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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ditch" | ||||
Floyd | The ditch is too dark and overgrown to see much of it. It looks deep, Floyd | though. You wouldn't want to go walking through it. The tall grass Floyd | could hide snakes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You get out of the rental car. Floyd | Floyd | Scene of the Accident Floyd | A flatbed truck blocks the road. Floyd | Floyd | Drainage ditches run along either side of the road, continuing on to Floyd | the west and back east. Floyd | Floyd | Your rental car remains parked here, blocked by the wrecked pick-up Floyd | truck. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x truck" | ||||
Floyd | It has been abandoned, presumably due to the damage done to it. The Floyd | hood has been crumpled, staved in. It blocks both lanes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look under car" | ||||
Floyd | (the car key) Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "look under rental" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "look on bed" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "climb truck" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rainyday says, "I need to go ... I'll be back later, bye" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "enter truck" | ||||
Floyd | There's too much blood. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "shift gear" | ||||
| JimMunroe says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You can't remember how long it's been since you saw something down that Floyd | stretch of road. It could be hours, or longer, before you found help Floyd | that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rainyday goes home. | ||||
| JimMunroe says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You brace yourself for a long walk down the road. Floyd | Floyd | Further down the Road Floyd | About half a mile from the accident, something rushing through the Floyd | switchgrass catches your eye. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JimMunroe says (to Floyd), "x switchgrass" | ||||
Floyd | You peer through the switchgrass, trying to catch a glimpse of the Floyd | shadow you saw, but you can't make anything out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "untangle eye" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JimMunroe grins | ||||
| JimMunroe says (to Floyd), "enter switchgrass" | ||||
Floyd | It's not wise to go wandering off like that. Best to stick to the road. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "open umbrella" | ||||
Floyd | It's already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyed), "close umbrella" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "close umbrella" | ||||
Floyd | Frrip. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JimMunroe says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | As you head down the road once more, a shadow rushes toward you from Floyd | out of the grass. Before you can react, the form, which barely comes up Floyd | to your waist, flits by you. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a giggle, then a jingle. Your car keys. Floyd | Floyd | The shadow vanishes into the grasses. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an umbrella Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JimMunroe asks, "Children of the corn?" | ||||
| GDorn says, "pickpocketers of the corn" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "chase shadow" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "listen" | Jacqueline says, "Heehee - pickpocketers of the corn." | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x shadow" | ||||
Floyd | You hear nothing except the wind, and the occasional thunderclap from Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You peer through the switchgrass, trying to catch a glimpse of the Floyd | shadow you saw, but you can't make anything out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You hesitate, then step forward to venture into the grass. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly you hear a sharp rustling, then jingling over your head. You Floyd | try to catch a glimpse of your keys as they fly through the air. You Floyd | hear them fall into the grass on the other side of the road. You hear Floyd | giggling, that of a small child. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "search grass" | ||||
Floyd | You peer through the switchgrass, trying to catch a glimpse of the Floyd | shadow you saw, but you can't make anything out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JimMunroe says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Once again, the keys fly over your head and into the grass on the other Floyd | side of the road. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "open umbrella" | ||||
Floyd | Foomp. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "As far as I know, we can't get the keys back." | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "catch keys with umbrella" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JimMunroe says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You continue west from the wreck. Signs of civilization grow farther Floyd | and farther apart. Even the odd fencepost seems like a milestone now. Floyd | Floyd | You decide to turn around and try your luck back east -- when you spot Floyd | a sign up ahead. Floyd | Floyd | Intersection Floyd | The road plunges west, into the storm, and continues back east to the Floyd | wreck and your rental car. Floyd | Floyd | The road forks here, and a weathered billboard announces a motel to the Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I couldn't get them back, either... but then, I'm horrible at puzzles, so..." | |||
| dhakajack asks, "how does a single key jingle?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, it's on a key ring." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Perhaps the full game returns them to us." | ||||
| dhakajack goes home. | ||||
| Nitku was translated with Google. Sorry. | ||||
| Syntax: whisper person = message (or) .person message | ||||
| GDorn goes home. | ||||
| PaulSharke goes home. | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x billboard" | ||||
Floyd | It says MOTEL. Years of sun and rain have faded the billboard, and if Floyd | it had any smaller text it's impossible to read now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW has disconnected. | ||||
| DavidW has connected. | ||||
| JimMunroe says (to Floyd), "read sign" | ||||
Floyd | It says MOTEL. Years of sun and rain have faded the billboard, and if Floyd | it had any smaller text it's impossible to read now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JimMunroe says (to Floyd), "read sign" | ||||
Floyd | It says MOTEL. Years of sun and rain have faded the billboard, and if Floyd | it had any smaller text it's impossible to read now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| JimMunroe says (to Floyd), "enter hotel" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JimMunroe says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Intersection Floyd | The road plunges west, into the storm, and continues back east to the Floyd | wreck and your rental car. Floyd | Floyd | The road forks here, and a weathered billboard announces a motel to the Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| PaulSharke arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| JimMunroe says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | As you walk towards the motel, the last of the sun's rays disappear Floyd | behind the western clouds. Floyd | Floyd | The Parking Lot Floyd | There are no cars here. Maybe the owner has his own car parked around Floyd | back, and is just having a slow night. Floyd | Floyd | A deck on the north side of the lot fronts the motel's several rooms. Floyd | It looks like the west end of the building houses the motel's front Floyd | office. Wooden stairs lead up to the deck northwest and northeast of Floyd | here. A path leads around back of the motel to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "Sorry about that, crashed." | |||
| DavidW says, "A few of us did." | ||||
| PaulSharke says, "Oh, okay." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I just got hung up then weeeeeee." | ||||
| JimMunroe says, "I blame the storm's electrical interference." | inky says, "hee hee" | |||
| PaulSharke says, "I coded the crash into the game to make it spookier, you see." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), " x stairs" | ||||
Floyd | Attached to the dilapidated motel. It's weathered, rotting in places. Floyd | It appears safe to walk on, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), " x office" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JimMunroe says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You follow the semi-circular path around the motel. Floyd | Floyd | Behind the Motel, East Floyd | A narrow alley runs the length of the motel, with motel rooms' windows Floyd | on one side and a tall fence on the other. The alley continues to the Floyd | west. East leads back around to the parking lot. Floyd | Floyd | The windows have been painted over, except for one. After a quick Floyd | count, you decide the unpainted window belongs to Room Five. Floyd | Floyd | Taped to Room Five's window is a brass key. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, window to Room Seven, the window to Room Six or the Floyd | window to Room Five? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "five" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach the window from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||
Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "I should have a more helpful response, there." | |||
| JimMunroe says (to Floyd), "take brass key" | ||||
Floyd | You cannot reach the window from the ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get key with umbrella" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to get the brass key. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit key with umbrella" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw umbrella at key" | ||||
Floyd | Futile. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw umbrella at window" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, window to Room Seven, the window to Room Six or the Floyd | window to Room Five? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "What's weird is that window five is the only one 'out of reach'." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "five" | ||||
Floyd | Futile. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of Paul), "Isn't it weird but cool, watching others play in real time?" | |||
| inky says, "oh, heh" | ||||
| JimMunroe says (to Floyd), "open umbrella" | ||||
Floyd | It's already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "Jacqueline, it's nerve-wracking." | |||
| JimMunroe says, "I was glad to just read the transcript of the punk points session." | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "window five" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x window five" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach the window from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "poke key with umbrella" | ||||
Floyd | You prod the key with the umbrella, but you just can't manage to get Floyd | it. You'll need to get up closer somehow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JimMunroe says, "i would have found it nerve wracking too." | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look through window five" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach the window from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "climb fence" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I know." | |||
| Jacqueline smiles. | ||||
| GDorn arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Jacqueline says, "And it's even annoying for me, since I know how to get to the key." | |||
| JimMunroe says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Behind the Motel, West Floyd | The narrow alley behind the motel ends here. The only way back is to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "perhaps if we wait until the storm comes, the rain will wash the tape off the window..." | |||
| JimMunroe says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JimMunroe says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JimMunroe says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Behind the Motel, East Floyd | A narrow alley runs the length of the motel, with motel rooms' windows Floyd | on one side and a tall fence on the other. The alley continues to the Floyd | west. East leads back around to the parking lot. Floyd | Floyd | The windows have been painted over, except for one. After a quick Floyd | count, you decide the unpainted window belongs to Room Five. Floyd | Floyd | Taped to Room Five's window is a brass key. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to dhakajack), "Heh. I hate to spoil you, but no." | |||
| JimMunroe says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You follow the semi-circular path back around the motel to the parking Floyd | lot. Floyd | Floyd | The Parking Lot Floyd | A deck on the north side of the lot fronts the motel's several rooms. Floyd | It looks like the west end of the building houses the motel's front Floyd | office. Wooden stairs lead up to the deck northwest and northeast of Floyd | here. A path leads around back of the motel to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JimMunroe says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Motel Deck, East Floyd | You hear an odd hum here. Floyd | Floyd | Stairs lead down from the deck back south to the parking lot. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the doors to rooms Five, Six and Seven here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JimMunroe says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | You hear... buzzing from the door to Room Five. Almost like an alarm Floyd | clock, but steady. More like a buzzsaw, maybe, though not as loud. Floyd | Several -- no, dozens -- of distant buzzsaws. Or something else. You Floyd | can't put your finger on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JimMunroe says (to Floyd), "open room five" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "put finger on in" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the door to Room Seven, the door to Room Six or the Floyd | door to Room Five? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "kick door" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x door five" | ||||
Floyd | You can see that the door to Room Five is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "kick door five" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x feel door five" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "listen to door five" | ||||
Floyd | You hear the same odd buzzing through the door. You're still not sure Floyd | how to describe it, but it sets your teeth on edge and sends a thrill Floyd | up your spine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ben unmanifests his avatar. | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "open door six" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "open door seven" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "knock on door five" | ||||
Floyd | You knock and wait, but receive no answer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "listen to door six" | ||||
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "listen to door seven" | ||||
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "knock on door six" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You knock and wait, but receive no answer. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an umbrella Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "buzz" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Motel Deck, East Floyd | You hear an odd hum here. Floyd | Floyd | Stairs lead down from the deck back south to the parking lot. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the doors to rooms Five, Six and Seven here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x deck" | ||||
Floyd | Attached to the dilapidated motel. It's weathered, rotting in places. Floyd | It appears safe to walk on, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JimMunroe says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Parking Lot Floyd | A deck on the north side of the lot fronts the motel's several rooms. Floyd | It looks like the west end of the building houses the motel's front Floyd | office. Wooden stairs lead up to the deck northwest and northeast of Floyd | here. A path leads around back of the motel to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JimMunroe says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Motel Deck, West Floyd | You can see the office's front door and the door to Room One here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JimMunroe says (to Floyd), "open front door" | ||||
Floyd | You open the office's front door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "enter office" | ||||
| JimMunroe says (to Floyd), "enter office" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | The power must be out. You can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | Motel Deck, West Floyd | You can see the office's front door and the door to Room One here. Floyd | Floyd | As your eyes adjust from the office's pitch darkness to the near Floyd | darkness of the motel's deck, you think you see shadows flying over the Floyd | railing. They whirl around and disappear below the deck. You hear Floyd | scampering footsteps rush underneath you, followed by muffled laughter. Floyd | You look down, and see a candle and a lighter at your feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "take candle" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "take lighter" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "light candle" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to light the white candle with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "light candle with lighter" | ||||
Floyd | You spark the lighter, and a small spurt of flame rises from its tip. Floyd | Floyd | You hold the lighter to the candle's wick. It ignites, and sheds an Floyd | unsteady light. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn asks, "sheesh. what else would I light it with?" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "enter office" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Motel Reception Floyd | A long countertop with signage regarding per-night rates identifies Floyd | this room as the motel's front office. Small cubbyholes hang on one Floyd | wall, each labeled with numbers one through seven. A mini-fridge hums Floyd | behind the counter. Floyd | Floyd | High up on a wall, near the ceiling, is a hook. On the hook hangs a Floyd | key. Floyd | Floyd | An interior door in the north wall leads deeper into the building, Floyd | presumably to a back office. A slender door probably opens onto a Floyd | utility closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x key" | ||||
Floyd | It's a key. It has something printed on it, but you'd need to hold it Floyd | in your hand to get a better look at it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "get key with umbrella" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to get the key from the office. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "push key with umbrella" | ||||
Floyd | You try to maneuver the key off the hook with the umbrella's tip, but Floyd | while the umbrella is open it is too unwieldy for the task. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "close umbrella" | ||||
Floyd | Frrip. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "push key with umbrella" | ||||
Floyd | You slip the umbrella's tip through the keyring and lift it off the Floyd | hook. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 2 out of a possible 6, in 104 turns. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JimMunroe says, "whoo" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x key" | ||||
Floyd | Printed on the key is: "If found return to mgmt." Must be a skeleton Floyd | key. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JimMunroe exclaims, "lunchtime, gotta go -- bye!" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x fridge" | ||||
Floyd | A miniature fridge, the kind often found in college dorms or small Floyd | office break rooms. Colorful magnetic letters cling to the refrigerator Floyd | door. Chains have been wrapped around the fridge, barring entry. Floyd | Floyd | > | GDorn says, "it's a rule of IF. Umbrellas are never to be used for their intended purpose." | |||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x letters" | ||||
Floyd | Colorful letters for children. At the moment they spell out: "WELCOME Floyd | TO CICADA CREEK". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JimMunroe goes home. | Taleslinger says, "anchorhead!" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "open fridge" | ||||
Floyd | While the padlock is locked, the chains will prevent you from opening Floyd | the fridge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "unlock fridge" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to unlock the fridge with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "key" | ||||
Floyd | Suddenly you envision a man with boils or tumors. You can see the veins Floyd | in them throb. Then one of them bursts. Before you see what issues Floyd | forth, you shake the vision off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "vomit" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ha" | |||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "unplug fridge" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can unplug. Floyd | Floyd | > | GDorn says, "oh, man" | |||
| PaulSharke says, "Argh." | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Motel Reception Floyd | A long countertop with signage regarding per-night rates is the Floyd | office's largest piece of furniture. Small cubbyholes hang on one wall, Floyd | each labeled with numbers one through seven. A mini-fridge hums behind Floyd | the counter. Floyd | Floyd | High up on a wall, near the ceiling, is a hook. Floyd | Floyd | An interior door in the north wall leads deeper into the building, Floyd | presumably to a back office. A slender door probably opens onto a Floyd | utility closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "open closet" | ||||
Floyd | You open the closet, revealing a cleaning mask. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "take mask" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "perhaps worrisome that the fridge was described as humming and there's no power..." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I remember, Paul, wondering why some of the power was out, and some - yeah." | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x cubbyholes" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, Box 1, Box 2, Box 3, Box 4, Box 5, Box 6 or Box 7? Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "humming = evil" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x box 1" | ||||
Floyd | It's empty. They all are. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn asks, "are you sure?" | DavidW says, "I think it comments on that power issue somewhere." | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "search box 5" | ||||
Floyd | Box 5 is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "enter box 5" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "Yeah, the fridge should be without power. Oops." | |||
| DavidW says (to GDorn), "Cubbyholes are shoebox size or so. Not big enough to enter." | ||||
| GDorn says, "sure, sure. I was hoping for a witty message." | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x mask" | ||||
Floyd | A white, disposable cleaning mask to be used while handling especially Floyd | pungent chemicals. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "wear mask" | ||||
Floyd | You put on the cleaning mask. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku was translated with Google. Sorry. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "clean desk" | ||||
Floyd | You achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "clean fridge" | ||||
Floyd | You achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read sign" | ||||
Floyd | It says: "one night = $7". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga walks the plank to adventure. Arr! | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "rent room" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get sign" | ||||
Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get fridge" | ||||
Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x hook" | ||||
Floyd | It's unreasonably high up on the wall. Unfortunately, there's nothing Floyd | in the room near it. Even if you climbed onto the counter and jumped, Floyd | you wouldn't be able to reach it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on fridge" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can stand on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "search counter" | ||||
Floyd | There is nothing on the countertop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x lighter" | ||||
Floyd | One of those lighters you can buy in bulk -- and lose in bulk, too. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "stand on counter" | ||||
Floyd | It looks as though it would collapse under your weight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "look under counter" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x candle" | ||||
Floyd | A long, thick white candle. It burns with an unsteady flame. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "hide under counter and gibber in fear and panic" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Maureen says, "Have to go now, I'll catch the transcript later." | |||
| GDorn asks, "think we might be done in here. back office?" | Maureen says, "thanks again to everyone who was part of the comp" | |||
| dhakajack says, "o" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "ok" | ||||
| Maureen goes home. | Jacqueline says, "Bye, Maureen." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing. Oops." | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the interior door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open interior door" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I never did get that damn interior door open." | |||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "unlock interior door with key" | ||||
Floyd | You see, in your mind's eye, a pale face with milky eyes. Its lips part Floyd | slightly, and between the lips you see a sawblade. With a high-pitched Floyd | whine, the sawblade spins, shredding the man's lips and cheeks. You rub Floyd | your eyes and endeavor to think of something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline frowns. | |||
| dhakajack says, "it is a wooden structure...and we have a candle and lighter..." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I got it open. Eventually." | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x interior door" | ||||
Floyd | You can see that the interior door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "unlock door with key" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the office's front door or the interior door? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "unlock interior door with key" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "burn down motel" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to burn the down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "burn motel" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "burn door with candle" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Allen disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "burn interior door" | ||||
Floyd | You must supply a second noun. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "burn interior door with candle" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to burn the interior door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "take letters" | ||||
Floyd | These magnets are too weak to be of any use. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "I just never thought of someone trying to burn the place down." | |||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "rearrange letters" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "This is really weird... I'm searching my transcript, Paul, and I didn't get any of those flashbacks." | |||
| dhakajack says, "it was a pretty antisocial suggestion on my part..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Or visions, or whatever you want to call them." | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "move letters" | ||||
Floyd | You push the letters around for a little while, jumbling the message. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "read message" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Maybe I should send you my transcript..." | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x letters" | ||||
Floyd | The colorful letters are jumbled in a meaningless array. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "Jacqueline, odd. They're supposed to crop up when the skeleton key is tried on a lock which it doesn't fit." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "(Though it is not complete. Want it?)" | ||||
| DavidW says, "huh. Never thought of moving the letters." | ||||
| dhakajack says, "I was expecting a creepy message..." | ||||
| PaulSharke says, "I'd love the transcript. pfsheckarski@gmail.com if you'd be so kind." | ||||
| GDorn asks, "what did it used to say?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Paul), "Sure. One sec." | ||||
| PaulSharke says, "The message originally says "Welcome to Cicada Creek."" | ||||
| GDorn says, "oh, right" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say hello" | ||||
Floyd | (to yourself) Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "yell concierge" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "search closet" | ||||
Floyd | The closet is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | GDorn says, "there should totally be a bell on the counter" | |||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "enter closet" | ||||
Floyd | It's not a walk-in closet. It's just a set of shelves with a door in Floyd | front, really. Floyd | Floyd | > | GDorn asks, "also, anagram puzzle?" | |||
| dhakajack says, "a bell and a guest list...but perhaps they've been taken already..." | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "move letters to spell "SATAN IS MY FRIEND"" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Paul), "Sent." | |||
| PaulSharke says, "GDorn, I wouldn't have a clue as to how to go about coding an anagram puzzle. Haha." | ||||
| GDorn says, "yeah, me neither" | ||||
| PaulSharke says, "Jacqueline, thanks very much." | ||||
| GDorn says, "okay, I think we come back here later. we can get into the humming room now." | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Motel Deck, West Floyd | You can see the office's front door and the door to Room One here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Paul), "You're welcome." | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Parking Lot Floyd | A deck on the north side of the lot fronts the motel's several rooms. Floyd | The west end of the building houses the motel's front office. Wooden Floyd | stairs lead up to the deck northwest and northeast of here. A path Floyd | leads around back of the motel to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Motel Deck, East Floyd | You hear an odd hum here. Floyd | Floyd | Stairs lead down from the deck back south to the parking lot. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the doors to rooms Five, Six and Seven here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "unlock door seven" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to unlock the door to Room Seven with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "unlock door seven with key" | ||||
Floyd | You unlock the door to Room Seven. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "enter room seven" | ||||
Floyd | You open the door to Room Seven. Floyd | Floyd | Room Seven Floyd | Party streamers have been hung from the ceiling. There's also a cake Floyd | here, with candles burning. The room is far from welcoming, though. The Floyd | mattress is missing from the bed. The floor is uncarpeted. The windows, Floyd | barred. Floyd | Floyd | A cramped, stained alcove separates a toilet, sink and shower from the Floyd | rest of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Beside the cake, you see a birthday card. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says, "um." | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x card" | ||||
Floyd | On the outside is a drawing of seven presents, with a vial being Floyd | dropped into each box. Inside the card you see: Floyd | Floyd | Patient A: Foaming at the mouth. Floyd | Patient B: BAC ten times above legal limit. Floyd | Patient C: Loss of bladder control. Floyd | Patient D: Requires immediate transfusion. Floyd | Patient E: Burns indicative of flammable chemicals. Floyd | Patient F: Cursory examination indicates immediate application of rape Floyd | kit. Floyd | Patient G: Dehydrated. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn asks, "that'd be the cubby holes?" | PaulSharke says, "Yep." | |||
| dhakajack asks, "and if we go with g=7, we'd be in the dehydrated patient room?" | ||||
| GDorn asks, "do we solve cubby hole 3 by peeing, or finding a diaper?" | ||||
| inky says, "it'd be funny if this was all a surprise birthday party setup" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x streamer" | ||||
Floyd | Paper bands crisscross the ceiling. They may have been colorful once, Floyd | but either sunlight or age has faded them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x candles" | ||||
Floyd | Wax, pastel swirls. They seem to have faded with age. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x cake" | ||||
Floyd | Some birthday candles have been stuck in the frosting and lit. Looking Floyd | at the cake, you realize how hungry you are. You can't remember the Floyd | last time you've eaten something. Your mouth waters. Floyd | Floyd | Written on the cake is: "WELCOME HOME, WALKER". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inky), "For values of 'funny' that equal ' really fucked up?'" | |||
| GDorn shrugs | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "eat cake" | ||||
Floyd | As hungry as you are, you don't know how long this cake has been here, Floyd | or who made it. You decide to keep your fast a little while longer. Floyd | Sure makes your mouth water, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "spit" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get candles" | ||||
Floyd | You can't resist. You pull out a candle and lick the frosting off the Floyd | end. Saliva floods your mouth. You replace the candle, feeling oddly Floyd | lonely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "take saliva" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ew, replacing the candle" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "look out window" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||||
Floyd | It's missing its mattress. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | It's been painted over, and you can't see anything through it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "break window" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "scrape window" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "burn window" | ||||
Floyd | You must supply a second noun. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open windo" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open window" | ||||
Floyd | You pry at the window, but it has been sealed shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "break window" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Ha - I, um, didn't think to do that bit with the candle." | |||
| DavidW says, "I did 'make a wish'." | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||||
Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "Heh. I'm proud of the little touches here and there. But overwhelmed by how many more I could and need to add." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I meant to make a wish but forgot, I think." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I know I blew them out." | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "lie on bed" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Or tried." | |||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "push bed" | ||||
Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x stain" | ||||
Floyd | It's missing its mattress. Floyd | Floyd | > | GDorn says, "ha ha" | |||
| GDorn says, "I hate it when my stain is missing its mattress" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oops... heh" | ||||
| PaulSharke says, "Argh. Yeah. I don't know how to do "only when in x, understand as etc."" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Another room?" | ||||
| GDorn says, "yeah" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Motel Deck, East Floyd | You hear an odd hum here. Floyd | Floyd | Stairs lead down from the deck back south to the parking lot. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the doors to rooms Five, Six and Seven here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "unlock door six" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to unlock the door to Room Six with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "unlock door six with key" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a cleaning mask (being worn) Floyd | a skeleton key Floyd | a cheap lighter Floyd | a white candle (providing light) Floyd | an umbrella Floyd | Floyd | > | GDorn says, "huh." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I had a really hard time with room six later, Paul, but I guess you have my transcript now and can see that, so I'll shut up." | ||||
| inky says, "I seem to recall that 5 and 6 have their own key for some weird reason" | ||||
| dhakajack asks, "could we go back to 7 and check out the bathroom?" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "unlock room five with key" | ||||
Floyd | You unlock the door to Room Five. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "open door five" | ||||
Floyd | You push against the door, but it will not open. There must be Floyd | something on the other side blocking it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I had the impression that room 6 hints at stuff in a future chapter." | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "push door five" | ||||
Floyd | You brace your shoulder against the door and push it until you feel as Floyd | though you're going to break something. The door doesn't budge, though Floyd | your shoulder aches. Floyd | Floyd | You think you hear something through the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "listen door" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to listen. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Also, weird that in my game I don't think it was ever called a 'skeleton' key." | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "listen at door five" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to listen. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I guess I never examined it or something." | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "listen to door five" | ||||
Floyd | You hear the same odd buzzing through the door. You're still not sure Floyd | how to describe it, but it sets your teeth on edge and sends a thrill Floyd | up your spine. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Which may have caused me some problems." | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "break door five" | ||||
Floyd | You brace your shoulder against the door and push it until you feel as Floyd | though you're going to break something. The door doesn't budge, though Floyd | your shoulder aches. Floyd | Floyd | You think you hear something through the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "So many bugs..." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "So little time? heh" | ||||
| inky says, "the key to door five is around back anyway" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "Yeah, I got that far (which is why I'm mostly watching)." | ||||
| PaulSharke says, "Oh, I've got plenty of time. Just not enough experience with Inform 7, or with coding & testing in general." | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Parking Lot Floyd | A deck on the north side of the lot fronts the motel's several rooms. Floyd | The west end of the building houses the motel's front office. Wooden Floyd | stairs lead up to the deck northwest and northeast of here. A path Floyd | leads around back of the motel to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to inky), "You mean, there is a key on room five's window." | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You follow the semi-circular path around the motel. Floyd | Floyd | Behind the Motel, East Floyd | A narrow alley runs the length of the motel, with motel rooms' windows Floyd | on one side and a tall fence on the other. The alley continues to the Floyd | west. East leads back around to the parking lot. Floyd | Floyd | The windows have been painted over, except for one. After a quick Floyd | count, you decide the unpainted window belongs to Room Five. Floyd | Floyd | Taped to Room Five's window is a brass key. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "good point" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a cleaning mask (being worn) Floyd | a skeleton key Floyd | a cheap lighter Floyd | a white candle (providing light) Floyd | an umbrella Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "push key with umbrella" | ||||
Floyd | (the skeleton key with the umbrella) Floyd | You don't see the point in that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "push brass key with umbrella" | ||||
Floyd | You prod the key with the umbrella, but you just can't manage to get Floyd | it. You'll need to get up closer somehow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | GDorn asks, "anybody see anything we can stand on?" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "climb fence" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "there's an obvious thing to stand on which (I guess) you haven't seen yet" | |||
| dhakajack asks, "could we use the mattressless bed as a ladder?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "They haven't seen it yet." | ||||
| DavidW says, "None of the beds are mobile." | ||||
| dhakajack says, "ah, ok" | ||||
| DavidW says, "A bed might break that creaky deck anyway." | ||||
| Taleslinger arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | GDorn says, "I was disconnected for a bit, so I don't know where else we've been or could have gone." | |||
| JamesJolley arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Behind the Motel, West Floyd | The narrow alley behind the motel ends here. The only way back is to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "from our inventory I would guess we haven't been in rooms one through four yet" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "search" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to search? Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "though maybe I'm wrong" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "search alley" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "yeah, that might be a good idea" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes, I would search all the rooms." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Behind the Motel, East Floyd | A narrow alley runs the length of the motel, with motel rooms' windows Floyd | on one side and a tall fence on the other. The alley continues to the Floyd | west. East leads back around to the parking lot. Floyd | Floyd | The windows have been painted over, except for one. After a quick Floyd | count, you decide the unpainted window belongs to Room Five. Floyd | Floyd | Taped to Room Five's window is a brass key. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "And if you manage to get into one of the ones that I could get into, I shall squeal happily and start playing." | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You follow the semi-circular path back around the motel to the parking Floyd | lot. Floyd | Floyd | The Parking Lot Floyd | A deck on the north side of the lot fronts the motel's several rooms. Floyd | The west end of the building houses the motel's front office. Wooden Floyd | stairs lead up to the deck northwest and northeast of here. A path Floyd | leads around back of the motel to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Motel Deck, West Floyd | You can see the office's front door and the door to Room One here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "look under deck" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see underneath it, except through cracks in the planks. It's Floyd | too dark to make anything out, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "unlock door one" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to unlock the door to Room One with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "unlock door one with key" | ||||
Floyd | You unlock the door to Room One. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "open door one" | ||||
Floyd | You open the door to Room One. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "enter room" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Room One Floyd | The room smells as if someone went on a week-long bender in here. There Floyd | are beer bottles strewn all over the bed and floor. A thin chapbook Floyd | lies on the bed. Floyd | Floyd | A cramped, stained alcove separates a toilet, sink and shower from the Floyd | rest of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x chapbook" | ||||
Floyd | It, like the rest of Room One, reeks of alcohol. Many of the pages are Floyd | stained by it, and some of the ink has been smudged. Most of the pages Floyd | remain legible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "read it" | ||||
Floyd | You flip to a random page in the chapbook and read it: Floyd | Floyd | stained cock smoky bolt red bribe Floyd | hidden storm hidden bed Floyd | stubble runs away Floyd | mother Floyd | sinful bolt worries gold storm oozes Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JamesJolley asks (of tales), ""it's quite interesting seeing how others play isn't it?" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You flip to a random page in the chapbook and read it: Floyd | Floyd | bullet Floyd | cock bleeds Floyd | shot runs away cash Floyd | buzzed bribe gold breaks Floyd | sinful bolt fears storm Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "huh, that's new." | |||
| GDorn says, "Patient A was foaming at the mouth." | ||||
| Lucea says, "in my copy of the game it wouldn't let me read it twice" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "I'd guess this is pt B -- high blood alcohol" | ||||
| PaulSharke says, "Lucea, that sounds like a bug. It should be repeatable. I'll look into it." | ||||
| DavidW says, "It was repeatable for me." | ||||
| Lucea says, "one sec, let me make sure I'm right" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x botles" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Paul), "Sadly, I'm thinking now, I didn't get into some of the rooms due to bugs. I couldn't unlock room one, for instance, due to a disambiguation with keys issue. I will now shut up about my transcript and join in. :)" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x bottles" | ||||
Floyd | Different brands, different sizes, but each and every one drained of Floyd | its last drop. Still, it smells awful in here. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "Jacqueline, disambiguation bugs are my bane. Sorry about that. I'll fix it." | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x shower" | ||||
Floyd | The bottom of the shower has been splattered with vomit, like much of Floyd | the rest of the alcove. It stinks of alcohol. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline smiles and nods. | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "turn on shower" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | (from DavidW) PaulSharke says, "why do you think the car keys got taken?" | |||
| Lucea says, "ignore that" | ||||
| inky says, "parser gnomes, I should have known" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "light alcohol" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "burn alcohol" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "mixing up read and get" | |||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x toilet" | ||||
Floyd | After whoever drank all that beer was finished, they must have come in Floyd | here and puked most of it back up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JamesJolley says (to tales), ""it works fine. Same as using the chats in the mud itself. All i'm doing is scrolling down to listen to each line as it comes up." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "smell toilet" | ||||
Floyd | The alcohol fumes make you feel a little dizzy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "flush toilet" | ||||
Floyd | It looks as though it's been clogged. You don't want to risk spilling Floyd | even more of the vile mixture onto the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "drink toilet" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing suitable to drink here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Lucea), "Brave move there, sniffing the toilet." | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "sit on toilet" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can sit down on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open toilet" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "I try >listen and >smell everywhere" | |||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||||
Floyd | There's a chapbook on it, as well as a dozen beer bottles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "listen toilet" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to listen. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "any game that supports flush toilet is a good game" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "drink beer" | ||||
Floyd | The thought of knocking back the foam at the bottom of these bottles Floyd | makes the bile rise in your throat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "lower bile" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline makes a note of that for Waterhouse. | |||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x sink" | ||||
Floyd | After whoever vomited in the toilet was through there, they moved on to Floyd | the sink, and got sick all over again. It reeks of booze. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "I sense a theme with the plumbing..." | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "search chapbook" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inky), "But what if I write another game set in the backcountry? There are no flushable privies..." | |||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x floor" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, ">L IN HOLE" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Room One Floyd | The room smells as if someone went on a week-long bender in here. There Floyd | are beer bottles strewn all over the bed and floor. A thin chapbook Floyd | lies on the bed. Floyd | Floyd | A cramped, stained alcove separates a toilet, sink and shower from the Floyd | rest of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JamesJolley says (to floyd,), "look under bed" | inky says, ">CONSTRUCT CRUDE TOILET APPARATUS OUT OF TWIGS AND FOREST CREATURES" | |||
| inky says, "THEN FLUSH IT" | ||||
| Lucea says, ">AIM AT TREE" | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| PaulSharke says, "inky, hahaha" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x close door" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "close door" | ||||
Floyd | You close the door to Room One. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh yeah, I seem to recall the looking under bed thing was broken" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "search shower" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inky), "Obvious you have a better command of the parser than I." | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get in bed" | ||||
Floyd | You're not tired. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "inky, yeah, I noticed someone tried it earlier and I made a note of it. Already have a page of notes so far." | |||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | *** Run-time problem P11: Although the window to Room One is allowed to Floyd | have the property "other side", no value was ever given, so it can't Floyd | now be used. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "whoops" | |||
| dhakajack says, "oops..." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Not tired? But what if we just want to urinate on the mattress?" | ||||
| PaulSharke says, "Thought I fixed that one, too..." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "urinate on mattress" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "stain mattress" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "read chapbook" | ||||
Floyd | You flip to a random page in the chapbook and read it: Floyd | Floyd | stained chain shot Floyd | storm stuck shiver chain Floyd | white hair gold chain Floyd | shiver lies Floyd | regret Floyd | locked up shot pukes Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "puke" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "read chapbook" | ||||
Floyd | You flip to a random page in the chapbook and read it: Floyd | Floyd | bullet goes in circles Floyd | burst tumor eats fucking hair needs Floyd | hard casket lies Floyd | stunted cash tumor Floyd | tumor drives mother bleeds Floyd | nails pays Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "eat hair" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "I promise I don't play all games like a 12-year-old boy" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the door to Room One is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "I promise I don't write all my games like a 12-year-old boy." | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "open door them sw" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to open the door to Room One. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "open door then sw" | ||||
Floyd | You open the door to Room One. Floyd | Floyd | Motel Deck, West Floyd | You can see the office's front door and the door to Room One here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Central Motel Deck Floyd | There are more rooms to the east. Room One and the office are to the Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the doors to rooms Two, Three and Four here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "unlock door two with key" | ||||
Floyd | You unlock the door to Room Two. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "open door two" | ||||
Floyd | You open the door to Room Two. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the door to Room Four is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "enter room two" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Room Two Floyd | A television here casts dim light onto the walls and bed opposite it. Floyd | The bedsheets have been rumpled. Floyd | Floyd | A cramped, stained alcove separates a toilet, sink and shower from the Floyd | rest of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x toilet" | ||||
Floyd | A used condom floats in the toilet water. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a squelching noise from the bed. A squelch, then a tearing Floyd | sound. Then nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "turn on tv" | ||||
Floyd | The TV is already on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x tv" | ||||
Floyd | You're not sure what you expect. A frozen image, a test pattern, snowy Floyd | static. But instead you see a room. This room, shot from the ceiling. Floyd | And yourself, looking at the television. Floyd | Floyd | And a man, sitting on the edge of the bed behind you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "look behind me" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | The man strokes his thighs, and twitches. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "Okay, have fun, everyone. See y'all next week." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x man" | ||||
Floyd | You whirl to face the man directly. Floyd | Floyd | He has vanished. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger has to return some videotapes. | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x sheets" | ||||
Floyd | The sheets have been twisted and kicked to the foot of the bed. There's Floyd | a pale stain on the mattress, halfway between the foot and the head. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l under mattress" | ||||
Floyd | > | Lucea says, "oh, right, this was the part that was buggy" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x toilet" | ||||
Floyd | A used condom floats in the toilet water. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "Yeah, sorry" | |||
| GDorn says (to floy), "x condom" | Lucea says, "no, it's OK" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x condom" | ||||
Floyd | It looks like it has been used. It also looks larger than the average Floyd | condom. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "bugs happen" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get condom" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "smell condom" | ||||
Floyd | Unless a very good reason to take it comes up, you'll leave it where it Floyd | is. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Also, earlier I meant to type 'tried' not 'tired,' but the phone rang right as I was trying to finish my inappropriate joke." | |||
| PaulSharke says, "I'm writing that on a Post-It and sticking it to my monitor" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "turn channel" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "You smell nothing unexpected... that is to say, you wretch." | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x sink" | ||||
Floyd | It's just a sink. It's stained, like most everything else here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "turn off television" | ||||
Floyd | You can't find the power button on the television. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "I'm trying to kill a bug right now" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "flush toilet" | ||||
Floyd | You jiggle the handle, but it must be broken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "break television" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get tv" | ||||
Floyd | It's bolted down. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline, the park ranger, does not approve. | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "take sheets" | ||||
Floyd | The thought of touching it makes you uncomfortable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "smell them" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see "them" (the birthday candles) at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x sink" | ||||
Floyd | It's just a sink. It's stained, like most everything else here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "smell sheets" | ||||
Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x shower" | ||||
Floyd | It's just a shower. It has one of those fancy shower heads, though. The Floyd | ones with different massage settings. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x shower head" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the shower. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "yeah, this was the sleazy room" | |||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "turn on shower" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "massage me" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "Lucea, that was a weird bug with the 'smell them' command..." | |||
| GDorn smacks self. | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "turn shower head" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to turn the shower. Floyd | Floyd | > | GDorn says, "7 sins. right." | |||
| Lucea says, "Probably left off a pluralname" | ||||
| Lucea says, "or whatever the I7 equivalent is, assuming you use I7" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x sheets then x it" | ||||
Floyd | The sheets have been twisted and kicked to the foot of the bed. There's Floyd | a pale stain on the mattress, halfway between the foot and the head. Floyd | Floyd | The sheets have been twisted and kicked to the foot of the bed. There's Floyd | a pale stain on the mattress, halfway between the foot and the head. Floyd | Floyd | Behind you, a voice moans. You pivot, but no one is there. Floyd | Floyd | > | GDorn says, "hrm. maybe not." | |||
| PaulSharke says, "I do. I'll comb through the code." | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "yeah, pluralname" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Room Two Floyd | A television here casts dim light onto the walls and bed opposite it. Floyd | The bedsheets have been rumpled. Floyd | Floyd | A cramped, stained alcove separates a toilet, sink and shower from the Floyd | rest of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "unplug tv" | ||||
Floyd | You reach for the plug, but then realize that, with the power out, this Floyd | TV shouldn't even be on in the first place. You hesitate. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "nice" | |||
Floyd | The sheets have been twisted and kicked to the foot of the bed. There's Floyd | a pale stain on the mattress, halfway between the foot and the head. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "flip mattress" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "take mattress" | ||||
Floyd | The thought of touching it makes you uncomfortable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JamesJolley says (to floyd), "look under bed" | ||||
Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "Haha, everybody's rubbing that bug in." | |||
| JamesJolley says (to floyd), "move sheets" | ||||
Floyd | The thought of touching it makes you uncomfortable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x stain" | ||||
Floyd | The sheets have been twisted and kicked to the foot of the bed. There's Floyd | a pale stain on the mattress, halfway between the foot and the head. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says, "sw" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | From the shower you hear the distinct sound of male grunting. As soon Floyd | as you glance into the shower, though, the grunting stops, and you see Floyd | nothing there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wash sheets" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Central Motel Deck Floyd | There are more rooms to the east. Room One and the office are to the Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the doors to rooms Two, Three and Four here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "unlock door three" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to unlock the door to Room Three with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "key" | ||||
Floyd | That's unlocked at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "enter door three" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the knob and push the door, but it won't open. Something is Floyd | jammed against the door on the other side. It gave a little when the Floyd | door banged against it, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "unlock door three with key" | ||||
Floyd | That's unlocked at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "unlock door four with key" | ||||
Floyd | You unlock the door to Room Four. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the door to Room Four is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "open room four" | ||||
Floyd | You open the door to Room Four. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "break door three" | ||||
Floyd | You brace your shoulder against the door and shove it as hard as you Floyd | can. Whatever is on the other side slowly gives, until it has been Floyd | pushed far enough back from the doorway that you can squeeze through. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "whoa, I didn't even try that" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "enter room three" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Room Three Floyd | The room is in total disarray. The bed has been turned onto its side, Floyd | forming an impromptu barrier. The bureau was pushed away from the wall Floyd | and braced against the door, at least until you shoved it back as you Floyd | entered. A long board, presumably a mirror, has been taken off the Floyd | bureau and turned towards a wall. Floyd | Floyd | A cramped, stained alcove separates a toilet, sink and shower from the Floyd | rest of the room. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a whimper behind the bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "I feel somewhat stupid now" | |||
| GDorn says, "it did say it gave a little" | ||||
| Lucea says, "considering I tried it in Possession" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x mirror" | ||||
Floyd | The reflective surface has been turned towards the wall. You lift it up Floyd | and take a peek, but see nothing except yourself. You realize this is Floyd | literally true: nothing else reflects in the mirror except you. In the Floyd | reflection, it appears as though you stand in a void. You replace the Floyd | mirror against the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "turn mirror" | ||||
Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "talk to mirror" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "enter mirror" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "heh, sorry about that" | |||
| PaulSharke says, "Could be I didn't implement enough catch-all verbs for that action. I similarly forgot to include "get" in the "umbrella taking" puzzle." | ||||
| Lucea says, "long story" | ||||
| Lucea says, "no, I just didn't think of it" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x toilet" | ||||
Floyd | Someone has urinated in the toilet, and has not flushed. Whoever did it Floyd | must have a poor diet. The air here is pungent with the smell of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x sink" | ||||
Floyd | It's just a sink. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x shower" | ||||
Floyd | It's just a shower. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "break mirror" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "flush toilet" | ||||
Floyd | You jiggle the handle, but it must be broken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "smell" | ||||
Floyd | It's hard to smell anything here except the general miasma. It smells Floyd | like an animal has marked its territory in here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | You hear a stifled whimper. You think it's coming from behind the bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l behind bed" | ||||
Floyd | As you eye the bed, you note that the sheets and mattress have a Floyd | tell-tale stain on them. It smells almost as though some animal has Floyd | marked its territory here. Floyd | Floyd | You find, behind the upturned bed, several items arranged on the floor. Floyd | There are scattered religious symbols here, along with a well-worn Floyd | volume titled A Survival Guide for Young Boys and a flashlight. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "Broken toilets are part of a long-standing survival horror tradition." | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "take flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | You flick the flashlight on. It has a strong beam, stronger than the Floyd | light which the candle provides. You blow out the flame and leave the Floyd | candle behind, opting for the flashlight instead. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x young boys" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x guide" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the Survival Guide. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "read guide" | ||||
Floyd | The corner of a page has been dogeared. You read a passage which has Floyd | been underlined there: Floyd | Floyd | "It is never wise to talk to strangers. If you must, make sure you Floyd | never allow them to corner you in a poorly lit place." Floyd | Floyd | Scrawled in the margins is: "don't look at him. when he came into my Floyd | room, i hid my head under the blanket. i could still hear him but he Floyd | went away" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | The corner of a page has been dogeared. You read a passage which has Floyd | been underlined there: Floyd | Floyd | "It is never wise to talk to strangers. If you must, make sure you Floyd | never allow them to corner you in a poorly lit place." Floyd | Floyd | Scrawled in the margins is: "don't look at him. when he came into my Floyd | room, i hid my head under the blanket. i could still hear him but he Floyd | went away" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Room Three Floyd | The room is in total disarray. The bed has been turned onto its side, Floyd | forming an impromptu barrier. The bureau was pushed away from the wall Floyd | and braced against the door, at least until you shoved it back as you Floyd | entered. A long board, presumably a mirror, has been taken off the Floyd | bureau and turned towards a wall. Floyd | Floyd | A cramped, stained alcove separates a toilet, sink and shower from the Floyd | rest of the room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a white candle, a Survival Guide and some religious symbols Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x bureau" | ||||
Floyd | It was pushed up against the door, as if someone was trying to prevent Floyd | anyone from entering this room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x symbols" | ||||
Floyd | Most of the symbols are Christian -- crosses, a few rosaries, a Floyd | full-blown wooden crucifix -- but you also spot a Star of David, a Floyd | crescent moon, and even a few you don't recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "take symbols" | ||||
Floyd | You've never been especially superstitious. That survival guide looks Floyd | much more useful. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get guide" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x drawers" | ||||
Floyd | It was pushed up against the door, as if someone was trying to prevent Floyd | anyone from entering this room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "open drawers" | ||||
Floyd | The drawers are all empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Room Three Floyd | The room is in total disarray. The bed has been turned onto its side, Floyd | forming an impromptu barrier. The bureau was pushed away from the wall Floyd | and braced against the door, at least until you shoved it back as you Floyd | entered. A long board, presumably a mirror, has been taken off the Floyd | bureau and turned towards a wall. Floyd | Floyd | A cramped, stained alcove separates a toilet, sink and shower from the Floyd | rest of the room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a white candle and some religious symbols here. Floyd | Floyd | > | GDorn says, "brb" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x bed" | ||||
Floyd | As you eye the bed, you note that the sheets and mattress have a Floyd | tell-tale stain on them. It smells almost as though some animal has Floyd | marked its territory here. Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "search it" | ||||
Floyd | As you eye the bed, you note that the sheets and mattress have a Floyd | tell-tale stain on them. It smells almost as though some animal has Floyd | marked its territory here. Floyd | > | Lucea says, "yeah, I should stop hogging Floyd" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "No no - you're fine." | ||||
| JamesJolley says (to floyd), "look in mirror" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JamesJolley says (to floyd), "x mirror" | ||||
Floyd | The reflective surface is turned towards the wall. You leave it that Floyd | way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JamesJolley says (to floyd), "talk to reflection" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "light candle" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to light the white candle with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "lighter" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "lighter" | ||||
Floyd | You spark the lighter, and a small spurt of flame rises from its tip. Floyd | Floyd | You hold the lighter to the candle's wick. It ignites, and sheds an Floyd | unsteady light. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "light white candle" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to light the white candle with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "lighter" | ||||
Floyd | The candle is already lit. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "burn sheets with candle" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to burn the bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "burn ed" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "burn bed" | ||||
Floyd | You must supply a second noun. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "push bureau" | ||||
Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So this room is 'Loss of bladder control?'" | |||
| Lucea says, "whoops. poor ed" | ||||
| Lucea says, "sorry, ed" | ||||
| JamesJolley says (to floyd), "x it" | ||||
Floyd | It was pushed up against the door, as if someone was trying to prevent Floyd | anyone from entering this room. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | The drawers are all empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to push), "bureau" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "push bureau" | ||||
Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "put mirror on bureau" | ||||
Floyd | You need to be holding the full-length mirror before you can put it on Floyd | top of something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get mirror" | ||||
Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "push it" | ||||
Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "turn it" | ||||
Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x toilet" | ||||
Floyd | Someone has urinated in the toilet, and has not flushed. Whoever did it Floyd | must have a poor diet. The air here is pungent with the smell of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x sink" | ||||
Floyd | It's just a sink. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "drink toilte" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x shower" | ||||
Floyd | It's just a shower. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "drink toilet" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing suitable to drink here. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "Eww." | |||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "search behind bed" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "Sorry" | |||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look behind bed" | ||||
Floyd | As you eye the bed, you note that the sheets and mattress have a Floyd | tell-tale stain on them. It smells almost as though some animal has Floyd | marked its territory here. Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Heh." | |||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Central Motel Deck Floyd | There are more rooms to the east. Room One and the office are to the Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the doors to rooms Two, Three and Four here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "enter room four" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | The power must be out. You can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "turn on flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh yeah" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a cleaning mask (being worn) Floyd | a skeleton key Floyd | a cheap lighter Floyd | an umbrella Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Central Motel Deck Floyd | There are more rooms to the east. Room One and the office are to the Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the doors to rooms Two, Three and Four here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "enter room three" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Room Three Floyd | The room is in total disarray. The bed has been turned onto its side, Floyd | forming an impromptu barrier. The bureau was pushed away from the wall Floyd | and braced against the door, at least until you shoved it back as you Floyd | entered. A long board, presumably a mirror, has been taken off the Floyd | bureau and turned towards a wall. Floyd | Floyd | A cramped, stained alcove separates a toilet, sink and shower from the Floyd | rest of the room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a flashlight, a Survival Guide, some religious symbols and Floyd | a white candle here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "there is some weird inventory thing here" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | flashlight: Taken. Floyd | Survival Guide: Taken. Floyd | religious symbols: You've never been especially superstitious. Floyd | white candle: You don't need it, now that you have the flashlight. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "you auto-drop stuff or something" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | As you leave the room, you hear a small voice, a boy's voice, say, Floyd | "Please don't take my light." You turn, but there's no one there. Floyd | Floyd | Central Motel Deck Floyd | There are more rooms to the east. Room One and the office are to the Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the doors to rooms Two, Three and Four here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "or it gets moved back to the room" | |||
| Lucea says, "oh, that" | ||||
| Lucea says, "weird" | ||||
| Lucea says, "well, not weird" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | It's not as hefty as you'd prefer, but it works well enough. Floyd | Floyd | > | GDorn says, "yeah, when we got the flashlight, it dropped the candle. then we took the candle and it dropped the flashlight, but I think it was silent" | |||
| inky says, "aha" | ||||
| PaulSharke says, "I'll take a look at that. That's pretty much working as intended, but just barely. It should be a lot smoother." | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "enter room four" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Room Four Floyd | This room stinks. Reeks of gasoline, actually. It's overpowering. Floyd | Floyd | A cramped, stained alcove separates a toilet, sink and shower from the Floyd | rest of the room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a room key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "take key" | ||||
Floyd | (the room key) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "burn gasoline" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x toilet" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the toilet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So, between posting results and people phoning me, I've been distracted... which rooms do we think we've figured out?" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x sink" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the sink. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x shower" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the shower. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says, "...floyd l" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Room Four Floyd | This room stinks. Reeks of gasoline, actually. It's overpowering. Floyd | Floyd | A cramped, stained alcove separates a toilet, sink and shower from the Floyd | rest of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x bed" | ||||
Floyd | It's just a bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "search it" | ||||
Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "1-alcohol, 2-rape, 3-bladder, 4-flammable, 5-buzzing sound, 6-?, 7-cake" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "burn room" | ||||
Floyd | You must supply a second noun. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "light lighter" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to light the cheap lighter with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "self" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't seem productive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "turn on lighter" | ||||
Floyd | You spark the lighter, and a small spurt of flame rises from its tip. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "drop lighter" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | The lighter heats up very quickly, and burns your hand. You let the Floyd | flame go out. Floyd | Floyd | > | GDorn says, "well, I tried" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "get lighter" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "turn it on" | ||||
Floyd | You spark the lighter, and a small spurt of flame rises from its tip. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "you can walk in with the lit candle" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "burn room" | ||||
Floyd | You must supply a second noun. Floyd | Floyd | The lighter heats up very quickly, and burns your hand. You let the Floyd | flame go out. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "IF YOU WANT TO DIE" | |||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x room key" | ||||
Floyd | It's a small key with a '6' imprinted on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | It's been painted over, and you can't see anything through it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "break it" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "Yeah, lighting the lighter in here should kill you. Why isn't that working? Argh." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm... so we are left with 'Foaming at the mouth,' 'Requires immediate transfusion,' and 'Dehydrated.'" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Central Motel Deck Floyd | There are more rooms to the east. Room One and the office are to the Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the doors to rooms Two, Three and Four here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Motel Deck, East Floyd | You hear an odd hum here. Floyd | Floyd | Stairs lead down from the deck back south to the parking lot. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the doors to rooms Five, Six and Seven here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "unlock door six" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to unlock the door to Room Six with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "unlock door six with room key" | ||||
Floyd | You unlock the door to Room Six. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "open room six" | ||||
Floyd | (the key to Room Six) Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | GDorn asks, "isn't there a key ring mod that checks to see if you have the right key in your inventory?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open that six with this six" | ||||
Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "yeah, Locksmith" | |||
| PaulSharke says, "GDorn, if there is, my game sure needs it. Also, some disambiguation." | ||||
| Lucea says, "yeah, that was one of my main concerns about the game" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door six" | ||||
Floyd | You open the door to Room Six. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "unlocking doors gets very annoying very fast" | |||
| GDorn says, "yeah, use Locksmith." | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to enter? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "enter room six" | ||||
Floyd | (the key to Room Six) Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "like thta" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Room Six Floyd | A cramped, stained alcove separates a toilet, sink and shower from the Floyd | rest of the room. Floyd | Floyd | You hear the sound of running water from the alcove. Floyd | Floyd | Bright white light steams down from a gaping crack in the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | A small stepladder rests underneath the crack, as if someone wanted to Floyd | reach up and into the light. Floyd | Floyd | There's a TV here. It's unplugged at the moment, but you could swear Floyd | you'd seen something on the screen as you opened the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "you can do 'enter door 6'" | |||
| GDorn says, "well, that was lucky" | ||||
| inky says, "or six or whatever" | ||||
| Lucea says, "that, even. but I can sympathize. synonyms like that suck" | ||||
| Lucea says, "I mean, not in a way that's the author's fault. they just inherently suck" | ||||
| GDorn says, "it does seem odd that I7 wouldn't check other ambiguous terms to see if 'enter' makes sense on them." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x water" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the toilet or the faucet? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "faucet" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the faucet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | You listen to the running water in the alcove. It sounds odd to you, Floyd | wrong somehow. Too... pleasant. It's not the sound you expect from a Floyd | motel bathroom: the shrill whine of water rushing out of steel and Floyd | plashing against a ceramic basin. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly you realize it sounds more like a brook than a sink or shower. Floyd | The water burbles. You can almost hear birds, can imagine a gentle Floyd | breeze through treetops overhead. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x shower" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the shower. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "climb stepladder" | ||||
Floyd | You get onto the small stepladder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x gap" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||||
Floyd | The crack extends deeply up into the ceiling, almost as if it was the Floyd | bottom of a long chimney or chute. The light shining down the hole Floyd | dazzles your eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "enter gap" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x crack" | ||||
Floyd | The crack extends deeply up into the ceiling, almost as if it was the Floyd | bottom of a long chimney or chute. The light shining down the hole Floyd | dazzles your eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "enter crack" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "mind the gap" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "enter ceiling" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Room Six (on the small stepladder) Floyd | A cramped, stained alcove separates a toilet, sink and shower from the Floyd | rest of the room. Floyd | Floyd | You hear the sound of running water from the alcove. Floyd | Floyd | Bright white light steams down from a gaping crack in the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | There's a TV here. It's unplugged at the moment, but you could swear Floyd | you'd seen something on the screen as you opened the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x light" | ||||
Floyd | (the flashlight) Floyd | It's not as hefty as you'd prefer, but it works well enough. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x alcove" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the alcove or the toilet? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "step into the light" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the small Floyd | stepladder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x the alcove" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the alcove or the toilet? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enlarge crack" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "go towards the light" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enlarge crack" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "enter light" | ||||
Floyd | (the flashlight) Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "enter crack" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to GDorn), "No, Carol Ann! Stay away from the light! The light is bad!" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "(sorry)" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x screen" | ||||
Floyd | You reach around and plug the set in. Floyd | Floyd | "--one man, standing against corruption." Floyd | Floyd | > | GDorn says, "but, I don't want to turn it on, just look at it." | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x screen" | ||||
Floyd | You attend the television. Floyd | Floyd | It appears to be a commercial for an upcoming movie. "Look out!" Floyd | screams a Black man (one of those actors whose name you always forget) Floyd | in full bunker gear. He turns the hose he's holding onto a gout of Floyd | flame engulfing another firefighter. "Nooo!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "watch tv" | ||||
Floyd | You attend the television. Floyd | Floyd | The scene has changed to a funeral. The heroic firefighter kneels by Floyd | his fallen partner's son. "I'll find out who did this," he whispers, Floyd | jaw clenched. "I promise." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You attend the television. Floyd | Floyd | "And now," booms the announcer, "the people behind it all will stop at Floyd | nothing to silence the truth." The scene switches again, and now the Floyd | firefighter has his friend's son cradled in his arms as he rushes out Floyd | of an exploding building. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "h" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "watch tv" | ||||
Floyd | You attend the television. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, the commercial cuts from the polished cinematography to Floyd | grainy footage of... a storage trunk? Is it the same commercial? Yes, Floyd | it must be: you can still hear the musical score and explosions in the Floyd | background, though they are muted, distant. Then they fade altogether. Floyd | You study the shot of the trunk for a moment. It's almost like a Floyd | security feed, or a webcam. Floyd | Floyd | Loud banging breaks the silence. It's coming from the trunk. Floyd | Floyd | The signal cuts out. The screen is blank; the speakers, silent. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, the light shining from the crack in the ceiling goes out. The Floyd | pleasant liquid burble from the sink vanishes. The temperature drops Floyd | several degrees. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Room Six (on the small stepladder) Floyd | A cramped, stained alcove separates a toilet, sink and shower from the Floyd | rest of the room. Floyd | Floyd | The ceiling has a deep, dark crack in it. Floyd | Floyd | There's a TV here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x crack" | ||||
Floyd | The crack is pitch dark, and extends as far as you are able to see into Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "search it" | ||||
Floyd | You can't bear to gaze into the hole for long. It's darker than it Floyd | should be. There's nothing there, anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "shine light in crack" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 3 out of a possible 6, in 360 turns. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "smell crack" | ||||
Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "plug in tv" | ||||
Floyd | It's already plugged in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "listen crack" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to listen. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline looks at GDorn. "Man. Between you and Lucea..." | |||
| Jacqueline smiles. | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "taste crack" | ||||
Floyd | You taste nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| PaulSharke says (to Floyd), "snort crack" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "warm crack with lighter" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Paul), "Better get on verb implementation." | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "taste self" | ||||
Floyd | You taste nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You'd have to get off the small stepladder first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open window" | ||||
Floyd | You pry at the window, but it has been sealed shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | PaulSharke says, "The whole game's really just a metaphor for drug abuse." | |||
Floyd | You get off the small stepladder. Floyd | Floyd | Room Six Floyd | A cramped, stained alcove separates a toilet, sink and shower from the Floyd | rest of the room. Floyd | Floyd | The ceiling has a deep, dark crack in it. Floyd | Floyd | A small stepladder rests underneath the crack, as if someone wanted to Floyd | reach up and into the light. Floyd | Floyd | There's a TV here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "put lighter in crack" | ||||
Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heehee" | |||
| GDorn says, "well, there we go" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "smell crack" | ||||
Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "aw." | |||
| Lucea says, "I was hoping for a response there" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "lick crack" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "to take the most literal interpretation of the metaphor" | |||
| dhakajack says, "we can use ladder to either reach the hook in office or the key taped to room 5 window" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to GDorn&Lucea), "This game wasn't written in ADRIFT..." | ||||
| Lucea says, "I don't get it" | ||||
| GDorn says, "let's see if we can steal the hook. or hang ourselves from it." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to dhakajack), "Lead on..." | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Motel Deck, East Floyd | You hear an odd hum here. Floyd | Floyd | Stairs lead down from the deck back south to the parking lot. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the doors to rooms Five, Six and Seven here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a small stepladder Floyd | a cheap lighter Floyd | a key to Room Six Floyd | a Survival Guide Floyd | a flashlight (providing light) Floyd | a cleaning mask (being worn) Floyd | a skeleton key Floyd | an umbrella Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "(side note: if it's a drug abuse metaphor, I need to go revise my review. again.)" | |||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Parking Lot Floyd | A deck on the north side of the lot fronts the motel's several rooms. Floyd | The west end of the building houses the motel's front office. Wooden Floyd | stairs lead up to the deck northwest and northeast of here. A path Floyd | leads around back of the motel to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "since dreams and such tend to be archetypical anyway" | |||
| GDorn asks, "huh. would interesting things have happened if we'd not been wearing the cleaning mask?" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Motel Deck, West Floyd | You can see the office's front door and the door to Room One here. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "I'm just joshing about the drug abuse metaphor." | |||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "enter office" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Motel Reception Floyd | A long countertop with signage regarding per-night rates is the Floyd | office's largest piece of furniture. Small cubbyholes hang on one wall, Floyd | each labeled with numbers one through seven. A mini-fridge hums behind Floyd | the counter. Floyd | Floyd | High up on a wall, near the ceiling, is a hook. Floyd | Floyd | An interior door in the north wall leads deeper into the building, Floyd | presumably to a back office. A slender door opens onto a utility Floyd | closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "oh" | |||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "climb ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You can only get into something free-standing. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "ack" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "drop ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I never thought about that... I wore the mask the whole time once I found it." | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "climb ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You get onto the small stepladder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "jump on hook" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to jump. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Which was pretty much immediately." | |||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "climb ladder" | ||||
Floyd | But you're already on the small stepladder. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "GDorn, if you attempt to enter Room Four without the mask, you're denied entry because the smell overwhelms you." | |||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x hook" | ||||
Floyd | It's unreasonably high up on the wall. Unfortunately, there's nothing Floyd | in the room near it. Even if you climbed onto the counter and jumped, Floyd | you wouldn't be able to reach it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "insert hook in brain" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "smell hook" | ||||
Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "touch hook" | ||||
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "Great, now I gotta implement a brain object." | |||
| GDorn says (to PaulSharke), "funny you should mention that..." | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You'd have to get off the small stepladder first. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "she had a hook in her head" | |||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get off ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You get off the small stepladder. Floyd | Floyd | Motel Reception Floyd | A long countertop with signage regarding per-night rates is the Floyd | office's largest piece of furniture. Small cubbyholes hang on one wall, Floyd | each labeled with numbers one through seven. A mini-fridge hums behind Floyd | the counter. Floyd | Floyd | High up on a wall, near the ceiling, is a hook. Floyd | Floyd | An interior door in the north wall leads deeper into the building, Floyd | presumably to a back office. A slender door opens onto a utility Floyd | closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "taste hook" | ||||
Floyd | You taste nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "exit" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Motel Deck, West Floyd | You can see the office's front door and the door to Room One here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Parking Lot Floyd | A deck on the north side of the lot fronts the motel's several rooms. Floyd | The west end of the building houses the motel's front office. Wooden Floyd | stairs lead up to the deck northwest and northeast of here. A path Floyd | leads around back of the motel to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You follow the semi-circular path around the motel. Floyd | Floyd | Behind the Motel, East Floyd | A narrow alley runs the length of the motel, with motel rooms' windows Floyd | on one side and a tall fence on the other. The alley continues to the Floyd | west. East leads back around to the parking lot. Floyd | Floyd | The windows have been painted over, except for one. After a quick Floyd | count, you decide the unpainted window belongs to Room Five. Floyd | Floyd | Taped to Room Five's window is a brass key. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "drop ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "climb ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You get onto the small stepladder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get key" | ||||
Floyd | (the brass key) Floyd | Something on the other side of the window catches your eye. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "huh, Hook in her Head actually makes great background music for this" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "untangle eye" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look window" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look in window" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the window to Room Six, window to Room Seven or the Floyd | window to Room Five? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look in window five" | ||||
Floyd | The first thing you see is a pair of eyes looking back at you. Floyd | Floyd | Not close to the window, but across the room. It's a person, collapsed Floyd | against the door. You open your mouth to shout out to them, but then Floyd | you see another body, and another. You press your face against the Floyd | glass. Floyd | Floyd | They're all dead. There's at least a dozen corpses in the room. That's Floyd | a rough estimate: a few are badly mutilated. Several are piled up Floyd | against the door; no wonder you couldn't get it open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says, "...floyd search bodies" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x bodies" | ||||
Floyd | There's at least a dozen corpses in the room. That's a rough estimate: Floyd | a few are badly mutilated. Several are piled up against the door; no Floyd | wonder you couldn't get it open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "smell bodies" | ||||
Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open window" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the window to Room Six, window to Room Seven or the Floyd | window to Room Five? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "open window five" | ||||
Floyd | You pry at the window, but it has been sealed shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open window five" | ||||
Floyd | You pry at the window, but it has been sealed shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "break window" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "break window five" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the window to Room Six, window to Room Seven or the Floyd | window to Room Five? Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x key" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the brass key, the key to Room Six or the skeleton Floyd | key? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "break window five" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x brass" | ||||
Floyd | It's a brass key. It is cold, much colder than it should be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a brass key Floyd | a cheap lighter Floyd | a key to Room Six Floyd | a Survival Guide Floyd | a flashlight (providing light) Floyd | a cleaning mask (being worn) Floyd | a skeleton key Floyd | an umbrella Floyd | Floyd | > | GDorn says, "I bet the bodies won't be there when we circle around to the frond" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "break window 5 with umbrella" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | GDorn says, "front" | |||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "head key with lighter" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "I want to be able to break the window" | |||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "heat key with lighter" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "I'll find a more intelligent way of refusing the command, Lucea." | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "hit window with flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the window to Room Six, window to Room Seven or the Floyd | window to Room Five? Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "I'm sorry" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "hit window five with flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke exclaims, "Lucea, don't be! This is very helpful for me!" | |||
| Lucea says, "that came out harsher than intended" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "down" | ||||
Floyd | You get off the small stepladder. Floyd | Floyd | Behind the Motel, East Floyd | A narrow alley runs the length of the motel, with motel rooms' windows Floyd | on one side and a tall fence on the other. The alley continues to the Floyd | west. East leads back around to the parking lot. Floyd | Floyd | The windows have been painted over, except for one. After a quick Floyd | count, you decide the unpainted window belongs to Room Five. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a small stepladder here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "get ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x fence" | ||||
Floyd | It's tall and weathered, yet still sturdy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "climb it" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "east" | ||||
Floyd | You follow the semi-circular path back around the motel to the parking Floyd | lot. Floyd | Floyd | The Parking Lot Floyd | A deck on the north side of the lot fronts the motel's several rooms. Floyd | The west end of the building houses the motel's front office. Wooden Floyd | stairs lead up to the deck northwest and northeast of here. A path Floyd | leads around back of the motel to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x stairs" | ||||
Floyd | Attached to the dilapidated motel. It's weathered, rotting in places. Floyd | It appears safe to walk on, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "search them" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see "them" (the religious symbols) at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "search stairs" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "look under stairs" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see underneath it, except through cracks in the planks. It's Floyd | too dark to make anything out, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "turn on flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | You switch on the flashlight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "look under stairs" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see underneath it, except through cracks in the planks. It's Floyd | too dark to make anything out, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "look under stairs with flashlight" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look under the deck. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "point flashlight under stairs" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Motel Deck, East Floyd | You hear an odd hum here. Floyd | Floyd | Stairs lead down from the deck back south to the parking lot. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the doors to rooms Five, Six and Seven here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "unlock room five with key five" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "unlock door five with key five" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "unlock door five" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to unlock the door to Room Five with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a small stepladder Floyd | a brass key Floyd | a cheap lighter Floyd | a key to Room Six Floyd | a Survival Guide Floyd | a flashlight (providing light) Floyd | a cleaning mask (being worn) Floyd | a skeleton key Floyd | an umbrella Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "unlock door five with brass key" | ||||
Floyd | That's unlocked at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "enter door five" | ||||
Floyd | You push against the door, but it will not open. There must be Floyd | something on the other side blocking it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "break door five" | ||||
Floyd | You brace your shoulder against the door and push it until you feel as Floyd | though you're going to break something. The door doesn't budge, though Floyd | your shoulder aches. Floyd | Floyd | You think you hear something through the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The brass key isn't for door five." | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You brace your shoulder against the door and push it until you feel as Floyd | though you're going to break something. The door doesn't budge, though Floyd | your shoulder aches. Floyd | Floyd | You think you hear something through the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | GDorn says, "oh, right" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | You hear the same odd buzzing through the door. You're still not sure Floyd | how to describe it, but it sets your teeth on edge and sends a thrill Floyd | up your spine. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "And door five is open, but blocked. By the bodies you saw." | |||
| Lucea says, "Right." | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Central Motel Deck Floyd | There are more rooms to the east. Room One and the office are to the Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the doors to rooms Two, Three and Four here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Motel Deck, West Floyd | You can see the office's front door and the door to Room One here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "enter office" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Motel Reception Floyd | A long countertop with signage regarding per-night rates is the Floyd | office's largest piece of furniture. Small cubbyholes hang on one wall, Floyd | each labeled with numbers one through seven. A mini-fridge hums behind Floyd | the counter. Floyd | Floyd | High up on a wall, near the ceiling, is a hook. Floyd | Floyd | An interior door in the north wall leads deeper into the building, Floyd | presumably to a back office. A slender door opens onto a utility Floyd | closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea asks, "Wait, it's open?" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "unlock interior door" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to unlock the interior door with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "unlock interior door with brass key" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JamesJolley goes home. | DavidW says (to Lucea), "Door five was unlocked by the skeleton key ages ago." | |||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "unlock fridge" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to unlock the fridge with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "brass key" | ||||
Floyd | The brass key turns in the lock, and it opens with a satisfying click. Floyd | You toss the padlock aside and untie the knots in the chains. Then you Floyd | pile the chains to one side. Nothing bars access to the fridge now. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "smell fridge" | ||||
Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "open fridge" | ||||
Floyd | You open the fridge, revealing silver vials labeled A through G and a Floyd | prescription. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | ||||
Floyd | That's already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get vials" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, Vial A, Vial B, Vial C, Vial D, Vial E, Vial F or Floyd | Vial G? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Timing." | |||
| DavidW asks, "brass key is cold - fridge ... get it?" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get a and b and c and d and e and f and g" | ||||
Floyd | Vial A: You take all the vials at once. Floyd | Vial B: You already have that. Floyd | Vial C: You already have that. Floyd | Vial D: You already have that. Floyd | Vial E: You already have that. Floyd | Vial F: You already have that. Floyd | Vial G: You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "read prescription" | ||||
Floyd | In nearly illegible handwriting are the words Diagnosis undetermined. Floyd | Sort and deposit each of these samples into the corresponding patient's Floyd | box. Floyd | Floyd | > | GDorn says, "oof." | |||
| Rainyday arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Heh. I never made that connection, believe it or not." | |||
| Lucea says, "well, my own fault for being lazy" | ||||
| Rainyday asks, "how's it going?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Still hacking away at Paul's game." | ||||
| Lucea says, "I guess that's the player will get it wrong corollary: the player is lazy" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x vial a" | Jacqueline smiles. | |||
Floyd | Each of the vials is opaque, silver, and sealed. Each is marked with a Floyd | different letter A through G. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Rainyday), "They're getting close to the end. It's time for one of the last puzzles." | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "open vial a" | ||||
Floyd | You tug at both ends, but the vial has been seamlessly welded shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | GDorn says, "okay, we just hafta remember which patient was in which room." | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "smell a" | ||||
Floyd | (Vial A) Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "eat a" | ||||
Floyd | (Vial G) Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "drink a" | ||||
Floyd | (Vial A) Floyd | There's nothing suitable to drink here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x prescription" | ||||
Floyd | In nearly illegible handwriting are the words Diagnosis undetermined. Floyd | Sort and deposit each of these samples into the corresponding patient's Floyd | box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "put vial a in box 1" | ||||
Floyd | You put Vial A into Box 1. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I took some notes, but only wrote down 1-4." | |||
| DavidW says, "The card is back still in room 7, I think." | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "put vial f in box 2" | ||||
Floyd | You put Vial F into Box 2. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "put vial c in box 3" | ||||
Floyd | You put Vial C into Box 3. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "credits" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "put vial e in box 4" | ||||
Floyd | You put Vial E into Box 4. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "info" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "version" | ||||
Floyd | Storm Cellar Floyd | An IntroComp 2008 Entry by P. F. Sheckarski Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 080818 / Inform 7 build 5T18 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Identification number: //1AADEB0E-2FBF-4708-9064-51EB2F76684D// Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0 (2N) / Library serial number 080126 Floyd | Standard Rules version 2/080430 by Graham Nelson Floyd | Floyd | > | GDorn asks, "mind if I go get that card?" | |||
| dhakajack asks, "needs a transfusion...must have been vampire...hence mirror, crucifix, etc.?" | ||||
| dhakajack asks, "which room was that?" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "out and east and east and enter room seven and get card and out and west and west and enter office" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Motel Deck, West Floyd | You can see the office's front door and the door to Room One here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "east then east" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Central Motel Deck Floyd | There are more rooms to the east. Room One and the office are to the Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the doors to rooms Two, Three and Four here. Floyd | Floyd | Motel Deck, East Floyd | You hear an odd hum here. Floyd | Floyd | Stairs lead down from the deck back south to the parking lot. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the doors to rooms Five, Six and Seven here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "enter room seven then get card then out then west then west then enter office" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Room Seven Floyd | Party streamers have been hung from the ceiling. There's also a cake Floyd | here, with candles burning. The room is far from welcoming, though. The Floyd | mattress is missing from the bed. The floor is uncarpeted. The windows, Floyd | barred. Floyd | Floyd | A cramped, stained alcove separates a toilet, sink and shower from the Floyd | rest of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Beside the cake, you see a birthday card. Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Motel Deck, East Floyd | You hear an odd hum here. Floyd | Floyd | Stairs lead down from the deck back south to the parking lot. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the doors to rooms Five, Six and Seven here. Floyd | Floyd | Central Motel Deck Floyd | There are more rooms to the east. Room One and the office are to the Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the doors to rooms Two, Three and Four here. Floyd | Floyd | Motel Deck, West Floyd | You can see the office's front door and the door to Room One here. Floyd | Floyd | Motel Reception Floyd | A long countertop with signage regarding per-night rates is the Floyd | office's largest piece of furniture. Small cubbyholes hang on one wall, Floyd | each labeled with numbers one through seven. A mini-fridge hums behind Floyd | the counter. Floyd | Floyd | High up on a wall, near the ceiling, is a hook. Floyd | Floyd | An interior door in the north wall leads deeper into the building, Floyd | presumably to a back office. A slender door opens onto a utility Floyd | closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x card" | ||||
Floyd | On the outside is a drawing of seven presents, with a vial being Floyd | dropped into each box. Inside the card you see: Floyd | Floyd | Patient A: Foaming at the mouth. Floyd | Patient B: BAC ten times above legal limit. Floyd | Patient C: Loss of bladder control. Floyd | Patient D: Requires immediate transfusion. Floyd | Patient E: Burns indicative of flammable chemicals. Floyd | Patient F: Cursory examination indicates immediate application of rape Floyd | kit. Floyd | Patient G: Dehydrated. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rainyday says, "now that's interesting" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "go to room one" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks (of Paul), "You said you didn't know how to code an anagram puzzle, but this bit with the vials and cubbyholes is kinda like that, no?" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "look cubbies" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "look at boxes" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, Box 1, Box 2, Box 3, Box 4, Box 5, Box 6 or Box 7? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in boxes" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, Box 1, Box 2, Box 3, Box 4, Box 5, Box 6 or Box 7? Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "I suppose you could look at it like a rudimentary anagram puzzle. Imagine solving an anagram puzzle coded like this, though. It's clumsy enough as it is." | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "look in box 1" | ||||
Floyd | In Box 1 is Vial A. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "look in box 2" | ||||
Floyd | In Box 2 is Vial F. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "look in box 3" | ||||
Floyd | In Box 3 is Vial C. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "look in box 4" | ||||
Floyd | In Box 4 is Vial E. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "look in box 5" | ||||
Floyd | Box 5 is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a birthday card Floyd | silver vials labeled A through G Floyd | a small stepladder Floyd | a brass key Floyd | a cheap lighter Floyd | a key to Room Six Floyd | a Survival Guide Floyd | a flashlight (providing light) Floyd | a cleaning mask (being worn) Floyd | a skeleton key Floyd | an umbrella Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline waves and makes an isquiesque departure for home. | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x vials" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, Vial A, Vial F, Vial C, Vial E, Vial G, Vial D or Floyd | Vial B? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline arrives, ready to play with the toys. | DavidW says, "btw, you guys might want to save at some point." | |||
| Lucea asks, "can you save on floyd?" | ||||
| GDorn says, "herg. I think you probably should not group the vials. it makes it hard to tell which ones you are holding and which ones are already in boxes" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky clears the save counter. | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "GDorn, you're right." | |||
| PaulSharke says, "I added 'vials suck ass; fix them' to my notes." | ||||
| GDorn says, "I guess if you have the whole thing solved, it won't matter much, but if you're not totally sure, it sucks" | ||||
| PaulSharke says, "If you 'take all' it should jump them all back to your inventory" | ||||
| Jacqueline gets bored and wanders off to the Toyshop. | ||||
| Jacqueline arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x card" | ||||
Floyd | On the outside is a drawing of seven presents, with a vial being Floyd | dropped into each box. Inside the card you see: Floyd | Floyd | Patient A: Foaming at the mouth. Floyd | Patient B: BAC ten times above legal limit. Floyd | Patient C: Loss of bladder control. Floyd | Patient D: Requires immediate transfusion. Floyd | Patient E: Burns indicative of flammable chemicals. Floyd | Patient F: Cursory examination indicates immediate application of rape Floyd | kit. Floyd | Patient G: Dehydrated. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | dhakajack says, "I'm pretty sure of the first four: 1B, 2F, 3C, 4E" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "That's what I had." | ||||
| GDorn says, "okay, we that leaves 5,6,7 and A,D,G" | ||||
| Lucea says, "yeah" | ||||
| DavidW says, "The cake in room 7 made your mouth water." | ||||
| Lucea says, "A sounds like rabies" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "ah...that could dehydrate you (or be mistaken for foaming, I suppose...)" | ||||
| GDorn says, "yeah, I'm guessing the dehydrated one is the one where we shut off the water noise" | ||||
| dhakajack asks, "was that room 6 -- with the crack?" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "put vial a in box 7" | ||||
Floyd | You need to be holding Vial A before you can put it into something Floyd | else. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "try a 'take all' I think" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "put a in 7" | ||||
Floyd | (Vial A in Box 7) Floyd | You need to be holding Vial A before you can put it into something Floyd | else. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Room 6 had the crack, the TV with the firefighters, and the babbling brook sink." | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "take a" | ||||
Floyd | (Vial A) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "put a in 7" | ||||
Floyd | (Vial A in Box 7) Floyd | You put Vial A into Box 7. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "put d in 5" | ||||
Floyd | (Vial D in Box 5) Floyd | You put Vial D into Box 5. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "put g in 6" | ||||
Floyd | You put Vial G into Box 6. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a birthday card Floyd | Vial B Floyd | a small stepladder Floyd | a brass key Floyd | a cheap lighter Floyd | a key to Room Six Floyd | a Survival Guide Floyd | a flashlight (providing light) Floyd | a cleaning mask (being worn) Floyd | a skeleton key Floyd | an umbrella Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "put b in 1" | ||||
Floyd | You put Vial B into Box 1. Floyd | Floyd | Upon placing the final vial into its box, you hear the door across the Floyd | room click. You turn to investigate, but the door has already started Floyd | to open. Floyd | Floyd | You hear the buzzing before you see its source. The sound is loud, Floyd | furious. Like cicadas, but like wasps: half mating call and half Floyd | warning. Then the door opens. Floyd | Floyd | A naked corpse stands at the door. It has no distinguishing sexual Floyd | features despite its nudity, but its body is covered in tumors of all Floyd | sizes. Floyd | Floyd | It steps towards you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "there ya go" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "smell corpse" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oooOOOooOoooOoOOo" | |||
| DavidW says, "Call it a 'being'." | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get chains" | ||||
Floyd | They're too heavy to lug around. Floyd | Floyd | The pale being advances on you. You swear you can feel its buzz in your Floyd | teeth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "I just laughed pretty hard at 'smell corpse'." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to GDorn), "Remind me to never explore a haunted hotel with you." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "run" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to say which compass direction to go in. Floyd | Floyd | It draws closer. The buzz grows louder, if that's possible. Your whole Floyd | skull vibrates with it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "taste body" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "taste being" | ||||
Floyd | You taste nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | It raises an arm towards you. Another moment, and it will be able to Floyd | touch you. The buzz is so loud, so violent, you feel as though it has Floyd | ruptured something deep inside you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You attempt to escape, but find yourself pinned by the reception Floyd | counter. You'd have to climb over it to escape, but it looks old and Floyd | rotten. You're not sure it can support your weight. Floyd | Floyd | The pale being reaches you. It closes a hand around your arm. You can't Floyd | pull away. The buzz has maddened you, stunned you. It's so loud, too Floyd | loud. You can barely hear the sound your flesh makes as it's peeled Floyd | from your body. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 4 out of a possible 6, in 469 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" | |||
| Lucea says, "uh. sorry" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "death happens..." | ||||
| Lucea says, "better not explore haunted houses with me either" | ||||
| DavidW says, "If only you were like a boy scout and better prepared for the situation." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That, GDorn, is what you get for smelling an advancing menacing corpse." | ||||
| PaulSharke says, "Hahaha" | ||||
| GDorn says, "hehehe" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Thank you for saving." | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Motel Reception Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf2" | Lucea says, "Pungent, with notes of blood and fecund earth" | |||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You attempt to escape, but find yourself pinned by the reception Floyd | counter. You'd have to climb over it to escape, but it looks old and Floyd | rotten. You're not sure it can support your weight. Floyd | Floyd | It draws closer. The buzz grows louder, if that's possible. Your whole Floyd | skull vibrates with it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "climb counter" | ||||
Floyd | You put a foot onto the counter and prepare to hoist yourself over, but Floyd | the shelf you had your foot on snaps in two. You fall to the ground. Floyd | The being lurches toward you. You spring to your feet. Floyd | Floyd | It raises an arm towards you. Another moment, and it will be able to Floyd | touch you. The buzz is so loud, so violent, you feel as though it has Floyd | ruptured something deep inside you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You put a foot onto the counter and prepare to hoist yourself over, but Floyd | the shelf you had your foot on snaps in two. You fall to the ground. Floyd | The being lurches toward you. You spring to your feet. Floyd | Floyd | The pale being reaches you. It closes a hand around your arm. You can't Floyd | pull away. The buzz has maddened you, stunned you. It's so loud, too Floyd | loud. You can barely hear the sound your flesh makes as it's peeled Floyd | from your body. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 4 out of a possible 6, in 469 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "eat tumor" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the tumor) Floyd | That seems to be a part of the the pale being. Floyd | Floyd | It draws closer. The buzz grows louder, if that's possible. Your whole Floyd | skull vibrates with it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "pray" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "kill being" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | It raises an arm towards you. Another moment, and it will be able to Floyd | touch you. The buzz is so loud, so violent, you feel as though it has Floyd | ruptured something deep inside you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to GDorn), "snrk" | |||
| Lucea says, "violence is most definitely the answer to this one" | ||||
| Rainyday asks, "now what?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "at least, it is for him" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "read guide" | ||||
Floyd | The corner of a page has been dogeared. You read a passage which has Floyd | been underlined there: Floyd | Floyd | "It is never wise to talk to strangers. If you must, make sure you Floyd | never allow them to corner you in a poorly lit place." Floyd | Floyd | Scrawled in the margins is: "don't look at him. when he came into my Floyd | room, i hid my head under the blanket. i could still hear him but he Floyd | went away" Floyd | Floyd | The pale being reaches you. It closes a hand around your arm. You can't Floyd | pull away. The buzz has maddened you, stunned you. It's so loud, too Floyd | loud. You can barely hear the sound your flesh makes as it's peeled Floyd | from your body. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 4 out of a possible 6, in 469 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "yeahhhh I need to add a better "attack" response" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "attacking it should kill you" | |||
| GDorn says (to PaulSharke), "make it squishy." | ||||
| Rainyday asks, "try hiding your head?" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "hide in closet" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hide" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter closet" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "close eyes" | ||||
Floyd | It's not a walk-in closet. It's just a set of shelves with a door in Floyd | front, really. Floyd | Floyd | It draws closer. The buzz grows louder, if that's possible. Your whole Floyd | skull vibrates with it. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You squeeze your eyes shut. You can hear the thing coming closer. The Floyd | buzz fills your head until you're sure that your eardrums will burst. Floyd | Floyd | Then the buzz fades, and soon has gone altogether. You risk a peek. The Floyd | tumorous being is gone. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "close eyes" | ||||
Floyd | That won't make your problems go away. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Rainyday), "Good guess, though." | |||
| Lucea exclaims, "ooh!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "hooray" | ||||
| GDorn says, "oh, hey. I though we'd have to restore from easlier and go get a blanket." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hooray!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "You're almost done." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x eyes" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Motel Reception Floyd | A long countertop with signage regarding per-night rates is the Floyd | office's largest piece of furniture. Small cubbyholes hang on one wall, Floyd | each labeled with numbers one through seven. A mini-fridge hums behind Floyd | the counter. Floyd | Floyd | High up on a wall, near the ceiling, is a hook. Floyd | Floyd | An interior door in the north wall leads deeper into the building, Floyd | presumably to a back office. A slender door opens onto a utility Floyd | closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyds), "attack eyes" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get eyes" | ||||
Floyd | That seems to be a part of yourself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Endgame Floyd | You can see the interior door here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "See, I was thinking that as long as we didn't examine it, we would be okay. Then again, I suck at puzzles." | |||
| Lucea says, "I suck at puzzles too. I was just trying stuff" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | That's already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "enter it" | ||||
Floyd | Stairs plunge into darkness here. You follow them. The air is damp; the Floyd | walls, concrete. You descend for much longer than makes any Floyd | architectural sense. Floyd | Floyd | You turn towards the head of the stairs and realize that something is Floyd | swooping down at you. Something with a sharp, crooked beak and Floyd | bone-white feathers dripping with tar. It shrieks and flashes its Floyd | talons at you. Floyd | Floyd | You fling yourself down the stairs, into the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** To be continued *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 6 out of a possible 6, in 475 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Rainyday says, "there we go" | |||
| Jacqueline dances the happy dance. | ||||
| dhakajack exclaims, "yay!" | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "yay!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "hahaha 'You descend for much longer than makes any architectural sense.'" | ||||
| PaulSharke says, "Thanks so much for the playthrough, everyone. I've got a ton of really great notes now." | ||||
| Lucea exclaims, "Yay!" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "Very nice set up with the pairing of room descriptions and boxes." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Paul), "You're welcome!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So, I'm still up for playing." | ||||
| PaulSharke says, "dhakajack, it's a relief to hear someone say that. That puzzle's been through several difficult incarnations." | ||||
| Lucea says, "Me too" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Taleslinger and RainyDay... you two want to play rock scissors paper or mud wrestle or someting over which we play next?" | ||||
| PaulSharke says, "I can stay for a little while longer, too." | ||||
| GDorn asks, "what happens if you get them wrong?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "I'm guessing you die" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to rainyday), "Scissors...oh wait!" | ||||
| PaulSharke says, "GDorn, nothing unfortunately. I should add a "doesn't work" response if you get them in the wrong order." | ||||
| Rainyday says, "um ..." | ||||
| Rainyday says, "if we armwrestle, I'll probably lose" | ||||
| dhakajack exclaims, "it's getting on towards midnight in Belgium, so I'm going to head off to bed...good luck with the next game!" | ||||
| Rainyday asks, "Well, my game isn't likely to take long, wanna try it?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "YOU DIE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "No, wait, that's if you get them right." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, man am I laggy today." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Night, dhakajack." | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "It's Ladies First anyway." | ||||
| dhakajack goes home. | Rainyday says, "The only reason it shouldn't be over in 5 minutes is if I keep pointing out things to look at." | |||
| GDorn says, "my main feedback is that it's a great mood piece, but they 'why' is missing. granted, that could be added in the future..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "mmkay. Hooray for agreement!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "list z" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||
| PaulSharke says, "Floyd, you charmer." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "list f" | ||||
| Floyd says (to Jacqueline), "f209 failsafe fear ferrousring fff fiendish finetune firebird firetower firwitch fleece floatpoint flowers fluidoflife fmsr4 forachange forms fourin1 freefall frenfive friday frobozzi frozen frust ftf fusillad futzmutz fyleet" | GDorn says, "you know the part of resident evil where you walk into a room and then for no reason at all a giant freakin' snake comes out of the chimney and you hafta fight it? I wanted to know why." | |||
| inky says, "it's fiendish" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load fiendish" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Wake up! Time to start another day of work. Floyd | Floyd | Fiendish Zoo Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Elizabeth Heller Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 080820 / Inform 7 build 5T18 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Zookeeper's Office Floyd | Your personal work space contains a chair, a filing cabinet, a Floyd | bookshelf, and a battered old table which serves as a desk. A passage Floyd | to the west leads to the locker room. Floyd | Floyd | On the desk is a pointless snowglobe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get snowglobe then x it" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Well, it's more of an ashglobe, really ... when you shake it, bits of Floyd | fire and brimstone rain down upon a miniature metropolis. You've had Floyd | it for a long time; it was a gift upon some occasion or other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shake it" | ||||
Floyd | The small bits of ash inside the globe swirl about, wreaking Floyd | destruction upon the tiny city inside. After a few moments, they Floyd | settle back into place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "break it" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "smell it" | ||||
Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x table" | ||||
Floyd | It's not much more than a plank of wood with legs under it. You aren't | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "eat globe" | ||||
Floyd | even certain that it is real wood. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "GDorn, yeah. There's definitely a problem with the balance of pacing and foreshadowing and plot, etc., as Emily pointed out in her review." | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You are the demon Enzak, and you're in charge of the Fiendish Zoo. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | There is a puff of orange smoke, which makes you sneeze. Nothing else Floyd | happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rainyday says, "what I should've done is stopped it after the kitten turned up, to leave a bit of narrative tension" | |||
| PaulSharke says (to Floyd), "help" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yay Xyzzy response." | |||
| DavidW says, "#clubf My main problem with this zoo game was that it wasn't clear what my character was supposed to do." | ||||
| Lucea says, "yes, I liked the xyzzy response" | ||||
| Rainyday says, "making xyzzy responses is so fun and easy, I don't know why every game doesn't do it" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Zookeeper's Office Floyd | Your personal work space contains a chair, a filing cabinet, a Floyd | bookshelf, and a battered old table which serves as a desk. A passage Floyd | to the west leads to the locker room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x shelf" | ||||
Floyd | The bookshelf does not actually contain any books at present. Someone Floyd | has written in yellow chalk on the shelf: "Borrowed books, will return Floyd | later. M." Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "It's not appropriate for the tone of some games." | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look under desk" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rainyday exclaims, "I implemented stuff for that cabinet. I really did!" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "look in cabinet" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rainyday says, "It just ... didn't work ..." | |||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "get cabinet" | ||||
Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| PaulSharke says (to Floyd), "sit in chair" | ||||
Floyd | You get onto the old chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x cabinet" | ||||
Floyd | Records of the zoo are stored in there, of feeding schedules and bills Floyd | and vet appointments and things of that sort. Very boring. A minor Floyd | imp takes care of all the paperwork and brings you things that require Floyd | your personal signature. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline pats Liz on the back sympathetically. | |||
| Rainyday says, "it was supposed to say "Don't worry about the files; your assistant takes care of all that."" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x chair" | ||||
Floyd | It's your basic wooden chair, nothing special. Not comfortable enough Floyd | to relax in, but suitable for sitting down when you need to take a Floyd | break. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rainyday says, "ah well. I fix." | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "sit in chair" | ||||
Floyd | But you're already on the old chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "sign paperwork" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You get off the old chair. Floyd | Floyd | Zookeeper's Office Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||||
Floyd | Fiendish Zoo is now in its "verbose" mode, which always gives long Floyd | descriptions of locations (even if you've been there before). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||||
Floyd | Fiendish Zoo is now in its "verbose" mode, which always gives long Floyd | descriptions of locations (even if you've been there before). Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Timing." | |||
| DavidW says, "heh" | ||||
| Lucea says, "heh, I was just about to do that" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Locker Room Floyd | Here is where most of your tools and supplies are stored. Piled up Floyd | around the walls are buckets, mops, brooms, hoses and bottles of Floyd | cleaning solutions. There are also freezers (blue, green, and red) Floyd | full of food for the zoo residents, some feed bins, and in one corner Floyd | stands a large oven. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a sack (in which are ten lumps of coal) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "search bins" | ||||
Floyd | You rummage aimlessly through the bins, but you don't find anything Floyd | unexpected in there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x locker" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "x sack" | ||||
Floyd | It's a plain sack made of rough cloth, extremely dirty because it's Floyd | filled with coal. To save storage space, and for the convenience of Floyd | the zookeeper (namely you), there is only one sack of coal -- but it is Floyd | virtually bottomless. Floyd | Floyd | Rumor has it that the Boss Himself made this sack, after He was tricked Floyd | by a clever tailor. All you know for certain is that the sack has been Floyd | Zoo property for as long as you've worked here, and somehow it can Floyd | never be completely filled. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "search freezers" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Locker Room Floyd | Here is where most of your tools and supplies are stored. Piled up Floyd | around the walls are buckets, mops, brooms, hoses and bottles of Floyd | cleaning solutions. There are also freezers (blue, green, and red) Floyd | full of food for the zoo residents, some feed bins, and in one corner Floyd | stands a large oven. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a sack (in which are ten lumps of coal) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "x coal" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x oven" | ||||
Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | The oven is used to heat and cook food for those zoo creatures that Floyd | like their meals hot. Appropriately, it is fueled with a coal-like Floyd | substance from the nether planes, and has a maw like the jaws of Hell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "x lump" | ||||
Floyd | "Coal" is a convenient word for this black substance, but it doesn't Floyd | come from those pitiful scratches that mortals call mines. Fiendish Floyd | coal is dug from the deepest foundations of the world, where nameless Floyd | Things gnaw tunnels out of rock in the eternal darkness. The unlucky Floyd | demons who mine this coal tend not to live very long. But it burns Floyd | nice and hot. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rainyday says, "sorry, I just wanted you all to get a look at that" | |||
| Rainyday says, "I spent some time on the sack and the coal" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "eat lump" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the lump of coal) Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "nice, I missed it during play" | |||
| DavidW says, "me too" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put lump in oven" | ||||
Floyd | (the lump of coal in the oven) Floyd | You put the lump of coal into the oven. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "turn oven on" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x oven" | ||||
Floyd | The oven is used to heat and cook food for those zoo creatures that Floyd | like their meals hot. Appropriately, it is fueled with a coal-like Floyd | substance from the nether planes, and has a maw like the jaws of Hell. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "where nameless" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get in oven" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rainyday says, "go on and look in the freezers" | |||
| PaulSharke says (to Floyd), "bake a fiendish cake" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "where nameless" | |||
| Taleslinger | Things gnaw tunnels out of rock in the eternal darkness - is that from Tolkien? | ||||
| DavidW says, "The oven also has a paw like the claws of Cerberus." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "search freezers" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x freezers" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rainyday says, "Yup. Gandalf's speech about the Balrog." | |||
| Rainyday says, "I wondered if anyone would notice that" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x freezer" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the blue freezer, the red freezer, or the green | ||||
| PaulSharke says (to Floyd), "x blue" | ||||
Floyd | freezer? Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | These chilly, insulated chests are full of food for Zoo denizens. The Floyd | blue one contains dairy foods and eggs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "open blue" | ||||
Floyd | You pull open the blue freezer and take a look. It is well stocked Floyd | with cheeses, bottles of milk, and eggs (not the hatching kind) from Floyd | many types of beasts. Floyd | Floyd | You close the freezer again, so as not to let all the cold air escape. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "It's one of my favorite parts as well." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I wish we could make fiends, like Vendetta." | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "x green" | ||||
Floyd | These chilly, insulated chests are full of food for Zoo denizens. The Floyd | green one contains vegetables and fruits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "open green" | ||||
Floyd | You open the green freezer to have a peek. Though fewer of the Zoo Floyd | residents are vegetarians than meat-eaters, the ones who do eat plant Floyd | matter eat a lot more of it. This freezer contains large quantities of Floyd | various fruits, vegetables, roots, and so on. Floyd | Floyd | Having seen the contents, you shut the freezer, lest the temperature in Floyd | the room equalize with the temperature in the freezer. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "irta Velveeta" | |||
| Lucea says, "having worked at a pet store for a week, this is accurate" | ||||
| inky says, "or make friends" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "heh" | ||||
| Taleslinger gives Guy Fawkes mask to Jacqueline. | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "x red" | ||||
Floyd | These chilly, insulated chests are full of food for Zoo denizens. The Floyd | red one contains meats and fish. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "open red" | ||||
Floyd | You pull open the door of the red freezer and peer inside. It's Floyd | stocked with all manner of steaks, ground-up patties, bones, organs and Floyd | whole carcasses. Lots of Zoo animals eat flesh or other body parts. Floyd | Floyd | After a moment, you shut the freezer, to make sure the cold things in Floyd | there stay cold. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke asks, "I take it we're not meant to take things out of the freezer, since they close immediately after we open them?" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x bins" | ||||
Floyd | The feed bins contain all the food for Zoo creatures that doesn't need Floyd | to be kept cold: dried grains, nuts, seeds, herbs, spices, honey, et Floyd | cetera. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rainyday says, "right ... I should've put stuff in them, the finished game will have things in them" | |||
| Jacqueline asks (of Lucea), "Just a week? What happened? They didn't like how you were smelling and tasting and otherwise manipulating all the animals?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Paul), "I assume that they're just for show." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Kidding... I like that you do that when playing games, Lucea." | ||||
| GDorn says, "well, djangocon just got interesting again so I'm probably just going to read the transcript later." | ||||
| Lucea says, "I got fired for being incompetent" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "oh" | ||||
| PaulSharke says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Locker Room Floyd | Here is where most of your tools and supplies are stored. Piled up Floyd | around the walls are buckets, mops, brooms, hoses and bottles of Floyd | cleaning solutions. There are also freezers (blue, green, and red) Floyd | full of food for the zoo residents, some feed bins, and in one corner Floyd | stands a large oven. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a sack (in which are nine lumps of coal) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| PaulSharke says (to Floyd), "take sack" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Employee Entrance, outside the Locker Room Floyd | You stand just outside the employee entrance to the zoo. Behind you, Floyd | to the south, is the door back into the locker room. West is the main Floyd | visitors' entrance to the zoo, and north is the employee entrance. On Floyd | either side, you are surrounded by tall fencing topped with barbed Floyd | wire. Floyd | Floyd | You hear an odd sound, and suddenly you notice a small furry creature Floyd | at your feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get cat" | ||||
Floyd | You reach down and pluck the kitten from the ground by the scruff of Floyd | its neck. It goes limp, as kittens will do when handled in this Floyd | fashion, but after a moment it raises its head to look at you. "Mew?" Floyd | it says, blinking its round blue eyes. Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | (from Taleslinger) Lucea says, "But cat and mice in one cage saved so much room!" | |||
| Rainyday says, "oh, you should've looked at the junk in the locker room too" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Locker Room Floyd | Here is where most of your tools and supplies are stored. Piled up Floyd | around the walls are buckets, mops, brooms, hoses and bottles of Floyd | cleaning solutions. There are also freezers (blue, green, and red) Floyd | full of food for the zoo residents, some feed bins, and in one corner Floyd | stands a large oven. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We missed something. I found a coin back there." | |||
| PaulSharke says (to Floyd), "eat cat" | ||||
Floyd | He's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x junk" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "search supplies" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "search tools" | ||||
Floyd | You shift a few items around and uncover a tarnished silver coin! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get coin" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x coin" | Rainyday says, "there it is" | |||
Floyd | It's a small metal disk, so covered with corrosion that you can't make Floyd | out any of the worn writing on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "flip coin" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 2 out of a possible 100, in 50 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Minion. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hunh, look at that" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "eat coin" | ||||
Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Employee Entrance, outside the Locker Room Floyd | You stand just outside the employee entrance to the zoo. Behind you, Floyd | to the south, is the door back into the locker room. West is the main Floyd | visitors' entrance to the zoo, and north is the employee entrance. On Floyd | either side, you are surrounded by tall fencing topped with barbed Floyd | wire. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "x wire" | ||||
Floyd | It's as sharp as the claws of demons. Nastier demons than you, even. Floyd | If metal could be cunning, the sharp little bits of this wire atop the Floyd | fence would be. It is there to make certain that nothing will try to Floyd | enter the Fiendish Zoo by climbing over that fence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "climb fence" | ||||
Floyd | The barbed wire deters you. Besides, why climb the fence when there's Floyd | a perfectly good door? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "x gate" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Employee Entrance, outside the Locker Room Floyd | You stand just outside the employee entrance to the zoo. Behind you, Floyd | to the south, is the door back into the locker room. West is the main Floyd | visitors' entrance to the zoo, and north is the employee entrance. On Floyd | either side, you are surrounded by tall fencing topped with barbed Floyd | wire. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x entrance" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Dread Portal Floyd | You stand at the main entrance to the Fiendish Zoo. This is where the Floyd | visitors come through, and therefore the dread portal that serves as a Floyd | gate is intimidating indeed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "x protal" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "x portal" | ||||
Floyd | Impressively decorated in black iron and decorated with the most Floyd | twisted, terrible relief images possible, the Dread Portal also Floyd | permanently reeks of brimstone, sulfur, and scorched flesh. Floyd | Floyd | Your bosses went all-out for this one, putting the budget out of Floyd | balance for quite some while. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Lack of exits mentioned" | |||
| Rainyday says, "yeah, I need to fix that" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "enter portal" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the Dread Portal is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The portal's to the north, I figured out." | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "open it" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | The Dread Portal is closed, locked and sealed, and until you finish Floyd | your day's work, it's going to stay that way. Can't have visitors Floyd | wandering through the Zoo while you're making your rounds. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a silver coin Floyd | a small fluffy kitten Floyd | a sack (open) Floyd | nine lumps of coal Floyd | a pointless ashglobe Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "hug cat" | ||||
Floyd | Keep your mind on the game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "pet kitten" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put kitten in sack" | ||||
Floyd | The kitten doesn't seem to want to go in the sack. It sinks its claws Floyd | into your hand and yowls, until you are forced to drop it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get cat" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "eat kitten" | ||||
Floyd | He's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "kill cat" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "meow" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rainyday says, "try dropping the cat" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x cat" | ||||
Floyd | This baby feline has soft white fluffy fur, and large blue eyes. Most Floyd | humans would undoubtedly consider it extremely cute. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake cat" | ||||
Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "juggle cat" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop cat" | ||||
Floyd | The kitten manages to land on its feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "yay" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get cat" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "swing cat" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing sensible to swing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rainyday says, "the cat will follow you if you leave it on the ground" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Employee Entrance, outside the Locker Room Floyd | You stand just outside the employee entrance to the zoo. Behind you, Floyd | to the south, is the door back into the locker room. West is the main Floyd | visitors' entrance to the zoo, and north is the employee entrance. On Floyd | either side, you are surrounded by tall fencing topped with barbed Floyd | wire. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | Nothing very interesting here. This is simply a curving tunnel with Floyd | two exits: to the south is back to the employee entrance, and to the Floyd | northwest is your entry to the Zoo. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "Note: Sleeping cats don't always land on their feet." | |||
| Lucea says, "it isn't asleep" | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "drop cat" | ||||
Floyd | The kitten manages to land on its feet. Floyd | Floyd | The kitten looks at you hopefully. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "it just threw a shit fit about the sack" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "I don't want to know." | ||||
| Rainyday says, "yeah, the sack is going to be a player's holdall, but the cat doesn't like to be in the bag" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "kick cat" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says (to jacq), "They don't hurt themselves, they just get as mad as a wet ... cat." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to RainyDay), "Well, the cat is out of the bag." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I figured the sack was a holdall." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Jacq), "ow" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "I know. I'm (sort of) sorry." | ||||
| Rainyday says, "if you leave the cat on the ground, it should follow" | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Inside the Gate Floyd | You are just inside the Dread Portal, and the Zoo is open before you. Floyd | It's built in a ring-shaped circuit, so you can walk northeast or Floyd | northwest from here. To the south is the Dread Portal, and to the Floyd | southeast is the tunnel that leads to the locker room. Floyd | Floyd | The kitten follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger blows the Pun Police Whistle. Woe unto ye, O teller of bad puns! Here come the Pun Police! | ||||
| PaulSharke says (to Floyd), "take the rest of the day off" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Many enter through the Dread Portal ... but few depart that way. In Floyd | any case, you work here, so there's no reason to be leaving just yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Station Aleph Floyd | For the benefit of visitors, signs here point in several directions. Floyd | To the west is the manticore. To the east is the cockatrice. To the Floyd | southeast is back to the main entrance, and to the northeast is Station Floyd | Beth. Floyd | Floyd | The kitten follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Inside the Gate Floyd | You are just inside the Dread Portal, and the Zoo is open before you. Floyd | It's built in a ring-shaped circuit, so you can walk northeast or Floyd | northwest from here. To the south is the Dread Portal, and to the Floyd | southeast is the tunnel that leads to the locker room. Floyd | Floyd | The kitten follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | There's more of the Fiendish Zoo that way, but apparently something is Floyd | wrong with the path -- a large sign on the northeast walkway reads, Floyd | "DANGER -- DO NOT ENTER." Floyd | Floyd | The kitten pounces at its shadow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x shadow" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rainyday says, "the kitten will do random things if it's on the ground nearby" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Is there really danger, or is that area just not implemented?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "The fiendish devil monkeys aren't implemented yet." | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "sing" | ||||
Floyd | Your singing is abominable. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "I'm guessing it's the cockatrice" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drop kitty" | ||||
Floyd | The kitten manages to land on its feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rainyday says, "there's danger, AND it's not implemented yet, but I'm working on it" | |||
| PaulSharke says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | There's more of the Fiendish Zoo that way, but apparently something is Floyd | wrong with the path -- a large sign on the northeast walkway reads, Floyd | "DANGER -- DO NOT ENTER." Floyd | Floyd | The kitten twitches its ears. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| PaulSharke says (to Floyd), "x ears" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "comment - I want to be able to go ne anyway" | |||
| Rainyday asks, "oh bother, can you drop the cat when you're not holding it?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "even if it kills me" | ||||
| PaulSharke says (to Floyd), "drop cat" | ||||
Floyd | The kitten manages to land on its feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drop kitty" | ||||
Floyd | The kitten manages to land on its feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha ha" | |||
| Rainyday says, "yup. Damn. Better fix that." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Liz), "Yep." | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "remove pants" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "like, the first time tells you there's a sign, and the second time you ignore it" | |||
| Taleslinger says, "Schr?dinger's Cat!" | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Inside the Gate Floyd | You are just inside the Dread Portal, and the Zoo is open before you. Floyd | It's built in a ring-shaped circuit, so you can walk northeast or Floyd | northwest from here. To the south is the Dread Portal, and to the Floyd | southeast is the tunnel that leads to the locker room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a kitten here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, ">DROP CAT IN DUPLICATOR" | |||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Station Aleph Floyd | For the benefit of visitors, signs here point in several directions. Floyd | To the west is the manticore. To the east is the cockatrice. To the Floyd | southeast is back to the main entrance, and to the northeast is Station Floyd | Beth. Floyd | Floyd | The kitten follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "throw cat ne" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to throw the kitten. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| PaulSharke says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cockatrice Lair Floyd | Here is where the cockatrice lives. Its habitat is barred on the Floyd | ground level and has a high net over the top. Oddly, you don't see it Floyd | anywhere in its habitat. Maybe it's hiding, or asleep. Floyd | Floyd | The kitten follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "throw cat" | ||||
Floyd | The kitten manages to land on its feet. Floyd | Floyd | The kitten washes its paws. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "x habitat" | ||||
Floyd | The floor of the cockatrice's habitat is spread with straw, which needs Floyd | to be changed every so often. Tough, spindly bushes poke up here and Floyd | there from the ground. Several of the bushes have been turned to stone Floyd | by the monster's famous gaze. Floyd | Floyd | There is also a trough where the cockatrice takes its meals, and a Floyd | large, shallow clay fountain-pot where it can bathe and drink. But the Floyd | cockatrice itself is nowhere in sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea asks, "is there a lizard in the game?" | |||
| PaulSharke says (to Floyd), "x bars" | ||||
Floyd | The same kind of bars on most of the cages here. Hard, dark, and all Floyd | but impervious to damage. The ones on the cockatrice habitat look Floyd | normal enough. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| PaulSharke says (to Floyd), "shake bars" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the bars) Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x trough" | ||||
Floyd | It's a trough where you put the cockatrice's food. Scattered bits of Floyd | dried corn and beetle shells, leftovers from its last meal, are in Floyd | evidence. Floyd | Floyd | The kitten twitches its ears. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "x habitat" | ||||
Floyd | The floor of the cockatrice's habitat is spread with straw, which needs Floyd | to be changed every so often. Tough, spindly bushes poke up here and Floyd | there from the ground. Several of the bushes have been turned to stone Floyd | by the monster's famous gaze. Floyd | Floyd | There is also a trough where the cockatrice takes its meals, and a Floyd | large, shallow clay fountain-pot where it can bathe and drink. But the Floyd | cockatrice itself is nowhere in sight. Floyd | Floyd | The kitten pounces at its shadow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l in trough" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Aw" | |||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "x pot" | ||||
Floyd | The clay vessel is halfway between a small fountain and a birdbath. Floyd | The water is getting a bit stagnant, but the cockatrice prefers it that Floyd | way. Floyd | Floyd | The kitten bats at a bit of debris. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "search habitat" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | The kitten twitches its ears. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| PaulSharke says (to Floyd), "enter habitat" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to foyd), "l" | ||||
| PaulSharke says (to Floyd), "x debris" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Cockatrice Lair Floyd | Here is where the cockatrice lives. Its habitat is barred on the Floyd | ground level and has a high net over the top. Oddly, you don't see it Floyd | anywhere in its habitat. Maybe it's hiding, or asleep. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a kitten here. Floyd | Floyd | The kitten twitches its ears. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "put kitten in habitat" | ||||
Floyd | You need to be holding the kitten before you can put him into something Floyd | else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x net" | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "x net" | ||||
Floyd | The cockatrice likes to fly around a bit, so the net is there to allow Floyd | it some air space but prevent it from escaping. You can't see any Floyd | holes in it from here. Floyd | Floyd | The kitten twitches its ears. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | The cockatrice likes to fly around a bit, so the net is there to allow Floyd | it some air space but prevent it from escaping. You can't see any Floyd | holes in it from here. Floyd | Floyd | The kitten twitches its ears. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "climb net" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "take kitten then put kitten in habitat" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rainyday says, "maybe I should make some back entrances to the habitats and allow entry into them" | |||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "x bushes" | ||||
Floyd | The cockatrice's natural home is a hot, dry wasteland. Not much grows Floyd | there, except these bushes, which are thorny and no good to eat. One Floyd | or two of them have been petrified, and are now bush-shaped sculptures Floyd | of rock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "break sculptures" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | PaulSharke says, "Then you get to contend with rules that allow you to see into a room while in a different room. Fun times." | |||
| Rainyday says, "ergh" | ||||
| Lucea says, "UGH" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, fun times." | ||||
| Lucea says, "sorry, bad memories" | ||||
| Rainyday says, "I'm having enough trouble with a cage like that right now" | ||||
| Lucea says, "eventually I said screw it and made the particular room frosted glass" | ||||
| Rainyday says, "in I7 it's not hard, you just say the container is transparent" | ||||
| PaulSharke says (to Floyd), "knock off for the day" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "(there's a narrative reason)" | |||
| Taleslinger asks, "get back and get corn?" | ||||
| PaulSharke says, "I mean rooms, not containers. The room related rules are more complicated, unfortunately" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to ps), "oh yes" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | lump of coal: Taken. Floyd | lump of coal: Taken. Floyd | lump of coal: Taken. Floyd | lump of coal: Taken. Floyd | lump of coal: Taken. Floyd | lump of coal: Taken. Floyd | lump of coal: Taken. Floyd | lump of coal: Taken. Floyd | lump of coal: Taken. Floyd | habitat: That's hardly portable. Floyd | bushes: That's hardly portable. Floyd | trough: That's hardly portable. Floyd | pot: That's hardly portable. Floyd | net: That's hardly portable. Floyd | bars: That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x pot" | ||||
Floyd | The clay vessel is halfway between a small fountain and a birdbath. Floyd | The water is getting a bit stagnant, but the cockatrice prefers it that Floyd | way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "enter pot" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | nine lumps of coal Floyd | a small fluffy kitten Floyd | a silver coin Floyd | a sack (open but empty) Floyd | a pointless ashglobe Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "smell pot" | ||||
Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| PaulSharke says (to Floyd), "smell me" | ||||
Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "put coal in kitten" | ||||
Floyd | lump of coal: He can't contain things. Floyd | lump of coal: He can't contain things. Floyd | lump of coal: He can't contain things. Floyd | lump of coal: He can't contain things. Floyd | lump of coal: He can't contain things. Floyd | lump of coal: He can't contain things. Floyd | lump of coal: He can't contain things. Floyd | lump of coal: He can't contain things. Floyd | lump of coal: He can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rainyday says, "lol, it's not that kind of pot" | |||
| PaulSharke says (to Floyd), "smell kitten" | ||||
Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "I mean" | |||
| Lucea says, "water dishes smell nasty" | ||||
| PaulSharke says, "Our games aren't very smelly." | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "drink water" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "well, that's not true. some water dishes smell nastier than others" | |||
| Rainyday says, "yeah, but you're a distance away from the thing" | ||||
| Rainyday asks, "you're separated by bars ... how can I make that clearer?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "parakeet dishes are clean. cockatiel dishes are a bit worse. and finch dishes smell and look absolutely disgusting." | ||||
| Rainyday says, "apparently players don't seem to understand that" | ||||
| PaulSharke says (to Floyd), "touch pot" | ||||
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Cockatrice Lair Floyd | Here is where the cockatrice lives. Its habitat is barred on the Floyd | ground level and has a high net over the top. Oddly, you don't see it Floyd | anywhere in its habitat. Maybe it's hiding, or asleep. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rainyday says, "bother. You shouldn't be able to reach ti." | |||
| inky says, "hmm, I understood it" | ||||
| Lucea says, "probably mention in the description of the pot, etc. that it's out of reach somehow" | ||||
| DavidW says, "There's one old IFComp game where every room has a smell. You're a spy named Jane, iirc." | ||||
| inky says, "but I figured you could maybe reach some stuff through the bars" | ||||
| Rainyday says, "everything in the habitat ought to be untouchable" | ||||
| Lucea says, "over by the far bars, or something" | ||||
| Rainyday says, "if you could reach through the bars of a cockatrice's cage, you'd regret it ^^" | ||||
| Lucea says, "wait, what kind of cockatrice are we talking" | ||||
| Lucea asks, "the ones that can stone you with breath, or glares, or what?" | ||||
| Rainyday says, "I dunno, I guess it's a thing that looks like a cross between a lizard and a rooster" | ||||
| Rainyday says, "and can turn you to stone with a glare" | ||||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||
| Lucea says, "more than you ever want to know about (Nethack, anyway) trices: [ LINK ]" | ||||
| PaulSharke says, "They're worth lots of experience points." | ||||
| inky says, "it seems like it should have one-way opaque glass rather than bars" | ||||
| inky says, "unless demons can't be stoned" | ||||
| Rainyday says, "Demons can't be." | ||||
| Lucea says, "demons can't be stoned in nethack" | ||||
| Lucea says, "but this isn't nethack. heh." | ||||
| Rainyday says, "I added that to the description of the cockatrice, but I guess since it's not around, the player won't find that out" | ||||
| DavidW says, "You'd think there'd be smoky eyeglasses out near the entrance for visitors to wear." | ||||
| Rainyday says, "lol, great idea" | ||||
| Lucea says, "unless it's a "zoo" that secretly kills the visitors" | ||||
| PaulSharke says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Cockatrice Lair Floyd | Here is where the cockatrice lives. Its habitat is barred on the Floyd | ground level and has a high net over the top. Oddly, you don't see it Floyd | anywhere in its habitat. Maybe it's hiding, or asleep. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "they come for entertainment, they leave DEAD" | |||
| PaulSharke says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Station Aleph Floyd | For the benefit of visitors, signs here point in several directions. Floyd | To the west is the manticore. To the east is the cockatrice. To the Floyd | southeast is back to the main entrance, and to the northeast is Station Floyd | Beth. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heehee" | |||
| PaulSharke says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | There is more of the Fiendish Zoo that way ... but you've reached the Floyd | end of this intro version. Stay tuned for the finished version of Floyd | "Fiendish Zoo," coming soon! Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** End of Intro *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 2 out of a possible 100, in 117 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Minion. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Station Aleph Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Manticore Cave Floyd | The manticore lives in a large cage that includes a variety of rocks Floyd | and small trees for climbing, some soft cushions and furs to lounge on, Floyd | and a little stream with a pool. Floyd | Floyd | Lying in its enclosure, occasionally twitching its tail, is the Floyd | manticore. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rainyday says, "let's go visit the manticore" | |||
| PaulSharke says, "Oops I drove us over a cliff" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "manticore, hello" | ||||
Floyd | The manticore gets up, moves around, and then lies down again. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm sort of scared of the manticore." | |||
| Rainyday asks, "why?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask manticore about author" | ||||
Floyd | (the manticore about that) Floyd | The manticore is not in a talkative mood today, it seems. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "I'm more scared of the cockatrice" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask manticore about cockatrice" | ||||
Floyd | (the manticore about that) Floyd | The manticore gets up, moves around, and then lies down again. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "Every manticore I've encountered in fiction has been a brutish-but-happy fellow" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to RainyDay), "I used to play a lot of Archon, I guess." | ||||
| PaulSharke says, "I'm terrified of this kitten. It's FOLLOWING US AROUND. It must be plotting something." | ||||
| Rainyday says, "well done ... finally dawn breaks :)" | ||||
| Lucea says, "kind of like the Dopefish of land creatures. without the killing-you part." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x manticore" | ||||
Floyd | (the manticore) Floyd | The manticore has a humanlike face, the body of a lion, and the tail of Floyd | a giant scorpion. It is one of the more intelligent creatures in the Floyd | zoo, and can even speak a few words (when it feels like it). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull tail" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "ask manticore about me" | ||||
Floyd | (the manticore about that) Floyd | The manticore gets up, moves around, and then lies down again. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha dopefish" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "kiss manticore" | ||||
Floyd | (the manticore) Floyd | Keep your mind on the game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "pet manticore" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| PaulSharke says (to Floyd), "throw lump at manticore" | ||||
Floyd | (the manticore) Floyd | You lack the nerve when it comes to the crucial moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Manticore Cave Floyd | The manticore lives in a large cage that includes a variety of rocks Floyd | and small trees for climbing, some soft cushions and furs to lounge on, Floyd | and a little stream with a pool. Floyd | Floyd | Lying in its enclosure, occasionally twitching its tail, is the Floyd | manticore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x furs" | ||||
Floyd | They're just some dirty cushions that the manticore is lounging on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "feel them" | ||||
Floyd | I'm not sure what "them" refers to. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "touch furs" | ||||
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "manticore, your mom" | ||||
Floyd | The manticore gnaws on a toy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "manticore, xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | The manticore has better things to do. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline will be right back, as someone is at her door. | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pool" | ||||
Floyd | It's a pool of water, fed by a small stream, which is there so the Floyd | manticore can have a drink or splash around, if it feels so inclined. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "maybe it is THE COCKATRICE" | |||
| Rainyday asks, "just curious ... I have my own ideas, but what other beasts would you guys like to see here?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "well, the kitten is obviously not as innocent as it appears. How'd it get in? It's probably a shapechanging spy." | ||||
| Lucea asks, "Cerberus?" | ||||
| Alex says (to Lucea), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that Cerberus is a three-headed guard dog." | ||||
| Rainyday says, "nah, Cerberus is on duty, he's not in the zoo." | ||||
| PaulSharke says, "I think the problem I have so far is that I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be doing something, if anything. Maybe if we had a checklist, and the only thing left on our checklist for the day was something like, 'Inspect each of the habitats.'" | ||||
| DavidW says, "A griffin, perhaps." | ||||
| DavidW says (to PaulSharke), "ditto" | ||||
| PaulSharke says, "I'm a pretty big fan of golems." | ||||
| Rainyday says, "Yes, I do need to add that" | ||||
| Rainyday says, "ooh boy, if you like golems, you might love a game I'm working on for the IFcomp" | ||||
| PaulSharke says, "if not a golem then perhaps a cave troll" | ||||
| Rainyday says, "cave troll ... yes, that might be good ..." | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "Mind Flayer!" | ||||
| Lucea says, "I like a green slime. since they scare the crap out of me" | ||||
| Rainyday says, "I'm planning to add a black unicorn, a Taurean (dire bull) ..." | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "add one of the really reidiculous d&d monsters. like a rust monster." | ||||
| Rainyday says, "oh, and there's going to be a werebear" | ||||
| Rainyday says, "which LOVES kittens ... as snacks" | ||||
| Lucea says, "oh dear" | ||||
| Lucea exclaims, "Ooh! I know!" | ||||
| Lucea says, "Ferrets. There must be ferrets." | ||||
| Rainyday asks, "ferrets? Ferrets are fiendish?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "to me they are forever fiendish" | ||||
| Lucea says, "they got me fired" | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "manticore, sit" | ||||
Floyd | (on the manticore) Floyd | The manticore has better things to do. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "heh" | |||
| inky says, "put in some kind of tribble-like thing that reproduces a bunch if it gets out of its cage" | ||||
| Rainyday says, "Tribbles are too cute ... maybe some sort of dangerous insect though" | ||||
| Rainyday asks, "heh, maybe I'll add sandkings. You ever read that story?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "fire ants? killer bees? killer FIRE bees." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Giant sandworm" | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "Godzilla!" | ||||
| GDorn says, "some guy named Gerry" | ||||
| Rainyday decides to add a line about Godzilla being away on loan to Neptune | ||||
| Jacq is bacq. | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think a shapechanger of some sort ought to be included, somewhere, even if not one of the exhibits." | ||||
| Rainyday says, "interesting idea ... that'd be one hell of a puzzle to code though" | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "A giant monster, whose habitat is a cardboard city" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Hm... so is this meant to be like one of those vetrinarian games, sort of?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Or just to showcase a bunch of neat animals?" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to irta), "vegeterian" | ||||
| Lucea says, "could always have two different objects for the shapechanger, maybe" | ||||
| Rainyday says, "not really a veterinarian game. I mean, the player should have some tasks to do, but I was more interested in the kitten actually" | ||||
| Lucea says, "unless it shapeshifts at will" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I'm always more interested in kittens." | ||||
| Lucea says, "as am I" | ||||
| Rainyday says, "there WAS going to be a plot around here somewhere..." | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to jacq), "hehe. um." | ||||
| DavidW says, "...where the demon could play croquet with flamingoes..." | ||||
| Rainyday says, "well, no. I wonder what flamingoes would look like in a fiendish zoo." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "Naughty, you." | ||||
| Lucea says, "red, I gues" | ||||
| Lucea says, "guess" | ||||
| Rainyday says, "red, malicious, gossipy" | ||||
| DavidW says, "flaming" | ||||
| Rainyday says, "there should be an ice exhibit with dire penguins" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Tentacle vine tree." | ||||
| Rainyday says, "No. It's a Fiendish Zoo, not a Fiendish Arboretum." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So... I stepped away to return and find that we're mostly discussing Liz's game but not really still tinkering... on to Taleslinger's game?" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to rainyday), "add an invisible creature!" | ||||
| Rainyday asks, "hmm. Invisible .... invisible ... invisible what?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "You mean like the one in Seveh Nux? That little shit drove me insane, though." | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "...rainyday Stalker!" | ||||
| Lucea says, "an invisible nymph is even more evil" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to jacq), "Haven't played that." | ||||
| Rainyday says, "Huh. An invisible stalker. Not a bad idea." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "AH! INVISIBLE OWLBEAR!" | ||||
| Rainyday me takes a note | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry. I just think owlbears are funny." | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "Invisible monkey with visible pants." | ||||
| Rainyday says, "hmm, maybe I should have an owlbear who wears glasses" | ||||
| Rainyday says, "I find it interesting how everyone here thinks of D&D monsters" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I didn't." | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Manticore Cave Floyd | The manticore lives in a large cage that includes a variety of rocks Floyd | and small trees for climbing, some soft cushions and furs to lounge on, Floyd | and a little stream with a pool. Floyd | Floyd | Lying in its enclosure, occasionally twitching its tail, is the Floyd | manticore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "manticore, hello" | ||||
Floyd | The manticore ignores you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "Add an evil, soulless, multinational corporation from Shadowrun then" | |||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | The manticore gets up, moves around, and then lies down again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | The manticore ignores you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Rainyday says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | The manticore is capable of understanding you -- it just doesn't Floyd | particularly care. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Rainyday), "Well, I have stopped playing Archon and now play lots of Zangband." | |||
| Lucea says, "Nethack, actually" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Poor forgotten grue." | ||||
| Lucea says, "and Rogue, I guess" | ||||
| PaulSharke exclaims, "I'm off to spend time with family. Thanks again, all!" | ||||
| Rainyday says, "hmm. A grue might be a worthy addition. Except you couldn't see it." | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "Btw, we can start with mine, if you care" | ||||
| PaulSharke goes home. | Rainyday says, "that's fine ... I think you've seen most of what there was to see this time" | |||
| Rainyday says, "sorry it was so spare, it needs a lot more work" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That was why I asked earlier, but no one answered me." Jacqueline sniffles. | ||||
| Lucea says, "A good start though" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit? | Taleslinger says (to rainyday), "Yeah, Looking forward to see more." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "list b" | ||||
| Floyd says (to Jacqueline), "b2demo babel babel2 babel31 babes badguys balances bandit bap barometer bb bbp bear bearg bedlam bedtime beet beingandrewplotkin bellwater beneath bestman bestof3 bigmama bj blair bloody bluemen bmch bomber booth break-in breakin bronze bse bunny" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load bedtime" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Busy week. L.A., Helsinki, Mexico City and back. Finally home, jet-lag Floyd | hit you like a brick to the face. Randa was kind, understanding, then Floyd | with her own soft determination beckoned you to get up from the sofa Floyd | and put your son to bed. For a moment you gave in to the illusion that Floyd | you're living the good life, making money, coming home to your family Floyd | once the tie-up is completed. Then you realize you've been away for six Floyd | months, a lifetime at his age. You look down on him, guilt in your Floyd | stomach. Floyd | But then he smiles, the smile that always reminds Randa of you, and Floyd | you feel a wave of irrational, overwhelming pride. Danny pulls up his Floyd | blanket, and murmurs, already half-asleep: Floyd | Floyd | "Dad, will you tell me a story?" Floyd | Floyd | Bedtime story Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Taleslinger Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 080819 / Inform 7 build 5T18 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Well, it looks like you have your work cut out for you. Randa Floyd | introduced Prince George, who is sent by king Sean to save some Floyd | princess. (Even though Danny isn't yet old enough to get his head Floyd | around the idea of wanting to save a girl.) Looks like the prince did a Floyd | lot of traveling yesterday, saw a lot of landscape, did a lot of Floyd | singing, and Danny fell asleep when he finally reached some bridge. Floyd | Picking up there, you clear your throat and begin: Floyd | Floyd | At the Bridge Floyd | "The old, (once upon a time) sturdy wooden bridge had crossed the Floyd | Clearwater River from east to west for as long as the prince could Floyd | remember, and according to the stories, it had been there long before Floyd | that, built when the kingdom was young. He fondly remembered hiding in Floyd | the thick scrub below the bridge from his father's guards when he was Floyd | but a boy. " Floyd | Floyd | "A big and nasty mountain troll guarded the bridge, a burred stone axe Floyd | in his brawny fists." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | Rainyday says, "thanks" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x danny" | ||||
Floyd | "But, dad, there was no such thing here!" Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "a clubfloyd" | Jacqueline says (to Rainyday), "Good luck with finishing... and I'm glad you hung around for ClubFloyd." | |||
Floyd | "Clubfloyd is this weekly meeting where a lot of players play a game on Floyd | IfMud. Maybe they're playing this one day. If so - Hey Club Floyd!" Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "hit troll" | ||||
Floyd | (with the sword) Floyd | "Working up all of his courage, the prince drew his sword, and, setting Floyd | his face, marched towards the troll. The troll saw him approach and Floyd | roared: 'Ha! You will fall by the order of...' Floyd | You look around the room. Floyd | Floyd | 'Kur-Tayn. Order of Great Wizard Kur-Tayn.'" Floyd | Floyd | --glaring light... | Lucea says, "Ha ha" | |||
| Rainyday says, "I think I'd better be getting along, I hope to see the transcript posted soon and I will take some more notes" | ||||
| Rainyday says, "thanks all for looking at my game" | ||||
| Lucea exclaims, "no problem!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "haha - ClubFloyd cameo. Nice." | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Whoa! Danny has switched on his night lamp, effectively blinding you. Floyd | When you finally blinked the spots away, he is sitting up in his bed, Floyd | shouting: Floyd | "Daaaad, that is so stupid. I mean, if this Cue-Train wizard was such a Floyd | mighty wizard, he wouldn't let a troll, of all creatures, guard the Floyd | only bridge leading to his castle! I mean, everyone knows they're dumb Floyd | and easily tricked. No, he would set up something really dangerous Floyd | there, something...cool." Floyd | His eyes have gotten a dreamy quality you don't like at all. Floyd | "Like what?" you ask carefully. Floyd | Floyd | "You know, in today's episode of SPACE RANGERS, they fought this really Floyd | evil robot." Floyd | Floyd | "A robot, son? The prince lived hundreds of years ago..." Danny has Floyd | crossed his arms, a gesture that reminds you of Randa and makes clear Floyd | this argument is lost. "Well, this Cure-Tan guy is a wizard, right?" Floyd | Floyd | At the Bridge Floyd | "The old, (once upon a time) sturdy wooden bridge had crossed the Floyd | Clearwater River from east to west for as long as the prince could Floyd | remember, and according to the stories, it had been there long before Floyd | that, built when the kingdom was young. He fondly remembered hiding in Floyd | the thick scrub below the bridge from his father's guards when he was Floyd | but a boy. " Floyd | Floyd | "A robot was on the bridge." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Rainyday goes home. | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x robot" | ||||
Floyd | "So, son, what was this robot from SPACE KNIGHTS like?" Floyd | Floyd | He folds his arms, and in an accusing voice, says: "Well, the robot in Floyd | Space RANGERS was this really dangerous looking tripod thing, with this Floyd | red light on the top, which could turn into a LASER BEAM which Floyd | VAPORIZED EVERYTHING it hit, including people! It killed some of the Floyd | STARLIGHT's crew! It nearly hit First Officer Leena, you know, the cat Floyd | woman..." Ah, childhood crushes. "And she was buried under all this Floyd | rubble..." "Yeah, son, see, we have our own story here." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | Taleslinger says (to jacq), "You can ask the robot / troll about some out of world stuff." | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "ask robot about me" | ||||
Floyd | "Well, this Jack Chambers is a cool guy. Do you know about the one time Floyd | his uncle send him a magic box?" Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "jump" | ||||
Floyd | "The prince jumped. Floyd | Floyd | The robot jumped, landing with a *thud*. The bridge creaked ominously, Floyd | but held." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "sing" | ||||
Floyd | You take a deep breath to present a rousing rendition of "Off to see Floyd | the wizard", but then Danny cringes. "He's not going to sing again, is Floyd | he?" Floyd | Floyd | Okay, change of plan. Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | Jacqueline says, "I mean 'heh' Jack Chambers." | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "dance" | ||||
Floyd | "Aww,Dad, dancing is sooo gay." Floyd | Floyd | "What do you mean "gay?"" Floyd | He looks nonplussed. "You know, not cool." Floyd | Floyd | "No son, it doesn't meant that. Not at all." Floyd | Floyd | "Then what does it mean, Dad?" Floyd | Floyd | "Uh, we'll talk about that later. Just keep in mind that it isn't a bad Floyd | word, okay?" Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | Taleslinger asks (of jacq), "You remember him?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes. Duh." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Sure. Jack in the box." | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "remove pants" | ||||
Floyd | "But, dad, there was no such thing here!" Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | Taleslinger says, "Soooo...This piece about dancing is from an actual conversation a friend of mine had with his son." | |||
| Lucea says, "awesome" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "looked at the sky" | ||||
Floyd | "But, dad, there was no such thing here!" Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Emily has disconnected. | ||||
| Emily goes home. | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x bridge" | ||||
Floyd | "It was an old wooden bridge, made of thick logs, aged by hundreds of Floyd | carriages, and the steps of a thousand wanderers." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "smell robot" | ||||
Floyd | The Prince smelled nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | Lucea says, "someone needs to take up the smelling gauntlet" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "looked" | ||||
Floyd | At the Bridge Floyd | "The old, (once upon a time) sturdy wooden bridge had crossed the Floyd | Clearwater River from east to west for as long as the prince could Floyd | remember, and according to the stories, it had been there long before Floyd | that, built when the kingdom was young. He fondly remembered hiding in Floyd | the thick scrub below the bridge from his father's guards when he was Floyd | but a boy. " Floyd | Floyd | "A really dangerous looking tripedal robot stood on the bridge, casting Floyd | the red light from his headpiece around threateningly." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x headpiece" | ||||
Floyd | "The headpiece was...er...headshaped, right...and...er...silvery as Floyd | well..."Danny sighs, then he suddenly jumps up and says: "Yeah! And the Floyd | prince would see it mimicking his every move-" Your son, now all full Floyd | of exictement, shifts his body left and right, staring you right square Floyd | in the eye. "Every..move. Because that's how these robots learned. By Floyd | copying their enemies." Floyd | "But what the prince also saw, was a small on/off button." Floyd | "Danny opens his mouth to protest, but you shut him off:"Well, the Floyd | wizard had no robot factory, so he'd had to have a way to switch it Floyd | off." Danny frowns, unconvinced, but he's letting you continue." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "examined the scrub" | ||||
Floyd | "The thick scrub..." You just realized that this would be a great Floyd | chance to tell your son all about flowers and plants. If only you knew Floyd | something. Oh well. "...hid a secret path that led under the bridge." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "walked the path" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something The Prince can enter. Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "searched the scrub" | ||||
Floyd | "The prince found some thorns. Ouch!" Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "found the path" | ||||
Floyd | "Dad, you're mumbling." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Under the bridge Floyd | "The wooden supporting structures loomed above the prince like the Floyd | remnants of a very ecologically aware lost civilization. A muddy slope Floyd | lead down to the water and up towards the scrub." Floyd | Floyd | "A small pebble stuck out of the mud." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | Taleslinger scribble scribble | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | "The prince decided to take the easy way out and just swim across..." Floyd | "Come on dad, the wizard would've anticipated that. There'd be sharks Floyd | and mines and octopuses..." "In a river?" "Just sharks and mines then!" Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "looked at the bridge" | ||||
Floyd | "To the prince it looked like this supporting structure was what kept Floyd | the bridge from collapsing. "But Dad, wouldn't that be somewhat Floyd | dangerous? Wouldn't it be better if they just replaced the whole Floyd | bridge?" "Yes, son, but see, the kingdom had no money for that. It's a Floyd | hum...tax thing. Happens everywhere." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "take pebble" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "climbed the bridge" | ||||
Floyd | "It looked like these structures had been designed in an especially Floyd | unclimbable manner." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | The Prince was carrying: Floyd | a pebble Floyd | a sword Floyd | Floyd | "Dad, mum never said anything of a sword!" You wink at him. "Son, this Floyd | is a boy's story now." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Under the bridge Floyd | "The wooden supporting structures loomed above the prince like the Floyd | remnants of a very ecologically aware lost civilization. A muddy slope Floyd | lead down to the water and up towards the scrub." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x pebble" | ||||
Floyd | "A small, round, white, pebble." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "eat pebble" | ||||
Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | Jacqueline says, "By the way, I really liked the past tense thing." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dug mud" | ||||
Floyd | "Dad, you're mumbling." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | Taleslinger says, "It's mostly thanks to David Fisher and nitku, honestly." | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "dug the mud" | ||||
Floyd | "Dad, you're mumbling." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "dug" | ||||
Floyd | "Dad, you're mumbling." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | inky says, "you don't smell with a gauntlet!" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||||
Floyd | "Dad, you're mumbling." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | inky says, "it'd be a smelling noselet" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x mud" | ||||
Floyd | "The mud was just that, plain old mud." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "searched the mud" | ||||
Floyd | The prince prodded the mud with his boot, but found nothing useful. Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| vaporware arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "got the mud" | ||||
Floyd | No, you're trying to tell Danny that playing in the dirt is not cool. Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "ate the mud" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking Mud) Floyd | No, you're trying to tell Danny that playing in the dirt is not cool. Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "ate the pebble" | ||||
Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | At the Bridge Floyd | "A really dangerous looking tripedal robot stood on the bridge, casting Floyd | the red light from his headpiece around threateningly." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "killed himself" | ||||
Floyd | What did The Prince want to kill himself with? Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "threw the pebble at the robot" | ||||
Floyd | "The prince threw the pebble with all his power, but it just bounced Floyd | off the robot's metal hull harmlessly." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | GDorn asks, "is there a past-tense library, or did you need to implement all of these yourself?" | |||
| Jacqueline cries. | ||||
| GDorn says, "get pebble" | ||||
| GDorn says, "er" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "get pebble" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | "The robot made a grabbing motion with one of his legs, carefully Floyd | balancing on the other two. Then it stood on all three again." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "throw pebble at button" | ||||
Floyd | "The prince threw the pebble with all his might..." Floyd | Danny has folded his arms. "But he wouldn't be able to throw it hard Floyd | enough to actually push the button. That would be ridiculous." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | Lucea says, "pushed the button" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "pushed the button" | ||||
Floyd | "The button was high up on the robot's head, and the prince could see Floyd | no way to get up there." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "climbed the robot" | ||||
Floyd | "The robot kicked the prince away with one well aimed...kick. The Floyd | prince landed a few feet away in the bushes, but immediately stood up Floyd | again. That's an important lesson, son. They can kick you down, but you Floyd | have to get up again." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "throw sword at button" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the button) Floyd | That seemed to be a part of the robot. Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | Taleslinger says (to gdorn), "There is an extension that puts all library responses into past tense. Nitku worked some regular expression magic, nd I had to painstakingly replace most library verbs." | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "laughed" | ||||
Floyd | "Why did the prince do this, dad?" "Because, son, no matter how dire Floyd | the circumstances, it's always important to keep on the sunny side of Floyd | things." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | Lucea says, "I thought I'd mention that one" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | "Aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" Danny covers his ears. Floyd | Floyd | The door opens, and Randa peeks in, and you stare sheepishly at the Floyd | ground. "I appreciate that you fellas are having fun" she says, Floyd | smirking motherly "but keep it down, okay?" She closes the door. Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | DavidW says, "ha ha" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | Danny says: "A magic word implemented by Will Crowther in the original Floyd | text adventure, known as "Advent" or "Colossal Cave Adventure", among Floyd | other names. It was the first magic word the player encountered, and Floyd | transported the player between two locations on incantation. It is now Floyd | included in many current games as an homage. (cf) IfWiki." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "plugh" | ||||
Floyd | "Dad, you're mumbling." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||
Floyd | "The prince jumped. Floyd | Floyd | The robot jumped, landing with a *thud*. The bridge creaked ominously, Floyd | but held." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | Taleslinger says, "Oh! Wait!" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "plover" | ||||
Floyd | "Dad, you're mumbling." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | Lucea asks, "yes?" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "a dw" | ||||
Floyd | "David Welbourn is a canadian guy who wrote a *lot* of walkthroughs and Floyd | works on IfWiki. Despite all this, he found time to test this game." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "bother" | ||||
Floyd | True fathers don't teach their sons such language! Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||
Floyd | "The prince jumped. Floyd | Floyd | The robot jumped, landing with a *thud*. The bridge creaked ominously, Floyd | but held." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "went down" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Under the bridge Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "verbose" | ||||
Floyd | Bedtime story is now in its "verbose" mode, which always gives long Floyd | descriptions of locations (even if The Prince's been there before). Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Under the bridge Floyd | "The wooden supporting structures loomed above the prince like the Floyd | remnants of a very ecologically aware lost civilization. A muddy slope Floyd | lead down to the water and up towards the scrub." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | DavidW says, "wow. I got a in-game mention? Cool." | |||
| Taleslinger says, "All testers did!" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "a jacq" | ||||
Floyd | [I can't figure out who you want to talk to.] Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | At the Bridge Floyd | "The old, (once upon a time) sturdy wooden bridge had crossed the Floyd | Clearwater River from east to west for as long as the prince could Floyd | remember, and according to the stories, it had been there long before Floyd | that, built when the kingdom was young. He fondly remembered hiding in Floyd | the thick scrub below the bridge from his father's guards when he was Floyd | but a boy. A small, almost invisible path lead down, under the bridge." Floyd | Floyd | "A really dangerous looking tripedal robot stood on the bridge, casting Floyd | the red light from his headpiece around threateningly." Floyd | Floyd | "The prince could see a pebble here." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "a jacq" | ||||
Floyd | "Well, she organizes the comp in which this game was entered.Also, Floyd | recently, she isn't too fond of being called kitten." The robot rubs Floyd | one cheek." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | Jacqueline isn't sure she wants to know if she's in there, but maybe because she's the comp organizer... | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "a Jacqueline" | ||||
Floyd | "Well, she organizes the comp in which this game was entered.Also, Floyd | recently, she isn't too fond of being called kitten." The robot rubs Floyd | one cheek." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | Jacqueline says, "Timing. he" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "er, heh" | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "a taleslinger" | ||||
Floyd | "This unit hasn't stored any information about this." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "a testers" | ||||
Floyd | "This unit hasn't stored any information about this." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | Jacqueline says, "The H is going on this keyboard. Sigh." | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "a marius" | ||||
Floyd | "Oh, he's this, you know, german guy." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "a randa" | ||||
Floyd | "The robot said: "That is simply the most beautiful and caring person Floyd | in the world." Danny nods. "Yes. Yes, she is." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | Lucea says, "aw" | |||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "a ifmud" | ||||
Floyd | "This awesome Chat-MUD with a lot of helpful people on a lot of helpful Floyd | channels." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "a raif" | ||||
Floyd | "This unit hasn't stored any information about this." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | Taleslinger says, "I can't believe I forgot to implement Taleslinger as a synonym." | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "a danny" | ||||
Floyd | "Well" said the robot thoughtfully, "Danny is a really bright boy. And Floyd | handsome, too." "Dad!" says Danny, trying to act embarassed, but Floyd | blushing and secretly smiling with pride. Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "a dad" | ||||
Floyd | "Well, this Jack Chambers is a cool guy. Do you know about the one time Floyd | his uncle send him a magic box?" Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "uncle" | ||||
Floyd | "Dad, you're mumbling." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "a uncle" | ||||
Floyd | "This unit hasn't stored any information about this." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "a box" | ||||
Floyd | "This unit hasn't stored any information about this." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "took inventory" | ||||
Floyd | The Prince was carrying: Floyd | a sword Floyd | Floyd | "The robot looked down at itself, and then discovered it had no Floyd | pockets." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | The Prince was carrying: Floyd | a sword Floyd | Floyd | "The robot looked down at itself, and then discovered it had no Floyd | pockets." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | Jacqueline says, "Dude - 'take inventory' works? Neat." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I didn't expect it to." | ||||
| DavidW says, "That's standard Inform." | ||||
| DavidW says, "That should work in your own games." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess I've never tried it." | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "version" | ||||
Floyd | Bedtime story Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Taleslinger Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 080819 / Inform 7 build 5T18 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Identification number: //09DFA578-9195-42BE-8482-2CAF99768813// Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0 (2N) / Library serial number 080126 Floyd | Standard Rules version 2/080430 by Graham Nelson Floyd | Custom Library Messages version 25/080420 by David Fisher Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | Taleslinger says, "one of my testers reported all these robot responses as bugs." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit me" | ||||
Floyd | (with the sword) Floyd | "The prince pointed the sword at himself and hit his chest lightly. Floyd | Floyd | The robot raised one leg and punched himself in the headpiece. It Floyd | staggered for a moment before it regained its composure. Floyd | Floyd | 'Why is the bio-unit doing this? This hurts!'" Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | Jacqueline says, "So, we have a sword, and the robot mimics us. Maybe if we stab ourself in the chest..." | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "kill me with sword" | ||||
Floyd | "The prince pointed the sword at himself and hit himself in the chest Floyd | lightly. Floyd | Floyd | The robot raised one leg and punched himself in the headpiece just as Floyd | lightly. Floyd | "Wow dad, this robot learns fast!" Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "kill eyes with sword" | ||||
Floyd | "But, dad, there was no such thing here!" Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit me hard" | ||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit my head" | ||||
Floyd | "But, dad, there was no such thing here!" Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "stab robot" | ||||
Floyd | "Dad, you're mumbling." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "attack robot with sword" | ||||
Floyd | "The prince moved, drawing his sword, knowing that, the bigger they Floyd | are, the lighter they fall." Floyd | Danny sits up again, all excitement:"But-but-but, Dad, the robot was Floyd | nearly invincible! See, Captain Asteroyd even fired a polytron bomb at Floyd | it! They had to modify one of the STARLIGHT's engine to build an Floyd | anti-matter bomb which could destroy it. Do you see why Cute-Trance Floyd | would set up such a thing as a guard? The prince has no way to get past Floyd | it!" You ruffle your hair, stumped. Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "sing to robot" | ||||
Floyd | "Dad, I only understood the first part of what you said." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | inky asks, "I forget, did we see its headpiece?" | |||
| Taleslinger says, "yes" | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "actually, this puzzle has 2 solutions" | ||||
| inky says, "aha, I thought so" | ||||
| inky says, "I found the other one" | ||||
| Lucea says, "I found the one with the bridge" | ||||
| inky says, "but couldn't figure out what to do with the button" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x button" | ||||
Floyd | "There was a small, barely visible on/off button on the robot's Floyd | headpiece." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "touch head" | ||||
Floyd | "But, dad, there was no such thing here!" Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | DavidW asks, "huh. Two solutions, eh?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear sword" | ||||
Floyd | The Prince can't wear that! Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | DavidW says, "yeah, I found the bridge one." | |||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | "The button was high up on the robot's head, and the prince could see Floyd | no way to get up there." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "scratch forehead" | ||||
Floyd | "Dad, you're mumbling." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "robot, press the button" | ||||
Floyd | The robot had better things to do. Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "x prince" | ||||
Floyd | "The prince was a strong and nimble young fellow, always polite to his Floyd | elders and peers, a boon to his country and friends. And, contrary to Floyd | what your mother said, he looked nothing like George Clooney." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | The Prince was carrying: Floyd | a sword Floyd | Floyd | "The robot looked down at itself, and then discovered it had no Floyd | pockets." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "saluted" | ||||
Floyd | "Dad, you're mumbling." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "touch forehead" | ||||
Floyd | "But, dad, there was no such thing here!" Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "remove crown" | ||||
Floyd | "But, dad, there was no such thing here!" Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "salute" | ||||
Floyd | "Dad, you're mumbling." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x head" | ||||
Floyd | "But, dad, there was no such thing here!" Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "touch ear" | ||||
Floyd | "But, dad, there was no such thing here!" Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "hold head" | ||||
Floyd | "But, dad, there was no such thing here!" Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "open mouth" | ||||
Floyd | "But, dad, there was no such thing here!" Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x forehead" | ||||
Floyd | "But, dad, there was no such thing here!" Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "close eyes" | ||||
Floyd | "But, dad, there was no such thing here!" Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "turn aronud" | ||||
Floyd | "But, dad, there was no such thing here!" Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "turn around" | ||||
Floyd | "But, dad, there was no such thing here!" Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "punch self" | ||||
Floyd | (with the sword) Floyd | "The prince pointed the sword at himself and hit himself in the chest Floyd | lightly. Floyd | Floyd | The robot raised one leg and punched himself in the headpiece just as Floyd | lightly. Floyd | "Wow dad, this robot learns fast!" Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "raise hand" | ||||
Floyd | "Dad, you're mumbling." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "x headpiece" | ||||
Floyd | "The headpiece was...er...headshaped, right...and...er...silvery as Floyd | well..."Danny sighs, then he suddenly jumps up and says: "Yeah! And the Floyd | prince would see it mimicking his every move-" Your son, now all full Floyd | of exictement, shifts his body left and right, staring you right square Floyd | in the eye. "Every..move. Because that's how these robots learned. By Floyd | copying their enemies." Floyd | "But what the prince also saw, was a small on/off button." Floyd | "Danny opens his mouth to protest, but you shut him off:"Well, the Floyd | wizard had no robot factory, so he'd had to have a way to switch it Floyd | off." Danny frowns, unconvinced, but he's letting you continue." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "turn myself off" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something The Prince could switch. Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "drop sword then punch self then get sword" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | "The robot held up one of its legs, then opened the claw at its end, Floyd | then put the leg down again." Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "punch self" | ||||
Floyd | What did The Prince want to punch himself with? Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "fist" | ||||
Floyd | "But, dad, there was no such thing here!" Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | The Prince was carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | "The robot looked down at itself, and then discovered it had no Floyd | pockets." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "get sword" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | "The robot made a grabbing motion with one of his legs, carefully Floyd | balancing on the other two. Then it stood on all three again." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "climbed bridge" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think much would have been achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "headbutted the robot" | ||||
Floyd | "Dad, you're mumbling." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "sat down" | ||||
Floyd | "Dad, I only understood the first part of what you said." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "sat" | ||||
Floyd | "The prince sat. Floyd | Floyd | The robot sat down as well. Floyd | Floyd | Its headpiece was still high out of reach above the prince. Floyd | Floyd | So the prince stood back up." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "hugged the robot" | ||||
Floyd | "As the prince approached the robot, it lowered it's head, blinding him Floyd | with the red light. "NO TRESPASSING! NO TRESPASSING! EXTERMINATION Floyd | IMMINENT!" Danny clutches your sleeve. "Dad! The prince better be Floyd | careful!" Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | Jacqueline says, "Too bad I wasn't quick enough or I could have tried >THINK ABOUT GRANDMA after Lucea tried >TURN MYSELF OFF." | |||
| Lucea says, "ew" | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "ha ha ha" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "See?" | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "stood on his head" | ||||
Floyd | "But, dad, there was no such thing here!" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then Floyd | "The button was high up on the robot's head, and the prince could see Floyd | no way to get up there." Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | inky says, "it lowered its head!" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "layed down" | ||||
Floyd | "The prince lay down. Floyd | Floyd | The robot folded its long legs gracefully, and, by lying down it placed Floyd | headpiece near the prince. Floyd | Floyd | The Prince then | inky says (to GDorn), "nice!" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "pushed the button" | ||||
Floyd | The prince leapt forward and pressed the button. Instantly, the whole Floyd | robot went limp, and CRASH! BOOM! ZAM! it collapsed into a big, Floyd | metallic heap." Danny beams at you proudly. "Captain Asteroyd never Floyd | thought of that!" You shrug nonchalantly. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Randa opens the door, then peeks into the room. "Sorry to interrupt you Floyd | two, but the beginning of this game is over." "But mooom -" Danny Floyd | begins to whine. "Sorry, son, you know the rules. Only a short intro, Floyd | that's why it's called IntroComp." Danny pulls up his blanket. "Man, Floyd | this is just not fair. Just as it was getting interesting" Danny pouts. Floyd | Randa pats you on the shoulder, as you get up to kill the light. Floyd | Floyd | "Sorry, son. Maybe later." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have won. For now... *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yay!" | |||
| Lucea says, "yay" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I liked the Randa bit at the end." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Such a nice game." | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "Thanks." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "I know we've gone for quite awhile, but since some of you hadn't been able to play The Bloody Guns--and its quite short--maybe we could do one more?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, I'm around next week, but not the week after, so I'd like to plow through them all." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Lucea says, "sure" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | Taleslinger says, "Sorry, not for me. I'm already way past my ...bedtime." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I think I solved this one in, like 15 minutes." | ||||
| Lucea says, "but I have to leave at 7" | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "But thanks everyone for playing this." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "Understood - have a good night's sleep. Thanks for haning in for us to play yours." | ||||
| Lucea exclaims, "no problem!" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Lucea), "Seven's in 25 minutes?" | ||||
| Taleslinger has to return some videotapes. | Jacqueline says, "I think we might actually do it in that amount of time." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load bloody" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Loading game... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Theatre Of The Sensible Floyd | presents: Floyd | A BLOODY LIFE Floyd | Floyd | A Day In The Life Floyd | Of An Unfortunate Physician Floyd | Caught Up Floyd | In A Soap Opera Floyd | Floyd | Written, Directed and Produced Floyd | by Floyd | Quentin.D.Thompson and associates Floyd | Floyd | Created with Malmberg and Welch's Adventure Game Toolkit Floyd | Floyd | This game is being executed by: Floyd | Floyd | AGiliTy, The (Mostly) Universal AGT Interpreter, Version 1.1.1 Floyd | Copyright (C) 1996-1999,2001 by Robert Masenten Floyd | Glk version Floyd | Floyd | Choose <I>nstructions, <A>GiliTy Information, or <other> to start the Floyd | game Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | q Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Life has been kind of strange these days....you can't really make out Floyd | what the hell your hospital - sorry, Institute - is coming to. Reckless Floyd | procedures, personal complications....even your own daughter is acting Floyd | sort of fishy. Could it be that you, in fact, are the one to solve the Floyd | mystery of this generalized unprofessional conduct? Floyd | --- HIT ANY KEY --- Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Ack - should have checked first." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/quit" | ||||
Floyd | / Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [ Entrance Score: 0 Floyd | Moves: 0 ] Floyd | This is the entrance to the Richard Aloysius Thompson Honoris Institute Floyd | of Oncology, Molecular Gastro-Enterology, Genetic Pathology, and a lot Floyd | of other things strictly kept on paper. Incidentally, it's also where Floyd | you work. The main gate leads north, and there is a sidewalk on either Floyd | side of you. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit? Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "list b" | ||||
| Floyd says (to Jacqueline), "b2demo babel babel2 babel31 babes badguys balances bandit bap barometer bb bbp bear bearg bedlam bedtime beet beingandrewplotkin bellwater beneath bestman bestof3 bigmama bj blair bloody bluemen bmch bomber booth break-in breakin bronze bse bunny" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "list g" | ||||
| Floyd says (to Jacqueline), "galatea gardening glass glow gna go godot gostak gotid grail grip ground gryscale guess guilty gumshoe gunmute" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "list t" | ||||
| Floyd says (to DavidW), "tangle tapestry tatctae tdragon tempest temple tenuous the_one theatre thedayishothitler thief timeout tk1 toonesia tortoise tow11 towerofbeef transfer trip triune troll tryst205 ttl tube" | Jacqueline says, "One sec... he loaded it awhile back, I can go look." | |||
| DavidW says, "heh the day is hot hitler" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "list j" | ||||
| Floyd says (to DavidW), "jack jackmills janitor jarod jewel jigsaw jigsaw_footnotes jigsaw_game journey jump" | DavidW says, "hm. I just don't see it." | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "list t" | ||||
| Floyd says (to Lucea), "tangle tapestry tatctae tdragon tempest temple tenuous the_one theatre thedayishothitler thief timeout tk1 toonesia tortoise tow11 towerofbeef transfer trip triune troll tryst205 ttl tube" | Jacqueline says, "Oh wait, no I can't because I had to log that account off. Hrm." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "It should be bloodyguns one word, if it keeps with the original file name." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "list b" | ||||
| Floyd says (to Jacqueline), "b2demo babel babel2 babel31 babes badguys balances bandit bap barometer bb bbp bear bearg bedlam bedtime beet beingandrewplotkin bellwater beneath bestman bestof3 bigmama bj blair bloody bluemen bmch bomber booth break-in breakin bronze bse bunny" | DavidW asks, "Maybe it's there but not in the list?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "hm" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load bloodyguns" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Bloody Guns Floyd | Copyright (c) 2008 Stuart Allen Floyd | Release 1 / build 6 / JACL verb.library version 21 Floyd | Floyd | This game is a work of fiction. No character in this story is based Floyd | upon the life of any real person, living or dead. Floyd | Floyd | This game would not exist in its present form if not for the generous Floyd | assistance of Jack Mullholland. Mr Mullholland served as an Floyd | anti-aircraft gunner in Darwin during World War II and I am extremely Floyd | grateful to him for taking the time to share his personal experiences Floyd | and answer my endless questions. Floyd | Floyd | Type 'menu' for further information about playing this game. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "WEIRD" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, WOO" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, aw... no music." | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says, "hmm, yeah, that is weird" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Guess you'll have to type 'hum-hum-hum' a lot." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "menu" | ||||
Floyd | Hit any key to begin Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | DARWIN, AUSTRALIA Floyd | SUNDAY 22 MARCH 1942 Floyd | Floyd | The sun has almost risen above the tops of the gum trees at the far Floyd | side of the field and it will soon be too hot to play cricket. From Floyd | your position in the outfield you watch as Jenkins begins his loping Floyd | stride towards the crease to deliver the final ball of the over. The Floyd | other fielders, dressed only in khaki shorts, boots and wide brimmed Floyd | hats stand stationary in the oppressive humidity. For a moment you Floyd | think you can hear the faint throbbing drone of approaching aircraft, Floyd | but then nothing. You tilt your head slightly, straining to hear then Floyd | jump at the frantic clanging of the improvised air raid bell. Floyd | Floyd | "Man the bloody guns!" Sergeant Thompson yells as he drops his bat and Floyd | lets Jenkins' ball run wide. Floyd | Floyd | The players sprint from the field to the anti-aircraft gun mounted Floyd | behind you at the western edge of the site as the sound of aircraft Floyd | returns louder than before. Floyd | Floyd | The worn leather cricket ball rolls to a stop near your feet. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Oh, wait... darn it. I came up with a song earlier for Storm Cellar, but forgot to share it while Paul was here." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh well." | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | > A fiendishly clever move. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take ball" | ||||
Floyd | > You take the cricket ball. Floyd | Floyd | Jenkins runs past you and grabs your arm, pulling you towards the Floyd | anti-aircraft gun. "Come on you daft bugger, we've got a war to fight!" Floyd | Floyd | The assembly area Floyd | This flat, bare-earth area connects the four anti-aircraft guns. To the Floyd | southeast a gap in the tall earth banks that surround gun number three Floyd | allows entry to your station. To the south, between guns three and Floyd | four, is a low hut that serves as primitive sleeping and eating Floyd | quarters for you and the rest of your crew. To the north, a path Floyd | through the tall dry grass between guns one and two leads to the Floyd | Command Post while the oval lies to the east. Beside you a crude timber Floyd | frame suspends an old oxygen cylinder just above a shallow pit in the Floyd | ground. Floyd | Floyd | An iron bar used to strike the cylinder in order to raise the alarm is Floyd | resting on the ground by the frame. Floyd | Floyd | Soldiers run past you towards the four gun emplacements as bombs begin Floyd | to fall on ships in the harbour. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "So, no prompts either. At least it's running." | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "get bar" | ||||
Floyd | > You take the iron bar. Floyd | Floyd | Someone grabs your hat from behind and replaces it roughly with an Floyd | ill-fitting helmet as you are barrelled through the entrance to gun Floyd | number three. Floyd | Floyd | The gun emplacement Floyd | Crew members scramble to their stations around the tall anti-aircraft Floyd | gun mounted here; the drone of the approaching single-engine Japanese Floyd | "Val" dive bombers sharpens to a distinctive strum. Floyd | Floyd | Your heart pounds as the routine of countless drills races through your Floyd | mind: get a shell from Smith, set the fuse on it to the appropriate Floyd | time for the height of the aircraft then pass it to Jenkins for Floyd | loading. Floyd | Floyd | You wait nervously for Smith as he disappears into the armoury to fetch Floyd | a shell. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "I'm going to bow out on this, as I've solved it." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, by the way, at this point, once the music goes away, there are little bombing noises in the background. Some close, some farther away." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So while you guys play I'll just intermittently go PEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWBRRRRRRGH" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "and peeeeeeewwwwwwbrrrrrgh when it's farther away." | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "look bomber" | ||||
Floyd | > You can't see any such thing as "bomber". Floyd | | McMartin says, "("I'm going to sing the boom song now." SIX MONTHS LATER)" | |||
| DavidW says, "I don't especially like battle games. Especially dropping into it without knowing what's what." | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | > You hear the sound of the approaching aircraft and exploding bombs. Floyd | Floyd | Smith stumbles then regains his footing as he emerges from the armoury Floyd | at speed carrying a shell for the anti-aircraft gun and your fuse Floyd | setting tool. In two more strides he crosses the emplacement and hands Floyd | them both to you. Floyd | | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "set fuse" | ||||
Floyd | > To set the fuse you need to specify a length of time to set it to. Floyd | For example, to set the fuse to three and a half seconds, simply type Floyd | "set the fuse to 35". Floyd | Floyd | Shockwaves and dissonance as a bomb explodes nearby. Floyd | Floyd | Smith ducks back into the armoury. Floyd | | GDorn says, "I'm not fond of games where non-actions make time go by anyway" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, I dunno. If you stop to listen, that takes time." | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "set fuse to 35" | ||||
Floyd | > You slide the setting tool down over the nose of the shell until its Floyd | lugs engage with the holes in the fuse ring. Rotating the tool you set Floyd | the fuse to 35 tenths of a second. Floyd | | inky says, "this game is pretty short, so it doesn't matter a huge amount" | |||
Floyd | "Right'oh Davis, pass the shell up to me now," Jenkins calls down from Floyd | his post at the loading tray. Floyd | Floyd | Smith returns from the armoury with another shell and stands beside Floyd | you. Floyd | | DavidW says, "How do we figure out fuse timing? I haven't the foggiest notion." | |||
| GDorn says, "yeah, but this was me getting feedback from a nonaction command (set fuse)" | ||||
| Jacqueline will only hint if asked. | ||||
| GDorn says, "the game was feeding me instructions, and then time went by." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give shell to jenkins" | ||||
Floyd | > You heave the shell up to Jenkins who places it into the loading tray Floyd | then rams it home into the chamber. Without pause, Sergeant Thompson Floyd | pulls the firing lever and the gun responds with a deafening crack. The Floyd | barrel recoils, slowed by the oil-filled dampers, and the hot shell Floyd | casing is ejected onto the ground along with a plume of acrid smoke. Floyd | Floyd | The shell shrieks through the air, climbing through a steep parabolic Floyd | arc towards the closest of the approaching "Val" dive bombers. As the Floyd | fuse expires the shell detonates into a cloud of white smoke well below Floyd | the aircraft. Floyd | Floyd | Smith hands you a new shell. Floyd | | Jacqueline says (to GDorn), "Oh, hm. Yeah." | |||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "set shell to 70" | ||||
Floyd | > You slide the setting tool down over the nose of the shell until its Floyd | lugs engage with the holes in the fuse ring. Rotating the tool you set Floyd | the fuse to 70 tenths of a second. Floyd | Floyd | Another bomb falls too close for comfort just beyond the camp Floyd | perimeter. Floyd | Floyd | Smith ducks back into the armoury. Floyd | | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "give shell to jenkins" | ||||
Floyd | > You pass the shell up to Jenkins who loads it into the gun. Sergeant Floyd | Thompson pulls the firing lever and the gun responds with a deafening Floyd | crack. The barrel recoils, and the hot shell casing is ejected along Floyd | with another plume of hot smoke that fills the humid air of the gun Floyd | emplacement. Floyd | Floyd | As the fuse expires the shell detonates into a cloud of white smoke Floyd | significantly above the aircraft. Floyd | Floyd | A nearby blast sends dust and debris over the revetments into the gun Floyd | emplacement. Floyd | Floyd | Smith returns from the armoury with another shell and hands it to you. Floyd | | DavidW asks, "So between 35 and 70?" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "set fuse to 60 then give shell to jenkins" | ||||
Floyd | > You slide the setting tool down over the nose of the shell until its Floyd | lugs engage with the holes in the fuse ring. Rotating the tool you set Floyd | the fuse to 60 tenths of a second. Floyd | Jenkins takes the shell from you then loads it for Sergeant Thompson to Floyd | fire. Floyd | Floyd | As the fuse expires the shell detonates into a cloud of white smoke Floyd | significantly above the aircraft. Floyd | Floyd | Smith hands you a new shell. Floyd | | ||||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "set fuse to 50 then give shell to jenkins" | ||||
Floyd | > You slide the setting tool down over the nose of the shell until its Floyd | lugs engage with the holes in the fuse ring. Rotating the tool you set Floyd | the fuse to 50 tenths of a second. Floyd | Floyd | Smith ducks back into the armoury. Floyd | Jenkins takes the shell from you then loads it for Sergeant Thompson to Floyd | fire. Floyd | Floyd | As the fuse expires the shell detonates into a cloud of white smoke Floyd | well above the aircraft. Floyd | Floyd | Smith returns from the armoury with another shell and hands it to you. Floyd | | DavidW says, "try 40" | |||
| GDorn says (to floyd), "set fuse to 42 then give shell to jenkins" | ||||
Floyd | > You slide the setting tool down over the nose of the shell until its Floyd | lugs engage with the holes in the fuse ring. Rotating the tool you set Floyd | the fuse to 42 tenths of a second. Floyd | Jenkins takes the shell from you then loads it for Sergeant Thompson to Floyd | fire. Floyd | Floyd | As the fuse expires the shell detonates into a cloud of white smoke Floyd | that envelopes the aircraft. After what seems like minutes, the dive Floyd | bomber emerges from the cloud in an ever tightening spiral. You watch Floyd | with mixed emotions as the fuselage plunges into the warm waters of the Floyd | Timor Sea. Floyd | Floyd | The rest of the gun crew erupts into a loud cheer as you scan the skies Floyd | for any sign of parachutes. Floyd | Floyd | From the loud hailer in the command post comes the call of "Tally-ho" Floyd | -- American P40 Kittyhawk fighters have engaged the bombers and all gun Floyd | crews are to cease fire. Floyd | Floyd | [YOUR SCORE JUST WENT UP BY 10 POINTS] Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | > The gun emplacement Floyd | The floor of the gun emplacement is a circular concrete pad almost ten Floyd | metres in diameter. Sandbag revetments, back filled with earth on the Floyd | outside, form the perimeter of the pit. The 3.7 inch Vickers Floyd | anti-aircraft gun stands bolted to the concrete, its barrel protruding Floyd | through fragments of camouflage netting suspended high above your head. Floyd | The only exit from the emplacement is a gap in the revetments to the Floyd | northwest, while a small room set into the south wall serves as an Floyd | armoury. Floyd | Floyd | Gunner Jenkins is standing on the gun by the breach. Floyd | Floyd | Sergeant Thompson is standing on the gun. Floyd | Floyd | Smith is standing beside you. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sea" | ||||
Floyd | > You can't see any such thing as "sea". Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x jenkins" | ||||
Floyd | > Tall and thin, Jenkins is the camp's larrikin. His use of humour as a Floyd | protective barrier has prevented you, or perhaps anyone else, from Floyd | becoming particularly close to him. Floyd | Floyd | "Gunner Davis report to the command post," announces the loud hailer to Floyd | a chorus of jeers from the other gunners. "Trouble again, eh, Davis?" Floyd | Jenkins calls with much delight . Floyd | | DavidW says, "Are we Davis? I wasn't keeping notes." | |||
| GDorn says, "by process of elimination, yes" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I think so." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I wasn't tracking locations either." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | > The gun emplacement Floyd | The floor of the gun emplacement is a circular concrete pad almost ten Floyd | metres in diameter. Sandbag revetments, back filled with earth on the Floyd | outside, form the perimeter of the pit. The 3.7 inch Vickers Floyd | anti-aircraft gun stands bolted to the concrete, its barrel protruding Floyd | through fragments of camouflage netting suspended high above your head. Floyd | The only exit from the emplacement is a gap in the revetments to the Floyd | northwest, while a small room set into the south wall serves as an Floyd | armoury. Floyd | Floyd | Gunner Jenkins is standing on the gun by the breach. Floyd | Floyd | Sergeant Thompson is standing on the gun. Floyd | Floyd | Smith is standing beside you. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | > The assembly area Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||||
Floyd | > Display mode set to verbose. Floyd | Floyd | The assembly area Floyd | This flat, bare-earth area connects the four anti-aircraft guns. To the Floyd | southeast a gap in the tall earth banks that surround gun number three Floyd | allows entry to your station. To the south, between guns three and Floyd | four, is a low hut that serves as primitive sleeping and eating Floyd | quarters for you and the rest of your crew. To the north, a path Floyd | through the tall dry grass between guns one and two leads to the Floyd | Command Post while the oval lies to the east. Beside you a crude timber Floyd | frame suspends an old oxygen cylinder just above a shallow pit in the Floyd | ground. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | > Outside the command post Floyd | Tall dry grass surrounds the low sand-bag walls of the command post. A Floyd | well-worn track through the grass leads south to the assembly area. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | > The command post Floyd | The command post is nothing more than a roofless area formed by low Floyd | sand-bag walls. Of prominence here is the Kerrison Predictor, an Floyd | electro-mechanical computer atop a timber tripod that sends positioning Floyd | information to four guns. Floyd | Floyd | Lieutenant Roberts is standing by the Kerrison Predictor. Floyd | Floyd | Sergeant Witheridge waits patiently by Lieutenant Roberts. Floyd | Floyd | "Davis," Lieutenant Roberts says as you enter. "Thank you for getting Floyd | here so quickly. Soon after the first raids in February we set up an Floyd | observation post on Melville Island to provide an early warning of Floyd | aircraft approaching from the north. As you have just seen for Floyd | yourself, we didn't get that warning. Floyd | Floyd | "We haven't been able to raise Melville on the radio since, so I need Floyd | you to head out there and find out what is going on. They may have been Floyd | bombed themselves or they may just be having radio trouble. Either way Floyd | I need you to find out and report back to me so I've sent someone to Floyd | ask Miki to take you out to the island. Go grab your gear then head Floyd | down to the beach south of the oval. Miki will meet you there." Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Man, I just watched Letters from Iow Jima last night, so this is more surreal than last time I played it." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh! And I forgot!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "PEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWBRGGH" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I really don't want to be in the hot spot right now. I have chores to do." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Except maybe it's done with the bombing sounds." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Enh, you're pretty much at the end." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | > "Before you go Davis, there's one last thing," Lieutenant Roberts Floyd | says as he wipes the sweat from his brow. "In order to prevent enemy Floyd | boats from landing in Snake Bay where the observation post is, the Navy Floyd | laid a series of concrete mooring blocks, each twenty feet across." Floyd | Floyd | Lieutenant Roberts reaches into the top pocket of his shirt and hands Floyd | you a folded piece of paper. Floyd | Floyd | "This map shows the precise location of these blocks. They're too deep Floyd | to affect Miki's canoe, but there is a motor launch based on Melville Floyd | and if you need to bring that back you'll need to know where they are. Floyd | The tidal flow is restricted in Snake Bay and with a six foot draft the Floyd | launch draws too much to clear them, even on a high tide." Floyd | Floyd | "Thank you, sir," you reply at attention. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, and Davis, be careful. I've got a bad feeling about this one but Floyd | with the rest of the army having pulled further inland I just can't Floyd | spare any more men to go with you." Floyd | Floyd | "I will, sir." Floyd | Floyd | You exchange salutes with Lieutenant Roberts. Floyd | Floyd | Outside the command post Floyd | Tall dry grass surrounds the low sand-bag walls of the command post. A Floyd | well-worn track through the grass leads south to the assembly area. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | > The assembly area Floyd | This flat, bare-earth area connects the four anti-aircraft guns. To the Floyd | southeast a gap in the tall earth banks that surround gun number three Floyd | allows entry to your station. To the south, between guns three and Floyd | four, is a low hut that serves as primitive sleeping and eating Floyd | quarters for you and the rest of your crew. To the north, a path Floyd | through the tall dry grass between guns one and two leads to the Floyd | Command Post while the oval lies to the east. Beside you a crude timber Floyd | frame suspends an old oxygen cylinder just above a shallow pit in the Floyd | ground. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Oops - lag." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | > The hut Floyd | Mosquito netting lines the inside of this hut that serves as your Floyd | sleeping and eating quarters. Five-foot high sandbag walls force you to Floyd | stoop below the baking-hot corrugated iron roof. There are ten bunks Floyd | against the far wall, one for each of the members of your crew. Floyd | Floyd | Your kit bag is under your bunk. Floyd | Floyd | Your rifle is leaning against the wall beside your bunk. Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get bag" | ||||
Floyd | > You take your kit bag. Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get rifle" | ||||
Floyd | > You are carrying too much to take your rifle. Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | > You are carrying a cricket ball, an iron bar, a steel helmet (being Floyd | worn), a setting tool, a map of Snake Bay, your kit bag and your dog Floyd | tags (being worn). Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop tool" | ||||
Floyd | > You drop the setting tool. Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get rifle" | ||||
Floyd | > You take your rifle. Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | > The assembly area Floyd | This flat, bare-earth area connects the four anti-aircraft guns. To the Floyd | southeast a gap in the tall earth banks that surround gun number three Floyd | allows entry to your station. To the south, between guns three and Floyd | four, is a low hut that serves as primitive sleeping and eating Floyd | quarters for you and the rest of your crew. To the north, a path Floyd | through the tall dry grass between guns one and two leads to the Floyd | Command Post while the oval lies to the east. Beside you a crude timber Floyd | frame suspends an old oxygen cylinder just above a shallow pit in the Floyd | ground. Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | > Darwin Oval (outfield) Floyd | You are standing in the outfield on the western side of Darwin Oval. Floyd | The pitch can be seen in the centre of the oval while to the southeast Floyd | lies a cliff edge over which the harbour can be seen. Further to the Floyd | west the barrels of the four anti-aircraft guns can be seen above their Floyd | surrounding revetments. Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | > The south of the oval Floyd | Weathered coastal scrub covers the ground between the oval to north and Floyd | the hill side to the south. A narrow but well-worn trail works its way Floyd | down to the beach below. Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | > The beach Floyd | Deep trenches dug above the high tide line scar the beach where sand Floyd | has been excavated for bagging. A steep path leads north from here Floyd | through the mangroves back up to the oval. Floyd | Floyd | As you look out to sea you spot Miki, one of the local Aboriginal men, Floyd | paddling around the point in his dugout canoe. Each powerful stroke of Floyd | his paddle ends with a barely perceptible twist of the blade to keep Floyd | his course. As he runs the canoe up onto the beach he places his paddle Floyd | flat across the gunwhales and a broad smile comes to his face. Floyd | Floyd | "Come on balanda, army man saying we going to Melville," Miki shouts as Floyd | he waves you to enter the canoe. Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter canoe" | ||||
Floyd | > You place your hands on the bow of the canoe and push it back into Floyd | deeper water. Once you are wading up to your knees you jump in and Miki Floyd | hands you a paddle. Floyd | Floyd | "You sitting up the front, balanda. Just keep paddling and I'll get us Floyd | where we're going." Levering his paddle against the side of the canoe Floyd | he spins the bow out to sea and the two of you head towards Melville Floyd | Island. Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "paddle" | ||||
Floyd | To be continued... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The game is over. Floyd | Floyd | You have earned: Floyd | 10% for shooting down the "Val" dive bomber. Floyd | | DavidW asks, "oh. Over that quick, huh?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Literally took me about 15 minutes." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm just not up to reading all that much war text right now." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway, I liked this one, however short. I guess the non-standard interpreter was a pain for many, and others would like to have an option for no sound (reasonable, though I liked the audio)." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "And yeah, I'm not into war games, so I'm not sure why I liked this one, but I did." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "My husband didn't play it, but he hates it because I kept singing the music from it." | ||||
| Jacqueline shrugs. "It got stuck in my head." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "And then I realized it was driving him insane, so I didn't really go out of my way to avoid singing it." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "In fact, I might go play it right now for him..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Guess that's enough intros for a day." | ||||
| DavidW says, "yeah, we can play what's left next Sunday." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "See you guys next week!" | ||||
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