  
 
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 The Djinni Chronicles, written by J D Berry. The Djinni Chronicles was originally released as part of the 2000 IF Competition, where it took fourteenth place. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting Baf's Guide. WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page. |
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| 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, signaling device, Mike Tyson, IF Programmer Barbie, IF FLOYD'S DOWN, TELL JOTA -- OR ELSE HE WON'T KNOW, Autohugger, Photocopier, basketball, midterm monster, frobozz magic dispenser, fun shiny toy, madlibs, orange, jukebox, FREE DONUTS machine, long-stemmed red rose, dfan's quest, miniature ifMUD, Pun Police Whistle, orange door, monkey guru, mind chess, the 'hey there, playerfish!' cube, apple, a zorkmid, storyharp, save button, specimen jar, soda reading 'Don't drink me!', Gene Ray, jellybean, Best of Speed?, ClubFloyd Suggested Games List, Gak | ||||
| Players: Waldo, Floyd | ||||
| Visible Exits: northeast (to the Lounge) | ||||
| Ghogg arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| Jacqueline arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| Jacqueline hollers, "We'll be playing The Djinni Chronicles in about ten minutes in the Toyshop!" | ||||
| DavidW arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hello, David." | ||||
| DavidW says, "hey" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I should make a quick cold instant coffee." | ||||
| Jacqueline has an entire pot of coffee nearby. | ||||
| DavidW asks (of Jacqueline), "Did you hear about the Viking Studies games that Emily discovered?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm, no." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, I heard something, but I've been so busy that I wasn't able to read up on it." | ||||
| DavidW says, "There was an English class at Gettysburg College, PA, that created 17 Inform 7 projects about different facets of Viking lore." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I haven't played any of them yet, but I downloaded them, and added a Gettysburg College page on ifwiki." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Huh." | ||||
| Jacqueline hollers, "We'll be starting Djinni Chronicles in a couple of minutes..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, let's begin..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load djinni" | ||||
Floyd | That was not an action my Purpose allowed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | I pondered. Was I sure I wanted to quit? | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load djinni" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [pausing to show unread error message] | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Purpose* Floyd | Floyd | A summons from mere existence. The scattered undercurrents of Purpose Floyd | integrated me, established meaning. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | A wish diminished me. I fulfilled my summoner's desire expending Floyd | Purpose. I returned to my container before I was lost forever. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Djinni Chronicles Floyd | "Undercurrents of Manipulation" Floyd | A 2000 IF-Comp Entry by J.D. Berry (berryx@earthlink.net) Floyd | This game is freeware (Type 'about' at any > prompt). Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 000927 / Inform v6.21 Library 6/10 Floyd | Floyd | Vault Entry Room Floyd | The location of my summoner was a room between the surface of the Floyd | world [physically west] and a complex of vaults [physically east]. Floyd | Floyd | The room was a trap for physical beings. On one side of the room, a Floyd | portcullis barred the way to the outside. To the other were the Floyd | vaults for storage. A patterned stone wall blocked their unauthorized Floyd | access. Floyd | Floyd | The remains of a former summoner rested here. An emerald had taken Floyd | the place of his head. Floyd | Floyd | The summoner known as Seegan stood before me. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So, Jim knows we're playing today, but his son has a baseball game today. He's looking forward to the transcript, though." | |||
| aash29 arrives, ready to play with the toys. | DavidW says, "hm." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x seegan" | ||||
Floyd | (Seegan) Floyd | Her physical undercurrents flowed of unattractiveness. Her emotional Floyd | winds raged with sadness, separation, self-reconciliation and Floyd | determination. Her mental flows darted and crackled with creativity. Floyd | Floyd | She wore the ring that contained my essence. Floyd | Floyd | Seegan stared at me. Her eyes had the typical glaze of awe but lacked Floyd | the typical glimmer of San. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jota asks, "The game's already in place, right?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes. We're playing it now." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | At that moment, I was not channeling anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | "The Djinni Chronicles" is freeware. You can download the program and Floyd | use it indefinitely at no charge. You are also free to distribute it Floyd | to anyone you want, provided the distribution is an unmodified Floyd | version. Freeware is provided on an "as is" basis and no technical Floyd | support is available. Floyd | Floyd | Playing notes: "Talk to" is the command for any conversation that Floyd | needs to take place (e.g. explaining your Purpose.) "Grant wish" will Floyd | enable you (if appropriate) to do just that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to seegan" | ||||
Floyd | I told my Purpose. I was a servant of limited power who would grant Floyd | three wishes. The first wish was to be stated within one minute of my Floyd | explanation. The second was to be stated on the day one year from the Floyd | first, in the same physical location as the first. The third, ten Floyd | years on the day and in the same location. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x seean's ring" | ||||
Floyd | I did not see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x seegan's ring" | ||||
Floyd | I did not see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ring" | ||||
Floyd | The brass ring had the word "Canloc" inscribed. It had been my Floyd | container for many summoners. I would return to it after granting Floyd | wishes. It protected me from complete loss of Purpose. Floyd | Floyd | Seegan took out a hand mirror, looked at it for a final assessment and Floyd | then put it away. She told me, "I've thought about it, and I wish to Floyd | be beautiful." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Thanks." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "grant wish" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I searched the undercurrents for one that would fulfill my summoner's Floyd | stated desire. Of those that would accomplish this, only one was I Floyd | Willful enough to channel. Floyd | Floyd | The undercurrent that would alter my summoner's physical appearance Floyd | was, by itself, more Purposeful than I could manage. But if I Floyd | simultaneously channeled an attractor current, I could integrate them Floyd | through my summoner and fulfill the wish. I chose the undercurrent of Floyd | Floyd | 1) lycanthropy. Floyd | 2) a deep sleep. Floyd | 3) an inhumanly shrill voice. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "hm.... lycanthropy sounds fun." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Shall we?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess we can always restart if we hate it, since we're so close to the beginning anyway." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The wish was granted. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x seegan" | ||||
Floyd | (Seegan) Floyd | Her physical undercurrents stormed with attractiveness. Her emotional Floyd | winds raged with conflicting happiness and separation, dilemma and Floyd | determination. Her mental flows darted and crackled with creativity. Floyd | Her movements resembled those of a fox. Floyd | Floyd | She wore the ring that contained my essence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "Talk to Seegan." | ||||
Floyd | Purpose had better uses than for talking needlessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search undercurrent" | ||||
Floyd | I wondered. Which did I mean, Seegan's physical, Seegan's emotional Floyd | or Seegan's mental? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search Seegan's mental" | ||||
Floyd | I found nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we need to return to the ring, although we probably can explore a little." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x seegan's mental" | ||||
Floyd | Her mental undercurrents were difficult for me to interpret. Cold, Floyd | then hot, then cold again. These winds were conditioned, although not Floyd | ruled, by her emotions. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm... search and x should probably both do that." | |||
| Jacqueline shrugs. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x Seegan's physical" | ||||
Floyd | Her undercurrents continued their warmth but now flowed with the winds Floyd | and not against them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x emerald" | ||||
Floyd | The emerald was as large as a human head. Its "neck" was tapered to a Floyd | sharp point. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x Seegan's emotional" | ||||
Floyd | The cold winds of separation flurried within her. Together with the Floyd | physical they linked, although distantly, to those of her father. Floyd | Deep within these flurries was a pocket of fear, apparently kept in Floyd | check by the torrent outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Is that what we did to the last guy?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm not clear what happened to the last guy exactly." | ||||
| DavidW says, "He wished wrong, I suppose." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "He asked to be rich and we searched the undercurrent, found it Purposeful, and chose the undercurrent that would turn his head into a giant emerald." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Unfortunately he could no longer, y'know, breathe." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take emerald" | ||||
Floyd | Through Will of Purpose, I channeled the undercurrents of the emerald. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "emerald's undercurrents" | ||||
Floyd | That was not an action my Purpose allowed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x emerald's undercurrents" | ||||
Floyd | I did not see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Guest1 arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x body" | ||||
Floyd | I found the remains to be no different than any other. Floyd | Floyd | Through Will of Purpose, I continued channeling the undercurrents of Floyd | the emerald. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop emerald" | ||||
Floyd | I dropped my undercurrent connection with the emerald. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I think we need to return to the ring?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, either that or maybe try to explore outside the room." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm not really sure how much freedom we've got." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe that makes us go *poof* though, I'm not sure." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, let's try." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | I was not impeded by the elements of the physical world. The farther Floyd | I traveled from the location of my initial summons, the more Purpose I Floyd | expended. Floyd | Floyd | Then too I realized where I was and could [recall the area] whenever I Floyd | needed. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | The passageway began there and continued east. There were doors on Floyd | the northern and southern sides, each with a set of uniquely engraved Floyd | runes. A thick, stone wall blocked physical travel west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x runes" | ||||
Floyd | The runes on the northern door depicted a sun melting various objects. Floyd | Those on the southern door showed lemmings running to and over a Floyd | cliff. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Poor lemmings." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "So. Lemmings or sun?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I say we try lemmings." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "(Because they are cute. I have no other reason.)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Blasts of the mental passed through me as I entered the room. But Floyd | they had no effect at all. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Storage, Money Floyd | At one time, stacks of coins made of rare metals were stored there. Floyd | Once, in fulfilling a wish, I channeled those coins and bestowed them Floyd | to a former summoner. To be able to perform this San-filled Floyd | channeling, I was forced to attach a poison that would form on the Floyd | coins when in direct contact with sunlight. The summoner took his Floyd | treasure with him, but he did not return for this third wish. How my Floyd | ring returned to the vault, I could only speculate. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh. I wonder if the progress bar, if we could see it, measures our reservoir of Purpose." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It's too bad that it's not too standard for authors to implement a command to check what's also in the status line." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But it would be useful for, say, Floyd, or cell phones, PDAs, etc." | ||||
| vimes says, "Floydmode." | ||||
| Jota says, "s/authors/Graham/" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x purpose" | ||||
Floyd | I did not see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | Score was of vital importance to many of my summoners. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "diagnose" | ||||
Floyd | That was not an action my Purpose allowed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jota asks, "Propose it for I7?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks (of Jota), "What... like, >SHOW STATUS or something?" | ||||
| Jota says, "Or something." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| Jota says, "I think STATUS would cause fewer parsing nightmares for programmers, though." | ||||
| Jota says, "Please, think of the authors." | ||||
| schep says, "I wonder if nitfol could be hacked to print contents of the status window on /status" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, it wouldn't be hard for each author to just implement a verb. In this game it would probably be >PURPOSE or something. Games with time should have the ability to look at a watch as well as glance at the status line. Things like that." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to schep), "There's an idea." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "purpose" | ||||
Floyd | That was not an action my Purpose allowed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "status" | ||||
Floyd | That was not an action my Purpose allowed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Nice tries. :)" | |||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "One never knows what an author puts in until you try." | ||||
| aash29 says (to floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | To a summoner, I appeared no more than a scattered haze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Blasts of the physical passed through me as I entered the room. But Floyd | they had no effect at all. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Storage, Jewelry Floyd | That room had been designed to store jewelry in glass cases. All but Floyd | one piece of jewelry had been taken. Floyd | Floyd | I saw a necklace there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x necklace" | ||||
Floyd | Other than an inscribed name, "Ivogard", I saw nothing special about Floyd | the necklace. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** I lost my existence. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I had the option to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Ha! Well, I guess we answered the question of how much Purpose we had left." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "(For those not in the Toyshop, we died.)" | ||||
| DavidW says, "uh-huh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "(er, 'lost our existence')" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Purpose* Floyd | Floyd | A summons from mere existence. The scattered undercurrents of Purpose Floyd | integrated me, established meaning. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | A wish diminished me. I fulfilled my summoner's desire expending Floyd | Purpose. I returned to my container before I was lost forever. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Djinni Chronicles Floyd | "Undercurrents of Manipulation" Floyd | A 2000 IF-Comp Entry by J.D. Berry (berryx@earthlink.net) Floyd | This game is freeware (Type 'about' at any > prompt). Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 000927 / Inform v6.21 Library 6/10 Floyd | Floyd | Vault Entry Room Floyd | The location of my summoner was a room between the surface of the Floyd | world [physically west] and a complex of vaults [physically east]. Floyd | Floyd | The room was a trap for physical beings. On one side of the room, a Floyd | portcullis barred the way to the outside. To the other were the Floyd | vaults for storage. A patterned stone wall blocked their unauthorized Floyd | access. Floyd | Floyd | The remains of a former summoner rested here. An emerald had taken Floyd | the place of his head. Floyd | Floyd | The summoner known as Seegan stood before me. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "No warning, either, of impending doom." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Nope - so there must be something in the status bar." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "The Inquisitor would suggest that we save often and floss regularly." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "Talk to Seegan." | ||||
Floyd | I told my Purpose. I was a servant of limited power who would grant Floyd | three wishes. The first wish was to be stated within one minute of my Floyd | explanation. The second was to be stated on the day one year from the Floyd | first, in the same physical location as the first. The third, ten Floyd | years on the day and in the same location. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ring" | ||||
Floyd | The brass ring had the word "Canloc" inscribed. It had been my Floyd | container for many summoners. I would return to it after granting Floyd | wishes. It protected me from complete loss of Purpose. Floyd | Floyd | Seegan took out a hand mirror, looked at it for a final assessment and Floyd | then put it away. She told me, "I've thought about it, and I wish to Floyd | be beautiful." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "grant wish" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I searched the undercurrents for one that would fulfill my summoner's Floyd | stated desire. Of those that would accomplish this, only one was I Floyd | Willful enough to channel. Floyd | Floyd | The undercurrent that would alter my summoner's physical appearance Floyd | was, by itself, more Purposeful than I could manage. But if I Floyd | simultaneously channeled an attractor current, I could integrate them Floyd | through my summoner and fulfill the wish. I chose the undercurrent of Floyd | Floyd | 1) lycanthropy. Floyd | 2) a deep sleep. Floyd | 3) an inhumanly shrill voice. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "grant wish" | Jacqueline asks, "Lycanthropy again?" | |||
| DavidW says, "sure" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Since we never got to explore that?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The wish was granted. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Guest1 says, "@joinc #clubfloyd" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x seegan" | ||||
Floyd | (Seegan) Floyd | Her physical undercurrents stormed with attractiveness. Her emotional Floyd | winds raged with conflicting happiness and separation, dilemma and Floyd | determination. Her mental flows darted and crackled with creativity. Floyd | Her movements resembled those of a fox. Floyd | Floyd | She wore the ring that contained my essence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So, go back to the ring." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter ring" | ||||
Floyd | I entered my container, losing all links to the physical Floyd | undercurrents. I could not depart until I was summoned anew. Floyd | | ||||
| Guest1 says (to floyd), "Beware" | ||||
Floyd | [I waited for my next summons.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Purpose* Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Satisfaction.* Floyd | Floyd | Such was my first experience of joy. Until that point in time, every Floyd | summoner returning for another wish had increased San. Through the Floyd | happiness of Seegan, I felt more Purpose than I had ever known. Floyd | Floyd | "Great Djinni," my summoner said with much passion. "I can't thank Floyd | you enough--not only for making me beautiful, but for giving me the Floyd | extra gift of being able to turn into a fox. I escaped these vaults Floyd | because in fox form I was able to slip between the bars and dash Floyd | quickly to the nearest village. Floyd | Floyd | It was at that village I met my husband. I owe you that thanks as Floyd | well. I know I didn't need to explain, but I wanted to express my Floyd | happiness. Floyd | Floyd | Do you have any further instructions for my second wish? I will await Floyd | your word before wishing." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to Seegan" | ||||
Floyd | I told her that, in addition to the previous rules, I could not undo Floyd | any direct effects of previous wishes. Floyd | Floyd | (I wondered then whether I should have told her about my new Purpose. Floyd | Thanking her seemed "correct" somehow and yet not "appropriate" Floyd | because it would likely have interfered with many undercurrents.) Floyd | Floyd | "I've known my second wish since I knew I was pregnant. I wish my Floyd | baby a long, healthy, happy, prosperous life." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "grant wish" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | My recent exponential increase in Purpose evoked in me an awareness. Floyd | The attractor winds that gave me control of the undercurrents were Floyd | viewed as curses by my summoners. By the time the summoner called Floyd | upon me anew, any Satisfaction that might have been gained initially Floyd | was eliminated by these curses. Floyd | Floyd | Why had Seegan been Satisfied? I knew only one possibility. She was Floyd | without San. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I pondered.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I searched the undercurrents for one that would fulfill my summoner's Floyd | stated desire. Two of the requirements were a long and healthy life Floyd | for her baby. The undercurrents of her baby, lycanthropy and life Floyd | span, were incompatible. The were-fox undercurrent needed redirection Floyd | at that point in time or be integrated fully soon after. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I pondered. And for the first time, I could grant at least some of Floyd | the wish without an associated "curse".] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Her baby had strong undercurrents of happiness. I would not need to Floyd | do anything to grant that portion of the wish. However, prosperity Floyd | was another matter. I could have channeled the undercurrents to make Floyd | that happen, but not without cost. I realized that I greatly risked Floyd | Satisfaction if I attached a curse. Perhaps there was treasure still Floyd | remaining somewhere around the vaults that could assure prosperity. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "The necklace." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | I was not impeded by the elements of the physical world. The farther Floyd | I traveled from the location of my initial summons, the more Purpose I Floyd | expended. Floyd | Floyd | Then too I realized where I was and could [recall the area] whenever I Floyd | needed. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | The passageway began there and continued east. There were doors on Floyd | the northern and southern sides, each with a set of uniquely engraved Floyd | runes. A thick, stone wall blocked physical travel west. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. Necklace or emerald or coins or ... I suppose there could be other choices." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Blasts of the physical passed through me as I entered the room. They Floyd | did no damage, but I felt their associated sensations. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Storage, Jewelry Floyd | That room had been designed to store jewelry in glass cases. All but Floyd | one piece of jewelry had been taken. Floyd | Floyd | I saw a necklace there. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm, should have saved." | |||
| Jacqueline clears the save counter. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take necklace" | ||||
Floyd | I touched the necklace and felt powerful physical undercurrents that Floyd | linked it to an area far beneath that room. I would not be able to Floyd | channel the necklace nor any of its powers. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hrm." | |||
| DavidW asks, "So down?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I think I'll undo back to the room first." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Then save." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "And are the necklace's powers for prosperity?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Then come back here." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Vault Storage, Jewelry Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | ["Undo" could not happen twice in succession.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Vault Storage, Jewelry Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Vault Entry Room Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | I was not impeded by the elements of the physical world. The farther Floyd | I traveled from the location of my initial summons, the more Purpose I Floyd | expended. Floyd | Floyd | Then too I realized where I was and could [recall the area] whenever I Floyd | needed. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | The passageway began there and continued east. There were doors on Floyd | the northern and southern sides, each with a set of uniquely engraved Floyd | runes. A thick, stone wall blocked physical travel west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Blasts of the physical passed through me as I entered the room. They Floyd | did no damage, but I felt their associated sensations. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Storage, Jewelry Floyd | That room had been designed to store jewelry in glass cases. All but Floyd | one piece of jewelry had been taken. Floyd | Floyd | I saw a necklace there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | The underground continued indefinitely. The earth there was rich in Floyd | minerals, particularly iron. I felt a vague sense of Purpose there. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros asks, "hello. Did I miss a lot?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x iron" | ||||
Floyd | I saw nothing special about the earth. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Not a ton." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "We have this chyk who summoned us." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x purpose" | ||||
Floyd | I did not see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "We're granting three wishes." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sense" | ||||
Floyd | I did not see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "One we already granted - to be beautiful." | |||
| DavidW says, "Made her foxy." | ||||
| olethros says, "how typical" | ||||
| olethros asks, "now she wants riches?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Now it's one year later and she's asked that her baby have a long, healthy, happy, prosperous life." | ||||
| maga exclaims, "smite her!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "And we're trying to figure out the prosperous part." | ||||
| olethros says, "gah, that's not a trivial wish to grant" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "And we're working on that - but there was this unexpected thing that happened after we granted her first wish." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Normally we do devious shit to make wishes 'come true.'" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "And we 'cursed' her with lycanthropy when we made her beautiful." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But she liked that, and it's made her happy." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "And we're sort of liking that she's happy." | ||||
| DavidW says, "This kinda reminds me of Delightful Wallpaper, in the weird associations department." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "And so we're trying to grant this next wish without screwing her over too much." | ||||
| olethros says, "oh that is awesome" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "And that's pretty much where we're at in the game." | ||||
| olethros says, "cool, thanks for the recap, I'll try and contribute something better than just silliness" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | I descended. Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Blasts of the physical passed through me as I entered the room. But Floyd | they had no effect at all. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Storage, Jewelry Floyd | Floyd | I saw a necklace there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | The underground continued indefinitely. The earth there was rich in Floyd | minerals, particularly iron. I felt a vague sense of Purpose there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||||
Floyd | The Djinni Chronicles was then in its "verbose" mode, which always Floyd | gave long descriptions of locations (even if I had been there before). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "get iron" | ||||
Floyd | That was not worth channeling. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** I lost my existence. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I had the option to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Time daemon!" | |||
| DavidW says, "gah" | ||||
| olethros says, "oops" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Time daemon make us fall down go boom." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to David), "There you go - try again." | |||
| schep says, "genie vs. daemon: eternally etc etc." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Try again what? I don't know what's down there that's binding the necklace." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to David), "And remember that we can 'cheat' by using [recall the area] to move around." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Show me" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, we could go back in the Earth and then do a save so that we have a quick way to poke around, and then if we need to go back to our first save to make everything really efficient, we can." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to necklace" | ||||
Floyd | I did not see any such thing. Floyd | | Jacqueline says (to DW), "It mentions using [recall] when we first leave the room." | |||
Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | I was not impeded by the elements of the physical world. The farther Floyd | I traveled from the location of my initial summons, the more Purpose I Floyd | expended. Floyd | Floyd | Then too I realized where I was and could [recall the area] whenever I Floyd | needed. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | The passageway began there and continued east. There were doors on Floyd | the northern and southern sides, each with a set of uniquely engraved Floyd | runes. A thick, stone wall blocked physical travel west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Blasts of the physical passed through me as I entered the room. They Floyd | did no damage, but I felt their associated sensations. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Storage, Jewelry Floyd | That room had been designed to store jewelry in glass cases. All but Floyd | one piece of jewelry had been taken. Floyd | Floyd | I saw a necklace there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | The underground continued indefinitely. The earth there was rich in Floyd | minerals, particularly iron. I felt a vague sense of Purpose there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
Floyd | The Djinni Chronicles was then in its "verbose" mode, which always Floyd | gave long descriptions of locations (even if I had been there before). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "There's no 'sense' or 'purpose' object down here. The 'iron' is just 'dirt'." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "hm" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x minerals" | ||||
Floyd | I did not see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "But it says that we feel 'a vague sense of Purpose there.'" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | I descended. Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | The underground continued indefinitely. The earth there was rich in Floyd | minerals, particularly iron. I felt a vague sense of Purpose there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take iron" | ||||
Floyd | That was not worth channeling. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, we could just go back to our save and try to use the emerald." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "We'll probably have to deal with this later, though." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Just a guess, of course." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take emerald" | ||||
Floyd | Through Will of Purpose, I channeled the undercurrents of the emerald. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There we go." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "grant wish" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | My recent exponential increase in Purpose evoked in me an awareness. Floyd | The attractor winds that gave me control of the undercurrents were Floyd | viewed as curses by my summoners. By the time the summoner called Floyd | upon me anew, any Satisfaction that might have been gained initially Floyd | was eliminated by these curses. Floyd | Floyd | Why had Seegan been Satisfied? I knew only one possibility. She was Floyd | without San. Floyd | | olethros says, "huh" | |||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I pondered.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I searched the undercurrents for one that would fulfill my summoner's Floyd | stated desire. Two of the requirements were a long and healthy life Floyd | for her baby. The undercurrents of her baby, lycanthropy and life Floyd | span, were incompatible. The were-fox undercurrent needed redirection Floyd | at that point in time or be integrated fully soon after. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I pondered. And for the first time, I could grant at least some of Floyd | the wish without an associated "curse".] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Her baby had strong undercurrents of happiness. I would not need to Floyd | do anything to grant that portion of the wish. However, prosperity Floyd | was another matter. I could have channeled the undercurrents to make Floyd | that happen, but not without cost. I realized that I greatly risked Floyd | Satisfaction if I attached a curse. Perhaps there was treasure still Floyd | remaining somewhere around the vaults that could assure prosperity. Floyd | Floyd | Through Will of Purpose, I continued channeling the undercurrents of Floyd | the emerald. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Holding this emerald is weakening us." | |||
| olethros says, "aha, I see" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Using up our Purpose." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give emerald to baby" | ||||
Floyd | I could only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "True." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x baby" | ||||
Floyd | I did not see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "redirect were-fox" | ||||
Floyd | That was not an action my Purpose allowed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter seegan" | ||||
Floyd | (Seegan) Floyd | That was not something I would enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Is the baby outside the vaults? Do we need to go to where the baby is?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, I got the impression that she hadn't had it yet." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give emerald to seegan" | ||||
Floyd | (Seegan) Floyd | Seegan did not seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x emerald" | ||||
Floyd | The emerald was as large as a human head. Its "neck" was tapered to a Floyd | sharp point. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline | "I've known my second wish since I knew I was pregnant. I wish my baby a long, healthy, happy, prosperous life." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "But that doesn't mean she hasn't had it yet, of course." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x seegan" | ||||
Floyd | (Seegan) Floyd | Her physical undercurrents stormed with attractiveness and combined Floyd | with those of another life. Her emotional winds raged with happiness Floyd | and determination. Her mental flows darted and crackled with Floyd | creativity. Her movements resembled those of a fox. Floyd | Floyd | She wore the ring that contained my essence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Also, 'long, healthy, happy, prosperous life' sounds like FOUR WISHES TO ME." | |||
| DavidW says, "ah. Combined with another life." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "She's a cheater." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x seegan's physical" | ||||
Floyd | Her undercurrents continued their warmth but now flowed with the winds Floyd | and not against them. An independent current flowed within her. She Floyd | was with child. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Ah - there's our answer." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give emerald to seegan's physical" | ||||
Floyd | I could only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put emerald in seegan's physical" | ||||
Floyd | Those could not contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm a djinni who hasn't learned to crawl yet." | |||
| Jacqueline rereads for Clues. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "integrate were-fox" | ||||
Floyd | That was not an action my Purpose allowed. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm a bit lost on what verbs the game wants me to use. I'm also unclear if the emerald has any undercurrents of prosperity or not." | |||
| Jacqueline nods. | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "And we're still holding it?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Have plug. Looking for socket." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take prosperity" | ||||
Floyd | I did not see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Want to go back to the save again, or wait until we lose existence?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I'd like to explore more. That might give us some clues." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Agreed." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's restore, then explore." | ||||
| DavidW says, "We can also try using the words Canloc and Ivogard; see if they're magic words." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I hate to exploit the save/restore like that, but without knowing when we're going to go *poof* I think it best." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "canloc" | ||||
Floyd | That was not an action my Purpose allowed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | The timeless word temporarily integrated me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "say canloc" | ||||
Floyd | (to Seegan) Floyd | When I wanted to communicate verbally, I would [talk to the Floyd | "summoner"]. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x canloc" | ||||
Floyd | I did not see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ivogard" | ||||
Floyd | That was not an action my Purpose allowed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to seegan" | ||||
Floyd | Purpose had better uses than for talking needlessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | I was not impeded by the elements of the physical world. The farther Floyd | I traveled from the location of my initial summons, the more Purpose I Floyd | expended. Floyd | Floyd | Then too I realized where I was and could [recall the area] whenever I Floyd | needed. Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Entrance Floyd | Winter left its presence there. Snow was piled up against the Floyd | entrance. The wind was blowing through there and making a whistling Floyd | sound. A trail lead through a range of hills to the west. The Floyd | vaults, built into a hill, were to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to baby" | ||||
Floyd | I did not see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x snow" | ||||
Floyd | The snow was white and cold. It formed a blanket for the hills. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wind" | ||||
Floyd | I did not see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside, Just Above Trail Surface Floyd | The snow-covered hills appeared taller when viewed from the surface of Floyd | the trail. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x hills" | ||||
Floyd | Each hill was gently rounded. No hill protruded much higher than the Floyd | others. No vegetation extended above the blanket of snow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Guest1 goes home. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside, Just Above Trail Surface Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||||
Floyd | The Djinni Chronicles was then in its "verbose" mode, which always Floyd | gave long descriptions of locations (even if I had been there before). Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Where do you want to go?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | The underground continued indefinitely. The earth there was rich in Floyd | minerals, particularly iron. I felt a vague sense of Purpose there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside, Just Above Trail Surface Floyd | The snow-covered hills appeared taller when viewed from the surface of Floyd | the trail. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | I rose above the surface. Floyd | Floyd | Outside, above Trail Level Floyd | The sky was humid and gray. The surrounding hills rolled beyond every Floyd | horizon. I felt no sense of Purpose there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside, Just Above Trail Surface Floyd | The snow-covered hills appeared taller when viewed from the surface of Floyd | the trail. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** I lost my existence. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I had the option to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm - was going to let you explore, but perhaps I shall..." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | I was not impeded by the elements of the physical world. The farther Floyd | I traveled from the location of my initial summons, the more Purpose I Floyd | expended. Floyd | Floyd | Then too I realized where I was and could [recall the area] whenever I Floyd | needed. Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | The underground continued indefinitely. The earth there was rich in Floyd | minerals, particularly iron. I felt a vague sense of Purpose there. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So that description happens no matter where we go into the Earth." | |||
| DavidW says, "It seems so. We have an endless vista." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "recall vault entry room" | ||||
Floyd | I had to rely on memories gained recently. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "recall vault entry" | ||||
Floyd | I had to rely on memories gained recently. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "recall vault" | ||||
Floyd | I remembered being in that vaulted area many times before. Although Floyd | it was certainly possible that things had changed since the previous Floyd | summoning. Floyd | Floyd | Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Floyd | Hill Hill Hill Jewl Artf Hill Floyd | Trl Entr Vaul Pssg Pssg Hill Floyd | Hill Hill Hill Coin Pprs Hill Floyd | Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Hm... Artf?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Artifact?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Pprs?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Purpose?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Wait, no." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Looks like we missed a few rooms." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm. This is interesting." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, let's go check those out." | ||||
| DavidW says, "go for it" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Entry Room Floyd | Floyd | The remains of a former summoner rested here. An emerald had taken Floyd | the place of his head. Floyd | Floyd | The summoner known as Seegan rested before me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | The passageway began there and continued east. There were doors on Floyd | the northern and southern sides, each with a set of uniquely engraved Floyd | runes. A thick, stone wall blocked physical travel west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Away from the Entrance Floyd | The passageway ended there, beginning from the east. There were doors Floyd | on the northern and southern sides, each with a set of uniquely Floyd | engraved runes. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "it continues east" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x runes" | ||||
Floyd | The runes on the northern door depicted a plague. Those on the Floyd | southern door were two rivers flowing into and out of each other. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah... was making the cat not sit on my hands so I could type." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside, Just Above Trail Surface Floyd | The snow-covered hills appeared taller when viewed from the surface of Floyd | the trail. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside, Just Above Trail Surface Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Blasts of the physical and the mental passed through me as I entered Floyd | the room. They did no damage, but I felt their associated sensations. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Storage, Papers Floyd | The room had many papers stored there. Floyd | Floyd | I sensed strong undercurrents from one of the deeds. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x deeds" | ||||
Floyd | Only one of the deeds had any relevance--the deed of nobility. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Away from the Entrance Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Blasts of the physical and the emotional passed through me as I Floyd | entered the room. But they had no effect at all. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Storage, Artifacts Floyd | The room had many unique items stored there, but I was not concerned Floyd | with them. Floyd | Floyd | I sensed strong undercurrents from a brass lamp. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x lamp" | ||||
Floyd | It was a brass lamp with the name "Canloc" inscribed on its base. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** I lost my existence. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I had the option to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "ooh - so we could hide there?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Regain some purpose, then explore more, perhaps?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Recharge, so to speak?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, perhaps the lamp is a recharger." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | I was not impeded by the elements of the physical world. The farther Floyd | I traveled from the location of my initial summons, the more Purpose I Floyd | expended. Floyd | Floyd | Then too I realized where I was and could [recall the area] whenever I Floyd | needed. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | The passageway began there and continued east. There were doors on Floyd | the northern and southern sides, each with a set of uniquely engraved Floyd | runes. A thick, stone wall blocked physical travel west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Away from the Entrance Floyd | The passageway ended there, beginning from the east. There were doors Floyd | on the northern and southern sides, each with a set of uniquely Floyd | engraved runes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Blasts of the physical and the emotional passed through me as I Floyd | entered the room. They did no damage, but I felt their associated Floyd | sensations. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Storage, Artifacts Floyd | The room had many unique items stored there, but I was not concerned Floyd | with them. Floyd | Floyd | I sensed strong undercurrents from a brass lamp. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter lamp" | ||||
Floyd | I was unable to enter my container until the wish of my summoner had Floyd | been fulfilled. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "poo" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, hm... try channeling nobility?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "These 'blasts' of phys/emo/mental are worrisome." | ||||
| DavidW says, "No." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Check out the coins again." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Blasts of the mental passed through me as I entered the room. They Floyd | did no damage, but I felt their associated sensations. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Storage, Money Floyd | At one time, stacks of coins made of rare metals were stored there. Floyd | Once, in fulfilling a wish, I channeled those coins and bestowed them Floyd | to a former summoner. To be able to perform this San-filled Floyd | channeling, I was forced to attach a poison that would form on the Floyd | coins when in direct contact with sunlight. The summoner took his Floyd | treasure with him, but he did not return for this third wish. How my Floyd | ring returned to the vault, I could only speculate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x coins" | ||||
Floyd | I did not see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. The coins aren't actually here." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "no" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We've given them all away." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "recall canloc" | ||||
Floyd | I had to rely on memories gained recently. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Is 'San' something just made up for this game, or something I'm supposed to have heard of in djinni mythology?" | |||
| DavidW says, "'San' in Cult of Cthulu refers to sanity, but I guess it's something else here." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I sorta want to do back to djinni school to learn my san-floo-cees." | ||||
| Jacqueline smiles. | ||||
| DavidW says, "Dictionary says San is a river in SE Poland. That's a big help." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | The underground continued indefinitely. The earth there was rich in Floyd | minerals, particularly iron. I felt a vague sense of Purpose there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "recall earth" | ||||
Floyd | I had to rely on memories gained recently. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Blasts of the physical passed through me as I entered the room. They Floyd | did no damage, but I felt their associated sensations. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Storage, Jewelry Floyd | That room had been designed to store jewelry in glass cases. All but Floyd | one piece of jewelry had been taken. Floyd | Floyd | I saw a necklace there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x necklace" | ||||
Floyd | Other than an inscribed name, "Ivogard", I saw nothing special about Floyd | the necklace. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cases" | ||||
Floyd | I did not see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm still thinking the nobility thing should be explored." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Since we can't get the necklace and the emerald didn't seem to work." | ||||
| DavidW says, "well, it's not that emerald didn't work; it's that we didn't know what to do with it." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Perhaps." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'd like to see if the nobility has that same un-directed feeling or not." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Like, if we took the emerald into a blasting room, would that filter out essences?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm, possibly." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "You could try that first, if'n you want to." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Entry Room Floyd | Floyd | The remains of a former summoner rested here. An emerald had taken Floyd | the place of his head. Floyd | Floyd | The summoner known as Seegan rested before me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take emerald" | ||||
Floyd | Through Will of Purpose, I channeled the undercurrents of the emerald. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Blasts of the mental passed through me as I entered the room. They Floyd | did no damage, but I felt their associated sensations. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Storage, Money Floyd | Floyd | Through Will of Purpose, I continued channeling the undercurrents of Floyd | the emerald. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x emerald" | ||||
Floyd | The emerald was as large as a human head. Its "neck" was tapered to a Floyd | sharp point. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Blasts of the physical and the mental passed through me as I entered Floyd | the room. They did no damage, but I felt their associated sensations. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Storage, Papers Floyd | The room had many papers stored there. Floyd | Floyd | I sensed strong undercurrents from one of the deeds. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x emerald" | ||||
Floyd | The emerald was as large as a human head. Its "neck" was tapered to a Floyd | sharp point. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Blasts of the physical passed through me as I entered the room. They Floyd | did no damage, but I felt their associated sensations. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Storage, Jewelry Floyd | Floyd | I saw a necklace there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut necklace with emerald" | ||||
Floyd | I was not complete in my desire to cut the necklace. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take emerald" | ||||
Floyd | I had a link to the emerald. I did not need another. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take necklace" | ||||
Floyd | I touched the necklace and felt powerful physical undercurrents that Floyd | linked it to an area far beneath that room. I would not be able to Floyd | channel the necklace nor any of its powers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | I descended. Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** I lost my existence. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I had the option to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to seegan" | ||||
Floyd | Purpose had better uses than for talking needlessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros asks, "what of the ring?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "What of it?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "That's our home." | ||||
| olethros | How my ring returned to the vault, I could only speculate. | ||||
| olethros says, "I thought the lamp was our home" | ||||
| DavidW says, "The ring is our summer-or home." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think we should go deep under the necklace" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "mmkay" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | I was not impeded by the elements of the physical world. The farther Floyd | I traveled from the location of my initial summons, the more Purpose I Floyd | expended. Floyd | Floyd | Then too I realized where I was and could [recall the area] whenever I Floyd | needed. Floyd | Floyd | Outside, Just Above Trail Surface Floyd | The snow-covered hills appeared taller when viewed from the surface of Floyd | the trail. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "hmm" | |||
| DavidW asks, "er, where are we?" | ||||
| olethros says, "I dont think depth is more than a flavour element" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Entry Room Floyd | Floyd | The remains of a former summoner rested here. An emerald had taken Floyd | the place of his head. Floyd | Floyd | The summoner known as Seegan rested before me. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "That was sort of my thought, since it's not on the map." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "f undo" | ||||
Floyd | That was not an action my Purpose allowed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Vault Entry Room Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Outside, Just Above Trail Surface Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | The underground continued indefinitely. The earth there was rich in Floyd | minerals, particularly iron. I felt a vague sense of Purpose there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | I descended. Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "But then that bit it says when you try to take the necklace contradicts that." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | I descended. Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | I descended. Floyd | Floyd | Room Of Choices Floyd | I saw a simple, large, circular room. Within the room were three Floyd | pedestals, each one meter tall. Each appeared the same, each was Floyd | spaced a uniform distance from the walls and from each other. Each Floyd | pedestal was the same in physical construction. They were made of Floyd | iron. Floyd | Floyd | A small circle had been inscribed around the exact center of the room. Floyd | Floyd | I saw the beginnings of many undercurrents there. That room would Floyd | soon be a focal point for a cataclysmic occurrence. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** I lost my existence. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I had the option to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oho" | |||
| olethros says, "I was Wrong" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Maybe we gain more Purpose through our actions and travel farther?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Because, like, we just barely got there before we went *POOF*" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Was that straight down from the first room?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "no. Down from the necklace room." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah, okay." | ||||
| olethros asks, "why did you guess down from the necklace room?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Because of what it says when you try to take the necklace." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Wonder if we can get there straight down from the initial room and thus gain a couple of moves? Probably not." | ||||
| DavidW says (to olethos), "Because attempts to take the necklace says it's locked down to something deep underground." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | I was not impeded by the elements of the physical world. The farther Floyd | I traveled from the location of my initial summons, the more Purpose I Floyd | expended. Floyd | Floyd | Then too I realized where I was and could [recall the area] whenever I Floyd | needed. Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | The underground continued indefinitely. The earth there was rich in Floyd | minerals, particularly iron. I felt a vague sense of Purpose there. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "k missed that" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), ";:| I touched the necklace and felt powerful physical undercurrents that linked it to an area far beneath that room. I would not be able to channel the necklace nor any of its powers." | ||||
Floyd | The undercurrents of confusion made my commands meaningless. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Down three times from start, then ne" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oops. I meant to paste that here. But you can read it, anyway." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | I descended. Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | I descended. Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | I descended. Floyd | Floyd | Room Of Choices Floyd | I saw a simple, large, circular room. Within the room were three Floyd | pedestals, each one meter tall. Each appeared the same, each was Floyd | spaced a uniform distance from the walls and from each other. Each Floyd | pedestal was the same in physical construction. They were made of Floyd | iron. Floyd | Floyd | A small circle had been inscribed around the exact center of the room. Floyd | Floyd | I saw the beginnings of many undercurrents there. That room would Floyd | soon be a focal point for a cataclysmic occurrence. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** I lost my existence. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I had the option to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, doesn't matter." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of David), "May I go play with the deed?" | |||
| DavidW says, "go ahead" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Just to get it out of my system. :)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | olethros asks, "do we normally gain purpose by doing something useful?" | |||
Floyd | I was not impeded by the elements of the physical world. The farther Floyd | I traveled from the location of my initial summons, the more Purpose I Floyd | expended. Floyd | Floyd | Then too I realized where I was and could [recall the area] whenever I Floyd | needed. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | The passageway began there and continued east. There were doors on Floyd | the northern and southern sides, each with a set of uniquely engraved Floyd | runes. A thick, stone wall blocked physical travel west. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I feel temporarily sated by discovering the Room Of Choices." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay. Let me also be sated by seeing how this fails horribly." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Away from the Entrance Floyd | The passageway ended there, beginning from the east. There were doors Floyd | on the northern and southern sides, each with a set of uniquely Floyd | engraved runes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe asks, "what game is this?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Blasts of the physical and the emotional passed through me as I Floyd | entered the room. They did no damage, but I felt their associated Floyd | sensations. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Storage, Artifacts Floyd | The room had many unique items stored there, but I was not concerned Floyd | with them. Floyd | Floyd | I sensed strong undercurrents from a brass lamp. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Vault Hall, Away from the Entrance Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The papers were south, not north." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oops, wrong way." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Blasts of the physical and the mental passed through me as I entered Floyd | the room. They did no damage, but I felt their associated sensations. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Storage, Papers Floyd | The room had many papers stored there. Floyd | Floyd | I sensed strong undercurrents from one of the deeds. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Doe), "The Djinni Chronicles." | |||
| Doe says, "sounds Zorkian" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take deed" | ||||
Floyd | Through Will of Purpose, I channeled the undercurrents of the Deed of Floyd | Nobility. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "aha, thanks" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "recall entr" | ||||
Floyd | I had to rely on memories gained recently. Floyd | Floyd | Through Will of Purpose, I continued channeling the undercurrents of Floyd | the Deed of Nobility. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Vault Storage, Papers Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So 'recall' only recalls the map to the screen, not us to a place." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "grant wish" | ||||
Floyd | The circumstances were not exactly as they needed to be to grant a Floyd | wish. Floyd | Floyd | Through Will of Purpose, I continued channeling the undercurrents of Floyd | the Deed of Nobility. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't think 'recall' is a teleporter verb." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I was thinking it was, but it's obviously not." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Vault Storage, Papers Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | Floyd | Through Will of Purpose, I continued channeling the undercurrents of Floyd | the Deed of Nobility. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Entry Room Floyd | Floyd | The remains of a former summoner rested here. An emerald had taken Floyd | the place of his head. Floyd | Floyd | The summoner known as Seegan rested before me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drop deed" | ||||
Floyd | I dropped my undercurrent connection with the Deed of Nobility. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "grant wish" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | My recent exponential increase in Purpose evoked in me an awareness. Floyd | The attractor winds that gave me control of the undercurrents were Floyd | viewed as curses by my summoners. By the time the summoner called Floyd | upon me anew, any Satisfaction that might have been gained initially Floyd | was eliminated by these curses. Floyd | Floyd | Why had Seegan been Satisfied? I knew only one possibility. She was Floyd | without San. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I pondered.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I searched the undercurrents for one that would fulfill my summoner's Floyd | stated desire. Two of the requirements were a long and healthy life Floyd | for her baby. The undercurrents of her baby, lycanthropy and life Floyd | span, were incompatible. The were-fox undercurrent needed redirection Floyd | at that point in time or be integrated fully soon after. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I pondered. And for the first time, I could grant at least some of Floyd | the wish without an associated "curse".] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Her baby had strong undercurrents of happiness. I would not need to Floyd | do anything to grant that portion of the wish. However, prosperity Floyd | was another matter. I could have channeled the undercurrents to make Floyd | that happen, but not without cost. I realized that I greatly risked Floyd | Satisfaction if I attached a curse. Perhaps there was treasure still Floyd | remaining somewhere around the vaults that could assure prosperity. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take deed" | ||||
Floyd | I did not see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Did it go poof back to where it came from?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Entry Room Floyd | The location of my summoner was a room between the surface of the Floyd | world [physically west] and a complex of vaults [physically east]. Floyd | Floyd | The room was a trap for physical beings. On one side of the room was Floyd | a raised portcullis. To the other were the vaults for storage. A Floyd | patterned stone wall blocked their unauthorized access. Floyd | Floyd | The remains of a former summoner rested here. An emerald had taken Floyd | the place of his head. Floyd | Floyd | The summoner known as Seegan rested before me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Vault Entry Room Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Vault Entry Room Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | At that moment, I was not channeling anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Vault Entry Room Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | At that moment, I was not channeling anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Vault Entry Room Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Vault Entry Room Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we don't physically pick up objects, only 'channel' them. Whatever that mean." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | At that moment, I was not channeling anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "er, means" | |||
| olethros says, "I thought it the equivalent same" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, let me try it differently. One sec." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | olethros says, "when you channel something it does not remain in the room you got it from" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to olethros), "even so." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e.e.se" | ||||
Floyd | I was not impeded by the elements of the physical world. The farther Floyd | I traveled from the location of my initial summons, the more Purpose I Floyd | expended. Floyd | Floyd | Then too I realized where I was and could [recall the area] whenever I Floyd | needed. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | The passageway began there and continued east. There were doors on Floyd | the northern and southern sides, each with a set of uniquely engraved Floyd | runes. A thick, stone wall blocked physical travel west. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Away from the Entrance Floyd | The passageway ended there, beginning from the east. There were doors Floyd | on the northern and southern sides, each with a set of uniquely Floyd | engraved runes. Floyd | Floyd | Outside, Just Above Trail Surface Floyd | The snow-covered hills appeared taller when viewed from the surface of Floyd | the trail. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Blasts of the physical and the mental passed through me as I entered Floyd | the room. They did no damage, but I felt their associated sensations. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Storage, Papers Floyd | The room had many papers stored there. Floyd | Floyd | I sensed strong undercurrents from one of the deeds. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take deed" | ||||
Floyd | Through Will of Purpose, I channeled the undercurrents of the Deed of Floyd | Nobility. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | Floyd | Through Will of Purpose, I continued channeling the undercurrents of Floyd | the Deed of Nobility. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Entry Room Floyd | Floyd | The remains of a former summoner rested here. An emerald had taken Floyd | the place of his head. Floyd | Floyd | The summoner known as Seegan rested before me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "grant wish" | ||||
Floyd | I gave her the deed that would restore the nobility of her husband. Floyd | Floyd | The wish was granted. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "WOO" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "WOO WOO WOO" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "er, what?" | ||||
| Jacqueline dances around in a little djinni summoning circle. | ||||
| DavidW asks, "What does her husband have to do with the baby?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I granted her wish, that's what. Huzzah." | ||||
| GDorn arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Jacqueline says, "Well, I guess her baby will grow up a noble now." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "A freaky were-fox noble, but a noble." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "oh. And that means prosperity?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Guess so." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter ring" | ||||
Floyd | I entered my container, losing all links to the physical Floyd | undercurrents. I could not depart until I was summoned anew. Floyd | | schep says, "only 'til the Revolution comes." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I waited for my next summons.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Purpose* Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Satisfaction.* Floyd | Floyd | Seegan returned, although her physical currents had ceased. She was a Floyd | spirit, but her Purpose was still her own. Floyd | Floyd | My summoner spoke to me. "Djinni, you made my life not only happy and Floyd | fulfilling but also Purposeful. I could not have asked for more. Floyd | Floyd | I died due to my lycanthropy. The human body cannot handle such Floyd | frequent and disrupting changes to itself. Floyd | Floyd | But I gained immeasurably from my wishes and wouldn't change a thing. Floyd | My last wish is for you." Floyd | | DavidW asks, "What if you had entered the lamp then instead?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "dunno - I guess we could try that. Wanna?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | [I pondered.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "It was foretold that it was my Destiny to come here, that I was to Floyd | wish my heart's desire. I did not understand the implications of all Floyd | that had transpired then and what a pawn I was. Now, in my afterlife, Floyd | I do. Floyd | Floyd | You are to go to the Room of Choices and stay there until the little Floyd | boy arrives. Destiny will be decided there. If the three choices are Floyd | in place, the boy will select which servant to unleash unchecked in Floyd | the world and thereby its course. If not, Will ceases to exist. Floyd | Floyd | You will require much Purpose in order to reach this room. Thus, my Floyd | last wish is for you to gain that Purpose. Good luck, my friend." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, we're in a cut scene." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Vault Entry Room Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Blasts of the physical and the emotional passed through me as I Floyd | entered the room. But they had no effect at all. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Storage, Artifacts Floyd | The room had many unique items stored there, but I was not concerned Floyd | with them. Floyd | Floyd | I sensed strong undercurrents from a brass lamp. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** I lost my existence. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I had the option to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Can't get there." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Vault Entry Room Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter ring" | ||||
Floyd | I entered my container, losing all links to the physical Floyd | undercurrents. I could not depart until I was summoned anew. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I waited for my next summons.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Purpose* Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Satisfaction.* Floyd | Floyd | Seegan returned, although her physical currents had ceased. She was a Floyd | spirit, but her Purpose was still her own. Floyd | Floyd | My summoner spoke to me. "Djinni, you made my life not only happy and Floyd | fulfilling but also Purposeful. I could not have asked for more. Floyd | Floyd | I died due to my lycanthropy. The human body cannot handle such Floyd | frequent and disrupting changes to itself. Floyd | Floyd | But I gained immeasurably from my wishes and wouldn't change a thing. Floyd | My last wish is for you." Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I pondered.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "It was foretold that it was my Destiny to come here, that I was to Floyd | wish my heart's desire. I did not understand the implications of all Floyd | that had transpired then and what a pawn I was. Now, in my afterlife, Floyd | I do. Floyd | Floyd | You are to go to the Room of Choices and stay there until the little Floyd | boy arrives. Destiny will be decided there. If the three choices are Floyd | in place, the boy will select which servant to unleash unchecked in Floyd | the world and thereby its course. If not, Will ceases to exist. Floyd | Floyd | You will require much Purpose in order to reach this room. Thus, my Floyd | last wish is for you to gain that Purpose. Good luck, my friend." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Huh." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, at least we know where the room is." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "grant wish" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | At first I did not know where to begin. Eventually I realized I was Floyd | able to manipulate my own undercurrents through those of Seegan. Floyd | Without her wish, I would have never been able to achieve that. Floyd | Floyd | The Purpose undercurrents were strong, but her physical link to them Floyd | was weakening rapidly. I connected my own limited Purpose to the Floyd | stream with her help. As I did so, her link completely dissipated. Floyd | Floyd | The final wish was granted. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Sadness and joy." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "So... the room?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Blasts of the physical and the emotional passed through me as I Floyd | entered the room. Now closer in Purpose to physical beings, I began Floyd | to feel some of the effects these traps caused. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Storage, Artifacts Floyd | The room had many unique items stored there, but I was not concerned Floyd | with them. Floyd | Floyd | I sensed strong undercurrents from a brass lamp. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we need to get three items for the room. The necklace, our lamp, and one other thing." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Vault Entry Room Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm, probably, yes." | |||
| DavidW says, "If we are 'Canloc', we might be one of the choices the boy makes." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "recall" | ||||
Floyd | I had to rely on memories gained recently. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So I guess now that I've saved (properly, I think... hope so), I'll go try to take the lamp." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "recall vault" | ||||
Floyd | I remembered being in that vaulted area many times before. Although Floyd | it was certainly possible that things had changed since the previous Floyd | summoning. Floyd | Floyd | Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Floyd | Hill Hill Hill Jewl Artf Hill Floyd | Trl Entr Vaul Pssg Pssg Hill Floyd | Hill Hill Hill Coin Pprs Hill Floyd | Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Blasts of the physical and the emotional passed through me as I Floyd | entered the room. Now closer in Purpose to physical beings, I began Floyd | to feel some of the effects these traps caused. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Storage, Artifacts Floyd | The room had many unique items stored there, but I was not concerned Floyd | with them. Floyd | Floyd | I sensed strong undercurrents from a brass lamp. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take lamp" | ||||
Floyd | Through Will of Purpose, I channeled the undercurrents of the lamp. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Blasts of the physical passed through me as I entered the room. Now Floyd | closer in Purpose to physical beings, I began to feel some of the Floyd | effects these traps caused. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Storage, Jewelry Floyd | That room had been designed to store jewelry in glass cases. All but Floyd | one piece of jewelry had been taken. Floyd | Floyd | I saw a necklace there. Floyd | Floyd | Through Will of Purpose, I continued channeling the undercurrents of Floyd | the lamp. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | The underground continued indefinitely. The earth there was rich in Floyd | minerals, particularly iron. I felt a vague sense of Purpose there. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "eep. The blasts are affecting us now." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | I descended. Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | I descended. Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | I descended. Floyd | Floyd | Room Of Choices Floyd | I saw a simple, large, circular room. Within the room were three Floyd | pedestals, each one meter tall. Each appeared the same, each was Floyd | spaced a uniform distance from the walls and from each other. Each Floyd | pedestal was the same in physical construction. They were made of Floyd | iron. Floyd | Floyd | A small circle had been inscribed around the exact center of the room. Floyd | Floyd | I saw the beginnings of many undercurrents there. That room would Floyd | soon be a focal point for a cataclysmic occurrence. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Why didn't you take the necklace?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put lamp on pedestal" | ||||
Floyd | I set the lamp on one of the pedestals by replacing its link of Floyd | origin. This expended nearly all of my remaining Purpose. Thus, I Floyd | entered my container, losing all links to the physical undercurrents. Floyd | I could not depart until I was summoned anew. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "poo" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Except maybe that's okay... except that Seegan is now gone." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "press green" | ||||
Floyd | [My section of these chronicles was complete.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Purpose* Floyd | Floyd | Each summons meant the opportunity to destroy. Only the destruction Floyd | that caused human suffering gave me subsequent Purpose. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "press green" | ||||
Floyd | In the context of my permitted existences, I had never been able to Floyd | sustain Purpose. I would be forced to return to my bottle, each time Floyd | desiring the trip to be my last. I knew with enough Purpose I could Floyd | be free of any summoners, free to cause limitless destruction. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Oasis, Military Headquarters Floyd | The largest tent in the oasis was there where the military leaders Floyd | plotted. Maps were placed throughout. Floyd | Floyd | The summoner known as Major Labiiq continued his studies. Floyd | Floyd | Labiiq looked out at me, expectantly. Summoners would wait for me to Floyd | destroy their enemies, only to learn I destroyed whatever caused Floyd | misery. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "errr. Talk to Major?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Hm. After the recent joy we gained from being nice we're back to wanting to destroy?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Sure." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to major" | ||||
Floyd | Purpose had better uses than for talking needlessly. Floyd | Floyd | Labiiq looked out at me, expectantly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "grant wish" | ||||
Floyd | I was not that kind of servant. Floyd | Floyd | Labiiq looked out at me, expectantly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "recall oasis" | ||||
Floyd | I had to rely on memories gained recently. Floyd | Floyd | Labiiq looked out at me, expectantly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x maps" | ||||
Floyd | Only one of the maps interested me--Labiiq's camp: Floyd | Floyd | Sand Sand Sand Sand Sand Sand Sand Floyd | Sand Fort Fort Fort Fort Fort Sand Floyd | Sand Fort Silo Tent Tent Fort Sand Floyd | Sand Fort Tent Watr HQ Fort Sand Floyd | Sand Fort Site Cmls Supp Fort Sand Floyd | Sand Fort Fort Fort Fort Fort Sand Floyd | Sand Sand Sand Sand Sand Sand Sand Floyd | Floyd | Scrawled underneath this map was Floyd | Floyd | Excavation Site Floyd | | Floyd | | Floyd | Ruined Vaults -- Pandora's Room(?) Floyd | Floyd | Labiiq stared into a hand mirror for several seconds and then put it Floyd | away. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline copies that map to the other window for easy reference. | |||
| GDorn disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | Jacqueline says, "Okay, so we're at HQ." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Oasis, Water Site Floyd | The spring of fresh water marked the center of the oasis. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Oasis, West Floyd | Private tents followed the rows of trees there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x tents" | ||||
Floyd | The tents and trees were typical of human settlements in the desert. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Oasis, Grain Storage Floyd | There were several silos where the humans stored their grain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Oasis, Water Site Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Oasis, Camel Area Floyd | The camels had been trained and were equipped for battle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x camels" | ||||
Floyd | There were thirty camels there. At that time I thought that was a Floyd | small number for an army fortress to have. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** I lost my existence. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I had the option to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "This losing our existence is getting stale." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Such is the existence of a djinni." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So, we can't grant him a wish this time." | ||||
| DavidW says, "well, I suppose we're supposed to destroy stuff." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I was just rereading." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I agree." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, um, let's smite some tents?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Or camels." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Except those belong to Labiiq." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Or summoners." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess it doesn't matter, though. Given the description." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oooh - yeah. Let's kill him." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I really have no idea what matters." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "destroy Labiiq." | ||||
Floyd | I could not harm a summoner directly, but there were opportunities to Floyd | do so in the context of Purpose. Floyd | Floyd | Labiiq looked out at me, expectantly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Oasis, NorthEast Floyd | Private tents followed the rows of trees there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "destroy tents" | ||||
Floyd | As I looked at each tent in turn, it became consumed in flame. The Floyd | trees soon caught fire. Then I called for a windstorm to blow it Floyd | away. Somehow, however, I did not derive the Purpose that I felt I Floyd | should have from doing all that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bulwark Floyd | The bulwark there consisted of three rows of interlocked and Floyd | alternately angled, sharply pointed logs. The bulwark completely Floyd | surrounded the oasis. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "destroy bulwark" | ||||
Floyd | The logs had been treated to resist fire, but I merely Willed them to Floyd | burn and they did so instantly. The fire spread quickly and consumed Floyd | the entire oasis barricade. Unexpectedly, I did not derive the Floyd | Purpose that I felt I should have from doing that. Floyd | Floyd | Shortly thereafter, the enemies of Labiiq sensed weakness in his camp. Floyd | They left their nearby desert posts and stormed his oasis. With the Floyd | bulwark destroyed, they entered easily... Floyd | Floyd | Only to find a Purpose-starved servant waiting for them. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I sated my Purpose.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Afterwards there was nothing of real import nearby to destroy. Soon I Floyd | found myself confronted with the detestable necessity of returning to Floyd | my container. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Oasis, NorthEast Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Oasis, Military Headquarters Floyd | Floyd | The summoner known as Major Labiiq continued his studies. Floyd | Floyd | Rather than the look of horror most summoners had by that point, Floyd | Labiiq cast a calm and knowing presence upon me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter lamp" | ||||
Floyd | I did not see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter lantern" | ||||
Floyd | I did not see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, so... hm." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x major" | ||||
Floyd | Labiiq appeared much the same as any human. However I did not sense Floyd | Ebo--the downfall of many of his kind--within him. He carried the Floyd | bottle that was my prison. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Ah - bottle." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter bottle." | ||||
Floyd | I entered my container, losing all links to the physical Floyd | undercurrents. I could not depart until I was summoned anew. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I waited for my next summons.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Purpose* Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Satisfaction* Floyd | Floyd | Rarely was I summoned again by the same human. Never were any pleased Floyd | with what I accomplished. Until then. Perhaps his Satisfaction could Floyd | be used to gain enough Purpose for my permanent freedom. Floyd | Floyd | Labiiq looked out at me, calmly. "I know you rarely honor requests, Floyd | but I think you'll feel differently when you hear mine. First a Floyd | little background... Floyd | Floyd | Research from my dig has revealed the location of others of your kind. Floyd | According to my scrolls, three powerful servants are to wait in a Floyd | "Room of Choices" for a little boy. It will be this boy who chooses Floyd | the fate of the people. Floyd | Floyd | Now I won't confirm or deny the validity of this prophecy, but the Floyd | time for this event is unspecified. Even if three of you are supposed Floyd | to be there, there is no mention of when this is to occur. Other Floyd | scrolls on this matter claim there are different types of "servants." Floyd | Some can grant wishes, some exist to wreak havoc, and so on. Floyd | Floyd | I believe this "Room of Choices" is far below my excavation site. I Floyd | believe there is a chance a wish-granting servant is there. I don't Floyd | believe my men will ever be able to dig below these shifting sands Floyd | enough to reach there. Floyd | Floyd | By explaining all of this, I'm giving you an opportunity to build your Floyd | power and to be one of the choices. To build your power in the short Floyd | term, my studies indicate following your nature. To build your power Floyd | permanently, you need to become the chosen one. If you're so chosen, Floyd | my studies indicate you will have your permanent freedom and even Floyd | dominion in the world to come. Floyd | Floyd | But first you must get me the wish granter's container." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Whoa text!" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, interesting." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm so confused." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, let's save, then go see." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, you are? I think I get it." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "The lamp and bottle and ring are all different?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We are now a different djinni that we were with Seegan." | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We were a wish-giver, and now live in the lamp on the pedestal." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Now we're a destroyer." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But he wants a wish, so we have to go get that djinni." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I think." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "So we were Canloc, and now someone else?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Right." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Oasis, Camel Area Floyd | The camels had been trained and were equipped for battle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Oasis, Excavation Site Floyd | I sensed strong undercurrents from that place the humans were Floyd | excavating. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | As was my nature, I would have to destroy in order to create. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "did we look at the bottle?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "No." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I also can't seem to go down." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||||
Floyd | What did I want to dig? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sand" | ||||
Floyd | Digging would have achieved nothing there. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Let's restore and go look at the bottle, I guess." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x bottle" | ||||
Floyd | The bottle was crafted from materials of a different time and in a Floyd | different style than the ones of that day. Inscribed upon it was the Floyd | name "Ivogard". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oho - the necklace." | |||
| Jacqueline goes back to reread. | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm. He says he thinks the room is far below his excavation site." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But I couldn't go down from there." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Oasis, Water Site Floyd | The spring of fresh water marked the center of the oasis. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | Oasis, Excavation Site Floyd | I sensed strong undercurrents from that place the humans were Floyd | excavating. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "destroy sand" | ||||
Floyd | Violence could expend much Purpose if not applied appropriately. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "destroy site" | ||||
Floyd | I caused a tornado to enter the site and carry everything within it Floyd | away. After that, I opened the sand below, creating a tunnel. Low Floyd | recent gains from my destructions made me surprised how Purposeful I Floyd | became after that one. But Destiny had always made Itself easy to Floyd | follow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Under the site Floyd | The tunnel I created enough was large enough to support me but Floyd | unnavigable for humans. The air supports I created held the loose Floyd | sand walls in tact. Floyd | Floyd | I sensed something farther down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Vault, Jewelry Room Floyd | That room was perhaps once part of a larger vault complex, but then Floyd | joined only the room to the east as still in tact. It had been Floyd | designed to store jewelry in glass cases. All but one piece of Floyd | jewelry had been taken. Floyd | Floyd | I saw a necklace there. Floyd | Floyd | I needed Purpose immediately and sensed an intense source of it in the Floyd | adjacent room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take necklace" | ||||
Floyd | When I touched the necklace, I felt powerful physical undercurrents Floyd | that linked it to an area far beneath that room. The necklace Floyd | desolidified and then descended through the earth. Floyd | Floyd | I needed Purpose immediately and sensed an intense source of it in the Floyd | adjacent room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | I descended. Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "er," | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, wait. Maybe I was supposed to go adjacent." | ||||
| DavidW says, "You're ... yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Want me to undo a couple?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Ruined Vault, Jewelry Room Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Which way?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I mean, the lantern was originally to our east, but I thought it was down on the pedestal now." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I can't imagine what it's refering to. The lamp should be gone? And the coins. And the deed. And the ring. The emerald might still be around." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Try east first, I guess." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Mmkay." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Vault, Artifact Room Floyd | The room had many unique items stored there, but I was not concerned Floyd | with them. Floyd | Floyd | I sensed strong undercurrents from a black box. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oho" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||||
Floyd | The box appeared plain, but it evoked a ceratin curiosity humans would Floyd | find nearly impossible to resist. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open box" | ||||
Floyd | Spirits of ill Will escaped the box even before I had finished opening Floyd | it. They set upon me immediately, but soon realized they could not Floyd | affect me. Thus they scattered, seeking to find those they might Floyd | torment. Floyd | Floyd | Destroying often gained Purpose, but never as much as from the simple Floyd | act I had done at that moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Now down?" | |||
| DavidW says, "ah. 'Pandora's Room'." | Jacqueline says, "Indeed." | |||
| DavidW says, "hm. w, then d several times." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "(Pandora's Room, that is.)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Vault, Jewelry Room Floyd | Floyd | Labiiq appeared on a flying carpet. "Thank you again for your Floyd | indirect and unintentional services. You have provided the box that Floyd | will secure my promotion but that would have surely destroyed me had I Floyd | opened it. Floyd | Floyd | The wish-granting djinni may be below, but I have far too much San to Floyd | use it safely. Still, I was not speaking falsely about the prophecy. Floyd | Surely your Destiny is in that Room." Floyd | Floyd | With those words he grabbed the box from the adjacent room, nodded to Floyd | me a final time and flew away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | I descended. Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | I descended. Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | I descended. Floyd | Floyd | Room Of Choices Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||||
Floyd | The Djinni Chronicles was then in its "verbose" mode, which always Floyd | gave long descriptions of locations (even if I had been there before). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Room Of Choices Floyd | I saw a simple, large, circular room. Within the room were three Floyd | pedestals, each one meter tall. Each appeared the same, each was Floyd | spaced a uniform distance from the walls and from each other. Each Floyd | pedestal was the same in physical construction. They were made of Floyd | iron. On one of the pedestals was a lamp. On another was a necklace. Floyd | Floyd | A small circle had been inscribed around the exact center of the room. Floyd | Floyd | I saw the beginnings of many undercurrents there. That room would Floyd | soon be a focal point for a cataclysmic occurrence. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm guessing: enter necklace" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I think you're right." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter necklace" | ||||
Floyd | I entered my container as I could do nothing else. I could not depart Floyd | until I was summoned anew. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [My section of these chronicles was complete.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Purpose* Floyd | Floyd | "Mirror, mirror, in my hand Floyd | Who's the fairest in the land?" Floyd | Floyd | As the servant of the mirror, I was compelled to answer my summoner Floyd | truthfully. I replied to her as I had many times to that same Floyd | question. Floyd | Floyd | "What I say to you is true Floyd | No girl alive is as fair as you" Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I waited while she basked in her vanity.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Chambers of Sela Floyd | Sela occupied the majority of the room. To her right was the foot of Floyd | a bed. To her left was part of a closet door. Just behind her was an Floyd | apple. My mirrored space was a reflection of that, but the real world Floyd | continued beyond any such parameters. Floyd | Floyd | Sela gazed into the mirror. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "huh. That mirror." | |||
| Taleslinger has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Jacqueline asks, "I don't remember the mirror. Or by 'that mirror' do you just mean the generic mirror of Snow White?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Our first summoner looked into a handmirror. So did Major whats-his-name." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, right." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I never thought the mirror was an implemented object." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, me neither." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | I appeared in form the same as my beholder, though with a certain Floyd | ethereal quality. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm liking this far more than I thought I would. I'm not sure how to explain it, but there it is." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sela" | ||||
Floyd | As human consensus judged such things, she was the most beautiful Floyd | woman who lived at that time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x apple" | ||||
Floyd | I saw nothing special about the apple. Floyd | Floyd | "As sure as the moon, I'll see my face soon," said Sela. With that, Floyd | she set my hand mirror down. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "At first it seemed disorienting and jarring, but as it's making more sense I'm being drawn into the story, I guess." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||||
Floyd | [I waited again for someone to look into my mirror.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Purpose* Floyd | Floyd | Again, Sela held the mirror and asked a question. Floyd | Floyd | "Mirror, mirror, I must know more Floyd | Are any more beautiful that came before?" Floyd | Floyd | That question was somewhat unexpected since I had heard her previous Floyd | one so many times. Yet, always, eventually, a summoner would ask a Floyd | question that required a disappointing answer. And when her Will was Floyd | low I would absorb her essence into the mirror, gaining all the more Floyd | knowledge. Floyd | Floyd | I replied, Floyd | "Alas, a fairer girl did once abide Floyd | Her name was Seegan, I must confide" Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "press green" | ||||
Floyd | [I waited for her to understand.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Satisfaction* Floyd | Floyd | Except for Seegan and Labiiq, my previous summoners were consumed with Floyd | Aje. Sela then too was without it. A challenge awaited and her Floyd | resolve hardened, her Will became high. At that moment, I possessed Floyd | more Purpose than I had since Labiiq. Floyd | Floyd | When Purpose was integrated sufficiently, I could move reflected Floyd | objects near me to the void of the non-reflected. And I would be able Floyd | to implement the final segment of my plan if she agreed to my Floyd | proposal. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "press green" | ||||
Floyd | [I would then relate that.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Ugly turned fair Floyd | Winter came to a vault Floyd | A wish granted from there Floyd | Tainted not with cursed fault Floyd | Floyd | More will I share Floyd | With time snow turned to salt Floyd | A man clever with care Floyd | Turned retreat to assault Floyd | Floyd | Mirror was I Floyd | To former and latter Floyd | You will soon learn the why-- Floyd | The heart of the matter Floyd | Floyd | I mention these Floyd | For our goals were the same Floyd | I lead them to three Floyd | Who would give them their fame Floyd | Floyd | Servants were keys Floyd | To a much grander game Floyd | Only freedom would please Floyd | No more life in a frame Floyd | Floyd | Destiny nigh Floyd | My Purpose be fatter Floyd | I must join them thereby Floyd | Or that Purpose is shatter Floyd | Floyd | On the final pedestal in the final Room Floyd | Set me there in that Nowhere, two-thirds likely my tomb Floyd | On another pedestal, a lamp among the gloom Floyd | Long before The Choice is made, the beauty legend you assume Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "press green" | ||||
Floyd | [I waited for her to understand.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sela did think on this proposition. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "Talk to Sela." | ||||
Floyd | Purpose had better uses than for talking needlessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "move apple" | ||||
Floyd | I pushed its reflection to the nothingness that was the Void. And Floyd | that which was being reflected disappeared as well. Sela observed the Floyd | action with dispassion. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, undo that." | |||
| DavidW says, "It's nifty, but we might need the apple." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "move bed" | ||||
Floyd | I pushed its reflection to the nothingness that was the Void. And Floyd | that which was being reflected disappeared as well. Sela observed the Floyd | action with dispassion. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Chambers of Sela Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Chambers of Sela Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, I was going off of:" | |||
| Jacqueline | I could move reflected objects near me to the void of the non-reflected. And I would be able to implement the final segment of my plan if she agreed to my proposal. | ||||
| DavidW says, "I know." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Another idea?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Can we visit the Void?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x nothingness" | ||||
Floyd | A description of nothing would have been difficult to render. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter nothingness" | ||||
Floyd | I was confined to my mirror. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter void" | ||||
Floyd | I was confined to my mirror. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Chambers of Sela Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | The Chambers of Sela Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move Sela" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | That would have taken more Purpose than I would have cared to expend. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | The Chambers of Sela Floyd | [Previous turn was undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oops, sorry." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm all freaked out about turns now. :)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But I guess you have your answer to that either way." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "recall" | ||||
Floyd | I had to rely on memories gained recently. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You should've seen Jaybird when we played AWE. Lots of undoes. Tons of them." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "recall chamber" | ||||
Floyd | I had to rely on memories gained recently. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "AWE?" | |||
| Jacqueline goes to check the list of games to recall the acronym. | ||||
| DavidW says, "At Wit's End. Unless I've misremembered which game it was." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | I was confined to my mirror. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x reflected bed" | ||||
Floyd | I did not see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on bed" | ||||
Floyd | I was confined to my mirror. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||||
Floyd | I saw nothing special about the canopied bed. Floyd | Floyd | "The risk-reward is fair I feel Floyd | I say to you we have a deal," said Sela. Floyd | "How do I reach this 'Room' that you mention? Floyd | And how shall I leave, by what convention?" Floyd | Floyd | I replied, Floyd | "An earthly servant shall take you down Floyd | First pack your bags and leave this town Floyd | Meet it at the Heart of Clay Floyd | It owes the mirror a favor, say Floyd | Floyd | When you reach the place of stands Floyd | Where Destiny combines its strands Floyd | Set me on the final top Floyd | Make sure I stay, I must not drop Floyd | Floyd | The lamp awaits for whom would speak Floyd | Its magic word, its name unique Floyd | To leave the way your kind has done Floyd | Just step into the middle sun Floyd | Floyd | On your trip if help is needed Floyd | Pick me up for objects weeded" Floyd | Floyd | Sela set me down and presumably readied herself for her journey. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "huh. It was just a time thing." | |||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I waited.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | My view was initially blurry because Sela had taken my mirror out Floyd | quickly. I heard a deeper voice in mid-sentence, "... inquiring about Floyd | the death of Ayla Exeter." Another voice offered, "It's a shame, it Floyd | is. With each passing day, she was becoming the most beautiful woman Floyd | in the land. I'd like to get my hands on the knave who gave her that Floyd | poisoned apple." Floyd | Floyd | Sela brought up my mirror steadily and turned her back. She offered Floyd | sweetly, "Brave men, a second please brace. Allow a poor woman a Floyd | brief check of her face." "Awww, you don't need t' do that m'lady. Floyd | You're the most beautiful in the land," said the second guard. Floyd | Floyd | In a clear view by then, I could see two men slowly, very slowly, Floyd | drawing conclusions from the conversation that had just transpired. Floyd | Floyd | The City Gates Floyd | The road through the gates was narrow, the gates were made of steel. Floyd | To her right was a bearded guard. To her left was a bespectacled Floyd | guard. My mirrored space was a reflection of that, but the real world Floyd | continued beyond any such parameters. Floyd | Floyd | Sela was detained for questioning, nonchalantly holding up her mirror. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "oh dear. Make the guards go bye-bye?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm, now I'm wishing we'd saved earlier in Sela's chapter, so that we could go back later and move the apple and see how it changes the outcome (if it does)." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But I can explore that once we're done." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bearded guard" | ||||
Floyd | Except for his beard, I saw nothing different about the guard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bespectacled guard" | ||||
Floyd | Except for his glasses, I saw nothing noteworthy about the guard. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Sure, move them." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move bearded guard" | ||||
Floyd | I pushed his reflection to the nothingness that was the Void. And Floyd | that which was being reflected disappeared as well. Sela observed the Floyd | action with dispassion. Floyd | Floyd | It was just a matter of time before the other guard noticed what had Floyd | happened. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move guard" | ||||
Floyd | I pushed his reflection to the nothingness that was the Void. And Floyd | that which was being reflected disappeared as well. Sela observed the Floyd | action with dispassion. Floyd | Floyd | Sela calmly put my mirror back in her pack. Floyd | Floyd | She did not summon me again until she had placed me on the empty Floyd | pedestal in the Room of Choices. I told her truthfully that the lamp Floyd | she sought was dangerous, so that she need merely speak the name Floyd | inscribed upon it--'Canloc'--to invoke the djinni within. Floyd | Floyd | San influenced her wish in its typical way. Floyd | Floyd | I awaited Destiny. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [My section of these chronicles was complete.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "A little boy entered the Room. He stood on his toes to reach the top Floyd | of one of the pedestals. Floyd | Floyd | The End." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Which one did he choose, Nanny Exeter?!" Floyd | Floyd | "We live in a world where the only servants are human, my child. Floyd | Think on that as you fall asleep. Good night, sweet one." Floyd | Floyd | *** *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I had the option to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "huh." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Huh. I wonder if that gets changed if Ayla Exeter lives." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "May I go see?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I bet a lot changes in this game." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "What if we hadn't chosen lycanthropy at the very beginning?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, yes." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But I can check the apple a lot quicker." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Go ahead" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Then we can go back and try changing lycanthropy." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | I needed to give one of the answers above. Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Oasis, Camel Area Floyd | The camels had been trained and were equipped for battle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Oasis, Excavation Site Floyd | I sensed strong undercurrents from that place the humans were Floyd | excavating. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "destroy site" | ||||
Floyd | I caused a tornado to enter the site and carry everything within it Floyd | away. After that, I opened the sand below, creating a tunnel. Low Floyd | recent gains from my destructions made me surprised how Purposeful I Floyd | became after that one. But Destiny had always made Itself easy to Floyd | follow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Under the site Floyd | The tunnel I created enough was large enough to support me but Floyd | unnavigable for humans. The air supports I created held the loose Floyd | sand walls in tact. Floyd | Floyd | I sensed something farther down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Vault, Jewelry Room Floyd | That room was perhaps once part of a larger vault complex, but then Floyd | joined only the room to the east as still in tact. It had been Floyd | designed to store jewelry in glass cases. All but one piece of Floyd | jewelry had been taken. Floyd | Floyd | I saw a necklace there. Floyd | Floyd | I needed Purpose immediately and sensed an intense source of it in the Floyd | adjacent room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take necklace" | ||||
Floyd | When I touched the necklace, I felt powerful physical undercurrents Floyd | that linked it to an area far beneath that room. The necklace Floyd | desolidified and then descended through the earth. Floyd | Floyd | I needed Purpose immediately and sensed an intense source of it in the Floyd | adjacent room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Vault, Artifact Room Floyd | The room had many unique items stored there, but I was not concerned Floyd | with them. Floyd | Floyd | I sensed strong undercurrents from a black box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open box" | ||||
Floyd | Spirits of ill Will escaped the box even before I had finished opening Floyd | it. They set upon me immediately, but soon realized they could not Floyd | affect me. Thus they scattered, seeking to find those they might Floyd | torment. Floyd | Floyd | Destroying often gained Purpose, but never as much as from the simple Floyd | act I had done at that moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Vault, Jewelry Room Floyd | Floyd | Labiiq appeared on a flying carpet. "Thank you again for your Floyd | indirect and unintentional services. You have provided the box that Floyd | will secure my promotion but that would have surely destroyed me had I Floyd | opened it. Floyd | Floyd | The wish-granting djinni may be below, but I have far too much San to Floyd | use it safely. Still, I was not speaking falsely about the prophecy. Floyd | Surely your Destiny is in that Room." Floyd | Floyd | With those words he grabbed the box from the adjacent room, nodded to Floyd | me a final time and flew away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | I descended. Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | I descended. Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | I descended. Floyd | Floyd | Room Of Choices Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter necklace" | ||||
Floyd | I entered my container as I could do nothing else. I could not depart Floyd | until I was summoned anew. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [My section of these chronicles was complete.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Purpose* Floyd | Floyd | "Mirror, mirror, in my hand Floyd | Who's the fairest in the land?" Floyd | Floyd | As the servant of the mirror, I was compelled to answer my summoner Floyd | truthfully. I replied to her as I had many times to that same Floyd | question. Floyd | Floyd | "What I say to you is true Floyd | No girl alive is as fair as you" Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I waited while she basked in her vanity.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Chambers of Sela Floyd | Sela occupied the majority of the room. To her right was the foot of Floyd | a bed. To her left was part of a closet door. Just behind her was an Floyd | apple. My mirrored space was a reflection of that, but the real world Floyd | continued beyond any such parameters. Floyd | Floyd | Sela gazed into the mirror. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "move apple" | ||||
Floyd | I did not have the Purpose to do so. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You gotta wait until she asks about previously fair women." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. I was scrolling back to see." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Here I just wait until she sets me down, I think." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passed. Floyd | Floyd | "As sure as the moon, I'll see my face soon," said Sela. With that, Floyd | she set my hand mirror down. Floyd | | DavidW says, "I suppose the boy is Aladdin." | |||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I waited again for someone to look into my mirror.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Purpose* Floyd | Floyd | Again, Sela held the mirror and asked a question. Floyd | Floyd | "Mirror, mirror, I must know more Floyd | Are any more beautiful that came before?" Floyd | Floyd | That question was somewhat unexpected since I had heard her previous Floyd | one so many times. Yet, always, eventually, a summoner would ask a Floyd | question that required a disappointing answer. And when her Will was Floyd | low I would absorb her essence into the mirror, gaining all the more Floyd | knowledge. Floyd | Floyd | I replied, Floyd | "Alas, a fairer girl did once abide Floyd | Her name was Seegan, I must confide" Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I waited for her to understand.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Satisfaction* Floyd | Floyd | Except for Seegan and Labiiq, my previous summoners were consumed with Floyd | Aje. Sela then too was without it. A challenge awaited and her Floyd | resolve hardened, her Will became high. At that moment, I possessed Floyd | more Purpose than I had since Labiiq. Floyd | Floyd | When Purpose was integrated sufficiently, I could move reflected Floyd | objects near me to the void of the non-reflected. And I would be able Floyd | to implement the final segment of my plan if she agreed to my Floyd | proposal. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I would then relate that.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Ugly turned fair Floyd | Winter came to a vault Floyd | A wish granted from there Floyd | Tainted not with cursed fault Floyd | Floyd | More will I share Floyd | With time snow turned to salt Floyd | A man clever with care Floyd | Turned retreat to assault Floyd | Floyd | Mirror was I Floyd | To former and latter Floyd | You will soon learn the why-- Floyd | The heart of the matter Floyd | Floyd | I mention these Floyd | For our goals were the same Floyd | I lead them to three Floyd | Who would give them their fame Floyd | Floyd | Servants were keys Floyd | To a much grander game Floyd | Only freedom would please Floyd | No more life in a frame Floyd | Floyd | Destiny nigh Floyd | My Purpose be fatter Floyd | I must join them thereby Floyd | Or that Purpose is shatter Floyd | Floyd | On the final pedestal in the final Room Floyd | Set me there in that Nowhere, two-thirds likely my tomb Floyd | On another pedestal, a lamp among the gloom Floyd | Long before The Choice is made, the beauty legend you assume Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I waited for her to understand.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sela did think on this proposition. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "move apple" | ||||
Floyd | I pushed its reflection to the nothingness that was the Void. And Floyd | that which was being reflected disappeared as well. Sela observed the Floyd | action with dispassion. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "closet door" | ||||
Floyd | That was not an action my Purpose allowed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Chambers of Sela Floyd | Sela occupied the majority of the room. To her right was the foot of Floyd | a bed. To her left was part of a closet door. My mirrored space was Floyd | a reflection of that, but the real world continued beyond any such Floyd | parameters. Floyd | Floyd | Sela stood near with mirror in hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | That was not something I could open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "move bed" | ||||
Floyd | I pushed its reflection to the nothingness that was the Void. And Floyd | that which was being reflected disappeared as well. Sela observed the Floyd | action with dispassion. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move door" | ||||
Floyd | I pushed its reflection to the nothingness that was the Void. And Floyd | that which was being reflected disappeared as well. Sela observed the Floyd | action with dispassion. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Ah" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x closet" | ||||
Floyd | I did not see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Chambers of Sela Floyd | Sela occupied the majority of the room. My mirrored space was a Floyd | reflection of that, but the real world continued beyond any such Floyd | parameters. Floyd | Floyd | Sela stood near with mirror in hand. Floyd | Floyd | "The risk-reward is fair I feel Floyd | I say to you we have a deal," said Sela. Floyd | "How do I reach this 'Room' that you mention? Floyd | And how shall I leave, by what convention?" Floyd | Floyd | I replied, Floyd | "An earthly servant shall take you down Floyd | First pack your bags and leave this town Floyd | Meet it at the Heart of Clay Floyd | It owes the mirror a favor, say Floyd | Floyd | When you reach the place of stands Floyd | Where Destiny combines its strands Floyd | Set me on the final top Floyd | Make sure I stay, I must not drop Floyd | Floyd | The lamp awaits for whom would speak Floyd | Its magic word, its name unique Floyd | To leave the way your kind has done Floyd | Just step into the middle sun Floyd | Floyd | On your trip if help is needed Floyd | Pick me up for objects weeded" Floyd | Floyd | Sela set me down and presumably readied herself for her journey. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Aw. We don't get to see what's in the closet when we move the door. Oh well." | |||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I waited.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | My view was initially blurry because Sela had taken my mirror out Floyd | quickly. I heard a deeper voice in mid-sentence, "... inquiring about Floyd | the death of Ayla Exeter." Another voice offered, "It's a shame, it Floyd | is. With each passing day, she was becoming the most beautiful woman Floyd | in the land. I'd like to get my hands on the knave who gave her that Floyd | poisoned apple." Floyd | Floyd | Sela brought up my mirror steadily and turned her back. She offered Floyd | sweetly, "Brave men, a second please brace. Allow a poor woman a Floyd | brief check of her face." "Awww, you don't need t' do that m'lady. Floyd | You're the most beautiful in the land," said the second guard. Floyd | Floyd | In a clear view by then, I could see two men slowly, very slowly, Floyd | drawing conclusions from the conversation that had just transpired. Floyd | Floyd | The City Gates Floyd | The road through the gates was narrow, the gates were made of steel. Floyd | To her right was a bearded guard. To her left was a bespectacled Floyd | guard. My mirrored space was a reflection of that, but the real world Floyd | continued beyond any such parameters. Floyd | Floyd | Sela was detained for questioning, nonchalantly holding up her mirror. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move gates" | ||||
Floyd | Moving the gates was beyond my Purpose at that time. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, so that didn't matter." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "She still died." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move beard" | ||||
Floyd | I pushed his reflection to the nothingness that was the Void. And Floyd | that which was being reflected disappeared as well. Sela observed the Floyd | action with dispassion. Floyd | Floyd | It was just a matter of time before the other guard noticed what had Floyd | happened. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move glasses" | ||||
Floyd | I pushed his reflection to the nothingness that was the Void. And Floyd | that which was being reflected disappeared as well. Sela observed the Floyd | action with dispassion. Floyd | Floyd | Sela calmly put my mirror back in her pack. Floyd | Floyd | She did not summon me again until she had placed me on the empty Floyd | pedestal in the Room of Choices. I told her truthfully that the lamp Floyd | she sought was dangerous, so that she need merely speak the name Floyd | inscribed upon it--'Canloc'--to invoke the djinni within. Floyd | Floyd | San influenced her wish in its typical way. Floyd | Floyd | I awaited Destiny. Floyd | | DavidW says, "We should look up what San, Ebo, and Aje are, assuming these are terms used outside the game." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, you want to go back and try something different with Seegan?" | ||||
| Limax arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | DavidW says, "I'm curious about other paths, but my stomach just got cranky for food." | |||
| Limax says, "sorry I'm late" | ||||
| schep says, "wikipedia doesn't have anything that looks relevant" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Well, we can take a short break to refuel." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I could eat as well." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of schep), "Doesn't it?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I imagine Seegan would not be satisfied with being a narcoleptic or with a screechy voice." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I thought it always did!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, food break?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "please" | ||||
| Limax breaks a stalk of celery | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Sounds good on my end, too. 15? 20? 30?" | ||||
| aash29 goes home. | schep says, "although googling the three of them brings up some interesting weirdness" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm going to guess that (a) schep is mischanneling (no pun intended given today's game) and (b) David has gone to eat and will not specify a time and so I should go eat too and just be back soonish." | ||||
| schep says, "no, I tried to look up san and ebo on wikipedia with no success" | ||||
| Limax walks slowly out of the room and into the sunset. | Jacqueline says, "Also, back whenever." | |||
| DavidW says, "back" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "mmkay" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, restart, change first wish?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "See if it changes substantially?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | [My section of these chronicles was complete.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "A little boy entered the Room. He stood on his toes to reach the top Floyd | of one of the pedestals. Floyd | Floyd | The End." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Which one did he choose, Nanny Exeter?!" Floyd | Floyd | "We live in a world where the only servants are human, my child. Floyd | Think on that as you fall asleep. Good night, sweet one." Floyd | Floyd | *** *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I had the option to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Sorry I left so abruptly. My stomach was saying very rude things about my ancestry." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Heh. No worries. We're making a pizza here, too." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Purpose* Floyd | Floyd | A summons from mere existence. The scattered undercurrents of Purpose Floyd | integrated me, established meaning. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | A wish diminished me. I fulfilled my summoner's desire expending Floyd | Purpose. I returned to my container before I was lost forever. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Djinni Chronicles Floyd | "Undercurrents of Manipulation" Floyd | A 2000 IF-Comp Entry by J.D. Berry (berryx@earthlink.net) Floyd | This game is freeware (Type 'about' at any > prompt). Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 000927 / Inform v6.21 Library 6/10 Floyd | Floyd | Vault Entry Room Floyd | The location of my summoner was a room between the surface of the Floyd | world [physically west] and a complex of vaults [physically east]. Floyd | Floyd | The room was a trap for physical beings. On one side of the room, a Floyd | portcullis barred the way to the outside. To the other were the Floyd | vaults for storage. A patterned stone wall blocked their unauthorized Floyd | access. Floyd | Floyd | The remains of a former summoner rested here. An emerald had taken Floyd | the place of his head. Floyd | Floyd | The summoner known as Seegan stood before me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "Talk to Seegan." | ||||
Floyd | I told my Purpose. I was a servant of limited power who would grant Floyd | three wishes. The first wish was to be stated within one minute of my Floyd | explanation. The second was to be stated on the day one year from the Floyd | first, in the same physical location as the first. The third, ten Floyd | years on the day and in the same location. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | Purpose had better uses than for talking needlessly. Floyd | Floyd | Seegan took out a hand mirror, looked at it for a final assessment and Floyd | then put it away. She told me, "I've thought about it, and I wish to Floyd | be beautiful." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "grant wish" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I searched the undercurrents for one that would fulfill my summoner's Floyd | stated desire. Of those that would accomplish this, only one was I Floyd | Willful enough to channel. Floyd | Floyd | The undercurrent that would alter my summoner's physical appearance Floyd | was, by itself, more Purposeful than I could manage. But if I Floyd | simultaneously channeled an attractor current, I could integrate them Floyd | through my summoner and fulfill the wish. I chose the undercurrent of Floyd | Floyd | 1) lycanthropy. Floyd | 2) a deep sleep. Floyd | 3) an inhumanly shrill voice. Floyd | | Jacqueline asks, "Which?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I chose last time..." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "2" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The wish was granted. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x seegan" | ||||
Floyd | (Seegan) Floyd | Her physical undercurrents stormed with attractiveness. Her emotional Floyd | winds raged with conflicting happiness and separation, dilemma and Floyd | determination. Her mental flows darted and crackled with creativity. Floyd | Floyd | She wore the ring that contained my essence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x emotional" | ||||
Floyd | The cold winds of separation flurried within her. Together with the Floyd | physical they linked, although distantly, to those of her father. Floyd | Deep within these flurries was a pocket of fear, apparently kept in Floyd | check by the torrent outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Enter ring?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x physical" | ||||
Floyd | Her undercurrents continued their warmth but now flowed with the winds Floyd | and not against them. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. ok." | |||
| DavidW says, "The business about her father seems to be a plot branch unexplored as yet." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Well, I sort of ran with things the last time. Why don't you take the wheel?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "ok" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter ring" | ||||
Floyd | I entered my container, losing all links to the physical Floyd | undercurrents. I could not depart until I was summoned anew. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I waited for my next summons.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Purpose* Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Satisfaction.* Floyd | Floyd | Such was my first experience of joy. Until that point in time, every Floyd | summoner returning for another wish had increased San. Through the Floyd | happiness of Seegan, I felt more Purpose than I had ever known. Floyd | Floyd | "Great Djinni," my summoner said with much passion. "I can't thank Floyd | you enough--not only for making me beautiful, but for giving me the Floyd | extra gift of the most pleasant sleep I have ever experienced. My... Floyd | YOUR ring kept me warm somehow, as long as I was wearing it. I awoke Floyd | months later when a traveling soldier arrived here and escorted me to Floyd | the nearest village. Floyd | Floyd | It was at that village I met my husband. I owe you that thanks as Floyd | well. I know I didn't need to explain, but I wanted to express my Floyd | happiness. Floyd | Floyd | Do you have any further instructions for my second wish? I will await Floyd | your word before wishing." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "huh" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x seegan" | ||||
Floyd | (Seegan) Floyd | Her physical undercurrents stormed with attractiveness and combined Floyd | with those of another life. Her emotional winds raged with happiness Floyd | and determination. Her mental flows darted and crackled with Floyd | creativity. Floyd | Floyd | She wore the ring that contained my essence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So far it doesn't look like it twists things much." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x physical" | ||||
Floyd | Her undercurrents continued their warmth but now flowed with the winds Floyd | and not against them. An independent current flowed within her. She Floyd | was with child. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Eenteresting." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x emotional" | ||||
Floyd | The cold winds of separation met with warm winds of happiness in a Floyd | stormy mixture. She had recently joined Purpose with a husband, Floyd | restored a link to her father, and was with child. However, the Floyd | undercurrents of her sisters battered hers with a jealous rage. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mental" | ||||
Floyd | Her mental undercurrents were difficult for me to interpret. Cold, Floyd | then hot, then cold again. These winds were conditioned, although not Floyd | ruled, by her emotions. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to seegan" | ||||
Floyd | I told her that, in addition to the previous rules, I could not undo Floyd | any direct effects of previous wishes. Floyd | Floyd | (I wondered then whether I should have told her about my new Purpose. Floyd | Thanking her seemed "correct" somehow and yet not "appropriate" Floyd | because it would likely have interfered with many undercurrents.) Floyd | Floyd | "I've known my second wish since I knew I was pregnant. I wish my Floyd | baby a long, healthy, happy, prosperous life." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "grant wish" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | My recent exponential increase in Purpose evoked in me an awareness. Floyd | The attractor winds that gave me control of the undercurrents were Floyd | viewed as curses by my summoners. By the time the summoner called Floyd | upon me anew, any Satisfaction that might have been gained initially Floyd | was eliminated by these curses. Floyd | Floyd | Why had Seegan been Satisfied? I knew only one possibility. She was Floyd | without San. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I pondered.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I searched the undercurrents for one that would fulfill my summoner's Floyd | stated desire. Two of the requirements were a long and healthy life Floyd | for her baby. Purpose did not require expenditure for these. The Floyd | undercurrents of her baby flowed naturally and compatibly with her Floyd | desires. Rare it was that this occurred. And to that point, never Floyd | did I derive subsequent Satisfaction. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I pondered. And for the first time, I could grant at least some of Floyd | the wish without an associated "curse".] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Her baby had strong undercurrents of happiness. I would not need to Floyd | do anything to grant that portion of the wish. However, prosperity Floyd | was another matter. I could have channeled the undercurrents to make Floyd | that happen, but not without cost. I realized that I greatly risked Floyd | Satisfaction if I attached a curse. Perhaps there was treasure still Floyd | remaining somewhere around the vaults that could assure prosperity. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | I was not impeded by the elements of the physical world. The farther Floyd | I traveled from the location of my initial summons, the more Purpose I Floyd | expended. Floyd | Floyd | Then too I realized where I was and could [recall the area] whenever I Floyd | needed. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | The passageway began there and continued east. There were doors on Floyd | the northern and southern sides, each with a set of uniquely engraved Floyd | runes. A thick, stone wall blocked physical travel west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Blasts of the physical and the mental passed through me as I entered Floyd | the room. They did no damage, but I felt their associated sensations. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Storage, Papers Floyd | The room had many papers stored there. Floyd | Floyd | I sensed strong undercurrents from one of the deeds. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x deeds" | ||||
Floyd | Only one of the deeds had any relevance--the deed of nobility. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take deed" | ||||
Floyd | Through Will of Purpose, I channeled the undercurrents of the Deed of Floyd | Nobility. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | Floyd | Through Will of Purpose, I continued channeling the undercurrents of Floyd | the Deed of Nobility. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "grant wish" | ||||
Floyd | The circumstances were not exactly as they needed to be to grant a Floyd | wish. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Entry Room Floyd | Floyd | The remains of a former summoner rested here. An emerald had taken Floyd | the place of his head. Floyd | Floyd | The summoner known as Seegan rested before me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "grant wish" | ||||
Floyd | I gave her the deed that would restore the nobility of her husband. Floyd | Floyd | The wish was granted. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter ring" | ||||
Floyd | My container could not contain such Purpose. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Away from the Entrance Floyd | The passageway ended there, beginning from the east. There were doors Floyd | on the northern and southern sides, each with a set of uniquely Floyd | engraved runes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Blasts of the physical and the emotional passed through me as I Floyd | entered the room. They did no damage, but I felt their associated Floyd | sensations. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Storage, Artifacts Floyd | The room had many unique items stored there, but I was not concerned Floyd | with them. Floyd | Floyd | I sensed strong undercurrents from a brass lamp. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lamp" | ||||
Floyd | It was a brass lamp with the name "Canloc" inscribed on its base. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter lamp" | ||||
Floyd | I entered my container, losing all links to the physical Floyd | undercurrents. I could not depart until I was summoned anew. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I waited for my next summons.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Purpose* Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Satisfaction.* Floyd | Floyd | Seegan returned, although her physical currents had ceased. She was a Floyd | spirit, but her Purpose was still her own. Floyd | Floyd | My summoner spoke to me. "Djinni, you made my life not only happy and Floyd | fulfilling but also Purposeful. I could not have asked for more. Floyd | Floyd | I died in childbirth with my third son. I fell into another deep Floyd | sleep from which I could not return. Fortunately, my son is healthy Floyd | and all else is well. Floyd | Floyd | But I gained immeasurably from my wishes and wouldn't change a thing. Floyd | My last wish is for you." Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Subtle." | |||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I pondered.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "It was foretold that it was my Destiny to come here, that I was to Floyd | wish my heart's desire. I did not understand the implications of all Floyd | that had transpired then and what a pawn I was. Now, in my afterlife, Floyd | I do. Floyd | Floyd | You are to go to the Room of Choices and stay there until the little Floyd | boy arrives. Destiny will be decided there. If the three choices are Floyd | in place, the boy will select which servant to unleash unchecked in Floyd | the world and thereby its course. If not, Will ceases to exist. Floyd | Floyd | You will require much Purpose in order to reach this room. Thus, my Floyd | last wish is for you to gain that Purpose. Good luck, my friend." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "grant wish" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | At first I did not know where to begin. Eventually I realized I was Floyd | able to manipulate my own undercurrents through those of Seegan. Floyd | Without her wish, I would have never been able to achieve that. Floyd | Floyd | The Purpose undercurrents were strong, but her physical link to them Floyd | was weakening rapidly. I connected my own limited Purpose to the Floyd | stream with her help. As I did so, her link completely dissipated. Floyd | Floyd | The final wish was granted. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "okay. So, details were different, but the mechanics didn't change much." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Want to explore more, or call it here?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "In a way, the subtlty was nice, but I sort of wish it had had a more sweeping effect." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'd like to try the 3rd choice." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "mmkay" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Also, there might've been other options besides the deed for the 2nd wish, but I'll forgo exploring for that." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | I pondered. Was I sure I wanted to restart? | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Purpose* Floyd | Floyd | A summons from mere existence. The scattered undercurrents of Purpose Floyd | integrated me, established meaning. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | A wish diminished me. I fulfilled my summoner's desire expending Floyd | Purpose. I returned to my container before I was lost forever. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Djinni Chronicles Floyd | "Undercurrents of Manipulation" Floyd | A 2000 IF-Comp Entry by J.D. Berry (berryx@earthlink.net) Floyd | This game is freeware (Type 'about' at any > prompt). Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 000927 / Inform v6.21 Library 6/10 Floyd | Floyd | Vault Entry Room Floyd | The location of my summoner was a room between the surface of the Floyd | world [physically west] and a complex of vaults [physically east]. Floyd | Floyd | The room was a trap for physical beings. On one side of the room, a Floyd | portcullis barred the way to the outside. To the other were the Floyd | vaults for storage. A patterned stone wall blocked their unauthorized Floyd | access. Floyd | Floyd | The remains of a former summoner rested here. An emerald had taken Floyd | the place of his head. Floyd | Floyd | The summoner known as Seegan stood before me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to seegan" | ||||
Floyd | I told my Purpose. I was a servant of limited power who would grant Floyd | three wishes. The first wish was to be stated within one minute of my Floyd | explanation. The second was to be stated on the day one year from the Floyd | first, in the same physical location as the first. The third, ten Floyd | years on the day and in the same location. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | To a summoner, I appeared to be a concentrated haze though with no Floyd | real form. Floyd | Floyd | Seegan took out a hand mirror, looked at it for a final assessment and Floyd | then put it away. She told me, "I've thought about it, and I wish to Floyd | be beautiful." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Wait. Did we ever use the emerald, or was that just a red herring, or merely there to illustrate what a bastard of a wish-giver we'd been in the past?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||||
Floyd | I did not see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We've never used the emerald." | |||
| DavidW says, "I don't doubt it's useful somewhere." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "grant wish" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I searched the undercurrents for one that would fulfill my summoner's Floyd | stated desire. Of those that would accomplish this, only one was I Floyd | Willful enough to channel. Floyd | Floyd | The undercurrent that would alter my summoner's physical appearance Floyd | was, by itself, more Purposeful than I could manage. But if I Floyd | simultaneously channeled an attractor current, I could integrate them Floyd | through my summoner and fulfill the wish. I chose the undercurrent of Floyd | Floyd | 1) lycanthropy. Floyd | 2) a deep sleep. Floyd | 3) an inhumanly shrill voice. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "3" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The wish was granted. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x emotional" | ||||
Floyd | The cold winds of separation flurried within her. Together with the Floyd | physical they linked, although distantly, to those of her father. Floyd | Deep within these flurries was a pocket of fear, apparently kept in Floyd | check by the torrent outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x physical" | ||||
Floyd | Her undercurrents continued their warmth but now flowed with the winds Floyd | and not against them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mental" | ||||
Floyd | Her mental undercurrents were difficult for me to interpret. Cold, Floyd | then hot, then cold again. These winds were conditioned, although not Floyd | ruled, by her emotions. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter ring" | ||||
Floyd | I entered my container, losing all links to the physical Floyd | undercurrents. I could not depart until I was summoned anew. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I waited for my next summons.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Purpose* Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Satisfaction.* Floyd | Floyd | Such was my first experience of joy. Until that point in time, every Floyd | summoner returning for another wish had increased San. Through the Floyd | happiness of Seegan, I felt more Purpose than I had ever known. Floyd | Floyd | "Great Djinni," my summoner said with much passion. "I can't thank Floyd | you enough--not only for making me beautiful, but for giving me the Floyd | extra gift of a magical voice. I shattered the bars with my scream Floyd | and followed the trail back to the village." (I, being not human, was Floyd | unaffected by her voice.) Floyd | Floyd | "It was at that village I met my husband. I owe you that thanks as Floyd | well. I know I didn't need to explain, but I wanted to express my Floyd | happiness. Floyd | Floyd | Do you have any further instructions for my second wish? I will await Floyd | your word before wishing." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ha" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x physical" | ||||
Floyd | Her undercurrents continued their warmth but now flowed with the winds Floyd | and not against them. An independent current flowed within her. She Floyd | was with child. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x emotional" | ||||
Floyd | The cold winds of separation met with warm winds of happiness in a Floyd | stormy mixture. She had recently joined Purpose with a husband, Floyd | restored a link to her father, and was with child. However, the Floyd | undercurrents of her sisters battered hers with a jealous rage. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to seegan" | ||||
Floyd | I told her that, in addition to the previous rules, I could not undo Floyd | any direct effects of previous wishes. Floyd | Floyd | (I wondered then whether I should have told her about my new Purpose. Floyd | Thanking her seemed "correct" somehow and yet not "appropriate" Floyd | because it would likely have interfered with many undercurrents.) Floyd | Floyd | "I've known my second wish since I knew I was pregnant. I wish my Floyd | baby a long, healthy, happy, prosperous life." Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg asks, "we're still playing?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "thank seegan" | ||||
Floyd | That was not an action my Purpose allowed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "somehow I thought this was a shorter game" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "grant wish" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | My recent exponential increase in Purpose evoked in me an awareness. Floyd | The attractor winds that gave me control of the undercurrents were Floyd | viewed as curses by my summoners. By the time the summoner called Floyd | upon me anew, any Satisfaction that might have been gained initially Floyd | was eliminated by these curses. Floyd | Floyd | Why had Seegan been Satisfied? I knew only one possibility. She was Floyd | without San. Floyd | | Jacqueline says (to Ghogg), "We're just exploring other paths." | |||
| olethros says, "i must enter bed and sleep" | Jacqueline says, "Night, olethros." | |||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I pondered.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I searched the undercurrents for one that would fulfill my summoner's Floyd | stated desire. Two of the requirements were a long and healthy life Floyd | for her baby. Such was the first wish of my summoner that she was Floyd | "cursed" with a destructive voice. The undercurrents of her baby, the Floyd | voice of its mother and its health, were incompatible. Floyd | | ||||
| olethros has disconnected. | ||||
| olethros was too old and infirm for your purpose. | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I pondered. And for the first time, I could grant at least some of Floyd | the wish without an associated "curse".] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Her baby had strong undercurrents of happiness. I would not need to Floyd | do anything to grant that portion of the wish. However, prosperity Floyd | was another matter. I could have channeled the undercurrents to make Floyd | that happen, but not without cost. I realized that I greatly risked Floyd | Satisfaction if I attached a curse. Perhaps there was treasure still Floyd | remaining somewhere around the vaults that could assure prosperity. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Seems much the same so far." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | I was not impeded by the elements of the physical world. The farther Floyd | I traveled from the location of my initial summons, the more Purpose I Floyd | expended. Floyd | Floyd | Then too I realized where I was and could [recall the area] whenever I Floyd | needed. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | The passageway began there and continued east. There were doors on Floyd | the northern and southern sides, each with a set of uniquely engraved Floyd | runes. A thick, stone wall blocked physical travel west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Blasts of the physical and the mental passed through me as I entered Floyd | the room. They did no damage, but I felt their associated sensations. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Storage, Papers Floyd | The room had many papers stored there. Floyd | Floyd | I sensed strong undercurrents from one of the deeds. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, except for the amusing way she escaped this time." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x deeds" | ||||
Floyd | Only one of the deeds had any relevance--the deed of nobility. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take deed" | ||||
Floyd | Through Will of Purpose, I channeled the undercurrents of the Deed of Floyd | Nobility. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | Floyd | Through Will of Purpose, I continued channeling the undercurrents of Floyd | the Deed of Nobility. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Entry Room Floyd | Floyd | The remains of a former summoner rested here. An emerald had taken Floyd | the place of his head. Floyd | Floyd | The summoner known as Seegan rested before me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "grant wish" | ||||
Floyd | I gave her the deed that would restore the nobility of her husband. Floyd | Floyd | The wish was granted. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter ring" | ||||
Floyd | My container could not contain such Purpose. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Blasts of the physical and the emotional passed through me as I Floyd | entered the room. They did no damage, but I felt their associated Floyd | sensations. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Storage, Artifacts Floyd | The room had many unique items stored there, but I was not concerned Floyd | with them. Floyd | Floyd | I sensed strong undercurrents from a brass lamp. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter lamp" | ||||
Floyd | I entered my container, losing all links to the physical Floyd | undercurrents. I could not depart until I was summoned anew. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I waited for my next summons.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Purpose* Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Satisfaction.* Floyd | Floyd | Seegan returned, although her physical currents had ceased. She was a Floyd | spirit, but her Purpose was still her own. Floyd | Floyd | My summoner spoke to me. "Djinni, you made my life not only happy and Floyd | fulfilling but also Purposeful. I could not have asked for more. Floyd | Floyd | I died screaming for my son when I saw him running for his life from Floyd | several thugs. My voice at that intensity paralyzed them. It cost me Floyd | my own life the process, but what mother wouldn't give her own for her Floyd | child? Floyd | Floyd | But I gained immeasurably from my wishes and wouldn't change a thing. Floyd | My last wish is for you." Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Huh." | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm surprised she's that satisfied. Like, really." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh. Yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Did you see any real way for the paths to diverge in the Labiiq scenario?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Oh, a couple ideas occured to me. Destroying the black box instead of opening it." | ||||
| DavidW says, "And perhaps destroying the grain, the camels, and so on." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Ooh - good ideas." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "also, what oasis can last long without water?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Good point." | ||||
| DavidW says, "But I think I'm done for now." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm. Well then I'll take up your ideas." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "If that's okay." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I suppose we could've tried holding the emerald then granting the 2nd wish." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Because if I don't do it now, I probably won't revisit otherwise." | ||||
| DavidW says, "So ahead." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "grant wish" | ||||
Floyd | [I pondered.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "It was foretold that it was my Destiny to come here, that I was to Floyd | wish my heart's desire. I did not understand the implications of all Floyd | that had transpired then and what a pawn I was. Now, in my afterlife, Floyd | I do. Floyd | Floyd | You are to go to the Room of Choices and stay there until the little Floyd | boy arrives. Destiny will be decided there. If the three choices are Floyd | in place, the boy will select which servant to unleash unchecked in Floyd | the world and thereby its course. If not, Will ceases to exist. Floyd | Floyd | You will require much Purpose in order to reach this room. Thus, my Floyd | last wish is for you to gain that Purpose. Good luck, my friend." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "grant wish" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Entry Room Floyd | Floyd | The remains of a former summoner rested here. An emerald had taken Floyd | the place of his head. Floyd | Floyd | The spirit of Seegan floated before me. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | At first I did not know where to begin. Eventually I realized I was Floyd | able to manipulate my own undercurrents through those of Seegan. Floyd | Without her wish, I would have never been able to achieve that. Floyd | Floyd | The Purpose undercurrents were strong, but her physical link to them Floyd | was weakening rapidly. I connected my own limited Purpose to the Floyd | stream with her help. As I did so, her link completely dissipated. Floyd | Floyd | The final wish was granted. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Nearer to the Entrance Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vault Hall, Away from the Entrance Floyd | The passageway ended there, beginning from the east. There were doors Floyd | on the northern and southern sides, each with a set of uniquely Floyd | engraved runes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Blasts of the physical and the emotional passed through me as I Floyd | entered the room. Now closer in Purpose to physical beings, I began Floyd | to feel some of the effects these traps caused. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Storage, Artifacts Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Blasts of the physical passed through me as I entered the room. Now Floyd | closer in Purpose to physical beings, I began to feel some of the Floyd | effects these traps caused. Floyd | Floyd | Vault Storage, Jewelry Floyd | That room had been designed to store jewelry in glass cases. All but Floyd | one piece of jewelry had been taken. Floyd | Floyd | I saw a necklace there. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I keep getting that part of the map wrong." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | The underground continued indefinitely. The earth there was rich in Floyd | minerals, particularly iron. I felt a vague sense of Purpose there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | I descended. Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | I descended. Floyd | Floyd | In the Earth Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | I descended. Floyd | Floyd | Room Of Choices Floyd | I saw a simple, large, circular room. Within the room were three Floyd | pedestals, each one meter tall. Each appeared the same, each was Floyd | spaced a uniform distance from the walls and from each other. Each Floyd | pedestal was the same in physical construction. They were made of Floyd | iron. Floyd | Floyd | A small circle had been inscribed around the exact center of the room. Floyd | Floyd | I saw the beginnings of many undercurrents there. That room would Floyd | soon be a focal point for a cataclysmic occurrence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh wait. Where is my head? I need the lamp!" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I think I'll do this the easier way." | ||||
| DavidW says, "heh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Oasis, Military Headquarters Floyd | The largest tent in the oasis was there where the military leaders Floyd | plotted. Maps were placed throughout. Floyd | Floyd | The summoner known as Major Labiiq continued his studies. Floyd | Floyd | Labiiq stopped to examine some maps. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Oasis, Water Site Floyd | The spring of fresh water marked the center of the oasis. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "destroy water" | ||||
Floyd | I conjured a waterspout that scattered the entire contents of the Floyd | spring into the sky. Unexpectedly, I did not derive the Purpose that Floyd | I felt I should have from doing that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "destroy camels" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Oasis, Camel Area Floyd | The camels had been trained and were equipped for battle. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | I thought to add to the misery of the humans not by destroying the Floyd | camels directly but by forcing them from the oasis and into the Floyd | desert. The humans could see their only source of tranportation Floyd | slowly leave them. Floyd | Floyd | This did not translate to Purpose, however. Floyd | Floyd | Shortly thereafter, the enemies of Labiiq sensed weakness in his camp. Floyd | They left their nearby desert posts and stormed his oasis. They Floyd | discovered an opening in the bulwark and rushed in... Floyd | Floyd | Only to find a Purpose-starved servant waiting for them. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I sated my Purpose.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Afterwards there was nothing of real import nearby to destroy. Soon I Floyd | found myself confronted with the detestable necessity of returning to Floyd | my container. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Oasis, Military Headquarters Floyd | Floyd | The summoner known as Major Labiiq continued his studies. Floyd | Floyd | Rather than the look of horror most summoners had by that point, Floyd | Labiiq cast a calm and knowing presence upon me. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Huh - alternate solution, at least." | |||
| DavidW says, "yeah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter bottle" | ||||
Floyd | I entered my container, losing all links to the physical Floyd | undercurrents. I could not depart until I was summoned anew. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I waited for my next summons.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Purpose* Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Satisfaction* Floyd | Floyd | Rarely was I summoned again by the same human. Never were any pleased Floyd | with what I accomplished. Until then. Perhaps his Satisfaction could Floyd | be used to gain enough Purpose for my permanent freedom. Floyd | Floyd | Labiiq looked out at me, calmly. "I know you rarely honor requests, Floyd | but I think you'll feel differently when you hear mine. First a Floyd | little background... Floyd | Floyd | Research from my dig has revealed the location of others of your kind. Floyd | According to my scrolls, three powerful servants are to wait in a Floyd | "Room of Choices" for a little boy. It will be this boy who chooses Floyd | the fate of the people. Floyd | Floyd | Now I won't confirm or deny the validity of this prophecy, but the Floyd | time for this event is unspecified. Even if three of you are supposed Floyd | to be there, there is no mention of when this is to occur. Other Floyd | scrolls on this matter claim there are different types of "servants." Floyd | Some can grant wishes, some exist to wreak havoc, and so on. Floyd | Floyd | I believe this "Room of Choices" is far below my excavation site. I Floyd | believe there is a chance a wish-granting servant is there. I don't Floyd | believe my men will ever be able to dig below these shifting sands Floyd | enough to reach there. Floyd | Floyd | By explaining all of this, I'm giving you an opportunity to build your Floyd | power and to be one of the choices. To build your power in the short Floyd | term, my studies indicate following your nature. To build your power Floyd | permanently, you need to become the chosen one. If you're so chosen, Floyd | my studies indicate you will have your permanent freedom and even Floyd | dominion in the world to come. Floyd | Floyd | But first you must get me the wish granter's container." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Oasis, Water Site Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | Oasis, Excavation Site Floyd | I sensed strong undercurrents from that place the humans were Floyd | excavating. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "You know." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I have a masters in archeology." | ||||
| (from Jacqueline) Jacqueline says, "THIS BELONGS IN A MUSEUM - I SHOULDN'T DESTROY IT!" | ||||
| Ghogg asks, "Yes. Is it helping?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "heh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But whatever." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "destroy site" | ||||
Floyd | I caused a tornado to enter the site and carry everything within it Floyd | away. After that, I opened the sand below, creating a tunnel. Low Floyd | recent gains from my destructions made me surprised how Purposeful I Floyd | became after that one. But Destiny had always made Itself easy to Floyd | follow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Under the site Floyd | The tunnel I created enough was large enough to support me but Floyd | unnavigable for humans. The air supports I created held the loose Floyd | sand walls in tact. Floyd | Floyd | I sensed something farther down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Vault, Jewelry Room Floyd | That room was perhaps once part of a larger vault complex, but then Floyd | joined only the room to the east as still in tact. It had been Floyd | designed to store jewelry in glass cases. All but one piece of Floyd | jewelry had been taken. Floyd | Floyd | I saw a necklace there. Floyd | Floyd | I needed Purpose immediately and sensed an intense source of it in the Floyd | adjacent room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Ghogg), "No, just making me giggle." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take necklace" | ||||
Floyd | When I touched the necklace, I felt powerful physical undercurrents Floyd | that linked it to an area far beneath that room. The necklace Floyd | desolidified and then descended through the earth. Floyd | Floyd | I needed Purpose immediately and sensed an intense source of it in the Floyd | adjacent room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ruined Vault, Artifact Room Floyd | The room had many unique items stored there, but I was not concerned Floyd | with them. Floyd | Floyd | I sensed strong undercurrents from a black box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "destroy box" | ||||
Floyd | Since human misery was my objective and destruction merely a means Floyd | toward that end, I would have gained more Purpose if the box were in Floyd | tact. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "AW" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Might there be new papers to the south?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | There was no Purpose in tunneling that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Um, I guess not." | |||
| Jacqueline | A hollow voice of Purpose whispers, "Fool." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Odd that there's a desert in a place where it used to snow." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Also, wait. What did xyzzy do again? Anything?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | The timeless word temporarily integrated me. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ah" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "plover" | ||||
Floyd | That was not an action my Purpose allowed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "plugh" | ||||
Floyd | That was not an action my Purpose allowed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, I think I'm done now." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Anything else?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "ok" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Nothing obvious. Just my idea with the emerald." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "What was that again? To hold it while granting the second wish?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yeah. Instead of the deed." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "You want to drive? Or are you done?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Is there a save point for 2nd wish beginning?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Not sure, but it's not that far from the beginning. I could just get you to there." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | I pondered. Was I sure I wanted to restart? | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Purpose* Floyd | Floyd | A summons from mere existence. The scattered undercurrents of Purpose Floyd | integrated me, established meaning. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | A wish diminished me. I fulfilled my summoner's desire expending Floyd | Purpose. I returned to my container before I was lost forever. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Djinni Chronicles Floyd | "Undercurrents of Manipulation" Floyd | A 2000 IF-Comp Entry by J.D. Berry (berryx@earthlink.net) Floyd | This game is freeware (Type 'about' at any > prompt). Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 000927 / Inform v6.21 Library 6/10 Floyd | Floyd | Vault Entry Room Floyd | The location of my summoner was a room between the surface of the Floyd | world [physically west] and a complex of vaults [physically east]. Floyd | Floyd | The room was a trap for physical beings. On one side of the room, a Floyd | portcullis barred the way to the outside. To the other were the Floyd | vaults for storage. A patterned stone wall blocked their unauthorized Floyd | access. Floyd | Floyd | The remains of a former summoner rested here. An emerald had taken Floyd | the place of his head. Floyd | Floyd | The summoner known as Seegan stood before me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to her" | ||||
Floyd | I told my Purpose. I was a servant of limited power who would grant Floyd | three wishes. The first wish was to be stated within one minute of my Floyd | explanation. The second was to be stated on the day one year from the Floyd | first, in the same physical location as the first. The third, ten Floyd | years on the day and in the same location. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passed. Floyd | Floyd | Seegan took out a hand mirror, looked at it for a final assessment and Floyd | then put it away. She told me, "I've thought about it, and I wish to Floyd | be beautiful." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "grant wish" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I searched the undercurrents for one that would fulfill my summoner's Floyd | stated desire. Of those that would accomplish this, only one was I Floyd | Willful enough to channel. Floyd | Floyd | The undercurrent that would alter my summoner's physical appearance Floyd | was, by itself, more Purposeful than I could manage. But if I Floyd | simultaneously channeled an attractor current, I could integrate them Floyd | through my summoner and fulfill the wish. I chose the undercurrent of Floyd | Floyd | 1) lycanthropy. Floyd | 2) a deep sleep. Floyd | 3) an inhumanly shrill voice. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The wish was granted. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter ring" | ||||
Floyd | I entered my container, losing all links to the physical Floyd | undercurrents. I could not depart until I was summoned anew. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I waited for my next summons.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Purpose* Floyd | Floyd | *An implosion of Satisfaction.* Floyd | Floyd | Such was my first experience of joy. Until that point in time, every Floyd | summoner returning for another wish had increased San. Through the Floyd | happiness of Seegan, I felt more Purpose than I had ever known. Floyd | Floyd | "Great Djinni," my summoner said with much passion. "I can't thank Floyd | you enough--not only for making me beautiful, but for giving me the Floyd | extra gift of being able to turn into a fox. I escaped these vaults Floyd | because in fox form I was able to slip between the bars and dash Floyd | quickly to the nearest village. Floyd | Floyd | It was at that village I met my husband. I owe you that thanks as Floyd | well. I know I didn't need to explain, but I wanted to express my Floyd | happiness. Floyd | Floyd | Do you have any further instructions for my second wish? I will await Floyd | your word before wishing." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There you go." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to her" | ||||
Floyd | I told her that, in addition to the previous rules, I could not undo Floyd | any direct effects of previous wishes. Floyd | Floyd | (I wondered then whether I should have told her about my new Purpose. Floyd | Thanking her seemed "correct" somehow and yet not "appropriate" Floyd | because it would likely have interfered with many undercurrents.) Floyd | Floyd | "I've known my second wish since I knew I was pregnant. I wish my Floyd | baby a long, healthy, happy, prosperous life." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "grant wish" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | My recent exponential increase in Purpose evoked in me an awareness. Floyd | The attractor winds that gave me control of the undercurrents were Floyd | viewed as curses by my summoners. By the time the summoner called Floyd | upon me anew, any Satisfaction that might have been gained initially Floyd | was eliminated by these curses. Floyd | Floyd | Why had Seegan been Satisfied? I knew only one possibility. She was Floyd | without San. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I pondered.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I searched the undercurrents for one that would fulfill my summoner's Floyd | stated desire. Two of the requirements were a long and healthy life Floyd | for her baby. The undercurrents of her baby, lycanthropy and life Floyd | span, were incompatible. The were-fox undercurrent needed redirection Floyd | at that point in time or be integrated fully soon after. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I pondered. And for the first time, I could grant at least some of Floyd | the wish without an associated "curse".] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Her baby had strong undercurrents of happiness. I would not need to Floyd | do anything to grant that portion of the wish. However, prosperity Floyd | was another matter. I could have channeled the undercurrents to make Floyd | that happen, but not without cost. I realized that I greatly risked Floyd | Satisfaction if I attached a curse. Perhaps there was treasure still Floyd | remaining somewhere around the vaults that could assure prosperity. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take emerald" | ||||
Floyd | Through Will of Purpose, I channeled the undercurrents of the emerald. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "grant wish" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | My recent exponential increase in Purpose evoked in me an awareness. Floyd | The attractor winds that gave me control of the undercurrents were Floyd | viewed as curses by my summoners. By the time the summoner called Floyd | upon me anew, any Satisfaction that might have been gained initially Floyd | was eliminated by these curses. Floyd | Floyd | Why had Seegan been Satisfied? I knew only one possibility. She was Floyd | without San. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I pondered.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I searched the undercurrents for one that would fulfill my summoner's Floyd | stated desire. Two of the requirements were a long and healthy life Floyd | for her baby. The undercurrents of her baby, lycanthropy and life Floyd | span, were incompatible. The were-fox undercurrent needed redirection Floyd | at that point in time or be integrated fully soon after. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [I pondered. And for the first time, I could grant at least some of Floyd | the wish without an associated "curse".] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Her baby had strong undercurrents of happiness. I would not need to Floyd | do anything to grant that portion of the wish. However, prosperity Floyd | was another matter. I could have channeled the undercurrents to make Floyd | that happen, but not without cost. I realized that I greatly risked Floyd | Satisfaction if I attached a curse. Perhaps there was treasure still Floyd | remaining somewhere around the vaults that could assure prosperity. Floyd | Floyd | Through Will of Purpose, I continued channeling the undercurrents of Floyd | the emerald. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess that doesn't work." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm. No." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, quite belatedly, I rather liked the touch of polish when you try to restart." | ||||
| Jacqueline | I pondered. Was I sure I wanted to restart? | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Wonder if it does the same for quit?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | I pondered. Was I sure I wanted to quit? | Jacqueline says, "Yes. Yes, it does." | |||
| DavidW says, "Hm. We can't really move things around either, can we? Like, leave the emerald in the necklace room for Ivogard to find." | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "Once, upon an end-prompt dreary, while I pondered..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I think when we 'take' things, we're really just linking to them somehow. Channeling them." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Which is why when I took the deed, then dropped it, it disappeared." | ||||
| DavidW says, "yeah. Okay. I guess I'm done done now." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks for playing this with me, David." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'll get this transcript up and e-mail Jim." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Perhaps there's stuff we never found outside the vaults, but I think we found enough." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It feels like it." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Of course, I'll post this transcript and then Jim will write me and say, "I can't believe you guys missed EVERYTHING!"" | ||||
| Jacqueline winks. | ||||
| DavidW says, "heh. No doubt." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But I think we did pretty well." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think so." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I do wonder now, what kind of wish accidently grafts an emerald to one's neck instead of one's head." | ||||
| DavidW says, "'I wish everything I touch turns into emeralds.' [scratches his nose]" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| DavidW says, "'I wish to be a man of many facets.'" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "HA" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I should be groaning, but that one made me laugh." | ||||
| DavidW says, "'I wish to be.... oooh, shiny!'" | ||||
| DavidW says, "'I wish that when my wife, the noted emerald miser, looks at me, she will see that which she most desires.'" | ||||
| Jacqueline smiles. "There are a lot more possibilities than I had first considered." | ||||
| DavidW says, "'I wish to live forever.' (which is Swangahelisi for 'I wish for my head to be turned into a big emerald.')" | ||||
| DavidW says, "'I wish to be a rock....' [wish granted] '...and roll star, dammit.'" | ||||
| maga says, "I wish my mind to gain total, pellucid clarity" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to maga), "God, not you, too!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "heh" | ||||
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