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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load gunmute" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | The desert sand squirms beneath your feet, alive with mutant Floyd | nanomachines. Sheriff Clayton has Elias. He's hanging him at noon. Floyd | Floyd | It looks like you're going to have to shoot some people. Floyd | Floyd | Gun Mute Floyd | An IF shoot-em-up by C.E.J. Pacian Floyd | Version 5 - Developed with TADS 3 Floyd | Floyd | [Type 'About' if this is your first time playing. Floyd | Type 'Credits' to learn who's responsible for this drivel.] Floyd | Floyd | Radiation Plains Floyd | Rolling dunes stretch in every direction, ending in a distant horizon Floyd | broken only by a few low, jagged mountains. A small pile of sticks Floyd | burns here, sending a thin trail of black smoke into the ruddy dawn Floyd | sky. Floyd | Floyd | A pot of some strange green fluid sits bubbling on the fire. Floyd | Floyd | The plainswoman sits meditatively by the fire, her spear resting Floyd | across her lap. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You're Mute Lawton. A devilishly handsome cowboy with windswept black Floyd | hair and roguish stubble. Lean and tall, your tanned body is taut Floyd | with cool, calculated strength. Floyd | Floyd | You're topless and barefoot, wearing nothing but a pair of dust-caked Floyd | black jeans and your holster. Floyd | Floyd | Far in the distance, you can just make out something uttering a low, Floyd | metallic howl. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "oh hey we started" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "We did. Top of the hour and all that." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing, and are wearing a pair of dusty black jeans Floyd | and a gun belt (which contains a six shooter and numerous bullets). Floyd | Floyd | The plainswoman leans forward to sniff the concoction brewing on the Floyd | fire. She sits back again shortly after, apparently unsatisfied. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | You hear nothing out of the ordinary. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x plainswoman" | ||||
Floyd | A woman with straight black hair and a stony stare. Her long, slender Floyd | limbs are coiled with ropy muscle. Otherwise completely naked, her Floyd | body is caked in a layer of sun-hardened mud. Floyd | Floyd | The plainswoman is carrying a spear. Floyd | Floyd | The wind picks up briefly, cooling your skin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "x plainswoman" | ||||
Floyd | A woman with straight black hair and a stony stare. Her long, slender Floyd | limbs are coiled with ropy muscle. Otherwise completely naked, her Floyd | body is caked in a layer of sun-hardened mud. Floyd | Floyd | The plainswoman is carrying a spear. Floyd | Floyd | The plainswoman leans forward once more to sniff the strange liquid. Floyd | This time she smiles and gestures to the pot. Floyd | Floyd | "Drink," she tells you. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x pot" | ||||
Floyd | The small, battered metal pot contains a thick green fluid that Floyd | bubbles in an eerily slow fashion. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | Gun Mute is intended as an Interactive Fiction shoot-em-up. Each Floyd | location presents you with a simple puzzle which you must solve before Floyd | you can progress to the next location and, in contrast to the Inform Floyd | parser's famous default response, violence usually is the answer. Floyd | Floyd | You'll find that there are only two directions to move in: FORWARDS or Floyd | F; BACKWARDS or B. Other useful, non-standard commands include: Floyd | Floyd | DRAW Floyd | SHOOT CLAW-HAND HANK Floyd | TAKE COVER BEHIND TRACTOR Floyd | WAVE TO PLAINSWOMAN Floyd | POINT AT SPEAR Floyd | NOD Floyd | SHAKE HEAD Floyd | Floyd | Note that in most locations, simply typing 'take cover' or 'duck' will Floyd | automatically move you behind any available cover. A complete list of Floyd | the twenty-odd natural language commands you'll need to complete the Floyd | game can be found by typing 'instructions'. Floyd | Floyd | I would finally like to add that I'm a pacifist, and this game is in Floyd | no way intended to encourage you to solve real life problems with a Floyd | six shooter. Floyd | Floyd | Hugses, Floyd | Pacian Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Bare chested, six-shootin' pacifist." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Heh. Great disclaimer, yes." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "instructions" | ||||
Floyd | Gun Mute is much simpler than your typical work of IF, and you'll be Floyd | able to progress through the game using only the commands listed below Floyd | in the right ways and at the right times. Floyd | Floyd | To move through the various locations you will need to refer to only Floyd | two directions: forwards, towards the end of the game; or backwards Floyd | through those areas you've already beaten. Floyd | Floyd | FORWARDS or F Floyd | BACKWARDS or B Floyd | Floyd | Although this is a shoot-em-up, to figure out what to shoot and why, Floyd | you'll need to look around and examine your environment: Floyd | Floyd | LOOK AROUND or L Floyd | EXAMINE POT or X POT Floyd | Floyd | The only useful item you'll need on your journey is your trusty six Floyd | shooter. It starts in your holster, so you'll need to draw it before Floyd | facing danger. Floyd | Floyd | TAKE GUN or DRAW Floyd | Floyd | Your gun is good for one thing: Floyd | Floyd | SHOOT FRED Floyd | Floyd | Naturally, your six shooter only holds six rounds: Floyd | Floyd | RELOAD Floyd | Floyd | At times you may find calm in the eye of the storm, and wish to Floyd | present a more peaceful appearance. Floyd | Floyd | PUT GUN IN HOLSTER or HOLSTER GUN Floyd | Floyd | You're far from bulletproof, so when the bullets are flying, it can be Floyd | a good idea to get your head down. Floyd | Floyd | TAKE COVER BEHIND ROCK Floyd | Floyd | It's not always obvious what you can take cover behind, so simply Floyd | typing TAKE COVER will always either move you behind cover (if there's Floyd | only one obvious place to do so) or give you an informative answer Floyd | about what cover is available. Floyd | Floyd | Get out from behind that rock by typing: Floyd | Floyd | STAND Floyd | Floyd | Sometimes, the only sane action is to do nothing. Floyd | Floyd | WAIT or Z Floyd | Floyd | What are you carrying, anyway? Floyd | Floyd | INVENTORY or I Floyd | Floyd | As a rough cowboy, you're naturally fond of your fluids. Floyd | Floyd | DRINK BEER Floyd | Floyd | Beneath a violent facade, beats a tender heart. Floyd | Floyd | KISS ELIAS Floyd | Floyd | Is there something where it shouldn't be? Floyd | Floyd | REMOVE SPLINTER Floyd | Floyd | Some people may want to communicate with you, despite your apparent Floyd | unpopularity. Floyd | Floyd | WAVE TO PLAINSWOMAN Floyd | POINT AT SPEAR Floyd | NOD Floyd | SHAKE HEAD Floyd | Floyd | A number of other commands common to IF have been implemented, but are Floyd | not necessary to progress and may not function as you expect (obvious Floyd | example: taking items). Some will still provide informative or Floyd | amusing answers though, so experiment if you want. Floyd | Floyd | You're not expected to play the whole game in one sitting. Typing Floyd | SAVE will open a dialogue that will allow you to save your progress in Floyd | a file. Typing RESTORE will allow you to load such a file. On a Floyd | smaller scale, if you stick your head above the parapet at the wrong Floyd | moment, you can type UNDO to turn back time to before the last action. Floyd | Floyd | Typing HINT will open up the murky and immoral world of puzzle Floyd | spoilers, if you find yourself getting stuck. Floyd | Floyd | Finally, when you get bored you can close the window or type: Floyd | Floyd | QUIT Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "smell liquid" | ||||
Floyd | You've got out of the habit of smelling random things. You're often Floyd | unpleasantly surprised. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "x speak" | ||||
Floyd | The word "speak" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | (If this was an accidental misspelling, you can correct it by typing Floyd | OOPS followed by the corrected word now. Any time the story points Floyd | out an unknown word, you can correct a misspelling using OOPS as your Floyd | next command.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "x spear" | ||||
Floyd | Pointy sticks have come along way of late. This particular example Floyd | has a lightweight polycarbonate shaft and a tip that glimmers with an Floyd | incandescent plasma fire. You townsfolk have little time for the old Floyd | ways of science though, and you'd happily take your reliable six Floyd | shooter over something that probably has an arrogant computerised mind Floyd | of its own. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Radiation Plains Floyd | Rolling dunes stretch in every direction, ending in a distant horizon Floyd | broken only by a few low, jagged mountains. A small pile of sticks Floyd | burns here, sending a thin trail of black smoke into the ruddy dawn Floyd | sky. Floyd | Floyd | A pot of some strange green fluid sits bubbling on the fire. Floyd | Floyd | The plainswoman sits meditatively by the fire, her spear resting Floyd | across her lap. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "ask woman about fluid" | ||||
Floyd | There's a reason they call you Mute Lawton. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Oh, that's cheap!" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "ha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "point to spear" | ||||
Floyd | You point at the spear. Floyd | Floyd | "A fine weapon," the plainswoman says, "far superior to your crude Floyd | firearm." Floyd | Floyd | Something grey and amorphous squirms up between your toes. You step Floyd | to the side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "x amorphous" | ||||
Floyd | The word "amorphous" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "point to pot" | ||||
Floyd | You point at the pot of strange green fluid. Floyd | Floyd | The plainswoman adopts a serious expression. "It is the highest Floyd | aspiration to see one's consciousness join the Atmospheric Network, Floyd | and the greatest magnanimity that they deign to help those of us still Floyd | in physical form." Floyd | Floyd | You squint as a cloud of airborne dust passes by. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Are we gonna drink or not?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Well, it's early in the game, so why not?" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "They don't call us No Throat Lawton fer nothin'" | ||||
| Jacqueline clears the save counter. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drink" | ||||
Floyd | (the pot of strange green fluid) Floyd | You bring the pot to your lips and gulp down the bubbling green Floyd | liquid. It smells foul, and it's burning hot. The roof of your mouth Floyd | tingles unpleasantly as you set the pot back down on the fire. Floyd | Floyd | The plainswoman studies you carefully as you grimace, the tingling in Floyd | the roof of your mouth seeming to spread upwards, into your brain, Floyd | dancing psychedelically before your eyes. And then arcane symbols Floyd | rise through the white noise oppressing your mind: ++GPS UPLINK Floyd | VERIFIED++TEMPORARY THERMOBOT NETWORK++SEARCHING FOR USER...++USER Floyd | LOCATED++CREATING INSTINCTUAL IMPRINT++CLOSING CONNECTION++THANK YOU Floyd | FOR USING GPSNET++ Floyd | Floyd | The vision fades. Gradually you become aware of your surroundings Floyd | again, the plainswoman watching you with mild concern. Floyd | Floyd | "You find the one you fear for?" she asks. Floyd | Floyd | You nod. Yes, you know where he is now. The way ahead is now Floyd | obvious. Floyd | Floyd | (Your score has just increased by one point.) Floyd | (If you'd prefer not to be notified about score changes in the future, Floyd | type NOTIFY OFF.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Liquid networking. Scary." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Radiation Plains Floyd | Rolling dunes stretch in every direction, ending in a distant horizon Floyd | broken only by a few low, jagged mountains. A small pile of sticks Floyd | burns here, sending a thin trail of black smoke into the ruddy dawn Floyd | sky. Floyd | Floyd | A pot of some strange green fluid sits bubbling on the fire. Floyd | Floyd | The plainswoman sits meditatively by the fire, her spear resting Floyd | across her lap. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Also, guess we had to drink. Woo." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing, and are wearing a pair of dusty black jeans Floyd | and a gun belt (which contains a six shooter and numerous bullets). Floyd | Floyd | Something slick and black scuttles past on several asymmetrical legs, Floyd | before disappearing beneath a rock. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Forward?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "f" | ||||
Floyd | Rocky Hill Floyd | From the peak of this rocky hill you can see the town you once called Floyd | home sprawl out over the landscape ahead. Ramshackle iron and wood Floyd | buildings are almost piled on top of one another, clustering around Floyd | the shattered concrete dome of the old reactor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x reactor" | ||||
Floyd | A cathedral-like dome of grey concrete, pocked with gaping holes and Floyd | coated in sickly weeds. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x buildings" | ||||
Floyd | From abject poverty to dehydrated affluence: the town's rooftops are | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x town" | ||||
Floyd | decorated with an eclectic array of vents, steam pipes, satellite Floyd | dishes and good old-fashioned rust-eaten holes. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | From abject poverty to dehydrated affluence: the town's rooftops are Floyd | decorated with an eclectic array of vents, steam pipes, satellite Floyd | dishes and good old-fashioned rust-eaten holes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "f" | ||||
Floyd | Corral Floyd | You're at the entrance to a street of low wooden buildings and Floyd | corrugated iron shacks. A small corral encircles part of the dusty Floyd | ground here, home to a single broken robot and a trough of stagnant Floyd | water. Floyd | Floyd | Vicious Sue faces you with one hand on her six shooter, smirking. Floyd | Floyd | Claw-Hand Hank stands by the water trough, legs apart, his one good Floyd | hand ready to draw. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, well, well," Sue says, looking you over. "Look who it ain't. Floyd | Sheriff said you'd be through here. But me, I didn't think you were Floyd | quite so stupid." Floyd | Floyd | Hank spits out a wad of tobacco and chuckles, fingering the buckle of Floyd | his gun belt with his good hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Cathy says (to Floyd), "x robot" | ||||
Floyd | Once some sort of multi-legged farming machine, it now disintegrates Floyd | into the ground, rubber hoses and shattered circuit boards visible Floyd | through its corroded sides. Floyd | Floyd | Hank bares his half-rotten teeth in a leering smile. Floyd | Floyd | > | ls exclaims, "very cool, first gun battle!" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take cover" | ||||
Floyd | There's no cover here. Floyd | Floyd | Hank's good hand twitches slightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Ack - 2 on 1." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "And no cover." | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "x sue" | ||||
Floyd | A hawkish woman in jeans and a close-fitting jacket. Her vulturine Floyd | eyes peer out from beneath the rim of her stetson, flitting between Floyd | your face and your hands. Floyd | Floyd | Hank touches his fingertip to the handle of his gun, then draws it Floyd | back again uncertainly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena asks, "now that I've caught up from putting my son to nap, which one shall we shoot?" | |||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "x trough" | ||||
Floyd | A shallow metal container, stained with mould and filled with putrid Floyd | green water. Floyd | Floyd | Sue catches your eye and smiles evilly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Her. She insulted us." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x robot" | ||||
Floyd | Once some sort of multi-legged farming machine, it now disintegrates Floyd | into the ground, rubber hoses and shattered circuit boards visible Floyd | through its corroded sides. Floyd | Floyd | Hank unconsciously squints his left eye as he stares at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "draw" | ||||
Floyd | You whip your gun out of its holster in a single fluid motion. Floyd | Floyd | Vicious Sue and Claw-Hand Hank go for their guns. Sue has drawn her Floyd | six shooter in a flash, but Hank fumbles with his holster. Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena says, "maybe shoot the trough to get both of them" | |||
| Catena exclaims, "sue!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "yay" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot sue" | ||||
Floyd | You fire at Vicious Sue, hitting her square in the stomach. She Floyd | freezes for a moment, as if unsure what's happened, and then falls to Floyd | the ground. Floyd | Floyd | Hank finally manages to draw his gun. He takes careful aim at you, Floyd | squinting his left eye. Floyd | Floyd | (Your score has just increased by one point.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot hank" | ||||
Floyd | You shoot Claw-Hand Hank in the face. His head jerks back with a puff Floyd | of splintered teeth and he collapses into the water trough. Floyd | Floyd | (Your score has just increased by one point.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "reholster gun?" | |||
| Cathy says (to floyd), "reload" | ||||
Floyd | (your six shooter) Floyd | You quickly empty the spent casings from your six shooter and replace Floyd | them with live bullets. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline pushes the That Was Easy button/ | |||
| Catena asks, "who's the baddest?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "holster" | ||||
Floyd | (your six shooter) Floyd | You slip your six shooter back into its holster. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Cathy), "Good thinking." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search sue" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing unusual in Vicious Sue. Floyd | Floyd | > | Cathy says, "thanks" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search hank" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing unusual in Claw-Hand Hank. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search trough" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing unusual in the water trough. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search robot" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing unusual in the broken robot. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "so I like 'search'." | |||
| Cathy says (to floyd), "fix robot" | ||||
Floyd | The word "fix" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drink water" | ||||
Floyd | That does not appear to be something you can drink. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take robot" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to weigh yourself down with anything other than your Floyd | trusty six shooter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take sue" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to weigh yourself down with anything other than your Floyd | trusty six shooter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "kiss sue" | ||||
Floyd | You'd sooner kiss a vampire spider-snake. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Forward?" | |||
| Cathy says, "yup" | ||||
| Catena says (to Floyd), "find dark tower" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to look that up in? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "f" | ||||
Floyd | Saloon Front Floyd | This narrow, dusty street ends in a slat-fronted building bearing the Floyd | name Rowdy Juanita's Saloon. A broken-down tractor rests here, its Floyd | dismantled engine spilling out onto the ground. Floyd | Floyd | Deputy Gene stands in front of the saloon, brandishing a Floyd | double-barrelled shotgun. Floyd | Floyd | "If you're planning on rescuing Elias," Gene snarls, "you're gonna Floyd | have to shoot your way through the whole damn town. I'd turn back now Floyd | if you don't want to end up sleeping in a pine box with a tombstone Floyd | pillow!" Floyd | Floyd | Gene takes careful aim at you with his shotgun, about to fire... Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Let's find a vampire spider-snake!" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Catena), "heh" | ||||
| ParserGirl asks, "cover?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take cover" | ||||
Floyd | You can't have that; it's part of the broken-down tractor. Floyd | Floyd | With a powerful report, Gene fires. The buckshot blast catches you Floyd | square in the chest. The last thing you see is the pink mist that was Floyd | your lungs only an instant earlier. Floyd | Floyd | *** GAME OVER *** Floyd | Floyd | In 40 moves, you have scored 3 of a possible 20 points. This makes Floyd | you a radiation plains drifter. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, UNDO Floyd | the last move, see your FULL SCORE, or QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena says, "yeah" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "ACK" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "What!" | ||||
| inky asks, "is it 'hide'?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "take cover". Floyd | Floyd | Saloon Front Floyd | This narrow, dusty street ends in a slat-fronted building bearing the Floyd | name Rowdy Juanita's Saloon. A broken-down tractor rests here, its Floyd | dismantled engine spilling out onto the ground. Floyd | Floyd | Deputy Gene stands in front of the saloon, brandishing a Floyd | double-barrelled shotgun. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hide" | ||||
Floyd | (behind the broken-down tractor) Floyd | Okay, you're now taking cover behind the broken-down tractor. Floyd | Floyd | With a powerful report, Gene fires, buckshot striking the side of the Floyd | tractor. Floyd | Floyd | "You ain't gettin' no further than this!" the deputy screams. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's 'duck' or 'take cover behind X'." | |||
| Jacqueline | It's not always obvious what you can take cover behind, so simply typing TAKE COVER will always either move you behind cover. | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Unless, y'know, there's a COVER to take." | ||||
| inky says, "lame" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| Catena says, "it's like bullet time in Fallout country" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. I like these slow, one move at a time gun fights." | ||||
| Cathy says (to floyd), "unholster gun" | ||||
Floyd | The word "unholster" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "draw" | ||||
Floyd | You whip your gun out of its holster in a single fluid motion. Floyd | Floyd | With a powerful report, Gene fires, buckshot striking the side of the Floyd | tractor. Floyd | Floyd | "Fight like a man!" Gene shouts. "And stand the fuck still!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "My." | |||
| DavidW says, "tsk. language." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot Gene" | ||||
Floyd | You can't get a good shot while you're taking cover. Floyd | Floyd | Gene breaks open the shotgun. Two smoking cartridge cases are ejected Floyd | from the breach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "RELOADING" | |||
| DavidW says, "SHOOT HIM NOW!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That is so not true." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing. Floyd | Floyd | Gene slots two new shells into his shotgun and closes the breech. He Floyd | takes careful aim at you once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena says, "I think Miss Manners got radiation poinsoning from the green soup" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot gene" | ||||
Floyd | You and Gene both fire at the same time. And your bodies hit the dirt Floyd | within a few seconds of one another. Floyd | Floyd | *** GAME OVER *** Floyd | Floyd | In 44 moves, you have scored 3 of a possible 20 points. This makes Floyd | you a radiation plains drifter. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, UNDO Floyd | the last move, see your FULL SCORE, or QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
Floyd | Please select the saved position file to restore > | DavidW says, "drat" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Restored. Floyd | Floyd | Saloon Front (taking cover behind the broken-down tractor) Floyd | This narrow, dusty street ends in a slat-fronted building bearing the Floyd | name Rowdy Juanita's Saloon. A broken-down tractor rests here, its Floyd | dismantled engine spilling out onto the ground. Floyd | Floyd | Deputy Gene stands in front of the saloon, brandishing a Floyd | double-barrelled shotgun. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Guess we have to go right after the second shot" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "draw" | ||||
Floyd | You whip your gun out of its holster in a single fluid motion. Floyd | Floyd | With a powerful report, Gene fires, buckshot striking the side of the Floyd | tractor. Floyd | Floyd | "Come out with your hands up!" Gene yells. "So I can shoot you!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ha" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | Gene breaks open the shotgun. Two smoking cartridge cases are ejected Floyd | from the breach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | Gene slots two new shells into his shotgun and closes the breech. He Floyd | takes careful aim at you once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | With a powerful report, Gene fires, buckshot striking the side of the Floyd | tractor. Floyd | Floyd | Gene growls with frustration. "Get out from behind there, Mute! I Floyd | gotta deal out some double-barrel justice!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Wait one more turn, then go?" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "Yes" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | With a powerful report, Gene fires, buckshot striking the side of the Floyd | tractor. Floyd | Floyd | "Fight like a man!" Gene shouts. "And stand the fuck still!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Cathy says, "yes" | |||
| Catena says, "yup" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing. Floyd | Floyd | Gene breaks open the shotgun. Two smoking cartridge cases are ejected Floyd | from the breach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot Gene." | ||||
Floyd | You take careful aim at the deputy's head and squeeze the trigger. Floyd | His hat flies off and he drops to the ground, the half-loaded shotgun Floyd | still in his grip. Floyd | Floyd | (Your score has just increased by one point.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Cathy exclaims, "well done!" | |||
| ParserGirl asks, "Did we kill him or just shoot his hat off?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Do we get the hat?" | ||||
| Catena says, "A little of the old ultra-violence, then" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take hat" | ||||
Floyd | You see no hat here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shotgun" | ||||
Floyd | A standard-issue WPSF side-by-side double-barrelled shotgun. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Catena says (to Floyd), "get hat" | ||||
Floyd | You see no hat here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline sings a bad rendition of 'I Shot the Sherriff.' | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take shotgun" | ||||
Floyd | You prefer to have six rounds to play with. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "reload" | ||||
Floyd | (your six shooter) Floyd | You quickly empty the spent casings from your six shooter and replace Floyd | them with live bullets. Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena says, "heh, but we did shoot the deputy" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Er, Sheriff - gosh, so we did." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Should we put the gun in the holster or just go forward?" | ||||
| Catena says, "holster" | ||||
| Cathy says, "seems like a good idea to keep it out; not like there's anything else to hold" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We could just walk around with it out, looking for blood." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Forward?" | |||
| Catena says, "if it's in we might be able to get past a scene without getting shot at" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Catena), "True. I'm fine either way." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We will be saving heavily in any case." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "holster" | ||||
Floyd | (your six shooter) Floyd | You slip your six shooter back into its holster. Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena says, "yes, that kind of game" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes." | ||||
| Cathy says, "good point, although I think the point of the game is to shoot anything that moves..." | ||||
| Ghogg arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||
| Ghogg greets | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "forward" | ||||
Floyd | Saloon Floyd | Rowdy Juanita's Saloon is a homely place, and mostly clean. A shady Floyd | refuge from the wasteland sun, a shaft of harsh light shines in Floyd | through the doorway, enveloping countless dancing motes of dust in its Floyd | glare. A multitude of round tables are dotted around the carefully Floyd | polished bar, and sturdy wooden beams criss-cross the high ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | Rowdy Juanita stands behind the bar, a six shooter in each of her Floyd | upper set of hands, a third being reloaded by her lower arms. Floyd | Floyd | "Hi Mute," Juanita says cheerfully. "Watch out! The sheriff Floyd | reprogrammed me to shoot you on sight!" Floyd | Floyd | And with that she starts firing wildly with both guns, wood Floyd | splintering and glass shattering around the bar. Floyd | Floyd | "It's a good thing I can't shoot worth a damn," Juanita says. "You Floyd | should be safe as long as you don't get too close to me." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Crikey." | |||
| DavidW says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot Juanita." | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to draw your gun first. Floyd | Floyd | "By the way," Juanita says, "When you find the sheriff, be sure to Floyd | blow the crap out of him for me." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh wait! Draw!" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "draw" | ||||
Floyd | You whip your gun out of its holster in a single fluid motion. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm really sorry about this," Juanita says. "Believe me, the last Floyd | thing I want to do is to shoot up my own bar." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot juanita" | ||||
Floyd | You don't want to shoot Juanita. She's always been nice to you, and Floyd | it's not her fault if she's been reprogrammed to blow your brains out. Floyd | Floyd | You flinch as a bullet whips past your head. "Sorry!" Juanita calls Floyd | out, apologetically. Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena says, "her insurance must be tremendous" | |||
| DavidW says, "Old West + sci-fi tech is so strangely appealling." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Um, forward?" | ||||
| ParserGirl asks, "cover?" | ||||
| Ghogg says, "Westworld: The IF game" | ||||
| Cathy says, "I like forward" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I think forward, too. Cover will keep us here." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Forward is certain death, I think?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Except forward may take us 'close to her'" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | Cathy says, "or we could try pointing toward the (dead) sheriff" | |||
| DavidW asks, "What's here?" | ||||
| Catena asks, "why?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Saloon Floyd | Rowdy Juanita's Saloon is a homely place, and mostly clean. A shady Floyd | refuge from the wasteland sun, a shaft of harsh light shines in Floyd | through the doorway, enveloping countless dancing motes of dust in its Floyd | glare. A multitude of round tables are dotted around the carefully Floyd | polished bar, and sturdy wooden beams criss-cross the high ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | The floor is littered with splinters of wood and broken glass. Floyd | Floyd | Rowdy Juanita stands behind the bar, a six shooter in each of her Floyd | upper set of hands, a third being reloaded by her lower arms. Floyd | Floyd | A whisky bottle on a nearby table explodes as a bullet hits it. "Damn Floyd | it," Juanita grumbles. Floyd | Floyd | > | Cathy says, "since he's dead, she doesn't have to do his bidding" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "He's the deputiy, Cathy. We did not shoot the sheriff, but we *did* shoot the deputy. I got it wrong." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x beams" | ||||
Floyd | The ceiling is criss-crossed with thick wooden beams. Suspended among Floyd | the beams you see a chandelier. Floyd | Floyd | A bullet strikes the leg of a table, causing it to collapse Floyd | explosively. Juanita sighs. "Fixing all this is gonna cost me." Floyd | Floyd | > | Cathy says, "ah, got it; sorry" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, I swear it was in self defense." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot chandelier" | ||||
Floyd | You take careful aim at the rope anchoring the chandelier to the Floyd | ceiling, and fire. For a second it seems to hang suspended in thin Floyd | air. And then it drops down on Juanita with a terrifying crash. You Floyd | race over to her, worried that you've done her permanent damage. Floyd | Floyd | Pinned beneath the chandelier, her weapons scattered across the bar, Floyd | Juanita looks up at you and offers a vinyl-lipped smile. "Nice work, Floyd | Mute. Now get moving and stop that execution!" Floyd | Floyd | (Your score has just increased by one point.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena says, "heh, no insurance" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss juanita" | ||||
Floyd | You kiss Juanita affectionately on the cheek. She sighs. "You always Floyd | treated me right, Mute. I never could figure out why you seemed so Floyd | immune to my charms." Floyd | Floyd | (Your score has just increased by one point.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yay." | |||
| Ghogg says, "woo woo" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | Cathy says, "nice" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "You haven't played this, right? That was brilliant." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I've never played this." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Nice job." | ||||
| Catena says, "that was cool" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Now forward?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "thanks" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yes, forward" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "f" | ||||
Floyd | Train Station Floyd | You're on a simple wooden platform next to the train tracks that run Floyd | through the town. Standing on thick tripod legs, a water tower casts Floyd | its shadow over you, ready to supply coolant to nuclear-powered Floyd | locomotives. The only train in sight, however, is a single open Floyd | railroad car, a gyro-controlled, multi-barrelled turret anchored to it Floyd | with fat iron bolts. Floyd | Floyd | Gatling Gun Fiona sits at the controls of the turret, staring at you Floyd | with fierce, emerald green eyes. Floyd | Floyd | "I been waiting for you!" Fiona says, shouting over the whine of the Floyd | turret's motors. "I'm gonna make you into Swiss Cheese!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena says, "drench her with the water" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Why not a G-name. Like, Gatling Gun Gert or something?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Catena), "yeah, probably" | ||||
| Catena says, "he just saw shrek" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot tower" | ||||
Floyd | It doesn't look like that would achieve much. Floyd | Floyd | With the earth-shuddering sound of screaming servos, the turret turns Floyd | to aim its fat bundle of barrels directly at you. Slowly but surely, Floyd | the barrels begin to spin. Floyd | Floyd | "You just stand right there," Fiona tells you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "shoot tower". Floyd | Floyd | Train Station Floyd | You're on a simple wooden platform next to the train tracks that run Floyd | through the town. Standing on thick tripod legs, a water tower casts Floyd | its shadow over you, ready to supply coolant to nuclear-powered Floyd | locomotives. The only train in sight, however, is a single open Floyd | railroad car, a gyro-controlled, multi-barrelled turret anchored to it Floyd | with fat iron bolts. Floyd | Floyd | Gatling Gun Fiona sits at the controls of the turret, staring at you Floyd | with fierce, emerald green eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Did we reload?" | |||
| Cathy says, "nope" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I don't think so." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "b" | ||||
Floyd | Fiona has all your potential exits covered with her monstrous turrets. Floyd | Floyd | With the earth-shuddering sound of screaming servos, the turret turns Floyd | to aim its fat bundle of barrels directly at you. Slowly but surely, Floyd | the barrels begin to spin. Floyd | Floyd | "You just stand right there," Fiona tells you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena says, "shoot her? yes, we reloaded" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "b". Floyd | Floyd | Train Station Floyd | You're on a simple wooden platform next to the train tracks that run Floyd | through the town. Standing on thick tripod legs, a water tower casts Floyd | its shadow over you, ready to supply coolant to nuclear-powered Floyd | locomotives. The only train in sight, however, is a single open Floyd | railroad car, a gyro-controlled, multi-barrelled turret anchored to it Floyd | with fat iron bolts. Floyd | Floyd | Gatling Gun Fiona sits at the controls of the turret, staring at you Floyd | with fierce, emerald green eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Good." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot Fiona" | ||||
Floyd | You aim carefully at Fiona and squeeze the trigger. The perspex Floyd | shield protecting her deflects the bullet without even a scratch to Floyd | show for it. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey," Fiona yells, "you should learn when to just roll over and die!" Floyd | Floyd | With the earth-shuddering sound of screaming servos, the turret turns Floyd | to aim its fat bundle of barrels directly at you. Slowly but surely, Floyd | the barrels begin to spin. Floyd | Floyd | "You just stand right there," Fiona tells you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "If it's that slow, maybe we can run circles around her." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "We may need to ricochet the round behind her shield." | ||||
| Cathy asks, "try closing the door to the car?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "You think forward will help us?" | ||||
| Catena asks, "climb the water tower, maybe she shoots it and drenches herself?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Could try any of those." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "climb tower" | ||||
Floyd | There's no way up the water tower, and you'd be completely exposed up Floyd | there anyway. Floyd | Floyd | With a sound like thunder splitting a mountain in two, Fiona's huge Floyd | turret explodes into action. The fast moving, high calibre bullets Floyd | distintegrate you so fast you don't even notice it happening. Floyd | Floyd | *** GAME OVER *** Floyd | Floyd | In 62 moves, you have scored 6 of a possible 20 points. This makes Floyd | you a threat to the peace. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, UNDO Floyd | the last move, see your FULL SCORE, or QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ParserGirl says, "I think she'll run out of ammo." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "That one was not the right one." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
Floyd | Please select the saved position file to restore > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||||
Floyd | Restored. Floyd | Floyd | Saloon Floyd | Rowdy Juanita's Saloon is a homely place, and mostly clean. A shady Floyd | refuge from the wasteland sun, a shaft of harsh light shines in Floyd | through the doorway, enveloping countless dancing motes of dust in its Floyd | glare. A multitude of round tables are dotted around the carefully Floyd | polished bar, and sturdy wooden beams criss-cross the high ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | The floor is littered with splinters of wood and broken glass. Floyd | Floyd | A tattered and broken chandelier is propped up against the bar. Floyd | Floyd | Rowdy Juanita is lying half over the bar, trapped beneath a heavy Floyd | chandelier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "f" | ||||
Floyd | Train Station Floyd | You're on a simple wooden platform next to the train tracks that run Floyd | through the town. Standing on thick tripod legs, a water tower casts Floyd | its shadow over you, ready to supply coolant to nuclear-powered Floyd | locomotives. The only train in sight, however, is a single open Floyd | railroad car, a gyro-controlled, multi-barrelled turret anchored to it Floyd | with fat iron bolts. Floyd | Floyd | Gatling Gun Fiona sits at the controls of the turret, staring at you Floyd | with fierce, emerald green eyes. Floyd | Floyd | "I been waiting for you!" Fiona says, shouting over the whine of the Floyd | turret's motors. "I'm gonna make you into Swiss Cheese!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "close door" | ||||
Floyd | You see no door here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hide" | ||||
Floyd | (behind the water tower's legs) Floyd | Okay, you're now taking cover behind the water tower's legs. Floyd | Floyd | With the earth-shuddering sound of screaming servos, the turret turns Floyd | to aim its fat bundle of barrels directly at you. Slowly but surely, Floyd | the barrels begin to spin. Floyd | Floyd | Fiona peers at you around the water tower. "Come out, come out, Floyd | wherever you are..." she coos. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Oh, maybe it's just the barrels that are slow." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot car" | ||||
Floyd | You can't get a good shot while you're taking cover. Floyd | Floyd | With a sound like thunder splitting a mountain in two, Fiona's huge Floyd | turret explodes into action. Bullets strike the water tower's legs Floyd | with frightening power, but the sturdy metal seems to withstand the Floyd | onslaught. Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena says, "aha! let her take out all three legs" | |||
| DavidW asks, "hm. wait?" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "Maybe we could knock the tower over on her." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "mmkay" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | The entire train station flickers with the muzzle flash from the Floyd | turret - a glare brighter than the wasteland sun. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | You notice that Fiona seems to be uttering a constant stream of Floyd | inaudible expletives as she douses the water tower with ammunition. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | With the shriek of metal on metal, the spinning barrels suddenly come Floyd | to a juddering halt. Floyd | Floyd | "Gods damn it!" Fiona screams. She looks down at the stationary Floyd | barrels, which are glowing dull red and emitting noxious black smoke. Floyd | "Hang on a moment," she tells you, almost apologetically, "I'll get Floyd | back to killing you in a jiffy..." Floyd | Floyd | Fiona looks down at the turret's control panel and begins pressing Floyd | buttons. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "aha!" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, she's still behind a shield." | ||||
| Cathy says (to floyd), "x control panel" | ||||
Floyd | It's difficult to see from this angle, but you're sure it has all Floyd | sorts of neat buttons. Floyd | Floyd | The large chemical tank behind Fiona begins to tremble and groan. She Floyd | takes hold of the controls again and grins. Floyd | Floyd | With a tremendous hiss of steam, the hoses emerging from the tank Floyd | douse the barrels in some sort of liquid. When the steam has cleared, Floyd | the barrels are no longer glowing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "perhaps we shoulda looked at stuff instead of waiting around." | |||
| ParserGirl says, "I wonder if we could get under the cart." | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "Or we could shoot the tank." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Chemical tank?" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "Since it's the coolant system, apparently." | ||||
| Jacqueline Yeah. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot tank" | ||||
Floyd | You can't get a good shot while you're taking cover. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Back in business!" Fiona growls, as the barrels begin to spin back Floyd | up to speed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "shoot tank". Floyd | Floyd | Train Station (taking cover behind the water tower's legs) Floyd | You're on a simple wooden platform next to the train tracks that run Floyd | through the town. Standing on thick tripod legs, a water tower casts Floyd | its shadow over you, ready to supply coolant to nuclear-powered Floyd | locomotives. The only train in sight, however, is a single open Floyd | railroad car, a gyro-controlled, multi-barrelled turret anchored to it Floyd | with fat iron bolts. Floyd | Floyd | Gatling Gun Fiona sits at the controls of the turret, staring at you Floyd | with fierce, emerald green eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "grr" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "x control panel". Floyd | Floyd | Train Station (taking cover behind the water tower's legs) Floyd | You're on a simple wooden platform next to the train tracks that run Floyd | through the town. Standing on thick tripod legs, a water tower casts Floyd | its shadow over you, ready to supply coolant to nuclear-powered Floyd | locomotives. The only train in sight, however, is a single open Floyd | railroad car, a gyro-controlled, multi-barrelled turret anchored to it Floyd | with fat iron bolts. Floyd | Floyd | Gatling Gun Fiona sits at the controls of the turret, staring at you Floyd | with fierce, emerald green eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Flash Frozen Fiona... has a nice ring to it." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing. Floyd | Floyd | The large chemical tank behind Fiona begins to tremble and groan. She Floyd | takes hold of the controls again and grins. Floyd | Floyd | With a tremendous hiss of steam, the hoses emerging from the tank Floyd | douse the barrels in some sort of liquid. When the steam has cleared, Floyd | the barrels are no longer glowing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot tank" | ||||
Floyd | You fire off a shot at the chemical tank. The bullet richochets off Floyd | of it harmlessly. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Back in business!" Fiona growls, as the barrels begin to spin back Floyd | up to speed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "shoot tank". Floyd | Floyd | Train Station Floyd | You're on a simple wooden platform next to the train tracks that run Floyd | through the town. Standing on thick tripod legs, a water tower casts Floyd | its shadow over you, ready to supply coolant to nuclear-powered Floyd | locomotives. The only train in sight, however, is a single open Floyd | railroad car, a gyro-controlled, multi-barrelled turret anchored to it Floyd | with fat iron bolts. Floyd | Floyd | Gatling Gun Fiona sits at the controls of the turret, staring at you Floyd | with fierce, emerald green eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Wonder if we can get under the car" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot controls" | ||||
Floyd | The word "controls" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot gyro" | ||||
Floyd | Your bullet bounces harmlessly off the turret's thick metal hide. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Back in business!" Fiona growls, as the barrels begin to spin back Floyd | up to speed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "shoot gyro". Floyd | Floyd | Train Station Floyd | You're on a simple wooden platform next to the train tracks that run Floyd | through the town. Standing on thick tripod legs, a water tower casts Floyd | its shadow over you, ready to supply coolant to nuclear-powered Floyd | locomotives. The only train in sight, however, is a single open Floyd | railroad car, a gyro-controlled, multi-barrelled turret anchored to it Floyd | with fat iron bolts. Floyd | Floyd | Gatling Gun Fiona sits at the controls of the turret, staring at you Floyd | with fierce, emerald green eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hide under car" | ||||
Floyd | The story doesn't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hide in car" | ||||
Floyd | You can't take cover behind that. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Back in business!" Fiona growls, as the barrels begin to spin back Floyd | up to speed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy asks, "Why not just shoot fiona?" | Catena says, "perspex shield" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Corporal_Touchy), "Because she's behind a shield. Also, we discuss the game on #ClubFloyd." | * Jacqueline has added Corporal_Touchy to the channel. | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Hi, Corporal. Welcome." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hide" | ||||
Floyd | (behind the water tower's legs) Floyd | Okay, you're now taking cover behind the water tower's legs. Floyd | Floyd | With a sound like thunder splitting a mountain in two, Fiona's huge Floyd | turret explodes into action. Bullets strike the water tower's legs Floyd | with frightening power, but the sturdy metal seems to withstand the Floyd | onslaught. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Maybe we can examine the platform." | |||
| DavidW says, "I think we need to look at stuff around us more." | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "x platform" | ||||
Floyd | Better than standing on dirt as wait for a train. Must make it easier Floyd | to board as well. Floyd | Floyd | Fiona clings to the controls as the turret judders with the recoil of Floyd | its own insane firepower. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x platform" | ||||
Floyd | Better than standing on dirt as wait for a train. Must make it easier Floyd | to board as well. Floyd | Floyd | Bullets whip either side of you in a terrifying stream of sparks, Floyd | ricocheting off of the water tower and kicking up a thick cloud of Floyd | dust. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Cathy says (to floyd), "x car" | ||||
Floyd | A flat bed of metal on wheels, sitting on the train tracks. It would Floyd | have to be towed by a locomotive to actually get anywhere. Floyd | Floyd | The railroad car is currently home to a gyro-controlled, Floyd | multi-barrelled turret. Floyd | Floyd | With the shriek of metal on metal, the spinning barrels suddenly come Floyd | to a juddering halt. Floyd | Floyd | "Gods damn it!" Fiona screams. She looks down at the stationary Floyd | barrels, which are glowing dull red and emitting noxious black smoke. Floyd | "Hang on a moment," she tells you, almost apologetically, "I'll get Floyd | back to killing you in a jiffy..." Floyd | Floyd | Fiona looks down at the turret's control panel and begins pressing Floyd | buttons. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tank" | ||||
Floyd | A fat metal cylinder is mounted on the train carriage behind the Floyd | turret. A number of colourful warning signs are plastered to its Floyd | sides. Floyd | Floyd | The large chemical tank behind Fiona begins to tremble and groan. She Floyd | takes hold of the controls again and grins. Floyd | Floyd | With a tremendous hiss of steam, the hoses emerging from the tank Floyd | douse the barrels in some sort of liquid. When the steam has cleared, Floyd | the barrels are no longer glowing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read signs" | Corporal_Touchy says, "thanks jacqueline" | |||
Floyd | "Warning! Extremely cold! Handle with care! Danger of severe Floyd | injury!" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Back in business!" Fiona growls, as the barrels begin to spin back Floyd | up to speed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Maybe we could shoot the hose instead of the tank." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hoses" | ||||
Floyd | Thick, rubbery hoses, covered in a pale frost. They're connected to a Floyd | valve on the cylinder and disappear somewhere under the turret. Floyd | Floyd | With a sound like thunder splitting a mountain in two, Fiona's huge Floyd | turret explodes into action. Bullets strike the water tower's legs Floyd | with frightening power, but the sturdy metal seems to withstand the Floyd | onslaught. Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena says, "okay, I do think we should probably take out that tank" | |||
| DavidW says, "ooh, yes. Hoses sounds good." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to CT), "Sure. Always glad to have another brain on the puzzles." | ||||
| Catena says, "maybe time it for when she's cooling" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I do hope the game calls her Flash Frozen Fiona." | ||||
| Cathy says, "yes, let's shoot the hoses next time Fiona's gun jams" | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | The barrels of the turret are a blur as they spit hundreds of rounds Floyd | of high calibre ammunition at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tower" | ||||
Floyd | It's difficult to get a sense of what it looks like from up so close. Floyd | You just get an impression of something large and metal blotting out a Floyd | big chunk of the sky. Floyd | Floyd | The water tower's thick legs look like they could offer good cover Floyd | from the turret. Floyd | Floyd | You can feel the staggering noise of the turret firing as it seems to Floyd | rattle the whole desert. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There's a hose that emerges." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe we can shoot it." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | With the shriek of metal on metal, the spinning barrels suddenly come Floyd | to a juddering halt. Floyd | Floyd | "Gods damn it!" Fiona screams. She looks down at the stationary Floyd | barrels, which are glowing dull red and emitting noxious black smoke. Floyd | "Hang on a moment," she tells you, almost apologetically, "I'll get Floyd | back to killing you in a jiffy..." Floyd | Floyd | Fiona looks down at the turret's control panel and begins pressing Floyd | buttons. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing. Floyd | Floyd | The large chemical tank behind Fiona begins to tremble and groan. She Floyd | takes hold of the controls again and grins. Floyd | Floyd | With a tremendous hiss of steam, the hoses emerging from the tank Floyd | douse the barrels in some sort of liquid. When the steam has cleared, Floyd | the barrels are no longer glowing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot hose" | ||||
Floyd | The bullet passes easily through one of the hoses, throwing up a Floyd | little puff of snow. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Back in business!" Fiona growls, as the barrels begin to spin back Floyd | up to speed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hide" | ||||
Floyd | (behind the water tower's legs) Floyd | Okay, you're now taking cover behind the water tower's legs. Floyd | Floyd | With a sound like thunder splitting a mountain in two, Fiona's huge Floyd | turret explodes into action. Bullets strike the water tower's legs Floyd | with frightening power, but the sturdy metal seems to withstand the Floyd | onslaught. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Damn." | |||
| ParserGirl says, "Could be worth another try" | ||||
| DavidW says, "But next time, heh heh" | ||||
| DavidW says, "The hose may be punctured now." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hose" | ||||
Floyd | Thick, rubbery hoses, covered in a pale frost. They're connected to a Floyd | valve on the cylinder and disappear somewhere under the turret. A Floyd | little spray of something seems to be emerging from the hoses. Floyd | Floyd | The barrels of the turret are a blur as they spit hundreds of rounds Floyd | of high calibre ammunition at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe." | ||||
| DavidW says, "yup" | ||||
| Ghogg exclaims, "indeed!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "woo" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Wait>" | ||||
| Cathy says, "we could shoot it again next lull" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "er, wait?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "wait, yes" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | You can feel the staggering noise of the turret firing as it seems to Floyd | rattle the whole desert. Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena says, "heh heh" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Cathy), "Good idea." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | With the shriek of metal on metal, the spinning barrels suddenly come Floyd | to a juddering halt. Floyd | Floyd | "Gods damn it!" Fiona screams. She looks down at the stationary Floyd | barrels, which are glowing dull red and emitting noxious black smoke. Floyd | "Hang on a moment," she tells you, almost apologetically, "I'll get Floyd | back to killing you in a jiffy..." Floyd | Floyd | Fiona looks down at the turret's control panel and begins pressing Floyd | buttons. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing. Floyd | Floyd | The large chemical tank behind Fiona begins to tremble and groan. She Floyd | takes hold of the controls again and grins. Floyd | Floyd | And then the tank starts spurting a huge stream of coolant out of its Floyd | side, up into the air and very far from the red hot gun barrels. Floyd | Fiona spins round to watch this with wide-eyes, and then turns back to Floyd | face you with a terrified, placating smile. "Let's talk about this Floyd | like reasonable human beings," she says, standing up from the turret's Floyd | control seat and holding up her empty hands. Floyd | Floyd | And then she jumps off of the turret, hitting the ground running. Floyd | She's disappeared before you're even sure how to react. Floyd | Floyd | (Your score has just increased by one point.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't think we need to shoot it again" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Didn't have to... nope." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We'll get her later." | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "I kind of liked her." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "reload" | ||||
Floyd | (your six shooter) Floyd | You quickly empty the spent casings from your six shooter and replace Floyd | them with live bullets. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline stares at ParserGirl. | |||
| DavidW asks, "save and forward?" | ||||
| Cathy asks, "save?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf8" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy asks, "what are we playing anyway?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Gun Mute." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "f" | ||||
Floyd | Church of Wrathzor Floyd | Between cold stone walls, orderly rows of wooden pews face the pulpit Floyd | ahead. Vengeful angels peer down on the absent congregation from Floyd | lofty stained-glass windows. Floyd | Floyd | Reverend Gun-Arm Joe stands in the pulpit. Floyd | Floyd | "We thought we'd never see you again, child," the reverend says. His Floyd | voice is quiet, but it echoes profoundly through the expanse of the Floyd | church. "Let us speak as equals. Allow me to show you the path to Floyd | happiness through peace. Please, my son, put away your weapon." Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says (to Corporal_Touchy), "basically trying to shoot our way through each encounter" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm betting he wants to show us the path TO HEAVEN by KILLING US." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I bet Rev Joe has a gun for an arm." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But that's what save is for." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "holster" | ||||
Floyd | (your six shooter) Floyd | You slip your six shooter back into its holster. Floyd | Floyd | "Now," Reverend Joe says, "allow me to show you the true peace Floyd | delivered by the Hand of Wrathzor..." Floyd | Floyd | He holds his right arm out to the side as something inside it seems to Floyd | whir and click. In a single smooth, mechanical motion, the preacher's Floyd | arm splits in two, divulging a sleek, nickel-plated machinegun. He Floyd | aims his arm at you, bracing himself against the pulpit. "May Floyd | Wrathzor have mercy on your soul," he intones, solemnly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hahaha" | |||
| DavidW says, "I KNEW IT" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hide" | ||||
Floyd | (behind the pews) Floyd | Okay, you're now taking cover behind the pews. Floyd | Floyd | Reverend Joe's machinegun arm spits out gunfire to a deafening Floyd | staccato rhythm that rattles harshly against the stone walls. Bullets Floyd | rip through the pews, cracking and splintering the wood. You throw Floyd | your arms over your head defensively. Floyd | Floyd | "There is no point hiding, my son," the reverend booms, "for it is Floyd | Wrathzor's judgement that you die, and you cannot hide from Him." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "there is no better name for a deity than Wrathzor" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "True dat." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "draw" | ||||
Floyd | You whip your gun out of its holster in a single fluid motion. Floyd | Floyd | The powerful recoil of the reverend's gun arm sends his aim climbing Floyd | too high. For a moment, he totters on his feet, blasting chunks of Floyd | stone out of the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing. Floyd | Floyd | The reverend stops firing for a moment to regain his footing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot reverend" | ||||
Floyd | You aim at Reverend Joe. He ducks behind the pulpit at the last Floyd | moment, and your shot goes wide. Floyd | Floyd | Reverend Joe steadies himself against the pulpit and aims at you with Floyd | his machinegun arm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot reverend" | ||||
Floyd | You aim at Reverend Joe. He ducks behind the pulpit at the last Floyd | moment, and your shot goes wide. Floyd | Floyd | Reverend Joe's machinegun arm spits out gunfire to a deafening Floyd | staccato rhythm that rattles harshly against the stone walls. Bullets Floyd | whack into you, passing through your body and leaving you gasping for Floyd | breath in a pool of blood on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | Reverend Joe leaves the pulpit to stand over your broken form. "Allow Floyd | me to complete your journey to the Almighty," he says, aiming his Floyd | gun-arm at your head. Floyd | Floyd | *** GAME OVER *** Floyd | Floyd | In 92 moves, you have scored 7 of a possible 20 points. This makes Floyd | you a threat to the peace. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, UNDO Floyd | the last move, see your FULL SCORE, or QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Hey! He's using our own tricks against us." | |||
| DavidW says, "no no, duck" | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "shoot reverend". Floyd | Floyd | Church of Wrathzor Floyd | Between cold stone walls, orderly rows of wooden pews face the pulpit Floyd | ahead. Vengeful angels peer down on the absent congregation from Floyd | lofty stained-glass windows. Floyd | Floyd | Reverend Gun-Arm Joe stands in the pulpit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "duck" | ||||
Floyd | (behind the pews) Floyd | Okay, you're now taking cover behind the pews. Floyd | Floyd | Reverend Joe's machinegun arm spits out gunfire to a deafening Floyd | staccato rhythm that rattles harshly against the stone walls. Bullets Floyd | rip through the pews, cracking and splintering the wood. You throw Floyd | your arms over your head defensively. Floyd | Floyd | "You can find peace only through acceptance," the reverend intones. Floyd | "Show yourself and receive your judgement." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "x cross" | ||||
Floyd | The word "cross" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing unusual about it. Floyd | Floyd | The powerful recoil of the reverend's gun arm sends his aim climbing Floyd | too high. For a moment, he totters on his feet, blasting chunks of Floyd | stone out of the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | The stained-glass windows depict warrior angels brandishing swords and Floyd | cutting down swathes of wretched unbelievers. Their eyes seem to Floyd | follow you around the room. Floyd | Floyd | The reverend stops firing for a moment to regain his footing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing unusual about it. Floyd | Floyd | Reverend Joe steadies himself against the pulpit and aims at you with Floyd | his machinegun arm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x pulpit" | ||||
Floyd | A raised wooden platform from which a man of Wrathzor can preach his Floyd | message of fear and judgement. Floyd | Floyd | Reverend Joe's machinegun arm spits out gunfire to a deafening Floyd | staccato rhythm that rattles harshly against the stone walls. Bullets Floyd | rip through the pews, cracking and splintering the wood. You throw Floyd | your arms over your head defensively. Floyd | Floyd | "Wood is but a thin veil for the hand of Wrathzor to part," the Floyd | reverend booms. Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena asks, "shoot stained glass?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Or the pulpit." | ||||
| DavidW says, "yeah, a desecration might make him turn reflexively." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm - good point." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | The powerful recoil of the reverend's gun arm sends his aim climbing Floyd | too high. For a moment, he totters on his feet, blasting chunks of Floyd | stone out of the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing. Floyd | Floyd | The reverend stops firing for a moment to regain his footing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot glass" | ||||
Floyd | You blast one of the stained-glass windows with your six shooter. It Floyd | shatters spectacularly, multi-coloured shards of glass raining down on Floyd | the pulpit. Floyd | Floyd | Joe screams as the glass cuts into him, ducking behind the pulpit. Floyd | After the tinkling of glass on stone has ceased, he does not Floyd | re-emerge. Floyd | Floyd | (Your score has just increased by one point.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Nice, Jason." | |||
| DavidW says, "huh" | ||||
| Catena says, "cool" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf9" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot pulpit" | ||||
Floyd | It doesn't look like that would achieve much. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "catena" | ||||
Floyd | The word "catena" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x joe" | ||||
Floyd | A pale form slumped in the pulpit among creased, blood-soaked robes. Floyd | His right arm seems to consist of a hollow plastic shell that has Floyd | split in two to reveal a shiny, high-calibre machinegun. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "I think we may have done it." | |||
| Nitku says, "Oops, sorry" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh, that he went in there and bled to death, hence the point?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "sliced up by the glass." | ||||
| Cathy says (to floyd), "reload" | ||||
Floyd | (your six shooter) Floyd | You quickly empty the spent casings from your six shooter and replace Floyd | them with live bullets. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | The stained-glass windows depict warrior angels brandishing swords and Floyd | cutting down swathes of wretched unbelievers. Their eyes seem to Floyd | follow you around the room. One of the windows has been shattered, Floyd | perhaps explaining the angels' angry demeanour. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||||
Floyd | The word "pray" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "bah" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "aw" | ||||
| Cathy asks, "forward?" | ||||
| Catena says, "c'mon, this isn't Vespers" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, forward." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "f" | ||||
Floyd | Graveyard Floyd | Chipped and crumbling headstones here sprout from the desiccated Floyd | wasteland soil, their names obscured by weathering and dust. Floyd | Floyd | Metal-Skin Mickey stands among the graves, a six shooter clasped in Floyd | his robotic hand. Floyd | Floyd | "TARGET IDENTIFIED," Mickey exclaims. "ENGAGING!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "I just played that last night!" | |||
| DavidW says, "Always pray in churches in IF." | ||||
| inky says, "or just to make it today" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot mickey" | ||||
Floyd | You blast Mickey with your six shooter. The bullet bounces harmlessly Floyd | off of his thick metal skin. Floyd | Floyd | Mickey aims his single eye at you, a narrow thread of laser light Floyd | projecting from it onto your forehead. Floyd | Floyd | "LOCK-ON ACQUIRED," Mickey states. "PREPARING TO FIRE..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Prayers to Wrathzor go unanswered." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hide" | ||||
Floyd | (behind the tombstones) Floyd | Okay, you're now taking cover behind the tombstones. Floyd | Floyd | A thin beam of laser light from Mickey's eye sweeps back and forth Floyd | over the top of the headstones, seeking you out. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "duck, duck, duck..." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm." | ||||
| Cathy says (to floyd), "x mickey" | DavidW asks, "shoot the eye?" | |||
Floyd | A cylindrical war-bot, dressed in chipped and peeling desert Floyd | camouflage paint. His face is featureless except for a single round, Floyd | glassy eye. Floyd | Floyd | A thin beam of laser light from Mickey's eye sweeps back and forth Floyd | over the top of the headstones, seeking you out. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "you got to pray to wrathzor just to fuck shit up today" | |||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "x gravestones" | ||||
Floyd | The word "gravestones" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena says, "shoot his eye" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. The eye." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot eye" | ||||
Floyd | You can't get a good shot while you're taking cover. Floyd | Floyd | A thin beam of laser light from Mickey's eye sweeps back and forth Floyd | over the top of the headstones, seeking you out. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline laughs and laughs at inky. | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read headstones" | ||||
Floyd | Jagged, worn, broken, crumbling, in some cases even completely Floyd | collapsed. The tombstones are all made of stone, however, and might Floyd | be sturdy enough to afford you some cover. Floyd | Floyd | You are taking cover behind the tombstones. Floyd | Floyd | A thin beam of laser light from Mickey's eye sweeps back and forth Floyd | over the top of the headstones, seeking you out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl asks, "Save?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm. Gotta stand to shoot." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Want to restore?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
Floyd | Please select the saved position file to restore > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf9" | ||||
Floyd | Restored. Floyd | Floyd | Church of Wrathzor Floyd | Between cold stone walls, orderly rows of wooden pews face the pulpit Floyd | ahead. Vengeful angels peer down on the absent congregation from Floyd | lofty stained-glass windows. Floyd | Floyd | One of the windows has been shattered. Floyd | Floyd | The dead body of Reverend Gun-Arm Joe is crumpled up in the pulpit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "forward" | ||||
Floyd | Graveyard Floyd | Chipped and crumbling headstones here sprout from the desiccated Floyd | wasteland soil, their names obscured by weathering and dust. Floyd | Floyd | Metal-Skin Mickey stands among the graves, a six shooter clasped in Floyd | his robotic hand. Floyd | Floyd | "TARGET IDENTIFIED," Mickey exclaims. "ENGAGING!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Cathy says (to floyd), "reload" | ||||
Floyd | (your six shooter) Floyd | You quickly empty the spent casings from your six shooter and replace Floyd | them with live bullets. Floyd | Floyd | Mickey aims his single eye at you, a narrow thread of laser light Floyd | projecting from it onto your forehead. Floyd | Floyd | "LOCK-ON ACQUIRED," Mickey states. "PREPARING TO FIRE..." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "no, there's probably a way without restoring." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot eye" | ||||
Floyd | You aim at Mickey's eye and squeeze the trigger. The eye shatters Floyd | with a brittle crack, and Mickey freezes in place, sparking and Floyd | whirring. Floyd | Floyd | (Your score has just increased by one point.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "reload" | ||||
Floyd | (your six shooter) Floyd | You quickly empty the spent casings from your six shooter and replace Floyd | them with live bullets. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf10" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DavidW), "Oops, sorry." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mickey" | Jacqueline says, "He's dead, in any case." | |||
Floyd | A cylindrical war-bot, dressed in chipped and peeling desert Floyd | camouflage paint. His face is featureless except for a single round, Floyd | shattered eye. Floyd | Floyd | Mickey stands perfectly still. Floyd | Floyd | > | Cathy says, "sorry, didn't mean to reload after we got here; tried to get it in after the reload..." | |||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "take gun" | ||||
Floyd | You've already drawn your gun. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "I am suspicious." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "You're always sushpicioush." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push mickey" | ||||
Floyd | You're a gunslinger, not a wrestler. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "kiss mickey" | ||||
Floyd | You'd sooner kiss a toaster in the shower. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Even a broken clock is the subject of a conspiracy twice a day." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "Tell Mickey he is so fine." | ||||
Floyd | The story doesn't understand that command. Please use ASK ACTOR ABOUT Floyd | TOPIC (or just A TOPIC). Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "ha ha ha Thank you. I was thinking that." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| Ghogg says, "and in a Jota game, it'd accept that" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Ghogg), "You know it." | ||||
| ParserGirl asks, "Jota wrote this?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "no" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "No." | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "Oh." | ||||
| Ghogg says (to ParserGirl), "this guy: [LINK]" | ||||
| DavidW says, "But Jota would be the author that would add in things like that." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Forward, Wrathzor Soldiers?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "This Elias better be worth it." | ||||
| Cathy says, "aye aye ma'am" | ||||
| inky says, "we are trampling down the vineyards where the grapes of wrathzor are stored" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "I have a feeling he's very handsome." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "YAY INKY" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "f" | ||||
Floyd | Derelict Reactor Floyd | You're on a sturdy platform beneath a huge dome of cracked concrete, Floyd | an expansive pool of off-colour, steaming water stretching out far Floyd | below. An ancient control panel sits by the edge of the platform. Floyd | Floyd | A broken catwalk hangs from the ceiling.A mass of tree roots protrude Floyd | from one of the larger cracks in the concrete.A girder juts up from Floyd | the toxic pool. Floyd | Floyd | Glow-in-the-Dark Earl stands on the rickety catwalk. Floyd | Floyd | "You!" Earl rasps, hoarsely. "Execution or no, this is my reactor, Floyd | and ain't no-one passing through here long as I breath!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "haha wow" | |||
| DavidW says, "ha ha ha" | ||||
| DavidW says, "This is so great." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes, it is." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "This was a great choice." | ||||
| inky says, "it's a good pair with the second game, too" | ||||
| Cathy says (to floyd), "x reactor" | ||||
Floyd | You see no reactor here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, I'll try the default, even though it won't work." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot Earl." | ||||
Floyd | As you aim at Earl, he tenses his grotesquely long legs. After you Floyd | fire, but before the bullet hits him, he jumps up, high into the air, Floyd | and lands on the tree roots. Floyd | Floyd | "What's the matter, Mute?" Earl says, "too fast for you?" Floyd | Floyd | Earl holds out his bow and notches an arrow to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "uh-oh" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "shoot Earl". Floyd | Floyd | Derelict Reactor Floyd | You're on a sturdy platform beneath a huge dome of cracked concrete, Floyd | an expansive pool of off-colour, steaming water stretching out far Floyd | below. An ancient control panel sits by the edge of the platform. Floyd | Floyd | A broken catwalk hangs from the ceiling.A mass of tree roots protrude Floyd | from one of the larger cracks in the concrete.A girder juts up from Floyd | the toxic pool. Floyd | Floyd | Glow-in-the-Dark Earl stands on the rickety catwalk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||||
Floyd | Rusted right through and glowing faintly. It's encrusted with strange Floyd | dials and buttons. Floyd | Floyd | Earl holds out his bow and notches an arrow to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena says, "control panel probably changes the catwalk, or puts a steam of goo for him to jump into" | |||
| Cathy asks, "shoot the catwalk?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hide" | ||||
Floyd | (behind the control panel) Floyd | Okay, you're now taking cover behind the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | Earl sends an arrow flying over your head. "I know you're still in Floyd | here! You can't hide from me!" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The catwalk is probably an option, yeah." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, he'll have to load his bow." | ||||
| DavidW says, "You'll have to time things so we fire ... yeah, that." | ||||
| Cathy says, "ooh, or one of the cracks in the concrete (with the roots)" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "But that's two moves, and we sort of need three, dont' we?" | ||||
| Catena says, "Glowy Earl. A creature so mind-bogglingly stupid, once you take cover it forgets where it saw you." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x roots" | ||||
Floyd | Having broken through the concrete dome over slow years of growth, the Floyd | tree roots now seem strangely sinister and monstrous: as if frozen in Floyd | the act of an intelligent writhing motion. Various objects from the Floyd | reactor complex seem to have been snatched up by the roots over time, Floyd | including a large, bright orange canister. Floyd | Floyd | Earl clucks like a chicken until his hoarse voice breaks down into a Floyd | coughing fit. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW blinks. | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x canister" | ||||
Floyd | A bright orange canister of some sort is caught up in the curled and Floyd | grasping tree roots. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to ParserGirl), "I'll bet you like this guy, too." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read canister" | ||||
Floyd | The bright orange canister is too far away. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "Far to obvious." | |||
| Cathy says, "let's shoot the canister" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm. Yeah." | ||||
| Catena says, "shoot canister when earl is either on or about to go to roots" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | You hear an arrow ping uselessly off the other side of the control Floyd | panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "stane" | ||||
Floyd | The word "stane" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing. Floyd | Floyd | Earl holds out his bow and notches an arrow to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Wait." | |||
| DavidW says, "heh" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Shoot him to make him jump, then shoot the canister?" | ||||
| Cathy says, "yes" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Or just shoot the canister now. The former, I'm thinking." | ||||
| inky asks, "doesn't he land in the same turn he jumps?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "no, shoot earl, then canister" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot Earl." | ||||
Floyd | As you aim at Earl, he tenses his grotesquely long legs. After you Floyd | fire, but before the bullet hits him, he jumps up, high into the air, Floyd | and lands on the tree roots. Floyd | Floyd | Earl shouts as loud as his weak, raspy voice will let him. "Give up Floyd | now! The magic rays of the Ancients have made me immortal!" Floyd | Floyd | Earl holds out his bow and notches an arrow to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Cathy says, "yes; he lands in the roots" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot canister" | ||||
Floyd | You sight down your barrel at the bright orange canister, and squeeze Floyd | the trigger. The canister erupts into a sizeable fireball, consuming Floyd | the tree roots and burning them to a crisp. Floyd | Floyd | Earl jumps clear of the tree roots and lands on the catwalk. Floyd | Floyd | Earl holds out his bow and notches an arrow to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh, I see" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot catwalk" | ||||
Floyd | There's a small splash of radioactive water, but no other evidence Floyd | you're having an effect on the submerged catwalk. Floyd | Floyd | Earl draws back the string on his bow, taking aim at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hide?" | |||
| Ghogg says, "well, now he can't jump to the roots any more" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hide" | ||||
Floyd | (behind the control panel) Floyd | Okay, you're now taking cover behind the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | "Come out of there!" Earl yells. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "right" | |||
| inky says, "true enough" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | Earl growls with frustration. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x catwalk" | ||||
Floyd | Corroded in strange and unpleasant ways, it doesn't seem like it can Floyd | keep up the fight against gravity for long. It hangs from crooked Floyd | bolts that half protrude from the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | Glow-in-the-Dark Earl is standing on the rickety catwalk. Floyd | Floyd | Earl clucks like a chicken until his hoarse voice breaks down into a Floyd | coughing fit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "reload" | ||||
Floyd | (your six shooter) Floyd | You quickly empty the spent casings from your six shooter and replace Floyd | them with live bullets. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Bolts." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | "Come out of there!" Earl yells. Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena asks, "shoot control panel?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "He hasn't shot yet, right?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Does the coughing fit give us our chance?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot panel" | ||||
Floyd | You can't get a good shot while you're taking cover. Floyd | Floyd | Earl sends an arrow flying over your head. "I know you're still in Floyd | here! You can't hide from me!" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ah" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe it would, David, yeah." | ||||
| Cathy says, "let's try shooting him now that the roots are gone" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing. Floyd | Floyd | Earl holds out his bow and notches an arrow to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena says, "bolts, yes" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot earl" | ||||
Floyd | As you aim at Earl, he tenses his grotesquely long legs. After you Floyd | fire, but before the bullet hits him, he jumps up, high into the air, Floyd | and lands on the girder. Floyd | Floyd | "What's the matter, Mute?" Earl says, "too fast for you?" Floyd | Floyd | Earl holds out his bow and notches an arrow to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "girder?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "shoot earl". Floyd | Floyd | Derelict Reactor Floyd | You're on a sturdy platform beneath a huge dome of cracked concrete, Floyd | an expansive pool of off-colour, steaming water stretching out far Floyd | below. An ancient control panel sits by the edge of the platform. Floyd | Floyd | A broken catwalk hangs from the ceiling.A girder juts up from the Floyd | toxic pool. Floyd | Floyd | Glow-in-the-Dark Earl stands on the rickety catwalk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot bolts" | ||||
Floyd | You take aim at one of the ancient metal bolts and fire. It shatters Floyd | into a cloud of rust. The catwalk creaks, and begins to move. One by Floyd | one, the rusted bolts pop out of the ceiling and the catwalk curls Floyd | downward, sinking into the steaming nuclear waste below. Floyd | Floyd | Earl jumps clear of the catwalk and lands on the girder. Floyd | Floyd | Earl holds out his bow and notches an arrow to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "Please not another canister." | |||
| DavidW says, "wait wait" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, it's like the canister." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "What's the girder?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We have to eliminate one thing at a time." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hide" | ||||
Floyd | (behind the control panel) Floyd | Okay, you're now taking cover behind the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | Earl growls with frustration. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x girder" | ||||
Floyd | The thick iron girder juts up at a crooked angle. It seems to be Floyd | propped up on a thick pipeline that traverses the dome. Floyd | Floyd | Glow-in-the-Dark Earl is standing on the girder. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "so shoot the pipeline?" | |||
| inky says, ">GIRD LOINS WITH GIRDER" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "Oooh, pipeline this time" | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Jacqueline), "Belated, but I've just met the man!" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pipeline" | ||||
Floyd | Blackened and heavily corroded, the pipeline emerges from a delicate Floyd | husk of machinery and winds its way across the dome, disappearing into Floyd | the distance. Floyd | Floyd | You hear an arrow ping uselessly off the other side of the control Floyd | panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing. Floyd | Floyd | Earl holds out his bow and notches an arrow to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot pipeline" | ||||
Floyd | You put a bullethole in the corroded metal of the pipeline. It Floyd | quivers slightly, but remains otherwise intact. Floyd | Floyd | Earl draws back the string on his bow, taking aim at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Cathy asks, "if we shoot him now, where will he go?" | |||
| Catena says, "In a deleted scene, Gun Mute is asked if he wants to star in a Silent Movie and says 'No,'" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hide" | ||||
Floyd | (behind the control panel) Floyd | Okay, you're now taking cover behind the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | Earl clucks like a chicken until his hoarse voice breaks down into a Floyd | coughing fit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "hide". Floyd | Floyd | Derelict Reactor Floyd | You're on a sturdy platform beneath a huge dome of cracked concrete, Floyd | an expansive pool of off-colour, steaming water stretching out far Floyd | below. An ancient control panel sits by the edge of the platform. Floyd | Floyd | A girder juts up from the toxic pool. Floyd | Floyd | Glow-in-the-Dark Earl stands on the girder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot pipeline" | ||||
Floyd | You put a second bullethole in the pipeline, close to the first. The Floyd | pipeline creaks loudly, but stays in one piece. Floyd | Floyd | Earl looses the arrow. You look down and aren't entirely surprised to Floyd | it sticking out of your chest. You feel yourself falling off the Floyd | platform as if it were happening somewhere very far away. Floyd | Floyd | *** GAME OVER *** Floyd | Floyd | In 133 moves, you have scored 9 of a possible 20 points. This makes Floyd | you a quick-draw gunslinger. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, UNDO Floyd | the last move, see your FULL SCORE, or QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl asks, "Have we tried shooting the vines?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "shoot pipeline". Floyd | Floyd | Derelict Reactor Floyd | You're on a sturdy platform beneath a huge dome of cracked concrete, Floyd | an expansive pool of off-colour, steaming water stretching out far Floyd | below. An ancient control panel sits by the edge of the platform. Floyd | Floyd | A girder juts up from the toxic pool. Floyd | Floyd | Glow-in-the-Dark Earl stands on the girder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hide" | ||||
Floyd | (behind the control panel) Floyd | Okay, you're now taking cover behind the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "vines?" | |||
| Ghogg says, "guessing it takes three shots" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tree" | ||||
Floyd | The tree roots are now just blackened claws of wood, shedding ash like Floyd | tears. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x vines" | ||||
Floyd | The word "vines" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | "Come out of there!" Earl yells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Cathy says (to floyd), "reload" | ||||
Floyd | (your six shooter) Floyd | You quickly empty the spent casings from your six shooter and replace Floyd | them with live bullets. Floyd | Floyd | Earl growls with frustration. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | Earl clucks like a chicken until his hoarse voice breaks down into a Floyd | coughing fit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing. Floyd | Floyd | Earl holds out his bow and notches an arrow to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot pipeline" | ||||
Floyd | You put a second bullethole in the pipeline, close to the first. The Floyd | pipeline creaks loudly, but stays in one piece. Floyd | Floyd | Earl draws back the string on his bow, taking aim at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hide" | ||||
Floyd | (behind the control panel) Floyd | Okay, you're now taking cover behind the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | You hear an arrow ping uselessly off the other side of the control Floyd | panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ah. Multiple hits to pipeline needed, then." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | Earl sends an arrow flying over your head. "I know you're still in Floyd | here! You can't hide from me!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Cough, dammit." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | You hear an arrow ping uselessly off the other side of the control Floyd | panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | Earl sends an arrow flying over your head. "I know you're still in Floyd | here! You can't hide from me!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "undo" | |||
| DavidW says, "No, stand when he fires." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "z". Floyd | Floyd | Derelict Reactor (taking cover behind the control panel) Floyd | You're on a sturdy platform beneath a huge dome of cracked concrete, Floyd | an expansive pool of off-colour, steaming water stretching out far Floyd | below. An ancient control panel sits by the edge of the platform. Floyd | Floyd | A girder juts up from the toxic pool. Floyd | Floyd | Glow-in-the-Dark Earl stands on the girder. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah, just figured that out." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing. Floyd | Floyd | Earl holds out his bow and notches an arrow to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot pipeline" | ||||
Floyd | You put a third bullethole in the pipeline, in between the first two. Floyd | For a moment, nothing happens. And then the pipeline shatters into Floyd | disparate shards of rust. The girder leaning on it tips slowly to one Floyd | side, smashing into the dome with the sound of heavy masonry Floyd | shattering like glass. Floyd | Floyd | Earl jumps clear of the girder and flails uselessly in the air for Floyd | longer than seems possible. Then, inevitably, he drops - falling into Floyd | the radioactive slime below with an infuriated yell. Floyd | Floyd | (Your score has just increased by one point.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Woo!" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "reload" | ||||
Floyd | (your six shooter) Floyd | You quickly empty the spent casings from your six shooter and replace Floyd | them with live bullets. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf11" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "Although he'll be trickier later when he shows up with superpowers" | |||
| Catena exclaims, "we will, we will' shoot you!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "HA" | ||||
| DavidW says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Good point, Ghogg." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "f" | ||||
Floyd | Polluted Slums Floyd | On the bank of a thick black river, you're surrounded on all sides by Floyd | corroded tin shacks and heaps of rotting garbage. Floyd | Floyd | It's awfully quiet around here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ooh. quiet" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "It's never good when it's quiet, yeah." | ||||
| inky says, "TOO quiet" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Don't trust it." | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy exclaims, "take the third shack from the left!" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "We'd better call C3PO" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x garbage" | ||||
Floyd | Dirty rags, rotten food, human excrement... other things you don't Floyd | want to look too closely at. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hide" | ||||
Floyd | You don't see anything to take cover behind, and there's no obvious Floyd | danger anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shacks" | ||||
Floyd | Home to the physically diseased and the socially reviled. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x river" | ||||
Floyd | The river is black and viscous, emitting a fine, yellowish vapour. Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena asks, "oh, where's the metal gear? under the garbage?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "What metal gear?" | ||||
| Cathy says (to floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | It's very quiet. The river burbles quietly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "x bank" | ||||
Floyd | The word "bank" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x vapour" | ||||
Floyd | You try not to breath too deeply. The river's noxious vapour probably Floyd | does little to promote good health. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Cathy says (to floyd), "x river" | ||||
Floyd | The river is black and viscous, emitting a fine, yellowish vapour. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Forward?" | |||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "just try to f" | ||||
| Catena says, "a big robot from the PS2 game" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search garbage" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing unusual in the rotting garbage. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I know we'll die, but let's go forward." | |||
| DavidW says, "I think this is just calm before firefight." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Catena), "Ah." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "f" | ||||
Floyd | You start looking for a good route to move through the dreary shanty Floyd | town, when a rhythmic pistoning reaches your ears from somewhere Floyd | ahead. Atomic April strides out from behind one of the shacks, Floyd | blocking your path with her enormous metallic form. Floyd | Floyd | April's distorted voice booms from the metallic grill she has for a Floyd | mouth. "I'm gonna pummel you good, Mute." Floyd | Floyd | April raises her great metal fist into the air, blotting out the sun. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Not Atomic April!" | |||
| DavidW says, "And no hiding spot!" | ||||
| Cathy says (to floyd), "x april" | ||||
Floyd | A towering metal figure, topped with a transparent brain jar, her Floyd | right fist obscenely huge. She totters on stilt-like mechanical legs. Floyd | A bright yellow symbol adorns her chest. Floyd | Floyd | April's shoulder clunks loudly, letting out bursts of steam. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot april" | ||||
Floyd | You blast April right in the middle of the archaic symbol on her Floyd | chest. The bullet richochets without leaving a mark. Floyd | Floyd | April's massive form is knocked backwards. She drops her arm and Floyd | regains her footing in a slow and ungainly motion. Floyd | Floyd | April booms with laughter. "A squishy meat-bag like you is no threat Floyd | to a mechanical god!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena says, "there's our metal gear" | |||
| DavidW says, "Shoot her into the river." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot brain" | ||||
Floyd | You blast the see-through dome containing April's brain. The bullet Floyd | richochets off, leaving a few hairline cracks. Floyd | Floyd | "This is like pulling the legs off a fly..." April muses. Floyd | Floyd | April raises her great metal fist into the air, blotting out the sun. Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena says, "shoot her into the river" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "I wonder what the symbol is" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh, maybe not." | ||||
| Catena says, "ohh, crack her brain" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm thinking that the brain needs a few more bullets." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Catena), "Right." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot brain" | ||||
Floyd | You shoot April's brain jar again, fine cracks spreading across the Floyd | dome. Floyd | Floyd | April laughs. "I splatter insects like you without even thinking Floyd | about it!" Floyd | Floyd | April's shoulder clunks loudly, letting out bursts of steam. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot brain" | ||||
Floyd | Your bullet completely shatters April's brain jar, showering glass Floyd | over her shoulders. Floyd | Floyd | "Some meat-bags just don't know when they're obsolete." April booms. Floyd | Floyd | April brings her huge fist down in one swift, mechanical motion. It Floyd | races down at you from the sky like a falling boulder. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "but shoot her in between so she is pushed back" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot brain" | ||||
Floyd | Your bullet strikes April's exposed brain straight on, splattering it Floyd | over her shattered head. Her body suddenly goes limp and collapses Floyd | into a heap with a loud metallic clattering, sliding slowly into the Floyd | river, fumes rising where her body touches the acidic slime. Floyd | Floyd | (Your score has just increased by one point.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "reload" | ||||
Floyd | (your six shooter) Floyd | You quickly empty the spent casings from your six shooter and replace Floyd | them with live bullets. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "x symbol" | ||||
Floyd | The bright yellow radiation symbol adorns April's great metal upper Floyd | torso. Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "fair enough hehe" | |||
| DavidW says, "woot!" | ||||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "make cool pose" | ||||
Floyd | The word "make" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf12" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "strut" | ||||
Floyd | The word "strut" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena says, "okay, I missed the brain jar, good spotting" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||||
Floyd | You've got no sense of rhythm - save the rhythm of a single action Floyd | revolver. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Thanks." | |||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Did Jota test this, I wonder?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "credits" | ||||
Floyd | Gun Mute by C.E.J. Pacian Floyd | Released: 2008 Floyd | Floyd | Developed using the TADS 3 language and library by Michael J. Floyd | Roberts. Eric Eve also deserves a mention for his excellent TADS 3 Floyd | tutorials. Floyd | Floyd | Extra special thanks to my lovely beta-testers: George Oliver, Terry Floyd | Cavanagh and Konstantinos "Gnome" Dimopoulos. Floyd | Floyd | Additional thanks for bug and typo reports courtesy of Inane and Floyd | Nillo. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Nope. >DANCE is just becoming more common." | |||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "I dunno. The author's one of the TIGSource crowd." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "f" | ||||
Floyd | Undertaker's Floyd | A dark little office. The bright sunlight shining through the window Floyd | casts a perfect square of light on the polished floor, as if it were Floyd | too timid to wander away from a straight line. Coffins stand in rows Floyd | against one wall, funereal garbs against the other. Floyd | Floyd | Solemn Gertrude is here, in a black suit and top hat. Floyd | Floyd | When she sees you arrive, Gertrude stands up from her chair by the Floyd | window and unrolls her tape measure. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Cathy says (to floyd), "x gertrude" | ||||
Floyd | A tall, thin woman with almost albinic pale skin. She wears a close Floyd | fitting, jet-black suit and a shiny top hat. Her movements are small Floyd | and carefully calculated. You remember Gertrude as being the one Floyd | person in town more quiet than you. Floyd | Floyd | Gertrude steps lightly on one end of the tape measure, and holds it up Floyd | to measure your height. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Cathy says (to floyd), "x tape measure" | ||||
Floyd | The word "tape" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Cathy says (to floyd), "x measure" | ||||
Floyd | The word "measure" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Cathy says (to floyd), "x hat" | ||||
Floyd | A rather intimidating piece of headwear, really. Floyd | Floyd | Gertrude measures you across the shoulders. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I seem to recall there's a way to get a point or two here" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "She's measuring us for a coffin. This is not cool." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "point to coffin" | ||||
Floyd | You point at the coffins. Floyd | Floyd | Gertrude doesn't seem to notice. Floyd | Floyd | Gertrude quickly pulls out a notepad to jot down your measurements. Floyd | Floyd | (Your score has just increased by one point.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena says, "shoot the hat" | |||
| Catena says, "if she threatens" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Why did our score go up? Because we didn't shoot her?" | ||||
| Ghogg says, "we let her measure" | ||||
| Catena says, "probably" | ||||
| inky says, "you stuck around long enough to have her measure you" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "haha" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "I don't know?" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "full score" | ||||
Floyd | In 174 moves, you have scored 12 of a possible 20 points. This makes | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "point to garb" | ||||
Floyd | you a renegade lawman. Your score consists of: Floyd | 1 point for drinking the plainswoman's potion Floyd | 7 points for killing members of the sheriff's posse Floyd | 1 point for trapping Juanita beneath the chandelier Floyd | 1 point for kissing Juanita Floyd | 1 point for scaring off Gatling Gun Fiona Floyd | 1 point for getting measured for your coffin Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You point at the funereal garbs. Floyd | Floyd | Gertrude doesn't seem to notice. Floyd | Floyd | Gertrude stands moderately far away from you and studies the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "I think there is another point you can get here but I forget how" | |||
| DavidW says, "oh. The measuring got the point, not the pointing." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Ghogg), "no tell!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||||
| inky says, "right" | ||||
| Catena says, "she's about to do something" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "i want the hat" | ||||
| Cathy says (to floyd), "read notepad" | ||||
Floyd | The word "notepad" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Seems like." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take hat" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to weigh yourself down with anything other than your Floyd | trusty six shooter. Floyd | Floyd | Gertrude redirects her attention to the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in coffin" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing unusual in the coffins. Floyd | Floyd | You catch Gertrude looking at you. She turns her head sharply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing unusual about it. Floyd | Floyd | "Mute..." Gertrude says, her voice almost a whisper. "No, never Floyd | mind." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "point to coffin" | ||||
Floyd | You point at the coffins. Floyd | Floyd | Gertrude doesn't seem to notice. Floyd | Floyd | Gertrude opens her mouth and then closes it again shortly after. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "point to me" | ||||
Floyd | You point at yourself. Floyd | Floyd | Gertrude doesn't seem to notice. Floyd | Floyd | Gertrude steps over to you, looking down at her feet. "Mute, I know Floyd | that... you must have passed Fiona to get this far. I was just Floyd | wondering, well, is she okay?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nod" | ||||
Floyd | You nod your head. Floyd | Floyd | Gertrude remains absolutely impassive for quite a while. Slowly but Floyd | surely, though, her lips start to form a smile. "Okay," she says, so Floyd | quietly you have to strain to hear her. "I'm glad." Floyd | Floyd | (Your score has just increased by one point.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Awwwww." | |||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "the place of waiting for points" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf13" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "point to her" | ||||
Floyd | You point at Solemn Gertrude. Floyd | Floyd | Gertrude just blushes. Floyd | Floyd | Gertrude smiles happily to herself. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm, I thought there was a way to have her ask that sooner" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Do we kiss her?" | ||||
| inky says, "or get that point sooner" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "kiss her" | ||||
Floyd | You don't want to give her the wrong impression. Floyd | Floyd | Gertrude cheerfully writes out a notice for the funeral of Vicious Sue Floyd | Floyd | > | Cathy asks, "shall we try kissing her, too?" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "I don't think we swing that way." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "I guess we just move on?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x notice" | ||||
Floyd | The word "notice" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x robes" | ||||
Floyd | The word "robes" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | You hear nothing out of the ordinary. Floyd | Floyd | Gertrude files the funeral notice away neatly, humming to herself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Undertaker's Floyd | A dark little office. The bright sunlight shining through the window Floyd | casts a perfect square of light on the polished floor, as if it were Floyd | too timid to wander away from a straight line. Coffins stand in rows Floyd | against one wall, funereal garbs against the other. Floyd | Floyd | Solemn Gertrude is here, in a black suit and top hat. Floyd | Floyd | Gertrude cheerfully writes out a notice for the funeral of Claw-Hand Floyd | Hank Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I'm pretty sure this is all the points you can get here" | |||
| inky says, "although there might be other stuff to examine, I dunno" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x garbs" | ||||
Floyd | Rows of neatly pressed suits and dresses - all either black or white. Floyd | Floyd | Gertrude files the funeral notice away neatly, humming to herself. Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena says, "we can probably come back after we kill (or don't) some more" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x square" | ||||
Floyd | The sun casts a perfect square of light onto the floor of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Gertrude cheerfully writes out a notice for the funeral of Deputy Gene Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read notice" | ||||
Floyd | The word "notice" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x floor" | ||||
Floyd | The floor is shiny, meticulously polished, cold underfoot. Floyd | Floyd | Gertrude files the funeral notice away neatly, humming to herself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "f" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | As you leave, Gertrude clears her throat - a soft sound a little like Floyd | someone hitting a cloud with a ball of cotton wool. "G-G-Good luck," Floyd | she stammers. "If I see you again, I hope it's not in... a Floyd | professional capacity." Floyd | Floyd | And then she unexpectedly races forward and throws her arms around Floyd | your neck, her hands cold against your bare skin. "Kill him," she Floyd | whispers into your ear as she hugs you tightly. "Don't hesitate to Floyd | kill the sheriff. If there has to be someone with a gun walking Floyd | around the town shooting people, I want it to be you. I trust you." Floyd | Floyd | She starts to let you go, blushing bright red. You grab her roughly Floyd | and kiss her on the cheek, your stubble scratching her pale skin. She Floyd | laughs with a shy happiness. Floyd | Floyd | You turn away from her and head out into the street. The sun is high Floyd | overhead. It's almost time. Floyd | Floyd | Back Street Floyd | This narrow, cramped back street twists and winds fitfully towards the Floyd | town centre, and your goal. A bare market stall stands here Floyd | unattended. A simple wooden cart blocks up the road. A table sits Floyd | here, ready to receive customers to a small restaurant nearby. A Floyd | small neglected garden is surrounded by a tall wooden fence. In the Floyd | garden, a sickly tree seems to have died long ago from dehydration. Floyd | Floyd | Gun-Run Raoul stands here, ready to draw. Floyd | Floyd | "Mute!" Raoul calls out. "Don't try and come any closer. You know Floyd | I'm the fastest draw in the wastelands, and I'd hate to have to riddle Floyd | an otherwise decent citizen such as yourself full of bullet-holes." Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "x x Raoul Raoul" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf14" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x raoul" | ||||
Floyd | A dusky, unshaven man with a multitude of guns and bullets strapped to Floyd | his body. He's smiling mirthlessly, a sad glimmer to his eye. Floyd | Floyd | "Hermano," Raoul pleads, "there's no bad blood between us. Leave town Floyd | while you still can." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "x cart" | ||||
Floyd | Two wheels and a large wooden bucket. Nothing special, certainly, but Floyd | it must do a pretty good job of carting things around. Floyd | Floyd | "Last chance, hermano," Raoul says, his hands slowly moving towards Floyd | the many weapons he carries. "Get out of here!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "x cart". Floyd | Floyd | Back Street Floyd | This narrow, cramped back street twists and winds fitfully towards the Floyd | town centre, and your goal. A bare market stall stands here Floyd | unattended. A simple wooden cart blocks up the road. A table sits Floyd | here, ready to receive customers to a small restaurant nearby. A Floyd | small neglected garden is surrounded by a tall wooden fence. In the Floyd | garden, a sickly tree seems to have died long ago from dehydration. Floyd | Floyd | Gun-Run Raoul stands here, ready to draw. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Time to duck" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hide" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to be a little more specific here. You can take cover Floyd | behind: The market stall. The cart. The restaurant table. The Floyd | wooden fence. The sickly tree. Floyd | Floyd | "Last chance, hermano," Raoul says, his hands slowly moving towards Floyd | the many weapons he carries. "Get out of here!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hide behind sickly tree" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now taking cover behind the sickly tree. Floyd | Floyd | In a flash, Raoul has drawn a pair of six shooters. He fires both in Floyd | a rapid blur, a hail of bullets disintegrating the sickly tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "(Just for fun.)" | |||
| ParserGirl asks, "Cart?" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "Mobile cover!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Use up his bullets!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Wow, we lived despite being behind a sickly tree." | ||||
| olethros arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Jacqueline says, "He has a ton of bullets and guns, though, David." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | Raoul's six shooters click empty. He tosses them aside and pulls a Floyd | lever-action rifle from over his shoulder. He loads and fires the gun Floyd | with inhuman efficiency, his hands a blur. The high calibre bullets Floyd | send you flying. You're already dead by the time you land. Floyd | Floyd | *** GAME OVER *** Floyd | Floyd | In 193 moves, you have scored 13 of a possible 20 points. This makes Floyd | you a renegade lawman. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, UNDO Floyd | the last move, see your FULL SCORE, or QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena says, "we must be skinny" | |||
| olethros asks, "Bin ich in club floyd?" | Jacqueline says, "Ah." | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm willing to hear other ideas." | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "The tree was destroyed." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
Floyd | Please select the saved position file to restore > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf14" | ||||
Floyd | Restored. Floyd | Floyd | Back Street Floyd | This narrow, cramped back street twists and winds fitfully towards the Floyd | town centre, and your goal. A bare market stall stands here Floyd | unattended. A simple wooden cart blocks up the road. A table sits Floyd | here, ready to receive customers to a small restaurant nearby. A Floyd | small neglected garden is surrounded by a tall wooden fence. In the Floyd | garden, a sickly tree seems to have died long ago from dehydration. Floyd | Floyd | Gun-Run Raoul stands here, ready to draw. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hide behind cart" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now taking cover behind the cart. Floyd | Floyd | "Hermano," Raoul pleads, "there's no bad blood between us. Leave town Floyd | while you still can." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We could at least try" | |||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "push cart" | ||||
Floyd | The cart cannot be moved. Floyd | Floyd | "Last chance, hermano," Raoul says, his hands slowly moving towards Floyd | the many weapons he carries. "Get out of here!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Try what? Waiting him out?" | |||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "push cart". Floyd | Floyd | Back Street (taking cover behind the cart) Floyd | This narrow, cramped back street twists and winds fitfully towards the Floyd | town centre, and your goal. A bare market stall stands here Floyd | unattended. A simple wooden cart blocks up the road. A table sits Floyd | here, ready to receive customers to a small restaurant nearby. A Floyd | small neglected garden is surrounded by a tall wooden fence. In the Floyd | garden, a sickly tree seems to have died long ago from dehydration. Floyd | Floyd | Gun-Run Raoul stands here, ready to draw. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Why didn't we try shooting him first, again?" | |||
| Cathy says, "why don't we just try shooting him? maybe the simple solution is best" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "I mean, I know we'd die, but it'd be fun to see how?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "To hide behind e... because he's too fast for us." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf14" | ||||
Floyd | Please select the saved position file to restore > Floyd | Restored. Floyd | Floyd | Back Street Floyd | This narrow, cramped back street twists and winds fitfully towards the Floyd | town centre, and your goal. A bare market stall stands here Floyd | unattended. A simple wooden cart blocks up the road. A table sits Floyd | here, ready to receive customers to a small restaurant nearby. A Floyd | small neglected garden is surrounded by a tall wooden fence. In the Floyd | garden, a sickly tree seems to have died long ago from dehydration. Floyd | Floyd | Gun-Run Raoul stands here, ready to draw. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "He doesn't seem like a bad guy." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot Raoul." | ||||
Floyd | You take careful aim at Raoul and squeeze the trigger. Before you Floyd | actually fire, however, Raoul has drawn his gun and shot you three Floyd | times. You drop your six shooter and stagger about a bit, too Floyd | surprised to actually die right away. Floyd | Floyd | "Sorry Mute," Raoul says softly. Floyd | Floyd | Your legs give out and you collapse to the ground. Floyd | Floyd | *** GAME OVER *** Floyd | Floyd | In 190 moves, you have scored 13 of a possible 20 points. This makes Floyd | you a renegade lawman. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, UNDO Floyd | the last move, see your FULL SCORE, or QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena says, "I think we just use each cover till he does something different" | |||
| DavidW says (to PG), "well, that's true too" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, ";Besides, he's apparently faster." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Wow. He is very fast." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
Floyd | Please select the saved position file to restore > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf14" | ||||
Floyd | Restored. Floyd | Floyd | Back Street Floyd | This narrow, cramped back street twists and winds fitfully towards the Floyd | town centre, and your goal. A bare market stall stands here Floyd | unattended. A simple wooden cart blocks up the road. A table sits Floyd | here, ready to receive customers to a small restaurant nearby. A Floyd | small neglected garden is surrounded by a tall wooden fence. In the Floyd | garden, a sickly tree seems to have died long ago from dehydration. Floyd | Floyd | Gun-Run Raoul stands here, ready to draw. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Okay, next plan... wait it out?" | |||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "hide behind market stall" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now taking cover behind the market stall. Floyd | Floyd | "Hermano," Raoul pleads, "there's no bad blood between us. Leave town Floyd | while you still can." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we have to do the mobile hiding." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Behind the cart?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We may have to run from cover to cover as he destroys them until bullets run out." | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "That sounds promising." | ||||
| DavidW says, "What I said." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, see, when you said mobile cover I thought you meant the cart, but we can't move that." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Now I see what you mean." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
| schep arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | DavidW says, "No. Run from tree to cart to table etc." | |||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | "Last chance, hermano," Raoul says, his hands slowly moving towards Floyd | the many weapons he carries. "Get out of here!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | In a flash, Raoul has drawn a pair of six shooters. He fires both in Floyd | a rapid blur, a hail of bullets disintegrating the market stall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Currently we're behind the stall" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hide behind cart" | ParserGirl says, "Currently we're out in the open." | |||
Floyd | Okay, you're now taking cover behind the cart. Floyd | Floyd | Raoul's six shooters click empty. He tosses them aside and pulls a Floyd | lever-action rifle from over his shoulder. He loads and fires the gun Floyd | with inhuman efficiency, his hands a blur. The high-calibre bullets Floyd | utterly destroy the cart you're taking cover behind. Floyd | Floyd | > | Cathy says, "now we move" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "Table and tree left." | ||||
| DavidW says, "and fence" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hide behind fence" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now taking cover behind the wooden fence. Floyd | Floyd | Raoul tosses the rifle aside and pulls a sawn-off shotgun from a thigh Floyd | holster. He aims at you and fires both barrels. The wooden fence Floyd | you're taking cover behind explodes in a shower of splinters. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Miseri arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Jacqueline says, "Yeah, thanks - I was scrolling back to see our options." | |||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "hide behind table" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now taking cover behind the restaurant table. Floyd | Floyd | Raoul tosses the sawn-off shotgun aside and pulls an antique machine Floyd | pistol from the back of his belt. He fires indiscriminately, blowing Floyd | apart the restaurant table in a series of shattering bullet strikes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to PG), "Tree." | |||
| ParserGirl asks, "And Cart?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "(Think it's best if just one types here.)" | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "hide behind tree" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now taking cover behind the sickly tree. Floyd | Floyd | Raoul drops the machine pistol to the ground and grabs a small laser Floyd | gun from his bandolier. He directs a beam of lethal blue light right Floyd | at you, causing the sickly tree to spontaneously combust in a puff of Floyd | smoke. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Cart is gone." | |||
| DavidW says, "cart is gone" | ||||
| Catena asks, "tree was first?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "No, not this time." | ||||
| Ghogg says, "man, laser beam" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "LASWER RIFLE" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "shoot him now?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I think we're out of cover, people." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf15" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "uh-huh" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Shoot him, sure." | ||||
| schep says, "that or Z" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "Let's type cover to be sure" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Good idea." | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "hide" | ||||
Floyd | Raoul has destroyed all the cover in this location. Floyd | Floyd | Raoul throws down the laser gun and pulls a derringer from his boot. Floyd | He looks at the tiny gun for a second and then shrugs. "That's all Floyd | folks!" he says, before bolting down a narrow alley and disappearing Floyd | from view. Floyd | Floyd | (Your score has just increased by one point.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "woot" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh. Huh." | ||||
| Ghogg says, "woo woo" | ||||
| Catena exclaims, "yay!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "reload" | ||||
Floyd | (your six shooter) Floyd | It's already fully loaded. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yay, we didn't kill him" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf16" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Run run Gun-Gun Raoul you beautiful bastard you." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "f" | ||||
Floyd | Town Centre Floyd | The eclectic buildings of the town crowd round this open space, Floyd | leaving a circle of bare, trodden dirt, featureless except for the Floyd | towering wooden gallows at its centre. Floyd | Floyd | Elias stands on the gallows, the noose around his neck. Floyd | Floyd | The rotund execution bot sits by the gallows, its single metallic arm Floyd | gripping the lever that works the trapdoor. Floyd | Floyd | Sheriff Clayton stands in your way. Floyd | Floyd | "Mute," the sheriff says. "Just in time." Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "showDOWN showDOWN" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Elias!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot sheriff" | ||||
Floyd | You shoot the sheriff, the bullet tearing right through his chest Floyd | explosively. He lets out a yelp of pain and staggers briefly, before Floyd | regaining his footing. Floyd | Floyd | "Damn you, Mute!" the sheriff screams, "you want shooting? I'll give Floyd | you shooting!" Floyd | Floyd | Clayton whirls round, draws his six shooter and takes aim at Elias. Floyd | Floyd | > | Cathy asks, "x bot?" | |||
| Catena asks, "shoot rope of noose?" | ||||
| ParserGirl asks, "Can we shoot the noose?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot noose" | ||||
Floyd | You put a bullet right through the rope dangling from the gallows. Floyd | The noose falls slack around Elias' neck. Floyd | Floyd | The sheriff fires, his bullet striking Elias right through the heart. Floyd | The man you love looks at you, one hand held out into the blood Floyd | gushing from his body. The light leaves his eyes in a matter of Floyd | seconds and he collapses onto the gallows. Floyd | Floyd | No! You let your gun fall from your hands. Floyd | Floyd | *** GAME OVER *** Floyd | Floyd | In 201 moves, you have scored 14 of a possible 20 points. This makes Floyd | you a renegade lawman. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, UNDO Floyd | the last move, see your FULL SCORE, or QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Guess we should have done that first." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
Floyd | Please select the saved position file to restore > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf16" | ||||
Floyd | Restored. Floyd | Floyd | Back Street Floyd | This narrow, cramped back street twists and winds fitfully towards the Floyd | town centre, and your goal. There seems to be an enormous amount of Floyd | broken wood choking up the road. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "f" | ||||
Floyd | Town Centre Floyd | The eclectic buildings of the town crowd round this open space, Floyd | leaving a circle of bare, trodden dirt, featureless except for the Floyd | towering wooden gallows at its centre. Floyd | Floyd | Elias stands on the gallows, the noose around his neck. Floyd | Floyd | The rotund execution bot sits by the gallows, its single metallic arm Floyd | gripping the lever that works the trapdoor. Floyd | Floyd | Sheriff Clayton stands in your way. Floyd | Floyd | "Mute," the sheriff says. "Just in time." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot noose" | ||||
Floyd | You put a bullet right through the rope dangling from the gallows. Floyd | The noose falls slack around Elias' neck. Floyd | Floyd | "Damn you, Mute!" the sheriff screams, "you want shooting? I'll give Floyd | you shooting!" Floyd | Floyd | Clayton whirls round, draws his six shooter and takes aim at Elias. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Now what?" | |||
| schep asks, "shoot sheriff's gun?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot gun" | ||||
Floyd | Which gun do you mean, the six shooter, or your six shooter? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Shoot the lever." | |||
| Catena says, "lever" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh - wait. Yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot lever" | ||||
Floyd | The bullet ricochets off the lever, jerking it backwards. The Floyd | trapdoor beneath Elias' feet drops away. With a short yell, Elias Floyd | plummets downwards and disappears. Floyd | Floyd | The sheriff fires, his bullet passing through thin air. Floyd | Floyd | (Your score has just increased by two points.) Floyd | Floyd | > | schep says, "aha, clever" | |||
| Catena exclaims, "hee!" | ||||
| DavidW high-fives everyone. | ||||
| Cathy exclaims, "nice plan!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Heehee." | ||||
| Jacqueline high-fives back. | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Shoot sheriff?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We still have to kill this man, though." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "He needs killin." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf17" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "#belated I think the sheriff has a little speech if you don't shoot him right off" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Do we care? I guess we might." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "point to sherrif" | ||||
Floyd | You point at Sheriff Clayton. Floyd | Floyd | The sheriff stamps his foot in the dust. "Quit it, Mute, I'm talking Floyd | now!" Floyd | Floyd | The sheriff turns to face you. "You piece of crap," he splutters, "I Floyd | should have done this a long a time ago." Floyd | Floyd | He aims his six shooter at you and fires again and again, hitting you Floyd | square in the chest with bullet after bullet. You remain standing for Floyd | a few seconds, unsure what's happening, and then the world begins to Floyd | fade away. Floyd | Floyd | *** GAME OVER *** Floyd | Floyd | In 202 moves, you have scored 16 of a possible 20 points. This makes Floyd | you a renegade lawman with a fistful of bullets and a vague sense of Floyd | right and wrong. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, UNDO Floyd | the last move, see your FULL SCORE, or QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "The problem with speeches is that it isn't killing." | |||
| inky says, "hee hee" | ||||
| inky says, "how true" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "hm - that is not a good ending." | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "Maybe inky meant when we first came onto the scene." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf17" | ||||
Floyd | Please select the saved position file to restore > Floyd | Restored. Floyd | Floyd | Town Centre Floyd | The eclectic buildings of the town crowd round this open space, Floyd | leaving a circle of bare, trodden dirt, featureless except for the Floyd | towering wooden gallows at its centre. Floyd | Floyd | The rotund execution bot sits by the gallows, its single metallic arm Floyd | gripping the lever that works the trapdoor. Floyd | Floyd | Sheriff Clayton stands in your way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Cathy says, "at least we saves Elias" | |||
| inky says, "I meant -- yeah" | ||||
| schep asks, "hide behind bot?" | ||||
| Cathy says, "*saved" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh. Well, do you guys want me to go back another step to hear the speech?" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "Sure" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
Floyd | Please select the saved position file to restore > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf16" | ||||
Floyd | Restored. Floyd | Floyd | Back Street Floyd | This narrow, cramped back street twists and winds fitfully towards the Floyd | town centre, and your goal. There seems to be an enormous amount of Floyd | broken wood choking up the road. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "f" | ||||
Floyd | Town Centre Floyd | The eclectic buildings of the town crowd round this open space, Floyd | leaving a circle of bare, trodden dirt, featureless except for the Floyd | towering wooden gallows at its centre. Floyd | Floyd | Elias stands on the gallows, the noose around his neck. Floyd | Floyd | The rotund execution bot sits by the gallows, its single metallic arm Floyd | gripping the lever that works the trapdoor. Floyd | Floyd | Sheriff Clayton stands in your way. Floyd | Floyd | "Mute," the sheriff says. "Just in time." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Does shooting the sheriff not work after saving Elias?" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "We didn't try." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "point to elias" | ||||
Floyd | You point at Elias. Floyd | Floyd | The sheriff stamps his foot in the dust. "Quit it, Mute, I'm talking Floyd | now!" Floyd | Floyd | "I'm sorry about trying to kill you the way I did," the sheriff Floyd | continues. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "We will find out - we're going to see if he has something to say first." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | "I thought it'd be quick and painless. I didn't anticipate you Floyd | wandering the wastelands half-naked, nurturing a vendetta - no, not Floyd | even a vendetta, a petty grudge against me." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | The sheriff looks around at the shuttered buildings, as if Floyd | grandstanding to a huge audience. "I mean, come on Mute, you think Floyd | I'm the bad guy here?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena says, "gay radioactive scifi westen... I hope Fallout is as good" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nod" | ||||
Floyd | You nod your head. Floyd | Floyd | "Of course you do," the sheriff sneers. Floyd | Floyd | The sheriff points at you accusingly. "You're the one shooting your Floyd | way through the town, killing the only men and women who stand between Floyd | its people and the marauders, the mutants and the savages!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "nod". Floyd | Floyd | Town Centre Floyd | The eclectic buildings of the town crowd round this open space, Floyd | leaving a circle of bare, trodden dirt, featureless except for the Floyd | towering wooden gallows at its centre. Floyd | Floyd | Elias stands on the gallows, the noose around his neck. Floyd | Floyd | The rotund execution bot sits by the gallows, its single metallic arm Floyd | gripping the lever that works the trapdoor. Floyd | Floyd | Sheriff Clayton stands in your way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shake head" | ||||
Floyd | You shake your head. Floyd | Floyd | "You're damn right I'm not," the sheriff responds. Floyd | Floyd | The sheriff points at you accusingly. "You're the one shooting your Floyd | way through the town, killing the only men and women who stand between Floyd | its people and the marauders, the mutants and the savages!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "(Just checking.)" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | "By the Gods, I know they were a motley crew of vagabonds, but as long Floyd | as they were in my posse they were on the side of the Law!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Gosh, maybe he's right and we're a horrible person." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I doubt it, though." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | The sheriff fixes his steely eyes on you. "And whose side are you on, Floyd | Mute? Your own?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "But not on the side of GOOD, foolish lawman!," you reply, suddenly learning how to vocalize." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "How do we answer?" | ||||
| Catena says, "but love justifies everything" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "Point to elias" | ||||
| DavidW says, "The sheriff's probably our ex." | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "point to Elias" | ||||
Floyd | You point at Elias. Floyd | Floyd | The sheriff stamps his foot in the dust. "Quit it, Mute, I'm talking Floyd | now!" Floyd | Floyd | He aims an accusing finger at Elias. "What about his?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "NO REALLY" | |||
| inky says, "oops, lameness" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, oh well." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nod" | ||||
Floyd | You nod your head. Floyd | Floyd | "As long as you're not on the side of the Law," the sheriff hisses, "I Floyd | don't owe you anything. Because I will always see that the Law is Floyd | obeyed." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | "Or better than obeyed... feared." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | The sheriff rests his hands on his hips. "Well, Mute, it's your Floyd | move." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Okay - noose, lever, sheriff?" | |||
| Catena says, "he cribbed that from Machiavelli" | ||||
| Catena says, "yes" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I hear no dissenting votes." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot noose" | ||||
Floyd | You put a bullet right through the rope dangling from the gallows. Floyd | The noose falls slack around Elias' neck. Floyd | Floyd | "Damn you, Mute!" the sheriff screams, "you want shooting? I'll give Floyd | you shooting!" Floyd | Floyd | Clayton whirls round, draws his six shooter and takes aim at Elias. Floyd | Floyd | > | Cathy says, "maybe the robot is important" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot lever" | ||||
Floyd | The bullet ricochets off the lever, jerking it backwards. The Floyd | trapdoor beneath Elias' feet drops away. With a short yell, Elias Floyd | plummets downwards and disappears. Floyd | Floyd | The sheriff fires, his bullet passing through thin air. Floyd | Floyd | (Your score has just increased by two points.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I wonder what would happen if we gave our gun to him. Doubt Mute would do that, though." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot sheriff" | ||||
Floyd | You shoot the sheriff, the bullet tearing right through his chest Floyd | explosively. He lets out a yelp of pain and staggers briefly, before Floyd | regaining his footing. Floyd | Floyd | The sheriff turns to face you. "You piece of crap," he splutters, "I Floyd | should have done this a long a time ago." Floyd | Floyd | He aims his six shooter at you and fires. Still reeling from his Floyd | gunshot wound, the sheriff misses by a hair's breadth, the bullet Floyd | whipping past your bare arm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot sheriff" | ||||
Floyd | You send a second bullet ripping through the sheriff's body. He Floyd | clutches his heart, blood gushing freely from his chest. "You've Floyd | killed me, Mute, but that ain't enough to stop me!" Floyd | Floyd | The sheriff fires, but his hands are shaking and his knees seem weak. Floyd | The shot goes wide. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot sheriff" | ||||
Floyd | You blast sheriff Clayton again. He falls to his hands and knees, Floyd | struggling to keep his gun trained on you. "Long as you're dead," he Floyd | rasps, blood dripping down his chin, "I can rest easy in the Floyd | hereafter!" Floyd | Floyd | The sheriff fires, discharging his gun impotently into the dirt. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Running out of bullets..." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot sheriff" | ||||
Floyd | You shoot the sheriff for the fourth time. He arches his back, Floyd | squealing in agony, teeth bared, and then falls forward: finally dead. Floyd | Floyd | (Your score has just increased by one point.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Note: Euphemism." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Heehee." | ||||
| Cathy says (to floyd), "reload" | ||||
Floyd | (your six shooter) Floyd | You quickly empty the spent casings from your six shooter and replace Floyd | them with live bullets. Floyd | Floyd | The execution bot surveys the scene with its optical sensors and Floyd | begins to trundle away discreetly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "He IS our ex!" | |||
| inky says, "ok, *now* you shot the sheriff" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "giggle" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "Indeed." | ||||
| Cathy asks, "should we find elias?" | ||||
| schep says, "wow, smart bot" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Town Centre Floyd | The eclectic buildings of the town crowd round this open space, Floyd | leaving a circle of bare, trodden dirt, featureless except for the Floyd | towering wooden gallows at its centre. Floyd | Floyd | The execution bot trundles slowly away from the gallows. Floyd | Floyd | Sheriff Clayton lies on his front in a pool of blood. Floyd | Floyd | The execution bot disappears down an alleyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I suspect it is now time to reinact a scene from Brokeback Mountain." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x elias" | ||||
Floyd | You see no elias here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena asks, "where's our honey?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "gallows" | ||||
Floyd | The story doesn't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sheriff" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to concern yourself with him anymore. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "he dropped down through the trapdoor" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x gallows" | ||||
Floyd | A wooden platform with a wooden beam over it, from which dangles a Floyd | rope noose. A small trapdoor is set into the gallows, directly Floyd | beneath the noose. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep asks, "l under gallows?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | ||||
Floyd | The trapdoor is already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get on gallows" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now standing on the gallows. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter hole" | ||||
Floyd | The word "hole" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Cathy says (to floyd), "x trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | This opens and the person on the gallows drops down, the noose Floyd | snapping their neck or strangling them to death. It's operated by the Floyd | lever protruding from the back of the gallows. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | That is not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl asks, "Forward?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "f" | ||||
Floyd | (first getting off of the gallows) Floyd | Floyd | Under the Gallows Floyd | You're in the shade beneath the gallows. The air is deathly cold. Floyd | Floyd | Elias lies on the ground here, unconscious. Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena says, "yeah" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "kiss Elias." | ||||
Floyd | You kneel down next to Elias, gently touching his cheek to turn his Floyd | head. He doesn't have any visible injuries. As you run your fingers Floyd | through his hair he winces, stirring slightly, but doesn't wake. Floyd | Slowly, you lean down, touching your lips to his. Floyd | Floyd | Elias opens his eyes and smiles. "Mute," he whispers. "I knew you'd Floyd | save me." Floyd | Floyd | Lifeless Park Floyd | The sun is low and red on the horizon, disappearing behind the Floyd | buildings of the town. The town looks about the same as ever, perhaps Floyd | a little more run-down in some ways. But the sheriff has been gone Floyd | some time now. Perhaps it's just you, but an oppressive air seems to Floyd | have lifted. People loiter on the streets, talking and bartering, the Floyd | diseased slum-dwellers have been cleared out and moved to the new Floyd | hospice. It's still not much of a civilisation. But it will do. Floyd | Floyd | The corpses of about a dozen mutant zomboids are laid out on the bone Floyd | dry ground of the park. Gun-Run Raoul watches over them, looking for Floyd | any sign that they may not truly be dead. Floyd | Floyd | Gatling Gun Fiona and Solemn Gertrude stand nearby, chatting idly. Floyd | Floyd | Elias is close by your side. Floyd | Floyd | (Your score has just increased by one point.) Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "SO DREAMY" | |||
| Jacqueline giggles at inky. | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "point to fiona" | ||||
Floyd | You point at Gatling Gun Fiona. Floyd | Floyd | "She's growing on me," Elias says. "Very, very slowly." Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Yay!" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "I want to give her a hug but I don't want to get burned on the turrets." | ||||
| inky says, "hee hee" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "point to gertrude" | inky says, "is that what they're called" | |||
Floyd | You point at Solemn Gertrude. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, she's such a sweetheart," Elias says. "Go kill some more people Floyd | so she has something to do." Floyd | Floyd | Raoul rubs his unshaven jaw. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| DavidW says, "ha ha" | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "point to raoul" | ||||
Floyd | You point at Gun-Run Raoul. Floyd | Floyd | "He's done a lot for the town, hasn't he?" Elias says. "But I'm not Floyd | about to go running to him the next time there's a noose around my Floyd | neck." Floyd | Floyd | Fiona absently fingers the action of her machinegun. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "point to zomboids" | ||||
Floyd | You point at the mutant zomboids. Floyd | Floyd | Elias pulls a face. "Are you sure they're dead now?" Floyd | Floyd | Fiona playfully pokes Gertrude in the ribs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "x fiona" | ||||
Floyd | Fiona stands by Raoul, a machinegun propped up in the dirt next to Floyd | her. Her gaze repeatedly wanders from the mutant zomboids towards Floyd | Solemn Gertrude. Floyd | Floyd | Gertrude laughs shyly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "point to me" | ||||
Floyd | You point at yourself. Floyd | Floyd | Elias leans over to kiss you on the cheek. Floyd | Floyd | Raoul prods one of the mutant zomboids with the barrel of his rifle. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So, it's not over yet. Hm." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Reckon they're dead?" | ||||
| inky says, "you can score a couple more points here, I guess" | ||||
| Cathy says (to floyd), "x zomboids" | ||||
Floyd | You're pretty sure they're dead for real this time. Floyd | Floyd | Fiona absently fingers the action of her machinegun. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "kiss him again. The first just woke him." | |||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "x gertrude" | ||||
Floyd | Solemn Gertrude stands by Fiona, looking down at the ground as she Floyd | twists the tip of her shoe into the dirt. Floyd | Floyd | Raoul prods one of the mutant zomboids with the barrel of his rifle. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "but this is basically the epilogue" | |||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You're Mute Lawton. A devilishly handsome cowboy with windswept black Floyd | hair and roguish stubble. Lean and tall, your tanned body is taut Floyd | with cool, calculated strength. Floyd | Floyd | You're smartly dressed in a black suit and a three-quarter length Floyd | overcoat. A black stetson keeps the sun out of your eyes. Floyd | Floyd | Fiona playfully pokes Gertrude in the ribs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ParserGirl says, "Ooh, fancy." | |||
| DavidW asks, "We got dressed, eh?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "kiss elias" | ||||
Floyd | You draw Elias closer and kiss him on the lips. He folds easily into Floyd | your embrace. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x elias" | ||||
Floyd | Slender, dark haired, quite tall. He regards you with kind, hazel Floyd | eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Cathy asks, "are we dressed for our wedding?" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "For stubble this planned you need a draft from the zoning commission." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "marry elias" | ||||
Floyd | The word "marry" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hee hee" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "propose to elias" | ||||
Floyd | The word "propose" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "(I assume you do 'forward' again)" | |||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "shoot zombies" | ||||
Floyd | Raoul and Fiona will deal with them if they start moving again. Floyd | Floyd | Gertrude laughs shyly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Probably, yeah." | |||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "gaaaaayyy" | Cathy asks, "maybe 'f' to a chapel or something?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "f" | ||||
Floyd | Elias comes with you. Floyd | Floyd | Rowdy Juanita's Saloon Floyd | Rowdy Juanita's Saloon is a homely place, and meticulously clean. A Floyd | shady refuge from the wasteland sun, a shaft of ruddy twilight shines Floyd | in through the doorway, enveloping countless dancing motes of dust in Floyd | its glare. A multitude of round tables are dotted around the Floyd | carefully polished bar, and sturdy wooden beams criss-cross the high Floyd | ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | The former-execution bot trundles around behind the bar, a wash cloth Floyd | in its single claw-like hand, while Rowdy Juanita is hard at work Floyd | tending to the needs of her many customers. Floyd | Floyd | Elias is close by your side. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, if it isn't my two favourite patrons," Juanita exclaims. "Your Floyd | drinks are on the house." Floyd | Floyd | > | Corporal_Touchy says, "whoops." | |||
| ParserGirl says, "Aww, execution bot found new work." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drink drink" | ||||
Floyd | You see no drink here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Cathy says (to floyd), "drink" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to drink? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ParserGirl says (to Floyd), "point to drink" | ||||
Floyd | You see no drink here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "point at boty" | ||||
Floyd | The word "boty" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "point to me" | ||||
Floyd | You point at yourself. Floyd | Floyd | Elias leans over to kiss you on the cheek. Floyd | Floyd | Juanita sets two glasses of wasteland wine on the bar. Elias picks up Floyd | one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "point at bot" | ||||
Floyd | You point at the execution bot. Floyd | Floyd | Elias sighs. "I avoid him whenever I get the chance. He's nice Floyd | enough, but still..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take wine" | ||||
Floyd | As she sees you raising your glass, Juanita heads over to you, Floyd | brandishing a small capsule of machine oil. "A toast," she says. "To Floyd | love." Floyd | Floyd | Elias meets your eye. "What do you think?" he asks. "To love?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nod" | ||||
Floyd | You nod your head. Floyd | Floyd | Elias smiles and slips his arm in yours. "To love, then," he says. Floyd | Floyd | "To love," Juanita repeats, her vinyl lips forming a wide smile. Floyd | Floyd | The three of you raise your glasses. Floyd | Floyd | *** THE END *** Floyd | Floyd | In 242 moves, you have scored 18 of a possible 20 points. This makes Floyd | you a renegade lawman with a fistful of bullets and a friendly Floyd | demeanour. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, UNDO Floyd | the last move, see your FULL SCORE, see some AMUSING things to try, or Floyd | QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| ParserGirl says, "f Nod Suavely" | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "full" | ||||
Floyd | That isn't one of the options. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, UNDO Floyd | the last move, see your FULL SCORE, see some AMUSING things to try, or Floyd | QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| schep says (to Floyd), "full score" | ||||
Floyd | In 242 moves, you have scored 18 of a possible 20 points. This makes Floyd | you a renegade lawman with a fistful of bullets and a friendly Floyd | demeanour. Your score consists of: Floyd | 1 point for drinking the plainswoman's potion Floyd | 7 points for killing members of the sheriff's posse Floyd | 1 point for trapping Juanita beneath the chandelier Floyd | 1 point for kissing Juanita Floyd | 1 point for scaring off Gatling Gun Fiona Floyd | 1 point for getting measured for your coffin Floyd | 1 point for easing Solemn Gertrude's mind Floyd | 1 point for surviving Gun-Run Raoul's onslaught Floyd | 2 points for saving Elias Floyd | 1 point for killing the sheriff Floyd | 1 point for kissing Elias Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, UNDO Floyd | the last move, see your FULL SCORE, see some AMUSING things to try, or Floyd | QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | Catena says, "amusing" | |||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "teeheee - nice." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "amusing" | ||||
Floyd | Have you tried: Floyd | Floyd | Kissing everyone? Floyd | Pointing at things around different people? Floyd | Spending some time with Gertrude? Floyd | Trying to deprogram Juanita? Floyd | Looking at the sky as you progress? Floyd | Talking, shouting, tasting or singing? Floyd | Indulging the 'xyzzy' meme? Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, UNDO Floyd | the last move, see your FULL SCORE, see some AMUSING things to try, or Floyd | QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh yeah, I forgot about deprogramming juanita" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "It seemed like a bad time earlier." | ||||
| DavidW says, "It would never occur to me to try." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||||
| inky says, "atfer she's trapped under the chandelier you can" | ||||
| inky says, "also" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "nod". Floyd | Floyd | Rowdy Juanita's Saloon Floyd | Rowdy Juanita's Saloon is a homely place, and meticulously clean. A Floyd | shady refuge from the wasteland sun, a shaft of ruddy twilight shines Floyd | in through the doorway, enveloping countless dancing motes of dust in Floyd | its glare. A multitude of round tables are dotted around the Floyd | carefully polished bar, and sturdy wooden beams criss-cross the high Floyd | ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | The former-execution bot trundles around behind the bar, a wash cloth Floyd | in its single claw-like hand, while Rowdy Juanita stands nearby, a Floyd | glass of machine oil in her hand. Floyd | Floyd | Elias is close by your side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shake" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to wake? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, sure." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | You must be more specific about whom you want to talk to. Floyd | Floyd | "To love," Elias says, slipping his arm in yours. Floyd | Floyd | "To love," Juanita repeats, her vinyl lips forming a wide smile. Floyd | Floyd | The three of you raise your glasses. Floyd | Floyd | *** THE END *** Floyd | Floyd | In 242 moves, you have scored 18 of a possible 20 points. This makes Floyd | you a renegade lawman with a fistful of bullets and a friendly Floyd | demeanour. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, UNDO Floyd | the last move, see your FULL SCORE, see some AMUSING things to try, or Floyd | QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm, whoops" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "no". Floyd | Floyd | Rowdy Juanita's Saloon Floyd | Rowdy Juanita's Saloon is a homely place, and meticulously clean. A Floyd | shady refuge from the wasteland sun, a shaft of ruddy twilight shines Floyd | in through the doorway, enveloping countless dancing motes of dust in Floyd | its glare. A multitude of round tables are dotted around the Floyd | carefully polished bar, and sturdy wooden beams criss-cross the high Floyd | ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | The former-execution bot trundles around behind the bar, a wash cloth Floyd | in its single claw-like hand, while Rowdy Juanita stands nearby, a Floyd | glass of machine oil in her hand. Floyd | Floyd | Elias is close by your side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "take wine". Floyd | Floyd | Rowdy Juanita's Saloon Floyd | Rowdy Juanita's Saloon is a homely place, and meticulously clean. A Floyd | shady refuge from the wasteland sun, a shaft of ruddy twilight shines Floyd | in through the doorway, enveloping countless dancing motes of dust in Floyd | its glare. A multitude of round tables are dotted around the Floyd | carefully polished bar, and sturdy wooden beams criss-cross the high Floyd | ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | The former-execution bot trundles around behind the bar, a wash cloth Floyd | in its single claw-like hand, while Rowdy Juanita is hard at work Floyd | tending to the needs of her many customers. Floyd | Floyd | On the bar is a glass of wasteland wine. Floyd | Floyd | Elias is close by your side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get glass" | ||||
Floyd | As she sees you raising your glass, Juanita heads over to you, Floyd | brandishing a small capsule of machine oil. "A toast," she says. "To Floyd | love." Floyd | Floyd | Elias meets your eye. "What do you think?" he asks. "To love?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | You must be more specific about whom you want to talk to. Floyd | Floyd | "To love," Elias says, slipping his arm in yours. Floyd | Floyd | "To love," Juanita repeats, her vinyl lips forming a wide smile. Floyd | Floyd | The three of you raise your glasses. Floyd | Floyd | *** THE END *** Floyd | Floyd | In 242 moves, you have scored 18 of a possible 20 points. This makes Floyd | you a renegade lawman with a fistful of bullets and a friendly Floyd | demeanour. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, UNDO Floyd | the last move, see your FULL SCORE, see some AMUSING things to try, or Floyd | QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "...dammit" | |||
| Jacqueline says, ">SHAKE HEAD" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "no". Floyd | Floyd | Rowdy Juanita's Saloon Floyd | Rowdy Juanita's Saloon is a homely place, and meticulously clean. A Floyd | shady refuge from the wasteland sun, a shaft of ruddy twilight shines Floyd | in through the doorway, enveloping countless dancing motes of dust in Floyd | its glare. A multitude of round tables are dotted around the Floyd | carefully polished bar, and sturdy wooden beams criss-cross the high Floyd | ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | The former-execution bot trundles around behind the bar, a wash cloth Floyd | in its single claw-like hand, while Rowdy Juanita stands nearby, a Floyd | glass of machine oil in her hand. Floyd | Floyd | Elias is close by your side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "get glass". Floyd | Floyd | Rowdy Juanita's Saloon Floyd | Rowdy Juanita's Saloon is a homely place, and meticulously clean. A Floyd | shady refuge from the wasteland sun, a shaft of ruddy twilight shines Floyd | in through the doorway, enveloping countless dancing motes of dust in Floyd | its glare. A multitude of round tables are dotted around the Floyd | carefully polished bar, and sturdy wooden beams criss-cross the high Floyd | ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | The former-execution bot trundles around behind the bar, a wash cloth Floyd | in its single claw-like hand, while Rowdy Juanita is hard at work Floyd | tending to the needs of her many customers. Floyd | Floyd | On the bar is a glass of wasteland wine. Floyd | Floyd | Elias is close by your side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shake head" | ||||
Floyd | You shake your head. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oops - I'll let you." | |||
| ParserGirl says, "He hasn't asked yet." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get wine. shake head" | ||||
Floyd | As she sees you raising your glass, Juanita heads over to you, Floyd | brandishing a small capsule of machine oil. "A toast," she says. "To Floyd | love." Floyd | Floyd | Elias meets your eye. "What do you think?" he asks. "To love?" Floyd | Floyd | You shake your head. Floyd | Floyd | Elias cottons on immediately. "No," he says to Juanita. "A toast to Floyd | the dead. Especially those we wanted dead. May they stay that way, Floyd | and rest in peace." Floyd | Floyd | Juanita smiles. "How noble. Okay: to the dead." Floyd | Floyd | The three of you raise your glasses. Floyd | Floyd | *** THE END *** Floyd | Floyd | In 243 moves, you have scored 19 of a possible 20 points. This makes Floyd | you a renegade lawman with a fistful of bullets and a gentle soul. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, UNDO Floyd | the last move, see your FULL SCORE, see some AMUSING things to try, or Floyd | QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok, there we go, the other point" | |||
| DavidW says, "what the" | ||||
| inky says, "I wonder if yes/no questions at the ends of games are always supposed to be answered no" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Huh." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, reprogramming is another point, you suppose?" | ||||
| Catena says, "last point is probably for deprogramming" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy asks, "what the? how did we get that last point?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Toasting the dead, I guess." | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "No, I would not in fact like to be rescued from this dungeon with my bag full of treasure. ***Your Score Has Gone Up By 3 Points***" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
Floyd | Please select the saved position file to restore > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||||
Floyd | Restored. Floyd | Floyd | Saloon Floyd | Rowdy Juanita's Saloon is a homely place, and mostly clean. A shady Floyd | refuge from the wasteland sun, a shaft of harsh light shines in Floyd | through the doorway, enveloping countless dancing motes of dust in its Floyd | glare. A multitude of round tables are dotted around the carefully Floyd | polished bar, and sturdy wooden beams criss-cross the high ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | The floor is littered with splinters of wood and broken glass. Floyd | Floyd | A tattered and broken chandelier is propped up against the bar. Floyd | Floyd | Rowdy Juanita is lying half over the bar, trapped beneath a heavy Floyd | chandelier. Floyd | Floyd | > | schep asks (of inky), "Do you want your possessions identified?" | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "reprogram juanita" | ||||
Floyd | The word "reprogram" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x juanita" | ||||
Floyd | Originally intended as a utilitarian synthetic wife for lonely Floyd | wasteland farmers, Juanita is half farm machine, half sexbot. Her Floyd | figure has curvy, art deco proportions, while her four hydraulic arms Floyd | can plough a whole field in minutes. Floyd | Floyd | Juanita is completely pinned down by a fallen chandelier. Up close Floyd | you can now see that a program crystal has been inserted into a port Floyd | in the back of her head. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "program juanita" | ||||
Floyd | The story doesn't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crystal" | ||||
Floyd | A thin, translucent shard of nanoscale computer memory. Floyd | Floyd | "Do you see something that doesn't belong?" Juanita asks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take crystal" | ||||
Floyd | You take hold of the program crystal and pull it out of Juanita's head Floyd | socket. Floyd | Floyd | Juanita sighs with relief. "Ah, I feel much better now." Floyd | Floyd | She wedges her upper arms against the the bar and they begin to emit a Floyd | low, hydraulic hiss. "Don't worry about me," she says. "I'll be out Floyd | of here in no time. Go save Elias!" Floyd | Floyd | (Your score has just increased by one point.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There you go." | |||
| inky says, "half farm machine, half sexbot" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "With pouty vinyl lips." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, this took two hours." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Do we want to save the other game for next week?" | ||||
| schep has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ParserGirl says, "I don't have anywhere to go." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I actually should probably get going on some other things, myself." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But you guys can play and I'll just pop in and watch now and then." | ||||
| inky says, "I think it's slightly shorter than this one, but I imagine it's still a good 60-90 minutes" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I really need to get some chores done. Company this evening." | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "Ah, ok." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Probably best to leave it for another day, then." | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "I'll go try some mud clients" | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy exclaims, "This is a lot of fun though!" | ||||
| inky says, "alrighty" | ||||
| inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW says, "I didn't know how long either would take. I just heard they were linear games." | |||
| ParserGirl has had her fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Jacqueline says, "Okay, so next week, we do Attack of the Robot Yeti Zombies, then." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Heh. Yes, this was literally linear." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I rather liked the forward/backward thing." | ||||
| Nitku says, "I estimated this to take about 30 min, but I guess it takes a lot longer in CF sessions" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah, it does for some reason" | ||||
| Catena trembles in trope-ridden anticipation | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, we discuss stuff." | ||||
| inky says, "though this style of game actually works pretty well for clubfloy" | ||||
| inky says, "d" | ||||
| inky says, "since there's no map that people get confused about" | ||||
| DavidW says, "That's true" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "I love driving the FloydBus." | ||||
| Corporal_Touchy says, "Not drawing a map is negligent anyway. hehe" | ||||
| ParserGirl says, "But I didn't really feel up to it today, which is good." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm glad I picked this game. I really wasn't sure what quality it was, but liked it a lot." | ||||
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