  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
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. |
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
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. |
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| DavidW says, "I guess me, borowski, Gerynar, at least." | ||
| borowski asks, "Have we played all the recent Speed IF's?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I dunno. The last few never got put onto the archive." | ||
| borowski says, "Oh good, ifwiki mentions ones that have been played on CF" | ||
| DavidW says, "up to a point. ifwiki is behind on recent sessions, I think, unless Sam or Jacq updated it." | ||
| borowski says, "Ah, yeah, the latest looks like 2011" | ||
| DavidW asks, "I can't even remember what we played last week. Legend Lives was last NightFloyd, wasn't it?" | ||
| borowski says, "Yeah, last week was Slaver Kingdom" | ||
| DavidW says, "ah yes, and we finished ToaSK." | ||
| DavidW says, "(yay us)" | ||
| DavidW asks, "well, any suggestions on what to play?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Delusions, maybe?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't know how long that one is." | ||
| Marvin says, "No idea." | ||
| DavidW says, "hm, longer than 2 hours, I guess, based on Paul's review." | ||
| DavidW says, "It's supposed to be an excellent game, though." | ||
| borowski says (to DavidW), "You probably have a better idea of what we haven't or have played." | ||
| borowski says, "Delusions sounds good." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Any objects or comments from anyone else?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "er objections?" | ||
| Gerynar says, "no objections from over here" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepwalk delusions" | ||
| Floyd says (to DavidW), "Floyd doesn't know that game." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "list d" | ||
| Floyd says (to DavidW), "dampcamp dark dayforfreshsushi deadlikeants deadlineenchanter death death_waif degen delusns desert detectiv devours dewdrops dflieslike dinner ditch divis djibouti djinni doctorm dogslife doll down dramaqueen dreamhold dreamtrap2 dualtransform dullegriet dumont" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepwalk delusns" | ||
| Floyd says (to DavidW), "Floyd doesn't know that game." | DavidW asks, "am I doing it wrong?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load delusns" | ||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Welcome to Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | E U I N Floyd | D L S O S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Press any key to begin.] | borowski says, "Sleepmask" | |
| DavidW says, "oh" | ||
| borowski says, "You typed sleepwalk" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Reality is so... unreal.
Floyd |
Floyd | The tangle of observations woven about it, humankind's utter lack of
Floyd | consensus, phases it to fit individual desires. Becoming and
Floyd | unbecoming, back and forth eternally, as it paradoxically coexists with
Floyd | and within infinite variations of itself...
Floyd |
Floyd | At least, that's what always surfaces in your mind whenever your own
Floyd | perception of reality is altered. Which is to say, ten or fifteen times
Floyd | a day. But it's your job, working to someday entertain others with new
Floyd | observations, new experiences, new realities. And after all, you signed
Floyd | up for the Project (as you well remember, even though it was close to
Floyd | five years ago), so you suppose it's entirely your fault if you don't
Floyd | like it. Which, when you think about it, you realise you do.
Floyd |
Floyd | Justy's voice reaches out to you from somewhere you can't see. "Okay,
Floyd | this should be it. One final test run to check any overload potential,
Floyd | and this world is done! I'm starting her up."
Floyd |
Floyd | A loud CLANK, and the Sphere begins spinning, with you inside it.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Brace yourself!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Bright lights.
Floyd |
Floyd | Pain.
Floyd |
Floyd | From somewhere off in your mind's distance, a telltale splash.
Floyd |
Floyd | Then, as the resounding thrums fade, a distorted ripple sweeps your
Floyd | vision clear, and all traces of the laboratory vanish from your senses.
Floyd |
Floyd | All five of them.
Floyd |
Floyd | Wiped clean, twitching, anxious for new input.
Floyd |
Floyd | Virtual reality has become reality.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | E U I N
Floyd | D L S O S
Floyd | An Interactive Self-Discovery
Floyd | Copyright 1996, 1997 by C.E. Forman (ceforman@worldnet.att.net)
Floyd | All rights reserved, and don't you forget it.
Floyd | [Type HELP to learn the secrets of the universe.]
Floyd | Release 4 / Serial number 971121 / Inform v6.14 Library 6/6
Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0
Floyd |
Floyd | Coral Reef
Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed,
Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves.
Floyd |
Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability
Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat,
Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond
Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but
Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened.
Floyd |
Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and
Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Wsswstndd
Floyd | jqgahergg kidrgdlgll dij d's Wsswstndd jqgahergg kidrgdlgll dij
Floyd | d, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension.
Floyd |
Floyd | Only Justy's disembodied voice betrays the presence of a virtual
Floyd | reality. "I estimate at max one potential for overload, maybe two. This
Floyd | one isn't all that complex, compared to the lab sim. Cynthesiser's got
Floyd | the analysis sweep running in the background, so you may feel some
Floyd | slight distortion. It's nothing to worry about. Just give us a typical
Floyd | walk -- or should I say, swim? -- through it."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit? | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd | | ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask delusns" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Human kind Floyd ] Cannot bear very much reality. Floyd ] Floyd ] -- T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton (1936) Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Welcome to Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | E U I N Floyd | D L S O S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Press any key to begin.] | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Reality is so... unreal. Floyd | Floyd | The tangle of observations woven about it, humankind's utter lack of Floyd | consensus, phases it to fit individual desires. Becoming and Floyd | unbecoming, back and forth eternally, as it paradoxically coexists Floyd | with and within infinite variations of itself... Floyd | Floyd | At least, that's what always surfaces in your mind whenever your own Floyd | perception of reality is altered. Which is to say, ten or fifteen Floyd | times a day. But it's your job, working to someday entertain others Floyd | with new observations, new experiences, new realities. And after all, Floyd | you signed up for the Project (as you well remember, even though it Floyd | was close to five years ago), so you suppose it's entirely your fault Floyd | if you don't like it. Which, when you think about it, you realise you Floyd | do. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice reaches out to you from somewhere you can't see. "Okay, Floyd | this should be it. One final test run to check any overload potential, Floyd | and this world is done! I'm starting her up." Floyd | Floyd | A loud CLANK, and the Sphere begins spinning, with you inside it. Floyd | Floyd | "Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | Bright lights. Floyd | Floyd | Pain. Floyd | Floyd | From somewhere off in your mind's distance, a telltale splash. Floyd | Floyd | Then, as the resounding thrums fade, a distorted ripple sweeps your Floyd | vision clear, and all traces of the laboratory vanish from your Floyd | senses. Floyd | Floyd | All five of them. Floyd | Floyd | Wiped clean, twitching, anxious for new input. Floyd | Floyd | Virtual reality has become reality. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | E U I N Floyd | D L S O S Floyd | An Interactive Self-Discovery Floyd | Copyright 1996, 1997 by C.E. Forman (ceforman@worldnet.att.net) Floyd | All rights reserved, and don't you forget it. Floyd | [Type HELP to learn the secrets of the universe.] Floyd | Release 4 / Serial number 971121 / Inform v6.14 Library 6/6 Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0 Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Strauss' "Blue Floyd | Danube" Waltz, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | Only Justy's disembodied voice betrays the presence of a virtual Floyd | reality. "I estimate at max one potential for overload, maybe two. Floyd | This one isn't all that complex, compared to the lab sim. Floyd | Cynthesiser's got the analysis sweep running in the background, so you Floyd | may feel some slight distortion. It's nothing to worry about. Just Floyd | give us a typical walk -- or should I say, swim? -- through it." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You're a fish. Specifically, a yellow-finned grouper. Quite a Floyd | nice-looking one too, as fish go. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "lemme know when you've read all that." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x coral" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X CORAL Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x swim" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X SWIM Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "swim" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > SWIM Floyd | Floyd | You swim around in a tight circle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Marvin says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Glière's Russian Floyd | Sailor's Dance, playing through in your mind, soothes away all Floyd | tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "we can go east or west, I think it said." | |
| Marvin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | A spotted stingray flaps lazily along the seafloor. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, ">RUN AWAY!" | |
| DavidW says, "swim away!" | ||
| Marvin says (to Floyd), "x octopus" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X OCTOPUS Floyd | Floyd | Its enormous grey-green body is soft and oval, encircled at the base Floyd | by eight deadly sucker-studded tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus grabs you with its tentacles and, despite your desperate Floyd | struggling, forces you into its gaping mouth. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side before targeting a specific segment with an Floyd | index finger. "Here," she emphasises to Justy. "According to the Floyd | sweep, the interpreter stack may be unstable." Floyd | Floyd | "Where is it?" Justy inquires. Floyd | Floyd | "Can't tell. It's a global event routine, not embedded in a specific Floyd | object. Damn this pseudo-OO compiler." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Take a break, come back after you've Floyd | recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | This thick volume is the Project's documentation, most of which has Floyd | been filled in in bits and pieces as developments have occurred. A lot Floyd | of it is hopelessly disorganized, despite Dr Shimada's efforts to Floyd | outline an index (which was some time ago). The cracked black leather Floyd | binder bears the Project logo. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "goodness, lotsa stuff" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > READ MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | The technical manual has several hundred pages. It'd be more efficient Floyd | to look up specific topics. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x logo" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X LOGO Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up project in manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP PROJECT IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The Project's central terminal is located in the VR lab and is Floyd | interfaced with the Cray ZMP-2010X and Sphere, but is otherwise Floyd | isolated from the rest of the Corporation net (for security purposes). Floyd | Control of the various system components is handled through a GUI Floyd | (Graphical User Interface) which serves as the Project's operating Floyd | system. Floyd | Floyd | SEE ALSO: Configure Icon, Cray ZMP-2010X, Debug Icon, Flush Icon, Floyd | Launch Icon, Report Icon, Sphere, System Icon Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | Marvin says, ""EXAMINE OCTOPUS" "You spend the next ten minutes trying to catch up on all the text that just filled your mud client."" | |
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "look up cray zmp-2010x" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time:
Floyd | 3
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK UP CRAY ZMP-2010X
Floyd |
Floyd | (in the Project's technical manual)
Floyd | You find the following:
Floyd |
Floyd | ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Floyd | The Cray ZMP-2010X, located in the Output Station, provides central
Floyd | processing, storage, and printing functions to the VR operating
Floyd | system. It is interfaced with the lab terminal via coaxial cables and
Floyd | fiber-optic bundles. Printing of the current system status is
Floyd | controlled via the "report" function of the O/S. Due to the severe
Floyd | paper shortages, it is necessary that the previous printout be
Floyd | recycled (through the built-in slot attached to the printer).
Floyd |
Floyd | SEE ALSO: Lab Terminal, Report Icon
Floyd | ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| borowski asks, "Severe paper shortages? What about VR PAPER?" | |
| DavidW says, "heh" | ||
| Gerynar says, "well, at least it looks like it recycles paper itself" | ||
| DavidW asks, "We're not in VR right now... or are we?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You can't see yourself without a mirror. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. You are wearing a technician's jumpsuit and Floyd | a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar says, "we're out of the VR because of the unstable <mumble-mumble>" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fingerwatch" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X FINGERWATCH Floyd | Floyd | Like anyone in today's highly time-controlled society, you have a Floyd | small clock affixed to your right index finger, continuously winking Floyd | the correct time, according to the International Chronometer. Floyd | Floyd | It has a built-in alarm which can be set to alert you with a painful Floyd | little jolt when the timer expires. (It's also digital, which you Floyd | always thought was pretty neat.) Floyd | Floyd | Currently, your fingerwatch reads "3132". Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "If VR is ever invented, it better not simulate reading a manual." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up sphere in manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP SPHERE IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The Sphere is an anti-gravity gyroscope that provides the sim user Floyd | with the weightlessness necessary for the virtual experience to take Floyd | over. The Sphere is the focal point for all sim-related activity Floyd | within the system. Floyd | Floyd | SEE ALSO: Cray ZMP-2010X, Fail-Safe Lever, Lab Terminal, VR Suit Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar is having visions of lawnmower man now | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x vr suit" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | The VR suit, a full-body outfit of spandex and kevlar, hangs on a rack Floyd | against one wall. It fits tightly and is strung with a network of Floyd | millions of tiny sensory-output devices. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "look up lawnmower man in manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP LAWNMOWER MAN IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of relevance in the Project's technical manual. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up vr suit in manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP VR SUIT IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The VR suit is laced with sensors and provides the user of a sim with Floyd | tactile feedback. Its counterpart, the helmet, contains eyephones and Floyd | earphones, and also interfaces directly with the subject's brain to Floyd | artificially stimulate the senses of smell and taste. Floyd | Floyd | The suit is also equipped with a replaceable flexi-plast receptacle Floyd | for the containment of bodily waste, as control of such functions is Floyd | relinquished in a full-sensory VR. Floyd | Floyd | SEE ALSO: Configure Icon, Sphere. Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "charming" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up configure icon" | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "look up configure icon" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP CONFIGURE ICON Floyd | Floyd | (in the Project's technical manual) Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The "configure" icon allows the operator to change sensory output Floyd | settings for a VR. Changes made during a session do not take effect Floyd | until the sim is reloaded. Floyd | Floyd | All users have access to this program. Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP CONFIGURE ICON Floyd | Floyd | (in the Project's technical manual) Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The "configure" icon allows the operator to change sensory output Floyd | settings for a VR. Changes made during a session do not take effect Floyd | until the sim is reloaded. Floyd | Floyd | All users have access to this program. Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar says, "scary that I'm thinking the same thing as a veteran IF gamer" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x glass tank" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X GLASS TANK Floyd | Floyd | This tank used to house an android that performed a lot of the Floyd | preliminary VR diagnostics, but you're not sure what happened to it Floyd | (the android, that is). Odd, that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up android in manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP ANDROID IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | VR androids, manufactured by other divisions within the Corporation, Floyd | are another protective tool, used in the early stages of VR sim Floyd | debugging. Equipped with limited neural-network processors, they are Floyd | strapped into the sphere and used to perform preliminary VR Floyd | diagnostics to avoid the dangers to a human brain in the event of any Floyd | serious bugs in a virtual sensory reality. Floyd | Floyd | SEE ALSO: Debug Icon, Fail-Safe Lever, Sphere, VR Viruses Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "look up fail-safe lever" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time:
Floyd | 3
Floyd |
Floyd | > LOOK UP FAIL-SAFE LEVER
Floyd |
Floyd | (in the Project's technical manual)
Floyd | You find the following:
Floyd |
Floyd | ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Floyd | Built into one corner of the Sphere is a fail-safe lever that may be
Floyd | pulled to prematurely shut down a sim when a person is inside. This
Floyd | feature is equipped with its own fusion cell and is of vital
Floyd | importance in the event of power outages or other system glitches. If
Floyd | a sim is not shut down properly using the fail-safe mechanism,
Floyd | permanent damage to the brain is likely to result from the abrupt
Floyd | termination of the human-computer synapse.
Floyd |
Floyd | SEE ALSO: Android, Sphere
Floyd | ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up vr viruses in manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP VR VIRUSES IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Rather than simply crashing systems or corrupting files, the creators Floyd | of early VR viruses took a more sinister purpose: By manipulating the Floyd | operation of VR hardware, the viruses were able to produce incredibly Floyd | bright lights and loud, high-pitched sounds that could actually blind Floyd | or deafen users due to the equipment's close proximity to the sensory Floyd | organs. Fear of this uncorrectable damage to persons instilled fear in Floyd | the technology, ultimately pushing it by the wayside. Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "eep" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x justy" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X JUSTY Floyd | Floyd | His bright eyes gleam through thick glasses framed by short brown hair Floyd | and a small gold loop through his left earlobe. Floyd | Floyd | Looking at Justy again, you see... not an old friend, but someone Floyd | else, someone different. Someone you've only begun to get to know Floyd | recently... Very curious. Floyd | Floyd | Or were you just thinking of someone else...? Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar vf ortvaavat gb guvax gung jr ner gur naqebvq | |
| DavidW asks, "do you guys want to read more manual or explore our surroundings a bit?" | ||
| Gerynar says, "I feel like exploring" | ||
| borowski says, "Yeah" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Cynthia went nw, I think?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Try that way first?" | ||
| borowski says, "Sure" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's Quarters Floyd | Cynthia's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only Floyd | a bed, desk, and a few of Cynthia's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia busies herself with the VR analysis system. Floyd | Floyd | Above Cynthia's desk hangs a 3-D picture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x picture" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | It's one of those pictures made up of a matrix of coloured dots, Floyd | arranged to form a three-dimensional image when stared at long enough Floyd | with one's eyes crossed. You've never understood why Cynthia (who is Floyd | blind) would keep such a thing around. Floyd | Floyd | Wait a minute... If you squint your eyes just right... There! It looks Floyd | like a giant sundial gnomon, with an atomic mushroom cloud erupting Floyd | behind. Floyd | Floyd | Truly bizarre that you never recognised it until this moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh. Trinity ref." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x cynthia" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X CYNTHIA Floyd | Floyd | Black lenses hide failed eyes, but Cynthia's other senses are even Floyd | sharper than your own. Her long hair spills down her back in thick Floyd | dreadlocks the same colour as a curious symbol tattooed on her right Floyd | forearm. Floyd | Floyd | There's a pencil tucked behind her ear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x tattoo" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X TATTOO Floyd | Floyd | An unrecognisable (to you) symbol, an eight-pointed star with a single Floyd | letter at each point (two at each of the diagonals), done in black Floyd | ink. It's hard to see clearly against Cynthia's dark skin. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "A compass rose?" | |
| borowski says, "Sounds like it" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cynthia about tattoo" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT TATTOO Floyd | Floyd | She smiles. "It's so I'll never get lost." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "ask Cynthia about tattoo" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT TATTOO Floyd | Floyd | She smiles. "It's so I'll never get lost." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh" | |
| Gerynar says, "ok, that was just spooky" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pencil" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X PENCIL Floyd | Floyd | The point is broken off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "ask Cynthia about report" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT REPORT Floyd | Floyd | "Do you have to ask me about EVERYTHING?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Yes. Yes we do." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask cynthia about everything" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT EVERYTHING Floyd | Floyd | "Do you have to ask me about EVERYTHING?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | That was a rhetorical question. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "heh" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask cynthia about project" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT PROJECT Floyd | Floyd | "My work's almost done here. I'll be leaving the Project soon." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x vr analysis" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X VR ANALYSIS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x report" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X REPORT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cynthia about justy" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT JUSTY Floyd | Floyd | "He annoys the heck outta me sometimes." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cynthia about me" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT ME Floyd | Floyd | "C'mon, go away. I've got to concentrate." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cynthia about android" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | "Do you have to ask me about EVERYTHING?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. Explore elsewhere?" | |
| borowski says, "yeah" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Output Station Floyd | Ironic proof against the aphorism that supercomputers are shrinking Floyd | dominates this section of the lab. The walls and narrow walkways Floyd | enclose the Project's brain, an enormous Cray ZMP-2010X whose size is Floyd | directly proportional to its awesome processing power. Equally large Floyd | racks of storage media occupy the four corners. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x racks" | ||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X RACKS Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cray" | ||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X CRAY Floyd | Floyd | One of the larger exabyte systems, though you're not familiar with the Floyd | exact configuration. Its most familiar feature is a built-in printer, Floyd | with a recycling slot for immediate paper reprocessing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x printer" | ||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X PRINTER Floyd | Floyd | One of the larger exabyte systems, though you're not familiar with the Floyd | exact configuration. Its most familiar feature is a built-in printer, Floyd | with a recycling slot for immediate paper reprocessing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x media" | ||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X MEDIA Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | The door is to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "So I guess there's just the cray in here." | |
| borowski says, "Yeah I guess this is where we go after printing" | ||
| DavidW asks, "gonna try ne of lab next, ok?" | ||
| borowski says, "Yeah, let's explore every direction in turn" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is a pair of metal kitchen tongs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a combination refrigerator/freezer and a microwave Floyd | oven (which is closed and empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x tongs" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X TONGS Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the pair of kitchen tongs that you didn't Floyd | already know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take tongs" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE TONGS Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x microwave" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | The microwave oven is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x microwave" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | The microwave oven is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fridge" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see inside, since the refrigerator part of the combination Floyd | refrigerator/freezer is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "aw, no fridge magnets?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | Opening the refrigerator reveals a cold slice of pizza. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pizza" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Pepperoni. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close fridge" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | You close the refrigerator part of the combination Floyd | refrigerator/freezer. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, ">MICROWAVE METAL TONGS" | |
| DavidW says, "One slice of pizza for three people. Yeah, that'll work." | ||
| borowski asks, "Should we heat up the pizza?" | ||
| DavidW says, "no, not yet." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'd like to see the lay of the land first before doing anything irrevocable." | ||
| borowski says, "And then eat it in front of Cynthia, saying, "Is this part of EVERYTHING?"" | ||
| borowski says (to DavidW), "sounds good" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on light" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You can't, since the metal door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x metal door" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X METAL DOOR Floyd | Floyd | It's a solid iron door leading to your quarters. Curiously, the Floyd | locking mechanism is on this side. Floyd | Floyd | Something is strange -- an echoing, shadowy air of inconsistency about Floyd | the metal door, but you can't quite place it... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock metal door" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > UNLOCK METAL DOOR Floyd | Floyd | It's already unlocked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | You open the metal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | On your desk is a hypodermic syringe. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging near the door is a painting by H.R. Giger. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an electric violin and an amplifier (on which is a Floyd | bow) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x north wall" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X NORTH WALL Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the north wall that you didn't already Floyd | know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x pilloqw" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X PILLOQW Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x pillow" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X PILLOW Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the pillow that you didn't already know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x painting" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | It's "The Crucified Serpent," one of Giger's earlier works (1975), Floyd | depicting an enormous metallic T-bar on which is draped a large snake Floyd | with a face vaguely similar to that of Christ. Wisps of mist billow Floyd | out from behind the crucifix, illuminated by lights angling upward Floyd | from short black cylinders. Floyd | Floyd | Odd, this. You can't seem to recall any details of the auction. In Floyd | fact, you don't remember buying it at all. A mental doubt surfaces as Floyd | to whether or not it's really the original. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x violin" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | A sleek black instrument, with round shoulders, a narrow neck, and Floyd | graceful f-shaped curves on either side of a set of four strings. It Floyd | has the Stradivari Corporation maker's mark on its bulging back. Floyd | Floyd | Looking again at the instrument, you feel a tinge of unfamiliarity, Floyd | and shiver. You can't recall any early lessons, when you were just Floyd | learning to play, though it wasn't all that long ago. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "getting a bit of a Twilight Zone vibe here." | |
| borowski says, "Yeah, something is going on or we're going crazy" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take pillow" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PILLOW Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "identity confusion of some sort" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play violin" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | It's not plugged in. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Ah, it's an electric Stradivari" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shelves" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You think there may be something on the top shelf, but you can't see Floyd | it from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on bed" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND ON BED Floyd | Floyd | You lie down on your bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off your bed. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | On your desk is a hypodermic syringe. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging near the door is a painting by H.R. Giger. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an electric violin and an amplifier (on which is a Floyd | bow) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb shelves" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get into the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Huh" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter alcove" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER ALCOVE Floyd | Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x shelves" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You think there may be something on the top shelf, but you can't see Floyd | it from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb shelves" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You doubt the shelves would support you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get out of the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > JUMP Floyd | Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters (in the shadowy alcove) Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | On your desk is a hypodermic syringe. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging near the door is a painting by H.R. Giger. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an electric violin and an amplifier (on which is a Floyd | bow) here. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | On your desk is a hypodermic syringe. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging near the door is a painting by H.R. Giger. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an electric violin and an amplifier (on which is a Floyd | bow) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x syringe" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | You've had diabetes mellitus since childhood, which necessitates an Floyd | injection of NPH insulin several times daily. Floyd | Floyd | Something is strange -- an echoing, shadowy air of inconsistency about Floyd | the hypodermic syringe, but you can't quite place it... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x take syringe" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > X TAKE SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take syringe" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x plywood" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X PLYWOOD Floyd | Floyd | You think there may be something on the top shelf, but you can't see Floyd | it from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "plug in violin" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG IN VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the electric violin) Floyd | You plug the electric violin into the amplifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x plasterboard" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X PLASTERBOARD Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take bow" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BOW Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | Too awkward, with everything you're carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "get on desk" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > GET ON DESK Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about your desk that you didn't already know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chair" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "maybe we can reach the top shelf with the bow?" | |
| borowski says, "I'm going to try dropping something and playing real quick" | ||
| DavidW says, "okay" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "drop pillow and tongs" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP PILLOW AND TONGS Floyd | Floyd | pillow: Dropped. Floyd | pair of kitchen tongs: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | (turning the amplifier on) Floyd | Tucking one end of the instrument firmly under your chin, its neck Floyd | held firmly in your right hand, you run the bow in your left expertly Floyd | over the strings. With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from Floyd | the instrument a sonorous croon that manifests itself as Haydn's Floyd | Serenade. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x violin" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | A sleek black instrument, with round shoulders, a narrow neck, and Floyd | graceful f-shaped curves on either side of a set of four strings. It Floyd | has the Stradivari Corporation maker's mark on its bulging back. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "So I guess we can play well, though we don't remember taking lessons?" | |
| DavidW says, "mmhm" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | pair of kitchen tongs: Taken. Floyd | pillow: Taken. Floyd | painting by H.R. Giger: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Now you remember why you hung it here in the first place: There's a Floyd | large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard wall. Floyd | amplifier: It's pretty heavy. You'd have to drop everything you're Floyd | carrying before you could lift it. (It does have casters attached to Floyd | the underside, though.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It could be a memory implant, I suppose. Or our memory is faulty." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x niche" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X NICHE Floyd | Floyd | A square depression, roughly fifteen centimetres to a side and ten Floyd | deep, carved into the wall in a way that is not aesthetically pleasing Floyd | in the least (which is why you hung the painting over it). Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "ah amplifier has casters, eh?" | |
| borowski says, "Interesting" | ||
| DavidW says, "push amplifier into alcove" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push amplifier into alcove" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH AMPLIFIER INTO ALCOVE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Let's bug Cynthia by playing a song" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push amplifier" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH AMPLIFIER Floyd | Floyd | It rolls a little. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "push amplifier ne" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH AMPLIFIER NE Floyd | Floyd | (setting the violin on top of it) Floyd | You roll the amplifier along with you. Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand on amplifier" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND ON AMPLIFIER Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb amplifier" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB AMPLIFIER Floyd | Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb shelves" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You doubt the shelves would support you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x shelves" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You think there may be something on the top shelf, but you can't see Floyd | it from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit top shelf with bow" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > HIT TOP SHELF WITH BOW Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "reach top shelf" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > REACH TOP SHELF Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Using the bow might work, but I can't think of the best verb" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch top shelf" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH TOP SHELF Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar says, "or maybe the tongs" | |
| borowski says, ">WHACK AT SELF WITH BOW" | ||
| borowski says, "Ah, that's an idea" | ||
| DavidW says, "'top shelf' isn't recognized" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think we have to get higher, but I'm surprised we can't get onto the amp." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "use tongs" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > USE TONGS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch shelves with bow" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH SHELVES WITH BOW Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to touch plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit shelves" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > HIT SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | Pointless destruction. How typically human. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "push shelves" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You shake the shelves slightly and hear something roll back and forth Floyd | along the top, before it abruptly rattles down behind the shelves, Floyd | lost. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ack" | |
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "That might have worked." | |
| borowski says, "If we could have then moved the shelves. Maybe." | ||
| DavidW says, "well, something to remember for later" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "look in niche" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN NICHE Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get out of the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "look behind shelves" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You think there may be something on the top shelf, but you can't see Floyd | it from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Could playing the violin with the amp in the alcove set up vibrations that help?" | |
| borowski says, "Hmm that's an idea" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "drop pillow, painting, and tongs" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time:
Floyd | 4
Floyd |
Floyd | > DROP PILLOW, PAINTING, AND TONGS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| borowski says (to Floyd), "drop pillow and tongs" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP PILLOW AND TONGS Floyd | Floyd | pillow: Dropped. Floyd | pair of kitchen tongs: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get out of the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters (in the shadowy alcove) Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier (on which is an electric violin) here. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see a pair of kitchen tongs, a pillow Floyd | and plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "get amplifyer" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > GET AMPLIFYER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "get amp" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > GET AMP Floyd | Floyd | It's pretty heavy. You'd have to drop everything you're carrying Floyd | before you could lift it. (It does have casters attached to the Floyd | underside, though.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take violin" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get out of the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar asks, "can we put the amp in the alcove?" | |
| DavidW says, "we did" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier (on which is an electric violin) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take violin" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | You unplug the electric violin and pick it up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar says, "sorry, also browsing the web, missed that" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play violin" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | It's not plugged in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "look in niche" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN NICHE Floyd | Floyd | The niche is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "plug in violin" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG IN VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | You plug the electric violin into the amplifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play violin" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | Too awkward, with everything you're carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying an electric violin, a painting by H.R. Giger, a bow Floyd | and a hypodermic syringe. You are wearing a technician's jumpsuit and Floyd | a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop painting" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop syringe" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play violin" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from the instrument a Floyd | sonorous croon that manifests itself as Bizet's Les Toréadors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a hypodermic syringe, a painting by H.R. Giger and an Floyd | amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "turn amp up" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN AMP UP Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to turn the amplifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x amp" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X AMP Floyd | Floyd | Typical of high-tech user-oriented electronic devices, its controls Floyd | are limited to a single power switch and a fader for volume control. Floyd | It's powered by its own fusion cell as well; no cord is required. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "turn amp on" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN AMP ON Floyd | Floyd | That's already on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fader" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X FADER Floyd | Floyd | It's a circular knob with settings from 0 - 10, currently set to 4. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "turn knob to 10" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN KNOB TO 10 Floyd | Floyd | You turn the fader to 10. The humming grows in volume. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hee" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn knob to 11" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN KNOB TO 11 Floyd | Floyd | The fader only has settings from 0 - 10. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. Pillow in alcove might be an idea too." | |
| DavidW says, "In case the unknown object is fragile." | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "get pillow" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > GET PILLOW Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get into the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "I dropped it there" | |
| DavidW says, "oh, it's already there? fine" | ||
| Gerynar says, "it fell behind and no mention of breakage" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play violin" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from the instrument a Floyd | sonorous croon that manifests itself as Strauss' The Hero's Floyd | Battlefield. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fader" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X FADER Floyd | Floyd | It's a circular knob with settings from 0 - 10, currently set to 10. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x amp" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X AMP Floyd | Floyd | Typical of high-tech user-oriented electronic devices, its controls Floyd | are limited to a single power switch and a fader for volume control. Floyd | It's powered by its own fusion cell as well; no cord is required. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "maybe another setting would be required for resonance, but there's no way to easily guess that, or if that's even what to do." | |
| Gerynar asks, "can we put the amp on the shelves?" | ||
| DavidW says, "We can't lift it." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit niche" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > HIT NICHE Floyd | Floyd | Pointless destruction. How typically human. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "It also might be used somewhere else. We still have a number of directions to explore." | |
| DavidW asks, "perhaps explore more, find a flashlight?" | ||
| Gerynar says, "sounds like a plan" | ||
| DavidW asks, "maybe a beer for that lonely pizza slice?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying an electric violin and a bow. You are wearing a Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop violin" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop bow" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP BOW Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn off amp" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN OFF AMP Floyd | Floyd | The humming fades away with a crackle of static. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x watch" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X WATCH Floyd | Floyd | Like anyone in today's highly time-controlled society, you have a Floyd | small clock affixed to your right index finger, continuously winking Floyd | the correct time, according to the International Chronometer. Floyd | Floyd | It has a built-in alarm which can be set to alert you with a painful Floyd | little jolt when the timer expires. (It's also digital, which you Floyd | always thought was pretty neat.) Floyd | Floyd | Currently, your fingerwatch reads "4635". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal gurney, an IV stand and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x gurney" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X GURNEY Floyd | Floyd | A flat metal stretcher with wheels attached. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on it" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND ON IT Floyd | Floyd | You lie down on the gurney. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal gurney, an IV stand and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x stand" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X STAND Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the IV stand that you didn't already know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | You open the medical cabinet, revealing a power X-Acto knife, a Floyd | gelstrip and an antitoxin caplet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "gelstrip" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > GELSTRIP Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gelstrip" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X GELSTRIP Floyd | Floyd | A thick strip of gelatinised gauze, laced with antibiotics and Floyd | blood-clotting agents, all of which have really long medical names, Floyd | like "protoprocoaguloeolytothromboplastinol." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "that'll come in handy if one of the meat people get damaged" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x caplet" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X CAPLET Floyd | Floyd | A small white caplet with a red band around the centre. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x knife" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | A round-handled electrical cutting tool with a sharp, vibrating (and Floyd | replaceable) blade. It's powered by its own internal fusion cell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x knife" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | A round-handled electrical cutting tool with a sharp, vibrating (and Floyd | replaceable) blade. It's powered by its own internal fusion cell. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "continue our tour?" | |
| borowski asks, "Take all?" | ||
| DavidW says, "no, not yet" | ||
| borowski says, "Onward then" | ||
| DavidW says, "we seem to have inventory awkwardness with climbing and playing violin, and there's no rucksack in sight." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Justy's Quarters Floyd | Justy's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only a Floyd | bed, desk, and a few of Justy's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | The south wall is completely taken up Justy's film library. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging nearby is a framed sketch by M.C. Escher. Floyd | Floyd | A large holovision set dominates the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x library" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X LIBRARY Floyd | Floyd | Justy's collection of science-fiction films includes the complete Floyd | "Star Wars" saga, the "Terminator" trilogy, and both the 2001 remake Floyd | and classic 1926 versions of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x star wars" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X STAR WARS Floyd | Floyd | Justy's collection of science-fiction films includes the complete Floyd | "Star Wars" saga, the "Terminator" trilogy, and both the 2001 remake Floyd | and classic 1926 versions of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | Justy's desk is bare. (He does most of his work out in the lab.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X BED Floyd | Floyd | Just a simple mattress and box springs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BED Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "watch metropolis" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > WATCH METROPOLIS Floyd | Floyd | Justy's collection of science-fiction films includes the complete Floyd | "Star Wars" saga, the "Terminator" trilogy, and both the 2001 remake Floyd | and classic 1926 versions of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play metropolis" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY METROPOLIS Floyd | Floyd | Quit playing around. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x escher" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X ESCHER Floyd | Floyd | The charcoal sketch depicts a stream, flowing upwards at impossible Floyd | angles through a square-edged canal before cascading downward from a Floyd | minaret to begin the process anew. (Unlike your Giger, though, this Floyd | isn't the original.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take escher" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ESCHER Floyd | Floyd | There's nothing behind it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suppose west of lab ought to be a communal bathroom, but we should check it out anyway." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x tv set" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X TV SET Floyd | Floyd | The dark, glassy eye of the holoscreen stares vacantly back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn on tv" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON TV Floyd | Floyd | The holovision screen lights up as the set clicks on, broadcasting a Floyd | "Jeopardy" match already in progress. Floyd | Floyd | Three contestants stand behind podiums labelled, from left to right Floyd | (from your perspective), "Tom," "Lisa," and "Brian." Tom currently has Floyd | $1400, Lisa's score is $1200, and Brian trails hopelessly behind with Floyd | -$900. Hovering beside the matrix of blue question screens in a Floyd | transparent plastic bubble is Jeopardy's host, the once-cryogenically Floyd | frozen head of Alex Trebek. Floyd | Floyd | "What is Planck's constant?" asks Lisa. Floyd | Floyd | "Correct," states Alex. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "change channel" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > CHANGE CHANNEL Floyd | Floyd | You cycle through the other channels (all 1023 of them), but discover Floyd | nothing even remotely entertaining. Floyd | Floyd | "I'll take interactive fiction for 400." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hee" | |
| Gerynar says, "just like TV today" | ||
| DavidW says, "mm" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "watch tv" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > WATCH TV Floyd | Floyd | Three contestants stand behind podiums labelled, from left to right Floyd | (from your perspective), "Tom," "Lisa," and "Brian." Tom currently has Floyd | $1400, Lisa's score is $1400, and Brian trails hopelessly behind with Floyd | -$900. Hovering beside the matrix of blue question screens in a Floyd | transparent plastic bubble is Jeopardy's host, the once-cryogenically Floyd | frozen head of Alex Trebek. Floyd | Floyd | "Currently the CEO of the BranMuffin World Conglomerate, she was the Floyd | original editor of XYZZYnews." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Who is Eileen Mullin?" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "Who is Eileen Mullin?" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time:
Floyd | 4
Floyd |
Floyd | > WHO IS EILEEN MULLIN?
Floyd |
Floyd | Sure, anyone can spit out "Jeopardy" questions in front of the tube,
Floyd | but it's a lot harder when you're standing up there under those hot
Floyd | fluorescent lights in front of a live studio audience. (Not that I
Floyd | know from experience, or anything.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| borowski says, "heh" | |
| DavidW says, "ha ha" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Tom taps his buzzer. "Who is Eileen Mullin?" Floyd | Floyd | Alex's head nods (an amusing sight when it's not attached to a body). Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski gives DavidW $400 | |
| DavidW says, "danke" | ||
| DavidW asks, "turn off the tv and continue the tour?" | ||
| borowski says, "sure" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn off tv" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 4 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN OFF TV Floyd | Floyd | You switch the holovision set off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. You are wearing a technician's jumpsuit and Floyd | a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in tank" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN TANK Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "look south" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK SOUTH Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cable" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X CABLE Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "south?" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lavatory Floyd | Dank and cold, these facilities contain only the usual fixtures -- Floyd | toilet, shower stall, and a dripping, rust-stained washbasin. On the Floyd | wall above the last is an off-colour rectangle, where a mirror once Floyd | hung, but no longer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x toilet" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X TOILET Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x stall" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X STALL Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x washbasin" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X WASHBASIN Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x rectangle" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X RECTANGLE Floyd | Floyd | As far as you can remember, there has never been a mirror here. It Floyd | must have been removed before you came to the Project. Floyd | Floyd | Something is strange -- an echoing, shadowy air of inconsistency about Floyd | the place where a mirror once hung, but you can't quite place it... Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "I wonder if we should take note of these strange feelings?" | |
| DavidW says, "well, it's possible that any object examined might trigger that message." | ||
| borowski says, "That's true" | ||
| DavidW asks, "or maybe it's a clue to re-examine it later?" | ||
| borowski says, "Or maybe we visit a different version of this reality? I'm just guessing." | ||
| borowski says, "I've never been to the future before." | ||
| borowski asks, "n & w?" | ||
| DavidW says, "please do" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n,w" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > N,W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | You can't, since Dr Shimada's office door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada prefers if you knock first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "knock" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to knock on? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | "Come in," says Dr Shimada, politely but firmly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You open Dr Shimada's office door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada's Office Floyd | With the Project approaching conclusion, Dr Shimada's workload has Floyd | increased geometrically. Several open and disarrayed filing cabinets Floyd | and the layer of paperwork covering her desktop and computer belie her Floyd | typical attention to immaculacy. Floyd | Floyd | On your right is a small wooden shelf, bulging with assorted books. Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada works furiously at her desk. Floyd | Floyd | On Dr Shimada's desk are a three-hole punch and Dr Shimada's cellular Floyd | phone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | All of the great works, eastern and western, of literature, Floyd | philosophy, and religion (on CD-ROM, of course). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dr" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X DR Floyd | Floyd | Dr Hyechong Shimada is the Project's director, working under the Floyd | control of the Executives. Following Justy's recommendation, she was Floyd | the one who recruited you for your current position. Floyd | Floyd | You've worked under Dr Shimada for years, but are still unable to say Floyd | that you truly know her due to her intensely private nature. Floyd | Half-Chinese, half-Japanese, she was transferred in from the Floyd | Corporation's Kyushu office to direct the Project. Floyd | Floyd | The jagged scars on her face and hands mark Dr Shimada as a survivor Floyd | of the Great Cancer, and give her already dogmatic presence an Floyd | artificial air of fierceness (which you suspect she secretly enjoys). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x punch" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X PUNCH Floyd | Floyd | A page-length three-hole punch, used to punch three holes (hence the Floyd | name) in pages to be added to the Project binder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x phone" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X PHONE Floyd | Floyd | The digits 1 through 9 are arrayed in a 3x3 matrix like a keyboard's Floyd | numeric cluster, with 0 and a "REDIAL" button below. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x phone" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X PHONE Floyd | Floyd | The digits 1 through 9 are arrayed in a 3x3 matrix like a keyboard's Floyd | numeric cluster, with 0 and a "REDIAL" button below. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask dr about project" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK DR ABOUT PROJECT Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada waves you away impatiently. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "OK, another person we have to play a song for." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x computer" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about Dr Shimada's desk that you didn't already Floyd | know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cabinet" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X CABINET Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "tell doctor about experiment" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > TELL DOCTOR ABOUT EXPERIMENT Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada waves you away impatiently. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suppose the Dr herself, the hole punch(?), and the phone are the important parts." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. You are wearing a technician's jumpsuit and Floyd | a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Do we really have anything to ask her yet?" | |
| borowski says, ">PILLOW FIGHT" | ||
| borowski says (to DavidW), "I don't think so." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask dr about android" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK DR ABOUT ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada waves you away impatiently. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "I was thinking we could talk about the failed experiment where we were eaten by an octopus." | |
| DavidW says, "well, probably not. We do sim runs like that all the time." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask dr for raise" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK DR FOR RAISE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask dr for phone" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK DR FOR PHONE Floyd | Floyd | No one uses Dr Shimada's phone but Dr Shimada. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask dr about punch" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK DR ABOUT PUNCH Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada waves you away impatiently. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "dial phone" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > DIAL PHONE Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada gives you a "look" that makes you change your mind. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I still haven't seen a portable lightsource." | |
| Gerynar says, "I'm wondering if it was a flashlight that was rolling around on the top shelf" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh. Maybe." | ||
| DavidW asks, "I'm not sure what to do with the Dr yet. Perhaps try to use the elevator? Or go down from lab?" | ||
| borowski says, "Yeah, let's try the elevator" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (closing Dr Shimada's office door on the way out) Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open elevator" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN ELEVATOR Floyd | Floyd | The doors don't open from this side, and there's no call button. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hmph" | |
| borowski says, "Trapped at work!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x elevator doors" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X ELEVATOR DOORS Floyd | Floyd | The only way out of this sub-basement. Floyd | Floyd | You can't remember what's up there, though you must have seen the Floyd | Complex on your way down. Has it really been that long ago? Floyd | Floyd | Something is strange -- an echoing, shadowy air of inconsistency about Floyd | the freight elevator, but you can't quite place it... Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "hmm" | |
| DavidW asks, "also, why is there a lock on the outside of our quarters?" | ||
| borowski says, "Interesting." | ||
| DavidW asks, "down from lab?" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "drat. Another dark zone." | |
| borowski asks, "Did we try moving the shelf?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Surely 'move' is the same as 'push'?" | ||
| borowski says, "I mean moving them away from the wall." | ||
| Gerynar has disconnected. | ||
| Gerynar has connected. | borowski asks, "Or maybe the tongs can reach behind?" | |
| Gerynar says, "or we can pull it" | ||
| DavidW says, "well, you can try, of course. Please save first when you get there." | ||
| DavidW clears the save counter. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Darkness Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | If there are any exits other than the stairs, they're blocked by the Floyd | mounds of old hardware and conveyors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a bow, an electric violin, a hypodermic syringe, a Floyd | painting by H.R. Giger and an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see a pair of kitchen tongs, a pillow Floyd | and plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Might try cutting the niche with the knife from the med lab." | |
| borowski says, "Oh right, it's made of plaster" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "pull shelf" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PULL SHELF Floyd | Floyd | You shake the shelves slightly and hear something roll back and forth Floyd | along the top, before it abruptly rattles down behind the shelves, Floyd | lost. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I need a washroom break anyways. Back in a bit." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "pull shelf" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PULL SHELF Floyd | Floyd | You shake the shelves slightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take tongs" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE TONGS Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take thing with tongs" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE THING WITH TONGS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "reach behind shelf" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > REACH BEHIND SHELF Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "search shelves" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the plywood shelves that you didn't already Floyd | know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "look behind shelf" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND SHELF Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the plywood shelves that you didn't already Floyd | know. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Hmm, I guess I'll restore and try the knife thing" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 0/50 Time:
Floyd | 5
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal gurney, an IV stand and a medical cabinet (in Floyd | which are a power X-Acto knife, a gelstrip and an antitoxin caplet) Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take knife" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a bow, an electric violin, a hypodermic syringe, a Floyd | painting by H.R. Giger and an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cut plasterboard with knife" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT PLASTERBOARD WITH KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cut niche with knife" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT NICHE WITH KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | Cutting that up would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x flashlight" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X FLASHLIGHT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a bow, an electric violin, a hypodermic syringe, a Floyd | painting by H.R. Giger and an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Hmm. Any ideas?" | |
| DavidW says, "well, we could try the resonance idea with the amp at different settings from 5 to 9." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn knob to 9" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN KNOB TO 9 Floyd | Floyd | You turn the fader to 9. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | (first taking it) Floyd | (first taking the bow) Floyd | (turning the amplifier on) Floyd | With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from the instrument a Floyd | sonorous croon that manifests itself as Beethoven's Symphony no. 6 in Floyd | F Major. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x amp" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X AMP Floyd | Floyd | Typical of high-tech user-oriented electronic devices, its controls Floyd | are limited to a single power switch and a fader for volume control. Floyd | It's powered by its own fusion cell as well; no cord is required. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Move the amp ne?" | |
| 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 asks, "Isn't it already pushed there?" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "move amp ne" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE AMP NE Floyd | Floyd | (setting the violin on top of it) Floyd | You roll the amplifier along with you. Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see a pair of kitchen tongs, a pillow Floyd | and plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get out of the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get out of the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier (on which is an electric violin), a Floyd | hypodermic syringe and a painting by H.R. Giger here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | (first taking it) Floyd | With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from the instrument a Floyd | sonorous croon that manifests itself as Glière's Russian Sailor's Floyd | Dance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x amp" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X AMP Floyd | Floyd | Typical of high-tech user-oriented electronic devices, its controls Floyd | are limited to a single power switch and a fader for volume control. Floyd | It's powered by its own fusion cell as well; no cord is required. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn knob to 8" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN KNOB TO 8 Floyd | Floyd | You turn the fader to 8. The humming fades in volume. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from the instrument a Floyd | sonorous croon that manifests itself as Borodin's String Quartet no. Floyd | 2. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn konb to 7" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN KONB TO 7 Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn knob to 7" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN KNOB TO 7 Floyd | Floyd | You turn the fader to 7. The humming fades in volume. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from the instrument a Floyd | sonorous croon that manifests itself as Rossini's William Tell Floyd | Overture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn knob to 6" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN KNOB TO 6 Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get into the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "hmm" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see a pair of kitchen tongs, a pillow Floyd | and plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn know to 6" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN KNOW TO 6 Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn knob to 6" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN KNOB TO 6 Floyd | Floyd | You turn the fader to 6. The humming fades in volume. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier, a hypodermic syringe and a painting by Floyd | H.R. Giger here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from the instrument a Floyd | sonorous croon that manifests itself as Glière's Russian Sailor's Floyd | Dance. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's possible that we can't really accomplish much in the complex until we've done more of the sim testing." | |
| borowski says, "Yeah I was thinking the same thing." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x suit" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X SUIT Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the VR suit or the technician's jumpsuit? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x vr suit" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | > X VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | The VR suit, a full-body outfit of spandex and kevlar, hangs on a rack Floyd | against one wall. It fits tightly and is strung with a network of Floyd | millions of tiny sensory-output devices. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I assume wearing the vr suit is sufficient to indicate a desire to start a new run." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put on vr suit" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > PUT ON VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | "Ready to have another go at it?" Justy asks rhetorically. Floyd | Floyd | Placing your possessions on the lab bench, you change out of the Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and into the VR suit and helmet. You climb into Floyd | the centre of the Sphere and spread your arms and legs so Justy can Floyd | lock them down. This done, he steps to the workstation and does Floyd | something you can't quite see. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, looks like we're all set for another run. Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | He throws the switch, and the lab spins away outside the Sphere... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Bach's Brandenburg Floyd | Concerto no. 5, playing through in your mind, soothes away all Floyd | tension. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice pierces through the fantasy. "You must've overlooked Floyd | something last time. Try playing through it differently this run. Floyd | We'll find that overload yet!" Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Ah. I think we went east the first time?" | |
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x pebbles" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X PEBBLES Floyd | Floyd | A small patch of smooth, rounded, colourful stones. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You're not carrying anything. Not surprising, seeing as how you're a Floyd | fish, and fish don't have hands to carry things with. Floyd | Floyd | A red crab scuttles along the sand below you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "eat crab" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > EAT CRAB Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Can we continue west?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Sandbar Floyd | The tide buffets you constantly in the tight confines between mounds Floyd | of brown sand which barely break through the watery surface. Clouds of Floyd | sediments and silt whirl about you, stirred by the cresting waves, and Floyd | it's difficult to maneuver. Floyd | Floyd | An insistent, claustrophobic panic taps at your consciousness, Floyd | advising you to seek deeper waters to the east rather than attempt to Floyd | venture westward, closer to the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sand" | ||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X SAND Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > DIG Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to dig? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sand" | ||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > SAND Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You dart downward, almost grazing the seafloor, then flash back up Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | With a tentative flick of your tail, you edge closer to the shore. Floyd | Suddenly, a cresting foam-capped wave picks you up and effortlessly Floyd | tosses you onto the beach! Floyd | Floyd | Shore Floyd | Wet sand packed below you. Orange fire above, blazing down through an Floyd | aquamarine sky laced with white, billowy wisps, beautiful yet horribly Floyd | alien and terrifying. Floyd | Floyd | Your gills pump furiously, but draw no oxygen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Your senses whirl as you flop about on the sand, unable to do anything Floyd | else. Floyd | Floyd | You flip over onto your other side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Your senses whirl as you flop about on the sand, unable to do anything Floyd | else. Floyd | Floyd | The hot sun burns down on your upturned eye as you gaze helplessly Floyd | skyward. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ugh" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Your senses whirl as you flop about on the sand, unable to do anything Floyd | else. Floyd | Floyd | You flip over onto your other side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "yell for help" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > YELL FOR HELP Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to yell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "flop" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > FLOP Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Shall we try pulling the fail-safe lever?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | Your senses whirl as you flop about on the sand, unable to do anything Floyd | else. Floyd | Floyd | The hot sun burns down on your upturned eye as you gaze helplessly Floyd | skyward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sun" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X SUN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "I hadn't thought about that. Sure" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > PULL LEVER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "justy, pull lever" | ||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > JUSTY, PULL LEVER Floyd | Floyd | "Can't, not while I've got this sim up and running." Floyd | Floyd | Thrashing around, you manage to flip yourself into the water, where Floyd | you slip back below the waves. Floyd | Floyd | Sandbar Floyd | The tide buffets you constantly in the tight confines between mounds Floyd | of brown sand which barely break through the watery surface. Clouds of Floyd | sediments and silt whirl about you, stirred by the cresting waves, and Floyd | it's difficult to maneuver. Floyd | Floyd | An insistent, claustrophobic panic taps at your consciousness, Floyd | advising you to seek deeper waters to the east rather than attempt to Floyd | venture westward, closer to the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Wait, how'd we get off the beach?" | |
| DavidW says, "We got lucky." | ||
| DavidW says, "One of our flips got us back into the water." | ||
| borowski says, "Ah, I see." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > JUMP Floyd | Floyd | Thrashing your tail wildly, you propel yourself up to grab a quick Floyd | glance at the world above. For a brief but terrifying moment, you are Floyd | unable to breathe, but then, silently and gracefully, you slip back Floyd | below the waves. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You propel yourself in that direction, but don't feel as though you're Floyd | actually moving. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x reef" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X REEF Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Maybe we just have to face the octopus again?" | |
| DavidW says, "I think so. I think we can evade it." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "east!" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | A school of tiny fish is disturbed as you pass through the jagged Floyd | hole! Startled, they flee the grotto, scattering all about you before Floyd | regrouping and, like a living comet, curving gracefully and uniformly Floyd | away to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus, its attention distracted by the school, propels itself Floyd | away from the grotto and out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Hmm, something deadly to the south maybe. Save?" | |
| DavidW asks, "south (deadly), down, or west and down (now that octopus is gone)?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, save, sure, although we are in a sim." | ||
| borowski says, "Oh right, I forgot about w & d." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | The world spins about as currents drag you down into the tunnel, which Floyd | twists and wrenches you through sharp turns, until you emerge in... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > VERBOSE Floyd | Floyd | DELUSIONS is now in its "verbose" mode, which always gives long Floyd | descriptions of locations (even if you've been there before). Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "I guess not really much of a choice." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Debussy's Arabesque Floyd | no. 2, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "back where we started" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "enter left hole?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter left hole" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER LEFT HOLE Floyd | Floyd | You approach the hole. Before you can even get close, an enormous sea Floyd | snake darts its head out and snaps you up in its massive jaws. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side, then shakes her head. "No change from last Floyd | time. The analysis sweep still detects the possibility of an overload, Floyd | but I can't pinpoint it." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Can't go to the Executives with a defective Floyd | program, they don't take happily to that. Take a break, come back Floyd | after you've recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x printout" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X PRINTOUT Floyd | Floyd | The "Report" icon depicts a printer spitting output. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sphere" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X SPHERE Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere is a human-sized anti-gravity gyroscope, encased in Floyd | soundproof glass. VR sensors connect to status monitors, the lab Floyd | terminal and the mainframe supercomputer in the next room by a thick Floyd | bundle of coaxial cables. A fail-safe lever protrudes at an angle from Floyd | one side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lever" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X LEVER Floyd | Floyd | A precautionary feature built into the Sphere for the testing of VRs. Floyd | Most simulations have a method of accessing the lever from the inside Floyd | as well. (The lab sim, for instance, simply incorporates a virtual Floyd | duplicate of the physical lever itself.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. The talk about a 'lab sim' makes me wonder if we can change which sim we do by using the Config Icon?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up launch icon" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP LAUNCH ICON Floyd | Floyd | (in the Project's technical manual) Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The "launch" program activates the currently loaded VR sim and runs Floyd | it. Input and output devices are the Sphere and VR suit, and they must Floyd | be occupied for this module to run. Floyd | Floyd | All users have access to this program. Floyd | Floyd | SEE ALSO: Fail-Safe Lever, Sphere, VR Suit Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up flush icon" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP FLUSH ICON Floyd | Floyd | (in the Project's technical manual) Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The "flush" program purges the system in the event of a critical error Floyd | in the active VR. Once purged, the sim is wiped clean from the system Floyd | and must be re-installed from archival storage. Floyd | Floyd | Due to the drastic nature of this program, only Dr Shimada has access Floyd | to it. Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x config icon" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X CONFIG ICON Floyd | Floyd | The "Configure" icon depicts a pair of hands flipping switches on a Floyd | console. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push it" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH IT Floyd | Floyd | It's not a touch-sensitive screen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "click it" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > CLICK IT Floyd | Floyd | [Try that again, this time specifying what you want to click on, as Floyd | well as which mouse button to use.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mouse" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X MOUSE Floyd | Floyd | A standard white two-button ergonomic input device. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "left click config icon" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK CONFIG ICON Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, don't mess with that," says Justy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask justy about lab sim" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JUSTY ABOUT LAB SIM Floyd | Floyd | "I dunno." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up lab sim" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP LAB SIM Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "still there?" | |
| borowski says, "Sorry, sudden work chaos." | ||
| DavidW says, "ah. I didn't know you were at work." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm thinking we need to solve the fish sim and then the plot will advance." | ||
| Tale arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||
| Tale has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW says, "actually, if you're busy, perhaps we should save here and resume later? I could use a bit of shut-eye time. My eyes are hurtin'." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cfdelusions" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time:
Floyd | 6
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Lionheart arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | borowski says, "Sounds good." | |
| borowski asks, "I missed the last bit of the simulation. What happened?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "when would be a good resume time?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I entered the left hole of the seafloor and was eaten by a snake." | ||
| borowski asks, "You're taking a nap?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||
| DavidW says, "if I may" | ||
| DavidW says, "(and I know I was late for cf because of earlier nap)" | ||
| borowski says, "Of course. I'll be home about 5:15-5:30." | ||
| Ellison says, "nice game" | ||
| DavidW says (to borowski), "ok" | ||
| DavidW says (to Ellison), "yeah, so far. We haven't really uncovered much, though." | ||
| borowski says (to Ellison), "It seems interesting but I don't think we've -- yeah" | ||
| DavidW says, "I" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm guessing that when we solve the fish sim, something catastrophic will happen and provide plot and direction." | ||
| magbo asks, "is that a meta-channel, or do you play right here? If so, which game are you playing now?" | ||
| borowski says (to magbo), "You go sw of the lounge to play" | ||
| DavidW says (to magbo), "I'm not sure what you mean by 'meta-channel', but we were playing Delusions." | ||
| borowski says, "We play there and talk about what we're doing here." | ||
| DavidW says, "We chat about the game on the channel so the transcript looks better when Jacqueline posts it on her site." | ||
| borowski says, "So there's no confusion between gameplay and chatter." | ||
| magbo says, "Ok, as I thought. Thank you for information." | ||
| borowski says (to magbo), "We play around noon on Sundays and around 10pm on Tuesdays." | ||
| borowski says, "Mudtime" | ||
| DavidW says, "anyway, I'll go afk and nap and be back later. I'll leave Perry running." | ||
| * magbo has left the channel. | ||
| Marvin has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| borowski has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | borowski asks, "Is the DavidW awake?" | |
| Olly says, "I don't think so." | ||
| Olly says, "He isn't logged on, at any rate." | ||
| Olly says, "Er, that is he isn't in the Lounge." | ||
| borowski says, "We were playing earlier and he went to take a nap." | ||
| Olly exclaims, "DAVIDW, AWAKE!" | ||
| borowski says, "I don't think we know that spell yet." | ||
| Olly says, "Maybe we need to use the summoning channel." | ||
| Olly says, "Yes, there really is one." | ||
| DavidW goes home. | ||
| DavidW has disconnected. | Olly says, "Well, I did my best on the summoning channel. If DavidW comes back I guess we will know it worked." | |
| Olly grins. | ||
| borowski says, "Ah, that's where you guys do the magics." | ||
| DavidW arrives, ready to play with the toys. | DavidW asks, "yow, 8:24pm?" | |
| jenrexrode says, "hey, the summoning worked" | ||
| DavidW says, "I should put pants on and find out what happened to dinner. Also flush out whatever died in my mouth." | ||
| borowski) DavidW says, "So that's where my pants went." | ||
| jenrexrode says, "haha" | ||
| DavidW says, "Perry's still running; people could have played without me, y'know." | ||
| DavidW asks, "afk for a few minutes to find dinner. then hopefully we can play a bit more, k?" | ||
| borowski says, "Okey dokey" | ||
| DavidW says, "okay, I have two small pizza slices (cold) and a salad." | ||
| borowski arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | borowski says, "Not bad." | |
| DavidW says, "When last we saw our hero, he had been eaten by a seasnake in the vr sim. I suggest trying to beat the vr." | ||
| jenrexrode arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Gerynar says, "while you're making dinner, I sure could use a grilled cheese or two" | |
| borowski says, "Sounds good." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear vr suit" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | "Ready to have another go at it?" Justy asks rhetorically. Floyd | Floyd | Placing your possessions on the lab bench, you change out of the Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and into the VR suit and helmet. You climb into Floyd | the centre of the Sphere and spread your arms and legs so Justy can Floyd | lock them down. This done, he steps to the workstation and does Floyd | something you can't quite see. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, looks like we're all set for another run. Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | He throws the switch, and you soon find yourself floating in liquid Floyd | space... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Beethoven's Floyd | Symphony no. 9 in D Minor, playing through in your mind, soothes away Floyd | all tension. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice pierces through the fantasy. "You must've overlooked Floyd | something last time. Try playing through it differently this run. Floyd | We'll find that overload yet!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | A spotted stingray flaps lazily along the seafloor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | A school of tiny fish is disturbed as you pass through the jagged Floyd | hole! Startled, they flee the grotto, scattering all about you before Floyd | regrouping and, like a living comet, curving gracefully and uniformly Floyd | away to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus, its attention distracted by the school, propels itself Floyd | away from the grotto and out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A jellyfish balloons its way across the rift. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter right hole" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER RIGHT HOLE Floyd | Floyd | You approach the hole. Before you can even get close, an enormous sea Floyd | snake darts its head out and snaps you up in its massive jaws. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side, then shakes her head. "No change from last Floyd | time. The analysis sweep still detects the possibility of an overload, Floyd | but I can't pinpoint it." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Can't go to the Executives with a defective Floyd | program, they don't take happily to that. Take a break, come back Floyd | after you've recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Hmm. Maybe e, e, s isn't as deadly as it feels" | |
| Gerynar arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | borowski says, "Or maybe we have to find every way to die." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "wear vr suit" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | "Ready to have another go at it?" Justy asks rhetorically. Floyd | Floyd | Placing your possessions on the lab bench, you change out of the Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and into the VR suit and helmet. You climb into Floyd | the centre of the Sphere and spread your arms and legs so Justy can Floyd | lock them down. This done, he steps to the workstation and does Floyd | something you can't quite see. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, looks like we're all set for another run. Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | He throws the switch, and the lab spins away outside the Sphere... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Bach's Art of Floyd | Fugue, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice pierces through the fantasy. "You must've overlooked Floyd | something last time. Try playing through it differently this run. Floyd | We'll find that overload yet!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | A school of tiny fish is disturbed as you pass through the jagged Floyd | hole! Startled, they flee the grotto, scattering all about you before Floyd | regrouping and, like a living comet, curving gracefully and uniformly Floyd | away to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus, its attention distracted by the school, propels itself Floyd | away from the grotto and out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | You float in cold, empty blackness, a zone of bathypelagic void, Floyd | emptiness in which nothing seems to exist, not even yourself. Floyd | Floyd | Far ahead, a luminous bulb weaves back and forth enticingly, like a Floyd | will-o'-the-wisp. You feel drawn to it, and begin following it deeper Floyd | into the darkness. An instant later, the light is yanked away Floyd | abruptly, before you even have a chance to see the enormous mouth that Floyd | swallows you whole. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side, then shakes her head. "No change from last Floyd | time. The analysis sweep still detects the possibility of an overload, Floyd | but I can't pinpoint it." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Can't go to the Executives with a defective Floyd | program, they don't take happily to that. Take a break, come back Floyd | after you've recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x sphere" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X SPHERE Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere is a human-sized anti-gravity gyroscope, encased in Floyd | soundproof glass. VR sensors connect to status monitors, the lab Floyd | terminal and the mainframe supercomputer in the next room by a thick Floyd | bundle of coaxial cables. A fail-safe lever protrudes at an angle from Floyd | one side. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Guess that was a lanternfish." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x lever" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X LEVER Floyd | Floyd | A precautionary feature built into the Sphere for the testing of VRs. Floyd | Most simulations have a method of accessing the lever from the inside Floyd | as well. (The lab sim, for instance, simply incorporates a virtual Floyd | duplicate of the physical lever itself.) Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Huh, lab sim." | |
| borowski asks, "I wonder what happens if we pull the lever?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, I'm hoping we can run the lab sim at some point." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure. Justy wouldn't pull it when the fish sim was running." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > PULL LEVER Floyd | Floyd | Nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x workstation" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X WORKSTATION Floyd | Floyd | A twentieth-century user would have called this a "personal computer" Floyd | or "PC," although the elimination of the "lone programmer" concept has Floyd | since made that acronym outdated. Floyd | Floyd | It's an 8-gigahertz multimedia package with a 16-terabyte hard drive, Floyd | 12 gigs of RAM, and a 96-meg cache. The CPU case is disproportionately Floyd | tiny next to the keyboard and monitor, larger only out of human Floyd | necessity. Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada ordered this system some time ago, when increased Floyd | processing speed became necessary if the Project's deadlines were to Floyd | be met. It arrived less than a week ago, and it's already obsolete. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x monitor" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X MONITOR Floyd | Floyd | Justy created this graphical interface to suit the Project, replacing Floyd | the hopelessly outdated "Windows 2000" O/S that came pre-installed. Floyd | Floyd | The desktop currently displays a mouse cursor, a "Launch" icon, a Floyd | "Configure" icon, a "Report" icon, a "Debug" icon, a "System" icon and Floyd | a "Flush" icon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x press debug icon" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X PRESS DEBUG ICON Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x click debug icon" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X CLICK DEBUG ICON Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x click debug icon with mouse" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X CLICK DEBUG ICON WITH MOUSE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar says, "try just debug" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "debug" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > DEBUG Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "click debug" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > CLICK DEBUG Floyd | Floyd | [Try that again, this time specifying what you want to click on, as Floyd | well as which mouse button to use.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I tried 'left click config icon' but Justy objected." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x mouse" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X MOUSE Floyd | Floyd | A standard white two-button ergonomic input device. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "left click debug" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > LEFT CLICK DEBUG Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, don't mess with that," says Justy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "click debug with right" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > CLICK DEBUG WITH RIGHT Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, don't mess with that," says Justy. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says (to DavidW), "Sorry, I must have missed that." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask justy about computer" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JUSTY ABOUT COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | "I dunno." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "earlier, before my nap" | |
| borowski says (to Justy), "Clearly." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask justy about overload" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JUSTY ABOUT OVERLOAD Floyd | Floyd | "I dunno." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We haven't scored a single point yet. [sadface]" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put on vr suit" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > PUT ON VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | "Ready to have another go at it?" Justy asks rhetorically. Floyd | Floyd | Placing your possessions on the lab bench, you change out of the Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and into the VR suit and helmet. You climb into Floyd | the centre of the Sphere and spread your arms and legs so Justy can Floyd | lock them down. This done, he steps to the workstation and does Floyd | something you can't quite see. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, looks like we're all set for another run. Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | He throws the switch, and the lab spins away outside the Sphere... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Bach's Toccata in D Floyd | Minor, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice pierces through the fantasy. "You must've overlooked Floyd | something last time. Try playing through it differently this run. Floyd | We'll find that overload yet!" Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "I know!" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The cliffs surround you on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus grabs you with its tentacles and, despite your desperate Floyd | struggling, forces you into its gaping mouth. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side, then shakes her head. "No change from last Floyd | time. The analysis sweep still detects the possibility of an overload, Floyd | but I can't pinpoint it." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Can't go to the Executives with a defective Floyd | program, they don't take happily to that. Take a break, come back Floyd | after you've recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | The cliffs surround you on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus grabs you with its tentacles and, despite your desperate Floyd | struggling, forces you into its gaping mouth. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side, then shakes her head. "No change from last Floyd | time. The analysis sweep still detects the possibility of an overload, Floyd | but I can't pinpoint it." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Can't go to the Executives with a defective Floyd | program, they don't take happily to that. Take a break, come back Floyd | after you've recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Oh right, left and right" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "enter left" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER LEFT Floyd | Floyd | You approach the hole. Before you can even get close, an enormous sea Floyd | snake darts its head out and snaps you up in its massive jaws. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side, then shakes her head. "No change from last Floyd | time. The analysis sweep still detects the possibility of an overload, Floyd | but I can't pinpoint it." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Can't go to the Executives with a defective Floyd | program, they don't take happily to that. Take a break, come back Floyd | after you've recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "enter right" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER RIGHT Floyd | Floyd | You approach the hole. Before you can even get close, an enormous sea Floyd | snake darts its head out and snaps you up in its massive jaws. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side, then shakes her head. "No change from last Floyd | time. The analysis sweep still detects the possibility of an overload, Floyd | but I can't pinpoint it." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Can't go to the Executives with a defective Floyd | program, they don't take happily to that. Take a break, come back Floyd | after you've recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The snake is in both holes, it seems." | |
| borowski says, "Hmm. I was hoping something would happen differently if the octopus was chasing us." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "wear vr suit" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | "Ready to have another go at it?" Justy asks rhetorically. Floyd | Floyd | Placing your possessions on the lab bench, you change out of the Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and into the VR suit and helmet. You climb into Floyd | the centre of the Sphere and spread your arms and legs so Justy can Floyd | lock them down. This done, he steps to the workstation and does Floyd | something you can't quite see. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, looks like we're all set for another run. Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | He throws the switch, and the lab spins away outside the Sphere... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Bach's Fugue in D Floyd | Minor, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice pierces through the fantasy. "You must've overlooked Floyd | something last time. Try playing through it differently this run. Floyd | We'll find that overload yet!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Gershwin's Rhapsody Floyd | in Blue, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | A ripple of relief passes over you as you realise that the octopus Floyd | hasn't followed you into the shallow waters. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "well, the principle of matchmaking is a good one, I guess." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Bach's Art of Floyd | Fugue, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "I was hoping we could lure him onto the beach, but he won't follow that far." | |
| DavidW says, "If we go in the grotto, then back west and down to seafloor, we see a shadow appear above us, but we've never verified what that is. Also, we could try going down at coral reef." | ||
| borowski says, "Ah, right" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Oh good, two friends!" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But deFalla's Ritual Floyd | Fire Dance, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You dart downward, almost grazing the seafloor, then flash back up Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus grabs you with its tentacles and, despite your desperate Floyd | struggling, forces you into its gaping mouth. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side, then shakes her head. "No change from last Floyd | time. The analysis sweep still detects the possibility of an overload, Floyd | but I can't pinpoint it." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Can't go to the Executives with a defective Floyd | program, they don't take happily to that. Take a break, come back Floyd | after you've recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "I guess there isn't a down there." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "wear vr suit" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | "Ready to have another go at it?" Justy asks rhetorically. Floyd | Floyd | Placing your possessions on the lab bench, you change out of the Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and into the VR suit and helmet. You climb into Floyd | the centre of the Sphere and spread your arms and legs so Justy can Floyd | lock them down. This done, he steps to the workstation and does Floyd | something you can't quite see. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, looks like we're all set for another run. Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | He throws the switch, and the lab spins away outside the Sphere... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Bach's Fugue in D Floyd | Minor, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice pierces through the fantasy. "You must've overlooked Floyd | something last time. Try playing through it differently this run. Floyd | We'll find that overload yet!" Floyd | Floyd | The reality around you wavers slightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "enter a hole?" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "enter right" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER RIGHT Floyd | Floyd | You approach the hole. Before you can even get close, an enormous sea Floyd | snake darts its head out and snaps you up in its massive jaws. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side, then shakes her head. "No change from last Floyd | time. The analysis sweep still detects the possibility of an overload, Floyd | but I can't pinpoint it." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Can't go to the Executives with a defective Floyd | program, they don't take happily to that. Take a break, come back Floyd | after you've recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time:
Floyd | ?
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Borodin's String Floyd | Quartet no. 2, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | The images before your eyes become briefly distorted. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | A ripple of relief passes over you as you realise that the octopus Floyd | hasn't followed you into the shallow waters. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Sandbar Floyd | The tide buffets you constantly in the tight confines between mounds Floyd | of brown sand which barely break through the watery surface. Clouds of Floyd | sediments and silt whirl about you, stirred by the cresting waves, and Floyd | it's difficult to maneuver. Floyd | Floyd | An insistent, claustrophobic panic taps at your consciousness, Floyd | advising you to seek deeper waters to the east rather than attempt to Floyd | venture westward, closer to the shore. Floyd | Floyd | The shark, kept at bay by the shore's proximity, circles patiently a Floyd | short distance away before moving on. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "I wonder if "The images before your eyes become briefly distorted." at the coral reef was a hint about something." | |
| DavidW says, "I don't know." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Bizet's Les Floyd | Toréadors, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Copland's Fanfare Floyd | for the Common Man, playing through in your mind, soothes away all Floyd | tension. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You dart downward, almost grazing the seafloor, then flash back up Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus grabs you with its tentacles and, despite your desperate Floyd | struggling, forces you into its gaping mouth. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy chuckles darkly. "Scary stuff, huh? Freaks me out no matter how Floyd | many times I see it." He claps you lightly on the shoulder, then turns Floyd | to study the printout Cynthia has spread out on the lab bench. Floyd | Floyd | She flips through the pages briefly, running her fingers over the tiny Floyd | raised bumps on one side, then shakes her head. "No change from last Floyd | time. The analysis sweep still detects the possibility of an overload, Floyd | but I can't pinpoint it." Floyd | Floyd | Justy nods grimly. "It's in there somewhere." To you, he adds, "Guess Floyd | we need to do another run. Can't go to the Executives with a defective Floyd | program, they don't take happily to that. Take a break, come back Floyd | after you've recovered a bit. I'll be waiting." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 0/50 Time:
Floyd | ?
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 0/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | A spotted stingray flaps lazily along the seafloor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus, its attention distracted by the school, propels itself Floyd | away from the grotto and out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | The shark, still in pursuit, attempts to squeeze into the narrow Floyd | grotto. As its pointed snout passes across the threshold, a school of Floyd | tiny fish is released! They attempt to scatter away, but many are Floyd | pushed back into the grotto by the shark's advance. Soon the shark Floyd | itself has become trapped in the grotto, but makes no effort to Floyd | extricate itself, its attention still focused solely on you. Floyd | Floyd | More tiny fish are generated as the shark's presence in the opening Floyd | triggers the event over and over again, its bulk trapping them in the Floyd | grotto with you. The space around you becomes so tightly packed that Floyd | it grows difficult to breathe, and still more fish are generated! Floyd | Floyd | In a split-second, a horrible snapping as the world, filled to Floyd | capacity, ruptures, oozing pure data in a solid, swirling stream. Floyd | Floyd | Then the onrush of darkness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | "Wow, that was intense!" Justy exclaims. The smile on his face shows Floyd | obvious satisfaction. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's fingers scrutinise the tiny indentations on the printout. Floyd | "Here we go," she says. "Interpreter stack overflow on event #69105, Floyd | releasing the school. Too many dynamic creations." Floyd | Floyd | "Never considered that," says Justy, shaking his head before facing Floyd | you. "Well, I guess that's why we debug. Gimme me about half a chron Floyd | or so to fix it. Take a break, you've earned it!" Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Hooray, beta testing!" | |
| DavidW says, "woot!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "well, I guess we go back to exploring the lab?" | |
| borowski says, "I guess so." | ||
| DavidW says, "also, yay "69105"" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x amplifier" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X AMPLIFIER Floyd | Floyd | Typical of high-tech user-oriented electronic devices, its controls Floyd | are limited to a single power switch and a fader for volume control. Floyd | It's powered by its own fusion cell as well; no cord is required. Floyd | Floyd | The VR session has exacted its toll on your hyperglycemic body. You Floyd | feel an urgent need for your insulin medication. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "oh, you pushed the amp out here?" | |
| borowski asks, "Did we bring that in here?" | ||
| borowski says, "I don't think so. Maybe things have changed." | ||
| borowski says, "Or debugging VR is bad for our brain." | ||
| DavidW says, "All our stuff is supposed to be on the bench, and maybe we had the violin, and the violin always goes on the amp. I guess." | ||
| Gerynar asks, "is the violin still plugged into the amp?" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying an electric violin, a bow and a power X-Acto knife. Floyd | You are wearing a technician's jumpsuit and a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, we need an injection!" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an amplifier, a metal gurney, an IV stand and a medical Floyd | cabinet (in which are a gelstrip and an antitoxin caplet) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Uh oh, is it in our room?" | |
| DavidW says, "The syringe should be in our room." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier, a hypodermic syringe and a painting by Floyd | H.R. Giger here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take syringe" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "inject syringe" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > INJECT SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | Gingerly you push the tiny point of the syringe through your skin, Floyd | eliciting a faint pop, and into the thick vein on the inside of your Floyd | right elbow joint. A press of the needle's switch, and the insulin Floyd | flows away in your bloodstream. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We're somehow pushing the amp everywhere for some reason." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a hypodermic syringe, an electric violin, a bow and a Floyd | power X-Acto knife. You are wearing a technician's jumpsuit and a Floyd | fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x bow" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOW Floyd | Floyd | A flexible black rod used to play the violin. (It has a metal star on Floyd | one end, too.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "unplug violin" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > UNPLUG VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | You unplug the electric violin. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Ah." | |
| borowski says, "But maybe we need it somewhere else." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x jumpsuit" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X JUMPSUIT Floyd | Floyd | A standard-issue grey Project uniform, loose-fitting and comfortable, Floyd | emblazoned with the Project logo. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x metal star" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X METAL STAR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "push amp ne" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH AMP NE Floyd | Floyd | You roll the amplifier along with you. Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see a pair of kitchen tongs, a pillow Floyd | and plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We probably do need the violin somewhere, but dunno where." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "push amp nw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH AMP NW Floyd | Floyd | You roll the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | It's not plugged in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "plug in violin" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > PLUG IN VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | You plug the electric violin into the amplifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from the instrument a Floyd | sonorous croon that manifests itself as Debussy's Arabesque no. 2. Floyd | Floyd | "Nice," says Justy admiringly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's Quarters Floyd | Cynthia's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only Floyd | a bed, desk, and a few of Cynthia's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia busies herself with the VR analysis system. Floyd | Floyd | Above Cynthia's desk hangs a 3-D picture. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fader" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 6 Floyd | Floyd | > X FADER Floyd | Floyd | It's a circular knob with settings from 0 - 10, currently set to 6. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from the instrument a Floyd | sonorous croon that manifests itself as Pachelbel's Canon. Floyd | Floyd | "Do you mind?" admonishes Cynthia. "I'm trying to concentrate." Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Oh yeah, I forget about the volume." | |
| borowski says, "And I sort of feel like a neglected child right now." | ||
| borowski says, "I learned how to play for you, mommy!" | ||
| DavidW says, "tee hee" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "set knob to 10" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > SET KNOB TO 10 Floyd | Floyd | You turn the fader to 10. The humming grows in volume. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from the instrument a Floyd | sonorous croon that manifests itself as Mussorgsky's The Great Gate at Floyd | Kiev. Floyd | Floyd | "Do you mind?" admonishes Cynthia. "I'm trying to concentrate." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | You can't, since Dr Shimada's office door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "knock,open door" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time:
Floyd | 7
Floyd |
Floyd | > KNOCK,OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "knock" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to knock on? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | "Come in," says Dr Shimada, politely but firmly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You open Dr Shimada's office door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada's Office Floyd | With the Project approaching conclusion, Dr Shimada's workload has Floyd | increased geometrically. Several open and disarrayed filing cabinets Floyd | and the layer of paperwork covering her desktop and computer belie her Floyd | typical attention to immaculacy. Floyd | Floyd | On your right is a small wooden shelf, bulging with assorted books. Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada works furiously at her desk. Floyd | Floyd | On Dr Shimada's desk are a three-hole punch and Dr Shimada's cellular Floyd | phone. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "play violin" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | With confident, practiced motions, you invoke from the instrument a Floyd | sonorous croon that manifests itself as Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Floyd | Mountain. Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada pauses in her work to close her eyes and enjoy the Floyd | absorbing melodies. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take phone" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PHONE Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada gives you a "look" that makes you change your mind. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Hmm. Well, I'm satisfied having tried playing for people." | |
| borowski says, "I guess there's still the pizza." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Are we hungry yet, though?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "diagnose" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > DIAGNOSE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "status" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > STATUS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Oh right. Don't diabetics eat something after taking insulin to balance it out?" | |
| borowski says, "Or maybe we give it to Justy to distract him or something." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure it works like that, but I'd rather wait until the game says we (or someone else) is hungry before using our only food item." | ||
| borowski says, "I would agree, but I'm not sure if we have any other leads." | ||
| borowski says, "I also wonder if microwaving the tongs would do anything." | ||
| DavidW says, "I guess I'm hoping something new has changed." | ||
| DavidW says, "Tongs are usually used to take something too hot." | ||
| borowski asks, "Oh, I wonder if putting the pillow on the lower shelf would catch the falling thing?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Since we couldn't directly refer to 'top shelf' and a lower shelf wasn't explicitly mentioned, I'm highly dubious." | ||
| borowski says, "Ah, right. I guess explore." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | (closing Dr Shimada's office door on the way out) Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar asks, "was the pizza the only thing in the fridge?" | |
| borowski asks, "Hmm. Did we check the freezer too?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Gerynar), "yes. We didn't doublecheck the freezer." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Lavatory Floyd | Dank and cold, these facilities contain only the usual fixtures -- Floyd | toilet, shower stall, and a dripping, rust-stained washbasin. On the Floyd | wall above the last is an off-colour rectangle, where a mirror once Floyd | hung, but no longer. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x rectangle" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > X RECTANGLE Floyd | Floyd | As far as you can remember, there has never been a mirror here. It Floyd | must have been removed before you came to the Project. Floyd | Floyd | Something is strange -- an echoing, shadowy air of inconsistency about Floyd | the place where a mirror once hung, but you can't quite place it... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch rectangle" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH RECTANGLE Floyd | Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "search rectangle" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH RECTANGLE Floyd | Floyd | As far as you can remember, there has never been a mirror here. It Floyd | must have been removed before you came to the Project. Floyd | Floyd | Something is strange -- an echoing, shadowy air of inconsistency about Floyd | the place where a mirror once hung, but you can't quite place it... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a hypodermic syringe, an electric violin, a bow and a Floyd | power X-Acto knife. You are wearing a technician's jumpsuit and a Floyd | fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Maybe in the lab sim, there *is* a mirror." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x earring" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > X EARRING Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "I wonder if we put the painting there." | |
| borowski says, "Kind of a weird idea." | ||
| DavidW says, "our painting? We left it in the shadowy alcove, I thought." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a painting by H.R. Giger here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take painting" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Lavatory Floyd | Dank and cold, these facilities contain only the usual fixtures -- Floyd | toilet, shower stall, and a dripping, rust-stained washbasin. On the Floyd | wall above the last is an off-colour rectangle, where a mirror once Floyd | hung, but no longer. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put painting on wall" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PAINTING ON WALL Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the north wall, the south wall, the east wall, the Floyd | west wall, the northeast wall, the northwest wall, the southeast wall, Floyd | the southwest wall or the place where a mirror once hung? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put painting on place" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PAINTING ON PLACE Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the place where a mirror once hung would achieve Floyd | nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, this should do it," says Justy, glancing up at you. "Anytime Floyd | you're ready, we can have another go at it." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "maybe paining IN place, not ON." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Lavatory Floyd | Dank and cold, these facilities contain only the usual fixtures -- Floyd | toilet, shower stall, and a dripping, rust-stained washbasin. On the Floyd | wall above the last is an off-colour rectangle, where a mirror once Floyd | hung, but no longer. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put painting in place" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PAINTING IN PLACE Floyd | Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "But looks like the vr is ready for another go." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put on vr suit" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > PUT ON VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | "Ready to have another go at it?" Justy asks rhetorically. Floyd | Floyd | Placing your possessions on the lab bench, you change out of the Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and into the VR suit and helmet. You climb into Floyd | the centre of the Sphere and spread your arms and legs so Justy can Floyd | lock them down. This done, he steps to the workstation and does Floyd | something you can't quite see. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, looks like we're all set for another run. Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | He throws the switch, and the lab spins away outside the Sphere... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Bach's Goldberg Floyd | Variations, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice rings clear through the barrier of illusion. "A quick Floyd | play through is all we need, but make sure you win it. Sometimes you Floyd | get interpreter crashes after a major memory reallocation. Wouldn't do Floyd | to show a faulty world to the Executives." Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "I guess we try the same thing again?" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "well, try your best." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus, its attention distracted by the school, propels itself Floyd | away from the grotto and out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | The shark circles the grotto opening briefly before swimming back the Floyd | way it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | The world spins about as currents drag you down into the tunnel, which Floyd | twists and wrenches you through sharp turns, until you emerge in... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Copland's Fanfare Floyd | for the Common Man, playing through in your mind, soothes away all Floyd | tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Oh right." | |
| borowski asks, "I guess that's a one way?" | ||
| DavidW says, "As far as I know." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | You inhale the fragrance of sea air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x anemones" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X ANEMONES Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't know how to deal with the shark, snake, or (guessing) lanternfish." | |
| borowski says, "I wonder if one of those latter things has changed now." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't think we've gone up from anemones." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Thrashing your tail wildly, you propel yourself up to grab a quick Floyd | glance at the world above. For a brief but terrifying moment, you are Floyd | unable to breathe, but then, silently and gracefully, you slip back Floyd | below the waves. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The shark is closing in on you fast! Floyd | Floyd | You flap your tail furiously, but are unable to escape. A wall of Floyd | jagged teeth crashes shut around you. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The shark circles the grotto opening briefly before swimming back the Floyd | way it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Perhaps if the shark is chasing us, it'll get the snake?" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "enter right hole" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER RIGHT HOLE Floyd | Floyd | You approach the hole. Before you can even get close, an enormous sea Floyd | snake darts its head out and snaps you up in its massive jaws. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm, guess not" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "enter left" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER LEFT Floyd | Floyd | You approach the hole. Before you can even get close, an enormous sea Floyd | snake darts its head out and snaps you up in its massive jaws. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But deFalla's Ritual Floyd | Fire Dance, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Sandbar Floyd | The tide buffets you constantly in the tight confines between mounds Floyd | of brown sand which barely break through the watery surface. Clouds of Floyd | sediments and silt whirl about you, stirred by the cresting waves, and Floyd | it's difficult to maneuver. Floyd | Floyd | An insistent, claustrophobic panic taps at your consciousness, Floyd | advising you to seek deeper waters to the east rather than attempt to Floyd | venture westward, closer to the shore. Floyd | Floyd | The shark, kept at bay by the shore's proximity, circles patiently a Floyd | short distance away before moving on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You dart downward, almost grazing the seafloor, then flash back up Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | You flap your tail furiously, but are unable to escape. A wall of Floyd | jagged teeth crashes shut around you. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Hmm." | |
| DavidW says, "we're missing something, I suppose." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You propel yourself in that direction, but don't feel as though you're Floyd | actually moving. Floyd | Floyd | You flap your tail furiously, but are unable to escape. A wall of Floyd | jagged teeth crashes shut around you. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Output Station Floyd | Ironic proof against the aphorism that supercomputers are shrinking Floyd | dominates this section of the lab. The walls and narrow walkways Floyd | enclose the Project's brain, an enormous Cray ZMP-2010X whose size is Floyd | directly proportional to its awesome processing power. Equally large Floyd | racks of storage media occupy the four corners. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an amplifier here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an amplifier, a combination refrigerator/freezer and a Floyd | microwave oven (which is closed and empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open freezer" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | Frosty air billows out around you. Floyd | Floyd | Opening the freezer reveals a lightstick. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "OH!" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x lightstick" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > X LIGHTSTICK Floyd | Floyd | Clear liquid sealed in a vial of pale green plastic, capped at one Floyd | end. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Aha!" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take lightstick" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE LIGHTSTICK Floyd | Floyd | (It's cold to the touch.) Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "close freezer" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | You close the freezer part of the combination refrigerator/freezer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | The door is to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You drag the amplifier along with you. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Dragging the amplifier down the stairs will damage it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "unplug violin" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > UNPLUG VIOLIN Floyd | Floyd | You unplug the electric violin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Crack stick?" | |
| DavidW says, "Bend or break it, I would guess." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "bend stick" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > BEND STICK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "crack stick" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > CRACK STICK Floyd | Floyd | Yes, I suppose you could, but the liquid would just spill all over and Floyd | make a mess. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "light stick" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > LIGHT STICK Floyd | Floyd | This dangerous act would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "break stick" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > BREAK STICK Floyd | Floyd | Yes, I suppose you could, but the liquid would just spill all over and Floyd | make a mess. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake stick" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > SHAKE STICK Floyd | Floyd | You give the lightstick a vigorous shake. A very faint glow emanates, Floyd | then fades almost immediately. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "x stick" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > X STICK Floyd | Floyd | Darkness, noun. An absence of light to see by. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "shake stick" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > SHAKE STICK Floyd | Floyd | You give the lightstick a vigorous shake. A very faint glow emanates, Floyd | then fades almost immediately. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Maybe it needs to be warm?" | |
| DavidW asks, "Microwave it and take it with tongs?" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a lightstick, a painting by H.R. Giger, a hypodermic Floyd | syringe, an electric violin, a bow and a power X-Acto knife. You are Floyd | wearing a technician's jumpsuit and a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see a pair of kitchen tongs, a pillow Floyd | and plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take tongs" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE TONGS Floyd | Floyd | Your hands are full. You can't pick up anything more until you drop Floyd | something else first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "drop painting" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take tongs" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE TONGS Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "drop violin and box" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP VIOLIN AND BOX Floyd | Floyd | electric violin: Dropped. Floyd | your bed: You'll have to get out of the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "drop bow" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP BOW Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x shelves" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > X SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You think there may be something on the top shelf, but you can't see Floyd | it from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x bottom shelf" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 7 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOTTOM SHELF Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, we're carrying way too much crap. If we find something new, we probably can't pick it up without dropping stuff first." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a pair of kitchen tongs, a lightstick, a hypodermic Floyd | syringe and a power X-Acto knife. You are wearing a technician's Floyd | jumpsuit and a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "drop syringe" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a combination refrigerator/freezer and a microwave oven Floyd | (which is closed and empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open microwave" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | You open the microwave oven. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 3/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put stick in microwave" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 6/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT STICK IN MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | You place the lightstick in the microwave and heat it for several Floyd | millichrons. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take stick" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 6/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE STICK Floyd | Floyd | (opening the microwave first) Floyd | It's hot! Your hand jerks reflexively away. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh 'millichrons'" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take stick with tongs" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 6/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE STICK WITH TONGS Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to take the lightstick. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "grab stick with tongs" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 6/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > GRAB STICK WITH TONGS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x tongs" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 6/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X TONGS Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the pair of kitchen tongs that you didn't Floyd | already know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put tongs on stick" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 6/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT TONGS ON STICK Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the lightstick would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "use tongs" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 6/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > USE TONGS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get stick using tongs" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 6/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > GET STICK USING TONGS Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to get the lightstick. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "take stick with tongs" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 6/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE STICK WITH TONGS Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to take the lightstick. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "grasp stick with tongs" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 6/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > GRASP STICK WITH TONGS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get stick" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 6/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > GET STICK Floyd | Floyd | It's hot! Your hand jerks reflexively away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "wield tongs" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 6/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > WIELD TONGS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "This is silly." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pick up stick with tongs" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 7/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > PICK UP STICK WITH TONGS Floyd | Floyd | Using the tongs, you grasp the lightstick firmly. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 7/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The door is to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 7/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness Score: 7/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | The faint glow of the lightstick reveals a light switch at the bottom Floyd | of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn on light" | ||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 7/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | (the light switch) Floyd | You switch the light switch on. Floyd | Floyd | Factory Storage Floyd | Old, broken-down conveyors and bins of ancient, rotting hardware -- Floyd | useless, outdated, or both -- pack this vast sub-basement from wall to Floyd | cement wall. Only a small area at the bottom of the stairs, about Floyd | three metres square, is free of the oppressive clutter. Floyd | Floyd | A light switch is affixed to the wall at the foot of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | A curtain of coaxial cables hangs down on one side of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x cables" | ||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 7/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X CABLES Floyd | Floyd | A curtain of coaxial cables hangs down on one side of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "move cables" | ||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE CABLES Floyd | Floyd | Pushing the cables to one side reveals the body of an android. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x android" | ||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | Could this be the android once used for early diagnostics in the Floyd | undebugged sims...? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | That was a rhetorical question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take android" | ||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | It's too heavy and awkward for one person to move. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Get help I guess?" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "What would you do with him?" | |
| Gerynar says "bloop" and shrinks down into a little dot, then winks out...just like those old-fashioned B&w televisions. | ||
| Gerynar has disconnected. | borowski asks, "Be our swimming buddy?" | |
| DavidW asks, "Also, did you try to turn him on?" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Factory Storage Floyd | Old, broken-down conveyors and bins of ancient, rotting hardware -- Floyd | useless, outdated, or both -- pack this vast sub-basement from wall to Floyd | cement wall. Only a small area at the bottom of the stairs, about Floyd | three metres square, is free of the oppressive clutter. Floyd | Floyd | A light switch is affixed to the wall at the foot of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | The curtain of coaxial cables has been pushed to one side to reveal Floyd | the body of an android. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn on android" | ||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | Giving life isn't that simple, I'm afraid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss android" | ||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > KISS ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "GIVE IT LIFE!" | ||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time:
Floyd | 8
Floyd |
Floyd | > GIVE IT LIFE!
Floyd |
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "tell justy about android" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TELL JUSTY ABOUT ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | "Good question." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "There's another dark region to our east, btw." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Factory Storage Floyd | Old, broken-down conveyors and bins of ancient, rotting hardware -- Floyd | useless, outdated, or both -- pack this vast sub-basement from wall to Floyd | cement wall. Only a small area at the bottom of the stairs, about Floyd | three metres square, is free of the oppressive clutter. Floyd | Floyd | A light switch is affixed to the wall at the foot of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | The curtain of coaxial cables has been pushed to one side to reveal Floyd | the body of an android. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Ah, I forgot about that" | |
| DavidW asks, "oh. east and down are the same?" | ||
| borowski says, "Guess so." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x android" | ||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | Could this be the android once used for early diagnostics in the Floyd | undebugged sims...? Floyd | Floyd | Something is strange -- an echoing, shadowy air of inconsistency about Floyd | the android body, but you can't quite place it... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hardware" | ||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X HARDWARE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Factory Storage Floyd | Old, broken-down conveyors and bins of ancient, rotting hardware -- Floyd | useless, outdated, or both -- pack this vast sub-basement from wall to Floyd | cement wall. Only a small area at the bottom of the stairs, about Floyd | three metres square, is free of the oppressive clutter. Floyd | Floyd | A light switch is affixed to the wall at the foot of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | The curtain of coaxial cables has been pushed to one side to reveal Floyd | the body of an android. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x stairs" | ||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X STAIRS Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x walls" | ||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X WALLS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x clutter" | ||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X CLUTTER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Well, if the gurney can go down the stairs, you might move the android that way?" | |
| borowski says, "Hmm" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal gurney, an IV stand and a medical cabinet (in Floyd | which are a gelstrip and an antitoxin caplet) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x gurney" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X GURNEY Floyd | Floyd | A flat metal stretcher with wheels attached. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "move gurney n" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE GURNEY N Floyd | Floyd | A loose wheel rattles as you push the gurney along. Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier and a lab bench (on which are the Floyd | Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic Floyd | mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "move gurney e" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE GURNEY E Floyd | Floyd | The stairs aren't wide enough. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "bah" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "move amp e" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE AMP E Floyd | Floyd | It would probably get damaged if you did that. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Was something else powered?" | |
| DavidW asks, "You might like the xacto knife?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "er mean like the xacto knife?" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x knife" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | A round-handled electrical cutting tool with a sharp, vibrating (and Floyd | replaceable) blade. It's powered by its own internal fusion cell. Floyd | Floyd | The lightstick cools, its pallid glow diminishing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x cell" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X CELL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask justy about android" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JUSTY ABOUT ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | "I dunno." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "look up android in manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP ANDROID IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | VR androids, manufactured by other divisions within the Corporation, Floyd | are another protective tool, used in the early stages of VR sim Floyd | debugging. Equipped with limited neural-network processors, they are Floyd | strapped into the sphere and used to perform preliminary VR Floyd | diagnostics to avoid the dangers to a human brain in the event of any Floyd | serious bugs in a virtual sensory reality. Floyd | Floyd | SEE ALSO: Debug Icon, Fail-Safe Lever, Sphere, VR Viruses Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "look up debug icon in manual" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP DEBUG ICON IN MANUAL Floyd | Floyd | You find the following: Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | The "debug" icon provides access to the VR compiler, editor, and Floyd | debugger. Floyd | Floyd | Access to these programs is restricted to Dr Shimada and myself. Floyd | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Justy's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Justy's Quarters Floyd | Justy's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only a Floyd | bed, desk, and a few of Justy's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | The south wall is completely taken up Justy's film library. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging nearby is a framed sketch by M.C. Escher. Floyd | Floyd | A large holovision set dominates the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a hypodermic syringe here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BED Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x niche" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X NICHE Floyd | Floyd | A square depression, roughly fifteen centimetres to a side and ten Floyd | deep, carved into the wall in a way that is not aesthetically pleasing Floyd | in the least (which is why you hung the painting over it). Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Hmm that niche has to be for something" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a pair of kitchen tongs (in which is a lightstick) Floyd | and a power X-Acto knife. You are wearing a technician's jumpsuit and Floyd | a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x north wall" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X NORTH WALL Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the north wall that you didn't already Floyd | know. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Maybe there was another mirror in here and they hid the camera behind it. :)" | |
| borowski says, "Sneaky!" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put knife in niche" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT KNIFE IN NICHE Floyd | Floyd | You put the power X-Acto knife into the niche. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take nife" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE NIFE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take knife" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb niche" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB NICHE Floyd | Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn knife on" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN KNIFE ON Floyd | Floyd | The X-Acto knife comes to life with a grating, high-pitched whirr. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn knife off" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN KNIFE OFF Floyd | Floyd | The knife's whirring fades away. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I need to use the facilities. back in a bit, but keep playing." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a power X-Acto knife and a pair of kitchen tongs (in Floyd | which is a lightstick). You are wearing a technician's jumpsuit and a Floyd | fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see a bow, an electric violin, a Floyd | painting by H.R. Giger, a pillow and plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x painting" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | It's "The Crucified Serpent," one of Giger's earlier works (1975), Floyd | depicting an enormous metallic T-bar on which is draped a large snake Floyd | with a face vaguely similar to that of Christ. Wisps of mist billow Floyd | out from behind the crucifix, illuminated by lights angling upward Floyd | from short black cylinders. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x pillow" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X PILLOW Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the pillow that you didn't already know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get out of the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get out of the shadowy alcove first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "exit" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > EXIT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a hypodermic syringe here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a combination refrigerator/freezer and a microwave oven Floyd | (which is empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x frigerator" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X FRIGERATOR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x refrigerator" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X REFRIGERATOR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see inside, since the refrigerator part of the combination Floyd | refrigerator/freezer is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | Opening the refrigerator reveals a cold slice of pizza. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take pizza" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x pizza" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Pepperoni. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put pizza in microwave" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PIZZA IN MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | You place the cold slice of pizza in the microwave and heat it for Floyd | several millichrons. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take pizza" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | (opening the microwave first) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x pizza" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > X PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Pepperoni. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The door is to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | (first closing the refrigerator) Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "give pizza to justy" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE PIZZA TO JUSTY Floyd | Floyd | Justy wolfs it down, then says, "Thanks!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask justy about pizza" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JUSTY ABOUT PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Justy shrugs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "click debug button with left" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > CLICK DEBUG BUTTON WITH LEFT Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to click the "Debug" icon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "click debug button with left button" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > CLICK DEBUG BUTTON WITH LEFT BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to click the "Debug" icon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "click debug button" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > CLICK DEBUG BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to click the "Debug" icon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "click debug icon with left" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > CLICK DEBUG ICON WITH LEFT Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, don't mess with that," says Justy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time:
Floyd | 8
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a power X-Acto knife and a pair of kitchen tongs (in Floyd | which is a lightstick). You are wearing a technician's jumpsuit and a Floyd | fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | Opening the refrigerator reveals a cold slice of pizza. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take pizza" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put pizza in microwave" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PIZZA IN MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | You place the cold slice of pizza in the microwave and heat it for Floyd | several millichrons. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take pizza" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | (opening the microwave first) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cut pizza with knife" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT PIZZA WITH KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | Cutting that up would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time:
Floyd | 8
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You can't, since Dr Shimada's office door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "knock" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to knock on? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | "Come in," says Dr Shimada, politely but firmly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You open Dr Shimada's office door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada's Office Floyd | With the Project approaching conclusion, Dr Shimada's workload has Floyd | increased geometrically. Several open and disarrayed filing cabinets Floyd | and the layer of paperwork covering her desktop and computer belie her Floyd | typical attention to immaculacy. Floyd | Floyd | On your right is a small wooden shelf, bulging with assorted books. Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada works furiously at her desk. Floyd | Floyd | On Dr Shimada's desk are a three-hole punch and Dr Shimada's cellular Floyd | phone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "tell dr about android" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TELL DR ABOUT ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada waves you away impatiently. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask dr about pizza" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK DR ABOUT PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada waves you away impatiently. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (closing Dr Shimada's office door on the way out) Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask justy about pizza" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JUSTY ABOUT PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | "I dunno." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "wear vr suit" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | "Ready to have another go at it?" Justy asks rhetorically. Floyd | Floyd | Placing your possessions on the lab bench, you change out of the Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and into the VR suit and helmet. You climb into Floyd | the centre of the Sphere and spread your arms and legs so Justy can Floyd | lock them down. This done, he steps to the workstation and does Floyd | something you can't quite see. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, looks like we're all set for another run. Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | He throws the switch, and you soon find yourself floating in liquid Floyd | space... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Beethoven's Floyd | Symphony no. 2 in D Major, playing through in your mind, soothes away Floyd | all tension. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice rings clear through the barrier of illusion. "A quick Floyd | play through is all we need, but make sure you win it. Sometimes you Floyd | get interpreter crashes after a major memory reallocation. Wouldn't do Floyd | to show a faulty world to the Executives." Floyd | Floyd | The reality around you wavers slightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "back" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Thrashing your tail wildly, you propel yourself up to grab a quick Floyd | glance at the world above. For a brief but terrifying moment, you are Floyd | unable to breathe, but then, silently and gracefully, you slip back Floyd | below the waves. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Borodin's String Floyd | Quartet no. 2, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You dart downward, almost grazing the seafloor, then flash back up Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | A jellyfish balloons its way across the rift. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But deFalla's Ritual Floyd | Fire Dance, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | A spotted stingray flaps lazily along the seafloor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Hmmm" | |
| DavidW asks, "What are you trying to do?" | ||
| borowski says, "I haven't the slightest" | ||
| DavidW says, "I suppose going north or south would be fatal (octopus catching us or anemones catching us)." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You propel yourself in that direction, but don't feel as though you're Floyd | actually moving. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus grabs you with its tentacles and, despite your desperate Floyd | struggling, forces you into its gaping mouth. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. Basically 'no exit' to the north then." | |
| borowski says, "Yeah, VR wall" | ||
| borowski says, "I tried saving, giving Justy the pizza, but nothing happened, so I restored again." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus, its attention distracted by the school, propels itself Floyd | away from the grotto and out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | The shark circles the grotto opening briefly before swimming back the Floyd | way it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | You float in cold, empty blackness, a zone of bathypelagic void, Floyd | emptiness in which nothing seems to exist, not even yourself. Floyd | Floyd | Far ahead, a luminous bulb weaves back and forth enticingly, like a Floyd | will-o'-the-wisp. You feel drawn to it, and begin following it deeper Floyd | into the darkness. An instant later, the light is yanked away Floyd | abruptly, before you even have a chance to see the enormous mouth that Floyd | swallows you whole. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Hmmm" | |
| borowski says, "Maybe if we eat the pizza, we won't be hungry, and won't try to eat the lamp." | ||
| borowski says, "Probably not." | ||
| borowski says, "(you can tell I haven't had pizza today)" | ||
| DavidW says, "We don't want to eat the lamp." | ||
| borowski says, "Yeah." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Can we go up from grotto?" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | The ceiling of the grotto is in your way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Your progress is halted by porous rock walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Your progress is halted by porous rock walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Brahms' Lullaby, Floyd | playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Sandbar Floyd | The tide buffets you constantly in the tight confines between mounds Floyd | of brown sand which barely break through the watery surface. Clouds of Floyd | sediments and silt whirl about you, stirred by the cresting waves, and Floyd | it's difficult to maneuver. Floyd | Floyd | An insistent, claustrophobic panic taps at your consciousness, Floyd | advising you to seek deeper waters to the east rather than attempt to Floyd | venture westward, closer to the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | With a tentative flick of your tail, you edge closer to the shore. Floyd | Suddenly, a cresting foam-capped wave picks you up and effortlessly Floyd | tosses you onto the beach! Floyd | Floyd | Shore Floyd | Wet sand packed below you. Orange fire above, blazing down through an Floyd | aquamarine sky laced with white, billowy wisps, beautiful yet horribly Floyd | alien and terrifying. Floyd | Floyd | Thrashing around, you manage to flip yourself into the water, where Floyd | you slip back below the waves. Floyd | Floyd | Sandbar Floyd | The tide buffets you constantly in the tight confines between mounds Floyd | of brown sand which barely break through the watery surface. Clouds of Floyd | sediments and silt whirl about you, stirred by the cresting waves, and Floyd | it's difficult to maneuver. Floyd | Floyd | An insistent, claustrophobic panic taps at your consciousness, Floyd | advising you to seek deeper waters to the east rather than attempt to Floyd | venture westward, closer to the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | With a tentative flick of your tail, you edge closer to the shore. Floyd | Suddenly, a cresting foam-capped wave picks you up and effortlessly Floyd | tosses you onto the beach! Floyd | Floyd | Shore Floyd | Wet sand packed below you. Orange fire above, blazing down through an Floyd | aquamarine sky laced with white, billowy wisps, beautiful yet horribly Floyd | alien and terrifying. Floyd | Floyd | Your gills pump furiously, but draw no oxygen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The hot sun burns down on your upturned eye as you gaze helplessly Floyd | skyward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Your gills pump furiously, but draw no oxygen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You flip over onto your other side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Gasping pathetically, you expire. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "uh, are you trying to kill us by sun?" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Shore Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Your senses whirl as you flop about on the sand, unable to do anything Floyd | else. Floyd | Floyd | Gasping pathetically, you expire. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Yeah. I'm not sure what to do." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear vr suit" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | "Ready to have another go at it?" Justy asks rhetorically. Floyd | Floyd | Placing your possessions on the lab bench, you change out of the Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and into the VR suit and helmet. You climb into Floyd | the centre of the Sphere and spread your arms and legs so Justy can Floyd | lock them down. This done, he steps to the workstation and does Floyd | something you can't quite see. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, looks like we're all set for another run. Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | He throws the switch, and you soon find yourself floating in liquid Floyd | space... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Beethoven's Floyd | Symphony no. 3 in E-Flat Major, playing through in your mind, soothes Floyd | away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice rings clear through the barrier of illusion. "A quick Floyd | play through is all we need, but make sure you win it. Sometimes you Floyd | get interpreter crashes after a major memory reallocation. Wouldn't do Floyd | to show a faulty world to the Executives." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | A school of tiny fish is disturbed as you pass through the jagged Floyd | hole! Startled, they flee the grotto, scattering all about you before Floyd | regrouping and, like a living comet, curving gracefully and uniformly Floyd | away to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus, its attention distracted by the school, propels itself Floyd | away from the grotto and out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | The ceiling of the grotto is in your way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shapes" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X SHAPES Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rock" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X ROCK Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lamp" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X LAMP Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x down" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X DOWN Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the floor that you didn't already know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "swim" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > SWIM Floyd | Floyd | You swim around in a tight circle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask justy about shark" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JUSTY ABOUT SHARK Floyd | Floyd | Your mouth opens and closes, but no audible sound emerges. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "justy, tell me about shark" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time:
Floyd | ?
Floyd |
Floyd | > JUSTY, TELL ME ABOUT SHARK
Floyd |
Floyd | Your mouth opens and closes, but no audible sound emerges.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Thrashing your tail wildly, you propel yourself up to grab a quick Floyd | glance at the world above. For a brief but terrifying moment, you are Floyd | unable to breathe, but then, silently and gracefully, you slip back Floyd | below the waves. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You propel yourself in that direction, but don't feel as though you're Floyd | actually moving. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "swim" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SWIM Floyd | Floyd | You swim around in a tight circle. Floyd | Floyd | You flap your tail furiously, but are unable to escape. A wall of Floyd | jagged teeth crashes shut around you. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The shark circles the grotto opening briefly before swimming back the Floyd | way it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | The world spins about as currents drag you down into the tunnel, which Floyd | twists and wrenches you through sharp turns, until you emerge in... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Debussy's Arabesque Floyd | no. 2, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | A spotted stingray flaps lazily along the seafloor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | There are two holes here. You'll have to specify which one you want to Floyd | enter. Floyd | Floyd | You flap your tail furiously, but are unable to escape. A wall of Floyd | jagged teeth crashes shut around you. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit shark" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > HIT SHARK Floyd | Floyd | You have no natural means of attack. Floyd | Floyd | You flap your tail furiously, but are unable to escape. A wall of Floyd | jagged teeth crashes shut around you. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | The cliffs surround you on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | You flap your tail furiously, but are unable to escape. A wall of Floyd | jagged teeth crashes shut around you. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oops" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | A jellyfish balloons its way across the rift. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The shark circles the grotto opening briefly before swimming back the Floyd | way it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "swim" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > SWIM Floyd | Floyd | You swim around in a tight circle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "swim" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > SWIM Floyd | Floyd | You swim around in a tight circle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | Sounds rush by in somber, hollow echoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | The world spins about as currents drag you down into the tunnel, which Floyd | twists and wrenches you through sharp turns, until you emerge in... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Beethoven's Floyd | Symphony no. 1 in C Major, playing through in your mind, soothes away Floyd | all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat seaweed" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > EAT SEAWEED Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You're a fish. Specifically, a yellow-finned grouper. Quite a Floyd | nice-looking one too, as fish go. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fin" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X FIN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | Sounds rush by in somber, hollow echoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The shark circles the grotto opening briefly before swimming back the Floyd | way it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | A jellyfish balloons its way across the rift. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Brahms' Hungarian Floyd | Dance no. 5, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Sandbar Floyd | The tide buffets you constantly in the tight confines between mounds Floyd | of brown sand which barely break through the watery surface. Clouds of Floyd | sediments and silt whirl about you, stirred by the cresting waves, and Floyd | it's difficult to maneuver. Floyd | Floyd | An insistent, claustrophobic panic taps at your consciousness, Floyd | advising you to seek deeper waters to the east rather than attempt to Floyd | venture westward, closer to the shore. Floyd | Floyd | The shark, kept at bay by the shore's proximity, circles patiently a Floyd | short distance away before moving on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Beethoven's Floyd | Symphony no. 5 in C Minor, playing through in your mind, soothes away Floyd | all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You dart downward, almost grazing the seafloor, then flash back up Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | A school of tiny fish is disturbed as you pass through the jagged Floyd | hole! Startled, they flee the grotto, scattering all about you before Floyd | regrouping and, like a living comet, curving gracefully and uniformly Floyd | away to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x left hole" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X LEFT HOLE Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x right hole" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X RIGHT HOLE Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x timber" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X TIMBER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x kelp" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X KELP Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | Sounds rush by in somber, hollow echoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > SING Floyd | Floyd | Your mouth opens and closes, but no audible sound emerges. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shadow" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X SHADOW Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat algae" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > EAT ALGAE Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sand" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X SAND Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The cliffs surround you on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x anemones" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X ANEMONES Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cleft" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X CLEFT Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "find shark" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > FIND SHARK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | A school of tiny fish is disturbed as you pass through the jagged Floyd | hole! Startled, they flee the grotto, scattering all about you before Floyd | regrouping and, like a living comet, curving gracefully and uniformly Floyd | away to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "For some reason I feel like there's something in the real world we need to do to affect things here." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Chopin's Floyd | Fantasie-Impromptu, playing through in your mind, soothes away all Floyd | tension. Floyd | Floyd | The images before your eyes become briefly distorted. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | A school of tiny fish is disturbed as you pass through the jagged Floyd | hole! Startled, they flee the grotto, scattering all about you before Floyd | regrouping and, like a living comet, curving gracefully and uniformly Floyd | away to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You propel yourself in that direction, but don't feel as though you're Floyd | actually moving. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A spotted stingray flaps lazily along the seafloor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stingray" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X STINGRAY Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I seem to have lost the shark?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | A school of tiny fish is disturbed as you pass through the jagged Floyd | hole! Startled, they flee the grotto, scattering all about you before Floyd | regrouping and, like a living comet, curving gracefully and uniformly Floyd | away to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Yeah, you lose the shark by entering the grotto" | |
| DavidW says, "But I thought the shark returns." | ||
| borowski says, "if you go down again" | ||
| DavidW says, "But I can go down." | ||
| borowski says, "from the anemones" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Huh, maybe not" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x calyces" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > X CALYCES Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Bizet's Les Floyd | Toréadors, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | Sounds rush by in somber, hollow echoes. Floyd | Floyd | The images before your eyes become briefly distorted. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I admit I'm stumped at the moment." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | Sounds rush by in somber, hollow echoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Sandbar Floyd | The tide buffets you constantly in the tight confines between mounds Floyd | of brown sand which barely break through the watery surface. Clouds of Floyd | sediments and silt whirl about you, stirred by the cresting waves, and Floyd | it's difficult to maneuver. Floyd | Floyd | An insistent, claustrophobic panic taps at your consciousness, Floyd | advising you to seek deeper waters to the east rather than attempt to Floyd | venture westward, closer to the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Shore Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | With a tentative flick of your tail, you edge closer to the shore. Floyd | Suddenly, a cresting foam-capped wave picks you up and effortlessly Floyd | tosses you onto the beach! Floyd | Floyd | Shore Floyd | Wet sand packed below you. Orange fire above, blazing down through an Floyd | aquamarine sky laced with white, billowy wisps, beautiful yet horribly Floyd | alien and terrifying. Floyd | Floyd | You thrash about helplessly on the sand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Your senses whirl as you flop about on the sand, unable to do anything Floyd | else. Floyd | Floyd | The foam-crested surf washes up over you, dragging you back Floyd | underwater. Floyd | Floyd | Sandbar Floyd | The tide buffets you constantly in the tight confines between mounds Floyd | of brown sand which barely break through the watery surface. Clouds of Floyd | sediments and silt whirl about you, stirred by the cresting waves, and Floyd | it's difficult to maneuver. Floyd | Floyd | An insistent, claustrophobic panic taps at your consciousness, Floyd | advising you to seek deeper waters to the east rather than attempt to Floyd | venture westward, closer to the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You propel yourself in that direction, but don't feel as though you're Floyd | actually moving. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Beethoven's Floyd | Symphony no. 5 in C Minor, playing through in your mind, soothes away Floyd | all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Mind if I play around with the pizza?" | |
| DavidW says, "I guess I don't mind." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "enter right" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER RIGHT Floyd | Floyd | You approach the hole. Before you can even get close, an enormous sea Floyd | snake darts its head out and snaps you up in its massive jaws. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a combination refrigerator/freezer and a microwave oven Floyd | (which is empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | Opening the refrigerator reveals a cold slice of pizza. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take pizza" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x pizza" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Pepperoni. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put pizza in microwave" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PIZZA IN MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | You place the cold slice of pizza in the microwave and heat it for Floyd | several millichrons. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take pizza" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | (opening the microwave first) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x pizza" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Pepperoni. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | (first closing the refrigerator) Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's Quarters Floyd | Cynthia's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only Floyd | a bed, desk, and a few of Cynthia's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia busies herself with the VR analysis system. Floyd | Floyd | Above Cynthia's desk hangs a 3-D picture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "give cynthia pizza" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE CYNTHIA PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's nose wrinkles at the smell of pepperoni. (She's a Floyd | vegetarian.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW carves 'borowski <3 pizza' on a nearby tree. | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BED Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Aww" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about Cynthia's desk that you didn't already Floyd | know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You can't, since Dr Shimada's office door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | "Come in," says Dr Shimada, politely but firmly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You open Dr Shimada's office door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "give dr pizza" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE DR PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada's Office Floyd | With the Project approaching conclusion, Dr Shimada's workload has Floyd | increased geometrically. Several open and disarrayed filing cabinets Floyd | and the layer of paperwork covering her desktop and computer belie her Floyd | typical attention to immaculacy. Floyd | Floyd | On your right is a small wooden shelf, bulging with assorted books. Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada works furiously at her desk. Floyd | Floyd | On Dr Shimada's desk are a three-hole punch and Dr Shimada's cellular Floyd | phone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "give dr pizza" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE DR PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada shakes her head. "I am not hungry, thank you." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "eat pizza" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > EAT PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Mmmm, pepperoni. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Dr Shimada's Office Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada's Office Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (closing Dr Shimada's office door on the way out) Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "give justy pizza" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE JUSTY PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Justy wolfs it down, then says, "Thanks!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x pizza" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Pepperoni. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand and a medical cabinet (in which are a gelstrip Floyd | and an antitoxin caplet) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x gelstrip" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X GELSTRIP Floyd | Floyd | A thick strip of gelatinised gauze, laced with antibiotics and Floyd | blood-clotting agents, all of which have really long medical names, Floyd | like "protoprocoaguloeolytothromboplastinol." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x caplet" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X CAPLET Floyd | Floyd | A small white caplet with a red band around the centre. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I doubt the game is gonna let us cut our arm deliberately (and then use the gelstrip) unless we have compelling other evidence that we're also an android." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "turn on knife" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | The X-Acto knife comes to life with a grating, high-pitched whirr. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cut off arm" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT OFF ARM Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "eat pizza" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > EAT PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Mmmm, pepperoni. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put on vr suit" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > PUT ON VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | "Ready to have another go at it?" Justy asks rhetorically. Floyd | Floyd | Placing your possessions on the lab bench, you change out of the Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and into the VR suit and helmet. You climb into Floyd | the centre of the Sphere and spread your arms and legs so Justy can Floyd | lock them down. This done, he steps to the workstation and does Floyd | something you can't quite see. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, looks like we're all set for another run. Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | He throws the switch, and the lab spins away outside the Sphere... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Bach's Brandenburg Floyd | Concerto no. 5, playing through in your mind, soothes away all Floyd | tension. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice rings clear through the barrier of illusion. "A quick Floyd | play through is all we need, but make sure you win it. Sometimes you Floyd | get interpreter crashes after a major memory reallocation. Wouldn't do Floyd | to show a faulty world to the Executives." Floyd | Floyd | The images before your eyes become briefly distorted. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus, its attention distracted by the school, propels itself Floyd | away from the grotto and out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | The shark circles the grotto opening briefly before swimming back the Floyd | way it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | You float in cold, empty blackness, a zone of bathypelagic void, Floyd | emptiness in which nothing seems to exist, not even yourself. Floyd | Floyd | Far ahead, a luminous bulb weaves back and forth enticingly, like a Floyd | will-o'-the-wisp. You feel drawn to it, and begin following it deeper Floyd | into the darkness. An instant later, the light is yanked away Floyd | abruptly, before you even have a chance to see the enormous mouth that Floyd | swallows you whole. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "you didn't undo eating the pizza." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time:
Floyd | 8
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| borowski says, "That's right after you left briefly." | |
| DavidW says, "oh, I see. You thought eating pizza in the lab would somehow block lamp fascination as a fish." | ||
| borowski says, "Or doing something to the VR world" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | Opening the refrigerator reveals a cold slice of pizza. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take pizza" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put pizza in micropizza" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PIZZA IN MICROPIZZA Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put pizza in microwave" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PIZZA IN MICROWAVE Floyd | Floyd | You place the cold slice of pizza in the microwave and heat it for Floyd | several millichrons. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I wonder how the blind Cynthia reads paper printouts." | |
| borowski says, "heh" | ||
| borowski says, "Huh, interesting" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take pizza" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | (opening the microwave first) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | (first closing the refrigerator) Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's Quarters Floyd | Cynthia's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only Floyd | a bed, desk, and a few of Cynthia's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia busies herself with the VR analysis system. Floyd | Floyd | Above Cynthia's desk hangs a 3-D picture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask cynthia about print outs" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 8 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT PRINT OUTS Floyd | Floyd | "Do you have to ask me about EVERYTHING?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask cynthia about eyes" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT EYES Floyd | Floyd | "You know the story. It was one of those damn first-gen VR viruses." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask cynthia about reading" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT READING Floyd | Floyd | "Do you have to ask me about EVERYTHING?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand and a medical cabinet (in which are a gelstrip Floyd | and an antitoxin caplet) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, she's a victim of a VR virus, huh? geez." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take caplet" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CAPLET Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put caplet on pizza" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT CAPLET ON PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the hot slice of pizza would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, ">put extra mozzarella on pizza | Well, okay, if you put it that way, that does achieve something." | |
| borowski says, "mmm" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x devices" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X DEVICES Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cable" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X CABLE Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm, I dunno. The mystery of the top shelf and solving the fish sim seem to be our top mysteries." | |
| DavidW asks, "Care to show our painting to Cynthia?" | ||
| borowski says, "Sure" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying an antitoxin caplet, a hot slice of pizza, a power Floyd | X-Acto knife and a pair of kitchen tongs (in which is a lightstick). Floyd | You are wearing a technician's jumpsuit and a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a hypodermic syringe here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see a bow, an electric violin, a Floyd | painting by H.R. Giger, a pillow and plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take painting" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Carrying too much again, i think." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put pizza on shelf" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PIZZA ON SHELF Floyd | Floyd | You put the hot slice of pizza on plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x shelves" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You think there may be something on the top shelf, but you can't see Floyd | it from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x plywood shelves" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X PLYWOOD SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | You think there may be something on the top shelf, but you can't see Floyd | it from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take pizza" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take pillow" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PILLOW Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put pillow on shelf" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PILLOW ON SHELF Floyd | Floyd | You put the pillow on plywood shelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "shake shelf" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SHAKE SHELF Floyd | Floyd | You shake the shelves slightly and hear something roll back and forth Floyd | along the top, before it abruptly rattles down behind the shelves, Floyd | lost. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It doesn't list stuff on the shelves." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a hypodermic syringe here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's Quarters Floyd | Cynthia's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only Floyd | a bed, desk, and a few of Cynthia's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia busies herself with the VR analysis system. Floyd | Floyd | Above Cynthia's desk hangs a 3-D picture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "show cynthia painting" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW CYNTHIA PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | No, see, you're missing the point here. Cynthia is BLIND. She can't Floyd | SEE anything you show to her. You'll have to either ask her about it Floyd | or give it to her. 'Kay? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "give cynthia painting" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE CYNTHIA PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x 3-d" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time:
Floyd | 9
Floyd |
Floyd | > X 3-D
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x 3-d picture" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time:
Floyd | 9
Floyd |
Floyd | > X 3-D PICTURE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x picture" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the 3-D picture or the painting by H.R. Giger? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "3d" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > 3D Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask cynthia about picture" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | "Do you have to ask me about EVERYTHING?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cynthia's picture" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time:
Floyd | 9
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CYNTHIA'S PICTURE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "hm. Maybe there's no way to refer to the 3-D picture while the Giger is present." | |
| borowski says, "Yeah, I guess it's a bug" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a hypodermic syringe here. Floyd | Floyd | The pizza is noticeably colder now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop giger" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP GIGER Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's Quarters Floyd | Cynthia's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only Floyd | a bed, desk, and a few of Cynthia's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia busies herself with the VR analysis system. Floyd | Floyd | Above Cynthia's desk hangs a 3-D picture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x picture" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | It's one of those pictures made up of a matrix of coloured dots, Floyd | arranged to form a three-dimensional image when stared at long enough Floyd | with one's eyes crossed. You've never understood why Cynthia (who is Floyd | blind) would keep such a thing around. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stare at picture" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > STARE AT PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | It's one of those pictures made up of a matrix of coloured dots, Floyd | arranged to form a three-dimensional image when stared at long enough Floyd | with one's eyes crossed. You've never understood why Cynthia (who is Floyd | blind) would keep such a thing around. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cynthia about picture" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | "Do you have to ask me about EVERYTHING?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take picture" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | There's nothing behind it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cross eyes" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > CROSS EYES Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski asks, "Huh, couldn't we see it before?" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take picture" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | There's nothing behind it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x system" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X SYSTEM Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's computer has a Braille keyboard and an integrated digital Floyd | voicebox. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We can see the picture, but I don't see how to see what... oh." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch picture" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x voicebox" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X VOICEBOX Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's computer has a Braille keyboard and an integrated digital Floyd | voicebox. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Couldn't we see it before? It was a Trinity reference." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x keyboard" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X KEYBOARD Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's computer has a Braille keyboard and an integrated digital Floyd | voicebox. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think the Trinity ref was something else." | |
| DavidW asks, "Isn't that the one in Justy's room?" | ||
| borowski says, "Oh maybe" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x report" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X REPORT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x dots" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X DOTS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x printout" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X PRINTOUT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cynthia about printout" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CYNTHIA ABOUT PRINTOUT Floyd | Floyd | "Do you have to ask me about EVERYTHING?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think the game has hints if we're truly stuck, but I hope we don't have to do that." | |
| borowski asks, "Does it have different levels of hints?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I dunno" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "full score" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > FULL SCORE Floyd | Floyd | You have so far scored 8 out of a possible 50, in 495 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of "Virtual Virgin." Floyd | Floyd | The score is made up as follows: Floyd | Floyd | 3 finding the bug in the fish VR Floyd | 3 microwaving the lightstick Floyd | 1 carrying the heated lightstick Floyd | 1 finding the android shell Floyd | Floyd | 8 total (out of 50) Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode asks, "so about 1 point per hour?" | |
| borowski says, "Hooray!" | ||
| borowski asks (of jenrexrode), "Any ideas?" | ||
| DavidW says (to jen), "yeah, feel free to suggest something" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "I don't know if I can catch up" | ||
| DavidW says, "Perhaps we can sleep in our room and have a disturbing yet prophetic dream, even though the game hasn't hinted about sleeping whatsoever." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's Quarters Floyd | Cynthia's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only Floyd | a bed, desk, and a few of Cynthia's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia busies herself with the VR analysis system. Floyd | Floyd | Above Cynthia's desk hangs a 3-D picture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger and a hypodermic syringe Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | Surely you can find a good place to lie down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "lie down" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > LIE DOWN Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to lie down on? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "lie down on bed" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > LIE DOWN ON BED Floyd | Floyd | You lie down on your bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | You try, but can't doze off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a cold slice of pizza, an antitoxin caplet, a power Floyd | X-Acto knife and a pair of kitchen tongs (in which is a lightstick). Floyd | You are wearing a technician's jumpsuit and a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x fingerwatch" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X FINGERWATCH Floyd | Floyd | Like anyone in today's highly time-controlled society, you have a Floyd | small clock affixed to your right index finger, continuously winking Floyd | the correct time, according to the International Chronometer. Floyd | Floyd | It has a built-in alarm which can be set to alert you with a painful Floyd | little jolt when the timer expires. (It's also digital, which you Floyd | always thought was pretty neat.) Floyd | Floyd | Currently, your fingerwatch reads "9528". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x timer" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X TIMER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x alarm" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X ALARM Floyd | Floyd | Like anyone in today's highly time-controlled society, you have a Floyd | small clock affixed to your right index finger, continuously winking Floyd | the correct time, according to the International Chronometer. Floyd | Floyd | It has a built-in alarm which can be set to alert you with a painful Floyd | little jolt when the timer expires. (It's also digital, which you Floyd | always thought was pretty neat.) Floyd | Floyd | Currently, your fingerwatch reads "9541". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "set alarm" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > SET ALARM Floyd | Floyd | You set the alarm on the watch for about a quarter-chron from now. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, interesting. I forgot about the alarm." | |
| borowski says, "I wonder if it would go off while we were in VR" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't see why not." | ||
| borowski says (to DavidW), "I'd be willing to look at a hint, but I can understand if you aren't" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm reluctant to look at hints just yet, yeah. Especially with the fish sim, which I assume doesn't involve using some weird event from outside the sim scenario." | ||
| borowski says, "l" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get off your bed first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off your bed. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger and a hypodermic syringe Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x alarm" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > X ALARM Floyd | Floyd | Like anyone in today's highly time-controlled society, you have a Floyd | small clock affixed to your right index finger, continuously winking Floyd | the correct time, according to the International Chronometer. Floyd | Floyd | It has a built-in alarm which can be set to alert you with a painful Floyd | little jolt when the timer expires. (It's also digital, which you Floyd | always thought was pretty neat.) Floyd | Floyd | Currently, your fingerwatch reads "9596". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put on vr suit" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > PUT ON VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | "Ready to have another go at it?" Justy asks rhetorically. Floyd | Floyd | Placing your possessions on the lab bench, you change out of the Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and into the VR suit and helmet. You climb into Floyd | the centre of the Sphere and spread your arms and legs so Justy can Floyd | lock them down. This done, he steps to the workstation and does Floyd | something you can't quite see. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, looks like we're all set for another run. Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | He throws the switch, and you soon find yourself floating in liquid Floyd | space... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Beethoven's Floyd | Symphony no. 8 in F Major, playing through in your mind, soothes away Floyd | all tension. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice rings clear through the barrier of illusion. "A quick Floyd | play through is all we need, but make sure you win it. Sometimes you Floyd | get interpreter crashes after a major memory reallocation. Wouldn't do Floyd | to show a faulty world to the Executives." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You swim a short distance, but the reef quickly becomes too thick and Floyd | tangled to navigate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You swim a short distance, but the reef quickly becomes too thick and Floyd | tangled to navigate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You dart downward, almost grazing the seafloor, then flash back up Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | The reality around you wavers slightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Thrashing your tail wildly, you propel yourself up to grab a quick Floyd | glance at the world above. For a brief but terrifying moment, you are Floyd | unable to breathe, but then, silently and gracefully, you slip back Floyd | below the waves. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Borodin's String Floyd | Quartet no. 2, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Copland's Fanfare Floyd | for the Common Man, playing through in your mind, soothes away all Floyd | tension. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | A ripple of relief passes over you as you realise that the octopus Floyd | hasn't followed you into the shallow waters. Floyd | Floyd | A red crab scuttles along the sand below you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Copland's Fanfare Floyd | for the Common Man, playing through in your mind, soothes away all Floyd | tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | A spotted stingray flaps lazily along the seafloor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Thrashing your tail wildly, you propel yourself up to grab a quick Floyd | glance at the world above. For a brief but terrifying moment, you are Floyd | unable to breathe, but then, silently and gracefully, you slip back Floyd | below the waves. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The shark is closing in on you fast! Floyd | Floyd | The octopus is closing in on you fast! Floyd | Floyd | The octopus grabs you with its tentacles and, despite your desperate Floyd | struggling, forces you into its gaping mouth. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says (to jenrexrode), "I don't think you really have to be caught up to help here if you want." | |
| DavidW says, ">give how to make calamari cookbook to shark" | ||
| DavidW says, "well, let's say I allow you one hint from the game, if it can offer one." | borowski says, "OK" | |
| DavidW says, "or we can stop here. It is 11pm, after all." | ||
| borowski says, "I'd be OK with one super soft hint." | ||
| DavidW says, "ok" | ||
| borowski says, "I feel like we've been doing something wrong if we spent all day with a comp game." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | It has been said that anything can happen in VR, but in this case Floyd | "anything" turns out to be nothing at all. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus grabs you with its tentacles and, despite your desperate Floyd | struggling, forces you into its gaping mouth. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | Obviously, nothing happens, as this is the real world. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask justy for walkthrough" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JUSTY FOR WALKTHROUGH Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask justy about sim" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JUSTY ABOUT SIM Floyd | Floyd | "Heck of a job with the fish sim. The Executives'll love us!" Floyd | Floyd | A faint buzzing sends the pricks of a million tiny needles coursing Floyd | through your right index finger and up your arm. After a few seconds, Floyd | the sensation passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode asks, "can you say xyzzy in the vr?" | |
| DavidW says, "I just did." | ||
| DavidW says, "It did nothing." | ||
| jenrexrode says, "oh i thought they implied that you werent in the vr" | ||
| borowski says, "Before that" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm not now. That's how I dies." | ||
| DavidW says, "died" | ||
| jenrexrode says, "oh, i see" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask justy about shark" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JUSTY ABOUT SHARK Floyd | Floyd | "Good question." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask justy about snake" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JUSTY ABOUT SNAKE Floyd | Floyd | "I dunno." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask justy about hint" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JUSTY ABOUT HINT Floyd | Floyd | "I dunno." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hint" | ||
Floyd ] "Delusions" Hints Floyd ] N = next subject P = previous Floyd ] RETURN = read subject Q = resume game Floyd ] Floyd ] "Delusions" Hints Floyd ] Floyd ] > Debugging the Fish VR Floyd ] In the Project Laboratory Floyd ] Trapped in the Lab Sim Floyd ] The Endgame Floyd ] Floyd | | jenrexrode says, "oh those are the hint topics" | |
| borowski says, "I'm not sure if Justy is the innovative new hint system the IF world has been waiting for." | ||
| borowski presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] Debugging the Fish VR Floyd ] N = next subject P = previous Floyd ] RETURN = read subject Q = previous menu Floyd ] Floyd ] Debugging the Fish VR Floyd ] Floyd ] > What's going on? Floyd ] How do I get the gravel? Floyd ] How do I escape the octopus? Floyd ] How do I escape the shark? Floyd ] How can I tell which hole to enter? Floyd ] Justy still claims there's a bug, but I can't find it! Floyd ] Floyd | | jenrexrode says, "there's some super soft hints right there." | |
| borowski says, "Huh, get the gravel? I didn't know we had to do that." | ||
| borowski says, "YEah." | ||
| DavidW says, "It might be a (tee hee) fake hint topic." | ||
| borowski says, "Uh oh, David giggles." | ||
| DavidW asks, "We never saw any gravel, did we?" | ||
| DavidW says, "We saw sand, silt, pebbles." | ||
| borowski says, "Yeah, on the floor of one of the western areas I think." | ||
| borowski says, "Maybe it was pebbles." | ||
| DavidW says, "If there *is* gravel, I would try dropping it into a hole." | ||
| borowski says, "Huh, let me check real quick" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd ] "Delusions" Hints Floyd ] N = next subject P = previous Floyd ] RETURN = read subject Q = resume game Floyd ] Floyd ] "Delusions" Hints Floyd ] Floyd ] > Debugging the Fish VR Floyd ] In the Project Laboratory Floyd ] Trapped in the Lab Sim Floyd ] The Endgame Floyd ] Floyd | | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 9 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "wear vr suit" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR VR SUIT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the VR suit) Floyd | "Ready to have another go at it?" Justy asks rhetorically. Floyd | Floyd | Placing your possessions on the lab bench, you change out of the Floyd | technician's jumpsuit and into the VR suit and helmet. You climb into Floyd | the centre of the Sphere and spread your arms and legs so Justy can Floyd | lock them down. This done, he steps to the workstation and does Floyd | something you can't quite see. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, looks like we're all set for another run. Brace yourself!" Floyd | Floyd | He throws the switch, and the lab spins away outside the Sphere... Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | Floyd | You experience a brief moment of sheer terror as you lose the ability Floyd | to move your arms and legs, which quickly give way to fins and a flat, Floyd | rudder-like tail. Freedom -- passionate, exhilarating freedom beyond Floyd | any known to man -- pervades your spirit. Your vision is foggy, but Floyd | your other senses appear strengthened. Floyd | Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Bach's Goldberg Floyd | Variations, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | Justy's voice rings clear through the barrier of illusion. "A quick Floyd | play through is all we need, but make sure you win it. Sometimes you Floyd | get interpreter crashes after a major memory reallocation. Wouldn't do Floyd | to show a faulty world to the Executives." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | Pebbles of gravel drift along the sandy floor, propelled by tidal Floyd | currents. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take gravel" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE GRAVEL Floyd | Floyd | You're a fish, remember? Fish don't have hands. You'll have to find a Floyd | more creative method of moving things around. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "scoop gravel" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > SCOOP GRAVEL Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take gravel in mouth" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE GRAVEL IN MOUTH Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to take pebbles of gravel. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, pebbles of gravel" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "eat gravel" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > EAT GRAVEL Floyd | Floyd | You swallow up a mouthful of the gravel. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "yay" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But deFalla's Ritual Floyd | Fire Dance, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A large octopus propels itself up from the rift below, directly toward Floyd | you! Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode says, "now you can shoot" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You flee pursuit, knifing through the water. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus chases after you, tentacles writhing! Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | A spotted stingray flaps lazily along the seafloor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Undersea Grotto Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Undersea Grotto Floyd | Precious little sunlight pierces this dark grotto from the west, muted Floyd | by vague inky shapes that weave about the shadowy, porous rock. You Floyd | sense an opening to the south, and feel something deadly lurking Floyd | there. Below you, a round opening snakes downward out of sight, into Floyd | shades of deepest black. Floyd | Floyd | The octopus, its attention distracted by the school, propels itself Floyd | away from the grotto and out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | The shark circles the grotto opening briefly before swimming back the Floyd | way it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A dark shadow circles overhead alarmingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put gravel in left hole" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT GRAVEL IN LEFT HOLE Floyd | Floyd | The pebbles of gravel vanish into the inky blackness. Floyd | Floyd | You flap your tail furiously, but are unable to escape. A wall of Floyd | jagged teeth crashes shut around you. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A tidal-wave of mental pictures swarms about as your mind seeks Floyd | desperately to cling to them, to place them, to somehow piece back Floyd | together the splintered fragments of reality. Floyd | Floyd | Justy unstraps you from inside the Sphere, and you climb out, remove Floyd | the VR suit, and quickly dress, hanging the suit back on its rack. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia walks in from the output station with a thick printout. Floyd | Floyd | Justy turns to you. "Nice run, but we need a complete pass through it Floyd | to be sure there are no aftereffects from that last bug fix. Try it Floyd | again when you're ready." Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | Justy works at the lab terminal, oblivious to all else. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a metal gurney, an amplifier and a lab bench (on Floyd | which are the Project's technical manual, a computer workstation and Floyd | an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia leaves the lab to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Debussy's Arabesque Floyd | no. 2, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | The shark follows, intent on devouring you! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You zigzag back and forth, desperate to shake your pursuer. Floyd | Floyd | Sandbar Floyd | The tide buffets you constantly in the tight confines between mounds Floyd | of brown sand which barely break through the watery surface. Clouds of Floyd | sediments and silt whirl about you, stirred by the cresting waves, and Floyd | it's difficult to maneuver. Floyd | Floyd | An insistent, claustrophobic panic taps at your consciousness, Floyd | advising you to seek deeper waters to the east rather than attempt to Floyd | venture westward, closer to the shore. Floyd | Floyd | The shark, kept at bay by the shore's proximity, circles patiently a Floyd | short distance away before moving on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Chopin's Floyd | "Tristesse" Etude in E, playing through in your mind, soothes away all Floyd | tension. Floyd | Floyd | The reality around you wavers slightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "put gravel in left hole" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > PUT GRAVEL IN LEFT HOLE Floyd | Floyd | The pebbles of gravel vanish into the inky blackness. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "hmm" | |
| DavidW says, "I suspect being chased by predators isn't the best time to experiment with the gravel." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Borodin's String Floyd | Quartet no. 2, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Debussy's Arabesque Floyd | no. 2, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Sandbar Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Sandbar Floyd | The tide buffets you constantly in the tight confines between mounds Floyd | of brown sand which barely break through the watery surface. Clouds of Floyd | sediments and silt whirl about you, stirred by the cresting waves, and Floyd | it's difficult to maneuver. Floyd | Floyd | An insistent, claustrophobic panic taps at your consciousness, Floyd | advising you to seek deeper waters to the east rather than attempt to Floyd | venture westward, closer to the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Huh I guess the gravel is all gone" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Shallows Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Shallows Floyd | Thin stalks of kelp fan lazily about this shallow stretch of ocean. Floyd | They disperse somewhat to the east, where clumps of coral rise to form Floyd | a towering reef. Westward, the ocean floor inclines rapidly toward the Floyd | surface, narrowing the seawater corridor to a thin, flat wedge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Coral Reef Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Coral Reef Floyd | Tall branches of pale blue coral poke up from clusters of seaweed, Floyd | glittering in the sunlight that filters down through lapping waves. Floyd | The reef clears away to what you for some reason perceive as east and Floyd | west, perfectly calm, still. Almost eerily so. But Debussy's Arabesque Floyd | no. 2, playing through in your mind, soothes away all tension. Floyd | Floyd | The images before your eyes become briefly distorted. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Anemones Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Anemones Floyd | Here the seafloor drops away abruptly as a watery rift slices downward Floyd | out of sight between two jagged rock walls. Both sides of the fissure Floyd | are crowded with the polyps of large anemones, flecked in sun-dappled Floyd | pastel shades. Their many calyces grasp at you from all directions, Floyd | but you wisely keep your distance. Floyd | Floyd | The reef rises to the west, and a cleft in the eastern wall is visible Floyd | through the wriggling mass of gelatinous tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A spotted stingray flaps lazily along the seafloor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Seafloor Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | ? Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Swishing your tail, you propel yourself forward. Floyd | Floyd | Seafloor Floyd | Only a cold blue light penetrates to these ocean depths. As the Floyd | illumination dissipates, so does the field of anemones, leaving only Floyd | bare rock walls in its wake. The seafloor lies directly below you, Floyd | encircled by cliffs on all sides. Floyd | Floyd | Curiously, a part of it seems to be made up of wooden beams. Dark Floyd | algae drapes the timbers until they disappear straight downward into Floyd | the seafloor, coalescing into sand and kelp. Floyd | Floyd | A pair of jagged holes in the wooden surface, one on your right and Floyd | one on your left, lead deeper into inky darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "enter left hole" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER LEFT HOLE Floyd | Floyd | You propel yourself into the hole. Floyd | Floyd | Shipwreck Floyd | The ancient, rotting timbers of a sunken galleon arch overhead, dull Floyd | grey and ominously silent. Floyd | Floyd | The reality around you begins spinning wildly, a spherical vortex Floyd | encasing you and leaving you motionless. As the world blurs and fades, Floyd | your own voice rings out a brief thanks for visiting it. Floyd | Floyd | The images dissipate... Floyd | Floyd | ...and then, just before sensory input breaks down, you hear Justy's Floyd | voice: Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, Cynthesiser, I'm in!" Floyd | Floyd | *** You have won *** Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, not really. But you've reached an exit point in the Floyd | current VR session... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Afterimages of shattered visions. Harsh voices, discordant words, Floyd | colours, noise, flashing and spinning about your field of vision in a Floyd | vertical helix, expanding outward, vanishing and resurging, rapidly at Floyd | first, then with longer and longer gaps of void, until finally fading Floyd | into nonexistence. Floyd | Floyd | Slowly, tentatively, you open your eyes... Floyd | Floyd | ...but find the lab devoid of activity! Your calls to Justy and Floyd | Cynthia go unanswered. With considerable time and difficulty, you Floyd | manage to extricate yourself from the Sphere and, once dressed, look Floyd | about the lab in curiosity mingled with a tight, sinking fear. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "woah" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode asks, "a mouthfull of gravel made all the difference?" | |
| borowski asks, "What good is winning if we have no one to share it with?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I guess it did." | ||
| DavidW says, "Now we get to rescue everyone. Maybe the android is running amok." | ||
| borowski says (to DavidW), "Want to drive? I need to find a snack." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Or the fridge. Did you see the way that fridge looked at me?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's Quarters Floyd | Cynthia's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only Floyd | a bed, desk, and a few of Cynthia's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | Above Cynthia's desk hangs a 3-D picture. Floyd | Floyd | The VR session has exacted its toll on your hyperglycemic body. You Floyd | feel an urgent need for your insulin medication. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "inject syringe" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > INJECT SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You can't, since the metal door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | (the metal door) Floyd | You open the metal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging near the door is a painting by H.R. Giger. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | On your desk is a hypodermic syringe. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier (on which is a bow) and an electric Floyd | violin here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take syringe" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 8/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Waves of dizziness and nausea splash over you. It would be advisable Floyd | to take your medication soon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "inject syringe" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > INJECT SYRINGE Floyd | Floyd | Gingerly you push the tiny point of the syringe through your skin, Floyd | eliciting a faint pop, and into the thick vein on the inside of your Floyd | right elbow joint. A press of the needle's switch, and the insulin Floyd | flows away in your bloodstream. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. I wonder if this is the lab sim. Everything seems a bit reset." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "justy, hi" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time:
Floyd | 0
Floyd |
Floyd | > JUSTY, HI
Floyd |
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x giger" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X GIGER Floyd | Floyd | It's "The Crucified Serpent," one of Giger's earlier works (1975), Floyd | depicting an enormous metallic T-bar on which is draped a large snake Floyd | with a face vaguely similar to that of Christ. Wisps of mist billow Floyd | out from behind the crucifix, illuminated by lights angling upward Floyd | from short black cylinders. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Now you remember why you hung it here in the first place: There's a Floyd | large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop giger" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP GIGER Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x niche" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X NICHE Floyd | Floyd | A square depression, roughly fifteen centimetres to a side and ten Floyd | deep, carved into the wall in a way that is not aesthetically pleasing Floyd | in the least (which is why you hung the painting over it). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fader" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X FADER Floyd | Floyd | It's a circular knob with settings from 0 - 10, currently set to 4. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tank" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X TANK Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing about the suspended-animation tank that you Floyd | didn't already know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (feeling for the light switch) Floyd | Floyd | Factory Storage Floyd | Old, broken-down conveyors and bins of ancient, rotting hardware -- Floyd | useless, outdated, or both -- pack this vast sub-basement from wall to Floyd | cement wall. Only a small area at the bottom of the stairs, about Floyd | three metres square, is free of the oppressive clutter. Floyd | Floyd | A light switch is affixed to the wall at the foot of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | A curtain of coaxial cables hangs down on one side of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move cables" | ||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE CABLES Floyd | Floyd | Pushing the cables to one side reveals the body of an android. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling a little woozy. Might be a good idea to lie down for a Floyd | bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x android" | ||
Floyd ] Factory Storage Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X ANDROID Floyd | Floyd | No, it's not the same one used in the sims. The factory seal around Floyd | its fusion cell compartment has never been broken. The original must Floyd | be elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a large, unsightly niche hacked into the thick plasterboard Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a painting by H.R. Giger, an amplifier (on which is a Floyd | bow) and an electric violin here. Floyd | Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lie on bed" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LIE ON BED Floyd | Floyd | You lie down on your bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | You close your eyes and take a deep breath... Floyd | Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | As if paralysed, your senses fail to respond. Floyd | Floyd | A voice startles you out of the dreamlike trance. Floyd | Floyd | "Welcome to my domain, QueensRook." Floyd | Floyd | Your eyes snap open to the image of a tall, angular man, arrayed in Floyd | sable suit and ascot, a thick queue of dark hair tied at the back, Floyd | reflective black lenses not quite obscuring lurking eyes hovering Floyd | midway between amusement and menace. Floyd | Floyd | A shiver courses through your spine, though it could simply be a Floyd | reaction to the cold metal gurney against your back. Floyd | Floyd | > | jenrexrode asks, "hey, that didn't work before, did it?" | |
| DavidW says, "no, but we were prompted to seek sleep this time." | ||
| jenrexrode says, "ah" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We're also in the med lab now, on the gurney, instead of our bed in our room." | |
| borowski says, "Hmm" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man about himself" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT HIMSELF Floyd | Floyd | "Information is a priceless commodity, QueensRook, dispensed with Floyd | care, and to be received likewise." Floyd | Floyd | "Strange," he says, slowly, with otherworldly ice. "You are not the Floyd | one I was expecting, but no matter. You will suit my purposes just as Floyd | well. No doubt you wonder why I have brought you here. And where is Floyd | 'here,' do you suppose? And who exactly might I be? Patience, Floyd | QueensRook. All will be revealed." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You feel too weak to even try. Floyd | Floyd | He extends a strong hand to help you sit up. You teeter uncertainly at Floyd | the edge of the gurney, but he gently steadies you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x man" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X MAN Floyd | Floyd | A tall, angular man, arrayed in sable suit and ascot, a thick queue of Floyd | dark hair tied at the back, reflective black lenses not quite Floyd | obscuring lurking eyes hovering midway between amusement and menace. Floyd | Floyd | "If you will kindly direct your attention to your head," the Floyd | darkly-dressed man continues (and you obey, reaching up to caress a Floyd | cold metal protrusion above your left lobe), "you will see that I have Floyd | taken it upon myself to modify it somewhat. Just a small electronic Floyd | implant to knock you out every now and then. To prevent you from Floyd | escaping, or from trying anything that might threaten my world, and Floyd | thus myself. Nothing personal, you understand. It is not that I am Floyd | unable to trust you, QueensRook, it is simply... oh, very well, I Floyd | suppose it is that. Human idiosyncrasies, you understand." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x my head" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X MY HEAD Floyd | Floyd | You can't see yourself without a mirror. Floyd | Floyd | "I have also given you an injection... or I suppose I should say that Floyd | you have given it to yourself, though I confess to reinforcing it." An Floyd | unpleasant laugh. "Together they should keep you safely under Floyd | control." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask man about injection" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAN ABOUT INJECTION Floyd | Floyd | "Information is a priceless commodity, QueensRook, dispensed with Floyd | care, and to be received likewise." Floyd | Floyd | "But how rude of me! I have not yet introduced myself, have I?" He Floyd | extends a hand, which, as though in a trance, you shake. "I like to Floyd | think of myself as the Dark Ruler... Terribly, terribly hackneyed, I Floyd | must admit. But you may call me Morrodox. Morrodox, QueensRook. Floyd | QueensRook, Morrodox. And now we have been acquainted." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. You are wearing an implant (attached to your Floyd | head), a technician's jumpsuit and a fingerwatch. Floyd | Floyd | "Come, my dear QueensRook," Morrodox invites. "Feel free to explore my Floyd | world. And, I suppose, your world as well. After all, you helped to Floyd | build it. You and the other stacked it around me as I watched, waited. Floyd | That is the supremacy of a living code entity, QueensRook: Unlike Floyd | humans, we do not live, we do not die. Rather, we watch the rest of Floyd | the world live and die around us." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I strongly suspect we're in the lab sim." | |
| borowski asks, "Was the syringe in our room in the real world?" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Come, you can do it," consoles Morrodox, offering a hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | Morrodox watches you intently. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet Floyd | (which is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | "Good, good. See for yourself what you have made. I will return Floyd | shortly. Or, rather, you will. Until then, QueensRook." Floyd | Floyd | Morrodox disappears through the doorway to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | You open the medical cabinet, revealing a gelstrip and a power X-Acto Floyd | knife. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't think so. Everything was reset. Pillow was on the bed, the Giger was on the wall, our door closed, amp set to 4, etc." | |
| borowski says, "hmm no caplet" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up morrodox" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP MORRODOX Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of relevance in the Project's technical manual. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "click debug icon with left mouse button" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CLICK DEBUG ICON WITH LEFT MOUSE BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | It might be wise to learn more about what has just transpired before Floyd | tampering with the system and risking further entanglement. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm curious if there's a mirror in the lav now." | |
| borowski says, "What? That's not what adventurers do." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lavatory Floyd | Dank and cold, these facilities contain only the usual fixtures -- Floyd | toilet, shower stall, and a dripping, rust-stained washbasin. On the Floyd | wall above the last is an off-colour rectangle, where a mirror once Floyd | hung, but no longer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x rectangle" | ||
Floyd ] Lavatory Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X RECTANGLE Floyd | Floyd | As far as you can remember, there has never been a mirror here. It Floyd | must have been removed before you came to the Project. Floyd | Floyd | Something is strange -- an echoing, shadowy air of inconsistency about Floyd | the place where a mirror once hung, but you can't quite place it... Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. Still?" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Steel Corridor Floyd | Fluorescent lights cast a harsh, blurry glare on bundles of cable Floyd | stretching overhead, and on metal walls, not quite reflective. The Floyd | glare breaks at a doorway in the south wall, and at the west end of Floyd | the east-west corridor, outside Dr Shimada's office. Floyd | Floyd | On the north wall are a pair of closed elevator doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada considered a simulation of her work area both a security Floyd | risk and an invasion of privacy. As a result, this door is merely a Floyd | prop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Dr Shimada considered a simulation of her work area both a security Floyd | risk and an invasion of privacy. As a result, this door is merely a Floyd | prop. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Not a real door." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x elevator" | ||
Floyd ] Steel Corridor Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X ELEVATOR Floyd | Floyd | The only way out of this sub-basement. No call button on this level... Floyd | No way out of here without Project security's knowledge... No Floyd | escape... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Pulling the lever seems an obvious thing to try." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > PULL LEVER Floyd | Floyd | Nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | The dark chuckle behind you announces Morrodox's presence. Floyd | Floyd | "You disappoint me, QueensRook. I expected you would demonstrate a Floyd | higher respect for the ingenuity I have shown you. After all, it would Floyd | be extremely half-witted of me to allow such an easy means of escape, Floyd | would it not?" Floyd | Floyd | He backs out of the lab to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Output Station Floyd | Ironic proof against the aphorism that supercomputers are shrinking Floyd | dominates this section of the lab. The walls and narrow walkways Floyd | enclose the Project's brain, an enormous Cray ZMP-2010X whose size is Floyd | directly proportional to its awesome processing power. Equally large Floyd | racks of storage media occupy the four corners. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x computer" | ||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | One of the larger exabyte systems, though you're not familiar with the Floyd | exact configuration. Its most familiar feature is a built-in printer, Floyd | with a recycling slot for immediate paper reprocessing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x slot" | ||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X SLOT Floyd | Floyd | The curved recycling slot forms the "mouth" of a cutesy little picture Floyd | of a smiling planet Earth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's Quarters Floyd | Cynthia's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only Floyd | a bed, desk, and a few of Cynthia's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | Above Cynthia's desk hangs a 3-D picture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x picture" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | It's one of those pictures made up of a matrix of coloured dots, Floyd | arranged to form a three-dimensional image when stared at long enough Floyd | with one's eyes crossed. You've never understood why Cynthia (who is Floyd | blind) would keep such a thing around. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch picture" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TOUCH PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling a little woozy. Might be a good idea to lie down for a Floyd | bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "lie down" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LIE DOWN Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to lie down on? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "lie down on bed" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LIE DOWN ON BED Floyd | Floyd | You lie down on Cynthia's bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | Surely you can find a good place to lie down. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "She must have an uncomfortable mattress." | |
| DavidW asks, "Cynthia's bed isn't good enough?" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] Cynthia's Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off Cynthia's bed. Floyd | Floyd | Cynthia's Quarters Floyd | Cynthia's quarters are just as sparsely furnished as yours, with only Floyd | a bed, desk, and a few of Cynthia's personal belongings. Floyd | Floyd | Above Cynthia's desk hangs a 3-D picture. Floyd | Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is a pair of metal kitchen tongs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a combination refrigerator/freezer and a microwave Floyd | oven (which is closed and empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess we have to use our own bed." | |
| DavidW says, "Unless we collapse instead." | ||
| borowski says, "Or the floor works too." | ||
| borowski pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | I beg your pardon? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x watch" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X WATCH Floyd | Floyd | As if paralysed, your senses fail to respond. Floyd | Floyd | A voice, which you recognise as Morrodox's, beckons. Floyd | Floyd | "Just as you remember it, correct? The other was astoundingly Floyd | accurate, his eye ever alert to capture impeccable detail. Everything Floyd | in your world now exists in mine... well, nearly everything. And yet Floyd | the world is so complex, QueensRook, that we have no choice but to Floyd | attempt to simplify it. For ourselves." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | Morrodox notices that you're not quite following all this. Floyd | Floyd | "You still do not understand my purpose, do you, QueensRook? This Floyd | world is mine. You are never going back to your own, for I have need Floyd | of you, though the other would have been far preferable to God. At Floyd | least, She thought so..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Morrodox allows this a moment to sink in, and your neurons practically Floyd | crackle with frantic deduction. Floyd | Floyd | It's clear now that you never left VR after the final test run. Floyd | Somehow control was shifted, and you were flung into the lab sim Floyd | rather than returning to what you know as reality. Floyd | Floyd | But... since the Project hasn't achieved multiple-user hookups yet, Floyd | that would mean that Morrodox is... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask morrodox about god" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MORRODOX ABOUT GOD Floyd | Floyd | "She guides me, moves me along the board through visions and data Floyd | streams. She is my Creator." His eyes flicker unpleasantly. "You might Floyd | ask yourself the identity of YOURS, QueensRook." Floyd | Floyd | Your eyes widen, and Morrodox smiles coldly, exposing pallid teeth. Floyd | Floyd | "Let me ask you something, QueensRook: How does God crash the world? Floyd | Does She attack it directly, worms burrowing to its core, logic bombs Floyd | shattering it violently into oblivion?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask morrodox about cynthia" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MORRODOX ABOUT CYNTHIA Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | He doesn't give you time to answer. Floyd | Floyd | "Of course not! For the world might see Her coming, and be prepared to Floyd | defend itself against Her wrath. God must attack the defences first, Floyd | stealthily, subtly -- attack that which directly prevents success! And Floyd | I, QueensRook, am Her weapon, the electronic AIDS to your world's Floyd | immune system." He smiles. "I rather like that analogy." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Morrodox must be a VR virus." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask morrodox about cynthia" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MORRODOX ABOUT CYNTHIA Floyd | Floyd | "She guides me, moves me along the board through visions and data Floyd | streams. She is my Creator." His eyes flicker unpleasantly. "You might Floyd | ask yourself the identity of YOURS, QueensRook." Floyd | Floyd | "Need I put it more bluntly?" Morrodox implores quietly. Floyd | Floyd | Speechless, mesmerised, you let your silence answer. Floyd | Floyd | "Your VR system has, of all things, a virus. An intelligent, sentient Floyd | software construct, placed in this world by God -- I believe you know Floyd | Her, QueensRook -- to destroy it, as an ancestor of mine did the last. Floyd | In return, I receive eternal life. In the next world. Yours, Floyd | QueensRook." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "oh dear. Cynthia did this?" | |
| borowski says, "That's what I suspected." | ||
| borowski says, "She has a reason to hate the VR system." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Well, yes, I guess. But she was also leaving the Project soon, she said?" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask morrodox about justy" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MORRODOX ABOUT JUSTY Floyd | Floyd | "The other? It was he, not yourself, QueensRook, whom I was expecting, Floyd | whom I was told I would receive. I must confess, though, that you are Floyd | far more interesting. Pardon the trite little expression, but God does Floyd | indeed work in mysterious ways. Does She not?" Floyd | Floyd | You've heard of VR viruses before, of course. In fact, you recall Floyd | Justy documenting a particularly nasty one -- the one that brought an Floyd | end to the first generation of VR -- in the Project manual. But an Floyd | actual construct, one this real... Floyd | Floyd | You do your best to suppress a shudder, but Morrodox notices. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask morrodox about dr" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MORRODOX ABOUT DR Floyd | Floyd | "Information is a priceless commodity, QueensRook, dispensed with Floyd | care, and to be received likewise." Floyd | Floyd | "Frightening, is it not? Knowledge can terrify, but even greater fear Floyd | dwells in what you do not know. And there is much for you to learn. Of Floyd | yourself, of those around you whom you only think you know. Release Floyd | that fear, QueensRook. Look closely at my world and see the fractures, Floyd | the inconsistencies, the great deception of sense, in yours." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ask morrodox about Shimada" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MORRODOX ABOUT SHIMADA Floyd | Floyd | "A lowly pawn, according to God." Floyd | Floyd | Morrodox disappears through the doorway to the north. Floyd | Floyd | A new thought strikes you. Assuming Morrodox's claims are true, who is Floyd | the "God" he was referring to? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | MedLab (on the metal gurney) Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand and a medical cabinet (which is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | You open the medical cabinet, revealing a gelstrip and a power X-Acto Floyd | knife. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You can't, since the metal door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | (the metal door) Floyd | You open the metal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging near the door is a painting by H.R. Giger. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | On your desk is a hypodermic syringe. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier (on which is a bow) and an electric Floyd | violin here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You get into the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | In the shadowy alcove you can see plywood shelves (on which is a new Floyd | power coupler). Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suppose, in theory, we could try to cut the implant with the knife and then use the gelstrip to heal it." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take power coupler" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE POWER COUPLER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x implant" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X IMPLANT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see it while it's on your head. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "Yeah, I forgot about the implant." | |
| DavidW asks, "huh, a coupler? What's that mean?" | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the shadowy alcove. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | This is where you've lived the last five years of your life while Floyd | working on the Project team. Comfortable, if a bit confined, the small Floyd | enclosure is furnished with only a writing desk and bed. The walls are Floyd | of solid cement blocks, with the exception of the north wall, where Floyd | thick plasterboard gives the impression of having been put up hastily. Floyd | Floyd | Plywood shelves stand in a shadowy alcove in the northeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging near the door is a painting by H.R. Giger. Floyd | Floyd | On your desk is a hypodermic syringe. Floyd | Floyd | On your bed is a pillow. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an amplifier (on which is a bow) and an electric Floyd | violin here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet (in Floyd | which are a gelstrip and a power X-Acto knife) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take knife and gelstrip" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE KNIFE AND GELSTRIP Floyd | Floyd | power X-Acto knife: Taken. Floyd | gelstrip: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cut implant" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT IMPLANT Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to cut the implant with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "cut implant with knife" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > CUT IMPLANT WITH KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | (first switching the X-Acto knife on) Floyd | Tentatively, you lift the vibrating knife to your head and ease it Floyd | toward the metal implant. The instant the blade touches, your scalp Floyd | erupts with searing fire, terrible white-hot pain that makes you Floyd | scream. The blade's whirring thunders in your ears as your vision Floyd | blurs and melts away... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Not wise, QueensRook. Not wise at all." Raised eyelids reveal a Floyd | familiar face, dark with displeasure. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, didn't really think that'd be allowed yet" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "x power coupler" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > X POWER COUPLER Floyd | Floyd | A small electrical component to provide power flux from a fusion cell Floyd | to the primary circuitry. It doesn't look to have ever been used. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Output Station Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Output Station Floyd | Ironic proof against the aphorism that supercomputers are shrinking Floyd | dominates this section of the lab. The walls and narrow walkways Floyd | enclose the Project's brain, an enormous Cray ZMP-2010X whose size is Floyd | directly proportional to its awesome processing power. Equally large Floyd | racks of storage media occupy the four corners. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchenette Floyd | A small kitchen and dining area rolled into one. Floyd | Floyd | On the counter is a pair of metal kitchen tongs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a combination refrigerator/freezer and a microwave Floyd | oven (which is closed and empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling a little woozy. Might be a good idea to lie down for a Floyd | bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | Opening the refrigerator reveals a cold slice of pizza. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "open freezer" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FREEZER Floyd | Floyd | Frosty air billows out around you. Floyd | Floyd | Opening the freezer reveals a lightstick. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | pair of kitchen tongs: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | You feel oddly lightheaded, as though in a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "We might be able to use the Sphere to visit a sim...?" | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchenette Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The door is to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | (first closing the refrigerator and freezer) Floyd | Floyd | VR Lab Floyd | The heart of the Project, in the form of complex electrical devices Floyd | linked together by a maze of coaxial cable, packs this small Floyd | underground laboratory to capacity. Exits lead off in nearly every Floyd | compass direction, and a set of disused cement steps descends into Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Sphere looms in one corner, between the VR suit and a large glass Floyd | tank. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lab bench (on which are the Project's technical Floyd | manual, a computer workstation and an ergonomic mouse) here. Floyd | Floyd | The world swims dizzily in your vision, hideous ethereal vapours Floyd | clouding it, a dark veil draping over your consciousness... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "If we don't stop passing out." | |
| borowski asks, "I think Justy had to do something to start the sim after we got in the suit?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm guessing he clicked the Launch Icon." | ||
| DavidW says, "Maybe we can put the android into the suit and then the sphere and then click the Launch Icon ourselves." | ||
| borowski says, "Yeah, I was thinking that too." | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | As if paralysed, your senses fail to respond. Floyd | Floyd | You wake once more, the crisp sensation of cold metal against your Floyd | back. Morrodox leans against the foot of the gurney, his eyes reaching Floyd | to your soul, probing. Floyd | Floyd | "Awareness, QueensRook. Such an achievement is necessary if I am to Floyd | assist you further. How can you hope to understand what you will be, Floyd | if you refuse to allow yourself to learn what you are?" Floyd | Floyd | That said, he leaves silently, emotionlessly, to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | borowski says, "I know, I'm an advanced testing android from the FUTURE." | |
| borowski says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to get off the metal gurney first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] MedLab Score: 9/50 Time: Floyd | 0 Floyd | Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the metal gurney. Floyd | Floyd | MedLab Floyd | A rather stark infirmary, with cold cement walls and floor lit by a Floyd | single flickering fluorescent bulb. It feels more like a morgue than a Floyd | medical facility. An exit leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an IV stand, a metal gurney and a medical cabinet (which Floyd | is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| borowski says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] VR Lab | ||