ClubFloyd Transcript: Frobozz Magic Support
(plus Hero, Inc) (both) by Nate Cull
As played on ifMUD on February 3, 2008

The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction.

Below is a transcript of Frobozz Magic Support, written by Nate Cull. Frobozz Magic Support was originally released in 1996. It received a XYZZY Award nomination for Best Puzzles and won the XYZZY for Best Individual NPC. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki.

As a bonus, once we were done playing Frobozz Magic Support, we moved on to playing another Cull game, Hero, Inc, so I've just included that in the transcript as well. Enjoy!

WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing these games, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played these games, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page.

Floyd | GlkTADS - A text-only TADS 2.5.3 Interpreter.
Floyd | TADS copyright (c) 1993, 2000 by Michael J. Roberts.
Floyd | Maintained by Stephen Granade <sgranade@phy.duke.edu>
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd | "Hello.  You have reached the Frobozz Magic Support Company hotglyph.
Floyd | All our adepts are busy at present, but if you keep chanting the
Floyd | invocation you used to summon this image, a support clerk will be with
Floyd | you shortly.  In the meantime, please relax while the Accardia
Floyd | Barbershop Musicians Guild presents Movements VIII-XVI of 'Ode to
Floyd | Belboz'.  Thank you for summoning Frobozz Magic Support."

Floyd |
Floyd | FROBOZZ MAGIC SUPPORT
Floyd | An Interactive Short Fantasy
Floyd | by Nate Cull, culln@xtra.co.nz
Floyd | Release 4, February 1997.  HELP for instructions.
Floyd |

Floyd | Inside the White Cube
Floyd | The six interior walls of this perfectly cubical room are perfectly
Floyd | white and featureless.  A single silver compass rose, balancing a
Floyd | delicate crystal sphere on its bloom, floats like a pedestal above the
Floyd | floor.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | You look like the novice glyph support clerk that you are.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | You have a granola bar and a log book.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It's a bar of everyone's favourite snack food, granola.  Stamped into
Floyd | its side are the words "Product of the Frobozz Magic Granola Mining
Floyd | Company Antharia."
Floyd |

Floyd | >

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

Floyd | The book is leather-bound and bears the title "My Log Book" in flowing
Floyd | gilt lettering.  It is currently closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Unfortunately, you never quite finished Elementary Enchanting 101, so
Floyd | you have no idea how to cast, or even learn, that spell.  If indeed it
Floyd | is a spell.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Unfortunately, you never quite finished Elementary Enchanting 101, so
Floyd | you have no idea how to cast, or even learn, that spell.  If indeed it

Floyd | is a spell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You have no spells memorised.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | As you open the log book, an animated burin flutters out.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hi there," says the burin cheerfully.  "You must be the new support
Floyd | clerk everyone's been talking about.  No, don't say it, I know what

Floyd | you're going to ask.  What's such a smart and attractive burin like me
Floyd | doing in a low paid job like Magic Support?  Well, I've asked myself
Floyd | that same question many times, believe me, and the best answer I've
Floyd | come up with is that I love my work.  Yes sir, I just love task
Floyd | logging.  Give me a task to log, any task, and I'll have it written
Floyd | down before you can say Zebulon's your uncle!"

Floyd |
Floyd | "So, are you ready to begin?  What's your name?" >

Floyd |

Floyd | "You say your name is Zog?" >

Floyd |
Floyd | "Well then, what is your name?" >

Floyd |
Floyd | "You say your name is Zog the mighty?" >

Floyd |
Floyd | "Great!  I can see we're going to get along famously, Zog the mighty."
Floyd | The burin buzzes around excitedly, then settles into a casual hovering
Floyd | pattern over your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | This burin looks much every other burin you've seen, except for the
Floyd | small wings protruding from its pen-like body, and the tiny glowing

Floyd | eyes on its nib.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The burin blinks at you.  "I don't see any task worth logging here."
Floyd |
Floyd | "This reminds me of Old Quendor," muses the burin to itself.  "Or was
Floyd | it Kroz?  Anyways, thems were the days, they had real adventurers back

Floyd | then, yessiree."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You see an image of a novice glyph support clerk peering into the

Floyd | future.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The compass rose is so beautiful it would bring tears to the eyes of a
Floyd | grue.  Oddly enough, it seems to float perfectly centred in the middle
Floyd | of the room.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The compass rose is so beautiful it would bring tears to the eyes of a
Floyd | grue.  Oddly enough, it seems to float perfectly centred in the middle
Floyd | of the room.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The opened log book contains a list of previous magic support problems
Floyd | and solutions, signed and dated by the clerk on duty at the time.

Floyd |
Floyd | 24/4   Malyon spell backfired; burin accidentally animated.  Oops.
Floyd | Zuzvuz.
Floyd | 27/4   Adventurer eaten by stray grues.  Resurrected with gaspar.
Floyd | Zuzvuz.
Floyd | 32/4   Trolls ravaging village.  Applied two-handed axe; resolved.

Floyd | Felenar.
Floyd | 6/5    Some trouble communicating with cyclops.  See legend 2001.
Floyd | Zuzvuz.
Floyd | 13/5   Adventurer llepsed gaspar.  Summoned Implementors.  Zuzvuz.
Floyd | 17/5   Implementors de-implemented Zuzvuz.  Attempted blorple to Old
Floyd |        Quendor.  Felenar.

Floyd | 20/5   Felenar and Zuzvuz missing.  Sent replacement job application to
Floyd |        GUE Tech.  Sorkin.
Floyd | 23/5   GUE Tech gated to Old Quendor.  Llepsed golmac might work.
Floyd | Sorkin.
Floyd | 29/5   Two words: why me?  New support clerk arrives tomorrow.  Must
Floyd | train

Floyd |        before (after) breaking Sorkin's time loop.  Assuming
Floyd | counterspell
Floyd |        exists, if not...  Helistar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The burin launches into a lengthy exposition on the meaning of life,
Floyd | with special consideration to the role of sentient burins as its prime
Floyd | representatives.  After discussing and refuting all imaginable
Floyd | challenges to this thesis, the burin abruptly stops and says, "I'm
Floyd | sorry, what was the question again?"
Floyd |

Floyd | The burin practises its penthingship.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | But you don't know anything worth mentioning about any spells yet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | "It's a log book," explains the burin patiently.  "Used for logging
Floyd | Magic Support tasks.  When you finish a task, just tell me to log it
Floyd | and I'll write all the details up for you.  I'm really very good at it.
Floyd | It's almost as if I were born to log tasks, and nothing else."
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The burin thinks for a moment and replies, "Tuesday."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The burin flaps thoughtfully and replies, "According to the traditional
Floyd | Thardon the Deep interpretation of Blorbaz the Seer, which was of
Floyd | course completely rejected by Antrodon, advisor to Duncanthrax himself,
Floyd | there are such an infinite number of potential frames of reference that

Floyd | it is quite impossible for two individuals to discourse intelligently
Floyd | about a compass rose without losing all touch with reality.  But I
Floyd | don't believe a word of that myself."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The burin flits out of reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The burin thinks for a moment and replies, "The butler, in the Double
Floyd | Fanucci room, with the wand of polymorphism."

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The burin thinks for a moment and replies, "No."
Floyd |
Floyd | The burin nibbles softly at your ear.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | You feel a strong desire to go somewhere, anywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You feel a strong desire to go somewhere, anywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The burin stretches its wings and preens.  "Of course, I'm sure I could
Floyd | tell you everything ever written about yourself, but that would spoil
Floyd | all the fun, wouldn't it?"
Floyd |

Floyd | The burin flies a slow loop around your shoulder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You see an image of a novice glyph support clerk peering into the

Floyd | future.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | A warning nymph appears before you, writes "You do know you're not

Floyd | allowed to take company property, don't you?" in the air with her
Floyd | finger, then vanishes with a broad wink.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Oddly enough, you find your way blocked by an invisible barrier.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Isn't this fun?" giggles the burin.  "By the Quill, 'twill make a tall
Floyd | tale to tell thy tykes."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

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

Floyd | Turning the crystal ball doesn't have any effect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The compass rose is so beautiful it would bring tears to the eyes of a
Floyd | grue.  Oddly enough, it seems to float perfectly centred in the middle
Floyd | of the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You can't seem to do that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Pushing the compass rose doesn't do anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The sphere vibrates in your hands, and an image takes form in your
Floyd | mind:
Floyd |
Floyd | You are standing on a barren, windswept plain.  A knight in black
Floyd | armour clatters past toward a foreboding stone tower, and from the

Floyd | distance, a beautiful maiden's voice calls out.  "Help me!  My rezrov
Floyd | scroll is gone and I must flee before the Dark Lord comes!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Slowly, the vision fades.  You feel vaguely disoriented for a moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | As you move in that direction, the universe abruptly turns itself
Floyd | inside out.
Floyd |

Floyd | Crossroads
Floyd | The road bends here, running northwest to a distant tower and south to
Floyd | the mountains.  Across a barren plain to the east, a wide rutted cart
Floyd | track bears the scars of recent heavy troop movements.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a white cube here.

Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin flies in small circles around your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You aren't lost, are you?" quips the burin worriedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The burin blinks at you.  "I don't see any task worth logging here."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Army Camp

Floyd | You have stumbled into the camp of some invading army.  Tents,
Floyd | battering rams and hand weapons are stacked neatly all around, awaiting
Floyd | the coming attack.  Nobody appears to have noticed you yet, but you
Floyd | have the distinct feeling that novice magic support clerks are not
Floyd | highly regarded around here.  The plain opens to the west.
Floyd |

Floyd | You see a black cube here.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin hovers over your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | The burin gives a screech of agony and dives back into the log book,
Floyd | which snaps closed after it.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The cube is about an inch on a side, and is featureless black, apart

Floyd | from a tiny legend embossed on one face.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | "Frobozz Magic Defence Research Company Weapons Grade Antimagic."

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The army supplies look extremely dangerous, and extremely not yours.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The army supplies look extremely dangerous, and extremely not yours.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Crossroads
Floyd | The road bends here, running northwest to a distant tower and south to
Floyd | the mountains.  Across a barren plain to the east, a wide rutted cart

Floyd | track bears the scars of recent heavy troop movements.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a white cube here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | As you touch the cube, the universe abruptly turns itself inside out.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the White Cube
Floyd | The six interior walls of this perfectly cubical room are perfectly

Floyd | white and featureless.  A single silver compass rose, balancing a
Floyd | delicate crystal sphere on its bloom, floats like a pedestal above the
Floyd | floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | The black cube vaporises instantly!
Floyd | The crystal sphere tumbles to the floor!

Floyd | The compass rose bursts into a flower of flame!
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (Undoing one command)

Floyd |
Floyd | Crossroads
Floyd | The road bends here, running northwest to a distant tower and south to
Floyd | the mountains.  Across a barren plain to the east, a wide rutted cart
Floyd | track bears the scars of recent heavy troop movements.
Floyd |

Floyd | You see a white cube here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Highway
Floyd | This north-south highway seems to lead forever through a barren
Floyd | wilderness.  Distant mountains to the south remain constantly on the
Floyd | horizon.  A billboard to the side of the road reads "Why."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Highway
Floyd | This north-south highway seems to lead forever through a barren
Floyd | wilderness.  Distant mountains to the south remain constantly on the
Floyd | horizon.  A billboard to the side of the road reads "walk."

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Highway
Floyd | This north-south highway seems to lead forever through a barren

Floyd | wilderness.  Distant mountains to the south remain constantly on the
Floyd | horizon.  A billboard to the side of the road reads "when."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Highway
Floyd | This north-south highway seems to lead forever through a barren
Floyd | wilderness.  Distant mountains to the south remain constantly on the
Floyd | horizon.  A billboard to the side of the road reads "you."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Highway
Floyd | This north-south highway seems to lead forever through a barren
Floyd | wilderness.  Distant mountains to the south remain constantly on the
Floyd | horizon.  A billboard to the side of the road reads "can."

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Highway

Floyd | This north-south highway seems to lead forever through a barren
Floyd | wilderness.  Distant mountains to the south remain constantly on the
Floyd | horizon.  A billboard to the side of the road reads "take."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Highway
Floyd | This north-south highway seems to lead forever through a barren
Floyd | wilderness.  Distant mountains to the south remain constantly on the

Floyd | horizon.  A billboard to the side of the road reads "a."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Highway

Floyd | This north-south highway seems to lead forever through a barren
Floyd | wilderness.  Distant mountains to the south remain constantly on the
Floyd | horizon.  A billboard to the side of the road reads "cube?."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Highway
Floyd | This north-south highway seems to lead forever through a barren
Floyd | wilderness.  Distant mountains to the south remain constantly on the

Floyd | horizon.  A billboard to the side of the road reads "Frobozz."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Highway

Floyd | This north-south highway seems to lead forever through a barren
Floyd | wilderness.  Distant mountains to the south remain constantly on the
Floyd | horizon.  A billboard to the side of the road reads "Magic."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Highway
Floyd | This north-south highway seems to lead forever through a barren
Floyd | wilderness.  Distant mountains to the south remain constantly on the
Floyd | horizon.  A billboard to the side of the road reads "Billboard."

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Highway
Floyd | This north-south highway seems to lead forever through a barren

Floyd | wilderness.  Distant mountains to the south remain constantly on the
Floyd | horizon.  A billboard to the side of the road reads "Company."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Highway
Floyd | This north-south highway seems to lead forever through a barren
Floyd | wilderness.  Distant mountains to the south remain constantly on the
Floyd | horizon.  A billboard to the side of the road reads "...."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Highway
Floyd | This north-south highway seems to lead forever through a barren
Floyd | wilderness.  Distant mountains to the south remain constantly on the
Floyd | horizon.  A billboard to the side of the road reads "...."

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Highway
Floyd | This north-south highway seems to lead forever through a barren
Floyd | wilderness.  Distant mountains to the south remain constantly on the
Floyd | horizon.  A billboard to the side of the road reads "...."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Highway
Floyd | This north-south highway seems to lead forever through a barren
Floyd | wilderness.  Distant mountains to the south remain constantly on the
Floyd | horizon.  A billboard to the side of the road reads "Company."

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Highway
Floyd | This north-south highway seems to lead forever through a barren

Floyd | wilderness.  Distant mountains to the south remain constantly on the
Floyd | horizon.  A billboard to the side of the road reads "Billboard."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Okay, now in TERSE mode.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Highway
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Highway
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Highway
Floyd |
Floyd | Highway
Floyd |
Floyd | Highway
Floyd |

Floyd | Highway
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Highway

Floyd |
Floyd | Highway
Floyd |
Floyd | Highway
Floyd |
Floyd | Highway

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Crossroads
Floyd |

Floyd | You see a white cube here.
Floyd |
Floyd | You wander across the plain for a while, but find nothing of interest,
Floyd | so you return to the road.
Floyd |
Floyd | You wander across the plain for a while, but find nothing of interest,

Floyd | so you return to the road.
Floyd |
Floyd | You wander across the plain for a while, but find nothing of interest,
Floyd | so you return to the road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Okay, now in VERBOSE mode.
Floyd | Crossroads
Floyd | The road bends here, running northwest to a distant tower and south to
Floyd | the mountains.  Across a barren plain to the east, a wide rutted cart

Floyd | track bears the scars of recent heavy troop movements.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a white cube here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Outside the Tower
Floyd | You are standing beneath a menacing black stone tower.  The only

Floyd | entrance at ground level seems to be a sturdy oak door which is shut
Floyd | and bolted fast.  However, rough stone steps wind up around the outside
Floyd | and vanish somewhere near the top.  The road leads back across a barren
Floyd | plain to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It's firmly shut, and plans to stay that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Not without magic or a battering ram you won't.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

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

Floyd | It looks like a Frobozz Magic Castle Company Princess Peril (TM) Tower
Floyd | For Her, as advertised in last month's catalog edition of "Better Keeps
Floyd | and Dungeons".
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't know the word "window".
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The steps lead upward.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (climbing the steps)
Floyd | Atop the Tower
Floyd | You are crouched on a minnaret at the top of a menacing stone tower.
Floyd | Rough stone steps lead down around the outside and vanish somewhere

Floyd | near the ground.  A dark chimney opening to the northwest seems the
Floyd | only way in - but once inside, you could not climb back out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You could enter the chimney to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | There's nothing on the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (climbing down the steps)
Floyd | Outside the Tower
Floyd | You are standing beneath a menacing black stone tower.  The only
Floyd | entrance at ground level seems to be a sturdy oak door which is shut

Floyd | and bolted fast.  However, rough stone steps wind up around the outside
Floyd | and vanish somewhere near the top.  The road leads back across a barren
Floyd | plain to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The cube is about an inch on a side, and is featureless black, apart

Floyd | from a tiny legend embossed on one face.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | "Frobozz Magic Defence Research Company Weapons Grade Antimagic."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't see any white cube here.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Crossroads
Floyd | The road bends here, running northwest to a distant tower and south to

Floyd | the mountains.  Across a barren plain to the east, a wide rutted cart
Floyd | track bears the scars of recent heavy troop movements.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a white cube here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | As you touch the cube, the universe abruptly turns itself inside out.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the White Cube
Floyd | The six interior walls of this perfectly cubical room are perfectly

Floyd | white and featureless.  A single silver compass rose, balancing a
Floyd | delicate crystal sphere on its bloom, floats like a pedestal above the
Floyd | floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The sphere vibrates in your hands, and an image takes form in your
Floyd | mind:
Floyd |
Floyd | You are swimming in the depths of an unfathomable ocean.  A dark shape

Floyd | with sleek fins and hundreds of shiny white teeth looms toward you and
Floyd | thinks, "Eat eat hungry eat, er, this is most embarrassing, but my
Floyd | snavig spell appears to have jammed on.  Could you possibly help?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Slowly, the vision fades.  You feel vaguely disoriented for a moment.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | Opened.  The burin flutters out again.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't see any shark here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The burin thinks for a moment and replies, "Tuesday."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Inside the White Cube
Floyd | The six interior walls of this perfectly cubical room are perfectly
Floyd | white and featureless.  A single silver compass rose, balancing a
Floyd | delicate crystal sphere on its bloom, floats like a pedestal above the

Floyd | floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin is perched on your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | The burin makes a lunge at its shadow, and misses.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | As you move in that direction, the universe abruptly turns itself
Floyd | inside out.
Floyd |
Floyd | Ocean
Floyd | You are standing on a tiny rock islet, barely more than a few feet
Floyd | across, in the middle of a vast ocean.  No land is visible in any

Floyd | direction, and the water swirls threateningly about your feet.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a white cube here.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin hovers over your head.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | You see a circling fin far below.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | It has a fishy kind of look to it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Looking down at the briny deep, you remember that you just barely
Floyd | failed Elementary Marining 101.  Are you sure you want to take the
Floyd | plunge?  >

Floyd |
Floyd | You wisely decide to stay high and dry.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | As you touch the cube, the universe abruptly turns itself inside out.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the White Cube
Floyd | The six interior walls of this perfectly cubical room are perfectly

Floyd | white and featureless.  A single silver compass rose, balancing a
Floyd | delicate crystal sphere on its bloom, floats like a pedestal above the
Floyd | floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin flies in small circles around your head.
Floyd |

Floyd | "If you can pick it up, it's yours," the burin sniggers sagely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Oddly enough, you find your way blocked by an invisible barrier.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The sphere vibrates in your hands, and an image takes form in your
Floyd | mind:
Floyd |
Floyd | You are in pitch darkness.  From all around you can hear horrible
Floyd | lurking droolings, and a single sudden metallic clatter.  A nervous
Floyd | voice says, "Hello? Can you bring a new battery?  I don't know for

Floyd | sure, but I think these might be gr - "
Floyd |
Floyd | Slowly, the vision fades.  You feel vaguely disoriented for a moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't see any grue here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The sphere vibrates in your hands, and an image takes form in your
Floyd | mind:
Floyd |
Floyd | You are standing on the peak of a mountain reaching high above the rim

Floyd | of the world.  Dazzling light fills your eyes, and a hollow voice booms
Floyd | down:
Floyd | "Don't try to match wits with us, Zuzvuz.  We'll consider your request
Floyd | for reimplementation in the next beta release, not a single compile
Floyd | before."
Floyd |

Floyd | Slowly, the vision fades.  You feel vaguely disoriented for a moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | The burin preens itself, licking traces of ink from its nib.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Oddly enough, you find your way blocked by an invisible barrier.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | As you move in that direction, the universe abruptly turns itself
Floyd | inside out.
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside Temple
Floyd | You are standing on the apex of a towering rock pinnacle high in the
Floyd | southern mountains.  Before you, to the northeast, stands the

Floyd | unfinished shell of a building, presumably a temple of some kind.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a white cube here.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin is perched on your head.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The temple, or what parts of have been built, appears to have been
Floyd | carved out of perfectly white rock, but its age or purpose is
Floyd | unguessable.  An elaborate ornamental frieze runs around the temple's
Floyd | outside walls, covered with cryptic runes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Temple of Implementation
Floyd |
Floyd | 3j34t3hd6 w7jj9h8ht 8hw547d589hw r8he 5y3 oqj0

Floyd | 9r 8hw084q589h 5y3 47o3 9r ih9o3et3 5y3 d98h 9r

Floyd | oqg974 qhe 5y3 d9j0o353e g99i 9r 548qow 0oqd3 5y3j
Floyd | 9h 5y3 d7g3 8h 5yq5 94e34 5y3h dqw5 123456 r974
Floyd | 58j3w e9h5 t35 85 249ht w8th3e 5y3 8j0o3j3h594w

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | GlkTADS - A text-only TADS 2.5.3 Interpreter.

Floyd | TADS copyright (c) 1993, 2000 by Michael J. Roberts.
Floyd | Maintained by Stephen Granade <sgranade@phy.duke.edu>
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hello.  You have reached the Frobozz Magic Support Company hotglyph.

Floyd | All our adepts are busy at present, but if you keep chanting the
Floyd | invocation you used to summon this image, a support clerk will be with
Floyd | you shortly.  In the meantime, please relax while the Accardia
Floyd | Barbershop Musicians Guild presents Movements VIII-XVI of 'Ode to
Floyd | Belboz'.  Thank you for summoning Frobozz Magic Support."
Floyd |

Floyd | FROBOZZ MAGIC SUPPORT
Floyd | An Interactive Short Fantasy
Floyd | by Nate Cull, culln@xtra.co.nz
Floyd | Release 4, February 1997.  HELP for instructions.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the White Cube

Floyd | The six interior walls of this perfectly cubical room are perfectly
Floyd | white and featureless.  A single silver compass rose, balancing a
Floyd | delicate crystal sphere on its bloom, floats like a pedestal above the
Floyd | floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | As you open the log book, an animated burin flutters out.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hi there," says the burin cheerfully.  "You must be the new support
Floyd | clerk everyone's been talking about.  No, don't say it, I know what
Floyd | you're going to ask.  What's such a smart and attractive burin like me
Floyd | doing in a low paid job like Magic Support?  Well, I've asked myself

Floyd | that same question many times, believe me, and the best answer I've
Floyd | come up with is that I love my work.  Yes sir, I just love task
Floyd | logging.  Give me a task to log, any task, and I'll have it written
Floyd | down before you can say Zebulon's your uncle!"
Floyd |
Floyd | "So, are you ready to begin?  What's your name?" >

Floyd |
Floyd | "You say your name is Krosk lord of blood?" >

Floyd |
Floyd | "Great!  I can see we're going to get along famously, Krosk lord of
Floyd | blood."  The burin buzzes around excitedly, then settles into a casual
Floyd | hovering pattern over your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The sphere vibrates in your hands, and an image takes form in your
Floyd | mind:
Floyd |
Floyd | You are standing on a barren, windswept plain.  A knight in black

Floyd | armour clatters past toward a foreboding stone tower, and from the
Floyd | distance, a beautiful maiden's voice calls out.  "Help me!  My rezrov
Floyd | scroll is gone and I must flee before the Dark Lord comes!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Slowly, the vision fades.  You feel vaguely disoriented for a moment.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The sphere vibrates in your hands, and an image takes form in your
Floyd | mind:
Floyd |

Floyd | You are swimming in the depths of an unfathomable ocean.  A dark shape
Floyd | with sleek fins and hundreds of shiny white teeth looms toward you and
Floyd | thinks, "Eat eat hungry eat, er, this is most embarrassing, but my
Floyd | snavig spell appears to have jammed on.  Could you possibly help?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Slowly, the vision fades.  You feel vaguely disoriented for a moment.

Floyd |
Floyd | "This reminds me of Old Quendor," muses the burin to itself.  "Or was
Floyd | it Kroz?  Anyways, thems were the days, they had real adventurers back
Floyd | then, yessiree."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The sphere vibrates in your hands, and an image takes form in your
Floyd | mind:
Floyd |
Floyd | You are in pitch darkness.  From all around you can hear horrible

Floyd | lurking droolings, and a single sudden metallic clatter.  A nervous
Floyd | voice says, "Hello? Can you bring a new battery?  I don't know for
Floyd | sure, but I think these might be gr - "
Floyd |
Floyd | Slowly, the vision fades.  You feel vaguely disoriented for a moment.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The sphere vibrates in your hands, and an image takes form in your
Floyd | mind:
Floyd |

Floyd | You are standing on the peak of a mountain reaching high above the rim
Floyd | of the world.  Dazzling light fills your eyes, and a hollow voice booms
Floyd | down:
Floyd | "Don't try to match wits with us, Zuzvuz.  We'll consider your request
Floyd | for reimplementation in the next beta release, not a single compile
Floyd | before."

Floyd |
Floyd | Slowly, the vision fades.  You feel vaguely disoriented for a moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | As you move in that direction, the universe abruptly turns itself
Floyd | inside out.
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside Temple
Floyd | You are standing on the apex of a towering rock pinnacle high in the
Floyd | southern mountains.  Before you, to the northeast, stands the

Floyd | unfinished shell of a building, presumably a temple of some kind.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a white cube here.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin is perched on your head.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The temple, or what parts of have been built, appears to have been
Floyd | carved out of perfectly white rock, but its age or purpose is

Floyd | unguessable.  An elaborate ornamental frieze runs around the temple's
Floyd | outside walls, covered with cryptic runes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Temple of Implementation
Floyd |
Floyd | 3j34t3hd6 w7jj9h8ht 8hw547d589hw r8he 5y3 oqj0
Floyd | 9r 8hw084q589h 5y3 47o3 9r ih9o3et3 5y3 d98h 9r
Floyd | oqg974 qhe 5y3 d9j0o353e g99i 9r 548qow 0oqd3 5y3j
Floyd | 9h 5y3 d7g3 8h 5yq5 94e34 5y3h dqw5 123456 r974

Floyd | 58j3w e9h5 t35 85 249ht w8th3e 5y3 8j0o3j3h594w
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | In the Temple

Floyd | You are inside the temple, which seems to be built roughly in a square;
Floyd | the roof, still unfinished, is open to the sky.  In the centre of the
Floyd | room stands a transparent crystalline cube, about a metre a side.  A
Floyd | doorless archway leads out to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin flies in small circles around your head.

Floyd |
Floyd | The burin flies a slow loop around your shoulder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The crystal cube is perfectly transparent.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The crystal cube feels oddly insubstantial.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't know how to enter the crystal cube.
Floyd |
Floyd | The burin makes a lunge at its shadow, and misses.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | There's nothing in the crystal cube.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

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

Floyd | The archway leads out to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Unfortunately, you never quite finished Elementary Enchanting 101, so
Floyd | you have no idea how to cast, or even learn, that spell.  If indeed it
Floyd | is a spell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Outside Temple
Floyd | You are standing on the apex of a towering rock pinnacle high in the
Floyd | southern mountains.  Before you, to the northeast, stands the

Floyd | unfinished shell of a building, presumably a temple of some kind.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a white cube here.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin is perched on your head.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The rock pinnacle that you're on stands tall and alone among the
Floyd | mountains.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | There is no apparent way down the pinnacle.
Floyd |

Floyd | The burin flutters around your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | As you touch the cube, the universe abruptly turns itself inside out.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the White Cube
Floyd | The six interior walls of this perfectly cubical room are perfectly
Floyd | white and featureless.  A single silver compass rose, balancing a
Floyd | delicate crystal sphere on its bloom, floats like a pedestal above the

Floyd | floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin flies in small circles around your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The sphere vibrates in your hands, and an image takes form in your
Floyd | mind:
Floyd |
Floyd | You are clinging to the edge of a bridge above a vast chasm.  A

Floyd | thundering waterfall cascades through a rainbow below, while from
Floyd | behind a bored voice yawns, "So tell me then, how do I get that pot of
Floyd | gold?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Slowly, the vision fades.  You feel vaguely disoriented for a moment.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | As you move in that direction, the universe abruptly turns itself
Floyd | inside out.

Floyd |
Floyd | End of path
Floyd | You are standing at the end of a path running north into dense forest.
Floyd | A small sign casts a shadow beside the path, while just to the south, a
Floyd | wooden bridge leads across a massive chasm.
Floyd |

Floyd | You see a white cube here.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin is perched on your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The bridge is off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You aren't lost, are you?" quips the burin worriedly.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | "Notice:  The Forest of Eternal Chaos is temporarily under enchantment
Floyd | while we alter local reality to comply with new Quendor Tourism Guild

Floyd | guidelines.  We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Floyd | Frobozz Magic Conservation Company."
Floyd |
Floyd | The sign seems to have a small arrow carved into one edge, and casts a
Floyd | deep shadow beside the footprint-covered path.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The shadow points due north, into the forest.  A small clump of moss is
Floyd | growing in the shadow, at the base of the sign.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The sun is visible to the south of here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The moss is on the north side of the sign.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Make sure you get a good look at everything," cheeps the burin
Floyd | helpfully.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Chasm, on the bridge
Floyd | You are standing on a wooden bridge, which stretches halfway across a

Floyd | vast chasm to the south.  Beyond the bridge, a rainbow arcs across the
Floyd | chasm through clouds of mist from a spectacular waterfall.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin flies in small circles around your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | End of path
Floyd | You are standing at the end of a path running north into dense forest.
Floyd | A small sign casts a shadow beside the path, while just to the south, a

Floyd | wooden bridge leads across a massive chasm.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a white cube here.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin hovers over your head.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The forest seems to change subtly as you enter it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest

Floyd | You are deep in the forest, surrounded by towering trees and sticky
Floyd | clinging vines.  A trail winds through the trees at this point, but
Floyd | then seems to fade into the undergrowth without a trace.  Your sense of
Floyd | direction feels strangely altered.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin flies in small circles around your head.

Floyd |
Floyd | The burin practises its penthingship.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | These towering forest giants block most of the sky.  There's a small
Floyd | patch of moss on the nearest tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The moss appears to be growing on the northwest side of the tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The forest seems to change subtly as you move to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | You are deep in the forest, surrounded by towering trees and sticky
Floyd | clinging vines.  A trail winds through the trees at this point, but
Floyd | then seems to fade into the undergrowth without a trace.  Your sense of

Floyd | direction feels strangely altered.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin flies in small circles around your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | A bored tourist wanders around looking lost.
Floyd |

Floyd | The tourist looks up at you with a faint flicker of interest.  "Frobozz
Floyd | Magic Support?  At least something works around here.  Look, I'll do
Floyd | anything you ask, just get me out of this stupid forest!"
Floyd |
Floyd | The burin preens itself, licking traces of ink from its nib.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | "Huh?" says the tourist.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The tourist wears a gaudy flower print T-shirt and a pair of shorts,
Floyd | and is carrying nothing.  He scratches his head and yawns every few
Floyd | minutes.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

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

Floyd | The sun is obscured by the trees here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't see any shadow here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't see any moss here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | These towering forest giants block most of the sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | "If you can pick it up, it's yours," the burin sniggers sagely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The undergrowth rustles disturbingly, as if it's alive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Forest
Floyd | You are deep in the forest, surrounded by towering trees and sticky
Floyd | clinging vines.  A trail winds through the trees at this point, but
Floyd | then seems to fade into the undergrowth without a trace.  Your sense of

Floyd | direction feels strangely altered.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin flies in small circles around your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | A bored tourist leans against a tree.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | These towering forest giants block most of the sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The trail seems to lead in all directions at once, but you can almost
Floyd | make out a faint set of footprints.
Floyd |
Floyd | The burin makes a lunge at its shadow, and misses.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The footprints are very faint, and seem to have been made by many

Floyd | people some time in the past.  They lead northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The forest seems to change subtly as you move to the northwest.

Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | You are deep in the forest, surrounded by towering trees and sticky
Floyd | clinging vines.  A trail winds through the trees at this point, but
Floyd | then seems to fade into the undergrowth without a trace.  Your sense of
Floyd | direction feels strangely altered.

Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin is perched on your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | You are deep in the forest, surrounded by towering trees and sticky
Floyd | clinging vines.  A trail winds through the trees at this point, but
Floyd | then seems to fade into the undergrowth without a trace.  Your sense of

Floyd | direction feels strangely altered.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin is perched on your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | A bored tourist leans against a tree.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The forest seems to change subtly as the tourist heads off to the
Floyd | northwest.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The sun is obscured by the trees here.
Floyd |

Floyd | "You aren't lost, are you?" quips the burin worriedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The moss appears to be growing on the west side of the tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The forest seems to change subtly as you move to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | You are deep in the forest, surrounded by towering trees and sticky
Floyd | clinging vines.  A trail winds through the trees at this point, but
Floyd | then seems to fade into the undergrowth without a trace.  Your sense of

Floyd | direction feels strangely altered.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin flies in small circles around your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | You are deep in the forest, surrounded by towering trees and sticky

Floyd | clinging vines.  A trail winds through the trees at this point, but
Floyd | then seems to fade into the undergrowth without a trace.  Your sense of
Floyd | direction feels strangely altered.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin flies in small circles around your head.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The forest seems to change subtly as you move to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest

Floyd | You are deep in the forest, surrounded by towering trees and sticky
Floyd | clinging vines.  A trail winds through the trees at this point, but
Floyd | then seems to fade into the undergrowth without a trace.  Your sense of
Floyd | direction feels strangely altered.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin flies in small circles around your head.

Floyd |
Floyd | A bored tourist wanders around looking lost.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

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

Floyd | The undergrowth rustles disturbingly, as if it's alive.
Floyd |
Floyd | The burin flies a slow loop around your shoulder.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | These towering forest giants block most of the sky.  Someone seems to

Floyd | have carved an arrow into the nearest tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The arrow appears to point to the east.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The forest seems to change subtly as the tourist heads off to the east.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The undergrowth rustles disturbingly, as if it's alive.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The sun is obscured by the trees here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The burin flies a slow loop around your shoulder.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | These towering forest giants block most of the sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

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

Floyd | The trail seems to lead in all directions at once, but you can almost
Floyd | make out a faint set of footprints.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

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

Floyd | The footprints are very faint, and seem to have been made by many
Floyd | people some time in the past.  They lead west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The forest seems to change subtly as you move to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | You are deep in the forest, surrounded by towering trees and sticky

Floyd | clinging vines.  A trail winds through the trees at this point, but
Floyd | then seems to fade into the undergrowth without a trace.  Your sense of
Floyd | direction feels strangely altered.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin is perched on your head.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest

Floyd | You are deep in the forest, surrounded by towering trees and sticky
Floyd | clinging vines.  A trail winds through the trees at this point, but
Floyd | then seems to fade into the undergrowth without a trace.  Your sense of
Floyd | direction feels strangely altered.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin is perched on your head.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |

Floyd | Forest
Floyd | You are deep in the forest, surrounded by towering trees and sticky
Floyd | clinging vines.  A trail winds through the trees at this point, but
Floyd | then seems to fade into the undergrowth without a trace.  Your sense of
Floyd | direction feels strangely altered.
Floyd |

Floyd | An animated burin hovers over your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (Undoing one command)

Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | You are deep in the forest, surrounded by towering trees and sticky
Floyd | clinging vines.  A trail winds through the trees at this point, but
Floyd | then seems to fade into the undergrowth without a trace.  Your sense of
Floyd | direction feels strangely altered.

Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin flies in small circles around your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | You are deep in the forest, surrounded by towering trees and sticky
Floyd | clinging vines.  A trail winds through the trees at this point, but
Floyd | then seems to fade into the undergrowth without a trace.  Your sense of

Floyd | direction feels strangely altered.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin flies in small circles around your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | You are deep in the forest, surrounded by towering trees and sticky

Floyd | clinging vines.  A trail winds through the trees at this point, but
Floyd | then seems to fade into the undergrowth without a trace.  Your sense of
Floyd | direction feels strangely altered.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin hovers over your head.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest

Floyd | You are deep in the forest, surrounded by towering trees and sticky
Floyd | clinging vines.  A trail winds through the trees at this point, but
Floyd | then seems to fade into the undergrowth without a trace.  Your sense of
Floyd | direction feels strangely altered.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin hovers over your head.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |

Floyd | Forest
Floyd | You are deep in the forest, surrounded by towering trees and sticky
Floyd | clinging vines.  A trail winds through the trees at this point, but
Floyd | then seems to fade into the undergrowth without a trace.  Your sense of
Floyd | direction feels strangely altered.
Floyd |

Floyd | An animated burin flies in small circles around your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | A bored tourist leans against a tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The arrow appears to point to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The arrow appears to point to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Forest
Floyd | You are deep in the forest, surrounded by towering trees and sticky
Floyd | clinging vines.  A trail winds through the trees at this point, but
Floyd | then seems to fade into the undergrowth without a trace.  Your sense of

Floyd | direction feels strangely altered.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin is perched on your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | A bored tourist wanders around looking lost.
Floyd |

Floyd | "Make sure you get a good look at everything," cheeps the burin
Floyd | helpfully.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The forest seems to change subtly as the tourist heads off to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | These towering forest giants block most of the sky.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't see any moss here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The sun is obscured by the trees here.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't see any shadow here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The footprints are very faint, and seem to have been made by many
Floyd | people some time in the past.  They lead southeast.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The forest seems to change subtly as you move to the southeast.
Floyd |

Floyd | Forest
Floyd | You are deep in the forest, surrounded by towering trees and sticky
Floyd | clinging vines.  A trail winds through the trees at this point, but
Floyd | then seems to fade into the undergrowth without a trace.  Your sense of
Floyd | direction feels strangely altered.
Floyd |

Floyd | An animated burin is perched on your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | You are deep in the forest, surrounded by towering trees and sticky
Floyd | clinging vines.  A trail winds through the trees at this point, but
Floyd | then seems to fade into the undergrowth without a trace.  Your sense of

Floyd | direction feels strangely altered.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin flies in small circles around your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The footprints are very faint, and seem to have been made by many
Floyd | people some time in the past.  They lead southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The forest seems to change subtly as you move to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | You are deep in the forest, surrounded by towering trees and sticky

Floyd | clinging vines.  A trail winds through the trees at this point, but
Floyd | then seems to fade into the undergrowth without a trace.  Your sense of
Floyd | direction feels strangely altered.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin hovers over your head.
Floyd |

Floyd | A bored tourist leans against a tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | The burin preens itself, licking traces of ink from its nib.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | These towering forest giants block most of the sky.  There's a small
Floyd | patch of moss on the nearest tree.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The moss appears to be growing on the east side of the tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The forest seems to change subtly as the tourist heads off to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | "This reminds me of Old Quendor," muses the burin to itself.  "Or was
Floyd | it Kroz?  Anyways, thems were the days, they had real adventurers back

Floyd | then, yessiree."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The sun is obscured by the trees here.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't see any shadow here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | These towering forest giants block most of the sky.  There's a small
Floyd | patch of moss on the nearest tree.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The moss appears to be growing on the southwest side of the tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The forest seems to change subtly as you move to the northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | Forest
Floyd | You are deep in the forest, surrounded by towering trees and sticky

Floyd | clinging vines.  A trail winds through the trees at this point, but
Floyd | then seems to fade into the undergrowth without a trace.  Your sense of
Floyd | direction feels strangely altered.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin flies in small circles around your head.
Floyd |

Floyd | A bored tourist leans against a tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | These towering forest giants block most of the sky.  Someone seems to

Floyd | have carved an arrow into the nearest tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You aren't lost, are you?" quips the burin worriedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The arrow appears to point to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The forest seems to change subtly as the tourist heads off to the
Floyd | southwest.  You hear something crash through the undergrowth in the
Floyd | distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | These towering forest giants block most of the sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The sun is obscured by the trees here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The footprints are very faint, and seem to have been made by many
Floyd | people some time in the past.  They lead northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Make sure you get a good look at everything," cheeps the burin
Floyd | helpfully.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You stumble out into the open air.
Floyd |

Floyd | End of path
Floyd | You are standing at the end of a path running north into dense forest.
Floyd | A small sign casts a shadow beside the path, while just to the south, a
Floyd | wooden bridge leads across a massive chasm.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a white cube here.

Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin hovers over your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Chasm, on the bridge
Floyd | You are standing on a wooden bridge, which stretches halfway across a
Floyd | vast chasm to the south.  Beyond the bridge, a rainbow arcs across the
Floyd | chasm through clouds of mist from a spectacular waterfall.
Floyd |
Floyd | A bored tourist leans against the bridge.

Floyd |
Floyd | The tourist leans on the bridge railing and stares greedily across the
Floyd | chasm.  A gleam of gold sparkles through the mist as he mutters, "Now
Floyd | there's a souvenir I could be proud of.  I'd do anything to get my
Floyd | hands on it!"
Floyd |

Floyd | An animated burin flies in small circles around your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Enter data file to store:

Floyd | Saved.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Enter data file to store:

Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The rainbow passes through the mist thrown up by the waterfall.  It
Floyd | seems to span the entire width of the chasm, arcing southeast from the
Floyd | bridge to the far sidewhere you see a gleam of gold.
Floyd |

Floyd | The tourist wanders off to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The burin shakes its wings.  "I can't log this task until we've
Floyd | completed it."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It's too far away.
Floyd |
Floyd | The burin whistles a few bars of the national anthem.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't know the word "gleam".

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It's too far away.
Floyd |
Floyd | The tourist approaches from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

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

Floyd | It's too far away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The burin flits out of reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | The burin recites a few choice passages from the Rites of the

Floyd | Implementors, then laughs at them.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Chasm, on the bridge

Floyd | You are standing on a wooden bridge, which stretches halfway across a
Floyd | vast chasm to the south.  Beyond the bridge, a rainbow arcs across the
Floyd | chasm through clouds of mist from a spectacular waterfall.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin is perched on your head.
Floyd |

Floyd | A bored tourist leans against the bridge.
Floyd |
Floyd | The tourist wanders off to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The rainbow passes through the mist thrown up by the waterfall.  It
Floyd | seems to span the entire width of the chasm, arcing southeast from the
Floyd | bridge to the far sidewhere you see a gleam of gold.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The waterfall cascades down from a higher level of the chasm to the
Floyd | southwest, filling the air below with mist.  A rainbow arch gleams
Floyd | through the mist, spanning the chasm.

Floyd |
Floyd | "If you can pick it up, it's yours," the burin sniggers sagely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The bridge ends here.  Are you sure you want to step out into thin air?
Floyd | >

Floyd |

Floyd | Wisely, you back away from the chasm.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The bridge ends here.  Are you sure you want to step out into thin air?

Floyd | >

Floyd |
Floyd | Wisely, you back away from the chasm.
Floyd |

Floyd | The tourist approaches from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | "Huh?" says the tourist.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The tourist takes a step off the bridge to the southeast, walking on
Floyd | the rainbow.  Two thirds of the way across the chasm, he looks down,

Floyd | realises that he's standing on nothing but coloured light, and plummets
Floyd | into the chasm.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Chasm, on the bridge
Floyd | You are standing on a wooden bridge, which stretches halfway across a
Floyd | vast chasm to the south.  Beyond the bridge, a rainbow arcs across the
Floyd | chasm through clouds of mist from a spectacular waterfall.

Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin is perched on your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | A bored tourist stares greedily across the chasm.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

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

Floyd | I don't see any blindfold here.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | I don't know the word "lkajsd".
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The burin flits out of reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | This burin looks much every other burin you've seen, except for the
Floyd | small wings protruding from its pen-like body, and the tiny glowing
Floyd | eyes on its nib.

Floyd |
Floyd | The burin traces an intricate Double Fanucci figure in midair.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

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

Floyd | This burin looks much every other burin you've seen, except for the
Floyd | small wings protruding from its pen-like body, and the tiny glowing
Floyd | eyes on its nib.
Floyd |
Floyd | The tourist wanders off to the north.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | End of path
Floyd | You are standing at the end of a path running north into dense forest.

Floyd | A small sign casts a shadow beside the path, while just to the south, a
Floyd | wooden bridge leads across a massive chasm.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a white cube here.
Floyd |
Floyd | A bored tourist wanders around looking lost.

Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin is perched on your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | As you touch the cube, the universe abruptly turns itself inside out.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the White Cube
Floyd | The six interior walls of this perfectly cubical room are perfectly
Floyd | white and featureless.  A single silver compass rose, balancing a
Floyd | delicate crystal sphere on its bloom, floats like a pedestal above the

Floyd | floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin hovers over your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | "If you can pick it up, it's yours," the burin sniggers sagely.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The sphere vibrates in your hands, and an image takes form in your
Floyd | mind:
Floyd |

Floyd | You are at the bottom of an immense smouldering crater gashed out of
Floyd | bare rock. Stars flicker slowly in a midnight sky, and through the
Floyd | eerie silence a single voice wails over and over again, "Yek wen eht
Floyd | ton!  Yek dlo eht esu!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Slowly, the vision fades.  You feel vaguely disoriented for a moment.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Oddly enough, you find your way blocked by an invisible barrier.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | As you move in that direction, the universe abruptly turns itself
Floyd | inside out.
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Entrance
Floyd | You are standing at the entrance to a large, familiar college campus.

Floyd | At least, it would be large and familiar if it existed, which it
Floyd | apparently doesn't anymore.  The only solid things remaining are a
Floyd | white mailbox and two paths leading west and southwest.  Everything
Floyd | else seems to be swallowed by a black, swirling void.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a white cube here.

Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin is perched on your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Come on! Let's go exploring!" chirps the burin excitedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The white mailbox is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Opening the white mailbox reveals a red envelope and a syllabus.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | red envelope:  Taken.
Floyd | syllabus:  Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | The burin flutters around your head.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The envelope is bright red, and appears to be addressed to The School
Floyd | of Remedial Magic, GUE Tech, Quendor.  It is closed.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | Opening the red envelope reveals a crisp vellum scroll and a packing
Floyd | slip.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The scroll appears to have been freshly written.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Unfortunately, you never studied Elementary Spellcoding 101, so the
Floyd | contents of the scroll are completely incomprehensible to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Contents:  One (1) Rezrov Spell Scroll, Educational License Only
Floyd |
Floyd | For your safety and convenience, this spell has been hand-inscribed on
Floyd | finest enchanting grade vellum and packaged in our special Spel-Gard

Floyd | (tm) Resealable Magic-Proof Envelope, guaranteed to prevent magic
Floyd | leakage for up to 30 days, or double your zorkmids back!  Thank you for
Floyd | purchasing your magic supplies from the Frobozz Magic Magic Supply
Floyd | Company.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Isn't this fun?" giggles the burin.  "By the Quill, 'twill make a tall

Floyd | tale to tell thy tykes."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The envelope is bright red, and appears to be addressed to The School
Floyd | of Remedial Magic, GUE Tech, Quendor.  It is open, and contains a crisp
Floyd | vellum scroll and a packing slip.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The Great Underground Empire (Memorial) Institute of Magickal
Floyd | Techknowledgies, Artes and Psiences, School of Remedial Magic Syllabus
Floyd |

Floyd | On completing this course, the student shall be capable of defining the
Floyd | following terms and their usage in modern enchanting:
Floyd |
Floyd | Antharia   island province famed for its granola mines, survive field
Floyd | trip
Floyd | antimagic  theoretical opposite of magic, inhibits or annihilates

Floyd | spells
Floyd | blorple    spell, opens a dimension gate
Floyd | Borphee    industrial capital of modern Quendor, list leading spell
Floyd | merchants
Floyd | burin      pen-like instrument needed for magical inscriptions, own and
Floyd | use

Floyd | Flathead   Dimwit, worst ruler of the GUE, describe in excessive detail
Floyd | gaspar     spell, prepares caster for resurrection
Floyd | golmac     spell, causes time travel
Floyd | granola    tasty and highly nutritious food source, write poetic praise
Floyd | epic
Floyd | grue       lurking menace in dark places, avoid getting eaten by

Floyd | GUE        Great Underground Empire, describe history, fall and
Floyd | excavations
Floyd | Infocom    aka Implementors, mythical godlike beings, dismiss as
Floyd | fallacy
Floyd | lleps      spell, reverses effect of memorised spell
Floyd | malyon     spell, brings inanimate objects to life

Floyd | nymph      small magical fairy-like creatures often used as
Floyd | secretaries, hire
Floyd | Quendor    our homeland, analyse socio-political ramifications of
Floyd | granola tax
Floyd | qwerty     spell (mythical), student must logically refute its
Floyd | existence

Floyd | raif       minor modern cult of Infocom, of no significance whatsoever
Floyd | rezrov     spell, opens closed or locked objects
Floyd | rose       compass rose, oh sweet compass rose, etc, national anthem,
Floyd | sing
Floyd | snavig     spell, causes caster to assume another shape at will
Floyd | timeloop   highly dangerous phenomenon, describe how to avoid creating

Floyd | vellum     leather-based scroll substrate, explain advantages over
Floyd | parchment
Floyd | work       part-time jobs in magic support, readily available for
Floyd | students
Floyd | Zork       common name for Quendor and the GUE, also an epic saga
Floyd | zorkmid    national unit of currency, pay all tuition fees promptly

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Void, n.  Absence of matter; nothingness.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Crater
Floyd | Here, in what was once the centre of campus, what little reality is
Floyd | left has condensed into a grue-black, rock-blasted crater hammered out
Floyd | of existence by some unimaginable power.  The stars distort overhead in
Floyd | a strange demented dance; you can barely remember seeing a white
Floyd | mailbox to the east.

Floyd |
Floyd | An iron vault floats calmly in the void, apparently unscathed.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin hovers over your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The stars above seem weirdly distorted.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It's too far away.
Floyd |
Floyd | "If you can pick it up, it's yours," the burin sniggers sagely.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | Unfortunately, you failed Elementary Levitation 101.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The vault is about twice your height, forged from cast iron and
Floyd | imprinted with an ornate logo that appears to date back to the early
Floyd | Flathead Dynasty.  The vault is closed.  A shiny iron key sits in the
Floyd | keyhole, with a note attached.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | "Gorgax: Here's the replacement master key you requested.  We didn't
Floyd | have time to test it, hope it works okay, some of these old vaults can

Floyd | be a mite touchy.  I'll get the dwarves in Technical to look at it next
Floyd | week.  Sorkin."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Enter data file to store:
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The shiny iron key turns stiffly in the lock.  As the last tumbler
Floyd | clicks into place, an alarm nymph flies out of the keyhole, writes "You
Floyd | do know there's no way you can fool a genuine Frobozz Magic Vault
Floyd | Company vault with such a patently fraudulent imitation of a master
Floyd | key, don't you?" in the air with her finger, then vanishes with a loud
Floyd | raspberry.  The vault explodes.

Floyd |
Floyd | Blackness and Void
Floyd | Nothing happens.  It would seem that you are dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |
Floyd | GUE Tech, Old Quendor
Floyd | Moments earlier, you find yourself falling backward through a strangely

Floyd | familiar college campus.  A vague premonition tugs at your mind about
Floyd | some great deed left undone - or was it a memory?  As you watch,
Floyd | buildings dismantle and shed moss, spells implode on their casters, and
Floyd | stars spin down across the oscillating sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | A woman in a senior Enchanter's robe steps away from you, gathers a

Floyd | cloud of green lightning with a wave of her hands, and runs into the
Floyd | distance saying "Nialpxe ot emit on.  Tfel evah I cigam ylno eht si
Floyd | siht.  Poolemit siht fo tuo su kearb nac ohw tfel eno ylno eht er'uoy
Floyd | diarfa m'I tub, siht otni uoy gard ot yrros.  Krelc troppus wen eht eb
Floyd | tsum uoy, Ratsileh m'I..."
Floyd |

Floyd | With a wrench, the universe turns itself inside out...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd |

Floyd | "Hello.  You have reached the Frobozz Magic Support Company hotglyph.
Floyd | All our adepts are busy at present, but if you keep chanting the
Floyd | invocation you used to summon this image, a support clerk will be with
Floyd | you shortly.  In the meantime, please relax while the Accardia
Floyd | Barbershop Musicians Guild presents Movements VIII-XVI of 'Ode to
Floyd | Belboz'.  Thank you for summoning Frobozz Magic Support."

Floyd |
Floyd | FROBOZZ MAGIC SUPPORT
Floyd | An Interactive Short Fantasy
Floyd | by Nate Cull, culln@xtra.co.nz
Floyd | Release 4, February 1997.  HELP for instructions.
Floyd |

Floyd | Inside the White Cube
Floyd | The six interior walls of this perfectly cubical room are perfectly
Floyd | white and featureless.  A single silver compass rose, balancing a
Floyd | delicate crystal sphere on its bloom, floats like a pedestal above the
Floyd | floor.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | Enter saved game to load:

Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | Crater
Floyd | Here, in what was once the centre of campus, what little reality is
Floyd | left has condensed into a grue-black, rock-blasted crater hammered out
Floyd | of existence by some unimaginable power.  The stars distort overhead in

Floyd | a strange demented dance; you can barely remember seeing a white
Floyd | mailbox to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | An iron vault floats calmly in the void, apparently unscathed.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin hovers over your head.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The crater doesn't seem to exist, at least not in any sense you're used

Floyd | to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | [taking the note as well]

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | The burin makes a lunge at its shadow, and misses.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You have a granola bar, a log book, a red envelope, a syllabus, a note,
Floyd | and a shiny iron key.  The red envelope seems to contain a crisp vellum
Floyd | scroll and a packing slip.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The scroll appears to have been freshly written.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Even if you could fly, reaching the cliff would be uncertain.
Floyd |
Floyd | The burin nibbles softly at your ear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Main Entrance
Floyd | You are standing at the entrance to a large, familiar college campus.
Floyd | At least, it would be large and familiar if it existed, which it
Floyd | apparently doesn't anymore.  The only solid things remaining are a

Floyd | white mailbox and two paths leading west and southwest.  Everything
Floyd | else seems to be swallowed by a black, swirling void.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a white cube here.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin is perched on your head.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Scenic Overlook
Floyd | The path ends here at a newly formed cliff face, looking down over a

Floyd | strangely distorted crater to the north.  Inky black void shivers
Floyd | around your feet, and trickles in small eddies from the crater's rim,
Floyd | nearly obscuring the single crumbling line of reality that leads
Floyd | northeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | A yellow signpost balances on the crater's edge.

Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin is perched on your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | "The Lord Dimwit Flathead (the Excessive) Memorial Wabe.
Floyd | Positively NO littering."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The shiny iron key distorts weirdly as the void swallows it.  You see
Floyd | it slowly fall toward the distant vault, then vanish.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Main Entrance
Floyd | You are standing at the entrance to a large, familiar college campus.

Floyd | At least, it would be large and familiar if it existed, which it
Floyd | apparently doesn't anymore.  The only solid things remaining are a
Floyd | white mailbox and two paths leading west and southwest.  Everything
Floyd | else seems to be swallowed by a black, swirling void.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a white cube here.

Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin is perched on your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Make sure you get a good look at everything," cheeps the burin
Floyd | helpfully.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | Crater
Floyd | Here, in what was once the centre of campus, what little reality is
Floyd | left has condensed into a grue-black, rock-blasted crater hammered out

Floyd | of existence by some unimaginable power.  The stars distort overhead in
Floyd | a strange demented dance; you can barely remember seeing a white
Floyd | mailbox to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | An iron vault floats calmly in the void, apparently unscathed.
Floyd |

Floyd | An animated burin hovers over your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | Out of the corner of your eye, you see a rusty iron key fall from
Floyd | above.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It looks like an ordinary rusty iron key to me.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It's locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | The burin nibbles softly at your ear.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | (with the rusty iron key)
Floyd | The rusty iron key turns smoothly in the lock.  As the last tumbler
Floyd | clicks into place, an alarm nymph flies out of the keyhole, writes

Floyd | "Your master key has been age-verified.  Thank you for using genuine
Floyd | Frobozz Magic Vault Company security products" in the air with her
Floyd | finger, then vanishes with a broad wink.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Opening the vault reveals a silver slide rule.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | It's a slide rule crafted from pure silver, inscribed with the initials
Floyd | "L.D.F.".  Must be worth a fortune for antiquity value alone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Main Entrance
Floyd | You are standing at the entrance to a large, familiar college campus.
Floyd | At least, it would be large and familiar if it existed, which it

Floyd | apparently doesn't anymore.  The only solid things remaining are a
Floyd | white mailbox and two paths leading west and southwest.  Everything
Floyd | else seems to be swallowed by a black, swirling void.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a white cube here.
Floyd |

Floyd | An animated burin flies in small circles around your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Isn't this fun?" giggles the burin.  "By the Quill, 'twill make a tall
Floyd | tale to tell thy tykes."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | As you touch the cube, the universe abruptly turns itself inside out.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the White Cube
Floyd | The six interior walls of this perfectly cubical room are perfectly

Floyd | white and featureless.  A single silver compass rose, balancing a
Floyd | delicate crystal sphere on its bloom, floats like a pedestal above the
Floyd | floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin hovers over your head.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | What do you want the burin to write?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The burin blinks at you.  "I don't see any task worth logging here."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The book is leather-bound and bears the title "My Log Book" in flowing
Floyd | gilt lettering.  It is currently open.
Floyd |

Floyd | The burin traces an intricate Double Fanucci figure in midair.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The opened log book contains a list of previous magic support problems

Floyd | and solutions, signed and dated by the clerk on duty at the time.
Floyd |
Floyd | 24/4   Malyon spell backfired; burin accidentally animated.  Oops.
Floyd | Zuzvuz.
Floyd | 27/4   Adventurer eaten by stray grues.  Resurrected with gaspar.
Floyd | Zuzvuz.

Floyd | 32/4   Trolls ravaging village.  Applied two-handed axe; resolved.
Floyd | Felenar.
Floyd | 6/5    Some trouble communicating with cyclops.  See legend 2001.
Floyd | Zuzvuz.
Floyd | 13/5   Adventurer llepsed gaspar.  Summoned Implementors.  Zuzvuz.
Floyd | 17/5   Implementors de-implemented Zuzvuz.  Attempted blorple to Old

Floyd |        Quendor.  Felenar.
Floyd | 20/5   Felenar and Zuzvuz missing.  Sent replacement job application to
Floyd |        GUE Tech.  Sorkin.
Floyd | 23/5   GUE Tech gated to Old Quendor.  Llepsed golmac might work.
Floyd | Sorkin.
Floyd | 29/5   Two words: why me?  New support clerk arrives tomorrow.  Must

Floyd | train
Floyd |        before (after) breaking Sorkin's time loop.  Assuming
Floyd | counterspell
Floyd |        exists, if not...  Helistar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Enter data file to store:

Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |

Floyd | Inside the White Cube
Floyd | The six interior walls of this perfectly cubical room are perfectly
Floyd | white and featureless.  A single silver compass rose, balancing a
Floyd | delicate crystal sphere on its bloom, floats like a pedestal above the
Floyd | floor.
Floyd |

Floyd | An animated burin is perched on your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (Undoing one command)

Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the White Cube
Floyd | The six interior walls of this perfectly cubical room are perfectly
Floyd | white and featureless.  A single silver compass rose, balancing a
Floyd | delicate crystal sphere on its bloom, floats like a pedestal above the
Floyd | floor.

Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin hovers over your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the White Cube
Floyd | The six interior walls of this perfectly cubical room are perfectly
Floyd | white and featureless.  A single silver compass rose, balancing a
Floyd | delicate crystal sphere on its bloom, floats like a pedestal above the

Floyd | floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin hovers over your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the White Cube
Floyd | The six interior walls of this perfectly cubical room are perfectly

Floyd | white and featureless.  A single silver compass rose, balancing a
Floyd | delicate crystal sphere on its bloom, floats like a pedestal above the
Floyd | floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin flies in small circles around your head.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the White Cube

Floyd | The six interior walls of this perfectly cubical room are perfectly
Floyd | white and featureless.  A single silver compass rose, balancing a
Floyd | delicate crystal sphere on its bloom, floats like a pedestal above the
Floyd | floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin is perched on your head.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |

Floyd | Main Entrance
Floyd | You are standing at the entrance to a large, familiar college campus.
Floyd | At least, it would be large and familiar if it existed, which it
Floyd | apparently doesn't anymore.  The only solid things remaining are a
Floyd | white mailbox and two paths leading west and southwest.  Everything
Floyd | else seems to be swallowed by a black, swirling void.

Floyd |
Floyd | You see a white cube here.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin is perched on your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The burin scribbles something into the logbook.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The opened log book contains a list of previous magic support problems
Floyd | and solutions, signed and dated by the clerk on duty at the time.

Floyd |
Floyd | 24/4   Malyon spell backfired; burin accidentally animated.  Oops.
Floyd | Zuzvuz.
Floyd | 27/4   Adventurer eaten by stray grues.  Resurrected with gaspar.
Floyd | Zuzvuz.
Floyd | 32/4   Trolls ravaging village.  Applied two-handed axe; resolved.

Floyd | Felenar.
Floyd | 6/5    Some trouble communicating with cyclops.  See legend 2001.
Floyd | Zuzvuz.
Floyd | 13/5   Adventurer llepsed gaspar.  Summoned Implementors.  Zuzvuz.
Floyd | 17/5   Implementors de-implemented Zuzvuz.  Attempted blorple to Old
Floyd |        Quendor.  Felenar.

Floyd | 20/5   Felenar and Zuzvuz missing.  Sent replacement job application to
Floyd |        GUE Tech.  Sorkin.
Floyd | 23/5   GUE Tech gated to Old Quendor.  Llepsed golmac might work.
Floyd | Sorkin.
Floyd | 29/5   Two words: why me?  New support clerk arrives tomorrow.  Must
Floyd | train

Floyd |        before (after) breaking Sorkin's time loop.  Assuming
Floyd | counterspell
Floyd |        exists, if not...  Helistar.
Floyd | 30/5   GUE Tech Vault jammed.  Took time to open it.  Krosk lord of
Floyd | blood.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | As you touch the cube, the universe abruptly turns itself inside out.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the White Cube

Floyd | The six interior walls of this perfectly cubical room are perfectly
Floyd | white and featureless.  A single silver compass rose, balancing a
Floyd | delicate crystal sphere on its bloom, floats like a pedestal above the
Floyd | floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin hovers over your head.

Floyd |
Floyd | The burin traces an intricate Double Fanucci figure in midair.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Enter data file to store:
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | The sphere vibrates in your hands, and an image takes form in your
Floyd | mind:
Floyd |

Floyd | You are plunging over a cliff, and suddenly halt in midair.  Letters
Floyd | written in fire beneath you spell out, "No more messages."
Floyd |
Floyd | Slowly, the vision fades.  You feel vaguely disoriented for a moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The sphere vibrates in your hands, and an image takes form in your
Floyd | mind:
Floyd |
Floyd | You are standing on a barren, windswept plain.  A knight in black

Floyd | armour clatters past toward a foreboding stone tower, and from the
Floyd | distance, a beautiful maiden's voice calls out.  "Help me!  My rezrov
Floyd | scroll is gone and I must flee before the Dark Lord comes!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Slowly, the vision fades.  You feel vaguely disoriented for a moment.
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | As you move in that direction, the universe abruptly turns itself
Floyd | inside out.
Floyd |

Floyd | Crossroads
Floyd | The road bends here, running northwest to a distant tower and south to
Floyd | the mountains.  Across a barren plain to the east, a wide rutted cart
Floyd | track bears the scars of recent heavy troop movements.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a white cube here.

Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin flies in small circles around your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | "This reminds me of Old Quendor," muses the burin to itself.  "Or was
Floyd | it Kroz?  Anyways, thems were the days, they had real adventurers back
Floyd | then, yessiree."

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You wander across the plain for a while, but find nothing of interest,

Floyd | so you return to the road.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Outside the Tower

Floyd | You are standing beneath a menacing black stone tower.  The only
Floyd | entrance at ground level seems to be a sturdy oak door which is shut
Floyd | and bolted fast.  However, rough stone steps wind up around the outside
Floyd | and vanish somewhere near the top.  The road leads back across a barren
Floyd | plain to the southeast.
Floyd |

Floyd | An animated burin is perched on your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | (climbing the steps)

Floyd | Atop the Tower
Floyd | You are crouched on a minnaret at the top of a menacing stone tower.
Floyd | Rough stone steps lead down around the outside and vanish somewhere
Floyd | near the ground.  A dark chimney opening to the northwest seems the
Floyd | only way in - but once inside, you could not climb back out.
Floyd |

Floyd | An animated burin hovers over your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Come on! Let's go exploring!" chirps the burin excitedly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You'd better have some means of getting out again.  Are you sure you
Floyd | want to climb into the chimney? >

Floyd |
Floyd | Very well.  You scramble into the chimney, sliding down and landing
Floyd | heavily...
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the Tower
Floyd | This circular room at the base of the tower is surprisingly small for

Floyd | its size. An unlit fireplace to the northwest, and a sturdy oak door to
Floyd | the southeast, (which is shut and bolted), are its only points of
Floyd | interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | A captive princess paces around the room impatiently.
Floyd |

Floyd | A white cotton blindfold, apparently flung off by the princess after
Floyd | she arrived here, lies crumpled in a corner.
Floyd |
Floyd | An animated burin flies in small circles around your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | The princess jumps as you stumble clumsily out of the fireplace.  "With

Floyd | an entrance like that, you've got to be Frobozz Magic Support," she
Floyd | laughs.  "Hope you brought that rezrov scroll.  We don't have any time
Floyd | to waste."
Floyd |

Floyd | >

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hurry up!" says the princess.  "The Dark Lord will be coming soon."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The princess has the kind of fragile, ethereal beauty normally
Floyd | associated with diamonds, scimitars, and hellhound puppies.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear the distant sound of marching boots.

Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |

Floyd | "Solved it yet?" chirps the burin cheerfully.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sounds outside grow louder and closer.  The princess shudders, and
Floyd | looks for a weapon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The princess takes the scroll, reads it, and flashes you a beaming
Floyd | smile.  "That's just what I wanted," she says, and begins reading it
Floyd | aloud.
Floyd |

Floyd | The door explodes outwards in a blast of luminous energy.  Waving a
Floyd | hasty goodbye, the princess runs outside and vanishes down the road to
Floyd | the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The grand fireplace, opening to the northwest, is large enough to walk
Floyd | into.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | The grand fireplace, opening to the northwest, is large enough to walk
Floyd | into.
Floyd |
Floyd | >