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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load phoenix" | |||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like instructions? [Please respond with YES or NO.] | Jacqueline says, "The instructions are just for people new to IF, or we need them to know about special commands... I forget." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Are there special commands other than 'think about,' Carolyn?" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "A bit of both. (Or am I supposed to keep my mouth shut?)" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Heh, nah." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Just don't spoil us on plot and we're good." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, I'll say yes, then." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "yes" | |||||
Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Welcome to Phoenix's Landing! Floyd | Floyd | This is an interactive fiction game (or, if you prefer, a text Floyd | adventure game.) You can interact with this game through a variety of Floyd | commands. The commands you enter will cause your viewpoint character Floyd | (the "you") to take certain actions, and, as various actions are taken, Floyd | the story will unfold. Floyd | Floyd | With rare exception, you can enter commands whenever you see a >. (The Floyd | most notable exception is if you are having a conversation, in which Floyd | case you will have to finish your conversation first. You will know Floyd | that you are in a conversation if the game has supplied you with a Floyd | numbered list of potential conversation responses.) Floyd | Floyd | Here are some useful commands.... Floyd | Floyd | HELP will show you this message. Floyd | Floyd | LOOK (or L) will show what is around you. Floyd | EXAMINE <object> (or X <object>) will take a closer look at a specific Floyd | object. Floyd | INVENTORY (or I) will show you what you are carrying. Floyd | Floyd | When you want to manipulate an item, try commands like GET <object>, Floyd | DROP <object>, WEAR <object>, REMOVE <object>, and PUT <object> IN/ON Floyd | <another object>. Floyd | Floyd | When you want to talk to someone, you can TALK TO <person>. Sometimes, Floyd | other people will talk to you of their own accord. When you are Floyd | conversing with someone, you will be presented with a list of numbered Floyd | options. Type in the number you want on each turn in order to continue Floyd | through the conversation. Floyd | Floyd | When you want to move from place to place, try commands like EAST, Floyd | WEST, NORTH, and SOUTH, or RETREAT (which will take you back in Floyd | whichever direction you just came from). You can also SIT, STAND, Floyd | KNEEL, and LIE to assume different positions. It is more comfortable Floyd | to SIT ON CHAIR than to sit on the ground, though you can only do this Floyd | if there is a chair nearby. Floyd | Floyd | Occasionally, it is useful to take a moment and THINK ABOUT something, Floyd | such as one of the gods, one of the races, or someone that you have Floyd | met. Floyd | Floyd | If you don't want to do anything at all, you can WAIT and see what Floyd | happens next. Floyd | Floyd | Important commands also include QUIT, SAVE, RESTORE, and RESTART. They Floyd | do exactly what they sound like. Floyd | Floyd | These are the most important commands, but they are not the only Floyd | commands implemented in the game. When in doubt, experiment! You may Floyd | be surprised by what you can do. Floyd | Floyd | Have fun, and good luck! Floyd | Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Ooh - retreat is a nice verb." | ||||
| Limax says, "Huh. I didn't know about that one" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "press green" | Jacqueline asks, "hm... press space, right?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, silly me." | |||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When this story began, it began this way.... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In a place that was no place at all, three presences gathered. One was Floyd | dead, one would never die, and one existed somewhere in between. Floyd | Floyd | The Undying commanded the ghost, *Speak, as you spoke to me.* Floyd | Floyd | The ghost, a translucent, haggard man, showed fear in every quiver of Floyd | his insubstantial being, yet he spoke before the Presences. "My lords, Floyd | when I was born, a geas and star were cast upon my path. There was a Floyd | deed that I was fated to do, yet I was torn from life before it could Floyd | be completed. This was not in the stars, and it was not in my fate, Floyd | yet it came to be. I have been wronged." Floyd | Floyd | *You have been wronged.* It was the Other, and each word twisted the Floyd | shape of the ghost's existence. *Yet past is past, and done is done. Floyd | You cannot return to life. You must go on.* Floyd | Floyd | *Yet who could alter what I set into motion?* The Undying's words were Floyd | stern, and, like the Other's words, they beat upon the ghost and caused Floyd | the ghost to vibrate like a bell. *There are few who could change this Floyd | soul's path, and only one who would. There must be an answer for Floyd | this.* Floyd | Floyd | *We will answer between ourselves, then,* said the Other. *It is Floyd | nothing to this ghost. I will send him on his way.* Floyd | Floyd | *No,* said the Undying. Floyd | Floyd | There was a pause. Floyd | Floyd | *no?* said the Other, and, with that soft syllable, a cold wind raced Floyd | over every leaf in some faraway forest. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | CarolynV says, "I swiped RETREAT from someone, but I can't remember who -- possibly it was an example from the documentation?. It was more of a 'someday this will be useful' command than anything else...." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It's a neat verb idea to include. I'll have to remember that." | |||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *No,* said the Undying. *For he accepted his path and his fate, and, Floyd | in accepting, he gave all that he was. Mortal though he is, he lost Floyd | all, and he has earned protection. In the name of the King, I claim Floyd | his redemption.* Floyd | Floyd | *What is dead is dead, and dead shall not breathe,* the Other said Floyd | indifferently. *He is lost, and he rots beneath the stones.* Floyd | Floyd | *But I will mark his path again,* said the Undying. *And I will set Floyd | another upon that path, and I will send this ghost to watch over his Floyd | successor. If his successor accepts the path as deeply and fully as Floyd | he, then that one will reap where this one has sowed. And I call upon Floyd | you to witness and to obey.* Floyd | Floyd | There was a silence like the silence before a storm, when the very sky Floyd | draws breath, but there was no sky in this place that was not a place. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "I have to say, Carolyn, that I wasn't too keen on the vast amounts of text without opportunity for interaction here at the beginning." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm not sure how you could correct that, though." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Letting the player fiddle at this point would be difficult." | |||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *Set your star upon his successor, but leave your geas upon this Floyd | ghost,* the Other said. *What you have done shall not be undone, but Floyd | I, too, have my rights. I, too, am among the stars, though I stretch Floyd | beyond them as well.* Floyd | Floyd | *You are among the stars,* said the Undying. *I accept your obedience, Floyd | and I accept your claim.* Floyd | Floyd | The Other considered. *Then this path is mine, as well, to shape. A Floyd | little.* Floyd | Floyd | *A little,* the Undying acceded. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Other turned its attention to the ghost. *We will choose, you and Floyd | I, until the clay of your successor's being is created. This, I will Floyd | choose first: your successor's gender. She will be she, as you have Floyd | been he, thus creating balance. Balance,* the Other added to the Floyd | Undying, not unsardonically, *is of the essence.* Floyd | Floyd | *So let it be,* the Undying replied blandly. Then, to the ghost: *It Floyd | is your choice, now.* Floyd | Floyd | And in the place that was no place, a concept came, and another, until Floyd | nine concepts were arrayed before the ghost. The ghost perceived these Floyd | nine: Floyd | Floyd | a sword - the concept of Power Floyd | a spiderweb - the concept of Agility Floyd | a dandelion - the concept of Endurance Floyd | a book - the concept of Brilliance Floyd | a mask - the concept of Cunning Floyd | a candle - the concept of Awareness Floyd | a crown - the concept of Presence Floyd | a rose - the concept of Guile Floyd | a jewel - the concept of Serenity Floyd | Floyd | *Choose,* said the Undying, *and what you choose will be born in your Floyd | successor.* Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Before The Story Floyd | There was no up, no down, no north, no south, no dawn, and no dusk. Floyd | This was a place that is no place at all. The passing of time itself Floyd | was all but meaningless -- yet there was meaning in the passage of Floyd | time; not much, but enough that three presences gathered here Floyd | meaningfully, and enough that they could converse. Floyd | Floyd | The ghost perceived a sword, a spiderweb, a dandelion, a book, a mask, Floyd | a candle, a crown, a rose, and a jewel. Floyd | | Nitku says, "I think it could be easily compressed to one screen without losing anything important." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, there's some mood-building happening here, but yes, perhaps." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway, let's choose book." | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Any objections?" | |||||
| Nitku says, "Nope." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "choose book" | |||||
Floyd | The ghost hesitated for a long moment before reaching out to choose the Floyd | book. Floyd | Floyd | The Other said, *Brilliance. As you will. In return, I choose Floyd | Awareness.* Floyd | Floyd | To the ghost, the Undying said, *Your successor will have Brilliance. Floyd | She will think methodically but clearly, and she will see through those Floyd | who would confuse her mind with Cunning. But one who is Aware will Floyd | endure against her and see the end of her road before she can reach Floyd | it.* Floyd | Floyd | The book, mask, and candle faded from the ghost's perception. The Floyd | sword, the spiderweb, the dandelion, the crown, the rose, and the jewel Floyd | remained. Floyd | Floyd | *Choose again,* said the Undying, *and what you choose will be born in Floyd | your successor.* Floyd | | CarolynV says, "I hear you on the long un-interactivity. I've heard a *lot* on the subject of my overly long cut scenes. (grin)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Heh" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "You pick this time." | |||||
| Nitku says, "I'd take the rose" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "choose rose" | |||||
Floyd | The ghost hesitated for a long moment before reaching out to choose the Floyd | rose. Floyd | Floyd | The Other said, *Guile shall be hers. In return, I choose Presence.* Floyd | Floyd | To the ghost, the Undying said, *Your successor will have Guile. She Floyd | will be subtle and strong in persuasion, and those with Serenity will Floyd | yield before her, convinced her aims are their own. But one with Floyd | Presence will entrance her to follow a new banner and forget her own Floyd | will.* Floyd | Floyd | The rose, crown, and jewel faded from the ghost's perception. The Floyd | sword, the spiderweb, and the dandelion remained. Floyd | Floyd | *Choose again,* said the Undying, *and what you choose will be born in Floyd | your successor.* Floyd | | Jacqueline says (to Carolyn), "I'm curious - and just a yes or no or a 'sort of' will do... does it change the game a great deal, depending on what we choose here? This is only my second play-through." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Limax), "You still here? Want to make the next choice?" | |||||
| Limax says, "I didn't go back and try different combinations... I didn't know how much that would differ from what would happen" | |||||
| Limax says, "Okay" | |||||
| DavidW says, "boy. A lot to read." | |||||
| Limax asks, "What's left?" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "This is a legitimate character creation system -- there are three stats (each with an aptitude) and a race being defined at this time, as well as a few cosmetic details." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Heh. Yeah. We were just chastising poor Carolyn about that!" | |||||
| DavidW says, "btw, BACK or GO BACK used to be more common in very old games." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Limax), "The sword, the spiderweb, and the dandelion remained." | |||||
| Limax says, "How about the dandelion" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "With that said, it doesn't affect the introduction severely during the introduction. The race affects more than anything else... it's like 5 PCs instead of just one... but the differences are (too) subtle." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Huh. I'm surprised we lost sight of that useful command." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "choose dandelion" | |||||
Floyd | The ghost hesitated for a long moment before reaching out to choose the Floyd | dandelion. Floyd | Floyd | The Other said, *Endurance. So be it. In return, I choose Agility. Floyd | Floyd | To the ghost, the Undying said, *Your successor will have Endurance. Floyd | She will have stamina and resilence, and she will endure every blow Floyd | heaped upon her by one with Power. But one with Agility will find her Floyd | secret weaknesses, and her body will fail first.* Floyd | Floyd | The sword, spiderweb, and dandelion faded from the ghost's perception. Floyd | *We have determined her heart and her mind and the strengths of her Floyd | body,* said the Undying. *Now we shall determine the shape of this Floyd | body.* And it seemed to the ghost, then, that five pieces of wood Floyd | appeared before him, each different in hue: birch, ash, maple, Floyd | rosewood, and ebony. Floyd | Floyd | *Choose,* the Undying said to the ghost, *and all will see your choice Floyd | upon her skin.* Floyd | | Limax says, "I had to keep going back and doing a 'look' each time" | ||||
| Nitku says, "It's cool that each choice has a plus side and a negative side. Like rock, paper, scissors." | |||||
| Limax says, "Of course, with my problem with skimming, I'm not surprised I missed stuff" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x maple" | |||||
Floyd | The maple wood is golden and burnished to a rich shine. Floyd | | DavidW says, "I'm Canadian. I like maple." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to David), "I guess it's your turn to pick." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "hahaha" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, choose maple." | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "choose maple" | |||||
Floyd | The ghost hesitated for a long moment before reaching out to choose the Floyd | piece of maple. Floyd | Floyd | The other four woods faded away, leaving only the piece of maple. Upon Floyd | the piece of maple, the ghost perceived an indistinct, eyeless face. Floyd | Floyd | The Undying gestured again, and now seven small gems materialized: a Floyd | ruby, a topaz, an emerald, a sapphire, an amethyst, a tiger eye agate, Floyd | and a small dark diamond. Floyd | Floyd | *Choose,* the Undying said to the ghost, *and all will see your choice Floyd | in her gaze.* Floyd | | DavidW asks, "Do all these choices actually matter? Or is it cosmetic?" | ||||
| maga arrives, full of fun and funk. | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x amethyst" | Jacqueline asks, "Hm, is it my turn?" | ||||
Floyd | Purple, faceted, and sparkling, the amethyst attracts the eye. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x sapphire" | |||||
Floyd | Light and dark blue coruscate through the center of the gem. Floyd | | |||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x diamond" | |||||
Floyd | Dark rainbows decorate the depths of the black jewel. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x emerald" | |||||
Floyd | A grass green star hovers just off the surface of the emerald. Floyd | | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask undying about gems" | |||||
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | | Jacqueline asks, "Hm - it's animate, or should be, even if it's undying, eh?" | ||||
| CarolynV says, "Yup, that's a bug in my book." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry, Carolyn... as we play it also turns into a bit of a beta testing session (which I hope you'll find helpful rather than annoying)." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, if there are no objections, I think I'll choose..." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "...the emerald." | |||||
| DavidW says, "I haven't played this game before. I didn't get to all the entries this year." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "No worries. If not for my betatesting team, the bugs would have been horrifying." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Except wait, that's what I chose when I played last time." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x topaz" | |||||
Floyd | Sharp yellow light glints through the topaz's depths. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "I know! I'll choose ruby... to match the Canadian flag. We'll have a theme." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "choose ruby" | |||||
Floyd | The ghost hesitated for a long moment before reaching out to choose the Floyd | ruby. Floyd | Floyd | The other six gems faded away, leaving only the ruby. It wavered and Floyd | twinned, and then the pieces of ruby fused with the face of tan wood, Floyd | shining softly in the place that was not a place. Yet the face was Floyd | incomplete, and the Other contemplated it. Floyd | Floyd | *I choose... this,* said the Other. Floyd | Floyd | And with the Other's words, a change came over the face, which became Floyd | covered in downy fur. The nose and mouth elongated into a snout, and Floyd | small fangs appeared beneath the lips. The face lost its Floyd | indistinctness to become that of a chirop -- one of the spindly Floyd | children of the mountains. Her fur was as tan as a piece of polished Floyd | maple, and her eyes were as crimson as two crimson rubies, with the Floyd | light of intelligence shining in their depths. Her expression was Floyd | secretive, and she looked healthy and well-fed. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Also, it felt like the text was getting reused a lot... the whole 'The ghost hesitation for a long moment before reaching out' could have been varied, for example." | ||||
| Fang arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Jacqueline says, "Sorry... I normally send transcripts to the authors, but I was really busy this year. Hopefully these CF sessions will make up for that." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Healthy and well-fed. Just like me. Now I can relate to the PC!" | |||||
| Nitku says, "There was someone here who said they stopped playing as soon as they realized they had become a furry." | |||||
| CarolynV exclaims, "...!" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I read that and it made me laugh but ... I mean, really." | |||||
| Fang asks (of Nitku), "...?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Carolyn), "Yeah, I could point you to the review, but that was the whole review." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "One sec, I'll pull it up Fang. It was Horvath's review." | |||||
| maga says, "luckily when I played this first I ended up as one of the tree-type thingies, so I was not faced by this terrible dilemma" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||||
| Nitku pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *It is done,* said the Undying. *There will come a day when my star Floyd | marks her sky, and when that time comes, it will be the time of your Floyd | geas once more. Then you will be free to guide her, and if she walks Floyd | upon the true path, then she will gain all that you should have Floyd | gained.* Floyd | Floyd | *Or lose,* said the Other, *all that you should have lost --* And for Floyd | a moment, the words that shook the ghost's very substance carried Floyd | something like sorrow and something like pain, made brighter by the Floyd | light of life so near, the touch of death so far. Floyd | Floyd | *But for now,* said the Undying, in a way that could not be denied, Floyd | *you will wait --* Floyd | Floyd | And, bound by the power of a word and a star, the ghost slept, and the Floyd | world changed in many ways before he wakened. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | CarolynV says, "It's waiting for the space again. I'm really puzzled as to why it's putting (Press Space to continue) after instead of before." | ||||
| Nitku asks, "Bug in Floyd?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "maga did muse out loud later, however, about whether or not different choices made us a furry. (maga and I played together)" | |||||
| Nitku pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Phoenix's Landing: Destiny Floyd | An Adventure Game by Carolyn VanEseltine Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 080820 / Inform 7 build 5T18 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Much later, and in a place that was far more real, a young chirop Floyd | ventured from home with her tradefather for the very first time. She Floyd | knew nothing of stars, geasa, ghosts, Presences, or anything else Floyd | except that she was very proud to be along on this trip. Floyd | Floyd | Unfortunately, while she knew nothing of the stars, they knew something Floyd | of her.... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "Not really, but sort of. It played Glulx games, but it's not as elegant with those as with, say, z-code." | ||||
| CarolynV says, "Having the Floyd interface is going to get a bit weird later on when the Glulx text effects don't show." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Carolyn,Fang), "Here's the unfortunate furry review: http://nbhorvath.blogspot.com/2008/09/introcomp-2008-quick-impressions.html" | |||||
| Nitku says, "I remember z-code doesn't show the [push space] at all" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Carolyn), "Oh, that's true. The text colors. Well... I think the text is also indented, isn't it?" | |||||
| Nitku pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | It's the first time that you've been allowed to travel on a trading Floyd | mission. All your life has been secluded within the confines of a Floyd | mountain cavern-town far to the west, but this year, your Floyd | creche-fathers agreed that you should accompany your tradefather Floyd | instead of the assistant that your tradefather normally hires for the Floyd | journey. Floyd | Floyd | After weeks of travel (first down the rocky slopes and through rambling Floyd | hills, and then through the twisting, shadowy forests) you get your Floyd | first real look at the city of Phoenix's Landing. Above the tall stone Floyd | walls, you can see the tops of the buildings. Two towers at the center Floyd | rise highest of all, and, from your tradefather's stories over the Floyd | years, you recognize them immediately as the temple to Ivrul and the Floyd | governance hall. Golden fields border the city to the west and south, Floyd | with a few small buildings clumped here and there. The dark face of Floyd | Char Cliff rises above it to the north, marking the base of First Floyd | Mountain. Floyd | Floyd | When you raise your eyes to First Mountain, the city seems no larger Floyd | than a child's city built from shards of fallen stone. The city Floyd | nestles beneath the cliff as a pup to its mother, yet it is larger than Floyd | any city you have ever seen. You have no plans to visit the chiroptera Floyd | here, but you know that other creche-clans dwell in the range beyond Floyd | Char Cliff, and the thought is oddly comforting. Floyd | Floyd | But -- the city! You can see it more clearly, now, and excitement Floyd | bubbles up within you. Floyd | Floyd | To journey through the shadowy forests, you joined a caravan, and now Floyd | the mounted guardsmen scatter forward and back, tending to their Floyd | various claims since the forest's dangers are receding away. The Floyd | boredom of the past week fades as you bounce slightly on the seat of Floyd | your wagon and strain to see more. Floyd | Floyd | Each wagon has to pause for inspection at the guard house on the near Floyd | side of the bridge. Floyd | Floyd | You are far enough back in the line of wagons to grow deeply impatient Floyd | as you wait for your opportunity to enter the city. Once the wagon has Floyd | been inspected, it clatters over the broad, flat bridge and passes Floyd | through the gates into the milling city beyond. You catch only a few Floyd | brief glimpses of the buildings beyond. Floyd | Floyd | Then it is your turn. Your wagon rolls forward over the rutted road Floyd | and halts. "Inspection," the shaghal guard growls. "All parties Floyd | present themselves." Floyd | Floyd | At your father's signal, you hop down from the wagon. Floyd | Floyd | | Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "Oh, hm." | ||||
| Nitku says, "Anyhow, it would be nice if Floyd gave some indication that it's waiting for a keypress. If that's technically possible." | |||||
| Nitku pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside Phoenix's Landing Floyd | Most of the other wagons have already passed over the bridge, but a few Floyd | wait patiently behind yours. Before you, a broad, sturdy bridge Floyd | stretches over a wide and rather dubious-looking river. Beyond the Floyd | bridge, the gate of Phoenix's Landing gapes open to receive you. Floyd | Floyd | Father is here with you, which is rather a relief. The city looks Floyd | awfully large this close up. Floyd | Floyd | The large shaghal guard stands here inspecting wagons and merchants Floyd | before he approves them to enter the city. Floyd | Floyd | Father says quietly, "Achatli, this should only take a moment, but Floyd | please be on your best behavior." Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "I shall mail Jota and inky, I guess. That's a good suggestion." | ||||
| Nitku says, "You can now tell from not seeing the prompt, but that's easily missed." | |||||
| Nitku pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | I beg your pardon? Floyd | | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x river" | |||||
Floyd | A faint swirl of grease drifts over the surface of the murky grey Floyd | water. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Usually whenever we find ourselves just sitting her looking at each other saying, 'duh... whaddwedonow?' we try pressing space. That's been our solution until now." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bridge" | |||||
Floyd | The bridge is almost as dusty as the road. Floyd | Floyd | The guard approaches Father, identifies himself as Greshen, and demands Floyd | both of your names, which your father supplies. Greshen nods slightly Floyd | in reply. Floyd | (You memorize Greshen's name for future reference.) Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x father" | |||||
Floyd | You take a moment to study your clan's tradefather -- the one who Floyd | interacts with other races and visits cities beyond the chirop Floyd | mountains of your home. He is your true father as well, but this is Floyd | much less important than his position in the creche-clan, and you tend Floyd | to forget about it from time to time. Despite this, you have always Floyd | been pleased by your resemblance to one another -- you share his tan Floyd | fur and crimson eyes. Someday, he will retire. Because you are Floyd | female, you could never hold the title of tradefather in a creche-clan, Floyd | but you can hope for enough training that you can spend your life Floyd | traveling and bartering. Maybe you will even serve the creche-clan in Floyd | your tradefather's stead for a time. It is a slim hope, but a hope. Floyd | Floyd | Greshen inspects the contents of your father's wagon. Floyd | | Nitku says, "except that it doesn't show at all now." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "yeah" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x greschen" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "oops greshen" | |||||
Floyd | Shaghal are the furred people of the plains and valleys. They Floyd | typically have brown or black fur and brown, black, amber, green, or Floyd | dark blue eyes, although the occasional specimen displays an unsettling Floyd | crimson hue. Shaghal have two arms, two legs, and walk upright, as all Floyd | people do, but their faces are distinctly canine, with short muzzles, Floyd | black noses, and white, sharp teeth, rather like jackals or wolves. Floyd | The resemblance is enhanced by triangular ears set high atop the skull Floyd | and a plumed tail. For all of that, their hands are five-fingered and Floyd | dextrous, and you know better than to underestimate their intelligence. Floyd | Floyd | This particular shaghal has mahogany brown fur and dark amber eyes. He Floyd | carries a short, heavy staff wrapped in leather in one hand, and he Floyd | also bears a curved axe at his hip. He displays the scarlet and silver Floyd | crest of Phoenix's Landing on his shoulder. Floyd | Floyd | Greshen seems to be taking an awfully long time with his inspection. Floyd | | Jacqueline says (to Carolyn), "This is pretty cool, the way you've altered the descriptions depending on race. I have been thinking about rewriting my game The Fire Tower (a hiking game) or doing a similar sort of game set here in Alaska, but having the season chosen randomly (or by the player) at the start, then having the entire game be different, depending. The amount of work involved is what's given my pause so far... not as bad as writing four separate games, but nearly so." | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "talk to father" | |||||
Floyd | His attention is on Greshen and he doesn't want to be disturbed. Floyd | Floyd | Greshen finishes his inspection and turns to your father. "Everything Floyd | seems to be in order here," he says. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm glad to hear it," Father replies. Floyd | | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crest" | |||||
Floyd | The crest of Phoenix's Landing is a flame-wreathed scarlet bird Floyd | silhouetted on a bright silver mountain, all set on a field of black. Floyd | The crest appears on the shoulder of this jerkin. Floyd | Floyd | For the first time, Greshen's amber gaze slides over your face as he Floyd | looks away from Father. One of his ears twitches, and he looks Floyd | surprised. Instead of saying anything, though, he rummages in his vest Floyd | for a piece of paper. After scrutinizing the paper for a long moment, Floyd | he stares intently into your eyes, and then he shakes his head. Floyd | "You'll have to wait here for a moment," he says, and signals to a Floyd | human guard standing closer to the gate. The human guard nods briefly Floyd | and goes into the city with a purposeful air. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "I guess the re-use of phrases like 'two arms, two legs, and walk upright, as all people do' is another one of those repetitive bits of copied and pasted text that bothered me." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think about greshen" | |||||
Floyd | Greshen is a shaghal guard in Phoenix's Landing. | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "think about father" | |||||
Floyd | The other races are unfortunate to have only one father apiece. Like Floyd | any other chirop born to a healthy creche-clan, you have five fathers, Floyd | all well beloved: your lorefather, your lawfather, your lifefather, Floyd | your hearthfather, and your tradefather. Yet you are more like your Floyd | tradefather than any other of your fathers, and you know he is your Floyd | blood-father as well. You have a special closeness to him, and it is a Floyd | deep privilege to go on this journey with him. Your tradefather's role Floyd | as a father is to teach you and your siblings about how to interact Floyd | with the other races, and his duty as a member of the clan is to trade Floyd | so that the clan will prosper. Floyd | | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask greshen about paper" | |||||
Floyd | Father might be annoyed if you did that. Floyd | Floyd | A graceful chirop priest strides through the gate. He glances about Floyd | briefly before Greshen beckons him over. Floyd | Floyd | "Eyes of Justice," Greshen says respectfully. "There was a missive Floyd | that came out, and I think...." Instead of finishing the sentence, he Floyd | shows the slightly crumpled piece of paper to the young priest. Floyd | Floyd | The priest peruses the paper and then looks down at you. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea arrives, full of fun and funk. | |||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "think about humans" | |||||
Floyd | Humans are the populous people of the oceans. They have two arms, two Floyd | legs, and walk upright, as all people do. Their skin is normally light Floyd | or dark brown, though there are paler or darker exceptions, and they Floyd | have eyes in a wide variety of colors. Although both genders grow hair Floyd | from the tops of their heads, human men can be readily distinguished Floyd | from human women because the women do not grow fur on their faces. Floyd | Although they appear weak and unprotected, they are surprisingly Floyd | versatile and thrive in a variety of enviroments. Floyd | Floyd | "A greeting to you, in virtue and honor," the priest says. "I Floyd | understand your name is Achatli. Is this your first time in the city Floyd | of Phoenix's Landing?" Floyd | Floyd | [1] "It is true. I have never been here before." Floyd | [2] "Of course not. I am well familiar with the city." Floyd | [3] "What's your name?" Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "3" | |||||
Floyd | "I do have the advantage of you, and I can see that you feel that's Floyd | unfair," the priest says. "As you will. I am Hachachi of the Stars. Floyd | And now you will answer my question, perhaps?" Floyd | Floyd | (You memorize Hachachi's name for future reference.) Floyd | [1] "It is true. I have never been here before." Floyd | [2] "Of course not. I am well familiar with the city." Floyd | | CarolynV says, "Re: the repetition: got it." | ||||
| Jacqueline smiles at Carolyn and shrugs. "Sorry." | |||||
| DavidW says, "We might need a driver for menus like this." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Oh, no offense taken at all! That was 'got it' as in 'I just wrote it down to make sure I fix that', not 'got it' as in 'yo, I got it already!'" | |||||
| Lucea says, "also, I'm here, sorry about lateness" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks (of DavidW), "Wanna drive, or should I?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "I've played, but wouldn't mind driving based on group input." | |||||
| DavidW says, "I'm out of sorts today. I'd rather others drove." | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Okay, 1 or 2, folks?" | |||||
| DavidW says, "1 please" | |||||
| Limax walks slowly out of the room and into the sunset. | |||||
| CarolynV is not allowed to drive. | Jacqueline says, "I like the truth, yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | |||||
Floyd | Hachachi nods. "I hope you like it here. Before I can permit you into Floyd | the city, though, my superior -- High Caerwyn of the Stars -- requests Floyd | to meet with you. I trust you have no objection?" Floyd | Floyd | [1] "It would be my pleasure." Floyd | [2] "That seems all right...." Floyd | [3] "Is there another way?" Floyd | | Jacqueline asks, "1, 2, or 3?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "I like 3" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, belatedly, hello, Lucea." | |||||
| DavidW says, "[4] If that's okay with my father..." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "3 then." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | |||||
Floyd | Hachachi frowns slightly. Turning to your father, he explains, "It is Floyd | merely a precaution, but there is an omen about a girl with the Floyd | markings and hue of this child, and we expect the one we seek before Floyd | the moon's cycle ends. I wouldn't worry," he adds, "but it really is Floyd | important that High Caerwyn inspects her." Floyd | Floyd | Father hesitates for a long moment. Greshen tenses slightly in Floyd | response to Father's tension, and for a moment, you fear something Floyd | horrible will happen, but then Father says, "All right. I'll be with Floyd | her, of course." Floyd | Floyd | Hachachi nods. Turning to Greshen, Hachachi says, "Please take this Floyd | wagon to the side and ensure that it remains safe. We should return Floyd | within the hour, but there's no need to block traffic." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Hachachi's name reminds me of the urn of remains fought over in the opening scene of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom." | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Leaving the wagon behind, you cross the broad bridge and enter the vast Floyd | city from its western gate. "This is West Flame Gate," Hachachi says Floyd | conversationally, "and people call this neighborhood the Silver Floyd | District. You'll bring your wagon through this way later this evening. Floyd | Over there is the Full Cup, a very good inn -- I recommend the ale Floyd | highly." Floyd | Floyd | He continues to converse as you move through the city, but the sound Floyd | flows around you like the mountain wind -- present, but disregarded. Floyd | You pay more attention to the various wagons in the market square you Floyd | pass, to the way passersby part for the young priest, to the low Floyd | buildings on all sides, and to the people -- so many people! You have Floyd | never seen so many people in all your life, let alone all in one place. Floyd | From your father's past stories, you know that this was once a chirop Floyd | town, but that many humans and shaghal moved here as the city grew in Floyd | prominence, and now it is a notable center of trade. Floyd | Floyd | In your heart, you had somehow pictured a town like your home, but the Floyd | buildings surrounding you are very different from the caves where you Floyd | grew up. You did not know there were so many chirop clans in all the Floyd | world, and here, those clanmembers mingle with an equal number of Floyd | humans and scattered groups of shaghal. You are comforted by the Floyd | presence of your father. Floyd | Floyd | Looking forward, you see a bridge at the end of the street, and, beyond Floyd | that bridge, you see a white spire that can only be the governance Floyd | hall. The governance hall and the temple of Ivrul are placed upon an Floyd | island at the center of the city, and now, you are close enough to Floyd | glimpse sunlight sparkling off the surrounding waters. Floyd | Floyd | A wide-shouldered human woman stands to the left of the bridge's base. Floyd | Like the shaghal guard at the gate, she bears the scarlet and silver Floyd | crest of Phoenix's Landing on one shoulder, though she carries a spear Floyd | instead of an axe. Hachachi nods a greeting to the human guard, who Floyd | nods briefly in return and gestures you across the bridge. Floyd | Floyd | There are tiled paths here rather than cobbled streets, and Hachachi Floyd | turns left along one of those paths, guiding you past the governance Floyd | building and toward four buildings standing in a cluster. The tallest Floyd | of these by far is the silver spire that you saw before, which you Floyd | recognized as the spire of Ivrul of the Mists. That, however, is not Floyd | your destination. Instead, the priest escorts you to a stately Floyd | building of grey marble, and you walk beneath an archway marked with a Floyd | silver star. This is the temple of Ferran of the Stars. Floyd | Floyd | Beyond the archway is a courtyard, and you pass through the courtyard, Floyd | through the doors, and down a short hall before entering a Floyd | silver-walled chamber. The most noteable feature of the room is a Floyd | stunning blue tapestry depicting a heron among reeds. A human woman Floyd | garbed in black leather is seated to one side. Floyd | Floyd | | DavidW asks, "So we are the foreordained one?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "ack. more textdump." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "We might be." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, yeah." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "We are. I don't think that's too spoilery." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "It's so heavily foreshadowed at the beginning, after all." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "You sort of are. You could choose not to be." | |||||
| Limax arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Jacqueline says, "Oh. I shall keep my mouth shut, then. Interesting." | ||||
| Limax says, "Sorry... spontaneous reboot" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "bow to woman" | Jacqueline says (to Carolyn), "With respect to this text dump, might be nice to have some opportunities to look around as we are led to High Caerwyn. Would break up the big text dump, but still allow for the scene-building." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "er, push space?" | |||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | With your father at your side, you enter. Behind you, Hachachi says Floyd | respectfully, "High Caerwyn, I present Achatli for your examination." Floyd | (You memorize High Caerwyn's name for future reference.) Floyd | High Caerwyn nods. "Thank you, Hachachi. I will summon you when it is Floyd | time." Floyd | Hachachi steps back into the hall and closes the door gently behind Floyd | him. Floyd | Floyd | Heron Chamber Floyd | The chamber is dominated by a wide tapestry hanging opposite the door. Floyd | In shades of blue, black, silver, and gold, it depicts a magnificent Floyd | heron standing among reeds and gazing skyward toward a night filled Floyd | with stars. The walls are panelled in dark wood with a subtle silver Floyd | shimmer. A massive black cabinet stands to one side, and a matching Floyd | table has been positioned among four chairs at the center of the room. Floyd | Floyd | High Caerwyn is sitting on the tall chair positioned in front of the Floyd | tapestry. Floyd | | Limax says, "And of course, the moment I get back, we're going to leave...have fun all" | ||||
| Limax walks slowly out of the room and into the sunset. | Nitku asks, "Is there a way to get a list of all the names we've memorized?" | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | I beg your pardon? Floyd | | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "think about names" | |||||
Floyd | Your thoughts circle without profit. Floyd | | Jacqueline says (to David), "Floyd's not giving us prompts, unfortunately." | ||||
| CarolynV says, "Sorry... no way to get a list of the names." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x her" | |||||
Floyd | I'm not sure what "her" refers to. Floyd | | DavidW says, "Silly Floyd" | ||||
| CarolynV says, "Good idea, though. -- and I have no idea why x her didn't work just then." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm... a list of names would be nice, yeah." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "And yeah, >X HER should work." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x Achatli" | |||||
Floyd | There is no reflective surface nearby in which you can get a proper Floyd | look at yourself. However, despite your best efforts to remain tidy, Floyd | your fur is dusty from the road, and you are not completely comfortable Floyd | with your current appearance. You would definitely welcome the Floyd | opportunity to tidy up. Floyd | Floyd | Father has promised that opportunity once you are safely inside the Floyd | city, which is another reason to hope for speed. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Oops... I meant to say Caerwyn" | ||||
| DavidW says, "er, we are inside the city, Achatli" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x Caerwyn" | |||||
Floyd | Humans are the populous people of the oceans. They have two arms, two Floyd | legs, and walk upright, as all people do. Their skin is normally light Floyd | or dark brown, though there are paler or darker exceptions, and they Floyd | have eyes in a wide variety of colors. Although both genders grow hair Floyd | from the tops of their heads, human men can be readily distinguished Floyd | from human women because the women do not grow fur on their faces. Floyd | Although they appear weak and unprotected, they are surprisingly Floyd | versatile and thrive in a variety of enviroments. Floyd | Floyd | High Caerwyn is garbed in a fitted, coal black leather vest over an Floyd | equally dark cloth shirt. Her ankle-length skirt is similarly made of Floyd | fine leather, and it has been split up each side to allow for maximum Floyd | freedom of motion. A tear-shaped medallion hangs upon her brow from a Floyd | fine silver chain, and several necklaces ornamented with various sigils Floyd | encircle her throat. The overall effect is ornate and militant at the Floyd | same time, and not at all what you expected, though you have rarely Floyd | encountered worshippers of Ferran of the Stars. Floyd | Floyd | "Achatli, be welcome," High Caerwyn greets you. "I am Caerwyn, the Floyd | High Priestess of Ferran of the Stars. Tell me, what do you know about Floyd | the Divine Judge?" Floyd | Floyd | [1] Tell Caerwyn in detail what the chiroptera teach about Ferran. Floyd | [2] Claim to know nothing about Ferran. Floyd | | Nitku says, "It seems a bit pointless to say that you've memorize a name if you can't get a list later." | ||||
| Nitku says, "Or misleading, rather." | |||||
| DavidW says, "hm. DIdn't we already get that 'what are humans' paragraph before? That ought to be a one time thing, I think." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "I took the 'you memorize that for later' bits as a clue that I could use the 'think about' verb for that, but yeah - a name list would be very helpful." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Jacqueline's right." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to David), "Good point. Verbose the first time, then a brief description thereafter." | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Anyway, 1 or 2?" | |||||
| DavidW says, "vote 1" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "I'm good with 1. Nitku?" | |||||
| Lucea says, "works for me" | |||||
| Nitku says, "Go ahead" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Hm... anyone else actively playing besides those who've spoken?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "That's enough votes, regardless..." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | |||||
Floyd | You glance quickly at Father for approval. "Go ahead," Father says Floyd | gently. "As your lorefather taught you." Floyd | Floyd | "Our lorefather taught us that Ferran is the god of the stars. When Floyd | Sarvath the King went away to the desert, Ferran rose to be the Floyd | patriarch of the gods. After the desecration of Ivrul of the Mists, Floyd | Ferran came to Ivrul in shame and sorrow because she was of his creche Floyd | and Ferran had not protected her. From the mists that are Ivrul's Floyd | domain, Ferran created the greater chiroptera to serve and protect her Floyd | from above and the lesser chiroptera to serve and protect her from Floyd | below. We are the lesser chiroptera, thirdborn by Ferran's hand. When Floyd | we act to protect others and to guard our families, we are Ferran's Floyd | eyes in the darkness, just as the stars are Ferran's eyes in the sky. Floyd | When we die, Ferran will reach into the darkness and lift us to join Floyd | the greater chiroptera, where we will see Ivrul with our own eyes and Floyd | serve her with our own hands." Floyd | Floyd | "You remember your lessons well, and you know much of Ferran," High Floyd | Caerwyn says, "but there is more that you should know." Her voice Floyd | takes on a formal cadence as she continues. Floyd | Floyd | "Although Sarvath the King went into the desert, Ferran remains Floyd | Sarvath's loyal servant. As Sarvath bade him, Ferran rewards virtue by Floyd | raising virtuous souls to the night sky after death, where they can Floyd | watch over the world and aid those in need. To aid people in being Floyd | virtuous, and to aid him in his vigil, Ferran set nine constellations Floyd | of virtue into the night sky. Floyd | Floyd | "But these are not the only stars in the sky. In Sarvath's absence, Floyd | while still honoring his vows, Ferran turned to serve Adisha the Queen. Floyd | At times, he will present truths to his Queen through the dance of the Floyd | stars. Astrology, the holiest discipline of this temple, is the art of Floyd | reading the movements of the stars. In those movements, we can see Floyd | both the truths set forth for men and the truths set forth for the Floyd | Queen. Floyd | Floyd | "Near the constellation of the Heron, a new star has come into being. Floyd | This star announces the coming of an important person to Adisha -- a Floyd | person with a great destiny. We know that this person will come to Floyd | Phoenix's Landing before the next moonset, and we know something of the Floyd | appearance of this person. Floyd | Floyd | "We need to know if you are the person we seek," High Caerwyn Floyd | concludes. "And to that end, I need to examine you." Floyd | Floyd | [1] "The priest said something about markings... what markings? What Floyd | appearance?" Floyd | [2] "Examine? What kind of examination?" Floyd | [3] "And if I am the person you seek... what does that mean?" Floyd | | Nitku says, "I hope it's not a cavity search." | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh, so lost. Too many unfamiliar names, terms, etc." | |||||
| Jacqueline laughs nervously at Nitku. | |||||
| Lucea says, "initial reaction: infoverload" | |||||
| Lucea says, "but then, I hadn't played it before" | |||||
| Jacqueline waits for everyone to be done, hoping then they'll tell her 1, 2, or 3. | |||||
| Lucea says, "I like 2." | |||||
| DavidW says, "I also vote 2" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | |||||
Floyd | "The easiest way to show you is to do it," High Caerwyn says. From a Floyd | concealed pocket in her skirt, she takes a polished wooden case no Floyd | larger than her palm. When she opens the case, she reveals a set of Floyd | onyx stones, each carved with a rune, and a folded square of blue silk. Floyd | She spreads the silk across the chair at her side. "I will need a Floyd | strand of your hair," High Caerwyn says. You draw your fingers through Floyd | your hair, coming away with a single strand, and pass it to her. She Floyd | loops the strand of hair end-to-end, forming a circle upon the silk. Floyd | Floyd | High Caerwyn closes the case and rattles it for a moment before opening Floyd | it. As she pours the stones across the silk, sudden silvery-blue light Floyd | radiates up from the silk, and the strand of hair vanishes. The nine Floyd | stones roll to rest in a four-pointed star -- one at the center, two on Floyd | each arm. Only the center stone faces upright, and that one bears the Floyd | same stylized star as you saw above the archway. Floyd | Floyd | "What does that mean?" Father asks, though the tone of voice suggests Floyd | that he has his suspicions already. Floyd | Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | | CarolynV says, "I had a really hard time finding the line between infodump hell and 'what the heck is going on?'" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "The infooverload was probably really hard on maga, as he played this while doing dishes. I read it all out loud to him." | |||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | The high priestess sits very still for a moment before picking up the Floyd | case and putting away her set of stones. "This is inconclusive, but I Floyd | would like to talk with your daughter alone for a moment." Father Floyd | opens his mouth to protest, but she cuts him off in a clear, sharp Floyd | voice. "We will be here, and you will be right outside the door. I Floyd | assure you, there is nothing to fear." Floyd | Floyd | "Unacceptable," Father says coldly. "We will discuss what must be Floyd | discussed, you and I, and you will involve my daughter further only Floyd | with my consent." Floyd | Floyd | "She is nearly to her age of majority ," High Caerwyn states. "She has Floyd | the right to hear about such things herself. If she is geased -- and Floyd | she does seem to be -- then she must know what will come of it." Floyd | Floyd | "And if I refuse?" your father demands. There is a long pause as Floyd | Father and High Caerwyn stare at one another, his crimson eyes locked Floyd | to her dark blue eyes. Floyd | Floyd | The priestess of Ferran looks away first. "Then it could be her life," Floyd | she says simply. Floyd | Floyd | Your father presses the advantage. "If it is her life, then what you Floyd | know must be shared with me fully before you speak to her further. She Floyd | is bright and special and tireless, and she is honored for her learning Floyd | by every one of her fathers. I will permit nothing to harm her." Floyd | Floyd | This last, you recognize as trade manners; it would not do for this Floyd | priestess to think you are of low value to your creche-clan, lest she Floyd | believe that you -- and Father -- could vanish without your family's Floyd | notice. Still, you warm beneath his praise. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | | DavidW says, "ack. I haven't finished reading the previous textdump" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I will let someone else press space this time." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing." | |||||
| DavidW says, "okay, I'm ready" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Everyone good with me pressing space?" | |||||
| Taleslinger arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Jacqueline says, "Hello, Taleslinger." | ||||
| DavidW says, "hi Taleslinger" | |||||
| Taleslinger says, "Hi folks." | |||||
| Nitku says (to Jacqueline), "Sure." | |||||
| Nitku says, "Hello TS." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm driving, and we're playing Phoenix's Landing." | |||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | DavidW says (to Taleslinger), "We're playing Textdump's Destiny, or something like that." | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | High Caerwyn nods. "Very well." She rises from her chair, goes to the Floyd | door, and summons the graceful chirop priest. "Escort Achatli to the Floyd | Cat Chamber, please, and remain until her father comes or until I join Floyd | you." Floyd | Floyd | The priest bows gracefully to Caerwyn, half-spreading his arms to Floyd | expose his patagium as he does, and then backs out of the room. At Floyd | your father's nod, you follow the priest. Floyd | Floyd | The Cat Chamber turns out to be a short way down the corridor to the Floyd | left. Hachachi follows you in and closes the door. Floyd | Floyd | Cat Chamber Floyd | This chamber is nearly identical to the previous room, including the Floyd | dark walls and precisely positioned black furniture. The primary Floyd | difference is in the tapestry, which depicts a spotted cat instead of a Floyd | heron, and which has been executed with accents of gold, yellow, and Floyd | green upon black instead of blue and silver upon black. Floyd | Floyd | Hachachi is standing nearby. Floyd | | Taleslinger says, "Interaction is overrated." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "expose his what?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x hachachi" | |||||
Floyd | He is chirop, just like you -- one of the lithe, lightly furred people Floyd | of the mountains. Your father has told you of other chiroptera here, Floyd | and it is a comfort to see one now. Like you or your father, this Floyd | chirop has a membrane called the patagium that stretches from hip to Floyd | wrist, connecting his arms to his body in the fashion of a bat's wings. Floyd | His face is small and fuzzy, and you know that fangs are hidden within Floyd | the small snout. Floyd | Floyd | This particular chirop is light tan in hue, with piercing black eyes. Floyd | Several braids have been woven into the crest of longer hair that runs Floyd | back from his brow. He wears a two-tone tunic in light and dark grey, Floyd | and the tunic has been split neatly down the sides so that his patagium Floyd | is not hampered -- a fairly traditional style of garb, which you and Floyd | your family also favor, though the stylized star embroidered on his Floyd | collar is not traditional. He is young, yet carries himself with an Floyd | air of authority. Floyd | | DavidW says, "not finished reading!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x patagium" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Oh, sorry." | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "think about patagium" | |||||
Floyd | Your thoughts circle without profit. Floyd | Floyd | "Would you like to sit down?" Hachachi gestures to the ring of four Floyd | chairs. Floyd | | Taleslinger says, "I want to make a what is a... textdump." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, Carolyn - we should be able to examine weird body parts. I know that opens up a slippery slope for examing all sorts of body parts, but..." | |||||
| DavidW asks, "Is it a body part?" | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to jacq), "Slippery slope, hehehe" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "DavidW - check the description from x hachachi just then, it explains what it is...." | |||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "think about profit circles" | |||||
Floyd | Your thoughts circle without profit. Floyd | | Jacqueline says (to Nitky), "haha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to David), "Yeah. I think it's sort of a wing." | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to nitku), "ha ha ha" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patagium" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Shall we sit, or do we prefer to stand?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Huh - I didn't realize that was the real name, Carolyn. I guess, being a park ranger with a biology minor, I probably should have. Oops." | |||||
| (from Taleslinger) Jacq says, "Sir, please pack up your patagium." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, I'm going to make an executive decision." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sit" | |||||
Floyd | Did you mean to sit on the floor? (There's a black chair positioned Floyd | facing the tapestry right there....) Floyd | [Please respond with YES or NO.] Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "no" | Lucea asks, "?" | ||||
Floyd | > Floyd | You seat yourself in one of the black chairs. Hachachi nods his Floyd | approval. Floyd | Floyd | The priest draws a small key from a hidden pocket and opens the black Floyd | cabinet. At this angle, you can't really see anything of the contents Floyd | of the cabinet, but when Hachachi turns back toward you, he is holding Floyd | a small, opaque bottle and a pair of porcelain cups. Floyd | Floyd | "Are you familiar with desert appleshy?" he inquires. Floyd | Floyd | [1] "Desert appleshy? I don't think so...." Floyd | [2] Remain silent. Floyd | | Jacqueline says (to Lucea), "Well, I asked if people wanted to sit down. :)" | ||||
| Lucea says, "ah" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "1 or 2?" | |||||
| Taleslinger asks, "wasn't hachachi the bad guy in tekken?" | |||||
| DavidW says, "I think I'll have to bow out. I'm getting too tired and cranky. Sorry." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, David... see you later!" | |||||
| Taleslinger says, "Bye, David." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Rest up." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Thank you for coming and take care...." | Lucea says, "1" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, we have Lucea, Taleslinger, Nitku. 1 or 2?" | |||||
| Nitku says, "1" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "That's a majority!" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | Taleslinger says, "2" | ||||
Floyd | "It is made by the jinn," Hachachi says as he uncorks the bottle and Floyd | pours carefully. The liquid that swirls into the cups is pale gold, Floyd | but tinged with faint iridescence. "The name is more fantastic than Floyd | the flavor, I fear, but it has the virtue of lasting long and well in Floyd | darkness -- so we keep a bottle in each room to quench thirst at Floyd | appropriate times." Floyd | Floyd | Keeping one cup for himself, he sets the other on the table and then Floyd | takes a moment to put the bottle away. Floyd | Floyd | Hachachi sits down on the black chair positioned to the right of the Floyd | tapestry. Floyd | | Taleslinger says, "okay, i think that was already more text then my whole gome" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Who hasn't played, by the way?" | |||||
| Fang asks, "Is this some CYOA?" | |||||
| Lucea says, "can we spill the bottle" | |||||
| Lucea says, "I don't trust this stuf" | |||||
| Lucea says, "stuff, rather" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Fang), "Heh. No, just some conversation menus." | |||||
| Taleslinger raises hand. | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "spill bottle" | |||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | | Lucea says, "well, empty bottle" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "break bottle" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | Taleslinger asks, "have you tried xyzzy?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "wait, he put the bottle away." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, the bottle's been put away, Lucea." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | |||||
Floyd | Yes, Colossal Caves is awesome. Now stay focused. Floyd | | Lucea says, "Empty the cup, then. I still don't trust it" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "spill cup" | |||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "empty cup" | |||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pour out cup" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to pour the outside. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Heehee on the Xyzzy response." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Carolyn), "That's a probably and not unreasonable thing for the player to try." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Lucea), "Actually, do you want to drive? I've played, and would prefer to let someone who hasn't explore unfettered." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Though I'm happy to drive if people want me to." | |||||
| Lucea says, "hmm, why not" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Cat Chamber (on the black chair positioned facing the tapestry) Floyd | The chamber is dominated by a wide tapestry hanging opposite the door. Floyd | In shades of gold, yellow, green, silver, and black, it depicts a Floyd | magnificent spotted cat lounging upon a tree branch and gazing skyward Floyd | toward a night filled with stars. The walls are panelled in dark wood Floyd | with a subtle silver shimmer. A massive black cabinet stands to one Floyd | side, and a matching table of smaller size has been positioned among Floyd | four chairs at the center of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Hachachi is sitting on the black chair positioned to the right of the Floyd | tapestry. Floyd | On the small black table is a small porcelain cup of desert appleshy. Floyd | | CarolynV says, "My syntax was 'pour object out' instead of 'pour out object' -- that's a change I need to make." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "empty cup" | |||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Ah. Well, make them both work." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "pour cup out" | |||||
Floyd | (the small porcelain cup of desert appleshy out) Floyd | You don't see anywhere appropriate to pour out the small porcelain cup Floyd | of desert appleshy. Floyd | Floyd | Hachachi tilts his cup to his lips for a moment before lowering it Floyd | again. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "smell cup" | |||||
Floyd | (the small porcelain cup of desert appleshy) Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | | Lucea says, "hm" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x tapestry" | |||||
Floyd | A border of ornate black knotwork outlined delicately in gold runs Floyd | along the edge of the tapestry. At the center of the image, shadowy Floyd | green leaves part to reveal a magnificent spotted cat lounging on a Floyd | tree branch. The yellow-gold cat all but glows against the blackness Floyd | of the night sky. Above the cat, fourteen bright yellow stars Floyd | connected by thin golden lines pick out a constellation against the Floyd | night sky, and the constellation is a second cat. Floyd | Floyd | Hachachi pauses to smell the aroma in his cup. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "move tapestry" | |||||
Floyd | You fail to move the wide tapestry. Floyd | Floyd | Hachachi gazes into his cup for a moment and swirls the liquid Floyd | reflectively. Floyd | | Jacqueline rereads Horvath's review. | ||||
| Jacqueline | I had the misfortune of choosing character traits that led to me playing a furry humanoid creature. This made me squirm, enough to quit the game. Not rated. | |||||
| Taleslinger says, "now, if we expect poison...it wot" | |||||
| Taleslinger says, "wouldn't be unexpected." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "I know this will spark some !!!s, but I don't get why geeks are so EWWW FURRIES when they all claim to like Star Trek and Star Wars and such." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Further scent implementation is something I need to do. It's not so important for the human PC, but it really matters for the shaghal PC." | |||||
| Lucea says, "furries have a sexual connotation that Star Trek/Wars don't" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm, yeah, I guess it would be more important to the shaghal. Good point." | |||||
| Nitku says (to Jacqueline), "He said here that he would've been fine with a four-legged creature. Which makes it even more strange." | |||||
| Taleslinger says, "We're a shaghal? Oh, behave!" | |||||
| Lucea says, "and I have a bad habit of smelling/listening to everything" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "heh. Huh." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Oops -- no, we're the chirop, not the human." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Lucea), "Me too, and I think it should be implemented everywhere. Then again, that's why I don't write very many large games." | |||||
| Taleslinger asks (of carolyn), "is this based on any existing fantasy setting?" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "No, it's an original setting." | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Cat Chamber (on the black chair positioned facing the tapestry) Floyd | The chamber is dominated by a wide tapestry hanging opposite the door. Floyd | In shades of gold, yellow, green, silver, and black, it depicts a Floyd | magnificent spotted cat lounging upon a tree branch and gazing skyward Floyd | toward a night filled with stars. The walls are panelled in dark wood Floyd | with a subtle silver shimmer. A massive black cabinet stands to one Floyd | side, and a matching table of smaller size has been positioned among Floyd | four chairs at the center of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Hachachi is sitting on the black chair positioned to the right of the Floyd | tapestry. Floyd | On the small black table is a small porcelain cup of desert appleshy. Floyd | Floyd | Hachachi pauses to smell the aroma in his cup. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "drink cup" | |||||
Floyd | (the small porcelain cup of desert appleshy) Floyd | (first picking up the small porcelain cup of desert appleshy) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | You take a sip from the small porcelain cup of desert appleshy. A Floyd | flavor like honeyed apples and grapes and spring water fills your Floyd | mouth. Floyd | Floyd | How can a drink be diluted and strengthened at the same time? In Floyd | flavor, this is rather like watered apple juice sweetened with honey, Floyd | but the power of the drink still dizzies you briefly. Everything Floyd | shimmers in your vision a second after you swallow, but then your sight Floyd | returns to normal. Floyd | Floyd | The subtle scent of apples and honey wafts from the cup in your hand. Floyd | | |||||
| Ellison arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "g" | |||||
Floyd | (the small porcelain cup of desert appleshy) Floyd | You take a sip from the small porcelain cup of desert appleshy. A Floyd | flavor like honeyed apples and grapes and spring water fills your Floyd | mouth. Floyd | Floyd | Hachachi settles back in his chair. "Now, we shall be civilized," he Floyd | invites. "Please, you must be curious about my city. If you wish to Floyd | ask questions, I will be happy to answer them -- but first, what did Floyd | you think?" Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "ask hachachi about cup" | |||||
Floyd | [Use TALK TO to interact with characters.] Floyd | | Lucea says, "oh, right" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "talk to hachachi" | |||||
Floyd | [1] "I'm very impressed by the appleshy." Floyd | [2] "The appleshy isn't really to my taste." Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Hm... maybe we should have saved." | ||||
| Lucea says, "do we like it or not" | |||||
| Lucea says, "the appleshy, I mean" | |||||
| Jacqueline clears the save counter. | Jacqueline says, "Too late to save, though, I guess." | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "i say 2" | |||||
| Taleslinger says, "though i have no idea of context" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, say 2." | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "2" | |||||
Floyd | "Oh? Well, that's a disappointment," Hachachi says. "I'm very fond of Floyd | it myself, and I hoped you would be." Floyd | Floyd | [1] "Tell me more about Ferran?" Floyd | [2] "Tell me about Caerwyn?" Floyd | [3] "Tell me about yourself?" Floyd | [4] "Tell me about the city?" Floyd | [5] "Tell me about geasa?" Floyd | [6] Say nothing. Floyd | | Lucea asks, "any thoughts?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I think I just went through them all for backstory." | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "3" | |||||
Floyd | In response to your question, the chirop priest hesitates. "I'm not Floyd | sure what there is to tell," he says. "I assist High Caerwyn, but not Floyd | at services -- I assist her with the day-to-day of scheduling and Floyd | planning and organizing. Really, I'm rather boring." Floyd | Floyd | You are certain that, under the cover of fiddling with his cup, Floyd | Hachachi is watching to see how you react. Floyd | Floyd | [1] "Tell me more about Ferran?" Floyd | [2] "Tell me about Caerwyn?" Floyd | [3] "Tell me about your family." Floyd | [4] "Why did you join the priesthood?" Floyd | [5] "Tell me about the city?" Floyd | [6] "Tell me about geasa?" Floyd | [7] Say nothing. Floyd | Floyd | Hachachi gazes into his cup for a moment and swirls the liquid Floyd | reflectively. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "2" | |||||
Floyd | "High Caerwyn is devoted, yet caring," Hachachi answers. "I think Floyd | nothing concerns her so much as the lives that we lose -- for each time Floyd | one man kills another, it is a failure of the Temple." He studies you Floyd | for a moment, clearly judging his words carefully. "We must study Floyd | virtue, and we must teach its path, or we will all be lost in a Floyd | darkness without stars. No one believes this more than she does. If Floyd | High Caerwyn were not bound by duty, her deeds would be great -- but Floyd | she is bound by duty, the highest calling there is, and so her light is Floyd | seen only in the deeds of those she guides." Floyd | Floyd | [1] "Tell me more about Ferran?" Floyd | [2] "Tell me about your family." Floyd | [3] "Why did you join the priesthood?" Floyd | [4] "Tell me about the city?" Floyd | [5] "Tell me about geasa?" Floyd | [6] Say nothing. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "5" | |||||
Floyd | "Though I see why you would ask, I cannot speak further with you about Floyd | geasa," Hachachi says apologetically. "However, High Caerwyn will tell Floyd | you all that you must know -- just as soon as your father consents." Floyd | Floyd | [1] "Tell me more about Ferran?" Floyd | [2] "Tell me about your family." Floyd | [3] "Why did you join the priesthood?" Floyd | [4] "Tell me about the city?" Floyd | [5] Say nothing. Floyd | Floyd | Hachachi says something, but you can't understand what he says -- the Floyd | syllables are blurred and strange to your ear. Floyd | The words you were about to speak fly away. Floyd | [1] "What did you say?" Floyd | [2] "I feel strange...." Floyd | [3] Say nothing. Floyd | | Jacqueline asks, "Is that a bug?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I remember that happening to me when I played, too." | |||||
| Lucea says, "I knew that stuff was poisonous" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "I think the double-display is Floyd-side, but I may be wrong. I had some major trouble getting that to work smoothly." | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "2" | |||||
Floyd | "Is it the incense? It's a bit strong in the hallways...." Hachachi Floyd | gazes at you in clear concern. Floyd | Floyd | [1] "What did you say?" Floyd | [2] "Help me -- something's wrong!" Floyd | [3] Say nothing. Floyd | Floyd | The subtle scent of apples and honey wafts from the cup in your hand. Floyd | Floyd | Light sparkles suddenly in the corner of your vision, but when you turn Floyd | your head, it is gone. A wave of dizziness washes over you. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Nah, it happened to me, too, playing in a straight Glulx interpreter." | ||||
| Lucea says, "only one thing to do now" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "kill hachachi" | |||||
Floyd | [Before you can try attacking Hachachi, you will need to complete this Floyd | conversation. Please enter a number or type REPEAT to reacquaint Floyd | yourself with your options.] Floyd | Floyd | Hachachi tilts his cup to his lips for a moment before lowering it Floyd | again. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "haha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "You must be cilized and finish the conversation first, Lucea!" | |||||
| Taleslinger asks, "do we have a glove to slap him with?" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Hm... is he really drinking this stuff?" | |||||
| Lucea says, "civilization stops when you try to poison me" | |||||
| Lucea says, "just saying" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "2" | |||||
Floyd | Hachachi says something in reply, but you can't understand what he Floyd | says. But he doesn't get up to help you -- even though the edges of Floyd | the room have started spinning.... Floyd | Floyd | [1] "What did you say?" Floyd | [2] Say nothing. Floyd | Floyd | Hachachi pauses to smell the aroma in his cup. Floyd | Floyd | Your grip suddenly loosens on the small porcelain cup of desert Floyd | appleshy. Though you reach out with your other hand to catch the cup Floyd | as it slides from your numb fingers, the air is thick around your hand, Floyd | slowing your motion. A few flying drops of desert appleshy spatter Floyd | your hand before the cup strikes the ground. Spilled desert appleshy Floyd | flows across the floor. Reaching after the cup, you lose your balance, Floyd | and the entire world slips sideways. Floyd | Floyd | You stumble first to your knees and then catch yourself on your hands. Floyd | You try to stop your fall, but the best you can do is hit the floor Floyd | first with your shoulder instead of your face. Fortunately, the Floyd | jarring pain that follows is also far away. Floyd | Floyd | Hachachi is crouching beside you. You see his mouth moving, but you Floyd | can't hear what he says. You feel it, though, when he raises your Floyd | head, slides his knee under you for support, and opens your lips with a Floyd | clinical finger so that he can pour more desert appleshy down your Floyd | throat. Your faintly moaned protest chokes off beneath the draught, Floyd | and you swallow against your will. Everything is spinning faster and Floyd | faster, and you are pressed down from the force of it. Your tongue Floyd | tastes of apples. Floyd | Floyd | Although your eyes are still open, your vision starts to fade. There Floyd | is a roaring in your head that is growing louder, and louder.... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | CarolynV says, "No, he's faking it." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Lucea), "heehee" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Can we pretend to drink?" | |||||
| Nitku says, "Pardon me, good sir, if you excuse me. I must shortly go about attacking you." | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | Jacqueline laughs at Nitku. | ||||
| CarolynV says, "It wants a space." | |||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The thunder resolves into the pounding roar of a seething mass of Floyd | chiroptera. The myriad voices, the screaming, the shouting, all blends Floyd | together and echoes through your very bones. Floyd | Floyd | You are standing upon a high dais, and on all sides, thousands of Floyd | chiroptera stare up at you -- the source of the incredible tumult. You Floyd | had not conceived of so many people in all the world, let alone so many Floyd | of your kin in the same place, and their frenzied behavior is alien to Floyd | your secluded existence. Your very heartbeat and breathing feel Floyd | dictated by the hunger of the crowd. You are garbed formally in a Floyd | side-split tunic of dense, gem-adorned brocade and a long skirt, but Floyd | you are much less concerned about your attire than you are concerned by Floyd | the long, heavy sword gripped in your hand. Floyd | Floyd | A chirop woman kneels before you. Her tan fur is sparse from great Floyd | age, and her hands are bound tightly behind her back with coarse rope. Floyd | Her shoulders twitch in a shiver as the cries of the crowd pound over Floyd | you both. Floyd | Floyd | Though the sound of the crowd all but deafens you, a woman's clarion Floyd | voice rises above the din of the crowd. "She is condemned. Strike!" Floyd | | Taleslinger says, "Excuse me, sir, the quality of your refreshements demands a new, more physical kind of interaction." | ||||
| Lucea pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | I beg your pardon? Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "run" | |||||
Floyd | You'll have to say which compass direction to go in. Floyd | | Taleslinger says, "...timing" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "out" | |||||
Floyd | You step to the edge of the dais. Thousands of eyes bore into you as Floyd | you start down the steps, and the tone of the crowd's layered cries Floyd | becomes suddenly, sharply hostile. A heavy wave of disorientation Floyd | follows. This isn't you -- this isn't your place or where you Floyd | belong.... Floyd | Floyd | And, winging after that thought, you realize that it is nighttime. The Floyd | roar of the crowd fails into silence, defeated by the sudden blackness Floyd | and the tide of stars that flow across the night sky. The taste of Floyd | apples fills your mouth, and stars flash across your gaze as everything Floyd | spins away from you. Floyd | Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | This, in the darkness: Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | There is a voice. The voice is sharp, clear, female, and only newly Floyd | familiar: Caerwyn's voice, asking, "What did you give her?" Floyd | Floyd | A second voice comes from the darkness. This one is low, softer, male, Floyd | and as little-known to you as the first. Hachachi answers, Floyd | "Heartkenning in dreamwine." Floyd | Floyd | Caerwyn: "You mistook her, perhaps, for a trained diviner? You risk Floyd | too much." Floyd | Floyd | Hachachi: "It had to be risked." Floyd | Floyd | Caerwyn: "'Use your initiative' didn't mean kill the girl. She's Floyd | hardly breathing." Floyd | Floyd | Hachachi: "There weren't many options and there wasn't much time." Floyd | Floyd | Caerwyn: "There was more time before you tried to kill her." Floyd | Floyd | Hachachi: "High One, if I was wrong, please forgive me. I measured the Floyd | dreamwine carefully -- six swallows, no more. Her geas..." Floyd | Floyd | But the darkness is spinning, and noise comes out of the darkness -- a Floyd | shivering, rushing noise, something more familiar than the voices. The Floyd | noise drowns out Hachachi's voice. You struggle to identify this new Floyd | sound.... Floyd | Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Water. The sound is water. Floyd | Floyd | You are lying on cold stone, and you can hear a river not far away. Floyd | Floyd | Underground, Crevice Floyd | It's hard to see much of anything here, as overhanging shelves of rock Floyd | block almost all light from the north, and that light is a frail, Floyd | greenish shimmer at best. The crevice is small and cramped. Once, it Floyd | was a full passage, as signs of a broader tunnel do lead west, but the Floyd | tunnel is blocked by fallen rocks. Floyd | | Lucea asks, "thoughts/requests/suggests?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x crevice" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | Taleslinger says, ">trip out some more" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Hm... W?" | |||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x rocks" | |||||
Floyd | The fallen rocks prevent you from proceeding west. Floyd | Floyd | When the rocks fell, we were lucky because grubmen are stupid. Instead Floyd | of coming to kill us, they went to pray to the grubqueen. It would Floyd | have been easier if they hadn't left a sentry. Floyd | | CarolynV says, "OK, there's that answer -- the GLULX text effects won't show up on Floyd. :(" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "search rocks" | |||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x me" | |||||
Floyd | There is no reflective surface nearby in which you can get a proper Floyd | look at yourself. However, despite your best efforts to remain tidy, Floyd | your fur is dusty from the road, and you are not completely comfortable Floyd | with your current appearance. You would definitely welcome the Floyd | opportunity to tidy up. Floyd | | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x light" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x light" | |||||
Floyd | Faint, greenish light is visible to the north. Floyd | Floyd | You have to keep moving. Eventually, the grubmen will realize that the Floyd | falling rocks were on THIS side, and then they'll come to investigate. Floyd | Floyd | Faint, greenish light is visible to the north. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Yeah... I was hoping they'd indent a bit, but it seems that they don't." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "think about grubmen" | |||||
Floyd | Your thoughts circle without profit. Floyd | | Taleslinger asks, "try going north?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Essentially, when you read something like that that seems out of context or a little to sentient, that's a weird voice talking to us and we don't know what it is yet." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "s/to/too" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | There was no way to go back. All we could do was go forward, and hope Floyd | for a new exit somewhere past the grubmen. Floyd | Floyd | You stand up cautiously to avoid cracking your head on the low stone Floyd | ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | Underground Floyd | This underground space is dimly lit by crusts of phosphorescent lichen Floyd | clinging to the cavern roof. Ragged spires of rock jut from the Floyd | ground, and cool, dark shadows fill the spaces between the spires. A Floyd | crevice opens to the south, and a broader passage leads off to the Floyd | east. Floyd | | Lucea asks, "am I an ant?" | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "we are seriously tripping, imho" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x lichen" | |||||
Floyd | The only light here is a dim glow emanating from the lichen clinging to Floyd | the cavern ceiling. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get lichen" | |||||
Floyd | The patch of phosphorescent lichen is too far away. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x spires" | |||||
Floyd | Several waist-high stalagmites rise from the ground. Floyd | Floyd | Wait -- this isn't the way it went.... Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Man, phosphorescent lichen abounds in IF to a much larger degree than in real life, doesn't it? Heehee" | ||||
| CarolynV says, "I wrote this section before playing Lost Pig. The commentary on glowing lichen there was hysterically funny." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh. Yeah, I'd forgotten about that." | |||||
| Lucea says, "You see a phosphorescent lich." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Lucea), "AHHHHHH" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, let's keep esplorin'" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Underground, Beside the River Floyd | The cavern opens up beside a broad underground river. Across the Floyd | river, small orange fires glimmer, and contorted humanoid shapes are Floyd | visible moving in the firelight. These are grubmen -- an annoying, not Floyd | particularly intelligent breed of underground dweller with a tendency Floyd | to steal animals from human and chirop settlements. The river flows Floyd | through a black, impassable hole to the south, but there is room to Floyd | walk north along the river's steep bank. Floyd | Floyd | A narrow, not-particularly-sturdy-seeming bridge stretches over the Floyd | river to the east. Upon the bridge is another short grubman standing Floyd | watch -- a rather ineffective watch, at that, since the grubman is Floyd | staring toward the fires and has not yet noticed you. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The grubman standing on the bridge shifts anxiously from pudgy foot to Floyd | pudgy foot. Floyd | | Lucea says, "I missed the lichen bit in Lost Pig" | ||||
| CarolynV says, "Mossferescence." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Aie grubman" | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x myself" | |||||
Floyd | There is no reflective surface nearby in which you can get a proper Floyd | look at yourself. However, despite your best efforts to remain tidy, Floyd | your fur is dusty from the road, and you are not completely comfortable Floyd | with your current appearance. You would definitely welcome the Floyd | opportunity to tidy up. Floyd | Floyd | I wasn't alone. The rocks caught Achimi, but Hichaesho made it Floyd | through. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "kill grubman" | |||||
Floyd | (the translucent white grubman) Floyd | You can't reach the translucent white grubman from here. Floyd | Floyd | The grubman standing on the bridge shifts anxiously from pudgy foot to Floyd | pudgy foot. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | Your hands are empty. Floyd | You are wearing a dark green goat wool cloak, a pale green tunic split Floyd | up the sides, and a long, voluminous skirt of pale green wool. A slim Floyd | braided leather belt encircles your waist. You have a pair of braided Floyd | white leather sandals on your feet. You are also wearing a slender Floyd | zircon-studded bracelet and a pair of dangling zircon earrings. Floyd | Floyd | The grubman standing on the bridge shifts anxiously from pudgy foot to Floyd | pudgy foot. Floyd | Floyd | Am I dreaming? Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x bracelet" | |||||
Floyd | You study the slender zircon-studded bracelet for a moment, but you Floyd | notice nothing particularly unusual. Floyd | Floyd | Who ARE you, and why are you in my dream? Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "wake" | |||||
Floyd | You're fairly sure that you're still dreaming, but you can't figure out Floyd | how to wake up. Floyd | | Jacqueline asks, "So, whaddowedo about the grubman?" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "jump" | |||||
Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Underground, Grubman Bridge Floyd | This narrow, rickety bridge was designed for the weight of a grubman, Floyd | not a chirop, and it complains softly with your every movement. There Floyd | are no railings. Tinted dimly orange by the nearer grubman fires, the Floyd | river plunges swiftly past below and flows away to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Grubman engineering is not much of a science. The bridge trembles Floyd | disconcertingly underfoot. Fortunately, the grubman guarding the Floyd | bridge is distracted and looking away from you. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The grubman standing on the bridge shifts anxiously from pudgy foot to Floyd | pudgy foot. Floyd | | CarolynV says, "Those two paragraphs are pretty redundant -- I need to work on that." | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "push grubman" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to T), "Go for it." | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "push grubman" | |||||
Floyd | The translucent white grubman is not yet aware of your presence. Floyd | Pushing the translucent white grubman could draw his attention, and he Floyd | doesn't look particularly friendly. Do you really want to proceed? Floyd | [Please respond with YES or NO.] Floyd | | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "yes" | |||||
Floyd | >Against your better judgement, you approach the translucent white Floyd | grubman. Floyd | Floyd | You rush at the grubman, put your hands against his back, and shove! Floyd | With a chittering wail, the grubman falls into the river and bobs away Floyd | to the south. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x grubman" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | Taleslinger says, "That'll clean some of the grub off." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Nice." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Your solution was better than mine, methinks." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "But I shall not be spoilery." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "'Do you really want to kill the dragon with your bare hands?' 'Why yes, actually, yes I do.'" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, haha - inky's review." | |||||
| Jacqueline | This seems like it was written for the same audience as Worlds Apart. There's not quite so much Enya and magical dolphins, but to make up for it you get cat-people and getting to choose your skin and eye color. | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "maga keeps telling me to play Worlds Apart because it's 'the sort of floaty new age shit' I would enjoy." | |||||
| Taleslinger says, "Hahaha, "Bad Day" just started in my playlist." | |||||
| maga says, "it totally is" | |||||
| Lucea says, "ok, be right back" | |||||
| Taleslinger says, "How apropos for the grubman" | |||||
| maga says, "although its non-sequential storytelling and fiddly puzzles would probably cause you mighty rage" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x bridge" | |||||
Floyd | The bridge doesn't look particularly sturdy. Floyd | | CarolynV asks, "What is the link for inky's review?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, I *think* I ended up stopping after this, so I can start playing with you all now." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Carolyn), "All the reveiws that I know of are linked to here:" | |||||
| Jacqueline | http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/IntroComp_2008 | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cross bridge" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Underground, Beside the River Floyd | The cavern opens up beside a broad underground river. Across the Floyd | river, small orange fires glimmer, and contorted humanoid shapes are Floyd | visible moving in the firelight. These are grubmen -- an annoying, not Floyd | particularly intelligent breed of underground dweller with a tendency Floyd | to steal animals from human and chirop settlements. The river flows Floyd | through a black, impassable hole to the south, but there is room to Floyd | walk north along the river's steep bank. Floyd | Floyd | A narrow, not-particularly-sturdy-seeming bridge stretches over the Floyd | river to the east. From here, you can see nothing on the bridge. Floyd | Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Oh wait, no. I played beyond this. Duh." | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | You walk north along the bank. Floyd | Floyd | Underground, Beside the River Floyd | The river passage narrows as it proceeds northward. Farther north, Floyd | there is nowhere to stand, but here, you can view the broad Floyd | subterranean river by the light of the distant fires. Twisted rock Floyd | formations overhang the river, but none are within reach. Floyd | | Jacqueline's memory is very good, but sometimes rather short-lived. | ||||
| CarolynV says, "Thanks." | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x river" | |||||
Floyd | The river is far too broad to jump, and it looks both fast and deep. Floyd | To the south, a crude bridge spans the water. Floyd | | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x formations" | |||||
Floyd | Several twisted, water-smoothed stalactites overhang the river. Floyd | | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "climb formations" | |||||
Floyd | The twisted rock formation is too far away. Floyd | | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Underground, Beside the River Floyd | The cavern opens up beside a broad underground river. Across the Floyd | river, small orange fires glimmer, and contorted humanoid shapes are Floyd | visible moving in the firelight. These are grubmen -- an annoying, not Floyd | particularly intelligent breed of underground dweller with a tendency Floyd | to steal animals from human and chirop settlements. The river flows Floyd | through a black, impassable hole to the south, but there is room to Floyd | walk north along the river's steep bank. Floyd | Floyd | A narrow, not-particularly-sturdy-seeming bridge stretches over the Floyd | river to the east. From here, you can see nothing on the bridge. Floyd | Floyd | | Taleslinger says, "Wait, aren't we on the side we started? The river is said to be to the east" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Underground Floyd | This underground space is dimly lit by crusts of phosphorescent lichen Floyd | clinging to the cavern roof. Ragged spires of rock jut from the Floyd | ground, and cool, dark shadows fill the spaces between the spires. A Floyd | crevice opens to the south, and a broader passage leads off to the Floyd | east. Floyd | | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Underground, Beside the River Floyd | The cavern opens up beside a broad underground river. Across the Floyd | river, small orange fires glimmer, and contorted humanoid shapes are Floyd | visible moving in the firelight. These are grubmen -- an annoying, not Floyd | particularly intelligent breed of underground dweller with a tendency Floyd | to steal animals from human and chirop settlements. The river flows Floyd | through a black, impassable hole to the south, but there is room to Floyd | walk north along the river's steep bank. Floyd | Floyd | A narrow, not-particularly-sturdy-seeming bridge stretches over the Floyd | river to the east. From here, you can see nothing on the bridge. Floyd | Floyd | | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Underground, Grubman Bridge Floyd | This narrow, rickety bridge was designed for the weight of a grubman, Floyd | not a chirop, and it complains softly with your every movement. There Floyd | are no railings. Tinted dimly orange by the nearer grubman fires, the Floyd | river plunges swiftly past below and flows away to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Grubman engineering is not much of a science. The bridge trembles Floyd | disconcertingly underfoot. Floyd | | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | With no further obstacle in your way, you carefully cross the bridge Floyd | (which, by some minor miracle, does not break beneath your weight) and Floyd | halt on the far side. The space just off the bridge is slightly Floyd | shadowed, and you can pause here to gain your bearings before Floyd | proceeding onward. Floyd | Floyd | Or perhaps not -- because suddenly, everything changes.... Floyd | Floyd | | CarolynV says, "I'm afraid the command 'cross bridge' took you back where you started. I had some difficulty sorting out the bridge as an object *and* as a room." | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to carolyn), "He, me too." | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "press space" | Jacqueline says, "The room should now be called 'Underground, Bridge Formerly Occupied by the Nasty Grubman Before You Pushed Him in the River You Meanie.'" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, maybe that's too long a room name." | |||||
| CarolynV exclaims, "emote laughs!" | |||||
| CarolynV asks, "Woops. Someone want to fix my syntax?" | |||||
| Taleslinger shakes head. | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Try :laughs!" | |||||
| Taleslinger says, "Err... : shakes heas" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Er, ;:laughs!" | |||||
| CarolynV has better syntax now? | |||||
| CarolynV exclaims, "thanks!" | |||||
| Taleslinger says, "congratulates Carloyn, then leads everyone present in a cossack dance." | |||||
| (from Jacqueline) CarolynV can has cheeseburger, yes. | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, you're welcome." | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "l" | Jacqueline says, "Anyway, sorry for crossing the bridge. Please continue, so we can get to the part where I stopped playing." | ||||
| CarolynV says, "It wants a space." | |||||
| Lucea pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "press space" | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | You are in a new cave, though you are standing up this time. Floyd | Everything around you is very faintly lit by greenish-yellow Floyd | phosphorescence, which, you realize after a moment, comes from a thin Floyd | crust of lichen on the walls. It's like something out of a story -- Floyd | you've never seen lichen like this before. Floyd | Floyd | Cave Alcove Floyd | Phosphorescent lichen illumines this underground cavern with a weak, Floyd | sickly light. The air is humid and unpleasant. The only route from Floyd | here is north. Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | I beg your pardon? Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Whoopsie." | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Faintly Lit Passage Floyd | A narrow stream, no more than a few handsbreadths across, trickles in Floyd | from the north and flows away to the southeast. Thin crusts of Floyd | phosphorescent lichen cling to the walls and ceiling, casting a weak, Floyd | sickly light . The air is humid and unpleasant. Passages open north, Floyd | south, southeast, southwest, and east from here. Floyd | | Lucea asks, "I haven't seen lichen like this before?" | ||||
| CarolynV says, "'you've never seen lichen like this before' except in the prior room." | |||||
| Lucea says, "I thought we just did" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | |||||
| Jacqueline laughs. | |||||
| Taleslinger asks, "Oh noes, should we map this?" | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Faintly Lit Passage Floyd | Phosphorescent lichen illumines the underground passage around you, but Floyd | with a weak, sickly light. The air is humid and unpleasant. There are Floyd | exits leading north and northeast from here. Floyd | | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Faintly Lit Passage Floyd | Phosphorescent lichen illumines the underground passage around you, but Floyd | with a weak, sickly light. The air is humid and unpleasant. There are Floyd | exits leading northwest and south from here. Floyd | Floyd | I've seen fungus like this, but only outside. On trees, sometimes, in Floyd | forests... never in caves. Floyd | Floyd | But this is a dream. Anything can happen here. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "eat fungus" | |||||
Floyd | (first taking the thin crust of phosphorescent lichen) Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "wake up" | |||||
Floyd | You're fairly sure that you're still dreaming, but you can't figure out Floyd | how to wake up. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "I suspect that the answer is no." | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "pinch myself" | |||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "nw" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Faintly Lit Passage Floyd | Phosphorescent lichen illumines the underground passage around you, but Floyd | with a weak, sickly light. The air is humid and unpleasant. There are Floyd | exits leading northeast and southeast from here. Floyd | | Taleslinger asks (of lucea), "Oh, you're back. Wanna drive again?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "I did, but ... Carolyn? Is this really a maze, or just after a few locations you pop out somewhere?" | |||||
| Lucea asks (of floyd), "wait, is this a maze?" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | | Lucea asks, "wait, is this a maze?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I had this weird feeling it wasn't actually a maze, though I *did* map it when I played." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Um... I don't want to get hit for being spoilery. I'm not sure if I can answer this." | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to carolyn), "there is a channel called #cf-spoilers" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, okay." | |||||
| Lucea asks, "there is?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, it's #cfspoilers" | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to jacq), "OOps, sorry." | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "listen" | |||||
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "smell" | Jacqueline asks, "Okay, now that we're done interrogating Carolyn on the spoilers channel... what next?" | ||||
Floyd | Everything smells like lichen. Still, you think the air coming from Floyd | the northeast might be a bit fresher. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea has had her fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | |||||
| Lucea arrives, full of fun and funk. | Lucea says, "whoops" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "ne" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Faintly Lit Passage Floyd | A narrow stream, no more than a few handsbreadths across, trickles in Floyd | from the north and flows away to the south. Thin crusts of Floyd | phosphorescent lichen cling to the walls and ceiling, casting a weak, Floyd | sickly light . The air is humid and unpleasant. Passages open north, Floyd | northwest, south, and southwest from here. Floyd | Floyd | As you shift position, one of your knees suddenly buckles, and you Floyd | stumble to the side. You successfully catch yourself against the wall Floyd | with an outflung hand. When you regain your balance and pull your hand Floyd | away, you see a black handprint on the wall. Floyd | | Jacqueline says (to Lucea), "Heh. I HATE when I do that." | ||||
| CarolynV exclaims, "Look! Lucea! Stuff smells!" | |||||
| Lucea exclaims, "Yay!" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x handprint" | |||||
Floyd | It looks as if the lichen has been damaged on one wall, as a black Floyd | handprint mars the faint green glow. Floyd | | Ellison says, "ha" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "smell" | |||||
Floyd | Everything smells like lichen. Still, you think the air coming from Floyd | the north might be a bit fresher. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Faintly Lit Passage Floyd | A narrow stream, no more than a few handsbreadths across, trickles in Floyd | from the northeast and flows away to the south. Thin crusts of Floyd | phosphorescent lichen cling to the walls and ceiling, casting a weak, Floyd | sickly light . The air is humid and unpleasant. Passages open Floyd | northeast and south from here. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "smell" | |||||
Floyd | Everything smells like lichen. Still, you think the air coming from Floyd | the northeast might be a bit fresher. Floyd | | Ellison says, "unfortunately, I have to get going" | ||||
| Ellison has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "ne" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Faintly Lit Passage Floyd | A narrow stream, no more than a few handsbreadths across, trickles in Floyd | from the northeast and flows away to the southwest. Thin crusts of Floyd | phosphorescent lichen cling to the walls and ceiling, casting a weak, Floyd | sickly light . The air is humid and unpleasant. Passages open Floyd | northeast and southwest from here. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "smell" | |||||
Floyd | Everything smells like lichen. Still, you think the air coming from Floyd | the northeast might be a bit fresher. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "ne" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Faintly Lit Passage Floyd | A narrow stream, no more than a few handsbreadths across, trickles in Floyd | from the east and flows away to the southwest. Thin crusts of Floyd | phosphorescent lichen cling to the walls and ceiling, casting a weak, Floyd | sickly light . The air is humid and unpleasant. Passages open north, Floyd | southwest, and east from here. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "smell" | |||||
Floyd | Everything smells like lichen. Still, you think the air coming from Floyd | the east might be a bit fresher. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Underground, Below the Night Floyd | Suddenly, you come around a twist in the tunnel to see light shining Floyd | down through a broad gap in the stone -- real light, moonlight, which Floyd | washes the lichen's sickly glow into insubstantiality. The small Floyd | stream coursing through the cavern has its source here, for a thin Floyd | stream of water pours down through the gap and pools at your feet Floyd | before wandering away through the passages. Floyd | Floyd | Beside the waterfall, a crude ladder leads upward and outward to a cold Floyd | night sky. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "drink water" | |||||
Floyd | You scoop up some of the stream water in your hand and drink from your Floyd | palm. The water is cool and tastes slightly fungal. | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "look in water" | |||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x myself" | |||||
Floyd | There is no reflective surface nearby in which you can get a proper Floyd | look at yourself. However, despite your best efforts to remain tidy, Floyd | your fur is dusty from the road, and you are not completely comfortable Floyd | with your current appearance. You would definitely welcome the Floyd | opportunity to tidy up. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "enter water" | |||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "swim in water" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to swim the inside. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "swim" | |||||
Floyd | Glancing around, you don't see anywhere appropriate to go swimming. Floyd | | Taleslinger asks (of carloyn), "Isn't the water a reflective surface?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm. Must be a very tiny stream." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "Well, it's flowing." | |||||
| CarolynV says, ":floyd x stream" | CarolynV says, "This is what I get for cheatin, I don't even know the syntax." | ||||
| CarolynV says, "Anyway, it's not very big." | |||||
| Lucea says, "..floyd" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "This is in I7, right." | |||||
| CarolynV says (to floyd), "x stream" | |||||
Floyd | You don't see anything unusual about the narrow stream. Floyd | | Jacqueline asks, "?" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "wash self" | |||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "wash me" | |||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "You could just do an 'instead of swimming' in this locale and say the stream is too small." | ||||
| CarolynV says, "I could have sworn there was a description on that. How embarrassing. -- And yes, it's in I7." | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Underground, Below the Night Floyd | Moonlight shines down through a broad gap in the stone, washing the Floyd | lichen's sickly glow into insubstantiality. The small stream coursing Floyd | through the cavern has its source here, for a thin stream of water Floyd | pours down through the gap and pools at your feet before wandering away Floyd | through the passages. Floyd | Floyd | Beside the waterfall, a crude ladder leads upward and outward to a cold Floyd | night sky. Floyd | | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "clean fur" | |||||
Floyd | You achieve nothing by this. Floyd | | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "tidy up" | |||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "enter stream" | |||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "brush my fur" | |||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "take a leak" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "lick fur" | |||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | | Jacqueline asks, "U?" | ||||
| Alex says (to Jacqueline), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that U is how annoying 13-year-old girls in chatrooms say 'you'." | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "up" | |||||
Floyd | From here, you can go south and west. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Underground, Below the Night Floyd | Moonlight shines down through a broad gap in the stone, washing the Floyd | lichen's sickly glow into insubstantiality. The small stream coursing Floyd | through the cavern has its source here, for a thin stream of water Floyd | pours down through the gap and pools at your feet before wandering away Floyd | through the passages. Floyd | Floyd | Beside the waterfall, a crude ladder leads upward and outward to a cold Floyd | night sky. Floyd | | Taleslinger says, "go for it" | ||||
| Lucea says, "uh" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Oops! Sorry about that. U should have been identical to 'climb ladder'." | |||||
| Lucea says, "climb ladder" | |||||
| dhakajack arrives, ready to play with the toys. | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "climb ladder" | |||||
Floyd | Well done! Floyd | Floyd | You climb the ladder rapidly. It is slightly slick from moisture, but Floyd | not dangerously so, and a cool, refreshing mist envelops you as you Floyd | reach the top of the ladder and lift yourself onto a rocky hillside. Floyd | Below, there are pines. Floyd | Floyd | You draw a deep breath of air, and it smells like incense. Floyd | Floyd | Incense.... Floyd | Floyd | The hillside fades.... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | CarolynV says, "The 'well done!' is one of the Mystery Voice comments, but that doesn't show up on account of glulx. It's not just the game snarking." | ||||
| Lucea pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Balanced on the edge between wakefulness and sleep, you lie in a room Floyd | where the smell of incense rests heavily on the air. At least one Floyd | blanket presses your body down, but you are not uncomfortably warm. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x blanket" | |||||
Floyd | The sheets are fine and soft -- linen, perhaps -- and there is at least Floyd | one heavier blanket atop them, which feels like wool. Floyd | Floyd | To the left, there is the soft, slightly echoing scrape of a door Floyd | opening and closing. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "sleep" | |||||
Floyd | You give up on this unimpressive world and allow yourself to drift back Floyd | into dreams. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "undo" | Lucea says, "whoops" | ||||
| Nitku pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | This, in the darkness: Floyd | Floyd | You are dying. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Heh. That would be a fun game to write. 'About time you solved that puzzle, you nitwit!' and 'Look at me as I sarcastically applaud your deductive technique!'" | ||||
| CarolynV says, "Undo isn't disabled, but it won't accept it while it is waiting for a space." | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "undo" | |||||
| Lucea pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Orange light hurls itself through darkness, and it takes the shape of a Floyd | bird. The light-wreathed bird burns your vision as sharply as the sun Floyd | would, but in this dream, you can gaze without looking away. A Floyd | feathered crest runs over the bird's skull, and its tail is as long and Floyd | ornate as a peacock's, painted in all the myriad colors of fire. The Floyd | phoenix's light parts the darkness.... Floyd | Floyd | Char Cliff Floyd | You stand upon a narrow ledge on the side of a blackened rock cliff. A Floyd | thin path traces over the rock to your left, but your ledge is cut off Floyd | from the path by a twenty-foot gap. Far overhead, the phoenix burns in Floyd | all its glory on a course from west to east, and beyond the phoenix, Floyd | you see a starry expanse of night sky. Far below, you see city Floyd | lanterns shining against the night. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Temple of Ferran, Infirmary Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Your eyes are closed, and, in this half-dreaming state, you can't Floyd | remember how to open them. Floyd | Floyd | Caerwyn's voice comes from your left. Her voice is low but clear. Floyd | "Hachachi. How is our patient?" Floyd | Floyd | There is a pause before Hachachi responds. His voice is very near, not Floyd | far from your right elbow, and his soft words are heavy and slurred. Floyd | "No change. Still 'sleep." Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Hachachi, you idiot. You'd better make us better, since this is ALL YOUR FAULT." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I suspect I will be unable to scream this at him, sadly." | |||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | I beg your pardon? Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sleep" | |||||
Floyd | You give up on this unimpressive world and allow yourself to drift back Floyd | into dreams. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Huh. That worked." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | |||||
| Lucea pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | This, in the darkness: Floyd | Floyd | You are dying. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Orange light hurls itself through darkness, and it takes the shape of a Floyd | bird. The light-wreathed bird burns your vision as sharply as the sun Floyd | would, but in this dream, you can gaze without looking away. A Floyd | feathered crest runs over the bird's skull, and its tail is as long and Floyd | ornate as a peacock's, painted in all the myriad colors of fire. The Floyd | phoenix's light parts the darkness.... Floyd | Floyd | Char Cliff Floyd | You stand upon a narrow ledge on the side of a blackened rock cliff. A Floyd | thin path traces over the rock to your left, but your ledge is cut off Floyd | from the path by a twenty-foot gap. Far overhead, the phoenix burns in Floyd | all its glory on a course from west to east, and beyond the phoenix, Floyd | you see a starry expanse of night sky. Far below, you see city Floyd | lanterns shining against the night. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x phoenix" | |||||
Floyd | Looking at the phoenix is as painful as staring directly at the sun, Floyd | and it leaves raw blue afterimages in your vision, yet you can still Floyd | see the night sky beyond it. Floyd | Floyd | With the flick of a wingtip, the phoenix turns overhead, raining tiny Floyd | vermilion flamelets as it shifts its course from east to south. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x night sky" | |||||
Floyd | Among the scattered silver stars, you recognize the constellation of Floyd | the Heron. However, the constellation has changed from the version Floyd | that normally shines in the night sky. A new star shimmers upon the Floyd | heron's breast. Floyd | Floyd | A woman descends into view upon the thin path. In the phoenix's light, Floyd | you see that she is a very old shaghal woman, pale with age and Floyd | trembling with exhaustion. Her milky white eyes are fixed upon the Floyd | phoenix's distant radiance. She does not look at you even for a moment Floyd | as she hurries along her pained, stumbling course. Upon the mountain Floyd | breeze, you catch her anguished whisper: "Wait for me. Wait for Floyd | me...." Floyd | Floyd | From north to south, she passes down the cliff and is gone. Floyd | | Taleslinger says, "Man, I read shagal and can't stop thinking about Austin Powers." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I kept wanting to pronounce it 'shangal' for some reasonl." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "er, -l" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "It's the Persian word for jackal." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, you're just fixated on shagging. It's part of being a college student." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Carolyn), "Ooh, nice touch, then." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "climb down" | |||||
Floyd | You must name something more substantial. Floyd | Floyd | In the near southern sky, the phoenix folds its wings and stoops. Floyd | Engulfed in orange fire, it burns out of the heavens like a meteor and Floyd | drops upon the city. When it strikes, the buildings explode into Floyd | flame. A broad halo expands around the city. The phoenix is gone; the Floyd | city is gone.... Floyd | Floyd | Everything is gone. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "follow her" | |||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Again, in the darkness: Floyd | Floyd | These dreams are killing you. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Phoenix's Landing, East Flame Street Floyd | By the light of its own burning edges, a nearby signpost advises that Floyd | this wide road bears the ill-omened name of East Flame Street. Wooden Floyd | buildings blaze to the north and south, and the air reeks of scorched Floyd | vegetables from a nearby farm stand. The air is filled with smoke and Floyd | the sounds of crying, babbling people as the city's inhabitants flee Floyd | toward the eastern gate. Floyd | Floyd | Char Cliff Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | | Taleslinger says, "I am not a student. Just a guy, I suppose," | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | In the near southern sky, the phoenix folds its wings and stoops. Floyd | Engulfed in orange fire, it burns out of the heavens like a meteor and Floyd | drops upon the city. When it strikes, the buildings explode into Floyd | flame. A broad halo expands around the city. The phoenix is gone; the Floyd | city is gone.... Floyd | Floyd | Everything is gone. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Again, in the darkness: Floyd | Floyd | These dreams are killing you. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Okay, sorry - was wanting to see if 'follow her' worked, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "press green" | CarolynV says, "'Follow' isn't an implemented command." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wake" | Jacqueline asks, "Is Floyd stuck?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Please gods no." | |||||
| CarolynV pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Phoenix's Landing, East Flame Street Floyd | By the light of its own burning edges, a nearby signpost advises that Floyd | this wide road bears the ill-omened name of East Flame Street. Wooden Floyd | buildings blaze to the north and south, and the air reeks of scorched Floyd | vegetables from a nearby farm stand. The air is filled with smoke and Floyd | the sounds of crying, babbling people as the city's inhabitants flee Floyd | toward the eastern gate. Floyd | | CarolynV says, "You said it to Floyd instead of doing it." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, I thought I did that!" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, so I did." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x people" | |||||
Floyd | You catch no more than glimpses of faces as the crowd surges by. Floyd | Human, chiroptera, and shaghal, every face is distorted with fear. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Again, the dream changes. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Quiet Graveyard Floyd | The afternoon sky is completely curtained with cloud, leaving only a Floyd | cool white glow visible above the northern mountains where the sun Floyd | should be. A small willow tree drops yellow leaflets along the top of Floyd | the low stone wall bordering the graveyard, whispering softly in the Floyd | breeze as it does. Several gravestones stand among the tousled green Floyd | grass, but no one has tended them for some time, and they are Floyd | overgrown. Floyd | Floyd | A light autumn breeze sways the willow tree and sends more leaves Floyd | scattering down across the wall. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "dig grave" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to dig. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Okay, now here we are. This is where I stopped, somewhere in this location." | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "This is *huge* for IntroComp." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to T), "Yeah, I felt that way, too." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "I haven't finished it, and honestly wondered if it was a complete game, but asked around and learned it wasn't." | |||||
| Taleslinger says, "Sadly, I have to run now. Have fun, everyone. Carolyn, I am looking forward to seeing the finished game." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Night. Have fun shagging." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Thank you for stopping by." | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to jacq), "Heh, I wish." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Night" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x graves" | |||||
Floyd | The featureless, water-smoothed markers stand silent sentinel above Floyd | forgotten graves. Grass covers their faces. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read grave" | |||||
Floyd | The featureless, water-smoothed markers stand silent sentinel above Floyd | forgotten graves. Grass covers their faces. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x willow" | |||||
Floyd | The changing season has painted almost all of the willow's leaves Floyd | yellow, and many golden leaflets have fallen from the willow's limbs to Floyd | adorn the wall and the grass below. (But it was spring when you Floyd | arrived with your father... wasn't it?) Something glints among the Floyd | willow's branches. Floyd | | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "move grass" | |||||
Floyd | You fail to move the grass. Floyd | Floyd | A light autumn breeze sways the willow tree and sends more leaves Floyd | scattering down across the wall. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x glint" | |||||
Floyd | (the glint) Floyd | The glinting thing turns out to be a small mirror. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take mirror" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||||
Floyd | There is no reflective surface nearby in which you can get a proper Floyd | look at yourself. However, despite your best efforts to remain tidy, Floyd | your fur is dusty from the road, and you are not completely comfortable Floyd | with your current appearance. You would definitely welcome the Floyd | opportunity to tidy up. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "UM" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | |||||
Floyd | The mirror reflects your surroundings, but it does not reflect you, and Floyd | your surroundings are strangely transformed. In the image, it is night Floyd | rather than afternoon, and moonlit snowflakes drift across the wall in Floyd | place of willow leaves. In the willow's shadow, a human man stands Floyd | leaning against the wall. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x man" | |||||
Floyd | Gazing into the mirror, you find that you can make out very little of Floyd | the man's features. This is partially because his face is averted from Floyd | the moonlight, and partially because of the willow tree's shadow, but Floyd | it is also partially because the moonlight does not seem to illumine Floyd | him well. He is an indistinct shadow among indistinct shadows. Floyd | | Lucea says, "be back in a few" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Wait! Don't go!" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, okay." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to man" | |||||
Floyd | You gaze into the mirror. Floyd | Floyd | [1] "Hello?" Floyd | Floyd | A light autumn breeze sways the willow tree and sends more leaves Floyd | scattering down across the wall. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | |||||
Floyd | At the sound, the shadowed man in the mirror lifts his chin sharply and Floyd | looks directly at you. Floyd | Floyd | Can you hear me, dream creature? Floyd | Floyd | [1] "Yes, I can hear you." Floyd | | Jacqueline asks, "Am I playing alone now?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Which is fine if I am, as I haven't played much beyond this bit, but I'm curious." | |||||
| Nitku says, "Sorry, I kinda phased out for a while." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "This is a good part, methinks, Nitku. Phase in." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | |||||
Floyd | The shadowed man in the mirror shifts his stance to brace both of his Floyd | hands against the wall behind him. Floyd | Floyd | Let us talk, then. Floyd | Floyd | [1] "Who are you?" Floyd | [2] "Where am I?" Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | |||||
Floyd | This is my grave -- or a dream of it, at least. To the north is the Floyd | mountain I travelled. To the west is the city I loved, though too far Floyd | to see from here. Floyd | Floyd | [1] "Who are you?" Floyd | | Nitku says, "I'm not sure what's happening anymore but I'll try to hop in." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We were on a long strange trip, and now we're in a grave yard of seemingly unmarked stones." | |||||
| Taleslinger has to return some videotapes. | Jacqueline says, "We just found a mirror, and reflected in the mirror is this place, but at a different time, and we can't see our reflection. Instead, there's a man, and we're just now talking to him." | ||||
| dhakajack says, "I'm jumping into the story midway (and on the java-based client to boot). I'll play along when I get a clue..." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "The text effect here is supposed to let you know that the person you're talking to was the same person who talked to you earlier. The weird commentary as you were wandering around the river, etc." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, right." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Jack), "It's worth it to download a client. I really like MUSHclient." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "When we play your game, you'll be happier to have a client." | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Or are you on a mac?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "I like Atlantis on macs." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | |||||
Floyd | There is a long pause. Floyd | Floyd | For my failure, they buried me, and they took away my name. Floyd | Floyd | [1] "They buried you? Who is 'they'?" Floyd | [2] "Who are your companions?" Floyd | [3] "You are a ghost, then...." Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | |||||
Floyd | The temple of Ferran. High Tashreg commanded that I be buried in an Floyd | unmarked grave, and he struck my name from all records. If any of my Floyd | companions endure, they may be able to speak my name to you, but I know Floyd | that many have been lost. Floyd | Floyd | [1] "Who are your companions?" Floyd | [2] "You said High Tashreg. You don't mean High Caerwyn?" Floyd | [3] "You are a ghost, then...." Floyd | | dhakajack says, "that's what I used last week. This week I'm stranded in Copenhagen with a locked down PC from work...not a lot of choice..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | |||||
Floyd | I don't even know who's alive and who's dead. Achimi is dead, but she Floyd | died before I did. So did Ichethe. Hichaesho, Arleza, Draskeg... Floyd | maybe one of them survives. Or Hazeltricema. The melia are Floyd | long-lived, they say.... Floyd | Floyd | [1] "You said High Tashreg. You don't mean High Caerwyn?" Floyd | [2] "You are a ghost, then...." Floyd | | Jacqueline asks (of C), "Should "Who are your companions?" have been visible before he mentioned the companions?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That's sort of a rhetorical question." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | |||||
Floyd | High Tashreg of the Stars. I know no Caerwyn... but she surely came Floyd | after my time. If Tashreg is dead, I have no grief for it. May he Floyd | wander and dream, as I was bound to wander. Floyd | Floyd | [1] "You are a ghost, then...." Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | CarolynV says, "Your rhetorical answer is correct -- that's a no." | ||||
Floyd | You are not a ghost, then. Floyd | Floyd | In the mirror, the shadowed man stands up a bit straighter. Floyd | Floyd | How did you come to be here? Floyd | Floyd | You explain how you were deceived and drugged, including, at the Floyd | ghost's request, a description of the drink. Floyd | Floyd | It is called dreamwine, and they strengthen it with heartkenning -- a Floyd | diviner's tool used in my day, though only carefully. It draws you to Floyd | your destiny... but if you have no greater destiny, no geas and no Floyd | star, then it will draw you to every man's destiny. Floyd | Floyd | [1] "Can you help me?" Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | |||||
Floyd | You are lost in dreams, and your dreams are poisoned by your fate. If Floyd | you have no destiny, then you will die. Floyd | Floyd | I died without completing my destiny. If you accept my destiny, then Floyd | you will live. I can help you, if you will accept my help. Floyd | Floyd | [1] "What is your destiny?" Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | |||||
Floyd | Ferran announces his champions to Adisha, and he charts their courses Floyd | in the sky for the astrologers, but he does not show the path so Floyd | clearly to those of us on the ground. This is how I knew your drug, Floyd | for I drank enough of the stuff while living, and drifted in enough of Floyd | the dreams, and shed enough of my blood to diviners, and ever the Floyd | Temple seers were there with cards and runes and mysteries to augment Floyd | the dreams and blood-works and seemings. They spoke of my geasa, and Floyd | they spoke of my paths, but never would they tell me where the road Floyd | would end. Floyd | Floyd | If, indeed, they knew. I have had long enough to think on it, and now Floyd | I doubt they did. Floyd | Floyd | [1] "And if I accept your destiny... what happens then?" Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "These [1]s feel like a thin disguise for avoiding another great big giant cut-scene." | ||||
| CarolynV says, "I was just thinking that." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||||
| Lucea says, "same" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "We need more conversation topics to make it feel like it's an actual conversation." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | |||||
Floyd | I will stay with you through the dreaming, and I will draw you into Floyd | wakefulness. But once you are awake, you will obey me and serve me Floyd | until the end of your days. It is an exchange: your life for my Floyd | destiny. Do you accept? Floyd | Floyd | [1] "I accept your offer." Floyd | [2] "I refuse your offer." Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "w00t! TWO OPTIONS!" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Whaddowe pick, Lucea?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "The whole 'slave for life' thing doesn't appeal to me, personally." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "By the time I hit this point, I was running for my beta deadline. If anyone has suggestions for other stuff they would like to have asked/said to the ghost, I'm all ears (though it might be better to hit me with an email considering how long this has run....)" | |||||
| Lucea says, "I'd pick 2, but I have the feeling it kills me" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's save." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "And go with 2." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | |||||
Floyd | The shadowed man in the mirror looks surprised. Floyd | Floyd | How can you reject my offer? This will mean your death. Floyd | Floyd | "Because, if I do not reject it, then it is also my death. What you Floyd | offer is no gift -- it is slavery. You would chain me to your will -- Floyd | but I am bound already to my creche-clan. If I make such a vow for my Floyd | life, I am no chirop at all, but a dead thing broken on the stones. So Floyd | find another way, or I will die here willingly." Floyd | Floyd | There is a long pause. The shadowed man rubs his chin for a moment. Floyd | Floyd | And your counterproposal? Floyd | Floyd | [1] Answer the ghost.... Floyd | | Jacqueline asks (of C), "Are we close to the end, then?" | ||||
| CarolynV says, "Very." | |||||
| Lucea asks, "can I counterpropose by killing the ghost?" | |||||
| Lucea says, "that would make me very happy" | |||||
| inky arrives, full of fun and funk. | Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| Lucea says, "also, I realize this is the second time I've requested to do this" | |||||
| CarolynV asks, "With a note that 'very' is longer in this game than anyone else's. At the rate we've been going... maybe 10 minutes?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | |||||
Floyd | "Save my life," you say. "Come with me. When you see the path of your Floyd | destiny, you may tell me, and I will listen -- but I will not be bound Floyd | to obey." Floyd | Floyd | And why should I make this compact? I can merely wait for the next Floyd | lost soul, who will be more sensible than you. Floyd | Floyd | [1] Answer the ghost.... Floyd | | Lucea says, "I'm not a sociopath, really" | ||||
| CarolynV says, "Maybe 15." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to C), "heh" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to L), "Riiiight." | |||||
| Jacqueline smiles. | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | |||||
Floyd | "You should make this compact because you have been buried so long that Floyd | you have forgotten your own name. When another comes along... if Floyd | another comes along... you may have been buried so long that you forget Floyd | how to speak." After a moment, you add, "Also, because I have a star." Floyd | Floyd | I accept. Floyd | Floyd | Break the mirror. Floyd | | Jacqueline asks, "Hm... okay then. I guess I break it?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "break mirror" | |||||
Floyd | You smash the mirror across the low wall. As the mirror breaks, it Floyd | sounds like a shattering icicle, and a cold blast of wind whips across Floyd | you, heavy with the scent of snow. As you draw your next breath, the Floyd | taste of winter comes with it, and a heavy, liquid coldness courses Floyd | into your chest and down your limbs. For a moment, you glimpse the Floyd | shadowed man leaning against the low wall by the willow tree, but then, Floyd | he is gone. Floyd | Floyd | The broken shards of mirror melt before your eyes, and they, too, are Floyd | gone. Floyd | | dhakajack asks, "if we had tried to break mirror earlier, would it have taken us to this point in the action?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That was very well written." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "No, you would've just died instead." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Quiet Graveyard Floyd | The afternoon sky is completely curtained with cloud, leaving only a Floyd | cool white glow visible above the northern mountains where the sun Floyd | should be. A small willow tree drops yellow leaflets along the top of Floyd | the low stone wall bordering the graveyard, whispering softly in the Floyd | breeze as it does. Several gravestones stand among the tousled green Floyd | grass, but no one has tended them for some time, and they are Floyd | overgrown. Floyd | Floyd | If you can still hear me, speak to me. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "speak to him" | |||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to him" | |||||
Floyd | You turn your thoughts inward. Floyd | Floyd | [1] I can hear you. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Implement 'speak' as a synonym for 'talk,' please, C." | ||||
| CarolynV hears and obeys. | |||||
| Jacqueline smiles. | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | |||||
Floyd | Good. Now, we need you to leave this dream. Walk south out of the Floyd | graveyard. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | The willow tree whispers a soft goodbye as you pass the graveyard's Floyd | boundary. Floyd | Floyd | An overgrown path leads down from the grassy graveyard, and you follow Floyd | it. As you walk, the afternoon shifts from warm to cool, and the pale Floyd | sun sets on your right. The sunset is shimmering and frail, but the Floyd | clouds part to reveal a skyful of brilliantly shining stars. Like a Floyd | ramp supported on nothingness, the path leads up from the earth and Floyd | into the sky, and you follow it into the night. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | CarolynV says, "It wants a space." | ||||
| Lucea pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eventually, the path fades away, and only the a star-filled blackness Floyd | surrounds you. You pause to reorient. Floyd | Floyd | Among the Stars Floyd | You drift at the center of a sphere of glowing silver stars. Although Floyd | you can recognize the constellations of the spring night sky, they are Floyd | arranged in no resemblance to their normal positioning. Between the Floyd | stars, there is only blackness. Floyd | | Jacqueline asks, "Skyfull? Or is it really skyful?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "Skyfrul" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Like handful: skyful." | |||||
| Lucea says, "er, skyful" | |||||
| Lucea says, "like handful" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "ah, sure." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x blackness" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x stars" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the Heron, the Bull, the Badger, the Cat, the Hound, Floyd | the Pelican, the Alligator, the Rat, or the Mantis? Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x pelican" | |||||
Floyd | Ten glowing silver stars form the Pelican constellation. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x mantis" | |||||
Floyd | Eight glowing silver stars form the Mantis constellation. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "I thought these descriptions could have been more imaginative and elucidating." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Perhaps revealing myths." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "I'll beat you to it: this was repetitive. ;)" | |||||
| inky says, "they do" | |||||
| inky says, "I mean, once the dude starts talking about it" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "oh, huh." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask man about mantis" | |||||
Floyd | [Use TALK TO to interact with characters.] Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to man" | |||||
Floyd | You turn your thoughts inward. Floyd | Floyd | [1] "How do I wake up from this?" Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | |||||
Floyd | Waking is very close. We need to find my star -- Floyd | Floyd | "Our star." Floyd | Floyd | Our star. I can sense it nearby. Try going toward the Mantis. Floyd | | Fang says, "This game doesn't seem to offer a lot of choice" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x mantis" | |||||
Floyd | Eight glowing silver stars form the Mantis constellation. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "walk to mantis" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "go toward mantis" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "go to mantis" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | CarolynV says, "Syntax, sorry. Try GO MANTIS." | ||||
| inky says, "oh yeah" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Um, hm." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "go mantis" | |||||
| inky says, "I remember it was fiddly" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go mantic" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go mantis" | |||||
Floyd | You approach the Mantis constellation. It flashes brilliantly, and you Floyd | are briefly disoriented by the light. Floyd | Floyd | A soft, slightly chittering voice intones, "Mantis: 'Sarvath said, Floyd | "There shall be justice among people. Ferran, be their judge, and move Floyd | their hearts so they know justice when they see it." And Ferran Floyd | obeyed.'" Floyd | Floyd | Again, you are drifting in the night sky. The constellations have Floyd | rearranged themselves around you, leaving you again at the center of Floyd | the celestial sphere. Floyd | Floyd | Among the Stars Floyd | You drift at the center of a sphere of glowing silver stars. Although Floyd | you can recognize the constellations of the spring night sky, they are Floyd | arranged in no resemblance to their normal positioning. Between the Floyd | stars, there is only blackness. Floyd | Floyd | The Alligator. Floyd | | inky says, "GO CRAZY" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "go alligator" | |||||
Floyd | You approach the Alligator constellation. It flashes brilliantly, and Floyd | you are briefly disoriented by the light. Floyd | Floyd | A harsh, gravelly voice intones, "Alligator: 'And Sarvath said, "Let Floyd | people be tenacious in pursuing virtue, for it will be a difficult task Floyd | many times. Ferran, teach them tenacity, that they may endure." And Floyd | Ferran obeyed.'" Floyd | Floyd | Again, you are drifting in the night sky. The constellations have Floyd | rearranged themselves around you, leaving you again at the center of Floyd | the celestial sphere. Floyd | Floyd | Among the Stars Floyd | You drift at the center of a sphere of glowing silver stars. Although Floyd | you can recognize the constellations of the spring night sky, they are Floyd | arranged in no resemblance to their normal positioning. Between the Floyd | stars, there is only blackness. Floyd | Floyd | I sense our star past the Rat now. Floyd | | inky says, "this is definitely trickier with the guy's statements not marked specially" | ||||
| CarolynV says, "Pretend the last sentence each time is in slanty spooky dark red ghost text...." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go rat" | |||||
Floyd | You approach the Rat constellation. It flashes brilliantly, and you Floyd | are briefly disoriented by the light. Floyd | Floyd | A small, sharp voice calls, "Rat: 'And Sarvath said, "Let people be Floyd | resourceful, that they can turn the world to their advantage without Floyd | relying on the gods. Ferran, teach them resourcefulness, that they may Floyd | prosper." And Ferran obeyed.'" Floyd | Floyd | Again, you are drifting in the night sky. The constellations have Floyd | rearranged themselves around you, leaving you again at the center of Floyd | the celestial sphere. Floyd | Floyd | Among the Stars Floyd | You drift at the center of a sphere of glowing silver stars. Although Floyd | you can recognize the constellations of the spring night sky, they are Floyd | arranged in no resemblance to their normal positioning. Between the Floyd | stars, there is only blackness. Floyd | Floyd | Go toward the Hound. Floyd | | (from Jacqueline) Jacqueline says, "Go, go gadget rat!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go hound" | |||||
Floyd | You approach the Hound constellation. It flashes brilliantly, and you Floyd | are briefly disoriented by the light. Floyd | Floyd | A rich, powerful voice intones, "Hound: 'And Sarvath said, "Let people Floyd | be loyal, even as you are, so that they will not turn against one Floyd | another. Ferran, teach them loyalty, for there is no truer mark of Floyd | virtue." And Ferran obeyed.'" Floyd | Floyd | Again, you are drifting in the night sky. The constellations have Floyd | rearranged themselves around you, leaving you again at the center of Floyd | the celestial sphere. Floyd | Floyd | Among the Stars Floyd | You drift at the center of a sphere of glowing silver stars. Although Floyd | you can recognize the constellations of the spring night sky, they are Floyd | arranged in no resemblance to their normal positioning. Between the Floyd | stars, there is only blackness. Floyd | Floyd | I sense our star past the Heron now. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Yeah, this is way too linear." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Even if it *is* linear, I want to feel like I sort of had choices." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go heron" | |||||
Floyd | You approach the Heron constellation. It flashes brilliantly, and you Floyd | are briefly disoriented by the light. Floyd | Floyd | A cracked, croaking voice intones, "Heron: 'And Sarvath said, "Let Floyd | people be insightful, so that they can understand themselves and their Floyd | flaws. Ferran, teach them insight, for this will mark the way for Floyd | them." And Ferran obeyed.'" Floyd | Floyd | Again, you are drifting in the night sky. The constellations have Floyd | rearranged themselves around you, leaving you again at the center of Floyd | the celestial sphere. Floyd | Floyd | Among the Stars Floyd | You drift at the center of a sphere of glowing silver stars. Although Floyd | you can recognize the constellations of the spring night sky, they are Floyd | arranged in no resemblance to their normal positioning. Between the Floyd | stars, there is only blackness. Floyd | Floyd | The Badger. Floyd | | CarolynV says, "Biggest flaw of my entry by far. While I know that the linearity *stops* past here, if I can't get anyone through the intro, it doesn't matter." | ||||
| Jacqueline nods. | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Like the recent post by Emily Short, IntroComp would be best if it was about good hooks." | |||||
| Nitku says, "walkthrough: badger, badger, badger, badger, mushroom, mushroom" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go badger" | |||||
Floyd | You approach the Badger constellation. It flashes brilliantly, and you Floyd | are briefly disoriented by the light. Floyd | Floyd | A low, quick voice snarls, "Badger: 'And Sarvath said, "Let people be Floyd | responsible, so that they can see how their actions affect one another. Floyd | Ferran, teach them responsibility, that they will not drive one another Floyd | from virtue." And Ferran obeyed.'" Floyd | Floyd | Again, you are drifting in the night sky. The constellations have Floyd | rearranged themselves around you, leaving you again at the center of Floyd | the celestial sphere. Floyd | Floyd | Among the Stars Floyd | You drift at the center of a sphere of glowing silver stars. Although Floyd | you can recognize the constellations of the spring night sky, they are Floyd | arranged in no resemblance to their normal positioning. Between the Floyd | stars, there is only blackness. Floyd | Floyd | I sense our star past the Pelican now. Floyd | | Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "yay" | ||||
| CarolynV says, "Which is a great idea... and completely not what I was thinking when I wrote mine. I went for 'write the introduction to the greatest game ever' and took it on a scope inspired by Planescape: Torment." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go pelican" | |||||
Floyd | You approach the Pelican constellation. It flashes brilliantly, and Floyd | you are briefly disoriented by the light. Floyd | Floyd | A clear, strong voice calls, "Pelican: 'And when Sarvath went into the Floyd | desert, Ferran gazed after him, and he said, 'This, I perceive, is Floyd | virtue: the King has laid down his blood, that the world would Floyd | prosper.' And Ferran taught that self-sacrifice was virtue as well." Floyd | Floyd | Again, you are drifting in the night sky. The constellations have Floyd | rearranged themselves around you, leaving you again at the center of Floyd | the celestial sphere. Floyd | Floyd | Among the Stars Floyd | You drift at the center of a sphere of glowing silver stars. Although Floyd | you can recognize the constellations of the spring night sky, they are Floyd | arranged in no resemblance to their normal positioning. Between the Floyd | stars, there is only blackness. Floyd | Floyd | The Bull. Floyd | | dhakajack says, "perhaps a sequence-oriented puzzle would work here" | ||||
| Lucea says, "Or at least varied flavor text" | |||||
| Jacqueline types, "F Go Bull," then she updates her journal. | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go bull" | |||||
Floyd | You approach the Bull constellation. It flashes brilliantly, and you Floyd | are briefly disoriented by the light. Floyd | Floyd | A deep, melodic voice intones, "Bull: 'And there came a day when Ferran Floyd | went into the desert, and Sarvath asked him, "How fares Adisha? She Floyd | has not come to me." And in the face of the question, Ferran was Floyd | silent and could not answer, for he had gone at Adisha's command to Floyd | companion her, and he feared that his King was betrayed. Floyd | Floyd | 'Then, Sarvath said to him, "You have been loyal to my Queen and obeyed Floyd | her commands, and I could ask no more in this regard. But your silence Floyd | is against virtue. Bind your word to your deed, that you will be Floyd | honest in the future, and teach people honesty as well." And Ferran Floyd | obeyed.'" Floyd | Floyd | Again, you are drifting in the night sky. The constellations have Floyd | rearranged themselves around you, leaving you again at the center of Floyd | the celestial sphere. Floyd | Floyd | Among the Stars Floyd | You drift at the center of a sphere of glowing silver stars. Although Floyd | you can recognize the constellations of the spring night sky, they are Floyd | arranged in no resemblance to their normal positioning. Between the Floyd | stars, there is only blackness. Floyd | Floyd | The Cat is next. Floyd | | Lucea says, "the "Again, you are drifting..." in particular might have a few permutations" | ||||
| CarolynV says, "I can do that." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go cat" | |||||
Floyd | You approach the Cat constellation. It flashes brilliantly, and you Floyd | are briefly disoriented by the light. Floyd | Floyd | A soft, purring voice intones, "Cat: 'Then Ferran looked back at Floyd | Sarvath, and Ferran said, "You have chosen my path through the maze, Floyd | but what of your people? When the paths of virtue conflict, your Floyd | people will be destroyed if they cannot choose or reject these paths at Floyd | will. Therefore, let dignity be the crowning virtue of a man, that he Floyd | may choose or reject according to it." And Sarvath consented.'" Floyd | Floyd | Again, you are drifting in the night sky. The constellations have Floyd | rearranged themselves around you, leaving you again at the center of Floyd | the celestial sphere. Floyd | Floyd | Among the Stars Floyd | You drift among a field of glowing silver stars. Between the stars, Floyd | there is only blackness. Floyd | Floyd | You can see your star here. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go my star!" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go my star" | |||||
Floyd | You reach out with the intention of entering your star, but as soon as Floyd | you touch the star, tingling energy flows up your arm. Startled, you Floyd | break contact immediately. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "I didn't realize it would try to parse punctuation. huh." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x star" | |||||
Floyd | (your star) Floyd | The star shines brilliantly before you, close enough to touch. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "touch star" | |||||
Floyd | (your star) Floyd | You reach out with the intention of touching your star, but as soon as Floyd | you touch the star, tingling energy flows up your arm. Startled, you Floyd | break contact immediately. Floyd | | CarolynV says, "d'oh." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I shouldn't be startled the second time." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "As I'm expecting it now." | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "What else can we try, folks?" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "g" | |||||
Floyd | (your star) Floyd | You reach out with the intention of touching your star, but as soon as Floyd | you touch the star, tingling energy flows up your arm. Startled, you Floyd | break contact immediately. Floyd | | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get star" | |||||
Floyd | (your star) Floyd | You cup your hands gently around the star. "I claim you," you say to Floyd | the star. Floyd | Floyd | Tingles of energy flow through your hands and up your arms as you make Floyd | contact. The star dims for a moment before bursting into searing Floyd | brilliance. Your entire body is flooded with light. Floyd | | CarolynV says, "(Press Space to continue.)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "huh." | |||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You awaken, and this time, you know you are awake. You feel rested, Floyd | refreshed, and as well as you have ever felt, aside from the too-hot Floyd | bedclothes. You push the blankets away immediately and sit up. Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Ferran, Infirmary Floyd | Wool and linen blankets cover the simple linen bed where you are Floyd | sitting. A set of shelves on the far wall supports a water jug, Floyd | several packets of herbs and bandages, and a miniature pottery Floyd | alligator. There is a door to your left and a chair to your right. Floyd | Floyd | Hachachi rises immediately from the chair as you move. High Caerwyn Floyd | stands in the doorway, watching you, but she steps immediately inside Floyd | and closes the door. Floyd | Floyd | "Can you hear me?" High Caerwyn asks. Floyd | Floyd | [1] "Yes, I can hear you." Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm very glad of it. There was a terrible accident. We've been very Floyd | worried about you." Floyd | Floyd | [1] Call her out on the lie. Floyd | [2] Let the lie pass. Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | |||||
Floyd | "No," you say flatly. "There was no accident. I was there, remember?" Floyd | Hachachi takes a step back as you look at him, and you follow up on Floyd | your advantage by climbing out of bed. "You poisoned me on dreamwine Floyd | with heartkenning. You wanted to learn my destiny." Floyd | Floyd | [1] "How long have I been here?" Floyd | [2] "Where is my trade Floyd | [3] "I want my clothes. And then I am going to leave." Floyd | [4] "I know my destiny, now." Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Oh, sorry. I should have asked for input, but I'm MAD AT THEM." | ||||
| CarolynV asks, "Weird... option 2 should have been [2]Where is my tradefather?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, huh." | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Anybody dying for a certain response, or should I just continue?" | |||||
| Jacqueline takes silence as agreement for her to continue... | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | |||||
Floyd | High Caerwyn says, "You've been ill for a long time. He left you in Floyd | our care." Floyd | Floyd | Liar. Floyd | Floyd | "And where is he now?" you demand. Floyd | Floyd | High Caerwyn says, "If you remain calm, I will send a messenger to see Floyd | if he can be found." Floyd | Floyd | [1] "How long have I been here?" Floyd | [2] "I want my clothes. And then I am going to leave." Floyd | [3] "I know my destiny, now." Floyd | | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | |||||
Floyd | "And what is your destiny?" High Caerwyn asks. Floyd | Floyd | "It is my destiny," you coldly inform her. "I am walking out that Floyd | door, with my clothing... and, by the stars you serve, I expect you Floyd | both to stay out of my way!" Floyd | Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "You tell her, Sister." | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | And that is exactly what happens -- you storm into the hallway, with Floyd | High Caerwyn and Hachachi on your heels. Before you can corner an Floyd | acolyte and demand your possessions, Caerwyn sends Hachachi to find Floyd | them, and then you bar them both out of another greeting chamber (the Floyd | Rat, this time) while you get dressed and verify that all your Floyd | possessions are still intact. After sliding your zircon earrings back Floyd | into place, you open the door once more. Floyd | The delay has given the high priestess time to regroup, but you ignore Floyd | her entirely, and she stops just short of laying hands upon you or Floyd | commanding Hachachi to do so. You take advantage of the hesitation Floyd | before the changes her mind. It is only a short walk to the temple Floyd | courtyard, and from there, you are free. Floyd | Floyd | That was a wild risk to take. They might have helped you, in the long Floyd | term -- or imprisoned you in the short term. Floyd | Floyd | "If you really thought so, you would have spoken up before now," you Floyd | whisper back to the ghost. "They worship the stars. If my path is in Floyd | the stars, they have no choice about it." Floyd | Floyd | Are you always this touchy with the clergy? Floyd | Floyd | "Only when they poison me." But the tide of fury slowly ebbs as you Floyd | face your situation. You are now in the largest city you have ever Floyd | seen, with no friends, no map, only the vaguest possible idea of where Floyd | your father might be, and a nameless ghost riding along in your mind. Floyd | Floyd | You go south because the bridges off the Spires are south. There's Floyd | nothing here but temples and government, and you're sick of temples for Floyd | the time being. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | Jacqueline asks, "Woohoo - we stormed out naked?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Or just in bed clothes, probably. Darn." | |||||
| CarolynV exclaims, "Bedclothes!" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Aw." | |||||
| Lucea says, "heh" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "See, naked would have been *really* gutsy." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "I did that, once." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Granted, I was four years old." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Less interesting than you think. After all, you were a chirop. You have to play the melia or human for there to be much to see." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "hahaha" | |||||
| inky says, "hee hee" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "You're at the end, by the way. It just wants you to press space again." | |||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | (Press Space to continue.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Thank you for playing Phoenix's Landing! Floyd | Floyd | This is the end of the IntroComp sequence for this game. To provide Floyd | feedback, commentary, and suggestions (all of which are welcome!), Floyd | please write to Carolyn VanEseltine at mossdogmusic@gmail.com. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Have a wonderful day! Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | Jacqueline asks, "So, um, do you have any hope whatsoever of finishing this? Or do you plan to just quit your job, stop having a life, and sequestering yourself for the next year?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Not to be a pessimist, of course." | |||||
| Jacqueline smiles. | |||||
| CarolynV smiles. | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "I would go back and replay the other ending from our save, but Jack is here and we should probably play his game." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "As it is already late where he is." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "I confess it's essentially the same ending." | |||||
| inky asks, "wait, there's another ending?" | |||||
| inky says, "what is the decision point" | |||||
| inky asks, "?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, there's another choice we could make with the ghost." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "The PC rebels against slavery either way, with or without the player's consent." | |||||
| Limax asks, "Which one are we on?" | |||||
| inky says, "hunh" | |||||
| Limax arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Jacqueline says, "About whether or not to help him in exchange for eternal servitude." | ||||
| inky says, "I thought I tried to refuse the ghost and it wouldn't let me" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Limax), "Just about to start the second game." | |||||
| dhakajack exclaims, "don't worry about me. I'm good for the duration... my next flight is in 8 hours!" | |||||
| Limax says (to Jacqueline), "Okay" | |||||
| Lucea says, "interesting" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "I really enjoyed this, Carolyn, but yes - less linearity and fewer giant text dumps would go a loooooong way." | |||||
| Limax says, "I'll get the transcript on the first one from Perry later" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "As far as finishing it goes... I used to work for a pay-for-play multiplayer text game." | |||||
| Lucea says, "Overall, it's an interesting idea, but it's just... information overload. especially for introcomp" | |||||
| inky asks, "oh yeah? which one?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "And if I'm not totally slammed with testing for TextFyre (like I am right now) when it comes time for more testing, I would love to help." | |||||
| inky asks, "Achaea?" | |||||
| Alex says (to inky), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that achaea is www.achaea.com." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "I'm familiar with the speed/amount of work I'd be looking at." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "...and the bigger problems are infrastructure." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "I admit it's probably more than I can swallow in a year, though." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, and you'll want to revamp some aspects of the intro or people will have less patience to get through it to the rest of the game." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "And I appreciate the testing offer." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Agreed." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Looking for to it, m'dear." | |||||
| Limax asks, "How many prizes have you given away, Jacq?" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So... Jack's intro now?" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Limax), "Um, I'm sorry, did you say something?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Limax), "No? Oh, okay." | |||||
| Limax says, "Never mind" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, none so far." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | CarolynV says, "Having played through this intro already, I'll depart... but this was a learning experience. Thanks very much for doing it and for the invite." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "You're welcome, C. Thanks for joining us!" | |||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load ninetenths" | |||||
Floyd | (One last time... Press Space!)Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, Floyd | library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [pausing to show unread error message] | |||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Nine-Tenths of the Law Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | by Floyd | Jack Welch Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | An introduction submitted to the 2008 IntroComp Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press [Space] to begin | Lucea asks, "is he around?" | ||||
| Limax says, "Oh. This one." | |||||
| dhakajack says, "midway between round and linear" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Jack), "Worry not, as that [pausing to show unread error message] is a Floyd thing with certain games. Happens a lot at the start." | |||||
| Lucea says, "becaues I have a lot of commands that should work but don't" | |||||
| Lucea says, "heh" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "and slightly delayed b/c of the java-client" | |||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Nine-tenths of the Law Floyd | Copyright (c) 2008 Jack Welch Floyd | Release 112 / Serial number 080818 / Inform v6.31 Library 6/11 Floyd | Type HELP for info on licencing and credits, or if you get stuck. Floyd | Floyd | The Hilltop Floyd | A craggy, windswept patch of dirt atop the smallest in a vast range of Floyd | mountains. A barely visible path leads down the mountain. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a cheap wooden door, a shambling zombie and a shy little Floyd | bunny rabbit here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "I didn't get past the beginning with this one." | ||||
| CarolynV says, "Ooh, actually... I made it through to the end of this intro, but I have a feeling I failed to solve a lot of things. I will sit back quietly and watch." | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "infest zombie" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x rabbit" | |||||
Floyd | You bend your stalk and wave your eye buds towards the shy little bunny Floyd | rabbit. You sense: A cute, fuzzy white rabbit. Floyd | Floyd | The little rabbit ambles downwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "smell" | |||||
Floyd | You open a ring of pores on your upper stalk, revealing mucous-lined Floyd | olfactory cavities in your trunk. You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "hunh, you did?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x zombie" | |||||
Floyd | You bend your stalk and wave your eye buds towards the shambling Floyd | zombie. You sense: A dispossessed decaying corpse with vacant, Floyd | unblinking eyes and slobbering lips, which is chained to the top of the Floyd | hill by some sort of shiny black chain; any fool could tell that the Floyd | shambling zombie is undead. In terms of fashion, the shambling zombie Floyd | is wearing some decaying farm garments. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I didn't think anyone had" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "taste zombie" | |||||
Floyd | You open a ring of pores on your upper stalk, revealing mucous-lined Floyd | olfactory cavities in your trunk. The shambling zombie tastes of stale Floyd | camphor. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "enter zombie" | |||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | CarolynV says, "All right, everyone needs a Lucea. I didn't catch that smell message the first time, and that's very nifty." | ||||
| Lucea says, "All five senses have them" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "possess zombie" | |||||
Floyd | You possess the shambling zombie. Floyd | Floyd | As you slide into the mind of your new host, you brush against neural Floyd | resonances of the shambling zombie's former life. The decohering images Floyd | are not clear and they are already fading: Haughty figures in purple Floyd | robes...tied to the table...must get back to the farm...a greater Floyd | purpose...to serve whom?...no escape...drinking the liquid...tastes Floyd | awful...no problems now... must obey...obey the priests...climb the Floyd | hill and wait...wait.... Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "I know I didn't get anywhere" | ||||
| Lucea says, "granted, I only tried them because I was guessing verbs" | |||||
| Limax says, "It wasn't until inky kicked me in the butt after the voting deadline" | |||||
| Lucea says, "and then gave up and resorted to machine-gun smell X/touch X/listen X/smell Y" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "if you try enough non-wait moves, it give increasingly direct hints" | |||||
| Lucea says, "I knew what I was trying to do" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "my beta testers had me set that threshold high, though, as they are a lot that likes frustration" | |||||
| Lucea says, "so when I started getting the hints my thoughts were "I know that already. I've tried about 15 ways to do it."" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "The title gave me the clue -- I didn't have a syntax problem." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||||
Floyd | You are a possessed decaying corpse with vacant, unblinking eyes and Floyd | dripping jaw. At the moment, you are chained to the top of the hill by Floyd | some sort of shiny black chain; one might hazard a guess that you are Floyd | undead. In terms of fashion, you are wearing some decaying farm Floyd | garments. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "shoot me a list of synonyms later that you think would be reasonable...." | ||||
| CarolynV says, "Without it, I would've had a hard time, though." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x chain" | |||||
Floyd | The chain runs from some shackles to the ground where it melds into the Floyd | very stone of the mountain itself. Although apparently made of black, Floyd | volcanic glass, the chain seems supernaturally strong and not brittle Floyd | in the least. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "enter, for one" | ||||
| Limax says, "My wife is calling me to lunch, so I'll be away for a bit" | |||||
| Lucea says, "the main issue was that at first I had figured I was a parasite" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Jack), "Worry not about taking notes, really. I'll keep a transcript. Unless you seen me or Perry suddenly go offline, there'll be a transcript posted later." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "(Since you're waiting for a flight.)" | |||||
| dhakajack does not appeared worried. | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Hilltop Floyd | A craggy, windswept patch of dirt atop the smallest in a vast range of Floyd | mountains. A barely visible path leads down the mountain. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a fleshy white polyp and a cheap wooden door here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x mountains" | |||||
Floyd | White-capped mountains fade into the distance in all directions. Floyd | Beautiful, if bleak. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||||
Floyd | It seems jammed shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit door" | |||||
Floyd | Your attack caused some damage. The cheap wooden door looks lightly Floyd | damaged. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x chain" | |||||
Floyd | The chain runs from some shackles to the ground where it melds into the Floyd | very stone of the mountain itself. Although apparently made of black, Floyd | volcanic glass, the chain seems supernaturally strong and not brittle Floyd | in the least. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit door" | |||||
Floyd | Your attack weakened it. The cheap wooden door looks moderately Floyd | damaged. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "polyp" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit door" | |||||
Floyd | Your attack was brilliant! The cheap wooden door looks severely Floyd | damaged. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "possess door" | |||||
Floyd | The attempt fails; you cannot sense the neuropsychic matrix of the Floyd | cheap wooden door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit door" | |||||
Floyd | Wham! You obliterate it! ...perhaps you can go north now. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x polyp" | |||||
Floyd | An anemone-like polyp, with a thick central stalk topped with waving Floyd | fronds. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x door" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "eat polpy" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "eat polyp" | |||||
Floyd | You stretch your ample zombie jaws around the succulent polyp and Floyd | experience the odd sensation of chewing through yourself. It is not Floyd | pleasant. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | The Hilltop Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha oops" | ||||
| CarolynV snickers. | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x chain" | |||||
Floyd | The chain runs from some shackles to the ground where it melds into the Floyd | very stone of the mountain itself. Although apparently made of black, Floyd | volcanic glass, the chain seems supernaturally strong and not brittle Floyd | in the least. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "attack it" | |||||
Floyd | The chain is far stronger than you are and is not affected. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hahaha eat polyp" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "eat chain" | |||||
Floyd | Not even you can manage to eat these magical bonds! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get polyp" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | As you rip the rubbery glistening stalk from its roots, ever Floyd | diminishing jets of green ichor spray the craggy hilltop. Your Floyd | consciousness fades... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | CarolynV says, "I killed the evil polyp a few times myself." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | The Hilltop Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "That works too." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That was great." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "kiss polyp" | |||||
Floyd | Keep your mind on the game. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "attack polyp" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | You attack the fleshy white polyp! Floyd | Unthinkable! Your beautiful vegetative body has died! How eternally Floyd | embarrassing -- killed by a mere zombie! Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | |||||
| K-Y has successfully become more charming than a sandwich. | Jacqueline says (to inky), "Quit masturbating." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | The Hilltop Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "I sense some hostility towards the polyp" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hit door" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yes." | ||||
| Lucea says, "nah, I just like death messages" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Hilltop Floyd | A craggy, windswept patch of dirt atop the smallest in a vast range of Floyd | mountains. A barely visible path leads down the mountain. An opening Floyd | leads north into the mountain itself. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a fleshy white polyp here. Floyd | Floyd | > | CarolynV says, "I wanted to pick me up and take me with me." | ||||
| Fang asks, "Where was the door again?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "That seems only reasonable." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Wasn't hostility at all, it was practicality, so there. ;)" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes." | |||||
| Lucea says, "By contrast, I had no problems with this next puzzle at all" | |||||
| Lucea says, "probably since it didn't involve a weird verb" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "I admit that I didn't get far in this one, either." | |||||
| inky says, "I hit the door" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x opening" | Lucea says, "not the door, the chain" | ||||
Floyd | A square opening to the north leads into the mountain. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "and I guess destroyed it without leaving a trace behind" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | You can't! You are chained to the top of the hill by a set of obsidian Floyd | shackles. Floyd | The shackles are beginning to rub your right wrist raw. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x right wrist" | |||||
Floyd | You see your right wrist, just as you would expect. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hit chain" | |||||
Floyd | The chain is far stronger than you are and is not affected. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "eat arm" | |||||
Floyd | Choices, choices. Could you rephrase and indicate whether you mean your Floyd | "left arm" or "right arm"? Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "that's odd. It should take a few hits and give a message about destroying the door" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "haha" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "eat right arm" | |||||
Floyd | You savagely bite off your right arm. Floyd | The chained zombie arm flops to the ground, wriggles a bit and then Floyd | rests there, inert. Floyd | Floyd | > | CarolynV says, "We already destroyed the door." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "possess arm" | |||||
Floyd | (the shackle-bound zombie arm) Floyd | The attempt fails; you cannot sense the neuropsychic matrix of the Floyd | shackle-bound zombie arm. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take arm" | |||||
Floyd | (the shackle-bound zombie arm) Floyd | You strain at the chain, but cannot pull it free from the rock. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | some decaying farm garments (being worn) Floyd | a lacquer box Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open box" | |||||
Floyd | You open the lacquer box, revealing a parchment note. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read note" | |||||
Floyd | A carefully folded square of parchment paper, covered with small, Floyd | precise writing in black ink. It says: Floyd | Floyd | My Dear Zombie, Floyd | Floyd | We, the Priests of Perigee, humble and loyal followers of Order, have Floyd | the unfortunate duty to inform you that the Ivory Key of Obsidian Floyd | Annihilation was lost in the year 37E121A105. In subsequent Floyd | Pereginations, we have observed that this has not constituted an Floyd | insurmountable inconvenience, and we trust this will again be the case. Floyd | Floyd | We remain devoted and ever-committed to achieving Alignment. Floyd | Floyd | Signed, Floyd | Laemmli, Emphyteote of Helle. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get arm" | |||||
Floyd | (the shackle-bound zombie arm) Floyd | You strain at the chain, but cannot pull it free from the rock. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sloping Path Floyd | At the top, the winding path is little more than a depression in the Floyd | gravel and mud, but lower down the mountain, it becomes more defined, Floyd | and perhaps even sees occasional use. Near the bottom of the path a Floyd | dirt road is visible. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a shy little bunny rabbit here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "KILL BUNNY" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | You attack the shy little bunny rabbit! The shy little bunny rabbit Floyd | has stopped moving. Some would call it "dead", but of course, you know Floyd | better. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Sloping Path Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says, ":floyd eat bunny" | Jacqueline says, "Sorry." | ||||
| CarolynV duck | Jacqueline says, "I just thought KILL BUNNY was funny." | ||||
| Limax asks, "How about eat bunny's brane?" | |||||
| Lucea exclaims, "bunnicula!" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "eat bunny's brains" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "eat bunny" | |||||
Floyd | The shy little bunny rabbit disappears down your hideous zombie craw. Floyd | An ominous gurgling sound erupts from deep within your body. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | |||||
| Fang arrives, full of fun and funk. | Jacqueline says, "snrk" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Sloping Path Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | CarolynV says, "Oo." | ||||
| Lucea says, "is a vampire, not a zombie, but still" | |||||
| Fang asks, "what did I miss?" | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "smell bunny" | |||||
Floyd | The shy little bunny rabbit smells of freshly cut grass. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I am not sure I know what we're supposed to do." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | It doesn't appear that you can go in that direction, but you could go Floyd | upwards to the The Hilltop, or downwards to the Dirt Road. Floyd | Floyd | The little rabbit ambles downwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "can someone pastebomb after the letter?" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dirt Road Floyd | A wheel-rutted single lane runs east and west. You are at the bottom of Floyd | a path that leads upwards to the peak of a small mountain, while the Floyd | road is bordered by dense woods. There is a small signpost here. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a shy little bunny rabbit here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "I just raided the guy's garden" | ||||
| Lucea says, "and his house" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "After the letter, or the letter?" | |||||
| Fang says, "after the letter" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x sign" | |||||
Floyd | A tilted sign splattered with mud and road grime. A hand-painted arrow Floyd | points east and is crudely labeled "To". Floyd | Floyd | The little rabbit flees upwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Well, there's a lot after the letter, what do you want to know, specifically?" | ||||
| inky asks, "wait, why didn't you go through the doorway?" | |||||
| Fang says, "well, what did we do in the short while when I was was disconnected" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dirt Road Floyd | A wheel-rutted single lane runs east and west. You are at the bottom of Floyd | a path that leads upwards to the peak of a small mountain, while the Floyd | road is bordered by dense woods. There is a small signpost here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "because I went the other way first" | ||||
| Lucea says, "and there was stuff to do" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "read signpost" | |||||
Floyd | A tilted sign splattered with mud and road grime. A hand-painted arrow Floyd | points east and is crudely labeled "To". Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "that's ca-razy" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, hold on a sec, Fang, and I can send you the transcript thus far, but I don't think we've done much." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "I feel like giving the player more direction was one of this game's opportunities. (To be fair, my game needed to give the player much much much less....)" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "My wandering around was fruitful, though. Or herbful. Or something." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Think again. That way won't work, but you might consider heading Floyd | towards the east to the Road Into Town, towards the west to the Floyd | Desolate Road, or upwards to the Sloping Path. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "the transcript solution is very bare bones -- it doesn't do 95% of the game-- it is just the most efficient (of multiple) way to win" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Desolate Road Floyd | To the west, you can make out a cabin at the edge of the woods. The Floyd | woods come right to the edge of the road, except on the north side Floyd | where there is a small strip of meadow. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Meadow Floyd | An unmaintained field with short grass near the road, and taller grass Floyd | towards the surrounding woods. At the edge of the woods, there is a Floyd | depression, and at its base, a hole. There are some rabbit tracks in Floyd | the soft mud near the road to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in hole" | |||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | A fine idea, except for the lack of an obvious way to go in that Floyd | direction, but you could go towards the south to the Desolate Road, or Floyd | downwards to the Rabbit Hole Entrance. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | You are too large to fit through the Rabbit Hole Entrance. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Desolate Road Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "verbose" | |||||
Floyd | Nine-tenths of the Law is now in its "verbose" mode, which always gives Floyd | long descriptions of locations (even if you've been there before). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | A small, windowless cabin to the west is framed by a lush lawn. To the Floyd | south of the cabin, there is a small, well-tended garden. A dirt lane Floyd | leads towards the east, where it joins up with the road into town. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "Is there anyone who doesn't prefer verbose? Just curious" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | A tidy little garden of the sort that is useful for growing medicinal Floyd | herbs. You can see the cabin just to the north, and there is a Floyd | vegetable garden to the east. On a more sombre note, there is a small Floyd | cemetery to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | You can see two herbs (an herb with blue flowers and an herb with Floyd | violet flowers) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| You do not have a default channel set. | CarolynV says, "I prefer verbose. I forget things easily." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get herbs" | |||||
| You do not have a default channel set. | |||||
Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| You do not have a default channel set. | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get blue herb" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get violet herb" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (Current channel set to #if/clubfloyd) | Jacqueline sends a transcript to Fang to get him all caught up. | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "possess herbs" | |||||
Floyd | The attempt fails; you cannot sense the neuropsychic matrix of the Floyd | herb. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Think again. That way won't work, but you might consider heading Floyd | towards the north to the Front Yard, towards the east to the Vegetable Floyd | Garden, or towards the southeast to the Graveyard. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Graveyard Floyd | A quiet, lonely corner of the property behind the cabin. In the centre Floyd | of the graveyard is the solitary mound of grave. The pleasant garden to Floyd | the northwest provides a comforting contrast. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an herb with yellow flowers here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | It doesn't appear that you can go in that direction, but you could go Floyd | towards the northwest to the Garden. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get yellow herb" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | A tidy little garden of the sort that is useful for growing medicinal Floyd | herbs. You can see the cabin just to the north, and there is a Floyd | vegetable garden to the east. On a more sombre note, there is a small Floyd | cemetery to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Vegetable Garden Floyd | A small plot of land is furrowed and meticulously free of weeds. A Floyd | large, weather-beaten stuffed wolf is mounted on a short pole. You are Floyd | just east of the herb garden. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a nice tomato, a carrot and a stuffed wolf here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says, "I missed this part" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x wolf" | |||||
Floyd | What a pathetic looking...what? Dog? Wolf? Hard to tell. The fur is Floyd | completely worn away in places, and the wire frame pokes through. The Floyd | whole thing is mounted on a short pole, in an awkward posture which Floyd | suggests that the animal is running. Its teeth have been amateurishly Floyd | painted red, although the paint is fading and chipped in places, and Floyd | some of the teeth have even fallen out of their sockets. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "x tomato" | |||||
Floyd | A paragon amongst tomatokind, this lustrous red beauty is at the very Floyd | point of turning ripe; it is firm and free of any blemish. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "possess wolf" | |||||
Floyd | The attempt fails; you cannot sense the neuropsychic matrix of the Floyd | stuffed wolf. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "there's a lot of part here" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Can we possess the tomato?" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "possess tomato" | |||||
Floyd | The attempt fails; you cannot sense the neuropsychic matrix of the nice Floyd | tomato. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get all" | |||||
Floyd | nice tomato: Taken. Floyd | carrot: An herb with orange flowers germinates! Floyd | Taken. Floyd | stuffed wolf: The stuffed wolf doesn't budge. It's no use -- it is Floyd | definitely fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I will be so sad if - DAMN" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get herb" | |||||
Floyd | (the herb with orange flowers) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "I'll have to go, I'm not feeling sharp enough to participate. Thanks for the play so far." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vegetable Garden Floyd | A small plot of land is furrowed and meticulously free of weeds. A Floyd | large, weather-beaten stuffed wolf is mounted on a short pole. You are Floyd | just east of the herb garden. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a stuffed wolf here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I actually know someone who starred in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I get so few oportunities to name drop." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search wolf" | |||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x teeth" | |||||
Floyd | The better to EAT you with. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "He actually works for the Park Service." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We all give him a good-natured hard time about it." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get teeth" | |||||
Floyd | The stuffed wolf doesn't budge. It's no use -- it is definitely fixed Floyd | in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | CarolynV says, "You can still name drop even if we don't get to be a killer tomato. A friend of mine considers it her favorite movie." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Huh- really?" | |||||
| Nitku was translated with Google. Sorry. | Limax says (to Jacqueline), "That's one of the greatest movies ever" | ||||
| CarolynV says, "Really. Now, mind you, I think her tastes are a bit funny, but I can tell her that I know a killer tomato actor by proxy proxy proxy." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Huh. Okay. Then I know Costa Dillon. La la la." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Yay." | |||||
| Jacqueline basks in the glory. | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "x pole" | |||||
Floyd | A sturdy metal pole. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "get pole" | |||||
Floyd | Please leave polling to politicians. You can't take the pole. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "That sounds made up" | ||||
| CarolynV says, "OK, that was awful." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb pole" | |||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lick pole" | |||||
Floyd | You give the stuffed wolf a nice wet lick! Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "?!?" | ||||
| Fang says, "...." | |||||
| Limax asks, "Is the pole in the wolf?" | |||||
| inky says, "yeah" | |||||
| inky says, "it's a scarewolf" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Limax), "What sounds made up? His name? That is seriously his name. Also, hahahagroan polling joke." | |||||
| Limax says, "Ouch" | |||||
| Lucea says, "the sound you hear is all the furryphobes closing their interpreters" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "haha" | |||||
| Limax says, "Ha ha ha" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "I wonder if Horvath got this far." | |||||
| Limax says, "I doubt it" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "I mean, I adore Mr. Horvath, don't get me wrong." | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vegetable Garden Floyd | A small plot of land is furrowed and meticulously free of weeds. A Floyd | large, weather-beaten stuffed wolf is mounted on a short pole. You are Floyd | just east of the herb garden. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a stuffed wolf here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | A tidy little garden of the sort that is useful for growing medicinal Floyd | herbs. You can see the cabin just to the north, and there is a Floyd | vegetable garden to the east. On a more sombre note, there is a small Floyd | cemetery to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "se" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Graveyard Floyd | A quiet, lonely corner of the property behind the cabin. In the centre Floyd | of the graveyard is the solitary mound of grave. The pleasant garden to Floyd | the northwest provides a comforting contrast. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "So, um, what are we trying to do?" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "nw" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | A tidy little garden of the sort that is useful for growing medicinal Floyd | herbs. You can see the cabin just to the north, and there is a Floyd | vegetable garden to the east. On a more sombre note, there is a small Floyd | cemetery to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | A small, windowless cabin to the west is framed by a lush lawn. To the Floyd | south of the cabin, there is a small, well-tended garden. A dirt lane Floyd | leads towards the east, where it joins up with the road into town. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Room Floyd | A monastically simple room, with a single chair, a low table, and a Floyd | small fireplace. Strangely, this house has been built with no windows. Floyd | The kitchen is to the north, and the front yard is to the east. There Floyd | is a closed warped door which leads to a room to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table (on which is a grey potion) and a black chair (on Floyd | which is an old man) here. Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "other than harrass stuffed wolves" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Fang), "I am not exactly sure." | |||||
| Lucea says, "Now we're in the guy's house" | |||||
| inky says, "DavidW found out something good here" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get potion" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||||
Floyd | The door's rusty hinges squeak loudly. Floyd | Yawning and blinking, the old man and searches numbly in his long robe. Floyd | After a minute, he finds what he is looking for and withdraws a pair of Floyd | precision-crafted spectacles and lifts them to his face. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "Don't wake him up." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Front Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "have we gone down the hole as a bunny?" | ||||
| inky says, "I guess we need some oil" | |||||
| inky says, "no" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "If I'm remembering correctly, there was a cool text effect here too that we lose with Floyd." | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | A long, narrow room with a butcher's table. Below the table, there is Floyd | some sort of large, cube-shaped device marked "recycling unit". There Floyd | is a cabinet on the wall, with its doors closed. The only way out is Floyd | back south to the front room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a butcher table here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "we haven't managed to turn into a bunny" | ||||
| Lucea says, "here is a fiddly contraption" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | |||||
Floyd | The cabinet doors open, revealing a strange machine which is bolted to Floyd | the wall and occupies the entire interior of the cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x machine" | |||||
Floyd | Within the kitchen cabinet, there is an odd-looking contraption with a Floyd | metal funnel on the top, a crank with a wooden handle on the side, and Floyd | recess marked "bottle" at the base, below a hollow tube. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read potion" | |||||
Floyd | A potion, grey in colour, contained in a glass bottle. The bottle has a Floyd | small label. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "inv" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a grey potion Floyd | an herb with grey flowers Floyd | a carrot Floyd | a nice tomato Floyd | three herbs: Floyd | an herb with grey flowers Floyd | an herb with grey flowers Floyd | an herb with grey flowers Floyd | some decaying farm garments (being worn) Floyd | a lacquer box which contains a parchment note Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read label" | |||||
Floyd | "potion of minutise." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Very Alice." | ||||
| inky says, "if it were Alice it would say DRINK ME" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Trues." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x minutise" | |||||
Floyd | A potion, grey in colour, contained in a glass bottle. The bottle has a Floyd | small label. Floyd | Floyd | > | Limax says, "Looks like we're off again" | ||||
| Limax walks slowly out of the room and into the sunset. | Jacqueline asks, "Off?" | ||||
| Alex says (to Jacqueline), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that Off is a brand of mosquito repellant." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, you." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Um, I am not to be left alone with a puzzle game." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Not without adult supervision." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | A long, narrow room with a butcher's table. Below the table, there is Floyd | some sort of large, cube-shaped device marked "recycling unit". A Floyd | cabinet built into the wall is open, showing a large machine inside. Floyd | The only way out is back south to the front room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a butcher table here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok, lessee" | ||||
| inky says, "I'm not sure we need to mess with the machine yet" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Room Floyd | A monastically simple room, with a single chair, a low table, and a Floyd | small fireplace. Strangely, this house has been built with no windows. Floyd | The kitchen is to the north, and the front yard is to the east. There Floyd | is a closed warped door which leads to a room to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table and a black chair (on which is an old man) here. Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inky), "Thank gods you're here." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't, since the warped door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "open door" | |||||
Floyd | The door's rusty hinges squeak loudly. Floyd | Yawning and blinking, the old man and searches numbly in his long robe. Floyd | After a minute, he finds what he is looking for and withdraws a pair of Floyd | precision-crafted spectacles and lifts them to his face. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | An uncomfortable, stifling bedroom with no windows. The room is barely Floyd | large enough to accommodate the vaguely bed-like lump of furniture in Floyd | the middle of the room. A tall, classic mirror framed in dark wood is Floyd | wedged between the bed and the wall. A pretty silk ribbon is tastefully Floyd | draped across the mirror, about half-way up. The mirror reflects the Floyd | scene in the room. The only exit, an open warped door, lies to the Floyd | east, and leads back to the front room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a bed (on which is a pillow) here. Floyd | Floyd | From the adjoining room you hear a steady stream of irate ranting. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "he doesn't kill you, he just zaps you to the hilltop" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "close door" | |||||
Floyd | The door's rusty hinges squeak loudly. Floyd | Floyd | From the adjoining room you hear a steady stream of irate ranting. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x door" | |||||
Floyd | A cheap piece of planking set on rusty hinges. It is closed. Floyd | Floyd | From the adjoining room you hear a steady stream of irate ranting. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x bed" | |||||
Floyd | A raised, stone platform vaguely reminiscent of a neolithic bed. By no Floyd | means inviting. Floyd | Floyd | From the adjoining room you hear a steady stream of irate ranting. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pillow" | |||||
Floyd | A grey, paper-thin bit of fabric that may have been a pillow in its Floyd | former life. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "That's a touch repetitive." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look under pillow" | |||||
Floyd | The pitiful pillow wafts aside, revealing a small bottle. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x bottle" | |||||
Floyd | (the grey potion) Floyd | A potion, grey in colour, contained in a glass bottle. The bottle has a Floyd | small label. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get bottle" | |||||
Floyd | (the grey potion) Floyd | You already have the grey potion. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get small bottle" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | An uncomfortable, stifling bedroom with no windows. The room is barely Floyd | large enough to accommodate the vaguely bed-like lump of furniture in Floyd | the middle of the room. A tall, classic mirror framed in dark wood is Floyd | wedged between the bed and the wall. A pretty silk ribbon is tastefully Floyd | draped across the mirror, about half-way up. The mirror reflects the Floyd | scene in the room. The only exit, a closed warped door, lies to the Floyd | east, and leads back to the front room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a bed (on which are a grey potion and a pillow) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get grey" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the ribbon, a grey potion, an herb with grey Floyd | flowers, the carrot, the nice tomato or the lacquer box? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "potion" | |||||
Floyd | (the grey potion) Floyd | You already have the grey potion. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh no." | ||||
| inky says, "oops" | |||||
| inky says, "well, I'm not sure it matters a huge amount" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "If we move off a room and drop the one we have, we can come back and get this one...." | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a grey potion Floyd | an herb with grey flowers Floyd | a carrot Floyd | a nice tomato Floyd | three herbs: Floyd | an herb with grey flowers Floyd | an herb with grey flowers Floyd | an herb with grey flowers Floyd | some decaying farm garments (being worn) Floyd | a lacquer box which contains a parchment note Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Go to another room and drop our potion to pick up this other potion?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "you're going to have to do that soon anyway" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing." | |||||
| Lucea says, "Also, check out the colors." | |||||
| inky asks, "oh yeah, what's up with that? because it's dark?" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "the monochromatic zombo-vision creates all kinds of disambiguity problems for the parser -- I'm stil working around this." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tomato" | |||||
Floyd | A paragon amongst tomatokind, this lustrous grey beauty is at the very Floyd | point of turning ripe; it is firm and free of any blemish. Floyd | Floyd | > | CarolynV says, "Because it's dark. It's kind of a nifty touch. Witness the tomat." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get on bed" | |||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lie on bed" | |||||
Floyd | Yes, well that would require bending, and since becoming undead, you Floyd | have noticed a major loss of flexibility. You are stuck in a standing Floyd | position. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sleep" | |||||
Floyd | You aren't feeling especially drowsy. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "climb bed" | |||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "Can we possess the old man?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "no" | |||||
| inky says, "right now we can only possess the zombie" | |||||
| Lucea says, "I mean, you can try, but he raises holy hell" | |||||
| Lucea says, "not literally" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Ooh - let's try." | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | It doesn't appear that you can go in that direction, but you might Floyd | consider heading towards the east to the warped door. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "he *is* a priest" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't, since the warped door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "so why not literally" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "open door then e" | |||||
Floyd | The door's rusty hinges squeak loudly. Floyd | The figure on the chair wakes and searches numbly in his long robe. Floyd | After a minute, he finds what he is looking for and withdraws a pair of Floyd | precision-crafted spectacles and lifts them to his face. Floyd | Floyd | From the adjoining room you hear a steady stream of irate ranting. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Room Floyd | A monastically simple room, with a single chair, a low table, and a Floyd | small fireplace. Strangely, this house has been built with no windows. Floyd | The kitchen is to the north, and the front yard is to the east. There Floyd | is an open warped door which leads to a room to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table and a black chair (on which is an old man) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "possess man" | |||||
Floyd | You encounter an overwhelmingly powerful psychic barrier. The attempt Floyd | fails entirely! Floyd | Floyd | Road Into Town Floyd | An unpaved road runs from east to west. A small town can be seen in the Floyd | far distance to the east, on the far side of a stone bridge. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an angry mob here. Floyd | You recall the old man saying, "This may sting slightly..." The old man Floyd | then merely leaned back, crossed his legs and nonchalantly doused you Floyd | with some sort of fluid from a canister that he must have had hidden in Floyd | the cushions. After some time, your panic has ebbed and you have Floyd | returned to your senses. You realise that you are no longer in the Floyd | house, but must have run off. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Road Into Town Floyd | An unpaved road runs from east to west. A small town can be seen in the Floyd | far distance to the east, on the far side of a stone bridge. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an angry mob here. Floyd | Floyd | > | CarolynV says, "Holy water is close enough to holy hell." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh dear." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dirt Road Floyd | A wheel-rutted single lane runs east and west. You are at the bottom of Floyd | a path that leads upwards to the peak of a small mountain, while the Floyd | road is bordered by dense woods. There is a small signpost here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "it's a slow mob" | ||||
| inky asks, "ok, so now what?" | |||||
| inky asks, "miniaturize potion and down the rabbit hole?" | |||||
| inky asks, "or up through the door?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | |||||
| Lucea says, "I got stuck past the door. I mean, not stuck, but couldn't figure out what to do" | |||||
| Lucea says, "I didn't see the rabbit hole" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Desolate Road Floyd | To the west, you can make out a cabin at the edge of the woods. The Floyd | woods come right to the edge of the road, except on the north side Floyd | where there is a small strip of meadow. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Meadow Floyd | An unmaintained field with short grass near the road, and taller grass Floyd | towards the surrounding woods. At the edge of the woods, there is a Floyd | depression, and at its base, a hole. There are some rabbit tracks in Floyd | the soft mud near the road to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Let's take the red pill." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a violet potion Floyd | an herb with orange flowers Floyd | a carrot Floyd | a nice tomato Floyd | three herbs: Floyd | an herb with yellow flowers Floyd | an herb with violet flowers Floyd | an herb with blue flowers Floyd | some decaying farm garments (being worn) Floyd | a lacquer box which contains a parchment note Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read label" | |||||
Floyd | "potion of minutise." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drink potion" | |||||
Floyd | The violet potion disappears with a PUFF! Floyd | Floyd | Everything around you has gotten bigger! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Sorry. Obligatory joke," | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter hole" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Rabbi Floyd | t Hol Floyd | e Ent Floyd | rance Floyd | Floyd | A nar Floyd | row, Floyd | dark, Floyd | rabbi Floyd | t-siz Floyd | e tun Floyd | nel l Floyd | eadin Floyd | g bot Floyd | h tow Floyd | ards Floyd | the s Floyd | urfac Floyd | e and Floyd | even Floyd | deepe Floyd | r thr Floyd | ough Floyd | the d Floyd | ark, Floyd | moist Floyd | earth Floyd | . | inky says, "oh yeah, this is going to be crazy on floyd" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Neato." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "I didn't get this far." | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | Lucea says, "I can't decide whether this is cool or really annoying" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "at this point, it's using a customized keystroke parser..." | |||||
| Lucea pushes the green 'space' button. | CarolynV says, "I was wondering how this would look on floyd...." | ||||
| |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "down" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | >l dd | Jacqueline asks, "Oh. Hm. Ideas, Jack?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | inky says, "hoo boy" | ||||
| Lucea asks, "uh, did we break floyd?" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "/undo" | dhakajack asks, "try sending a carriage return?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "..floyd" | |||||
| Lucea says, "..floyd" | Jacqueline says, "ack." | ||||
| inky says, (to Floyd), "" | Jacqueline asks (of inky), "How do we do that?" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "or press space" | |||||
| inky says, (to Floyd) "" | Jacqueline says, "Oh." | ||||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | Lucea says, "uh, damn" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Are we doomed, then." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "?'" | |||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | d/ | dhakajack says, "normally you'd keep typing "d"for down" | ||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | dhakajack says, "but if it goes more than a page length, the interpreter should prompt to hit space for more" | ||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | ddd | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "d" | |||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | dd d | |||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | Fang says, "so, um" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Aw, darn." | |||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | | |||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | Jacqueline says, "It's just too fancy schmancy for Mr. Floydbot." | ||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | CarolynV says, "I guess it's like trying to run shrapnel." | ||||
| dhakajack says, "not sure...." | |||||
| Fang says, "well, floyd is coughing out something from time to time" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyde), "u" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "u" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | ud | dhakajack says, "if we can't unjam, I'd say run it again." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "h" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "e" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "p" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | helpd | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | Lucea says, "hrm" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hmm" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "d" | Jacqueline says, "Well, this is very sad and anticlimactic." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "f" | |||||
Floyd | dhddf | dhakajack says, "try engaging the help system ...." | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "help" | Jacqueline asks, "Wait, you think we could get around this, Jack?" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "Doesn't look good." | |||||
| dhakajack says, "all but the last move of the game can be completed without going this way, though." | |||||
| dhakajack -( | |||||
Floyd | h/ddd | |||||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | Lucea says, "I think we killed Floyd." | ||||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | d | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "u" | inky says, "oh well" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Wait, what's Floyd doing?" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "u" | Jacqueline says, "Did we try /undo? I guess it's a touch late for that, though." | ||||
| dhakajack says, "try a metacommand..." | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "quit" | dhakajack says, "those lie outside the normal turn loop" | ||||
| Lucea says, "I think this is a Floyd-end problem" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sigh." | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, what do you folks want to do?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/quit" | dhakajack says, "I iz sorry for kill ur robotz" | ||||
| Lucea asks, "can someone reboot him?" | |||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | Jacqueline says (to Jack), "Heehee. Aw." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "inky Can." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "er, I did. Woo!" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "you could try everything else in the game...but for now, avoid the rabbit hole" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, no red pill." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "That rabbit hole text was still neat, though." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load ninetenths" | |||||
Floyd | uuq/Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, Floyd | library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [pausing to show unread error message] | |||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Nine-Tenths of the Law Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | by Floyd | Jack Welch Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | An introduction submitted to the 2008 IntroComp Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press [Space] to begin | Jacqueline asks, "Okay, so, who can drive to get us back to where we were?" | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Nine-tenths of the Law Floyd | Copyright (c) 2008 Jack Welch Floyd | Release 112 / Serial number 080818 / Inform v6.31 Library 6/11 Floyd | Type HELP for info on licencing and credits, or if you get stuck. Floyd | Floyd | The Hilltop Floyd | A craggy, windswept patch of dirt atop the smallest in a vast range of Floyd | mountains. A barely visible path leads down the mountain. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a cheap wooden door, a shambling zombie and a shy little Floyd | bunny rabbit here. Floyd | Floyd | > | CarolynV asks, "Can we try possessing the bunny this time?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "possess bunny" | |||||
Floyd | You can't! The shy little bunny rabbit has not been suitably prepared! Floyd | Not yet, at least. Floyd | Floyd | > | CarolynV says, "Oh. Thanks." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get on zombie" | |||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "possess zombie" | |||||
Floyd | You possess the shambling zombie. Floyd | Floyd | As you slide into the mind of your new host, you brush against neural Floyd | resonances of the shambling zombie's former life. The decohering images Floyd | are not clear and they are already fading: Haughty figures in purple Floyd | robes...tied to the table...must get back to the farm...a greater Floyd | purpose...to serve whom?...no escape...drinking the liquid...tastes Floyd | awful...no problems now... must obey...obey the priests...climb the Floyd | hill and wait...wait.... Floyd | Floyd | The little rabbit bounds downwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "kill bunny" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Damn bunny." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Eep - need to step away for just a very tiny moment." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "There's some fascinating language in this -- decohering, pereginations, emphyteote." | |||||
| CarolynV asks, "Who's going to drive in Jacqueline's absence?" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "bite right arm" | |||||
Floyd | All this talk about your right arm is making you chomp at the bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I am back." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "bite right wrist" | |||||
Floyd | All this talk about your right wrist is making you chomp at the bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "But I'm not sure I'm a good driver." | ||||
| dhakajack says, "feel free...I know how it comes out ;-)" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x wrist" | |||||
Floyd | You see your wrist, just as you would expect. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "bite it" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see "it" (your areccg) at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "eat wrist" | |||||
Floyd | Choices, choices. Could you rephrase and indicate whether you mean your Floyd | "left arm" or "right arm"? Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "eep" | ||||
| CarolynV asks, "arecccg?" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "right arm" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "eat right arm" | |||||
Floyd | You cruelly bite off your right arm. Floyd | The chained zombie arm flops to the ground, wriggles a bit and then Floyd | rests there, inert. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||||
Floyd | It seems jammed shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit door" | |||||
Floyd | Your attack was reasonably successful. The cheap wooden door looks Floyd | moderately damaged. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit door" | |||||
Floyd | Your attack weakened it. The cheap wooden door looks moderately Floyd | damaged. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit door" | |||||
Floyd | Your attack superb! The cheap wooden door looks severely damaged. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit door" | |||||
Floyd | Your attack devastating! The cheap wooden door looks on the brink of Floyd | obliteration. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit door" | |||||
Floyd | Wham! You obliterate it! ...perhaps you can go north now. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hall Of Welcome Floyd | An austere room with plain, white marble walls and a polished floor of Floyd | checkered black and white tile. Through the remnants of the ancient Floyd | entranceway, only the barest sliver of pale daylight penetrates the Floyd | room (not that it matters...for you, at least). There is a closed Floyd | marble door at the north end of the room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a wooden bowl (in which is a fruit) and a sculpture here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x bowl" | |||||
Floyd | A thick, wooden fruit bowl. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "x fruit" | |||||
Floyd | A succulent grey fruit covered with minute, almost invisible bristles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get bowl" | |||||
Floyd | If everyone walked off with the bowl, there wouldn't be much to welcome Floyd | other guests. It wouldn't be a very welcoming hall, now would it? Floyd | They're not taking any chances, though, the bowl is glued to the table. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sculpture" | |||||
Floyd | A sculpture of an old woman in a flowing cape. The sculpture is covered Floyd | in dust and has aged and faded to a dark grey patina. It is difficult Floyd | to make out any detail. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get frui" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get fruit" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "clean sculpture" | |||||
Floyd | Ew....shiny. And a bit scary! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x it" | |||||
Floyd | A gleaming, polished grey sculpture of an exceptionally evil-appearing, Floyd | wizened old woman, with penetrating, bulbous, hungry eyes, and Floyd | claw-like, gnarled hands. The sculpture radiates a restrained hatred Floyd | and sense of injustice that yearns to revenge itself. It's hard to stop Floyd | looking at it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hall Of Welcome Floyd | An austere room with plain, white marble walls and a polished floor of Floyd | checkered black and white tile. Through the remnants of the ancient Floyd | entranceway, only the barest sliver of pale daylight penetrates the Floyd | room (not that it matters...for you, at least). There is a closed Floyd | marble door at the north end of the room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a wooden bowl (which is empty) and a sculpture here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||||
Floyd | You open the marble door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hall Of Wanting Floyd | Stairs lead downwards into this room from both the north and south Floyd | ends; an open marble door leads out of the room to the south, and a Floyd | closed speckled door leads northward. The room is panelled in dark Floyd | wood, and has an arched wooden ceiling and grey, stone floor. Near the Floyd | middle of of the room, there is a sink inset into the east wall. It Floyd | looks like there is some sort of hole in the middle of the floor near Floyd | the north end. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "x sink" | |||||
Floyd | A large marble sink is inset partway into the wall. A single white Floyd | porcelain knob projects from the wall above the sink. Below the knob, a Floyd | silvery wolf head points towards the sink beneath it. The wolf's mouth Floyd | is open. At the bottom of the sink, there is a small drain hole. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "close mouth" | |||||
Floyd | That's not something you can close. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "x wolf" | |||||
Floyd | A gleaming silver wolf's head projects from the wall above the sink. Floyd | Its mouth is open and appears to be the end of a hollow tube. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in drain" | |||||
Floyd | The drain is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in hole" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the drain or the floor hole? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "floor hole" | |||||
Floyd | The floor hole is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hall Of Wanting Floyd | Stairs lead downwards into this room from both the north and south Floyd | ends; an open marble door leads out of the room to the south, and a Floyd | closed speckled door leads northward. The room is panelled in dark Floyd | wood, and has an arched wooden ceiling and grey, stone floor. Near the Floyd | middle of of the room, there is a sink inset into the east wall. It Floyd | looks like there is some sort of hole in the middle of the floor near Floyd | the north end. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x floor hole" | |||||
Floyd | The floor of the room slopes down almost imperceptibly towards the Floyd | centre of the room. Here, you find a small, oddly shaped hole. At the Floyd | bottom of the long, narrow shaft, you can discern a key. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "(lame)" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get key" | |||||
Floyd | You can see the key, but can't reach it; the hole in the middle of the Floyd | floor is just too narrow and deep. How frustrating. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x key" | |||||
Floyd | A complicated-looking key made of light-coloured wood Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn on sink" | |||||
Floyd | How? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn knob" | |||||
Floyd | A stream of water now flows from the wolf's mouth into the sink. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "wait" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "put fruit in drain" | |||||
Floyd | You jam the fruit into the drain and it fits perfectly, making a tight Floyd | seal. The water can't drain because the drain is plugged by the fruit, Floyd | and the water overflows the marble sink. Buoyed up by the draining Floyd | water, a wooden key has floated out of the floor hole and now rests on Floyd | the room's floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get key" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unlock door" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the speckled door or the marble door? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "speckled" | |||||
Floyd | What do you want to unlock the speckled door with? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "key" | |||||
Floyd | The door opens with a click. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open speckled" | |||||
Floyd | The door opens with a click. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "unlock speckled" | |||||
Floyd | What do you want to unlock the speckled door with? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get fruit" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn off water" | |||||
Floyd | That's not something you can switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Portrait Gallery Floyd | A long hall lined with a collection of portraits of men and women in Floyd | priestly robes. Some of the faces seem vaguely familiar to you. There Floyd | must be hexanies of them here. One picture frame stands out in Floyd | particular, an empty frame at the north end of the hall. There is an Floyd | open speckled door at the south end of the hall. To the north, there is Floyd | an open archway which leads to an icy cavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x portraits" | |||||
Floyd | These are formal portraits, painted by a master. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "'hexanies' is cute" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x empty frame" | |||||
Floyd | The last frame towards the north end of the hall is not actually empty, Floyd | but filled with a swirling, flat grey mist. You think you can almost Floyd | glimpse a face, but then it is gone. There is a small nameplate under Floyd | only this blank frame. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x nameplate" | |||||
Floyd | "NIBEX" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "NIBEX" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "x mist" | |||||
Floyd | A disturbing, depthless void. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x nibex" | |||||
Floyd | In your mind's eye, you can almost focus on the face... but then it Floyd | slips away. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "enter mist" | |||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "touch painting" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "ack" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "touch frame" | |||||
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "get frame" | |||||
Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inky), "Very Waterhouse." | ||||
| CarolynV asks, "ack?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "I think 'ack there's no response for painting'" | |||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "get portrait" | |||||
Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "touch portrait" | |||||
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lick it" | |||||
Floyd | You give the portraits a nice wet lick! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "eat portraits" | |||||
Floyd | Get real. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "priceless art, licked to death!" | ||||
| CarolynV says, "awww." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "smell mist" | |||||
Floyd | The mist seems to be part of the painting. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take mist" | |||||
Floyd | The mist seems to be part of the painting. Floyd | Floyd | > | CarolynV asks, "north?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The temperature drops as you enter this long, echoing chamber. The Floyd | ceiling and floor seem to be coated with a clear, slippery, hard Floyd | substance. The walls, on the whole, look rubbery. As you contemplate Floyd | that, you realise that you have slid to the centre of the room... Floyd | Floyd | Hall Of Cold Logic Floyd | The white ceiling and floor of the room are entirely unremarkable Floyd | except for their unusual slickness. You can see exits near the centre Floyd | of the north and south walls. You are dead-centre in the middle of the Floyd | room. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "x ice" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Sure." | ||||
| Lucea says, "time for me to go, for a while at least, to commute to dinner" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Have fun, and thanks for joining us, Lucea." | |||||
| dhakajack says, "g'night-- thanks for playing" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Good night." | |||||
| Lucea says, "I'll be back soon" | |||||
| Lucea says, "in maybe 10-15 minutes" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Ooh - see you then." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | |||||
Floyd | The ceiling is far over head and, like the floor, seems frozen solid. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm. Seems like >X ICE should work, yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a fruit Floyd | a wooden key Floyd | some decaying farm garments (being worn) Floyd | a lacquer box Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "sing" | |||||
Floyd | Your singing is abominable. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open box" | |||||
Floyd | You open the lacquer box, revealing a parchment note. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read note" | |||||
Floyd | A carefully folded square of parchment paper, covered with small, Floyd | precise writing in black ink. It says: Floyd | Floyd | My Dear Zombie, Floyd | Floyd | We, the Priests of Perigee, humble and loyal followers of Order, have Floyd | the unfortunate duty to inform you that the Ivory Key of Obsidian Floyd | Annihilation was lost in the year 37E121A105. In subsequent Floyd | Pereginations, we have observed that this has not constituted an Floyd | insurmountable inconvenience, and we trust this will again be the case. Floyd | Floyd | We remain devoted and ever-committed to achieving Alignment. Floyd | Floyd | Signed, Floyd | Laemmli, Emphyteote of Helle. Floyd | Floyd | > | CarolynV says, "The room description makes me want to make it echo." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Hence the singing?" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Hence the singing." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "breathe on flood" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, so much for trying to melt it with our HOT ZOMBIE BREATH." | ||||
| dhakajack asks, "can you imagine how annoying that would be if implemented in the keyboard parser?" | |||||
| CarolynV asks, "Singing, or hot zombie breath?" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Which?" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "ggoo nnoorrtthh" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "the echoing." | |||||
| CarolynV exclaims, "Not okay!" | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "jump" | |||||
Floyd | After a catastrophic fall, you flounder helplessly for a moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, I think that would be more like, >GO NORTH ORTH ORTH TH" | ||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "north orth orth th" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "north" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't get any traction! You haven't moved at all! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "haha" | ||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "push north" | |||||
Floyd | You are unable to. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hall Of Cold Logic Floyd | The white ceiling and floor of the room are entirely unremarkable Floyd | except for their unusual slickness. You can see exits near the centre Floyd | of the north and south walls. You are dead-centre in the middle of the Floyd | room. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "slide north" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "slide north" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "pull north" | |||||
Floyd | You are unable to. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Timing. Great minds!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "possess ice" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "jump" | |||||
Floyd | After a catastrophic fall, you flounder helplessly for a moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | CarolynV says, "I broke us." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "crawl north" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | CarolynV says, "swim" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Carolyn), "I'm afraid I'm not a very good person to be with when your PC is stuck in the middle of a room of ice." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hall Of Cold Logic Floyd | The white ceiling and floor of the room are entirely unremarkable Floyd | except for their unusual slickness. You can see exits near the centre Floyd | of the north and south walls. You are dead-centre in the middle of the Floyd | room. Floyd | Floyd | > | CarolynV says, "Neither am I." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x north exit" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "south" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't get any traction! You haven't moved at all! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x n" | |||||
Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Wait... idea...." | Jacqueline says, "meh" | ||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "unpossess zombie" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "possess northing" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "possess nothing" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "stop possessing" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I am tempted to ask Mr. Welch for a hint." | ||||
| CarolynV says, "I second the motion." | |||||
| inky says, "hunh, I didn't think this puzzle was hard at all" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Unless --" | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "hint" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Help, Hints, and Info Floyd | N = next subject P = previous Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = resume game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > What is this? Floyd | Instructions Floyd | Help. I'm stuck! Floyd | The Making Of Floyd | Bugs Floyd | Acknowledgements Floyd | Administrivia Floyd | Floyd | | Jacqueline says (to inky), "stfu, you" | ||||
| inky asks, "if you were stuck in a zero-g area and wanted to move around, what would you do?" | |||||
| dhakajack asks, "are you asking for my reaction to your actions?" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "I would push on things and pull on things." | |||||
| Jacqueline sticks her tongue out at inky, who she normally likes, but not right now. | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "float north" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Help, Hints, and Info Floyd | N = next subject P = previous Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = resume game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > What is this? Floyd | Instructions Floyd | Help. I'm stuck! Floyd | The Making Of Floyd | Bugs Floyd | Acknowledgements Floyd | Administrivia Floyd | Floyd | | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "q" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hall Of Cold Logic Floyd | The white ceiling and floor of the room are entirely unremarkable Floyd | except for their unusual slickness. You can see exits near the centre Floyd | of the north and south walls. You are dead-centre in the middle of the Floyd | room. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says (to dhakajack), "ha ha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, wait, we're in the middle of help menus. I'm sorry." | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "float north" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | CarolynV says, "My bad, I turned on the help menus because I was wondering if there was a built-in hint system." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push north" | |||||
Floyd | You are unable to. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "lick floor" | |||||
Floyd | Your tongue adheres briefly to the floor and then snaps painfully back Floyd | into your mouth. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ouch" | ||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "eat floor" | |||||
Floyd | Get real. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says (to Carolyn), "yeah, it just has general hints" | ||||
| CarolynV says, "Oh, okay." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a fruit Floyd | a wooden key Floyd | some decaying farm garments (being worn) Floyd | a lacquer box which contains a parchment note Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "psht, you guys would never make it as a rocket ship" | ||||
| CarolynV says, "Oh." | |||||
| inky says, "there is a hinting device but it's at the other side of this room" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "dig corner of box into icy floor, then push north" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "throw fruit south" | |||||
Floyd | You throw the fruit towards the south; and you catch it in mid-air, Floyd | after it bounces off the southern wall. You are ever so gently Floyd | propelled towards the north. You are less than halfway to the northern Floyd | wall and equidistant between the western and eastern walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Got it." | inky says, "hooray" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "Har" | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "throw fruit south" | |||||
Floyd | You throw the fruit towards the south; and you catch it in mid-air, Floyd | after it bounces off the southern wall. You are ever so gently Floyd | propelled towards the north. You are more than halfway to the northern Floyd | wall and equidistant between the western and eastern walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "throw fruit south" | |||||
Floyd | You throw the fruit towards the south; and you catch it in mid-air, Floyd | after it bounces off the southern wall. You are right next to the Floyd | northern wall and equidistant between the western and eastern walls. Floyd | The exit is just to your north. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "deeper in the game, there is a context-specific hint system of sorts meant to help with more verbal-oriented puzzles (most of which are after the introduciton)" | ||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "throw fruit south" | |||||
Floyd | You throw the fruit towards the south; and you catch it in mid-air, Floyd | after it bounces off the southern wall. You are right next to the Floyd | northern wall and equidistant between the western and eastern walls. Floyd | The exit is just to your north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "throw fruit south" | |||||
Floyd | You throw the fruit towards the south; and you catch it in mid-air, Floyd | after it bounces off the southern wall. You are right next to the Floyd | northern wall and equidistant between the western and eastern walls. Floyd | The exit is just to your north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Vaulted Junction Floyd | This room is remarkable for its high, arched ceiling which almost gives Floyd | you the impression of being outside at night. An inclined metal shaft Floyd | leads off to the west, there is some sort of tiled chamber to the east, Floyd | and there is a frozen cavern to the south. In addition, a steep spiral Floyd | stairway leads down. A sign is engraved into the wall near the top of Floyd | the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh dear." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I was not a fan of that puzzle." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "But then, I dislike most puzzles." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "So listen not to me." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Somehow, I thought going down the rabbit hole was the same as going north from the first room, so this entire area is new to me...." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | You are too large to fit through the Metal Shaft. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | ||||
| inky says, "oh, we don't have the potion now" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "I never finished Storm Cellar because I couldn't solve the final puzzle." | |||||
| dhakajack says, "the rabbit hole would eventually dump you out here too, but you'd have a black key with reverse writing on it" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "I sympathize with your puzzle commentary." | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "x sign" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Faithful Candidate, Floyd | Floyd | We applaude your effort and ingenuity in coming this far. Now that Floyd | preliminaries are out of the way, we can get down to the actual process Floyd | of neuroalignment. If you fail, no matter how gruesome your death, you Floyd | can rest assured that there will be others, and that however long it Floyd | takes, we shall in the end select a suitable candidate. It is more Floyd | important to assure mental compatibility than to do so hastily. Floyd | Floyd | The process of alignment may be gradual, so we have provided several Floyd | tools, found in the adjoining chambers, to aid you along the way. Floyd | Floyd | p.s. Sorry about the lousy poetry -- it is an unavoidable part of the Floyd | process. And really, it is the least of your problems. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Maureen arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | inky says, "hmm" | ||||
| inky clears the save counter. | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf1" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Frog Room Floyd | A round room with domed ceiling. Every surface is covered in small, Floyd | reflective tiles. The tiles create a mosaic depicting water and lily Floyd | pads on the floor and scores of jumping frogs as the base of the walls. Floyd | The scene is reinforced by a continuous chorus of croaking which Floyd | reverberates and is reflected by the tiles. You can exit to the west. A Floyd | small, silvery tube floats in the middle of the room, lazily tumbling, Floyd | as if weightless. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get tube" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tiles" | |||||
Floyd | The very small tiles that form the mosiacs on the walls are glasslike Floyd | and smooth. The level of detail is astounding, and the frogs on the Floyd | wall are so realistic that you would almost swear that they are alive. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x frogs" | |||||
Floyd | The very small tiles that form the mosiacs on the walls are glasslike Floyd | and smooth. The level of detail is astounding, and the frogs on the Floyd | wall are so realistic that you would almost swear that they are alive. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "touch frogs" | |||||
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lick frogs" | |||||
Floyd | You give the walls a nice wet lick! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Sorry, no psychedelic trip for you, inky." | ||||
| inky says, "dude, where's my frog" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tube" | |||||
Floyd | It is clearly a one-note whistle, like the kind used to call dogs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "blow whistle" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Front Room Floyd | A monastically simple room, with a single chair, a low table, and a Floyd | small fireplace. Strangely, this house has been built with no windows. Floyd | The kitchen is to the north, and the front yard is to the east. There Floyd | is a closed warped door which leads to a room to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table (on which is a grey potion) and a black chair (on Floyd | which is an old man) here. Floyd | Floyd | You somersault out of the fireplace, covered with black soot and Floyd | smelling like a barbeque. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get potion" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x man" | |||||
Floyd | The old man is short and plump, with unkempt white hair and a stubbly Floyd | beard of several days growth. His forehead and temples are streaked Floyd | with deep lines, and his eyes are deeply set in dark sockets. His skin Floyd | is pale, almost translucent, except for the dark patches under his Floyd | eyes, and the spiderveins that run through the thin skin over his Floyd | cheekbones. His gummy mouth harbours not a single tooth, and his flabby Floyd | lower lip has stretched outward, draping sloppily over his double chin. Floyd | Somewhere, his head merges into jowls which overlap his barrel chest, Floyd | by-passing a neck entirely. He is dressed in the fine robes of a Floyd | priest. He is sleeping comfortably on a fancy chair. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get robes" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "so DavidW claimed that there was important plot info but you had to disguise yourself" | ||||
| inky says, "and then talk to this guy" | |||||
| inky says, "but I haven't seen other clothing" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "hm" | |||||
| inky says, "except the stuff this guy is wearing" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Front Room Floyd | A monastically simple room, with a single chair, a low table, and a Floyd | small fireplace. Strangely, this house has been built with no windows. Floyd | The kitchen is to the north, and the front yard is to the east. There Floyd | is a closed warped door which leads to a room to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table and a black chair (on which is an old man) here. Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x table" | |||||
Floyd | A short, heavy wooden table. Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x chair" | |||||
Floyd | The modern chair is discordant with its drab and mundane surroundings. Floyd | Whilst the rest of the room is made of stone, wood and thatch, the Floyd | metal frame of the chair gleams brilliantly and has been finely tooled Floyd | -- clearly, not the work of the village blacksmith. The chair is Floyd | contoured like a human body, with a head-support, arm-rests and Floyd | elevated knee support and foot-rests. The ample cushioning is covered Floyd | in a supple, black material and the entire chair is reclined. There is Floyd | a small metal lever near the right arm rest, it has been pulled upwards Floyd | towards the headrest. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the chair Floyd | is the old man sleeping in it. Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "he's in a la-z-boy" | ||||
| inky says, "I am not sure what the explanation for this is" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Parallel universes." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "lick chair" | |||||
Floyd | You give the black chair a nice wet lick! Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "yeah maybe" | ||||
| inky says, "there actually is some parallel universe stuff going on" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | A long, narrow room with a butcher's table. Below the table, there is Floyd | some sort of large, cube-shaped device marked "recycling unit". There Floyd | is a cabinet on the wall, with its doors closed. The only way out is Floyd | back south to the front room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a butcher table here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Jacqueline clears the save counter. | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x table" | |||||
Floyd | A sturdy table topped with a heavy block of light wood which bears Floyd | evidence of years of cutting and chopping. There is a big white Floyd | appliance under the table. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x appliance" | |||||
Floyd | A large, white enamel box with an attached hopper. The box is flat on Floyd | every side, and altogether unremarkable, except for the words Floyd | "recycling unit" which appear in raised script letters on the upper Floyd | right hand corner of the unit, above the hopper. There is something in Floyd | the hopper. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in hopper" | |||||
Floyd | In the hopper is an empty bottle. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get empty" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x empty" | |||||
Floyd | An empty, clear bottle capped by some sort of metal seal. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x seal" | |||||
Floyd | An empty, clear bottle capped by some sort of metal seal. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "this goes with the thingy in the cabinet" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | |||||
Floyd | The cabinet doors open, revealing a strange machine which is bolted to Floyd | the wall and occupies the entire interior of the cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x machine" | |||||
Floyd | Within the kitchen cabinet, there is an odd-looking contraption with a Floyd | metal funnel on the top, a crank with a wooden handle on the side, and Floyd | recess marked "bottle" at the base, below a hollow tube. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put empty bottle in recess" | |||||
Floyd | The bottle snaps into the recess and the nozzle assembly descends, Floyd | puncturing the cap. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Should we be saving some?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf1" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Room Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table and a black chair (on which is an old man) here. Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||||
Floyd | The door's rusty hinges squeak loudly. Floyd | The old man stirs and searches reflexively in his long robe. After a Floyd | minute, he finds what he is looking for and withdraws a pair of Floyd | precision-crafted spectacles and lifts them to his face. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Front Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search robe" | |||||
Floyd | Whilst rifling through the old man's robe you find a pair of glasses. Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear glasses" | |||||
Floyd | (first taking the glasses) Floyd | You put on the glasses. Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||||
Floyd | You are a possessed decaying corpse with vacant, unblinking eyes and Floyd | saliva-coated maw; it is apparent that you are undead. You seem to be Floyd | missing a right arm. In terms of fashion, you are wearing some decaying Floyd | farm garments. At least the spectacles add an air of academic Floyd | respectability. Floyd | Floyd | The elderly priest mumbles incoherently about tomatoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get robe" | |||||
Floyd | It is not an appealing garment. Yes, it has a certain homely charm to Floyd | it, but the smell is putting you off. Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear robe" | |||||
Floyd | (first taking the old man's robe) Floyd | It is not an appealing garment. Yes, it has a certain homely charm to Floyd | it, but the smell is putting you off. Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I'm a zombie!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "yay" | |||||
| inky asks, "also, clearly we need .. noseplugs?" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | A small, windowless cabin to the west is framed by a lush lawn. To the Floyd | south of the cabin, there is a small, well-tended garden. A dirt lane Floyd | leads towards the east, where it joins up with the road into town. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | A tidy little garden of the sort that is useful for growing medicinal Floyd | herbs. You can see the cabin just to the north, and there is a Floyd | vegetable garden to the east. On a more sombre note, there is a small Floyd | cemetery to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | You can see two herbs (an herb with blue flowers and an herb with Floyd | violet flowers) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get all" | |||||
Floyd | herb with blue flowers: Taken. Floyd | herb with violet flowers: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Graveyard Floyd | A quiet, lonely corner of the property behind the cabin. In the centre Floyd | of the graveyard is the solitary mound of grave. The pleasant garden to Floyd | the northwest provides a comforting contrast. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an herb with yellow flowers here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get all" | |||||
Floyd | herb with yellow flowers: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Vegetable Garden Floyd | A small plot of land is furrowed and meticulously free of weeds. A Floyd | large, weather-beaten stuffed wolf is mounted on a short pole. You are Floyd | just east of the herb garden. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a nice tomato, a carrot and a stuffed wolf here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky is a newbie. | CarolynV says, "Considering that you're an armless zombie possesed by a polyp, it's ironic that you're getting upset about the smell of his robe." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get tomato and carrot" | |||||
Floyd | nice tomato: Taken. Floyd | carrot: An herb with orange flowers germinates! Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "?!?!?" | ||||
| CarolynV says, "I'm just curious...." | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "remove clothing" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vegetable Garden Floyd | A small plot of land is furrowed and meticulously free of weeds. A Floyd | large, weather-beaten stuffed wolf is mounted on a short pole. You are Floyd | just east of the herb garden. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an herb with orange flowers and a stuffed wolf here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a carrot Floyd | a nice tomato Floyd | three herbs: Floyd | an herb with yellow flowers Floyd | an herb with violet flowers Floyd | an herb with blue flowers Floyd | a pair of glasses (being worn) Floyd | a violet potion Floyd | a whistle Floyd | a fruit Floyd | a wooden key Floyd | some decaying farm garments (being worn) Floyd | a lacquer box which contains a parchment note Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get herb" | |||||
Floyd | (the herb with orange flowers) Floyd | You're carrying too many things already. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Carolyn), "You make an excellent point." | ||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "remove garments" | |||||
Floyd | You take off the decaying farm garments. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "But that is why it is amusing." | ||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "wear garments" | |||||
Floyd | You put on the decaying farm garments. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put all in box" | |||||
Floyd | carrot: The carrot is too big to fit into the lacquer box. Floyd | nice tomato: The nice tomato is too big to fit into the lacquer box. Floyd | herb with yellow flowers: There is no more room in the lacquer box. Floyd | herb with violet flowers: There is no more room in the lacquer box. Floyd | herb with blue flowers: There is no more room in the lacquer box. Floyd | violet potion: The violet potion is too big to fit into the lacquer Floyd | box. Floyd | whistle: The whistle is too big to fit into the lacquer box. Floyd | fruit: There is no more room in the lacquer box. Floyd | wooden key: There is no more room in the lacquer box. Floyd | Floyd | > | CarolynV says, "OK, we are capable of taking those off if we do find more clothing. (Though I see no reason to be a nekkid zombie.)" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop wooden key" | |||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get orange herb" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I suppose we won't need that particular key again" | ||||
| inky says, "anyway, hmm" | |||||
| inky says, "you can use these herbs in the machine" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "verbose" | |||||
Floyd | Nine-tenths of the Law is now in its "verbose" mode, which always gives Floyd | long descriptions of locations (even if you've been there before). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Room Floyd | A monastically simple room, with a single chair, a low table, and a Floyd | small fireplace. Strangely, this house has been built with no windows. Floyd | The kitchen is to the north, and the front yard is to the east. There Floyd | is a closed warped door which leads to a room to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table and a black chair (on which is an old man) here. Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "verbose" | |||||
Floyd | Nine-tenths of the Law is now in its "verbose" mode, which always gives Floyd | long descriptions of locations (even if you've been there before). Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Timing," | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | A long, narrow room with a butcher's table. Below the table, there is Floyd | some sort of large, cube-shaped device marked "recycling unit". A Floyd | cabinet built into the wall is open, showing a large machine inside. Floyd | The only way out is back south to the front room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a butcher table here. Floyd | Floyd | > | CarolynV asks, "Great minds, same ruts?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x machine" | |||||
Floyd | Within the kitchen cabinet, there is an odd-looking contraption with a Floyd | metal funnel on the top, a crank with a wooden handle on the side, and Floyd | recess marked "bottle" at the base, below a hollow tube. A bottle is Floyd | locked into this receptacle at the base of the machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Something like that." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put orange herb in funnel" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put orange herb in machine" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a carrot Floyd | a nice tomato Floyd | a pair of glasses (being worn) Floyd | a grey potion Floyd | a whistle Floyd | a fruit Floyd | some decaying farm garments (being worn) Floyd | a lacquer box which contains a parchment note Floyd | Floyd | four herbs: Floyd | an herb with grey flowers Floyd | an herb with grey flowers Floyd | an herb with grey flowers Floyd | an herb with grey flowers Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "...right" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | A long, narrow room with a butcher's table. Below the table, there is Floyd | some sort of large, cube-shaped device marked "recycling unit". A Floyd | cabinet built into the wall is open, showing a large machine inside. Floyd | The only way out is back south to the front room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a butcher table here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Room Floyd | A monastically simple room, with a single chair, a low table, and a Floyd | small fireplace. Strangely, this house has been built with no windows. Floyd | The kitchen is to the north, and the front yard is to the east. There Floyd | is a closed warped door which leads to a room to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table and a black chair (on which is an old man) here. Floyd | Floyd | The elderly priest rests peacefully. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a carrot Floyd | a nice tomato Floyd | a pair of glasses (being worn) Floyd | a grey potion Floyd | a whistle Floyd | a fruit Floyd | some decaying farm garments (being worn) Floyd | a lacquer box which contains a parchment note Floyd | Floyd | four herbs: Floyd | an herb with grey flowers Floyd | an herb with grey flowers Floyd | an herb with grey flowers Floyd | an herb with grey flowers Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | A small, windowless cabin to the west is framed by a lush lawn. To the Floyd | south of the cabin, there is a small, well-tended garden. A dirt lane Floyd | leads towards the east, where it joins up with the road into town. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I guess it's explicitly called windowless" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop herbs" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop every herb" | |||||
Floyd | herb with orange flowers: Dropped. Floyd | herb with yellow flowers: Dropped. Floyd | herb with violet flowers: Dropped. Floyd | herb with blue flowers: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get orange herb" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Room Floyd | A monastically simple room, with a single chair, a low table, and a Floyd | small fireplace. Strangely, this house has been built with no windows. Floyd | The kitchen is to the north, and the front yard is to the east. There Floyd | is a closed warped door which leads to a room to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table and a black chair (on which is an old man) here. Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | A long, narrow room with a butcher's table. Below the table, there is Floyd | some sort of large, cube-shaped device marked "recycling unit". A Floyd | cabinet built into the wall is open, showing a large machine inside. Floyd | The only way out is back south to the front room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a butcher table here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put herb in funnel" | |||||
Floyd | The herb with grey flowers slides downwards in the funnel. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn crank" | |||||
Floyd | A new potion appears in the machine's recess, and the nozzle retracts. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get potion" | |||||
Floyd | (the grey potion) Floyd | You already have the grey potion. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get all from recess" | |||||
Floyd | Be more specific, please. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "cry" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Room Floyd | A monastically simple room, with a single chair, a low table, and a Floyd | small fireplace. Strangely, this house has been built with no windows. Floyd | The kitchen is to the north, and the front yard is to the east. There Floyd | is a closed warped door which leads to a room to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table and a black chair (on which is an old man) here. Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | A small, windowless cabin to the west is framed by a lush lawn. To the Floyd | south of the cabin, there is a small, well-tended garden. A dirt lane Floyd | leads towards the east, where it joins up with the road into town. Floyd | Floyd | You can see three herbs (an herb with blue flowers, an herb with violet Floyd | flowers and an herb with yellow flowers) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop potion" | |||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "aw" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w. n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Room Floyd | A monastically simple room, with a single chair, a low table, and a Floyd | small fireplace. Strangely, this house has been built with no windows. Floyd | The kitchen is to the north, and the front yard is to the east. There Floyd | is a closed warped door which leads to a room to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table and a black chair (on which is an old man) here. Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | A long, narrow room with a butcher's table. Below the table, there is Floyd | some sort of large, cube-shaped device marked "recycling unit". A Floyd | cabinet built into the wall is open, showing a large machine inside. Floyd | The only way out is back south to the front room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a butcher table here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get potion" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read label" | |||||
Floyd | "potion of sighting." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "this one I dunno what it does" | ||||
| Lucea has not been spotted in the lounge vicinity. No need for caution. | inky says, "I believe the other potions you can make are healing, poison, and miniaturization" | ||||
| inky says, "(so you can have 2x miniaturize)" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Oo. I only found the miniaturization." | |||||
| inky says, "and when you drink one you end up with a bottle you can use to make another" | |||||
| inky says, "I'm not sure what good any of them are, though" | |||||
| inky says, "you can kill the rabbit with the poison, but that's probably an error, and you can heal yourself if the angry mob beats you up" | |||||
| inky says, "(with the healing)" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Room Floyd | A monastically simple room, with a single chair, a low table, and a Floyd | small fireplace. Strangely, this house has been built with no windows. Floyd | The kitchen is to the north, and the front yard is to the east. There Floyd | is a closed warped door which leads to a room to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table and a black chair (on which is an old man) here. Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | A small, windowless cabin to the west is framed by a lush lawn. To the Floyd | south of the cabin, there is a small, well-tended garden. A dirt lane Floyd | leads towards the east, where it joins up with the road into town. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a violet potion and three herbs (an herb with blue flowers, Floyd | an herb with violet flowers and an herb with yellow flowers) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf2" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drink orange potion" | |||||
Floyd | The orange potion disappears with a PUFF! Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | A small, windowless cabin to the west is framed by a lush lawn. To the Floyd | south of the cabin, there is a small, well-tended garden. A dirt lane Floyd | leads towards the east, where it joins up with the road into town. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a violet potion and three herbs (an herb with blue flowers, Floyd | an herb with violet flowers and an herb with yellow flowers) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm, I have no idea what that did" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "nope the poison is intentional" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Room Floyd | A monastically simple room, with a single chair, a low table, and a Floyd | small fireplace. Strangely, this house has been built with no windows. Floyd | The kitchen is to the north, and the front yard is to the east. There Floyd | is a closed warped door which leads to a room to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table and a black chair (on which is an old man) here. Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||||
Floyd | You are a possessed decaying corpse with vacant, unblinking eyes and Floyd | watering oral cavity; if you look closely around the eyes, there is no Floyd | question but that you are undead. You seem to be missing a right arm. Floyd | In terms of fashion, you are wearing some decaying farm garments. At Floyd | least the spectacles add an air of academic respectability. Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tomato" | |||||
Floyd | A paragon amongst tomatokind, this lustrous red beauty is at the very Floyd | point of turning ripe; it is firm and free of any blemish. Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ah, looks like we are seeing in the dark" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm lost on the point. Perhaps I missed something, or perhaps we need to figure out how to have that conversation with the priest." | |||||
| inky says, "is that permanent? that is probably handy" | |||||
| inky says, "yeah, I have no idea what the point of any of the machine potions really are" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hold nose" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pinch nose" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "don't smell" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x robe" | |||||
Floyd | The old man is wearing a robe typical of the Order of the Perigee. It Floyd | is not of recent vintage, nor has it seen soap and water in the recent Floyd | past. The old man is lying on the robe, so you can only see one side of Floyd | it, and you note a small pocket near the waist. Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in pocket" | |||||
Floyd | Whilst probing the old man's robe you find absolutely nothing. Floyd | Floyd | Front Room Floyd | A monastically simple room, with a single chair, a low table, and a Floyd | small fireplace. Strangely, this house has been built with no windows. Floyd | The kitchen is to the north, and the front yard is to the east. There Floyd | is a closed warped door which leads to a room to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table and a black chair (on which is an old man) here. Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get robe" | dhakajack says, "if you had text color effects, it would now be in "day light"colors. And no, not permanent." | ||||
Floyd | It is not an appealing garment. Yes, it has a certain homely charm to Floyd | it, but the smell is putting you off. Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oops" | ||||
| inky says, "well, I guess if we turn out to need it later we can restore" | |||||
| Ellison arrives, full of fun and funk. | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "smell robe" | |||||
Floyd | A pungent old man smell mingled with sweat, alcohol, and other Floyd | substances too horrible to mention. Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a carrot Floyd | a nice tomato Floyd | a pair of glasses (being worn) Floyd | a whistle Floyd | a fruit Floyd | some decaying farm garments (being worn) Floyd | a lacquer box which contains a parchment note Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "anyway, any ideas for not smelling him?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put carrot in nose" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "I assume this is the same game about smelling that I left a couple hours ago" | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | |||||
| inky says, "game about smelling" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "snrk" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "I'm rapidly realizing that, if you have the right crowd, all games are about smelling." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "That is not really true. Some are about licking things." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lick man" | |||||
Floyd | You give the old man a nice wet lick! Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "hehe" | ||||
| Ellison says, "ha" | |||||
| CarolynV exclaims, "Ew, he slept through it!" | |||||
| inky says, "if that doesn't wake him up, I don't know what will" | |||||
| CarolynV asks, "Can we eat him?" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||||
Floyd | The door's rusty hinges squeak loudly. Floyd | The figure on the chair wakes and searches reflexively in his long Floyd | robe. After a minute, he makes a clucking noise and mumbles "Last time Floyd | this happened, I was looking for them for a month." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inky), "A creaking door." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "talk to man" | |||||
Floyd | You can ASK or TELL someone ABOUT something, or you can SHOW someone Floyd | something. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask man about me" | |||||
Floyd | "Hmmph. I suppose. Or not. Pardon. Lost my train of thought there for a Floyd | moment." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask man about man" | |||||
Floyd | "I wouldn't really know." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask man about zombie" | |||||
Floyd | "Essentially, a zombie is a hollowed-out shell of a living being, and Floyd | unless they're possessed by some outside agency, they're not a threat Floyd | at all, just landscaping really. My advice: avoid them if you can, and Floyd | watch out for their drool. " Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask man about drool" | |||||
Floyd | "I find drool repulsive. Dogs, babies, zombies, you name it." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "drool" | |||||
Floyd | Now there's a job skill. A small pool of saliva evaporates. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask man about zombie drool" | |||||
Floyd | "Come again? Didn't quite catch that. Bad hearing you know." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drool on man" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Meadow Floyd | An unmaintained field with short grass near the road, and taller grass Floyd | towards the surrounding woods. At the edge of the woods, there is a Floyd | depression, and at its base, a hole. There are some rabbit tracks in Floyd | the soft mud near the road to the south. Floyd | You recall the old man saying, "It's called immunity Look it up. Now Floyd | git." The old man then whipped around, lithe as a serpent, and sprayed Floyd | you with a fine mist of liquid. After some time, your panic has ebbed Floyd | and you have returned to your senses. You realise that you are no Floyd | longer in the house, but must have run off. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Meadow Floyd | An unmaintained field with short grass near the road, and taller grass Floyd | towards the surrounding woods. At the edge of the woods, there is a Floyd | depression, and at its base, a hole. There are some rabbit tracks in Floyd | the soft mud near the road to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Front Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "um, huh" | |||||
| inky says, "ok, I guess that is something we can try" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Sentences I never thought I would say: let's go find interesting things to drool on." | |||||
| inky says, "hee hee" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | An uncomfortable, stifling bedroom with no windows. The room is barely Floyd | large enough to accommodate the vaguely bed-like lump of furniture in Floyd | the middle of the room. A tall, classic mirror framed in dark wood is Floyd | wedged between the bed and the wall. A pretty silk ribbon is tastefully Floyd | draped across the mirror, about half-way up. The mirror reflects the Floyd | scene in the room. The only exit, an open warped door, lies to the Floyd | east, and leads back to the front room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a bed (on which is a pillow) here. Floyd | Floyd | From the adjoining room you hear the old man moving around. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | |||||
Floyd | A beautiful antique mirror of unparallelled craftsmanship. A pretty Floyd | silk ribbon is draped across the mirror, about half-way up. Reflected Floyd | in the mirror, you can see a zombie dressed in the clothes of a farmer. Floyd | Floyd | From the adjoining room you hear the old man moving around. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Room Floyd | A monastically simple room, with a single chair, a low table, and a Floyd | small fireplace. Strangely, this house has been built with no windows. Floyd | The kitchen is to the north, and the front yard is to the east. There Floyd | is an open warped door which leads to a room to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table and a black chair (on which is an old man) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | A small, windowless cabin to the west is framed by a lush lawn. To the Floyd | south of the cabin, there is a small, well-tended garden. A dirt lane Floyd | leads towards the east, where it joins up with the road into town. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a violet potion and three herbs (an herb with blue flowers, Floyd | an herb with violet flowers and an herb with yellow flowers) here. Floyd | Floyd | From inside the cabin you hear the old man moving around, "Don't track Floyd | mud into the house." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get violet" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the violet potion or the herb with violet flowers? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "potion" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | From inside the cabin you hear the old man moving around. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Desolate Road Floyd | To the west, you can make out a cabin at the edge of the woods. The Floyd | woods come right to the edge of the road, except on the north side Floyd | where there is a small strip of meadow. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dirt Road Floyd | A wheel-rutted single lane runs east and west. You are at the bottom of Floyd | a path that leads upwards to the peak of a small mountain, while the Floyd | road is bordered by dense woods. There is a small signpost here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way, but you could go towards the east to the Road Floyd | Into Town, towards the west to the Desolate Road, or upwards to the Floyd | Sloping Path. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sloping Path Floyd | At the top, the winding path is little more than a depression in the Floyd | gravel and mud, but lower down the mountain, it becomes more defined, Floyd | and perhaps even sees occasional use. Near the bottom of the path a Floyd | dirt road is visible. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a shy little bunny rabbit here. Floyd | Floyd | The little rabbit scoots downwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dirt Road Floyd | A wheel-rutted single lane runs east and west. You are at the bottom of Floyd | a path that leads upwards to the peak of a small mountain, while the Floyd | road is bordered by dense woods. There is a small signpost here. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a shy little bunny rabbit here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get rabbit" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drool on rabbit" | |||||
Floyd | The shy little bunny rabbit briefly obeys the laws of an alien Floyd | geometry, bubbling and warping into impossible shapes, and then settles Floyd | down, reassuming its familiar shape as if nothing happened. Really, Floyd | nothing at all. Floyd | Floyd | On the other hand it might be worth pointing out that the shy little Floyd | bunny rabbit is holding unusually still, has a distant, almost Floyd | catatonic expression, and that the first hints of foamy spittle have Floyd | made their appearance at the corners of the shy little bunny rabbit's Floyd | mouth. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf3" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "possess rabbit" | |||||
Floyd | The psychic impulse propels the shy little bunny rabbit clear of you. Floyd | You possess the shy little bunny rabbit. Floyd | Floyd | As you slide into the mind of your new host, you brush against neural Floyd | resonances of the shy little bunny rabbit's former life. The decohering Floyd | images are not clear and they are already fading: Hop here, hop Floyd | there...Carrots? Oh yes, please...more shiny stuff...shiny good...hop, Floyd | hop...uh oh, people...bounce away... hop here, hop there...ew...what's Floyd | that?. Floyd | Floyd | > | CarolynV says, "Oh my." | ||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dirt Road Floyd | A wheel-rutted single lane runs east and west. You are at the bottom of Floyd | a path that leads upwards to the peak of a small mountain, while the Floyd | road is bordered by dense woods. There is a small signpost here. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a shambling zombie here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dirt Road Floyd | A wheel-rutted single lane runs east and west. You are at the bottom of Floyd | a path that leads upwards to the peak of a small mountain, while the Floyd | road is bordered by dense woods. There is a small signpost here. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a shambling zombie here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x zombie" | |||||
Floyd | A dispossessed decaying corpse with vacant, unblinking eyes and Floyd | drooling lips; if you look closely around the eyes, there is no Floyd | question but that the shambling zombie is undead. The shambling zombie Floyd | seems to be missing a right arm. In terms of fashion, the shambling Floyd | zombie is wearing some decaying farm garments. At least the spectacles Floyd | add an air of academic respectability. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | ||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "get potion" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Silly, possessed, and potentially evil bunny! Your little paws lack Floyd | prehensile thumbs. It is pitiful watching you make the attempt. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Road Into Town Floyd | An unpaved road runs from east to west. A small town can be seen in the Floyd | far distance to the east, on the far side of a stone bridge. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an angry mob here. Floyd | From the crowd you overhear, "Zombies is fer killin'". Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "whoops, sorry" | ||||
| CarolynV says, "No worries, I just wondered if we could take things away from the zombie." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Makes sense, I guess." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "I wish we could see what the zombie is carrying." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Also, I like the line about the spectacles." | |||||
| inky says, "yea" | |||||
| inky says, "h" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drool on mob" | |||||
Floyd | You cover the angry mob with glistening saliva. It evaporates. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "dangit" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Stone Bridge Floyd | A sturdy bridge of worked stone spans the river. The bridge is wide Floyd | enough for two wagons to pass side-by-side. Short walls on both sides Floyd | of the bridge prevent anyone from accidentally falling over the edge. Floyd | The bridge runs from east to west. There isn't much to see to the west, Floyd | except more road, but in the distance, you can see a walled town to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Checkpoint Floyd | The road dips down a little here, bringing you to a checkpoint midway Floyd | between the bridge and the outer walls of the town to the east. A small Floyd | white building, little more than a free-standing closet, stands just to Floyd | the north side of the road. "Sentry Post" is written above the Floyd | entrance. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a guard here. Floyd | Floyd | The guard attacks you! Floyd | Floyd | The Hilltop Floyd | A craggy, windswept patch of dirt atop the smallest in a vast range of Floyd | mountains. A barely visible path leads down the mountain. An opening Floyd | leads north into the mountain itself. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a shackle-bound zombie arm here. Floyd | Floyd | You are once again on your familiar hilltop. Your rabbit body took all Floyd | the punishment that it could. Sensing imminent unpleasantness, and Floyd | always motivated by an acute sense of self-preservation, you withdrew Floyd | from your unfortunate host at the last possible moment, returning to Floyd | both the comfort and immobility of your polypoid body. Floyd | Floyd | The sun sets and night falls, and the world is Floyd | plunged into a flat, colourless panorama. You Floyd | stretch your fronds, searching for another host. Floyd | Floyd | The sun rises, and you feel your strength ebbing. Floyd | You are alone. Floyd | Floyd | As the day progresses, you realise that you are Floyd | wilting and that your transient unlife is Floyd | slipping through your fronds. Floyd | Floyd | No one comes. No hosts. No escape. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Wilted! *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | inky says, "wait, what the hell" | ||||
| CarolynV asks, "The guard attacked.... a bunny?" | |||||
| inky says, "I was a sweet, innocent bunny" | |||||
| inky says, "never going to harm anyone except with my poisonous saliva" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Stone Bridge Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||||
Floyd | A cute, fuzzy white rabbit; it is a fair wager that you are undead. Floyd | Floyd | > | CarolynV says, "I don't think your saliva is poisonous when you're a bunny." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drool on me" | |||||
Floyd | You cover the yourself with disgusting saliva. It evaporates. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Stone Bridge Floyd | A sturdy bridge of worked stone spans the river. The bridge is wide Floyd | enough for two wagons to pass side-by-side. Short walls on both sides Floyd | of the bridge prevent anyone from accidentally falling over the edge. Floyd | The bridge runs from east to west. There isn't much to see to the west, Floyd | except more road, but in the distance, you can see a walled town to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm, I think I'm an undead bunny, though" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x town" | |||||
Floyd | In the distance, you can see the walls of the Town of Orlane. Near the Floyd | walls, a phalanx of army pikemen have assembled on the roadway. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "west" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Road Into Town Floyd | An unpaved road runs from east to west. A small town can be seen in the Floyd | far distance to the east, on the far side of a stone bridge. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an angry mob here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Wait, was it poisonous as a zombie? We licked that priest and he lived." | ||||
| inky says, "I think licking is not correctly simulated" | |||||
| inky says, "given the saliva issues" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "But he stopped us from drooling on him. I think that's authorial oversight." | |||||
| inky says, "hmm" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "west" | |||||
| inky says, "though he was asleep when we licked him" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dirt Road Floyd | A wheel-rutted single lane runs east and west. You are at the bottom of Floyd | a path that leads upwards to the peak of a small mountain, while the Floyd | road is bordered by dense woods. There is a small signpost here. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a shambling zombie here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "get carrot" | |||||
Floyd | Silly, possessed, and potentially evil bunny! Your little paws lack Floyd | prehensile thumbs. It is pitiful watching you make the attempt. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "eat carrot" | |||||
Floyd | Chomp. Chomp. Chomp. The carrot tastes earthy and sweet. Floyd | Floyd | > | CarolynV says, "OK, I'm happy now." | ||||
| dhakajack says, "he doesn't *like* being licked, but he did mention that he has immunity when you tried to drool on him." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to C), "heh" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Jack), "Ah." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "possess zombie" | |||||
Floyd | You possess the shambling zombie. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get bunny" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Think again. That way won't work, but you could go towards the east to Floyd | the Road Into Town, towards the west to the Desolate Road, or upwards Floyd | to the Sloping Path. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sloping Path Floyd | At the top, the winding path is little more than a depression in the Floyd | gravel and mud, but lower down the mountain, it becomes more defined, Floyd | and perhaps even sees occasional use. Near the bottom of the path a Floyd | dirt road is visible. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Think again. That way won't work, but you might consider heading Floyd | upwards to the The Hilltop, or downwards to the Dirt Road. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Hilltop Floyd | A craggy, windswept patch of dirt atop the smallest in a vast range of Floyd | mountains. A barely visible path leads down the mountain. An opening Floyd | leads north into the mountain itself. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a fleshy white polyp and a shackle-bound zombie arm here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hall Of Welcome Floyd | An austere room with plain, white marble walls and a polished floor of Floyd | checkered black and white tile. Through the remnants of the ancient Floyd | entranceway, only the barest sliver of pale daylight penetrates the Floyd | room (not that it matters...for you, at least). There is an open marble Floyd | door at the north end of the room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a wooden bowl (which is empty) and a sculpture here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hall Of Wanting Floyd | Stairs lead downwards into this room from both the north and south Floyd | ends; an open marble door leads out of the room to the south, and an Floyd | open speckled door leads northward. The room is panelled in dark wood, Floyd | and has an arched wooden ceiling and grey, stone floor. Near the middle Floyd | of of the room, there is a sink inset into the east wall. It looks like Floyd | there is some sort of hole in the middle of the floor near the north Floyd | end. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Portrait Gallery Floyd | A long hall lined with a collection of portraits of men and women in Floyd | priestly robes. Some of the faces seem vaguely familiar to you. There Floyd | must be hexanies of them here. One picture frame stands out in Floyd | particular, an empty frame at the north end of the hall. There is an Floyd | open speckled door at the south end of the hall. To the north, there is Floyd | an open archway which leads to an icy cavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | CarolynV says, "I bet the polyp is even more embarrassed if the bunny eats it than if the zombie eats it." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The temperature drops as you enter this long, echoing chamber. The Floyd | ceiling and floor seem to be coated with a clear, slippery, hard Floyd | substance. The walls, on the whole, look rubbery. As you contemplate Floyd | that, you realise that you have slid to the centre of the room... Floyd | Floyd | Hall Of Cold Logic Floyd | The white ceiling and floor of the room are entirely unremarkable Floyd | except for their unusual slickness. You can see exits near the centre Floyd | of the north and south walls. You are dead-centre in the middle of the Floyd | room. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw fruit south. g. g." | |||||
Floyd | You throw the fruit towards the south; and you catch it in mid-air, Floyd | after it bounces off the southern wall. You are ever so gently Floyd | propelled towards the north. You are less than halfway to the northern Floyd | wall and equidistant between the western and eastern walls. Floyd | You throw the fruit towards the south; and you catch it in mid-air, Floyd | after it bounces off the southern wall. You are ever so gently Floyd | propelled towards the north. You are more than halfway to the northern Floyd | wall and equidistant between the western and eastern walls. Floyd | You throw the fruit towards the south; and you catch it in mid-air, Floyd | after it bounces off the southern wall. You are right next to the Floyd | northern wall and equidistant between the western and eastern walls. Floyd | The exit is just to your north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Vaulted Junction Floyd | This room is remarkable for its high, arched ceiling which almost gives Floyd | you the impression of being outside at night. An inclined metal shaft Floyd | leads off to the west, there is some sort of tiled chamber to the east, Floyd | and there is a frozen cavern to the south. In addition, a steep spiral Floyd | stairway leads down. A sign is engraved into the wall near the top of Floyd | the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drink potion" | |||||
Floyd | The grey potion disappears with a PUFF! Floyd | Floyd | Everything around you has gotten bigger! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Metal Shaft Floyd | A straight, metal shaft with a very low ceiling. The shaft runs east to Floyd | west and there are exits at both ends. To the east, you can see a Floyd | cavernous room, and to the west you catch a hint of velvet-covered Floyd | walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Velvet Room Floyd | An egg-shaped room which is lined floor, walls and ceiling with a lush Floyd | grey velvet. There is a pedestal in the middle of the room. The column Floyd | of the pedestal is covered in fabric, and the fabric has scratch marks, Floyd | as if sliced with a razor-sharp tool. On top of the pedestal, there is Floyd | a cat statuette. At the base of the pedestal is a small, brass plaque. Floyd | The only exit from the room is the metal shaft to the east, which is Floyd | very small. Next to the shaft, a grey lever sticks of out the wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a marble pedestal (on which is a cat) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | |||||
Floyd | The passage leading to this room enlarges from a mere crawl space to Floyd | true hallway as its ceiling retracts with a sliding sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I guess maybe we could have gone in as the bunny instead" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read plaque" | |||||
Floyd | A polished metal plaque at the base of the pedestal reads: Floyd | Floyd | My cat has a bizarre predilection Floyd | Preferring pushishment to affection Floyd | Should you meet some frustrating obstruction Floyd | Of perversely exotic construction Floyd | One need only remember that Floyd | for a clue, whack it with the cat. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "get cat" | |||||
Floyd | You are too tiny to pick up such a large cat! Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "it'll wear off in a bit" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z.z.z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z.z.z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z.z.z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z.z.z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z.z.z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | You return to your normal size. It feels good to be normal size again. Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "get cat" | |||||
Floyd | As soon as you pick up the cat, it comes alive, hissing and arching its Floyd | back. The chaotic mass of fur, teeth and claws is quite a handful... Floyd | Oops!!!...dropped the shy little bunny rabbit! Floyd | The tomato lands with a disconcerting thud. Floyd | Doh!!!...dropped the nice tomato! Floyd | Zounds!!!...dropped the whistle! Floyd | Oofta!!!...dropped the fruit! Floyd | Doh!!!...dropped the lacquer box! Floyd | Floyd | Now that you can pay full attention to the cat, it nuzzles you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Oops." | CarolynV says, "Oops." | ||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "hit me with cat" | |||||
Floyd | That would be suicidal! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "This is just like life around my house." | ||||
| CarolynV says, "Oops -- must step away for a few minutes. My non-zombified bunny needs feeding." | |||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Velvet Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Velvet Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a shy little bunny rabbit Floyd | a nice tomato Floyd | a pair of glasses (being worn) Floyd | a whistle Floyd | a fruit Floyd | some decaying farm garments (being worn) Floyd | a lacquer box which contains a parchment note Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Metal Shaft Floyd | A straight, metal shaft. The shaft runs east to west and there are Floyd | exits at both ends. To the east, you can see a cavernous room, and to Floyd | the west you catch a hint of velvet-covered walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Vaulted Junction Floyd | This room is remarkable for its high, arched ceiling which almost gives Floyd | you the impression of being outside at night. An inclined metal shaft Floyd | leads off to the west, there is some sort of tiled chamber to the east, Floyd | and there is a frozen cavern to the south. In addition, a steep spiral Floyd | stairway leads down. A sign is engraved into the wall near the top of Floyd | the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I figure we can come back for the cat if we need it, since we can't carrying anything else" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Spiral Stairs Floyd | The staircase is made of dull, black stone, and a bannister of the same Floyd | material spirals down along the wall. The staircase is steep but Floyd | regular, with landings every step. You can go up or down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bottom Of Stairwell Floyd | At the bottom of the staircase, there is a large room with no Floyd | furnishings. Well, except the monkey golem and the sign. There is a Floyd | room behind the monkey, but you can't get a good look at it. Even more Floyd | surreally, there is a small storm cloud over the monkey's head, and Floyd | rain is pouring down violently only in the immediate area of the Floyd | monkey. After all that, it seems logical that the monkey is using an Floyd | umbrella to keep dry. Obviously, going up the stairs is also a Floyd | consideration. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a monkey golem here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "True." | ||||
| inky says, "if we can't get by the guard this is the only other room I know about in the game" | |||||
| inky says, "er, this and the next one" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sign" | |||||
Floyd | Upon inspection, this plaque is actually part of the wall itself. Floyd | Written in black letters upon a white background is the following: Floyd | Floyd | Some say that less is more Floyd | A rule you'd better learn to ignore. Floyd | When thunder booms and lightning strikes Floyd | Don't worry about swords, shields or pikes. Floyd | If the sky is dimming avoid trouble. Floyd | Express your answer on the double. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Is it just me, or is this whole thing rather random?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Like, not as in randomization." | |||||
| inky says, "yeeeeeah, you could say that" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Just as in cracktasticness?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't necessarily mean that in a bad way, mind you." | |||||
| inky says, "anyway, this is a riddle which I was totally stuck on" | |||||
| inky says, "and ended up having to do serious txd work to get the answer to" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "txd?" | |||||
| Alex says (to Jacqueline), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that txd is a zcode disassembler." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh dar." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "er, dear." | |||||
| Jacqueline reads it over and over and over. | |||||
| dhakajack says, "I realized that this one is difficult... you might need the cat...." | |||||
| inky says, "that's true" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf4" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Spiral Stairs Floyd | The staircase is made of dull, black stone, and a bannister of the same Floyd | material spirals down along the wall. The staircase is steep but Floyd | regular, with landings every step. You can go up or down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Vaulted Junction Floyd | This room is remarkable for its high, arched ceiling which almost gives Floyd | you the impression of being outside at night. An inclined metal shaft Floyd | leads off to the west, there is some sort of tiled chamber to the east, Floyd | and there is a frozen cavern to the south. In addition, a steep spiral Floyd | stairway leads down. A sign is engraved into the wall near the top of Floyd | the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Metal Shaft Floyd | A straight, metal shaft. The shaft runs east to west and there are Floyd | exits at both ends. To the east, you can see a cavernous room, and to Floyd | the west you catch a hint of velvet-covered walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Velvet Room Floyd | An egg-shaped room which is lined floor, walls and ceiling with a lush Floyd | grey velvet. There is a pedestal in the middle of the room. The column Floyd | of the pedestal is covered in fabric, and the fabric has scratch marks, Floyd | as if sliced with a razor-sharp tool. On top of the pedestal, there is Floyd | a cat statuette. At the base of the pedestal is a small, brass plaque. Floyd | The only exit from the room is the metal shaft to the east, which is Floyd | wide open. Next to the shaft, a grey lever sticks of out the wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a marble pedestal (on which is a cat) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get cat" | |||||
Floyd | As soon as you pick up the cat, it comes alive, hissing and arching its Floyd | back. The chaotic mass of fur, teeth and claws is quite a handful... Floyd | Oops!!!...dropped the shy little bunny rabbit! Floyd | The tomato lands with a disconcerting thud. Floyd | Yipes!!!...dropped the nice tomato! Floyd | Oops!!!...dropped the whistle! Floyd | Oy!!!...dropped the fruit! Floyd | Dang!!!...dropped the lacquer box! Floyd | Floyd | Now that you can pay full attention to the cat, it nuzzles you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Metal Shaft Floyd | A straight, metal shaft. The shaft runs east to west and there are Floyd | exits at both ends. To the east, you can see a cavernous room, and to Floyd | the west you catch a hint of velvet-covered walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Vaulted Junction Floyd | This room is remarkable for its high, arched ceiling which almost gives Floyd | you the impression of being outside at night. An inclined metal shaft Floyd | leads off to the west, there is some sort of tiled chamber to the east, Floyd | and there is a frozen cavern to the south. In addition, a steep spiral Floyd | stairway leads down. A sign is engraved into the wall near the top of Floyd | the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Spiral Stairs Floyd | The staircase is made of dull, black stone, and a bannister of the same Floyd | material spirals down along the wall. The staircase is steep but Floyd | regular, with landings every step. You can go up or down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bottom Of Stairwell Floyd | At the bottom of the staircase, there is a large room with no Floyd | furnishings. Well, except the monkey golem and the sign. There is a Floyd | room behind the monkey, but you can't get a good look at it. Even more Floyd | surreally, there is a small storm cloud over the monkey's head, and Floyd | rain is pouring down violently only in the immediate area of the Floyd | monkey. After all that, it seems logical that the monkey is using an Floyd | umbrella to keep dry. Obviously, going up the stairs is also a Floyd | consideration. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a monkey golem here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit golem with cat" | |||||
Floyd | The cat seems satisfied that you have struck the monkey golem with it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit golem with cat" | |||||
Floyd | You whip the cat into the monkey golem. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit golem with cat" | |||||
Floyd | You whip the cat into the monkey golem. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit golem with cat" | |||||
Floyd | The cat asks for more as you strike it against the monkey golem. Floyd | Floyd | The cat shrieks,"This guy's trying to make a monkey out of you! Don't Floyd | listen to his double talk!". Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit golem with cat" | |||||
Floyd | The cat seems bemused that you have pummeled the monkey golem with it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit golem with cat" | |||||
Floyd | You whip the cat into the monkey golem. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit golem with cat" | |||||
Floyd | The cat seems chuffed that you have hammered the monkey golem with it. Floyd | Floyd | The cat exclaims,"You'd better follow his instructions to the letter!". Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit golem with cat" | |||||
Floyd | The cat laughs with pleasure as you strike it against the monkey golem. Floyd | Floyd | The cat whines,"Harder! Oh come on, he's spelling it out for ya!". Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit golem with cat" | |||||
Floyd | The cat asks for more as you drive it into the monkey golem. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit golem with cat" | |||||
Floyd | You slam the cat into the monkey golem. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit golem with cat" | |||||
Floyd | You whip the cat into the monkey golem. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit golem with cat" | |||||
Floyd | The cat seems grateful that you have repeatly beaten the monkey golem Floyd | with it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit golem with cat" | |||||
Floyd | The cat seems delighted that you have repeatly beaten the monkey golem Floyd | with it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit golem with cat" | |||||
Floyd | You bang the cat into the monkey golem. Floyd | Floyd | The cat howls,"Put some back into it. For you answer, look to Gibbons, Floyd | Baboons, Chimpanzees, not Macaques, Tamarins, Lemurs, or Howlers.". Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I think that is all the hints" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "if so, it'll just keep repeating them..." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "My cat thinks it lives on a pedestal." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Belatedly." | |||||
| inky says, "hee hee" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hit golem harder with cat" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hit the monkey golem. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x golem" | |||||
Floyd | A beefy looking stone monkey golem stands between you and the next Floyd | room. Clearly, he intends to block your way, because whichever way you Floyd | move, he apes your movement. The monkey looks at you expectantly, as if Floyd | you are supposed to say something. There is a small sign on the wall to Floyd | the right of the monkey. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read sign" | |||||
Floyd | Upon inspection, this plaque is actually part of the wall itself. Floyd | Written in black letters upon a white background is the following: Floyd | Floyd | Some say that less is more Floyd | A rule you'd better learn to ignore. Floyd | When thunder booms and lightning strikes Floyd | Don't worry about swords, shields or pikes. Floyd | If the sky is dimming avoid trouble. Floyd | Express your answer on the double. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Maureen goes home. | Jacqueline asks (of inky), "So, you know the answer to this because you cheated, or you still don't know?" | ||||
| inky says, "I do" | |||||
| inky asks, "should I just give it?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "I am perhaps the only other person playing." | |||||
| inky says, "ok then!" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "And I do not mind if you nudge us along." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "storms" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask monkey about storms" | |||||
Floyd | Ook! Ook! Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "uhh" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "say storms" | |||||
Floyd | (to the monkey golem) Floyd | The clouds dissipate, and the monkey folds up his umbrella and shakes Floyd | it to the side. There is a puff of pink smoke, and the monkey is Floyd | replaced by a wind-up tin monkey with cymbals...perhaps you can go east Floyd | now. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "in the first clue, it may have been more accurate for the cat to say that it *is* all double talk (rather than telling you not to listen to the double talk)" | ||||
| inky says, "there we go" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Glowing Chamber Floyd | This magnificent chamber pulses with living energy. There is a small Floyd | inscription on the wall, and below it, a keyhole. The only exit from Floyd | the room is to the west, back towards the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x keyhole" | |||||
Floyd | A hole in the wall, similar to a keyhole, but you can see nothing Floyd | inside the hole -- only darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x inscription" | |||||
Floyd | An inscription is engraved into the material of the wall. It reads: Floyd | Floyd | Dear Candidate, Floyd | Floyd | To proceed to the next phase of neuroalignment, insert the Ivory Key of Floyd | Obsidian Annihilation into the teleport controller below. Floyd | Floyd | The Order of the Perigee. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok, so I'm not exactly sure where to go from here" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "We have that, right?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a cat Floyd | a pair of glasses (being worn) Floyd | some decaying farm garments (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, wait." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I thought we had a key." | |||||
| inky asks (of dhakajack), "you said we can still win without going down the rabbit hole?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess that was the last playthrough." | |||||
| inky says, "we dropped a bunch of stuff when we picked up the cat" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bottom Of Stairwell Floyd | At the bottom of the staircase, there is a large room with no Floyd | furnishings. There is an exit to the east. Obviously, going up the Floyd | stairs is also a consideration. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a toy monkey here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get monkey" | |||||
Floyd | The cat wants your full attention. You can't pick up anything else. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop cat" | |||||
Floyd | The cat reverts to the form of a stone statuette. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get monkey" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Spiral Stairs Floyd | The staircase is made of dull, black stone, and a bannister of the same Floyd | material spirals down along the wall. The staircase is steep but Floyd | regular, with landings every step. You can go up or down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Back." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | It doesn't appear that you can go in that direction, but you might Floyd | consider heading upwards to the Vaulted Junction, or downwards to the Floyd | Bottom Of Stairwell. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Vaulted Junction Floyd | This room is remarkable for its high, arched ceiling which almost gives Floyd | you the impression of being outside at night. An inclined metal shaft Floyd | leads off to the west, there is some sort of tiled chamber to the east, Floyd | and there is a frozen cavern to the south. In addition, a steep spiral Floyd | stairway leads down. A sign is engraved into the wall near the top of Floyd | the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Metal Shaft Floyd | A straight, metal shaft. The shaft runs east to west and there are Floyd | exits at both ends. To the east, you can see a cavernous room, and to Floyd | the west you catch a hint of velvet-covered walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Velvet Room Floyd | An egg-shaped room which is lined floor, walls and ceiling with a lush Floyd | grey velvet. There is a pedestal in the middle of the room. The column Floyd | of the pedestal is covered in fabric, and the fabric has scratch marks, Floyd | as if sliced with a razor-sharp tool. At the base of the pedestal is a Floyd | small, brass plaque. The only exit from the room is the metal shaft to Floyd | the east, which is wide open. Next to the shaft, a grey lever sticks of Floyd | out the wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a lacquer box which contains a parchment note Floyd | , a fruit, a whistle, a spoiled tomato, a shy little bunny rabbit and a Floyd | marble pedestal here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get all" | |||||
Floyd | lacquer box: Taken. Floyd | fruit: Taken. Floyd | whistle: Taken. Floyd | spoiled tomato: Taken. Floyd | shy little bunny rabbit: Taken. Floyd | marble pedestal: The marble pedestal doesn't budge. It's no use -- it Floyd | is definitely fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hi, C." | ||||
| inky says, "hmm, I guess no key here either" | |||||
| inky says, "anyway, what we have is a wooden key" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "I think that may have been the last - oh." | |||||
| inky says, "the only other key I know about is the ebony key, which is down the rabbit hole" | |||||
| inky says, "but it sounds like we can't get to it" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, we can just paint it white and fool the inscription." | |||||
| dhakajack asks, "is there a way to save the game after getting key and then reload that saved game into floyd?" | |||||
| inky says, "good idea!" | |||||
| inky says, "let's see" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Metal Shaft Floyd | A straight, metal shaft. The shaft runs east to west and there are Floyd | exits at both ends. To the east, you can see a cavernous room, and to Floyd | the west you catch a hint of velvet-covered walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Vaulted Junction Floyd | This room is remarkable for its high, arched ceiling which almost gives Floyd | you the impression of being outside at night. An inclined metal shaft Floyd | leads off to the west, there is some sort of tiled chamber to the east, Floyd | and there is a frozen cavern to the south. In addition, a steep spiral Floyd | stairway leads down. A sign is engraved into the wall near the top of Floyd | the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The temperature drops as you enter this long, echoing chamber. The Floyd | ceiling and floor seem to be coated with a clear, slippery, hard Floyd | substance. The walls, on the whole, look rubbery. As you contemplate Floyd | that, you realise that you have slid to the centre of the room... Floyd | Floyd | Hall Of Cold Logic Floyd | The white ceiling and floor of the room are entirely unremarkable Floyd | except for their unusual slickness. You can see exits near the centre Floyd | of the north and south walls. You are dead-centre in the middle of the Floyd | room. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | You can't get any traction! You haven't moved at all! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "blow whistle" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Front Room Floyd | A monastically simple room, with a single chair, a low table, and a Floyd | small fireplace. Strangely, this house has been built with no windows. Floyd | The kitchen is to the north, and the front yard is to the east. There Floyd | is an open warped door which leads to a room to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table and a black chair (on which is an old man) here. Floyd | Floyd | You somersault out of the fireplace, covered with black soot and Floyd | smelling like a barbeque. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | A small, windowless cabin to the west is framed by a lush lawn. To the Floyd | south of the cabin, there is a small, well-tended garden. A dirt lane Floyd | leads towards the east, where it joins up with the road into town. Floyd | Floyd | You can see three herbs (an herb with blue flowers, an herb with violet Floyd | flowers and an herb with yellow flowers) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a shy little bunny rabbit Floyd | a spoiled tomato Floyd | a whistle Floyd | a fruit Floyd | a lacquer box which contains a parchment note Floyd | Floyd | a toy monkey Floyd | a pair of glasses (being worn) Floyd | some decaying farm garments (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get violet" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Room Floyd | A monastically simple room, with a single chair, a low table, and a Floyd | small fireplace. Strangely, this house has been built with no windows. Floyd | The kitchen is to the north, and the front yard is to the east. There Floyd | is an open warped door which leads to a room to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table and a black chair (on which is an old man) here. Floyd | Floyd | The man in priestly robes scratches himself in his sleep. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | A long, narrow room with a butcher's table. Below the table, there is Floyd | some sort of large, cube-shaped device marked "recycling unit". A Floyd | cabinet built into the wall is open, showing a large machine inside. Floyd | The only way out is back south to the front room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a butcher table here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in white" | |||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x white" | |||||
Floyd | A large, white enamel box with an attached hopper. The box is flat on Floyd | every side, and altogether unremarkable, except for the words Floyd | "recycling unit" which appear in raised script letters on the upper Floyd | right hand corner of the unit, above the hopper. There is something in Floyd | the hopper. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in hopper" | |||||
Floyd | In the hopper are two empty bottles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get bottle" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put bottle in recess" | |||||
Floyd | (the empty bottle in the recess) Floyd | The bottle snaps into the recess and the nozzle assembly descends, Floyd | puncturing the cap. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put herb in funnel" | |||||
Floyd | The herb with grey flowers slides downwards in the funnel. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn crank" | |||||
Floyd | A new potion appears in the machine's recess, and the nozzle retracts. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get potion" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Room Floyd | A monastically simple room, with a single chair, a low table, and a Floyd | small fireplace. Strangely, this house has been built with no windows. Floyd | The kitchen is to the north, and the front yard is to the east. There Floyd | is an open warped door which leads to a room to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table and a black chair (on which is an old man) here. Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | A small, windowless cabin to the west is framed by a lush lawn. To the Floyd | south of the cabin, there is a small, well-tended garden. A dirt lane Floyd | leads towards the east, where it joins up with the road into town. Floyd | Floyd | You can see two herbs (an herb with blue flowers and an herb with Floyd | yellow flowers) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Desolate Road Floyd | To the west, you can make out a cabin at the edge of the woods. The Floyd | woods come right to the edge of the road, except on the north side Floyd | where there is a small strip of meadow. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Meadow Floyd | An unmaintained field with short grass near the road, and taller grass Floyd | towards the surrounding woods. At the edge of the woods, there is a Floyd | depression, and at its base, a hole. There are some rabbit tracks in Floyd | the soft mud near the road to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf5" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "dammit, I keep typing 'f s' when I play this" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Wait, shouldn't that take you s?" | |||||
| inky says, "not when I'm running the terp directly" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh - that." | |||||
| inky says, "ok, let's see" | |||||
>drink potion The violet potion disappears with a PUFF! Everything around you has gotten bigger! >enter hole Rabbi t Hol e Ent rance A nar row, dark, rabbi t-siz e tun nel l eadin g bot h tow ards the s urfac e and even deepe r thr ough the d ark, moist earth . >d Upper Rabbi t Hol e A maz e of twist y, tu rning and o therw ise c rampe d pas sages delvi ng fa r int o the groun d. Yo u hav e two choic es he re: u p and down. >d Warre ns A hor ribly long, deep, narro w pas sage of tw istin g and windi ng co rrido rs th at al terna tely spira l and zig-z ag ch aotic ally throu gh th e ear th. T here' s now here to go but u p and down. >d Lower Reach es A mea nderi ng tu nnel throu gh th e dee p dar k ear th. T he tu nnel exten ds up and d own a s far as th e eye can s ee. >d Rabbit Den A relatively large chamber which has been dug in moist clay-like soil. Plant roots penetrate through the ceilings and walls. The tunnel leads upwards, back to the surface. You can see a wall of solid carrot here. >f eat wall That's not a verb I recognise. >eat wall (the wall of solid carrot) That's your fibre quota for this hexany....perhaps you can go south now. >f s That's not a verb I recognise. >s Rabbit Treasure Chamber A chamber that the rabbit and his lapine ancestors have filled with collected treasure over the ages. A small opening in the floor leads to a narrow metal chute. A larger rabbit den is to the north. You can see an ebony key here. >f get key That's not a verb I recognise. >get key Taken. >enter chute Once you enter the chute, you realise how slick it is, and find yourself whipping around and around in an ever-descending spiral. Finally, you come to rest on a metal door. The door clicks open, and you fall to the floor. The metal door slams shut above you, melding undetectably into the vaulted ceiling. Vaulted Junction This room is remarkable for its high, arched ceiling which almost gives you the impression of being outside at night. An inclined metal shaft leads off to the west, there is some sort of tiled chamber to the east, and there is a frozen cavern to the south. In addition, a steep spiral stairway leads down. A sign is engraved into the wall near the top of the stairs. | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf6" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Vaulted Junction Floyd | This room is remarkable for its high, arched ceiling which almost gives Floyd | you the impression of being outside at night. An inclined metal shaft Floyd | leads off to the west, there is some sort of tiled chamber to the east, Floyd | and there is a frozen cavern to the south. In addition, a steep spiral Floyd | stairway leads down. A sign is engraved into the wall near the top of Floyd | the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ta-da" | ||||
| dhakajack asks, "what I had in mind was playing it quickly off line and then uploading the saved file...would that work?" | |||||
| CarolynV is duly impressed. | |||||
| inky says, "I even kept a transcript so you can fake it up" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x key" | |||||
Floyd | The soft gold of the key bears the impression of rabbit incisors, but Floyd | the multi-hued jewels are firmly seated in their settings. The shaft Floyd | and handle of the key are ebony. The rectangular shaft of the key Floyd | terminates in an exceptionally intricate series of ridges and Floyd | excavations, which suggest that it fits a very complex mechanism. Floyd | Engraving along the shaft of the key reads "elleH ot yeK ehT" in an Floyd | archaic script. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Jack), "I don't think that would, no." | ||||
| dhakajack says, "sorry--browser lag..." | |||||
| Jacqueline asks (of inky), "Oh, you did?" | |||||
| inky says, "yeah" | |||||
| inky says, "so now we're back north of the ice room with the key" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Frog Room Floyd | A round room with domed ceiling. Every surface is covered in small, Floyd | reflective tiles. The tiles create a mosaic depicting water and lily Floyd | pads on the floor and scores of jumping frogs as the base of the walls. Floyd | The scene is reinforced by a continuous chorus of croaking which Floyd | reverberates and is reflected by the tiles. You can exit to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Vaulted Junction Floyd | This room is remarkable for its high, arched ceiling which almost gives Floyd | you the impression of being outside at night. An inclined metal shaft Floyd | leads off to the west, there is some sort of tiled chamber to the east, Floyd | and there is a frozen cavern to the south. In addition, a steep spiral Floyd | stairway leads down. A sign is engraved into the wall near the top of Floyd | the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Spiral Stairs Floyd | The staircase is made of dull, black stone, and a bannister of the same Floyd | material spirals down along the wall. The staircase is steep but Floyd | regular, with landings every step. You can go up or down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bottom Of Stairwell Floyd | At the bottom of the staircase, there is a large room with no Floyd | furnishings. There is an exit to the east. Obviously, going up the Floyd | stairs is also a consideration. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a cat here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Glowing Chamber Floyd | This magnificent chamber pulses with living energy. There is a small Floyd | inscription on the wall, and below it, a keyhole. The only exit from Floyd | the room is to the west, back towards the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack exclaims, "congratulations on the meta-puzzle!" | ||||
| inky says, "it's the ebony key and not the ivory key, but that's as far as I'd gotten" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put ebony key in keyhole" | |||||
Floyd | Nothing seems to happen. How anticlimactic. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn ebony key" | |||||
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get ebony key" | |||||
Floyd | You already have the ebony key. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unlock keyhole with ebony key" | |||||
Floyd | That doesn't seem to be something you can unlock. Floyd | You return to your normal size. It feels good to be normal size again. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x key" | |||||
Floyd | The soft gold of the key bears the impression of rabbit incisors, but Floyd | the multi-hued jewels are firmly seated in their settings. The shaft Floyd | and handle of the key are ebony. The rectangular shaft of the key Floyd | terminates in an exceptionally intricate series of ridges and Floyd | excavations, which suggest that it fits a very complex mechanism. Floyd | Engraving along the shaft of the key reads "elleH ot yeK ehT" in an Floyd | archaic script. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "there's that mirror in the old guy's bedroom" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm, yeah." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Worth a shot by me." | |||||
| inky says, "but --" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Go, inkster!" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "blow whistle" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Front Room Floyd | A monastically simple room, with a single chair, a low table, and a Floyd | small fireplace. Strangely, this house has been built with no windows. Floyd | The kitchen is to the north, and the front yard is to the east. There Floyd | is an open warped door which leads to a room to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table and a black chair (on which is an old man) here. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Room Floyd | A monastically simple room, with a single chair, a low table, and a Floyd | small fireplace. Strangely, this house has been built with no windows. Floyd | The kitchen is to the north, and the front yard is to the east. There Floyd | is an open warped door which leads to a room to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table and a black chair (on which is an old man) here. Floyd | Floyd | You somersault out of the fireplace, covered with black soot and Floyd | smelling like a barbeque. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | An uncomfortable, stifling bedroom with no windows. The room is barely Floyd | large enough to accommodate the vaguely bed-like lump of furniture in Floyd | the middle of the room. A tall, classic mirror framed in dark wood is Floyd | wedged between the bed and the wall. A pretty silk ribbon is tastefully Floyd | draped across the mirror, about half-way up. The mirror reflects the Floyd | scene in the room. The only exit, an open warped door, lies to the Floyd | east, and leads back to the front room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a bed (on which is a pillow) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | |||||
Floyd | A beautiful antique mirror of unparallelled craftsmanship. A pretty Floyd | silk ribbon is draped across the mirror, about half-way up. Reflected Floyd | in the mirror, you can see a zombie dressed in the clothes of a farmer. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "reflect key in mirror" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "touch mirror with key" | |||||
Floyd | (first taking the mirror) Floyd | The mirror doesn't budge. It's no use -- it is definitely fixed in Floyd | place. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look at key in mirror" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | CarolynV says, "For some reason, I really thought I finished this game... but the more of this I see, the less I think I did. Is weird." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "touch key to mirror" | |||||
Floyd | As the key contacts its reflected twin, the mass and energy of two Floyd | universes is concentrated into the infinitely small point of contact. Floyd | Floyd | You have destroyed the very concept of existence. Nice work. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Everyone is dead!. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | CarolynV says, "Wow." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Nice work, inky." | |||||
| inky says, "see, that was as far as I got with that line of thinking on my playthrough" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "touch mirror" | |||||
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push mirror" | |||||
Floyd | The mirror doesn't budge. It's no use -- it is definitely fixed in Floyd | place. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter mirror" | |||||
Floyd | There is a grey ribbon in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "go mirror" | |||||
Floyd | There is a grey ribbon in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get ribbon" | |||||
Floyd | The ancient ribbon snaps into two pieces, crumbles to dust, and then is Floyd | no more. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter mirror" | |||||
Floyd | eht evah uoy ,rorrim eht hguorht ssap uoy sA Floyd | ni uoy ekil enoemos tsap gnihsurb fo noitasnes Floyd | .tcepser yreve Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Jack), "You have a !. at the end, instead of just !" | ||||
| inky says, "now we're talkin'" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | .esingocer I brev a ton s'tahT Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "inv" | |||||
Floyd | .esingocer I brev a ton s'tahT Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "kool" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | moordeB Floyd | on htiw moordeb gnilfits ,elbatrofmocnu nA Floyd | ot hguone egral ylerab si moor ehT .swodniw Floyd | fo pmul ekil-deb yleugav eht etadommocca Floyd | ,llat A .moor eht fo elddim eht ni erutinruf Floyd | degdew si doow krad ni demarf rorrim cissalc Floyd | stcelfer rorrim ehT .llaw eht dna deb eht neewteb Floyd | nepo na ,tixe ylno ehT .moor eht ni enecs eht Floyd | ot kcab sdael dna ,tsae eht ot seil ,rood depraw Floyd | .moor tnorf eht Floyd | Floyd | .ereh (wollip a si hcihw no) deb a ees nac uoY Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha ha" | ||||
| inky says, "this is awesome" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "OMG." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, this is pretty great, yeah." | |||||
| CarolynV exclaims, "And I don't say that often!" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "yrotnevni" | |||||
Floyd | :gniyrrac era uoY Floyd | yek yrovi na Floyd | tibbar ynnub elttil yhs a Floyd | otamot deliops a Floyd | eltsihw a Floyd | tiurf a Floyd | eton tnemhcrap a sniatnoc hcihw xob reuqcal a Floyd | Floyd | yeknom yot a Floyd | (nrow gnieb) sessalg fo riap a Floyd | (nrow gnieb) stnemrag mraf gniyaced emos Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "wollip teg" | |||||
Floyd | llams a gnilaever ,edisa stfaw wollip lufitip ehT Floyd | .elttob Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "elottob teg" | |||||
Floyd | .gniht hcus yna ees t'nac uoY Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to C), "I think you mean OMFG, really. I mean, if you're going to resort to 1337 speak, might as well go all out." | ||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "elttob teg" | |||||
Floyd | .nekaT Floyd | Floyd | > | CarolynV asks, "OMGWTFIRDOABBQ?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That's better." | |||||
| dhakajack says, "QBBAODRIFTWGMO" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "yek x" | |||||
Floyd | fo noisserpmi eht sraeb yek eht fo dlog tfos ehT Floyd | era slewej deuh-itlum eht tub ,srosicni tibbar Floyd | dna tfahs ehT .sgnittes rieht ni detaes ylmrif Floyd | ralugnatcer ehT .yrovi era yek eht fo eldnah Floyd | yllanoitpecxe na ni setanimret yek eht fo tfahs Floyd | hcihw ,snoitavacxe dna segdir fo seires etacirtni Floyd | .msinahcem xelpmoc yrev a stif ti taht tseggus Floyd | ehT" sdaer yek eht fo tfahs eht gnola gnivargnE Floyd | .tpircs ciahcra na ni "elleH ot yeK Floyd | Floyd | > | CarolynV says, "...the part where the word ADRIFT is in the middle of that bothers me." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||||
| inky says, "hee hee" | |||||
| inky says, "hmm" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Jack, I don't know how you did this, but it is INSANE." | |||||
| inky says, "ok, so the key has turned to ivory" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, how in the heck..." | |||||
| inky says, "and the writing is backwards" | |||||
| inky says, "I mean, frontwards" | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "rorrim ni yek tup" | |||||
Floyd | | inky says, "I mean, not frontwards" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It is very, very cool." | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "rorrim ta yek worht" | |||||
Floyd | | CarolynV says, "Floyd stopped liking me." | ||||
| inky says, "hmm" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "kool" | |||||
Floyd | | inky says, "oops, not again" | ||||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | | dhakajack says, "I did crazy things with text streams. The excruciating part was to get this effect to superimposed on the "twisty passage" effect of going down the rabbit tunnel." | ||||
| CarolynV gawks. | |||||
| inky says, "ha ha ha" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "I BET." | |||||
| inky asks, "so we can actually leave the room and wander around the whole map?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "wow" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "if I recall correctly, yes -- were you so inclined..." | |||||
| inky says, "man oh goodness" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, are we ?won nekorb" | |||||
| inky says, "yeah maybe" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "kool" | |||||
Floyd | | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push space" | |||||
Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "!ssendas" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "note -- doing the entire game in reverse is not necessary, though. Not even recommended, frankly." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "But still really freakin' cool." | |||||
| maga's studied dalliance with his venal muses is little to our taste. | dhakajack says, "I believe that the original (reversed) key would work the lock in the mirror universe as an alternate way to finish the intro" | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | |||||
| inky says, "awesome" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Hm... so I hate to ask, but are we going to call it quits here, on the supposition that Floyd will break before we finish anyway? Now that we've seen this awesomeness? Or, dear gods, is there something even more awesome to come?" | |||||
| dhakajack asks, "do you want to try the restore from save trick again and play it out from here?" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks (of inky), "Will that work?" | |||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "load ninetenths" | |||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [pausing to show unread error message] | dhakajack says, "you've hit almost everything except possession of a couple more critters and dialogue with the old guy" | ||||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Nine-Tenths of the Law Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | by Floyd | Jack Welch Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | An introduction submitted to the 2008 IntroComp Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press [Space] to begin | |||||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Nine-tenths of the Law Floyd | Copyright (c) 2008 Jack Welch Floyd | Release 112 / Serial number 080818 / Inform v6.31 Library 6/11 Floyd | Type HELP for info on licencing and credits, or if you get stuck. Floyd | Floyd | The Hilltop Floyd | A craggy, windswept patch of dirt atop the smallest in a vast range of Floyd | mountains. A barely visible path leads down the mountain. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a cheap wooden door, a shambling zombie and a shy little Floyd | bunny rabbit here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf6" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "so do you want me to play out the last bit from this save?" | ||||
| inky says, "I'm not sure exactly what things caused it to stop working in the mirror" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "If everyone's had it, I don't want to torture you to [un]death with this game, though..." | |||||
| Jacqueline nods. | |||||
| inky says, "since some stuff did work" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "blow whistle" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Front Room Floyd | A monastically simple room, with a single chair, a low table, and a Floyd | small fireplace. Strangely, this house has been built with no windows. Floyd | The kitchen is to the north, and the front yard is to the east. There Floyd | is an open warped door which leads to a room to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table and a black chair (on which is an old man) here. Floyd | Floyd | You somersault out of the fireplace, covered with black soot and Floyd | smelling like a barbeque. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The figure in the chair mumbles incoherently about tomatoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | An uncomfortable, stifling bedroom with no windows. The room is barely Floyd | large enough to accommodate the vaguely bed-like lump of furniture in Floyd | the middle of the room. A tall, classic mirror framed in dark wood is Floyd | wedged between the bed and the wall. A pretty silk ribbon is tastefully Floyd | draped across the mirror, about half-way up. The mirror reflects the Floyd | scene in the room. The only exit, an open warped door, lies to the Floyd | east, and leads back to the front room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a bed (on which is a pillow) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get ribbon" | |||||
Floyd | The ancient ribbon snaps into two pieces, crumbles to dust, and then is Floyd | no more. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look under pillow" | |||||
Floyd | The pitiful pillow wafts aside, revealing a small bottle. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get bottle" | |||||
Floyd | The grey potion is too heavy. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read label" | |||||
Floyd | "potion of aronk." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm, we never did see what that one did" | ||||
| CarolynV asks, "Too heavy?" | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "inv" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an ebony key Floyd | a shy little bunny rabbit Floyd | a spoiled tomato Floyd | a whistle Floyd | a fruit Floyd | a lacquer box which contains a parchment note Floyd | Floyd | a toy monkey Floyd | a pair of glasses (being worn) Floyd | some decaying farm garments (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I don't remember that." | ||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "x tomato" | |||||
Floyd | This disgusting grey lump of vegetable matter may have been a tomato Floyd | once, but the soft, glistening mass is no longer appetising. Floyd | Floyd | > | CarolynV says, "I must have missed the tomato going bad." | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||||
Floyd | You are a possessed decaying corpse with vacant, unblinking eyes and Floyd | saliva-coated maw; any fool could tell that you are undead. You seem Floyd | to be missing a right arm. In terms of fashion, you are wearing some Floyd | decaying farm garments. At least the spectacles add an air of academic Floyd | respectability. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "maybe when we dropped it we bruised it" | ||||
| inky asks, "?" | |||||
| Lucea arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | inky says, "or maybe it's a zombie tomato" | ||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "drool on tomato" | Lucea asks, "whoa, you're still playing?" | ||||
Floyd | You cover the spoiled tomato with wet saliva. It evaporates. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "smell tomato" | |||||
Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | You return to your normal size. It feels good to be normal size again. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| CarolynV says (to Floyd), "get potion" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline likes the idea of a zombie tomato. | ||||
| CarolynV says, "There we go." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Lucea), "You missed the coolest thing ever, and yes." | |||||
| Lucea says, "what did I miss" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf7" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | CarolynV says, "moordeB ...on htiw moordeb gnilfits ,elbatrofmocnu nA" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter mirror" | |||||
Floyd | eht evah uoy ,rorrim eht hguorht ssap uoy sA Floyd | ni uoy ekil enoemos tsap gnihsurb fo noitasnes Floyd | .tcepser yreve Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "kool" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | moordeB Floyd | on htiw moordeb gnilfits ,elbatrofmocnu nA Floyd | ot hguone egral ylerab si moor ehT .swodniw Floyd | fo pmul ekil-deb yleugav eht etadommocca Floyd | ,llat A .moor eht fo elddim eht ni erutinruf Floyd | degdew si doow krad ni demarf rorrim cissalc Floyd | stcelfer rorrim ehT .llaw eht dna deb eht neewteb Floyd | nepo na ,tixe ylno ehT .moor eht ni enecs eht Floyd | ot kcab sdael dna ,tsae eht ot seil ,rood depraw Floyd | .moor tnorf eht Floyd | Floyd | .ereh (wollip a si hcihw no) deb a ees nac uoY Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Lucea), "This stuff." | ||||
| Lucea says, "eeeagh" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "er, ffuts sihT" | |||||
| Lucea says, "my inner parser is crying" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "My inner parser is amazed." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "We have it on good authority you can wander around the .pam eritne" | |||||
| Jacqueline refrains from saying that your inner parser called me crying. | |||||
| inky says, "ok, so uh" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wollip x" | |||||
Floyd | evah yam taht cirbaf fo tib niht-repap ,yerg A Floyd | .efil remrof sti ni wollip a neeb Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "yek pord" | |||||
Floyd | .depporD Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ghogg arrives, full of fun and funk. | inky says (to Ghogg), "check this out:" | ||||
| Lucea says, "uh, yeah, I'm going to let you guys drive. this is one of those "I appreciate the work you put into this but ye gods, no."" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "kool" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | moordeB Floyd | on htiw moordeb gnilfits ,elbatrofmocnu nA Floyd | ot hguone egral ylerab si moor ehT .swodniw Floyd | fo pmul ekil-deb yleugav eht etadommocca Floyd | ,llat A .moor eht fo elddim eht ni erutinruf Floyd | degdew si doow krad ni demarf rorrim cissalc Floyd | stcelfer rorrim ehT .llaw eht dna deb eht neewteb Floyd | nepo na ,tixe ylno ehT .moor eht ni enecs eht Floyd | ot kcab sdael dna ,tsae eht ot seil ,rood depraw Floyd | .moor tnorf eht Floyd | Floyd | a si hcihw no) deb a dna yek yrovi na ees nac uoY Floyd | .ereh (wollip Floyd | Floyd | > | Ghogg says, "Wrrrr" | ||||
| Jacqueline laughs at Ghogg. | |||||
| CarolynV says, "My brain is turning to jello. Yet... so emosewa." | |||||
| inky says, "he claims the whole game is playable this way" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, um, what do we do now?" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "rrorim retne" | |||||
Floyd | .gniht hcus yna ees t'nac uoY Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "We just came to the mirror to read the key, right?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "rorrim retne" | |||||
Floyd | As you pass through the mirror, you have the sensation of brushing past Floyd | someone like you in every respect. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | An uncomfortable, stifling bedroom with no windows. The room is barely Floyd | large enough to accommodate the vaguely bed-like lump of furniture in Floyd | the middle of the room. A tall, classic mirror framed in dark wood is Floyd | wedged between the bed and the wall. The mirror reflects the scene in Floyd | the room. The only exit, an open warped door, lies to the east, and Floyd | leads back to the front room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an ivory key and a bed (on which is a pillow) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get key" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "I suggest you exit the mirror world before everyone goes insane" | ||||
| inky says, "ta-da" | |||||
| CarolynV exclaims, "Yay!" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to dhakajack), "Heehee." | |||||
| inky says, "(but jack hinted at that to me before, so it's not that impressive)" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Room Floyd | A monastically simple room, with a single chair, a low table, and a Floyd | small fireplace. Strangely, this house has been built with no windows. Floyd | The kitchen is to the north, and the front yard is to the east. There Floyd | is an open warped door which leads to a room to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a table and a black chair (on which is an old man) here. Floyd | Floyd | "Zzzzzzzzz." Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "dang! more client lag..." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Front Yard Floyd | A small, windowless cabin to the west is framed by a lush lawn. To the Floyd | south of the cabin, there is a small, well-tended garden. A dirt lane Floyd | leads towards the east, where it joins up with the road into town. Floyd | Floyd | You can see two herbs (an herb with blue flowers and an herb with Floyd | yellow flowers) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Desolate Road Floyd | To the west, you can make out a cabin at the edge of the woods. The Floyd | woods come right to the edge of the road, except on the north side Floyd | where there is a small strip of meadow. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dirt Road Floyd | A wheel-rutted single lane runs east and west. You are at the bottom of Floyd | a path that leads upwards to the peak of a small mountain, while the Floyd | road is bordered by dense woods. There is a small signpost here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Sloping Path Floyd | At the top, the winding path is little more than a depression in the Floyd | gravel and mud, but lower down the mountain, it becomes more defined, Floyd | and perhaps even sees occasional use. Near the bottom of the path a Floyd | dirt road is visible. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Hilltop Floyd | A craggy, windswept patch of dirt atop the smallest in a vast range of Floyd | mountains. A barely visible path leads down the mountain. An opening Floyd | leads north into the mountain itself. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a fleshy white polyp and a shackle-bound zombie arm here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hall Of Welcome Floyd | An austere room with plain, white marble walls and a polished floor of Floyd | checkered black and white tile. Through the remnants of the ancient Floyd | entranceway, only the barest sliver of pale daylight penetrates the Floyd | room (not that it matters...for you, at least). There is an open marble Floyd | door at the north end of the room. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a wooden bowl (which is empty) and a sculpture here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hall Of Wanting Floyd | Stairs lead downwards into this room from both the north and south Floyd | ends; an open marble door leads out of the room to the south, and an Floyd | open speckled door leads northward. The room is panelled in dark wood, Floyd | and has an arched wooden ceiling and grey, stone floor. Near the middle Floyd | of of the room, there is a sink inset into the east wall. It looks like Floyd | there is some sort of hole in the middle of the floor near the north Floyd | end. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Portrait Gallery Floyd | A long hall lined with a collection of portraits of men and women in Floyd | priestly robes. Some of the faces seem vaguely familiar to you. There Floyd | must be hexanies of them here. One picture frame stands out in Floyd | particular, an empty frame at the north end of the hall. There is an Floyd | open speckled door at the south end of the hall. To the north, there is Floyd | an open archway which leads to an icy cavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The temperature drops as you enter this long, echoing chamber. The Floyd | ceiling and floor seem to be coated with a clear, slippery, hard Floyd | substance. The walls, on the whole, look rubbery. As you contemplate Floyd | that, you realise that you have slid to the centre of the room... Floyd | Floyd | Hall Of Cold Logic Floyd | The white ceiling and floor of the room are entirely unremarkable Floyd | except for their unusual slickness. You can see exits near the centre Floyd | of the north and south walls. You are dead-centre in the middle of the Floyd | room. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw fruit south" | |||||
Floyd | You throw the fruit towards the south; and you catch it in mid-air, Floyd | after it bounces off the southern wall. You are ever so gently Floyd | propelled towards the north. You are less than halfway to the northern Floyd | wall and equidistant between the western and eastern walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw fruit south" | |||||
Floyd | You throw the fruit towards the south; and you catch it in mid-air, Floyd | after it bounces off the southern wall. You are ever so gently Floyd | propelled towards the north. You are more than halfway to the northern Floyd | wall and equidistant between the western and eastern walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw fruit south" | |||||
Floyd | You throw the fruit towards the south; and you catch it in mid-air, Floyd | after it bounces off the southern wall. You are right next to the Floyd | northern wall and equidistant between the western and eastern walls. Floyd | The exit is just to your north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Vaulted Junction Floyd | This room is remarkable for its high, arched ceiling which almost gives Floyd | you the impression of being outside at night. An inclined metal shaft Floyd | leads off to the west, there is some sort of tiled chamber to the east, Floyd | and there is a frozen cavern to the south. In addition, a steep spiral Floyd | stairway leads down. A sign is engraved into the wall near the top of Floyd | the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Spiral Stairs Floyd | The staircase is made of dull, black stone, and a bannister of the same Floyd | material spirals down along the wall. The staircase is steep but Floyd | regular, with landings every step. You can go up or down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bottom Of Stairwell Floyd | At the bottom of the staircase, there is a large room with no Floyd | furnishings. There is an exit to the east. Obviously, going up the Floyd | stairs is also a consideration. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a cat here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Glowing Chamber Floyd | This magnificent chamber pulses with living energy. There is a small Floyd | inscription on the wall, and below it, a keyhole. The only exit from Floyd | the room is to the west, back towards the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unlock keyhole with ivory key" | |||||
Floyd | That doesn't seem to be something you can unlock. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put ivory key in keyhole" | |||||
Floyd | A strange sounds builds and builds, like someone running a set of metal Floyd | keys slowly up and down the strings of a harp. Slowly, your Floyd | surroundings fade. Floyd | Floyd | You are standing on the command deck of a starship. Floyd | Floyd | A large viewing screen shows a planet, with patches of blue ocean and Floyd | land peeking through the cloud cover. Floyd | Floyd | Congratulations, you have completed the introduction to "Nine-tenths of Floyd | the Law"! Floyd | Floyd | The continuation will be released in 2009. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have won *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "TADA" | ||||
| inky says, "hooray" | |||||
| dhakajack gives everyone a standing ovation. Yay|2 | Jacqueline says, "!ykni ,emosewa het era uoY" | ||||
| CarolynV asks, "Jack, was there another way to reach this end, or am I absolutely hallucinating?" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Er, another way to reach *an* end, not this end." | |||||
| dhakajack says, "that final room is a bottleneck -- the end of the intro -" | |||||
| CarolynV says, "Wow. I am made of fail, then. I must have mistaken one of the death scenes for the correct ending somehow." | |||||
| dhakajack says, "you had to either get there this way or entirely in reverse (which might well damn you to play the rest of the game in reverse for good measure)." | |||||
| CarolynV says, "I'm really glad that I stuck around... I didn't see a whole lot of that." | |||||
| dhakajack says, "you hit every room. What you didn't see was a lot of potential dialogue with the old man. There are also a couple other possessible creatures." | |||||
| dhakajack says, "thanks for playing everyone -- I see quite a few places that need polishing." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "You're very welcome, Jack. Thank you for stopping by to be here as we played." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks to both of you for being here." | |||||
| CarolynV smiles. | |||||
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