  
 
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction. Below is a transcript of Common Ground by Stephen Granade. Common Ground was originally released in 1999, and was a finalist for Best Story in the 1999 Xyzzy Awards. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting Baf's Guide.WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played it, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page. |
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| maga goes southwest to play with toys. | ||||
| inky goes southwest to play with toys. | ||||
| Gunther goes southwest to play with toys. | ||||
| Toyshop and Floyditorium | ||||
| Bulging toychests make this a child's (or child-at-heart's) dream. Play all day, play all night. A small booth has been erected and is staffed by a friendly robot. The sign over it says, "INFOKOM GAMEZ 5 cents". A small notice on the door reads, "PLEASE RETURN TOYS TO THIS ROOM WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH THEM." | ||||
| You can see: green button, banana machine, faucets, toy catalogue, a crystal ball, cuddly walrus, clicker, you're the birthday boy or girl, cloak, GPL DONUTS machine, psych rule, rot13 for tf, tic-tac-toe, bugs with inkytry, an enchanted wobblefiend, mime decoder 2, thermometer, monkey guru, yellow button, waldo whisper object, rubble, checkers board, Werewolf rules, bunny burger, grape, specimen jar, signaling device, person finder, Mike Tyson, IF Programmer Barbie, a zorkmid, IF FLOYD'S DOWN, TELL JOTA -- OR ELSE HE WON'T KNOW, pulsating orb, Gak, Autohugger, Photocopier, basketball, midterm monster, frobozz magic dispenser, fun shiny toy, madlibs, werewolf poetry, orange, soda reading 'Don't drink me!', jukebox, Gene Ray, FREE DONUTS machine, storyharp, no bananas, blue Battleship board, public Battleship viewer, long-stemmed red rose, red Battleship board, jellybean, wad of bills, rubber chicken with a pully in the middle, cork nut, cork nut, cork nut, dfan's quest, the 'completely and unremarkable' cube, a pair of dice, miniature ifMUD, Pun Police Whistle, orange door | ||||
| Players: Waldo, Floyd, maga, inky, Gunther | ||||
| Visible Exits: northeast (to the Lounge) | Jacqueline says, "Two minutes until we play Common Ground!" | |||
| Gunther says, "uh huh" | ||||
| inky asks, "we're starting ten minutes early?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, no we're not." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Why did everyone go to the damn toyroom?" | ||||
| HairBrain arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| Gunther says (to Floyd), "WUB WUB WUB" | ||||
| Floyd says (to Gunther), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." | inky says, "I wanted to get a good seat" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I was just following the crowd. bah." | ||||
| Gunther says, "I just do what inky does" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "TWELVE (well, now eleven) minutes until we play Common Ground!" | ||||
| inky jumps off a bridge | ||||
| maga says (to Jacq), "because I did and y'all are pathetic sheep" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "baaaaahhh" | ||||
| Gunther jumps off the bridge onto inky | ||||
| inky says, "hee hee" | ||||
| DavidW arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| DavidW says, "I hope you haven't quite started yet." | ||||
| inky says, "we haven't started for three minutes" | Jacqueline says, "Okay, NOW it's two minutes to ClubFloyd." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oops - one." | ||||
| HairBrain says, "beep - beep - beep" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load ground" | ||||
Floyd | GlkTADS - A text-only TADS 2.5.3 Interpreter. Floyd | TADS copyright (c) 1993, 2000 by Michael J. Roberts. Floyd | Maintained by Stephen Granade <sgranade@phy.duke.edu> Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Common Ground Floyd | Copyright ? 1999 by Stephen Granade. All rights reserved. Floyd | Floyd | Type "about" for more information. Floyd | Version 2 (Jan 17 2000) Floyd | Developed with TADS, the Text Adventure Development System. Floyd | Floyd | One Floyd | Floyd | Great, just great. First you oversleep, end up being late for school. Floyd | Then the whole day sucks so bad you can barely wait until seventh Floyd | period's over and you're free. Now you've wasted so much time watching Floyd | TV that you've gotta rush through your makeup or you won't be ready for Floyd | tonight before April gets here with her wheels. Mississippi may say Floyd | you're old enough to drive, but Frank sure doesn't agree. Floyd | Floyd | Man, you can't wait for all this to be over. Floyd | Floyd | Your Bedroom Floyd | You've spent a lot of time in this room, enough that it's really Floyd | beginning to get on your nerves. You're tired of the stupid posters, Floyd | you're tired of your stupid bed, you're tired of everything. You just Floyd | wish it weren't such a hassle to try to change any of it. Besides, if Floyd | you were going to change anything, you'd start with the clothes in your Floyd | closet. To the west, across from your window, is a closed door going Floyd | out. Floyd | You see a flowerdy bag here. Sitting on the vanity is a geode, Floyd | mascara, eye shadow, pink blush, and foundation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | Common Ground is copyright ? 1999 by Stephen Granade. It may be freely Floyd | copied, distributed and played as long as it is not modified in any Floyd | way. You may not distribute copies of the game for a fee exceeding the Floyd | cost of distribution. Floyd | Floyd | Common Ground has some special commands which you can find out about by Floyd | typing COMMANDS. HELP will give you help with playing the game; the Floyd | CREDITS command will list all applicable credits for Common Ground. Floyd | Floyd | Note that the only way to talk to someone is to use the command TALK TO Floyd | [person]. The reason for this will, I suspect, quickly become obvious. Floyd | Floyd | If you want to make sure you have the latest version of the game, visit Floyd | the Common Ground homepage at Floyd | http://www.phy.duke.edu/~sgranade/ground.html or the GMD archive at Floyd | either ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/tads or Floyd | http://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXgamesXtads.html. If you want Floyd | to give me your opinion of the game, or if you find a bug, please Floyd | e-mail me at sgranade@phy.duke.edu. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga asks, "'flowerdy'?" | |||
| HairBrain says (to Floyd), "x flowerdy" | ||||
Floyd | You sometimes wonder if you should replace it, but you really like the Floyd | flowers printed on it. Most everything you need's in it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| HairBrain says (to Floyd), "x flowerdye" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "flowerdye". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "huh" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "That's a new word for me, too." | ||||
| maga says, "WHO IS RESPONSIBLE" | ||||
| Alex says (to maga), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that travesty is responsible." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "credits" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Common Ground Floyd | Copyright ? 1999 by Stephen Granade. All rights reserved. Floyd | Floyd | Type "about" for more information. Floyd | Version 2 (Jan 17 2000) Floyd | Developed with TADS, the Text Adventure Development System. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Credits Floyd | Floyd | This game would not be half of what it is without the help and guidance Floyd | of my crack team of beta-testers: Mike Kinyon, Dan Shiovitz, Lucian Floyd | Smith, and Adam Thornton. They kindly agreed to test the game, even Floyd | though Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, and Christmas were looming. It's thanks Floyd | to them that I was able to finish Common Ground by the end of 1999. Floyd | Floyd | A tip o' the hat to those who made suggestions and reported bugs: Floyd | David Glasser, Neil deMause, Sam Barlow, Magnus Olsson, Gunther Floyd | Schmidl, Brendan Milburn, Vincent Lynch, Torbj?rn Andersson, Mark Floyd | Musante, Eric Mayer, Tim Woerner, and Peter Berman. Floyd | Floyd | Special thanks go to Misty Granade, who, as always, put up with me Floyd | while I struggled with writing this game; and to everyone who took part Floyd | in the ifMUD Implementors' Lunch and gave me invaluable advice. I bet Floyd | you didn't expect that this game would be the result. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Must by flowery, but it knows the word, so." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "inky is responsible." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You've gone with your jean cut-offs and a plaid shirt tonight. Nothing Floyd | fancy, but then it doesn't really need to be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | I don't see what you're referring to. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take foundation" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Huh. No take all." | |||
| Gunther says, "wait, I played this" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take bag" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gunther has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take shadow" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take blush" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wear foundation" | ||||
Floyd | You've already put on foundation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You've got foundation, a flowerdy bag, eye shadow, and pink blush. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wear shadow" | ||||
Floyd | A couple of careful passes with the eye shadow brush and your eyelids Floyd | turn a pretty lavender. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wear blush" | ||||
Floyd | You pop open the blush container and take the brush. Staring in the Floyd | mirror, you rub the pink blush along your cheekbones with quick Floyd | strokes. Satisfied, you put the brush back and close the container. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | maga says (to Jacq), "this is more knowledge than I thought you possessed" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "haha" | ||||
| olethros says, "C'est ancora una floydspielnacht" | Jacqueline says (to olethros), "You're just in time - I was demonstrating how to put on makeup, and the boys in the room are strangely silent on this." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open bag" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know how to open the flowerdy bag. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x posters" | ||||
Floyd | You liked all of the posters when you put them up, especially that one Floyd | of Mötley Crüe. But they've been up there long enough that you're Floyd | bored of them. Even the Crüe is last year's band now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach that from the cane-bottomed chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||
Floyd | Forget this. You stand up and grab your makeup. A little bit of Floyd | mascara, then you dump all the makeup into your bag. Floyd | Floyd | > | HairBrain says, "I barely understand what 'foundation' means!" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||||
Floyd | You used to keep magazines under there until you got tired of your mom Floyd | yapping at you about them and threw them away. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "DID you now" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open closet" | ||||
Floyd | It's always open, seeing as how its door's been missing since before it Floyd | was your room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in closet" | ||||
Floyd | Your closet's full of old clothes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x clothes" | ||||
Floyd | You guess they aren't that bad. You'd still like some new ones. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Should we leave?" | |||
| maga says, "sure" | ||||
| McMartin arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | (Opening the bedroom door) Floyd | Hall Floyd | The hall goes north to your bathroom and south to the stairs. Mom Floyd | and Frank's bedroom is to the west, directly across from your room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Should we just slit our wrists and have everyone at school say how tragic it all was that they missed the signs?" | |||
| McMartin says, "I thought this game was older than that" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh wait, that was Heathers, not Common Ground." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You open the door and go through, closing it behind you. Floyd | Floyd | Your Bathroom Floyd | Your bathroom's not only small, it's not even right by your bedroom. Floyd | Some day maybe you'll streak between here and your room, give Frank a Floyd | real show. A bunch of your bottles are scattered round the sink. The Floyd | hallway is back to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x bottles" | ||||
Floyd | Moisturizer, shampoo, shit like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros asks, "really?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "hm - not much here" | ||||
| There's no obvious exit in that direction. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You open the door and go through, closing it behind you. Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | The hall goes north to your bathroom and south to the stairs. Mom Floyd | and Frank's bedroom is to the west, directly across from your room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Mom and Frank's Room Floyd | Mom and Frank's room is okay, you guess. That waterbed of theirs is Floyd | pretty sweet, even with that stupid little nightstand next to it. Floyd | Their bathroom is north, and an open door to the east goes back into Floyd | the hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x nightstand" | ||||
Floyd | It's not much to look at. There's a closed drawer in it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "You sneak." | |||
| DavidW says, "I remember this nightstand." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||||
Floyd | You slide open the drawer--surely Frank won't notice--to find a roll of Floyd | bills. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "if there's one thing I learned from AIF, it's that nightstands ALWAYS contain illicit things" | |||
| olethros says, "bills!" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x bills" | ||||
Floyd | Frank's little stash of money. There's probably over a hundred bucks, Floyd | easy. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "we are in debt... oh" | |||
| HairBrain says, "Now you're just begging for someone to quote you." | ||||
| DavidW says (to maga), "too true" | ||||
| olethros says, "we are rich!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take bills" | ||||
Floyd | You glance over your shoulder, then pull a bunch of bills from the Floyd | roll. You stop after about eighty. If you're lucky, Frank won't find Floyd | them gone for a while. You put the roll back in the drawer and hide Floyd | the bills you took. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros asks, "illicit bills?" | |||
| McMartin asks, "Counterfeits?" | ||||
| maga says, "they're illicit now that Jacq STOLE them" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to olethros), "Well, it's all in ones - for the strip joint, you see." | ||||
| olethros says, "damn those birds must've been endagered" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We could undo, if we want to be a good girl." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Mom and Frank's Room Floyd | Mom and Frank's room is okay, you guess. That waterbed of theirs is Floyd | pretty sweet, even with that stupid little nightstand next to it. Floyd | Their bathroom is north, and an open door to the east goes back into Floyd | the hall. Floyd | The nightstand drawer seems to contain a roll of bills. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says (to olethros), "Well, it's really hard to get the beaks to form neat rolls like that" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to maga), "There you go, Voice of Reason." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Mom and Frank's Bathroom Floyd | You don't know why Frank has this big thing about you not using his Floyd | and mom's bathroom. It's not like it's any big secret deal. You can Floyd | leave it to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros asks, "do all moms yap about magazines?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Depends on the magazines, I suspect." | ||||
| olethros asks, "Frank is mom's new BF?" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Mom and Frank's Room Floyd | Mom and Frank's room is okay, you guess. That waterbed of theirs is Floyd | pretty sweet, even with that stupid little nightstand next to it. Floyd | Their bathroom is north, and an open door to the east goes back into Floyd | the hall. Floyd | The nightstand drawer seems to contain a roll of bills. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "close drawer" | Jacqueline says, "Or the stepdad, I think that's unclear as of yet." | |||
Floyd | Closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "e" | olethros says, "> PARTY" | |||
Floyd | Hall Floyd | The hall goes north to your bathroom and south to the stairs. Mom Floyd | and Frank's bedroom is to the west, directly across from your room. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "> CALL FRIEDNS" | |||
| olethros asks, "do we have a goal, actually?" | ||||
| maga says, ">GO WILD" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm guessing stepdad, because he lives here, and our mother would never have a sleep-over friend to whom she was not wedded in the eyes of God." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You head down the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | When you're not in your room you usually hang here, watching TV from Floyd | the couch. Frank sometimes works at a little desk he's got in here, Floyd | but he's normally pretty cool with you watching TV while he works. Floyd | There are stairs to the south. You can get to the kitchen to the Floyd | northeast and the front door and hallway are northwest. Floyd | Frank is sitting in the chair, hunched over his desk. Floyd | Floyd | As you come down the stairs, Frank looks up at you. "Goin' out tonight Floyd | too, huh?" Is his speech slurred again? Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "oooooh a real workaholic" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oi. Lovely." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x Frank" | ||||
Floyd | Frank's dressed in that ratty old Bud t-shirt of his and a greasy pair Floyd | of jeans. He's working hard on some appliance, frowning at it from Floyd | time to time. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "A winner!" | |||
| olethros says, "handy repair man." | ||||
| maga says, "yay he is our alcoholic abusive stepdad. this is shaping up to be a made-for-HBO movie" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "ha" | ||||
| olethros says, "> SHOOT HEROIN" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "kiss Frank" | ||||
Floyd | Ew. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "yay" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "or aw" | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "shoot heroin" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "shoot". Floyd | Floyd | > | * GDorn has joined the channel. | |||
| maga says, "presumably our mother will show she is a Strong Modern Woman by clonking him over the head with a skillet when he eventually becomes a creepy stalker and tries to abuse us" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x appliance" | ||||
Floyd | He's been "working" on some of that junk for years. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros asks, "are we playing this game to make fun of it or to have fun?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Both!" | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "ask frank about work" | ||||
Floyd | If you want to talk to someone, use TALK TO. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to Frank" | ||||
Floyd | You wander over to Frank's desk and look at the jumble on it. Floyd | "What'cha working on?" Floyd | Floyd | "Toaster," he says, staring at the inside of a chrome-plated box. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "I don't see how the two are incompatible" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | "Toaster, huh? What's wrong with it?" Floyd | Floyd | "Thought it was the heater element shorting, but that wasn't it." He Floyd | goes on a while about the toaster, almost makes you wish you hadn't Floyd | asked. Finally he gets to the point. "Anyway, the power cord's shot, Floyd | so now I'm replacing it." Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "DAD, WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO GET A REAL JOB" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You take a couple of steps away from Frank. "Gotta have toast, huh?" Floyd | But he's not even listening. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | "Hey, Frank, where'd mom go?" Floyd | Floyd | "Groceries." He leans his head from side to side, trying to loosen Floyd | tense muscles. "Piggly Wiggly. Hope you told her what you wanted this Floyd | week." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | "Nah," you say, shaking your head. "Doesn't matter." Floyd | Floyd | "Well, okay," he says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | "By the way, could you spot me a couple of bucks for tonight?" you ask Floyd | as casually as you can. Floyd | Floyd | He sighs and runs a hand through what's left of his hair. "You know Floyd | money's tight this month." Floyd | Floyd | > | HairBrain says, "I think this use of 'we' is the closest to Being John Malkovich creeping-out we've had yet." | |||
| olethros twiddles his thumbs. | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "No it's not, you jerk. You have a wad of bills in your nightstand!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | "I know. But it's not like I'm asking for much. I mean, there's not a Floyd | lot of places to spend money around here 'cept the Sonic. All's I need Floyd | is like a ten or something." Floyd | Floyd | "Look, I told you already. Money's tight, and I don't have any to give Floyd | you. Now quit yapping about it." Frank pointedly turns back to the Floyd | toaster. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "it's for emergencies!" | |||
| maga exclaims, "beer emergencies!" | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "make toast" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "toast". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "attack Frank" | ||||
Floyd | He'd hit back. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "Hedgehog emergencies" | |||
| McMartin asks, "Man, who's abusive now?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to maga), "You were RIGHT!" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | When you're not in your room you usually hang here, watching TV from Floyd | the couch. Frank sometimes works at a little desk he's got in here, Floyd | but he's normally pretty cool with you watching TV while he works. Floyd | There are stairs to the south. You can get to the kitchen to the Floyd | northeast and the front door and hallway are northwest. Floyd | Frank is sitting in the chair, hunched over his desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, we could go steal the money. Up to you guys." | |||
| olethros says, "we have enough" | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You've gone with your jean cut-offs and a plaid shirt tonight. Nothing Floyd | fancy, but then it doesn't really need to be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "remove shirt" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | You've already got the plaid shirt. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Mom's been bugging you about learning how to cook, so you've been Floyd | avoiding the kitchen as much as possible when she's around. There're Floyd | counters and cabinets along the walls and a table on one side of the Floyd | kitchen. The hallway's to the west and the living room is southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to olethros), "We have nothing. I used 'undo' after the theft." | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x cabinets" | ||||
Floyd | The kitchen cabinets are closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros asks, "where's the phone?" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "open cabinets" | ||||
Floyd | You rummage through the cabinets, but you're not all that hungry right Floyd | now. Floyd | Floyd | > | Alex says (to olethros), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that Phone is a phonetic realization of a Phoneme." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Alex), "Thanks for that." | ||||
| Alex asks (of Jacqueline), "Awwwk! So where's my cork nut then?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You've got a flowerdy bag. The flowerdy bag seems to contain Floyd | foundation, pink blush, eye shadow, and mascara. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "whacky linguists" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "See? Penniless." | ||||
| olethros says, "> PUT MASCARA ON FRANK" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Hall Floyd | The hallway goes between the kitchen to the east and the front door Floyd | to the west. There's a bathroom to the north. You can slip around the Floyd | wall of the hallway and into the living room to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to open the front door first. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "let's see what happens when we try to go out" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "open front door" | ||||
Floyd | You open the front door a little and peek outside, but April's not here Floyd | yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "> WAIT SIX MONTHS" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You open the door and go through, closing it behind you. Floyd | Floyd | Bathroom Floyd | An extra bathroom, with a john and sink. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Also, judging by the reference to the Piggly Wiggly, the appearance of our stepdad, and the fact that Sargent lives in Alabama, please make sure you are using the appropriate southern accents in your head when reading all dialogue." | |||
| DavidW says, "har" | ||||
| DavidW says, "(the har was to McMartin. Thanks, lag!)" | ||||
| olethros says, "sermomimem alequ graimen" | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "x sink" | ||||
Floyd | The sink's pretty clean since mom had you clean this bathroom last Floyd | weekend. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "s" | Jacqueline says, "Fine, David. Duely noted that you did not think I was being funny." | |||
Floyd | You open the door and go through, closing it behind you. Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | The hallway goes between the kitchen to the east and the front door Floyd | to the west. There's a bathroom to the north. You can slip around the Floyd | wall of the hallway and into the living room to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to open the front door first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | You open the front door a little and peek outside, but April's not here Floyd | yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to open the front door first. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "oh" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | When you're not in your room you usually hang here, watching TV from Floyd | the couch. Frank sometimes works at a little desk he's got in here, Floyd | but he's normally pretty cool with you watching TV while he works. Floyd | There are stairs to the south. You can get to the kitchen to the Floyd | northeast and the front door and hallway are northwest. Floyd | Frank is sitting in the chair, hunched over his desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "watch tv" | ||||
Floyd | Yeah, the TV's real exciting when it's off. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros asks, "where's a jacket?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Maybe we need money to start the counter that makes April arrive?" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "turn on tv" | ||||
Floyd | You click on the TV. It hums into life, showing a green-tinged Bon Floyd | Jovi video. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "we want to go out NOW and get warm with some scotch" | |||
| olethros says, "or some MAN" | ||||
| olethros says, "wow, 80s" | ||||
| maga says, "man, I'm not watching this crap" | ||||
| McMartin asks, "A man named 'April'?" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "turn off tv" | ||||
Floyd | The TV shuts off, its hum fading away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "start revolution" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "start". Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I don't remember much about this game but I remember 'flowerdy' is not a typo." | |||
| olethros asks, "anything left to explore?" | ||||
| McMartin says, "> TEACHER, PUT THOSE BOOKS AWAY" | ||||
| DavidW says (to inky), "I think there's a garage; not sure." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to frank" | ||||
Floyd | Frank's absorbed in his work again. You talking to him more's only Floyd | likely to make him mad. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga asks, "hm. what now?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, I'm still contemplating getting some cash." | ||||
| olethros asks, "no other rooms/objects?" | ||||
| inky asks, "did you get all your stuff from upstairs?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "From our room? Yes." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But not from Frank & Mom's room." | ||||
| olethros says, "let's get the cash and get outta here" | ||||
| maga says, "okay, okay" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm not sure if we want the money, or if this is a game to test our ETHICS, in which case maybe we shouldn't." | ||||
| maga says, "don't say I didn't warn you" | ||||
| olethros asks, "we want to get drunk or not?" | ||||
| olethros says, "if not, then we just stay in and watch the telly" | ||||
| maga says, "Frank's going to take the buckle end to us, you see if he doesn't" | ||||
| olethros says, "> ELOPE" | ||||
| Jota arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | McMartin says, "We could always save first" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to McMartin), "BRILLIANT!" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: | ||||
| Jota says, "I've already played, so I'm just here to watch." | Jacqueline asks, "Why didn't we think of that?" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "goodgirl" | ||||
Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You head up the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Hall Floyd | The hall goes north to your bathroom and south to the stairs. Mom Floyd | and Frank's bedroom is to the west, directly across from your room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to McMartin), "Thank you for being here to make our unethical desires okay." | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Mom and Frank's Room Floyd | Mom and Frank's room is okay, you guess. That waterbed of theirs is Floyd | pretty sweet, even with that stupid little nightstand next to it. Floyd | Their bathroom is north, and an open door to the east goes back into Floyd | the hall. Floyd | Floyd | Your billfold! You'll definitely need your money tonight. It better Floyd | still be in the kitchen where you left it after school. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "Because of the Club Floyd motto" | |||
| maga says, "wuh, wait" | ||||
| McMartin says, "Also, that totally looked like maga patting Floyd on the head and saying 'Save! Who's a good girl, then?'" | ||||
| DavidW says, "aha. We need billfold from kitchen." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Hall Floyd | The hall goes north to your bathroom and south to the stairs. Mom Floyd | and Frank's bedroom is to the west, directly across from your room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You head down the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | When you're not in your room you usually hang here, watching TV from Floyd | the couch. Frank sometimes works at a little desk he's got in here, Floyd | but he's normally pretty cool with you watching TV while he works. Floyd | There are stairs to the south. You can get to the kitchen to the Floyd | northeast and the front door and hallway are northwest. Floyd | Frank is sitting in the chair, hunched over his desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Mom's been bugging you about learning how to cook, so you've been Floyd | avoiding the kitchen as much as possible when she's around. There're Floyd | counters and cabinets along the walls and a table on one side of the Floyd | kitchen. The hallway's to the west and the living room is southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||||
Floyd | You kinda remember leaving your billfold on the table, but you sure Floyd | don't see it there now. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "FRANK DONE STOLED IT" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x counter" | ||||
Floyd | You glance at the counters, but there's no sign of your billfold on Floyd | them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under table" | ||||
Floyd | You glance under the table, then get down on your hands and knees. Floyd | There that stupid thing is! You grab the billfold and stand up. Floyd | Floyd | Mom comes bustling in the kitchen with a bunch of groceries, which she Floyd | plops down on the table. "Hey, Jeanie," she says. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "That jerk." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry, Frank." | ||||
| DavidW says, "you guys may continue" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x billfold" | ||||
Floyd | All the money you've made the last month at Hardee's is jammed in Floyd | there. Floyd | Floyd | "Could you help me put the groceries up?" mom asks you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x mom" | ||||
Floyd | Mom's wearing her plaid summer dress and has her brown hair up in a Floyd | bun. She's putting groceries away right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "help mom" | ||||
Floyd | You grab some of the groceries and put them up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You grab some of the groceries and put them up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x groceries" | ||||
Floyd | Sacks full of food that mom wants you to help put up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | Sacks full of food that mom wants you to help put up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oops" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "help mom" | ||||
Floyd | You grab some of the groceries and put them up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| HairBrain | | ||||
| McMartin says (to Floyd), "talk to mom" | Jacqueline asks, "Will it never end?" | |||
| I don't see that here. | Jacqueline says, "er" | |||
Floyd | "What'd you get at the store?" you ask mom. Floyd | Floyd | "Right, uh-huh. The usual. Oh," she says, pulling a box out of a sack Floyd | and showing it to you. "I got Wheat Thins for you." She puts the box Floyd | away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | "Don't forget I won't be here for supper," you tell mom. Floyd | Floyd | "Right, uh-huh, right," mom says. She sighs. "I wish you'd eat supper Floyd | here a little more often." Floyd | Floyd | Mom says, "Jeanie dear, I'm making roast tonight. If you're still Floyd | hungry when you get home, there should be some left in the fridge." Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | "Um, thanks." Floyd | Floyd | "Right, right, you're welcome." Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says (to davidw), "heehee" | |||
| DavidW says, "No one thinks to look under tables in modern IF." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open billfold" | ||||
Floyd | You pop it open and take a quick look. All your Hardee's money from Floyd | the last month is in there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "count money" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh." | |||
| McMartin says, "That's where the terrorists will hide" | ||||
| DavidW says, "That reminds me. I nominate Everybody Loves A Parade. (evil grin)" | ||||
| olethros asks, "for next CF?" | ||||
| inky says (to McMartin), "ha ha" | ||||
| DavidW says (to olethros), "yes" | ||||
| olethros says, "they will hide.... blinking" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Put it on the obj when we're done." | ||||
| inky says, ">RUB HANDS TOGETHER AND CACKLE OVER OUR HOARD" | ||||
| Jota asks (of W), "WHy evil?" | ||||
| Jota asks, "Because it can be made unwinnable?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Jota), "because of old-school" | ||||
| Jota nods. | ||||
| olethros says, "i like altskewl" | ||||
| Jota says, "I support it, simply on the grounds that I was a tester." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Actually, I was thinking of Mother Loose for next week, since I hadn't picked one yet." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That or SGaTFaS." | ||||
| DavidW says, "sure" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "help mom" | ||||
Floyd | You grab some of the groceries and put them up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | maga says, "okay, that's quite enough of that" | |||
| DavidW says, "Mother Loose is an interesting one." | ||||
| McMartin says (to inky), "Because we don't need to count our hoard, I declare that it is $691.05" | ||||
| olethros arrives, full of fun and funk. | Jota says, "Also, someone -- lps? -- was saying that Sarge had already OK'd comp games on Floyd." | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Hall Floyd | The hallway goes between the kitchen to the east and the front door Floyd | to the west. There's a bathroom to the north. You can slip around the Floyd | wall of the hallway and into the living room to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a car horn being honked outside in front of the house. Must Floyd | be April. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros asks, ".alex sgatfas?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Martin), "That is a lot of Hardees money." | ||||
| Jota says, "So perhaps next week should be a randomly-selected comp game or two." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "ooh - car horn!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Car horn. April. We can go now." | ||||
| inky says, "you *say* hardee's, but it's actually a strip club" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | You yank open the door. Sure enough, there's April in her old Mustang. Floyd | You slam the door shut on your way out, heading for her car. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Two Floyd | That toaster's been giving you fits the last few nights. "Could you Floyd | fix it?" Deb asks, like it's the easiest thing in the world. Least Floyd | now you're pretty sure it's the power cord and not anything more Floyd | serious. It oughta be a quick enough fix. Floyd | Floyd | Quick enough once you get a drink, that is. Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | You'd think you never ate, as hungry as you get every time you go in Floyd | the kitchen. But you promised Deb no snacks, so the cabinets are Floyd | off-limits for you. Good thing drinks from the fridge are okay. The Floyd | den is southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to olethors), "She's Got a Thing for a Spring." | |||
| inky says, "actually, "hardee's" would be a good name for a strip club" | ||||
| olethros says, "I cant remember if I ever played that" | ||||
| olethros says, "heehee" | ||||
| Jota says (to inky), "Hee." | ||||
| DavidW says, "This is chapter two. We're now playing as Frank." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | ||||
Floyd | Inside the fridge, nestled among the food, are several cans of Coke and Floyd | Bud. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "bah. I can't do it. Someone else pull the trigger" | |||
| Jota asks (of W), "Narrator?" | ||||
| McMartin says (to Floyd), "get coke" | ||||
Floyd | You suddenly realize that you've been standing and staring into the Floyd | open fridge for a while. You shake your head slightly and pull a Coke Floyd | from the fridge. You'd prefer a Bud, really, but Deb's been on you Floyd | about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to maga), "ha" | |||
| olethros says, "ooh den" | ||||
| McMartin exclaims, "All proper geeks are caffeine fiends!" | ||||
| Jota asks, "What about improper geeks?" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | On your way out you lightly kick the door of the fridge, closing it. Floyd | Floyd | Den Floyd | You've got the desk where you work pushed up against one wall, over Floyd | by an old stereo you keep meaning to fix. The only thing you can see Floyd | from the desk is the kitchen to the northeast, but at least your back's Floyd | to the TV. A worn banister and stairs to the south go up to the second Floyd | floor. Floyd | Sitting on your desk is a broken toaster, a junk box, a Floyd | Phillips-head screwdriver, and a multimeter. Floyd | Floyd | You hear Jeanie clomping around upstairs. Probably getting ready to go Floyd | out again tonight. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm not sure which one is less healthy, Bud or Coke." | |||
| McMartin says, "> Shine toaster with Cola" | ||||
| olethros says, "impoper geeks are caffeine friends" | ||||
| olethros says, "hehe" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "fix toaster" | ||||
Floyd | You're going to have to be more specific. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jota asks, "So does no one here do things like >DANCE or >EAT TOASTER ?" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x cord" | ||||
Floyd | The power cord's gotten pretty frayed from the toaster being plugged Floyd | and unplugged so much. It's held in the toaster by screws. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jota says, "Man, you guys are such boring players." | |||
| McMartin says (to Jota), "I do more of it when beta testing" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "hit toaster with screwdriver" | ||||
Floyd | Before starting work on the toaster you lower yourself into your chair. Floyd | Floyd | Attacking the broken toaster doesn't appear productive. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I've already played this one, so I'm mostly watching this week." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Jota), "No one is stopping you." | ||||
| McMartin says, "One day I will write a game where EAT ROOM is a puzzle solution." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "xyzzy". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jota says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||||
Floyd | You weren't any good at dancing when you were young. What makes you Floyd | think you could do it now? Floyd | Floyd | Jeanie comes clumping down the stairs. She's all dressed up, with her Floyd | plaid shirt tied so that you can see her midriff. "You going out again Floyd | tonight?" you ask her. She doesn't answer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jota says (to Floyd), "dance with jeanie" | ||||
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| McMartin says (to Floyd), "Dream of Jeanie" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "dream". Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "hm interesting how they made the game work from two perspectives" | |||
| McMartin says, "Hey, it looks like we aren't getting robbed tonight" | ||||
| DavidW says (to olethros), "Three, actually. We get to be mom/Deb later on." | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "x midriff" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "midriff". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "aw" | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "talk to jeanie" | ||||
Floyd | You decide to take a break from messing with the toaster. "So," you Floyd | ask Jeanie, "how was school?" Floyd | Floyd | It's a stupid question, and you realize just how stupid it is right Floyd | after you say it. Jeanie sighs. "How do you think it was?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | "I hated school, too. Couldn't wait to graduate." Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah? Why'd you even bother? Not like you need a diploma to do Floyd | factory work." Floyd | Floyd | Should of known better than to even try to talk to her. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | "Where you going tonight?" you ask Jeanie as you lean back in the Floyd | chair and stretch. Floyd | Floyd | "Just out." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You roll your shoulders some to work the kinks out of them. "Just out? Floyd | Seems like you oughta stay in and rest up before school tomorrow." Floyd | Floyd | "Look," she snaps, "Mom okayed it. I'm just going to ride around a Floyd | while." Floyd | Floyd | "Whoa, whoa, okay." You decide to drop the whole thing. No skin off Floyd | your nose if she wants to be tired tomorrow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | As snappy as she's been tonight, you'd just as soon not hear her talk Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | "What'cha working on?" You look up to find Jeanie looking at the Floyd | toaster like she's never seen one before. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | "It's a toaster," you tell Jeanie, since she can't figure it out by Floyd | herself. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh. What's wrong with it?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You briefly toy with the idea of saying, "It's broken," but she seems Floyd | almost interested. "Well, I think the heating element might be Floyd | shorting." Floyd | Floyd | "Oh," she says, and wanders away. Guess she wasn't that interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | As snappy as she's been tonight, you'd just as soon not hear her talk Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | "Where's mom, Frank?" Jeanie asks you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | "She's gone to the Pig," you tell her. "Why, was there something you Floyd | wanted her to get?" Floyd | Floyd | She shakes her head. "Nah." You shrug and turn back to the toaster. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | As snappy as she's been tonight, you'd just as soon not hear her talk Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | Jeanie clears her throat. You brace yourself for whatever she wants. Floyd | "Um, can I borrow some cash for tonight? 'Cause I'm kinda short." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | "You know money's tight right now," you tell Jeanie. Besides, when Floyd | does she not want money? Floyd | Floyd | "Money's always tight." Her voice gives you a headache every time she Floyd | starts whining like this. "I only need a twenty." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | Does Jeanie even listen to you? "I told you. Money's tight. Fixing Floyd | the station wagon took all our extra money this month." Thankfully, Floyd | she doesn't say anything back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | As snappy as she's been tonight, you'd just as soon not hear her talk Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "done with the blahblah" | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "fix toaster" | ||||
Floyd | You're going to have to be more specific. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "remove cord" | ||||
Floyd | You take the cord off of the old stereo. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm - interesting that the conversation is different." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I didn't expect that." | ||||
| Jota says (to Floyd), "eat cord" | ||||
Floyd | Which cord do you mean, the stereo power cord, or the frayed power Floyd | cord? Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "ART" | |||
| Jota says (to Floyd), "stereo" | ||||
Floyd | The stereo power cord doesn't look appetizing. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "We TALK TO NPCed a different number of times." | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "attach stereo cord to toaster" | ||||
Floyd | The toaster's already got a power cord. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "hang self from cord" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "hang". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "remove frayed cord" | ||||
Floyd | It's got to be unscrewed first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "unscrew frayed cord" | ||||
Floyd | As careful as you can you loosen the screws holding the cord and take Floyd | it out of the toaster. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "remove frayed cord" | ||||
| Jota says (to Floyd), "tie knot in cord" | ||||
Floyd | You've already got the frayed power cord. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | I don't know the word "tie". Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Jota), "fraid not." | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "attach stereo cord to toaster" | ||||
Floyd | You put the cord from the stereo in the toaster where the old one used Floyd | to be. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "BORED NOW" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You're not leaving until you get out of the wooden chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||
Floyd | You start to stand up, but glance at the toaster. You've got to be Floyd | close to fixing it. It shouldn't take you too much longer. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "> ACTIVATE ELECTRIC CHAIR" | |||
| McMartin says (to Floyd), "Plug in toaster" | ||||
Floyd | Not while you're fixing it. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I don't think it's that different, yeah" | |||
| inky says, "although the subjective interpretations are probably different" | ||||
| McMartin says (to floyd), "screw cord to toaster" | ||||
Floyd | You put the old power cord back in the toaster and screw it in tight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "screw power cord" | ||||
Floyd | Which power cord do you mean, the stereo power cord, or the frayed Floyd | power cord? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get up" | ||||
Floyd | With a start you realize that you've been staring at the wall for the Floyd | past few minutes. Better do at least a little more work on the toaster Floyd | before you give up. Floyd | Floyd | The sound of the front door slamming startles you. Jeanie's left Floyd | already? Wonder where she's going. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Three Floyd | The nice thing about going grocery shopping this late is that the store Floyd | isn't too crowded and you can check out quickly. It would have been Floyd | better if Julie Morgan hadn't been there, making those snide comments Floyd | of hers, but all in all it wasn't too bad. Now maybe Frank or Jeanie Floyd | can help you put the groceries away. Floyd | Floyd | Carport Floyd | The carport's in bad need of a cleaning, what with all of the Floyd | supplies for fixing the cars lining the sides and spilling out almost Floyd | into the middle. It's getting so you can't hardly find space for the Floyd | station wagon, though you managed to squeeze it in somehow. And you're Floyd | beginning to think that you might as well get rid of the bikes. The Floyd | side door to the house is to the west. Floyd | The station wagon's door is wide open. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "Wait" | |||
| McMartin says, "I guess that wasn't a puzzle, then" | ||||
| olethros says, "hrmhmrm" | ||||
| maga says, "maybe we were meant to bond somehow" | ||||
| DavidW says, "It can be fixed, but it's optional. The game isn't about puzzles." | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "drive to the beach" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "drive". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You've got sacks of groceries and your key ring. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | Your slacks have seen better days, but you were only going to the Floyd | Piggly Wiggly. Your arms are filled with sacks from the store. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "enter station wagon" | ||||
Floyd | Seeing as how you just got back from the store, you don't really need Floyd | to go anywhere right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Wait, slacks? What happened to our dress?" | |||
| olethros says, "you sack-filled arms / bind me with their charms" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Or is this the same family on three different nights?" | ||||
| olethros says, "that's the mom" | ||||
| inky says, "this is the mom, not the daughter" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Right - mom was wearing a dress earlier." | ||||
| Jota wonders if a #floydspoilers channel would be useful. | ||||
| olethros says, "SHE WAS DOPPLEGANGERED" | ||||
| McMartin says, "> WEAR HEADCRAB" | ||||
| DavidW says, "hm. Jacq's right. Mom had a plaid summer dress on earlier." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Jota), "Probably, for those watching who've already played and want to MOCK US BECAUSE THEY ARE CRUEL." | ||||
| maga says, "yeah. given the illustrious betatesters this can hardly be a bug" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Except if you do that I should probably log it." | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| No new channels have been created since your last check. | maga says, "somehow it has to connect to 'flowerdy'" | |||
| inky says, "perhaps she's going to change in the garage, then" | ||||
| You un-mute #ifmud/newchannel. | ||||
| No new channels have been created since your last check. | olethros says, "she's going to change when she meet her LOVER" | |||
| Jota says (to Floyd), "x dress" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "dress". Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, ">FASHION CRUDE DRESS OUT OF PIGGLY WIGGLY BAGS AND SOME DUCT TAPE" | |||
| Jota asks, "She had a dress before, but it wasn't in the game vocabulary?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "HOORAY" | ||||
| maga asks, "maybe the daughter sees her as always wearing a plaid dress because she sees her mother as, um, a naughty Catholic schoolgirl?" | ||||
| inky | Mom's wearing her plaid summer dress and has her brown hair up in a | ||||
| inky says, "is what I see in my recap" | ||||
| Jota asks (of inky), "I presume a 'crude' dress would be one that's appropriate for dancing in down at 'Hardee's'?" | ||||
| McMartin says (to Floyd), "X HAIR" | ||||
Floyd | I don't see any hair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to open the side door first. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says (to Jota), "ha ha" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "open side door" | ||||
Floyd | Better close the car door before you go in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "close car door" | ||||
Floyd | You bump the door closed with your hip, but it doesn't quite make it. Floyd | It stops short, leaving the dome light on. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "this is getting annoying" | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "drop bags" | ||||
Floyd | You don't want to set them down until you're in the kitchen, since Floyd | you're not sure you could pick them up again. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "banality of everyday life: represented" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | Better close the car door before you go in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x car door" | ||||
Floyd | The door's wide open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "eat hat" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "hat". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| McMartin says (to Floyd), "Close car door. g." | ||||
Floyd | You hit the door pretty hard with your hip. It closes. Floyd | Floyd | The station wagon's already closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "growr" | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "x hip" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "hip". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "open side door" | ||||
Floyd | It's locked. Frank must've locked it when he got home. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "shake it baby" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "shake". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter house" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to open the side door first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "x bags" | ||||
Floyd | You must be holding some five or six sacks. But it was either that or Floyd | make several trips from the car, and as tired as you are, you'd just as Floyd | soon get this chore done quickly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open side door" | ||||
Floyd | It's locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "unlock side door" | ||||
Floyd | (with your key ring) Floyd | You pull your key ring out, but drop it before you can unlock the door. Floyd | "Shit!" you exclaim, then look around. Looks like no one heard you. Floyd | Floyd | It's just not your night. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "open car door" | ||||
Floyd | You adjust the groceries and manage to pull open the car door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "GAAAAAAAAAAAAAH" | |||
| McMartin says, "I wonder if I locked our keys in the car" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "close car door" | ||||
Floyd | You hit the door pretty hard with your hip. It closes. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "no" | |||
| Jota says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | ||||
Floyd | Which door do you mean, the side door, or the car door? Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Jota says (to Floyd), "side" | ||||
Floyd | Frank must be busy, because he doesn't come to the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "get keys" | ||||
Floyd | It's tough bending down and getting your keys without spilling Floyd | groceries out of the sacks, but you manage it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | Ladies don't yell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "unlock door" | ||||
Floyd | (with your key ring) Floyd | You fumble with your keys and finally manage to get the door unlocked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | You almost drop a sack doing it, but you eventually manage to get the Floyd | side door open. You go through it and close it behind you. Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | The living room is starting to look a little dusty, the TV Floyd | especially. There are two paths worn in the green shag carpet, one Floyd | going from the stairs to the front door, the other from the stairs to Floyd | the kitchen, right by Frank's desk and the row of family pictures. The Floyd | door to the carport is east. Floyd | Frank's boots are sitting in the middle of the floor again. Floyd | Frank is sitting in the chair, hunched over his desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "hahaha DUST IS EVERYWHERE" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "kill frank" | ||||
Floyd | Don't be silly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| McMartin says (to floyd), "x frank" | ||||
Floyd | Frank is studying that broken toaster intently. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh. Dirty boots. Dirty Frank." | |||
| olethros says, "tsk tsk tsk tsk" | ||||
| McMartin says, "Man, I was hoping we'd learn who Frank was" | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "x boots" | ||||
Floyd | Frank's left his boots in the middle of the floor again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "kiss frank" | ||||
Floyd | You don't want to distract him. Besides, you're not really in the mood Floyd | tonight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jota says (to Floyd), "x frank" | ||||
Floyd | Frank is studying that broken toaster intently. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "drop bags" | ||||
Floyd | You don't want to set them down until you're in the kitchen, since Floyd | you're not sure you could pick them up again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You just came from there, and with all those groceries. No sense in Floyd | going back out again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Living Room Floyd | The living room is starting to look a little dusty, the TV Floyd | especially. There are two paths worn in the green shag carpet, one Floyd | going from the stairs to the front door, the other from the stairs to Floyd | the kitchen, right by Frank's desk and the row of family pictures. The Floyd | door to the carport is east. Floyd | Frank's boots are sitting in the middle of the floor again. Floyd | Frank is sitting in the chair, hunched over his desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | After several rounds of remodelling you finally got the kitchen laid Floyd | out fairly well, with the range near the cabinets and with plenty of Floyd | counter space. If only the table weren't between the range and Floyd | refrigerator. The living room is to the southwest. Floyd | Standing in the middle of the kitchen is Jeanie. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, mom," Jeanie says as you walk in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jota says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||||
Floyd | Goodness, it's been ages since you danced! Wonder if Frank would take Floyd | you next weekend. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "hee" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "ha" | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "drop bags" | ||||
Floyd | You lift the sacks and pile them on the kitchen table. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "aw" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Wait, I wanted to talk to Frank." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
| Jota says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | It won't take long to put up the groceries. No sense in leaving it for Floyd | later, especially since the ice cream would melt. Floyd | Floyd | Jeanie grabs some of the groceries and puts them on the counter. You Floyd | didn't even have to ask her to. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | Jeanie picks up some of the groceries and puts them away. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "well now that we dropped the bags" | |||
| olethros asks, "undo?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Can't go now." | ||||
| Alex says (to olethros), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that Undo is a command that lusers use." | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to olethros), "Too many turns back." | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | It won't take long to put up the groceries. No sense in leaving it for Floyd | later, especially since the ice cream would melt. Floyd | Floyd | Jeanie picks up some of the groceries and puts them away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "put up groceries" | ||||
Floyd | You take some of the groceries and put them where they belong. Floyd | Floyd | "What all'd you get at the store?" Jeanie asks, rooting around in the Floyd | sacks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jota says (to Floyd), "eat ice cream" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "ice". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "put up groceries" | ||||
Floyd | You take some of the groceries and put them where they belong. Floyd | Floyd | "You know I won't be here for supper, right?" Jeanie tells you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "talk to jeanie" | ||||
Floyd | "I know," you say to Jeanie. How could you forget? She's seldom here Floyd | for dinner these days. "Too bad you'll miss dinner again." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to jeanie" | ||||
Floyd | "I'll leave some roast in the refrigerator in case you want some when Floyd | you get home," you say to Jeanie. Floyd | Floyd | Jeanie shrugs. "Okay." Floyd | Floyd | Jeanie picks up some of the groceries and puts them away. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "Hmm, I think it is tracking us" | |||
| olethros asks, "it? is this a horror IF?" | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | "You're welcome." You smile; you know she'll be thankful later. Floyd | Floyd | Jeanie heads out of the kitchen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You can't repeat that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jota says, "They all are. Secretly." | |||
| McMartin says, "The lurking narrator" | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | Outside you hear someone honking. Jeanie's ride must be here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "l outside" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "outside". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "put up groceries" | ||||
Floyd | You take some of the groceries and put them where they belong. Floyd | Floyd | You hear Jeanie go clomping out the front door. She slams it shut hard Floyd | enough to make the dishes shake. Was she mad? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You put up the last of the groceries and put the left-over sacks away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | A cough at the door makes you turn around. Frank's there, leaning Floyd | against the frame. "Did, um, did Jeanie say where she was going?" Floyd | Floyd | "Not really." These days, does she ever? When she gets back you'll Floyd | have to talk to her about it. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Four Floyd | April asked if you wanted her to wait with you, but you told her nah Floyd | and so she just dropped you off at the station. Floyd | Floyd | It was real easy to buy a ticket. You were afraid they'd want to see Floyd | ID or maybe a letter from mom or something, but the guy just took your Floyd | money and didn't say nothing. Floyd | Floyd | This all seems unreal, somehow. Floyd | Floyd | Bus Station, at the counter Floyd | The ticket counter is more like a cage, with the guy giving tickets Floyd | sitting behind bars. There's barely enough room in there for him and Floyd | his chair. On the wall beside the counter is a big board listing Floyd | arrivals and departures. The rest of the station is to the south. Floyd | Sitting on the ticket counter is some change and a bus ticket. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jota says, "If only you knew what had *really* built the Edifice and why..." | |||
| olethros says, "seems like she's going to FLORIDA" | ||||
| olethros says, "or Tijuana" | ||||
| maga says, "OMG we're running away from our loveless family" | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You've got a billfold and a flowerdy bag. The flowerdy bag seems to Floyd | contain a change of clothes and some extra underwear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "flash underwear" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "flash". Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "to meet our fictional boyfriend in Canada" | |||
| Jota says (to Floyd), "wear underwear" | ||||
Floyd | You can't wear the extra underwear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jota says (to Floyd), "what good is it then" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "what". Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "BUT it gets cold in canada!" | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | change: Taken. Floyd | bus ticket: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "x ticket" | Jacqueline asks, "Wait, people in Canada wear extra underwear for warmth?" | |||
Floyd | You almost can't believe you just bought it. "Los Angeles," it says, Floyd | as if you could forget. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x board" | ||||
Floyd | The chalkboard lists a bunch of buses, but the only one you really care Floyd | about is the one coming from New York and going to Los Angeles. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros asks (of Jacqueline), "you mean you don't?" | |||
| olethros says, "ask your neighbouring rangers!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You've gone with your jean cut-offs and a plaid shirt tonight. Nothing Floyd | fancy, but then it doesn't really need to be. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros asks, "what? who wants to leave NYC for LA?" | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "time" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "time". Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "it's just coming from NYC; you're not actually there" | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "x watch" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I think we're in the South somewhere, not NYC." | |||
| Jota says (to Floyd), "x ticket" | ||||
Floyd | You almost can't believe you just bought it. "Los Angeles," it says, Floyd | as if you could forget. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros asks, "yow, and thus bus actually STOPS?" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Bus Station Floyd | Your feet click on the tile floor as you shift around, waiting. You Floyd | could sit--there are a couple of worn chairs scattered around, but they Floyd | all look really uncomfortable. The ticket counter and the board with Floyd | the bus schedules on it are on the north side of the room, opposite the Floyd | exit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "wait for bus" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "for". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||||
Floyd | You wait a while. Floyd | Floyd | You turn your ticket over and over, looking first at one side, then the Floyd | other. LA. It's so far away. Surely you'll be an actress, right? Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "gah" | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "act" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "act". Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "you don't even know the word, girl" | |||
| maga says, "and by 'actress' we mean 'crack whore'" | ||||
| Jota says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Bus Station Floyd | Your feet click on the tile floor as you shift around, waiting. You Floyd | could sit--there are a couple of worn chairs scattered around, but they Floyd | all look really uncomfortable. The ticket counter and the board with Floyd | the bus schedules on it are on the north side of the room, opposite the Floyd | exit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "smoke crack" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "smoke". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "x schedule" | ||||
| Jota says (to Floyd), "x phone" | ||||
Floyd | The chalkboard lists a bunch of buses, but the only one you really care Floyd | about is the one coming from New York and going to Los Angeles. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | I don't know the word "phone". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Outside the Station Floyd | It's gotten chillier since you got here. Hopefully that bus'll be Floyd | here soon. There's only one car in the parking lot, and not a lot of Floyd | traffic on the road. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "x car" | ||||
Floyd | It's a beat-up old Pinto. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jota says (to Floyd), "steal car" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "steal". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "enter car" | ||||
Floyd | The car's locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jota says (to Floyd), "goodgirl" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "goodgirl". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under car" | ||||
Floyd | Bus Station Floyd | Your feet click on the tile floor as you shift around, waiting. You Floyd | could sit--there are a couple of worn chairs scattered around, but they Floyd | all look really uncomfortable. The ticket counter and the board with Floyd | the bus schedules on it are on the north side of the room, opposite the Floyd | exit. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | I don't see any car here. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says (to DavidW), "hehehe" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in pinto" | ||||
Floyd | I don't see any pinto here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Outside the Station Floyd | Yellow light from the street lamps makes the parking lot and bus Floyd | stop look weird. Old Church Road, running in front of the bus station, Floyd | is pretty much empty. The station's behind you to the north. Floyd | Floyd | You hear the bus's engine some time before you see it. It comes Floyd | crawling down Old Church Road and pulls into the lot in front of you. Floyd | Its doors open. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "sory I took us back in" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "ah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in pinto" | ||||
Floyd | It's pretty dirty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under car" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing's under there, far as you can tell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jota says (to Floyd), "dance hokey pokey" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "hokey". Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "oh, bus" | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "x bus" | ||||
Floyd | The bus is belching smoke and shaking as it idles. Its door is open, Floyd | and the bus driver is staring at you. The sign over its windshield Floyd | reads "Los Angeles". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter bus" | ||||
Floyd | You hang back for a moment, then finally climb up in the bus. Floyd | Floyd | Inside the Bus Floyd | The bus is empty except for you and the bus driver, but it still Floyd | smells like old people and cigarettes. At least you have your pick of Floyd | seats. Floyd | The bus driver is looking at you, waiting. Floyd | Floyd | The bus driver looks at you. "Staying or going?" he asks, his hand out Floyd | for your ticket. You think about mom putting a roast in the oven. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jota says (to Floyd), "kiss driver" | ||||
Floyd | Ew. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I was wondering if there was a poignant litter of abandoned kittens under the Pinto." | |||
| inky says, "hee hee" | ||||
| maga exclaims, "you don't want to go to LA! it smells!" | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "give underwear to driver" | ||||
Floyd | Might as well leave that in there. Floyd | Floyd | "You gonna give me that ticket or what?" the bus driver asks you. You Floyd | look at him, then away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "give ticket to driver" | ||||
Floyd | "Now we're cooking with Crisco." He takes the ticket from you and Floyd | swings shut the doors. "Grab a seat." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show ticket to driver" | ||||
Floyd | "The ticket'll be plenty enough, thanks." Floyd | Floyd | "I said, grab a seat! We gotta move," the bus driver tells you. You Floyd | pick a seat at random and flop into it. You put your head against the Floyd | headrest with a sigh. Floyd | Floyd | The bus moves with a jerk, the brakes squealing as the driver coaxes Floyd | the bus out of the station and onto the road. You close your eyes, Floyd | letting the glow of street lights play over you, light then dark, light Floyd | then dark. One last glance at the houses slipping past, fading away Floyd | into the night, before you close your eyes and try to sleep. Floyd | Floyd | The End Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, quit, or undo the current Floyd | command. Floyd | Please enter (R)ESTORE, RE(S)TART, (Q)UIT, or (U)NDO: > | olethros says, "ok what the hell" | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "U" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Inside the Bus Floyd | The bus is empty except for you and the bus driver, but it still Floyd | smells like old people and cigarettes. At least you have your pick of Floyd | seats. Floyd | The bus driver's checking his mirrors and gauges. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | The doors to the bus are closed. Floyd | Floyd | "I said, grab a seat! We gotta move," the bus driver tells you. You Floyd | pick a seat at random and flop into it. You put your head against the Floyd | headrest with a sigh. Floyd | Floyd | The bus moves with a jerk, the brakes squealing as the driver coaxes Floyd | the bus out of the station and onto the road. You close your eyes, Floyd | letting the glow of street lights play over you, light then dark, light Floyd | then dark. One last glance at the houses slipping past, fading away Floyd | into the night, before you close your eyes and try to sleep. Floyd | Floyd | The End Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, quit, or undo the current Floyd | command. Floyd | Please enter (R)ESTORE, RE(S)TART, (Q)UIT, or (U)NDO: > | ||||
| Jota says (to Floyd), "out" | Jacqueline asks (of olethros), "Are you saying we should go home to our loveless family?" | |||
Floyd | Please enter (R)ESTORE, RE(S)TART, (Q)UIT, or (U)NDO: > | olethros says, "hm" | |||
| olethros says, "well, this is no conclusion!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We have a restore point." | ||||
| DavidW says, "The option to not take the bus is available." | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "\UNDO" | ||||
Floyd | Please enter (R)ESTORE, RE(S)TART, (Q)UIT, or (U)NDO: > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "\UNDO" | ||||
Floyd | Please enter (R)ESTORE, RE(S)TART, (Q)UIT, or (U)NDO: > | olethros asks, "what was it?" | |||
| Jota says (to Floyd), "under" | ||||
Floyd | Please enter (R)ESTORE, RE(S)TART, (Q)UIT, or (U)NDO: > | ||||
| Jota says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Inside the Bus Floyd | The bus is empty except for you and the bus driver, but it still Floyd | smells like old people and cigarettes. At least you have your pick of Floyd | seats. Floyd | The bus driver's checking his mirrors and gauges. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jota says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Inside the Bus Floyd | The bus is empty except for you and the bus driver, but it still Floyd | smells like old people and cigarettes. At least you have your pick of Floyd | seats. Floyd | The bus driver is looking at you, waiting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jota says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Outside the Station Floyd | Yellow light from the street lamps makes the parking lot and bus Floyd | stop look weird. Old Church Road, running in front of the bus station, Floyd | is pretty much empty. The station's behind you to the north. A bus is Floyd | idling in front of the station. Floyd | Floyd | You step back from the bus. The doors hiss shut and the bus jerks into Floyd | life, lumbering towards the road and away from the station. You watch Floyd | the bus windows slide past you, blank with reflected light. The red Floyd | taillights grow smaller and smaller and smaller until they're gone. Floyd | Floyd | You shrug your bag onto your shoulder. It's a fair walk back to the Floyd | house. Floyd | Floyd | The End Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, quit, or undo the current Floyd | command. Floyd | Please enter (R)ESTORE, RE(S)TART, (Q)UIT, or (U)NDO: > | Jota says, "(TADS games have multiple UNDO.)" | |||
| olethros says, "aha" | ||||
| olethros asks, "hm, is that all?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm - I guess we could replay and not take the bus, but enh." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Pretty much. We could've taken the bankroll with little difference." | ||||
| maga says, "I'm guessing that we needed to bond more somehow" | ||||
| olethros says, "f about" | ||||
| Jota says (to Jacq), "Ahem. You just not-took-the-bus." | ||||
| maga says, "or something" | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | Please enter (R)ESTORE, RE(S)TART, (Q)UIT, or (U)NDO: > | DavidW says, "No one looked at the family pictures in chapter 3." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I mean, I enjoyed the concept, but I guess I just wasn't that intrigued by the characters." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to David), "Hm, true." | ||||
| olethros says, "yeah, but still" | ||||
| olethros says, "there was little sense of influencing events" | ||||
| olethros asks, "who wrote this game?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Sarge" | ||||
| olethros says, "really, that's unexpected." | ||||
| olethros says, "no LASERS" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| Jota asks, "Did Grip have lasers?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "oh? Were there lasers in Child's Play?" | ||||
| Jota says, "I think not." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "If not, there should have been." | ||||
| olethros says, "now I am even more impressed" | ||||
| Jota says, "He needs to escape from the drudgery of his work life *somehow*." | ||||
| maga says, "seemed like there was some critical gameplay aspect we missed" | ||||
| olethros says, "perhaps" | ||||
| olethros says, "perhaps there is a hidden game within the game" | ||||
| Jota says, "A game of Pong." | ||||
| olethros says, "and while you can just let it flow past you, you have the option of ..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Does that mean we want to replay? It's early yet, I guess." | ||||
| maga says, "if we were playing alone maybe we'd have gone more slowly and noticed things in the later sections. I dunno." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, I noticed inconsistancies - not sure if that was intentional or not." | ||||
| olethros says, "yes." | ||||
| maga says, "I think that was meant to be a perspective thing" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to olethros&maga), "Not in perspective." | ||||
| maga says, "like, to the girl it feels like she's asking for ten bucks, to the stepdad it feels as if she's asking for twenty" | ||||
| olethros says, "there wer some subtle differences, yes." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, unless you mean that dialogue was interpreted in a completely different way." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Like, as Jeannie we said one thing, but as Frank we heard something quite different." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Our actions were duplicated in one chapter to the next, but I think Sarge wanted to leave the player some free will, even though the scene currently played has already happened. It's tricky." | ||||
| maga says, "and the station-wagon explanation completely goes over the girl's head" | ||||
| olethros asks, "the what?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I could see the perspective changing in the thoughts of how characters interpreted dialogue, but wouldn't expect the dialogue itself to change - though I can see how that could be part of the idea." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of maga), "Yeah, the what?" | ||||
| Jota says (to Jacq), "If you think of it more like a memory than a narration..." | ||||
| maga says (to olethros), "when Jeannie asks for money, she just hears 'money's tight'; from Frank's perspective, he says 'money's tight' and then goes on to explain that this is because they had to fix the station-wagon up" | ||||
| olethros says, "that could've been intentional" | ||||
| maga says, "apparently Jeanie just stops paying attention at one point, yeah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Jota), "Yes, then it would work." | ||||
| maga says (to olethros), "that was my point" | ||||
| olethros says, "there was something like that too in other points" | ||||
| inky says, "when Frank says it, she hears "I'm tight"" | ||||
| olethros says, "so J sucks and that's the point of the game. Let the little brat die and the two lovebirds enjoy their newfound peace and quiet." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Amen." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sad little family." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But probably not atypical for middle America." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Which is perhaps sadder still." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So that's a no on the replay?" | ||||
| Jota says, "The really sad part is that it's autobiographical." | ||||
| Jota says, "After she moves to LA, she ends up getting gender-reassignment surgery and changing her name to 'Stephen'." | ||||
| DavidW says, "For another game with a vaguely similar concept, there's Heroes, but there's a lot less direct interaction between the main characters." | ||||
| maga says (to Jacq), "yeah, think so" | ||||
| Jota has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Jacqueline says (to Jota), "heehee" | |||
| maga disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | Jacqueline says, "And shaves off all her hair!" | |||
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