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| 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, cloak, tic-tac-toe, thermometer, yellow button, waldo whisper object, checkers board, Werewolf rules, bunny burger, grape, specimen jar, signaling device, Mike Tyson, IF Programmer Barbie, IF FLOYD'S DOWN, TELL JOTA -- OR ELSE HE WON'T KNOW, Gak, Autohugger, Photocopier, basketball, midterm monster, frobozz magic dispenser, fun shiny toy, madlibs, orange, soda reading 'Don't drink me!', jukebox, Gene Ray, FREE DONUTS machine, long-stemmed red rose, dfan's quest, miniature ifMUD, Pun Police Whistle, orange door, monkey guru, cork nut, cork nut, cork nut, cork nut, jellybean, mind chess, the 'foobar' cube, apple, a zorkmid, storyharp, ClubFloyd Suggestions | ||||
| Players: Waldo, Floyd, inky | ||||
| Visible Exits: northeast (to the Lounge) | ||||
| Limax arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| Limax says, "I keep forgetting about the 'boys' ref" | schep asks, "What's the game this week?" | |||
| K-Y arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Limax says, "House of Dream of Moon" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "House of Dream of Moon." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "The new IF Whispers released this week." | ||||
| Sargent says, "that always sounds like it's really two, two, two games in one" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, it's really several games in one." | ||||
| schep arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Sargent says, "yeah" | |||
| Limax says, "Or more" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "You really get your money's worth!" | ||||
| baf says, "House of Dream of Moon of Wombat" | ||||
| Sargent says, "so the title is either under- or over-descriptive" | ||||
| baf arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Sargent says, "House of Dream of Moon and Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice" | |||
| Taleslinger arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| Jacqueline hollers, "ClubFloyd begins in one minute." | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "| Jacqueline goes southwest to play with boys." | ||||
| Dave arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Limax says, "Ha ha" | |||
| Taleslinger says, "never notived that" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "Well, you're a boy." | ||||
| Dave asks, "what's this all about?" | ||||
| Jacqueline say (to Dave), "@joinc #clubfloyd" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to jacq), "I'm a man, lady. I'm a man." | ||||
| olethros arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| Taleslinger smiles. | ||||
| Fang arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| olethros says, "i was going to read about universal artificial intelligence but what the heck" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, about to start - please keep conversation to #ClubFloyd from here on out." | ||||
| Cathy arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||
| DavidW arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load houseofdreamofmoon" | ||||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit? Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, Floyd | library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your very first night is over in your new house. It still seems Floyd | surreal that you are now the proud owner of this place. It doesn't Floyd | quite feel like home yet since you haven't been able to get your Floyd | furniture. However, you can't get the rental truck until tomorrow. Floyd | Maybe today would be a good idea to explore those woods behind your Floyd | house. It'll be a good way to kill time until you can get properly Floyd | moved in tomorrow. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | House of Dream of Moon Floyd | An Interactive Collaboration by The IF Whispers Team Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 071204 / Inform 7 build 5J39 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/11N) Floyd | Type "about" for more information. Floyd | Floyd | Master Bedroom (on the mattress) Floyd | All that's unpacked in the room is your mattress with a sheet thrown Floyd | over the top of it. Your dresser is still in storage. Windows look Floyd | out to the north and west, and the closet lies to the south. The Floyd | hallway is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "Yaaaaay." | |||
| maga arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | "House of Dream of Moon" is the third IF Whispers game, written Floyd | consecutively by ten people who only got to see the part before theirs. Floyd | It follows in the glorious footsteps of "The Corn Identity" and "An Floyd | Escape to Remember", but shares nothing but the format and a few Floyd | authors with those games. Tom Blawgus was the moderator of this Floyd | Whispers incarnation, and wrote the first section. To see who wrote Floyd | any given section, type "author" while playing that section. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "author" | ||||
Floyd | Scene 1, "Going Exploring", was written by Tom Blawgus. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a house key Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "read almanac" | ||||
Floyd | Rather than start at the beginning of the Almanac, and having no Floyd | curiosity in any specific entry in particular, you flip to a random Floyd | page and begin reading at random: Floyd | Floyd | Just to make sure, you skim through the ontogeny section. Yeah, you Floyd | were right. Not only is the metatarsal tubercule completely different, Floyd | but larval Overlords are typically the size of small planets. Otherwise Floyd | they're quite like tadpoles, though. Floyd | Floyd | Out of context, this may or may not make a whole lot of sense, but I Floyd | suppose that's what you get for not looking up a specific entry. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| PerrySimm arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| DavidW says, "heh" | ||||
| HairBrain arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Jacqueline says, "Sort of forgot to log Perry on, but I can merge the two transcripts later easily." | |||
| baf says, "OK. This almanac wasn't there when I wrote my part." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The closet's much too small to fit in. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "yeah sure" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open closet" | ||||
Floyd | You're not Mr. Fantastic. You'll need to get up to reach the closet. Floyd | Floyd | Your vision goes blurry for a second, and a voice seems to be speaking Floyd | to you right out of your brain. Floyd | Floyd | "Dave? Dave? Can you hear me?" says the voice. "Hang on, we're Floyd | trying to get you out of there." Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "CONSPIRAC" | |||
| maga says (to baf), "the Almanac was one of mine" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "wake" | ||||
Floyd | The dreadful truth is, this is not a dream. Floyd | Floyd | The voice continues. If you concentrate, you can just place the voice Floyd | as Leslie's. "Listen. I think we can do this, but we need your help. Floyd | We need to calibrate on this end with something you've held on that Floyd | end. Can you describe something you've picked up, or something you're Floyd | holding? Try telling me about it." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||
Floyd | You get off the mattress. Floyd | Floyd | Master Bedroom Floyd | All that's unpacked in the room is your mattress with a sheet thrown Floyd | over the top of it. Your dresser is still in storage. Windows look Floyd | out to the north and west, and the closet lies to the south. The Floyd | hallway is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros's typing ends with a smudge of bits | |||
| Limax says, "Yeah... the almanac was added retroactively to the beginning" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "describe almanac" | ||||
Floyd | Ever since your youth, this book has been your dearest companion. Floyd | Originally a slender mass-market paperback from Knockoff Press, it now Floyd | bulges under the weight of your painfully cross-referenced annotations Floyd | and additions. It largely deals with how the Atlanteans staged the moon Floyd | landings in order to atrophy America's can-do attitude and defy the Floyd | Cosmic Overlords, but has valuable information on many related topics. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about almanac" | ||||
Floyd | "Aha! Got it! Analyzing now..." Floyd | Floyd | "Perfect! OK, we've noted Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy as Floyd | characteristic of this section, which should help us get a bead on your Floyd | location. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "(I wrote segment 2, but haven't looked at much beyond segment 4 or 5.)" | |||
| Taleslinger asks (of dave), "you played before?" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "open closet" | ||||
Floyd | You open the closet, revealing a backpack and a swibble. Floyd | Floyd | "I really need that room," Leslie says again. "We almost have a lock Floyd | on your avatar." Floyd | Floyd | "OK, now we need to know where you are. Can you tell me about one of Floyd | the rooms you've visited in this section?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Taleslinger), "who me? no." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about closet" | ||||
Floyd | "Aha! Got it! Analyzing now..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x swibble" | ||||
Floyd | It's just a swibble. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all from closet" | ||||
Floyd | backpack: Taken. Floyd | swibble: You can't intefere with a swibble! It would be... well, you Floyd | just can't. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "..." | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "look up swibble in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Floyd | Conspiracy. Floyd | Floyd | "I really need that room," Leslie says again. "We almost have a lock Floyd | on your avatar." Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros asks, "a swibble?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open backpack" | ||||
Floyd | That's already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Yes" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "eat swibble" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the swibble) Floyd | You can't intefere with a swibble! It would be... well, you just can't. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about bedroom" | ||||
Floyd | "Ah, perfect! Analyzing the Master Bedroom now..." Floyd | Floyd | "Great, we have that room now. That should help. Re-calibrating..." Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "x swibble" | ||||
Floyd | It's just a swibble. Floyd | Floyd | Leslie pipes up again. "OK! I'm going to send you a detangler. You Floyd | should be able to use it to escape as-is, but if not, I can try sending Floyd | you some attachments. I've attuned it to your signal in the simulator, Floyd | so it should stay with you. Floyd | Floyd | A strange beam of green light bathes you, then disappears. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | detangler base (with a trigger attached.) Floyd | a backpack (open but empty) Floyd | a house key Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "wacky if at its best" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x detangler" | ||||
Floyd | (the detangler base) Floyd | Long and sleek, with various notches for extra attachments. When it's Floyd | working, you should be able to just fire it. Attached to the base is a Floyd | trigger. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fire detangler" | ||||
Floyd | (the detangler base) Floyd | Taking a deep breath, you pull the trigger and shoot the detangler. Floyd | Blue static washes over you and the Master Bedroom, but then Floyd | dissipates. And you're still in the same room as before. Floyd | Floyd | "Dave? We caught a power surge in your location. That wasn't... drat, Floyd | the detangler didn't work, did it? OK, we'll try again. Let me send Floyd | you the focuser; I think the area of effect was too wide." You wait Floyd | for the green light again. Floyd | Floyd | After a few moments, you hear cursing from inside your head. "Um... Floyd | Dave, I'm sorry, but the lock I had for your location is busted. Floyd | You'll need to find your way somewhere else, and try again from there. Floyd | Sorry about that. I'll work on the focuser; you work on finding your Floyd | way forward." Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Man... my part seems so.... tame" | |||
| baf says, "This is great. I'm used to later segments messing up the intentions of prior authors in IF Whispers, but never so immediately." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "look up leslie in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | The Atlantean legends are unclear on whether this figure is meant to Floyd | represent some sort of demon or monster, or if it is merely a human Floyd | being who achieved both great power and great viillainy. Her exact name Floyd | varies according to the source text: sometimes it is written as Floyd | "Lisellyi" or "Leslea"; other sources refer to her as "L'Z'L", perhaps Floyd | as a reference to the holy tetragrammaton. Some modern academics have Floyd | taken to transliterating the name as "Leslie" or even "Lucille", Floyd | although this is generally recognized as a sign of less serious Floyd | scholarship. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha ha L'Z'L" | |||
| olethros says, "hehe" | ||||
| schep says, "heh, yeah" | ||||
| inky says (to baf), "yeah, this is pretty nuts" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Master Bedroom Floyd | All that's unpacked in the room is your mattress with a sheet thrown Floyd | over the top of it. Your dresser is still in storage. Windows look Floyd | out to the north and west, and the closet lies to the south. The Floyd | hallway is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take sheet" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mattress" | ||||
Floyd | At least you were able to haul this here on the top of your car. It Floyd | would have been quite uncomfortable to sleep on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "wear sheet" | ||||
Floyd | You can't wear that! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under mattress" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take mattress" | ||||
Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask leslie about leslie" | ||||
Floyd | "I'm trying to get you out of there! I think we can do this, just Floyd | trust me." Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "and awesome" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the north window, or the west window? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "north" | ||||
Floyd | You look out the window and see the neighbor's fence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to olethros), "yay" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fence" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x west window" | ||||
Floyd | You look out the window and gaze upon your front lawn and the street Floyd | beyond it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "look under matress" | ||||
Floyd | [matress -> mattress] Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | Peeling paint greets you as you gaze down the hallway. Once you get Floyd | moved in and get your car back, a trip to the paint store is on your Floyd | list of things to do. The threadbare carpet leads you south, or you Floyd | can step into your bedroom to the west. The bathroom lies to the Floyd | north, and there's a spare bedroom to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros asks, "throw mattress out of window and jump?" | |||
| schep says, "or look for a door" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Heh - I never tried that." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | As good-looking as ever. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x carpet" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Spare Bedroom Floyd | This is room is about as empty as your bedroom. There are windows Floyd | looking north and east, and there's a closet to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open closet" | ||||
Floyd | Opening the closet reveals a flashlight. The previous owners must have Floyd | forgotten it when they moved out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "who am i" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | (putting Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy into the backpack to Floyd | make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||||
Floyd | A durable flashlight found in the spare room closet. Floyd | Floyd | The flashlight is currently switched off. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "Who are we?" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l up me in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Floyd | Conspiracy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "how big is the backpack" | ||||
Floyd | [how -> show] Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x east window" | ||||
Floyd | You look out the window and gaze into your back yard and the woods Floyd | beyond. You can also see the windows of the Sun Room and see a bit of Floyd | the room itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | As good-looking as ever. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says (to Fang), "dunh dunh DUUUUNH" | |||
| inky says, "I don't know, but we're good looking" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sun room" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "we are somebody in somebody elses body" | |||
| baf says, "Apparently we're not a lunar conspirator." | ||||
| maga says, "(also, I can't believe nobody fixed that)" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | Peeling paint greets you as you gaze down the hallway. Once you get Floyd | moved in and get your car back, a trip to the paint store is on your Floyd | list of things to do. The threadbare carpet leads you south, or you Floyd | can step into your bedroom to the west. The bathroom lies to the Floyd | north, and there's a spare bedroom to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bathroom Floyd | All the usual fixtures are here. Unfortunately the water isn't turned Floyd | on yet, so you can't use any of them. It's on your ever-growing list Floyd | of things to do after getting your stuff. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a surveillance camera here. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "Or maybe... we're a *secret* lunar conspirator." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x camera" | ||||
Floyd | It's the standard bathroom cam, same as in every other place you've Floyd | ever lived. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "shoot camera" | olethros says, "put a milion lazy monkeys all together and they ill al loaf about" | |||
| Limax says, "Looks look I forgot some deatils" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about camera" | ||||
Floyd | "Aha! Got it! Analyzing now..." Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "Are we an adult or a child?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about bathroom" | ||||
Floyd | "Ah, perfect! Analyzing the Bathroom now..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "look up dave in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Floyd | Conspiracy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "look up me in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Floyd | Conspiracy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up camera in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Floyd | Conspiracy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "turn off camera" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask leslie about me" | ||||
Floyd | "You were testing the simulation code when something went wrong. Do Floyd | you not even remember who you are any more? That's bad." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "it just says it's our first night in our new home, and we're going to do stuff tomorrow" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up sun in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Floyd | Conspiracy. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "which implies we're an adult" | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "ask leslie about simulation" | ||||
Floyd | "You were working on the simulator, but something went wrong and it Floyd | started to interface with your brain directly. Your own memories are Floyd | now influencing the simulator in unpredictable ways, and the simulator Floyd | is trying to keep up. It's going to get weirder before it gets back to Floyd | normal." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| HairBrain says (to Floyd), "look up Canada in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Floyd | Conspiracy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax asks, "Have you known a child to buy a house?" | |||
| schep says, "also, we have a car, which is incoveniently not nearby" | ||||
| Limax says, "Hm. I thought it was in the driveway" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "I think we should try to get out of the house. Go south down the hall?" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "look up conspiracy in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | At the core of the web of lies the Atlanteans have woven: the supposed Floyd | moon landings. It is a shadowy business; you have few answers, but many Floyd | questions. Where did the billions invested in the space program go? Floyd | What really lurks inside the fridge in the NASA headquarters break Floyd | room? What fiendish plan are the Atlanteans concocting against the Floyd | Cosmic Overlords? The answers can only lie in one place: the moon. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "Oh, ok, the 'Every Child's...' thing confused me" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take camera" | ||||
Floyd | That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open camera" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit it" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | Peeling paint greets you as you gaze down the hallway. Once you get Floyd | moved in and get your car back, a trip to the paint store is on your Floyd | list of things to do. The threadbare carpet leads you south, or you Floyd | can step into your bedroom to the west. The bathroom lies to the Floyd | north, and there's a spare bedroom to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "peel paint" | ||||
Floyd | [peel -> feel] Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | Hardwood floors greet you and your steps echo as you walk around the Floyd | room. There is a window in the west wall looking out into the front Floyd | yard. The front door is to the west, and the kitchen lies to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | A small kitchen, perfect for one. Cupboards line the north wall, and Floyd | there's a refigerator in the corner next to the oven. Oh, and there's Floyd | also a kitchen sink. You can walk west to the living room, or east Floyd | down some steps into the sun room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cupboards" | ||||
Floyd | You open them one by one and find nothing in them. Your dishes are Floyd | still in storage. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | ||||
Floyd | You open the refrigerator, revealing a water bottle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bottle" | ||||
Floyd | (putting the house key into the backpack to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bottle" | ||||
Floyd | Just the thing to have along in case you get thirsty. Floyd | Floyd | The water bottle contains water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close fridge" | ||||
Floyd | You close the refrigerator. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sink" | ||||
Floyd | Now you've seen everything... except water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x sink" | ||||
Floyd | Now you've seen everything... except water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "turn on sink" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x water" | ||||
Floyd | Just the thing to have along in case you get thirsty. Floyd | Floyd | The water bottle contains water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x water" | ||||
Floyd | Just the thing to have along in case you get thirsty. Floyd | Floyd | The water bottle contains water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | A small kitchen, perfect for one. Cupboards line the north wall, and Floyd | there's a refigerator in the corner next to the oven. Oh, and there's Floyd | also a kitchen sink. You can walk west to the living room, or east Floyd | down some steps into the sun room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "damn, timing" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x sink" | ||||
Floyd | Now you've seen everything... except water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take sink" | ||||
Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep exclaims, "But we have seen water!" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sun Room Floyd | A vast open room at the back of the house with windows on all sides. A Floyd | door looking something like one you'd see on a barn leads outdoors, Floyd | while the garage is to the southwest. The kitchen is up some steps to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Garage Floyd | Obviously this garage was built many years ago because there's no way Floyd | the modern car would fit in it. As a result, it becomes a convenient Floyd | place to store your stuff when you get it out of storage. The garage Floyd | door lies to the east, but it's locked shut and the realtor forgot to Floyd | give you the key to the padlock. Another chore for you after moving Floyd | in. Floyd | Floyd | You can see some cobwebs and some dead flies here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | water bottle, which contains water Floyd | a flashlight Floyd | a sheet Floyd | detangler base (with a trigger attached.) Floyd | a backpack (open) Floyd | a house key Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "detangle padlock" | ||||
Floyd | [detangle -> detangler] Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "fire detangler" | ||||
Floyd | (the detangler base) Floyd | You shoot the detangler again, but nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cobwebs" | ||||
Floyd | Sign of the enemy! Vile! Vile! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take flies" | ||||
Floyd | (putting the detangler base into the backpack to make room) Floyd | Taken. Ick. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, I've actually played this part, so I'm going to sit back until I can't remember things anymore." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up cobwebs in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Floyd | Conspiracy. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "hehehe" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cobwebs" | ||||
Floyd | You obliterate the unclean thing. Hopefully you can forget that your Floyd | beautiful new home ever contained such inappropriate filth. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "Same here." | |||
| olethros asks, "... or . shan't you?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about flies" | ||||
Floyd | "Aha! Got it! Analyzing now..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x padlock" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "author" | ||||
Floyd | Scene 1, "Going Exploring", was written by Tom Blawgus. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "um, what are we trying to do again?" | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about cobwebs" | ||||
Floyd | "Aha! Got it! Analyzing now..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask leslie about defocuser" | ||||
Floyd | Leslie either can't help you with that, or doesn't understand what you Floyd | mean. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "See, that's a little misleading. You're seeing content by me and maga as well." | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about padlock" | ||||
Floyd | "Dave, there's no time," Leslie replies. " You need to find an item you Floyd | can hold and a new room or area to tell me about, or I won't be able to Floyd | pull you out of the simulator. If you can't find anything to hold, it Floyd | might work to find something that can hold you, instead." Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "I think we want to go into the woods out back." | |||
| DavidW says, "Just looking around the house for now, I think. I think we need to leave." | ||||
| maga says, "and lpsmith" | ||||
| schep says, "once we're done looking around the house, yeah" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about garage" | ||||
Floyd | "Ah, perfect! Analyzing the Garage now..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Garage Floyd | Obviously this garage was built many years ago because there's no way Floyd | the modern car would fit in it. As a result, it becomes a convenient Floyd | place to store your stuff when you get it out of storage. The garage Floyd | door lies to the east, but it's locked shut and the realtor forgot to Floyd | give you the key to the padlock. Another chore for you after moving Floyd | in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "unlock garage door with key" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sun Room Floyd | A vast open room at the back of the house with windows on all sides. A Floyd | door looking something like one you'd see on a barn leads outdoors, Floyd | while the garage is to the southwest. The kitchen is up some steps to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "huh" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "door" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax starts making a map | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | A giant door more than twice the size of any normal door allows access Floyd | to the back yard beyond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | You open the barn door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Back Yard Floyd | A large carpet of green stretches all the way to the back of the Floyd | property where the woods start. The house is back to the west, and you Floyd | can enter the woods to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "close door" | ||||
Floyd | You close the barn door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Man... deja vu" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x woods" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | With anticipation, trepidation and excitement, you enter the woods. Floyd | Floyd | Edge of the Woods Floyd | Looking back through the trees, you can still make out your house. Floyd | Looking forward, you see the vast wilderness surrounds you that is just Floyd | begging to be explored. A path meaders through the trees leading east. Floyd | Floyd | A Great Master stands by the path in watchful posture. You are Floyd | awestruck. No one mentioned when you bought the house that you would be Floyd | graced with such a blessing. Floyd | Floyd | The Great Master acknowldeges you with a wave of its foreclaw, and you Floyd | hear its voice resonate in your head: GREETINGS, SOFT ONE. ACCESS TO Floyd | THE WOODS IS RESTRICTED. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "This house was based on the house I lived in when I first joined ifMud" | |||
| olethros says, "mmm great master" | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "x great master" | ||||
Floyd | Magnificent, benevolent, wise, and at least eight feet tall. To gaze on Floyd | it is to be honored. Its carapace is brilliant green, its compound eyes Floyd | are irridescent blue-red. It stands in the Ready Watcher pose, four Floyd | legs on the ground, its great knifelike foreclaws crossed in front of Floyd | its thorax. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "look up great master in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Floyd | Conspiracy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about great master" | ||||
Floyd | "Dave, there's no time," Leslie replies. " You need to find an item you Floyd | can hold and a new room or area to tell me about, or I won't be able to Floyd | pull you out of the simulator. If you can't find anything to hold, it Floyd | might work to find something that can hold you, instead." Floyd | Floyd | More static, and you hear Leslie's voice again. "You dropped off our Floyd | old lock, so it looks like you've made it to a new section. Tell us Floyd | about something you've held and about a room you see, and I'll try to Floyd | send a focuser. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "hm" | |||
| trikiw arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to master" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "author" | ||||
Floyd | [talk -> walk] Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Scene 2, "Introducing the Great Masters", was written by Carl Floyd | Muckenhoupt. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "oh" | |||
| trikiw says, "hello" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "fight master" | ||||
Floyd | You can barely even articulate the thought. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "ask master about access" | ||||
Floyd | THE WOODS HIDE A TERRIBLE THING. ACCESS IS PERMITTED ONLY TO THOSE OF Floyd | ASSURED LOYALTY. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "Yaaaay." | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "assure loyalty" | ||||
Floyd | [assure -> assured] Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "ask master about loyalty" | ||||
Floyd | A SERVICE IS REQUIRED. RESTORE THE BELOVED TO US. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask master about loyalty" | ||||
Floyd | A SERVICE IS REQUIRED. RESTORE THE BELOVED TO US. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask master about beloved" | ||||
Floyd | THE BELOVED HAS STRAYED. BRING IT TO US THAT IT MAY REJOICE IN OUR LOVE Floyd | ONCE MORE. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "give flies to master" | ||||
Floyd | The Great Master doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "give flies to master" | ||||
Floyd | The Great Master doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "hehehe" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask master about beloved" | ||||
Floyd | THE BELOVED HAS STRAYED. BRING IT TO US THAT IT MAY REJOICE IN OUR LOVE Floyd | ONCE MORE. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I love the great master." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | some dead flies Floyd | water bottle, which contains water Floyd | a flashlight Floyd | a sheet Floyd | a backpack (open) Floyd | detangler base (with a trigger attached.) Floyd | a house key Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask master about love" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "offer myself to master" | ||||
Floyd | THE SOFT ONES DO NOT TRULY UNDERSTAND LOVE. THIS IS WHY YOU NEED OUR Floyd | GUIDANCE. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | (first taking yourself) Floyd | You are always self-possessed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask master about soft ones" | ||||
Floyd | [ones -> bones] Floyd | Why waste a Great Master's time with something irrelevant? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "tell master about house" | ||||
Floyd | The Great Master is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "kiss master" | ||||
Floyd | Keep your mind on the game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask master about house" | ||||
Floyd | WE CONGRATULATE YOU ON ACQUIRING THE NEARBY RESIDENCE. IT IS IN A GOOD Floyd | NEIGHBORHOOD, NEAR SCHOOLS. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask master about guidance" | ||||
Floyd | THE SOFT ONES DO NOT TRULY UNDERSTAND LOVE. THIS IS WHY YOU NEED OUR Floyd | GUIDANCE. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "'near schools'?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry, I couldn't resist. That is my favorite line of the game." | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha ha ha" | ||||
| maga says, "yay. that is basically the best line in the game" | ||||
| schep says, "hooray" | ||||
| Limax says, "Hee hee... I didn't see that" | ||||
| olethros says, "what the" | ||||
| Gunther asks, "for those not playing, what's the line?" | ||||
| Limax says, "And it really isn't near any schools... the landlords were horrible too" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Gunther), "Well, it's all about context." | ||||
| olethros says, "ancient great master says something mundane" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | The Great Master stops you. You hear its voice in your head: ACCESS Floyd | DENIED. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says (to gunther), "Join us!" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | some dead flies Floyd | water bottle, which contains water Floyd | a flashlight Floyd | a sheet Floyd | a backpack (open) Floyd | detangler base (with a trigger attached.) Floyd | a house key Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask master about hard" | ||||
Floyd | [hard -> yard] Floyd | Why waste a Great Master's time with something irrelevant? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "give almanac to master" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy) Floyd | (putting the sheet into the backpack to make room) Floyd | The Great Master doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "give flashlight to master" | ||||
Floyd | The Great Master doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suppose we might check out the front yard, see if something's there to bring here." | |||
| schep says, "I guess" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Edge of the Woods Floyd | Looking back through the trees, you can still make out your house. Floyd | Looking forward, you see the vast wilderness surrounds you that is just Floyd | begging to be explored. A path meaders through the trees leading east. Floyd | Floyd | A Great Master stands by the path in watchful posture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x trees" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x house" | ||||
Floyd | Your house key. Without it, you wouldn't feel safe going anywhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Limax says (to floy), "E" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Back Yard Floyd | A large carpet of green stretches all the way to the back of the Floyd | property where the woods start. The house is back to the west, and you Floyd | can enter the woods to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Limax says (to Floyd), "E" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Edge of the Woods Floyd | Looking back through the trees, you can still make out your house. Floyd | Looking forward, you see the vast wilderness surrounds you that is just Floyd | begging to be explored. A path meaders through the trees leading east. Floyd | Floyd | A Great Master stands by the path in watchful posture. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Sorry" | |||
| inky says, "hee hee" | ||||
| baf asks, "Boo! Nothing has descriptions! Who wrote this dreck?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think we have to go back first." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Back Yard Floyd | A large carpet of green stretches all the way to the back of the Floyd | property where the woods start. The house is back to the west, and you Floyd | can enter the woods to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the barn door) Floyd | Floyd | Sun Room Floyd | A vast open room at the back of the house with windows on all sides. A Floyd | door looking something like one you'd see on a barn leads outdoors, Floyd | while the garage is to the southwest. The kitchen is up some steps to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | A small kitchen, perfect for one. Cupboards line the north wall, and Floyd | there's a refigerator in the corner next to the oven. Oh, and there's Floyd | also a kitchen sink. You can walk west to the living room, or east Floyd | down some steps into the sun room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | Hardwood floors greet you and your steps echo as you walk around the Floyd | room. There is a window in the west wall looking out into the front Floyd | yard. The front door is to the west, and the kitchen lies to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the front door) Floyd | (first unlocking the front door) Floyd | (first taking the house key) Floyd | (putting the flashlight into the backpack to make room) Floyd | (with the house key) Floyd | Floyd | Front of House Floyd | A neatly manicured lawn greets you and runs all the way to the Floyd | sidewalk. Your driveway is to the south and you can step back inside Floyd | to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax hangs his head in shame | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Driveway Floyd | The concrete is cracked but is still servicable to park your car. The Floyd | garage itself lies to the east, but there's no handle on this side of Floyd | the garage door. Add a trip to the hardware store to your list of Floyd | things to do. Floyd | Floyd | A lesser mantid stands here, staring fascinated at the reflection of Floyd | the sunlight reflected on the pavement by the rear view mirror. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a car here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take mantid" | ||||
Floyd | It skitters away at your approach. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "HEL-LO lesser mantid." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x mantid" | ||||
Floyd | A beautiful insectoid, related to the Great Masters, but not Floyd | intelligent, and much smaller. This one is barely the size of a dog. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x car" | ||||
Floyd | Your trusty car that can get you places, except into the woods. Floyd | Floyd | The lesser mantid stridulates plaintively. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "give flies to mantid" | ||||
Floyd | You kneel down and hold out the dead flies on your palm. The mantid Floyd | approaches cautiously, then delicately picks up the flies in its Floyd | mandibles one by one and crunches them down. It seems less skittish Floyd | now. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "beat me to it" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take mantid" | ||||
Floyd | It nestles into your arms and leans against your shoulder, its Floyd | chitinous spines gently pricking your skin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x car" | ||||
Floyd | Your trusty car that can get you places, except into the woods. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "enter car" | ||||
Floyd | Today's not the day to explore the neighborhood. Today's the day to Floyd | explore the woods. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take mirror" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "go back to the master?" | |||
| inky says, "go for it" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Front of House Floyd | A neatly manicured lawn greets you and runs all the way to the Floyd | sidewalk. Your driveway is to the south and you can step back inside Floyd | to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | Hardwood floors greet you and your steps echo as you walk around the Floyd | room. There is a window in the west wall looking out into the front Floyd | yard. The front door is to the west, and the kitchen lies to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | A small kitchen, perfect for one. Cupboards line the north wall, and Floyd | there's a refigerator in the corner next to the oven. Oh, and there's Floyd | also a kitchen sink. You can walk west to the living room, or east Floyd | down some steps into the sun room. Floyd | Floyd | You reposition the lesser mantid to hold its weight better. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sun Room Floyd | A vast open room at the back of the house with windows on all sides. A Floyd | door looking something like one you'd see on a barn leads outdoors, Floyd | while the garage is to the southwest. The kitchen is up some steps to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Back Yard Floyd | A large carpet of green stretches all the way to the back of the Floyd | property where the woods start. The house is back to the west, and you Floyd | can enter the woods to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Told you there was a car" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Are you going to leave your house open when you explore? Floyd | Floyd | > | schep exclaims, "I guess we don't need to lock the doors if ... hey!" | |||
| Ghogg arrives, full of fun and funk. | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Limax says, "Ha ha" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "[I was, yes]" | ||||
Floyd | [was -> war] Floyd | [yes] -> yes] Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "you wouldn't want any other mantids moving in" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "tell master that mantid likes us better" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sun Room Floyd | A vast open room at the back of the house with windows on all sides. A Floyd | door looking something like one you'd see on a barn leads outdoors, Floyd | while the garage is to the southwest. The kitchen is up some steps to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | [better -> letter] Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "but there's nothing inside to steal" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | A small kitchen, perfect for one. Cupboards line the north wall, and Floyd | there's a refigerator in the corner next to the oven. Oh, and there's Floyd | also a kitchen sink. You can walk west to the living room, or east Floyd | down some steps into the sun room. Floyd | Floyd | The lesser mantid writhes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | Hardwood floors greet you and your steps echo as you walk around the Floyd | room. There is a window in the west wall looking out into the front Floyd | yard. The front door is to the west, and the kitchen lies to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close door" | ||||
Floyd | You close the front door. Floyd | Floyd | The lesser mantid burbles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lock it" | ||||
Floyd | (with the house key) Floyd | You lock the front door. Floyd | Floyd | You turn the lock in the doorknob to lock the front door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lock door" | ||||
Floyd | That's locked at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | A small kitchen, perfect for one. Cupboards line the north wall, and Floyd | there's a refigerator in the corner next to the oven. Oh, and there's Floyd | also a kitchen sink. You can walk west to the living room, or east Floyd | down some steps into the sun room. Floyd | Floyd | The lesser mantid writhes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sun Room Floyd | A vast open room at the back of the house with windows on all sides. A Floyd | door looking something like one you'd see on a barn leads outdoors, Floyd | while the garage is to the southwest. The kitchen is up some steps to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | The lesser mantid burbles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Back Yard Floyd | A large carpet of green stretches all the way to the back of the Floyd | property where the woods start. The house is back to the west, and you Floyd | can enter the woods to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "whoops, sorry" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Are you going to leave your house open when you explore? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close door" | ||||
Floyd | You close the barn door. Floyd | Floyd | The lesser mantid snuggles its head against your shoulder. Its antennae Floyd | tickle your chin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Edge of the Woods Floyd | Looking back through the trees, you can still make out your house. Floyd | Looking forward, you see the vast wilderness surrounds you that is just Floyd | begging to be explored. A path meaders through the trees leading east. Floyd | Floyd | A Great Master stands by the path in watchful posture. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to schep), "Our swibble is in the house, though!" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give mantid to master" | ||||
Floyd | You place it on the ground in front of the Great Master, who places its Floyd | foreclaws around its neck protectively. You hear the Great Master's Floyd | voice in your head: WE THANK YOU FOR THE RETURN OF THE BELOVED. YOU ARE Floyd | LOYAL, SOFT ONE. Floyd | Floyd | The lesser mantid uses a foreclaw to clean its large, soulful compopund Floyd | eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We couldn't take the swibble" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about mantid" | ||||
Floyd | "Aha! Got it! Analyzing now..." Floyd | Floyd | "Perfect! OK, we've noted the lesser mantid as characteristic of this Floyd | section, which should help us get a bead on your location. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask master about woods" | ||||
Floyd | ACCESS GRANTED. Floyd | Floyd | "OK, can you tell us about one of the places you've visited from this Floyd | section?" Leslie asks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about woods" | ||||
Floyd | "Ah, perfect! Analyzing the Edge of the Woods now..." Floyd | Floyd | "Great, we have that room now. That should help. Re-calibrating..." Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I know, I was just telling schep that there is something to be stolen if we don't lock the house." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Another beam of green light hits you and your load feels a bit heavier. Floyd | "There you go!" Leslie says. "I've sent you another attachment that Floyd | should help." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a focuser Floyd | a house key Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy Floyd | water bottle, which contains water Floyd | a backpack (open) Floyd | a flashlight Floyd | a sheet Floyd | detangler base (with a trigger attached.) Floyd | Floyd | The Great Master casually snips off the lesser mantid's head, then Floyd | picks up and eats its body. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "oh, right. Wouldn't want intruders to disturb that" | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 20 out of a possible 100, in 163 turns. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "attach focuser to base" | ||||
Floyd | With a click and a pop, you permanently attach the focuser to the Floyd | detangler base. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Not that we could" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a house key Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy Floyd | water bottle, which contains water Floyd | a backpack (open) Floyd | a flashlight Floyd | a sheet Floyd | detangler base (with a trigger and a focuser attached.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Limax), "True." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "fire detangler" | ||||
Floyd | (the detangler base) Floyd | With the focuser attached, you pull the trigger once more. Bright blue Floyd | static pours out of it and crackles around your feet. For a moment, Floyd | the scene seems to shift... but then it dies out, and you're back to Floyd | where you were before. Floyd | Floyd | "Not again!" Leslie complains. "Let me check my readouts. Hmm. OK, Floyd | maybe you just need more power. If you can get to a new section and Floyd | get me a lock there, I'll send you an extra power source. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "of course, Leslie." | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Edge of the Woods Floyd | Looking back through the trees, you can still make out your house. Floyd | Looking forward, you see the vast wilderness surrounds you that is just Floyd | begging to be explored. A path meaders through the trees leading east. Floyd | Floyd | A Great Master stands by the path in watchful posture. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a lesser mantid head here. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "Yay, you actually stayed in the room long enough to witness the mantid's ultimate fate." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask master about beloved" | ||||
Floyd | IT WILL STRAY NO MORE. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get head" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x head" | ||||
Floyd | Well, you're sure it was justified. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask master about love" | ||||
Floyd | LOVE IS SOMETIMES HARSH. WE DO WHAT WE MUST. Floyd | Floyd | > | HairBrain says, "This is so great." | |||
| olethros says, "awww" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "eat master" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the Great Master) Floyd | I don't suppose the Great Master would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Fallen leaves crunch underfoot as you trundle exploritatively down the Floyd | sun-dappled path. Fresh air, exercise, the beauty of nature: all is Floyd | good. Until, quite suddenly, you get an uncanny feeling, like someone Floyd | stepped on your grave. Floyd | Floyd | You can't put your finger on it at first. Then you notice that the Floyd | small clearing you've stepped into is perfectly spherical, the trees Floyd | bending around it and in some cases cut by an invisible field. And you Floyd | understand: this is a blast site. Unwholesome relic of the war, a zone Floyd | of anti-life created by the humans' weapons when they tried to... to... Floyd | Floyd | You choke back tears. How could people have ever been so foolish? Floyd | Floyd | Blast Site Floyd | There's a perfectly spherical gap in the forest here, thirty feet in Floyd | diameter, where nothing can grow. Tall maple and birch trees bend Floyd | around this bubble of unlife. Distant blackbirds call. Floyd | Floyd | A path has been hacked through the forest to the east, and you can see Floyd | something to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | In the fused earth at your feet, you see a hint of something yellow. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I don't suppose The Beloved cared for it, either, though." | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "eat head" | ||||
Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "give head to master" | ||||
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | Somewhere, a red-winged blackbird gives a throaty cry in defense of its Floyd | tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "author" | ||||
Floyd | Scene 3, "End of the World", was written by Ricardo Dague. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "Dude. Of course it's inedible. If it were inedible, the Great Master would have eaten it." | |||
| DavidW asks, "Should we have picked up the head?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||||
Floyd | The fused earth is too hard to dig in with your hands. Floyd | Floyd | Leslie says, "Looks like you've gotten to a new section. I'll need Floyd | another room and object to reestablish a lock. After that, I can send Floyd | you a power pack." Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "Er, if it were edible. You know what I mean." | |||
| Ghogg says, ">EAT HEAD ANYWAY" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "hehe" | ||||
| schep says, "we did. But the Master is not here." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about clearing" | ||||
Floyd | "Dave, there's no time," Leslie replies. " You need to find an item you Floyd | can hold and a new room or area to tell me about, or I won't be able to Floyd | pull you out of the simulator. If you can't find anything to hold, it Floyd | might work to find something that can hold you, instead." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "author" | ||||
Floyd | Scene 3, "End of the World", was written by Ricardo Dague. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about blast zone" | ||||
Floyd | [zone -> one] Floyd | "Dave, there's no time," Leslie replies. " You need to find an item you Floyd | can hold and a new room or area to tell me about, or I won't be able to Floyd | pull you out of the simulator. If you can't find anything to hold, it Floyd | might work to find something that can hold you, instead." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oops, guess we did that already." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x yellow" | ||||
Floyd | It's vaguely roundish, but you can't tell what it is while it's still Floyd | buried. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about blast site" | ||||
Floyd | "Ah, perfect! Analyzing Blast Site now..." Floyd | Floyd | "Great, we have that room now. That should help. Re-calibrating..." Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig yellow" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to dig. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about yellow" | ||||
Floyd | "Dave, there's no time," Leslie replies. " You need to find an item you Floyd | can hold and a new room or area to tell me about, or I won't be able to Floyd | pull you out of the simulator. If you can't find anything to hold, it Floyd | might work to find something that can hold you, instead." Floyd | Floyd | "Now we need an item you've picked up from this section," Leslie tells Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "get yellow" | ||||
Floyd | It's too firmly embedded in the fused earth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull yellow" | ||||
Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh, picked up" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fused" | ||||
Floyd | It's vaguely roundish, but you can't tell what it is while it's still Floyd | buried. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "we need a spade" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a lesser mantid head Floyd | a house key Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy Floyd | water bottle, which contains water Floyd | a backpack (open) Floyd | a flashlight Floyd | a sheet Floyd | detangler base (with a trigger and a focuser attached.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "looks like" | |||
| olethros says, "use the head" | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "x head" | ||||
Floyd | Well, you're sure it was justified. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "dig with head" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look up anti-life zone in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to dig. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | [zone -> one] Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Floyd | Conspiracy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look up anti-life in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Floyd | Conspiracy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig fused with head" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to dig. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l up blast in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Floyd | Conspiracy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "look up war in almanac" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x head" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Floyd | Conspiracy. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Well, you're sure it was justified. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "Well, there's other locations, maybe it is nearby" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Blast Site Floyd | There's a perfectly spherical gap in the forest here, thirty feet in Floyd | diameter, where nothing can grow. Tall maple and birch trees bend Floyd | around this bubble of unlife. Distant blackbirds call. Floyd | Floyd | A path has been hacked through the forest to the east, and you can see Floyd | something to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | In the fused earth at your feet, you see a hint of something yellow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | By a Stream Floyd | Trickling through the forest is a small, clear stream. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "That's funny... I didn't know about that" | |||
| DavidW says, "east or northeast, or trees" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x stream" | ||||
Floyd | You peer into the flowing stream and see something darting among the Floyd | rocks. Floyd | Floyd | The stream contains water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drink water" | ||||
Floyd | (the water bottle) Floyd | You quaff water, leaving the water bottle empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | By a Stream Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drink stream" | Limax says, "(And that was a way belated comment)" | |||
Floyd | You scoop some water in your hands and slurp it refreshingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fill bottle" | ||||
Floyd | (with the stream) Floyd | The water bottle cannot contain any more than it already holds. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x rocks" | ||||
Floyd | You peer into the flowing stream and see something darting among the Floyd | rocks. Floyd | Floyd | The stream contains water. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros asks, "throw water on earth?" | |||
| olethros asks, "then dig?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x something" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search stream" | ||||
Floyd | By being patient, you finally see what's darting around in the Floyd | water--tadpoles! Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | The stream is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I had a lot of trouble with this section." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tadpoles" | ||||
Floyd | By being patient, you finally see what's darting around in the Floyd | water--tadpoles! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Blast Site Floyd | There's a perfectly spherical gap in the forest here, thirty feet in Floyd | diameter, where nothing can grow. Tall maple and birch trees bend Floyd | around this bubble of unlife. Distant blackbirds call. Floyd | Floyd | A path has been hacked through the forest to the east, and you can see Floyd | something to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | In the fused earth at your feet, you see a hint of something yellow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "get tadpole" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "empty bottle" | ||||
Floyd | You pour out the bottle. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I think some hints have been added" | |||
| Limax says, "Yeah... so did I" | ||||
| inky says, "like that hint" | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "x earth" | ||||
Floyd | It's vaguely roundish, but you can't tell what it is while it's still Floyd | buried. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "lookup tadpoles in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "If we want tadpoles, we'll have to go back ne" | |||
| olethros says, "hm.. that did not do much" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Path Floyd | The forest presses around this narrow throughway leading west to east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "look up tadpoles in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | Just to make sure, you skim through the ontogeny section. Yeah, you Floyd | were right. Not only is the metatarsal tubercule completely different, Floyd | but larval Overlords are typically the size of small planets. Otherwise Floyd | they're quite like tadpoles, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Continuing the Path Floyd | The path leads from the west to the southeast, where you sense Floyd | something oddly sinister. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | inky says, "aw man" | |||
| olethros says, "gah" | ||||
| DavidW says, "ack ack" | ||||
| Fang says, "So, ok, I ... uh" | ||||
| Ghogg asks, "we haven't been neurotically saving, have we?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "no" | ||||
| baf says, "At least the almanac admits that its subject matter is kind of specialized." | ||||
| inky says, "I thought he -- well I guess bah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Damn, we haven't saved." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I think we thought he was fixed." | ||||
| schep exclaims (at Floyd), "You're not fixed after all!" | ||||
| Floyd says (to schep), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." | olethros asks, "when shall we learn?" | |||
| inky says, "I wonder if Jota forgot to put in the fixed code onto real floyd" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Okay, I'll put an anchor in the transcript. Who's willing to drive us back to this point and then we'll start saving?" | ||||
| Limax asks, "We died?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Limax), "Floyd is evidently still crashy." | ||||
| Limax says, "inky's got the fastest fingers" | ||||
| Limax says, "Ouchy" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Limax), "Does he now?" | ||||
| Limax says, "I thought he did" | ||||
| inky says, "my thumb-wrestling skills are legendary" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "DavidW, can you get us back here, as you were doing most of the driving to begin with?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "load houseofdreamandmoon" | ||||
| Floyd says (to inky), "Floyd doesn't know that game." | Limax says (to inky), "it's 'ofmoon'" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load houseofdreamofmoon" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your very first night is over in your new house. It still seems Floyd | surreal that you are now the proud owner of this place. It doesn't Floyd | quite feel like home yet since you haven't been able to get your Floyd | furniture. However, you can't get the rental truck until tomorrow. Floyd | Maybe today would be a good idea to explore those woods behind your Floyd | house. It'll be a good way to kill time until you can get properly Floyd | moved in tomorrow. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | House of Dream of Moon Floyd | An Interactive Collaboration by The IF Whispers Team Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 071204 / Inform 7 build 5J39 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/11N) Floyd | Type "about" for more information. Floyd | Floyd | Master Bedroom (on the mattress) Floyd | All that's unpacked in the room is your mattress with a sheet thrown Floyd | over the top of it. Your dresser is still in storage. Windows look Floyd | out to the north and west, and the closet lies to the south. The Floyd | hallway is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says, "whoops" | ||||
| Limax says, "Yay for titles no one can remember" | Jacqueline says, "Well, Limax, we all remember it the wrong way is all." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "But we all remember it the same way." | ||||
| * Ellison has joined the channel. | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "DW is apparently gone. Who can drive us quickly?" | ||||
| Dave has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | schep asks, "What happens if you ignore Leslie for the first few sections?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm back. sorry" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "No idea, schep." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||
Floyd | You get off the mattress. Floyd | Floyd | Master Bedroom Floyd | All that's unpacked in the room is your mattress with a sheet thrown Floyd | over the top of it. Your dresser is still in storage. Windows look Floyd | out to the north and west, and the closet lies to the south. The Floyd | hallway is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open closet" | ||||
Floyd | You open the closet, revealing a backpack and a swibble. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take backpack" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "well, her feelings get hurt" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take sheet" | Jacqueline says, "Thanks, David." | |||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Your vision goes blurry for a second, and a voice seems to be speaking Floyd | to you right out of your brain. Floyd | Floyd | "Dave? Dave? Can you hear me?" says the voice. "Hang on, we're Floyd | trying to get you out of there." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | Peeling paint greets you as you gaze down the hallway. Once you get Floyd | moved in and get your car back, a trip to the paint store is on your Floyd | list of things to do. The threadbare carpet leads you south, or you Floyd | can step into your bedroom to the west. The bathroom lies to the Floyd | north, and there's a spare bedroom to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The voice continues. If you concentrate, you can just place the voice Floyd | as Leslie's. "Listen. I think we can do this, but we need your help. Floyd | We need to calibrate on this end with something you've held on that Floyd | end. Can you describe something you've picked up, or something you're Floyd | holding? Try telling me about it." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inky), "heh" | |||
| olethros asks, "is it a woman?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Spare Bedroom Floyd | This is room is about as empty as your bedroom. There are windows Floyd | looking north and east, and there's a closet to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about bedroom" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the Master Bedroom, or the Spare Bedroom? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "master" | ||||
Floyd | "Ah, perfect! Analyzing the Master Bedroom now..." Floyd | Floyd | "Great, we have that room now. That should help. Re-calibrating..." Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a sheet Floyd | a backpack (open but empty) Floyd | a house key Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy Floyd | Floyd | "We still need an item you've picked up," Leslie tells you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about almanac" | ||||
Floyd | "Aha! Got it! Analyzing now..." Floyd | Floyd | "Perfect! OK, we've noted Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy as Floyd | characteristic of this section, which should help us get a bead on your Floyd | location. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Huh, weird, I'd been assuming it was, but it might not be." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open closet" | ||||
Floyd | Opening the closet reveals a flashlight. The previous owners must have Floyd | forgotten it when they moved out. Floyd | Floyd | Leslie pipes up again. "OK! I'm going to send you a detangler. You Floyd | should be able to use it to escape as-is, but if not, I can try sending Floyd | you some attachments. I've attuned it to your signal in the simulator, Floyd | so it should stay with you. Floyd | Floyd | A strange beam of green light bathes you, then disappears. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | (putting Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy into the backpack to Floyd | make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fire detangler" | ||||
Floyd | (the detangler base) Floyd | Taking a deep breath, you pull the trigger and shoot the detangler. Floyd | Blue static washes over you and the Spare Bedroom, but then dissipates. Floyd | And you're still in the same room as before. Floyd | Floyd | "Dave? We caught a power surge in your location. That wasn't... drat, Floyd | the detangler didn't work, did it? OK, we'll try again. Let me send Floyd | you the focuser; I think the area of effect was too wide." You wait Floyd | for the green light again. Floyd | Floyd | After a few moments, you hear cursing from inside your head. "Um... Floyd | Dave, I'm sorry, but the lock I had for your location is busted. Floyd | You'll need to find your way somewhere else, and try again from there. Floyd | Sorry about that. I'll work on the focuser; you work on finding your Floyd | way forward." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | Peeling paint greets you as you gaze down the hallway. Once you get Floyd | moved in and get your car back, a trip to the paint store is on your Floyd | list of things to do. The threadbare carpet leads you south, or you Floyd | can step into your bedroom to the west. The bathroom lies to the Floyd | north, and there's a spare bedroom to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | Hardwood floors greet you and your steps echo as you walk around the Floyd | room. There is a window in the west wall looking out into the front Floyd | yard. The front door is to the west, and the kitchen lies to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the front door) Floyd | (first unlocking the front door) Floyd | (with the house key) Floyd | Floyd | Front of House Floyd | A neatly manicured lawn greets you and runs all the way to the Floyd | sidewalk. Your driveway is to the south and you can step back inside Floyd | to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "That's a really clever arc that lpsmith added." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | Hardwood floors greet you and your steps echo as you walk around the Floyd | room. There is a window in the west wall looking out into the front Floyd | yard. The front door is to the west, and the kitchen lies to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | A small kitchen, perfect for one. Cupboards line the north wall, and Floyd | there's a refigerator in the corner next to the oven. Oh, and there's Floyd | also a kitchen sink. You can walk west to the living room, or east Floyd | down some steps into the sun room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg boggles at the thought of an IF Whispers with continuity (sorta) | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | ||||
Floyd | You open the refrigerator, revealing a water bottle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bottle" | ||||
Floyd | (putting the house key into the backpack to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close fridge" | ||||
Floyd | You close the refrigerator. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sun Room Floyd | A vast open room at the back of the house with windows on all sides. A Floyd | door looking something like one you'd see on a barn leads outdoors, Floyd | while the garage is to the southwest. The kitchen is up some steps to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | You open the barn door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Garage Floyd | Obviously this garage was built many years ago because there's no way Floyd | the modern car would fit in it. As a result, it becomes a convenient Floyd | place to store your stuff when you get it out of storage. The garage Floyd | door lies to the east, but it's locked shut and the realtor forgot to Floyd | give you the key to the padlock. Another chore for you after moving Floyd | in. Floyd | Floyd | You can see some cobwebs and some dead flies here. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "that remains to be seen" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | cobwebs: You obliterate the unclean thing. Hopefully you can forget Floyd | that your beautiful new home ever contained such inappropriate filth. Floyd | dead flies: (putting the sheet into the backpack to make room) Floyd | Taken. Ick. Floyd | house key: (putting the detangler base into the backpack to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy: (putting the flashlight into Floyd | the backpack to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sun Room Floyd | A vast open room at the back of the house with windows on all sides. A Floyd | door looking something like one you'd see on a barn leads outdoors, Floyd | while the garage is to the southwest. The kitchen is up some steps to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | A small kitchen, perfect for one. Cupboards line the north wall, and Floyd | there's a refigerator in the corner next to the oven. Oh, and there's Floyd | also a kitchen sink. You can walk west to the living room, or east Floyd | down some steps into the sun room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | Hardwood floors greet you and your steps echo as you walk around the Floyd | room. There is a window in the west wall looking out into the front Floyd | yard. The front door is to the west, and the kitchen lies to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Front of House Floyd | A neatly manicured lawn greets you and runs all the way to the Floyd | sidewalk. Your driveway is to the south and you can step back inside Floyd | to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Today's not the day to explore the neighborhood. Today's the day to Floyd | explore the woods. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Driveway Floyd | The concrete is cracked but is still servicable to park your car. The Floyd | garage itself lies to the east, but there's no handle on this side of Floyd | the garage door. Add a trip to the hardware store to your list of Floyd | things to do. Floyd | Floyd | A lesser mantid stands here, staring fascinated at the reflection of Floyd | the sunlight reflected on the pavement by the rear view mirror. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a car here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Any continuity is purely accidental" | |||
| Ghogg says, "if they keep the Leslie thing up, anyway" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give flies to mantid" | ||||
Floyd | You kneel down and hold out the dead flies on your palm. The mantid Floyd | approaches cautiously, then delicately picks up the flies in its Floyd | mandibles one by one and crunches them down. It seems less skittish Floyd | now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take mantid" | ||||
Floyd | It nestles into your arms and leans against your shoulder, its Floyd | chitinous spines gently pricking your skin. Floyd | Floyd | The lesser mantid writhes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Front of House Floyd | A neatly manicured lawn greets you and runs all the way to the Floyd | sidewalk. Your driveway is to the south and you can step back inside Floyd | to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You reposition the lesser mantid to hold its weight better. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | Hardwood floors greet you and your steps echo as you walk around the Floyd | room. There is a window in the west wall looking out into the front Floyd | yard. The front door is to the west, and the kitchen lies to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close door" | ||||
Floyd | You close the front door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lock door" | ||||
Floyd | (with the house key) Floyd | You lock the front door. Floyd | Floyd | You turn the lock in the doorknob to lock the front door. Floyd | Floyd | The lesser mantid snuggles its head against your shoulder. Its antennae Floyd | tickle your chin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | A small kitchen, perfect for one. Cupboards line the north wall, and Floyd | there's a refigerator in the corner next to the oven. Oh, and there's Floyd | also a kitchen sink. You can walk west to the living room, or east Floyd | down some steps into the sun room. Floyd | Floyd | The lesser mantid snuggles its head against your shoulder. Its antennae Floyd | tickle your chin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sun Room Floyd | A vast open room at the back of the house with windows on all sides. A Floyd | door looking something like one you'd see on a barn leads outdoors, Floyd | while the garage is to the southwest. The kitchen is up some steps to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Back Yard Floyd | A large carpet of green stretches all the way to the back of the Floyd | property where the woods start. The house is back to the west, and you Floyd | can enter the woods to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Are you going to leave your house open when you explore? Floyd | Floyd | The lesser mantid gently squeezes your arm in its powerful mandibles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close door" | ||||
Floyd | You close the barn door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | With anticipation, trepidation and excitement, you enter the woods. Floyd | Floyd | Edge of the Woods Floyd | Looking back through the trees, you can still make out your house. Floyd | Looking forward, you see the vast wilderness surrounds you that is just Floyd | begging to be explored. A path meaders through the trees leading east. Floyd | Floyd | A Great Master stands by the path in watchful posture. You are Floyd | awestruck. No one mentioned when you bought the house that you would be Floyd | graced with such a blessing. Floyd | Floyd | The Great Master acknowldeges you with a wave of its foreclaw, and you Floyd | hear its voice resonate in your head: GREETINGS, SOFT ONE. ACCESS TO Floyd | THE WOODS IS RESTRICTED. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Thank god it crashed early on." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "And not later." | ||||
| schep says, "well, Leslie wasn't from the original author. He/she/it interacts with previous sections." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask master about access" | ||||
Floyd | THE WOODS HIDE A TERRIBLE THING. ACCESS IS PERMITTED ONLY TO THOSE OF Floyd | ASSURED LOYALTY. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask master about loyalty" | ||||
Floyd | A SERVICE IS REQUIRED. RESTORE THE BELOVED TO US. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give mantid to master" | ||||
Floyd | You place it on the ground in front of the Great Master, who places its Floyd | foreclaws around its neck protectively. You hear the Great Master's Floyd | voice in your head: WE THANK YOU FOR THE RETURN OF THE BELOVED. YOU ARE Floyd | LOYAL, SOFT ONE. Floyd | Floyd | The lesser mantid stridulates plaintively. Floyd | Floyd | More static, and you hear Leslie's voice again. "You dropped off our Floyd | old lock, so it looks like you've made it to a new section. Tell us Floyd | about something you've held and about a room you see, and I'll try to Floyd | send a focuser. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "is the Floyd interpreter not one that can be told to ignore errors?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about mantid" | ||||
Floyd | "Aha! Got it! Analyzing now..." Floyd | Floyd | "Perfect! OK, we've noted the lesser mantid as characteristic of this Floyd | section, which should help us get a bead on your location. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "We should probably start saving" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about woods" | ||||
Floyd | "Ah, perfect! Analyzing the Edge of the Woods now..." Floyd | Floyd | "Great, we have that room now. That should help. Re-calibrating..." Floyd | Floyd | The lesser mantid cocks its head. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "it's supposed to, yeah" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Another beam of green light hits you and your load feels a bit heavier. Floyd | "There you go!" Leslie says. "I've sent you another attachment that Floyd | should help." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Limax), "I have been." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Okay" | |||
| inky says, "but in this case the terp is actually crashing" | ||||
| baf says, "Saving at least once per section would be a good idea." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "attach focus to base" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a focuser Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy Floyd | a house key Floyd | water bottle, which contains water Floyd | a backpack (open) Floyd | a flashlight Floyd | detangler base (with a trigger attached.) Floyd | a sheet Floyd | Floyd | The lesser mantid uses a foreclaw to clean its large, soulful compopund Floyd | eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "wacky" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "attach focuser to base" | ||||
Floyd | With a click and a pop, you permanently attach the focuser to the Floyd | detangler base. Floyd | Floyd | The Great Master casually snips off the lesser mantid's head, then Floyd | picks up and eats its body. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "Make it part of our leslie routine." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take head" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah, it's not the game, it's Floyd. He's been having trouble for about a month now. We have our Top People on it." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fire detangler" | ||||
Floyd | (the detangler base) Floyd | With the focuser attached, you pull the trigger once more. Bright blue Floyd | static pours out of it and crackles around your feet. For a moment, Floyd | the scene seems to shift... but then it dies out, and you're back to Floyd | where you were before. Floyd | Floyd | "Not again!" Leslie complains. "Let me check my readouts. Hmm. OK, Floyd | maybe you just need more power. If you can get to a new section and Floyd | get me a lock there, I'll send you an extra power source. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Fallen leaves crunch underfoot as you trundle exploritatively down the Floyd | sun-dappled path. Fresh air, exercise, the beauty of nature: all is Floyd | good. Until, quite suddenly, you get an uncanny feeling, like someone Floyd | stepped on your grave. Floyd | Floyd | You can't put your finger on it at first. Then you notice that the Floyd | small clearing you've stepped into is perfectly spherical, the trees Floyd | bending around it and in some cases cut by an invisible field. And you Floyd | understand: this is a blast site. Unwholesome relic of the war, a zone Floyd | of anti-life created by the humans' weapons when they tried to... to... Floyd | Floyd | You choke back tears. How could people have ever been so foolish? Floyd | Floyd | Blast Site Floyd | There's a perfectly spherical gap in the forest here, thirty feet in Floyd | diameter, where nothing can grow. Tall maple and birch trees bend Floyd | around this bubble of unlife. Distant blackbirds call. Floyd | Floyd | A path has been hacked through the forest to the east, and you can see Floyd | something to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | In the fused earth at your feet, you see a hint of something yellow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x yellow" | ||||
Floyd | It's vaguely roundish, but you can't tell what it is while it's still Floyd | buried. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x trees" | ||||
Floyd | On the very edge of the blast radius, you can see older trees that were Floyd | partly sheared away, and healed over. The newer growth simply bends Floyd | around the dead zone, as if growing around a wall. Branches hang down Floyd | to within several inches of the upper boundary. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "ever since he started hanging out with that pyramid interpreter, he's been acting funny..." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "mmhmm" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb trees" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | Leslie says, "Looks like you've gotten to a new section. I'll need Floyd | another room and object to reestablish a lock. After that, I can send Floyd | you a power pack." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | By a Stream Floyd | Trickling through the forest is a small, clear stream. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search stream" | ||||
Floyd | The stream is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stream" | ||||
Floyd | You peer into the flowing stream and see something darting among the Floyd | rocks. Floyd | Floyd | The stream contains water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stream" | ||||
Floyd | You peer into the flowing stream and see something darting among the Floyd | rocks. Floyd | Floyd | The stream contains water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x something" | ||||
Floyd | By being patient, you finally see what's darting around in the Floyd | water--tadpoles! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take tadpoles" | ||||
Floyd | Try as you might, the tadpoles slip through your fingers and under the Floyd | rocks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take tadpoles with bottle" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to take tadpoles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fill bottle with tadpoles" | ||||
Floyd | You can't pour tadpoles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put tadpoles in water" | ||||
Floyd | (the water bottle) Floyd | The water bottle cannot contain any more than it already holds. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "drink bottle" | ||||
Floyd | You quaff water, leaving the water bottle empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put tadpoles in bottle" | ||||
Floyd | You fill the water bottle up with water from the stream. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "perhaps the tadpoles aren't meant to be takes" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x bottle" | ||||
Floyd | The water bottle is full of water, and there's a tadpole swimming Floyd | around in it! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "er, taken" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "hrm" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh wait. aha." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Wait, got some!" | ||||
| schep says, "hooray, we got one" | ||||
| baf exclaims, "But they're not nailed down!" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x tadpole" | ||||
Floyd | (the tadpole) Floyd | It swims around in the bottle. Floyd | Floyd | For a moment, you suspect it might be a larval Overlord, but the Floyd | metatarsal tubercule is all wrong. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to tadpole" | ||||
Floyd | [talk -> walk] Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a lesser mantid head Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy Floyd | a house key Floyd | water bottle, which contains water, and a tadpole Floyd | a backpack (open) Floyd | a flashlight Floyd | detangler base (with a trigger and a focuser attached.) Floyd | a sheet Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about stream" | ||||
Floyd | "Dave, there's no time," Leslie replies. " You need to find an item you Floyd | can hold and a new room or area to tell me about, or I won't be able to Floyd | pull you out of the simulator. If you can't find anything to hold, it Floyd | might work to find something that can hold you, instead." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about tadpole" | ||||
Floyd | (tadpoles) Floyd | "Aha! Got it! Analyzing now..." Floyd | Floyd | "Perfect! OK, we've noted tadpoles as characteristic of this section, Floyd | which should help us get a bead on your location. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | By a Stream Floyd | Trickling through the forest is a small, clear stream. Floyd | Floyd | "OK, can you tell us about one of the places you've visited from this Floyd | section?" Leslie asks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about blast site" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about by a stream" | ||||
Floyd | "Ah, perfect! Analyzing Blast Site now..." Floyd | Floyd | "Great, we have that room now. That should help. Re-calibrating..." Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | "Ah, perfect! Analyzing By a Stream now..." Floyd | Floyd | Another beam of green light hits you and your load feels a bit heavier. Floyd | "There you go!" Leslie says. "I've sent you another attachment that Floyd | should help." Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "Didn't we get a message about the metatarsal tubercule before? Seems like that got triggered early." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a power pack Floyd | a lesser mantid head Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy Floyd | a house key Floyd | water bottle, which contains water, and a tadpole Floyd | a backpack (open) Floyd | a flashlight Floyd | detangler base (with a trigger and a focuser attached.) Floyd | a sheet Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "oh, hey, it helps to talk about more rooms" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "attach power pack to base" | ||||
Floyd | With a click and a pop, you permanently attach the power pack to the Floyd | detangler base. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fire base" | ||||
Floyd | You pull the trigger and are immediately knocked down by the force of Floyd | the static charge erupting from the detangler. It flies from your Floyd | hand, hits the floor, and the power pack gets knocked off. With a Floyd | sigh, you retrieve both parts and put them back together. Floyd | Floyd | "Wow, sorry about that," says Leslie, "I guess you'll need a Floyd | stabilizer, too. I hope there are more sections to this place." Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "yeah, it's in the almanac, and we once got that almanac entry at random" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I believe we saw it just randomly -- yeah" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a lesser mantid head Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy Floyd | a house key Floyd | water bottle, which contains water, and a tadpole Floyd | a backpack (open) Floyd | a flashlight Floyd | detangler base (with a trigger, a focuser and a power pack Floyd | attached.) Floyd | a sheet Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg asks, "there was another room to the east of the blast site, right?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Blast Site Floyd | There's a perfectly spherical gap in the forest here, thirty feet in Floyd | diameter, where nothing can grow. Tall maple and birch trees bend Floyd | around this bubble of unlife. Distant blackbirds call. Floyd | Floyd | A path has been hacked through the forest to the east, and you can see Floyd | something to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | In the fused earth at your feet, you see a hint of something yellow. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "yeah" | |||
| DavidW says, "yes" | schep says (to Ghogg), "No, I think it helps to tell about one room per section, then wait one turn." | |||
| maga says (to baf), "when I saw the code, you didn't see the tadpoles until you filled your bottle" | ||||
| Ghogg says, "oh ok" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kick fused" | ||||
Floyd | [kick -> pick] Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "so I assumed you wouldn't look up tadpoles in the Almanac until you'd examined the tadpole. which was hacky, but there you go" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Path Floyd | The forest presses around this narrow throughway leading west to east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Continuing the Path Floyd | The path leads from the west to the southeast, where you sense Floyd | something oddly sinister. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Near a Huge Device Floyd | The trees have been cut back to make room for this tall device. Looking Floyd | up at it, you see that it looks like...a phallus? Oh wait, it's a Floyd | missile. Kind of the same thing, but instead of a little death there's Floyd | great big death. Floyd | Floyd | A cheerful-looking man in a black two-piece suit and black horn-rimmed Floyd | glasses stands nearby studying the huge device. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see some rope and a shovel here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "aha. shovel" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take rope, shovel" | ||||
Floyd | rope: The industrial-purpose rope far too heavy for you to lift. Floyd | shovel: The man stops you, saying, "Here now, does that belong to you?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x man" | ||||
Floyd | This guy looks like an insurance salesman from the 50s! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "ask man about shovel" | ||||
Floyd | There's a pause, then he says, "Ah, lovely day, isn't it?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x missile" | ||||
Floyd | It's sixty feet tall and gleaming white! An American flag and skull and Floyd | bones are painted on one side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "author" | ||||
Floyd | Scene 3, "End of the World", was written by Ricardo Dague. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man about himself" | ||||
Floyd | He says, "The name is McWiggy." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask man about american foreign policy" | ||||
Floyd | There's a pause, then he says, "Ah, lovely day, isn't it?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask mcwiggy about missile" | ||||
Floyd | He says, "It's a fine, fine missile, isn't it? If you saw the blast Floyd | site to the west, well, that was this fella's little brother's work! Floyd | Did a beautiful job!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask mcwiggy about blast site" | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "show head to man" | ||||
Floyd | He says, "You didn't find anything alive there, did you?" His eyes Floyd | twinkle behind the thick lenses. "If you did there'd be something Floyd | seriously wrong! When one of our missiles land on something, it's Floyd | completely gone! In fact, if you did find anything alive there, I Floyd | don't know what I'd do!" Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | "No thank you," he says, patting his missile. "This here is all I need Floyd | to be happy." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "punch prosser" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show tadpole to mcwiggy" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the tadpole) Floyd | The mouth of the bottle is too narrow to stick your fingers in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show bottle to mcwiggy" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "tell man about yellow" | ||||
Floyd | He looks at it a bit nervously. "Ew, life," he says. "At least you Floyd | didn't find that in the blast site! That would be tragic." He Floyd | shudders. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | This provokes no reaction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask mcwiggy about life" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take shovel" | ||||
Floyd | He says, "Tut tut! Can't have any more life than necessary, can we? Floyd | That's why I'm here." Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | The man stops you, saying, "Here now, does that belong to you?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | He grins. "Carry on, then!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "hah" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get shovel" | ||||
Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask mcwiggy for shovel" | ||||
Floyd | The cheerful man has better things to do. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "we have it?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "That was a hard puzzle for me for some reason. heh" | ||||
| Ghogg says, "yep" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "I thought he stopped us from taking it? bug?" | ||||
| Ghogg says, "he asked 'does that belong to you' and Fang said 'yes'" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "missed that." | ||||
| DavidW says, "then let's go back and dig." | ||||
| Ghogg exclaims, "let's go dig!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yay!" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "WE CAN DIG IT" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Continuing the Path Floyd | The path leads from the west to the southeast, where you sense Floyd | something oddly sinister. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | baf says, "This strikes me as the kind of puzzle that Club Floyd makes easier." | |||
Floyd | Floyd | Path Floyd | The forest presses around this narrow throughway leading west to east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Blast Site Floyd | There's a perfectly spherical gap in the forest here, thirty feet in Floyd | diameter, where nothing can grow. Tall maple and birch trees bend Floyd | around this bubble of unlife. Distant blackbirds call. Floyd | Floyd | A path has been hacked through the forest to the east, and you can see Floyd | something to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | In the fused earth at your feet, you see a hint of something yellow. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "[dig this]" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||||
Floyd | You dig for a few minutes, turning up an old helmet! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x helmet" | ||||
Floyd | The standard army helmet is dirty and cracked. A strange green film is Floyd | on the inside of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x film" | ||||
Floyd | You can't make out what it is. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "pour water in helmet" | ||||
Floyd | The water falls through the cracks in the helmet, but the tadpole is Floyd | now inside it, flopping around! Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "ha ha ha, there's something alive in his blast site..." | |||
| Ghogg says, "buahaha." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take helmet" | ||||
Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||||
Floyd | You don't dig up anything else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Path Floyd | The forest presses around this narrow throughway leading west to east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Continuing the Path Floyd | The path leads from the west to the southeast, where you sense Floyd | something oddly sinister. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Near a Huge Device Floyd | The trees have been cut back to make room for this tall device. Looking Floyd | up at it, you see that it looks like...a phallus? Oh wait, it's a Floyd | missile. Kind of the same thing, but instead of a little death there's Floyd | great big death. Floyd | Floyd | A cheerful-looking man in a black two-piece suit and black horn-rimmed Floyd | glasses stands nearby studying the huge device. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see some rope here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show helmet to mcwiggy" | ||||
Floyd | He stares at the item, his cheer quickly turning into horror. He says, Floyd | "What is this?! If you found this helmet in the blast site, and the Floyd | tadpole was in the helmet, then that means...something was left alive! Floyd | The missile was a failure? I don't believe it! I refuse to believe it!" Floyd | Floyd | The man starts running in circles! He's lost his mind! Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "hooray" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take missile" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, because suddenly the man runs at you, making you jump Floyd | backwards! You land on the coil of rope! Floyd | Floyd | "So sorry," he says, and pulls out a something that looks like a large Floyd | cellphone. "I know what to do now. If this missile is fired and Floyd | destroys its target, then we'll know that the last failure was just a Floyd | fluke, right?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take cellphone" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "get rope" | ||||
Floyd | The industrial-purpose rope far too heavy for you to lift. Floyd | Floyd | After pressing a few buttons, the man looks up at the missile. "System Floyd | check is okay!" he says, then turns to you, "I suggest you leave. The Floyd | blast from the rocket engine will kill everyone in this area!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hit man" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | The man says, "Level B checks clear! Begin firing sequence!" Then he Floyd | notices you again, "I thought I told you to go! This is a holy launch Floyd | and you have no right to be here!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "lasso man" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "hmm" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw rope at man" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the rope) Floyd | The industrial-purpose rope far too heavy for you to lift. Floyd | Floyd | The missile starts making a humming sound, and steam begins blowing out Floyd | of the base. "It's about to fire!" he yells at you. "I guess there's no Floyd | helping it, if you really need to stay. Bask in the glory with me!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "bask" | ||||
Floyd | [bask -> ask] Floyd | What do you want to ask the upset man for? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "shoot detangler" | ||||
Floyd | (the detangler base) Floyd | With some trepidation, you fire the detangler again, but nothing Floyd | happens. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly the missile roars and flame and smoke shoot out of the base. Floyd | The heat is becoming unbearable! The man chortles madly. "Success! Floyd | Success! Off you go to wreak havoc my boy!" Floyd | Floyd | As it lifts off you and the man and everything around are consumed in Floyd | flame! Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 30 out of a possible 100, in 119 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, or QUIT? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ha" | |||
| Ghogg says, "well, that's *another* reason to need a save game" | ||||
| inky says, "luckily Jacqueline saved" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load" | ||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | > | Fang asks, "maybe we can dive into the stream?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "Thanks." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, or QUIT? Floyd | > | Taleslinger asks, "for 10 minutes and you die on me?" | |||
| inky says, "buh" | schep says, "or maybe leaving the one room is enough" | |||
| Ghogg says, "we fell right on the rope, somehow I'd imagine you use it" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, or QUIT? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "um. I don't know what to do about the situation after we show the helmet-cum-tadpole." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your very first night is over in your new house. It still seems Floyd | surreal that you are now the proud owner of this place. It doesn't Floyd | quite feel like home yet since you haven't been able to get your Floyd | furniture. However, you can't get the rental truck until tomorrow. Floyd | Maybe today would be a good idea to explore those woods behind your Floyd | house. It'll be a good way to kill time until you can get properly Floyd | moved in tomorrow. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | House of Dream of Moon Floyd | An Interactive Collaboration by The IF Whispers Team Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 071204 / Inform 7 build 5J39 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/11N) Floyd | Type "about" for more information. Floyd | Floyd | Master Bedroom (on the mattress) Floyd | All that's unpacked in the room is your mattress with a sheet thrown Floyd | over the top of it. Your dresser is still in storage. Windows look Floyd | out to the north and west, and the closet lies to the south. The Floyd | hallway is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | Jacqueline says, "Can we try to keep all the non-game conversation on the channel, please... I end up having to edit it all by hand later otherwise (for clarity). Thanks!" | |||
| Ghogg says, "oh oops sorry" | ||||
| inky asks, "am I doing something wrong?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "I don't think so." | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Restore failed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Restore failed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "the restore puzzle!" | |||
| inky says, "hee hee" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "load cf4" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, one person." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore "cf4"" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to restore. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "ha" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "restore cf4" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to restore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf4" | Jacqueline says, "That one person is inky." | |||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rob arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Ghogg says, "let's quit and reload floyd fresh" | |||
| Rob says, "HMM" | Ghogg says, "or do that" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Near a Huge Device Floyd | The trees have been cut back to make room for this tall device. Looking Floyd | up at it, you see that it looks like...a phallus? Oh wait, it's a Floyd | missile. Kind of the same thing, but instead of a little death there's Floyd | great big death. Floyd | Floyd | An upset-looking man stands here pale and terrified, madly hitting Floyd | buttons on something like a cellphone. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see some rope here. Floyd | Floyd | After pressing a few buttons, the man looks up at the missile. "System Floyd | check is okay!" he says, then turns to you, "I suggest you leave. The Floyd | blast from the rocket engine will kill everyone in this area!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Near a Huge Device Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I wonder if Jota *did* put changes in and they broke the buffering somehow" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a shovel Floyd | a lesser mantid head Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy Floyd | a house key Floyd | water bottle (empty) Floyd | a backpack (open) Floyd | a flashlight Floyd | detangler base (with a trigger, a focuser and a power pack Floyd | attached.) Floyd | a sheet Floyd | Floyd | After pressing a few buttons, the man looks up at the missile. "System Floyd | check is okay!" he says, then turns to you, "I suggest you leave. The Floyd | blast from the rocket engine will kill everyone in this area!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Near a Huge Device Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | schep asks, "because Floyd doesn't respond to restore right away?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Should we be tying the rope to something?" | ||||
| Ghogg asks, "what do we want to try first, running away or using the rope?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm, well, he'll have a fun transcript to look at. Poor chap's been spending a lot of time working on him lately." | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "attach rope to detangler" | ||||
Floyd | (the detangler base) Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit. Floyd | Floyd | After pressing a few buttons, the man looks up at the missile. "System Floyd | check is okay!" he says, then turns to you, "I suggest you leave. The Floyd | blast from the rocket engine will kill everyone in this area!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, ">USE DETANGLER ON INTERPRETER CODE" | |||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Near a Huge Device Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heehee" | |||
| inky says, "well, it looks to me like he's not sending the "what file name do you want to restore?" message to the mud" | ||||
| schep says, "let's see what happens if we run for it" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tie rope to man" | ||||
Floyd | A valiant attempt. Floyd | Floyd | After pressing a few buttons, the man looks up at the missile. "System Floyd | check is okay!" he says, then turns to you, "I suggest you leave. The Floyd | blast from the rocket engine will kill everyone in this area!" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ok. let's run." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | You're tangled in the rope! You can't walk anywhere! Floyd | Floyd | The man says, "Level B checks clear! Begin firing sequence!" Then he Floyd | notices you again, "I thought I told you to go! This is a holy launch Floyd | and you have no right to be here!" Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "oh noes" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "indeed" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "untangle rope" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to untangle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| HairBrain says (to floyd), "pray" | ||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "remove rope" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the rope) Floyd | The industrial-purpose rope far too heavy for you to lift. Floyd | Floyd | The missile starts making a humming sound, and steam begins blowing out Floyd | of the base. "It's about to fire!" he yells at you. "I guess there's no Floyd | helping it, if you really need to stay. Bask in the glory with me!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fire detangler" | ||||
Floyd | (the detangler base) Floyd | With some trepidation, you fire the detangler again, but nothing Floyd | happens. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly the missile roars and flame and smoke shoot out of the base. Floyd | The heat is becoming unbearable! The man chortles madly. "Success! Floyd | Success! Off you go to wreak havoc my boy!" Floyd | Floyd | As it lifts off you and the man and everything around are consumed in Floyd | flame! Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 30 out of a possible 100, in 119 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Near a Huge Device Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "you'd think a detangler would help with tangled rope" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Near a Huge Device Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg asks, "didn't leslie say we were still missing something in the detangler?" | |||
| DavidW says, "A stablizer." | ||||
| schep says, "for purposes of exiting the simulation, yes" | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "shoot detangler at rope" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Near a Huge Device Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. We never found out about the green film. And is the helmet wearable?" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "tadpole, save me" | ||||
Floyd | You can't talk to the tadpole. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hahaha" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x film" | ||||
Floyd | You can't make out what it is. Floyd | Floyd | The missile starts making a humming sound, and steam begins blowing out Floyd | of the base. "It's about to fire!" he yells at you. "I guess there's no Floyd | helping it, if you really need to stay. Bask in the glory with me!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Near a Huge Device Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "wear helmet" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the helmet) Floyd | That seems to belong to the upset man. Floyd | Floyd | The missile starts making a humming sound, and steam begins blowing out Floyd | of the base. "It's about to fire!" he yells at you. "I guess there's no Floyd | helping it, if you really need to stay. Bask in the glory with me!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch film" | ||||
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly the missile roars and flame and smoke shoot out of the base. Floyd | The heat is becoming unbearable! The man chortles madly. "Success! Floyd | Success! Off you go to wreak havoc my boy!" Floyd | Floyd | As it lifts off you and the man and everything around are consumed in Floyd | flame! Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 30 out of a possible 100, in 119 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Near a Huge Device Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "have we tried running away yet?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Near a Huge Device Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "Yes. We're tangled up in the huge rope" | |||
| maga says, "yes. we're tangled in the rope" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Fang), "Yes, our feet are tangled in the rope." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Fang), "We're tangled in the rope" | ||||
| maga says, "in case it was unclear, the rope has tangled us" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a shovel Floyd | a lesser mantid head Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy Floyd | a house key Floyd | water bottle (empty) Floyd | a backpack (open) Floyd | a flashlight Floyd | detangler base (with a trigger, a focuser and a power pack Floyd | attached.) Floyd | a sheet Floyd | Floyd | The missile starts making a humming sound, and steam begins blowing out Floyd | of the base. "It's about to fire!" he yells at you. "I guess there's no Floyd | helping it, if you really need to stay. Bask in the glory with me!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "snrk" | |||
| baf asks, "Aren't we tangled up in the rope or something?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hide under sheet" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "duck and cover" | ||||
Floyd | [duck -> fuck] Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to fuck. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "..." | |||
| schep says, "snrrk" | ||||
| maga says, "the epitaph for every IF relationship" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "hit man" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly the missile roars and flame and smoke shoot out of the base. Floyd | The heat is becoming unbearable! The man chortles madly. "Success! Floyd | Success! Off you go to wreak havoc my boy!" Floyd | Floyd | As it lifts off you and the man and everything around are consumed in Floyd | flame! Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 30 out of a possible 100, in 119 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Near a Huge Device Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Near a Huge Device Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Near a Huge Device Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x man" | ||||
Floyd | This guy looks like an insurance salesman from the 50s! Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly the missile roars and flame and smoke shoot out of the base. Floyd | The heat is becoming unbearable! The man chortles madly. "Success! Floyd | Success! Off you go to wreak havoc my boy!" Floyd | Floyd | As it lifts off you and the man and everything around are consumed in Floyd | flame! Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 30 out of a possible 100, in 119 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, or QUIT? Floyd | > | Rob asks, "who wrote this segment?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask leslie about missile" | ||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. Can the missile's electronics be shorted out?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks (of Rob), "I think trikiw?" | ||||
| Rob says, "interesting" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "The really hard part is that some of us know the solution." | ||||
| schep asks, "can we grab/break his controller thingy somehow?" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, or QUIT? Floyd | > | Fang asks, "as a quick hint, to those who know the solution, are we winnable at the moment?" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, or QUIT? Floyd | > | maga says, "the rope is the key to this" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "The other hard part is, CWIF doesn't generally lend itself to multiple puzzle solutions." | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Fang), "Yes." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "um" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load houseofdreamofmoon" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your very first night is over in your new house. It still seems Floyd | surreal that you are now the proud owner of this place. It doesn't Floyd | quite feel like home yet since you haven't been able to get your Floyd | furniture. However, you can't get the rental truck until tomorrow. Floyd | Maybe today would be a good idea to explore those woods behind your Floyd | house. It'll be a good way to kill time until you can get properly Floyd | moved in tomorrow. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | House of Dream of Moon Floyd | An Interactive Collaboration by The IF Whispers Team Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 071204 / Inform 7 build 5J39 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/11N) Floyd | Type "about" for more information. Floyd | Floyd | Master Bedroom (on the mattress) Floyd | All that's unpacked in the room is your mattress with a sheet thrown Floyd | over the top of it. Your dresser is still in storage. Windows look Floyd | out to the north and west, and the closet lies to the south. The Floyd | hallway is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "That is weird." | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x rope" | ||||
Floyd | It's a coil of very large-diameter rope, maybe three inches. On one end Floyd | is a hook. Floyd | Floyd | After pressing a few buttons, the man looks up at the missile. "System Floyd | check is okay!" he says, then turns to you, "I suggest you leave. The Floyd | blast from the rocket engine will kill everyone in this area!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Anyway, play on." | |||
| DavidW says, "oh. never saw the hook." | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "tie hook to missile" | ||||
Floyd | You throw it at the missile! It sticks on! The man yells at you, "You Floyd | better not have scratched that!" Floyd | Floyd | The man says, "Level B checks clear! Begin firing sequence!" Then he Floyd | notices you again, "I thought I told you to go! This is a holy launch Floyd | and you have no right to be here!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "hook the dude with it" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "w00t" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull rope" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | The missile starts making a humming sound, and steam begins blowing out Floyd | of the base. "It's about to fire!" he yells at you. "I guess there's no Floyd | helping it, if you really need to stay. Bask in the glory with me!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "climb rope" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly the missile roars and flame and smoke shoot out of the base. Floyd | The heat is becoming unbearable! The man chortles madly. "Success! Floyd | Success! Off you go to wreak havoc my boy!" Floyd | Floyd | It lifts off, with the hook, the rope, and yourself being pulled along! Floyd | The man yells, "What do you think you're doing?! You altered the Floyd | trajectory! It's going straight up!" Floyd | Floyd | As he falls away below, the man is waving his arms, "Hold your breath! Floyd | Hold your breath!" Floyd | Floyd | Flying Through the Air Floyd | The missile is roaring towards space, with you in tow! Air and clouds Floyd | whip by you and the earth below is getting smaller and smaller. Floyd | Floyd | You hang onto the rope for dear life! Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "nice" | |||
| Ghogg says, "wheeee" | ||||
| DavidW says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Ghogg says, "also, save" | ||||
| Rob says, "yeeeheeooooooo yeeeeheeeoooooooo" | ||||
| schep says, "I don't understand why that means we're still alive" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hold breath" | Rob says, "we weren't below it in the flames, we went up with it" | |||
Floyd | You inhale mightily and begin holding your breath. Floyd | Floyd | You would scream in terror, but you're trying to hold your breath! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "wave cowboy hat like that guy on dr. strangelove" | ||||
Floyd | [hat -> that] Floyd | [like -> lie] Floyd | [guy -> buy] Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x earth" | ||||
Floyd | Everything down there is getting smaller and smaller... Floyd | Floyd | As the rocket shoots straight up, the air seems to be getting thinner! Floyd | Floyd | You courageously continue holding your breath. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "hehe" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rocket" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "drop breath" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x clouds" | ||||
Floyd | They whip buy too fast to see! Floyd | Floyd | Hang on! The missile seems to be nearing the end of earth's atmosphere! Floyd | Floyd | You courageously continue holding your breath. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "too bad there's no air in the empty water bottle" | |||
| Limax says, "Hmm... go play e Donkey Kong... come back and found I've not missed much" | ||||
| baf says, "Well, it's not an air bottle." | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "author" | ||||
Floyd | Scene 3, "End of the World", was written by Ricardo Dague. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. do we just wait?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Limax), "You missed a ton of crashiness." | ||||
| Limax says, "Yes... it's a water bottle" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The missile will enter outer space in just a moment! Floyd | Floyd | You courageously continue holding your breath. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "yeah, although I think maybe we should have held our breath earlier" | |||
| Ghogg says, "er, later" | ||||
| Limax says (to Jacqueline), "Just like the 'real' floyd" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You fly out into outer space! Floyd | Floyd | Flying Through Space Floyd | The missile is shooting toward the moon with you right behind! There's Floyd | deathly silence here in outer space. Floyd | Floyd | You courageously continue holding your breath. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says (to Ghogg), "Probably." | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | [scream -> stream] Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x moon" | ||||
Floyd | It is great big and rock-colored! Floyd | Floyd | Terrifyingly, you fly along! Floyd | Floyd | You courageously continue holding your breath. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "x stars" | ||||
Floyd | They twinkle silently. Floyd | Floyd | Oh no, you're about to hit the moon! Floyd | Floyd | You courageously continue holding your breath. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "luckily, we are playing the character of Guybrush Threepwood even though it hasn't explicitly said so" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x moon" | ||||
Floyd | It is great big and rock-colored! Floyd | Floyd | With a huge crash, the rocket hits the moon! How you have survived, you Floyd | don't know. Floyd | Floyd | Though stunned momentarily, you slowly open your eyes and stand up... Floyd | Floyd | Lunar Crater Floyd | Wow you've landed on the moon! Gray, rocky, dusty, airless landscape Floyd | stretches all around. Floyd | Floyd | A double line of suspicious footprints leads to the crater's center. Floyd | Floyd | Holding your breath is becoming difficult! Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "heh" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "follow footprints" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "we've landed in a different writing style" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "enter crater" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "yes" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | You make an attempt on the crater walls, but they're just too steep. Floyd | There does seem to be an easier climb to the north, however. Floyd | Floyd | You can't hold your breath much longer! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heehee" | |||
| Ellison says (to Rob), "!" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Lunar Crater Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Scenic Overlook Floyd | You stand on the lip between two overlapping lunar craters; the one Floyd | into which you crash-landed is dwarfed by the immense, ancient crater Floyd | before you. Far below you on the crater floor, you can make out patches Floyd | of green; beyond that, a sprawling silvery mass, many kilometres to the Floyd | north, that can only be the secret Atlantean lunar base. First, Floyd | however, you have to find some way of getting down this cliff. Floyd | Floyd | You can't hold your breath much longer! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "AUTHOR" | ||||
Floyd | Scene 4, "The Great Lunar Conspiracy", was written by Sam Kabo Ashwell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Limax says (to Floyd), "breathe" | ||||
Floyd | You remember that the moon's supposed lack of atmosphere is, in fact, Floyd | yet another scientific hoax. You hadn't realised how deeply the Floyd | education system had planted lies in your psyche. Floyd | Floyd | You breathe out. Hahhhhh. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "ha ha" | |||
| Ellison says, "haha" | ||||
| schep says, "Hooray" | ||||
| Fang says, "haha" | ||||
| Rob says, "that was a good use of suspense though" | ||||
| schep says, "Jacq saving had me worried" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| Limax holds a candle | ||||
| HairBrain says, "Those astronauts were just too big pansies to go it without oxygen" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x footprints" | ||||
Floyd | You look to the south, toward the crater in which you crash-landed. In Floyd | addition to your own tracks, a set of footprints reach a patch of Floyd | smooth ground at the crater's centre, then double back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "look up moon in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | Why does the moon coincidentally look exactly the same size as the sun? Floyd | Why did all ancient civilisations venerate a Moon deity? Why do the Floyd | Freemasons have no lodges in Antarctica? If you're not convinced by Floyd | now, there's clearly no hope for you. Floyd | Floyd | Leslie contacts you once more. "Good job! Another section. Get me Floyd | another room and an object to analyze, and I can send you a stabilizer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smooth ground" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||||
Floyd | You dig up nothing useful. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lunar Crater Floyd | Wow you've landed on the moon! Gray, rocky, dusty, airless landscape Floyd | stretches all around. Floyd | Floyd | A double line of suspicious footprints leads to the crater's center. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||||
Floyd | You thrust the shovel into the dust and excavate mightily. Floyd | It's not long before you've uncovered a large wooden crate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crate" | ||||
Floyd | Ha! You always knew that Australian wines were really lunar in origin, Floyd | and here is undeniable evidence! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open crate" | ||||
Floyd | You open the crate of wine, revealing some wine bottles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wine" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wine" | ||||
Floyd | (the crate of wine) Floyd | Ha! You always knew that Australian wines were really lunar in origin, Floyd | and here is undeniable evidence! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about crate" | ||||
Floyd | "Aha! Got it! Analyzing now..." Floyd | Floyd | "Perfect! OK, we've noted the crate of wine as characteristic of this Floyd | section, which should help us get a bead on your location. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "Moon wine. Hm." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take crate" | ||||
Floyd | Even in lunar gravity, the crate is too heavy for a mere Earth-human to Floyd | lift. Floyd | Floyd | "OK, can you tell us about one of the places you've visited from this Floyd | section?" Leslie asks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "tell leslie about crater" | ||||
Floyd | "Dave, you already visited that room in the last section. I need a new Floyd | room for this section if I'm going to be able to lock on to your Floyd | location properly." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take wine bottle" | ||||
Floyd | Glancing around to make sure you are unobserved, you snaffle a bottle Floyd | of delicious wine. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "If I remember the Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath correctly, drinking moon wine is a bad idea." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wine bottle" | ||||
Floyd | (the delicious wine) Floyd | A bottle of Wachawoomagoo Slope, a perfectly respectable if Floyd | little-known pinot noir from the Ibn Battuta vinyards. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "snaffle" | |||
| HairBrain says, "My favorite soft drink!" | ||||
| Ellison says, "ha" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about moon" | ||||
Floyd | "Dave, there's no time," Leslie replies. " You need to find an item you Floyd | can hold and a new room or area to tell me about, or I won't be able to Floyd | pull you out of the simulator. If you can't find anything to hold, it Floyd | might work to find something that can hold you, instead." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "tell leslie about overlook" | ||||
Floyd | "Ah, perfect! Analyzing Scenic Overlook now..." Floyd | Floyd | "Great, we have that room now. That should help. Re-calibrating..." Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about wine bottle" | ||||
Floyd | (the delicious wine) Floyd | "Aha! Got it! Analyzing now..." Floyd | Floyd | Another beam of green light hits you and your load feels a bit heavier. Floyd | "There you go!" Leslie says. "I've sent you another attachment that Floyd | should help." Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger asks (of snaffle?), "is that your stiff-upper lip way of saying sneeze?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a stabilizer Floyd | a delicious wine Floyd | a shovel Floyd | a lesser mantid head Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy Floyd | a house key Floyd | water bottle (empty) Floyd | a backpack (open) Floyd | a flashlight Floyd | detangler base (with a trigger, a focuser and a power pack Floyd | attached.) Floyd | a sheet Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about crater" | ||||
Floyd | "Thanks, but you told me about that room already." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "attach stabilizer to detangler" | ||||
Floyd | (the detangler base) Floyd | With a click and a pop, you permanently attach the stabilizer to the Floyd | detangler base. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fire detangler" | ||||
Floyd | (the detangler base) Floyd | Holding your breath and closing your eyes, you fire the detangler. Floyd | Click. You open your eyes. You're still where you were before. You Floyd | pull the trigger again. Click. Nothing. "Leslie?" you ask, "did Floyd | something go wrong? The detangler won't fire." Floyd | Floyd | "What? Oh, no! The power pack must be drained. Grar; I'll send you a Floyd | recharger. I've used up the lock on this section, though; you'll have Floyd | to go somewhere else and do it all again." With a sigh, you pack the Floyd | detangler away again. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says (to Fang), "it is interpreting 'crater' as 'blast crater'" | |||
| DavidW says, "hee" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Scenic Overlook Floyd | You stand on the lip between two overlapping lunar craters; the one Floyd | into which you crash-landed is dwarfed by the immense, ancient crater Floyd | before you. Far below you on the crater floor, you can make out patches Floyd | of green; beyond that, a sprawling silvery mass, many kilometres to the Floyd | north, that can only be the secret Atlantean lunar base. First, Floyd | however, you have to find some way of getting down this cliff. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lunar base" | ||||
Floyd | A sprawling silvery mass, yes. And filled, no doubt, with treachery. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||
Floyd | The cliffs look too steep to climb easily. Even in lunar gravity, the Floyd | fall could be fatal. Well... probably. You don't really feel brave Floyd | enough to find out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x green" | ||||
Floyd | Tiny patches of green dot the otherwise harsh landscape far below. If Floyd | only you could find some way to explore that verdant Eden... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "drink wine" | ||||
Floyd | Pulling the cork out with your teeth, you knock back the bottle with Floyd | gusto, then lob the bottle into low orbit. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Ghogg), "Yes, that's something that could perhaps be fixed." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x d" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "fly" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "jump" | ||||
Floyd | You peer over the side. It doesn't really look that dangerous. Still, Floyd | it might be better if you were a little more lubricated first, or had Floyd | some protection. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "aha, nice" | |||
| DavidW asks, "more lubricated, eh?" | ||||
| Ellison says, "hehe" | ||||
| Fang asks, "do we have more wine?" | ||||
| Ghogg says, "we could get more wine" | ||||
| schep asks, "we didn't get that helmet, did we?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Scenic Overlook Floyd | You stand on the lip between two overlapping lunar craters; the one Floyd | into which you crash-landed is dwarfed by the immense, ancient crater Floyd | before you. Far below you on the crater floor, you can make out patches Floyd | of green; beyond that, a sprawling silvery mass, many kilometres to the Floyd | north, that can only be the secret Atlantean lunar base. First, Floyd | however, you have to find some way of getting down this cliff. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "McWiggy kept the helmet, I think." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | The crater walls are too steep in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | The crater walls are too steep in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "try getting sauced up more" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lunar Crater Floyd | Wow you've landed on the moon! Gray, rocky, dusty, airless landscape Floyd | stretches all around. Floyd | Floyd | A double line of suspicious footprints leads to the crater's center. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a crate of wine (in which are some wine bottles) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You make an attempt on the crater walls, but they're just too steep. Floyd | There does seem to be an easier climb to the north, however. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drink wine" | ||||
Floyd | (the wine bottles) Floyd | Glancing around to make sure you are unobserved, you snaffle a bottle Floyd | of delicious wine. Floyd | Floyd | Normally you wouldn't drink this much, what with the lunar oxygen Floyd | saturation and everything... Floyd | Floyd | This time your throw is distinctly wobbly, and the bottle barely makes Floyd | it over the horizon. Your sense of self-preservation feels somewhat Floyd | dulled, too. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "if we get drunk enough we might have the confidence to jump" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Scenic Overlook Floyd | You stand on the lip between two overlapping lunar craters; the one Floyd | into which you crash-landed is dwarfed by the immense, ancient crater Floyd | before you. Far below you on the crater floor, you can make out patches Floyd | of green; beyond that, a sprawling silvery mass, many kilometres to the Floyd | north, that can only be the secret Atlantean lunar base. First, Floyd | however, you have to find some way of getting down this cliff. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||
Floyd | With a silent invocation to the Cosmic Overlords, you close your eyes Floyd | and fling yourself off the cliff. Floyd | Floyd | Thanks to lunar gravity and the relaxing effects of pinot noir, you Floyd | avoid being splattered like a ripe tomato. And would a true hero be Floyd | slowed down by a fractured arm? Hardly! Floyd | Floyd | Lunar Vinyard Floyd | Ah, the sun-kissed slopes of Jules Verne Crater, where the grape grows Floyd | and the wallabies frolic. Presumably. You've yet to see any wallabies, Floyd | but there are certainly grapevines aplenty. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a big craggy moon rock here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Ghogg), "This is, after all, maga's section." | |||
| Ghogg says, "yay" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sometimes, one must think like the author." | ||||
| schep says, "the message did change between zero bottles and one bottle" | ||||
| HairBrain says, "BINARY WINE" | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "x rock" | ||||
Floyd | This is a pretty big moon rock - you could probably sit down on it and Floyd | take a load off, except that its surface is pretty rough and craggy and Floyd | it doesn't look all that comfortable. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "I'm freezing and it's dark..." | |||
| Ellison says (to HB), "ha" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x grapes" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the grape vines. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "sit on rock" | ||||
Floyd | You get onto the big craggy moon rock. Floyd | Floyd | "OK, you've moved on. You look for a room and object, and I'll get you Floyd | a recharger." Leslie sounds a bit haggard, but hopeful. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take rock" | ||||
Floyd | Uuuugh! Nope, you can't lift it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take grapes" | ||||
Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | Around the edge of a nearby trellis wanders a heretofore unseen wombat. Floyd | Floyd | Wait. Wombat?! Wombats don't exist. They're like... wallabies. And Floyd | kangaroos. And walaroos. And Tasmanian devils. And dingoes who eat Floyd | babies. They're all made up, mythical creatures from the fictional Floyd | continent of Australia... Floyd | Floyd | You rub your eyes in disbelief, but when you look again, the wombat is Floyd | still there. Upon seeing you, he stops, cocks his head, then narrows Floyd | his eyes and wrinkles his hairy snout. He appears to be... snarling. Floyd | It's all a bit of a farce, really - something so little and adorable as Floyd | a wombat trying to look threatening. Floyd | Floyd | What was it you heard about Wombats, anyway? They're herbivores... Floyd | right? Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "hm, we probably should save" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up wombat in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | Deceptively adorable, these mythical creatures from the fictional Floyd | continent of Australia are about a meter long, with a very short tail. Floyd | A favorite prey of the Tasmanian devil (also mythical), wombats are Floyd | generally thought to be shy herbivores. Legend holds, however, that Floyd | they possess sharp teeth and claws, can run at 40 km/hr, and have been Floyd | known to kill the (equally mythical) dingo. They have even been known Floyd | to exist in vinyards. That is, if they're actually real, which they're Floyd | not. But if they were real, it would also be interesting to note that Floyd | their scat is cubical. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "look up wombat in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | Deceptively adorable, these mythical creatures from the fictional Floyd | continent of Australia are about a meter long, with a very short tail. Floyd | A favorite prey of the Tasmanian devil (also mythical), wombats are Floyd | generally thought to be shy herbivores. Legend holds, however, that Floyd | they possess sharp teeth and claws, can run at 40 km/hr, and have been Floyd | known to kill the (equally mythical) dingo. They have even been known Floyd | to exist in vinyards. That is, if they're actually real, which they're Floyd | not. But if they were real, it would also be interesting to note that Floyd | their scat is cubical. Floyd | Floyd | Before you can make a move, the deceptively adorable wombat leaps Floyd | forward and tries to eviscerate you with his mighty digging claws! Floyd | You're able to tear away from his vicious teeth just in time... Floyd | Floyd | You might want to keep track of how you're doing by diagnosing Floyd | yourself. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep asks, "but we're drunk; what can go wrong?" | |||
| Ghogg says, "hee hee" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "look up australia in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | A weighty appendix, which constitutes about three-quarters of the Floyd | book's actual weight, details the histories of such fictional Floyd | continents as Atlantis, Lemuria, Mu and Australia. Despite their Floyd | technical non-existence, cultural belief in them sustains their Floyd | para-existence in the collective subconscious, better known as the Floyd | moon. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "heh, I love games that make use of >DIAGNOSE" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "diagnose" | ||||
Floyd | You must supply a noun. Floyd | Floyd | Before you can make a move, the deceptively adorable wombat sprints Floyd | forward at full speed, knocking you down! You're able to scramble back Floyd | up and turn to face your opponent before the next attack... Floyd | Floyd | Um... you might want to consider saving your game now. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "So do I, my friend." | |||
| Gunther says, "me also" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We already saved, so." | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "diagnose me" | ||||
Floyd | You're not feeling very good. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "author" | ||||
Floyd | Scene 5, "Night of the Wombat", was written by Jacqueline A. Lott. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit wombat" | ||||
Floyd | You jump to the side just as the wombat comes at you, and turn to jab Floyd | him in the side as he goes by! Floyd | Floyd | That was a pretty good hit, but it'll take more than that to put the Floyd | little blighter in line. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit wombat" | ||||
Floyd | You jump to the side just as the wombat comes at you, and turn to jab Floyd | him in the side as he goes by! Floyd | Floyd | The wombat seems to have lost some of the spring in its step. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Ugh. Diagnose.... it's like muccus" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "backhand wombat" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit wombat" | ||||
Floyd | You take a short running kick at the wombat, and it connects! The Floyd | wombat goes flying! Floyd | Floyd | The wombat is doesn't look quite so agile anymore. I think you could Floyd | probably finish the little bugger off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit wombat" | ||||
Floyd | You put everything you have in a solid roundhouse kick, and the wombat Floyd | shuffles away, yelping! Floyd | Floyd | That final blow proved to be too much for the wombat - it lies down, Floyd | rolls over onto its back, its little furry feet wiggle for a few Floyd | seconds, and then the marsupial goes limp. Floyd | Floyd | Looking down upon its adorable frame, you feel a twinge of remorse. Floyd | "It was trying to kill me," you think to yourself. "I had no choice Floyd | but to strike..." You feel a sudden, odd desire to pet the poor Floyd | misguided creature. As you reach out, however, the body starts to Floyd | shimmer, then fade. Soon, it is gone altogether. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "diagnose me" | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You hear a whisper from behind you. It says, "You have proven yourself Floyd | worthy." Floyd | Floyd | You turn around to see a shimmering face suspended in the air at eye Floyd | level. It is the most beautiful face you have ever seen; being in its Floyd | presence fills you with a mixture of both fear and awe. "Are you... Floyd | one of the Cosmic Overlords?" you stammer. Floyd | Floyd | The face smiles at you benevolently. "Yes. The marsupial was... a Floyd | test. It is difficult to bring oneself to strike such a fluffy, Floyd | adorable creature. Some are so entranced by its fluffiness that they Floyd | can never bring themselves to attack it - even if it means their own Floyd | death. Through your skill and bravery in Wombat Combat, you have Floyd | proven yourself worthy of our cause. You will fight the Atlanteans, Floyd | who in their perfidiousness will use many tricks in an attempt to stay Floyd | your hand. Do not fall victim to their beguiling ways. Floyd | Floyd | "But... I'm hurt. How can I be of any use?" you whine. Floyd | Floyd | The Cosmic Overlord rolls its eyes, sighs heavily, and says to you, Floyd | "Okay, we're not supposed to help you out this much, but just this once Floyd | we will..." There is a tingling sensation in your arm... you feel... Floyd | fantastic. And your arm seems to have healed. Floyd | Floyd | "Gee, thanks, Overlord. Say, not to sound ungrateful or anything - Floyd | because I'm certainly very grateful indeed - but... is there anyway you Floyd | could help me get to the Atlantean Base?" Floyd | Floyd | The Overlord narrows its eyes at you. "Okay, fine, but really, this is Floyd | the last time we're helping you. | Limax says, "Aww... poor wombat" | |||
| Limax starts crying | ||||
| HairBrain says, "Videogame death? Really." | ||||
| schep says, "Ha ha, Wombat Combat" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x overlord" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Like, really." | Ellison says, "haha 'just this one time' and 'really, this is the last time'" | |||
| Ghogg asks, "wait, have we updated leslie yet?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | There is a sudden, blinding flash of light, followed by... you're not Floyd | sure what. When you regain consciousness, you find yourself in an Floyd | entirely different place. | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside Atlantean Base Floyd | You find yourself lying on the ground outside the Atlantean Base. You Floyd | get up, dust yourself off, and begin to take in your surroundings. The Floyd | silvery walls of the base rise tall into the starry sky, and seem to Floyd | stretch on endlessly in either direction. Behind you, to the south, Floyd | lies a vast, unwelcoming expanse of moonscape. Floyd | Floyd | You gaze up at the massive, silvery walls with a heavy heart - you Floyd | don't see any way inside, at least not right off the bat. Damn those Floyd | Atlanteans and their treacherous ways. They must have known you were Floyd | coming, and built this giant wall just to thwart you! Floyd | Floyd | "No, Dave, we're losing you!" Leslie cries. "Don't..." and then her Floyd | voice is cut off. Floyd | The detangler base disappears! Floyd | The focuser disappears! Floyd | The power pack disappears! Floyd | The stabilizer disappears! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Oh wait, did we talk to Leslie during the last section?" | |||
| DavidW says, "no, we didn't." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "No full score for us!" | ||||
| Rob says, "#belated hooray for >diagnose. I'm disappointed in myself that I haven't implemented it in my own games, because I often try it when I'm playing IF" | ||||
| Limax says, "I cry" | ||||
| Limax says, "Oh wait... I already did that" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Was the vineyard a section of its own?" | ||||
| baf asks, "Was there anything to pick up in that section?" | ||||
| Limax says (to DavidW), "Yes" | ||||
| Ghogg says (to DavidW), "yeah, Leslie prompted us" | ||||
| trikiw says, "I didn't program anything re Leslie in that section, though" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes, the vineyard was it's own section." | ||||
| DavidW says (to baf), "I don't think there was anything to pick up." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, I think there was, but you had to search for it." | ||||
| schep says, "maybe we could tell Leslie about the wombat or rock anyway" | ||||
| baf says, "Well. Maybe we could fob off something we had already picked up." | ||||
| Ellison says (to Jacqueline), "I don't know why we would trust your intuitions on the level" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Do we need to restore?" | ||||
| baf says, "Only if we want to cooperate with Leslie." | ||||
| schep says, "if the only effect is no full score, let's just skip it" | ||||
| baf says, "I know, I know. How can you refuse to cooperate with the voiced in your head? It's hard." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, see, I don't know if it matters more than just merely attaining the full score." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to baf), "heehee yay" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||||
Floyd | A sprawling silvery mass, yes. And filled, no doubt, with treachery. Floyd | You must find a way inside! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search wall" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "okay, then I'm fine with restoring for that" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "hit wall" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x base" | ||||
Floyd | A sprawling silvery mass, yes. And filled, no doubt, with treachery. Floyd | You must find a way inside! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ground" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Outside Atlantean Base Floyd | You find yourself standing outside the Atlantean Base. The silvery Floyd | walls of the base rise tall into the starry sky, and seem to stretch on Floyd | endlessly in either direction. Behind you, to the south, lies a vast, Floyd | unwelcoming expanse of moonscape. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sky" | ||||
Floyd | The sky appears as a dark, enveloping blanket, studded with Floyd | diamond-like stars which twinkle at you. The two most prominent Floyd | objects in the heavens are the Earth and the Sun. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x earth" | ||||
Floyd | Gazing up at the blue-and-white marble that mankind calls home, your Floyd | heart swells with an inexpressible and profound feeling... of Floyd | resentment that the Atlanteans imprisoned humanity on such a dingy Floyd | little orb. No wonder the females evolved smaller breasts. Floyd | Floyd | You note, with a touch of bitterness, the patch of ocean where Floyd | so-called "geographers" claim Australia is located. How dare Google Floyd | Earth lie to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x earth" | ||||
Floyd | Gazing up at the blue-and-white marble that mankind calls home, your Floyd | heart swells with an inexpressible and profound feeling... of Floyd | resentment that the Atlanteans imprisoned humanity on such a dingy Floyd | little orb. No wonder the females evolved smaller breasts. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "even though I'm just watching, I do have to say that this game didn't grab me at first (and I wasn't paying very good attention) but has become very entertaining" | |||
| HairBrain says, "ha ha ha" | ||||
| olethros has disconnected. | ||||
| olethros goes home. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sun" | Limax says, "Yeah... my section is very boring" | |||
Floyd | The light emanating from the sun takes only minutes to travel this far. Floyd | It's a shame there's not more atmosphere to trap some of that heat and Floyd | keep you warm. Better watch what you wish for, though - the people of Floyd | Earth asked for an atmosphere that could retain heat and we all know Floyd | what happened there, don't we now? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The moonscape draws on endlessly in that direction, desolate and Floyd | barren. Your destiny lies in front of you, inside the Atlantean Base. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x moonscape" | ||||
Floyd | Gazing out across the moonscape, you realize that there are no words to Floyd | properly describe it. Vast... unwelcoming... those are just the start. Floyd | If you had to put it into one word, it would be this: lonely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||||
Floyd | You dig up nothing useful. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "author" | ||||
Floyd | Scene 6, "Entering the Unknown", was written by Mark J. Musante. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb wall" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| HairBrain says (to Floyd), "silence lambs" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gate" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says (to Limax), "aw, I'm sure it was probably just me and my attention span" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "knock on moonbase" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||||
Floyd | Your singing is abominable. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Outside Atlantean Base Floyd | You find yourself standing outside the Atlantean Base. The silvery Floyd | walls of the base rise tall into the starry sky, and seem to stretch on Floyd | endlessly in either direction. Behind you, to the south, lies a vast, Floyd | unwelcoming expanse of moonscape. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | There are no entrances visible east or west. Trudging around the Floyd | entire base on the off-chance that a convenient door might pop up Floyd | borders on madness. You'll have to try finding another way in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x sky" | ||||
Floyd | The sky appears as a dark, enveloping blanket, studded with Floyd | diamond-like stars which twinkle at you. The two most prominent Floyd | objects in the heavens are the Earth and the Sun. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x earth" | ||||
Floyd | Gazing up at the blue-and-white marble that mankind calls home, your Floyd | heart swells with an inexpressible and profound feeling... of Floyd | resentment that the Atlanteans imprisoned humanity on such a dingy Floyd | little orb. No wonder the females evolved smaller breasts. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wish on star" | ||||
Floyd | [wish -> with] Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x star" | ||||
Floyd | The sky appears as a dark, enveloping blanket, studded with Floyd | diamond-like stars which twinkle at you. The two most prominent Floyd | objects in the heavens are the Earth and the Sun. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Outside Atlantean Base Floyd | You find yourself standing outside the Atlantean Base. The silvery Floyd | walls of the base rise tall into the starry sky, and seem to stretch on Floyd | endlessly in either direction. Behind you, to the south, lies a vast, Floyd | unwelcoming expanse of moonscape. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says (to Ellison), "No... I just put together some rooms for the other people to build on" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x sun" | ||||
Floyd | The light emanating from the sun takes only minutes to travel this far. Floyd | It's a shame there's not more atmosphere to trap some of that heat and Floyd | keep you warm. Better watch what you wish for, though - the people of Floyd | Earth asked for an atmosphere that could retain heat and we all know Floyd | what happened there, don't we now? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "climb wall" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch wall" | ||||
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push wall" | ||||
Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "open sesame" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "hit wall" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a shovel Floyd | a lesser mantid head Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy Floyd | a house key Floyd | water bottle (empty) Floyd | a backpack (open) Floyd | a flashlight Floyd | a sheet Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open wall" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a shovel Floyd | a lesser mantid head Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy Floyd | a house key Floyd | water bottle (empty) Floyd | a backpack (open) Floyd | a flashlight Floyd | a sheet Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "knock on wall" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l up wall in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Floyd | Conspiracy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||||
Floyd | You dig up nothing useful. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "jump over wall" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to jump. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||
Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "look up atlantean in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | The book contains a pretty comprehensive summary of Atlantean perfidy, Floyd | from imperilling the very fabric of the collective subconscious by Floyd | their treachery against the Cosmic Overlords, to trimming their pubic Floyd | hairs in your soap dish. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up altantas in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Floyd | Conspiracy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "disbelieve wall" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up altantean base in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | [altantean -> atlantean] Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Floyd | Conspiracy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up silvery wall in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Floyd | Conspiracy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Outside Atlantean Base Floyd | You find yourself standing outside the Atlantean Base. The silvery Floyd | walls of the base rise tall into the starry sky, and seem to stretch on Floyd | endlessly in either direction. Behind you, to the south, lies a vast, Floyd | unwelcoming expanse of moonscape. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "think" | ||||
Floyd | What a good idea. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "wake up" | ||||
Floyd | The dreadful truth is, this is not a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The moonscape draws on endlessly in that direction, desolate and Floyd | barren. Your destiny lies in front of you, inside the Atlantean Base. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "ask overlord for help" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||||
Floyd | You dig up nothing useful. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "feel wall" | ||||
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a shovel Floyd | a lesser mantid head Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy Floyd | a house key Floyd | water bottle (empty) Floyd | a backpack (open) Floyd | a flashlight Floyd | a sheet Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask leslie about atlantean base" | ||||
Floyd | There are no entrances visible east or west. Trudging around the Floyd | entire base on the off-chance that a convenient door might pop up Floyd | borders on madness. You'll have to try finding another way in. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "look up atlantis in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | A weighty appendix, which constitutes about three-quarters of the Floyd | book's actual weight, details the histories of such fictional Floyd | continents as Atlantis, Lemuria, Mu and Australia. Despite their Floyd | technical non-existence, cultural belief in them sustains their Floyd | para-existence in the collective subconscious, better known as the Floyd | moon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||||
Floyd | A sprawling silvery mass, yes. And filled, no doubt, with treachery. Floyd | You must find a way inside! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "bang head against wall" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "meditate" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up moon in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | Why does the moon coincidentally look exactly the same size as the sun? Floyd | Why did all ancient civilisations venerate a Moon deity? Why do the Floyd | Freemasons have no lodges in Antarctica? If you're not convinced by Floyd | now, there's clearly no hope for you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "walk through wall" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "find way" | ||||
Floyd | [way -> pay] Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "look up atlantean base in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Floyd | Conspiracy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "enter wall" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit wall" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "touch wall" | ||||
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull wall" | ||||
Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "rub wall" | ||||
Floyd | You achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "hint" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "break wall" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss wall" | ||||
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lick wall" | ||||
Floyd | [lick -> pick] Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kick wall" | ||||
Floyd | [kick -> pick] Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search wall" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gate" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| HairBrain says (to Floyd), "tango" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yell" | ||||
Floyd | [yell -> cell] Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "I think it's time for somebody who knows the answer to drop a hint" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "give up" | ||||
Floyd | (to yourself) Floyd | You must name something more substantial. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||||
Floyd | You dig up nothing useful. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fly" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "go to sleep" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "I haven't got past this section myself" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "yell" | ||||
Floyd | [yell -> cell] Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "wear sheet" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the sheet) Floyd | (putting the empty water bottle into the backpack to make room) Floyd | You're carrying too many things already. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "get wall" | ||||
Floyd | They are too massive, too endless, too... silvery to take. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "lemme find the code" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Outside Atlantean Base Floyd | You find yourself standing outside the Atlantean Base. The silvery Floyd | walls of the base rise tall into the starry sky, and seem to stretch on Floyd | endlessly in either direction. Behind you, to the south, lies a vast, Floyd | unwelcoming expanse of moonscape. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close eyes" | ||||
Floyd | [eyes -> yes] Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger asks, "what do dave and gordon freeman have in common?" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "author" | ||||
Floyd | Scene 6, "Entering the Unknown", was written by Mark J. Musante. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf asks, "Spacesuits?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "enter unknown" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "no." | |||
| Ghogg asks, "is this a For a Change reference?" | ||||
| baf says, "I mean, okay, in Freeman's case it's not really a spacesuit, but it heeps him alive in an alien atmosphere, so I say it's just as good as one." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "I'm stumped. Are you sure we don't need to restore?" | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "get sun" | ||||
Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "get wall" | ||||
Floyd | They are too massive, too endless, too... silvery to take. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | empty water bottle: (putting the house key into the backpack to make Floyd | room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | flashlight: (putting Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy into the Floyd | backpack to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | sheet: (putting the lesser mantid head into the backpack to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "Silvery, huh." | |||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "put sheet on wall" | ||||
Floyd | Putting things on the Silvery Walls would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "scratch wall" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | You switch the flashlight on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l in wall" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "scrape wall" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hit wall" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "shine flashlight at wall" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to shine the flashlight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rob has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shine flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | You achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "lick wall" | ||||
Floyd | [lick -> pick] Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Outside Atlantean Base Floyd | You find yourself standing outside the Atlantean Base. The silvery Floyd | walls of the base rise tall into the starry sky, and seem to stretch on Floyd | endlessly in either direction. Behind you, to the south, lies a vast, Floyd | unwelcoming expanse of moonscape. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn off flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | You switch the flashlight off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Outside Atlantean Base Floyd | You find yourself standing outside the Atlantean Base. The silvery Floyd | walls of the base rise tall into the starry sky, and seem to stretch on Floyd | endlessly in either direction. Behind you, to the south, lies a vast, Floyd | unwelcoming expanse of moonscape. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||||
Floyd | A sprawling silvery mass, yes. And filled, no doubt, with treachery. Floyd | You must find a way inside! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | There are no entrances visible east or west. Trudging around the Floyd | entire base on the off-chance that a convenient door might pop up Floyd | borders on madness. You'll have to try finding another way in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "search wall" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | The moonscape draws on endlessly in that direction, desolate and Floyd | barren. Your destiny lies in front of you, inside the Atlantean Base. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | The moonscape draws on endlessly in that direction, desolate and Floyd | barren. Your destiny lies in front of you, inside the Atlantean Base. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | [scream -> stream] Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "The response to 'x wall' seems to have an extra space in it." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||||
Floyd | A sprawling silvery mass, yes. And filled, no doubt, with treachery. Floyd | You must find a way inside! Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "Maybe we can fit through that space." | |||
| Ghogg asks, "did we try to just jump over the wall?" | ||||
| baf says, "Yes." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||
Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump over wall" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to jump. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "hmmm" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump wall" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to jump. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "empty wall" | ||||
Floyd | You will have to do that manually. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | As good-looking as ever. Floyd | Floyd | You are horrendously drunk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "get treachery" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in wall" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "clean wall" | ||||
Floyd | You achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "touch wall" | ||||
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "sit on wall" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can sit down on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tarnish wall" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "diagnose" | ||||
Floyd | You must supply a noun. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x reflection" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "desecrate wall" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ground" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "diagnose me" | ||||
Floyd | You're not feeling very good. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "look up silver in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | Silver is a chemical element with the symbol Ag (Latin: argentum) and Floyd | atomic number 47. Atlanteans used silver for much of their building Floyd | material, having learned how to make it stronger and more durable than Floyd | any steel alloy created on Earth. Showoffs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "wall, open" | ||||
Floyd | You can't talk to the Silvery Walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says, "Hmmm" | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "base, open" | ||||
Floyd | You can't talk to the Silvery Walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "er, hmmmm" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "hal, open the silvery walls" | ||||
Floyd | [hal -> half] Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "issue challenge" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "diagnose wall" | ||||
Floyd | Only living things can be diagnosed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "turn on flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | You switch the flashlight on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "tell atlanteans to open the goddamned door" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||||
Floyd | What's this? The light from the flashlight illuminates a twinkly Floyd | pattern on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oo" | |||
| DavidW says, "argh" | ||||
| maga says, "(not guilty, guvnor)" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x pattern" | ||||
Floyd | The pattern sparkles and twinkles in the artificial light. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "'shine flashlight at wall' likely should've done that too" | |||
| baf asks, "Wait, wasn't the flashlight on already?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "push pattern" | ||||
Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "touch pattern" | ||||
Floyd | You reach out for the pattern, and a spark of static shocks your Floyd | finger. You reach out again, and you are Drawn Inside. Floyd | Floyd | Plain Silver Room Floyd | The interior of the Atlantean's base is a great deal more hospitable Floyd | than the lunar surface was. But that's not saying much. The walls of Floyd | this room are as shiny and silvery as the giant silvery wall was Floyd | outside. A simple, unmarked doorway leads north. Floyd | At last - you're on the brink of discovering what fate your parents Floyd | met. Perhaps they're even still alive! Maybe they can reassure you Floyd | that Aunt Bertha was your aunt by marriage and not by blood... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to baf), "No, guess not." | |||
| schep says, "somebody turned it off again" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I turned it off again when it didn't seem to do anything." | ||||
| baf says, "I mean, we turned it off at one point." | ||||
| Limax asks, "WHere are we?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "author" | ||||
Floyd | Scene 6, "Entering the Unknown", was written by Mark J. Musante. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, this has had some light testing, but I'm sure this transcript we're keeping will be helpful." | |||
| schep says, "we're Inside" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Limax), "Just inside the base." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Junction 27-B Floyd | East and west sparkle and twinkle at you, down a long featureless Floyd | corridor. A doorway is in the south wall, with a Greek letter theta Floyd | above. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Okay" | |||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "look up theta in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Floyd | Conspiracy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "stroke 6" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "uh-oh. Could be a maze." | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "look up mazes in alamanac" | ||||
Floyd | [alamanac -> almanac] Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Floyd | Conspiracy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I seem to remember that it feels like a maze, but it's not." | |||
| Ghogg asks, "save?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But then, I have a poor memory, so." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn off flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "drop head" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "er, where's our stuff?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Got dropped outside?" | ||||
| schep asks, "did the backpack not get Drawn Inside with us?" | ||||
| baf says, "I'm guessing it's in Acererak's treasure chamber." | ||||
| schep says, "hee hee" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch wall" | ||||
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "No. You have nothing but the almanac, IIRC" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "ideas?" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Limax says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "s. se. sw." | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x walls" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about Silvery corridor walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "drop almanac" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "interesting" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "get almanac" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e" | Jacqueline says, "Tricky" | |||
Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Junction 27-B Floyd | East and west sparkle and twinkle at you, down a long featureless Floyd | corridor. A doorway is in the south wall, with a Greek letter theta Floyd | above. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Junction 27-B Floyd | East and west sparkle and twinkle at you, down a long featureless Floyd | corridor. A doorway is in the south wall, with a Greek letter theta Floyd | above. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | What's this? A small yet silvery box? This wasn't here before, was Floyd | it? Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "wait!" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "w.w.w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | What's this? A small yet silvery box? This wasn't here before, was Floyd | it? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w.w.w." | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Junction 27-B Floyd | East and west sparkle and twinkle at you, down a long featureless Floyd | corridor. A doorway is in the south wall, with a Greek letter theta Floyd | above. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh. Go back." | |||
| Limax says, "GO BACK" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
| Floyd says (to Jacqueline), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." | Jacqueline says, "GAH" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
| Floyd says (to Jacqueline), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." | Limax smack FLoyd | |||
| Ghogg says, "we saved, no sweat" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load houseofdreamofmoon" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your very first night is over in your new house. It still seems Floyd | surreal that you are now the proud owner of this place. It doesn't Floyd | quite feel like home yet since you haven't been able to get your Floyd | furniture. However, you can't get the rental truck until tomorrow. Floyd | Maybe today would be a good idea to explore those woods behind your Floyd | house. It'll be a good way to kill time until you can get properly Floyd | moved in tomorrow. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | House of Dream of Moon Floyd | An Interactive Collaboration by The IF Whispers Team Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 071204 / Inform 7 build 5J39 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/11N) Floyd | Type "about" for more information. Floyd | Floyd | Master Bedroom (on the mattress) Floyd | All that's unpacked in the room is your mattress with a sheet thrown Floyd | over the top of it. Your dresser is still in storage. Windows look Floyd | out to the north and west, and the closet lies to the south. The Floyd | hallway is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Corridor Junction 27-B Floyd | East and west sparkle and twinkle at you, down a long featureless Floyd | corridor. A doorway is in the south wall, with a Greek letter theta Floyd | above. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "..Baf?" | |||
| Alex says (to Jacqueline), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that baf is baf's guide, which is baf's guide to the if-archive, which is a database of descriptions and reviews for virtually all the games on the archive, located at http://www.wurb.com/if/." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Wanna go, Baf?" | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e.e.e.e.e.e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e.e.e.e.e.e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Junction 27-B Floyd | East and west sparkle and twinkle at you, down a long featureless Floyd | corridor. A doorway is in the south wall, with a Greek letter theta Floyd | above. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e.e.e.e.e.e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Junction 27-B Floyd | East and west sparkle and twinkle at you, down a long featureless Floyd | corridor. A doorway is in the south wall, with a Greek letter theta Floyd | above. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "oh, hey, wraparound" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e.e.e.e.e.e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | What's this? A small yet silvery box? This wasn't here before, was Floyd | it? Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e.e.e.e.e.e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Junction 27-B Floyd | East and west sparkle and twinkle at you, down a long featureless Floyd | corridor. A doorway is in the south wall, with a Greek letter theta Floyd | above. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | What's this? A small yet silvery box? This wasn't here before, was Floyd | it? Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg asks, "is the theta a hint?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "There." | ||||
| schep says, "we've seen the box twice now" | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "w.w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | Boring Corridor Floyd | Silvery, sparkily, twinkly walls all tend to blend into your vision and Floyd | make it all so very disorienting. You're pretty sure the corridor Floyd | leads east and west, but it's hard to be certain. Floyd | Floyd | What's this? A small yet silvery box? This wasn't here before, was Floyd | it? Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "oh, hah" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||||
Floyd | Smallish and silveryish. A fine seam runs round the outside indicating Floyd | that it could be opened. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "get box" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "open box" | ||||
Floyd | You open the small silver box, revealing a complicated button. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "eat box" | ||||
Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x button" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the complicated button. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "push it" | ||||
Floyd | It's too complicated to push it when it's inside the box. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf asks, "How complicated can a button be?" | |||
| DavidW asks (of game), "So what's complicated about it?" | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "get button" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "You see nothing special about the complicated button, except that it's, y'know, complicated." | |||
| schep says, "too complicated to push before taking it" | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | Ah, crap, not again. Floyd | Floyd | Deep Interior Room Floyd | Even deeper still inside the Atlantean Base. You're not sure any more Floyd | if this means you're getting closer to finding your parents. Complex Floyd | machinery hums deep within, and complex controls line every wall of Floyd | this large, cavernous room. The walls are still silvery, though. Floyd | There does not appear to be any exit. Floyd | Floyd | A hairline fracture can be seen in the southeast wall, not even wide Floyd | enough to put your fingernail inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to schep), "ha" | |||
| Fang says, "it's a button with feelings" | ||||
| baf says, "Finding our parents seems to have become the plot." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look up parents in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Floyd | Conspiracy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x controls" | ||||
Floyd | A vast wall of dials, levers, knobs, gears, and readouts. If you Floyd | started at one end and analyzed them until you got to the other, it Floyd | would probably take you three days, and you would be none the wiser for Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x crack" | ||||
Floyd | It wouldn't even be noticable if it wasn't in the middle of an Floyd | otherwise blank section of wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look up mom in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | Your mother was a beautiful, amazing woman, as far as you can remember. Floyd | Unfortunately, she was abducted by the Atlanteans when you were but a Floyd | wee child, and you were sent to live with horrible Aunt Bertha. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up aunt bertha in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | Aunt Bertha wasn't exactly your favorite aunt. When you were forced to Floyd | stay with her as a child, she told you horrible, terrible bedtime Floyd | stories about small children being eviscerated by wallabies. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up wallabies in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | Deceptively adorable, these mythical creatures from the fictional Floyd | continent of Australia are smaller than their closely-related (though Floyd | equally mythical) cousin, the kangaroo. Seeing as how neither one Floyd | exists, the dividing line between what constitutes a wallaby and what Floyd | constitutes a kangaroo is somewhat arbitrary. In general, a wallaby is Floyd | smaller and stockier than a kangaroo, a kangaroo is generally larger Floyd | and lankier than a wallaby, and a "wallaroo" is what you call a Floyd | specimen if you can't bring yourself to otherwise pigeon-hole the Floyd | creature. In myth, wallabies, kangaroos, and wallaroos live in a Floyd | variety of habitats, and one can never be entirely certain that any Floyd | given area is safe from their kicking feet and sharpened claws. They Floyd | have even been known to exist in vinyards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | ||||
Floyd | [lever -> levers] Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x seam" | ||||
Floyd | [seam -> sea] Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crack" | ||||
Floyd | It wouldn't even be noticable if it wasn't in the middle of an Floyd | otherwise blank section of wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push crack" | ||||
Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||||
Floyd | (the crack in the wall) Floyd | It wouldn't even be noticable if it wasn't in the middle of an Floyd | otherwise blank section of wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search crack" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x floor" | ||||
Floyd | You can barely discern a faint, gentle humming under the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | ||||
Floyd | [lever -> levers] Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put shovel in crack" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "listen to floor" | ||||
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen to humming" | ||||
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "touch crack" | ||||
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Deep Interior Room Floyd | Even deeper still inside the Atlantean Base. Complex machinery hums Floyd | deep within, and complex controls line every wall of this large, Floyd | cavernous room. The walls are still silvery, though. There does not Floyd | appear to be any exit. Floyd | Floyd | A hairline fracture can be seen in the southeast wall, not even wide Floyd | enough to put your fingernail inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "push se" | ||||
Floyd | You must name something more substantial. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x machinery" | ||||
Floyd | A vast wall of dials, levers, knobs, gears, and readouts. If you Floyd | started at one end and analyzed them until you got to the other, it Floyd | would probably take you three days, and you would be none the wiser for Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "kick crack" | ||||
Floyd | [kick -> pick] Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "push se wall" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "hit crack" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "analyze machinery" | ||||
Floyd | You dig at the ground with your hands, to no avail. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | [analyze -> analyzer] Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the crack in the wall) Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up fracture in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | Fracturing bones is usually quite painful and should generally be Floyd | avoided as a matter of course. Skeletal fractures can occur in an Floyd | infinite number of ways, only a few of which are included here for the Floyd | sake of brevity: Floyd | Floyd | ---> Getting lit and taking your lunar rover for a spin without due Floyd | regard for the safety of yourself or others. Floyd | Floyd | ---> Getting lit, then challenging a boar grumptar to a wrestling Floyd | match. Floyd | Floyd | ---> Getting lit and pretending you can fly over a lunar crater. Floyd | Floyd | Please notice the common thread in all of these examples and remember Floyd | the anti-binging slogan, kids: UNCHECKED DRINKING LEADS TO ABSENCE OF Floyd | THINKING! And that's one to grow on. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "that is awesome in so many ways" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "look up grumptar in almanac" | Jacqueline says, "Thank you, Ghogg. I think that was me." | |||
Floyd | Not to be confused with your Aunt Bertha, grumptars are a very Floyd | dangerous species indeed. AFGNCAAPs which have wrestled with a boar Floyd | grumptar and lived to tell the tale state that the only creature they Floyd | fear more is the grue. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg exclaims, "but it doesn't help us with this crack!" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Sadly, no." | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "break controls" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up afgncaap in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | Ageless, Faceless, Gender Neutral, Culturally Ambiguous Adventure Floyd | Person. DUH. Didn't you pay attention during IF Theory? Or were you Floyd | too busy dreaming about going into space? Well, your day dreams Floyd | certainly paid off, didn't they, slacker? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "consult almanac about grue" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Floyd | Conspiracy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "look up controls in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | The Atlanteans are notorious for the complexity of their machinery, and Floyd | the controls for those machines are generally just as complex. Whether Floyd | through superstition or habit, however, their dislike of the number 14 Floyd | means that this setting is usually skipped for most controls, and if it Floyd | is included, it is usually involved with some sort of fail-safe Floyd | measure. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | That was a rhetorical question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says, "14" | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "say 14" | ||||
Floyd | (to yourself) Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x lever 14" | ||||
Floyd | [lever -> levers] Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the complex Floyd | controls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x 14" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "count controls" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x controls" | ||||
Floyd | A vast wall of dials, levers, knobs, gears, and readouts. If you Floyd | started at one end and analyzed them until you got to the other, it Floyd | would probably take you three days, and you would be none the wiser for Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "set machinery to 14" | ||||
Floyd | No, you can't set that to anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says (to floyd), "set dial to 14" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x fourteenth" | ||||
Floyd | [fourteenth -> fourteenth] Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "er" | |||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "set dial to 14" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x levers" | ||||
Floyd | A vast wall of dials, levers, knobs, gears, and readouts. If you Floyd | started at one end and analyzed them until you got to the other, it Floyd | would probably take you three days, and you would be none the wiser for Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dials" | ||||
Floyd | A vast wall of dials, levers, knobs, gears, and readouts. If you Floyd | started at one end and analyzed them until you got to the other, it Floyd | would probably take you three days, and you would be none the wiser for Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x knobs" | ||||
Floyd | A vast wall of dials, levers, knobs, gears, and readouts. If you Floyd | started at one end and analyzed them until you got to the other, it Floyd | would probably take you three days, and you would be none the wiser for Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gears" | ||||
Floyd | A vast wall of dials, levers, knobs, gears, and readouts. If you Floyd | started at one end and analyzed them until you got to the other, it Floyd | would probably take you three days, and you would be none the wiser for Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x readouts" | ||||
Floyd | A vast wall of dials, levers, knobs, gears, and readouts. If you Floyd | started at one end and analyzed them until you got to the other, it Floyd | would probably take you three days, and you would be none the wiser for Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hmph" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x 14" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "look up 14 in alamanac" | ||||
Floyd | [alamanac -> almanac] Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Floyd | Conspiracy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fourteenth" | ||||
Floyd | [fourteenth -> fourteenth] Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x fourteen" | ||||
Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I have not been this far, so instead of being frustrated because I know the answer and can't say anything, I am instead just frustrated." | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "search controls" | ||||
Floyd | Without something particular to search for, your task is hopeless. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "search controls for 14" | ||||
Floyd | A-ha! In an otherwise unremarkable corner is a dial with a 14 on it! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yay" | |||
| Ghogg says, "w00t, the power of collaberative solving" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dial" | ||||
Floyd | The dial is fairly unremarkable, but it can be set to all values Floyd | between 1 and 20. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "set dial to 14" | ||||
Floyd | The machinery rumbles and roars as part by part of it screeches to a Floyd | halt! The room shudders and groans until you have to plug your ears Floyd | from the noise. Finally, the dust settles and everything is quiet. Floyd | The dial seems to have come off in your hands, too. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "eat dial" | ||||
Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Deep Interior Room Floyd | Even deeper still inside the Atlantean Base. Complex machinery hums Floyd | deep within, and complex controls line every wall of this large, Floyd | cavernous room. The walls are still silvery, though. There does not Floyd | appear to be any exit. Floyd | Floyd | All the shuddering has opened the crack wide enough for you to slip Floyd | through to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell leslie about dial" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "That'll come in handy if we need to shut off some other atlantean machine." | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "don't you wish everybody used a dial?" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Archive Lobby Floyd | Dozens of pigeon holes line the walls, most of them filled with what Floyd | could only be scrolls. The ceiling of the room is paneled with some Floyd | kind of crystalline material; the panels glow softly, providing a Floyd | gentle illumination. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the room filled with machinery through the crack to the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | Floyd | One of the scrolls has been left lying here on the floor. It looks Floyd | badly damaged. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | [wish -> with] Floyd | [used -> fused] Floyd | [dial? -> dial] Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "author" | ||||
Floyd | Scene 8, "Mechanisms and More", was written by Admiral Jota. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x damaged scroll" | ||||
Floyd | This scroll is in bad shape. Not only is the handle broken off and the Floyd | material itself fraying at the edges, but there are two distinct sets Floyd | of text inscribed on it: the original Atlantean text, which you can Floyd | make neither head nor tail of, and then a separate message written over Floyd | that in black marker -- and in your mother's handwriting! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "read scroll" | ||||
Floyd | With black marker and in an uneven hand, someone -- apparently your Floyd | mother, from the handwriting -- has scrawled this message: "Have we Floyd | escaped from her voice? Maybe if we press on, go further in... If I did Floyd | not have my husband and he I, then surely we would have both been Floyd | driven mad by now. She calls herself Lucy, and she sends such confusing Floyd | hullicinations. I fear that even my memories can no longer be trusted. Floyd | She seems to want us to trust her, but I cannot understand why... Floyd | Whoever you are, if you find this, you must resist her suggestions at Floyd | all costs! I think. I honestly no longer know why... or even what is Floyd | real anymore. It is as though everything is slipping away... No. I am Floyd | certain we will find answers further on. Onward, always, onward, Floyd | always, onward..." It trails off into a scrawl at that point. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "gosh" | |||
| Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look up lucy in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | The Atlantean legends are unclear on whether this figure is meant to Floyd | represent some sort of demon or monster, or if it is merely a human Floyd | being who achieved both great power and great viillainy. Her exact name Floyd | varies according to the source text: sometimes it is written as Floyd | "Lisellyi" or "Leslea"; other sources refer to her as "L'Z'L", perhaps Floyd | as a reference to the holy tetragrammaton. Some modern academics have Floyd | taken to transliterating the name as "Leslie" or even "Lucille", Floyd | although this is generally recognized as a sign of less serious Floyd | scholarship. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "hullicinations: imagining hull breaches on deck 27" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take scroll" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "Fortunately, we've already ditched the imaginary voice." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "So we have." | ||||
| Limax asks, "Whom?" | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Archive Lobby Floyd | Dozens of pigeon holes line the walls, most of them filled with what Floyd | could only be scrolls. The ceiling of the room is paneled with some Floyd | kind of crystalline material; the panels glow softly, providing a Floyd | gentle illumination. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the room filled with machinery through the crack to the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Leslie" | |||
| Limax says, "Oh" | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "x material" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "x panels" | ||||
Floyd | The ceiling of the room is paneled with some kind of crystalline Floyd | material; the panels glow softly, providing a gentle illumination. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x panels" | ||||
Floyd | The ceiling of the room is paneled with some kind of crystalline Floyd | material; the panels glow softly, providing a gentle illumination. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "author" | ||||
Floyd | Scene 8, "Mechanisms and More", was written by Admiral Jota. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take crystal" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x scrolls" | ||||
Floyd | Time has not been kind to this repository of information, and many of Floyd | the scrolls are damaged or missing. But by the number of Floyd | brightly-colored handles sticking out of their pigeon-holes, it would Floyd | seem a fair number have survived. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x scroll 14" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the damaged scroll. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "count scrolls" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search scrolls" | ||||
Floyd | This one is wedged tightly in its slot... That one is too fragile, and Floyd | would probably crumble if you pulled too hard on it.. Ah, but here's Floyd | one that you slide out easily. It seems to be decorated with colorful Floyd | pictures. Floyd | Floyd | There may even be more loose ones, if you keep looking. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "Maybe this is the point where we have to restore and get Leslie back to proceed." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search scrolls" | ||||
Floyd | After a little more searching, you discover another scroll that can be Floyd | safely removed: one with a distinctive silvery handle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "read colorful scroll" | ||||
Floyd | Most of the text on this scroll is in a dialect that's utterly Floyd | indecipherable to you. However, it does feature several colorful Floyd | diagrams, and you notice that the numerals they're labeled with look Floyd | remarkably like modern ones. Most of the pictures seem to depict Floyd | complicated mechanisms that you can't quite follow, although there does Floyd | seem to be a definite progression of colors from light blue, through Floyd | green and then yellow, finally leading up to a reddish-orange. The Floyd | simplest diagram you can find is made of gemotric shapes: two Floyd | equilateral triangles. The message next to the smaller one includes the Floyd | numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4. The larger one has a similar caption, but with Floyd | the numbers 5, 10, 15, and 20. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "read silvery scroll" | ||||
Floyd | This scroll contains some rather boring honorations to Atlantean Floyd | doctors gone long before your grandparents were born. Your father has Floyd | scribbled over this one in his distinctive, plain handwriting: "What Floyd | can we do? Everything is so strange here, everything is locked, or Floyd | dangerous...or worse. Those hallucinations, they are all to real? How Floyd | shall I decide what's what? She, Lucy, stole my pet, hide it somewhere Floyd | beneath the small chamber. How to free him?" Floyd | Floyd | -Is this a trick? You can't remember your parents having any pets. Floyd | Must've been after you left, then. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "the communication break seemed unrelated to skipping telling her about a place and object" | |||
| Ghogg says, "yeah, I think that's just -10 points" | ||||
| baf says, "So, 14 is small red-orange, large green." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I think we would have lost her coming in here anyway." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But who knows." | ||||
| Limax says, "Don't look at me... I can't remember" | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "search scrolls" | ||||
Floyd | You check the rest of the pigeon holes, but don't find any more intact Floyd | scrolls that can be easily removed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg asks, "so we are looking for something on the floors?" | |||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "x floor" | ||||
Floyd | You can barely discern a faint, gentle humming under the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x floor" | ||||
Floyd | You can barely discern a faint, gentle humming under the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Archive Lobby Floyd | Dozens of pigeon holes line the walls, most of them filled with what Floyd | could only be scrolls. The ceiling of the room is paneled with some Floyd | kind of crystalline material; the panels glow softly, providing a Floyd | gentle illumination. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the room filled with machinery through the crack to the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Long Corridor Floyd | A long corridor leads east and west. To the west is the archive and Floyd | lobby. To the east is a closed door made of some kind of greenish Floyd | metal. Archways lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "maybe we use the controls again in combination with the color-thing" | |||
| Ghogg says, "or maybe there's more rooms, duh" | ||||
| schep says, "hey, an unmentioned exit" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "er, corridor?" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Spring Mechanism Room Floyd | The machinery in here seems to be composed primarily of springs, Floyd | interlocking gears, larger springs, large padded plates set up parallel Floyd | to the floor, even larger springs, some sort of piston-like things, and Floyd | even a few absurdly large springs. Conveniently, there seems to be some Floyd | kind of control panel for it all right next to the entrance (which Floyd | leads back south to the corridor). Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "whenever I play an IF game alone I tend to try every exit in every room just in case there's an unmentioned one" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||||
Floyd | Inconveniently, someone seems to have partially disassembled it. You Floyd | can see the places where controls are supposed to be attached (along Floyd | with their labels which you can't read), but all the knobs, switches, Floyd | dials and levers have been removed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "this makes my transcripts look rather spastic" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "put dial on panel" | ||||
Floyd | The dial clicks neatly into place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "set dial to 14" | ||||
Floyd | But that could start all that shaking again! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "set dial to 1" | ||||
Floyd | But that could start all that shaking again! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "take dial" | ||||
Floyd | It's now locked into place. You can still set it to different numbers, Floyd | but it doesn't seem to want to separate from the rest of the panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn dial to 1" | ||||
Floyd | But that could start all that shaking again! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn dial to 5" | ||||
Floyd | But that could start all that shaking again! Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "my bet is we need to find some other piece of info to match with the color scroll" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x dial" | ||||
Floyd | The dial is fairly unremarkable, but it can be set to all values Floyd | between 1 and 20. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "and once we know we can set the dial" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x controls" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Spring Mechanism Room Floyd | The machinery in here seems to be composed primarily of springs, Floyd | interlocking gears, larger springs, large padded plates set up parallel Floyd | to the floor, even larger springs, some sort of piston-like things, and Floyd | even a few absurdly large springs. Conveniently, there seems to be some Floyd | kind of control panel for it all right next to the entrance (which Floyd | leads back south to the corridor). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Long Corridor Floyd | A long corridor leads east and west. To the west is the archive and Floyd | lobby. To the east is a closed door made of some kind of greenish Floyd | metal. Archways lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "x closed door" | ||||
Floyd | [closed -> close] Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | At your touch, the door slides open automatically. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Small Chamber Floyd | This room is small and round. It's only feature is a hole in the Floyd | ground, through which you can see rungs leading downwards, and the Floyd | metal door through which you came. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf asks, "Where the pet was, eh?" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Food locker room Floyd | Steel coats the walls of this long and narrow room. A hole in the Floyd | ceiling leads back up. A doorway leads east. The stench of rotting meat Floyd | waves through it. Next to the doorway, you can see a cage of reinforced Floyd | glass, which is connected to the next room by a grille. Floyd | Floyd | In the cage you see a penguin. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "!" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x penguin" | ||||
Floyd | A cute little penguin, looking heartbreakingly out of place. He looks Floyd | at you with big, scared, black eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep asks, "this isn't another one of those Australian creatures, is it?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cage" | ||||
Floyd | You can't. The only entry is the food slot on top. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "enter food slot" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cage" | ||||
Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "look up penguin in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Floyd | Conspiracy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Guess not." | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "put almanac in slot" | ||||
Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy slides into the cage. Floyd | It misses the penguin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Food locker room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Troll's Cell Floyd | This is some sort of makeshift cell. The walls are steel platings, with Floyd | dents here and there as a fist or a head-ram may make. The stench of Floyd | rotten flesh is almost unbearable and stems from a huge heap of Floyd | half-eaten animals and bones in a corner. There is some writing on the Floyd | wall, just above the grille. Floyd | Floyd | A weak red force field shimmers in the eastern doorway. Floyd | Floyd | An enormous troll sits in the corner of this room! Upon spotting you, Floyd | she stands up and groans. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "diagnose penquin" | ||||
Floyd | [penquin -> penguin] Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Thank you for undoing, baf." | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x troll" | ||||
Floyd | A female Atlantean troll. She's tall and lean, but all there is to her Floyd | seems to be muscle under a green skin covered with eczema and blains. Floyd | Her head is small and round, with protruding veins and short, broken Floyd | horns. She's covered in the remains of a silvery jumpsuit. Floyd | Floyd | The troll slowly moves towards you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "ask troll about penguin" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | She has almost reached you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "read writing" | Jacqueline says, "Oh dear." | |||
Floyd | HAVE FUN! -Lucille Floyd | Floyd | As the troll bites off your head (mercifully quick and mumbling "I Floyd | don't wanna do this Dave"), you think you can hear Lucy laugh Floyd | somewhere, the sound somewhat muffled as your head sinks down the Floyd | troll's throat. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 40 out of a possible 100, in 417 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | > Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "too late" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "undo" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | | Ghogg says, "I think the save confused it" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "yes" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, or QUIT? Floyd | > | schep says, "nah, it was invalid at that point" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, or QUIT? Floyd | > | schep says, "but undo and restore have confused it before" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your very first night is over in your new house. It still seems Floyd | surreal that you are now the proud owner of this place. It doesn't Floyd | quite feel like home yet since you haven't been able to get your Floyd | furniture. However, you can't get the rental truck until tomorrow. Floyd | Maybe today would be a good idea to explore those woods behind your Floyd | house. It'll be a good way to kill time until you can get properly Floyd | moved in tomorrow. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | House of Dream of Moon Floyd | An Interactive Collaboration by The IF Whispers Team Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 071204 / Inform 7 build 5J39 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/11N) Floyd | Type "about" for more information. Floyd | Floyd | Master Bedroom (on the mattress) Floyd | All that's unpacked in the room is your mattress with a sheet thrown Floyd | over the top of it. Your dresser is still in storage. Windows look Floyd | out to the north and west, and the closet lies to the south. The Floyd | hallway is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Deep Interior Room Floyd | Even deeper still inside the Atlantean Base. Complex machinery hums Floyd | deep within, and complex controls line every wall of this large, Floyd | cavernous room. The walls are still silvery, though. There does not Floyd | appear to be any exit. Floyd | Floyd | A hairline fracture can be seen in the southeast wall, not even wide Floyd | enough to put your fingernail inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "That's our latest one, right?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Restore failed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "search machine for 14" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "search machinery for 14" | ||||
Floyd | A-ha! In an otherwise unremarkable corner is a dial with a 14 on it! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "turn dial to 14" | ||||
Floyd | The machinery rumbles and roars as part by part of it screeches to a Floyd | halt! The room shudders and groans until you have to plug your ears Floyd | from the noise. Finally, the dust settles and everything is quiet. Floyd | The dial seems to have come off in your hands, too. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Archive Lobby Floyd | Dozens of pigeon holes line the walls, most of them filled with what Floyd | could only be scrolls. The ceiling of the room is paneled with some Floyd | kind of crystalline material; the panels flicker erratically, lighting Floyd | the room in fits and bursts. A corridor leads east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the room filled with machinery through the crack to the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | Floyd | One of the scrolls has been left lying here on the floor. It looks Floyd | badly damaged. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga asks, "don't we need that dial?" | |||
| schep says, "we auto-took it" | ||||
| baf says, "It came off in our hand." | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Long Corridor Floyd | A long corridor leads east and west. To the west is the archive and Floyd | lobby. To the east is a closed door made of some kind of greenish Floyd | metal. Archways lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You realize that the rumbling you felt earlier hasn't stopped Floyd | completely. Messing around with that machinery must have destabilized Floyd | something deep within the complex, because you can still feel a Floyd | vibration coming up through your feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the metal door) Floyd | At your touch, the door slides halfway open. Then it shudders, jerking Floyd | back and forth for a few moments before slamming shut again. Whatever Floyd | it is that powers the door seems to be malfunctioning. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "is this much longer? I may need to go do other stuff soon" | |||
| schep says, "save please" | ||||
| baf says, "OK, so the door must be what the machine powers." | ||||
| schep says, "or maybe in the penguin's room" | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Archive Lobby Floyd | Dozens of pigeon holes line the walls, most of them filled with what Floyd | could only be scrolls. The ceiling of the room is paneled with some Floyd | kind of crystalline material; the panels flicker erratically, lighting Floyd | the room in fits and bursts. A corridor leads east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the room filled with machinery through the crack to the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | Floyd | One of the scrolls has been left lying here on the floor. It looks Floyd | badly damaged. Floyd | Floyd | The shaking seems to be growing stronger. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Long Corridor Floyd | A long corridor leads east and west. To the west is the archive and Floyd | lobby. To the east is a closed door made of some kind of greenish Floyd | metal. Archways lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | The vibration in the floor suddenly gets much stronger. For a moment it Floyd | feels as though everything is about to come down on your head, but then Floyd | it subsides again to the same mild trembling it was before. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Spring Mechanism Room Floyd | The machinery in here seems to be composed primarily of springs, Floyd | interlocking gears, larger springs, large padded plates set up parallel Floyd | to the floor, even larger springs, some sort of piston-like things, and Floyd | even a few absurdly large springs. Conveniently, there seems to be some Floyd | kind of control panel for it all right next to the entrance (which Floyd | leads back south to the corridor). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "put dial on machine" | ||||
Floyd | Putting things on the spring machinery would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "put dial on panel" | ||||
Floyd | The dial clicks neatly into place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Long Corridor Floyd | A long corridor leads east and west. To the west is the archive and Floyd | lobby. To the east is a closed door made of some kind of greenish Floyd | metal. Archways lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Mechanism Room Floyd | This room seems to exist soley to house an elaborate mechanism which is Floyd | shaking dramatically. If you had to guess, you would say it looked like Floyd | some kind of power generator -- although what kind of power it Floyd | generates, you have no idea. A railing protects you from being injured Floyd | by whatever it is. Or perhaps it prevents whatever it is from being Floyd | damaged by you. An archway leads back north to the corridor. Floyd | Floyd | The shaking seems to be growing stronger. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The machinery starts shaking violently, as though the strain it's been Floyd | under has become too great for it to handle. Just as it seems about to Floyd | tear itself apart, all that energy is somehow shunted back into the Floyd | ground, nearly knocking you off of your feet. After that, the Floyd | shuddering seems to die back down to what it was before, and the Floyd | crystals seem to have changed color. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x crystals" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x crystal" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the large crystal, or the small crystal? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't remember any of this." | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x large" | ||||
Floyd | The large crystal is easily as tall as you are. Its surface is Floyd | perfectly clear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x small" | ||||
Floyd | While much smaller than the large crystal, it's still rather larger Floyd | than your head. Its surface is firey orange. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg asks, "are we supposed to use the color guide to get the crystal a specific color?" | |||
| schep says, "I see no input method" | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Long Corridor Floyd | A long corridor leads east and west. To the west is the archive and Floyd | lobby. To the east is a closed door made of some kind of greenish Floyd | metal. Archways lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Spring Mechanism Room Floyd | The machinery in here seems to be composed primarily of springs, Floyd | interlocking gears, larger springs, large padded plates set up parallel Floyd | to the floor, even larger springs, some sort of piston-like things, and Floyd | even a few absurdly large springs. Conveniently, there seems to be some Floyd | kind of control panel for it all right next to the entrance (which Floyd | leads back south to the corridor). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "turn dial to 4" | ||||
Floyd | The machinery shifts and reconfigures itself in response. You Floyd | immediately notice a significant dampening of the vibrations that Floyd | you've been feeling ever since you entered this area. What was once a Floyd | constant (if minor) trembling of the ground is now naught but a Floyd | barely-perceptible hum. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Long Corridor Floyd | A long corridor leads east and west. To the west is the archive and Floyd | lobby. To the east is a closed door made of some kind of greenish Floyd | metal. Archways lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Mechanism Room Floyd | This room seems to exist soley to house an elaborate mechanism. If you Floyd | had to guess, you would say it looked like some kind of power generator Floyd | -- although what kind of power it generates, you have no idea. A Floyd | railing protects you from being injured by whatever it is. Or perhaps Floyd | it prevents whatever it is from being damaged by you. An archway leads Floyd | back north to the corridor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x large" | ||||
Floyd | The large crystal is easily as tall as you are. Its surface is Floyd | perfectly clear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x small" | ||||
Floyd | While much smaller than the large crystal, it's still rather larger Floyd | than your head. Its surface is perfectly clear. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep asks, "wait, so why can we turn the dial now?" | |||
| DavidW says, "yeah, I don't get what's different." | ||||
| baf says, "Maybe we always could. We just didn't know what setting to turn it to." | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "look up troll in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | These creatures were breed as watchhound for millennia. They are Floyd | considered strupid and slow, but are nigh indestructable due to Floyd | incredible powers of regeneration. Some people even kept them as pets Floyd | in the old days. Those were considered unwise. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep asks, "oh, you computed the setting from the scroll and previous crystal colors?" | |||
| baf says, "I turned it to 4 because that's what the color scroll said that the colors of the crystals means." | ||||
| baf says, "Assuming 'clear' means zero." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "huh" | ||||
| baf says, "Anyway, they're both clear now, so I think we've got it right." | ||||
| schep says, "whatever that means." | ||||
| baf says, "What this affects, I have no idea." | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Long Corridor Floyd | A long corridor leads east and west. To the west is the archive and Floyd | lobby. To the east is a closed door made of some kind of greenish Floyd | metal. Archways lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Archive Lobby Floyd | Dozens of pigeon holes line the walls, most of them filled with what Floyd | could only be scrolls. The ceiling of the room is paneled with some Floyd | kind of crystalline material; the panels glow softly, providing a Floyd | gentle illumination. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the room filled with machinery through the crack to the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | Floyd | One of the scrolls has been left lying here on the floor. It looks Floyd | badly damaged. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x floor" | ||||
Floyd | You can barely discern a faint, gentle humming under the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "What's south of Long Corridor?" | |||
| schep says, "I wonder what happens if we lead the troll to the penguin" | ||||
| schep asks, "the crystals, right?" | ||||
| baf says, "The crystals." | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Long Corridor Floyd | A long corridor leads east and west. To the west is the archive and Floyd | lobby. To the east is a closed door made of some kind of greenish Floyd | metal. Archways lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the metal door) Floyd | At your touch, the door slides open automatically. Floyd | Floyd | Small Chamber Floyd | This room is small and round. It's only feature is a hole in the Floyd | ground, through which you can see rungs leading downwards, and the Floyd | metal door through which you came. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Food locker room Floyd | Steel coats the walls of this long and narrow room. A hole in the Floyd | ceiling leads back up. A doorway leads east. The stench of rotting meat Floyd | waves through it. Next to the doorway, you can see a cage of reinforced Floyd | glass, which is connected to the next room by a grille. Floyd | Floyd | In the cage you see a penguin. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ok, I'm all confused, then." | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "hello penguin" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "consult almanac about troll" | ||||
Floyd | These creatures were breed as watchhound for millennia. They are Floyd | considered strupid and slow, but are nigh indestructable due to Floyd | incredible powers of regeneration. Some people even kept them as pets Floyd | in the old days. Those were considered unwise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to schep), "heh" | |||
| baf asks, "So, was dad's pet the troll or the penguin?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Food locker room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hm" | |||
| schep asks (of Jacq), "?" | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x grille" | ||||
Floyd | The cage is cubical, its sides made of reinforced glass. The is a huge Floyd | red button on the side of it, with wires disappearing into the eastern Floyd | wall, just beside the grille. There is a food slot on top. Floyd | Floyd | In the cage you see the penguin. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "I just undid because last time we were attacked seeminly on a timer, no?" | |||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "look up penguin in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Floyd | Conspiracy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | You push the button and the grille rushes down. The penguin presses Floyd | itself in the corner farthest from the grille, giving out small, Floyd | frightened squawks. After a few breathless seconds, the grille jumps Floyd | back up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "that's only after we went east" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "oh" | ||||
| schep says, "we haven't woken the troll yet" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Gotcha." | ||||
| Ghogg asks, "time opening the button with the troll entering?" | ||||
| schep asks, "Sure. Who wants to drive?" | ||||
| baf says, "How's this for a plan: Wake up the troll, then come back here and press the button so that the squeaking distracts it." | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Troll's Cell Floyd | This is some sort of makeshift cell. The walls are steel platings, with Floyd | dents here and there as a fist or a head-ram may make. The stench of Floyd | rotten flesh is almost unbearable and stems from a huge heap of Floyd | half-eaten animals and bones in a corner. There is some writing on the Floyd | wall, just above the grille. Floyd | Floyd | A weak red force field shimmers in the eastern doorway. Floyd | Floyd | An enormous troll sits in the corner of this room! Upon spotting you, Floyd | she stands up and groans. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Food locker room Floyd | Steel coats the walls of this long and narrow room. A hole in the Floyd | ceiling leads back up. A doorway leads east. The stench of rotting meat Floyd | waves through it. Next to the doorway, you can see a cage of reinforced Floyd | glass, which is connected to the next room by a grille. Floyd | Floyd | In the cage you see a penguin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | You push the button and the grille rushes down. The penguin presses Floyd | itself in the corner farthest from the grille, giving out small, Floyd | frightened squawks. After a few breathless seconds, the grille jumps Floyd | back up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Troll's Cell Floyd | This is some sort of makeshift cell. The walls are steel platings, with Floyd | dents here and there as a fist or a head-ram may make. The stench of Floyd | rotten flesh is almost unbearable and stems from a huge heap of Floyd | half-eaten animals and bones in a corner. There is some writing on the Floyd | wall, just above the grille. Floyd | Floyd | A weak red force field shimmers in the eastern doorway. Floyd | Floyd | You also see a very ugly troll. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "taunt troll" | ||||
Floyd | [taunt -> aunt] Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "hm, troll doesn't follow" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x grille" | ||||
Floyd | A normal grille. Floyd | Floyd | The troll slowly moves towards you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Food locker room Floyd | Steel coats the walls of this long and narrow room. A hole in the Floyd | ceiling leads back up. A doorway leads east. The stench of rotting meat Floyd | waves through it. Next to the doorway, you can see a cage of reinforced Floyd | glass, which is connected to the next room by a grille. Floyd | Floyd | In the cage you see a penguin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "look esat" | ||||
Floyd | [esat -> east] Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x troll" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "Maybe we need to keep the button depressed somehow." | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x wires" | ||||
Floyd | The cage is cubical, its sides made of reinforced glass. The is a huge Floyd | red button on the side of it, with wires disappearing into the eastern Floyd | wall, just beside the grille. There is a food slot on top. Floyd | Floyd | In the cage you see the penguin. Floyd | Floyd | The troll arrives from the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep exclaims, "eep!" | |||
| Ghogg says, "also maybe the writing might be helpful" | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | You push the button and the grille rushes down. The penguin presses Floyd | itself in the corner farthest from the grille, giving out small, Floyd | frightened squawks. After a few breathless seconds, the grille jumps Floyd | back up. Floyd | Floyd | The troll slowly moves towards you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "oh hey" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Troll's Cell Floyd | This is some sort of makeshift cell. The walls are steel platings, with Floyd | dents here and there as a fist or a head-ram may make. The stench of Floyd | rotten flesh is almost unbearable and stems from a huge heap of Floyd | half-eaten animals and bones in a corner. There is some writing on the Floyd | wall, just above the grille. Floyd | Floyd | A weak red force field shimmers in the eastern doorway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "read writing" | ||||
Floyd | HAVE FUN! -Lucille Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x grille" | ||||
Floyd | A normal grille. Floyd | Floyd | The troll arrives from the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oh dear" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x field" | ||||
Floyd | A weak force field. You suppose it's meant to keep the troll's food Floyd | from escaping, as it's too weak to even stop something human-sized, let Floyd | alone a troll. Floyd | Floyd | The troll slowly moves towards you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | It tickles a bit, but you can slip through effortlessly. Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance room Floyd | This is a small, almost featureless room. A plate sits next to the Floyd | eastern doorway, and a huge metal door leads north. Floyd | Floyd | A weak red force field shimmers in the western doorway. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a steel door here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Emily arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x plate" | ||||
Floyd | A smooth metal plate. It has a small, F-shaped lock on its side. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "I don't understand what/where the grille is/are." | |||
| DavidW says, "The grille is between the penguin's and troll's rooms." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think." | ||||
| schep asks, "like a portcullis?" | ||||
| baf says, "The penguin cage is mounted on the wall between the food room and the troll room." | ||||
| Fang disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | DavidW says, "That's how I'm picturing it." | |||
| baf says, "The grille is the side of the cage the opens into the troll room." | ||||
| schep says, "okay." | ||||
| schep asks, "how about put almanac on button?" | ||||
| baf says, "Pressing the button opens that up and allows the troll access to the penguin." | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to baf), "right." | ||||
| maga says, "scronch" | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | This door is square and made of steel. It has a viewscreen in the Floyd | middle and a ridiciously small numberpad underneath it. Floyd | Floyd | The troll slides through the force field as effortlessly as you did. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "type 14 on numberpad" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we need to run for it." | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x numberpad" | ||||
Floyd | A numberpad with pads so small you'd need to have toothpick-sized Floyd | fingers to enter something. Floyd | Floyd | The troll slowly moves towards you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | It tickles a bit, but you can slip through effortlessly. Floyd | Floyd | The Troll's Cell Floyd | This is some sort of makeshift cell. The walls are steel platings, with Floyd | dents here and there as a fist or a head-ram may make. The stench of Floyd | rotten flesh is almost unbearable and stems from a huge heap of Floyd | half-eaten animals and bones in a corner. There is some writing on the Floyd | wall, just above the grille. Floyd | Floyd | A weak red force field shimmers in the eastern doorway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search bones" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "Easily-avoided troll. It isn't blocking exits or anything." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search heap" | ||||
Floyd | Holding your breath, you carefully move aside animal parts, some dry Floyd | and rough, others sickeningly wet and slippery. You finally grab the Floyd | uniform. Fishing around in its pocket, you get a strange, f-shaped key, Floyd | which you pocket. Then you throw the uniform back on the heap. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| trikiw goes flopbot | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x uniform" | ||||
Floyd | A waist-high heap of death flesh. Mostly animals, but you think you can Floyd | see a uniform somewhere in it. Of course, not everything is dead. There Floyd | are flies. Lots of flies. Floyd | Floyd | The troll slides through the force field as effortlessly as you did. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "huh" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x key" | ||||
Floyd | It's a key and it's f-shaped. Floyd | Floyd | The troll slowly moves towards you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | It tickles a bit, but you can slip through effortlessly. Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance room Floyd | This is a small, almost featureless room. A plate sits next to the Floyd | eastern doorway, and a huge metal door leads north. Floyd | Floyd | A weak red force field shimmers in the western doorway. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a steel door here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "unlock panel with key" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "plate" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "unlock plate with key" | ||||
Floyd | You unlock the plate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "open plate" | ||||
Floyd | The plate swings to the side, revealing a valve. Floyd | Floyd | The troll slides through the force field as effortlessly as you did. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x valve" | ||||
Floyd | It can be turned to two settings: "Normal" and "Security". It's Floyd | currently set to "Normal". Floyd | Floyd | The troll slowly moves towards you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | It tickles a bit, but you can slip through effortlessly. Floyd | Floyd | The Troll's Cell Floyd | This is some sort of makeshift cell. The walls are steel platings, with Floyd | dents here and there as a fist or a head-ram may make. The stench of Floyd | rotten flesh is almost unbearable and stems from a huge heap of Floyd | half-eaten animals and bones in a corner. There is some writing on the Floyd | wall, just above the grille. Floyd | Floyd | A weak red force field shimmers in the eastern doorway. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf asks, "What do you bet that valve turns up the force field?" | |||
| schep says, "seems likely" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Probably the valve makes the force field stronger, yes." | ||||
| schep says, "so yes, try to do it while the troll's not there" | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The troll slides through the force field as effortlessly as you did. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | It tickles a bit, but you can slip through effortlessly. Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance room Floyd | This is a small, almost featureless room. A plate sits next to the Floyd | eastern doorway, and a huge metal door leads north. Floyd | Floyd | A weak red force field shimmers in the western doorway. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a steel door here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "turn valve to security" | ||||
Floyd | No, you can't set that to anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "turn valve" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the valve to "Security." Floyd | Floyd | The troll moving through the Security force field is a dreadful sight, Floyd | her hands and feet are shredded and instantly regrow. Then her torso Floyd | splatters through. As the force field reaches her heart, she suddenly Floyd | disappears in a puff of green smoke. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "turn valve to normal" | ||||
Floyd | No, you can't set that to anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Gross, but yay." | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "turn valve" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the valve to "Normal." Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "heh." | |||
| schep says, "@recap" | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Maintenance room Floyd | This is a small, almost featureless room. A plate sits next to the Floyd | eastern doorway, and a huge metal door leads north. Floyd | Floyd | A weak red force field shimmers in the western doorway. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a steel door here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says, "woo" | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | It tickles a bit, but you can slip through effortlessly. Floyd | Floyd | The Troll's Cell Floyd | This is some sort of makeshift cell. The walls are steel platings, with Floyd | dents here and there as a fist or a head-ram may make. The stench of Floyd | rotten flesh is almost unbearable and stems from a huge heap of Floyd | half-eaten animals and bones in a corner. There is some writing on the Floyd | wall, just above the grille. Floyd | Floyd | A weak red force field shimmers in the eastern doorway. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a herring here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x grille" | ||||
Floyd | A normal grille. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x herring" | ||||
Floyd | A normal herring. Somehow you're surprised it isn't red. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "get herring" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep exclaims, "penguins love herring!" | |||
| baf says, "Obvious penguin pait, then." | ||||
| Jacqueline nods. | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Where'd the herring come from? Story-wise?" | ||||
| baf says, "I guess it must have been inside the troll." | ||||
| DavidW says, "huh." | ||||
| Taleslinger asks (of davidw), "shall i tell you?" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "author" | ||||
Floyd | Scene 9, "The cute and the Deadly", was written by Taleslinger. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ah" | |||
| Taleslinger runs way quickly. | ||||
| baf says, "That seems to be a theme here, what with the wombat and everything." | ||||
| schep says, "I do miss Leslie telling us when we've reached a new author." | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Food locker room Floyd | Steel coats the walls of this long and narrow room. A hole in the Floyd | ceiling leads back up. A doorway leads east. The stench of rotting meat Floyd | waves through it. Next to the doorway, you can see a cage of reinforced Floyd | glass, which is connected to the next room by a grille. Floyd | Floyd | In the cage you see a penguin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "save" | DavidW says, "I guess we give the herring to the penguin, and the penguin pushes the tiny buttons? No, that can't be quite it." | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "cf9" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | The grille rushes down. The penguin isn't as frightened as before, but Floyd | he still doesn't move. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "show herring to penguin" | ||||
Floyd | The penguin is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Really weird that Floyd has stopped prompting when we save." | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "put herring in slot" | ||||
Floyd | The herring slides into the cage. Floyd | It misses the penguin. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin dives for the herring, gulping it down in one huge bite. He Floyd | slaps his wings happily and looks at you lovingly. Looks like you made Floyd | a new friend. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | As the grille rushed down, the penguin takes a few steps, then gets Floyd | down on his tummy and -wooosh- slides through it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg exclaims, "better than him crashing!" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Troll's Cell Floyd | This is some sort of makeshift cell. The walls are steel platings, with Floyd | dents here and there as a fist or a head-ram may make. The stench of Floyd | rotten flesh is almost unbearable and stems from a huge heap of Floyd | half-eaten animals and bones in a corner. There is some writing on the Floyd | wall, just above the grille. Floyd | Floyd | A weak red force field shimmers in the eastern doorway. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a penguin here. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "drop the herring in the troll room? Or ah, looks like he's friendly" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "get penguin" | ||||
Floyd | I don't suppose the penguin would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x penguin" | ||||
Floyd | A cute little penguin, looking heartbreakingly out of place. He flaps Floyd | his wings happily. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pet penguin" | ||||
Floyd | The penguin rubs his head on your hand and squawks happily. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | It tickles a bit, but you can slip through effortlessly. Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance room Floyd | This is a small, almost featureless room. A plate sits next to the Floyd | eastern doorway, and a huge metal door leads north. Floyd | Floyd | A weak red force field shimmers in the western doorway. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a steel door here. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin squeaks as he waddles though the force field. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles straight towards the steel door and pecks at the Floyd | numberpad. The door beeps approvingly and a pneumatic hissing indicates Floyd | it is indeed unlocked. Floyd | Floyd | You stare in wonder at the small animal and can't help thinking he'd Floyd | smirk if he could. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "OK, but he's no lesser mantid." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "ha" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You open the steel door. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Does that mean we can't eat him?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | your father's bedroom Floyd | Improbably, you are in your father's bedroom. It has been ransacked Floyd | except for the portrait of Grandfather XVIII. A hallway lies to the Floyd | east; the maintenance room, where you dispatched the troll, to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a steel door and a science fiction novel here. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "author" | ||||
Floyd | Scene 10, "Puff of Smoke", was written by N. B. Horvath. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "last author" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x novel" | ||||
Floyd | This was one of your favorites as a child. It describes a nightmare Floyd | world in which bodies are preserved after death. The hero fights to Floyd | gain social acceptance for "cremation" and thus save the planet from Floyd | being overrun by "cemeteries." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | This door is square and made of steel. It has a viewscreen in the Floyd | middle and a ridiciously small numberpad underneath it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x portrait" | ||||
Floyd | The portrait stares back at you with beady, tired eyes. XVIII isn't his Floyd | name, of course; this is just an old Atlantean tradition of numbering Floyd | important ancestors. If your number is in the upper teens, you must be Floyd | pretty grumping important. You were always amazed that Father kept this Floyd | portrait in his room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move it" | ||||
Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look behind it" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||||
Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | your father's bedroom Floyd | Improbably, you are in your father's bedroom. It has been ransacked Floyd | except for the portrait of Grandfather XVIII. A hallway lies to the Floyd | east; the maintenance room, where you dispatched the troll, to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a penguin, a steel door, and a science fiction novel here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | As you enter the hallway, the penguin scoots past you to a previously Floyd | unseen keypad, then pecks a few digits. A secret passageway opens to Floyd | the south. Floyd | Floyd | Regal Hallway Floyd | You are in a regally carpeted east-west hallway. At the east end, an Floyd | urnstone door leads to the foyer, while a secret passageway leads Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Before you can take a step toward the foyer, the penguin steps in front Floyd | of you and hops silently up and down, eyes wide and pleading. Listening Floyd | at the urnstone door, you hear the characteristic wheeze of a Koskos. Floyd | No way are you going in there. You are no match for a Koskos. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "look up koskos in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | A squat, compact monster, often used as a guard. The troll is the Floyd | natural enemy of the Koskos. Many wealthy Atlanteans employ both trolls Floyd | and Koskii, but those who do so make sure to keep them separate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | science lab Floyd | Your father's vast laboratory looks entirely different from when you Floyd | last were in this house. A frightening contraption fills the west end Floyd | of the room floor-to-ceiling. A teak desk sits along the east wall. The Floyd | hallway lies to the north, the annex to the south, and the Taboo Room Floyd | to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | On the teak desk is a jagged-edge scroll. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep asks, "shall we save and view the death message for heading to the koskos?" | |||
| DavidW says, "'The Taboo Room'" | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "save cf10" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to save. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh. Sure." | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "cf10" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Regal Hallway Floyd | You are in a regally carpeted east-west hallway. At the east end, an Floyd | urnstone door leads to the foyer, while a secret passageway leads Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Before you can take a step toward the foyer, the penguin steps in front Floyd | of you and hops silently up and down, eyes wide and pleading. Listening Floyd | at the urnstone door, you hear the characteristic wheeze of a Koskos. Floyd | No way are you going in there. You are no match for a Koskos. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Before you can take a step toward the foyer, the penguin steps in front Floyd | of you and hops silently up and down, eyes wide and pleading. Listening Floyd | at the urnstone door, you hear the characteristic wheeze of a Koskos. Floyd | No way are you going in there. You are no match for a Koskos. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm not used to playing in long stretches like this. It feels like several mealtimes have gone past." | |||
| schep says, "yeah, it's a buffering issue. He does output the right things, but at the wrong times." | ||||
| baf says, "Looks like we're not allowed to go there unless we can get rid of this penguin." | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | schep says, "woah. Well, good thing we saved" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "load houseofdreamofmoon" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your very first night is over in your new house. It still seems Floyd | surreal that you are now the proud owner of this place. It doesn't Floyd | quite feel like home yet since you haven't been able to get your Floyd | furniture. However, you can't get the rental truck until tomorrow. Floyd | Maybe today would be a good idea to explore those woods behind your Floyd | house. It'll be a good way to kill time until you can get properly Floyd | moved in tomorrow. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | House of Dream of Moon Floyd | An Interactive Collaboration by The IF Whispers Team Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 071204 / Inform 7 build 5J39 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/11N) Floyd | Type "about" for more information. Floyd | Floyd | Master Bedroom (on the mattress) Floyd | All that's unpacked in the room is your mattress with a sheet thrown Floyd | over the top of it. Your dresser is still in storage. Windows look Floyd | out to the north and west, and the closet lies to the south. The Floyd | hallway is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "cf10" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | science lab Floyd | Your father's vast laboratory looks entirely different from when you Floyd | last were in this house. A frightening contraption fills the west end Floyd | of the room floor-to-ceiling. A teak desk sits along the east wall. The Floyd | hallway lies to the north, the annex to the south, and the Taboo Room Floyd | to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | On the teak desk is a jagged-edge scroll. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a penguin here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x scroll" | ||||
Floyd | It is a letter to your father from Grandfather VI, begging him to stop Floyd | his research and invoking the memory of Grandfather XVIII. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "read scroll" | ||||
Floyd | It is a letter to your father from Grandfather VI, begging him to stop Floyd | his research and invoking the memory of Grandfather XVIII. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | science lab Floyd | Your father's vast laboratory looks entirely different from when you Floyd | last were in this house. A frightening contraption fills the west end Floyd | of the room floor-to-ceiling. A teak desk sits along the east wall. The Floyd | hallway lies to the north, the annex to the south, and the Taboo Room Floyd | to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | On the teak desk is a jagged-edge scroll. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a penguin here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the teak desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x contraption" | ||||
Floyd | The exterior of this machine is all orange and red stripes, apart from Floyd | a six-foot-high entryway which is solid black. You can't stop looking Floyd | at those stripes, until finally you look away at a room that has Floyd | changed ... Floyd | Floyd | Your father and a female assistant are standing outside of the Floyd | contraption, clad in white coats, arguing heatedly over his insistence Floyd | that she be a test subject. Ultimately she relents, giving him a Floyd | desperate kiss and then walking into the device with head down and eyes Floyd | squeezed shut. Floyd | Floyd | There is a single click, and then the entire structure shudders. You Floyd | hear screams and thuds as the shaking continues for at least a minute. Floyd | Then there is silence. Floyd | Floyd | Out of the machine steps not the assistant, but Lucille. She is looking Floyd | directly at you with hate in her eyes. Floyd | Floyd | The hallucination ends as abruptly as it began. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "enter contraption" | ||||
Floyd | You want nothing to do with that thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | science lab Floyd | Your father's vast laboratory looks entirely different from when you Floyd | last were in this house. A frightening contraption fills the west end Floyd | of the room floor-to-ceiling. A teak desk sits along the east wall. The Floyd | hallway lies to the north, the annex to the south, and the Taboo Room Floyd | to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | On the teak desk is a jagged-edge scroll. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a penguin here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "open desk" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | lab annex Floyd | You are in a small annex to the large lab. This room is dominated by a Floyd | mysterious chamber. The main lab is to the north and a closed wooden Floyd | door is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a plain glass bottle (empty) (closed) and an empty cage Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | You notice that a thin layer of salmon-pink smoke has gathered under Floyd | the ceiling. Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cage" | ||||
Floyd | The empty cage isn't important. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bottle" | ||||
Floyd | The empty bottle is completely nondescript, lacking any label or other Floyd | distinctive feature. The bottle is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chamber" | ||||
Floyd | The mysterious chamber is like a miniature gazebo, a platform Floyd | supporting four extensible metal posts with a little dome at the top. Floyd | It's all made of metal, and it's all painted midnight black. A soft Floyd | pushbutton and a small, bottle-shaped receptacle jut out from one edge Floyd | of the platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | The wooden door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x receptacle" | ||||
Floyd | The small receptacle is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "x mist" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x button" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the soft pushbutton. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | plain glass bottle (empty) Floyd | a f-shaped key Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x smoke" | ||||
Floyd | The salmon-pink smoke is almost dissipated but manages to stay Floyd | coherent. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fill bottle with smoke" | ||||
Floyd | It's just air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell smoke" | ||||
Floyd | The salmon-pink smoke is odorless, but it does seem to signify Floyd | something. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open bottle" | ||||
Floyd | It takes a surprisingly strong effort to open the bottle. Finally it Floyd | opens with a shhhhoop sound. In an instant, the salmon-pink smoke is Floyd | drawn into the bottle with a whhhhhhhip; then it closes again with a Floyd | ffffoomp. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "aha" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "rub bottle" | ||||
Floyd | You achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "rub bottle" | ||||
Floyd | You achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x smoke" | ||||
Floyd | The salmon-pink smoke inside the closed bottle is inert, unmoving. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "huh" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | lab annex Floyd | You are in a small annex to the large lab. This room is dominated by a Floyd | mysterious chamber. The main lab is to the north and a closed wooden Floyd | door is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a penguin and an empty cage here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "open bottle" | ||||
Floyd | The bottle is sealed shut, responding somehow to the presence of the Floyd | salmon-pink smoke inside it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up smoke in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Floyd | Conspiracy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "put bottle in chamber" | ||||
Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x chamber" | ||||
Floyd | The mysterious chamber is like a miniature gazebo, a platform Floyd | supporting four extensible metal posts with a little dome at the top. Floyd | It's all made of metal, and it's all painted midnight black. A soft Floyd | pushbutton and a small, bottle-shaped receptacle jut out from one edge Floyd | of the platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "put bottle in receptacle" | ||||
Floyd | You put the plain glass bottle (containing salmon-pink smoke) into the Floyd | small receptacle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "push button" | Jacqueline says, "do it!" | |||
Floyd | Muttering a short prayer to Fendit, you push the soft button. Floyd | Floyd | Something underneath the platform sucks the bottle down and out of Floyd | sight. A low-pitched drone begins, then grows lower and louder. Soon Floyd | your every bone is vibrating with the noise. Spots of light appear and Floyd | disappear in the corner of your eye. Floyd | Floyd | The droning noise fades and is replaced by a rattling sound. The Floyd | chamber shakes slightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open chamber" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | The rattling grows louder inside the chamber. The platform starts to Floyd | glow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x platform" | ||||
Floyd | The mysterious chamber is like a miniature gazebo, a platform Floyd | supporting four extensible metal posts with a little dome at the top. Floyd | It's all made of metal, and it's all painted midnight black. A soft Floyd | pushbutton and a small, bottle-shaped receptacle jut out from one edge Floyd | of the platform. Floyd | Floyd | The rattle becomes an infernal thunder coming from underneath the Floyd | shaking platform, as the glow spreads to the entire chamber. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "uh-oh" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x platform" | ||||
Floyd | The mysterious chamber is like a miniature gazebo, a platform Floyd | supporting four extensible metal posts with a little dome at the top. Floyd | It's all made of metal, and it's all painted midnight black. A soft Floyd | pushbutton and a small, bottle-shaped receptacle jut out from one edge Floyd | of the platform. Floyd | Floyd | The thunder peaks, then dies down as the glow fades. Floyd | A little pink-coated rat appears on top of the platform, then scurries Floyd | away out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | The now-empty bottle pops back into the receptacle from within the Floyd | chamber. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf exclaims, "It's a rat machine!" | |||
| baf says, "That takes rat gas as materials." | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "get bottle" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "maybe if there's troll gas, we can remake the troll." | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | You open the wooden door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | small utility closet Floyd | You are in a small utility closet. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "x closet" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shelf" | ||||
Floyd | [shelf -> self] Floyd | As good-looking as ever. Floyd | Floyd | You are horrendously drunk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | lab annex Floyd | You are in a small annex to the large lab. This room is dominated by a Floyd | mysterious chamber. The main lab is to the north and an open wooden Floyd | door is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an empty cage here. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | science lab Floyd | Your father's vast laboratory looks entirely different from when you Floyd | last were in this house. A frightening contraption fills the west end Floyd | of the room floor-to-ceiling. A teak desk sits along the east wall. The Floyd | hallway lies to the north, the annex to the south, and the Taboo Room Floyd | to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | On the teak desk is a jagged-edge scroll. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "se" | schep says, "maybe we should have put the cage on the pedestal" | |||
Floyd | Floyd | Taboo Room Floyd | This is the room where your mother (also a scientist, who left under Floyd | mysterious circumstances) worked on her most taboo project. This Floyd | project not only violated the edicts of Grandfather XVIII, it stood in Floyd | stark violation of the prohibition against time travel. Rumor had it Floyd | that once the project was complete, anyone who prayed in the Taboo Room Floyd | would trigger the creation of a spatio-temporal anchor, something that Floyd | would alter the very fabric of reality. You were always a little Floyd | curious about it. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "pray" | schep says, "that's an invitation if evere there was one" | |||
| schep pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Save failed. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep asks, "buh?" | |||
| maga says, "pray -> save" | ||||
| DavidW says, "ha" | ||||
| DavidW says, "spatio-temporal anchor indeed." | ||||
| maga says, "the gimmick doesn't really work given that Floyd doesn't prompt you for a savegame" | ||||
| Limax says, "I love comign back to 1500 lines of recap" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "He used to." | ||||
| schep says, "oh, I see" | ||||
| baf asks, "OK, now what?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think we should get troll gas." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I am tempted to do bad things to the penguin." | ||||
| baf asks, "Reconstitute the troll and set him loose on the other thing?" | ||||
| schep exclaims (at DW), "aha!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | science lab Floyd | Your father's vast laboratory looks entirely different from when you Floyd | last were in this house. A frightening contraption fills the west end Floyd | of the room floor-to-ceiling. A teak desk sits along the east wall. The Floyd | hallway lies to the north, the annex to the south, and the Taboo Room Floyd | to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | On the teak desk is a jagged-edge scroll. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Regal Hallway Floyd | You are in a regally carpeted east-west hallway. At the east end, an Floyd | urnstone door leads to the foyer, while a secret passageway leads Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | schep asks, "do we have the bottle?" | |||
Floyd | Floyd | your father's bedroom Floyd | Improbably, you are in your father's bedroom. It has been ransacked Floyd | except for the portrait of Grandfather XVIII. A hallway lies to the Floyd | east; the maintenance room, where you dispatched the troll, to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a steel door and a science fiction novel here. Floyd | Floyd | You notice that a thin layer of sea-green smoke has gathered under the Floyd | ceiling. It must have seeped in from the maintenance room. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Maintenance room Floyd | This is a small, almost featureless room. A plate sits next to the Floyd | eastern doorway, and a huge metal door leads north. Floyd | Floyd | A weak red force field shimmers in the western doorway. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a steel door here. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | plain glass bottle (empty) Floyd | a f-shaped key Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | your father's bedroom Floyd | Improbably, you are in your father's bedroom. It has been ransacked Floyd | except for the portrait of Grandfather XVIII. A hallway lies to the Floyd | east; the maintenance room, where you dispatched the troll, to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a steel door and a science fiction novel here. Floyd | Floyd | You notice that a thin layer of sea-green smoke has gathered under the Floyd | ceiling. It must have seeped in from the maintenance room. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open bottle" | ||||
Floyd | It takes a surprisingly strong effort to open the bottle. Finally it Floyd | opens with a shhhhoop sound. In an instant, the sea-green smoke is Floyd | drawn into the bottle with a whhhhhhhip; then it closes again with a Floyd | ffffoomp. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Regal Hallway Floyd | You are in a regally carpeted east-west hallway. At the east end, an Floyd | urnstone door leads to the foyer, while a secret passageway leads Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x novel" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "(Sorry... I was playing DOnkey Kong again... and Tribond with my wife)" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | science lab Floyd | Your father's vast laboratory looks entirely different from when you Floyd | last were in this house. A frightening contraption fills the west end Floyd | of the room floor-to-ceiling. A teak desk sits along the east wall. The Floyd | hallway lies to the north, the annex to the south, and the Taboo Room Floyd | to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | On the teak desk is a jagged-edge scroll. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | lab annex Floyd | You are in a small annex to the large lab. This room is dominated by a Floyd | mysterious chamber. The main lab is to the north and an open wooden Floyd | door is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an empty cage here. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put bottle in receptacle" | ||||
Floyd | You put the plain glass bottle (containing sea-green smoke) into the Floyd | small receptacle. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger asks (of jacq), "belated: what's your problem with the penguin?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | Muttering a short prayer to Fendit, you push the soft button. Floyd | Floyd | Something underneath the platform sucks the bottle down and out of Floyd | sight. A low-pitched drone begins, then grows lower and louder. Soon Floyd | your every bone is vibrating with the noise. Spots of light appear and Floyd | disappear in the corner of your eye. Floyd | Floyd | The droning noise fades and is replaced by a rattling sound. The Floyd | chamber shakes slightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The rattling grows louder inside the chamber. The platform starts to Floyd | glow. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf asks, "Do we want to be in the room when it finishes?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "I suppose we should hide in the closet?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "What save are we up to these days?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | small utility closet Floyd | You are in a small utility closet. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | The rattle becomes an infernal thunder. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf exclaims, "Capital idea!" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close door" | ||||
Floyd | You close the wooden door. Floyd | Floyd | The thunder peaks, then dies down. Floyd | You hear the roar of the troll, followed by the howl of the Koskos. The Floyd | troll stomps off toward the hallway. A moment later, you hear the Floyd | terrible sound of Koskos-troll combat. Floyd | Floyd | Finally you hear a pitiful yowl, followed by a bang. Then silence Floyd | returns to the house. Floyd | Floyd | It is now pitch dark in here! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | You open the wooden door. Floyd | Floyd | small utility closet Floyd | You are in a small utility closet. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a penguin here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | lab annex Floyd | You are in a small annex to the large lab. This room is dominated by a Floyd | mysterious chamber. The main lab is to the north and an open wooden Floyd | door is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an empty cage here. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "Nothin, just... seems like we could transmogrify him or something." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | science lab Floyd | Your father's vast laboratory looks entirely different from when you Floyd | last were in this house. A frightening contraption fills the west end Floyd | of the room floor-to-ceiling. A teak desk sits along the east wall. The Floyd | hallway lies to the north, the annex to the south, and the Taboo Room Floyd | to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | On the teak desk is a jagged-edge scroll. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Regal Hallway Floyd | You are in a regally carpeted east-west hallway. At the east end, an Floyd | urnstone door leads to the foyer, while a secret passageway leads Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the urnstone door) Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | You are in the foyer of your childhood home. To your north is what Floyd | remains of the front door. It has been torn off its hinges, leaving the Floyd | forest beyond it visible. You shudder to think about how one monster Floyd | died here and the other escaped. Floyd | Floyd | Intact exits lie to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | You notice that a thin layer of cobalt-blue smoke has gathered under Floyd | the ceiling. Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "What save are we up to, 11?" | |||
| Limax says, "We have gone to 11" | ||||
| Limax says, "(Actually, I don't know)" | ||||
| baf says, "Oh, we have to get the koskos smoke." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Ours always go to 11." | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh. yeah." | ||||
| schep says, "something like that" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Regal Hallway Floyd | You are in a regally carpeted east-west hallway. At the east end, an Floyd | urnstone door leads to the foyer, while a secret passageway leads Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf11" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | science lab Floyd | Your father's vast laboratory looks entirely different from when you Floyd | last were in this house. A frightening contraption fills the west end Floyd | of the room floor-to-ceiling. A teak desk sits along the east wall. The Floyd | hallway lies to the north, the annex to the south, and the Taboo Room Floyd | to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | On the teak desk is a jagged-edge scroll. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | lab annex Floyd | You are in a small annex to the large lab. This room is dominated by a Floyd | mysterious chamber. The main lab is to the north and an open wooden Floyd | door is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an empty cage here. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oops - I guess it's 's'. heh" | |||
| baf says, "I think we just saved under the name s" | ||||
| schep says, "yup" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a f-shaped key Floyd | Every Child's Almanac of Lunar Conspiracy Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "get bottle" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | science lab Floyd | Your father's vast laboratory looks entirely different from when you Floyd | last were in this house. A frightening contraption fills the west end Floyd | of the room floor-to-ceiling. A teak desk sits along the east wall. The Floyd | hallway lies to the north, the annex to the south, and the Taboo Room Floyd | to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | On the teak desk is a jagged-edge scroll. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | Regal Hallway Floyd | You are in a regally carpeted east-west hallway. At the east end, an Floyd | urnstone door leads to the foyer, while a secret passageway leads Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | You are in the foyer of your childhood home. To your north is what Floyd | remains of the front door. It has been torn off its hinges, leaving the Floyd | forest beyond it visible. You shudder to think about how one monster Floyd | died here and the other escaped. Floyd | Floyd | Intact exits lie to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | You notice that a thin layer of cobalt-blue smoke has gathered under Floyd | the ceiling. Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "go ahead" | |||
| baf says (to Floyd), "open bottle" | ||||
Floyd | It takes a surprisingly strong effort to open the bottle. Finally it Floyd | opens with a shhhhoop sound. In an instant, the cobalt-blue smoke is Floyd | drawn into the bottle with a whhhhhhhip; then it closes again with a Floyd | ffffoomp. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You have a terrible feeling about what you just did. Taboos against Floyd | time travel notwithstanding, you wish you could undo it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Foyer Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "strange" | |||
| schep says, "perhaps if we explore further we'll find out why that was a bad idea" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | study Floyd | You are in your father's study. It has been cleaned out except for an Floyd | urnstone end table against one wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the urnstone end table is a quickpulp scroll. Floyd | Floyd | You notice that a thin layer of dark-orange smoke has gathered under Floyd | the ceiling. Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "ah, a different smoke" | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "read quickpulp" | ||||
Floyd | The quickpulp scroll contains a note to you from your father. It reads: Floyd | Floyd | Dear Dave, Floyd | Floyd | Having made it home first, I wish I had a happier Welcome Back to give Floyd | to you. I'm afraid I did not treat your mother well, and you have seen Floyd | how Lucille treated me far worse even than that. I have only now Floyd | learned the extent of Lucy's cruelty. I pray that you can not only Floyd | forgive but save me -- and save my beloved Rex, too. (I couldn't handle Floyd | the "empty nest" after you left. So I added a new nest.) He is the only Floyd | one who can unlock the doors. If you are reading this message, it means Floyd | the worst has happened for me. Floyd | Floyd | Well, perhaps not entirely the worst. My experiments in wuolui have Floyd | borne the most incredib Floyd | Floyd | Here the writing stops abruptly. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "Orange smoke is what's used to resurrect adventurers, of course." | |||
| schep says (to Floyd), "l up wuolui in almanac" | ||||
Floyd | The ancient Atlantean art of resurrection, long believed lost and in Floyd | any case considered morally wrong. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "open bottle" | ||||
Floyd | It takes a surprisingly strong effort to open the bottle. Finally it Floyd | opens with a shhhhoop sound. In an instant, the dark-orange smoke is Floyd | drawn into the bottle with a whhhhhhhip; then it closes again with a Floyd | ffffoomp. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | study Floyd | You are in your father's study. It has been cleaned out except for an Floyd | urnstone end table against one wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the urnstone end table is a quickpulp scroll. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a penguin here. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "wait, Dad's an Atlantean? NOOOOoooo..." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | You are in the foyer of your childhood home. To your north is what Floyd | remains of the front door. It has been torn off its hinges, leaving the Floyd | forest beyond it visible. You shudder to think about how one monster Floyd | died here and the other escaped. Floyd | Floyd | Intact exits lie to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | You notice that a thin layer of cobalt-blue smoke has gathered under Floyd | the ceiling. Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Regal Hallway Floyd | You are in a regally carpeted east-west hallway. At the east end, an Floyd | urnstone door leads to the foyer, while a secret passageway leads Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "a" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | science lab Floyd | Your father's vast laboratory looks entirely different from when you Floyd | last were in this house. A frightening contraption fills the west end Floyd | of the room floor-to-ceiling. A teak desk sits along the east wall. The Floyd | hallway lies to the north, the annex to the south, and the Taboo Room Floyd | to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | On the teak desk is a jagged-edge scroll. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | lab annex Floyd | You are in a small annex to the large lab. This room is dominated by a Floyd | mysterious chamber. The main lab is to the north and an open wooden Floyd | door is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an empty cage here. Floyd | Floyd | The penguin waddles along. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "put bottle in receptacle" | ||||
Floyd | You put the plain glass bottle (containing dark-orange smoke) into the Floyd | small receptacle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | Muttering a short prayer to Fendit, you push the soft button. Floyd | Floyd | Something underneath the platform sucks the bottle down and out of Floyd | sight. A low-pitched drone begins, then grows lower and louder. Soon Floyd | your every bone is vibrating with the noise. Spots of light appear and Floyd | disappear in the corner of your eye. Floyd | Floyd | The droning noise fades and is replaced by a rattling sound. The Floyd | chamber shakes slightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The rattling grows louder inside the chamber. The platform starts to Floyd | glow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The rattle becomes an infernal thunder coming from underneath the Floyd | shaking platform, as the glow spreads to the entire chamber. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The thunder peaks, then dies down as the glow fades. Floyd | Your father materializes in the chamber and gives you an unreadable Floyd | look. Fendit permitting, the two of you have some catching up to do. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have won *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 50 out of a possible 100, in 525 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, or QUIT? Floyd | > | baf says, "HUZZAH" | |||
| DavidW says, "yay. Now I can go eat something." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "w00t" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "yay" | ||||
| Fang says, "I guess we get a different ending if we kept up with Leslie" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, this was a long one - went an hour longer than normal." | ||||
| maga says, "Adventures in Crackland" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Fang), "I agree." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| maga says (to Fang), "I suspect not. But I'm not certain." | ||||
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