultz says, "I think we crashed it. It's worth letting the author know the game seemed to hang" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" 		
	

Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, UNDO a turn, or QUIT? Quit

		
	Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" 		ChrisC says, "Let's stop and say we won." 	
			Jacqueline says, "HOORAY WE WON" 	
			Rotonoto says, "Remember a sophomore is a WISE fool." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Okay, let's see..." 	
			TheXenographer says, "Well done, us." 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load psiparty" 		
	

Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The party planner tells me that your interpreter uses the Glk API. Does
Floyd | your interpreter normally have a status bar? (If this question confuses
Floyd | you, answer "yes")
Floyd |
Floyd | Please answer YES or NO:

		ASchultz says, "I thought sophomores were usually 15 or 16, not 14" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "no" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You have long held the belief that New Year's parties are the gold
Floyd | standard against which all other parties in the forthcoming year are
Floyd | judged. So far, this one has been holding up quite well. You won at all
Floyd | of the drinking games- in this case, "winning" is holding one's liquor
Floyd | like a champ, since you can't get a ping pong ball in a plastic cup (or
Floyd | any other drinking game feat, really) to save your life. Now seems like
Floyd | as good a time as any to get yourself some grub, though, so you don't
Floyd | hit a wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | Just yesterday, you were just some guy named "Arthur," content to live
Floyd | a life of obscurity. Tonight, though, you're...
Floyd |
Floyd | Party Arty, Man of La Munchies
Floyd | Written for The Penultimate New Year's Speed IF Entry (Footnote 1)
Floyd | By Roody Yogurt
Floyd | Hugo v3.1 / Library 31031
Floyd | Type ABOUT for more information.
Floyd |
Floyd | By the Snack Table                              New Year's Eve, Nearly
Floyd | Midnight
Floyd |   The dining room has been converted into Snack Central. A buffet table
Floyd | is completely adorned with every kind of finger food imagineable.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sticking upright out of the center of a plate of nachos is the most
Floyd | perfect nacho you have ever seen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "sure. but i wouldnt say sophomoric first of all because its not trying to be clever and secondly because im not smart enough to know that word. im gonna go with 'puerile'" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "about" 		
	

Floyd | [N]ext item              [Q]uit menu
Floyd | [P]revious item          [Enter] to select
Floyd |
Floyd |    * About Party Arty
Floyd |      Credits
Floyd |

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "q" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | By the Snack Table                              New Year's Eve, Nearly
Floyd | Midnight
Floyd |   The dining room has been converted into Snack Central. A buffet table
Floyd | is completely adorned with every kind of finger food imagineable.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sticking upright out of the center of the plate is the most perfect
Floyd | nacho you have ever seen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Paulinus says, "yeah puerile is right" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "about" 		
	

Floyd | [N]ext item              [Q]uit menu
Floyd | [P]revious item          [Enter] to select
Floyd |
Floyd |    * About Party Arty
Floyd |      Credits
Floyd |

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "push enter" 		
	

Floyd | [N]ext item              [Q]uit menu
Floyd | [P]revious item          [Enter] to select
Floyd |
Floyd |      About Party Arty
Floyd |    * Credits
Floyd |

		ASchultz says, "Oops, they were nice enough to ask about the header, then ... the whole "about" menu isn't so hot here" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "push space" 		
	

Floyd | [N]ext item              [Q]uit menu
Floyd | [P]revious item          [Enter] to select
Floyd |
Floyd |    * About Party Arty
Floyd |      Credits
Floyd |

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "push n" 		
	

Floyd | [N]ext item              [Q]uit menu
Floyd | [P]revious item          [Enter] to select
Floyd |
Floyd |      About Party Arty
Floyd |    * Credits
Floyd |

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "push enter" 		
	

Floyd | [N]ext item              [Q]uit menu
Floyd | [P]revious item          [Enter] to select
Floyd |
Floyd |    * About Party Arty
Floyd |      Credits
Floyd |

		
	genericgeekgirl presses the yellow enter button. 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |   "Party Arty" was written for both the Hugo Comp and The Penultimate
Floyd | New Year's Speed IF. It was written on December 29th and 30th of 2011.
Floyd |
Floyd |   It's basically a game idea I had for last year's New Year's comp, but
Floyd | I didn't have time to execute it back then. Now it's written. I hope
Floyd | you enjoy it!
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |   [PRESS A KEY TO CONTINUE]
Floyd |

		
	Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | [N]ext item              [Q]uit menu
Floyd | [P]revious item          [Enter] to select
Floyd |
Floyd |    * About Party Arty
Floyd |      Credits
Floyd |

		
	ChrisC pushes the green 'space' button. 		
	

Floyd | [N]ext item              [Q]uit menu
Floyd | [P]revious item          [Enter] to select
Floyd |
Floyd |    * About Party Arty
Floyd |      Credits
Floyd |

		ASchultz says, "Ok, how do we push enter/space on Floyd again? I'm still having noob moments." 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | By the Snack Table                              New Year's Eve, Nearly
Floyd | Midnight
Floyd |   The dining room has been converted into Snack Central. A buffet table
Floyd | is completely adorned with every kind of finger food imagineable.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sticking upright out of the center of the plate is the most perfect
Floyd | nacho you have ever seen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Rotonoto exclaims, "Have fun, y'all!" 	
	Rotonoto goes home. 		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x nacho" 		
	

Floyd | This nacho, half-covered in delectable cheese like its own golden
Floyd | helmet of Mambrino, looks tastier than any nacho you have ever seen
Floyd | before.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take nacho" 		
	

Floyd | You grab at the perfect nacho, but the nacho is lodged pretty well into
Floyd | the plate's coagulated cheese. Looks like it'll take to take a proper
Floyd | yank.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says (to ASchultz), "you "press space"" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "yank nacho" 		
	

Floyd | Driven by some inner force, you clasp your fingers around the nacho.
Floyd | The two seem made for one another. You pull. Nothing happens. You
Floyd | strain harder. The nacho gives a little, and then....
Floyd |
Floyd | [APPRECIATE THE INTENSITY OF THE MOMENT AND PRESS A KEY]
Floyd |

		Jacqueline says (to ASchultz), "Just type 'push green' in the room (not to Floyd)." 	
			Tale says, "Played this, so I'll do some extreme stayinginthebackgrounding" 	
			ASchultz says, "Thanks, guys" 	
	cyberskunk pushes the green 'space' button. 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The lights darken momentarily, as if afflicted by a power surge. When
Floyd | your vision clears, you are somewhere else completely.
Floyd |
Floyd | By A Cave                                  Circumcision of Christ Eve,
Floyd | Compline
Floyd |   A path leads up to this cave. A multitude of stars shine down.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A wizened figure with an unkempt beard is here. You take him to be
Floyd | Merlin, the legendary wizard.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A rock is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Merlin addresses you:
Floyd |   "Arthur, you have proven yourself a worthy champion in the face of
Floyd | adversity. I must ask you to retrieve an item of great importance from
Floyd | a room upstairs in this house. I cannot assist except to lend you three
Floyd | powers that you will have to use to your advantage.
Floyd |
Floyd |   [1] "Whoa, did you send me back in time?"
Floyd |   [2] "An object of great importance?"
Floyd |   [3] "Three powers, you say?"
Floyd |   [4] "I thought you aged in reverse!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Select an option >>

		genericgeekgirl says, "The enter key is yellow, the space key is green. There's also a save button that automatically increments the CFn counter." 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "1" 		
	

Floyd |   "Whoa, did you send me back in time?"
Floyd |
Floyd |   Merlin says, "I did! Pretty cool, huh? Don't worry; you'll be sent
Floyd | back soon enough."
Floyd |
Floyd | You consider your other options.
Floyd |
Floyd |   [1] "An object of great importance?"
Floyd |   [2] "Three powers, you say?"
Floyd |   [3] "I thought you aged in reverse!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Select an option >>

		
	jojo says (to Floyd), "4" 		
	

Floyd | Select an option >>

		
	olethros has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. 		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" 		
	

Floyd |   "Three powers, you say?"
Floyd |
Floyd |   "Unfortunately, magic isn't what it once was. In the good old days,
Floyd | I'd give you the power to turn into all sorts of animals. A turtle,
Floyd | even! Can you imagine that? A turtle! I no longer have that kind of
Floyd | power to share, but I can augment you in other ways. Just use the magic
Floyd | command 'DUR' followed by the trait you wish:
Floyd |
Floyd | DUR WIT - command great conversational skill
Floyd | DUR BRAWN - gain great strength
Floyd | DUR TINY - become smaller in stature
Floyd | DUR NORMAL - go back to normal traits
Floyd |
Floyd |   If you forget which powers are available to you, try the 'POWERS'
Floyd | command!"
Floyd |
Floyd |   "'Dur,' huh? I can remember that," you say.
Floyd |
Floyd | You consider your other options.
Floyd |
Floyd |   [1] "An object of great importance?"
Floyd |   [2] "I thought you aged in reverse!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Select an option >>

		genericgeekgirl says, "Aw. I wanna be a turtle." 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "2" 		
	

Floyd |   "I thought you aged in reverse!"
Floyd |
Floyd |   Merlin answers, "Geez, it's not like this game is canon!"
Floyd |
Floyd | You consider your other options.
Floyd |
Floyd |   [1] "An object of great importance?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Select an option >>

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" 		
	

Floyd |   "An object of great importance?"
Floyd |
Floyd |   Merlin says, "Sinister forces prevent me from telling you what the
Floyd | object is, but you will know it when you see it."
Floyd |
Floyd |   Merlin continues. "When you have retrieved the item, go to where the
Floyd | snack table rests. There, you will find the item's rightful place!"
Floyd |
Floyd | The room goes dark once more. When your vision clears, Merlin is gone
Floyd | and you are back at the party!
Floyd |
Floyd | By the Snack Table                              New Year's Eve, Nearly
Floyd | Midnight
Floyd |   The dining room has been converted into Snack Central. A buffet table
Floyd | is completely adorned with every kind of finger food imagineable.
Floyd |
Floyd |   To the north is the living room, which has been converted into a
Floyd | makeshift dance floor. You know from past experience that the stairs to
Floyd | the second floor is on the other side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x table" 		
	

Floyd | The snack table looks just like you would expect.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sitting on the snack table is a plate of nachos.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" 		
	

Floyd | Looking good.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying a perfect nacho.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "eat nacho" 		
	

Floyd | Crunch. Man, that was good.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | By the Snack Table                              New Year's Eve, Nearly
Floyd | Midnight
Floyd |   The dining room has been converted into Snack Central. A buffet table
Floyd | is completely adorned with every kind of finger food imagineable.
Floyd |
Floyd |   To the north is the living room, which has been converted into a
Floyd | makeshift dance floor. You know from past experience that the stairs to
Floyd | the second floor is on the other side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		jojo says, "I'm going out for dinner. Might jump back in if you're still playing at silly o'clock." 	
			genericgeekgirl asks, "North?" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "xyzzy."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "Laters, jojo" 	
	jojo goes home. 		JamesPKing asks, "what time is it where you are?" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room                                     New Year's Eve, Nearly
Floyd | Midnight
Floyd |   The room is packed with moving bodies. It's kind of like the dance
Floyd | scene in Matrix Reloaded except without the weighty sense of
Floyd | disappointment. South leads to the dining room, and north heads to a
Floyd | staircase.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A ton of people are dancing, dancing, dancing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "dance" 		
	

Floyd | You cut the rug for a little while.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x people" 		
	

Floyd | Wow, these cats have some moves.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "stop dancing" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "dancing."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "talk to people" 		
	

Floyd | The party goers are listening.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing asks, "who's the author?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Ellison" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "dur wit" 		
	

Floyd | You feel your conversational skills becoming all brilliant-like.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "talk to people" 		
	

Floyd | The party goers are listening.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd | It is impossible to make any headway, what with all of the dancers in
Floyd | your way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "dur brawn" 		
	

Floyd | You feel your conversational skills going to hell again. You feel the
Floyd | strength of a thousand men surging through you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "oh! i want to try being small and see if we get stomped on and die" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd | With your extra strength, you could seriously hurt someone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "dur tiny" 		
	

Floyd | You feel your strength diminishing to mortal levels. You feel yourself
Floyd | becoming smaller, until everything around you looks much larger.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "dance" 		
	

Floyd | You cut the rug for a little while.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd | Being so small, it is easy for you to evade the moving bodies, at the
Floyd | price of seeing a lot of feet and butts. You make it to the other side.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bottom of Stairs                                New Year's Eve, Nearly
Floyd | Midnight
Floyd |   Going up will take you to the second floor while heading south leads
Floyd | back to the living room.
Floyd |
Floyd |   Travel up the stairs is blocked by a cordon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x cordon" 		
	

Floyd | This is one of those barriers you see at parties where a ribbon cordons
Floyd | off a stairwell or room that the hosts don't want people entering. This
Floyd | one is held up feebly by tape on its sides. A handwritten sign attached
Floyd | to it kindly asks that guests remain downstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "'price of seeing a lot of feet and butts' a certain segment of the population would pay this price gladly" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "dur brawn" 		
	

Floyd | You feel your height growing to its normal size. You feel the strength
Floyd | of a thousand men surging through you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Up?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Yeah, like that guy who wrote the last game." 	
			Jacqueline says (to ggg), "sure" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" 		
	

Floyd | With strength ripping through you, you tear through the tape and its
Floyd | implied restrictions. A beast such as yourself cannot be contained. You
Floyd | continue on your way!
Floyd |
Floyd | Midway Up the Stairs                            New Year's Eve, Nearly
Floyd | Midnight
Floyd |   This is just a place, halfway up the stairs. You know.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "; punshes Jacq in the shoulder. "Ssh"" 	
			Jacqueline says, "ouch" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Upstairs Hallway                                New Year's Eve, Nearly
Floyd | Midnight
Floyd |   Doors head off in several directions. A staircase leads down.
Floyd |
Floyd |   Some guy is standing around up here, guarding the good house
Floyd | bathroom.
Floyd |
Floyd | He notices you. He says, "Hey guy. You know, you really shouldn't be up
Floyd | here."
Floyd |
Floyd |   [1] "Um..."
Floyd |   [2] "Er..."
Floyd |   [3] "Duh..."
Floyd |   [4] "...Huh"
Floyd |
Floyd | Select an option >>

		cyberskunk says, "careful tale. u have DUR BRAWN" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "dur wit" 		
	

Floyd | Select an option >>

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "1" 		
	

Floyd |   "Um..."
Floyd |
Floyd | Unable to elequently articulate anything, you turn around and head back
Floyd | to the stairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | Midway Up the Stairs                            New Year's Eve, Nearly
Floyd | Midnight
Floyd |   This is just a place, halfway up the stairs. You know.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "dur wit" 		
	

Floyd | You feel your strength diminishing to mortal levels. You feel your
Floyd | conversational skills becoming all brilliant-like.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "u" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Upstairs Hallway                                New Year's Eve, Nearly
Floyd | Midnight
Floyd |   Doors head off in several directions. A staircase leads down.
Floyd |
Floyd |   Some guy is standing around up here, guarding the good house
Floyd | bathroom.
Floyd |
Floyd | The dude notices you again. He says, "C'mon, buddy. You shouldn't be
Floyd | here."
Floyd |
Floyd |   [1] "How appropriate. You talk like a cow. "
Floyd |   [2] "Even BEFORE I smell your breath?"
Floyd |   [3] "So you got that job as janitor, after all."
Floyd |   [4] "There are no words for how disgusting you are."
Floyd |
Floyd | Select an option >>

		genericgeekgirl asks, "This is 'wit'?" 	
			Tale says, "That conversation was modelled after Ellisons actual conversation skills" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Hahah." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "3" 		
	

Floyd |   "So you got that job as janitor, after all."
Floyd |
Floyd | Dumbfounded by your brilliance, the guy looks at you for a moment
Floyd | before departing down the stairs. Presumably, he left to get
Floyd | reinforcements, but you probably have managed to buy yourself some
Floyd | time.
Floyd |
Floyd | Upstairs Hallway                                New Year's Eve, Nearly
Floyd | Midnight
Floyd |   Doors head off in several directions. A staircase leads down.
Floyd |
Floyd |   Moreso than any other door in this hallway, your attention is drawn
Floyd | to an exit to the east which leads to some kind of study.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "weve had an awful lot to drink" 	
			Jacqueline says (to Tale), "snrk" 	
			cyberskunk says, "tale++;" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Study                                           New Year's Eve, Nearly
Floyd | Midnight
Floyd |   This is a fancy study. Leather chair, oak desk, ornate globe- you
Floyd | name it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Despite the study's classy appearance, a model car sits in a place of
Floyd | honor on a display shelf. Seriously, you just can't make collecting
Floyd | classy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hee." 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x car" 		
	

Floyd | This is a model of the Excalibur automobile, a roadster built in
Floyd | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that was styled after the 1928 Mercedes-Benz SSK.
Floyd | You don't see many of these around.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x globe" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to refer to that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x chair" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to refer to that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x desk" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to refer to that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "dur tiny" 		
	

Floyd | You feel your conversational skills going to hell again. You feel
Floyd | yourself becoming smaller, until everything around you looks much
Floyd | larger.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "drive car" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "drive."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter car" 		
	

Floyd | You can't enter the model automobile.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "damn it" 	
			Tale says (to cyberskunk), "Nice idea, though" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "dur brawn" 		
	

Floyd | You feel your height growing to its normal size. You feel the strength
Floyd | of a thousand men surging through you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hulk smash" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "hulk."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Very nice idea." 	
			Jacqueline says, "The car driving, that is, not the Hulk smashing." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "dur tiny" 		
	

Floyd | You feel your strength diminishing to mortal levels. You feel yourself
Floyd | becoming smaller, until everything around you looks much larger.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "my ralph the motorcycle mouse fanfiction fantasies go unfulfilled another day" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Study                                           New Year's Eve, Nearly
Floyd | Midnight
Floyd |   This is a fancy study. Leather chair, oak desk, ornate globe- you
Floyd | name it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Despite the study's classy appearance, a model car sits in a place of
Floyd | honor on a display shelf. Seriously, you just can't make collecting
Floyd | classy.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Despite the study's classy appearance, a model car sits in a place of
Floyd | honor on a display shelf. Seriously, you just can't make collecting
Floyd | classy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x under desk" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to refer to that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "get car" 		
	

Floyd | You're too small. You can't reach it!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "dur normal" 		
	

Floyd | You feel your height growing to its normal size. You are back to normal
Floyd | now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "get car" 		
	

Floyd | A spark touches your hand as your finger rests on the Excalibur. It's
Floyd | possible that you picked up some static electricity on the way here,
Floyd | but you'd rather think it was the spark of DESTINY. Anyway, taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x car" 		
	

Floyd | This is a model of the Excalibur automobile, a roadster built in
Floyd | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that was styled after the 1928 Mercedes-Benz SSK.
Floyd | You don't see many of these around.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to cyberskunk), "yay" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x globe" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to refer to that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x desk" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to refer to that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Back down to the buffet, I guess." 	
			djfletch says, "I've forgotten what we were supposed to do with it." 	
			cyberskunk asks, "ok. put it back on the table?" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Upstairs Hallway                                New Year's Eve, Nearly
Floyd | Midnight
Floyd |   Doors head off in several directions. A staircase leads down.
Floyd |
Floyd |   Moreso than any other door in this hallway, your attention is drawn
Floyd | to an exit to the east which leads to some kind of study.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "I would like to try any other exits" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "u" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "nw" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "ok, so much for brute force." 	
			JamesPKing says, "i guess "d"" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "d" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Bottom of Stairs                                New Year's Eve, Nearly
Floyd | Midnight
Floyd |   Going up will take you back to the second floor while heading south
Floyd | leads to the living room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Huh, looks like all of the dancers have emptied out of the living room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "d" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room                                     New Year's Eve, Nearly
Floyd | Midnight
Floyd |   You can't help but wonder where everyone went. Exits lie north and
Floyd | south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Dining Room                                     New Year's Eve, Nearly
Floyd | Midnight
Floyd |   Huh, the patio doors to the south are now open. It seems that
Floyd | somebody rolled the buffet table out there. Guess it had wheels!
Floyd |
Floyd |   To the north is the now-empty living room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Patio                                           New Year's Eve, Nearly
Floyd | Midnight
Floyd |   Seems the party migrated outside for an impromptu fireworks display.
Floyd | It is surprisingly comfortable out here. Lots of stars out tonight,
Floyd | too.
Floyd |
Floyd |   Everyone is milling around, waiting for the fireworks.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A little pond also complements the patio. You bet the fireworks will
Floyd | look cool reflected in its water.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Looks like time advanced when we got the car, yay" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x table" 		
	

Floyd | The snack table looks just like you would expect.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sitting on the snack table is a plate of nachos.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x pond" 		
	

Floyd | Supposedly, this is supposed to be a koi pond, but you've never
Floyd | actually seen any fish in it so you have your doubts.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put car on table" 		
	

Floyd | There's no room on the snack table.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "get plate" 		
	

Floyd | You can't take that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "put car on plate" 		
	

Floyd | There's no room on the plate of nachos.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put car in nachos" 		
	

Floyd | You can't do that with the plate of nachos.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "eat nachos" 		
	

Floyd | You can't eat the plate of nachos.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "cant we now...." 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "dur brawn" 		
	

Floyd | You feel the strength of a thousand men surging through you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "eat nachos" 		
	

Floyd | You can't eat the plate of nachos.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "get nachos" 		
	

Floyd | You can't take that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "look in pond" 		
	

Floyd | The koi pond is empty.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "ok. we really cant" 	
			Tale says, "We'd need dur stomach" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Can we pull the nacho with our brawn, or did we already do that?" 	
			TheXenographer asks, "What, no Lady of the Koi Pond?" 	
			JamesPKing asks, "excalibur went out from a lake, didn't it?" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "We have the nacho." 	
			ChrisC says (to Jacq), "We did." 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "push table" 		
	

Floyd | That would not help the present situation.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "put car in pond" 		
	

Floyd | Giving a shout of glee, you throw the Excalibur into the koi pond.
Floyd | There is a stunned silence from everyone, but the moment passes and
Floyd | everybody goes back to partying. You decide to finally eat your perfect
Floyd | nacho just as the fireworks start. Your eyes shine with the wisdom of
Floyd | the ages!
Floyd |
Floyd | Your friends will remember this New Year's Eve party as the one where
Floyd | you got so drunk that you crawled through the crowded dance floor and
Floyd | just generally made a nuisance of yourself, but you will always
Floyd | remember it as the year you helped out a nice wizard. Plus, for a pool
Floyd | that's only a foot and a half deep, they never did find that model car
Floyd | you threw in! Destiny!
Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE WON! ***
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | read some (A)MUSING notes, (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?

		Tale says (to TheXenographer), "The lady is a bit ... koi" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "a" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Of course, this game tried to pay a quick and silly homage to Bob
Floyd | Bate's Arthur. The gameplay doesn't go as deep as one would like, but
Floyd | as it was, this took a dumb amount of time to code. I had a hard time
Floyd | decided what kind of object I wanted Arthur to retrieve. I eventually
Floyd | settled for the model car when it was one of the first things to turn
Floyd | up when I did some Googling for odd Excalibur items.
Floyd |
Floyd | As it happens, the West Allis plant where many were built was just
Floyd | around the corner of where I grew up, although I didn't realize the
Floyd | significance of it until years later. In that respect, that tidbit is a
Floyd | shoutout to my youth.
Floyd |
Floyd | I threw in the Man of La Mancha jokes just because "Party Arty" didn't
Floyd | seem like a title that could stand on its own. I hate to break it to
Floyd | you, but this game doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Anyhow, I hope
Floyd | you enjoyed my silly game. Of course, it's not as clever or complex as
Floyd | it could be. If anybody wants to rewrite it, go ahead!
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | read some (A)MUSING notes, (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "a" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Of course, this game tried to pay a quick and silly homage to Bob
Floyd | Bate's Arthur. The gameplay doesn't go as deep as one would like, but
Floyd | as it was, this took a dumb amount of time to code. I had a hard time
Floyd | decided what kind of object I wanted Arthur to retrieve. I eventually
Floyd | settled for the model car when it was one of the first things to turn
Floyd | up when I did some Googling for odd Excalibur items.
Floyd |
Floyd | As it happens, the West Allis plant where many were built was just
Floyd | around the corner of where I grew up, although I didn't realize the
Floyd | significance of it until years later. In that respect, that tidbit is a
Floyd | shoutout to my youth.
Floyd |
Floyd | I threw in the Man of La Mancha jokes just because "Party Arty" didn't
Floyd | seem like a title that could stand on its own. I hate to break it to
Floyd | you, but this game doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Anyhow, I hope
Floyd | you enjoyed my silly game. Of course, it's not as clever or complex as
Floyd | it could be. If anybody wants to rewrite it, go ahead!
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | read some (A)MUSING notes, (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?

		Tale says, "I liked this one." 	
			ASchultz says, "Oops. Didn't see ggg's command." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah. Ellison++" 	
			ASchultz says, "Me too. Always good to riff on an old legend" 	
			cyberskunk says, "ellison++;" 	
			TheXenographer says, "Yeah, I thought it was fun and clever." 	
			cyberskunk says, "i got to put on the soundtrack from excalibur" 	
			Jacqueline says, "heh heh heh 'I hate to break it to you, but this game doesn't make a whole lot of sense.'" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Yeah, Ellison's writing is always a pleasant diversion." 	
			JamesPKing says, "nice one" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "a" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Of course, this game tried to pay a quick and silly homage to Bob
Floyd | Bate's Arthur. The gameplay doesn't go as deep as one would like, but
Floyd | as it was, this took a dumb amount of time to code. I had a hard time
Floyd | decided what kind of object I wanted Arthur to retrieve. I eventually
Floyd | settled for the model car when it was one of the first things to turn
Floyd | up when I did some Googling for odd Excalibur items.
Floyd |
Floyd | As it happens, the West Allis plant where many were built was just
Floyd | around the corner of where I grew up, although I didn't realize the
Floyd | significance of it until years later. In that respect, that tidbit is a
Floyd | shoutout to my youth.
Floyd |
Floyd | I threw in the Man of La Mancha jokes just because "Party Arty" didn't
Floyd | seem like a title that could stand on its own. I hate to break it to
Floyd | you, but this game doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Anyhow, I hope
Floyd | you enjoyed my silly game. Of course, it's not as clever or complex as
Floyd | it could be. If anybody wants to rewrite it, go ahead!
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | read some (A)MUSING notes, (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?

		Jacqueline says, "Oh, that *was* A" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "So we're ready for Q?" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q" 		
	Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" 		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load psipostchristmas" 		
	

Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | It's December 26th. Your family has all gone home. Your apartment is a
Floyd | disaster. You have an eggnog hangover. You need to get ready for work.
Floyd | Too bad the Mouse King has parked himself in front of your closet.
Floyd |
Floyd | Post-Christmas Letdown
Floyd | A Holiday Headache by E. Joyce
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 111231 / Inform 7 build 6F95 (I6/v6.31 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd | The room is small, but serviceable. The walls are devoid of any posters
Floyd | or pictures - you keep meaning to put some up, but you never get around
Floyd | to it. It still looks lived-in, though, which is a polite way of saying
Floyd | it's a mess. The door of your closet doesn't quite open all the way
Floyd | because of the way the bed is positioned, but what can you do? There
Floyd | was nowhere else to put it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door to the living room and kitchen area is to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Mouse King stands at the foot of your bed, in front of the closet,
Floyd | with his sword raised.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see your mother's shoes and a gift box (in which are some
Floyd | expensive headphones) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		TheXenographer says, "oh hey, it's my game" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x mouse king" 		
	

Floyd | Some stupid giant rodent that stands on its - or rather, his - hind
Floyd | legs and has a tiny golden crown perched on his head. He brandishes a
Floyd | sword, and his beady eyes glitter unpleasantly. You wonder if he's the
Floyd | one who's been getting into your kitchen cabinets and chewing on the
Floyd | contents.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "good. after a bunch of games that have busted our balls, its good to get to do one that will only crack our nuts" 	
			Tale says, "ha ha" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Yay, mousie." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x shoes" 		
	

Floyd | Your mother subscribes to the "clean out closet; gift-wrap what you
Floyd | find" school of gift-giving. These shoes are the latest result of that.
Floyd | They are bright red, rhinestone-encrusted, and very heavy, with pointy
Floyd | heels that must be at least five inches high. More weapon than shoe,
Floyd | really.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hug mouse king" 		
	

Floyd | Keep your mind on the game.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale asks, "Is the Mouse King something I should be aware of? From a legend or a movie?" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x me" 		
	

Floyd | As good-looking as ever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "nutcracker suite ballet" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "get shoes" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "enter closet" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "attack king with shoes" 		
	

Floyd | With power and precision borne of years of weekend amateur softball
Floyd | games (or at least as much of that power and precision as you can
Floyd | muster right now), you hurl your mother's shoes at the Mouse King.
Floyd |
Floyd | The shoes hit the Mouse King square in the head. He screeches horribly,
Floyd | then flees out the bedroom window.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "go into closet" 		
	

Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "enter closet" 		
	

Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "well at least this one isnt homophobic" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x closet" 		
	

Floyd | What is there to say? It's a closet, it looks pretty much like a door
Floyd | in the wall. Until you open it, at which point it looks like an ungodly
Floyd | mess.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "open cloest" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "open closet" 		
	

Floyd | You open the closet, revealing a t-shirt and a pair of jeans.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x t-shirt" 		
	

Floyd | It reads, "I Killed My Father And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt".
Floyd | It's the only thing around that's clean. Lucky you work in a call
Floyd | center and they don't bother so much about dress code.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x jeans" 		
	

Floyd | They're practically prehistoric - did you buy these things in high
Floyd | school? Oh well, they still fit and they don't have any holes in them.
Floyd | Good enough for government work, as your mother would probably say.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" 		
	

Floyd | As good-looking as ever.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are wearing your underwear, and you have a splitting headache.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x underwear" 		
	

Floyd | It's clean, mostly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "get t-shirt and jeans" 		
	

Floyd | t-shirt: Taken.
Floyd | pair of jeans: Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear clothing" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "remove underwear" 		
	

Floyd | What would be the point of that? You don't have time to shower, anyway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), " drop headache" 		
	

Floyd | Don't you wish you could.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x box" 		
	

Floyd | A nice box patterned with pine trees and snowflakes.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the gift box are some expensive headphones.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "get headphones" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "put on jeans" 		
	

Floyd | You put on the pair of jeans.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x headphones" 		
	

Floyd | Your brother bought them for you, little knowing that you sold your MP3
Floyd | player in order to buy him some fancy peripheral for his game console.
Floyd | (Come to think of it, he seemed less enthused about that than you
Floyd | expected. Funny.)  So you've got no use for them now. They are very
Floyd | nice headphones, though.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "wear t-shirt" 		
	

Floyd | You put on the t-shirt.
Floyd |
Floyd | There, now you look... well, semi-presentable. You still feel like
Floyd | shit, though. You could use some coffee.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "put on t-shirt" 		
	

Floyd | You're already wearing that!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd | The room is small, but serviceable. The walls are devoid of any posters
Floyd | or pictures - you keep meaning to put some up, but you never get around
Floyd | to it. It still looks lived-in, though, which is a polite way of saying
Floyd | it's a mess. The door of your closet doesn't quite open all the way
Floyd | because of the way the bed is positioned, but what can you do? There
Floyd | was nowhere else to put it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door to the living room and kitchen area is to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see your mother's shoes and a gift box (empty) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Oo, very gift of the magi with the headphones" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "get all" 		
	

Floyd | your mother's shoes: Taken.
Floyd | gift box: Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room and Kitchen
Floyd | A waist-high counter separates the kitchen at the north end of the room
Floyd | from what you charitably think of as the living room. In the living
Floyd | room part is a blue couch, a battered old coffee table, and a small
Floyd | Christmas tree which leans drunkenly to one side; the only other
Floyd | decoration is a calendar hanging on one wall. The kitchen, meanwhile,
Floyd | contains all the usual kitchen stuff, of which the only thing that
Floyd | interests you right now is the coffee maker.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the east is the door to your bedroom; your bathroom is west, and the
Floyd | front door is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | A sprig of mistletoe hangs overhead.
Floyd |
Floyd | A sweater lies on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Norse God Baldr is in your kitchen using your coffee machine. And
Floyd | it looks like he's only making enough for one person. How rude - though
Floyd | it's nothing to using someone else's kitchen without asking in the
Floyd | first place. Point is, you can't get your coffee fix while he's hogging
Floyd | the machine, dammit. You'll have to make him go away somehow.
Floyd |
Floyd | Baldr goes through your cabinets, apparently looking for the mugs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "score" 		
	

Floyd | You have so far scored 2 out of a possible 7, in 28 turns.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "ooooh gift of the magi reference" 	
			JamesPKing says, "i FEEL this game will involve italians, too" 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "wear shoes" 		
	

Floyd | They don't look comfortable, and besides, you're pretty sure that old
Floyd | Mrs. Sedutto downstairs will flip out if you start clunking around in
Floyd | these things.
Floyd |
Floyd | Baldr goes through your cabinets, apparently looking for the mugs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "get mistletoe" 		
	

Floyd | It's a little too high for you to reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | Baldr frowns impatiently at the coffee-maker.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "stand under mistletoe" 		
	

Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to stand.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "drop box" 		
	

Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | Baldr goes through your cabinets, apparently looking for the mugs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x mistletoe" 		
	

Floyd | Your aunt insisted on putting it up, as if to rub your nose in the fact
Floyd | that you were the oldest person there without anyone present to kiss.
Floyd | (Well, your cousin Dave technically didn't have anyone either, but
Floyd | while it's too bad that his boyfriend couldn't make it, that's not
Floyd | quite the same as not having one at all.) You spent all night
Floyd | studiously avoiding it so as not to be reminded of this.
Floyd |
Floyd | Baldr frowns impatiently at the coffee-maker.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "stand on box" 		
	

Floyd | That's not something you can stand on.
Floyd |
Floyd | Baldr stares blankly for a while, like he's forgotten what he was
Floyd | doing. Maybe he's not a morning person. Which would be sort of ironic.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x baldr" 		
	

Floyd | He is really handsome. Like, really amazingly handsome, so much that he
Floyd | seems to be glowing - no, wait, he actually is glowing. Sheesh,
Floyd | deities. Anyway, it's been longer than you really like to think about
Floyd | since you last had a hot guy making coffee in your kitchen, but if you
Floyd | remember right Baldr's married, so you don't think you should read too
Floyd | much into this.
Floyd |
Floyd | Baldr goes through your cabinets, apparently looking for the mugs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "jump" 		
	

Floyd | Feeling a bit vindictive and wanting to take your bad mood out on
Floyd | somebody, you jump up and down repeatedly, as hard as you can. Moments
Floyd | later, a muffled sound of Italian yelling comes from downstairs. You
Floyd | feel a bit bad, afterwards - Mrs. Sedutto is kinda crotchety, yes, but
Floyd | she mostly doesn't bother you unless you bother her.
Floyd |
Floyd | Baldr goes through your cabinets, apparently looking for the mugs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale asks, "Get him some mugs?" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Living Room and Kitchen
Floyd | A waist-high counter separates the kitchen at the north end of the room
Floyd | from what you charitably think of as the living room. In the living
Floyd | room part is a blue couch, a battered old coffee table, and a small
Floyd | Christmas tree which leans drunkenly to one side; the only other
Floyd | decoration is a calendar hanging on one wall. The kitchen, meanwhile,
Floyd | contains all the usual kitchen stuff, of which the only thing that
Floyd | interests you right now is the coffee maker.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the east is the door to your bedroom; your bathroom is west, and the
Floyd | front door is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | A sprig of mistletoe hangs overhead.
Floyd |
Floyd | A sweater lies on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | Baldr is in your kitchen using your coffee machine.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a gift box (empty) here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Baldr goes through your cabinets, apparently looking for the mugs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "YAY ITALIANS" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x couch" 		
	

Floyd | It's definitely seen better days, but at least you vacuumed it before
Floyd | your family came over and no one's even thrown up on it in almost a
Floyd | year.
Floyd |
Floyd | Baldr frowns impatiently at the coffee-maker.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		inky says, "grr" 	
			JamesPKing says, "YESSSSS" 	
			cyberskunk says, "we're supposed to kill him with the mistletoe. this is about ragnarok as usual" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "get all" 		
	

Floyd | gift box: Taken.
Floyd | sprig of mistletoe: It's a little too high for you to reach.
Floyd | sweater: Taken.
Floyd | coffee: You go for the coffee, but as soon as you get close to the
Floyd | coffee-maker, Baldr pushes you away. Rude.
Floyd |
Floyd | Baldr goes through your cabinets, apparently looking for the mugs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale asks (of inky), "Hm?" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x sweater" 		
	

Floyd | A Christmas present from your aunt. It is a color you can only describe
Floyd | as chartreuse (well, or "bright yellowy-green" but "chartreuse" is
Floyd | snappier). Furthermore, it is about five sizes too big for you, which
Floyd | you can't help wondering whether your aunt is trying to tell you
Floyd | something. Like that you're fat. Which you're not. Point is, it's a
Floyd | hideous sweater.
Floyd |
Floyd | Baldr lounges casually against the counter. You try not to stare.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "wear sweater" 		
	

Floyd | You put on the sweater.
Floyd |
Floyd | Baldr frowns impatiently at the coffee-maker.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x sweater" 		
	

Floyd | A Christmas present from your aunt. It is a color you can only describe
Floyd | as chartreuse (well, or "bright yellowy-green" but "chartreuse" is
Floyd | snappier). Furthermore, it is about five sizes too big for you, which
Floyd | you can't help wondering whether your aunt is trying to tell you
Floyd | something. Like that you're fat. Which you're not. Point is, it's a
Floyd | hideous sweater.
Floyd |
Floyd | Baldr goes through your cabinets, apparently looking for the mugs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "stand on couch" 		
	

Floyd | You get onto the blue couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "get mistletoe" 		
	

Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "search couch" 		
	

Floyd | There is nothing on the blue couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk asks, "ready?" 	
			Tale says, "sure" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "throw mistletoe at baldr" 		
	

Floyd | Remembering your Ragnarok prophecies (you knew that all those books of
Floyd | mythology weren't a waste of time!), you wave the mistletoe menacingly
Floyd | in Baldr's face. He goes pale - well, paler than he was to begin with -
Floyd | and flinches away from it, then shimmers and vanishes. Probably some
Floyd | kind of god teleportation thing. Oh well, you have access to the coffee
Floyd | machine now, and that's what really matters here.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "make coffee" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "nice" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x coffee amker" 		
	

Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the coffee.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "this is a nice low-key game" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x coffee maker" 		
	

Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the coffee.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x coffee" 		
	

Floyd | Dark, fragrant, and full of caffeine. Exactly what you need right now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "drink coffee" 		
	

Floyd | You down the coffee like you're dying of thirst in a desert.
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel much more human now. Your mouth still tastes like something
Floyd | died in it, though.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Living Room and Kitchen (on the blue couch)
Floyd | A waist-high counter separates the kitchen at the north end of the room
Floyd | from what you charitably think of as the living room. In the living
Floyd | room part is a blue couch, a battered old coffee table, and a small
Floyd | Christmas tree which leans drunkenly to one side; the only other
Floyd | decoration is a calendar hanging on one wall. The kitchen, meanwhile,
Floyd | contains all the usual kitchen stuff, of which the only thing that
Floyd | interests you right now is the coffee maker.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the east is the door to your bedroom; your bathroom is west, and the
Floyd | front door is south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "w to wash teeth" 	
			Tale says, "Yesd" 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd | (first getting off the blue couch)
Floyd |
Floyd | bathroom
Floyd | All this shiny white tile under fluorescent lighting kind of hurts your
Floyd | eyes and makes your headache worse. Anyway, this bathroom is equipped
Floyd | with all the normal bathroom stuff - toilet, sink, mirror, shower.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tiny Tim sits on your sink, looking up at you with big, soulful eyes.
Floyd | "Happy Christmas, and God bless you," he says.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'd like to brush my teeth," you say wearily.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Of course," says Tiny Tim, "only..."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Only what?" you say. "Come on, get on with it."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Only, you see, I haven't any Christmas presents for my dear family,
Floyd | and while of course the true spirit of the season requires no present,
Floyd | only love and-"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I said get on with it," you snap. You have no patience right now for
Floyd | the ramblings of characters written by authors who were paid by the
Floyd | word.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, all right, I'd like a present," he says. You have the feeling
Floyd | he's not going to leave until you find him something.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the sink is your toothbrush.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "give shoes to tim" 		
	

Floyd | You hand Tiny Tim your mother's shoes; he regards them dubiously.
Floyd | "Well," he says, "I suppose my dear mother will like it."
Floyd |
Floyd | He hops off the sink and hobbles away to wherever Dickens characters go
Floyd | when they're not needed. You breathe a sigh of relief and get on with
Floyd | your tooth-brushing.
Floyd |
Floyd | The rest of your morning routine proves uneventful, and you even manage
Floyd | to get to work on time - if only just. Which is great, because you're
Floyd | really, really not sure how you'd explain why you were late.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have regifted ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 7 out of a possible 7, in 49 turns.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl exclaims, "Yay!" 	
			Jacqueline says, "yay" 	
			cyberskunk learned the true spirit of IF that day. 	
			TheXenographer says, "It ends a little abruptly, but by the time I finished the Baldr part I was technically past the deadline" 	
			Tale says, "Yay!" 	
			ASchultz says, "Very nice tying in everything suggested" 	
			cyberskunk says, "the_xenographer++;" 	
			Jacqueline says, "That is the spirit of the speed IF, X." 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q" 		
	

Floyd | Please give one of the answers above.
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		Tale says (to Xeno), "A true Speed IF, then. Nicely done!" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" 		
	

Floyd |

		
	Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" 		JamesPKing asks, "are speed IFs usually this good?" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "So, we played psiragnarok, and psisilenceofgodes and psistupidcreek, right?" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Are we up to psithreemor? The last one?" 	
			Tale says, "I think so yeah." 	
			Tale says, "really? Hm." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Gosh. Okay, then." 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load psithreemor" 		
	

Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Christmas Eve! You tell Bob to go home early; tidy up a little, and
Floyd | lock up the office shortly after four. You look on the old brass plate,
Floyd | which still reads "Scrooge & Marley", probably for the last time.
Floyd |
Floyd | After visiting the engravers to pick up your package, you spend a few
Floyd | hours simply walking the busy streets, soaking in the happy
Floyd | anticipation all around. Then a simple, but magnificent, dinner at
Floyd | Kettners and a gentle stroll home. Time for bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | Three More Visitors
Floyd | A Speed-IF Melodrama for New Year
Floyd | by Paul Stanley
Floyd |
Floyd | Release 1 (2011-12-30)
Floyd | Inform v6.32 / Platypus release 4+
Floyd |
Floyd | Courtyard
Floyd | Not everyone is complimentary about this courtyard, or the house whose
Floyd | front door you now face. "A gloomy set of rooms" it has been called.
Floyd | But it has been your home these many years; it was the site, a decade
Floyd | past to this very day, of the great visions that changed your life
Floyd | forever. And so here you stay, and here you expect to end your days.
Floyd | The door is north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Paulinus says, "this one's mine" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" 		
	

Floyd | Others might call you elderly -- though you feel, especially at this
Floyd | time of year, sprightly and young. A respectable, respected, much-loved
Floyd | pillar of this great city. "Good old Ebenezer", they say. "There is a
Floyd | man who knows how to celebrate Christmas".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a door key
Floyd |   a package
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "about" 		
	

Floyd | Written for the 2011 New Year Speed IF (though in far more than the
Floyd | customary two hours). The brief was to include some, none or all, of
Floyd | the following: your mum's shoes, Italians, a tanning bed, a copy of
Floyd | Doom III, the colour chartreuse, Tiny Tim (preferably as a foe), the
Floyd | smell of your evil twin, an e-peen hammer (whatever that may be), and a
Floyd | shirt which says "I killed my father and all I got was this lousy
Floyd | t-shirt". More or less loosely, all of them are in here somewhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | I spent more time than is customarily required for Speed-IF; I
Floyd | selfishly wanted a chance to play with Platypus, and I hope the result
Floyd | is not too ragged.
Floyd |
Floyd | For assistance and testing, thanks to Zachary and Benedict. For
Floyd | patience, thanks to Daniel. For the essential software, thanks to
Floyd | Graham Nelson (for Inform 6 and the Designer's Manual, 4th edition,
Floyd | from which I shamelessly borrowed where necessary), Anson Turner, for
Floyd | the Platypus library and Charles Dickens, for "A Christmas Carol" (from
Floyd | which I have more shamelessly borrowed).
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "i would love a re-imagining where scrooge calls the ghostbusters" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x key" 		
	

Floyd | A brass door key.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "heh" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x package" 		
	

Floyd | You picked it up from the engravers earlier. The package is about six
Floyd | inches wide, and eight inches long, wrapped in brown paper and tied
Floyd | with string. The label on it reads "E Scrooge Esq, to await
Floyd | collection". It's rather heavy.
Floyd |
Floyd | Whisps of frosty mist nuzzle into the corners of the yard.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Scrooge must be super old now." 	
			JamesPKing asks, "what you mean "the last one?" aren't there 3 more?" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "open package" 		
	

Floyd | You know what it contains, and you don't want to spoil the surprise for
Floyd | Bob.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Courtyard
Floyd | Not everyone is complimentary about this courtyard, or the house whose
Floyd | front door you now face. "A gloomy set of rooms" it has been called.
Floyd | But it has been your home these many years; it was the site, a decade
Floyd | past to this very day, of the great visions that changed your life
Floyd | forever. And so here you stay, and here you expect to end your days.
Floyd | The door is north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x house" 		
	

Floyd | A huge old house. Your late partner, Jacob Marley lived here until he
Floyd | died, and you have lived here ever since. You keep a small suite of
Floyd | rooms on the first floor, having given the rest over to your nephew and
Floyd | his family -- but they are out of town visiting your brother for
Floyd | Christmas. They begged you to go with them, but you have your own
Floyd | plans: you always visit the Cratchits for Christmas, and this year you
Floyd | have a most particular reason to keep that appointment.
Floyd |
Floyd | You catch a strange, sweet smell, carried on the mist.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "smell" 		
	

Floyd | A cold mist licks around the courtyard, smelling of damp and smoke --
Floyd | and some other scent too, a sickly, cloying smell that you cannot quite
Floyd | place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Courtyard
Floyd | Not everyone is complimentary about this courtyard, or the house whose
Floyd | front door you now face. "A gloomy set of rooms" it has been called.
Floyd | But it has been your home these many years; it was the site, a decade
Floyd | past to this very day, of the great visions that changed your life
Floyd | forever. And so here you stay, and here you expect to end your days.
Floyd | The door is north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "moving" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd | (opening the door)
Floyd | (unlocking the door)
Floyd | As you push the door open and enter, you stop for a moment to look at
Floyd | the knocker. Who knows why, for you see it every day -- morning and
Floyd | evening, and it is unremarkable enough. But you can't forget how, on
Floyd | this very evening a decade ago, you saw it transformed into the very
Floyd | image of your late partner Jacob Marley: the first of the very strange
Floyd | and disconcerting events of that wonderfully disconcerting night.
Floyd |
Floyd | So you glance at the knocker now, and you are shocked to see it, again,
Floyd | assume a once-familiar appearance. But this time the face is not
Floyd | Marley's, but almost your own, though one you have not seen for twenty,
Floyd | even thirty, years. It is the face of your brother, Mordecai.
Floyd |
Floyd | Shivering slightly (whether from the cold, or the disconcerting
Floyd | behaviour of your door knocker, you could not say) you go through the
Floyd | door, light the candle that stands ready on the hall table, lock the
Floyd | door carefully behind you and climb the wide staircase to your chamber.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd | A leopard never quite changes its spots, and your bedroom is still
Floyd | plain by most standards, but that is how you like it. Nevertheless, you
Floyd | allow yourself a few hints of comfort if not luxury. The heavy green
Floyd | brocade curtains are closed. Your table has a few papers on it. Your
Floyd | bed is ready for you. The door, leading east, is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x papers" 		
	

Floyd | The papers are scattered on the table. You really should talk to
Floyd | Lucinda about cleaning up -- since she has been walking out with the
Floyd | Jameson boy she has become quite distracted.The only one of any moment
Floyd | is the letter you received this morning from your attorneys.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open curtains" 		
	

Floyd | You open the curtains, revealing a window.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read letter" 		
	

Floyd | Jarboe & Bungay
Floyd | 45 New Square
Floyd | Lincoln's Inn
Floyd |
Floyd | 23rd December 1853
Floyd |
Floyd | My Dear Mr Scrooge,
Floyd |
Floyd | As presently drawn, your will leaves your whole estate to your
Floyd | brothers, and their issue. In practical terms, that means to your
Floyd | nephew and (if he still lives) your brother Mordecai.
Floyd |
Floyd | We understand that you wish to amend the provisions of your will. Mr
Floyd | Robert Cratchit is to become a partner in the firm of Scrooge & Marley,
Floyd | and he is to inherit the partnership absolutely, the rest of your
Floyd | estate passing to your nephew.
Floyd |
Floyd | We have accordingly prepared a revised will and partnership deed. If
Floyd | you would be good enough to raise the matter with Mr Cratchit, we look
Floyd | forward to seeing you on the twenty-seventh of this month, at our
Floyd | offices, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, where the documents can be
Floyd | executed.
Floyd |
Floyd | I beg to remain, Sir, your obedient and humble servant,
Floyd |
Floyd | Wm Jarboe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "Let me check the .zip file" 	
			cyberskunk says, "i never knew scrooge had leopard print sheets. no wonder the cleaning lady took them" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x window" 		
	

Floyd | The glass is lightly glazed with frost, but you can just see through it
Floyd | into the darkened yard.
Floyd |
Floyd | Late as it is, you think you hear footsteps outside the window.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take letter" 		
	

Floyd | You take the letter.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can definitely hear voices: indistinct, but it sounds like an old
Floyd | man and a young man.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "should be 12 games, all in all" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "listen to window" 		
	

Floyd | You hear low voices in the yard, though it's hard to make out most of
Floyd | what they say.
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside the window, a coarse, sly old voice. "You lad, where are you
Floyd | going?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Yes, 12" 	
			ASchultz asks, "Thought it was 13? Earlier we said 6 last week, 7 to go?" 	
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x window" 		
	

Floyd | The glass is lightly glazed with frost, but you can just see through it
Floyd | into the darkened yard.
Floyd |
Floyd | It's hard to make out more than a few words: something about "Mr
Floyd | Scrooge" and "the compliments of the season".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Maybe I'm just hoping though because these are overall good" 	
			Jacqueline says, "No, there were 13 files, but one was source code for a game, not a game." 	
			Jacqueline says, "(A game we have already played.)" 	
			ASchultz says, "Aha." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "listen" 		
	

Floyd | You hear low voices in the yard, though it's hard to make out most of
Floyd | what they say.
Floyd |
Floyd | The older man says something, but you can't make it out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "This is another game that seems really surprisingly good, SpeedIF or no" 	
			ASchultz says, "Nice descriptions early on, yes" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd | The heavy green brocade curtains are open. Your table has a few papers
Floyd | on it. Your bed is ready for you. The door, leading east, is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The younger voice is raised indignantly, and you catch a few words --
Floyd | "mistaken ... kind gentleman". Suddenly you recognise the voice: It is
Floyd | Bob Cratchit's son, Tiny Tim.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "listen to voices" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "open door" 		
	

Floyd | You open the bedroom door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "sleep" 		
	

Floyd | You wouldn't be able to sleep with this queer conversation going on
Floyd | outside.
Floyd |
Floyd | The old man is talking: "... grasping ... miserly ... I have found him
Floyd | out ..."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "listen" 		
	

Floyd | You hear low voices in the yard, though it's hard to make out most of
Floyd | what they say.
Floyd |
Floyd | The old man is talks, low and secretive. You can make out few words --
Floyd | "Jarboe" perhaps and "visit". How can he know about Mr Jarboe's visit
Floyd | to you?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "We tried opening the window." 	
			Jacqueline asks, "?" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "open window" 		
	

Floyd | You open the window slowly and carefully, hoping not to be noticed. You
Floyd | can hear the voices in the yard better now.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tiny Tim's voice, quite clear: "Yes, Sir, I know that he visited, for
Floyd | my father told me of his visit."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "There we go." 	
			ASchultz says, "Hope it's not too cold..." 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "listen" 		
	

Floyd | You hear the voices in the yard, still talking.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Now, my boy, you must be more careful. He told you that he visited,
Floyd | but I wager you he did not tell you the purpose of that visit. I wager
Floyd | you that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "shiver" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "g" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "listen" 		
	

Floyd | You hear the voices in the yard, still talking.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Indeed he did not, and we all wondered what it might be!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "listen" 		
	

Floyd | You hear the voices in the yard, still talking.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well, I can tell you. He intends to sell his business. Lock, stock,
Floyd | and barrel. Hook, line, and sinker. Every contract, every note, every
Floyd | bill drawn on London and every bill drawn on Petersburg. All to be sold
Floyd | to a consortium -- that is to say to a bunch, young man -- to a bunch
Floyd | of Italians from Leghorn. A bunch of Italians who will show your father
Floyd | the door soon as you can say 'Merry Christmas'."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Actually, after this we do have one more." 	
			JamesPKing exclaims, "MORE ITALIANS!" 	
			Jacqueline says, "I got the file names confused, but there's one we haven't played. Anyway..." 	
			Tale says, "Thanks to JPK! Keen eye on that young'un" 	
			Paulinus exclaims, "but disappointingly distant from the action, i fear!" 	
			ASchultz suddenly remembers the 'Pokey the Penguin' comic strip and Pokey's war with Italians 	
			ChrisC exclaims, "We may see some Italian action yet!" 	
			JamesPKing says, "well said" 	
			JamesPKing asks, "wo go on?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "One sec... door." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Yes, play on." 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Young Tim's voice, clear as a bell: "Is there nothing that can be done
Floyd | to stop him?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Ah, my lad. Now I knew that you were a smart boy. An intelligent young
Floyd | man. A young man with his head screwed on. Of course there's something
Floyd | that can be done."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "sit on bed" 		
	

Floyd | You get into the bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The old man reaches his hand into his pocket, and hands something to
Floyd | Tim Cratchit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "jump" 		
	

Floyd | You jump on the spot.
Floyd |
Floyd | "That little bottle is a remarkable concoction. A miracle of science,
Floyd | young man. The work of the great Doctor Faustus from Berlin. A drop of
Floyd | this in a man's drink will drive out the spirit of miserliness, and
Floyd | drive in the spirit of Christmas. If you could slip it into his drink
Floyd | tomorrow, the problem will be solved."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x bottle" 		
	

Floyd | The bottle is no more than an inch or two long, and contains a greenish
Floyd | liquid -- the colour of chartreuse.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Very well, Sir," you hear the Cratchit boy say, "I will do it."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "stand" 		
	

Floyd | You get out of the bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd | The heavy green brocade curtains are open. Your table has a few papers
Floyd | on it. Your bed is ready for you. The door is open to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Now you be sure that Mr Scrooge doesn't see it, my boy. He's as sly as
Floyd | a rat, and he'll know directly what it is and not take the bait. Let
Floyd | this be our little secret."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "read bottle" 		
	

Floyd | The glass bottle is outside. Just watch and listen.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You'll thank me for this, my boy, This will be our little secret. And
Floyd | in time you will thank me for it. Indeed, my lad, you will."
Floyd |
Floyd | The voices fade.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "> rip up letter. hmpf." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel very tired. It is time to go to sleep.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "sleep" 		
	

Floyd | You blow out the candle, and get into bed then settle down to go to
Floyd | sleep.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | [Press Any Key]

		
	ChrisC pushes the green 'space' button. 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You wake with a start. What is it that woke you? Perhaps only the
Floyd | church bell, chiming ... one ... two ... three-quarters ... no, the
Floyd | hour. One o'clock. You sit up in bed, alert as a cat before a
Floyd | mousehole.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC asks, "Do we know who the old voice was?" 	
			ASchultz says, "I assume we'll find out. I'm interested of course" 	
			djfletch asks, "I thought it was Jarboe?" 	
			cyberskunk says, "oh, its our brother mordecai surely" 	
			JamesPKing asks, "who's game is this?" 	
			cyberskunk says, "because we saw his face" 	
			Paulinus says, "mine" 	
			cyberskunk says, "and he wants to kill us so he inherits our business" 	
			djfletch says, "oh right, they were talking about Jarboe, he wasn't Jarboe." 	
			JamesPKing says, "he wasn't scrooge, either" 	
			cyberskunk says, "hes the right edge and so forth" 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Bedroom (in the bed)
Floyd | The heavy green brocade curtains are open. Your table has a few papers
Floyd | on it and a number of other objects besides. The door, leading east, is
Floyd | closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door creaks open, and light -- as of a giant candle -- floods the
Floyd | room. And there, on the threshold, he stands. A spirit you have not
Floyd | seen for ten years, and yet familiar to you: the Ghost of Christmas
Floyd | Past.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "so, 1st ghost" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "talk to ghost" 		
	

Floyd | "I know you, spirit," you say. "I remember you."
Floyd |
Floyd | "I am the spirit of Christmas past. Your past!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "talk to ghost" 		
	

Floyd | "What is it you have come to show me?" you ask.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I am here to show you a beginning," says the ghost. "We are going to
Floyd | trace a noxious river to its poisoned source."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "talk to ghost" 		
	

Floyd | "What must I do, then?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Just walk through the door."
Floyd |
Floyd | "What? I can tell you what is outside the door: nothing but my own
Floyd | staircase, up which I climbed not much more than an hour ago!"
Floyd |
Floyd | "So you may think," the spirit says enigmatically. "But you might be
Floyd | surprised."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz asks, "Oops. Cyberskunk, want to drive the talking?" 	
			cyberskunk says, "no" 	
			ChrisC says, "I think it's a linear drive" 	
			cyberskunk says, "you go ahead. ill be good" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "g" 		
	

Floyd | The spirit stays silent, and merely gestures towards the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | The spirit gestures towards the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Ok" 	
			JamesPKing says, "exit" 	
			ChrisC says, "Go trough" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd | (getting out of bed)
Floyd | You can't go that way. The door is east.
Floyd |
Floyd | The spirit gestures towards the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd | The spirit ushers you through the door. But you feel yourself changed,
Floyd | diminished somehow. And instead of the staircase, you find yourself in
Floyd | a quite different place -- a room once just as well-known, but which
Floyd | you have not thought about these many years.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour
Floyd | Your mother's parlour, a cosy little room, spotlessly clean and
Floyd | smelling of wax and lavender. Sunlight is splashing bright patterns on
Floyd | the rug. Your mother is resting on her chaise longue.
Floyd |
Floyd | A wooden box lies on the rug.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your mother has kicked off her shoes, which lie beside the sofa.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x box" 		
	

Floyd | A wooden box, about as long as your arm, and half as wide. There are
Floyd | letters burned into it. Because you are your mother's clever boy, you
Floyd | can read those letters. "E. PEEN: TOYMAKER". Your mother has given this
Floyd | box to you for Christmas, because you have been good all year. The box
Floyd | is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x shoes" 		
	

Floyd | Your mother's brown leather walking shoes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take shoes" 		
	

Floyd | You take your mother's shoes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Nice with the e peen. Wondered how that'd fit in to the distant past" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "wear shoes" 		
	

Floyd | Although it can hardly be said that they fit well, it gives you a
Floyd | remarkable sense of confidence to walk in your mother's shoes. You feel
Floyd | unaccountably stronger, faster, fleeter of foot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "open box" 		
	

Floyd | You open the wooden box, revealing your toy hammer, your wooden peg and
Floyd | your wooden saw.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "The Hand of Buddha has arrived. I snuck up on maga, who was reading his book, and scared him with it. It smells pleasantly citrussy." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Hee." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "get hammer, peg and saw" 		
	

Floyd | You take the wooden saw, the wooden peg and the toy hammer.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Did you get your OJ?" 	
			Tale asks, "Do you eat it?" 	
			Jacqueline exclaims, "I did!" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x saw, peg and hammer" 		
	

Floyd | A tiny saw, made of wood. Not much good for cutting, of course -- but
Floyd | you can pretend to cut things. Today you have already pretended to cut
Floyd | a tree, your mother's plants, a table leg and your sister's arm.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door opens, and a boy -- dressed just as you are in a sailor suit
Floyd | -- comes in: your twin brother, Mordecai.
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x mordecai" 		
	

Floyd | To a superficial glance -- or indeed, to even the most penetrating
Floyd | inspection by anyone other than your family -- there is no difference
Floyd | whatever between you and Mordecai. Not physically; but morally, in
Floyd | spirit, as souls -- you could not be more different.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mordecai comes over. "I want that hammer, Ben," he says. "Give it to me
Floyd | now!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Wait, the OJ, not the Buddha. The hand is in our fruit basket, looking freakily delicious." 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "smell mordecai" 		
	

Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "hit mordecai with hammer" 		
	

Floyd | You know there is no point. Mordecai is your twin, but he is stronger
Floyd | than you, and faster than you, and more resolute than you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mordecai grabs the hammer from you. "Mine!" he says.
Floyd |
Floyd | "No, Mordecai, it is mine. Mother gave it to me. I have been a good boy
Floyd | all year. You have not."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Good boys get given presents. Bad boys take them!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Paulinus says, "that response to smell is a bug" 	
			ChrisC asks, "Is Mordecai canon?" 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "wake mom" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Lionheart arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. 		Jacqueline says, "My." 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "wake mother" 		
	

Floyd | You should let her sleep. She needs to rest.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mordecai advances towards you with his hammer held high. "Now I have

		Jacqueline says, "This is grand, by the way. Doesn't feel like a Speed IF, either." 	
	

Floyd | taken this," he says, "you must give me all your toys. You must do as I
Floyd | say or I will beat you and smash you, you vile boy." As he says those
Floyd | words "vile boy" he sounds just like Father. That is just what Father
Floyd | always says.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		TheXenographer says (to Chris), "No, I don't believe so." 	
			TheXenographer says, "Scrooge just had a sister, as far as I recall." 	
			ASchultz says, "The About mentioned it went over the time limit. And I bet I'm not the only one fine with that" 	
			Paulinus says, "yeah not canon" 	
			ChrisC says (to ASchultz), "Indeed." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "give saw to mordecai" 		
	

Floyd | Mordecai takes the wooden saw with an acquisitive glint in his eye.
Floyd | "Mine now!" he giggles.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mordecai brings the hammer crashing down on your head, with a crack.
Floyd | For a moment you feel nothing. Then you find yourself on the floor.
Floyd | Your face is sticky, and your mouth tastes of sweet iron. Your brother,
Floyd | as usual, has made himself scarce.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "what a bastard" 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "remove mordecai's left leg with a bit" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "man" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour
Floyd | Your mother's parlour, a cosy little room, spotlessly clean and
Floyd | smelling of wax and lavender. Sunlight is splashing bright patterns on
Floyd | the rug. Your mother is resting on her chaise longue.
Floyd |
Floyd | A wooden box lies on the rug.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your mother stirs, and wakes. She looks down at you, and shrieks. "What
Floyd | on earth has happened, little Ben?" she says. "What have you done? Your
Floyd | face is covered in blood!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "tell mother about mordecai" 		
	

Floyd | To converse in this game, use TALK TO [PERSON] (though in certain
Floyd | special situations, when you are asked a specific question, YES and NO
Floyd | could be useful).
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "talk to mother" 		
	

Floyd | You sob.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your mother gathers you up in her arms. You feel her tears mixing with
Floyd | yours, and with the blood that covers your face. You turn to kiss her.
Floyd | As your lips touch her cheek she seems to liquify, like wax at a candle
Floyd | wick. And with her everything in the room seems to liquify too: chaise,
Floyd | rug, toys, all pouring away, until there is just you, and the spirit,
Floyd | in an empty room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour
Floyd | Still, apparently, your mother's parlour -- or at least a room its
Floyd | size, and its shape, and with its window and door; but sadly altered.
Floyd | Dust and shadows have spread themselves thickly on every surface, and
Floyd | crept into every corner. The furniture is gone -- the floor bare apart
Floyd | from the rug, which incongruously remains. The door is west.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ghost of Christmas past stands in the middle of the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "talk to mum" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "talk to ghost" 		
	

Floyd | "What has happened? Where has my mother gone?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "You have grown up, Ebenezer. The world is a little colder, emptier.
Floyd | You are on your own."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "g" 		
	

Floyd | "Why, then, are we still here?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "We are tracing the evil to its source," the spirit says. "A little
Floyd | childhood bullying is hardly evil; but that was not the end of it for
Floyd | Mordecai, was it?"
Floyd |
Floyd | And you shake your head, because you know he is right.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "g" 		
	

Floyd | Ths spirit simply watches you in silence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "get all" 		
	

Floyd | There are none at all available!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "say no" 		
	

Floyd | You mutter to yourself.
Floyd |
Floyd | The spirit gestures towards the door. "Some things are best left in the
Floyd | past," he says. "I wish I could show you happier moments; for there
Floyd | were many happier moments, were there not? But tonight my task is to
Floyd | warn. Let us go!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "score" 		
	

Floyd | There is no score in this game.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "go door" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a place you have been.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "talk to spirit" 		
	

Floyd | The spirit simply watches you in silence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Parlour
Floyd | Still, apparently, your mother's parlour -- or at least a room its
Floyd | size, and its shape, and with its window and door; but sadly altered.
Floyd | Dust and shadows have spread themselves thickly on every surface, and
Floyd | crept into every corner. The furniture is gone -- the floor bare apart
Floyd | from the rug, which incongruously remains. The door is west.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ghost of Christmas past stands in the middle of the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "exit" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | As you step towards the door, you feel the room you are leaving
Floyd | dissolve into shadow, and the spirit with it. No way back now. You must
Floyd | return (you know it) to the present -- or at least to some possible
Floyd | version of the present. You are half expecting the sight that next
Floyd | meets your eyes ...
Floyd |
Floyd | [Press any key]
Floyd |

		ASchultz says, "ok, nothing else to do here" 	
	ChrisC pushes the green 'space' button. 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd | Your room is transformed. The ceiling is hung with great boughs of
Floyd | holly, the berries glistening in the light of hundreds of candles. All
Floyd | around the room are piles of wonderful food: hams, great roasts, gilded
Floyd | turkies, piles of sugar plums and oranges, chocolates and candy-canes.
Floyd | A vast table is set with a white damask cloth, laden with dishes. In
Floyd | the midst of this a man with a deep green robe and a vast beard
Floyd | reclines on your bed, his head surrounded by a garland of ivy: the
Floyd | ghost of Christmas present.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ghost of Christmas present lounges on your bed, bathed in brilliant
Floyd | sunlight from the canopy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "sorry" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "talk to ghost" 		
	

Floyd | "I recognise you, spirit," you say. "You are the Ghost of Christmas
Floyd | Past. I remember meeting you -- ten years ago now, and the good you did
Floyd | me then."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Not I," replies the giant, "for I can be here just one Christmastide,
Floyd | and never again; but one of my brothers no doubt."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x giant" 		
	

Floyd | A giant of a man, with ruddy cheeks, chestnut curls and an auburn
Floyd | beard. He's wearing a green velvet robe, trimmed with ermine.
Floyd |

		Jacqueline says, "nice" 	
	

Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "this is neat. the present ghost being unique" 	
			Paulinus says, "that IS canon, actually" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x food" 		
	

Floyd | Everything is set as if for a feast; it all looks quite delicious.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "eat" 		
	

Floyd | (the bed)
Floyd | (taking the bed)
Floyd | The bed is fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "eat food" 		
	

Floyd | Somehow you hand passes straight through, and yet your soul seems
Floyd | nourished.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Spiritual food brings spiritual sustenance," the Ghost says.
Floyd | "Tomorrow, my dear Ebenezer, you can eat your fill."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "talk to ghost" 		
	

Floyd | "Why are you here? I am a changed man. There's not a man in London more
Floyd | devoted to you than I am. I have no further need of your help."
Floyd |
Floyd | "So you might think," the spirit replies. "But you do need my help
Floyd | tonight: not to save you, this time, from yourself; but to save you,
Floyd | and others, from harm."
Floyd |
Floyd | The spirit beckons you towards his robe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "Does the player mean eating the bed: it is likely." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x robe" 		
	

Floyd | A giant of a man, with ruddy cheeks, chestnut curls and an auburn
Floyd | beard. He's wearing a green velvet robe, trimmed with ermine.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "talk to ghost" 		
	

Floyd | "What sort of harm, spirit? And what should I do?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I will show you," says the Ghost. "Touch my robe, and I will show
Floyd | you."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "touch robe" 		
	

Floyd | As your hand brushes the spirit's robe, he takes you firmly by the
Floyd | hand. He opens the window, and, safe in his firm grasp you are launched
Floyd | headlong into the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | You soar over tightly-packed streets through a grey London dawn.
Floyd |
Floyd | A street in Camden
Floyd | Frost glistens on the flagstones, and on the identical doorsteps of the
Floyd | identical houses in this neatly nondescript street. You stand outside
Floyd | number 17. Cast iron railings surround a basement area, painted black
Floyd | like every other house; a neat front door and whitened step. It is the
Floyd | house where your clerk, Bob Cratchit, lives with his family. The great
Floyd | City lies to the south. Steps lead down to the basement area.
Floyd |
Floyd | Someone has dropped a sixpenny piece on the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Ah of course--touching the robe was in the book I think" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x piece" 		
	

Floyd | A silver sixpence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take piece" 		
	

Floyd | You take the sixpence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a sixpence
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "and none the richer" 	
			Jacqueline looks at cyberskunk. 	
			Jacqueline says, "You keep doing that." 	
			Jacqueline smiles and shakes her head. 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x me" 		
	

Floyd | You feel strange, pinched, dreary and angry. You seem to be wearing a
Floyd | shabby coat and a shabby hat (not at all in your usual style) and a
Floyd | strange smell lingers about you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "smell me" 		
	

Floyd | You smell odd: a sickly sweetness -- like meat that has started to turn
Floyd | -- lingers about your person.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "x hat" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x coat" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a sixpence
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		cyberskunk says, "right" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x snow" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Ok, south to city or down to Cratchit" 	
			JamesPKing asks, "ouch. we are dead isn't it?" 	
			ASchultz says, "Maybe just sick" 	
			ChrisC asks, "City probably won't be an allowed action so let's try it first?" 	
			JamesPKing says, "indeed. i do smell of rotten meat when ill" 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd | That way would take you home, but the spirit has brought you here, and
Floyd | must have his reasons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "Really? I only smell like that when I'm zombified" 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "d" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Basement yard
Floyd | Like so many London houses, Bob Cratchit's is set half-down into the
Floyd | ground, with a dingy basement yard with space to store coal, and ash,
Floyd | and rubbish. Overlooking this dreary scene is the window of what you
Floyd | know is the kitchen, although it's so covered in thick frost that you
Floyd | can't see anything through it at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | The spirit stands just behind you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "and you are, now and then..." 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "stand behind spirit" 		
	

Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to stand.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		TheXenographer asks, "Are we sure the smell isn't the scent of our evil twin?" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "rub window" 		
	

Floyd | You rub at the frost. It burns your hands, but you manage to clear a
Floyd | small area, through which you can peep.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "peep" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Basement yard
Floyd | Like so many London houses, Bob Cratchit's is set half-down into the
Floyd | ground, with a dingy basement yard with space to store coal, and ash,
Floyd | and rubbish. Overlooking this dreary scene is the window of what you
Floyd | know is the kitchen. The window is covered in a heavy frost, apart from
Floyd | a small area that you have rubbed clear.
Floyd |
Floyd | The spirit stands just behind you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "look through window" 		
	

Floyd | You look into the Cratchits' kitchen. It is set for Christmas, with
Floyd | various delicacies arrayed on the table. Beyond it is a door through
Floyd | which you can see into the back parlour.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you watch, you see a young man come in. It is Tiny Tim.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Paulinus says, "that's another disambiguation bug i fear" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x man" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Well, it doesn't detract from the main bit..." 	
			ChrisC says, "Oh, that's a synonym for look. I didn't realize that" 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "pee" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "erm" 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "peep" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Basement yard
Floyd | Like so many London houses, Bob Cratchit's is set half-down into the
Floyd | ground, with a dingy basement yard with space to store coal, and ash,
Floyd | and rubbish. Overlooking this dreary scene is the window of what you
Floyd | know is the kitchen. The window is covered in a heavy frost, apart from
Floyd | a small area that you have rubbed clear.
Floyd |
Floyd | The spirit stands just behind you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Paulinus says, "yeah but should have caught it -- and "man", just clumsy" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x window" 		
	

Floyd | The window is covered with frost, except for a small corner, where you
Floyd | have rubbed a clear area.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "x tim" 		
	

Floyd | He is in his Sunday Best for Christmas.
Floyd |
Floyd | Through the kitchen door you see two men, yourself and Bob Cratchit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "look through window" 		
	

Floyd | Tim ladles two generous helpings of the punch into pewter mugs, and
Floyd | carries them through to the room beyond.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x cratchit" 		
	

Floyd | Which do you mean, Bob Cratchit,  or Tiny Tim?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x men" 		
	

Floyd | Certainly you, come round no doubt to wish Bob the compliments of the
Floyd | season and to have a glass of wine and some lunch with him.
Floyd |
Floyd | The two men in the parlour raise their mugs. Oddly you have a
Floyd | premonition of what is to follow. More oddly still, instead of willing
Floyd | yourself to drop the mug on the floor, or throw it in the fire, you
Floyd | find yourself hoping that you will drink it. You find yourself taking
Floyd | positive pleasure in what you know will be a disaster. It is as if you
Floyd | are not yourself. As if you are a second version of yourself, and wish
Floyd | yourself harm.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "aha! the plot thikens" 	
			JamesPKing says, "with a C, also" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x men" 		
	

Floyd | Certainly you, come round no doubt to wish Bob the compliments of the
Floyd | season and to have a glass of wine and some lunch with him.
Floyd |
Floyd | The draught takes its effect. You and Bob look to be in excruciating
Floyd | agony. You grasp at your throats, tear at your collars and neckscarves,
Floyd | as the fatal liquid tears at your bowels. And yet you, Ebenezer
Floyd | Scrooge, watch your own death-pangs not merely dispassionately, but
Floyd | with positive delight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		djfletch says, "ooh so we do smell of our evil twin." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x men" 		
	

Floyd | A terrible sight -- and yet, for some reason, strangely compelling to
Floyd | you.
Floyd |
Floyd | You and Bob lie quite still now. Anyone who knows death could say,
Floyd | instantly, that you are both quite dead. And watching this you feel not
Floyd | (as you should, as you know you should) horrified at your own demise
Floyd | and at the painful death of a beloved friend, but elated.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x men" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "talk to spirit" 		
	

Floyd | "What do you see inside?" the spirit asks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "g" 		
	

Floyd | "What do you see inside?" the spirit asks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "We should go inside I think" 	
			cyberskunk exclaims, "i have to go to lunch. have fun!" 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "say me" 		
	

Floyd | To converse in this game, use TALK TO [PERSON] (though in certain
Floyd | special situations, when you are asked a specific question, YES and NO
Floyd | could be useful).
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	cyberskunk goes home. 		Tale says, "yeah, let's go inside" 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "enter window" 		
	

Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | Above you, you hear the front door open then slam shut. A limping step
Floyd | works its way down to the street; you hear the tapping of a crutch as
Floyd | the steps recede.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "look inside" 		
	

Floyd | (the frosty window)
Floyd | Mrs Cratchit's tidy kitchen is empty. Beyond it you can see into the
Floyd | back parlour. Two corpses lie there: your own, and Bob Cratchit's.
Floyd |
Floyd | The steps fade into the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "x me" 		
	

Floyd | You feel strange, pinched, dreary and angry. You seem to be wearing a
Floyd | shabby coat and a shabby hat (not at all in your usual style) and a
Floyd | strange smell lingers about you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The spirit reaches towards you and touches you. As he does so you watch
Floyd | his arm shrivel, his robe darken. Before long you find yourself looking
Floyd | at a different ghost altogether -- a loose grey robe with a great cowl,
Floyd | which completely obscures the features of whoever, or whatever, is
Floyd | within. Only two piercing dark eyes, unblinking, give assurance (no,
Floyd | not so much assurance, "warrant" then) that the figure is more than a
Floyd | great empty sack. The ghost of Christmas future leans on a long,
Floyd | slender staff of bone or ivory, gripping it with a talon-like gloved
Floyd | hand.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Press any key]
Floyd |

		Jacqueline says, "um, eep" 	
			JamesPKing says, "sec" 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A street in Limehouse
Floyd | Dusk is falling on the tightly-packed warehouses, taverns and
Floyd | doss-houses of Limehouse. To the south you can hear the gentle slapping
Floyd | of the river, the creaking of wet timber on piers and jetties. In this
Floyd | insalubrious alley, windows are either boarded or broken, or caked with
Floyd | dirt. To the west is an open doorway hung with red and gold lanterns,
Floyd | and painted with a dragon.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are aware of the shade as a dim presence beside you.
Floyd |
Floyd | A chinaman stands in front of the doorway, barring entrance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd | Basement yard
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "x my body" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "x scrooge" 		
	

Floyd | (yourself)
Floyd | You feel strange, pinched, dreary and angry. You seem to be wearing a
Floyd | shabby coat and a shabby hat (not at all in your usual style) and a
Floyd | strange smell lingers about you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The spirit reaches towards you and touches you. As he does so you watch
Floyd | his arm shrivel, his robe darken. Before long you find yourself looking
Floyd | at a different ghost altogether -- a loose grey robe with a great cowl,
Floyd | which completely obscures the features of whoever, or whatever, is
Floyd | within. Only two piercing dark eyes, unblinking, give assurance (no,
Floyd | not so much assurance, "warrant" then) that the figure is more than a
Floyd | great empty sack. The ghost of Christmas future leans on a long,
Floyd | slender staff of bone or ivory, gripping it with a talon-like gloved
Floyd | hand.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Press any key]
Floyd |

		JamesPKing says, "well, i wanted to look at my corpse" 	
			JamesPKing asks, "does it have any sense? shall i try again?" 	
			Paulinus says, "sorry bout that -- the daemon had other plans" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Yeah, you looked at yourself." 	
			ChrisC says, "It's a nice reversal of fortune" 	
			JamesPKing says, "k nm" 	
			Jacqueline exclaims, "But yeah, I think it's - oh, yes, I guess it is timed, if Paul says so!" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "So, we need to not drink that chartreuse?" 	
			ChrisC says, "I think so, or make Tim not administer it" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Yeah" 	
	Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A street in Limehouse
Floyd | Dusk is falling on the tightly-packed warehouses, taverns and
Floyd | doss-houses of Limehouse. To the south you can hear the gentle slapping
Floyd | of the river, the creaking of wet timber on piers and jetties. In this
Floyd | insalubrious alley, windows are either boarded or broken, or caked with
Floyd | dirt. To the west is an open doorway hung with red and gold lanterns,
Floyd | and painted with a dragon.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are aware of the shade as a dim presence beside you.
Floyd |
Floyd | A chinaman stands in front of the doorway, barring entrance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "I think we were shown how Mordecai would act seeing Ebenezer drink it" 	
			JamesPKing says, "i guess we DO smell as ou bother... who actually killed us... because we are him" 	
			ChrisC says (to JPK), "Exactly." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "talk to shade" 		
	

Floyd | The ghost of Christmas future does not seem to have any desire to
Floyd | speak.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x windows" 		
	

Floyd | The windows seem hardly to have any point -- blind eyes, boarded up and
Floyd | covered in posters and notices, or half-blind with soot and grease.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x chinaman" 		
	

Floyd | The man is Chinese. He's dressed in a sailor's fashion in cotton duck
Floyd | trousers and a rough shirt. He is muscular, self-possessed. He's
Floyd | reading a magazine.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x magazine" 		
	

Floyd | A copy of Doom, issue III. A popular magazine, which contains lurid
Floyd | accounts of horrible murders and railway accidents, and even more lurid
Floyd | ghost stories. The man appears to have been engrossed in an account of
Floyd | a mining explosion. There is a picture (very fanciful, to your way of
Floyd | thinking) of a canary being lowered in a cage to see if there is gas in
Floyd | the mine.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "That is a really wonderful sentence, Paul." 	
			Jacqueline says, "The one about the gentle slapping of the river." 	
			Jacqueline says, "You've got some great writing in this." 	
			Paulinus says, "i didn't think it was going to he the one about Doom III ... which was a necessary by-way" 	
			Jacqueline says, "heh, yeah, but kudos for working that one in there." 	
			JamesPKing says, "this game rocks bigtime. very nice writing and atmosphere" 	
			Tale says, "Yeah, this game is great." 	
			JamesPKing asks, "how much time to desig/code?" 	
			ChrisC says, "Yeah, seriously. It's a great version of the story" 	
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "talk to chinaman" 		
	

Floyd | "What is this place?" you ask.
Floyd |
Floyd | The attendant looks at you suspiciously, and puts his magazine aside.
Floyd | "Who's asking? This is a private residence; the private residence of Mr
Floyd | Chu. Mr Chu is having a party for a few friends." You do not believe
Floyd | him.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "g" 		
	

Floyd | "I'm not a magistrate," you say.
Floyd |
Floyd | The man looks at you suspiciously: "Answer stands," he says. "This is
Floyd | Mr Chu's place, and only for friends of Mr Chu. You best be about your
Floyd | business before I have to make you go."
Floyd |
Floyd | The phantom turn towards you and gestures to your pocket, where (you
Floyd | now remember) you still have the coin you found outside Bob Cratchit's
Floyd | house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x coin" 		
	

Floyd | A silver sixpence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "give coin to chinaman" 		
	

Floyd | "Thank you, Sir," says the man. "You may go in."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x me" 		
	

Floyd | Others might call you elderly -- though you feel, especially at this
Floyd | time of year, sprightly and young. A respectable, respected, much-loved
Floyd | pillar of this great city. "Good old Ebenezer", they say. "There is a
Floyd | man who knows how to celebrate Christmas".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "talk to chinaman" 		
	

Floyd | He is engrossed in his magazine and doesn't seem interested in talking.
Floyd | "Don't waste my time, Sir, with gossip. If you want to go in, go in. If
Floyd | you don't, be on your way. No refunds!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "go in" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Inside an opium den
Floyd | A cavernous room, full of nooks and crannies, lit only by a brazier and
Floyd | a few oil lamps. All around the room people are lying. A thick, sickly
Floyd | smoke hangs over them, rising from the long opium pipes that each is
Floyd | smoking. A deep, stupefying torpor pervades everything. Time slowed to
Floyd | a crawl, reality replaced with phantoms and visions: the addicts are
Floyd | here, but not here; half alive in the half light.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are aware of the shade as a dim presence beside you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Paulinus exclaims, "no refunds! no closing quotes!" 	
			ASchultz gets totally pedantic about the missed end-quote 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x addicts" 		
	

Floyd | Most of them seem to be deeply asleep. Occasionally they stir
Floyd | themselves, or mutter, or wake briefly to take deep breaths of the long
Floyd | pipes that lie beside them. Amidst them all, there is a face that, to
Floyd | your horror, you recognise. Beside the filthy mattress, not just a pipe
Floyd | but a crutch. And upon it, emaciated, filthy, Tiny Tim.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "I read maga's logon of ' 'tis but a crutch / For those who don't get out that much' and thought immediately of Tiny Tim." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x tim" 		
	

Floyd | Tiny Tim is still small, but he has aged terribly. His hair is thin and
Floyd | greasy. He skin is sallow, and hangs off him. His eyes -- once so
Floyd | bright and hopeful -- are glazed. He lies, wearing nothing but a filthy
Floyd | shirt much too big for him, on a filthy mattress, with a pipe
Floyd | smouldering beside him
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz gets totally pedantic about the missed end-period, too 	
			ASchultz gets back to just plain enjoying the game 	
			Tale says, "Good call" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "wake tim" 		
	

Floyd | He wakes up, and looks at you as if he has seen a ghost. "Have you
Floyd | come," he says, "for revenge!
Floyd |
Floyd | Tim looks at you in terror and shame. "How am I cursed for my terrible
Floyd | deeds," he says. "You and my father! Both dead! And by my hand!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "have to go eat mi pizza (at least something ITALIAN). be seein u in ten mins" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "talk to tim" 		
	

Floyd | "But why did you do it?" you ask.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You have to believe me, whatever spirit or creature you are, I did not
Floyd | do it out of malice, but out of ignorance. A man -- now, curse him, my
Floyd | tormentor, beguiled me to do it. How I wish I had not; but I did it in
Floyd | the hope only of helping my father."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale asks, "Have we saved somewhere?" 	
			ASchultz says, "I doubt we need to, but we might as well" 	
			maga says, "grr! italians" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "cf4" 		
	

Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale asks (of maga), "I thought you limeys hated the french?" 	
			maga says (to Tale), "it's a Pokey reference" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "talk to tim" 		
	

Floyd | "I believe you, my lad, when you say that you did what you did in
Floyd | ignorance, and not out of evil."
Floyd |
Floyd | "But yet I did it," he says, "and it cannot be undone. So here I try to
Floyd | forget a little, and wait for kind death to bring a forgetfulness that
Floyd | will never pass."
Floyd |
Floyd | The spirit reaches a hand towards you -- not so much a hand, as a claw
Floyd | -- little more than bones in a dark glove. It wraps you in its cloak,
Floyd | which smells like earth and mould. The earth begins to fill your mouth.
Floyd | You choke; you wake. The spirit shrinks, and hardens, and you find
Floyd | yourself staring at -- nothing more sinister than your own bedpost.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Press Any Key: S to save]
Floyd |

		ASchultz hands maga some arctic circle candy for the reference 	
			Tale asks, "Huh - should we try and make him feel more easy?" 	
			Tale says, "Or continue" 	
			Paulinus says, "given the time ..." 	
			ASchultz says, "Just keep talking I think" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "'S to Save?" 	
			Nitku says, "That's a nice idea, having a shortcut to save" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "S" 		
	Jacqueline clears the save counter. 		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf0" 		
	

Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Bedroom (in the bed)
Floyd | The heavy green brocade curtains are open and you are relieved to see
Floyd | clear winter sunshine filtering into the room, bearing some assurance
Floyd | that the night's visions are over. Your table has a few papers on it
Floyd | and a number of other objects besides. The door is open to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Hopefully I did that right - I think the autosaver starts at cf1" 	
			maga says, "and you're wrong! we hate everyone we've been at war with at any point in the last thousand years" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x table" 		
	

Floyd | An old table: shabby, familiar, serviceable. On it are a package, a
Floyd | door key, a candle and a letter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Paulinus says, "which gives us plenty of scope" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x candle" 		
	

Floyd | A candle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x letter" 		
	

Floyd | Even if you had the eyes of a younger man, you would not be able to
Floyd | read it from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "So, all of that was the backstory to set us up for the end game. I guess that is how games always are, but this moreso." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "get up" 		
	

Floyd | You get out of the bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd | The heavy green brocade curtains are open and you are relieved to see
Floyd | clear winter sunshine filtering into the room, bearing some assurance
Floyd | that the night's visions are over. Your table has a few papers on it
Floyd | and a number of other objects besides. Your bed stands placidly in its
Floyd | usual place. Who would think what scenes it witnessed last night? The
Floyd | door is open to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "read letter" 		
	

Floyd | Jarboe & Bungay
Floyd | 45 New Square
Floyd | Lincoln's Inn
Floyd |
Floyd | 23rd December 1853
Floyd |
Floyd | My Dear Mr Scrooge,
Floyd |
Floyd | As presently drawn, your will leaves your whole estate to your
Floyd | brothers, and their issue. In practical terms, that means to your
Floyd | nephew and (if he still lives) your brother Mordecai.
Floyd |
Floyd | We understand that you wish to amend the provisions of your will. Mr
Floyd | Robert Cratchit is to become a partner in the firm of Scrooge & Marley,
Floyd | and he is to inherit the partnership absolutely, the rest of your
Floyd | estate passing to your nephew.
Floyd |
Floyd | We have accordingly prepared a revised will and partnership deed. If
Floyd | you would be good enough to raise the matter with Mr Cratchit, we look
Floyd | forward to seeing you on the twenty-seventh of this month, at our
Floyd | offices, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, where the documents can be
Floyd | executed.
Floyd |
Floyd | I beg to remain, Sir, your obedient and humble servant,
Floyd |
Floyd | Wm Jarboe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Paulinus says, "yeah more or less" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "get all" 		
	

Floyd | But the table is fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "time" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You don't have a thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "get package,key,candle,letter" 		
	

Floyd | You take the letter, the candle, the door key and the package.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x package" 		
	

Floyd | You picked it up from the engravers yesterday. The package is about six
Floyd | inches wide, and eight inches long, wrapped in brown paper and tied
Floyd | with string. The label on it reads "E Scrooge Esq, to await
Floyd | collection". It's rather heavy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		maga says, "( [LINK] )" 	
			ASchultz says, "I think it's still the plum cake" 	
			ChrisC asks, "Did I miss a plum cake?" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd | The heavy green brocade curtains are open and you are relieved to see
Floyd | clear winter sunshine filtering into the room, bearing some assurance
Floyd | that the night's visions are over. Your table has a few papers on it.
Floyd | Your bed stands placidly in its usual place. Who would think what
Floyd | scenes it witnessed last night? The door is open to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "open window" 		
	

Floyd | That's already open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "listen" 		
	

Floyd | All is silence, apart from the usual sounds of the city.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x bed" 		
	

Floyd | An ancient four-poster, old-fashioned and heavily carved. The sheets
Floyd | and comforter are turned back.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "look through window" 		
	

Floyd | The yard is bright underneath the Christmas sun.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "sleep" 		
	

Floyd | On Christmas morning! Certainly not. You must be up and about and on
Floyd | your way to Bob's.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "That's a hint I think" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd | You leave your room, and head down the staircase, out of the front
Floyd | door, picking up a Christmas card that has been delivered while you
Floyd | were asleep, and off towards Camden, where you are bidden to celebrate
Floyd | the day with the Cratchits.
Floyd |
Floyd | Smithfield
Floyd | Smithfield Market is uncharacteristically quiet this morning, though
Floyd | the debris everywhere bears testament to the busy day that was had here
Floyd | yesterday, as all the sides of beef and pork, all the hams, all the
Floyd | geese and turkeys and ducks that London required to celebrate the day
Floyd | were carted around by the porters. Now there are just families in their
Floyd | best clothes, walking to church, or back from church, or off the the
Floyd | bakehouse with their roasts ready for the oven. The City itself lies to
Floyd | the south, but your way is to the north, up through Clerkenwell towards
Floyd | King's cross.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some way ahead of you is a man who seems vaguely familiar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x man" 		
	

Floyd | It's hard to say from this distance, but he is definitely wearing an
Floyd | astrakhan coat, with a low hat pulled down low over his head. He seems
Floyd | to be heading north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Guessing it's moredcai" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Smithfield
Floyd | Smithfield Market is uncharacteristically quiet this morning, though
Floyd | the debris everywhere bears testament to the busy day that was had here
Floyd | yesterday, as all the sides of beef and pork, all the hams, all the
Floyd | geese and turkeys and ducks that London required to celebrate the day
Floyd | were carted around by the porters. Now there are just families in their
Floyd | best clothes, walking to church, or back from church, or off the the
Floyd | bakehouse with their roasts ready for the oven. The City itself lies to
Floyd | the south, but your way is to the north, up through Clerkenwell towards
Floyd | King's cross.
Floyd |
Floyd | Some way ahead of you is a man who seems vaguely familiar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC asks, "North, then?" 	
			ASchultz asks, "Anyone think of anything to do here besides go north?" 	
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "x card" 		
	

Floyd | It depicts a gentle giant, in a green robe, regally reclining on a
Floyd | cornucopia of fruit, lightly sprinkled with snow. Inside is written in
Floyd | a neat hand "Mr Scrooge, Merry Christmas, with all best wishes, Tim
Floyd | Cratchit"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		djfletch says, "yeah, follow this man." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | King's Cross
Floyd | You cannot accustom yourself to Mr Brunel's vast railway terminus. It
Floyd | is a hideously plain construction, as if some vast mill had crept here
Floyd | from Manchester or Huddersfield or Bradford and sat itself down on the
Floyd | edge of the City, like a charmless squatter.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are no fuddy-duddy; but it astonishes you to think that young
Floyd | people take for granted the ability to make in just hours journeys that
Floyd | used to take days. Your first trip to London, as a young apprentice,
Floyd | was partly by horse, partly on foot. It took you four days; now you
Floyd | could complete it in three hours. Today, however, for once, it is
Floyd | silent; just a few people like you hurrying to luncheon appointments.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your way lies to the west of the station.
Floyd |
Floyd | The man you saw in Smithfield is still ahead of you, and heading west
Floyd | himself.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a man here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x man" 		
	

Floyd | It's hard to say from this distance, but he is definitely wearing an
Floyd | Astrakhan coat, with a low hat pulled down low over his head, and you
Floyd | are more and more certain that it is Mordecai. He is walking west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Paulinus exclaims, "that's a bug too!" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x terminus" 		
	

Floyd | A brand new looking yellow-brick barn, already stained with soot,
Floyd | London terminus of the Great Western Railway.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "ne" 		
	

Floyd | You need to head west, since the clock on the station already tells you
Floyd | that you are some quarter of an hour behind yourself. By railway time!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "heehee 'You cannot accustom yourself to Mr Brunel's vast railway terminus' is great." 	
			ASchultz says, "An easy one to hammer out though" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x train" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x tracks" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x man" 		
	

Floyd | It's hard to say from this distance, but he is definitely wearing an
Floyd | Astrakhan coat, with a low hat pulled down low over his head, and you
Floyd | are more and more certain that it is Mordecai. He is walking west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC asks, "What's a bug?" 	
			ASchultz says, "Oops right we already did that" 	
			ASchultz says, "I'm just looking for stuff to observe before moving on" 	
			Paulinus says, "the redundant description of "a man"" 	
			ChrisC says, "Oh, I didn't even notice, heh." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | A street in Saint Pancras
Floyd | The journey to Cratchit's is a Grand Tour of Railway Station
Floyd | architecture, and here we pass from Yorkshire Monolithic to the
Floyd | Classical. Euston Arch stands ahead, guarding the Euston Railway
Floyd | Terminus. Sooty, dirty, under this thin winter English sun it looks
Floyd | nothing at all like you imagine the Parthenon to be (when -- and it is
Floyd | rarely indeed -- you give any thought to such things); or rather it
Floyd | looks quite exactly and forlornly like some exotic Greek goddess
Floyd | transported in her indecent shift to spend the winter in the London
Floyd | sleet. Opposite it the goddess's older sister, St Pancras New Church,
Floyd | shivers just as uncomfortably. Your way lies north now, towards Camden
Floyd | and Bob Cratchit's house.
Floyd |
Floyd | The suspicious man in the astrakhan coat is still in sight. He does
Floyd | not, as by now you half expected him to, head north, but disappears
Floyd | into an alley to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x house" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x arch" 		
	

Floyd | A moment of misanthropic delight seizes you as you look at the great
Floyd | thing, dumped down like a great exotic beast in the middle of the
Floyd | London suburbs. What can they have been thinking, those men of business
Floyd | -- directors of the Railway Company -- to have commissioned and paid
Floyd | for it? You have not bought any shares in any railway companies, and
Floyd | you do not intend to do so, if this is how they would waste your money.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x church" 		
	

Floyd | You do not hold with these odd temples. Spires and towers, in the old
Floyd | style, homely and undesigned -- that is how churches should be. And
Floyd | although you have shed, these last ten years, many of your old habits,
Floyd | you cannot help feeling a pang of disgust at the wastefulness of the
Floyd | money spent on something so unnecessarily ugly -- so unnecessary,
Floyd | period. You allow yourself (under your breath) a brief "Bah, humbug!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Yay! A 'humbug'" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "nw" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz asks, "I'd like to try going NE--anyone w/anything else to do here?" 	
			Tale says, "not me" 	
			Limax says, "I want to go to the ball" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Just enjoying watching." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "ne" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Alleyway, near St Pancras
Floyd | Jerry-built tenements close in all sides of this blind alley. Here,
Floyd | there is no sign of Christmas cheer; just grimy windows, unwashed
Floyd | doorsteps, scraps and trash thrown anywhere in the street. You can see
Floyd | nobody at all; the place is quite deserted. The only way out is
Floyd | southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x trash" 		
	

Floyd | The detritus of London life.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x windows" 		
	

Floyd | This is an awful looking district. You shudder to think what depravity
Floyd | lurks within the high yellow-grey houses.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd | The only way out is back to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "sw" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | A street in Saint Pancras
Floyd | Euston Arch stands ahead, guarding the Euston Railway Terminus. Sooty,
Floyd | dirty, under this thin winter English sun it looks nothing at all like
Floyd | you imagine the Parthenon to be (when -- and it is rarely indeed -- you
Floyd | give any thought to such things); or rather it looks quite exactly and
Floyd | forlornly like some exotic Greek goddess transported in her indecent
Floyd | shift to spend the winter in the London sleet. Opposite it the
Floyd | goddess's older sister, St Pancras New Church, shivers just as
Floyd | uncomfortably. Your way lies north now, towards Camden and Bob
Floyd | Cratchit's house.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "say ok, we can't follow him" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | A street in Camden
Floyd | The flagstones are covered in frost, and on the identical doorsteps of
Floyd | the identical houses in this neatly nondescript street. You stand
Floyd | outside number 17. Cast iron railings surround a basement area, painted
Floyd | black like every other house; a neat front door and whitened step. It
Floyd | is the house where your clerk, Bob Cratchit, lives with his family. The
Floyd | great City lies to the south. Steps lead down to the basement area.
Floyd |
Floyd | Someone has dropped a sixpenny piece on the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "get sixpenny" 		
	

Floyd | You take the sixpence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a candle
Floyd |   a Christmas card
Floyd |   a door key
Floyd |   a letter
Floyd |   a package
Floyd |   a sixpence
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "d" 		
	

Floyd | Down to the basement? But why? You are a guest, and a gentleman, and
Floyd | the front door is the door for you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "knock" 		
	

Floyd | (the door)
Floyd | The door opens, and Bob Cratchit opens it. "Merry Christmas, Mr
Floyd | Scrooge", he says. "You must be half frozen. Come in and warm by the
Floyd | fire downstairs." He leads you through a tidy hall, down some
Floyd | precipitous steps and into the back parlour. "Come and join me in a
Floyd | glass of punch, Sir," he says.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The Cratchits' back parlour
Floyd | There is, of course, a front parlour; but it is more or less kept for
Floyd | weddings, christenings, funerals and the reception of grand, august,
Floyd | unfamiliar and official visitors. But you are an old friend, for whom
Floyd | the cosy back parlour will do much better.
Floyd |
Floyd | A bright, clear fire burns in the grate. Mrs Cratchit has followed the
Floyd | latest fashion, and a fir tree decorated with ribbons, tinsel, sugared
Floyd | almonds and paper snowflakes stands in one corner of the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mrs Cratchit's canary is in a cage in one corner of the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bob stands before the hearth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x canary" 		
	

Floyd | The little yellow bird is hopping around from perch to perch.
Floyd |
Floyd | "He's a queer little chap," says Bob, "and he's Mrs Cratchit's pride
Floyd | and joy. He gets up to all sorts of tricks. Would you believe it, he
Floyd | even likes a drop of sherry now and then, or a morsel of brandy. Mrs
Floyd | Cratchit will put it on her finger, and he just hops over and takes
Floyd | it."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "oh no--I think we need to feed the canary the laced booze" 	
			ASchultz says, "poor canary" 	
			ChrisC says, "Exactly" 	
			Tale says, "aw" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | The Cratchits' back parlour
Floyd | A bright, clear fire burns in the grate. Mrs Cratchit has followed the
Floyd | latest fashion, and a fir tree decorated with ribbons, tinsel, sugared
Floyd | almonds and paper snowflakes stands in one corner of the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Mrs Cratchit's canary is in a cage in one corner of the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bob stands before the hearth.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well now," says Bob, "let us have some punch to warm us while we wait
Floyd | for the ladies to return with lunch. Tim! Tim! Will you fetch us two
Floyd | glasses of claret cup from the bowl in the kitchen? And one for
Floyd | yourself if you care to join us."
Floyd |
Floyd | From the kitchen you hear Tim's reply, "Of course, father. I'll bring
Floyd | you some directly."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "or throw it in the fireplace. what was it? it was hinted" 	
			ChrisC says, "Doom III saves another life" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Mrs Cratchit and the girls (or at least such of them as are not
Floyd | already married and at home with their husbands) are across the road
Floyd | visiting a friend. I'm sure they will be back soon, and dinner won't be
Floyd | long in the making," Bob explains.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x tree" 		
	

Floyd | You have heard about these trees -- seen them in engravings in the
Floyd | papers, too -- but never seen one. Perhaps you are getting old, but the
Floyd | impression it leaves on you is not good. It is rather a short tree --
Floyd | hardly more than a sapling -- and it droops disconsolately in the heat
Floyd | of the fire. The decorations on it are pretty enough; but you cannot
Floyd | help preferring the more rough-and-ready decorations of your childhood
Floyd | (the mistletoe, the boughs of holly and wreaths of ivy) over this
Floyd | glittering teutonic import.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tim comes in, bearing two cups of claret cup in pewter tankards. He
Floyd | hands one to you, and one to his father.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x hearth" 		
	

Floyd | Bob has heaped up a good warm coal fire in the black iron grate. It is
Floyd | burning hot and clear.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bob raises his mug. "A Merry Christmas, Mr Scrooge. And many more like
Floyd | them. Your very good health, Sir!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "give punch to canary" 		
	

Floyd | (your punch to the canary)
Floyd | You put a drop of punch on you finger and hold it through the bars. The
Floyd | little bird flutters down, and takes a drop. The effect is almost
Floyd | instantaneous. The bird shrieks, and falls over, stone dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bob looks concerned. "Oh my goodness me," he says, "what on earth is
Floyd | Mrs Cratchit going to say. I simply cannot understand it, the poor
Floyd | little thing is generally fond of a drop or two. What can have done
Floyd | it."
Floyd |
Floyd | Tim is even more anxious. "Oh Sir!" he says. "Do not drink a drop of
Floyd | that punch. I did not mean any harm, I swear; I only did what I thought
Floyd | best. I meant to hurt nobody."
Floyd |
Floyd | The whole story comes out then. How Tim met a stranger, who told him
Floyd | that by putting a drop of a strange, green liquid in the punch he would
Floyd | prevent disaster befalling his family; how he did as he was told,
Floyd | expecting nothing but good to come of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | And so the story ends. Bob becomes a partner in the firm; Tim is saved
Floyd | from a life of addiction and misery. And Mordecai? Well, who knows. You
Floyd | like to think that he saw his plan fail. You would like to think that
Floyd | he repented and reformed; but whatever his fate, at least ...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You saved yourself, Bob and Tiny Tim ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move or
Floyd | QUIT?
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Huzzah." 	
			Tale says, "Woo" 	
			ASchultz says, "Very nice. I enjoyed this a lot." 	
			TheXenographer says, "Yeah, it was a really well-done game." 	
			Paulinus says, "thanks" 	
			Limax asks, "It's over already?" 	
			Tale says, "Cool." 	
			ChrisC asks, "Me too. Is that the best ending, or is there a way to do something directly with mordecai?" 	
			Limax says, "It looked like you were still in the thick of things" 	
			ASchultz says, "let me know if you want betatesting on the updated version. I bet lots of people would be glad to" 	
			JamesPKing says, "if it was a comp, this would have won. very, very nice" 	
			Paulinus says, "There is a way to get mordecai, but there is a bug." 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Are you planning to do a rerelease?" 	
			JamesPKing asks, "so, how much time to code?" 	
			Paulinus says, "You need the shoes, but if you wear them for some reason they disappear." 	
			Paulinus says, "I found out last Monday, but thought it would be unfair to correct it." 	
			Tale says, "Heh, but it would've been within the rules." 	
			ChrisC exclaims, "No way!" 	
			Paulinus says, "I think I will try to polish it now. I coded it over Christmas, sort of between 20th and 30th." 	
			JamesPKing says, "very nice job" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Yes, this was lovely." 	
			JamesPKing says, "i want to replay it as i lost the midgame" 	
			ASchultz asks, "Yes. This was fun. One more then?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Yes." 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" 		
	

Floyd |

		
	Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" 		Paulinus says, "It's really good to watch it played. Thanks everyone." 	
			JamesPKing says, "so, jacq, please, don't wait six months to post these games, this time :P" 	
			ChrisC says, "^^" 	
			JamesPKing says, ")if it's up to you)" 	
			Jacqueline says, "heh - these are Tale's to post, not mine." 	
			Jacqueline says, "I am just the CF mod, not the speed organizer this tome." 	
			Jacqueline says, "er, time" 	
			Tale says, "I'll put them up on IFDB next year" 	
			JamesPKing says, "AH! when we done I have a question for publishing in IFDB" 	
			Tale says, "Er, week! WEEK!" 	
			JamesPKing says, "hahaha" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load psisilenceofgods" 		
	

Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The Gods are not mute. If you can't hear their voice, it's because they
Floyd | spend a lot of time thinking. Ages. Millennia. The answers they are
Floyd | looking for are hard to get.
Floyd |
Floyd | So, they need time. And time alone, that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | When the thinking comes to an end, the Gods speak. And once they have
Floyd | spoken, they have spoken. And their answer is ultimate.

		Tale says (to jpk), "Shoot" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "What I am curious about is what the release year is for these. I guess it's technically 2012? Even though you sent the files to me in 2011, or ?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Just curious in case one were to consider one for a nomination to a certain comp..." 	
			ChrisC says, "This filename should totally be psilenceofthegods" 	
			ChrisC asks, "It's a new year's comp and the games were finished in 2011 -- seems clearly 2011 to me?" 	
			Tale says, "Hm. Hmmm. Hmmmm.I'd say '12, to be honest." 	
			ASchultz says (to tale), "next Chinese year would not be too long of a delay" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The Silence of the Gods
Floyd | A New Year's Speed-IF by Adele Riquefort
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 111230 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Smokey Garage (on the steel chair)
Floyd | You are tied hands and feet to this cold chair, a pool of water
Floyd | freezing under you. A thin layer of smoke dances on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | You always knew you were going to die, sooner or later. What you hoped
Floyd | for, though, was that your pants weren't the only thing you worn.
Floyd |
Floyd | Three scugnizzi are looking at you, inexpressive smiles on their faces.
Floyd |
Floyd | Rudolph Mancini is here, cleaning his nails with a knife.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Well, they didn't go public until 2012, is the thing." 	
			Tale says, "But I wont stand in the way of XYZZY nominations." 	
			ChrisC says, "Ah, the different meanings possible for 'release'. Hmmm." 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x me" 		
	

Floyd | You're carrying nothing. You are wearing your pants.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You know, I'm not the kind of Vito Corleone", says Rudolph Mancini. He
Floyd | keeps picking at his nails with the knife, avoiding eye contact. "I'm
Floyd | really not into Vito Corleone's methods."
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel a bit relieved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "x scugnizzi" 		
	

Floyd | Johnny, Tony and Zachary. Their suits cost more than your car. They
Floyd | wear all the same model of sunglasses. Their faces have been cut in the
Floyd | same places. It's sad those butt-mushes are the last things you will be
Floyd | seeing.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'm more of the Micheal type, you know."
Floyd |
Floyd | Something cold drops in your stomach.
Floyd |
Floyd | "All those loyalties, the Honor -- with the capital H --, the Family...
Floyd | I found those being just a loss of time. And money."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pants" 		
	

Floyd | Your most beloved light-blue boxers. On them, white dolphins jump
Floyd | cheerful.
Floyd |
Floyd | "One has to come to terms with the fact that, sooner or later, if you
Floyd | don't keep your dogs well chained... well, they tend to bite you. Do
Floyd | you get it?"
Floyd |
Floyd | As he lifts his face from the knife and its carving, you feel your
Floyd | balls retracting, like the head of a slug. Mancini sends a glance at
Floyd | Tony, the bigger of his scugnizzi, and another bucketful of gelid water
Floyd | splashes on your head and torso.
Floyd | This time, it takes you almost a minute to recover.
Floyd |
Floyd | The pool at your feet is becoming the more and more solid.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh. That sort of pants." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x dolphins" 		
	

Floyd | Your most beloved light-blue boxers. On them, white dolphins jump
Floyd | cheerful.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You are not going to get a cold, do you?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You stare at Mancini's eyes, finally turned at you. You try to hold the
Floyd | shivers.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Cause that would spoil all the fun, you know. You dying of a goddamn
Floyd | cold." A burst of laughter, copycatted by the three scugnizzi. "Let's
Floyd | get back to the point. You understand what I'm trying to make clear,
Floyd | here?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You silently nod.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Paulinus says, "There's a lot of genital action going on today." 	
			Limax coughs 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "talk to mancini" 		
	

Floyd | It's lecture time.
Floyd |
Floyd | "That door. Man, there were not many rules, weren't they? You did open
Floyd | that door, did you?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Another glance to the sidekicks, and another splash of water. Then,
Floyd | Zachary leaves and comes back, what it looks like a big, portable radio
Floyd | in his left hand. On the right one, two electrical wires dangle like
Floyd | hangmen.
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel your sight begin to blur.
Floyd |
Floyd | Then, it all goes black.

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "panic" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow Gangway
Floyd | A multitude of tiny portraits, pictures and drawings hangs on the walls
Floyd | of this corridor. The wallpaper is old and scratched, pieces of it
Floyd | ripped aside like thorn skin. The place is very different from the rest
Floyd | of the affluent mansion.
Floyd |
Floyd | A door leaves the house to the north, while two more open to the west
Floyd | and south. A staircase climbs upstairs to the second floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | Another small, wooden door stands at the side of the stairs, leading
Floyd | downstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x me" 		
	

Floyd | You're carrying a gun. You are wearing a pair of trousers and a worn
Floyd | shirt.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x gun" 		
	

Floyd | A Beretta Parabellum. Old, but still useful.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x shirt" 		
	

Floyd | Black. A sort of Mancini's henchmen regimentals.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x trousers" 		
	

Floyd | These must be as old as yourself.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pants" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Narrow Gangway
Floyd | A multitude of tiny portraits, pictures and drawings hangs on the walls
Floyd | of this corridor. The wallpaper is old and scratched, pieces of it
Floyd | ripped aside like thorn skin. The place is very different from the rest
Floyd | of the affluent mansion.
Floyd |
Floyd | A door leaves the house to the north, while two more open to the west
Floyd | and south. A staircase climbs upstairs to the second floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | Another small, wooden door stands at the side of the stairs, leading
Floyd | downstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "darn I was hoping the shirt would say "I killed my father and all I got was this lousy t-shirt" ... in Italian" 	
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "x pictures" 		
	

Floyd | Memories from Mancini's lineage. You notice that, among the people
Floyd | portrayed, there is no trace of him. It feels like these are someone
Floyd | else's records.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x wallpaper" 		
	

Floyd | Flowers, small and green, line one on top of the other on a beige
Floyd | background.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "lousy house" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "I am always disapointed when the response isn't "delightful."" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW arrives, full of fun and funk. 		Tale asks, "So, are we in flashback territory?" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Seems that way." 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Narrow Gangway
Floyd | A multitude of tiny portraits, pictures and drawings hangs on the walls
Floyd | of this corridor. The wallpaper is old and scratched, pieces of it
Floyd | ripped aside like thorn skin. The place is very different from the rest
Floyd | of the affluent mansion.
Floyd |
Floyd | A door leaves the house to the north, while two more open to the west
Floyd | and south. A staircase climbs upstairs to the second floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | Another small, wooden door stands at the side of the stairs, leading
Floyd | downstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale asks, "So, exploration time?" 	
	Paulinus says (to Floyd), "look through small door" 		
	

Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "Oh man, one of the top responses for googling "delightful wallpaper" is a michael jackson desktop background" 	
			ASchultz says, "sounds good" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Hahaha." 	
			JamesPKing says, "hahahah" 	
			JamesPKing says, "it's the second time one calls forth MJ, tonight" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x stairs" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | The spacious abode is filled by light coming from the ample windows.
Floyd | Sofas and armchairs rest like kids around a fire, looking at the short
Floyd | table between them. A large fireplace dominates the northern wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | The wall-mounted Family's safe decors a square yard on the west wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x safe" 		
	

Floyd | A touchpad is the only visible detail on its surface. As far as you
Floyd | know, a four-digit code is required to open it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x touchpad" 		
	

Floyd | A touchpad is the only visible detail on its surface. As far as you
Floyd | know, a four-digit code is required to open it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Isn't Delightful Wallpaper that story about - oh, wait, no that's the Yellow Wallpaper." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x fireplace" 		
	

Floyd | It is off and no wood is waiting inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "(so tired. tries to get eyes to focus)" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search fireplace" 		
	

Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "Okay, that's it for me." 	
			JamesPKing says, "bye Tale" 	
			ASchultz exclaims, "'Night Tale--thanks for organizing this!" 	
			genericgeekgirl exclaims, "Bye, Tale. Thanks!" 	
			JamesPKing says, "yeah it was impressive" 	
			Limax says, "Night, Tale" 	
			Paulinus says, "Bye, Tale. Thanks." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search sofa" 		
	

Floyd | There is nothing on the sofas.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "Have fun with this one. If anyone asks, I'll upload them next week with a '11 release date" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Night, Tale." 	
			DavidW says, "hi Tale. bye Tale" 	
			ChrisC says (to Jacqueline), "Yes! I read that in english lit freshman year and always thought of it whenever delightful wallpaper was mentioned" 	
			Tale says (to dw), ">WEAR GLASSES" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "about" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax says, "I liked delightful wallpaper" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "Thanks to all the authors. This was a great one! I nearly didn't do it. Now I'm so glad I did." 	
			Limax says, "I thought there were multiple endings with that, but I never found them" 	
			Tale grins. 	
	Tale is fired from breathing. 		
	Tale has disconnected. 		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | The spacious abode is filled by light coming from the ample windows.
Floyd | Sofas and armchairs rest like kids around a fire, looking at the short
Floyd | table between them. A large fireplace dominates the northern wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | The wall-mounted Family's safe decors a square yard on the west wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x fireplace" 		
	

Floyd | It is off and no wood is waiting inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "start fireplace" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x table" 		
	

Floyd | A smoking table, five feet each side. No ashtray, though.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter fireplace" 		
	

Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax asks, "What was the theme today? I see no bb message?" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look under table" 		
	

Floyd | You discover a small box, forgotten there who knows when.
Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | The spacious abode is filled by light coming from the ample windows.
Floyd | Sofas and armchairs rest like kids around a fire, looking at the short
Floyd | table between them. A large fireplace dominates the northern wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | The wall-mounted Family's safe decors a square yard on the west wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can also see a copy of Doom III here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax says, "s/?/./" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "The rest of the New Year's Speed IF games." 	
			Limax says, "Ah" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "get doom 3" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x doom 3" 		
	

Floyd | A vintage game, from the era when graphics were more valuable than
Floyd | text.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "open doom 3" 		
	

Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "open safe" 		
	

Floyd | It seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "Ah, I wondered if Tale was Taleslinger but never asked" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open game" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "unlock safe" 		
	

Floyd | What do you want to unlock the safe with?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x safe" 		
	

Floyd | A touchpad is the only visible detail on its surface. As far as you
Floyd | know, a four-digit code is required to open it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax says, "He is" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "unlock safe with 1771" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax says, "He shortened it on here to save keybaords" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x touchpad" 		
	

Floyd | A touchpad is the only visible detail on its surface. As far as you
Floyd | know, a four-digit code is required to open it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "touch code" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 1234" 		
	

Floyd | What do you want to type that on?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "touchpad" 		
	

Floyd | There is a faint buzz and nothing else.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Ah good--now we know how to do that. Thanks DavidW" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "read doom" 		
	

Floyd | A vintage game, from the era when graphics were more valuable than
Floyd | text.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "great. we have to find a code it seems" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "open doom" 		
	

Floyd | That's not something you can open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Onward?" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 2012 on touchpad" 		
	

Floyd | There is a faint buzz and nothing else.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "I vote to move on" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Good thought." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | The spacious abode is filled by light coming from the ample windows.
Floyd | Sofas and armchairs rest like kids around a fire, looking at the short
Floyd | table between them. A large fireplace dominates the northern wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | The wall-mounted Family's safe decors a square yard on the west wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "out" 		
	

Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "exit" 		
	

Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "yeah, we can go." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow Gangway
Floyd | A multitude of tiny portraits, pictures and drawings hangs on the walls
Floyd | of this corridor. The wallpaper is old and scratched, pieces of it
Floyd | ripped aside like thorn skin. The place is very different from the rest
Floyd | of the affluent mansion.
Floyd |
Floyd | A door leaves the house to the north, while two more open to the west
Floyd | and south. A staircase climbs upstairs to the second floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | Another small, wooden door stands at the side of the stairs, leading
Floyd | downstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "South first, and then try other floors?" 	
			ASchultz says, "Any preferences? I vote up" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "peel wallpaper" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" 		
	

Floyd | That's fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Paulinus says, "Up seems as good as anything." 	
			Paulinus says, "Or south." 	
			ChrisC says, "I haven't been following closely enough to get the architecture" 	
			ASchultz says, "You can go u/d/n/w/s from the gangway" 	
			DavidW says, "I just got here, so I dunno." 	
			DavidW says, "What's a gangway? About two tons." 	
			ASchultz says, "I would bet U and D don't have many rooms attached--generally not big basements or attics in game" 	
			JamesPKing says, "that's a lot of exits" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "go east" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "Ha." 	
			ChrisC says, "Yeah, up is fine." 	
			JamesPKing says, "infact that was the only exit Ashultz didn't mention" 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "u" 		
	

Floyd | Upper floors are for the Family and the scugnizzi. You don't want to go
Floyd | there and risk being found by Tony or Johnny. Their jokes on you are
Floyd | usually too hard to digest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "'scugnizzi'?" 	
			ASchultz says, "Well that's one eliminated quickly" 	
			genericgeekgirl asks, "South?" 	
			JamesPKing says, "i think author meant "scugnizzo"s. its the boys in Naples" 	
			ASchultz asks, "[LINK] ?" 	
			ASchultz says, "Let's go south, yeah" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | A small room, no space left for a table or anything. Just a stove, the
Floyd | burners and a sink.
Floyd |
Floyd | A dumbwaiter cuts an empty rectangle in the east wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the counter beside the burners sits a bowl of fresh fruit.
Floyd |
Floyd | Grandma Elisella is here, tending to the kitchen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sight of the old lady still gives you mixed feelings after all
Floyd | these years. You have been one of the Mancinis for a long time, as long
Floyd | as you can recall. Still, her frigid glance is something you can't
Floyd | quite digest. She has always had that way of making you feel a lesser
Floyd | part of the brood. Like being adopted was a sort of handicap.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x fruit" 		
	

Floyd | Oranges and apples, mostly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take fruit" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x woman" 		
	

Floyd | A very old woman, Elisella is Rudolph and Gianni's mother. Once her
Floyd | husband Fortunato has died, she ended up in the kitchen, where she
Floyd | passes the days alongside garlic and olive oil. You can't tell how much
Floyd | of her fate was her to choose rather than imposed by her sons.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x dumbwaiter" 		
	

Floyd | There is only a button, on which an arrow points downwards. You wonder
Floyd | where does this go to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "wow that's a LOT of italians. im pleassed" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x stove" 		
	

Floyd | The old kind, with the burners on top.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "heh" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take bowl" 		
	

Floyd | You already have that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to woman" 		
	

Floyd | Grandma Elisella does her best to avoid you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "give apple to woman" 		
	

Floyd | Grandma Elisella doesn't seem interested.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Aw." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter dumbwaiter" 		
	

Floyd | That's not something you can enter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing asks, "what's a dumbwaiter?" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Was there a constraint that you must include a family member that hates you?" 	
			ChrisC says, "A dumbwaiter that can't be entered is not a dumbwaiter worth having." 	
			Jacqueline says (to JPK), "It's a thing you use to move heavy objects between floors." 	
			DavidW says, "Elevator for food." 	
			JamesPKing says, "oh" 	
			ChrisC says, "Mini elevator." 	
			Jacqueline says, "It's like a manual elevator. You put stuff in it, then use the rope to lift or lower." 	
			DavidW says, "Some elevators are electronic." 	
			JamesPKing says, "i thought it was a dumb... waiter. you know: you ask for coke and he gets you beer" 	
			ASchultz says (to jacqueline), "an evil twin, yes" 	
			TheXenographer says (to Jacq), "I think most of that comes from the evil twin... yeah what ASchultz said." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "throw applke at woman" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "throw apple at woman" 		
	

Floyd | You lack the nerve when it comes to the crucial moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says (to jpk), "nice. I think it may be more dumb=silent" 	
			Jacqueline says, "But this old woman is not our twin... I guess she's someone else's twin, though, possibly." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press button" 		
	

Floyd | The dumbwaiter is empty. Maybe you should put something in it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You're carrying a bowl of fruit, a copy of Doom III and a gun. You are
Floyd | wearing a pair of trousers and a worn shirt.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "put gun in dumbwaiter" 		
	

Floyd | That should be used to send food.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "I guess we should see what's downstairs." 	
			DavidW says, "I think it's more common for the kitchen to be below the dining hall where dumbwaiters are involved." 	
			ChrisC says, "Awww." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "put apple in dumbwaiter" 		
	

Floyd | You send the fruits downstairs, and wait.
Floyd |
Floyd | A minute later, the bowl returns, empty. A strong curiosity about where
Floyd | it has been fills you, as you grab it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Perhaps the dumbwaiter is a way to get something past a guard. Like, maybe you can't take the gun downstairs?" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "There's a restaurant in Ithaca like this, with the kitchen upstairs and everything is sent via dumbwaiter." 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You're carrying an empty bowl, a copy of Doom III and a gun. You are
Floyd | wearing a pair of trousers and a worn shirt.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bowl" 		
	

Floyd | This is where the fruit stood... before someone took it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ha" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put gun in bowl" 		
	

Floyd | You put the gun into the empty bowl.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put fruit in bowl" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Wasn't paying attention. Was going to try covering it with the fruit." 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "put bowl in dumbwaiter" 		
	

Floyd | The bowl is empty, now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take gun" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "Is not >:(" 	
			ASchultz asks, "That's worth a try. Maybe we can undo?" 	
			JamesPKing says, "we don't even know WHy we should try it" 	
			ASchultz says, "I didn't think of that--though I also think we can get back to where we were pretty quickly" 	
			djfletch says, "we should hide the gun in our pants so we'll have it when we get the first scene again." 	
			Jacqueline says (to JPK), "Clearly, we should do it because there is a dumbwaiter." 	
			DavidW says, "I missed the beginning of the game, so I haven't a clue what's going on." 	
	JamesPKing says, "yeah" 		genericgeekgirl says, "Because mob boys aren't going to frisk us. "Is that a gun in your pocket.."" 	
	JamesPKing says, "we were in a room with italians filling us with cold water and the boss lecturing us" 		
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "remove trousers" 		
	

Floyd | That would leave you in underwear. Something Rudy Mancini would call
Floyd | impolite.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		djfletch says, "bah" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "remove shirt" 		
	

Floyd | You don't mind showing yourself. Mancini does, though.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "djfletch No dice. We're not wearing pants, we're wearing trousers." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "We're wearing pants. Under the trousers." 	
			Paulinus says, "I think we have boxers with dolphins on them, do we not." 	
			ASchultz says, "I sent fruit down to the basement in a dumbwaiter but maybe I should've put a gun under the fruit" 	
			ASchultz asks, "I'd like to see what or who is in the basement. A fugitive?" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Should we restart?" 	
			genericgeekgirl asks, "Let's go downstairs first and see?" 	
			Jacqueline says (to DW), "You can always recap the Toyshop (which I generally forget to do)." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "It's the only exit we haven't tried (other than leaving the house)." 	
			ASchultz says, "I'd like to explore all the exits before restarting--we remember pretty much what to do" 	
			ASchultz says, "Unless other people want to get re-filled in on what's where and what's going on" 	
			JamesPKing says, "tbh we did nothing so far" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | A small room, no space left for a table or anything. Just a stove, the
Floyd | burners and a sink.
Floyd |
Floyd | A dumbwaiter cuts an empty rectangle in the east wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | Grandma Elisella is here, tending to the kitchen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x stove" 		
	

Floyd | The old kind, with the burners on top.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x burners" 		
	

Floyd | Four burners. No pots are bubbling over them.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put doom in dumbwaiter" 		
	

Floyd | That should be used to send food.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "switch stove" 		
	

Floyd | That's not something you can switch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "put gun in doom" 		
	

Floyd | That can't contain things.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x sink" 		
	

Floyd | A cracked ceramics sink.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "talk to grandma" 		
	

Floyd | Grandma Elisella does her best to avoid you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on sink" 		
	

Floyd | That's not something you can switch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "Ok, let's look around..." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow Gangway
Floyd | A multitude of tiny portraits, pictures and drawings hangs on the walls
Floyd | of this corridor. The wallpaper is old and scratched, pieces of it
Floyd | ripped aside like thorn skin. The place is very different from the rest
Floyd | of the affluent mansion.
Floyd |
Floyd | A door leaves the house to the north, while two more open to the west
Floyd | and south. A staircase climbs upstairs to the second floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | Another small, wooden door stands at the side of the stairs, leading
Floyd | downstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "d" 		
	

Floyd | You still tremble at the thought of what Don Mancini would do of you if
Floyd | he caught you down there... but the curiosity is too much. You open the
Floyd | door and dive into darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | (first opening the door to the cellars)
Floyd | Cellars
Floyd | A damp underground room, stone-paved and stone-walled.
Floyd |
Floyd | A few steps upwards, and there stands the wooden door.
Floyd |
Floyd | A bulky, metal door stands on the eastern wall, held by strong hinges
Floyd | like those of a castle's drawbridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | A mumbling of sorts comes from behind the bulky door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "listen" 		
	

Floyd | It is a woman's -- or rather a girl's -- voice, coming from behind the
Floyd | door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "open door" 		
	

Floyd | Which do you mean, the door to the cellars or the bulky door?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "bulky" 		
	

Floyd | It seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You're carrying a gun, an empty bowl and a copy of Doom III. You are
Floyd | wearing a pair of trousers and a worn shirt.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x cellars" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open door to cellars" 		
	

Floyd | Which do you mean, the door to the cellars or the bulky door?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cellars" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, we're in there." 	
			JamesPKing says, "ouch." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Odd for it to ask that, though." 	
			ASchultz says, "ok, so we need a combo to the safe and a key to the bulky door" 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "talk to the door" 		
	

Floyd | Which do you mean, the door to the cellars or the bulky door?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "cellars" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "listen to voice" 		
	

Floyd | It is a woman's -- or rather a girl's -- voice, coming from behind the
Floyd | door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "talk to the bulky" 		
	

Floyd | You knock at the door and a tiny voice comes from beyond it. "Who's
Floyd | there? Zachary?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You clear your throat. "Who are you?" you ask, hesitantly.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Zachary? Please would you let me out? Please. I know you are a good
Floyd | person..."
Floyd |
Floyd | For a long minute you look at the door, speechless. Then: "I'm no Zach.
Floyd | My name is Cesco. Francesco Mancini. Who are you?"
Floyd |
Floyd | The person at the other side of the door, her soft voice still muted by
Floyd | the hulking door, comes rattling at it. "Francesco!" She cries.
Floyd | "Please, lemme outta here. Please! I did harm no one!"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Who are you?" you insist. Then, the girl starts to cry. "Hey madam",
Floyd | you comfort her, "don't cry. There's no need. You are safe here... I
Floyd | think--."
Floyd |
Floyd | Then, the obvious strikes you. "Have you been... have you been...
Floyd | taken?"
Floyd |
Floyd | It is funny how you fail in giving things their right name, after all
Floyd | this time in the Mob. The girl's been kidnapped, that's what it is. She
Floyd | speaks again, this time her voice seems more resolute. "I know a thing.
Floyd | Go where Zachary and the rest of the goons hold their accounts. You
Floyd | must have a place like that, in this house of horrors. Go there and
Floyd | look for a safe, or a drawer. Somewhere where Zachary keeps a blue
Floyd | notebook. You will find your answers there. Go."
Floyd |
Floyd | You stand by the door, still speechless. An image of the secret diary
Floyd | of the older scugnizzo forms in your head. The studio upstairs: that's
Floyd | where he keeps it. "I'll do", you say. Then, as you are about to leave
Floyd | the cellars, the same question jumps from your mouth, this time a
Floyd | little less vigorously. "Who... are you?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'm your cousin, Cesco. I'm Hellen."
Floyd |
Floyd | A shiver so dense you could cut it with a knife takes hold of you as
Floyd | you run through the stairs and out of here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow Gangway
Floyd | A multitude of tiny portraits, pictures and drawings hangs on the walls
Floyd | of this corridor. The wallpaper is old and scratched, pieces of it
Floyd | ripped aside like thorn skin. The place is very different from the rest
Floyd | of the affluent mansion.
Floyd |
Floyd | A door leaves the house to the north, while two more open to the west
Floyd | and south. A staircase climbs upstairs to the second floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | Another small, wooden door stands at the side of the stairs, leading
Floyd | downstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "holy textdump" 	
			ASchultz says, "Well, ok, so maybe the key is in the safe too" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search portraits" 		
	

Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Can we see what happens if we leave the house?" 	
			ASchultz says, "I'd like to talk to the girl again but I sorta fear the textdump." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Maybe there's more outside." 	
			ASchultz says, "I'd like to" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hellen about safe" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "d" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Cellars
Floyd | A damp underground room, stone-paved and stone-walled.
Floyd |
Floyd | A few steps upwards, and there stands the wooden door.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hellen's voice comes from behind the bulky door, muted by its weight.
Floyd |
Floyd | A bulky, metal door stands on the eastern wall, held by strong hinges
Floyd | like those of a castle's drawbridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	JamesPKing asks, "hellen about safe" 		
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "ask hellen about safe" 		
	

Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "talk to bulky door" 		
	

Floyd | "Please, help me."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "hellen, hello" 		
	

Floyd | You can't talk to Hellen's voice.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "I'm all for going north now" 	
	JamesPKing says (to Floyd), "ask hellen about me" 		
	

Floyd | "You are Francesco. I remember your voice. It has not changed that much
Floyd | since we were young. Please, please, lemme out."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "knock" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask hellen about zachary" 		
	

Floyd | "Zachary is the one who gets me food. The other scugnizzi I've barely
Floyd | seen."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz asks, "maybe 1 last thing, anything we can slip under the door?" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hellen about food" 		
	

Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hellen about dumbwaiter" 		
	

Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "ask hellen about grandma" 		
	

Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "ask hellen about scugnuzzi" 		
	

Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "ask hellen about hellen" 		
	

Floyd | "I'm Hellen Benelli. The scugnizzi have taken my down here. You MUST
Floyd | help me."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "hellen, get in dumbwaiter" 		
	

Floyd | You can't talk to Hellen's voice.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "ask hellen about scugnizzi" 		
	

Floyd | "Zachary is the one who gets me food. The other scugnizzi I've barely
Floyd | seen."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "ask hellen about food" 		
	

Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "ask her about zachary" 		
	

Floyd | "Zachary is the one who gets me food. The other scugnizzi I've barely
Floyd | seen."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask hellen about notebook" 		
	

Floyd | "They killed my father. And then kidnapped me. You know what they say
Floyd | about Mancini? That he gets his enemies" sons and daughters as his own
Floyd | after he got rid of them. You are no different."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "ask hellen about key" 		
	

Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "ask hellen about safe" 		
	

Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "ask hellen about" 		
	

Floyd | You can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hellen about door" 		
	

Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "ask hellen about records" 		
	

Floyd | There is no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "give doom 3 to hellen" 		
	

Floyd | You can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "Should I be surprised that the constraints produced only one mob game?" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Or thankful?" 	
			ChrisC says, "It is interesting how many people skipped the italians entirely" 	
			JamesPKing says, "maybe both" 	
			genericgeekgirl asks, "Up and north?" 	
			djfletch says, "I'm surprised there was only one Christmas Carol adaptation." 	
			JamesPKing says, "yeah, they hate us" 	
			genericgeekgirl asks, "I didn't play last week. Were there any tanning beds?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Yes" 	
			JamesPKing says, "one. maybe two" 	
			Paulinus says, "Yes, there were." 	
			ChrisC exclaims (at ggg), "My game opened inside of one!" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Awesome. Looking forward to playing the ones I missed when Tale posts them." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Anyway. Doing so, if there are no objections." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow Gangway
Floyd | A multitude of tiny portraits, pictures and drawings hangs on the walls
Floyd | of this corridor. The wallpaper is old and scratched, pieces of it
Floyd | ripped aside like thorn skin. The place is very different from the rest
Floyd | of the affluent mansion.
Floyd |
Floyd | A door leaves the house to the north, while two more open to the west
Floyd | and south. A staircase climbs upstairs to the second floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | Another small, wooden door stands at the side of the stairs, leading
Floyd | downstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd | You eye the front door, then decide you better stay here, until Don
Floyd | Mancini arrives.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, fine." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You're carrying a gun, an empty bowl and a copy of Doom III. You are
Floyd | wearing a pair of trousers and a worn shirt.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search trousers" 		
	

Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x shirt" 		
	

Floyd | Black. A sort of Mancini's henchmen regimentals.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		djfletch asks, "Would Grandma know the safe combination?" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search shirt" 		
	

Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look at bottom of bowl" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		djfletch asks, "or could we take her as a hostage to bargain with?" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Maybe, but she won't talk to us." 	
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "x bowl" 		
	

Floyd | This is where the fruit stood... before someone took it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Paulinus says, "Grandma seems reluctant to talk to us." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | A small room, no space left for a table or anything. Just a stove, the
Floyd | burners and a sink.
Floyd |
Floyd | A dumbwaiter cuts an empty rectangle in the east wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | Grandma Elisella is here, tending to the kitchen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "shoot elisella" 		
	

Floyd | Aren't we a little trigger happy?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "point gun at elisella" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		JamesPKing says, "isnt the diary upstairs? i think ive read it before, in the textdump" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "threaten elisella with gun" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		djfletch says, "I suppose it might let us go upstairs now we have a mission." 	
			ChrisC says (to jpk), "Yes, upstairs studio is where it is." 	
	Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. 		genericgeekgirl says, "Hey, Ell. Great game." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow Gangway
Floyd | A multitude of tiny portraits, pictures and drawings hangs on the walls
Floyd | of this corridor. The wallpaper is old and scratched, pieces of it
Floyd | ripped aside like thorn skin. The place is very different from the rest
Floyd | of the affluent mansion.
Floyd |
Floyd | A door leaves the house to the north, while two more open to the west
Floyd | and south. A staircase climbs upstairs to the second floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | Another small, wooden door stands at the side of the stairs, leading
Floyd | downstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "up" 		
	

Floyd | You climb the stairs two steps at a time, resolute in discovering more
Floyd | about the girl in the basement.
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | One room interests you, on this floor. The studio, where Don Mancini
Floyd | uses to deal with his affairs and his minions, opens to the south.
Floyd | Stairways descend to the ground floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | It seems no one is in the house, at the moment. All is silent.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ah." 	
			Ellison says, "thanks, glad to hear it!" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Good call." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Yeah, fun writing, Ellison/" 	
	JamesPKing says, "brb" 		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Studio
Floyd | A vast room, mainly surrounded by bookshelves. All of the furniture is
Floyd | a mix of old and new, different styles mixing in a showcase-like
Floyd | pout-pourri. A massive chartreuse bureau catches you attention, his
Floyd | lower drawer left slightly open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x drawer" 		
	

Floyd | In the bottom drawer is a blue notebook.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Ellison says, "for those who didn't recognize it, it takes direct inspiration from the Infocom game, Arthur" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take notebook" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "read notebook" 		
	

Floyd | Inside the notebook you find some photos, depicting the most renowned
Floyd | adversaries of Rudolph Mancini. One of the pictures is clutched to a
Floyd | paper sheet. You recognize Zachary's handwriting.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Took the girl. Bossed Benelli. He didn't want to lay down. Had to lay
Floyd | him down. Put the girl in the cell. Asked Father. Said he will look up
Floyd | on it. Another 'sister'?".
Floyd |
Floyd | You stroll through the pages. On the very last one, another note bears
Floyd | a number, handwritten by Rudy himself: "4876".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x bureau" 		
	

Floyd | It's gigantic proportions well suit Mancini's outstanding ego. The
Floyd | bottom drawer is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x furniture" 		
	

Floyd | This room must have been designed by a fool or a madman. Or by one with
Floyd | a gargantuan Ego.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x bookshelves" 		
	

Floyd | A ton of books, all fiction. Stephen King alongside Umberto Eco and --
Floyd | although it looks like a bad joke -- all Mario Puzo's. On the shelves
Floyd | even some of the fairy tales you used to read when a boy, like "Your
Floyd | Mum's Shoes", "My Enemy Tiny Tim" and "The Smell of my Evil Twin".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ha." 	
			Jacqueline says, "haha" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Well, got those out of the way." 	
			genericgeekgirl asks, "Down to the safe?" 	
			ASchultz says, "Yeah, now we got the combo" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | One room interests you, on this floor. The studio, where Don Mancini
Floyd | uses to deal with his affairs and his minions, opens to the south.
Floyd | Stairways descend to the ground floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "d" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow Gangway
Floyd | A multitude of tiny portraits, pictures and drawings hangs on the walls
Floyd | of this corridor. The wallpaper is old and scratched, pieces of it
Floyd | ripped aside like thorn skin. The place is very different from the rest
Floyd | of the affluent mansion.
Floyd |
Floyd | A door leaves the house to the north, while two more open to the west
Floyd | and south. A staircase climbs upstairs to the second floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | Another small, wooden door stands at the side of the stairs, leading
Floyd | downstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | The spacious abode is filled by light coming from the ample windows.
Floyd | Sofas and armchairs rest like kids around a fire, looking at the short
Floyd | table between them. A large fireplace dominates the northern wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | The wall-mounted Family's safe decors a square yard on the west wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "type 4876 on touchpad" 		
	

Floyd | You type the number on the touchpad, and the safe unlocks and opens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x safe" 		
	

Floyd | A touchpad is the only visible detail on its surface. As far as you
Floyd | know, a four-digit code is required to open it. The safe is open,
Floyd | revealing a photo album and a large iron key.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the safe are a photo album and a large iron key.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take album" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take key" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x album" 		
	

Floyd | You slowly turn each page of the album.
Floyd |
Floyd | The first are no more than ancient daguerrotypes of the Italian town
Floyd | from which the Mancinis came, more than one hundred years ago. Funny
Floyd | looking women wearing full black dresses and men in a hat. Then, as the
Floyd | pages go by, the pictures become younger and more vivid. Around the
Floyd | middle of the tome, you scout Rudolph Mancini with his family, a shot
Floyd | taken in the Fifties, all lined up like soldiers during the gathering
Floyd | -- he had personal records, somehow. Those go on for a few turnings of
Floyd | the page.
Floyd |
Floyd | Almost at the end, the photos change abruptly.
Floyd |
Floyd | These don't belong here. Other families. Some of the pictures are torn,
Floyd | other crippled. One, a shoot from the Eighties, is bloodstained and it
Floyd | catches your attention. It depicts a family you've seen many times,
Floyd | over the years. The Benellis. One branch of the family, the one
Floyd | spreading from Vittorio, the big one. He's brother to Vincente, the one
Floyd | Zachary must have put to rest these days. You stare at the pic, and a
Floyd | whole new world opens before you, while the old one opens below.
Floyd |
Floyd | The little kid, on a three wheeler. His eyes. That uncomfortable flock,
Floyd | which never stood where it should. And that t-shirt, with Pagliacci on
Floyd | it, the famous clown.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hey, Clown", you hear Tony and Johnny call you, in your head. And all
Floyd | of a sudden, darkness enters the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x darkness" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | The spacious abode is filled by light coming from the ample windows.
Floyd | Sofas and armchairs rest like kids around a fire, looking at the short
Floyd | table between them. A large fireplace dominates the northern wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | The wall-mounted Family's safe decors a square yard on the west wall.
Floyd | The safe is open, revealing nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x key" 		
	

Floyd | Looks... bulky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz asks, "use the key to release the girl?" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow Gangway
Floyd | A multitude of tiny portraits, pictures and drawings hangs on the walls
Floyd | of this corridor. The wallpaper is old and scratched, pieces of it
Floyd | ripped aside like thorn skin. The place is very different from the rest
Floyd | of the affluent mansion.
Floyd |
Floyd | A door leaves the house to the north, while two more open to the west
Floyd | and south. A staircase climbs upstairs to the second floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | Another small, wooden door stands at the side of the stairs, leading
Floyd | downstairs.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "d" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Cellars
Floyd | A damp underground room, stone-paved and stone-walled.
Floyd |
Floyd | A few steps upwards, and there stands the wooden door.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hellen's voice comes from behind the bulky door, muted by its weight.
Floyd |
Floyd | A bulky, metal door stands on the eastern wall, held by strong hinges
Floyd | like those of a castle's drawbridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "unlock bulky door with key" 		
	

Floyd | You unlock the bulky door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open bulky door" 		
	

Floyd | You open the door. It gives with a nasty squeak. Halfway through its
Floyd | course it slams wide open, the young woman behind pushing it with all
Floyd | her strength.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Cesco!" she shouts, as she sees you. "I knew you were not dead. I knew
Floyd | God would answer my plea!"
Floyd |
Floyd | That said, she hugs you, trembling frantically. You let her do it, then
Floyd | slowly recede, looking into her eyes. "What has happened," you ask.
Floyd | "And why do you say you are my cousin?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Because you are, Cesco." The last of the pictures in the album you
Floyd | found in the safe flashes in front of you. You can't fool yourself
Floyd | anymore. "I thought they killed you. How did they keep you secret, all
Floyd | these years?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I was... in the house," you blush. Yes: for the last fourteen years,
Floyd | you were allowed to leave the mansion only once, and that was for
Floyd | taking your First Eucharist. That was going to be Hellen's same fate,
Floyd | if only you decided to stay upstairs, where you were supposed to stay.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Let's leave," you murmur, before grabbing Hellen by an arm and start
Floyd | rushing to the stairs. All my life, you think. I've been a convict all
Floyd | my goddamn life.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are still repeating the same thought, over and over, when you run
Floyd | through the corridors of the mansion. The same thought when you bang
Floyd | the front door and bathe in the winter's light.
Floyd |
Floyd | The same thought when Zachary, who was waiting for you outside, point
Floyd | his gun to your face. More than two hours later, it's still the same
Floyd | thought that accompanies you in your last, living day.

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Smokey Garage (on the steel chair)
Floyd | You are tied hands and feet to this cold chair, a pool of water
Floyd | freezing under you. A thin layer of smoke dances on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | Three scugnizzi are looking at you, inexpressive smiles on their faces.
Floyd |
Floyd | Rudolph Mancini is here, cleaning his nails with a knife.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | "That door. Man, there were not many rules, weren't they? You did open

		
	ChrisC says (to Floyd), "smile" 		
	

Floyd | that door, did you?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Another glance to the sidekicks, and another splash of water. Then,
Floyd | Zachary leaves and comes back, what it looks like a big, portable radio
Floyd | in his left hand. On the right one, two electrical wires dangle like
Floyd | hangmen.
Floyd |
Floyd | You feel your sight begin to blur.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "talk to man" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "talk to zachary" 		
	

Floyd | You are bound by two nice chains.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Zach, teach him."
Floyd |
Floyd | The older of the scugnizzi sends a whiplash smile, then moves in your
Floyd | direction. He drops the device near you and starts it. A soundful
Floyd | engine begins roaring.
Floyd |
Floyd | That will mute my screams, you find yourself thinking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Zach smiles again and then sticks one of the wires into your left
Floyd | nipple. You hardly suffocate a scream.
Floyd |
Floyd | Real pain has yet to come. You close your eyes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You're carrying nothing. You are wearing your pants.
Floyd |
Floyd | The second wire is plugged on your other nipple. A whitening noise
Floyd | fills your ears and eyes as the electrical storm passes through you. It
Floyd | never ends: the holy daggers of the tempest cut through you for ages.
Floyd |
Floyd | You resist how much you can, then the screaming starts.
Floyd |
Floyd | You are about to surrender to the night when the wire is removed. It
Floyd | takes you a full minute to recover. When you are fully awake, you
Floyd | notice a small river of blood dripping from your left breastplate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "l blood" 		
	

Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | "So, son. You got something to say?" Mancini is teasing at you, the
Floyd | knife back into its cravings. You are about to ask if that will be what
Floyd | he will use to kill you, when a smile widens in your face. The
Floyd | scugnizzi rest speechless.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes," you say. "I've read a book recently. It was titled 'Silence of
Floyd | the Gods'. Do you know it?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Mancini formal smile disappears.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Talks about these superhumans who go around saving the world, you
Floyd | know. There is a paragraph, in the book, I really loved. It says: 'The
Floyd | Gods are not mute. If you can't hear their voice, it's because they
Floyd | spend a lot of time thinking'. Do you know what this means? It took
Floyd | some time, but in the end I think I got it."
Floyd |
Floyd | Zachary lifts the wires and sends a glance at Mancini. "Guess he needs
Floyd | one more, whaddaya think, padre?".
Floyd |
Floyd | "It means," you go on, "that if something has been working for a very
Floyd | long time, it doesn't mean it will work forever. Do you understand?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'm not following you," Mancini replies. His voice is stale.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You will, soon enough."
Floyd |
Floyd | It's in that very second that the door is crushed and four men enter
Floyd | the garage. Zach and Tony turn around just in time to see two bullets
Floyd | each piercing their skull. Johnny tries the other side, but to no
Floyd | avail: One hits him in the leg and the next explodes into his chest
Floyd | like a carnival cracker. Mancini turns slowly and gets to face an old
Floyd | man, maybe in his seventies.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You have killed my sons," the old man whispers, and in less than a
Floyd | second you recognize him. He was in the pic you found in the album.
Floyd | He's father to Vincente and Vittorio Benelli, and grandfather to
Floyd | Hellen. He is your grandfather. "I ain't lettin ya kill my grandsons,
Floyd | also."
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind him, you scout the fragile, yet stubborn form of Hellen. She is
Floyd | smiling, although her smile looks a bit cold. She winks to you, and in
Floyd | that wink you finally read an infinite levity.
Floyd |
Floyd | The Gods have listened, you think, smiling. They have listened and
Floyd | answered.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | And -- as you read in that book -- once the Gods have spoken, they have
Floyd | spoken.
Floyd |
Floyd | And their answer is ultimate.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** You have won ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "I do not like where this is going..." 	
			ASchultz says, "Whoah. I was just going to see what happened" 	
			JamesPKing says, "lol" 	
			JamesPKing says, "and sorry for lolin here" 	
			ChrisC says, "I'm confused." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Er, where it went." 	
			ASchultz says, "Well, perhaps Hellen told her grandfather, who came to rescue you before you died" 	
			Paulinus says, "I didn't see that coming, though." 	
			JamesPKing says, "you know what? text-dumps, illogical puzzles, abrupt ending. It looks like a signature to me." 	
			ASchultz says, "Me neither but it'd be hard to fit into speed-if" 	
			Jacqueline asks (of JPK), "Signature speed IF, you mean?" 	
	JamesPKing says, "no, signature game" 		ChrisC asks, "Of who?" 	
			ASchultz says, "Probably a bit too ambitious for speed-if, but it's nowhere near a total wreck. Just confusing." 	
			JamesPKing says, "whos' the author" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd | Smokey Garage
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd | Smokey Garage
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "about" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "credits" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "credits" 		
	

Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Paulinus says, "No, certainly not a wreck by any means." 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "version" 		
	

Floyd | The Silence of the Gods
Floyd | A New Year's Speed-IF by Adele Riquefort
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 111230 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd | Identification number: //2D572D97-98E3-4B09-BEE7-F9E91CA18394//
Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0 (2N) / Library serial number 080126
Floyd | Standard Rules version 2/090402 by Graham Nelson
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "Adele Riquefort... do we know who that is?" 	
			ASchultz says, "Googling gives nothing" 	
			JamesPKing says, "thats a pseudo. i think" 	
			ChrisC says, "Yeah, no, it's not a failure certainly. Just confusing, seems a second-language IF" 	
			Jacqueline says, "The only Adele we have on the MUD is a Musante I've never seen, so yeah, I think it's a nom de plume." 	
			Jacqueline says, "See, I don't think it's a second language IF." 	
			Jacqueline says, "I think it's carefully crafted to make you think it's an Italian telling the story in English, but actually written by a native English speaker - CUNNING" 	
			Ellison says, "oops, off again" 	
	Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. 		
	Ellison has disconnected. 		Jacqueline says, "Or yeah, maybe written by a non-English speaker." 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Anyway, hooray, I guess, for our ending?" 	
			ChrisC says, "Eh, I don't know. Those are very unusual construction errors for an english speaker and not one of them is comic, which seems likely ofr a native english speaker to do at least once" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Also, what are we doing next week, peeps?" 	
			JamesPKing says, "your hypotesis seems a bit too strong jacq" 	
			Jacqueline says (to Chris), "Oh, I know, I was being facetious." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Heh, I didn't pick up on it being from a non-native speaker, whether actual or deliberate. Apparently I fail at English." 	
			Jacqueline says, "But that was in my head throughout." 	
			ChrisC asks, "How do you normally choose next week's game?" 	
			Paulinus says, "Adele riquefort anagrams rather delightfully. "Toad require Elf", "Ado Queer Trifle"." 	
			Jacqueline says (to Chris), "Well, often it's just discussing it with whoever's here the week before." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Like we are doing right now." 	
			Jacqueline says, "There are the Hugo Comp games." 	
			genericgeekgirl asks, "Are we still going down the Comp games list?" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Oh yeah, or that." 	
			Jacqueline says, "We could do more IF Comp, too." 	
			Jacqueline says, "I am fine with either." 	
			ChrisC says, "I'd personally like to see Curses CFed at some point, but that's just because I got stuck and didn't have the hear to go back later" 	
			Jacqueline says, "I kind of like the idea of Hugo Comp." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah.. that would take *ages*." 	
			ChrisC asks, "How many Hugo entrants were there?" 	
			Jacqueline says (to Chris), "We could do that, but it would be multiple weeks of work." 	
			ChrisC says, "Hmm, yeah." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Which we are not against, just that maybe we'd announce it in advance. Like, the next six months we will be playing Curses starting in February. You know, just to give people a heads up." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Again with my sarcasm." 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Anyway, anyone opposed to Hugo Comp?" 	
			genericgeekgirl says (to ChrisC), "Seven." 	
			ASchultz says, "Not at all" 	
			Paulinus says, "Not at all." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Okay. We'll do those over the next 1-2 weeks, depending on how long they take. I got the impression they're mostly short." 	
			Jacqueline asks, "And we've already played one of them, right? Wasn't Ellison's speed one of them?" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Or did he enter different games?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Maybe he did." 	
			ChrisC says, "I believe at least one was a Hugo and NY entry" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Yeah, that's the one." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah, it's the same game." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Anyway, cool. See you guys next week. I need to go play with my over active whiny cat now." 	
			genericgeekgirl exclaims, "Thanks, Jacq!" 	
	



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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The Hugo Open House Competition (Session I) by Various Authors
As played on ifMUD on January 15, 2012

The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction.

Below is the first of two transcripts of the games in the The Hugo Open House Competition, written by various authors (the second session transcript can be found here).

It should be noted that one of the games, Party Arty, Man of La Munchie by Jonathan Blask as "Roody Yogurt", is not found in this transcript, as it was also released as part of the The penultimate not numbered New Year's Speed IF, and ClubFloyd has already played it; that game's transcript can be found here. There was also a seventh game in this 'competition', Teleporter Test by Paul Robinson, that was added late, and ClubFloyd was unfortunately not aware of it when the Hugo Open House Competition sessions occurred.

You can learn more about all these games, including how to download them, by visiting the ifWiki.

If you would like to jump straight to a particular game in the transcript, please click its title:
Tales of a Clockwork Boy by Marius Müller
The Hugo Clock by Jason McWright

WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page.


		
	
ToyShop & Floyditorium
		
#ClubFloyd Discussion
	
			
	 		
			DavidW says, "I may be a bit late getting to ClubFloyd; I'm making a bag of popcorn to eat since the kitchen and dining room have been turned upside-down this morning." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Well, we have twenty minutes yet." 	
			Jacqueline asks, "How long do you need?" 	
			ASchultz waves to ClubFloyd and has no problem waiting a bit for DavidW 	
			Jacqueline nods. "Nor do I." 	
			Limax asks, "What did I miss?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Nothing yet." 	
			Jacqueline says, "It's not yet time." 	
			Limax says, "COol.. that's right... we have 10 minuts" 	
			Limax says, "Er" 	
			Tale says, "Hello Floydcats and Floydkittens" 	
			djfletch says, "hello hello" 	
			Limax says, "Um. Hi." 	
			Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Oh, you're ready?" 	
			Tale asks (of Jacqueline), "Did you get my message?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "No." 	
			DavidW says, "okay, I'm back. I'll be grumpy in an hour again, though. Popcorn isn't much to work with." 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Where was the message, Tale?" 	
			Tale says, "A mudmail!" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Oh, there." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Yeah, for some reason I didn't catch the alert. One sec." 	
			Limax says, "Dun dun dun..." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Oh, no, I got the files from that Roody Yogurt dude." 	
			Limax says, "I am out of coffee and I haven't started breakfast yet" 	
			Jacqueline says, "I was just handed some coffee from a very nice man." 	
			Limax says, "Lucky" 	
			Jacqueline says (to Tale), "So, if you need me to, we can upload a different one." 	
			Tale says (to jacq), "Nooo! to one of thise." 	
			DavidW says, "I have some instant coffee I'll be sampling soon-ish." 	
			Limax asks, "From home?" 	
			Jacqueline asks (of Tale), "What?" 	
			Limax says, "Er... whom" 	
			Tale says, "Well, it is an improved version, and if it's not holding up anything, it's here:" 	
			Tale says, "[LINK]" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Okay, one sec - make your instant coffee, DW." 	
			Jacqueline says, "I don't have permission to see that, Tale." 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Can you mail it to me, preferably not zipped?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Once I have the hex it will take perhaps 3 seconds to get going." 	
			Tale says, "Okay, I'll mail it. (had to find it)" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Thanks." 	
			Tale says, "send!" 	
			Tale says, "Thank you!" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Okay, we're good." 	
			Limax says, "Just opened a new can of beans, and got more coffee brewing..." 	
			Limax says, "I'm set for a while" 	
			Jacqueline clears her throat. "Ahem, so, let's begin. Unless people ran away to make coffee... who is present?" 	
			Limax says, "ALthough the screaming birds are going to make it difficult" 	
			Limax says, "I'm here" 	
			Limax says, "Mostly" 	
			djfletch says, "I am present." 	
			Tale asks, "How about Ellison / Recchi? Did they want to attend?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "I'm not here, actually." 	
			Limax asks (of Jacqueline), "Where are you?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "I'm a figment of your imagination." 	
			Limax says, "Oh, I've always known that" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Well, Recchi is 'here' - perchance logging or something while not actually here." 	
			DavidW says, "I'm here." 	
			Jacqueline says, "I'd like to wait for DW to speak up, if that's -- nevermind." 	
			DavidW says, "Sorry; was in another window." 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Okay, I think we're good. Was there anyone else who's popped in and out the past half hour that we should wait for?" 	
			Tale asks, "ASchultz, perhaps?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Nitku and ggg are also technically 'here'" 	
			Limax says, "I saw ASchultz come in" 	
			Limax asks, "Didn't I?" 	
			Tale says, "I told them to get a room, but would've thought they'd chose something more private." 	
			Limax coughs 	
			Limax says, "Yes... ASchultz is in the toyshop" 	
			Limax asks, "Is he on this channel?" 	
			Tale says, "yes" 	
			Jacqueline says, "It's 12 after. I say we commence at quarter past." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Well, make that 13 after now." 	
			Nitku says, "I'm here" 	
			Limax asks, "What? I have another hour to wait?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "No, Limax, one minute." 	
			Limax says, "Oh..." 	
			DavidW says, "Or almost a minute." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Yeah, not even a minute now." 	
			Tale bites nails. 	
			Jacqueline says, "Okay, time." 	
			Jacqueline says, "HELLO EVERYBODY" 	
			Jacqueline says, "I guess I will just load them in the order they're on Floyd, as that'll be easier to track for me." 	
			ASchultz exclaims, "Hello!" 	
			DavidW says, "The Professor built this keen hourglass, Skipper! Let me show you -- oops! (smash)" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Oh! And as you know, we're playing Hugo Comp games today." 	
			Jacqueline says (to Tale), "Since you're here, Tale, could you explain the comp in a sentence or two>" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "?" 	
			Limax sneezes 	
			Tale says, "Well, the Hugonauts wanted to have some more Hugo Games, basically, as last year had been a good year, with Cryptozookeeper being released" 	
			Jacqueline says (to Limax), "You sneezed so hard you lost your end punctuation there." 	
			DavidW asks, "'Hugonauts'?" 	
			Tale says, "And they especially asked for some poor souls who had never used Hugo before to try it" 	
			Limax says (to Jacqueline), "Yes... yes I did" 	
			inky says, "space people from the distant future who have come to our planet to code in Hugo" 	
			DavidW says (to inky), "goodness me" 	
			Tale says (to davidW), "Excited Hugo users, like Ellison, Recchi and the guys on Jolt Country." 	
			Jacqueline asks, "So it's not a compcomp, just a heywriteagameinhugo thing?" 	
			Tale says, "Anyway, they asked for Mini-Comp sized games, so tune your minds for Speed IF quality and slighly above. Some of these are quite good." 	
			Tale says (to Jacqueline), "Yes." 	
			Jacqueline exclaims (at Tale), "Okay, thank you for the summary!" 	
			Tale says, "Sure." 	
			Limax says, "I downloaded them, but hadn't gotten around to playing them yet... so I'm excited to be here" 	
			Jacqueline exclaims, "As a reward for that excellent summary, we'll play your game first!" 	
			DavidW says (to Limax), "Ditto." 	
			Jacqueline says, "(Also, it comes first alphabetically...)" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load hugoclockworkboy" 		
	

Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Once upon a time, there was a queen of fay blood who couldn't bear
Floyd | children. To humor her saddened king, she learnt the secret arts of
Floyd | alchemy and mechanicks, and her head bore what her womb would not. But
Floyd | even that clockwork boy, a wonder held in aw throughout the kingdom,
Floyd | couldn't lift the kings spirits, and he fell into a great sadness. The
Floyd | queen asked for wizards, jesters and bards from near and far, but it
Floyd | was no use. So in a fit of helpless rage, she cursed the king with
Floyd | immortality, and flew back to her home land. The king's lands soon fell
Floyd | into ruin and where fought over by his knights and viceroys. The
Floyd | heavy-minded ruler himself continued to live in the castle, kept alive
Floyd | by  the curse for many centuries.
Floyd | And then, one day, he wound up the clockwork boy again.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tales of a Clockwork Boy
Floyd | An Entry in the Hugo Open House Competiton by Marius Mueller
Floyd | Hugo v3.1 / Library 31031
Floyd | C1594AB3-81E6-44FE-84FD-A6053D77C8D2
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Hall
Floyd |   This room is a still life, its topics neglect. The tapestries, once
Floyd | colorful and moving, have bleached to the quality of distant memories.
Floyd | Highback chairs and tables catch dust dutifully. A red, shimmering
Floyd | portal wavers in the middle of the room, created by powerful magic and
Floyd | yet under attack constantly by the laws of the earth and sky, wishing
Floyd | it out of existence.
Floyd |
Floyd | The king sits here in a corner, him and time watching each other pass
Floyd | silently.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The giant boot is here. The queen used to put you in it, when you
Floyd | weren't wound up, for cuteness' sake.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "Good! this way they'll improve in quality" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" 		
	

Floyd | A thing of cogs and pistons, your thoughts are swimming in quicksilver
Floyd | and sluggish lead in your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "snrk" 	
			Limax says, "Wow... long introduction" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You're not carrying anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x boot" 		
	

Floyd | It's a boot that, long ago, belong to one of the mountain giants who
Floyd | visited the court and got drunk on a month's supply of ale. One of them
Floyd | must have forgotten this in the castle years ago.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hold on. still reading intro." 	
			Limax exclaims, "x me! x me!" 	
			Limax says, "Oh wait.. we already did" 	
			DavidW says, "okay. I'm ready again." 	
			Tale says, "Conversation is ask X about Y" 	
			Limax says, "Coffee's ready again and the griddle's hot enough for bacon" 	
			DavidW says, "mmm bacon" 	
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "x king" 		
	

Floyd | His beard has grown long and grey, his eyes old and dim. He is barely
Floyd | awake, just stares into nothingness. "Should've never let her go...I
Floyd | should have gotten myself together...Too little, too late..."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask king about queen" 		
	

Floyd | "The bravest thing I ever did for her, probably, was slaying the giant
Floyd | spider that lived in the hills. Let me tell you a secret: She ruled the
Floyd | country hard and fair, but she was deadly scared of spiders. I brought
Floyd | her one of the crystal eyes of the spider. Never saw it again. Guess
Floyd | she never cared for it." He shrugs with the fake nonchalance reserved
Floyd | for old pain.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "I love this setup, Tale. Great scene setting." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "search boot" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "search".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "Thanks." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x boot" 		
	

Floyd | It's a boot that, long ago, belong to one of the mountain giants who
Floyd | visited the court and got drunk on a month's supply of ale. One of them
Floyd | must have forgotten this in the castle years ago.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "(A few typos... are you planning a R6?)" 	
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "x portal" 		
	

Floyd | The red portal is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "Yeah, maybe." 	
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "x tapestries" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "tapestries".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "(I wasn't gonna mention the typos.)" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x portal" 		
	

Floyd | The red portal is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask king about portal" 		
	

Floyd | "I've broken the Red Crystal to open this. Many good knights died
Floyd | retrieving this - they were good friends, good friends. And now I don't
Floyd | have the courage to go through and ask her for forgiveness." He hangs
Floyd | his grey head low, so low.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask king about me" 		
	

Floyd | "Ah, my little clockwork boy. She meant so well."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz was in and out a bit but is enjoying the intro 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask king about red crystal" 		
	

Floyd | You haven't encountered any "red crystal".  (If you're sure you need to
Floyd | refer to that, try putting it another way.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask king about crystal" 		
	

Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Well, he *did* say Speed IF quality, but then he'd also said, 'Wait, wait, not THAT version, THIS version,' so..." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask king about boot" 		
	

Floyd | "That old thing! You should really throw it away."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "take boot" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "look in boot" 		
	

Floyd | You can't do that with the giant boot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm. We can fit inside it and carry it." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter boot" 		
	

Floyd | You can't enter the giant boot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "get in boot" 		
	

Floyd | You can't enter the giant boot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "So, he's realizing now how he made a mistake. Perhaps we can reunite them. She's fay, she's probably still around." 	
			DavidW says, "I bet she's on the other side of the portal, also sad." 	
			djfletch says, "we need to find the portal gun." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask king about spider" 		
	

Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, ">enter portal?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "I know I'm supposed to probably imaging us as one of those automatons from Syberia, but instead I keep thinking of us as Honda's Asimo." 	
			Jacqueline says, "er 'supposed to probably be imagining' that is." 	
			djfletch says, "hmm, yeah, go for it" 	
			Jacqueline says (to djf), "ha" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter portal" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | On the drawbridge
Floyd |   Ocean laps at the sand beneath you. You are on a drawbridge, leading
Floyd | north towards a cozy, but somewhat decripit castle on a small
Floyd | peninsula. A misplaced red portal hovers in the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "take portal" 		
	

Floyd | You can't take that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Drat. Portal is portal-able." 	
			DavidW says, "er isn't" 	
			Jacqueline says, "heh" 	
			Tale says, "haha" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x castle" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "castle".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "however:" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "close portal" 		
	

Floyd | Closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sand" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "sand".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Tale says (to Floyd), "open portal" 		
	

Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "oh, it's a door, eh?" 	
			DavidW says, "I was imagining more of a circular vortex thing." 	
			Tale says, "Me too, but the coding eluded me." 	
			djfletch says, "maybe we are closing it with magic words and suchlike" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Well, portal does mean door, so." 	
			DavidW says, "Although, I suppose it could iris open and closed like Batgirl's circular hatchway that goes to her Batgirl-cycle." 	
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "x drawbridge" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "drawbridge".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		djfletch asks, "go north?" 	
			DavidW says, "Maybe the queen has a revolving wall and a bird named Charlie. We should go check." 	
			Jacqueline eats her black beans and eggs and watches. 	
			DavidW says (to djfletch), "please do." 	
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Before the Gate
Floyd |   You arrive at the castle gates, made of bright wood and inlaid with
Floyd | scenes of festivity and hospitality. An eastward path leads to the
Floyd | shore, the same path cuts westward around the castle wall, and the
Floyd | aforementioned gate leads north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. 		Ellison says, "Hugo Comp!" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gate" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "gate".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax asks, "Wait, what?" 	
			DavidW asks, "How did the castle get un-decrepit?" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "We went back in time, perhaps?" 	
			DavidW asks, "Maybe the gate gets extra love that the rest of the castle doesn't?" 	
			Tale asks, "does decrepit mean "In ruins"?" 	
			Limax says, "It's a castle in our imagination..." 	
			Limax says, "Yes" 	
			Tale says, "Oops, I thought it was more like "run down" or "shabby"" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Yeah, it's more like run down or shabby, I would say." 	
			DavidW says (to Tale), "That is what decrepit means, but the bright wood and scenes of etc seem nice, not shabby." 	
			Tale says, "Yeah, okay" 	
			Tale says, "(its not a plotpoint)" 	
			DavidW says, "I think we should go in and get our quest, then explore west and east to find plot tokens." 	
			djfletch says, "sounds good" 	
			DavidW says, "Unless the gate is locked, in which case, I vote east." 	
			Limax asks, "SO... the old winery that the kids & I saw yesterday with the collapsed roof but where the walls were still standing... was that decrepit or ruins?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "I hope our queen isn't in another castle." 	
			Limax says, "Ha ha" 	
			Ellison says, "ha" 	
			Tale says, "ha ha" 	
			DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "hee" 	
			DavidW says (to Limax), "A collapsed roof is worse than decrepit, I think." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | The Courtyard
Floyd |   You take careful steps on cracked marble tiles. The absurdly high
Floyd | walls of the castle around you guide the eye towards the small set of
Floyd | steps to the northeast.
Floyd |   A huge jar, fireproof and sooty, sits in a corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax says, "Well, there was a fence around it so we couln't explore it..." 	
			Tale says, "That was a puzzle, Limax." 	
			DavidW says, "I've always wanted to explore a boarded-up house, but the law frowns on such breaking and entering." 	
			Limax asks (of Tale), "Oh... so the 'no entry' signs were just part of it?" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x jar" 		
	

Floyd | A A huge jar, fireproof and sooty.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in jar" 		
	

Floyd | The jar is empty.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "take jar" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax asks, "So, we have a jar and a boot?" 	
			Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Maybe we could go around the side, open the window a bit, and climb in through that into the kitchen?" 	
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "x tiles" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "tiles".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "That's another place." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Oh" 	
			DavidW says, "I must say, I like the set up to this game too. It has a good feel to it." 	
			DavidW asks, "On up the stairs?" 	
			djfletch says, "ok" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		
	

Floyd | You stumble around in the dark.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax exclaims, "Agh! Dark!" 	
			DavidW says, "ooh, light source puzzle" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | The Courtyard
Floyd |   You take careful steps on cracked marble tiles. The absurdly high
Floyd | walls of the castle around you guide the eye towards the small set of
Floyd | steps to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax exclaims, "Light the boot!" 	
			DavidW says, "I think, we need to put fire in the fireproof jar, actually." 	
			Ellison says, "the use-the-boot-as-a-bong puzzle isn't until much later" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Before the Gate
Floyd |   You arrive at the castle gates, made of bright wood and inlaid with
Floyd | scenes of festivity and hospitality. An eastward path leads to the
Floyd | shore, the same path cuts westward around the castle wall, and the
Floyd | aforementioned gate leads north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Now, I think west is more likely to help than east." 	
			DavidW says, "Jacqueline might be right after all, and we could find matches in a kitchen 'round back." 	
			Jacqueline says, "heh" 	
	Gerynar arrives, full of fun, but no funk. 		DavidW says, "Or a baby dragon with a head cold. I'm not fussy." 	
			Tale says (to davidW), "Aw, good idea." 	
			Jacqueline says, "hee" 	
			DavidW says, "Eric the Unready has a puzzle where you shrink down a dragon and use him as if it were a cigarette lighter." 	
			DavidW asks, "west?" 	
			Ellison says, "heh, I've forgotten most of that game. I only remember the dwarf puzzle, basically." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Are we still on the first game? (Sorry, I had to go rescue a Christmas Tree, elseMU*)" 	
			Tale says (to Ellison), "That was a small puzzle." 	
			DavidW says, "...gg yes" 	
			Limax says (to DavidW), "THat's cool" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | By the wall
Floyd |   On the beach is a big, burnt patch of land.
Floyd |   A phoenix is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax asks, "Rescuing a Xmas tree this late?" 	
			DavidW says, "ooh, phoenix" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x phoenix" 		
	

Floyd | The phoenix looks quite like a normal bird. But there are flames
Floyd | burning behind his eyes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax says, "Just as good" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "take phoenix" 		
	

Floyd | You don't dare take it!
Floyd |
Floyd | With a thunderous hiss, the Phoenix bursts into bright red flames!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax exclaims, "Light the boot!" 	
			DavidW says, "ok, then. I think maybe we need gloves and/or spicy birdseed." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask phoenix about queen" 		
	

Floyd | You can't do that with the burning phoenix.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "put phoenix in jar" 		
	

Floyd | You're not holding that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "or a bucket of water." 	
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "put jar on phoenix" 		
	

Floyd | You can't do that with the burning phoenix.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "yes, the water idea sounds good." 	
			DavidW says, "Then we can get a phoenix egg and put *that* in the jar." 	
			djfletch says, "good plan, get water from the sea." 	
			Limax asks, "Wasn't there a fountain somewhere?" 	
			DavidW says (to Limax), "I didn't see one yet." 	
			Limax says, "Oh... okay" 	
			DavidW asks, "Shall I backtrack and go east from gate?" 	
			djfletch says, "yeah, explore that." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Before the Gate
Floyd |   You arrive at the castle gates, made of bright wood and inlaid with
Floyd | scenes of festivity and hospitality. An eastward path leads to the
Floyd | shore, the same path cuts westward around the castle wall, and the
Floyd | aforementioned gate leads north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd |   The white sand besides the castle looks like one of those strips of
Floyd | land where you usually never see someone.
Floyd |   A golem sits here, fishing unenthusiastically. He told you the basics
Floyd | of speech, long ago.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax exclaims, "Golem!" 	
			DavidW says, "hm." 	
			Limax asks, "Where is his precious?" 	
			DavidW says, "Wasn't expecting a golem." 	
			DavidW says (to Limax), "That's Gollum, I think." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x golem" 		
	

Floyd | The stone golem sits hunched, almost keeling over, fixiating on fishing
Floyd | with the unshakable determination of his kind. He doesn't seem to enjoy
Floyd | fishing very much, though. Which is a wonder since he uses a line of
Floyd | excellent catgut.
Floyd |
Floyd | The phoenix closes his wings and is soon reduces to a pile of ash.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax says, "Yes... yes it is" 	
			Limax says, "Lame attempt at a joke" 	
			Tale says (to limax), "Nobody expects the goelmquesition" 	
			DavidW says, "hm. Phoenix event reported when we weren't there to see it." 	
			Limax says (to Tale), "ITYM to direct that a DW" 	
			Tale says, "That never happened before." 	
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "x sea" 		
	

Floyd | The ocean is unthinkably wide and very, very blue. It seems to be
Floyd | rather fishless.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax says, "Oho... we are seeing things" 	
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "fill jar" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "fill".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sand" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "sand".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Ellison says, "heh" 	
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "get water" 		
	

Floyd | You can't take that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x catgut" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "catgut".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x line" 		
	

Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask golem about phoenix" 		
	

Floyd | "Ah, that silly old bird. Used to burn everything! Good at heart, but
Floyd | he needs to be locked up some times to cool his temper."
Floyd |
Floyd | The ash flies up, as if lifted from unseen winds, and forms the outline
Floyd | of a bird!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask golem about golem" 		
	

Floyd | "I was her bodyguard. She dismissed me when she lost all interest in
Floyd | the world. Now I fish all day. And I hate fishing."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask golem about fishing" 		
	

Floyd | "The queen gave it to me once. Said she had no use for it anymore. And
Floyd | no, you can't have it."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask golem about queen" 		
	

Floyd | "She never forgave him. Now she just sits in there in the dark and
Floyd | tries to sleep. Has tried for decades. She tries to stay mad at him, I
Floyd | guess."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax says, "Breakfast: consumed" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask golem about king" 		
	

Floyd | "He left her. He shouldn't have. Even after all that happened. Or maybe
Floyd | especially not after all that happened."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask golem about what happened" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "happened".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax says, "Wow... it's circular" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "take water" 		
	

Floyd | You can't take that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "put jar in water" 		
	

Floyd | You can't do that with the ocean.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask golem about me" 		
	

Floyd | "Hello there little friend!" He pats you on the head." Good to see you
Floyd | around, pinion."
Floyd |
Floyd | The phoenix closes his wings and is soon reduces to a pile of ash.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax asks, "How about'fill jar'?" 	
			DavidW says, "Someone tried that, I think." 	
			Limax says, "Oh" 	
			DavidW says, "yeah, game doesn't know 'fill'." 	
			Limax asks, "'pinion'? Isn't that a feather?" 	
			DavidW says, "I think so." 	
			DavidW says, "I don't understand the 'pinion' bit." 	
			Tale says, "[LINK]" 	
			Jacqueline exclaims, "We're cute as a pinion nut!" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "swim" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "swim".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask golem about jar" 		
	

Floyd | The Stone Golem doesn't seem to know anything about that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax says, "Ah.. an inner gear" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask golem about boot" 		
	

Floyd | You decide not to ask the Golem about it. Maybe you could use it to
Floyd | help him end this boring activity.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "give boot to golem" 		
	

Floyd | The Stone Golem politely refuses.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ash flies up, as if lifted from unseen winds, and forms the outline
Floyd | of a bird!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw boot at golem" 		
	

Floyd | You can't do that with the Stone Golem.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw boot" 		
	

Floyd | Suddenly, the stone golem jumps up. "I dun caught summin'!" He reels
Floyd | and reels frantically - and comes up with the boot! Angrily, he breaks
Floyd | his rod apart and stamps on it. He then throws the boot away and stomps
Floyd | off. You hear him mutter "Lousy hobby" under his breath.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "hm. Was that useful?" 	
			Gerynar asks, "throw the boot into the sea for the golem to catch on his line?" 	
			djfletch asks, "did he leave us any loot?" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Beach
Floyd |   The white sand besides the castle looks like one of those strips of
Floyd | land where you usually never see someone.
Floyd |   A fishing line is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax says, "This is what I was thinking of: Pinions, the outermost primary flight feathers on a bird's wing" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "take line" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | With a thunderous hiss, the Phoenix bursts into bright red flames!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "Yeah, that's what you did. Response should make that clearer." 	
			djfletch asks, "this phoenix might be a timing thing. Can we grab it when it is a pile of ash?" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd | You can only go back west, to the castle grounds.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x line" 		
	

Floyd | A length of good fishing line.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "fish" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "fish".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		djfletch says, "put the ash in the jar at that point maybe" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Before the Gate
Floyd |   You arrive at the castle gates, made of bright wood and inlaid with
Floyd | scenes of festivity and hospitality. An eastward path leads to the
Floyd | shore, the same path cuts westward around the castle wall, and the
Floyd | aforementioned gate leads north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb gates" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "climb".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | By the wall
Floyd |   On the beach is a big, burnt patch of land.
Floyd |   A burning phoenix is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The phoenix closes his wings and is soon reduces to a pile of ash.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "take ash" 		
	

Floyd | You quickly scoop up some ash. As you are not connected to the flow of
Floyd | the universe, the Phoenix is unable to reassamble as long as you hold
Floyd | it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "put ash in jar" 		
	

Floyd | You carefully pour the ash from your hand into the jar. The phoenix
Floyd | bursts into flame, but the fireproof glass remains unimpressed. He
Floyd | pecks the glass in irritation, and eyes you with consternation.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Ellison says, "I gave Tale some bad FindObject code (is why we saw all those messages in the wrong rooms)" 	
			Limax says, "Whoops" 	
			DavidW says, "anyway, we have a light source now." 	
			Tale says, "Ellison was very hopeful, though. He basically coded this!" 	
	vimes arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. 		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Before the Gate
Floyd |   You arrive at the castle gates, made of bright wood and inlaid with
Floyd | scenes of festivity and hospitality. An eastward path leads to the
Floyd | shore, the same path cuts westward around the castle wall, and the
Floyd | aforementioned gate leads north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | The Courtyard
Floyd |   You take careful steps on cracked marble tiles. The absurdly high
Floyd | walls of the castle around you guide the eye towards the small set of
Floyd | steps to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Throne Hall
Floyd |
Floyd |   The queen sits on the throne, her head resting on her head, looking
Floyd | at the ground without seeing. She stifles a yawn.
Floyd |   Your old lute lies discared in a corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "A lute!" 	
			Limax asks, "Are we musical?" 	
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "loot lute" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "loot".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax asks, "Or is this antoerh game of tone-deaf PCs?" 	
			DavidW says, "Please, honey, of course we are." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "sing" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "sing".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lute" 		
	

Floyd | It's the lute you used to play for the mistress, to lull her to sleep.
Floyd | One of the strings seems to be missing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says (to DW), "heehee" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "take lute" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "fix lute" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "fix".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "put line in lute" 		
	

Floyd | You can't do that with the lute.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "attach line to lute" 		
	

Floyd | With programmed bravado, you lace the fishing line onto the lute,
Floyd | making it into a working lute again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x queen" 		
	

Floyd | Fairy beauty is a thing of wonder - it has turned her sadness into
Floyd | hauntingly beautiful melancholia. Her hair has taken on the color of
Floyd | late autumn leaves, already a hint of the dead brown of winter. Her
Floyd | eyes are deep pools, with a fire hidden deep inside - a lone light seen
Floyd | on in farmhouse far away on a starless night. And miles to go. She has
Floyd | one of her hands stubbornly clenched around something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I wonder if spider eyes are violet." 	
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask queen about me" 		
	

Floyd | "I will not listen to the words of that old fool", she says with hatred
Floyd | both practiced and tired, "tell him if he comes, he doesn't need to
Floyd | speak, but maybe he wants his one symbol of courage back." She clenches
Floyd | her fist even tighter, and some shadow of the past runs across her
Floyd | mind.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask queen about queen" 		
	

Floyd | "I will not listen to the words of that old fool", she says with hatred
Floyd | both practiced and tired, "tell him if he comes, he doesn't need to
Floyd | speak, but maybe he wants his one symbol of courage back." She clenches
Floyd | her fist even tighter, and some shadow of the past runs across her
Floyd | mind.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hand" 		
	

Floyd | That doesn't make any sense.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask queen about symbol" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "symbol".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fist" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "fist".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask queen about king" 		
	

Floyd | "I will not listen to the words of that old fool", she says with hatred
Floyd | both practiced and tired, "tell him if he comes, he doesn't need to
Floyd | speak, but maybe he wants his one symbol of courage back." She clenches
Floyd | her fist even tighter, and some shadow of the past runs across her
Floyd | mind.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask queen about castle" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "castle".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "I think we must needs play the lute for milady." 	
			Jacqueline says, "I'm just wondering if she can only say the one thing." 	
			Jacqueline says (to DW), "Sure." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "play lute" 		
	

Floyd | The queen listens to the music. "Oh yes, all those songs...". She
Floyd | blinks, heavy with sleep, and after a few more old lullabies she's fast
Floyd | asleep.She opens here hand, and an old crystal, black as a spider's
Floyd | eye, rolls from it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "take crystal" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it" 		
	

Floyd | (assuming you mean the crystal)
Floyd | This is one of the crystal of which the eye of the giant spider was
Floyd | made.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW clears the save counter. 		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf1" 		
	

Floyd | Enter saved game to store:
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax says, "Cool. A crystal eye spider thingy" 	
			DavidW says, "Probably we're supposed to deliver this to the king so he can man-up and get over here." 	
			DavidW says, "However, we might have other options like destroying it or waking the queen up and returning it." 	
			Jacqueline says, "This is reminding me of that wonderful old David Bowie song about the glass spider." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "rub crystal" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "rub".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat it" 		
	

Floyd | (assuming you mean the crystal)
Floyd | You can't eat the crystal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "Although that spider's eyes were almost like a human's, not crystal." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "break it" 		
	

Floyd | (assuming you mean the crystal)
Floyd | Venting your frustrations on the crystal won't accomplish much.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "wake queen" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "wake".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "play lute" 		
	

Floyd | You play a few tunes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "look in crystal" 		
	

Floyd | You can't do that with the crystal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "put crystal in jar" 		
	

Floyd | You can't do that with the jar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "x throne" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "throne".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	inky arrives, full of fun and funk. 		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Throne Hall
Floyd |
Floyd |   The queen lies sleeping on her throne. She snores a little.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss queen" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "kiss".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm. I suppose we can try to throw it into the ocean." 	
			DavidW says, "But I bet we can't." 	
			inky says, "there's no kissing in hugo!" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Maybe that's why the queen couldn't get pregnant." 	
			Tale says (to jacq), "snrk" 	
			DavidW asks, "Anyway, back to the king?" 	
			djfletch says, "yes, seems like the thing to do." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | The Courtyard
Floyd |   You take careful steps on cracked marble tiles. The absurdly high
Floyd | walls of the castle around you guide the eye towards the small set of
Floyd | steps to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Before the Gate
Floyd |   You arrive at the castle gates, made of bright wood and inlaid with
Floyd | scenes of festivity and hospitality. An eastward path leads to the
Floyd | shore, the same path cuts westward around the castle wall, and the
Floyd | aforementioned gate leads north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | On the drawbridge
Floyd |   Ocean laps at the sand beneath you. You are on a drawbridge, leading
Floyd | north towards a cozy, but somewhat decripit castle on a small
Floyd | peninsula. A misplaced red portal hovers in the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd | You can go either north, to the castle, or back through the red portal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "back" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "back".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter portal" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Main Hall
Floyd |   This room is a still life, its topics neglect. The tapestries, once
Floyd | colorful and moving, have bleached to the quality of distant memories.
Floyd | Highback chairs and tables catch dust dutifully. A red, shimmering
Floyd | portal wavers in the middle of the room, created by powerful magic and
Floyd | yet under attack constantly by the laws of the earth and sky, wishing
Floyd | it out of existence.
Floyd |
Floyd | The king sits here in a corner, him and time watching each other pass
Floyd | silently.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask king about crystal" 		
	

Floyd | The King doesn't seem to know anything about that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "give crystal to king" 		
	

Floyd | "Ah yes" says the king, and suddenly you see something in his eyes that
Floyd | makes you remember how he could command armies and silence rooms with
Floyd | just a glance. He strokes his beard. "She kept the spider's eye. All is
Floyd | clear, I hope." He stands up, this sad king of a fallen kingdom, and as
Floyd | he pats his clothes, he engulfs himself in an almost comical cloud of
Floyd | dust. "Lead me to her, clockwork boy. You've done well." He pats you on
Floyd | the bronze of your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "yay" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "bite king's leg" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "king's".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax says, "Except the queen hates his guts" 	
			DavidW says, "I want more than a pat on my head. grr." 	
			Ellison says, "ha ha" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter portal" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | On the drawbridge
Floyd |   Ocean laps at the sand beneath you. You are on a drawbridge, leading
Floyd | north towards a cozy, but somewhat decripit castle on a small
Floyd | peninsula. A misplaced red portal hovers in the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says (to davidw), "ha ha" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x king" 		
	

Floyd | You don't see him.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter portal" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Main Hall
Floyd |   This room is a still life, its topics neglect. The tapestries, once
Floyd | colorful and moving, have bleached to the quality of distant memories.
Floyd | Highback chairs and tables catch dust dutifully. A red, shimmering
Floyd | portal wavers in the middle of the room, created by powerful magic and
Floyd | yet under attack constantly by the laws of the earth and sky, wishing
Floyd | it out of existence.
Floyd |
Floyd | The king sits here in a corner, him and time watching each other pass
Floyd | silently.
Floyd |
Floyd |   He has the crystal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "king, follow me" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "follow".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "take king" 		
	

Floyd | The King probably wouldn't be too big on that idea.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "Oh fu..." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "lead king" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "lead".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "We fixed this" 	
			Limax says, "'Lead king throug portal?'" 	
	Tale says (to Floyd), "go portal" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | On the drawbridge
Floyd |   Ocean laps at the sand beneath you. You are on a drawbridge, leading
Floyd | north towards a cozy, but somewhat decripit castle on a small
Floyd | peninsula. A misplaced red portal hovers in the air.
Floyd |
Floyd | The King follows you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "phew" 	
			DavidW asks, "So 'go portal' works, but 'enter portal' doesn't?" 	
			Tale steps back into the shadows. 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Before the Gate
Floyd |   You arrive at the castle gates, made of bright wood and inlaid with
Floyd | scenes of festivity and hospitality. An eastward path leads to the
Floyd | shore, the same path cuts westward around the castle wall, and the
Floyd | aforementioned gate leads north.
Floyd |
Floyd | The King follows you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | The Courtyard
Floyd |   You take careful steps on cracked marble tiles. The absurdly high
Floyd | walls of the castle around you guide the eye towards the small set of
Floyd | steps to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | The King follows you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "Yeah, but I thought we had fixed it" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Throne Hall
Floyd |
Floyd |   The queen lies sleeping on her throne. She snores a little.
Floyd |
Floyd | The King follows you.
Floyd | As the king enters, the queen wakes, as if startled from a nightmare.
Floyd | He slowly walks up to her throne and gets on one knee.
Floyd | The jar suddenly shatters in your hands, and the mighty phoenix is
Floyd | free! It flutters a few feet, bows to king and queen, gives you a sharp
Floyd | look, and finally rests in a corner.
Floyd | "So..." she says slowly, "You came..." and the heavy burden lifts from
Floyd | her chest like a huge and terribly beast, now harmless, and you can
Floyd | almost see it fleeing through the open doors. Slowly, she stands up and
Floyd | takes a few steps down the stairs and puts a hand on his shoulder. He
Floyd | looks up at her.
Floyd | "How could I waste so much time, dear? How could I be so terribly
Floyd | selfish and stupid?"
Floyd | She strokes his hair for a long time, while he hangs his head, sobbing
Floyd | quietly. Then she looks up. "We will have to rebuild this kingdom. We
Floyd | will have to get new servants and officials. Oh, all the work..."
Floyd | And suddenly, she looks old again.
Floyd | Then the king gets up, puts one arm around her, and looks straight at
Floyd | you. " Will you help us ... as our son?"
Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU'VE WON THE GAME! ***
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?

		Limax says, "Yeah, you'd better run.... a guess the verb puzzle..." 	
			Limax says, "Woo" 	
			Limax exclaims, "I want to be a real boy!" 	
			DavidW asks, "Son? So we become Prince Clockworkboy?" 	
			Tale says (to limax), "Shush, pinion." 	
			Jacqueline asks, "She looks old now? Why?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "That's kinda not as happy." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Otherwise big yays." 	
			Tale says (to jacq), "Er, she looks old thinking of all the work, but the king acdepting you as the heir makes her happy again.#" 	
			Ellison says, "well, we fixed the following bug by fixing 'follow.h'. maybe we went back to an old follow.h when you learned how to compile yourself." 	
			Limax says, "The sequel: CLockwork Boy and his army of minions rule the kingdom" 	
			DavidW says, "Nice ending." 	
			Tale says, "Which probably isn't as clear as I thought." 	
			Ellison says, "it's a prequel to Hellboy: the Golden Army" 	
			Jacqueline says (to Limax), "s/minions/pinions" 	
			Limax says, "Doh" 	
			DavidW says (to Limax), "well, Clockwork Prince first, Clockwork King later." 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Can we have a short break?" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "5 min?" 	
			djfletch says, "Clockwork King once we kill the puny humans." 	
			DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "sure." 	
			Tale says, "I liked "Clockwork Boy Rewound" as a sequel titel." 	
			Jacqueline says, "'kay, brb." 	
			Limax asks, "Is Clockwork Prince where Pinion devises a way to off his adoptive parents in order to have the kingdome for himself?" 	
			djfletch says, "oh that reminds me" 	
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | The Courtyard
Floyd |   You take careful steps on cracked marble tiles. The absurdly high
Floyd | walls of the castle around you guide the eye towards the small set of
Floyd | steps to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | The king sits here in a corner, him and time watching each other pass
Floyd | silently.
Floyd |
Floyd |   He has the crystal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "No, he is entirely a nice clockworkrobot." 	
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "wind me up" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "wind".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale hmpfs. 	
			Limax says, "You spin me round...." 	
			Limax says, "Oh wait..." 	
			djfletch says, "At the start I wondered if we'd have to get ourselves wound up every 5 moves or something." 	
			DavidW says (to djfletch), "I'm unsure what our power source is. Probably another magic crystal in our head or heart." 	
			Tale says (to djfletch), "I wanted to have a puzzle where you were wound up by an NPC, but that proved to complicated." 	
			Jacqueline says, "mmkay, back." 	
			Limax says, "So we were clockwork with an internal power source..." 	
			Tale says, "Nope, a wind-up clockwork boy." 	
			Tale says, "You didn't exceed the time-limit, though." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Yeah, the king wound us." 	
			DavidW says, "oh" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Was there a time limit?" 	
			Tale says, "no" 	
			Limax says, "He's yanking my chain" 	
			Limax says, "Or pulling my key" 	
			Limax says, "Or something" 	
			Tale says, "I'm trying to wind you up" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Thank you for telling us that, Tale, so that no one goes back to replay just to see what happens when you wind down." 	
			Jacqueline says (to Tale), "har har har" 	
			(from DavidW) Tale says, "sunglasses ... YEAAAAAAAH" 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Okay, did someone else step away and we need to wait, or shall we load the next one?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Oh, we're over 5 min anyway." 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" 		
	

Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit (YES or NO)?

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" 		
	Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" 		Jacqueline says, "Wait. There's a hugoclock, hugoclockworkboy, and hugocwb - are those all the same? Maybe I skipped one I shouldn't have." 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load hugoclock" 		
	

Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | How would you like your text displayed?
Floyd |
Floyd | (a) Always easy reading.
Floyd | (b) Occasionaly dark and sinister.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

		Jacqueline says, "Aha - I did." 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Okay, easy or sinister?" 	
			Ellison says, "Hugo Clock is a different game, yeah" 	
			genericgeekgirl exclaims, "Sinister!" 	
			Ellison says, "(it won't matter for us. that's a font color thing)" 	
			ASchultz needs to be more awake for this next game. 	
			Jacqueline says, "Oh" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Oh. Boo." 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "b" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A worried figure paces, his feet describing a circle between two
Floyd | chairs. One of the chairs, his, stands unoccupied and forlorn, unused
Floyd | to its owners behavior. The occupied chair sits as calm as the one who
Floyd | occupies it. A dark figure sleek as kittens.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Sit down and enjoy the show," says the sedate man, "you should
Floyd | appreciate our safe vantage point."
Floyd | The pacing man simply rubs his head.
Floyd | "If this one doesn't make it inside there will always be others," says
Floyd | the calm figure.
Floyd | "That's not what I'm worried about," says the round figure, shaking his
Floyd | head, "he has a key but he might not be able to figure it out."
Floyd | "I wouldn't be so sure," says the serene man in one long breath.
Floyd | "You're over confident," says the round man, "It has to be done in an
Floyd | exact sequence. If not then it won't work!"
Floyd | "Perhaps," says the other, "we could give him a hint."
Floyd | "How on earth could we do that?" says the round man.
Floyd | A dangerous smile. "We already have."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | [press any key to continue]
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

		Tale says, "oh, this one" 	
	Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		
	

Floyd | Verbose descriptions.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The Hugo Clock
Floyd | version 1.5
Floyd | by Jason McWright
Floyd | Type "ABOUT" to learn more.
Floyd | Hugo v3.1 / Library 31031
Floyd |
Floyd | Lost
Floyd |   Whatever was chasing you gave up when you raced like a mad man into
Floyd | the underbrush. Minutes later the adrenaline has worn off and now
Floyd | you're standing alone and bruised, surrounded on all sides by briars
Floyd | and tree limbs. Only faint moonlight streaming through the canopy above
Floyd | allows you to see anything.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x me" 		
	

Floyd | You don't see a mirror anywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Nice." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying the iron key.
Floyd | Suddenly there's an explosion of breaking tree limbs nearby and you
Floyd | look up to see a gibbering shadow! You sprint like a cheetah with wings
Floyd | in the opposite direction, forging a painful trail through the forest.
Floyd | Given that you're so occupied with what's behind you, you miss the
Floyd | light quickly approaching in front. Before you realize what's
Floyd | happening, you cross a gravel road and run face-first into a door.
Floyd |
Floyd | You claw at the knob and of course find it locked. You shove the key
Floyd | given to you by the mysterious stranger into the keyhole and,
Floyd | mercifully, it turns the lock. You burst through the door and bolt it
Floyd | shut.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Entryway
Floyd |   Your heart begins to slow down just as your eyes adjust to the light
Floyd | and you find yourself standing in a short hallway. The front door
Floyd | stands to the east and another door leads west. The only other
Floyd | adornments are several portraits lining the walls on either side of the
Floyd | room. All of the subjects in the pictures share common facial features
Floyd | hinting that they are closely related. Their most troubling feature is
Floyd | the eyes, piercing and violent; a malicious intelligence eager for
Floyd | blood. There can be no doubt that you have found Dr. Hugo's lab.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x portraits" 		
	

Floyd | These are portraits of Dr. Hugo's dearly departed kin. Each of them
Floyd | share some version of a pointed chin and small, razor sharp nose. The
Floyd | hair is thin and in most cases slicked back. The eyes of each portrait
Floyd | burn thin holes through your clothing and into your soul. Each seems to
Floyd | watch you, eager to spring from the canvas and do murder in their
Floyd | preferred way. Dr Hugo himself is not represented here.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "West, I guess?" 	
			genericgeekgirl asks, "Or back outside?" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "look behind portraits" 		
	

Floyd | Jostling one of the portraits causes something to fall out from behind
Floyd | it. You pick it up and discover that it is a copper key.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Oh. I totally would have missed that." 	
			DavidW says, "Looking behind portraits is a standard IF thing to do. :)" 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x key" 		
	

Floyd | Which key do you mean, the iron key or the copper key?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "copper" 		
	

Floyd | This is a copper key.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax asks, "Was a clock a running theme between these?" 	
			DavidW says, "The west door might be locked." 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "Thank you, that is very helpful to know that a copper key is a copper key, Floyd." 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "thank".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl snrks. 	
			Jacqueline says, "Floyd's right." 	
			DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "I call such things 'duh-scriptions'." 	
			Ellison says (to Limax), "there was a suggested automaton theme" 	
			Jacqueline says (to DW), "heh" 	
			genericgeekgirl asks, "So, west?" 	
			Limax says, "Ah" 	
			Gerynar says, "the movie Hugo was an inspiration for these games" 	
			Limax says, "Go west, young girl" 	
			DavidW says (to Gerynar), "I don't know that movie." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd | (opening the interior door first)
Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway
Floyd |   This is a hallway that runs north and south. A door is to the east
Floyd | and a set of double doors lead west.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax says (to DavidW), "It's also a book" 	
			Ellison says, "and an IF language!" 	
			Limax says, "The (Marvelous?) Invention of Hugo Cabaret" 	
			Limax says, "By Brian Selsnak (SP?)" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x double doors" 		
	

Floyd | These are an impresive set of heavy double doors. You see no sign that
Floyd | anything is wrong with them.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax says, "Selznick" 	
			Jacqueline says, "No Marvelous, just The Invention of Hugo Cabret." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x door" 		
	

Floyd | These are an impresive set of heavy double doors. You see no sign that
Floyd | anything is wrong with them.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax says (to Jacqueline), "Right... I just looked it up" 	
			Jacqueline says, "That's one of my favorite books." 	
			DavidW asks, "I suppose open doors?" 	
			Limax says, "I own the book, and I've listened to it as an audio book... really well done" 	
			Limax says, "The illustrations were done as sound effects" 	
			genericgeekgirl asks, "West first?" 	
	Limax says, "Go west, young girl" 		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd | The double doors appear to be wedged shut, no matter how much you push
Floyd | they refuse to budge
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "unlock doors" 		
	

Floyd | (with the iron key)
Floyd | Unlocked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Limax says, "Oh wait... I alreayd used that line" 	
			genericgeekgirl asks, "Really, with the same key we used to get into the house?" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open doors" 		
	

Floyd | These doors seem to be wedged shut. No matter how much you push, they
Floyd | refuse to budge.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "It seems so." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "But we still can't open them." 	
			Limax says, "IT must be a skeleton key" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "unlock doors with copper key" 		
	

Floyd | That doesn't seem to do the trick.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "search doors" 		
	

Floyd | You don't find anything new.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "push doors" 		
	

Floyd | These doors seem to be wedged shut. No matter how much you push, they
Floyd | refuse to budge.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pull doors" 		
	

Floyd | Pulling the double doors doesn't get you anywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "North, then south?" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway
Floyd |   This is a hallway that runs north and south. A door is to the east
Floyd | and a set of double doors lead west.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | North hallway
Floyd |   This is the north end of the hallway. To the north is a richly carved
Floyd | oak door. The main hallway leads back south. A small door leads east.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x door" 		
	

Floyd | Which door do you mean, the oak door or the small door?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x oak door" 		
	

Floyd | This door is carved to depict some sort of scene. In the center is a
Floyd | great oak tree. At its base is a jagged rift with light spilling out of
Floyd | it. Near the rift, two creatures are fighting, one a snake and the
Floyd | other a thing with more heads than necessary. Circling the scene is a
Floyd | huge gear that appears to be meshed with the earth itself.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x small door" 		
	

Floyd | The small door is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open small door" 		
	

Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open oak door" 		
	

Floyd | The oak door is locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "unlock oak door with copper key" 		
	

Floyd | Unlocked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "hm. The World Tree is ash, not oak, right?" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Checking out east first, since it seems like a smaller thing, maybe." 	
			genericgeekgirl asks, "Hm?" 	
			DavidW says, "yes, east first, please." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Pantry
Floyd |   This is a sparsely furnished pantry. A single shelf lines the wall.
Floyd | The only door leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd |   You see a rectagular console sitting on a shelf here.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x shelf" 		
	

Floyd | The shelf looks just like you would expect.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a rectagular console sitting on a shelf here.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search shelf" 		
	

Floyd | You see a rectagular console sitting on a shelf here.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x console" 		
	

Floyd | This appears to some sort of hand-held console. Its a rectangle with
Floyd | two switches on one side, both of which are in the off possition.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take console" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Tale says, "I'm mostly keeping in the background because I played all these, but this one I couldn't make either heard or tail of." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x switch" 		
	

Floyd | Which switch do you mean, the top switch or the bottom switch?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x top switch" 		
	

Floyd | This is a simple toggle switch. It is in the off possition.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf2" 		
	

Floyd | Enter saved game to store:
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on top switch" 		
	

Floyd | You set the top switch to the on possition.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on bottom switch" 		
	

Floyd | You set the bottom switch to the on possition.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x console" 		
	

Floyd | This appears to some sort of hand-held console. Its a rectangle with
Floyd | two switches on one side, both of which are in the on possition.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn off top switch" 		
	

Floyd | You set the top switch to the off position.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn off bottom switch" 		
	

Floyd | You set the bottom switch to the off possition.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hm. Ok." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Pantry
Floyd |   This is a sparsely furnished pantry. A single shelf lines the wall.
Floyd | The only door leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | North hallway
Floyd |   This is the north end of the hallway. To the north is a richly carved
Floyd | oak door. The main hallway leads back south. A small door leads east.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "North?" 	
			DavidW says, "I suppose. I worry, though." 	
			genericgeekgirl asks, "Why?" 	
			DavidW says, "My danger sense is tingling." 	
			DavidW says, "I think south is safer." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Well, we did just save, at least." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Gosh" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "So I think it's worth peeking in." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "But I won't do it without an ok." 	
			DavidW says, "ok" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd | (opening the oak door first)
Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd |   This is the good doctor's study. It would appear that a tornado has
Floyd | been through here recently. Papers are scattered every where and you
Floyd | can see several destroyed books. There is wooden desk and a chair here.
Floyd | A single portrait hangs on the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd |   Lying among the debris is a damaged book that might be salvageable.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x book" 		
	

Floyd | This book has been badly damaged. What's left of its few remaining
Floyd | pages is hard to read. You're able to make out a single chapter
Floyd | heading:
Floyd |
Floyd | Portal Control Settings
Floyd | .........sho...be taken..extreme danger when pow....the....ine.
Floyd | ..........................................wrong..be disastrous!
Floyd | ..to control..e..eatures...en...uting the port...................
Floyd | ............first...squ.....irc..hen...tr..gle...................
Floyd | .irst set..to...bl...en then red........not ..d..whit..een,.this...
Floyd | woul..free....eings from....other wor..........................
Floyd | ......when ..dy ...lace th....block, the..snak...k,..he man...ck
Floyd | then fin....ar block...will secu......ortal....................
Floyd |
Floyd | MP...ANT!....ke....uickly...clo..ikes...elve is ..too..ate!
Floyd |
Floyd | And that's all.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take book" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ooh, portals." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x basket" 		
	

Floyd | This is a simple waste basket.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search basket" 		
	

Floyd | You don't find anything new.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look under basket" 		
	

Floyd | You don't find anything under the waste basket.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hold on please" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "knock over basket" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "over".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ok." 	
			Ellison says, "huh, that's a little bit different from the first version of this game" 	
			DavidW says, "hm. ok." 	
			DavidW says, "The portal instructions are partly understandable." 	
			DavidW says, "I got the first bit but the latter half is still obscure." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, ""Mostly I'm seeing 'be careful!!!!1'"" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Yeah." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x desk" 		
	

Floyd | This is a plain wooden desk. It's not the large, impressive,
Floyd | corporate-office desk you expected. This is a working-man's desk. The
Floyd | legs are worn and the surface is scarred with a multitude of pencil
Floyd | marks that found their way through paper. It has a single drawer.
Floyd |
Floyd | [press any key to continue]
Floyd |

		genericgeekgirl says, "Uh oh." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "That was unexpected." 	
			DavidW says, "I got 'first square circle triangle' and 'first blue green red NOT red white green which would release monsters'." 	
	genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The calm figure sits reading a book, its subject arcane and unknowable.
Floyd | His hands follow the words with intense focus. He often mouths the
Floyd | words and the syllables are alien and grotesque. The pacing figure's
Floyd | attention, on the other hand, is scattered. He stops to speak several
Floyd | times but, knowing his companion, chooses to remain silent. After some
Floyd | time the calm figure takes a break from his reading and looks up. He
Floyd | finds his friend staring at him with an expression reserved for
Floyd | suffocated fish.
Floyd | He smiles for the first time. "Try to Relax," he says.
Floyd |
Floyd | [press any key to continue]
Floyd |

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Continue?" 	
	genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd |   This is the good doctor's study. It would appear that a tornado has
Floyd | been through here recently. Papers are scattered every where and you
Floyd | can see several destroyed books. There is wooden desk and a chair here.
Floyd | A single portrait hangs on the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "An expression reserved for suffocated fish. Huh." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Ok. Just a side thing. Whew." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x chair" 		
	

Floyd | The chair looks just like you would expect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open drawer" 		
	

Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x drawer" 		
	

Floyd | The desk drawer looks just like you would expect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search drawer" 		
	

Floyd | You don't find anything new.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look under desk" 		
	

Floyd | You don't find anything under the desk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x marks" 		
	

Floyd | These scarrs mar the surface of the desk.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search papers" 		
	

Floyd | You don't find anything new.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search books" 		
	

Floyd | You don't find anything new.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x portrait" 		
	

Floyd | This is the man himself, Doctor Hugo. His features are as sharp and
Floyd | thin as his ancestors, only more so. His hair is ice-skater slick and
Floyd | his nose could slice carrots. His eyes seem to scrutinize your every
Floyd | move. In the portrait he's wearing billowing clothes no man should
Floyd | wear. His posture is somewhat effeminate and this, along with his
Floyd | clothes, complete a twisted picture of menace.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "take basket" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to carry around a waste basket.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "'ice-skater slick'" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "look behind portrait" 		
	

Floyd | You don't find anything behind the portrait of Dr. Hugo.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look under chair" 		
	

Floyd | You don't find anything under the chair.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Back to the south?" 	
			DavidW says, "ok" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | North hallway
Floyd |   This is the north end of the hallway. To the north is a richly carved
Floyd | oak door. The main hallway leads back south. A small door leads east.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway
Floyd |   This is a hallway that runs north and south. A door is to the east
Floyd | and a set of double doors lead west.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Artifact room
Floyd |   This is the northern end of a room displaying arcane and bizarre
Floyd | artifacts. Notable among the items is a large, embalmed snake. The rest
Floyd | of the artifact room is to the south. You can also go north.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here. Slumped over and lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd |   You see an ornately carved, wooden box sitting on one of the tables.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x snake" 		
	

Floyd | At first this appears to be two snakes tangled together but, upon
Floyd | closer inspection, is a snake with two heads. Its body forks several
Floyd | inches below the heads, forming a grotesque natural obscenity. The
Floyd | snake is embalmed and sits on display.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take snake" 		
	

Floyd | You probably shouldn't touch the two-headed snake.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hmpf." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x automaton" 		
	

Floyd | This is a metal automaton. His body is a tangle of wires and gears. He
Floyd | has a human-like face made from some shiny metal. One of his hands
Floyd | closely resembles a broom while other is closer to a powerful looking
Floyd | claw. He has a single access panel in his mid-section.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x panel" 		
	

Floyd | This is the automaton's control panel. It is currently closed.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open panel" 		
	

Floyd | Opening the panel reveals a single button.
Floyd |
Floyd | [press any key to continue]
Floyd |

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "space" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "I wonder if we sent the right man?"
Floyd | At this the sedate man looks up and says nothing. His fingers mark a
Floyd | spot in his book. He's visibly annoyed.
Floyd | "Be patient," he says, "he needs time to adapt to his surroundings.
Floyd | Perhaps my personal servant can assist him if he's stuck."
Floyd | The nervous man doesn't appear satisfied with his answer but says
Floyd | nothing more.
Floyd |
Floyd | [press any key to continue]
Floyd |

		genericgeekgirl pauses to let anyone catch up. 	
	Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Artifact room
Floyd |   This is the northern end of a room displaying arcane and bizarre
Floyd | artifacts. Notable among the items is a large, two-headed, embalmed
Floyd | snake. The rest of the artifact room is to the south. You can also go
Floyd | north.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here. Slumped over and lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd |   You see an ornately carved, wooden box sitting on one of the tables.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x basket" 		
	

Floyd | This is a simple waste basket.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search basket" 		
	

Floyd | You don't find anything new.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look under basket" 		
	

Floyd | You don't find anything under the waste basket.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x box" 		
	

Floyd | This is a wooden box with carvings of fantastical creatures on it. It
Floyd | is currently closed.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "openbox" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "openbox".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open box" 		
	

Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the wooden box are the snake block, the many-legs block, the
Floyd | tree block, and the gear block.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take box" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x snake block" 		
	

Floyd | This block depicts a fierce snake. It is molded metal without any seam.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x snake many-legs block" 		
	

Floyd | You haven't encountered anything like that.  (If you're sure you need
Floyd | to refer to that, try putting it another way.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x many-legs block" 		
	

Floyd | You haven't encountered anything like that.  (If you're sure you need
Floyd | to refer to that, try putting it another way.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x tree block" 		
	

Floyd | This block depicts an oak tree. The detail is amazing for something so
Floyd | small. It is molded metal without any seam.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x gear block" 		
	

Floyd | This block depicts a gear in motion. It is molded metal without any
Floyd | seam.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x legs block" 		
	

Floyd | You haven't encountered anything like that.  (If you're sure you need
Floyd | to refer to that, try putting it another way.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x block" 		
	

Floyd | This block depicts a gear in motion. It is molded metal without any
Floyd | seam.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl frumples. 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x many legs block" 		
	

Floyd | You haven't encountered anything like that.  (If you're sure you need
Floyd | to refer to that, try putting it another way.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x spider" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "spider".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x octopus" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "octopus".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x legs" 		
	

Floyd | This block depicts a creature with more legs that hair follicles. It is
Floyd | molded metal without any seam.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ah." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Can we press the button? :)" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf3" 		
	

Floyd | Enter saved game to store:
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "ok, but scary" 	
			Jacqueline says, "She saved..." 	
			genericgeekgirl lives on the edge! 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press button" 		
	

Floyd | "Click." Nothing happens.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "heh" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Artifact room
Floyd |   This is the northern end of a room displaying arcane and bizarre
Floyd | artifacts. Notable among the items is a large, two-headed, embalmed
Floyd | snake. The rest of the artifact room is to the south. You can also go
Floyd | north.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here. Slumped over and lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Just in case~" 	
			DavidW says, "there's more room to the south, btw" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Artifact room south
Floyd |   This is the southern end of the artifact room. Most of the displays
Floyd | are gone, their tables bare. One of the more striking items on display
Floyd | here is a bizarre animal skeleton. You also see what looks like a rocky
Floyd | pillar.The rest of the artifact room is to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd |   You see a glass case sitting on one of the tables.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Ellison says, "yeah, parts of this game have a certain 'Human Centipede' feel to it (not that I've seen it)" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x case" 		
	

Floyd | This is a glass box that contains a rough rock. A small plaque is
Floyd | attached to its side that reads:
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | This is a rock that is considered to be cursed. Its first five owners
Floyd | fell sick and died unexpectedly shortly after gaining ownership of it.
Floyd | They were described as violently nauseous and lost all of their hair
Floyd | before perishing from the mystery illness. Since that time it has been
Floyd | safely contained within this protective glass case.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ok. I won't try to break the case. Yet." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x skeleton" 		
	

Floyd | It appears that someone took the skeletons of several animals and glued
Floyd | them all together. What you see is a confused tangle of legs and tails,
Floyd | claws and heads. What this creature was originally is anyone's guess.
Floyd | What you are sure of is that this creature couldn't exist in our world.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take skeleton" 		
	

Floyd | You probably shouldn't touch the strange skeleton.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Radioactive stone, I guess." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x pillar" 		
	

Floyd | This at first appears to be a rocky pillar but is in fact a petrified
Floyd | tree. It is unlike any petrified tree you have every seen. It's bark is
Floyd | very similar to the oak trees that grow in this area and you could
Floyd | swear that you see the initials "DH" carved into it. This section of
Floyd | tree is massive, several tons at least.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb pillar" 		
	

Floyd | You can't climb the petrified tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x initials" 		
	

Floyd | You can't understand how initials could have been carved into anything
Floyd | like this. It's clear that they were not chiseled into the tree.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "push tree" 		
	

Floyd | the petrified tree is rare and probably expensive. You shouldn't do
Floyd | that.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "read book" 		
	

Floyd | Portal Control Settings
Floyd | .........sho...be taken..extreme danger when pow....the....ine.
Floyd | ..........................................wrong..be disastrous!
Floyd | ..to control..e..eatures...en...uting the port...................
Floyd | ............first...squ.....irc..hen...tr..gle...................
Floyd | .irst set..to...bl...en then red........not ..d..whit..een,.this...
Floyd | woul..free....eings from....other wor..........................
Floyd | ......when ..dy ...lace th....block, the..snak...k,..he man...ck
Floyd | then fin....ar block...will secu......ortal....................
Floyd |
Floyd | MP...ANT!....ke....uickly...clo..ikes...elve is ..too..ate!
Floyd |
Floyd | And that's all.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Paulinus arrives, ready to play with the toys. 		ASchultz says, "I forget our inventory here" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying the iron key, the copper key, the console, the damaged
Floyd | book, and a wooden box.  Inside the wooden box are four steel blocks
Floyd | (the snake block, the many-legs block, the tree block, and the gear
Floyd | block).
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "okay, the last part of the book, before the IMPORTANT! bit is about the blocks." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "many-legs, snake, man and gear, in that order I think" 	
			DavidW says, "Tree, snake, many-legs, and gear." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "You're right, I have a rogue block in there. Heh." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Artifact room south
Floyd |   This is the southern end of the artifact room. Most of the displays
Floyd | are gone, their tables bare. One of the more striking items on display
Floyd | here is a bizarre animal skeleton. You also see a huge section of
Floyd | petrified tree.The rest of the artifact room is to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd |   You see a glass case sitting on one of the tables.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look under case" 		
	

Floyd | You don't find anything under the glass box.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. 		DavidW says, "So, there must be a portal to other worlds in the west room." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x console" 		
	

Floyd | This appears to some sort of hand-held console. Its a rectangle with
Floyd | two switches on one side, both of which are in the off possition.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x top switch" 		
	

Floyd | This is a simple toggle switch. It is in the off possition.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ChrisC says, "Hey guys, I just got in" 	
			DavidW says (to ChrisC), "hi" 	
			ASchultz hey ChrisC, we're on game 2 here 	
			DavidW says (to ggg), "I think, maybe the automaton will open the doors for us, but I'm not sure." 	
			ChrisC asks, ".. ASchultz Wow, how many comp games are there?" 	
			DavidW says, "The automaton might be a good way to get the radioactive stone." 	
			genericgeekgirl nods. 	
			djfletch says, "We could try the console in the automaton room, in case it controls the automaton." 	
			DavidW says, "yes, that seems worth testing." 	
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Artifact room
Floyd |   This is the northern end of a room displaying arcane and bizarre
Floyd | artifacts. Notable among the items is a large, two-headed, embalmed
Floyd | snake. The rest of the artifact room is to the south. You can also go
Floyd | north.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here. Slumped over and lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	djfletch says (to Floyd), "x automaton" 		
	

Floyd | This is a metal automaton. His body is a tangle of wires and gears. He
Floyd | has a human-like face made from some shiny metal. One of his hands
Floyd | closely resembles a broom while other is closer to a powerful looking
Floyd | claw. He has a single access panel in his mid-section.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "open panel" 		
	

Floyd | The panel is already open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "put console in panel" 		
	

Floyd | You put the console in the panel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm. Two switches, two types of hand." 	
			ASchultz asks, "Well, there are 4 possibilities for the right way here. Brute force?" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x broom" 		
	

Floyd | One of the automatons hands resembles a broom while the other looks
Floyd | more like a claw.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x face" 		
	

Floyd | The automaton's face seems errily human.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x body" 		
	

Floyd | You don't need to use the word "body".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Ellison says (to DW), "whoa! that's a good point" 	
			genericgeekgirl asks, "We probably want to hold the console, assuming it's a remote, no?" 	
			DavidW says (to ggg), "I think so, yes." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take console" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press button" 		
	

Floyd | "Click." Nothing happens.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "search automaton" 		
	

Floyd | The automaton doesn't let you search him.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on top switch" 		
	

Floyd | You set the top switch to the on possition.
Floyd |
Floyd | [press any key to continue]
Floyd |

		
	genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "Do you thing he found a key to your office?" says the nervous figure.
Floyd | "It's critical that he does," says the calm man, "how else would he
Floyd | know how to operate the machine?"
Floyd | This causes the pacing man to pace faster.
Floyd | "I've hidden them of course, but not so that he can't find them," says
Floyd | the calm figure.
Floyd |
Floyd | [press any key to continue]
Floyd |

		
	genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Artifact room
Floyd |   This is the northern end of a room displaying arcane and bizarre
Floyd | artifacts. Notable among the items is a large, two-headed, embalmed
Floyd | snake. The rest of the artifact room is to the south. You can also go
Floyd | north.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here. Slumped over and lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Ellison says, "dang, I never realized it was a remote control, either. I always went back to that room." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Hm." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "press button" 		
	

Floyd | "Click." The automaton's eyes light up and he starts to move. His
Floyd | control panel snaps shut and he scans the area.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x automaton" 		
	

Floyd | This is a metal automaton. His body is a tangle of wires and gears. He
Floyd | has a human-like face made from some shiny metal. One of his hands
Floyd | closely resembles a broom while other is closer to a powerful looking
Floyd | claw. He has a single access panel in his mid-section.
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton lightly dusts the two-headed snake. He seemingly takes a
Floyd | moment to admire his work.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Why did the button work this time?" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "I turned on the top switch on the console." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn on bottom switch" 		
	

Floyd | You set the bottom switch to the on possition.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway
Floyd |   This is a hallway that runs north and south. A door is to the east
Floyd | and a set of double doors lead west.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here, moving with purpose.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Follow him?" 	
			DavidW says, "yes" 	
			Ellison says, "yeah, you need to have done one of the switches for the button to work" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | North hallway
Floyd |   This is the north end of the hallway. To the north is a richly carved
Floyd | oak door. The main hallway leads back south. A small door leads east.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here, moving with purpose.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd |   This is the good doctor's study. It would appear that a tornado has
Floyd | been through here recently. Papers are scattered every where and you
Floyd | can see several destroyed books. There is wooden desk and a chair here.
Floyd | A single portrait hangs on the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here, moving with purpose.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd | The Automaton picks up the wastebasket.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | North hallway
Floyd |   This is the north end of the hallway. To the north is a richly carved
Floyd | oak door. The main hallway leads back south. A small door leads east.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here carrying a waste basket.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway
Floyd |   This is a hallway that runs north and south. A door is to the east
Floyd | and a set of double doors lead west.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here carrying a waste basket.
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton attempts to go through the double doors. As he struggles
Floyd | you can hear grinding gears and whining motors. Finally the door makes
Floyd | a huge cracking sound and crashes to the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl exclaims, "Yay!" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | The laboratory
Floyd |   This is Dr. Hugo's laboratory. A machine takes up most of the south
Floyd | side of the room and a closed red, steel door is to the west. A red
Floyd | strobe light is above the door and a lever is near it. The rest of the
Floyd | lab is to the north or you can go east through a broken door.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here carrying a waste basket.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "That was cool." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x machine" 		
	

Floyd | This is a massive machine. It's a mass of gears and pulleys, wheels and
Floyd | cogs. The only obvious interface is a screen and three geometric
Floyd | shapes. The shapes are a black square, a black circle and a black
Floyd | triangle. There is also a small square slot in the machine and what
Floyd | looks like a clock above it.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "square slot" 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "x clock" 		
	

Floyd | This looks like a clock. It has one hand that appears to be pointing to
Floyd | the eleven o'clock position.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton arrives from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x slot" 		
	

Floyd | This is a square hole in the machine.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "turn off top button" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn off top button" 		
	

Floyd | You haven't encountered any "top button".  (If you're sure you need to
Floyd | refer to that, try putting it another way.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "ok, I'm guessing we need to make the automaton stop somewhere, then turn on the other button" 	
	Jacqueline gets bored and wanders off to the Toyshop. 		
	Jacqueline arrives, ready to play with the toys. 		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn off top switch" 		
	

Floyd | For some reason you are unable to flip the switch.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "turn off bottom switch" 		
	

Floyd | For some reason you are unable to flip the switch.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x console" 		
	

Floyd | This appears to some sort of hand-held console. Its a rectangle with
Floyd | two switches on one side, both of which are in the on possition.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hm." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "I'm sure he's harmless.." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf4" 		
	

Floyd | Enter saved game to store:
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | The laboratory
Floyd |   This is Dr. Hugo's laboratory. A machine takes up most of the south
Floyd | side of the room and a closed red, steel door is to the west. A red
Floyd | strobe light is above the door and a lever is near it. The rest of the
Floyd | lab is to the north or you can go east through a broken door.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x basket" 		
	

Floyd | This is a simple waste basket.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ChrisC becomes covered in cross-hatching 		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search basket" 		
	

Floyd | You don't find anything new.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Where is the automaton now?" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "look under basket" 		
	

Floyd | You don't find anything under the waste basket.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Wandering around." 	
			genericgeekgirl asks, "Do you want to go after him?" 	
			ASchultz asks, "Maybe we could follow it a bit, make sure it loops?" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Ok" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway
Floyd |   This is a hallway that runs north and south. A door is to the east
Floyd | and a set of broken double doors lead west.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton arrives from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | The laboratory
Floyd |   This is Dr. Hugo's laboratory. A machine takes up most of the south
Floyd | side of the room and a closed red, steel door is to the west. A red
Floyd | strobe light is above the door and a lever is near it. The rest of the
Floyd | lab is to the north or you can go east through a broken door.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here carrying a waste basket.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | North lab
Floyd |   This is the northern part of the lab.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here carrying a waste basket.
Floyd |
Floyd |   You see a heavy sledge hammer leaning against one wall.
Floyd |   The trash receptacle is here.  Inside the trash receptacle is some
Floyd | garbage.
Floyd | The automaton empties the waste basket into the trash receptacle and
Floyd | smashes it down with surprising force.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x hammer" 		
	

Floyd | This is a heavy sledge hammer.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take hammer" 		
	

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | The laboratory
Floyd |   This is Dr. Hugo's laboratory. A machine takes up most of the south
Floyd | side of the room and a closed red, steel door is to the west. A red
Floyd | strobe light is above the door and a lever is near it. The rest of the
Floyd | lab is to the north or you can go east through a broken door.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway
Floyd |   This is a hallway that runs north and south. A door is to the east
Floyd | and a set of broken double doors lead west.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Going back to where we found him." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Artifact room
Floyd |   This is the northern end of a room displaying arcane and bizarre
Floyd | artifacts. Notable among the items is a large, two-headed, embalmed
Floyd | snake. The rest of the artifact room is to the south. You can also go
Floyd | north.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here, moving with purpose.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway
Floyd |   This is a hallway that runs north and south. A door is to the east
Floyd | and a set of broken double doors lead west.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here, moving with purpose.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Or not. Who knows." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | The laboratory
Floyd |   This is Dr. Hugo's laboratory. A machine takes up most of the south
Floyd | side of the room and a closed red, steel door is to the west. A red
Floyd | strobe light is above the door and a lever is near it. The rest of the
Floyd | lab is to the north or you can go east through a broken door.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here, moving with purpose.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd | The Automaton picks up the wastebasket.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "I guess he's going to dump all the baskets first?" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | North lab
Floyd |   This is the northern part of the lab.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The trash receptacle is here.  Inside the trash receptacle is some
Floyd | garbage.
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton arrives from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search receptacle" 		
	

Floyd | Inside the trash receptacle is some garbage.
Floyd | The automaton empties the waste basket into the trash receptacle and
Floyd | smashes it down with surprising force.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "search garbage" 		
	

Floyd | You find nothing special in the garbage.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x receptacle" 		
	

Floyd | This is a large trash receptacle.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the trash receptacle is some garbage.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "empty it" 		
	

Floyd | (I'll assume you mean the trash receptacle)
Floyd | garbage:  Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | North lab
Floyd |   This is the northern part of the lab.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The trash receptacle and some garbage are here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Ellison says, "originally, there was a key to the oak door in the garbage" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x garbage" 		
	

Floyd | The garbage looks just like you would expect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ah." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "search garbage" 		
	

Floyd | You find nothing special in the garbage.
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice that both switches on the console just automatically flipped
Floyd | to the off position.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Ah. I guess he's done." 	
			DavidW says, "hm. I probably shouldn't've moved the garbage." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | North lab
Floyd |   This is the northern part of the lab.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The trash receptacle and some garbage are here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "take garbage" 		
	

Floyd | You're not willing to carry any of the garbage.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter receptacle" 		
	

Floyd | You can't enter the trash receptacle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x receptacle" 		
	

Floyd | This is a large trash receptacle.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "enter receptacle" 		
	

Floyd | You can't enter the trash receptacle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | The laboratory
Floyd |   This is Dr. Hugo's laboratory. A machine takes up most of the south
Floyd | side of the room and a closed red, steel door is to the west. A red
Floyd | strobe light is above the door and a lever is near it. The rest of the
Floyd | lab is to the north or you can go east through a broken door.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x basket" 		
	

Floyd | This is a simple waste basket.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "okay, perhaps the automaton was just a way to get into the lab." 	
			DavidW says, "Although, if we want something smashed..." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Probably. We can go back and futz with it some more in a moment. I'd like to explore this room." 	
			Limax asks, "Put it in the wastebasket?" 	
			DavidW says, "...we just chuck it into a waste basket and let the robot to it." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah." 	
			DavidW says, ">name automaton "George"" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Yeah" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Hee." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x machine" 		
	

Floyd | This is a massive machine. It's a mass of gears and pulleys, wheels and
Floyd | cogs. The only obvious interface is a screen and three geometric
Floyd | shapes. The shapes are a black square, a black circle and a black
Floyd | triangle. There is also a small square slot in the machine and what
Floyd | looks like a clock above it.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x light" 		
	

Floyd | This is a red strobe light positioned directly above the steel door.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x lever" 		
	

Floyd | The lever looks just like you would expect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "steel door" 		
	

Floyd | That doesn't make any sense.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x steel door" 		
	

Floyd | The steel door is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "open steel door" 		
	

Floyd | You see no way to do that by hand.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "pull lever" 		
	

Floyd | With some effort you pull the lever back. It clicks several times and
Floyd | locks into position. The strobe light above the steel door starts
Floyd | blinking and the steel door itself slides open with a painful sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | [press any key to continue]
Floyd |

		
	genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "Your problem," says the dark figure, "is that you can't take things in
Floyd | stride."
Floyd | The pacing gentleman stops.
Floyd | "How can certain death be taken in stride?"
Floyd | The calm gentleman's smile disappears. "There are ways," he says, in a
Floyd | voice like a world without wholesome bread.
Floyd | The nervous man, jittery as crickets, turns pale.
Floyd | "Lets review what we know; there is a power source available, he should
Floyd | have a few clues as to how to operate the machine by now so the only
Floyd | question is whether he can adjust the portal settings properly."
Floyd | "You don't think you left too much do you?" says the nervous figure.
Floyd | "What do you mean?"
Floyd | "I mean..........," says the nervous man, wondering how he can say this
Floyd | diplomatically. "Did you, maybe, leave some clue as to how he might
Floyd | close the portal and........," he searches frantically for the right
Floyd | words, "free the prisoners?"
Floyd | "Quiet you fool!" says the other. There's fear in his dangerous tone
Floyd | and this abruptly ends the conversation.
Floyd |
Floyd | [press any key to continue]
Floyd |

		Limax exclaims, "Need to get my kids up and get some stuff done. Have fun, everyone!" 	
	Limax walks slowly out of the room and into the sunset. 		DavidW says, "Okay, I think we need to push the ..." 	
			DavidW asks, "What happened?" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "I pulled the lever to open the door." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "It's another flash back (side? forward?)" 	
	genericgeekgirl pushes the green 'space' button. 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The laboratory
Floyd |   This is Dr. Hugo's laboratory. A machine takes up most of the south
Floyd | side of the room and an open red, steel door is to the west. A red
Floyd | strobe light is above the door, blinking rapidly, and a lever is near
Floyd | it. The rest of the lab is to the north or you can go east through a
Floyd | broken door.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "SAVE" 		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "cf5" 		
	

Floyd | Enter saved game to store:
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x clock" 		
	

Floyd | This looks like a clock. It has one hand that appears to be pointing to
Floyd | the eleven o'clock position.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x shapes" 		
	

Floyd | These are three geometric shapes.The shapes are a black square, a black
Floyd | circle and a black triangle.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Isn't it obvious that pulling the lever is hugely dangerous?" 	
			genericgeekgirl asks, "No?" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x screen" 		
	

Floyd | This is a display screen that gives the status of the machine. It
Floyd | currently reads:
Floyd |
Floyd | "LOW POWER"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x book" 		
	

Floyd | This book has been badly damaged. What's left of its few remaining
Floyd | pages is hard to read. You're able to make out a single chapter
Floyd | heading:
Floyd |
Floyd | Portal Control Settings
Floyd | .........sho...be taken..extreme danger when pow....the....ine.
Floyd | ..........................................wrong..be disastrous!
Floyd | ..to control..e..eatures...en...uting the port...................
Floyd | ............first...squ.....irc..hen...tr..gle...................
Floyd | .irst set..to...bl...en then red........not ..d..whit..een,.this...
Floyd | woul..free....eings from....other wor..........................
Floyd | ......when ..dy ...lace th....block, the..snak...k,..he man...ck
Floyd | then fin....ar block...will secu......ortal....................
Floyd |
Floyd | MP...ANT!....ke....uickly...clo..ikes...elve is ..too..ate!
Floyd |
Floyd | And that's all.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Anyway, I think we need to push the square until it's blue, the circle until it's green, and the triangle until it's red." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "push square" 		
	

Floyd | Touching the square shape doesn't affect it in any way.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "set square to blue" 		
	

Floyd | That doesn't make any sense.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn square" 		
	

Floyd | You can't do that with the square shape.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "meh" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull square" 		
	

Floyd | Pulling the square shape doesn't get you anywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x slot" 		
	

Floyd | This is a square hole in the machine.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "That's for the blocks, I think." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah." 	
			DavidW asks, "Did you notice that the oak door has the same elements as the blocks? Can we revisit the oak door?" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway
Floyd |   This is a hallway that runs north and south. A door is to the east
Floyd | and a set of broken double doors lead west.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | North hallway
Floyd |   This is the north end of the hallway. To the north is a richly carved
Floyd | oak door. The main hallway leads back south. A small door leads east.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "x oak door" 		
	

Floyd | This door is carved to depict some sort of scene. In the center is a
Floyd | great oak tree. At its base is a jagged rift with light spilling out of
Floyd | it. Near the rift, two creatures are fighting, one a snake and the
Floyd | other a thing with more heads than necessary. Circling the scene is a
Floyd | huge gear that appears to be meshed with the earth itself.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "hm. Not immediately obvious how that helps." 	
			DavidW asks, "Did we see the automaton use the claw at all?" 	
			Ellison says, "I believe you were right, in that he uses it to pick up the wastebaskets" 	
			DavidW says, "hm, ok." 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Does he?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Ah, so he does." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "I'm curious what happens if we flip the switches in the other order. Or maybe nothing at all." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Well, he picks it up, anyway." 	
			DavidW asks, "Well, the garbage collection sequence was when both switches were on. We sorta saw sweeping briefly when only the top switch was on. I'm wondering if the bottom switch was on and the top was off...?" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Yes, but we did top switch first, pressed the button, and then the bottom switch." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "So it is theoretically possible that some other order of turning them on and pressing the button does something else." 	
			DavidW says, "I'm thinking the switch settings determine the automaton's program, and the button starts that program." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "The sweeping was top, button. The garbage thing started when we also turned on bottom." 	
			DavidW says, "I'd like to see bottom button on only." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway
Floyd |   This is a hallway that runs north and south. A door is to the east
Floyd | and a set of broken double doors lead west.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Artifact room
Floyd |   This is the northern end of a room displaying arcane and bizarre
Floyd | artifacts. Notable among the items is a large, two-headed, embalmed
Floyd | snake. The rest of the artifact room is to the south. You can also go
Floyd | north.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Artifact room south
Floyd |   This is the southern end of the artifact room. Most of the displays
Floyd | are gone, their tables bare. One of the more striking items on display
Floyd | here is a bizarre animal skeleton. You also see a huge section of
Floyd | petrified tree.The rest of the artifact room is to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd |   You see a glass case sitting on one of the tables.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl says, "Hm." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Artifact room
Floyd |   This is the northern end of a room displaying arcane and bizarre
Floyd | artifacts. Notable among the items is a large, two-headed, embalmed
Floyd | snake. The rest of the artifact room is to the south. You can also go
Floyd | north.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		genericgeekgirl asks, "Where is he?" 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway
Floyd |   This is a hallway that runs north and south. A door is to the east
Floyd | and a set of broken double doors lead west.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | North hallway
Floyd |   This is the north end of the hallway. To the north is a richly carved
Floyd | oak door. The main hallway leads back south. A small door leads east.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd |   This is the good doctor's study. It would appear that a tornado has
Floyd | been through here recently. Papers are scattered every where and you
Floyd | can see several destroyed books. There is wooden desk and a chair here.
Floyd | A single portrait hangs on the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | North hallway
Floyd |   This is the north end of the hallway. To the north is a richly carved
Floyd | oak door. The main hallway leads back south. A small door leads east.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway
Floyd |   This is a hallway that runs north and south. A door is to the east
Floyd | and a set of broken double doors lead west.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Entryway
Floyd |   You stand in a short hallway. The front door stands to the east and
Floyd | another door leads west. The only other adornments are several
Floyd | portraits lining the walls on either side of the room. All of the
Floyd | subjects in the pictures share common facial features hinting that they
Floyd | are closely related. Their most troubling feature is the eyes, piercing
Floyd | and violent; a malicious intelligence eager for blood.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway
Floyd |   This is a hallway that runs north and south. A door is to the east
Floyd | and a set of broken double doors lead west.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | The laboratory
Floyd |   This is Dr. Hugo's laboratory. A machine takes up most of the south
Floyd | side of the room and an open red, steel door is to the west. A red
Floyd | strobe light is above the door, blinking rapidly, and a lever is near
Floyd | it. The rest of the lab is to the north or you can go east through a
Floyd | broken door.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | North lab
Floyd |   This is the northern part of the lab.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The trash receptacle and some garbage are here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW asks, "Have we lost it?" 	
			Ellison says, "weird" 	
			Jacqueline says, "I am quite in need of a nap. Weird." 	
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | The laboratory
Floyd |   This is Dr. Hugo's laboratory. A machine takes up most of the south
Floyd | side of the room and an open red, steel door is to the west. A red
Floyd | strobe light is above the door, blinking rapidly, and a lever is near
Floyd | it. The rest of the lab is to the north or you can go east through a
Floyd | broken door.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway
Floyd |   This is a hallway that runs north and south. A door is to the east
Floyd | and a set of broken double doors lead west.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Entryway
Floyd |   You stand in a short hallway. The front door stands to the east and
Floyd | another door leads west. The only other adornments are several
Floyd | portraits lining the walls on either side of the room. All of the
Floyd | subjects in the pictures share common facial features hinting that they
Floyd | are closely related. Their most troubling feature is the eyes, piercing
Floyd | and violent; a malicious intelligence eager for blood.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway
Floyd |   This is a hallway that runs north and south. A door is to the east
Floyd | and a set of broken double doors lead west.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | North hallway
Floyd |   This is the north end of the hallway. To the north is a richly carved
Floyd | oak door. The main hallway leads back south. A small door leads east.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd |   This is the good doctor's study. It would appear that a tornado has
Floyd | been through here recently. Papers are scattered every where and you
Floyd | can see several destroyed books. There is wooden desk and a chair here.
Floyd | A single portrait hangs on the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | North hallway
Floyd |   This is the north end of the hallway. To the north is a richly carved
Floyd | oak door. The main hallway leads back south. A small door leads east.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Pantry
Floyd |   This is a sparsely furnished pantry. A single shelf lines the wall.
Floyd | The only door leads west.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here. Slumped over and lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Ellison says, "there we go" 	
			Ellison says, "(this is the room where we picked up the console)" 	
			DavidW says, "I'm also wondering if the sweeping program will clean up the papers in the study." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Oh, good." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "I got lost trying to check out each room again." 	
			Jacqueline says, "Don't worry, genericgeekgirlfriend. you're right here." 	
			Ellison says (to DW), "feel free to try out all of your theories. somebody should drive, I think." 	
			Tale says, "heh" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" 		
	

Floyd | You are carrying the iron key, the copper key, the damaged book, a
Floyd | wooden box, the console, and a sledge hammer.  Inside the wooden box
Floyd | are four steel blocks (the snake block, the many-legs block, the tree
Floyd | block, and the gear block).
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on bottom switch" 		
	

Floyd | You set the bottom switch to the on possition.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" 		
	

Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "open panel" 		
	

Floyd | Opening the panel reveals a single button.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" 		
	

Floyd | "Click." Nothing happens.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" 		
	

Floyd | "Click." Nothing happens.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "take automaton" 		
	

Floyd | The automaton probably wouldn't be too big on that idea.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn off bottom switch" 		
	

Floyd | You set the bottom switch to the off possition.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on top switch" 		
	

Floyd | You set the top switch to the on possition.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" 		
	

Floyd | "Click." The automaton's eyes light up and he starts to move. His
Floyd | control panel snaps shut and he scans the area.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "open panel" 		
	

Floyd | It's too difficult to open the panel while the automaton is moving.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd | The automaton does a bit of dusting.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | North hallway
Floyd |   This is the north end of the hallway. To the north is a richly carved
Floyd | oak door. The main hallway leads back south. A small door leads east.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here cleaning.
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton sweeps around the oak door.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd | The automaton patrols the room, looking for trash.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway
Floyd |   This is a hallway that runs north and south. A door is to the east
Floyd | and a set of broken double doors lead west.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here cleaning.
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton does a bit of dusting.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd | The automaton bumps into you while gathering random debris. He gives
Floyd | you an electronic look.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd | The automaton patrols the room, looking for trash.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd | The automaton cleans the floorboards.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | North hallway
Floyd |   This is the north end of the hallway. To the north is a richly carved
Floyd | oak door. The main hallway leads back south. A small door leads east.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here cleaning.
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton dusts the oak door.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd | The automaton dusts the oak door.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd | The automaton dusts the oak door.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd | The automaton dusts the small door.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd | The automaton sweeps up a bit of dust.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd | The automaton does a bit of dusting.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd | The automaton sweeps up a bit of dust.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd | The automaton dusts the oak door.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "This seems unuseful." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn off top switch" 		
	

Floyd | You set the top switch to the off position. The automaton immediately
Floyd | powers down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | North hallway
Floyd |   This is the north end of the hallway. To the north is a richly carved
Floyd | oak door. The main hallway leads back south. A small door leads east.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here. Slumped over and lifeless.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on bottom switch" 		
	

Floyd | You set the bottom switch to the on possition.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "open panel" 		
	

Floyd | Opening the panel reveals a single button.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" 		
	

Floyd | "Click." Nothing happens.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hammer" 		
	

Floyd | This is a heavy sledge hammer.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "give hammer to automaton" 		
	

Floyd | The automaton is not switched on. He can do nothing.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		DavidW says, "Can't help but think the hammer is for the glass case." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x book" 		
	

Floyd | This book has been badly damaged. What's left of its few remaining
Floyd | pages is hard to read. You're able to make out a single chapter
Floyd | heading:
Floyd |
Floyd | Portal Control Settings
Floyd | .........sho...be taken..extreme danger when pow....the....ine.
Floyd | ..........................................wrong..be disastrous!
Floyd | ..to control..e..eatures...en...uting the port...................
Floyd | ............first...squ.....irc..hen...tr..gle...................
Floyd | .irst set..to...bl...en then red........not ..d..whit..een,.this...
Floyd | woul..free....eings from....other wor..........................
Floyd | ......when ..dy ...lace th....block, the..snak...k,..he man...ck
Floyd | then fin....ar block...will secu......ortal....................
Floyd |
Floyd | MP...ANT!....ke....uickly...clo..ikes...elve is ..too..ate!
Floyd |
Floyd | And that's all.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz asks, "Hm. Is it worth trying to smash the case, run away and have the automaton try and pick it up thinking it's garbage?" 		
	ASchultz says, "ilac" 		DavidW says (to ASchultz), "I don't know. Maybe." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "push top switch" 		
	

Floyd | Pushing the top switch doesn't get you anywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on top switch" 		
	

Floyd | You set the top switch to the on possition.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on bottom switch" 		
	

Floyd | The bottom switch's already turned on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" 		
	

Floyd | "Click." The automaton's eyes light up and he starts to move. His
Floyd | control panel snaps shut and he scans the area.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd |   This is the good doctor's study. It would appear that a tornado has
Floyd | been through here recently. Papers are scattered every where and you
Floyd | can see several destroyed books. There is wooden desk and a chair here.
Floyd | A single portrait hangs on the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here, moving with purpose.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd | The Automaton picks up the wastebasket.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn off bottom switch" 		
	

Floyd | For some reason you are unable to flip the switch.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | North hallway
Floyd |   This is the north end of the hallway. To the north is a richly carved
Floyd | oak door. The main hallway leads back south. A small door leads east.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here carrying a waste basket.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway
Floyd |   This is a hallway that runs north and south. A door is to the east
Floyd | and a set of broken double doors lead west.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here carrying a waste basket.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | The laboratory
Floyd |   This is Dr. Hugo's laboratory. A machine takes up most of the south
Floyd | side of the room and an open red, steel door is to the west. A red
Floyd | strobe light is above the door, blinking rapidly, and a lever is near
Floyd | it. The rest of the lab is to the north or you can go east through a
Floyd | broken door.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here carrying a waste basket.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | North lab
Floyd |   This is the northern part of the lab.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here carrying a waste basket.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The trash receptacle and some garbage are here.
Floyd | The automaton empties the waste basket into the trash receptacle and
Floyd | smashes it down with surprising force.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn off top switch" 		
	

Floyd | For some reason you are unable to flip the switch.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | The laboratory
Floyd |   This is Dr. Hugo's laboratory. A machine takes up most of the south
Floyd | side of the room and an open red, steel door is to the west. A red
Floyd | strobe light is above the door, blinking rapidly, and a lever is near
Floyd | it. The rest of the lab is to the north or you can go east through a
Floyd | broken door.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here carrying a waste basket.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway
Floyd |   This is a hallway that runs north and south. A door is to the east
Floyd | and a set of broken double doors lead west.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here carrying a waste basket.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | North hallway
Floyd |   This is the north end of the hallway. To the north is a richly carved
Floyd | oak door. The main hallway leads back south. A small door leads east.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here carrying a waste basket.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Study
Floyd |   This is the good doctor's study. It would appear that a tornado has
Floyd | been through here recently. Papers are scattered every where and you
Floyd | can see several destroyed books. There is wooden desk and a chair here.
Floyd | A single portrait hangs on the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here carrying a waste basket.
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton returns the waste basket to it's original spot.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | North hallway
Floyd |   This is the north end of the hallway. To the north is a richly carved
Floyd | oak door. The main hallway leads back south. A small door leads east.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton arrives from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway
Floyd |   This is a hallway that runs north and south. A door is to the east
Floyd | and a set of broken double doors lead west.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here, moving with purpose.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Artifact room
Floyd |   This is the northern end of a room displaying arcane and bizarre
Floyd | artifacts. Notable among the items is a large, two-headed, embalmed
Floyd | snake. The rest of the artifact room is to the south. You can also go
Floyd | north.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here, moving with purpose.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd | The Automaton picks up the wastebasket.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway
Floyd |   This is a hallway that runs north and south. A door is to the east
Floyd | and a set of broken double doors lead west.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton arrives from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | The laboratory
Floyd |   This is Dr. Hugo's laboratory. A machine takes up most of the south
Floyd | side of the room and an open red, steel door is to the west. A red
Floyd | strobe light is above the door, blinking rapidly, and a lever is near
Floyd | it. The rest of the lab is to the north or you can go east through a
Floyd | broken door.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton arrives from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | North lab
Floyd |   This is the northern part of the lab.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The trash receptacle and some garbage are here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton arrives from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd | The automaton empties the waste basket into the trash receptacle and
Floyd | smashes it down with surprising force.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | The laboratory
Floyd |   This is Dr. Hugo's laboratory. A machine takes up most of the south
Floyd | side of the room and an open red, steel door is to the west. A red
Floyd | strobe light is above the door, blinking rapidly, and a lever is near
Floyd | it. The rest of the lab is to the north or you can go east through a
Floyd | broken door.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton arrives from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway
Floyd |   This is a hallway that runs north and south. A door is to the east
Floyd | and a set of broken double doors lead west.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton arrives from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Artifact room
Floyd |   This is the northern end of a room displaying arcane and bizarre
Floyd | artifacts. Notable among the items is a large, two-headed, embalmed
Floyd | snake. The rest of the artifact room is to the south. You can also go
Floyd | north.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton arrives from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd | The automaton returns the waste basket to it's original spot.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway
Floyd |   This is a hallway that runs north and south. A door is to the east
Floyd | and a set of broken double doors lead west.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here, moving with purpose.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton heads off to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | The laboratory
Floyd |   This is Dr. Hugo's laboratory. A machine takes up most of the south
Floyd | side of the room and an open red, steel door is to the west. A red
Floyd | strobe light is above the door, blinking rapidly, and a lever is near
Floyd | it. The rest of the lab is to the north or you can go east through a
Floyd | broken door.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here, moving with purpose.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd | The Automaton picks up the wastebasket.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | North lab
Floyd |   This is the northern part of the lab.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The trash receptacle and some garbage are here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton arrives from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd | The automaton empties the waste basket into the trash receptacle and
Floyd | smashes it down with surprising force.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | The laboratory
Floyd |   This is Dr. Hugo's laboratory. A machine takes up most of the south
Floyd | side of the room and an open red, steel door is to the west. A red
Floyd | strobe light is above the door, blinking rapidly, and a lever is near
Floyd | it. The rest of the lab is to the north or you can go east through a
Floyd | broken door.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The automaton arrives from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway
Floyd |   This is a hallway that runs north and south. A door is to the east
Floyd | and a set of broken double doors lead west.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | The laboratory
Floyd |   This is Dr. Hugo's laboratory. A machine takes up most of the south
Floyd | side of the room and an open red, steel door is to the west. A red
Floyd | strobe light is above the door, blinking rapidly, and a lever is near
Floyd | it. The rest of the lab is to the north or you can go east through a
Floyd | broken door.
Floyd |
Floyd |   The automaton is here carrying a waste basket.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" 		
	Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" 		DavidW says, "oops" 	
			ASchultz asks, "Whoah. How'd that happen?" 	
			Ellison says, "huh" 	
			DavidW asks, "how did undo+z mean quit?" 	
			Ellison says, "must have found some game-crashing bug. oh, you know what, I think a readme with the original game warned that 'undo' can break some things." 	
			DavidW says, "oh" 	
			inky says, "yeah, it must have crashed the game" 	
			DavidW says, "sorry" 	
			Ellison says, "I never ran into it myself" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Boo. Well, we have a save and I don't think we've accomplished much since then, if we wanted to try again (and somehow avoid it crashing again)." 	
			DavidW asks, "What's the game's load name?" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "One sec." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "cf5, I believe" 	
			Ellison says, "the one thing I'll say to help you guys along is that the steel door opened when you pulled the lever, and you haven't explored that room yet" 	
			DavidW says, "I'm gonna take a washroom break." 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Yeah. DW seemed nervous about it, and then we got side-tracked." 	
			DavidW says (to Ellison), "It did? I totally missed that." 	
			DavidW says, "Aargh. Roommate is now in washroom. Bladder angry." 	
			Jacqueline asks, "Waid, did you mean the game's save name or floyd load name?" 	
			Jacqueline says, "er, s/waid/wait" 	
			DavidW says, "The latter. I don't know how to restart the game." 	
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load hugoclock" 		
	

Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | How would you like your text displayed?
Floyd |
Floyd | (a) Always easy reading.
Floyd | (b) Occasionaly dark and sinister.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

		
	Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "b" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A worried figure paces, his feet describing a circle between two
Floyd | chairs. One of the chairs, his, stands unoccupied and forlorn, unused
Floyd | to its owners behavior. The occupied chair sits as calm as the one who
Floyd | occupies it. A dark figure sleek as kittens.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Sit down and enjoy the show," says the sedate man, "you should
Floyd | appreciate our safe vantage point."
Floyd | The pacing man simply rubs his head.
Floyd | "If this one doesn't make it inside there will always be others," says
Floyd | the calm figure.
Floyd | "That's not what I'm worried about," says the round figure, shaking his
Floyd | head, "he has a key but he might not be able to figure it out."
Floyd | "I wouldn't be so sure," says the serene man in one long breath.
Floyd | "You're over confident," says the round man, "It has to be done in an
Floyd | exact sequence. If not then it won't work!"
Floyd | "Perhaps," says the other, "we could give him a hint."
Floyd | "How on earth could we do that?" says the round man.
Floyd | A dangerous smile. "We already have."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | [press any key to continue]
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

		DavidW says, "(I also don't know the game's name)" 	
	Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. 		
	

Floyd | Verbose descriptions.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The Hugo Clock
Floyd | version 1.5
Floyd | by Jason McWright
Floyd | Type "ABOUT" to learn more.
Floyd | Hugo v3.1 / Library 31031
Floyd |
Floyd | Lost
Floyd |   Whatever was chasing you gave up when you raced like a mad man into
Floyd | the underbrush. Minutes later the adrenaline has worn off and now
Floyd | you're standing alone and bruised, surrounded on all sides by briars
Floyd | and tree limbs. Only faint moonlight streaming through the canopy above
Floyd | allows you to see anything.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" 		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf5" 		
	

Floyd | Enter saved game to load:
Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | The laboratory
Floyd |   This is Dr. Hugo's laboratory. A machine takes up most of the south
Floyd | side of the room and an open red, steel door is to the west. A red
Floyd | strobe light is above the door, blinking rapidly, and a lever is near
Floyd | it. The rest of the lab is to the north or you can go east through a
Floyd | broken door.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline asks, "Except, wait, do you think the text coloring (which we can't see but I chose because I like the idea that in a parallel universe things are sinister for us) could have caused the crash?" 	
			DavidW says (to ggg), "Feel free to explore west." 	
			Ellison says, "no, I'm pretty sure it was an >UNDO thing" 	
			Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "mmkay. Yeah, I guess if you hit that issue as well..." 	
			Jacqueline says, "I haven't heard of Jason. Is this his first game, or is he just someone I don't know." 	
	ASchultz says (to Floyd), "about" 		
	

Floyd | "The Hugo Clock" was written for the Hugo Open House Comp. This is
Floyd | version 1.5. I would like thank the denizens of the Jolt Country BBS
Floyd | with their helpful suggestions, especially Paul Lee for the transcript.
Floyd | If parts of the game run smoothly it's because Kent Tessman writes good
Floyd | code. Where it runs roughly, I deserve the blame. I also want to thank
Floyd | my wife. Her suggestions greatly improved the game. She also gracefully
Floyd | put up with much weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Jacqueline says, "And, of course, as soon as I hit return it occurred to me that multiple websites can answer that question." 	
			Ellison says (to Jacqueline), "I didn't, but there's this:" 	
			Ellison | "The Hugo Clock" was conceived, written and inadequately tested between 12/23/2011 and 1/2/2012. You should avoid over using "UNDO". It 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Ah." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "w" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Reaction chamber
Floyd |   This is the reaction chamber for the machine. It is a small room with
Floyd | smooth steel walls. you can leave by going east.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Ellison | sometimes causes strange behavior that I haven't had time to deal with. 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Well, ok." 	
			Ellison says, "(in the first version)" 	
	Ellison says (to Floyd), "about" 		
	

Floyd | "The Hugo Clock" was written for the Hugo Open House Comp. This is
Floyd | version 1.5. I would like thank the denizens of the Jolt Country BBS
Floyd | with their helpful suggestions, especially Paul Lee for the transcript.
Floyd | If parts of the game run smoothly it's because Kent Tessman writes good
Floyd | code. Where it runs roughly, I deserve the blame. I also want to thank
Floyd | my wife. Her suggestions greatly improved the game. She also gracefully
Floyd | put up with much weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		ASchultz says, "I haven't heard of him either ... I suppose websites can't track who's heard of whom" 	
			Jacqueline exclaims (at Ellison), "Ah!" 	
			Ellison says, "so yeah, the warning is gone now" 	
			Jacqueline says (to ASchultz), "I guess he's done some other stuff in Hugo, but yeah, this is my first contact with him that I know of." 	
			Ellison says, "he did a Dino Comp game way back in the day" 	
			DavidW asks, "I'm a bit unclear what our actual goal in this Hugo Clock game is. We need to use the machine to do what, exactly?" 	
			Ellison says, "I think our PC wants to turn it it on since it is there" 	
			Ellison says, "this is an old-school game in that sense" 	
			DavidW asks, "Can we push the glass case?" 	
			Ellison says, "plus, there are things outside that want to eat us" 	
			Jacqueline says, "Eternal motivation for IF playing and mountain climbing: because it is there." 	
			Paulinus says, "I think we need to do something with a portal of some sort." 	
			DavidW asks, "I think this reaction chamber is the portal, isn't it?" 	
			djfletch says, "The sinister guys want us to make the machine work but they don't want us to free some prisoners." 	
			Paulinus asks, "Maybe. Or does it power the machine? Which says it has low power?" 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | The laboratory
Floyd |   This is Dr. Hugo's laboratory. A machine takes up most of the south
Floyd | side of the room and an open red, steel door is to the west. A red
Floyd | strobe light is above the door, blinking rapidly, and a lever is near
Floyd | it. The rest of the lab is to the north or you can go east through a
Floyd | broken door.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x machine" 		
	

Floyd | This is a massive machine. It's a mass of gears and pulleys, wheels and
Floyd | cogs. The only obvious interface is a screen and three geometric
Floyd | shapes. The shapes are a black square, a black circle and a black
Floyd | triangle. There is also a small square slot in the machine and what
Floyd | looks like a clock above it.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x screen" 		
	

Floyd | This is a display screen that gives the status of the machine. It
Floyd | currently reads:
Floyd |
Floyd | "LOW POWER"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x clock" 		
	

Floyd | This looks like a clock. It has one hand that appears to be pointing to
Floyd | the eleven o'clock position.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Paulinus says, "Obviously the blocks have something to do with the slot, I guess." 	
			DavidW says, "yes, we haven't fiddled with that part yet." 	
			genericgeekgirl asks, "Yeah. Can we try putting them in (in order) and see what happens?" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "I know we haven't figured out the shape thing yet, but eh." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "push screen" 		
	

Floyd | Pushing the display screen doesn't get you anywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shapes" 		
	

Floyd | These are three geometric shapes.The shapes are a black square, a black
Floyd | circle and a black triangle.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Paulinus asks, "They need to be coloured. But I wonder if that is down to the lack of power?" 	
			DavidW says, "I think we need to change the shapes' colours, but pushing doesn't do it." 	
			DavidW says (to Paulinus), "Possibly." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "search machine" 		
	

Floyd | You don't find anything new.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Paulinus asks, "Have we found anything that might be reactive anywhere?" 	
			genericgeekgirl says, "Yes.." 	
			DavidW says, "yes" 	
			DavidW asks, "But where would it go, in the chamber?" 	
	genericgeekgirl says, "Maybe." 		genericgeekgirl says, "Oops." 	
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "close steel door" 		
	

Floyd | You see no way to do that by hand.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull lever" 		
	

Floyd | The lever is pulled back as far as it will go.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		Paulinus says, "I don't know. Perhaps if we pull the lever which opened the chamber, we will close it." 	
	genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "push lever" 		
	

Floyd | The lever resists being pushed.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "push lever" 		
	

Floyd | The lever resists being pushed.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "x light" 		
	

Floyd | This is a red strobe light positioned directly above the steel door. It
Floyd | is blinking urgently.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Hallway
Floyd |   This is a hallway that runs north and south. A door is to the east
Floyd | and a set of broken double doors lead west.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" 		
	

Floyd |
Floyd | Artifact room
Floyd |   This is the northern end of a room displaying arcane and bizarre
Floyd | artifacts. Notable among the items is a large, two-headed, embalmed
Floyd | snake. The rest of the artifact room is to the south. You can also go
Floyd | north.
Floyd |
Floyd |   A waste basket is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

		
	ASchultz has disconnected. 		
	ASchultz has connected. 		
	DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"