  
 
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction. Below is a transcript of Spider and Web, written by Andrew Plotkin. Spider and Web was originally released in 1998. It was nominated for nine Xyzzy awards (everything but Best NPCs). It ultimately took a total of five Xyzzies (for Best Game, Best Puzzles, Best Individual NPC, Best Individual Puzzle, and Best Use of Medium). You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki.The game was played during two sessions: the first was on September 28, 2008, and the second (we finished the game at the request of someone who was sad to see the transcript end prematurely) was on January 18, 2009. You can skip straight to the second session by clicking [HERE]. WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page. |
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| inky hollers, "Spider and Web, starting now in the toyshop" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "load tangle" | |||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | On the whole, it was worth the trip. The plains really were broad and Floyd | grain-gold, if scarred with fences and agricultural crawlers. The Floyd | mountains were overwhelming. And however much of the capital city is Floyd | crusted with squat brick and faceless concrete hulks, there are still Floyd | flashes of its historic charm. You've seen spires above the streets -- Floyd | tiny green parks below tenements -- hidden jewels of fountains beyond Floyd | walls. Any bland alley can conceal balconies wrought into iron gardens, Floyd | fiery mosaics, a tree or bed of flowers nurtured by who knows who. Floyd | Floyd | This alley, however, is a total washout. It ends in flat bare dirty Floyd | brick, and you've found nothing but a door which lacks even the Floyd | courtesy of a handle. Maybe you should call it a day. Floyd | Floyd | Spider And Web Floyd | Interactive Fiction Floyd | Copyright 1997-8 by Andrew Plotkin. Floyd | (First-time players should type "about". For credits, "credits".) Floyd | Release 4 / Serial number 980226 / Inform v6.14 Library 6/6 Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0 Floyd | Floyd | End of Alley Floyd | It's a narrow dead end here, with walls rising oppressively high in Floyd | three directions. The alley is quite empty, bare even of trash. (Your Floyd | guidebook warned you: the police are as efficient about litter laws as Floyd | about everything else they do.) You can retreat to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A plain metal door faces you to the east, near the alley's end. It's Floyd | firmly shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| baf says, "woo" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x door" | |||||
Floyd | It's a naked sheet of metal, a foot taller than you, as wide as your Floyd | outstretched arms. No handle, no keyhole, no label, no sign. No obvious Floyd | way to open it at all, unless the black plate embedded beside it will Floyd | serve. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf asks, "Anyone here not played this before?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I havent" | |||||
| DavidW says, "except a bit of it" | |||||
| baf says, "Because such a person should probably be in the driver's seat here." | |||||
| K-Y says, "ooh, I want to see the thought processes that go into figuring this out" | |||||
| K-Y arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | |||||
| Duchess arrives, ready to play with the toys. | |||||
| Duchess says, "no desire to play, but i will watch" | |||||
| [peanut-gallery] Duchess asks, "isn't there a peanut-gallery for club floyd?" | |||||
| [peanut-gallery] Duchess says, "what channel is that" | |||||
| [peanut-gallery] Taleslinger says, "Yeah, it's #clubfloyd" | |||||
| [peanut-gallery] Gunther says, "#cf-spoilers" | |||||
| [peanut-gallery] Gunther says, "if you've played" | inky asks, "hmm, ok, is DW really the only one who hasn't played it?" | ||||
| [cfspoilers] * Duchess has joined the channel. | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Duchess says, "i have!" | popka says, "I'm a total IF outsider, but I've actually played this..." | ||||
| [cfspoilers] Duchess says, "this is the zarfian game, right? i think it's the only zarfian game i've completed" | |||||
| [cfspoilers] * DavidW has left the channel. | * Duchess has joined the channel. | ||||
| dhakajack says, "I haven't played it yet" | |||||
| * Duchess has left the channel. | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Taleslinger says, "It's by zarf, yeah." | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing of importance. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks (of dhakajack), "oh yeah? could I talk you into driving then?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | |||||
Floyd | It's a naked sheet of metal, a foot taller than you, as wide as your Floyd | outstretched arms. No handle, no keyhole, no label, no sign. No obvious Floyd | way to open it at all, unless the black plate embedded beside it will Floyd | serve. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x plate" | |||||
Floyd | A featureless, dull black rectangle is embedded in the bricks beside Floyd | the door. It's about the width of your palm. No fool could doubt the Floyd | plate has something to do with opening the door, but it doesn't bear a Floyd | clue about how to do it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push plate" | |||||
Floyd | Nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch plate" | |||||
Floyd | Nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "sure..." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "knock on plate" | |||||
Floyd | There is no response. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | |||||
Floyd | You scrape your knuckles without result. There isn't even any sound; Floyd | it's like knocking on the side of a mountain. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bricks" | |||||
Floyd | The walls are brownish brick, not recently washed. They stretch at Floyd | least two stories above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb wall" | |||||
Floyd | The bricks are narrowly mortared. There's not a bit of hold to grasp. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | End of Alley Floyd | It's a narrow dead end here, with walls rising oppressively high in Floyd | three directions. The alley is quite empty, bare even of trash. (Your Floyd | guidebook warned you: the police are as efficient about litter laws as Floyd | about everything else they do.) You can retreat to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A plain metal door faces you to the east, near the alley's end. It's Floyd | firmly shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push door" | |||||
Floyd | The steel is immobile. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search alley" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search bricks" | |||||
Floyd | It's just bricks. They stop for the door, and the small plate next to Floyd | it, but everywhere else they're implacably solid. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search plate" | |||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search door" | |||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Mouth of Alley Floyd | You're in the entrance of a narrow brick alley, which runs further in Floyd | to the north. To the south a broad street courses by, congested with Floyd | traffic and bicycles, although none of them seem to notice you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | You leave door and alley behind, and set off to see what else this fine Floyd | city might hold. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away sharp edges of memory, and the dim walls slowly emerge Floyd | into your sight once again. Dark metal walls and air uncomfortably Floyd | cool. And cool metal bands around your wrists and feet and forehead. Floyd | Floyd | He leans forward over his desk, through the glow of his monitors and Floyd | controls. Impatience tightens his face. Floyd | Floyd | "Don't be absurd," he says. "You're no more a sightseer than the Old Floyd | Tree in Capitol Square; and if you'd had enough sense to walk away from Floyd | that door, you wouldn't be here. You don't and you didn't and are; we Floyd | caught you. And you're going to start by telling me how you got through Floyd | that door. Do you understand me?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | |||||
| popka says (to Floyd), "no" | |||||
Floyd | The man nods briefly -- a man satisfied with the least important Floyd | detail. He touches a control. Once again, a faint whine begins to drill Floyd | through your temples. Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | On the whole, it was worth the trip. The plains really were broad and Floyd | grain-gold, if scarred with fences and agricultural crawlers. The Floyd | mountains were overwhelming. And however much of the capital city is Floyd | scarred with squat brick and faceless concrete hulks, there are still Floyd | flashes of its historic charm. Floyd | Floyd | This alley, however, has no time for charm. It ends in flat bare dirty Floyd | brick, and a door which lacks even the courtesy of a handle. Not that Floyd | you'll wait on courtesy. Floyd | Floyd | End of Alley Floyd | It's a narrow dead end here, with walls rising oppressively high in Floyd | three directions. The alley is quite empty, bare even of trash. (You're Floyd | sure the police are as efficient about litter laws as about everything Floyd | else they do.) You can retreat to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A plain metal door faces you to the east, near the alley's end. It's Floyd | firmly shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit door" | |||||
Floyd | You scrape your knuckles without result. There isn't even any sound; Floyd | it's like knocking on the side of a mountain. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing of importance. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search me" | |||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x guidebook" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x walls" | |||||
Floyd | The walls are brownish brick, not recently washed. They stretch at Floyd | least two stories above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | |||||
Floyd | It's a naked sheet of metal, a foot taller than you, as wide as your Floyd | outstretched arms. No handle, no keyhole, no label, no sign. No obvious Floyd | way to open it at all, unless the black plate embedded beside it will Floyd | serve. Floyd | Floyd | > | popka says, "For some reason I find it amusing when the interrogator gets annoyed." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x plate" | |||||
Floyd | A featureless, dull black rectangle is embedded in the bricks beside Floyd | the door. It's about the width of your palm. No fool could doubt the Floyd | plate has something to do with opening the door, but it doesn't bear a Floyd | clue about how to do it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "slide plate" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "touch plate" | |||||
Floyd | Nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put hand on plate" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open plate" | |||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lick plate" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| popka says (to Floyd), "kiss plate" | |||||
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | |||||
Floyd | You scrape your knuckles without result. There isn't even any sound; Floyd | it's like knocking on the side of a mountain. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| popka pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "This is tedious," the man says. "Of course you didn't walk up and Floyd | stand there rattling the door like a nightclump. Nor did you blow Floyd | through the keyhole." Clenched knuckles rap on the desk, tension at Floyd | odds with his patient tone. "Nor, I add, did you break into this place Floyd | barehanded and bare naked. You had something which opened that door, Floyd | and you used it. Was it this?" Floyd | Floyd | His fist opens abruptly. Something rod-shaped gleams silver in his Floyd | palm. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh I remember why I didnt care for this game." | ||||
| DavidW says, "What I've dubbed gnostogenesis." | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rod" | |||||
Floyd | It's your lockpick, yes. A silver rod the size of your ring finger, Floyd | splayed at one end into a flat disc of conductor-web matrix. You can't Floyd | make out, from this distance, whether it's undamaged. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "no" | |||||
Floyd | "No? But this is yours. A guard found it inside, just before we caught Floyd | you, and it's nothing of ours. So don't pretend you didn't carry it Floyd | in." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | inky says, "yeah, it's the shtick of the game" | ||||
| inky says, "though it lessens a bit after the first part" | |||||
| popka says, "It's annoying that you have to do exactly the correct thing to proceed, but then that puzzle is worth it." | |||||
| DavidW says, "and I hated that shtick" | |||||
| DavidW says, "sorry. roommate interrupted" | |||||
| DavidW asks, "is it really up to me to play this then?" | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | Taleslinger asks, "***glaring light*** We know you have no roommate. Wo really interrupted you?" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "I can take a crack at it" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "it's new to me..." | |||||
| inky says, "go for it" | |||||
| DavidW says, "go for it." | |||||
| dhakajack says, "ok" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "tnx" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | On the whole, it was worth the trip. The plains really were broad and Floyd | grain-gold, if scarred with fences and agricultural crawlers. The Floyd | mountains were overwhelming. And however much of the capital city is Floyd | scarred with squat brick and faceless concrete hulks, there are still Floyd | flashes of its historic charm. Floyd | Floyd | This alley, however, has no time for charm. It ends in flat bare dirty Floyd | brick, and a door which lacks even the courtesy of a handle. Not that Floyd | you'll wait on courtesy. Floyd | Floyd | End of Alley Floyd | It's a narrow dead end here, with walls rising oppressively high in Floyd | three directions. The alley is quite empty, bare even of trash. (You're Floyd | sure the police are as efficient about litter laws as about everything Floyd | else they do.) You can retreat to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A plain metal door faces you to the east, near the alley's end. It's Floyd | firmly shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a lockpick. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I just hate the idea of me playing this game solo" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "feel free to jump in with comments." | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open door with lockpick" | |||||
Floyd | It's not clear precisely how the lockpick can be used to unlock that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x lock" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x plate" | |||||
Floyd | A featureless, dull black rectangle is embedded in the bricks beside Floyd | the door. It's about the width of your palm. No fool could doubt the Floyd | plate has something to do with opening the door, but it doesn't bear a Floyd | clue about how to do it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "palm plate" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x lock pick" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open plate with lockpick" | |||||
Floyd | It's not clear precisely how the lockpick can be used to unlock that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x lockpick" | |||||
Floyd | The pick is a silver rod the size of your ring finger -- not true Floyd | silver, of course, nothing so easily scanned. It's splayed at one end Floyd | into a flat disc of conductor-web matrix. The status dot is blue. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x disc" | |||||
Floyd | The lockpick widens at the top, ending in a coin-sized disc with the Floyd | woven gleam of conductor-web matrix. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "touch plate with lockpick" | |||||
Floyd | The pick locks itself rigidly to the black plate by the door. Its Floyd | status dot flashes to yellow. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "push door" | |||||
Floyd | The steel is immobile. Floyd | Floyd | The lockpick's status dot is sliding towards green. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "I'm willing to do some cool but irrelevant stuff once we get the toolkit." | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "push door" | |||||
Floyd | The steel is immobile. Floyd | Floyd | The lockpick's status dot is sliding towards green. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The lockpick's status dot fades to pure green, and flicks steady blue. Floyd | Floyd | The door slides neatly open. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | The man turns the lockpick again in his fingers. "This is nice, this Floyd | truly is. We have nothing like it." A thoughtful blink. "...And this Floyd | was the only piece of equipment you carried?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say no" | |||||
Floyd | "Naturally not. I look forward to examining the others. Not," he adds, Floyd | "that they did you good in the end." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say you are absolutely right sir" | |||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | You remain silent. Floyd | Floyd | He raises an eyebrow. "Embarrassed? Clever tricks or no, it was still Floyd | one of you and all of us, and we're not that weak. Are we." A sharp Floyd | look from those eyes. "Let's continue. You entered the complex..." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | dhakajack asks, "how do you hit any key?" | ||||
| popka says, "push space" | DavidW says, "push space" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "push space" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You stand lightly in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white Floyd | walls. The ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated Floyd | strips of plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving Floyd | away to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "no. don't tell Floyd to push space" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "ok." | |||||
| DavidW says, "You push it in the toyshop" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x tiles" | |||||
Floyd | The floor is featureless white tile. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands Floyd | closed to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x gap" | |||||
Floyd | The hole is about two feet by three. Through it, you can see the actual Floyd | concrete ceiling, a few inches above the acoustical panelling. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "u" | |||||
Floyd | The hole is a foot out of reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | The door to the north is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the normal door or the metal door? Floyd | Floyd | > baf says, "Floyd | You move the space across the room. It is now under the window." | dhakajack says (to Floyd), "normal" | ||||
Floyd | You open the normal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands open Floyd | to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Closet Floyd | This room is small and, perhaps, rarely used -- not dirty, but not Floyd | quite as clean and white as the corridors. The door to the south is Floyd | open. Floyd | Floyd | Two rough wooden crates are backed in a corner of the closet. Floyd | Floyd | On the larger crate is a bolt wrench. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get wrench" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x wrench" | |||||
Floyd | It's a heavy steel wrench. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "perhaps push a crate south" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "push crate south" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the larger crate or the smaller crate? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "larger" | |||||
Floyd | The larger crate is too heavy to move. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "push smaller south" | |||||
Floyd | Even the smaller crate is too heavy to move. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open crate" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the larger crate or the smaller crate? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "smaller" | |||||
Floyd | The smaller crate is nailed shut. You can't pry it open with your Floyd | hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x smaller" | |||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the smaller crate. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open crate with wrench" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x larger" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the larger crate or the smaller crate? Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You see nothing special about the larger crate. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "hit crate" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the larger crate or the smaller crate? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "smaller" | |||||
Floyd | That won't help. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Closet Floyd | This room is small and, perhaps, rarely used -- not dirty, but not Floyd | quite as clean and white as the corridors. The door to the south is Floyd | open. Floyd | Floyd | Two rough wooden crates are backed in a corner of the closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x smaller crate" | |||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the smaller crate. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x larger crate" | |||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the larger crate. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | |||||
Floyd | The door to the south is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x look behind crates" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a bolt wrench, a Floyd | lockpick and a toolcase (which is open) (in which are a minilamp, a Floyd | scan scrambler, an acid pack, a blast tab, a voice module, a radio Floyd | module, a timer, a toggle switch, a pushbutton, a voice transmitter and Floyd | a key transmitter). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x look behind crate" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack exclaims, "oh my. where did all that come from?!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "gnostogenesis again" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "any other ideas on these crates" | |||||
| PerrySimm says, "it became worthy of attention" | |||||
| inky says, "er, window" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x crate" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the larger crate or the smaller crate? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "larger" | |||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the larger crate. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open it" | |||||
Floyd | The larger crate is nailed shut. You can't pry it open with your hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x pry crate open with wrench" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open it with wrench" | |||||
Floyd | It's a wrench, not a crowbar. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "And that stuff wasnt worthy before??" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x slide crates" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "well, we were playing dumb to the interrogator" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x pull crates" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x pull crate" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ignore the crates for now. Try the other door" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "ok" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Closet Floyd | This room is small and, perhaps, rarely used -- not dirty, but not Floyd | quite as clean and white as the corridors. The door to the south is Floyd | open. Floyd | Floyd | Two rough wooden crates are backed in a corner of the closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands open Floyd | to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | The metal door is very definitely closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x metal door" | |||||
Floyd | The door to the west is metal. It has no handle; another black plate is Floyd | visible beside it. The door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open metal door" | |||||
Floyd | It doesn't open by itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, and check behind the crates. There may be a vent" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Boundary Floyd | The corridor angles here, and crosses a boundary of some sort as it Floyd | does. A few strides down the southeast branch, a dotted red line Floyd | crosses the floor. You can retreat from the boundary to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands open Floyd | to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Closet Floyd | This room is small and, perhaps, rarely used -- not dirty, but not Floyd | quite as clean and white as the corridors. The door to the south is Floyd | open. Floyd | Floyd | Two rough wooden crates are backed in a corner of the closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "search crates" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the larger crate or the smaller crate? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "search smaller crate" | |||||
Floyd | The smaller crate is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "search larger crate" | |||||
Floyd | The larger crate is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open larger crate" | |||||
Floyd | The larger crate is nailed shut. You can't pry it open with your hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look behind smaller crate" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look behind larger" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "bah" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "oh well" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands open Floyd | to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | The metal door is very definitely closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "use the rod on the western door plate" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a bolt wrench, a Floyd | lockpick and a toolcase (which is open) (in which are a minilamp, a Floyd | scan scrambler, an acid pack, a blast tab, a voice module, a radio Floyd | module, a timer, a toggle switch, a pushbutton, a voice transmitter and Floyd | a key transmitter). Floyd | Floyd | > | popka says, "I don't think you can do much in this game aside from what it wants." | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "touch lockpick to plate" | |||||
Floyd | The pick locks itself rigidly to the black plate by the door. Its Floyd | status dot flashes to yellow. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The lockpick's status dot is sliding towards green. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The lockpick's status dot is sliding towards green. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The lockpick's status dot fades to pure green, and flicks steady blue. Floyd | Floyd | The metal door slides open. Beyond, several people are working at Floyd | cluttered desks. One looks up absently, and then stares; and then a Floyd | loud buzzer echoes down the hall. Moments later, three guards charge Floyd | towards you, weapons drawn. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack presses the large red button on the FREE DONUTS machine. Within seconds, the room is flooded with a thousand tiny, happy donuts, running about your feet in an exuberant dance of freedom. They then disappear as quickly as they had arrived. | inky says, "hee hee" | ||||
| inky says, "'push space', not 'push button'" | |||||
| DavidW says, "wrong button" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "ha! oops" | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "That would be the logistics office. Five agents working at the time, Floyd | very diligent men and women. None of whom recall their door popping Floyd | open on them." He shakes his head. "Your electronic key is a lovely Floyd | toy, but you don't have to play with it for my sake." He touches a Floyd | control. Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You stand lightly in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white Floyd | walls. The ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated Floyd | strips of plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving Floyd | away to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands Floyd | closed to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | The metal door is very definitely closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x panel" | |||||
Floyd | (the hole) Floyd | The hole is about two feet by three. Through it, you can see the actual Floyd | concrete ceiling, a few inches above the acoustical panelling. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a lockpick and a Floyd | toolcase (which is open) (in which are a minilamp, a scan scrambler, an Floyd | acid pack, a blast tab, a voice module, a radio module, a timer, a Floyd | toggle switch, a pushbutton, a voice transmitter and a key Floyd | transmitter). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands Floyd | closed to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x door" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the normal door or the metal door? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "metal" | |||||
Floyd | The door to the west is metal. It has no handle; another black plate is Floyd | visible beside it. The door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x black plate" | |||||
Floyd | A featureless, dull black rectangle is embedded in the wall beside the Floyd | metal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the normal door or the metal door? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "metal" | |||||
Floyd | It doesn't open by itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Boundary Floyd | The corridor angles here, and crosses a boundary of some sort as it Floyd | does. A few strides down the southeast branch, a dotted red line Floyd | crosses the floor. You can retreat from the boundary to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x line" | |||||
Floyd | It's just a red marking, painted on the floor tiles southeast of you. Floyd | The line is very slightly scuffed in the center. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | DavidW says, "The interrogator told us we never opened the west door" | ||||
| dhakajack asks, "and we believe him?" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "se" | |||||
Floyd | You step across the line and continue down the corridor... into the Floyd | sight of six guards or so, who are posted at the next intersection. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | The man raises an eyebrow. "None of those guards saw you until much Floyd | later. Shall we try it again?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say yes" | |||||
Floyd | The man touches a control. Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You stand lightly in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white Floyd | walls. The ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated Floyd | strips of plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving Floyd | away to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Boundary Floyd | The corridor angles here, and crosses a boundary of some sort as it Floyd | does. A few strides down the southeast branch, a dotted red line Floyd | crosses the floor. You can retreat from the boundary to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You are in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white walls. The Floyd | ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated strips of Floyd | plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving away to Floyd | the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands Floyd | closed to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "I'd love to get the crates and then climb up there...." | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | The door to the north is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | popka says, "You don't need the crates to get up there." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "can the crates be climbed where they are?" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the normal door or the metal door? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "normal" | |||||
Floyd | You open the normal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to popka), "hey" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "lok" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands open Floyd | to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | popka says, "OK, I'll shut up." | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Closet Floyd | This room is small and, perhaps, rarely used -- not dirty, but not Floyd | quite as clean and white as the corridors. The door to the south is Floyd | open. Floyd | Floyd | Two rough wooden crates are backed in a corner of the closet. Floyd | Floyd | On the larger crate is a bolt wrench. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get wrench" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "climb crate" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the larger crate or the smaller crate? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "larger" | |||||
Floyd | You climb up on the larger crate. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "climb smaller" | |||||
Floyd | (getting off the larger crate) Floyd | You climb up on the smaller crate. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Wide rectangles cover the ceiling with the grey, dimpled texture of Floyd | good acoustical insulation. Between the panels are the glowing strips Floyd | which illuminate the area. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | Storage Closet (on the smaller crate) Floyd | This room is small and, perhaps, rarely used -- not dirty, but not Floyd | quite as clean and white as the corridors. The door to the south is Floyd | open. Floyd | Floyd | Two rough wooden crates are backed in a corner of the closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "push ceiling" | |||||
Floyd | The acoustical panels won't move. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "drat" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x strip" | |||||
Floyd | Glowing strips of plastic cross the ceiling panels. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get strip" | |||||
Floyd | Those are a part of the panel ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get panel" | |||||
Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "hit panel" | |||||
Floyd | The acoustical panels won't move. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "jump" | |||||
Floyd | You bend and leap. Your hands slam against the ceiling panels, but they Floyd | hold firm. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "g" | |||||
Floyd | You bend and leap. Your hands slam against the ceiling panels, but they Floyd | hold firm. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push panel" | |||||
Floyd | The acoustical panels won't move. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x smaller crate" | |||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the smaller crate. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit panel with wrench" | |||||
Floyd | That won't help. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "climb down" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "normally such panels are flimsy and held only by gravity" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "climb down" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "jump down" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to jump. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "jump off" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to jump. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | You get down off the smaller crate. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "down" | |||||
Floyd | The only exit is south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "u" | |||||
Floyd | The only exit is south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "climb larger crate" | |||||
Floyd | You climb up on the larger crate. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "push smaller" | |||||
Floyd | Even the smaller crate is too heavy to move. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "getting off supporters in IF is one of those things where the standard libraries usually feel like they are not that complete" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | You get down off the larger crate. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I use 'stand'" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Closet Floyd | This room is small and, perhaps, rarely used -- not dirty, but not Floyd | quite as clean and white as the corridors. The door to the south is Floyd | open. Floyd | Floyd | Two rough wooden crates are backed in a corner of the closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push crate south" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the larger crate or the smaller crate? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "smaller" | |||||
Floyd | Even the smaller crate is too heavy to move. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| popka says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a bolt wrench, a Floyd | lockpick and a toolcase (which is open) (in which are a minilamp, a Floyd | scan scrambler, an acid pack, a blast tab, a voice module, a radio Floyd | module, a timer, a toggle switch, a pushbutton, a voice transmitter and Floyd | a key transmitter). Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm, I don't remember this part exactly, but I am surprised there are crates that you can't move" | ||||
| popka says (to Floyd), "attach acid to toggle" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the toggle switch to the acid pack. The toggle switch turns Floyd | brown to confirm the match. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I mean, I thought that was the whole point of crates" | ||||
| popka says (to Floyd), "put acid on small crate" | |||||
Floyd | You need to be holding the acid pack before you can put it on top of Floyd | something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small orange pyramid, traced with conductor matrix. It can Floyd | detect and scramble scan-web on any frequency... or so the theory is Floyd | drawn. There's a minus link on one edge. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| popka says (to Floyd), "take acid" | |||||
Floyd | You take the acid pack (and the toggle switch connected to it.) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| popka says (to Floyd), "put acid on small crate" | |||||
Floyd | You put the acid pack on the smaller crate. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| popka says (to Floyd), "flip toggle" | |||||
Floyd | You flip the brown switch on. The acid capsule goes off with a piercing Floyd | hiss. An acrid mist fills the area. Floyd | Floyd | You watch, awed and pleased at once, as the steel wrench sublimes away. Floyd | Floyd | Your skin begins to itch. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | He is frankly impressed. "It works that quickly?" Floyd | Floyd | > | popka says, "Notice we're carrying the wrench..." | ||||
| dhakajack asks, "er?" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say usually" | |||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | "I really am curious." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say me too" | |||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "was that a bug?" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | You remain silent. Floyd | Floyd | "Nothing forthcoming? After inventing that remarkable show for me? Floyd | Because," he adds, "there is no trace of any acid having been used in Floyd | this complex. And we found the wrench sitting on the crate, unharmed." Floyd | He reaches for his controls. Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | popka says, "Yeah." | ||||
| dhakajack says, "maybe" | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You stand lightly in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white Floyd | walls. The ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated Floyd | strips of plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving Floyd | away to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands Floyd | closed to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open metal door" | |||||
Floyd | It doesn't open by itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | The door to the north is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open normal door" | |||||
Floyd | You open the normal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Closet Floyd | This room is small and, perhaps, rarely used -- not dirty, but not Floyd | quite as clean and white as the corridors. The door to the south is Floyd | open. Floyd | Floyd | Two rough wooden crates are backed in a corner of the closet. Floyd | Floyd | On the larger crate is a bolt wrench. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get wrench" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a bolt wrench, a Floyd | lockpick and a toolcase (which is open) (in which are an acid pack, a Floyd | toggle switch, a minilamp, a scan scrambler, a blast tab, a voice Floyd | module, a radio module, a timer, a pushbutton, a voice transmitter and Floyd | a key transmitter). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x walls" | |||||
Floyd | The walls are faced with tough white composite. They are smooth and Floyd | blank, except for one ventilator grille near the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack exclaims, "ack!" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "climb large crate" | |||||
Floyd | You climb up on the larger crate. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I know" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "climb small crate" | |||||
Floyd | (getting off the larger crate) Floyd | You climb up on the smaller crate. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x grille" | |||||
Floyd | A plastic grille is visible high on the wall, just below the ceiling. Floyd | One corner is stamped "VEN DUCT L-15." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x grille" | |||||
Floyd | A plastic grille is visible high on the wall, just below the ceiling. Floyd | One corner is stamped "VEN DUCT L-15." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open grille" | |||||
Floyd | The ventilator grille is beyond your reach, on a different wall than Floyd | the one you stand near. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||||
Floyd | You hear nothing special, beyond a ventilation grille's constant hiss. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb larger" | |||||
Floyd | (getting off the smaller crate) Floyd | You climb up on the larger crate. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "jump" | |||||
Floyd | You bend and leap. Your hands slam against the ceiling panels, but they Floyd | hold firm. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open grille" | |||||
Floyd | The ventilator grille is beyond your reach, on a different wall than Floyd | the one you stand near. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "grab grille" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "jump at grille" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to jump. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "waylay grille" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | popka says, "It's not important, anyway." | ||||
| DavidW says, "argh" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | |||||
Floyd | Wide rectangles cover the ceiling with the grey, dimpled texture of Floyd | good acoustical insulation. Between the panels are the glowing strips Floyd | which illuminate the area. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "stad" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||||
Floyd | You get down off the larger crate. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack asks, "shall we look around in hallway or stay here?" | ||||
| popka says, "Oh, I thought we were in a different room for some reason." | |||||
| DavidW says, "there might be other grilles" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "ok, let's have a tour...." | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands open Floyd | to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||||
Floyd | You hear nothing special, beyond a ventilation grille's constant hiss. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x walls" | |||||
Floyd | The walls are faced with tough white composite. They are smooth and Floyd | blank, except for one ventilator grille near the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open grille" | |||||
Floyd | The ventilator grille is a bit beyond your reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x grille" | |||||
Floyd | A plastic grille is visible high on the wall, just below the ceiling. Floyd | One corner is stamped "VEN DUCT J-10." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "jump" | |||||
Floyd | You bend and leap. Your fingers brush the edge of the hole -- catch, Floyd | and you concentrate on holding on. Your feet swing gently a foot above Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | Uh! A sharp edge is digging into one finger. You shift your grasp Floyd | hastily, but a few drops of blood smear across the hole's lip. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x climb" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "enter hole" | |||||
Floyd | The space above the ceiling panels is only a few inches high. You can't Floyd | fit into it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x space" | |||||
Floyd | You strain, pulling yourself up with your arms, until you can see over Floyd | the lip of the hole. The space over the acoustical panelling is only a Floyd | few inches high; but it spreads out around you into darkness. Floyd | Floyd | A small package, wrapped in cloth, is sitting on the panelling, just a Floyd | few inches from your face. Floyd | Floyd | You move your hands a bit, one at a time, to ease the strain. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get package" | |||||
Floyd | (with one hand, hanging by the other) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x package" | |||||
Floyd | It's an oblong bundle of cloth, a bit larger than your palm. Floyd | Floyd | Your fingertips ache dully. And a nearby ventilator grille seems to be Floyd | hissing directly into your ear. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x grille" | |||||
Floyd | A plastic grille is visible high on the wall, just below the ceiling. Floyd | One corner is stamped "VEN DUCT J-10." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open grille" | |||||
Floyd | The ventilator grille isn't important. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||||
Floyd | You drop lightly to the ground, flexing your stiff hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open package" | |||||
Floyd | It's not yet time. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x cloth" | |||||
Floyd | It's an oblong bundle of cloth, a bit larger than your palm. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "search cloth" | |||||
Floyd | It's not yet time. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW clears the save counter. | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf1" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "jump" | |||||
Floyd | You bend and leap. Your fingers brush the edge of the hole -- catch, Floyd | and you concentrate on holding on. Your feet swing gently a foot above Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors (hanging from the ceiling) Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands open Floyd | to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap. You Floyd | are clinging to the lip of the hole; your feet dangle a foot above the Floyd | ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "search ceiling" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the panel ceiling or the concrete ceiling? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "concrete" | |||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | You move your hands a bit, one at a time, to ease the strain. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "search panel" | |||||
Floyd | (the hole) Floyd | You strain, pulling yourself up with your arms, until you can see over Floyd | the lip of the hole. The space over the acoustical panelling is only a Floyd | few inches high; but it spreads out around you into darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The space is empty as far as you can see. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||||
Floyd | You drop lightly to the ground, flexing your fingers. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands open Floyd | to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You are in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white walls. The Floyd | ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated strips of Floyd | plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving away to Floyd | the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "I once described this game to a guy who was into lit-crit stuff, and he thought the whole business with the cloth-wrapped package was amazingly postmodern for a game." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x package" | |||||
Floyd | It's an oblong bundle of cloth, a bit larger than your palm. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "Okay, gotta run. Just remember: The interrogator is really your father." | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x tiles" | |||||
Floyd | The floor is featureless white tile. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Taleslinger has to return some videotapes. | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x wals" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a wrapped package, Floyd | a bolt wrench, a lockpick and a toolcase (which is open) (in which are Floyd | an acid pack, a toggle switch, a minilamp, a scan scrambler, a blast Floyd | tab, a voice module, a radio module, a timer, a pushbutton, a voice Floyd | transmitter and a key transmitter). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "put blast tab on cloth" | |||||
Floyd | You need to be holding the blast tab before you can put it on top of Floyd | something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I really hate starting at 2. I need to eat." | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get blast tab" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "put blast tab on cloth" | |||||
Floyd | The bundle is still wrapped up. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open package" | |||||
Floyd | It's not yet time. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "unwrap bundle" | |||||
Floyd | It's not yet time. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x timer" | |||||
Floyd | The timer is a small black box with two dials on one side, and a plus Floyd | link on the other. The status dot is blue. Both the green and blue Floyd | dials are set to 1; the timer's indicator is blank. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "that's just nuts, that 'not yet time'" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x plus link" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the toggle switch, the voice module, the radio Floyd | module, the timer or the pushbutton? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "timer" | |||||
Floyd | The timer is a small black box with two dials on one side, and a plus Floyd | link on the other. The status dot is blue. Both the green and blue Floyd | dials are set to 1; the timer's indicator is blank. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "it'll make sense later, I say unhelpfully" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You are in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white walls. The Floyd | ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated strips of Floyd | plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving away to Floyd | the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "se" | |||||
Floyd | You return up the hallway as it curves around to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor By Entrance Floyd | The white corridor begins here, and curves away north. No one is about; Floyd | the metal face of the entrance door stands closed to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I need to eat. now." | ||||
| baf acts all smug about what he knows | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | The door is very definitely closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You are in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white walls. The Floyd | ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated strips of Floyd | plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving away to Floyd | the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Boundary Floyd | The corridor angles here, and crosses a boundary of some sort as it Floyd | does. A few strides down the southeast branch, a dotted red line Floyd | crosses the floor. You can retreat from the boundary to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x boundary" | |||||
Floyd | It's just a red marking, painted on the floor tiles southeast of you. Floyd | The line is slightly scuffed in the center. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||||
Floyd | You hear nothing special, beyond a ventilation grille's constant hiss. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x grille" | |||||
Floyd | A plastic grille is visible high on the wall, just below the ceiling. Floyd | One corner is stamped "VEN DUCT U-11." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "jump" | |||||
Floyd | You bend and leap. Your fingers brush the ceiling panels, but not Floyd | strongly enough to do anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open grille" | |||||
Floyd | The ventilator grille is a bit beyond your reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "drop package" | |||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get package" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "touch package" | |||||
Floyd | Whatever's inside the bundle is rigid and rather heavy. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "listen to package" | |||||
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "smell package" | |||||
Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a wrapped package, Floyd | a blast tab, a bolt wrench, a lockpick and a toolcase (which is open) Floyd | (in which are an acid pack, a toggle switch, a minilamp, a scan Floyd | scrambler, a voice module, a radio module, a timer, a pushbutton, a Floyd | voice transmitter and a key transmitter). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x radio module" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small black box with a short antenna on one side, and a plus Floyd | link on the other. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x voice module" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small black box with a short antenna on one side, and a plus Floyd | link on the other. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x key transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small black disc with a key to press on one side, and a short Floyd | antenna on the other. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "about" | |||||
Floyd | Spider And Web is copyright 1997-8 by Andrew Plotkin. It may be copied, Floyd | distributed, and played freely. Floyd | Floyd | For acknowledgements and credits, please type "credits". Floyd | Floyd | An introductory note: To simplify the problem of dialogue in Floyd | interactive fiction, the "tell" and "ask" commands are not used in this Floyd | game. Your conversational options are limited to "yes," "no," and Floyd | saying nothing at all. Trust me -- this isn't as big a deal as it Floyd | sounds. Floyd | Floyd | Also, after some consideration, I have decided not to implement body Floyd | parts -- head, arms, legs, hands -- as separate objects. If you feel a Floyd | desire to refer to yourself, "me" will suffice. Floyd | Floyd | It is possible to make a fatal mistake in this game, but you will Floyd | immediately know you have done so. You can always "undo" after death, Floyd | and then fix the mistake. Therefore, the game is best played straight Floyd | through. Accept any non-fatal mistakes that you may make; you will have Floyd | a second chance. If you back up and replay each scene for maximum Floyd | efficiency, avoiding all mistakes, certain aspects of the game will be Floyd | lost. Floyd | Floyd | However -- you will eventually reach a point where things become Floyd | dangerous. You'll know when. Beyond that, you're playing for keeps and Floyd | heartbeats count. Save early and often. Floyd | Floyd | Do not expect Spider And Web to be anything like So Far or A Change in Floyd | the Weather. It's not. In a certain sense, this is my first Floyd | conventional game. In another sense, it's the strangest game I know, Floyd | and understanding what's happening is entirely your problem. Floyd | Floyd | This game is free. But if you feel like sending me money, I won't Floyd | refuse. If you feel like sending me comments or bug reports, I'll be Floyd | ecstatic. As of the beginning of 1998, I am at Floyd | Floyd | erkyrath@netcom.com Floyd | Floyd | Andrew Plotkin Floyd | 7529 Murray Hill Rd #322 Floyd | Columbia, MD 21046 Floyd | USA Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "sorry I'm late" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "Hi. I'm running short on ideas...anyone, feel free to jump in" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Boundary Floyd | The corridor angles here, and crosses a boundary of some sort as it Floyd | does. A few strides down the southeast branch, a dotted red line Floyd | crosses the floor. You can retreat from the boundary to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You are in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white walls. The | inky asks, "what happens if you cross the red line?" | ||||
Floyd | ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated strips of Floyd | plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving away to Floyd | the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "I think we run into guards..." | ||||
| dhakajack says, "might be worth pushing that limit..." | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Boundary Floyd | The corridor angles here, and crosses a boundary of some sort as it Floyd | does. A few strides down the southeast branch, a dotted red line Floyd | crosses the floor. You can retreat from the boundary to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "se" | |||||
Floyd | As you step across the line, a sharp buzzer echoes through the Floyd | corridors. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "And then all the guards came thundering down on you? Captured before Floyd | you'd done anything at all?" Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "it seems like this is the only way out, so there is probably some way to disable it" | ||||
| baf says, "Remeber: there's no actual risk in tring stuff at this point. It's all flashback." | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say yes that is exactly how it all went down" | |||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "yes" | |||||
Floyd | "You certainly were not. There was no alarm and we both know it. Now Floyd | let's have it again." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You stand lightly in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white Floyd | walls. The ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated Floyd | strips of plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving Floyd | away to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | |||||
Floyd | You return up the hallway as it curves around to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor By Entrance Floyd | The white corridor begins here, and curves away north. No one is about; Floyd | the metal face of the entrance door stands closed to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea asks, "did we just get into the building?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | White Junction Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "pretty much" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Boundary Floyd | The corridor angles here, and crosses a boundary of some sort as it Floyd | does. A few strides down the southeast branch, a dotted red line Floyd | crosses the floor. You can retreat from the boundary to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "ah. the layout of this part is kind of confusing" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x line" | |||||
Floyd | It's just a red marking, painted on the floor tiles southeast of you. Floyd | The line is slightly scuffed in the center. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x scuffed" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x scuff" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "it seems that we're being interrogated, and this is a flashback of whatever we did." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x center" | |||||
Floyd | It's just a red marking, painted on the floor tiles southeast of you. Floyd | The line is slightly scuffed in the center. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a lockpick and a Floyd | toolcase (which is open) (in which are a blast tab, an acid pack, a Floyd | toggle switch, a minilamp, a scan scrambler, a voice module, a radio Floyd | module, a timer, a pushbutton, a voice transmitter and a key Floyd | transmitter). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x scan scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small orange pyramid, traced with conductor matrix. It can Floyd | detect and scramble scan-web on any frequency... or so the theory is Floyd | drawn. There's a minus link on one edge. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| [peanut-gallery] Lucea says, "I assume this is a spoiler-freer un" | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| [peanut-gallery] inky says, "there's #cfspoilers" | |||||
| [peanut-gallery] Lucea says, "Right. I meant in actual commands" | |||||
| Fang showered after leaving the lounge, thinking this would reduce his risk of being infected. | |||||
| [peanut-gallery] inky says, "yeah, I think so" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open package" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a lockpick and a Floyd | toolcase (which is open) (in which are a blast tab, an acid pack, a Floyd | toggle switch, a minilamp, a scan scrambler, a voice module, a radio Floyd | module, a timer, a pushbutton, a voice transmitter and a key Floyd | transmitter). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Boundary Floyd | The corridor angles here, and crosses a boundary of some sort as it Floyd | does. A few strides down the southeast branch, a dotted red line Floyd | crosses the floor. You can retreat from the boundary to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "we haven't retrieved the package (or the wrench or anything) on this run" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You are in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white walls. The Floyd | ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated strips of Floyd | plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving away to Floyd | the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "right" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open normal door" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands Floyd | closed to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open normal door" | |||||
Floyd | You open the normal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Closet Floyd | This room is small and, perhaps, rarely used -- not dirty, but not Floyd | quite as clean and white as the corridors. The door to the south is Floyd | open. Floyd | Floyd | Two rough wooden crates are backed in a corner of the closet. Floyd | Floyd | On the larger crate is a bolt wrench. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get wrench" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | The only exit is south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands open Floyd | to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "jump" | |||||
Floyd | You bend and leap. Your fingers brush the edge of the hole -- catch, Floyd | and you concentrate on holding on. Your feet swing gently a foot above Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | Uh! A sharp edge is digging into one finger. You shift your grasp Floyd | hastily, but a few drops of blood smear across the hole's lip. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get package" | |||||
Floyd | (with one hand, hanging by the other) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "clean blood" | |||||
Floyd | The blood only smears further as you rub at it. Floyd | Floyd | You move your hands a bit, one at a time, to ease the strain. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x gap" | |||||
Floyd | You strain, pulling yourself up with your arms, until you can see over Floyd | the lip of the hole. The space over the acoustical panelling is only a Floyd | few inches high; but it spreads out around you into darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The space is empty as far as you can see. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a wrapped package, Floyd | a bolt wrench, a lockpick and a toolcase (which is open) (in which are Floyd | a blast tab, an acid pack, a toggle switch, a minilamp, a scan Floyd | scrambler, a voice module, a radio module, a timer, a pushbutton, a Floyd | voice transmitter and a key transmitter). Floyd | Floyd | Your fingertips ache dully. And a nearby ventilator grille seems to be Floyd | hissing directly into your ear. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get minilamp" | |||||
Floyd | (with one hand, hanging by the other) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "turn minilamp on" | |||||
Floyd | (with one hand, hanging by the other) Floyd | The minilamp has no built-in controls. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x minilamp" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small yellow tube with a lens at one end. There's a minus link Floyd | on one edge of the tube. Floyd | Floyd | The tendons of your fingers are complaining. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| popka says (to Floyd), "attach minilamp to toggle" | |||||
Floyd | (with one hand, hanging by the other) Floyd | You connect the toggle switch to the minilamp. The toggle switch turns Floyd | yellow to confirm the match. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "wow, I never thought to try that" | ||||
| popka says (to Floyd), "flip toggle" | |||||
Floyd | (with one hand, hanging by the other) Floyd | You flip the yellow switch on. The minilamp begins glowing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x gap" | |||||
Floyd | You strain, pulling yourself up with your arms, until you can see over Floyd | the lip of the hole. The space over the acoustical panelling is only a Floyd | few inches high; but it spreads out around you into darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The space is empty as far as you can see. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "shine minilamp in crack" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to shine the lit minilamp. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "use minilamp" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "shine minilamp in gap" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to shine the lit minilamp. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| popka says (to Floyd), "put minilamp in space" | |||||
Floyd | (with one hand, hanging by the other) Floyd | Hanging from one hand, you toss the lit minilamp up into the space Floyd | above. Floyd | Floyd | Your arms are beginning to feel numb. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||||
Floyd | You drop lightly to the ground, and painfully massage your forearms. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "jump" | |||||
Floyd | You bend and leap. Your fingers brush the edge of the hole -- catch, Floyd | and you concentrate on holding on. Your feet swing gently a foot above Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x minilamp" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small yellow tube with a lens at one end; a beam of light shines Floyd | out. There's a minus link on one edge of the tube, which is connected Floyd | to a toggle switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "search gap" | |||||
Floyd | You strain, pulling yourself up with your arms, until you can see over Floyd | the lip of the hole. The space over the acoustical panelling is only a Floyd | few inches high; but it spreads out around you into darkness. Floyd | Floyd | In the space, you can see a lit minilamp (connected to a toggle Floyd | switch). Floyd | Floyd | You move your hands a bit, one at a time, to ease the strain. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get minilamp" | |||||
Floyd | (with one hand, hanging by the other) Floyd | You take the lit minilamp (and the toggle switch connected to it.) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "search gap" | |||||
Floyd | You strain, pulling yourself up with your arms, until you can see over Floyd | the lip of the hole. The space over the acoustical panelling is only a Floyd | few inches high; but it spreads out around you into darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The space is empty as far as you can see. Floyd | Floyd | Your fingertips ache dully. And a nearby ventilator grille seems to be Floyd | hissing directly into your ear. Floyd | Floyd | > | popka says, "Aw" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x grille" | |||||
Floyd | A plastic grille is visible high on the wall, just below the ceiling. Floyd | One corner is stamped "VEN DUCT J-10." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||||
Floyd | You drop lightly to the ground, flexing your stiff hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "toggle" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "switch toggle" | |||||
Floyd | You flip the yellow switch off. The minilamp goes dark. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Closet Floyd | This room is small and, perhaps, rarely used -- not dirty, but not Floyd | quite as clean and white as the corridors. The door to the south is Floyd | open. Floyd | Floyd | Two rough wooden crates are backed in a corner of the closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x door" | |||||
Floyd | The door to the south is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands open Floyd | to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x metal" | |||||
Floyd | The door to the west is metal. It has no handle; another black plate is Floyd | visible beside it. The door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x plate" | |||||
Floyd | A featureless, dull black rectangle is embedded in the wall beside the Floyd | metal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "remove plate" | |||||
Floyd | You're not wearing that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get plate" | |||||
Floyd | The plate is fixed in the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a minilamp Floyd | (connected to a toggle switch), a wrapped package, a bolt wrench, a Floyd | lockpick and a toolcase (which is open) (in which are a blast tab, an Floyd | acid pack, a scan scrambler, a voice module, a radio module, a timer, a Floyd | pushbutton, a voice transmitter and a key transmitter). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect toggle to radio module" | |||||
Floyd | The toggle switch is already connected to the minilamp. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "disconnect toggle" | |||||
Floyd | You disconnect the minilamp, and take the toggle switch as it turns Floyd | black again. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect toggle to radio module" | |||||
Floyd | You can't connect two positive links together. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x toggle" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small black box with a two-way toggle switch on one side, and a Floyd | plus link on the other. The switch is off. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x scan" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small orange pyramid, traced with conductor matrix. It can Floyd | detect and scramble scan-web on any frequency... or so the theory is Floyd | drawn. There's a minus link on one edge. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x voice" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the voice module or the voice transmitter? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "module" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small black box with a short antenna on one side, and a plus Floyd | link on the other. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x voice transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small black square with an audio pickup on one side, and a short Floyd | antenna on the other. The status dot is blue. The audio keywords are Floyd | printed along one edge. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x keywords" | |||||
Floyd | The keywords for the voice transmitter are "tango" to switch on, and Floyd | "waltz" to switch off. In your voiceprint only, of course. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say tango" | |||||
Floyd | You say the keyword. The voice module's link dot flashes green in Floyd | confirmation, but as it isn't linked to anything, that's all. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say waltz" | |||||
Floyd | You say the keyword. The voice module's link dot flashes blue in Floyd | confirmation, but as it isn't linked to anything, that's all. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect voice transmitter to radio module" | |||||
Floyd | The voice transmitter doesn't have a link; it works through the voice Floyd | module. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a toggle switch, a Floyd | minilamp, a wrapped package, a bolt wrench, a lockpick and a toolcase Floyd | (which is open) (in which are a blast tab, an acid pack, a scan Floyd | scrambler, a voice module, a radio module, a timer, a pushbutton, a Floyd | voice transmitter and a key transmitter). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x pushbutton" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small black box with a button on one side and a plus link on the Floyd | other. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x timer" | |||||
Floyd | The timer is a small black box with two dials on one side, and a plus Floyd | link on the other. The status dot is blue. Both the green and blue Floyd | dials are set to 1; the timer's indicator is blank. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x key" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small black disc with a key to press on one side, and a short Floyd | antenna on the other. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "press disc" | |||||
Floyd | (the key transmitter) Floyd | You press the transmitter key. The radio module's link dot flashes Floyd | green in confirmation, but as it isn't linked to anything, that's all. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect scan scrambler to radio module" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect scan scrambler to radio module" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the radio module to the scan scrambler. The radio module Floyd | turns orange to confirm the match, and the key transmitter turns orange Floyd | as well. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | The scan scrambler is already connected to the radio module. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW back. what progress? | Lucea asks, "anyone object to my trying something that always gives me a chuckle?" | ||||
| dhakajack exclaims, "go!" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "connect blast to push" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the pushbutton to the blast tab. The pushbutton turns Floyd | purple to confirm the match. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "push pushbutton" | |||||
Floyd | Crack! The blast tab goes off in the toolcase in your hand. You feel no Floyd | pain; just the white tide of shock and cold that rolls across you, and Floyd | washes the blood away. Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "press space" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | The man is staring at you as if at a joke he doesn't, quite, Floyd | understand. "And then you died." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "yes" | |||||
Floyd | The man shakes his head in disgust. Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | popka says, "Hehe. I wanted to do that too." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "press space" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You stand lightly in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white Floyd | walls. The ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated Floyd | strips of plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving Floyd | away to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands Floyd | closed to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open normal door" | |||||
Floyd | You open the normal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Closet Floyd | This room is small and, perhaps, rarely used -- not dirty, but not Floyd | quite as clean and white as the corridors. The door to the south is Floyd | open. Floyd | Floyd | Two rough wooden crates are backed in a corner of the closet. Floyd | Floyd | On the larger crate is a bolt wrench. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get wrench" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "The interrogator's reaction is perfect. (Although I should've said 'no' for more perfect reactioning)" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands open Floyd | to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "There's a moment like that in Monkey Island 2" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "jump" | |||||
Floyd | You bend and leap. Your fingers brush the edge of the hole -- catch, Floyd | and you concentrate on holding on. Your feet swing gently a foot above Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | Uh! A sharp edge is digging into one finger. You shift your grasp Floyd | hastily, but a few drops of blood smear across the hole's lip. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get package" | |||||
Floyd | (with one hand, hanging by the other) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||||
Floyd | You drop lightly to the ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "I'll pull up my own copy and pastebomb it" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "ok, so here we are with our wrench and unwrappable package..." | |||||
| baf says, "whcih is also mostly told in flashback, and which at one point if you take too long to solve a puzzle you get dropped into a vat of boiling acid." | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect scrambler to radio" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the radio module to the scan scrambler. The radio module Floyd | turns orange to confirm the match, and the key transmitter turns orange Floyd | as well. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "listen to radio" | |||||
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We had wrench and package when I left to eat lunch" | ||||
| Lucea says, ""No, you, let's see, you just grew a new hand, cleaned up all the blood, reassured the guards that the 'bang' was all in their heads..."" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "we made a few trips to the interrogator...." | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a wrapped package, Floyd | a bolt wrench, a lockpick and a toolcase (which is open) (in which are Floyd | a scan scrambler (connected to a radio module), a minilamp, a toggle Floyd | switch, a pushbutton, a blast tab, an acid pack, a voice module, a Floyd | timer, a voice transmitter and a key transmitter). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say tango" | |||||
Floyd | You say the keyword. The voice module's link dot flashes green in Floyd | confirmation, but as it isn't linked to anything, that's all. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x radio" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small orange box with a short antenna on one side, and a plus Floyd | link on the other. The link is connected to a scan scrambler. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "press disc" | |||||
Floyd | (the key transmitter) Floyd | The scrambler's status dot flashes briefly yellow. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "send help" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "send sos" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small orange pyramid, traced with conductor matrix. It can Floyd | detect and scramble scan-web on any frequency... or so the theory is Floyd | drawn. There's a minus link on one edge, which is connected to a radio Floyd | module. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands open Floyd | to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "touch scrambler to plate" | |||||
Floyd | The scan scrambler is already connected to the radio module. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack asks, "any ideas?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I don't know what you've done so far." | |||||
| Lucea says, "I know how to get through this part, and it isn't what you think" | |||||
| DavidW asks, "where did 'tango' come from?" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "tango and waltz are voice commands for the voice module" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x voice" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the voice module or the voice transmitter? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "module" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small black box with a short antenna on one side, and a plus Floyd | link on the other. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "you're making it way, way too complicated" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I don't see that" | |||||
| popka says, "Well, I think there's something the interrogator should have said in a previous scene that he didn't." | |||||
| popka says, "Or I just missed it." | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a wrapped package, Floyd | a bolt wrench, a lockpick and a toolcase (which is open) (in which are Floyd | a scan scrambler (connected to a radio module), a minilamp, a toggle Floyd | switch, a pushbutton, a blast tab, an acid pack, a voice module, a Floyd | timer, a voice transmitter and a key transmitter). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| WeirdBeard arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "unwrap package" | |||||
Floyd | It's not yet time. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the voice transmitter or the key transmitter? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "voice" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small black square with an audio pickup on one side, and a short Floyd | antenna on the other. The status dot is green. The audio keywords are Floyd | printed along one edge. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect timer to blast tab" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the timer to the blast tab. The timer turns purple to Floyd | confirm the match. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Closet Floyd | This room is small and, perhaps, rarely used -- not dirty, but not Floyd | quite as clean and white as the corridors. The door to the south is Floyd | open. Floyd | Floyd | Two rough wooden crates are backed in a corner of the closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "I've already probably said way too much" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read keywords" | |||||
Floyd | The keywords for the voice transmitter are "tango" to switch on, and Floyd | "waltz" to switch off. In your voiceprint only, of course. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "put blast tab on large crate" | |||||
Floyd | You need to be holding the blast tab before you can put it on top of Floyd | something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get tab" | |||||
Floyd | You take the blast tab (and the timer connected to it.) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "put tab on crate" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the larger crate or the smaller crate? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "larger" | |||||
Floyd | You put the blast tab on the larger crate. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "set timer" | |||||
Floyd | You can set the timer's green dial or its blue dial. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "set green" | |||||
Floyd | The dial can be set from 1 to 20. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "set green 3" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to set the green dial. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "set green dial to 3" | |||||
Floyd | You set the green dial to 3. (Press the dials to activate them.) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "press green dial" | |||||
Floyd | Nothing happens; you squeeze harder, until the contact finally clicks. Floyd | The green dial lights as you press it. The timer's indicator flashes to Floyd | 3. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands open Floyd | to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a sharp crack from somewhere nearby. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "And the noise went completely unnoticed," says the man, an eyebrow Floyd | raised. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say yes" | |||||
Floyd | "It did? I have been in this building all day, and I don't recall my Floyd | lunch hour being quite so noisy." The man presses a control. Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You stand lightly in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white Floyd | walls. The ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated Floyd | strips of plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving Floyd | away to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Boundary Floyd | The corridor angles here, and crosses a boundary of some sort as it Floyd | does. A few strides down the southeast branch, a dotted red line Floyd | crosses the floor. You can retreat from the boundary to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "I wish I had a macro for this...." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You are in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white walls. The Floyd | ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated strips of Floyd | plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving away to Floyd | the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "se" | |||||
Floyd | You return up the hallway as it curves around to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor By Entrance Floyd | The white corridor begins here, and curves away north. No one is about; Floyd | the metal face of the entrance door stands closed to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "would closing the door make it less noisy?" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "I think it would still be loud" | |||||
| DavidW asks, "and what are we trying to accomplish anyway? who are we? What is this place?" | |||||
| baf says, "That is a very good question to ask." | |||||
| dhakajack says, "apparently, we have all kinds of cool paramilitary gadgets." | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "se" | |||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor By Entrance Floyd | The white corridor begins here, and curves away north. No one is about; Floyd | the metal face of the entrance door stands closed to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea asks, "Have we tried getting out yet?" | ||||
| dhakajack asks, "out of the flashback or out of the interrogation?" | |||||
| Lucea says, "out of the building" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "yes, presumably the metal door leads out" | |||||
| DavidW asks, "you mean, take the package and run?" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You are in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white walls. The Floyd | ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated strips of Floyd | plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving away to Floyd | the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "I mean open this door and decide, hey, y'know, this whole building thing isn't for me" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open normal" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands Floyd | closed to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | The door to the north is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open normal" | |||||
Floyd | You open the normal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Closet Floyd | This room is small and, perhaps, rarely used -- not dirty, but not Floyd | quite as clean and white as the corridors. The door to the south is Floyd | open. Floyd | Floyd | Two rough wooden crates are backed in a corner of the closet. Floyd | Floyd | On the larger crate is a bolt wrench. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get wrench" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands open Floyd | to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "jump" | |||||
Floyd | You bend and leap. Your fingers brush the edge of the hole -- catch, Floyd | and you concentrate on holding on. Your feet swing gently a foot above Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | Uh! A sharp edge is digging into one finger. You shift your grasp Floyd | hastily, but a few drops of blood smear across the hole's lip. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get package" | |||||
Floyd | (with one hand, hanging by the other) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||||
Floyd | You drop lightly to the ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Closet Floyd | This room is small and, perhaps, rarely used -- not dirty, but not Floyd | quite as clean and white as the corridors. The door to the south is Floyd | open. Floyd | Floyd | Two rough wooden crates are backed in a corner of the closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | The only exit is south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands open Floyd | to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | The metal door is very definitely closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x metal" | |||||
Floyd | The door to the west is metal. It has no handle; another black plate is Floyd | visible beside it. The door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack asks, "is it worth trying to open this door?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x finger" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "We can try. It'd probably take force" | ||||
| DavidW says, "he said no" | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "push door" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the normal door or the metal door? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "metal" | |||||
Floyd | The steel is immobile. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "but really, this part is way, way less complicated than you think it is" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "hit plate" | |||||
Floyd | There is no response. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the normal door or the metal door? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "metal" | |||||
Floyd | That is unlikely to get a response. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "hit door with wrench" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the normal door or the metal door? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "metal" | |||||
Floyd | That won't help. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "remove door with bolt wrench" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the normal door or the metal door? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "metal" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to remove the metal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x hinge" | |||||
Floyd | The northern door is comfortingly ordinary -- white paint, hinges, and Floyd | a handle which needs nothing more sophisticated than fingers. The door Floyd | is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "what are you doing?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "trying to break the metal door" | |||||
| DavidW asks, "why?" | |||||
| Lucea says, "they wanted to" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "just trying to run out the possibilities" | |||||
| DavidW says, "we opened it ages ago" | |||||
| DavidW says, "There were 5 people in there.\" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a wrapped package, Floyd | a bolt wrench, a lockpick and a toolcase (which is open) (in which are Floyd | a blast tab, a radio module, a timer, a scan scrambler, a minilamp, a Floyd | toggle switch, a pushbutton, an acid pack, a voice module, a voice Floyd | transmitter and a key transmitter). Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The interrogator said those people never saw us come in" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "and we didn't use the acid, or the explosives, according to him." | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "um, best way I can think to describe this..." | ||||
| Lucea asks, "ever played the Erudition Chamber?" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "nope" | |||||
| DavidW says, "well, found no trace of acid. Didnt hear explosive." | |||||
| Lucea says, "oh. well. never mind then" | |||||
| DavidW says, "yes" | |||||
| dhakajack asks, "maybe we're wasting our time in the flashback...should we try to get back to the interrogator?" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "or does that seem to be scripted such our actions there are limited only to talking" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands open Floyd | to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| olethros arrives, full of fun and funk. | Lucea says, "couldn't hurt to go back to the interrogator" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You are in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white walls. The Floyd | ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated strips of Floyd | plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving away to Floyd | the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "se" | |||||
Floyd | You return up the hallway as it curves around to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor By Entrance Floyd | The white corridor begins here, and curves away north. No one is about; Floyd | the metal face of the entrance door stands closed to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "I'm going to pull him up again" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "put pick on plate" | |||||
Floyd | The pick locks itself rigidly to the black plate by the door. Its Floyd | status dot flashes to yellow. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The lockpick's status dot is sliding towards green. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The lockpick's status dot is sliding towards green. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The lockpick's status dot fades to pure green, and flicks steady blue. Floyd | Floyd | The door slides open, and daylight spills over you. So does a sharp Floyd | buzzer; and, moments later, three armed guards. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "press space" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "Of course, by now -- that is, by then -- there was once again an Floyd | observer covering the alley door. Your original diversion was clever Floyd | but brief. So you certainly didn't re-open the door, much less leave Floyd | and then re-enter." He touches a control. Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "press space" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You stand lightly in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white Floyd | walls. The ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated Floyd | strips of plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving Floyd | away to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a lockpick and a Floyd | toolcase (which is open) (in which are a blast tab, a radio module, a Floyd | timer, a scan scrambler, a minilamp, a toggle switch, a pushbutton, an Floyd | acid pack, a voice module, a voice transmitter and a key transmitter). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x toolcase" | |||||
Floyd | Your toolcase is a flat grey plastic form, lined with shaped sponge Floyd | foam. In the toolcase are a blast tab, a radio module, a timer, a scan Floyd | scrambler, a minilamp, a toggle switch, a pushbutton, an acid pack, a Floyd | voice module, a voice transmitter and a key transmitter. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. We have to reget that package each time, eh?" | ||||
| popka says, "we could reload instead, I think the last save was after we got it." | |||||
| dhakajack says, "yes -- the package and our old friend the bolt wrench" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "eat sponge foam" | |||||
Floyd | (first taking the foam padding) Floyd | The foam padding is part of the case. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "maybe we don't need the package" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I suspect restore is not our friend in this game." | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands Floyd | closed to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | popka says, "It says as much in about." | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open normal" | |||||
Floyd | You open the normal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Closet Floyd | This room is small and, perhaps, rarely used -- not dirty, but not Floyd | quite as clean and white as the corridors. The door to the south is Floyd | open. Floyd | Floyd | Two rough wooden crates are backed in a corner of the closet. Floyd | Floyd | On the larger crate is a bolt wrench. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get bolt" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands open Floyd | to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x hinge" | |||||
Floyd | The northern door is comfortingly ordinary -- white paint, hinges, and Floyd | a handle which needs nothing more sophisticated than fingers. The door Floyd | is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Perhaps after X visits to the interrogator, he'll reveal new info." | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "remove normal door" | |||||
Floyd | You're not wearing that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands open Floyd | to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Boundary Floyd | The corridor angles here, and crosses a boundary of some sort as it Floyd | does. A few strides down the southeast branch, a dotted red line Floyd | crosses the floor. You can retreat from the boundary to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea says, "hrm." | DavidW asks, "what's se?" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "se" | |||||
Floyd | As you step across the line, a sharp buzzer echoes through the Floyd | corridors. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "We've been over this. We track all metal within the critical zones. I Floyd | know you're good; you surely noticed the ceiling web." Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea exclaims, "let's find out!" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Ceiling web?" | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say no" | |||||
Floyd | "As you like. But you didn't carry metal past it. Stop wasting my Floyd | time." He punches a control, harder than necessary. Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | DavidW asks, "Track ALL METAL?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "yeah, all metal" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "I hope we don't have any dental filling or for that matter iron in our red blood cells..." | |||||
| inky says, "hmm, maybe it should have said that the first time" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You stand lightly in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white Floyd | walls. The ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated Floyd | strips of plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving Floyd | away to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a lockpick and a Floyd | toolcase (which is open) (in which are a blast tab, a radio module, a Floyd | timer, a scan scrambler, a minilamp, a toggle switch, a pushbutton, an Floyd | acid pack, a voice module, a voice transmitter and a key transmitter). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x lockpick" | |||||
Floyd | The pick is a silver rod the size of your ring finger -- not true Floyd | silver, of course, nothing so easily scanned. It's splayed at one end Floyd | into a flat disc of conductor-web matrix. The status dot is blue. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea asks, "did we have the wrench the first time, though?" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x web" | |||||
Floyd | The lockpick widens at the top, ending in a coin-sized disc with the Floyd | woven gleam of conductor-web matrix. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ceiling web" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the panel ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get package" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x minilamp" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small yellow tube with a lens at one end. There's a minus link Floyd | on one edge of the tube. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "jump" | |||||
Floyd | You bend and leap. Your fingers brush the ceiling panels, but not Floyd | strongly enough to do anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get package" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea says, "this part is confusing because as far as I can tell there are two "Corridor Boundary" locations" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You are in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white walls. The Floyd | ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated strips of Floyd | plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving away to Floyd | the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands Floyd | closed to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "jump" | |||||
Floyd | You bend and leap. Your fingers brush the edge of the hole -- catch, Floyd | and you concentrate on holding on. Your feet swing gently a foot above Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | Uh! A sharp edge is digging into one finger. You shift your grasp Floyd | hastily, but a few drops of blood smear across the hole's lip. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea says, "which are identical, except one has a lot of guards and one doesn't" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get package" | |||||
Floyd | (with one hand, hanging by the other) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||||
Floyd | You drop lightly to the ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a wrapped package, Floyd | a lockpick and a toolcase (which is open) (in which are a blast tab, a Floyd | radio module, a timer, a scan scrambler, a minilamp, a toggle switch, a Floyd | pushbutton, an acid pack, a voice module, a voice transmitter and a key Floyd | transmitter). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "drop toolcase" | |||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands Floyd | closed to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Your toolcase is lying open nearby. Inside are a blast tab, a radio Floyd | module, a timer, a scan scrambler, a minilamp, a toggle switch, a Floyd | pushbutton, an acid pack, a voice module, a voice transmitter and a key Floyd | transmitter. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Boundary Floyd | The corridor angles here, and crosses a boundary of some sort as it Floyd | does. A few strides down the southeast branch, a dotted red line Floyd | crosses the floor. You can retreat from the boundary to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "is any thing we carry safe?" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a wrapped package Floyd | and a lockpick. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "drop lockpick" | |||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "i'm going to see if the package is ok" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "se" | |||||
Floyd | You step across the line and continue down the corridor... into the Floyd | sight of six guards or so, who are posted at the next intersection. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | Lucea says, "wait, wait" | ||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | The man raises an eyebrow. "None of those guards saw you until much Floyd | later. Shall we try it again?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "uh" | ||||
| Lucea says, "we might still need the wrench, though" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "we could try throwing a metallic object and trigger the sensor...." | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You are in a dim room, bounded by metal walls, and you sit restrained Floyd | in a steel chair. Across from you is a desk covered with panels of Floyd | instrumentation. The man faces you from behind it. Floyd | Floyd | The man touches a control. Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You stand lightly in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white Floyd | walls. The ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated Floyd | strips of plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving Floyd | away to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands Floyd | closed to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "jump" | |||||
Floyd | You bend and leap. Your fingers brush the edge of the hole -- catch, Floyd | and you concentrate on holding on. Your feet swing gently a foot above Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | Uh! A sharp edge is digging into one finger. You shift your grasp Floyd | hastily, but a few drops of blood smear across the hole's lip. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get package" | |||||
Floyd | (with one hand, hanging by the other) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||||
Floyd | You drop lightly to the ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "so we have this metal web that detects stuff that is mteal" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open normal door" | |||||
Floyd | You open the normal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "we shouls try to examine things in the white room , eh?" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Closet Floyd | This room is small and, perhaps, rarely used -- not dirty, but not Floyd | quite as clean and white as the corridors. The door to the south is Floyd | open. Floyd | Floyd | Two rough wooden crates are backed in a corner of the closet. Floyd | Floyd | On the larger crate is a bolt wrench. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get bolt" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands open Floyd | to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "er interrogation chamber I mean" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I cant draw right now, so I'm confused about what the map might look like." | |||||
| dhakajack says, "i'm going to go to the line, but not cross it." | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You are in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white walls. The Floyd | ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated strips of Floyd | plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving away to Floyd | the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "se" | |||||
Floyd | You return up the hallway as it curves around to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor By Entrance Floyd | The white corridor begins here, and curves away north. No one is about; Floyd | the metal face of the entrance door stands closed to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x web" | |||||
Floyd | The lockpick widens at the top, ending in a coin-sized disc with the Floyd | woven gleam of conductor-web matrix. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | |||||
Floyd | Wide rectangles cover the ceiling with the grey, dimpled texture of Floyd | good acoustical insulation. Between the panels are the glowing strips Floyd | which illuminate the area. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor By Entrance Floyd | The white corridor begins here, and curves away north. No one is about; Floyd | the metal face of the entrance door stands closed to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You are in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white walls. The Floyd | ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated strips of Floyd | plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving away to Floyd | the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Boundary Floyd | The corridor angles here, and crosses a boundary of some sort as it Floyd | does. A few strides down the southeast branch, a dotted red line Floyd | crosses the floor. You can retreat from the boundary to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | |||||
Floyd | Wide rectangles cover the ceiling with the grey, dimpled texture of Floyd | good acoustical insulation. Between the panels are the glowing strips Floyd | which illuminate the area. You notice that to the southeast, beyond the Floyd | red boundary line, the ceiling panels are also striped with the Floyd | characteristic glitter of a scan web. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "erase red line" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "ah. That would be the characteristically not-noticed-before glitter...." | ||||
| inky says, "hee hee" | |||||
| DavidW asks, "can scan web be scrambled?" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a bolt wrench, a Floyd | wrapped package, a lockpick and a toolcase (which is open) (in which Floyd | are a blast tab, a radio module, a timer, a scan scrambler, a minilamp, Floyd | a toggle switch, a pushbutton, an acid pack, a voice module, a voice Floyd | transmitter and a key transmitter). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a bolt wrench, a Floyd | wrapped package, a lockpick and a toolcase (which is open) (in which Floyd | are a blast tab, a radio module, a timer, a scan scrambler, a minilamp, Floyd | a toggle switch, a pushbutton, an acid pack, a voice module, a voice Floyd | transmitter and a key transmitter). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "throw bolt se" | |||||
Floyd | You toss the wrench across the line; a sharp buzzer immediately sounds. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "This is tiring. I've been in this base all day and I heard no alarm." Floyd | The man touches a control before you can respond. Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You stand lightly in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white Floyd | walls. The ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated Floyd | strips of plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving Floyd | away to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "also walking se with nothing fails too, right?" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Boundary Floyd | The corridor angles here, and crosses a boundary of some sort as it Floyd | does. A few strides down the southeast branch, a dotted red line Floyd | crosses the floor. You can retreat from the boundary to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "se" | |||||
Floyd | You step across the line and continue down the corridor. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "press space" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "I believe you're forgetting something." The man gazes at you levelly. Floyd | "Our forensics people went over the area very thoroughly after we Floyd | captured you. And we found evidence that you'd been up in that open Floyd | ceiling panel in the northwest corner. Did you think you could hide Floyd | that from us?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "yeah" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "hit interrogator" | |||||
Floyd | You can hardly move at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | popka says, "But not with any alarm..." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x interrogator" | |||||
Floyd | He is greying of hair and lined, lined hard, not wrinkled. His pale Floyd | uniform fits as comfortably as skin. It is immaculate; it bears no Floyd | insignia but the emblem of his nation. Floyd | Floyd | The man is holding a lockpick. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| popka says (to Floyd), "x chair" | |||||
Floyd | The chair is every bit as uncomfortable as its designers must have Floyd | intended. Metal slats dig into your thighs and shoulders. Your head is Floyd | strapped back, with too many cold itches where the leads are pasted on. Floyd | And, of course, the steel bands that bind your hands and feet. You can Floyd | hardly forget those. Floyd | Floyd | The man leans back, watching you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x desk" | |||||
Floyd | The desk is panelled with ranks of controls and instruments. All, of Floyd | course, are angled just too low for you to read. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x emblem" | |||||
Floyd | The man wears the light tan uniform of his nation, and its emblem on Floyd | his breast. Floyd | Floyd | He shakes his head. "You can't. You can cover up memories, perhaps..." Floyd | Unexpectedly, he smiles. "But 'Blood speaks loud where words fade Floyd | away.' Eh? Now, this time, the truth." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You stand lightly in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white Floyd | walls. The ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated Floyd | strips of plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving Floyd | away to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands Floyd | closed to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "jump" | |||||
Floyd | You bend and leap. Your fingers brush the edge of the hole -- catch, Floyd | and you concentrate on holding on. Your feet swing gently a foot above Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | Uh! A sharp edge is digging into one finger. You shift your grasp Floyd | hastily, but a few drops of blood smear across the hole's lip. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get package" | |||||
Floyd | (with one hand, hanging by the other) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | dhakajack asks, "so, this time...?" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors (hanging from the ceiling) Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands Floyd | closed to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap. You Floyd | are clinging to the lip of the hole; your feet dangle a foot above the Floyd | ground. Floyd | Floyd | You move your hands a bit, one at a time, to ease the strain. Floyd | Floyd | > | popka asks, "We took our tools across the line last time with no alarm, didn't we?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "Yeah." | |||||
| DavidW asks, "Can the scan web be fooled into not working?" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a wrapped package, Floyd | a lockpick and a toolcase (which is open) (in which are a blast tab, a Floyd | radio module, a timer, a scan scrambler, a minilamp, a toggle switch, a Floyd | pushbutton, an acid pack, a voice module, a voice transmitter and a key Floyd | transmitter). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x scan scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small orange pyramid, traced with conductor matrix. It can Floyd | detect and scramble scan-web on any frequency... or so the theory is Floyd | drawn. There's a minus link on one edge. Floyd | Floyd | Your fingertips ache dully. And a nearby ventilator grille seems to be Floyd | hissing directly into your ear. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect scan scrambler to toggle" | |||||
Floyd | (with one hand, hanging by the other) Floyd | You connect the toggle switch to the scan scrambler. The toggle switch Floyd | turns orange to confirm the match. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | You drop lightly to the ground, flexing your stiff hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "turn on scramber" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "turn on scan scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | The scan scrambler has no built-in controls. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "turn on toggle" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | You flip the orange switch on. The scrambler's status dot goes green, Floyd | and an almost inaudible whine begins within it. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | The door to the north is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says, "...floyd push toggle" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "push toggle" | |||||
Floyd | You flip the orange switch off. The scrambler shuts down, and its Floyd | status dot goes blue. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "open normal" | |||||
Floyd | You open the normal door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "we forgot the wrench" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Closet Floyd | This room is small and, perhaps, rarely used -- not dirty, but not Floyd | quite as clean and white as the corridors. The door to the south is Floyd | open. Floyd | Floyd | Two rough wooden crates are backed in a corner of the closet. Floyd | Floyd | On the larger crate is a bolt wrench. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get bolt" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands open Floyd | to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Boundary Floyd | The corridor angles here, and crosses a boundary of some sort as it Floyd | does. A few strides down the southeast branch, a dotted red line Floyd | crosses the floor. You can retreat from the boundary to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "turn on toggle" | |||||
Floyd | You flip the orange switch on. The scrambler's status dot goes green, Floyd | and an almost inaudible whine begins within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack asks, "shall we go se?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "not from here" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands open Floyd | to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You are in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white walls. The Floyd | ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated strips of Floyd | plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving away to Floyd | the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Boundary Floyd | The corridor angles here, and crosses a boundary of some sort as it Floyd | does. A few strides down the southeast branch, a dotted red line Floyd | crosses the floor. You can retreat from the boundary to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "se" | |||||
Floyd | You step across the line and continue down the corridor. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "...with the metal of the wrench hidden from our ever-watchful scan Floyd | web. A wonderful artifact, your little orange pyramid." The man spreads Floyd | his hands in assumed awe, then shakes his head. "I don't think your Floyd | techniques are quite that good. You could muffle the metal signature, I Floyd | would say, but not perfectly. It would leave eddies. Small ones -- Floyd | within the error tolerances of our scan, enough to hide the wrench for Floyd | a few minutes -- but after that? A dozen acceptable errors within ten Floyd | minutes is... not acceptable at all. Floyd | Floyd | "And we picked up no such suspicious sequence; and therefore, you did Floyd | not carry the wrench across that line. Did you." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "yes" | |||||
Floyd | He stares at you for a moment. "Even if you claim your scrambler works Floyd | perfectly," he continues, "...we found the wrench sitting on the crate Floyd | in the closet." He smiles briefly. Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You stand lightly in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white Floyd | walls. The ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated Floyd | strips of plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving Floyd | away to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands Floyd | closed to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "jump" | |||||
Floyd | You bend and leap. Your fingers brush the edge of the hole -- catch, Floyd | and you concentrate on holding on. Your feet swing gently a foot above Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | Uh! A sharp edge is digging into one finger. You shift your grasp Floyd | hastily, but a few drops of blood smear across the hole's lip. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get package" | |||||
Floyd | (with one hand, hanging by the other) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||||
Floyd | You drop lightly to the ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect toggle to scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the toggle switch to the scan scrambler. The toggle switch Floyd | turns orange to confirm the match. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You are in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white walls. The Floyd | ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated strips of Floyd | plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving away to Floyd | the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "turn on toggle" | |||||
Floyd | You flip the orange switch on. The scrambler's status dot goes green, Floyd | and an almost inaudible whine begins within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "se" | |||||
Floyd | You return up the hallway as it curves around to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Corridor By Entrance Floyd | The white corridor begins here, and curves away north. No one is about; Floyd | the metal face of the entrance door stands closed to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor By Entrance Floyd | The white corridor begins here, and curves away north. No one is about; Floyd | the metal face of the entrance door stands closed to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | White Junction Floyd | You are in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white walls. The Floyd | ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by illuminated strips of Floyd | plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving away to Floyd | the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | popka says, "Why do we need the scrambler? It won't work over a long period of time anyway." | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Boundary Floyd | The corridor angles here, and crosses a boundary of some sort as it Floyd | does. A few strides down the southeast branch, a dotted red line Floyd | crosses the floor. You can retreat from the boundary to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "se" | |||||
Floyd | You step across the line and continue down the corridor. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | The man nods with consideration. "And off you went, through our secure Floyd | zone like a scalpel through cheese. A plastic scalpel," he adds, Floyd | smiling distantly, "so I don't know why you turned on that charming Floyd | device. As I said, it couldn't have hidden metal for any length of Floyd | time. Thus -- you had none. At least our scan-web keeps spies from Floyd | carrying guns with them when they stroll through our bases." He pauses Floyd | a moment. "Or does your side have nonmetallic guns now?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea says, "question" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say yes" | |||||
Floyd | "Now you're lying again. We would know if you had such things, and you Floyd | would know that we would..." A silence draws out, and you look to find Floyd | the man staring at a far wall, as if you and your chair had dissolved Floyd | away. Then, thoughtfully, "For all the effort we put into secrets, my Floyd | people and yours, do we ever manage to keep any?" His eyes are on you Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say yes" | |||||
Floyd | "Yes, and here you are. Because you don't have this one. And this is Floyd | the secret that matters. You didn't get it, and we can keep it just a Floyd | little longer." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea asks, "the part later on, where you actually need the scan scrambler. it isn't unwinnable because it was toggled here, is it?" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say sounds good. can i go now" | |||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| popka says (to Floyd), "no" | |||||
Floyd | "A little longer is all we need." Floyd | Floyd | He shakes his head sharply. "A bit more time here, as well. And please Floyd | don't waste any more of it with fantasy. Your next move must have Floyd | been..." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tee Junction Floyd | The white corridor runs east to west here, with a branch leading off to Floyd | the north, and a closed metal door to the south. You can see that the Floyd | east hall reaches a dead end a short distance away. Floyd | Floyd | You hear footsteps somewhere to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf2" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack asks, "I'm going to step away for a minute... will someone else take the helm for a bit?" | ||||
| [cfspoilers] inky says, "hmm, probably not" | popka says, "I think everyone else has played this already." | ||||
| Lucea says, "I've played it already, so I probably shouldn't" | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea says, "I know the scrambler screws up after X uses. but I don't know if it gets reset" | dhakajack says, "OK. I'll hang on." | ||||
| dhakajack asks, "should I try the sequence again, with the package, but without the tool box?" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a wrapped package, Floyd | a lockpick and a toolcase (which is open) (in which are a scan Floyd | scrambler (connected to a toggle switch), a blast tab, a radio module, Floyd | a timer, a minilamp, a pushbutton, an acid pack, a voice module, a Floyd | voice transmitter and a key transmitter). Floyd | Floyd | The footsteps seem to be approaching. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "we reached a new stage" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "ah, footsteps, yes." | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tee Junction Floyd | The white corridor runs east to west here, with a branch leading off to Floyd | the north, and a closed metal door to the south. You can see that the Floyd | east hall reaches a dead end a short distance away. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We are in Tee Junction now" | ||||
| inky says, "guess we'd better hide" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Diagonal Branch Floyd | This bare stretch of hallway angles from the northwest to the east; Floyd | another short hall leads south. Floyd | Floyd | Distant footsteps sound somewhere to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm, but we can't get the door openw ithout the lockpick, I assume" | ||||
| DavidW says, "we have lockpick" | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | inky says, "oh, so we did" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | You take half a step and nearly trip as you turn. A woman is standing Floyd | to the south, at the end of the hall. She leans on the frame of an open Floyd | door, talking to someone in the room beyond. If you continue, she will Floyd | certainly notice you. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I figured it couldn't get through the scanweb" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm lost without mapping" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Hallways run northwest, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | The footsteps to the east grow louder. Floyd | Floyd | The woman nods and leans back. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||||
Floyd | You return up the corridor, across the red line. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "I don't think so. There were people up and down the west corridor Floyd | during that interval. You weren't seen back there. Besides, it would Floyd | hardly be elegant," and he smiles very suddenly. "We've had that part Floyd | of the story. Repeating it would be redundant, yes? Bad art." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "no" | |||||
Floyd | "You don't think so? You must not have had my fiction tutor." You did Floyd | not expect to hear a chuckle in this room. "For all the stakes, it Floyd | comes down to you telling stories, doesn't it? You spin me a story, and Floyd | I listen." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say ok" | |||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say yes" | |||||
Floyd | He nods. "The oldest profession. Although you've been reluctant -- I Floyd | can't expect better, I suppose. Anyway." He blinks. "This verse isn't Floyd | yet right." He touches a control. Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tee Junction Floyd | The white corridor runs east to west here, with a branch leading off to Floyd | the north, and a closed metal door to the south. You can see that the Floyd | east hall reaches a dead end a short distance away. Floyd | Floyd | You hear footsteps somewhere to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | The metal door is very definitely closed. Floyd | Floyd | The footsteps seem to be approaching. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "I don't remember that line. I don't think the interrogator knows what it means" | ||||
| inky says, "heh" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x door" | |||||
Floyd | The door to the south is metal. As usual, it has a black sensor plate Floyd | beside it. The door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "touch lockpick to plate" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | The pick locks itself rigidly to the black plate by the door. Its Floyd | status dot flashes to yellow. Floyd | Floyd | The footsteps to the north grow louder. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | Tee Junction Floyd | The white corridor runs east to west here, with a branch leading off to Floyd | the north, and a closed metal door to the south. You can see that the Floyd | east hall reaches a dead end a short distance away. Floyd | Floyd | The lockpick is clinging to the black plate by the door. Floyd | Floyd | The footsteps move out of a branch corridor to the north -- a trio of Floyd | guards, still heading this way. You dodge back out of their line of Floyd | view, flattening yourself inside the west side of the tee. Floyd | Floyd | The lockpick's status dot is sliding towards green. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You hear the guards coming closer. Floyd | Floyd | The lockpick's status dot is sliding towards green. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You hear the guards coming closer. Floyd | Floyd | The lockpick's status dot fades to pure green, and flicks steady blue. Floyd | Floyd | The metal door slides open. To the north, the footfalls of the guards Floyd | cease, startled by this apparition. Then they begin again -- hurrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | You hurl yourself towards the open door, snatching at the lockpick as Floyd | you go by. Nearly -- but your fingers close wrong, and the silver rod Floyd | clatters to the floor behind you as you dive over the threshold. The Floyd | door slides closed; you are left in quiet dark. Floyd | Floyd | A moment later, the door slides open again. A surprising number of Floyd | pulse guns are aimed through it, all at you. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | Impatience is plain between his eyes, now. "Yes, you had time to get Floyd | inside. But the door, did you notice, would have come open in full view Floyd | of Mobile Three? You did notice, in truth, that's what you showed me." Floyd | Floyd | He shakes his head. "But Three says they didn't see you at all, and Floyd | they certainly didn't see you fooling around with that door, and they Floyd | certainly didn't enact that tableau at the end. With the guns." He Floyd | seems particularly disgusted with that touch, for some reason. "Is it, Floyd | what, you just enjoy a dramatic scene?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "yes" | |||||
Floyd | "Spare me." He touches a control. Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tee Junction Floyd | The white corridor runs east to west here, with a branch leading off to Floyd | the north, and a closed metal door to the south. You can see that the Floyd | east hall reaches a dead end a short distance away. Floyd | Floyd | You hear footsteps somewhere to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dead End South Floyd | The corridor ends here, blank, with a single steel door on the north Floyd | wall. The door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | Distant footsteps sound somewhere to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||||
Floyd | It doesn't open by itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x door" | |||||
Floyd | The door to the north is metal. As usual, it has a black sensor plate Floyd | beside it. The door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | Distant footsteps sound somewhere to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "touch lockpick to plate" | |||||
Floyd | The metal door to the north isn't important. Floyd | Floyd | The footsteps are clearer now. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | The metal door is very definitely closed. Floyd | Floyd | The footsteps to the west grow louder. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack asks, "?" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "touch lockpick to sensor" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dead End South Floyd | The corridor ends here, blank, with a single steel door on the north Floyd | wall. The door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x door" | |||||
Floyd | The door to the north is metal. As usual, it has a black sensor plate Floyd | beside it. The door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | The footsteps to the west grow louder. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm lost if I cant map and take notes" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "touch lockpick to door" | |||||
Floyd | The pick does not react to the metal door, other than a brief red flash Floyd | of the status dot. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "push door" | |||||
Floyd | The steel is immobile. Floyd | Floyd | The footsteps to the west are very clear now. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "connect lockpick to plate" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "is this the same door he said you didnt go thru?" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "I think I haven't tried this yet" | |||||
| DavidW says, "maybe you waylaid that woman instead" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "it looks like there is a problem recognizing the plate here" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unlock door with pick" | |||||
Floyd | It's not clear precisely how the lockpick can be used to unlock that. Floyd | Floyd | The guards come around the corner. Well-trained guards, of course, look Floyd | both ways when they enter an intersection. For a moment you stare at Floyd | them staring at you. Then they draw their weapons. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | inky says, "pshaw" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "she was talking to someone, so I'd have had to taken them both out." | |||||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "The squad on Mobile Three, the ones you say stumbled into you. You do Floyd | have their images right; I know you saw them. But they say they never Floyd | saw you. Did they lie?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "no" | |||||
Floyd | "A helpful answer at last! Thank you. Now let's have it again." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tee Junction Floyd | The white corridor runs east to west here, with a branch leading off to Floyd | the north, and a closed metal door to the south. You can see that the Floyd | east hall reaches a dead end a short distance away. Floyd | Floyd | You hear footsteps somewhere to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Diagonal Branch Floyd | This bare stretch of hallway angles from the northwest to the east; Floyd | another short hall leads south. Floyd | Floyd | Distant footsteps sound somewhere to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | You take half a step and nearly trip as you turn. A woman is standing Floyd | to the south, at the end of the hall. She leans on the frame of an open Floyd | door, talking to someone in the room beyond. If you continue, she will Floyd | certainly notice you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||||
Floyd | You return up the corridor, across the red line. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "Stories or none, I know you haven't been back to the west corridor." Floyd | The man touches a control. Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tee Junction Floyd | The white corridor runs east to west here, with a branch leading off to Floyd | the north, and a closed metal door to the south. You can see that the Floyd | east hall reaches a dead end a short distance away. Floyd | Floyd | You hear footsteps somewhere to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put pick on plate" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | The pick locks itself rigidly to the black plate by the door. Its Floyd | status dot flashes to yellow. Floyd | Floyd | The footsteps seem to be approaching. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | Angle Branch Floyd | The corridor runs north and south, like every other hallway in this Floyd | place. A short hallway branches off to the northeast. To the west is a Floyd | blank metal door, with attendant black plate beside it. Floyd | Floyd | As you step into the intersection, three guards walk out of the Floyd | northeast branch. For a moment they stare at you staring at them. Then Floyd | they draw their weapons. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "No, understand, this isn't in question. The guards did not see you, Floyd | not toenail or eyebrow. They heard a noise, something clattering across Floyd | the floor, in the eastern dead-end corridor. That's what they Floyd | investigated. That's what you're trying to explain here. Clear?" Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "ah" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say yes" | |||||
Floyd | "Good." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tee Junction Floyd | The white corridor runs east to west here, with a branch leading off to Floyd | the north, and a closed metal door to the south. You can see that the Floyd | east hall reaches a dead end a short distance away. Floyd | Floyd | You hear footsteps somewhere to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dead End South Floyd | The corridor ends here, blank, with a single steel door on the north Floyd | wall. The door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | Distant footsteps sound somewhere to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put pick on plate" | |||||
Floyd | The metal door to the north isn't important. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | inky says, "hmm-te-hmm" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "I think we need to create a diversion in this dead end." | |||||
| inky says, "I assume we create a distraction here to give us time to get through the debate" | |||||
| inky says, "yeah" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a lockpick, a Floyd | wrapped package and a toolcase (which is open) (in which are a scan Floyd | scrambler (connected to a toggle switch), a blast tab, a radio module, Floyd | a timer, a minilamp, a pushbutton, an acid pack, a voice module, a Floyd | voice transmitter and a key transmitter). Floyd | Floyd | Distant footsteps sound somewhere to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tee Junction Floyd | The white corridor runs east to west here, with a branch leading off to Floyd | the north, and a closed metal door to the south. You can see that the Floyd | east hall reaches a dead end a short distance away. Floyd | Floyd | The footsteps move out of a branch corridor to the north -- a trio of Floyd | guards, still heading this way. You dodge back out of their line of Floyd | view, flattening yourself inside the west side of the tee. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "throw radio module east" | |||||
Floyd | (first taking the radio module) Floyd | The radio module clatters down the hall into the dead end. Floyd | Floyd | "Did you hear that?" comes a voice from the north. "Sounded like it was Floyd | coming from the wiring closet," another guard says, a frown in his Floyd | tone. Floyd | Floyd | The footsteps begin to hurry. The three guards round the corner, and Floyd | run down the east hall -- without a glance at where you huddle in the Floyd | western branch. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ah, nice" | ||||
| inky says, "of course, we weren't unlocking the door" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | You hold your breath and slip around the corner, out of the guards' Floyd | line of sight. And pause... and there is no cry of alarm. You exhale -- Floyd | silently -- and stroll off to the north. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "A streetcorner dazzler would be proud. You distract Mobile Three with Floyd | the radio module; when they follow the noise, you walk up the corridor. Floyd | Yes?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "yes" | |||||
Floyd | "...and then they bring the radio module to Security's attention." He Floyd | turns a palm out, displaying the silver rod in his hand. "And it looks, Floyd | instead, a great deal like your lockpick. Not that they knew what it Floyd | was at the time, of course. But we may as well correct the detail of Floyd | which object you threw." He touches a control. Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | inky says, "picky picky" | ||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tee Junction Floyd | The white corridor runs east to west here, with a branch leading off to Floyd | the north, and a closed metal door to the south. You can see that the Floyd | east hall reaches a dead end a short distance away. Floyd | Floyd | You hear footsteps somewhere to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "wait" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The footsteps seem to be approaching. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "wait" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The footsteps to the north grow louder. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The footsteps move out of a branch corridor to the north -- a trio of Floyd | guards, still heading this way. You dodge back out of their line of Floyd | view, flattening yourself inside the west side of the tee. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "throw lockpick east" | |||||
Floyd | The lockpick clatters down the hall into the dead end. Floyd | Floyd | "Did you hear that?" comes a voice from the north. "Sounded like it was Floyd | coming from the wiring closet," another guard says, a frown in his Floyd | tone. Floyd | Floyd | The footsteps begin to hurry. The three guards round the corner, and Floyd | run down the east hall -- without a glance at where you huddle in the Floyd | western branch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | You hold your breath and slip around the corner, out of the guards' Floyd | line of sight. And pause... and there is no cry of alarm. You exhale -- Floyd | silently -- and stroll off to the north. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "Very neat. Behind the backs of the guards, and leave them to mumble Floyd | over the lockpick -- not that they knew what it was at the time, of Floyd | course. And you slip north into the core areas." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "no" | |||||
Floyd | "There's nowhere else," says the man, almost patiently. "I assumed Floyd | Security was later, because the lab is your primary objective. Was, to Floyd | say." His voice slows, again contemplative, unsettling to you. "Your Floyd | story is predictable. Did you expect that?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "yes" | |||||
Floyd | "There is tension, but the flow is clear. The hero will extract the Floyd | secret plans and escape; I wouldn't believe you if you said anything Floyd | else. Except, of course, you didn't escape." Floyd | Floyd | He is still seated, but his eyes are the eyes of a man pacing. "This Floyd | isn't a story. Do you have any imagination? Do you realize what this Floyd | technology will be used for?" He seems as astonished at the outburst as Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say no" | |||||
Floyd | "Naturally. You were sent for, and so you came." That must be a quote. Floyd | "Implications are someone else's job. 'Clean War.' No troops, no Floyd | civilian blood. One man at a time, slipped into an office or a palace, Floyd | beyond any hope of wall or guard. Or not even a man -- a grenade, a Floyd | canister of gas. The end," wryly -- "of security. I'd be out of a job." Floyd | His eyes are distant, and again you feel that you are the least Floyd | important thing in the room. Floyd | Floyd | "Bad enough if we get it first. We'll take you apart, or just threaten Floyd | to. Harsh but quick. It would be over, we'd have won. But if your Floyd | people get it too, if you'd gotten out with the data, do you Floyd | realize...?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say no" | |||||
Floyd | "Of course you don't. You just march. But see... Knives at each other's Floyd | throats. How long could that last? Two years, five. Eventually it would Floyd | be too tempting, some premier or on-commander who poses too much Floyd | immediate threat." Somehow his eyes are holding yours. "Then it would Floyd | be literal knives at each other's literal cursed throats. Whole Floyd | governments beheaded overnight. Same for anyone who tries to move up, Floyd | take charge. It wouldn't end. Could you swear, honestly, that anyone Floyd | left on your side wouldn't keep using it on anyone left on our side? Floyd | Senate-men? Troops? Farmers?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say no" | |||||
Floyd | There is a long pause; and then the man smiles... not at you. "And in Floyd | spite of that, or anything -- I march too. Let's get back to that. The Floyd | lab." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside Laboratory Floyd | The corridor from the east ends here, and a single door looms to the Floyd | west. It's no larger than the doors you've seen elsewhere; but it Floyd | somehow looks... heavy. Unyielding. Reinforcing struts cross the door's Floyd | face, and the surface is sheathed with some black coating. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf3" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x door" | |||||
Floyd | The door is no larger than the doors you've seen elsewhere; but it Floyd | somehow looks... heavy. Unyielding. Reinforcing struts cross the door's Floyd | face, and the surface is sheathed with some black coating. However, the Floyd | black plate beside the door is quite standard. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x coating" | |||||
Floyd | The door and its struts are coated with some dead-black material. You Floyd | do not recognize it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x struts" | |||||
Floyd | The door is reinforced with thick square bars, which run down and along Floyd | its entire front. The struts are coated with the same black material as Floyd | the rest of the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "touch door" | |||||
Floyd | The black surface gives very slightly to your touch -- soft, but thin, Floyd | over steel. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "push door" | |||||
Floyd | The door is immobile. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "listen to door" | |||||
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside Laboratory Floyd | The corridor from the east ends here, and a single door looms to the Floyd | west. It's no larger than the doors you've seen elsewhere; but it Floyd | somehow looks... heavy. Unyielding. Reinforcing struts cross the door's Floyd | face, and the surface is sheathed with some black coating. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x bars" | |||||
Floyd | The door is reinforced with thick square bars, which run down and along Floyd | its entire front. The struts are coated with the same black material as Floyd | the rest of the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "there must be a normal way to use the panel" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | The laboratory door is very definitely closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x panel" | |||||
Floyd | Wide rectangles cover the ceiling with the grey, dimpled texture of Floyd | good acoustical insulation. Between the panels are the glowing strips Floyd | which illuminate the area, and also the characteristic glitter of a Floyd | scan web. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "touch panel" | |||||
Floyd | The ceiling is a foot out of your reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "touch sensor" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x door" | |||||
Floyd | The door is no larger than the doors you've seen elsewhere; but it Floyd | somehow looks... heavy. Unyielding. Reinforcing struts cross the door's Floyd | face, and the surface is sheathed with some black coating. However, the Floyd | black plate beside the door is quite standard. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x plate" | |||||
Floyd | A featureless, dull black rectangle is embedded in the wall beside the Floyd | laboratory door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "touch plate" | |||||
Floyd | Nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "lick plate" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a wrapped package Floyd | and a toolcase (which is open) (in which are a radio module, a scan Floyd | scrambler (connected to a toggle switch), a blast tab, a timer, a Floyd | minilamp, a pushbutton, an acid pack, a voice module, a voice Floyd | transmitter and a key transmitter). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "unwrap package" | |||||
Floyd | It's not yet time. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside Laboratory Floyd | The corridor from the east ends here, and a single door looms to the Floyd | west. It's no larger than the doors you've seen elsewhere; but it Floyd | somehow looks... heavy. Unyielding. Reinforcing struts cross the door's Floyd | face, and the surface is sheathed with some black coating. Floyd | Floyd | > | popka says, "You can die for real here, but I'd best not..." | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | You follow the corridor's curve to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | Lab Junction Floyd | The white corridor runs south and east from here, with a wide branch Floyd | curving northwest towards the laboratory. Floyd | Floyd | You jerk back from the intersection, a reflexive startled leap; there Floyd | are six guards down the hall to the south. They do not seem to have Floyd | seen you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lab Junction Floyd | The white corridor runs south and east from here, with a wide branch Floyd | curving northwest towards the laboratory. You are standing just inside Floyd | the northwest branch, out of sight of the guards to the south. Floyd | Floyd | You hear voices among the guards to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||||
Floyd | (to the guards) Floyd | One of the guards is talking quietly. The words, of course, are drowned Floyd | out by the ever-present ventilation. Floyd | Floyd | One of the guards says "Yes, with'." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | You duck across the intersection. The guards to the south, distracted Floyd | by their own business, do not notice you; so you continue unchallenged Floyd | to the east. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "You could have used the blast tab, did you realize? It would have Floyd | punched through the door, I'm sure. You would have been in and out. By Floyd | that much you missed starting a war. Or ending the one we've got." Floyd | Floyd | The man stops, gives you a measured glance. "This is a war, for all Floyd | that we're not shooting." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x express general agreement" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say yes" | |||||
Floyd | A wry chuckle. "Truly, you think more like me than my own by-commander Floyd | does. I think: if this is peace, why are the armies getting larger? And Floyd | even more money on secrets than on simple guns." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say yes" | |||||
Floyd | A one-sided smile. "I'll make a note of that, for our estimates of your Floyd | budget schedules." Floyd | Floyd | He passes that off with a tense wave. "It's frustrating. You say you Floyd | haven't thought about this technology. It could put our footprints on Floyd | the moons. We could walk to other stars as easily as to the bathhouse. Floyd | Oceans and mountains wouldn't be walls..." Again he is watching you Floyd | intently. Floyd | Floyd | "That, I think, is what our masters are afraid of. They'll face death Floyd | before living without walls. You, is that why you're here? Why you're Floyd | willing to unchain a war of assassination?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say no" | |||||
Floyd | "Then why... no. Business first." He takes a breath, and calms. Floyd | Floyd | "You left the lab without using your explosive. You came back to Floyd | Security. To get your precious lockpick, for the lab door?" The silver Floyd | rod flashes between his fingers; you had forgotten he was holding it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say no" | |||||
Floyd | "Perhaps other reasons as well, but I think the pick must have been Floyd | first in your mind. Show me." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Before you can move, a buzzer begins sounding up and down the halls. Floyd | Moments later, you hear guards running in your direction. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, the wonderful scan-scrambler. But, as I said earlier, it cannot Floyd | be miraculous. The high-sensitivity webs around Security could be Floyd | fooled; but the scrambler's presence would leave eddies. Glitches, you Floyd | understand. More than a few of those in a handful of seconds, and the Floyd | watchdogs get suspicious. As you showed me -- the alarms would ring." Floyd | He raises an eyebrow. "In fact, you couldn't have made it up the Floyd | corridor with the scrambler active. Let's just take it as read that it Floyd | wasn't." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| WeirdBeard has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a wrapped package Floyd | and a toolcase (which is open) (in which are a toggle switch, a radio Floyd | module, a scan scrambler, a blast tab, a timer, a minilamp, a Floyd | pushbutton, an acid pack, a voice module, a voice transmitter and a key Floyd | transmitter). Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "this part is really annoying, by the way" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small orange pyramid, traced with conductor matrix. It can Floyd | detect and scramble scan-web on any frequency... or so the theory is Floyd | drawn. There's a minus link on one edge. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | As you step into the room, a buzzer begins to sound. Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber Floyd | You are in a dim room, bounded by metal walls. A steel chair squats on Floyd | a low pedestal; facing it is an instrument-covered desk. Otherwise the Floyd | room is sterile. The bright hallway waits to the south. Floyd | Floyd | The harsh buzz continues. Within moments you also hear footsteps Floyd | hurrying towards you. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "An amateur, I think, could have walked through a doorway without ever Floyd | seeing the scan-web above it. You haven't impressed me thus far, but I Floyd | don't truly think you're incompetent." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Angle Branch Floyd | The corridor runs north and south, like every other hallway in this Floyd | place. A short hallway branches off to the northeast. To the west is a Floyd | blank metal door, with attendant black plate beside it. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "Are you saying you left without this?" The man produces a pen and Floyd | holds it up for your inspection. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x pen" | |||||
Floyd | It's an ordinary-looking pen. It's hard to tell from this distance, but Floyd | the nib appears to be missing, and there seems to be a dark stain on Floyd | the tip of the casing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say no" | |||||
Floyd | "That's better. One of my people is still recovering from its effect." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| K-Y has successfully become more charming than a sandwich. | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | As you step into the room, a buzzer begins to sound. Floyd | Floyd | Security Storage Room Floyd | This narrow room is lined with steel lockers. There is a plain table at Floyd | the south end, and the doorway to the north exits to the corridor. All Floyd | the lockers are closed. Floyd | Floyd | On the table is a pen. Floyd | Floyd | The harsh buzz continues. Within moments you also hear footsteps Floyd | hurrying towards you. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | He looks irritable. "No, no scan-web alarms. Not then, not at all." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect scrambler to toggle" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the toggle switch to the scan scrambler. The toggle switch Floyd | turns orange to confirm the match. Floyd | Floyd | The scrambler's status dot goes green, and an almost inaudible whine Floyd | begins within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "turn on toggle" | |||||
Floyd | The switch is already on. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Storage Room Floyd | This narrow room is lined with steel lockers. There is a plain table at Floyd | the south end, and the doorway to the north exits to the corridor. All Floyd | the lockers are closed. Floyd | Floyd | On the table is a pen. Floyd | Floyd | A moment after you step into the room, the scrambler emits a sharp Floyd | squeal. Then a sharper crackling noise -- and then a thread of smoke, Floyd | as its quiet vibration ceases. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get pen" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x talbe" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x table" | |||||
Floyd | It's just a plastic worktable, a slab built onto the south wall. There Floyd | is nothing on the table. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "Oh no, that doesn't sound good." | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "search lockers" | |||||
Floyd | All the lockers are closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lockers" | |||||
Floyd | The locker doors vary in size, from palm-length cubbies to a closet Floyd | apparently large enough to walk into. All the doors are closed. Each Floyd | locker has a four-digit number on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x pen" | |||||
Floyd | It's an ordinary-looking pen. The nib looks a bit sharp, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Storage Room Floyd | This narrow room is lined with steel lockers. There is a plain table at Floyd | the south end, and the doorway to the north exits to the corridor. All Floyd | the lockers are closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x lockers" | |||||
Floyd | The locker doors vary in size, from palm-length cubbies to a closet Floyd | apparently large enough to walk into. All the doors are closed. Each Floyd | locker has a four-digit number on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x closet" | |||||
Floyd | The locker doors vary in size, from palm-length cubbies to a closet Floyd | apparently large enough to walk into. All the doors are closed. Each Floyd | locker has a four-digit number on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "open them" | |||||
Floyd | The lockers do not have handles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Storage Room Floyd | This narrow room is lined with steel lockers. There is a plain table at Floyd | the south end, and the doorway to the north exits to the corridor. All Floyd | the lockers are closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look under table" | |||||
Floyd | Nothing but white tile. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "count lockers" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x locker 1000" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the lockers. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| olethros has disconnected. | |||||
| olethros was too old and infirm for your purpose. | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||||
Floyd | You hear nothing special, beyond a ventilation grille's constant hiss. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | As you leave the room, a buzzer begins to sound. Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | The harsh buzz continues. Within moments you also hear footsteps Floyd | hurrying towards you. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "You didn't set off the alarm going in, and you weren't found inside, Floyd | so you must have suppressed the scan-web coming out as well. Yes?" He Floyd | does not wait for a reply. Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect scrambler to toggle" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the toggle switch to the scan scrambler. The toggle switch Floyd | turns orange to confirm the match. Floyd | Floyd | The scrambler's status dot goes green, and an almost inaudible whine Floyd | begins within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "turn toggle on" | |||||
Floyd | The switch is already on. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x" | |||||
Floyd | What do you want to examine? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | The room to the south is filled with lockers; there is a table at the Floyd | far end. Floyd | Floyd | You can barely see a band of scan-web over the doorway, just inside the Floyd | room. Floyd | Floyd | A buzzer begins sounding up and down the halls. Moments later, you hear Floyd | guards running in your direction. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "We went back, you must know, and looked at every stray spark in the Floyd | scan-data. We know how you used the scrambler. On and off, briefly Floyd | enough to never upset our systems. And it did not get you caught." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect scrambler to toggle" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the toggle switch to the scan scrambler. The toggle switch Floyd | turns orange to confirm the match. Floyd | Floyd | The scrambler's status dot goes green, and an almost inaudible whine Floyd | begins within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "so you have to turn it off when it's safe" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Storage Room Floyd | This narrow room is lined with steel lockers. There is a plain table at Floyd | the south end, and the doorway to the north exits to the corridor. All Floyd | the lockers are closed. Floyd | Floyd | On the table is a pen. Floyd | Floyd | A moment after you step into the room, the scrambler emits a sharp Floyd | squeal. Then a sharper crackling noise -- and then a thread of smoke, Floyd | as its quiet vibration ceases. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "turn off toggle" | |||||
Floyd | You flip the orange switch off. The scrambler's status dot flickers Floyd | black. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get pen" | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "turn on toggle" | |||||
Floyd | You flip the orange switch on. The scrambler's status dot flickers Floyd | black. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | As you leave the room, a buzzer begins to sound. Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | The harsh buzz continues. Within moments you also hear footsteps Floyd | hurrying towards you. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "You didn't set off the alarm going in, and you weren't found inside, Floyd | so you must have suppressed the scan-web coming out as well. Yes?" He Floyd | does not wait for a reply. Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "I'm missing something here..." | ||||
| DavidW says, "You might have to fix the scrambler? Or time it better." | |||||
| baf says, "Once the scrambler is dead, it's dead." | |||||
| dhakajack says, "the alternative may be to not take any metal out of the room" | |||||
| DavidW asks, "How do I know that?" | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea says, "I really hope it isn't unwinnable because of that part" | DavidW says, "This game let's me assume nothing" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect toggle to scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the toggle switch to the scan scrambler. The toggle switch Floyd | turns orange to confirm the match. Floyd | Floyd | The scrambler's status dot goes green, and an almost inaudible whine Floyd | begins within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "you have no idea." | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Storage Room Floyd | This narrow room is lined with steel lockers. There is a plain table at Floyd | the south end, and the doorway to the north exits to the corridor. All Floyd | the lockers are closed. Floyd | Floyd | On the table is a pen. Floyd | Floyd | A moment after you step into the room, the scrambler emits a sharp Floyd | squeal. Then a sharper crackling noise -- and then a thread of smoke, Floyd | as its quiet vibration ceases. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "drop all" | |||||
Floyd | wrapped package: Dropped. Floyd | toolcase: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get package" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "unwrap package" | |||||
Floyd | It's not yet time. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "darn. still not time..." | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get pen" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | As you leave the room, a buzzer begins to sound. Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | The harsh buzz continues. Within moments you also hear footsteps Floyd | hurrying towards you. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | DavidW says, "try connecting the toogle to the timer and timer to the scrambler" | ||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "You didn't set off the alarm going in, and you weren't found inside, Floyd | so you must have suppressed the scan-web coming out as well. Yes?" He Floyd | does not wait for a reply. Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect toggle to timer" | |||||
Floyd | You can't connect two positive links together. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "and let the timer make the time it;s on shorter" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh maybe the toggle isnt needed" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a toolcase (which Floyd | is open) (in which are a toggle switch, a scan scrambler, a radio Floyd | module, a blast tab, a timer, a minilamp, a pushbutton, an acid pack, a Floyd | voice module, a voice transmitter and a key transmitter) and a wrapped Floyd | package. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect pushbutton to scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the pushbutton to the scan scrambler. The pushbutton turns Floyd | orange to confirm the match. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x green dial" | |||||
Floyd | The green dial is set to 1. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x blue dial" | |||||
Floyd | The blue dial is set to 1. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x timer" | |||||
Floyd | The timer is a small black box with two dials on one side, and a plus Floyd | link on the other. The status dot is blue. Both the green and blue Floyd | dials are set to 1; the timer's indicator is blank. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "push green dial" | |||||
Floyd | The green dial lights as you press it. The timer's indicator flashes to Floyd | 1. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "push blue dial" | |||||
Floyd | The blue dial is now lit as well. Floyd | Floyd | The timer's blue dial flashes once, and the indicator flashes to 1. The Floyd | status dot goes green, but as the timer isn't linked to anything, Floyd | that's all. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The timer's green dial flashes once, and the indicator flashes to 1. Floyd | The status dot goes blue, but as the timer isn't linked to anything, Floyd | that's all. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read instructions on timer" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "press pushbutton" | |||||
Floyd | The scrambler's status dot flashes briefly yellow. Floyd | Floyd | The timer's blue dial flashes once, and the indicator flashes to 1. The Floyd | status dot goes green, but as the timer isn't linked to anything, Floyd | that's all. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | As you step into the room, a buzzer begins to sound. Floyd | Floyd | Security Storage Room Floyd | This narrow room is lined with steel lockers. There is a plain table at Floyd | the south end, and the doorway to the north exits to the corridor. All Floyd | the lockers are closed. Floyd | Floyd | On the table is a pen. Floyd | Floyd | The timer's green dial flashes once, and the indicator flashes to 1. Floyd | The status dot goes blue, but as the timer isn't linked to anything, Floyd | that's all. Floyd | Floyd | The harsh buzz continues. Within moments you also hear footsteps Floyd | hurrying towards you. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | He looks irritable. "No, no scan-web alarms. Not then, not at all." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect timer to scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the timer to the scan scrambler. The timer turns orange to Floyd | confirm the match. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "turn green to 5" | |||||
Floyd | You set the green dial to 5. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "press green dial" | |||||
Floyd | The green dial lights as you press it. The timer's indicator flashes to Floyd | 5. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | As you step into the room, a buzzer begins to sound. Floyd | Floyd | Security Storage Room Floyd | This narrow room is lined with steel lockers. There is a plain table at Floyd | the south end, and the doorway to the north exits to the corridor. All Floyd | the lockers are closed. Floyd | Floyd | On the table is a pen. Floyd | Floyd | The timer changes to 4. Floyd | Floyd | The harsh buzz continues. Within moments you also hear footsteps Floyd | hurrying towards you. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | DavidW says, "too long" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "oops" | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | He looks irritable. "No, no scan-web alarms. Not then, not at all." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "And the green dial sets the delay?" | ||||
| dhakajack asks, "one must be delay before activation, and the other is duration of activation?" | |||||
| DavidW asks, "does blue dial set duration?" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "i think green is the delay" | |||||
| DavidW says, "I think green is delay" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "me too." | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect timer to scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the timer to the scan scrambler. The timer turns orange to Floyd | confirm the match. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "set green dial to" | |||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that number. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "set green dial to 1" | |||||
Floyd | You set the green dial to 1. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "set blue dial to 5" | |||||
Floyd | You set the blue dial to 5. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "press blue dial" | |||||
Floyd | The blue dial lights as you press it. The timer's indicator flashes to Floyd | 5. The scrambler's status dot goes green, and an almost inaudible whine Floyd | begins within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "press green dial" | |||||
Floyd | The green dial is now lit as well. Floyd | Floyd | The timer changes to 4. Floyd | Floyd | A buzzer begins sounding up and down the halls. Moments later, you hear Floyd | guards running in your direction. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "We went back, you must know, and looked at every stray spark in the Floyd | scan-data. We know how you used the scrambler. On and off, briefly Floyd | enough to never upset our systems. And it did not get you caught." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "er, isnt the point of using the timer to have a short activation?" | ||||
| (jingle, jingle) | dhakajack says, "well, I thought it might have been damaged by some sort of field specifically in the security room" | ||||
| Lucea asks, "have you tried all the tools at your disposal?" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "um. no." | |||||
| dhakajack says, "the shortest activating option would be the pushbutton" | |||||
| Lucea says, "we tried that" | |||||
| DavidW says, "I dont know that at all" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a toolcase (which Floyd | is open) (in which are a timer, a scan scrambler, a pushbutton, a Floyd | toggle switch, a radio module, a blast tab, a minilamp, an acid pack, a Floyd | voice module, a voice transmitter and a key transmitter) and a wrapped Floyd | package. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "we haven't tried: the blast, the acid, and the voice" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x key" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small black disc with a key to press on one side, and a short Floyd | antenna on the other. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "earlier we were told that there was no explosion, and that no acid was found" | ||||
| Lucea says, "Ah. Then we haven't tried the voice" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pushbutton" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small black box with a button on one side and a plus link on the Floyd | other. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect voice module to scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the voice module to the scan scrambler. The voice module Floyd | turns orange to confirm the match, and the voice transmitter turns Floyd | orange as well. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lamp" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small yellow tube with a lens at one end. There's a minus link Floyd | on one edge of the tube. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "drop all" | |||||
Floyd | toolcase: Dropped. Floyd | wrapped package: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get voice module" | |||||
Floyd | You take the scan scrambler (and the voice module connected to it.) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "drop voice module" | |||||
Floyd | You drop the scan scrambler (and the voice module connected to it.) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | Your toolcase is lying open nearby. Inside are a timer, a pushbutton, a Floyd | toggle switch, a radio module, a blast tab, a minilamp, an acid pack, a Floyd | voice transmitter and a key transmitter. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a scan scrambler (connected to a voice module) and a Floyd | wrapped package here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say tango" | |||||
Floyd | The scrambler's status dot goes green, and an almost inaudible whine Floyd | begins within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | A buzzer begins sounding up and down the halls. Moments later, you hear Floyd | guards running in your direction. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "We went back, you must know, and looked at every stray spark in the Floyd | scan-data. We know how you used the scrambler. On and off, briefly Floyd | enough to never upset our systems. And it did not get you caught." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect voice module to scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the voice module to the scan scrambler. The voice module Floyd | turns orange to confirm the match, and the voice transmitter turns Floyd | orange as well. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | You take the scan scrambler (and the voice module connected to it.) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "drop scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | You drop the scan scrambler (and the voice module connected to it.) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "drop all" | |||||
Floyd | toolcase: Dropped. Floyd | wrapped package: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| olethros arrives, full of fun and funk. | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing of importance. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | As you step into the room, a buzzer begins to sound. Floyd | Floyd | Security Storage Room Floyd | This narrow room is lined with steel lockers. There is a plain table at Floyd | the south end, and the doorway to the north exits to the corridor. All Floyd | the lockers are closed. Floyd | Floyd | On the table is a pen. Floyd | Floyd | The harsh buzz continues. Within moments you also hear footsteps Floyd | hurrying towards you. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | He looks irritable. "No, no scan-web alarms. Not then, not at all." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "ok, was trying to see if I could enter the room without metal and use the scrambler only on the way out." | ||||
| dhakajack says, "no matter what we do, it seems that the scrambler is good for 3 turns" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect scrambler to toggle" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the toggle switch to the scan scrambler. The toggle switch Floyd | turns orange to confirm the match. Floyd | Floyd | The scrambler's status dot goes green, and an almost inaudible whine Floyd | begins within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Storage Room Floyd | This narrow room is lined with steel lockers. There is a plain table at Floyd | the south end, and the doorway to the north exits to the corridor. All Floyd | the lockers are closed. Floyd | Floyd | On the table is a pen. Floyd | Floyd | A moment after you step into the room, the scrambler emits a sharp Floyd | squeal. Then a sharper crackling noise -- and then a thread of smoke, Floyd | as its quiet vibration ceases. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get pen" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | As you leave the room, a buzzer begins to sound. Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | The harsh buzz continues. Within moments you also hear footsteps Floyd | hurrying towards you. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | dhakajack says, "ack." | ||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "You didn't set off the alarm going in, and you weren't found inside, Floyd | so you must have suppressed the scan-web coming out as well. Yes?" He Floyd | does not wait for a reply. Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "once the scrambler smokes, it is dead" | ||||
| olethros says, "oh spider and web" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "apparently. I was just trying to see if I could move with enough economy to get in, grab the pen and flee before it triggered the alarm." | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect pushbutton to scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the pushbutton to the scan scrambler. The pushbutton turns Floyd | orange to confirm the match. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "press pushbutton" | |||||
Floyd | The scrambler's status dot flashes briefly yellow. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | As you step into the room, a buzzer begins to sound. Floyd | Floyd | Security Storage Room Floyd | This narrow room is lined with steel lockers. There is a plain table at Floyd | the south end, and the doorway to the north exits to the corridor. All Floyd | the lockers are closed. Floyd | Floyd | On the table is a pen. Floyd | Floyd | The harsh buzz continues. Within moments you also hear footsteps Floyd | hurrying towards you. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | He looks irritable. "No, no scan-web alarms. Not then, not at all." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "turn off toggle" | |||||
Floyd | You flip the black switch off. The link dot flashes blue in Floyd | confirmation, but as the switch isn't linked to anything, that's all. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect toggle to scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the toggle switch to the scan scrambler. The toggle switch Floyd | turns orange to confirm the match. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "turn on toggle" | |||||
Floyd | You flip the orange switch on. The scrambler's status dot goes green, Floyd | and an almost inaudible whine begins within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Storage Room Floyd | This narrow room is lined with steel lockers. There is a plain table at Floyd | the south end, and the doorway to the north exits to the corridor. All Floyd | the lockers are closed. Floyd | Floyd | On the table is a pen. Floyd | Floyd | A moment after you step into the room, the scrambler emits a sharp Floyd | squeal. Then a sharper crackling noise -- and then a thread of smoke, Floyd | as its quiet vibration ceases. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack asks, "anyone have a spare scrambler?" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small orange pyramid, traced with conductor matrix. It can Floyd | detect and scramble scan-web on any frequency... or so the theory is Floyd | drawn. Now, you suspect, it's an expensive paperweight. You must have Floyd | brought it into a countermeasure induction field. There's a minus link Floyd | on one edge, which is connected to a toggle switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "check the lockers" | ||||
| Lucea says, "it may be unwinnable" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a toolcase (which Floyd | is open) (in which are a scan scrambler (connected to a toggle switch), Floyd | a pushbutton, a voice module, a timer, a radio module, a blast tab, a Floyd | minilamp, an acid pack, a voice transmitter and a key transmitter) and Floyd | a wrapped package. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "unwrap package" | |||||
Floyd | It's not yet time. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "i was hoping it was my spare...." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Lucea), "twould be a poor jest" | |||||
| inky says, "because we used it way back in the beginning, she means" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x lockers" | |||||
Floyd | The locker doors vary in size, from palm-length cubbies to a closet Floyd | apparently large enough to walk into. All the doors are closed. Each Floyd | locker has a four-digit number on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I dunno if that got erased when the interrogator complained about it, though" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x combination" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x number" | |||||
Floyd | You look at a random locker. The number 9877 is visible on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open 9877" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x number" | |||||
Floyd | You look at a random locker. The number 9262 is visible on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get pen" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "eat pen" | |||||
Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pen" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | It's an ordinary-looking pen. The nib looks a bit sharp, though. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | Security Storage Room Floyd | This narrow room is lined with steel lockers. There is a plain table at Floyd | the south end, and the doorway to the north exits to the corridor. All Floyd | the lockers are closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "perhaps the interrogator wears a number" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "I think we stabbed someone with the pen...perhaps we lured them in here" | |||||
| Lucea says, "I'm testing it on my machine now" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "exit" | |||||
Floyd | As you leave the room, a buzzer begins to sound. Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | The harsh buzz continues. Within moments you also hear footsteps Floyd | hurrying towards you. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "You didn't set off the alarm going in, and you weren't found inside, Floyd | so you must have suppressed the scan-web coming out as well. Yes?" He Floyd | does not wait for a reply. Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Angle Branch Floyd | The corridor runs north and south, like every other hallway in this Floyd | place. A short hallway branches off to the northeast. To the west is a Floyd | blank metal door, with attendant black plate beside it. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "No, you've forgotten the pen again. You had it with you, as we Floyd | discovered shortly thereafter." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | baf asks, "Have you guys tried all three doorways?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "Not unwinnable" | |||||
| Lucea says, "Although, yeah, once you figure out how to screw up the scan, there's cool stuff to be seen" | |||||
| DavidW says, "cant map. no idea of layout" | |||||
| K-Y arrives, full of fun and funk. | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "well, you're in a hallway" | |||||
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says, "oops" | Lucea says, "well, you're in a hallway, with doors to the north, east, and south" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | As you step into the room, a buzzer begins to sound. Floyd | Floyd | Security Office Floyd | Dark wood panelling surrounds you, a refuge from the harsh white Floyd | visible to the west. A massive mahogany desk sits in one corner. The Floyd | rest of the room is mostly metal cabinets, but a few sketches take Floyd | their share of wall, and a bookcase stands by the desk. Floyd | Floyd | The harsh buzz continues. Within moments you also hear footsteps Floyd | hurrying towards you. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | He looks irritable. "No, no scan-web alarms. Not then, not at all." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "space" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small orange pyramid, traced with conductor matrix. It can Floyd | detect and scramble scan-web on any frequency... or so the theory is Floyd | drawn. There's a minus link on one edge. Floyd | Floyd | > | popka asks, "Which ways of activating the scanner haven't we tried?" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect scrambler to toggle" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the toggle switch to the scan scrambler. The toggle switch Floyd | turns orange to confirm the match. Floyd | Floyd | The scrambler's status dot goes green, and an almost inaudible whine Floyd | begins within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "There's something you haven't tried that has nothing to do with different tools" | ||||
| popka says, "Scan scrambler, I mean." | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Office Floyd | Dark wood panelling surrounds you, a refuge from the harsh white Floyd | visible to the west. A massive mahogany desk sits in one corner. The Floyd | rest of the room is mostly metal cabinets, but a few sketches take Floyd | their share of wall, and a bookcase stands by the desk. Floyd | Floyd | A moment after you step into the room, the scrambler emits a sharp Floyd | squeal. Then a sharper crackling noise -- and then a thread of smoke, Floyd | as its quiet vibration ceases. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "Well, it does" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x desk" | |||||
Floyd | The desk is an imposing mass, plain of line but precisely crafted. Floyd | There is nothing on the desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "but it's more about how you're approaching the problem" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "search desk" | |||||
Floyd | There is nothing on the desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x cabinets" | |||||
Floyd | Three-drawer metal cabinets stand in rows along each wall. The drawers Floyd | are the normal size for file folders; there is a tiny black plate on Floyd | the front of each one. The cabinets are all closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea says, "how are we supposed to know you can't take the scrambler with you? other than it screwing up" | |||||
| popka says (to Floyd), "x scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small orange pyramid, traced with conductor matrix. It can Floyd | detect and scramble scan-web on any frequency... or so the theory is Floyd | drawn. Now, you suspect, it's an expensive paperweight. You must have Floyd | brought it into a countermeasure induction field. There's a minus link Floyd | on one edge, which is connected to a toggle switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea says, "Oh. That's how." | Lucea asks, "we brought it into a countermeasure induction field?" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "I'm hoping that from this office we can turn off the security measures..." | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | |||||
Floyd | You pull on a few of the handles, but all the drawers seem to be Floyd | locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | popka says, "Seems like a fancy bit of technobabble, that." | ||||
| (jingle, jingle) | DavidW says, "need the lockpick" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "touch lockpick to plate" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open cabinet with lockpick" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a toolcase (which Floyd | is open) (in which are a scan scrambler (connected to a toggle switch), Floyd | a pushbutton, a voice module, a timer, a radio module, a blast tab, a Floyd | minilamp, an acid pack, a voice transmitter and a key transmitter) and Floyd | a wrapped package. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get lockpick" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "oh yeah, we threw away the lockpick" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Office Floyd | Dark wood panelling surrounds you, a refuge from the harsh white Floyd | visible to the west. A massive mahogany desk sits in one corner. The Floyd | rest of the room is mostly metal cabinets, but a few sketches take Floyd | their share of wall, and a bookcase stands by the desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "you threw it away to distract the guards" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x sketches" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the portrait of a young man, the drawing of a night Floyd | sky or the seascape? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "portrait" | |||||
Floyd | A young man looks out from precise ink stippling. His expression is Floyd | serious, and dark eyes meet yours with near-visible force. You have Floyd | never seen his face before. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get portrait" | |||||
Floyd | You pull the portrait of a young man from the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x sky" | |||||
Floyd | The sketch is in soft talc-pencil, but nonetheless the stars shine out, Floyd | hard distant facets in a jewel-black expanse. One moon is high and one Floyd | is rising; they too are in bright focus, every crater and mare. The Floyd | cool burning moons'-light tints the sky silver from behind. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get sky" | |||||
Floyd | You pull the drawing of a night sky from the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea says, "anyway, I need to go procure food" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x seascape" | |||||
Floyd | Grey waves beat below an indeterminate, cloudy sky. Nearly lost in the Floyd | distance is a raft -- a tiny shape bearing away beneath a wind-torn Floyd | white sail. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get seascape" | |||||
Floyd | You pull the seascape from the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Office Floyd | Dark wood panelling surrounds you, a refuge from the harsh white Floyd | visible to the west. A massive mahogany desk sits in one corner. The Floyd | rest of the room is mostly metal cabinets, but a bookcase stands by the Floyd | desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wall" | |||||
Floyd | Some rich wood, in pleasingly irregular spans, polished but naturally Floyd | dark. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x bookcase" | |||||
Floyd | The bookcase is hand-carved, hung with wooden ivy vines and tiny Floyd | berries. Volumes of technology journals fill some shelves; but others Floyd | display antique folios, leather-bound collections of plays, and a small Floyd | array of dawn-tales and fireside stories. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search wall" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any unusual cracks or spaces in the panelling. But then, Floyd | it would be unusual if you could. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x plays" | |||||
Floyd | You see the complete works of Gahtmahan, "Nightclumps and Floyd | Wind-Whispers," a volume of Connaeus woodcuts... if you had time, the Floyd | shelves would be worth a closer look. You don't. Floyd | Floyd | (I hope you weren't expecting some kind of "Rito and Imita" in-joke.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha." | ||||
| DavidW says, "So Far ref" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x vines" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "I couldn't let that part go" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x berries" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x journals" | |||||
Floyd | You see the complete works of Gahtmahan, "Nightclumps and Floyd | Wind-Whispers," a volume of Connaeus woodcuts... if you had time, the Floyd | shelves would be worth a closer look. You don't. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x desk" | |||||
Floyd | The desk is an imposing mass, plain of line but precisely crafted. Floyd | There is nothing on the desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "search desk" | |||||
Floyd | There is nothing on the desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look under desk" | |||||
Floyd | You peer hopefully under the desk, but even there the floor is Floyd | relentlessly tidy. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Office Floyd | Dark wood panelling surrounds you, a refuge from the harsh white Floyd | visible to the west. A massive mahogany desk sits in one corner. The Floyd | rest of the room is mostly metal cabinets, but a bookcase stands by the Floyd | desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sail" | |||||
Floyd | Grey waves beat below an indeterminate, cloudy sky. Nearly lost in the Floyd | distance is a raft -- a tiny shape bearing away beneath a wind-torn Floyd | white sail. Floyd | Floyd | The drawing has been removed from the wall, revealing a magnetic Floyd | mounting pad on the back. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pad" | |||||
Floyd | A magnetic pad is visible on the back of the sketch. It's nothing Floyd | unusual; it just keeps the thing on the wall where it belongs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get pad" | |||||
Floyd | That's part of the sketch. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bishop asks, "Yeah, wasn't it dumb of you to use such an important device as a distraction?" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x sketch" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the seascape, the drawing of a night sky or the Floyd | portrait of a young man? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sky" | |||||
Floyd | The sketch is in soft talc-pencil, but nonetheless the stars shine out, Floyd | hard distant facets in a jewel-black expanse. One moon is high and one Floyd | is rising; they too are in bright focus, every crater and mare. The Floyd | cool burning moons'-light tints the sky silver from behind. Floyd | Floyd | The drawing has been removed from the wall, revealing a magnetic Floyd | mounting pad on the back. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "Seriously. You'd think your guy would be a bit smarter." | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "touch sketch to cabinet" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the seascape, the drawing of a night sky or the Floyd | portrait of a young man? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove panelimg" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove paneling" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "touch seascape to cabinet" | |||||
Floyd | Nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove panelling" | |||||
Floyd | You're not wearing those. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "touch seascape to cabinet" | |||||
Floyd | Nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x cabinet" | |||||
Floyd | Three-drawer metal cabinets stand in rows along each wall. The drawers Floyd | are the normal size for file folders; there is a tiny black plate on Floyd | the front of each one. The cabinets are all closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open panelling" | |||||
Floyd | They're not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "touch seascape to plate" | |||||
Floyd | Nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Office Floyd | Dark wood panelling surrounds you, a refuge from the harsh white Floyd | visible to the west. A massive mahogany desk sits in one corner. The Floyd | rest of the room is mostly metal cabinets, but a bookcase stands by the Floyd | desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "climb bookcase" | |||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get books" | |||||
Floyd | The books are unlikely to help with what you need to do. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | |||||
Floyd | You pull on a few of the handles, but all the drawers seem to be Floyd | locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "I think we've exhausted this room" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "at least we have some paper to draw on with our pen" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "when you leave, your scrambler's just going to go apesiht" | ||||
| DavidW says, "we burnt out the scrambler" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except three sketches (a Floyd | seascape, a drawing of a night sky and a portrait of a young man), a Floyd | toolcase (which is open) (in which are a scan scrambler (connected to a Floyd | toggle switch), a pushbutton, a voice module, a timer, a radio module, Floyd | a blast tab, a minilamp, an acid pack, a voice transmitter and a key Floyd | transmitter) and a wrapped package. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small orange pyramid, traced with conductor matrix. It can Floyd | detect and scramble scan-web on any frequency... or so the theory is Floyd | drawn. Now, you suspect, it's an expensive paperweight. You must have Floyd | brought it into a countermeasure induction field. There's a minus link Floyd | on one edge, which is connected to a toggle switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | popka says, "Shouldn't have taken it into a 'countermeasure induction field', I guess..." | ||||
| Lucea says, "there's gotta be a better way" | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | As you leave the room, a buzzer begins to sound. Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | The harsh buzz continues. Within moments you also hear footsteps Floyd | hurrying towards you. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "You didn't set off the alarm going in, and you weren't found inside, Floyd | so you must have suppressed the scan-web coming out as well. Yes?" He Floyd | does not wait for a reply. Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Bishop says, "(your guy's 'stupidity', is, IIRC, an important clue, although I only figured it out much much later)" | dhakajack asks, "what if we don't bring it into the room to the south...does it still burn out?" | ||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea says, "Yeah, I picked up on that" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect toggle to scarmbler" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect toggle to scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the toggle switch to the scan scrambler. The toggle switch Floyd | turns orange to confirm the match. Floyd | Floyd | The scrambler's status dot goes green, and an almost inaudible whine Floyd | begins within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "drop all" | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea says, "hence the "you'd think he's smarter"" | |||||
Floyd | toolcase: Dropped. Floyd | wrapped package: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Storage Room Floyd | This narrow room is lined with steel lockers. There is a plain table at Floyd | the south end, and the doorway to the north exits to the corridor. All Floyd | the lockers are closed. Floyd | Floyd | On the table is a pen. Floyd | Floyd | A buzzer begins sounding up and down the halls. Moments later, you hear Floyd | guards running in your direction. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "We went back, you must know, and looked at every stray spark in the Floyd | scan-data. We know how you used the scrambler. On and off, briefly Floyd | enough to never upset our systems. And it did not get you caught." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | Lucea says, "whoops, forgot to actually toggle it" | ||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | popka says, "No, it was already on." | ||||
| dhakajack says, "the toggle was in the on position," | |||||
| Lucea says, "Let's try something that isn't the toggle" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "ok, so that doesn't work." | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea says, "I hate that toggle" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x toggle" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small black box with a two-way toggle switch on one side, and a Floyd | plus link on the other. The switch is on. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x toolbox" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a toolcase (which Floyd | is open) (in which are a toggle switch, a scan scrambler, a pushbutton, Floyd | a voice module, a timer, a radio module, a blast tab, a minilamp, an Floyd | acid pack, a voice transmitter and a key transmitter) and a wrapped Floyd | package. Floyd | Floyd | > | popka says, "We seem to have many methods of activating (and deactivating) the scrambler at our disposal." | ||||
| [cfspoilers] Bishop says, "I could never, ever get the timer doohickey to work." | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea says, "neither could I" | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea says, "it's fiddly mechanical wankery" | dhakajack says, "I'm not sure how that helps." | ||||
| dhakajack says, "let me try an experiment..." | |||||
| Lucea says, "someone mentioned not actually taking it with you" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect toggle to scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the toggle switch to the scan scrambler. The toggle switch Floyd | turns orange to confirm the match. Floyd | Floyd | The scrambler's status dot goes green, and an almost inaudible whine Floyd | begins within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "disconnect toggle from scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | You disconnect the scan scrambler, and take the toggle switch as it Floyd | turns black again. Floyd | Floyd | The scrambler shuts down, and its status dot goes blue. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | dhakajack says, "ok, so it's OK for a turn" | ||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea exclaims, "!!" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn toggle off" | |||||
Floyd | You flip the black switch off. The link dot flashes blue in Floyd | confirmation, but as the switch isn't linked to anything, that's all. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "in the previous attempt, I'd left it in the hallway before going south. It burnt out." | ||||
| popka says, "No, it didn't actually..." | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Bishop says, "Raise your hand if you _didn't_ cheat and use the voice module instead..." | popka says, "The alarm sounded because you left it on too long." | ||||
| dhakajack says, "oh? So maybe we could use either voice or radio control on it..." | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea asks, "That was cheating?" | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea says, "(I admit I had to turn to the walkthrough for this point, but when I was trying stuff before I usually used simple stuff like the pushbutton)" | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Bishop says, "Well, the 'real story' is that you used the timer." | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect voice module to scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the voice module to the scan scrambler. The voice module Floyd | turns orange to confirm the match, and the voice transmitter turns Floyd | orange as well. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "drop all" | |||||
Floyd | toggle switch: Dropped. Floyd | toolcase: Dropped. Floyd | wrapped package: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say tango" | |||||
Floyd | The scrambler's status dot goes green, and an almost inaudible whine Floyd | begins within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Storage Room Floyd | This narrow room is lined with steel lockers. There is a plain table at Floyd | the south end, and the doorway to the north exits to the corridor. All Floyd | the lockers are closed. Floyd | Floyd | On the table is a pen. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say waltz" | |||||
Floyd | Talking to yourself might draw attention. Floyd | Floyd | A buzzer begins sounding up and down the halls. Moments later, you hear Floyd | guards running in your direction. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | DavidW says, "I think because the toggle was on when connecting it,you may have wasted some time" | ||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "We went back, you must know, and looked at every stray spark in the Floyd | scan-data. We know how you used the scrambler. On and off, briefly Floyd | enough to never upset our systems. And it did not get you caught." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea says, "ah" | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "so, you think this can be done with the toggle" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x toggle" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small black box with a two-way toggle switch on one side, and a Floyd | plus link on the other. The switch is on. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Bishop says, "Arguably, telling the interrogator that you were using the voice module is a clever misdirection to keep him from speculating on what else you could have done with the VM, but, really, we all did it 'cause we're lazy." | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "switch toggle off" | |||||
Floyd | You flip the black switch off. The link dot flashes blue in Floyd | confirmation, but as the switch isn't linked to anything, that's all. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I dont know" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect toggle to scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the toggle switch to the scan scrambler. The toggle switch Floyd | turns orange to confirm the match. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think the timer is the answer" | ||||
| [cfspoilers] inky says, "hee hee" | |||||
| [cfspoilers] inky says, "I thought -- hmm" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "disconnect toggle from scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | You disconnect the scan scrambler, and take the toggle switch as it Floyd | turns black again. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect timer to scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the timer to the scan scrambler. The timer turns orange to Floyd | confirm the match. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| [cfspoilers] inky says, "my faint memory is you actually had to use the voice module for some reason, but maybe not" | dhakajack asks, "delay? duration?" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "turn green to 2" | |||||
Floyd | You set the green dial to 2. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "turn blue to 5" | |||||
Floyd | You set the blue dial to 5. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "no no" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "ok..." | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea says, "yeah, you definitely had to use the voice module for some really important reason" | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Bishop says, "You had to because the timer was so incomprehensibly difficult to use that nobody actually did...." | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea says, "I wonder how it'd turn out in a poll" | DavidW says, "green to 2. blue to 1. push green. push blue. run." | ||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea says, ""Did you use the timer or the voice module?"" | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea says, "- whoa, they ARE using the timer" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "set green to 2" | |||||
Floyd | You set the green dial to 2. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "set blue to 1" | |||||
Floyd | You set the blue dial to 1. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "push green" | |||||
Floyd | The green dial lights as you press it. The timer's indicator flashes to Floyd | 2. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "push blue" | |||||
Floyd | Nothing happens; you squeeze harder, until the contact finally clicks. Floyd | The blue dial is now lit as well. Floyd | Floyd | The timer changes to 1. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | As you step into the room, a buzzer begins to sound. Floyd | Floyd | Security Storage Room Floyd | This narrow room is lined with steel lockers. There is a plain table at Floyd | the south end, and the doorway to the north exits to the corridor. All Floyd | the lockers are closed. Floyd | Floyd | On the table is a pen. Floyd | Floyd | The timer's blue dial flashes once, and the indicator flashes to 1. The Floyd | scrambler's status dot goes green, and an almost inaudible whine begins Floyd | within it. Floyd | Floyd | The harsh buzz continues. Within moments you also hear footsteps Floyd | hurrying towards you. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Bishop says, "Apparently DavidW understands how it works. We'll have to ask him to explain it to the rest of us." | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | He looks irritable. "No, no scan-web alarms. Not then, not at all." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea asks, "What are you doing?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm guessing how the timer works. I guessed wrong" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "trying to be clever with the scrambler" | |||||
| Lucea says, "Ah" | |||||
| Lucea says, "Nice try though" | |||||
| dhakajack asks, "also, should I have dropped the scrambler?" | |||||
| DavidW says, "we should have waited for the timer to hit 0." | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Bishop says, "I'll have to try replaying and figuring out how the timer works some time." | DavidW says, "no" | ||||
| Lucea says, "wait" | |||||
| DavidW says, "we need the damn thimg to get back" | |||||
| Lucea says, "what about the thing that screwed up the scrambler" | |||||
| DavidW says, "what thing" | |||||
| olethros has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Lucea says, "the jargonyelectroscrewifier" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "the countermeasure field" | |||||
| DavidW says, "the blahbah field? Hiding in the scan web, I guess" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "clearly, we need a counterjargonyelectroscrewification device." | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x web" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the metal-scan web or the bands of body-scan web? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x body" | |||||
Floyd | Just inside each of the three doorways, on the ceilings of the three Floyd | rooms, you see a glittering band of scan-web. The web's narrow spacing Floyd | indicates a tight scan -- capable of picking up resonance signals off Floyd | even a naked human body. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "body-scan web?" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x metal" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the metal-scan web or the things in the room to the Floyd | north? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "things" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Bishop asks, "I haven't been followign the actual game -- have y'all managed to kill yourselves in-sim yet?" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x metal web" | |||||
Floyd | The ceiling is lined with scan-web in addition to the lighting strips. Floyd | The web's wide spacing indicates a metal-resonance scan. Floyd | Floyd | > | popka says, "So, barring some way to disable the countermeasure field, it seems we can't take the scrambler into one of those rooms without it breaking." | ||||
| dhakajack says, "stepping away from the keyboard for a moment..." | |||||
| DavidW says, "The key transmitter is our remote activation option, I guess" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x receiver" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x key" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small black disc with a key to press on one side, and a short Floyd | antenna on the other. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push key" | |||||
Floyd | You press the transmitter key. The radio module's link dot flashes Floyd | green in confirmation, but as it isn't linked to anything, that's all. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x radio module" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small black box with a short antenna on one side, and a plus Floyd | link on the other. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Bishop says, "Huh. That's the right track but not quite right...." | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "connect it to scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the radio module to the scan scrambler. The radio module Floyd | turns orange to confirm the match, and the key transmitter turns orange Floyd | as well. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop all but key" | |||||
Floyd | toolcase: Dropped. Floyd | wrapped package: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "which way is the pen?" | ||||
| popka says, "south, I think" | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Bishop says, "(also, maybe AP made the timer so fiddly so that most folks would use the VM in this section, guaranteeing they at least knew how the VM worked when it became imperative that they be able to use it.)" | dhakajack says, "s" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push key" | |||||
Floyd | The scrambler's status dot flashes briefly yellow. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push key" | |||||
Floyd | The scrambler's status dot flashes briefly yellow. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small orange pyramid, traced with conductor matrix. It can Floyd | detect and scramble scan-web on any frequency... or so the theory is Floyd | drawn. There's a minus link on one edge, which is connected to a radio Floyd | module. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x scrambler dot" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the scan scrambler. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x scrambler's dot" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the scan scrambler. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x module" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the radio module or the voice module? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x radio" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small orange box with a short antenna on one side, and a plus Floyd | link on the other. The link is connected to a scan scrambler. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull antenna" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the radio module, the voice module, the voice Floyd | transmitter or the key transmitter? Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "the key is like a morse code key -- when you hit it, it's like sending the radio a "dot", so the scrambler turns on momentarily." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "module" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the radio module or the voice module? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "radio" | |||||
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hold down key" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "press key" | |||||
Floyd | The scrambler's status dot flashes briefly yellow. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "hold key" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "doh." | ||||
| (jingle, jingle) | DavidW asks, "it's not enough for the dot to be yellow, is it?" | ||||
| popka says, "It's not working unless you hear the whine, I think." | |||||
| DavidW asks, "are any of our things light-activated?" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "no" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "connect radio module to lamp" | |||||
Floyd | The radio module is already connected to the scan scrambler. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "disconnect radio module" | |||||
Floyd | You disconnect the scan scrambler, and take the radio module as it Floyd | turns black again. The key transmitter turns black as well. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "connect radio module to lamp" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the radio module to the minilamp. The radio module turns Floyd | yellow to confirm the match, and the key transmitter turns yellow as Floyd | well. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push key" | |||||
Floyd | The minilamp glows for a moment, then goes out. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x timer" | |||||
Floyd | The timer is a small black box with two dials on one side, and a plus Floyd | link on the other. The status dot is blue. Both the green and blue Floyd | dials are set to 1; the timer's indicator is blank. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "toolbox" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toolbox" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | popka asks, "I guess the radio module is meant to trigger stuff like the blast tab or acid. Do we have any other ways to activate our tools remotely?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a key transmitter. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The timer" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "by voice -- using the voice module plus the tango/waltz on/off commands" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "if we used the the voice module+radio+scrambler we could transmit our voice commands via voice transmitter..." | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "I thought you tried that?" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to inventory. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "no, I only tried voice, figuring that my voice would carry from one room to the other" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a key transmitter. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ah. So try voice transmit then" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | Your toolcase is lying open nearby. Inside are a minilamp (connected to Floyd | a radio module), a scan scrambler, a timer, a toggle switch, a voice Floyd | module, a pushbutton, a blast tab, an acid pack and a voice Floyd | transmitter. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a wrapped package here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x minilamp" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small yellow tube with a lens at one end. There's a minus link Floyd | on one edge of the tube, which is connected to a radio module. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "voice would work" | ||||
| DavidW says, "it's getting more awkward for me, typing with only one hand" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "let me try this latest version...." | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect scrambler to radio module" | |||||
Floyd | The radio module is already connected to the minilamp. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "disconnect minilamp" | |||||
Floyd | You disconnect the minilamp, and take the radio module as it turns Floyd | black again. The key transmitter turns black as well. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "drop key transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect scrambler to radio" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the radio module to the scan scrambler. The radio module Floyd | turns orange to confirm the match, and the key transmitter turns orange Floyd | as well. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get voice transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x voice transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small black square with an audio pickup on one side, and a short Floyd | antenna on the other. The status dot is blue. The audio keywords are Floyd | printed along one edge. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x keywords" | |||||
Floyd | The keywords for the voice transmitter are "tango" to switch on, and Floyd | "waltz" to switch off. In your voiceprint only, of course. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | Your toolcase is lying open nearby. Inside are a scan scrambler Floyd | (connected to a radio module), a minilamp, a timer, a toggle switch, a Floyd | voice module, a pushbutton, a blast tab and an acid pack. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a key transmitter and a wrapped package here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x voice module" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small black box with a short antenna on one side, and a plus Floyd | link on the other. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "test without going anywhere" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "tango" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say tango" | |||||
Floyd | You say the keyword. The voice module's link dot flashes green in Floyd | confirmation, but as it isn't linked to anything, that's all. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say waltz" | |||||
Floyd | You say the keyword. The voice module's link dot flashes blue in Floyd | confirmation, but as it isn't linked to anything, that's all. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "disconnect radio" | |||||
Floyd | You disconnect the scan scrambler, and take the radio module as it Floyd | turns black again. The key transmitter turns black as well. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect voice module to scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the voice module to the scan scrambler. The voice module Floyd | turns orange to confirm the match, and the voice transmitter turns Floyd | orange as well. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say tango" | |||||
Floyd | The scrambler's status dot goes green, and an almost inaudible whine Floyd | begins within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | A buzzer begins sounding up and down the halls. Moments later, you hear Floyd | guards running in your direction. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "We went back, you must know, and looked at every stray spark in the Floyd | scan-data. We know how you used the scrambler. On and off, briefly Floyd | enough to never upset our systems. And it did not get you caught." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea asks, "I missed it - where in the story does it mention/imply that the radio is the 'real' way?" | dhakajack says, "ok, but in principle it might work..." | ||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea says, "missed/forgot, rather" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect voice module to scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the voice module to the scan scrambler. The voice module Floyd | turns orange to confirm the match, and the voice transmitter turns Floyd | orange as well. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a toolcase (which Floyd | is open) (in which are a scan scrambler (connected to a voice module), Floyd | a voice transmitter, a key transmitter, a radio module, a minilamp, a Floyd | timer, a toggle switch, a pushbutton, a blast tab and an acid pack) and Floyd | a wrapped package. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You need to test more -- on and OFF" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "drop all" | |||||
Floyd | toolcase: Dropped. Floyd | wrapped package: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "ok" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get voice transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say tango" | |||||
Floyd | The scrambler's status dot goes green, and an almost inaudible whine Floyd | begins within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say waltz" | |||||
Floyd | The scrambler shuts down, and its status dot goes blue. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say tango" | |||||
Floyd | The scrambler's status dot goes green, and an almost inaudible whine Floyd | begins within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "wait" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say waltz" | |||||
Floyd | The scrambler shuts down, and its status dot goes blue. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "and try sppeaking just to the transm" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say tango to transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | (the voice transmitter) Floyd | The scrambler's status dot goes green, and an almost inaudible whine Floyd | begins within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say waltz to the transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | (the voice transmitter) Floyd | The scrambler shuts down, and its status dot goes blue. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "now for real" | ||||
| dhakajack asks, "so, I activate, go s, deactivate, get pen, activate, n, deactivate?" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a voice Floyd | transmitter. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say tango" | |||||
Floyd | The scrambler's status dot goes green, and an almost inaudible whine Floyd | begins within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Storage Room Floyd | This narrow room is lined with steel lockers. There is a plain table at Floyd | the south end, and the doorway to the north exits to the corridor. All Floyd | the lockers are closed. Floyd | Floyd | On the table is a pen. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say waltz to transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | You say the keyword, and the status dot flashes blue, but you perceive Floyd | no other effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get pen" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say tango to transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | You say the keyword, and the status dot flashes green, but you perceive Floyd | no other effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | Your toolcase is lying open nearby. Inside are a scan scrambler Floyd | (connected to a voice module), a key transmitter, a radio module, a Floyd | minilamp, a timer, a toggle switch, a pushbutton, a blast tab and an Floyd | acid pack. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a wrapped package here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say waltz" | |||||
Floyd | The scrambler shuts down, and its status dot goes blue. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "save now, please....." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf4" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yay" | ||||
| dhakajack exclaims, "!!!!!" | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea says, "wait, that was dumb" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get all" | |||||
Floyd | wrapped package: Taken. Floyd | toolcase: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | As you step into the room, a buzzer begins to sound. Floyd | Floyd | Security Office Floyd | Dark wood panelling surrounds you, a refuge from the harsh white Floyd | visible to the west. A massive mahogany desk sits in one corner. The Floyd | rest of the room is mostly metal cabinets, but a few sketches take Floyd | their share of wall, and a bookcase stands by the desk. Floyd | Floyd | The harsh buzz continues. Within moments you also hear footsteps Floyd | hurrying towards you. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea says, "never mind that" | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | He looks irritable. "No, no scan-web alarms. Not then, not at all." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "er, all 3 exits are webbed" | ||||
| dhakajack asks, "so, same shtick for all of them?" | |||||
| dhakajack asks, "could you restore from last save?" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf4" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "thanks" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | Your toolcase is lying open nearby. Inside are a scan scrambler Floyd | (connected to a voice module), a key transmitter, a radio module, a Floyd | minilamp, a timer, a toggle switch, a pushbutton, a blast tab and an Floyd | acid pack. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a wrapped package here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a pen and a voice Floyd | transmitter. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say tango" | |||||
Floyd | The scrambler's status dot goes green, and an almost inaudible whine Floyd | begins within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Office Floyd | Dark wood panelling surrounds you, a refuge from the harsh white Floyd | visible to the west. A massive mahogany desk sits in one corner. The Floyd | rest of the room is mostly metal cabinets, but a few sketches take Floyd | their share of wall, and a bookcase stands by the desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say waltz to transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | You say the keyword, and the status dot flashes blue, but you perceive Floyd | no other effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get seascape" | |||||
Floyd | You pull the seascape from the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x sketches" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the portrait of a young man, the drawing of a night Floyd | sky or the seascape? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get portrait" | |||||
Floyd | You pull the portrait of a young man from the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get sky" | |||||
Floyd | You pull the drawing of a night sky from the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack asks, "anything else in here ?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "grabbing these just because?" | |||||
| popka exclaims, "We have to get all the treasures!" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "exactly. And because we have a pen. Seems like paper would be nice to have too." | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "draw on paper" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "write on sketch" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the drawing of a night sky, the portrait of a young Floyd | man or the seascape? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "sky" | |||||
Floyd | (with the pen) Floyd | The sliver of crystal breaks off against the drawing of a night sky and Floyd | is lost. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I doubt the pen is really a writing instrument" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x pen" | |||||
Floyd | It's an ordinary-looking pen. The nib is missing. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack asks, "a non-ordinary ordinary-looking pen, eh?" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say tango to transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | You say the keyword, and the status dot flashes green, but you perceive Floyd | no other effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | Your toolcase is lying open nearby. Inside are a scan scrambler Floyd | (connected to a voice module), a key transmitter, a radio module, a Floyd | minilamp, a timer, a toggle switch, a pushbutton, a blast tab and an Floyd | acid pack. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a wrapped package here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say waltz" | |||||
Floyd | The scrambler shuts down, and its status dot goes blue. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack asks, "save again?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf5" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say tango" | |||||
Floyd | The scrambler's status dot goes green, and an almost inaudible whine Floyd | begins within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber Floyd | You are in a dim room, bounded by metal walls. A steel chair squats on Floyd | a low pedestal; facing it is an instrument-covered desk. Otherwise the Floyd | room is sterile. The bright hallway waits to the south. Floyd | Floyd | You feel a chill of memory in your bones. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say waltz to transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | You say the keyword, and the status dot flashes blue, but you perceive Floyd | no other effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x walls" | |||||
Floyd | The walls are naked metal, unadorned. They give your eyes nowhere to Floyd | rest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x chair" | |||||
Floyd | The chair is ugly. Steel slats are riveted to a heavy metal frame, and Floyd | the whole rests on a steel column rising from a pedestal on the floor. Floyd | Restraints are welded to the arm and foot rests; wires hang limply from Floyd | the head support. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ooh. Get the lockpick back maybe" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get lockpick" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x desk" | |||||
Floyd | The desk is a standard modular composite design. The surface is Floyd | panelled with ranks of controls and instruments. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "or gimmick the chair so we can escape later?" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x controls" | |||||
Floyd | The desk is covered with dials, readouts, screen panels, sliders, and Floyd | dozens of other instruments. You can put no form nor name to any of Floyd | them. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x restraints" | |||||
Floyd | The heft of the bands leaves nothing to chance. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x rests" | |||||
Floyd | The heft of the bands leaves nothing to chance. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x wires" | |||||
Floyd | Leads hang from the headrest. There is a sensor contact on the end of Floyd | each one. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| popka says (to Floyd), "x pedestal" | |||||
Floyd | The pedestal under the chair isn't important. Floyd | Floyd | > | popka says, "Aww" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "search desk" | |||||
Floyd | There is nothing on the desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber Floyd | You are in a dim room, bounded by metal walls. A steel chair squats on Floyd | a low pedestal; facing it is an instrument-covered desk. Otherwise the Floyd | room is sterile. The bright hallway waits to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "sit in chair" | |||||
Floyd | You sit down in the chair. It is not comfortable. Floyd | Floyd | You feel another distant chill. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||||
Floyd | You hurriedly stand up. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "sit" | |||||
Floyd | What do you want to sit on top of? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "chair" | |||||
Floyd | You sit down in the chair. It is not comfortable. Floyd | Floyd | You feel another distant chill. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x chill" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (in the chair) Floyd | You are in a dim room, bounded by metal walls. A steel chair squats on Floyd | a low pedestal; facing it is an instrument-covered desk. Otherwise the Floyd | room is sterile. The bright hallway waits to the south. Floyd | Floyd | There is a half-remembered cool pressure around your wrists, your Floyd | ankles, your forehead. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x wrists" | |||||
Floyd | You stare at the metal bands, until you are certain they are not Floyd | fastened around your limbs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea says, "does the italics not work" | DavidW asks, "Where's our whoopie cushion?" | ||||
| popka says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Lucea says, "..floyd" | |||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (in the chair) Floyd | You are in a dim room, bounded by metal walls. A steel chair squats on Floyd | a low pedestal; facing it is an instrument-covered desk. Otherwise the Floyd | room is sterile. The bright hallway waits to the south. Floyd | Floyd | For a moment, someone is visible, facing you across the desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack asks, "should we continue to feed it waits?" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | You remain silent. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I have no idea" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "search desk" | |||||
Floyd | There is nothing on the desk. Floyd | Floyd | The human outline bends over the desk, then regards you again. A sense Floyd | of wordless sound moves across you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x human" | |||||
Floyd | The figure is nearly not there -- like shadows at the edge of your Floyd | sight, or a dream of blindness. It crawls away from your vision; your Floyd | eyes feel thick and strained. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | DavidW asks, "can you wear the helmet?" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "stad" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||||
Floyd | You jerk out of the chair, stumbling as you pull against restraints Floyd | that are not there. Floyd | Floyd | The half-visible figure is gone. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say tango to transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | You say the keyword, and the status dot flashes green, but you perceive Floyd | no other effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | Your toolcase is lying open nearby. Inside are a scan scrambler Floyd | (connected to a voice module), a key transmitter, a radio module, a Floyd | minilamp, a timer, a toggle switch, a pushbutton, a blast tab and an Floyd | acid pack. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a wrapped package here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say waltz" | |||||
Floyd | The scrambler shuts down, and its status dot goes blue. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack is a newbie. | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get all" | |||||
Floyd | wrapped package: Taken. Floyd | toolcase: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "er, was there nothing to take?" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "I didn't see anything" | |||||
| popka says, "It seems that if we took anything besides the pen, the interrogator would have mentioned it." | |||||
| Lucea says, "Part of this is a Floyd issue" | |||||
| dhakajack asks, "was something lost in the translation?" | |||||
| Lucea says, "Nothing game-changing, though. But some of the game had different formatting" | |||||
| dhakajack asks, "some flashback/present-time formatting?" | |||||
| popka says, "Ah, I was wondering whether I was the only one that couldn't see italics with this crappy java client." | |||||
| Lucea says, "Italics." | |||||
| DavidW asks, "is there no chair behind the desk? no locker numer anywhere?" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "we could double check..." | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "drop all" | |||||
Floyd | toolcase: Dropped. Floyd | wrapped package: Dropped. Floyd | drawing of a night sky: Dropped. Floyd | portrait of a young man: Dropped. Floyd | seascape: Dropped. Floyd | pen: Dropped. Floyd | voice transmitter: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get voice transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say tango" | |||||
Floyd | The scrambler's status dot goes green, and an almost inaudible whine Floyd | begins within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber Floyd | You are in a dim room, bounded by metal walls. A steel chair squats on Floyd | a low pedestal; facing it is an instrument-covered desk. Otherwise the Floyd | room is sterile. The bright hallway waits to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say waltz to transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | You say the keyword, and the status dot flashes blue, but you perceive Floyd | no other effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search desk" | |||||
Floyd | There is nothing on the desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "looks like the only chair is the one we sat in" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under desk" | |||||
Floyd | Nothing but white tile. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x floor" | |||||
Floyd | The floor is featureless white tile. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x tile" | |||||
Floyd | The floor is featureless white tile. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get tile" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x walls" | |||||
Floyd | You cannot move the floor tiles. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | The walls are naked metal, unadorned. They give your eyes nowhere to Floyd | rest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | |||||
Floyd | The ceiling is a solid sheet of acoustical insulation. Light comes from Floyd | glowing discs, deeply inset behind wire grilles. A band of scan-web Floyd | runs along the ceiling in front of the doorway. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "listen to wall" | |||||
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "touch wall" | |||||
Floyd | The walls are immovable. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "touch chair" | |||||
Floyd | The metal is cool and clean. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit at desk" | |||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x drawer" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x discs" | |||||
Floyd | The room is illuminated by discs of glowing plastic, recessed in the Floyd | ceiling and covered by wire grilles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chair" | |||||
Floyd | The chair is ugly. Steel slats are riveted to a heavy metal frame, and Floyd | the whole rests on a steel column rising from a pedestal on the floor. Floyd | Restraints are welded to the arm and foot rests; wires hang limply from Floyd | the head support. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wires" | |||||
Floyd | Leads hang from the headrest. There is a sensor contact on the end of Floyd | each one. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut wires" | |||||
Floyd | Cutting those up would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x sensor" | |||||
Floyd | Leads hang from the headrest. There is a sensor contact on the end of Floyd | each one. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit" | |||||
Floyd | What do you want to sit on top of? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "chair" | |||||
Floyd | You sit down in the chair. It is not comfortable. Floyd | Floyd | You feel another distant chill. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear wires" | |||||
Floyd | You don't want to. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | There is a half-remembered cool pressure around your wrists, your Floyd | ankles, your forehead. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| [cfspoilers] inky says, "yeah, unfortunately you can't see the italicized stuff on floyd" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x desk" | |||||
Floyd | The desk is a standard modular composite design. The surface is Floyd | panelled with ranks of controls and instruments. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | For a moment, someone is visible, facing you across the desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x man" | |||||
Floyd | The figure is nearly not there -- like shadows at the edge of your Floyd | sight, or a dream of blindness. It crawls away from your vision; your Floyd | eyes feel thick and strained. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | |||||
Floyd | The figure is nearly not there -- like shadows at the edge of your Floyd | sight, or a dream of blindness. It crawls away from your vision; your Floyd | eyes feel thick and strained. Floyd | Floyd | The human outline bends over the desk, then regards you again. A sense Floyd | of wordless sound moves across you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||||
Floyd | You can almost hear words, but they too drift on the edge of Floyd | understanding. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x man" | |||||
Floyd | The figure is nearly not there -- like shadows at the edge of your Floyd | sight, or a dream of blindness. It crawls away from your vision; your Floyd | eyes feel thick and strained. Floyd | Floyd | The half-visible figure frowns and does something to its controls-- Floyd | Floyd | The chill is gone. You are alone in the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x controls" | |||||
Floyd | The desk is covered with dials, readouts, screen panels, sliders, and Floyd | dozens of other instruments. You can put no form nor name to any of Floyd | them. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "I think this room is mainly atmospheric" | |||||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure." | |||||
| DavidW says, "it might be just that, but I cant be certain" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "it's blurring the line between the flashback and interrogation because we are more or less superimposing the two" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "maybe would could go all the way -- sit down, put on the restraints, wear the electrodes...." | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "sit down" | |||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "sit in chair" | |||||
Floyd | But you're already on the chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (in the chair) Floyd | You are in a dim room, bounded by metal walls. A steel chair squats on Floyd | a low pedestal; facing it is an instrument-covered desk. Otherwise the Floyd | room is sterile. The bright hallway waits to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x chair" | |||||
Floyd | The chair is ugly. Steel slats are riveted to a heavy metal frame, and Floyd | the whole rests on a steel column rising from a pedestal on the floor. Floyd | Restraints are welded to the arm and foot rests; wires hang limply from Floyd | the head support. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "we havent gone back in time of course" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "wear wires" | |||||
Floyd | You don't want to. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "wear restraints" | |||||
Floyd | You don't want to. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo restraints" | |||||
Floyd | They're not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x column" | |||||
Floyd | The pedestal under the chair isn't important. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x slats" | |||||
Floyd | The chair is ugly. Steel slats are riveted to a heavy metal frame, and Floyd | the whole rests on a steel column rising from a pedestal on the floor. Floyd | Restraints are welded to the arm and foot rests; wires hang limply from Floyd | the head support. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull wires" | |||||
Floyd | The wires won't break. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "you can set a save point here in case the room turns out to have been important" | ||||
| DavidW says, "we've done nothing worth saving for again yet" | |||||
| [cfspoilers] Lucea asks, "are you seeing italics?" | DavidW says, "we have pen and sketches" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "ok" | |||||
| DavidW says, "but we must've missed something somewhere" | |||||
| DavidW asks, "where's the angled corridor?" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "I think we've been very thorough in this room. According to the interrogation, though, we did stab someone with the pen. Maybe we need to explore the fourth direction..." | |||||
| dhakajack says, "f i" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a voice Floyd | transmitter. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack asks, "ok to head south?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yeah" | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say tango to transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | You say the keyword, and the status dot flashes green, but you perceive Floyd | no other effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | You'll have to get off the chair first. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say waltz to transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | You say the keyword, and the status dot flashes blue, but you perceive Floyd | no other effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||||
Floyd | You stand up. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say tango to transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | You say the keyword, and the status dot flashes green, but you perceive Floyd | no other effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "ok, be back after I get dinner" | ||||
| Lucea most certainly does not need to change her ohomemsg. | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | Your toolcase is lying open nearby. Inside are a scan scrambler Floyd | (connected to a voice module), a key transmitter, a radio module, a Floyd | minilamp, a timer, a toggle switch, a pushbutton, a blast tab and an Floyd | acid pack. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a pen, three sketches (a seascape, a portrait of a Floyd | young man and a drawing of a night sky) and a wrapped package here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say waltz" | |||||
Floyd | The scrambler shuts down, and its status dot goes blue. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get pen" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | Your toolcase is lying open nearby. Inside are a scan scrambler Floyd | (connected to a voice module), a key transmitter, a radio module, a Floyd | minilamp, a timer, a toggle switch, a pushbutton, a blast tab and an Floyd | acid pack. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see three sketches (a seascape, a portrait of a young man Floyd | and a drawing of a night sky) and a wrapped package here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "wait. We dident carry pen or sketches?" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "I had dropped everything here." | |||||
| DavidW says, "oh" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a pen and a voice Floyd | transmitter. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "since they seem to safely pass the gates with us, they might have a use?" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "maybe" | |||||
| dhakajack asks, "shall I take the sketches north again?" | |||||
| DavidW says, "no" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "ok" | |||||
| dhakajack asks, "do I need to activate the scrambler to go sw?" | |||||
| DavidW says, "I had the strong impression we were to take the pen to angled corridor" | |||||
| DavidW says, "no idea" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Angle Branch Floyd | The corridor runs north and south, like every other hallway in this Floyd | place. A short hallway branches off to the northeast. To the west is a Floyd | blank metal door, with attendant black plate beside it. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | inky says, "well, you remember you have a use for the pen (later in the story), since you used it on one of the guards (the interrogator says)" | ||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "No, you've forgotten the pen again. The crystal was intact when you Floyd | left, as we discovered shortly thereafter." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a toolcase (which Floyd | is open) (in which are a voice transmitter, a voice module, a scan Floyd | scrambler, a key transmitter, a radio module, a minilamp, a timer, a Floyd | toggle switch, a pushbutton, a blast tab and an acid pack) and a Floyd | wrapped package. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "that's odd. I had the pen." | ||||
| (jingle, jingle) | DavidW says, "but you broke it" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "ah." | |||||
| dhakajack asks, "restore?" | |||||
| DavidW says, "when you tried to write with it" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restore" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf4" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a pen and a voice Floyd | transmitter. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a pen and a voice Floyd | transmitter. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x pen" | |||||
Floyd | It's an ordinary-looking pen. The nib looks a bit sharp, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x nib" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | The pen's nib isn't a normal ball tip. It seems to be a sliver of some Floyd | indigo crystal -- a needle-sharp sliver. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | Your toolcase is lying open nearby. Inside are a scan scrambler Floyd | (connected to a voice module), a key transmitter, a radio module, a Floyd | minilamp, a timer, a toggle switch, a pushbutton, a blast tab and an Floyd | acid pack. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a wrapped package here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack is a newbie. | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "take all" | |||||
Floyd | wrapped package: Taken. Floyd | toolcase: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "This is before the sketches were found" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "ok" | |||||
| [cfspoilers] * K-Y has joined the channel. | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "drop all" | |||||
Floyd | toolcase: Dropped. Floyd | wrapped package: Dropped. Floyd | pen: Dropped. Floyd | voice transmitter: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get voice transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say tango" | |||||
Floyd | The scrambler's status dot goes green, and an almost inaudible whine Floyd | begins within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Office Floyd | Dark wood panelling surrounds you, a refuge from the harsh white Floyd | visible to the west. A massive mahogany desk sits in one corner. The Floyd | rest of the room is mostly metal cabinets, but a few sketches take Floyd | their share of wall, and a bookcase stands by the desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say waltz to voice transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | You say the keyword, and the status dot flashes blue, but you perceive Floyd | no other effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get sky" | |||||
Floyd | You pull the drawing of a night sky from the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get portrait" | |||||
Floyd | You pull the portrait of a young man from the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get seascape" | |||||
Floyd | You pull the seascape from the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say tango to voice transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | You say the keyword, and the status dot flashes green, but you perceive Floyd | no other effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | Your toolcase is lying open nearby. Inside are a scan scrambler Floyd | (connected to a voice module), a key transmitter, a radio module, a Floyd | minilamp, a timer, a toggle switch, a pushbutton, a blast tab and an Floyd | acid pack. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a pen and a wrapped package here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say waltz" | |||||
Floyd | The scrambler shuts down, and its status dot goes blue. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get all" | |||||
Floyd | pen: Taken. Floyd | wrapped package: Taken. Floyd | toolcase: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Angle Branch Floyd | The corridor runs north and south, like every other hallway in this Floyd | place. A short hallway branches off to the northeast. To the west is a Floyd | blank metal door, with attendant black plate beside it. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "Mm," the man says slowly. "This grows complex. As I said before, your Floyd | scrambler leaves traces -- submerged in the scan noise if you use it Floyd | briefly, as you have been doing, but traces nonetheless. We have since Floyd | analyzed every sequence of the scan-web data. The results are quite Floyd | precise; you used the scrambler four times. Four blips, on and off, you Floyd | understand. So your story, in which you used it seven times, is not Floyd | possible. Besides, I doubt you would have used the device Floyd | unnecessarily. Standing around flipping it on and off, or dashing Floyd | through a room for a cursory glance, would not be worth the risk to Floyd | you." Floyd | Floyd | He shrugs. "We can play guessing-games all afternoon; but matters would Floyd | go faster if you stuck to the facts." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a toolcase (which Floyd | is open) (in which are a voice transmitter, a voice module, a scan Floyd | scrambler, a key transmitter, a radio module, a minilamp, a timer, a Floyd | toggle switch, a pushbutton, a blast tab and an acid pack) and a Floyd | wrapped package. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I said restore wouldnt be our friend" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "yup" | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | DavidW says, "so we only visit 2 of the 3 rooms" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "ok, we get the pen, and then sw" | |||||
| DavidW says, "no" | |||||
| DavidW says, "that's only 1 room" | |||||
| dhakajack asks, "pen + sketches = 4 blips?" | |||||
| DavidW says, "right" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "ok" | |||||
| dhakajack says, "from the top..." | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect voice transmitter to scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | The voice transmitter doesn't have a link; it works through the voice Floyd | module. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack says, "oops" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "connect voice module to scrambler" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the voice module to the scan scrambler. The voice module Floyd | turns orange to confirm the match, and the voice transmitter turns Floyd | orange as well. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get voice transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a voice Floyd | transmitter, a toolcase (which is open) (in which are a scan scrambler Floyd | (connected to a voice module), a key transmitter, a radio module, a Floyd | minilamp, a timer, a toggle switch, a pushbutton, a blast tab and an Floyd | acid pack) and a wrapped package. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "drop all except voice transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | toolcase: Dropped. Floyd | wrapped package: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says, "tango" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say tango" | |||||
Floyd | The scrambler's status dot goes green, and an almost inaudible whine Floyd | begins within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Storage Room Floyd | This narrow room is lined with steel lockers. There is a plain table at Floyd | the south end, and the doorway to the north exits to the corridor. All Floyd | the lockers are closed. Floyd | Floyd | On the table is a pen. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say waltz to transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | You say the keyword, and the status dot flashes blue, but you perceive Floyd | no other effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get pen" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say tango to transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | You say the keyword, and the status dot flashes green, but you perceive Floyd | no other effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | Your toolcase is lying open nearby. Inside are a scan scrambler Floyd | (connected to a voice module), a key transmitter, a radio module, a Floyd | minilamp, a timer, a toggle switch, a pushbutton, a blast tab and an Floyd | acid pack. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a wrapped package here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say waltz" | |||||
Floyd | The scrambler shuts down, and its status dot goes blue. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say tango" | |||||
Floyd | The scrambler's status dot goes green, and an almost inaudible whine Floyd | begins within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Office Floyd | Dark wood panelling surrounds you, a refuge from the harsh white Floyd | visible to the west. A massive mahogany desk sits in one corner. The Floyd | rest of the room is mostly metal cabinets, but a few sketches take Floyd | their share of wall, and a bookcase stands by the desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say waltz to transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | You say the keyword, and the status dot flashes blue, but you perceive Floyd | no other effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get portrait" | |||||
Floyd | You pull the portrait of a young man from the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get seascape" | |||||
Floyd | You pull the seascape from the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x sketches" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the drawing of a night sky, the seascape or the Floyd | portrait of a young man? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get sky" | |||||
Floyd | You pull the drawing of a night sky from the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say tango to transmitter" | |||||
Floyd | You say the keyword, and the status dot flashes green, but you perceive Floyd | no other effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and south. Floyd | Floyd | Your toolcase is lying open nearby. Inside are a scan scrambler Floyd | (connected to a voice module), a key transmitter, a radio module, a Floyd | minilamp, a timer, a toggle switch, a pushbutton, a blast tab and an Floyd | acid pack. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a wrapped package here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say waltz" | |||||
Floyd | The scrambler shuts down, and its status dot goes blue. Floyd | Floyd | > | dhakajack asks, "worth saving at this point, or does the reset make it moot?" | ||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "take all" | |||||
Floyd | wrapped package: Taken. Floyd | toolcase: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf6" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Angle Branch Floyd | The corridor runs north and south, like every other hallway in this Floyd | place. A short hallway branches off to the northeast. To the west is a Floyd | blank metal door, with attendant black plate beside it. Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "And away you went." He considers. "You were searching the storage room Floyd | for your lockpick, of course. I'm afraid I had it at the time. Floyd | ...Although whoever left the pen lying out is due a reprimand. Sloppy, Floyd | and you provided an excellent demonstration of why." His smile is, for Floyd | the first time, self-satisfied. It's more frightening even than you Floyd | expected -- but quickly gone. Floyd | Floyd | "And you entered my office looking for... what? I'm sure it wasn't my Floyd | artwork -- that's still there, and petty vandalism is beneath you in Floyd | any case. What, then? Passcodes, keys, open drawers and indiscretions?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say nothing" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm not at all sorry to have disappointed you. I am good at my job, Floyd | and I am careful, which is the same thought. If you could have caught Floyd | me loose, caught me blind or far-eyed, you might have succeeded. You Floyd | did not." And there is a brief silence. Floyd | Floyd | "What am I to make of you? You are endlessly inventive in your lies, if Floyd | less subtle than brazen; you flex like grass, sometimes stubborn as Floyd | stone, sometimes easy with your answers. You have striven to keep this Floyd | session calm, and I do not think it was out of fear of my anger. Your Floyd | eyes never, never waver from mine." Floyd | Floyd | He leans back in his own chair, bearing your gaze. "I have tried to Floyd | treat you as an equal, a companion in our work. That is technique, of Floyd | course; we both know that. But it is also sincere. And I think you have Floyd | taken it in that faith. We are faces reflected in the mirror of our Floyd | countries' border. I think you understand that." He nods. Floyd | Floyd | "You do see that much. You may not be brilliant -- you make mistakes -- Floyd | but you are determined. You hold that strength to what you believe, and Floyd | in that you are not so different from me." Floyd | Floyd | He shrugs, and offers a smile as honest as you have seen. "Well? Have I Floyd | done well? It is my job to know everything about you, after all." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say yes" | |||||
Floyd | He bows in place, both palms open. "I am delighted." Floyd | Floyd | And then he reaches again for his controls. "But we are nearly done. Floyd | You have only a few more seconds; and you have yet to show me what Floyd | becomes of your mysterious cloth-wrapped package." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Diagonal Branch Floyd | This bare stretch of hallway angles from the northwest to the east; Floyd | another short hall leads south. Floyd | Floyd | You throw yourself to a halt, nearly stumbling, as you hear footsteps Floyd | approaching from the northwest... and then the guards behind you become Floyd | audible as well. You duck around the southern corner and glance about Floyd | desperately. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "drumroll" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Diagonal Branch Floyd | This bare stretch of hallway angles from the northwest to the east; Floyd | another short hall leads south. You are backed into the southern Floyd | branch. Floyd | Floyd | The guards to the east are drawing closer. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | You back down the corridor, as silently as you can. Floyd | Floyd | Dead End Floyd | The hallway ends in a blank white wall. A metal door stands closed to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | A discarded filing cabinet is standing by the wall. The drawers are Floyd | closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "open the package?" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "unwrap package" | |||||
Floyd | It's not yet time. Floyd | Floyd | The door snaps open suddenly, and the uniformed figure of a guard Floyd | begins to step through. "No, what's frustrating is that you can't tell Floyd | us what's in that blood-cursed lab," he is saying, back over his Floyd | shoulder. Floyd | Floyd | Then he sees you. He fumbles for his pulse gun. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "time for the pen!" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "stab guard with pen" | |||||
Floyd | You feint, and then jab the pen into the guard's shoulder, as hard as Floyd | you can. His reflexive counter hurls you into the wall. Floyd | Floyd | But then he shivers, once, and slides to the ground, and remains there. Floyd | Floyd | The door slides shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "search guard" | |||||
Floyd | You pat the body down quickly, but nothing is immediately apparent. And Floyd | you don't have time for a more thorough search. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "x file cabinet" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dead End Floyd | The hallway ends in a blank white wall. A metal door stands closed to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | The guard is sprawled unconscious on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | His gun lies near his limp hand. Floyd | Floyd | A discarded filing cabinet is standing by the wall. The drawers are Floyd | closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf hums mission impossible theme | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get gun" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The footsteps to the north are closer now. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open drawers" | |||||
Floyd | You yank on the drawers; two are locked, but one comes open with an Floyd | internal clank. The drawer is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "search drawer" | |||||
Floyd | The drawer is empty. Floyd | Floyd | The footsteps to the north are closer now. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hide in drawer" | |||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "look behind cabinet" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | You make a break up the hallway -- only to come into view of two groups Floyd | of guards, at once. Their pulse guns knock you sprawling before you can Floyd | duck back. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have been captured *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "Well done." The man is applauding softly. "A heroic end to your Floyd | shining tale; and in the large, an accurate one. But not precise. You Floyd | fell into our hands without those fascinating tools you have been Floyd | showing off all this time. And without the package, you understand, the Floyd | one you found in my corridor ceiling. I am very curious to know what Floyd | you did with those things." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | DavidW asks, "put package in drawer?" | ||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Diagonal Branch Floyd | This bare stretch of hallway angles from the northwest to the east; Floyd | another short hall leads south. Floyd | Floyd | You throw yourself to a halt, nearly stumbling, as you hear footsteps Floyd | approaching from the northwest... and then the guards behind you become Floyd | audible as well. You duck around the southern corner and glance about Floyd | desperately. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | You back down the corridor, as silently as you can. Floyd | Floyd | Dead End Floyd | The hallway ends in a blank white wall. A metal door stands closed to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | A discarded filing cabinet is standing by the wall. The drawers are Floyd | closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing worthy of attention, except a toolcase (which Floyd | is open) (in which are a scan scrambler (connected to a voice module), Floyd | a key transmitter, a radio module, a minilamp, a timer, a toggle Floyd | switch, a pushbutton, a blast tab and an acid pack), a wrapped package, Floyd | a pen and a voice transmitter. Floyd | Floyd | The door snaps open suddenly, and the uniformed figure of a guard Floyd | begins to step through. "No, what's frustrating is that you can't tell Floyd | us what's in that blood-cursed lab," he is saying, back over his Floyd | shoulder. Floyd | Floyd | Then he sees you. He fumbles for his pulse gun. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "stab guard with pen" | |||||
Floyd | You feint, and then jab the pen into the guard's shoulder, as hard as Floyd | you can. His reflexive counter hurls you into the wall. Floyd | Floyd | But then he shivers, once, and slides to the ground, and remains there. Floyd | Floyd | The door slides shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open drawers" | |||||
Floyd | You yank on the drawers; two are locked, but one comes open with an Floyd | internal clank. The drawer is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "put all in drawer" | |||||
Floyd | toolcase: Done. Floyd | wrapped package: Done. Floyd | pen: Done. Floyd | voice transmitter: Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get pen" | baf exclaims, "Not the pen!" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The footsteps to the north are closer now. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "close drawer" | |||||
Floyd | You close the drawer. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get gun" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The footsteps to the north are closer now. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The footsteps to the north are closer now. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | You make a break up the hallway -- only to come into view of two groups Floyd | of guards, at once. Their pulse guns knock you sprawling before you can Floyd | duck back. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have been captured *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, yes, but you still have not bought the details. We were certainly Floyd | not fools enough to ignore the broken cabinet drawer. You left nothing Floyd | inside it." Floyd | Floyd | ...glaring light -- Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Diagonal Branch Floyd | This bare stretch of hallway angles from the northwest to the east; Floyd | another short hall leads south. Floyd | Floyd | You throw yourself to a halt, nearly stumbling, as you hear footsteps Floyd | approaching from the northwest... and then the guards behind you become Floyd | audible as well. You duck around the southern corner and glance about Floyd | desperately. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "is there a vent grille?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||||
Floyd | Footsteps are approaching. Floyd | Floyd | The guards to the east are drawing closer. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Diagonal Branch Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "maybe the cabinet can be climbed" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "ok" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | You back down the corridor, as silently as you can. Floyd | Floyd | Dead End Floyd | The hallway ends in a blank white wall. A metal door stands closed to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | A discarded filing cabinet is standing by the wall. The drawers are Floyd | closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||||
Floyd | Footsteps are still approaching. Floyd | Floyd | The door snaps open suddenly, and the uniformed figure of a guard Floyd | begins to step through. "No, what's frustrating is that you can't tell Floyd | us what's in that blood-cursed lab," he is saying, back over his Floyd | shoulder. Floyd | Floyd | Then he sees you. He fumbles for his pulse gun. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Dead End Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "stab guard with pen" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "maybe after he's stabbed" | ||||
| inky says, "sorry, I undid a turn" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The door snaps open suddenly, and the uniformed figure of a guard Floyd | begins to step through. "No, what's frustrating is that you can't tell Floyd | us what's in that blood-cursed lab," he is saying, back over his Floyd | shoulder. Floyd | Floyd | Then he sees you. He fumbles for his pulse gun. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "stab guard with pen" | |||||
Floyd | You feint, and then jab the pen into the guard's shoulder, as hard as Floyd | you can. His reflexive counter hurls you into the wall. Floyd | Floyd | But then he shivers, once, and slides to the ground, and remains there. Floyd | Floyd | The door slides shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||||
Floyd | Footsteps are still approaching. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Dead End Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "so no grille that I see, but maybe I'm wrong" | ||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "climb cabinet" | |||||
Floyd | You get onto the filing cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | |||||
Floyd | Wide rectangles cover the ceiling with the grey, dimpled texture of Floyd | good acoustical insulation. Between the panels are the glowing strips Floyd | which illuminate the area, and also the characteristic glitter of a Floyd | scan web. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push panel" | |||||
Floyd | The acoustical panels won't move. Floyd | Floyd | The footsteps to the north are closer now. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open panel" | |||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wall" | |||||
Floyd | The walls are faced with tough white composite. They are smooth and Floyd | blank, except for one ventilator grille near the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | The footsteps to the north are closer now. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "open grille" | |||||
Floyd | You lever the grille open with your fingers. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "put all except pen in grille" | |||||
Floyd | voice transmitter: Done. Floyd | toolcase: Done. Floyd | wrapped package: Done. Floyd | Floyd | The footsteps to the north are closer now. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "stand" | |||||
Floyd | You get down off the filing cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "get gun" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | "Hold you!" comes a shout from the north. You take a quick glance; Floyd | several guards have come around the corner. Their narrow eyes take in Floyd | the fallen shape at your feet, and they bring up their weapons. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "close grille!" | ||||
| dhakajack says, "doh" | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "close grille" | |||||
Floyd | The ventilator grille is a bit beyond your reach. Floyd | Floyd | The pulse-guns to the north begins crackling. You dive for cover behind Floyd | the cabinet, but a bolt slaps into you before you are halfway there. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have been captured *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | -- glaring light... Floyd | Floyd | [Hit any key.] | |||||
| dhakajack pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber (imprisoned in the chair) Floyd | You blink away memory. The dim room comes again into focus, and the man Floyd | behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | The man breathes out slowly; his eyes are soft with realization. "The Floyd | ventilation duct. The ventilation duct." Floyd | Floyd | Still staring past you, he thumbs a switch on his desk. "Mobile Eight?" Floyd | he says to the air. "Get down to the hallway where our friend was Floyd | captured--" There is a muffled interruption. "Yes, I know you have. You Floyd | missed a leaf. Open up ventilation grille M-2 and search inside. There Floyd | should be a number of microelectronic tools inside, and a small bundle Floyd | wrapped in cloth. Report to me immediately." He flicks the connection Floyd | closed. Floyd | Floyd | The man spreads his hands apologetically. "I must look like a great Floyd | fool," he says to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "yes" | |||||
Floyd | He chuckles. "Well, I can plead an excuse; we rebuilt our ventilation Floyd | system from the ground up, less than half a year ago. It's fenced and Floyd | webbed and wired so that a grain of sand couldn't sneak through -- but Floyd | only at the external intakes and the junctions. We never thought to Floyd | check for an object cached just inside a vent. We never thought it Floyd | would be a danger." Floyd | Floyd | He shrugs. "And it wasn't a danger, in fact, was it?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say no" | |||||
Floyd | "No. We got you; you didn't get into the lab, much less get out Floyd | afterwards. You moved a package from one hiding place to another. I Floyd | still can't see--" Floyd | Floyd | A flashing light interrupts him. The man touches it, and nods. "I'll Floyd | see soon. They're bringing it in." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say no" | |||||
Floyd | The man absently waves you to silence. Floyd | Floyd | A chime sounds. The man pounces on his controls, and then gestures Floyd | impatiently towards the doorway. Floyd | Floyd | A guard enters. She gives you only a brief professional glance. Floyd | Approaching the desk, she lays out a handful of small items. Floyd | Floyd | The man nods, dismissing her without a thought, and then stares. "This Floyd | was all? Where's the package?" Floyd | Floyd | "With'?" asks the guard, puzzled. Floyd | Floyd | "Never mind. Go." His eyes are blazing on you as the guard slips out Floyd | the doorway. "You. You have lied to me, and I am tired of it. I have Floyd | had enough." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say sorry" | |||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say can i go now" | |||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | "You have not told me where the package really is." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "deny everything" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "tell man about package" | |||||
Floyd | To simplify the problem of dialogue in interactive fiction, the "tell" Floyd | and "ask" commands are not used in this game. Type "about" for details. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "Save now." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf7" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "about" | |||||
Floyd | Spider And Web is copyright 1997-8 by Andrew Plotkin. It may be copied, Floyd | distributed, and played freely. Floyd | Floyd | For acknowledgements and credits, please type "credits". Floyd | Floyd | An introductory note: To simplify the problem of dialogue in Floyd | interactive fiction, the "tell" and "ask" commands are not used in this Floyd | game. Your conversational options are limited to "yes," "no," and Floyd | saying nothing at all. Trust me -- this isn't as big a deal as it Floyd | sounds. Floyd | Floyd | Also, after some consideration, I have decided not to implement body Floyd | parts -- head, arms, legs, hands -- as separate objects. If you feel a Floyd | desire to refer to yourself, "me" will suffice. Floyd | Floyd | It is possible to make a fatal mistake in this game, but you will Floyd | immediately know you have done so. You can always "undo" after death, Floyd | and then fix the mistake. Therefore, the game is best played straight Floyd | through. Accept any non-fatal mistakes that you may make; you will have Floyd | a second chance. If you back up and replay each scene for maximum Floyd | efficiency, avoiding all mistakes, certain aspects of the game will be Floyd | lost. Floyd | Floyd | However -- you will eventually reach a point where things become Floyd | dangerous. You'll know when. Beyond that, you're playing for keeps and Floyd | heartbeats count. Save early and often. Floyd | Floyd | Do not expect Spider And Web to be anything like So Far or A Change in Floyd | the Weather. It's not. In a certain sense, this is my first Floyd | conventional game. In another sense, it's the strangest game I know, Floyd | and understanding what's happening is entirely your problem. Floyd | Floyd | This game is free. But if you feel like sending me money, I won't Floyd | refuse. If you feel like sending me comments or bug reports, I'll be Floyd | ecstatic. As of the beginning of 1998, I am at Floyd | Floyd | erkyrath@netcom.com Floyd | Floyd | Andrew Plotkin Floyd | 7529 Murray Hill Rd #322 Floyd | Columbia, MD 21046 Floyd | USA Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| dhakajack says (to Floyd), "say yes" | |||||
Floyd | "Curse that, curse you, and curse all your blood," says the man flatly. Floyd | His finger stabs down. Floyd | Floyd | A killing light slams you behind the eyes. Images fall through it, Floyd | helplessly -- door, hall -- leap -- open door -- chair -- Floyd | Floyd | But the light doesn't let you go. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move, Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | baf says, "Or, um, maybe save a couple of turns ago." | ||||
| ctate says, "ha ha ha" | |||||
| inky says, "good call" | |||||
| *** FAST FORWARD: JANUARY 18, 2009 *** | inky says, "ok, so for the benefit of the transcript, this is the last part of spider & web, which we played a while back but didn't finish" | ||||
| inky says, "assuming I did the save game right, it's picking up right *after* the big scene" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "load tangle" | |||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | On the whole, it was worth the trip. The plains really were broad and Floyd | grain-gold, if scarred with fences and agricultural crawlers. The Floyd | mountains were overwhelming. And however much of the capital city is Floyd | crusted with squat brick and faceless concrete hulks, there are still Floyd | flashes of its historic charm. You've seen spires above the streets -- Floyd | tiny green parks below tenements -- hidden jewels of fountains beyond Floyd | walls. Any bland alley can conceal balconies wrought into iron Floyd | gardens, fiery mosaics, a tree or bed of flowers nurtured by who knows Floyd | who. Floyd | Floyd | This alley, however, is a total washout. It ends in flat bare dirty Floyd | brick, and you've found nothing but a door which lacks even the Floyd | courtesy of a handle. Maybe you should call it a day. Floyd | Floyd | Spider And Web Floyd | Interactive Fiction Floyd | Copyright 1997-8 by Andrew Plotkin. Floyd | (First-time players should type "about". For credits, "credits".) Floyd | Release 4 / Serial number 980226 / Inform v6.14 Library 6/6 Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0 Floyd | Floyd | End of Alley Floyd | It's a narrow dead end here, with walls rising oppressively high in Floyd | three directions. The alley is quite empty, bare even of trash. (Your Floyd | guidebook warned you: the police are as efficient about litter laws as Floyd | about everything else they do.) You can retreat to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A plain metal door faces you to the east, near the alley's end. It's Floyd | firmly shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tangle" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Interrogation Chamber Floyd | You are in a dim room, bounded by metal walls. A scarred pedestal Floyd | stands empty where the chair was; facing it is an instrument-covered Floyd | desk. Otherwise the room is sterile. The bright hallway waits to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | The man is stretched on the floor, dazed and unmoving. The lines of Floyd | his face are merely age, now. Floyd | Floyd | Scraps of metal lie around the pedestal, still visibly decaying. Floyd | Floyd | Your legs are beginning to itch fiercely. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "f x cfs" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | You step gingerly under the scan-web band. Silence. You recall, with Floyd | some relief, that the man failed to turn it back on after the guard Floyd | left. Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Angle Branch Floyd | The corridor runs north and south, like every other hallway in this Floyd | place. A short hallway branches off to the northeast. To the west is a Floyd | blank metal door, with attendant black plate beside it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Er. That was totally mangled. Sorry." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I can't remember much about S&W. It's not a game I respond well to." | |||||
| inky says, "also, I've played this before, so I'm basically just running through it with some poking around, not really solving it" | |||||
| Bert asks, "How can HiD be so popular while S&W, which is so clearly superior, seems less so?" | |||||
| inky says, "S&W won a lot of awards" | |||||
| inky says, "it's just old so a bunch of people entered the community after it came out" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tee Junction Floyd | The white corridor runs east to west here, with a branch leading off Floyd | to the north, and a closed metal door to the south. You can see that Floyd | the east hall reaches a dead end a short distance away. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dead End South Floyd | The corridor ends here, blank, with a single steel door on the north Floyd | wall. The door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | The itch in your legs is nearly unbearable. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put pick on plate" | |||||
Floyd | The pick locks itself rigidly to the black plate by the door. Its Floyd | status dot flashes to yellow. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The lockpick's status dot is sliding towards green. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The lockpick's status dot is sliding towards green. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The lockpick's status dot fades to pure green, and flicks steady blue. Floyd | Floyd | The door snaps open. Floyd | Floyd | The itching is slowly fading. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get pick" | |||||
Floyd | The pick comes free with a faint magnetic snap. Floyd | Floyd | The door begins to slide shut as soon as the pick loses its link. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | You slide hastily through the closing door. This time, you are careful Floyd | to keep a firm grip on your lockpick. Floyd | Floyd | Wiring Closet Floyd | You have barely room to spread your arms; this tiny square chamber is Floyd | lined with cables, pipes, wires, and junction nodes. The only exit is Floyd | the closing door to the south, which has a small white pad beside it. Floyd | Floyd | Resting on one of the larger junction nodes is a blast tab (connected Floyd | to a radio module). Floyd | Floyd | The door closes completely. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I *think* this was the place we were trying to get in before when we lost our lockpick to the guards" | ||||
| (jingle, jingle) | inky says, "presumably this is our blast tab here" | ||||
| inky says, "...er, so I guess we *did* get in before" | |||||
| inky says, "this game is so confusing!" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x blast tab" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small purple cube, which contains enough stabilized gel to blow Floyd | a foot-wide hole in approximately anything. There's a minus link on Floyd | one edge, which is connected to a radio module. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x radio" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small purple box with a short antenna on one side, and a plus Floyd | link on the other. The link is connected to a blast tab. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying a lockpick, a pen, a toolcase (which is open but Floyd | empty), a pushbutton, a toggle switch, a scan scrambler (connected to Floyd | a timer), a minilamp, a key transmitter and a voice transmitter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says (to bert), "One part might be that zarf hides the genius parts, as in So Far, under fiendishly difficult & unfair puzzles." | ||||
| Fang says, "I guess S&W is something you don't dare talk about" | |||||
| inky says, "I guess we don't have a radio projector to match this" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "disconnect radio" | |||||
Floyd | You disconnect the blast tab, and take the radio module as it turns Floyd | black again. The key transmitter turns black as well. Floyd | Floyd | The itching is slowly fading. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attach button to blast" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the pushbutton to the blast tab. The pushbutton turns Floyd | purple to confirm the match. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push button" | |||||
Floyd | Crack! You jerk back your finger as the blast tab goes off, shattering Floyd | the junction node. Floyd | Floyd | The lights die, leaving you in stifling blind darkness. Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | Floyd | After several seconds, the lighting strips return to life, but they Floyd | are very dim and pulsate unevenly. You find barely enough light to Floyd | pick silhouettes out of the gloom. And the silence is oppressive. You Floyd | realize that the constant hiss of ventilation died with the lights, Floyd | and it has not returned. Floyd | Floyd | Wiring Closet (in dimness) Floyd | You have barely room to spread your arms; this tiny square chamber is Floyd | lined with cables, pipes, wires, and junction nodes. The only exit is Floyd | the closed door to the south, which has a small white pad beside it. Floyd | Floyd | The largest junction node is a shattered ruin. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "not the safest way to do it, admittedly" | ||||
| inky says, "also, this knocks out the power -- which means that, eg, we can cross that metal-detector strip back at the beginning" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "touch white pad" | |||||
Floyd | Nothing happens. You stare at the door in some embarrassment; of Floyd | course it won't open without power. Floyd | Floyd | You sit down calmly to wait. It isn't too long before the guards come Floyd | with crowbars to investigate the problem. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move, Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha ha" | ||||
| inky says, "ok!" | |||||
| inky says, "let's try this again without trapping myself" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tangle" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | You step gingerly under the scan-web band. Silence. You recall, with Floyd | some relief, that the man failed to turn it back on after the guard Floyd | left. Floyd | Floyd | Security Annex Floyd | This is the end of a short hallway, which runs southwest back to the Floyd | main corridor. Three large doorways open to the north, east, and Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | Your legs are beginning to itch fiercely. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Angle Branch Floyd | The corridor runs north and south, like every other hallway in this Floyd | place. A short hallway branches off to the northeast. To the west is a Floyd | blank metal door, with attendant black plate beside it. Floyd | Floyd | > | baf says, "I suspect you'd find this section less confusing if the previous parts were still fresh in your mind." | ||||
| baf says, "Not easier, mind you. Just less confusing." | |||||
| inky says, "I did actually play it yesterday, but using a walkthrough" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tee Junction Floyd | The white corridor runs east to west here, with a branch leading off Floyd | to the north, and a closed metal door to the south. You can see that Floyd | the east hall reaches a dead end a short distance away. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dead End South Floyd | The corridor ends here, blank, with a single steel door on the north Floyd | wall. The door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put rod on plate" | |||||
Floyd | The pick locks itself rigidly to the black plate by the door. Its Floyd | status dot flashes to yellow. Floyd | Floyd | The itch in your legs is nearly unbearable. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The lockpick's status dot is sliding towards green. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The lockpick's status dot is sliding towards green. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The lockpick's status dot fades to pure green, and flicks steady blue. Floyd | Floyd | The door snaps open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Wiring Closet Floyd | You have barely room to spread your arms; this tiny square chamber is Floyd | lined with cables, pipes, wires, and junction nodes. The only exit is Floyd | the open door to the south, which has a small white pad beside it. Floyd | Floyd | Resting on one of the larger junction nodes is a blast tab (connected Floyd | to a radio module). Floyd | Floyd | The itching is slowly fading. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "disconnect radio" | |||||
Floyd | You disconnect the blast tab, and take the radio module as it turns Floyd | black again. The key transmitter turns black as well. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attach voice to blast tab" | |||||
Floyd | The voice transmitter doesn't have a link; it works through the voice Floyd | module. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attach voice module to blast tab" | |||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "connect voice module to blast tab" | |||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | ||||
| baf says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying a radio module, a pen, a toolcase (which is open but Floyd | empty), a pushbutton, a toggle switch, a scan scrambler (connected to Floyd | a timer), a minilamp, a key transmitter and a voice transmitter. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "maybe I lost it already?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x radio" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small black box with a short antenna on one side, and a plus Floyd | link on the other. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x key" | |||||
Floyd | It's a small black disc with a key to press on one side, and a short Floyd | antenna on the other. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push key" | |||||
Floyd | You press the transmitter key. As you expected, nothing happens; the Floyd | cursed thing is still broken, jammed, or sabotaged. Floyd | Floyd | The itching is slowly fading. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok, right, that's the one that goes with the radio (which didn't work)" | ||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attach button to blast" | |||||
Floyd | You connect the pushbutton to the blast tab. The pushbutton turns Floyd | purple to confirm the match. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push button" | |||||
Floyd | Crack! You jerk back your finger as the blast tab goes off, shattering Floyd | the junction node. Floyd | Floyd | The lights die, leaving you in stifling blind darkness. Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | Floyd | After several seconds, the lighting strips return to life, but they Floyd | are very dim and pulsate unevenly. You find barely enough light to Floyd | pick silhouettes out of the gloom. And the silence is oppressive. You Floyd | realize that the constant hiss of ventilation died with the lights, Floyd | and it has not returned. Floyd | Floyd | Wiring Closet (in dimness) Floyd | You have barely room to spread your arms; this tiny square chamber is Floyd | lined with cables, pipes, wires, and junction nodes. The only exit is Floyd | the open door to the south, which has a small white pad beside it. Floyd | Floyd | The largest junction node is a shattered ruin. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dead End South (in dimness) Floyd | The corridor ends here, blank, with a single steel door on the north Floyd | wall. The door is open. Floyd | Floyd | The lockpick is clinging to the black plate by the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get rod" | |||||
Floyd | The pick comes free with a faint magnetic snap. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Tee Junction (in dimness) Floyd | The white corridor runs east to west here, with a branch leading off Floyd | to the north, and a closed metal door to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Diagonal Branch (in dimness) Floyd | This bare stretch of hallway angles from the northwest to the east; Floyd | another short hall leads south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Boundary (in dimness) Floyd | The corridor angles here, and crosses a boundary of some sort as it Floyd | does. A few strides down the southeast branch, a dotted red line Floyd | crosses the floor. You can retreat from the boundary to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | White Junction (in dimness) Floyd | You are in a bare tiled corridor, white tiles and cold white walls. Floyd | The ceiling is acoustical panelling divided by barely-illuminated Floyd | strips of plastic. The hall runs north and east, with a branch curving Floyd | away to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner At Doors (in dimness) Floyd | The hallway runs both east and south from here. There's a featureless Floyd | metal door to the west, which is closed; a more normal one stands Floyd | closed to the north. Floyd | Floyd | One of the ceiling panels is missing, leaving a rectangular gap above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "so here's where we stashed the package before, but of course there *is* no package" | ||||
| inky asks, "so why did we really jump up here?" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "jump" | |||||
Floyd | You bend and leap. Your fingers brush the edge of the hole -- catch, Floyd | and you concentrate on holding on. Your feet swing gently a foot above Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open vent" | |||||
Floyd | You shift your weight to one hand and reach out -- almost... you swing Floyd | yourself desperately, kicking. Your fingers brush the grille. You claw Floyd | at it, a wild swipe -- and the grille flops open. Floyd | Floyd | Inside, you can see your gun. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get gun" | |||||
Floyd | (with one hand, hanging by the other) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | You move your hands a bit, one at a time, to ease the strain. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | You drop lightly to the ground, flexing your fingers. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corridor Boundary (in dimness) Floyd | The corridor angles here, and crosses a boundary of some sort as it Floyd | does. A few strides down the southeast branch, a dotted red line Floyd | crosses the floor. You can retreat from the boundary to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You're about to run out of options -- the intersection to the Floyd | southeast is occupied. The guards there are not moving. They're Floyd | watching in both directions, with their backs to a closed metal door. Floyd | They don't seem to have seen you; you slide deeper into the shadows Floyd | nonetheless. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shoot guards" | |||||
Floyd | (with the gun) Floyd | You smile in the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | Two of the guards are unconscious in as many heartbeats. You shift Floyd | your gun, straining for a better target among the shadows, and fire Floyd | again. A third figure jerks and collapses. Then pulses are raining up Floyd | the corridor at you, and you flatten yourself into cover. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I'm not really sure why it makes them unconscious instead of killing them" | ||||
| inky says, "there was a larry niven book about organleggers where you made people unconscious because you wanted to steal their kidneys after you won" | |||||
| Fang says, "because we're the heroes" | |||||
| inky says (to Fang), "not in this game!" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sharp Corner (in dimness) Floyd | The corridor cuts around a sharp angle, from the northwest to the Floyd | north. To the south, in the end wall, is the standard featureless Floyd | metal door; it is closed. Floyd | Floyd | Three guards are standing in the angle, with three more motionless on Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | You hit the corner at a dead run. The remaining guards break and fall Floyd | aside, trying to aim and roll for cover simultaneously. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Lab Junction (in dimness) Floyd | The white corridor runs south and east from here, with a wide branch Floyd | curving northwest towards the laboratory. Floyd | Floyd | You can see brighter light shining around the curve to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | You tear up the hall, chased by pulse-fire. Floyd | Floyd | You freeze; there is movement up the corridor, to the south. It sounds Floyd | like yet another group of guards, moving slowly but steadily in the Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||||
Floyd | The hallway curves west until it reaches the black door. Floyd | Floyd | Outside Laboratory Floyd | The corridor from the east ends here, and a single door looms to the Floyd | west. It's no larger than the doors you've seen elsewhere; but it Floyd | somehow looks... heavy. Unyielding. Reinforcing struts cross the Floyd | door's face, and the surface is sheathed with some black coating. Floyd | Floyd | The end of the hallway is still well-lit. Floyd | Floyd | You spin around, ready for pursuit, but no one appears. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put rod on plate" | |||||
Floyd | The pick locks itself rigidly to the black plate by the door. Its Floyd | status dot flashes to yellow. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a voice from around the curve: "Wait." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a startled "What?" from the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | The lockpick's status dot is sliding towards green. Floyd | Floyd | Your legs still itch. Just a bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Voices drift up the hall. "It's only one..." "...armed, took down Floyd | nearly..." There appears to be some little debate. Floyd | Floyd | The lockpick's status dot is sliding towards green. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Look then, we'll get a pulse grenade, is that...?" Floyd | Floyd | The lockpick's status dot fades to pure green, and flicks steady blue. Floyd | Floyd | There is a hollow clunk somewhere. A moment later, the door swings Floyd | towards you. The scent of ozone brushes through the doorway. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "suckers, they think we're tough" | ||||
| inky says, "I guess this is the opposite of what's going on in erfworld now -- you hit them hard the first time, so now they're delaying the second time" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get rod" | |||||
Floyd | The pick comes free with a faint magnetic snap. Floyd | Floyd | The door begins to swing shut as soon as the pick loses its link. Floyd | Floyd | "Fine." "Fine then." "...Fine." Some of the guards sound a bit peeved. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | You duck through the closing door, keeping the lockpick firmly in Floyd | hand. Floyd | Floyd | The Laboratory Floyd | There is no question what this place is. The room is high, brightly Floyd | lit -- this part of the building must have its own power supply -- and Floyd | filled with arcane, half-built, and unlabelled machinery. The heavy Floyd | door stands open to the east; there is a small white pad and an access Floyd | panel beside it. Floyd | Floyd | At the center of the chaos, and its focus, is a great silver platform Floyd | which is wrapped in a glittering cage of scan-web. A control console Floyd | stands next to it. Cables run out across the floor, from the platform Floyd | to the console, from the console to the walls, and tangle around a low Floyd | cabinet off to one side. Floyd | Floyd | Much paper and clutter rests on a long wooden table against one wall. Floyd | The table also supports a notably large black device. By the other Floyd | wall is a clear space ringed with red, with some sort of mat inside Floyd | it. A steel cube sits on the mat. Floyd | Floyd | The door booms shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I assume if we left the lockpick out there they could get in" | ||||
| (jingle, jingle) | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open panel" | |||||
Floyd | You pull the panel open, revealing a layer of subcircuitry. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shoot circuitry" | |||||
Floyd | (with the gun) Floyd | The layer of subcircuitry showers a corona of sparks. Blue light Floyd | crackles along the subcircuit paths. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Either that, or they have the actual key." | ||||
| inky says, "good point" | |||||
| inky asks, "what, people don't just use lockpicks to get in?" | |||||
| inky says, "it would be kind of cool to have a d&d-esque thieves' guild with no keys to the locks" | |||||
| Bert asks, "Are you saving now that you're through?" | |||||
| Bert says (to inky), "Heh." | |||||
| inky says, "just, you're entitled to whatever room you are able to get into" | |||||
| inky says, "yeah, there are a couple endings, so let's save" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "save" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tangle2" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "this, for the benefit of readers, is the lab that's our whole objective in breaking in here" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x table" | |||||
Floyd | There is a long wooden table against one wall. It is covered with Floyd | astonishing piles of paper -- scraps, notes, diagrams, all spread Floyd | unevenly around in varying stages of sortedness and immediacy. Floyd | Floyd | At one end of the table is a notable black device. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x papers" | |||||
Floyd | You quickly sort through the papers, as best you can from your Floyd | briefing lectures. In a few moments, you have piled up a single stack Floyd | of the most critical diagrams, tables, formulae, and notes. Everything Floyd | else is left scattered across the table in more disarray than when you Floyd | started. Floyd | Floyd | While sorting, you discovered a logic plate buried under a spread of Floyd | scribbled diagrams. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x plate" | |||||
Floyd | It's a logic plate like most, though fairly large -- wider than your Floyd | two spread hands. Circuit paths are dimly visible inside the smoky Floyd | resin, and the edges sparkle with link bands. Floyd | Floyd | You hear voices outside. "Well?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get plate" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get papers" | |||||
Floyd | (the stack of important papers) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | "The lock circuitry is knotted," comes a mumble from outside the door. Floyd | "...must have done something..." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read papers" | |||||
Floyd | (the stack of important papers) Floyd | You have no notion what any of it means, but it all matches the Floyd | profile you were given of material relevant to the work done here. Floyd | Floyd | "We've got shock grenades. Should we blast?" There is a pause, and Floyd | someone replies, "No, wait on that. Whatever's in the lab, the tech Floyd | crowd will burst themselves if we fill it full of shrapnel." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "there they are commenting on the lock, ha ha" | ||||
| inky says, "ok, lessee" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x device" | |||||
Floyd | The black device doesn't have the half-built, rigged quality of the Floyd | other machinery nearby. It is curved, polished, and sleek. It has Floyd | faired vents along the top. There is a round alcove in its front, Floyd | which contains a glass pot. The only control is a tiny black switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get pot" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | A voice says, "Someone ask around for a gas cutter." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pot" | |||||
Floyd | It's a fat glass pot with a spout and a close-fitting lid, which Floyd | leaves the spout open. There is a wooden handle on one side. The pot Floyd | is empty; but the inside bottom surface seems to be crusted with some Floyd | burnt substance. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "smell pot" | |||||
Floyd | It smells faintly burnt. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put papers in alcove" | |||||
Floyd | (the stack of important papers in the notable device) Floyd | You put the stack of important papers into the notable device. Floyd | Floyd | "Got anywhere with the lock?" you hear. There is an irritated mutter Floyd | in reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push tiny" | |||||
Floyd | The tiny switch begins to glow red as you turn it on. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | |||||
Floyd | Opened. The cabinet is stuffed with blocks of subcircuitry and nests Floyd | of ribbon-wiring. There is a gap at one point, however, as if a single Floyd | logic plate had been removed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put plate in cabinet" | |||||
Floyd | You slide the logic plate into the gap in the cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | The stack of important papers is yellowing with the heat. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "close cabinet" | |||||
Floyd | You close the cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | "One of the techs thinks there's a cutter in South Storage," someone Floyd | reports. Floyd | Floyd | Smoke begins to curl from the stack of important papers. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | inky says, "so making the thingy operational again, and burning the research papers" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | A corner of the stack of important papers flares alight. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get papers" | |||||
Floyd | (the stack of important papers) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The stack of important papers is burning brightly now. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put all on table" | |||||
Floyd | stack of important papers: Done. Floyd | glass pot: Done. Floyd | lockpick: Done. Floyd | gun: Done. Floyd | radio module: Done. Floyd | pen: Done. Floyd | toolcase: Done. Floyd | toggle switch: Done. Floyd | scan scrambler: Done. Floyd | minilamp: Done. Floyd | key transmitter: Done. Floyd | voice transmitter: Done. Floyd | Floyd | "Right, bring that over here." Floyd | Floyd | The stack of important papers has set one of the other papers on the Floyd | table alight. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x console" | |||||
Floyd | There is a free-standing console next to the cage, facing it, with a Floyd | view off to the side of the padded mat. On the console are two Floyd | buttons, a grey oval of contact-pad substrate, a small rectangular Floyd | display above the oval, and a readout strip. Hand-written labels are Floyd | marked by each control. Floyd | Floyd | The readout strip says, "Shut down for logic adjustment." Floyd | Floyd | You hear a faint pop from the other side of the door. It is followed Floyd | by vicious swearing. Floyd | Floyd | More of the papers on the table are burning now. Floyd | Floyd | Half of the stack of important papers has burned away. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push upper" | |||||
Floyd | There is a faint hum, and the display lights with a brightly colored Floyd | waveform. The console readout blinks; it now says, "Ready." Floyd | Floyd | "I bet their equipment never fails just when it's needed," someone Floyd | mutters. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha ha" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x display" | |||||
Floyd | The display shows a complex waveform. Several different components Floyd | slice across the rectangle, like a rainbow of mountain ranges. You Floyd | haven't the least understanding of what they mean. Floyd | Floyd | The flames on the table spread. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push oval" | |||||
Floyd | As the pressure on the oval moves, the waveform on the display mutates Floyd | -- wave components slide up or down, shift color, change frequency. Floyd | You cannot interpret the result... but a leap into the dark must be Floyd | better than staying here. Floyd | Floyd | The stack of important papers is nearly consumed in flame. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open flap" | |||||
Floyd | You peel the flap of web away from its magnetic seals; it hangs open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You catch, "...could be doing in there?" "Cursed if I know. They don't Floyd | tell me what kind of toys they play with." Floyd | Floyd | With a hiss, fire leaps to another pile of paper. Most of the papers Floyd | on the table are now aflame. Floyd | Floyd | The stack of important papers is submerged in the greater fire. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Got it!" you hear. The door does not move. "Or, perhaps not," the Floyd | voice continues irritably. Floyd | Floyd | The surface of the table is a sheet of fire, in-swept and pulled high Floyd | in the center. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The flames crackle. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Understand, it's been too long. Are there any explosives, things of Floyd | that sort in there?" Someone farther away replies, "No, not that we've Floyd | been told of." Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "surely they keep electronic copies of this stuff" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The wall above the table is beginning to catch. You can feel heat Floyd | shining on your skin. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "apparently not!" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You hear running footsteps outside. "Found another one!" Someone Floyd | exhales in relief. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | There is a tight hiss from outside. "There it runs," someone says. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Keep it steady, understand. We only need a hole big enough to fire Floyd | through." Floyd | Floyd | The table itself is burning hotly now. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push lower" | |||||
Floyd | The hum intensifies, coming from all around you. Floyd | Floyd | The console readout blinks; it now says, "Accumulators charging: pulse Floyd | in 5. Note: scan-web coverage not yet complete." Floyd | Floyd | "Look at the power readout. Something's going on in there," comes a Floyd | worried mutter from outside. A louder voice calls, "Has the cursed Floyd | Chief finished his cursed nap yet?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter platform" | |||||
Floyd | You step through the open flap and onto the platform. Floyd | Floyd | The console readout blinks; it now says, "Accumulators charging: pulse Floyd | in 4. Note: scan-web coverage not yet complete." Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, he cursed has." The tone is dry and amused, but the familiar Floyd | voice chills you. "What's the situation?" Floyd | Floyd | Flames are crawling up the wall. Smoke is thick across the ceiling -- Floyd | fortunately, high enough that you are still below it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "close flap" | |||||
Floyd | You pull the flap back against its seals, closing yourself in the Floyd | cage. Floyd | Floyd | The console readout blinks; it now says, "Accumulators charging: pulse Floyd | in 3." Floyd | Floyd | "It's under control, with'," someone says calmly. "The target is Floyd | trapped in the lab. We're bringing up a cutter." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The console readout blinks; it now says, "Accumulators charging: pulse Floyd | in 2." Floyd | Floyd | There is a choking sound. "Trapped in the-- in--" In all the hours you Floyd | spent in his chair, you never heard that voice lost for words. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The console readout blinks; it now says, "Accumulators charging: pulse Floyd | in 1." Floyd | Floyd | "There's only one entrance, with-commander. We're standing in front of Floyd | it," the voice continues, a little nervously now. "The walls are armor Floyd | plate underneath. The ventilation system is secure. We haven't been Floyd | briefed on any explosive or cutting equipment in the lab inventory. Floyd | There's simply nowhere to go." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cackle" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "it seems like this is an argument for letting the guards know what they're working on" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Nowhere..." the familiar voice begins, and there is a terrible Floyd | silence. Floyd | Floyd | Then, "Blast it down," he says, very quietly. And screams, "BLAST IT!" Floyd | Floyd | But a light is pouring out around you, a sourceless glow that seems to Floyd | shine straight through solidity, as if metal and plastic were starlit Floyd | ice. The light builds and builds... Floyd | Floyd | Beyond the light you see the door burst open, with a distant, Floyd | dreamlike roar. The lucent faces that crowd through seem to move in Floyd | slow motion. Their guns are firing, but the pulses are frozen in Floyd | space. You can see their eyes slide across you, the cage around you, Floyd | the light -- the flames that are devouring everything that you leave Floyd | behind. Floyd | Floyd | Then the world vanishes. Blackness slaps into you with a silent snap. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have made a difference *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move, Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | inky says, "classic zarf ending" | ||||
| Fang says, "and you emerge... in the lounge" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | The Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open flap" | |||||
Floyd | You peel the flap of web away from its magnetic seals; it hangs open. Floyd | Floyd | The console readout blinks; it now says, "Unable to initiate: scan-web Floyd | coverage not complete." Floyd | Floyd | "Nowhere," the familiar voice begins, but someone interrupts: "The Floyd | power is showing a dropoff, look at that." Floyd | Floyd | "All right," the man continues after a moment. "All right. Blast the Floyd | door down. Now, please." Floyd | Floyd | Orders, apparently, are orders. There is a deafening roar; the door Floyd | tears into flying shards of metal. A hail of pulse-gun fire follows Floyd | the blast in. You don't stand a moment's chance. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have made a difference *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move, Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says, "I guess we still make a difference because we destroyed stuff" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | The Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "say "xyzzy"" | |||||
Floyd | Talking to yourself might draw attention. Floyd | Floyd | "Nowhere..." the familiar voice begins, and there is a terrible Floyd | silence. Floyd | Floyd | Then, "Blast it down," he says, very quietly. And screams, "BLAST IT!" Floyd | Floyd | But a light is pouring out around you, a sourceless glow that seems to Floyd | shine straight through solidity, as if metal and plastic were starlit Floyd | ice. The light builds and builds... Floyd | Floyd | Beyond the light you see the door burst open, with a distant, Floyd | dreamlike roar. The lucent faces that crowd through seem to move in Floyd | slow motion. Their guns are firing, but the pulses are frozen in Floyd | space. You can see their eyes slide across you, the cage around you, Floyd | the light -- the flames that are devouring everything that you leave Floyd | behind. Floyd | Floyd | Then the world vanishes. Blackness slaps into you with a silent snap. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have made a difference *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move, Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | inky asks, "does zarf do xyzzy?" | ||||
| Bert says, "I can't remember if you can destroy the device." | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "I just wanted to leave with a cool one-liner" | |||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says, "the cool one-liner you leave on is "with'-commander, he's trapped in there -- we've got the exits guarded, there's no way out"" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tangle2" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shoot device" | |||||
Floyd | (with the gun) Floyd | The notable device showers a corona of sparks. Lacking a nervous Floyd | system, however, it is unaffected by the pulse. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh, yes" | ||||
| Bert asks, "It worked on the door panel but not this?" | |||||
| inky says, "the reason your gun makes people unconscious is so zarf didn't have to code firing the gun at objects" | |||||
| Fang asks, "maybe you can try to set it on fire?" | |||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x device" | |||||
Floyd | The black device doesn't have the half-built, rigged quality of the Floyd | other machinery nearby. It is curved, polished, and sleek. It has Floyd | faired vents along the top. There is a round alcove in its front, Floyd | which contains a glass pot. The only control is a tiny black switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "naturally the device is EMP-protected" | ||||
| Bert says, "Oh, wrong device." | |||||
| inky says, "er, hardened" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shoot black device" | |||||
Floyd | (with the gun) Floyd | The notable device showers a corona of sparks. Lacking a nervous Floyd | system, however, it is unaffected by the pulse. Floyd | Floyd | You hear voices outside. "Well?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Laboratory Floyd | There is no question what this place is. The room is high, brightly Floyd | lit, and filled with arcane, half-built, and unlabelled machinery. The Floyd | heavy door stands closed to the east; there is a small white pad and Floyd | an access panel beside it. Floyd | Floyd | At the center of the chaos, and its focus, is a great silver platform Floyd | which is wrapped in a glittering cage of scan-web. A control console Floyd | stands next to it. Cables run out across the floor, from the platform Floyd | to the console, from the console to the walls, and tangle around a low Floyd | cabinet off to one side. Floyd | Floyd | Much paper and clutter rests on a long wooden table against one wall. Floyd | The table also supports a notably large black device. By the other Floyd | wall is a clear space ringed with red, with some sort of mat inside Floyd | it. A steel cube sits on the mat. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x console" | |||||
Floyd | There is a free-standing console next to the cage, facing it, with a Floyd | view off to the side of the padded mat. On the console are two Floyd | buttons, a grey oval of contact-pad substrate, a small rectangular Floyd | display above the oval, and a readout strip. Hand-written labels are Floyd | marked by each control. Floyd | Floyd | The readout strip says, "Shut down for logic adjustment." Floyd | Floyd | "The lock circuitry is knotted," comes a mumble from outside the door. Floyd | "...must have done something..." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I think it is the right device -- unless you mean -- ah, ok" | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "open it" | |||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | "We've got shock grenades. Should we blast?" There is a pause, and Floyd | someone replies, "No, wait on that. Whatever's in the lab, the tech Floyd | crowd will burst themselves if we fill it full of shrapnel." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x labels" | |||||
Floyd | Scribbled between the grey oval and the display is the phrase Floyd | "Destination waveform." The upper button says "Ready," and the lower Floyd | button is labelled "Light the fire." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | |||||
Floyd | Opened. The cabinet is stuffed with blocks of subcircuitry and nests Floyd | of ribbon-wiring. There is a gap at one point, however, as if a single Floyd | logic plate had been removed. Floyd | Floyd | A voice says, "Someone ask around for a gas cutter." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shoot cabinet" | |||||
Floyd | (with the gun) Floyd | A corona of sparks showers out of the cabinet. Blue light crackles Floyd | along the subcircuit paths and across the ribbon wiring. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Spinster has had Spinster's fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Bert asks, "Hmm, you never replaced the logic plate before using it?" | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x logic" | |||||
Floyd | (finding the logic plate under the papers) Floyd | It's a logic plate like most, though fairly large -- wider than your Floyd | two spread hands. Circuit paths are dimly visible inside the smoky Floyd | resin, and the edges sparkle with link bands. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I did (this is a restored game before I did anything)" | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | |||||
| Lucea disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | Bert says, "Oh, right." | ||||
| inky says, "that parenthetical is awesome" | |||||
| Bert says, "Ha, yes." | |||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot logic" | |||||
Floyd | (with the gun) Floyd | A corona of sparks surrounds the logic plate. Blue light crackles Floyd | along the circuit paths. Floyd | Floyd | "Got anywhere with the lock?" you hear. There is an irritated mutter Floyd | in reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "I'm not sure if that destroys it or not." | ||||
| inky says, "it looks to me like it does" | |||||
| inky says, "but (I assume) that just traps you in here, it doesn't win the game" | |||||
| Bert says, "So I guess there's got to be an attached second ending." | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying a lockpick, your gun, a radio module, a pen, a Floyd | toolcase (which is open but empty), a toggle switch, a scan scrambler Floyd | (connected to a timer), a minilamp, a key transmitter and a voice Floyd | transmitter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert asks, "'Win'? What is this 'win' you speak of?" | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | |||||
| Bert says, "(There is also at least one other ending, I believe.)" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | |||||
| inky says, "well, one thing we didn't do was teleport out with the papers" | |||||
| Bert says, "Yeah, that." | |||||
| inky says, "(we destroyed them insetad)" | |||||
| inky says, "also, this walkthrough comments you lose if you leave your equipment, which is interesting" | |||||
| Bert says, "It seems that destroying the papers but leaving the machine intact still leaves your enemies with a working machine, and your side with nothing." | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | Bert says, "As opposed to destroying the machine before leaving or taking the papers with you." | ||||
| inky says (to Bert), "yeah, that is fair -- possibly the shooting through the door does the work for you" | |||||
| Bert asks (of inky), "Ah, beacuse they gain your side's secret tech that way?" | |||||
| inky says, "and the fire" | |||||
| inky says, "yeah, I guess so" | |||||
| inky says, "let's see!" | |||||
| Bert says, "Good opint." | |||||
| Bert says, "Er, point." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tangle2" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search table" | |||||
Floyd | You quickly sort through the papers, as best you can from your Floyd | briefing lectures. In a few moments, you have piled up a single stack Floyd | of the most critical diagrams, tables, formulae, and notes. Everything Floyd | else is left scattered across the table in more disarray than when you Floyd | started. Floyd | Floyd | While sorting, you discovered a logic plate buried under a spread of Floyd | scribbled diagrams. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get plate" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get papers" | |||||
Floyd | (the stack of important papers) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | You hear voices outside. "Well?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | |||||
Floyd | Opened. The cabinet is stuffed with blocks of subcircuitry and nests Floyd | of ribbon-wiring. There is a gap at one point, however, as if a single Floyd | logic plate had been removed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put plate in cabinet" | |||||
Floyd | You slide the logic plate into the gap in the cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | "The lock circuitry is knotted," comes a mumble from outside the door. Floyd | "...must have done something..." Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "(Good O'Pint is probably a less-common but much-envied Irish name.)" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "close cabinet" | |||||
Floyd | You close the cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | "We've got shock grenades. Should we blast?" There is a pause, and Floyd | someone replies, "No, wait on that. Whatever's in the lab, the tech Floyd | crowd will burst themselves if we fill it full of shrapnel." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hee hee" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x console" | |||||
Floyd | There is a free-standing console next to the cage, facing it, with a Floyd | view off to the side of the padded mat. On the console are two Floyd | buttons, a grey oval of contact-pad substrate, a small rectangular Floyd | display above the oval, and a readout strip. Hand-written labels are Floyd | marked by each control. Floyd | Floyd | The readout strip says, "Shut down for logic adjustment." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push upper" | |||||
Floyd | There is a faint hum, and the display lights with a brightly colored Floyd | waveform. The console readout blinks; it now says, "Ready." Floyd | Floyd | A voice says, "Someone ask around for a gas cutter." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x display" | |||||
Floyd | The display shows a complex waveform. Several different components Floyd | slice across the rectangle, like a rainbow of mountain ranges. You Floyd | haven't the least understanding of what they mean. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push oval" | |||||
Floyd | As the pressure on the oval moves, the waveform on the display mutates Floyd | -- wave components slide up or down, shift color, change frequency. Floyd | You cannot interpret the result... but a leap into the dark must be Floyd | better than staying here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put all except papers on table" | |||||
Floyd | lockpick: Done. Floyd | gun: Done. Floyd | radio module: Done. Floyd | pen: Done. Floyd | toolcase: Done. Floyd | toggle switch: Done. Floyd | scan scrambler: Done. Floyd | minilamp: Done. Floyd | key transmitter: Done. Floyd | voice transmitter: Done. Floyd | Floyd | "Got anywhere with the lock?" you hear. There is an irritated mutter Floyd | in reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open flap" | |||||
Floyd | You peel the flap of web away from its magnetic seals; it hangs open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push lower" | |||||
Floyd | The hum intensifies, coming from all around you. Floyd | Floyd | The console readout blinks; it now says, "Accumulators charging: pulse Floyd | in 5. Note: scan-web coverage not yet complete." Floyd | Floyd | "Look at the power readout. Something's going on in there," comes a Floyd | worried mutter from outside. A louder voice calls, "Has the cursed Floyd | Chief finished his cursed nap yet?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter platform" | |||||
Floyd | You step through the open flap and onto the platform. Floyd | Floyd | The console readout blinks; it now says, "Accumulators charging: pulse Floyd | in 4. Note: scan-web coverage not yet complete." Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, he cursed has." The tone is dry and amused, but the familiar Floyd | voice chills you. "What's the situation?" Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I assume the launching procedure for the teleporter is all carefully designed to take enough time for this ending sequence outside to play out" | ||||
| inky says, "like the bit at the start of So Far in the theater" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "close flap" | |||||
Floyd | You pull the flap back against its seals, closing yourself in the Floyd | cage. Floyd | Floyd | The console readout blinks; it now says, "Accumulators charging: pulse Floyd | in 3." Floyd | Floyd | "It's under control, with'," someone says calmly. "The target is Floyd | trapped in the lab. We're bringing up a cutter." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read papers" | |||||
Floyd | (the stack of important papers) Floyd | You have no notion what any of it means, but it all matches the Floyd | profile you were given of material relevant to the work done here. Floyd | Floyd | The console readout blinks; it now says, "Accumulators charging: pulse Floyd | in 2." Floyd | Floyd | There is a choking sound. "Trapped in the-- in--" In all the hours you Floyd | spent in his chair, you never heard that voice lost for words. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The console readout blinks; it now says, "Accumulators charging: pulse Floyd | in 1." Floyd | Floyd | "There's only one entrance, with-commander. We're standing in front of Floyd | it," the voice continues, a little nervously now. "The walls are armor Floyd | plate underneath. The ventilation system is secure. We haven't been Floyd | briefed on any explosive or cutting equipment in the lab inventory. Floyd | There's simply nowhere to go." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Nowhere..." the familiar voice begins, and there is a terrible Floyd | silence. Floyd | Floyd | Then, "Blast it down," he says, very quietly. And screams, "BLAST IT!" Floyd | Floyd | But a light is pouring out around you, a sourceless glow that seems to Floyd | shine straight through solidity, as if metal and plastic were starlit Floyd | ice. The light builds and builds... Floyd | Floyd | Beyond the light you see the door burst open, with a distant, Floyd | dreamlike roar. The lucent faces that crowd through seem to move in Floyd | slow motion. Their guns are firing, but the pulses are frozen in Floyd | space. You can see their eyes slide across you, the cage around you, Floyd | the papers in your hand, the light. Floyd | Floyd | Then the world vanishes. Blackness slaps into you with a silent snap. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have made a difference *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move, Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | The Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hey, we were supposed to lose, dammit" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "chief, bye" | |||||
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert asks, "Did you take the papers that time?" | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | The Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "yeah" | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | [Can't "undo" twice in succession. Sorry!] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "%undo" | |||||
| Floyd says (to Bert), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." | |||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | The Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | The Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "open web" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the cage or the lockpick matrix disc? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "cage" | |||||
Floyd | You peel the flap of web away from its magnetic seals; it hangs open. Floyd | Floyd | The console readout blinks; it now says, "Accumulators charging: pulse Floyd | in 2. Note: scan-web coverage not yet complete." Floyd | Floyd | There is a choking sound. "Trapped in the-- in--" In all the hours you Floyd | spent in his chair, you never heard that voice lost for words. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "out" | |||||
Floyd | You step off of the platform. Floyd | Floyd | The console readout blinks; it now says, "Accumulators charging: pulse Floyd | in 1. Note: scan-web coverage not yet complete." Floyd | Floyd | "There's only one entrance, with-commander. We're standing in front of Floyd | it," the voice continues, a little nervously now. "The walls are armor Floyd | plate underneath. The ventilation system is secure. We haven't been Floyd | briefed on any explosive or cutting equipment in the lab inventory. Floyd | There's simply nowhere to go." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "close web" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the cage or the lockpick matrix disc? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "cage" | |||||
Floyd | You push the flap back against its seals. Floyd | Floyd | "Nowhere..." the familiar voice begins, and there is a terrible Floyd | silence. Floyd | Floyd | Then, "Blast it down," he says, very quietly. And screams, "BLAST IT!" Floyd | Floyd | But a light is pouring out of the scan-web cage, a sourceless glow Floyd | that seems to shine straight through solidity, as if metal and plastic Floyd | were starlit ice. The light builds and builds... Floyd | Floyd | ...and vanishes with a silent snap. Floyd | Floyd | You shake your head in slow wonder. Unfortunately, a moment later, the Floyd | guards outside recall you to yourself. There is a deafening roar; the Floyd | door tears into flying shards of metal. A hail of pulse-gun fire Floyd | follows the blast in. You don't stand a moment's chance. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move, Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | inky says, "I seem to recall you can also teleport the papers randomly" | ||||
| Bert says, "(You wanted to lose? Here's your lose...)" | |||||
| inky says, "hee hee" | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | Bert says, "Ha." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tangle2" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I guess if you teleport out without the papers you don't make a difference" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search table" | |||||
Floyd | You quickly sort through the papers, as best you can from your Floyd | briefing lectures. In a few moments, you have piled up a single stack Floyd | of the most critical diagrams, tables, formulae, and notes. Everything Floyd | else is left scattered across the table in more disarray than when you Floyd | started. Floyd | Floyd | While sorting, you discovered a logic plate buried under a spread of Floyd | scribbled diagrams. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get plate" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get papers" | |||||
Floyd | (the stack of important papers) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | You hear voices outside. "Well?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | |||||
Floyd | Opened. The cabinet is stuffed with blocks of subcircuitry and nests Floyd | of ribbon-wiring. There is a gap at one point, however, as if a single Floyd | logic plate had been removed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put plate in cabinet" | |||||
Floyd | You slide the logic plate into the gap in the cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | "The lock circuitry is knotted," comes a mumble from outside the door. Floyd | "...must have done something..." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "close cabinet" | |||||
Floyd | You close the cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | "We've got shock grenades. Should we blast?" There is a pause, and Floyd | someone replies, "No, wait on that. Whatever's in the lab, the tech Floyd | crowd will burst themselves if we fill it full of shrapnel." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push upper" | |||||
Floyd | There is a faint hum, and the display lights with a brightly colored Floyd | waveform. The console readout blinks; it now says, "Ready." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push oval" | |||||
Floyd | As the pressure on the oval moves, the waveform on the display mutates Floyd | -- wave components slide up or down, shift color, change frequency. Floyd | You cannot interpret the result... but a leap into the dark must be Floyd | better than staying here. Floyd | Floyd | A voice says, "Someone ask around for a gas cutter." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open flap" | |||||
Floyd | You peel the flap of web away from its magnetic seals; it hangs open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push lower" | |||||
Floyd | The hum intensifies, coming from all around you. Floyd | Floyd | The console readout blinks; it now says, "Accumulators charging: pulse Floyd | in 5. Note: scan-web coverage not yet complete." Floyd | Floyd | "Look at the power readout. Something's going on in there," comes a Floyd | worried mutter from outside. A louder voice calls, "Has the cursed Floyd | Chief finished his cursed nap yet?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "If you teleport without the papers or your own gear, I wonder if you make a negative difference." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "save" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tangle3" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop papers" | |||||
Floyd | (the stack of important papers) Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | The console readout blinks; it now says, "Accumulators charging: pulse Floyd | in 4. Note: scan-web coverage not yet complete." Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, he cursed has." The tone is dry and amused, but the familiar Floyd | voice chills you. "What's the situation?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter platform" | |||||
Floyd | You step through the open flap and onto the platform. Floyd | Floyd | The console readout blinks; it now says, "Accumulators charging: pulse Floyd | in 3. Note: scan-web coverage not yet complete." Floyd | Floyd | "It's under control, with'," someone says calmly. "The target is Floyd | trapped in the lab. We're bringing up a cutter." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "close flap" | |||||
Floyd | You pull the flap back against its seals, closing yourself in the Floyd | cage. Floyd | Floyd | The console readout blinks; it now says, "Accumulators charging: pulse Floyd | in 2." Floyd | Floyd | There is a choking sound. "Trapped in the-- in--" In all the hours you Floyd | spent in his chair, you never heard that voice lost for words. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The console readout blinks; it now says, "Accumulators charging: pulse Floyd | in 1." Floyd | Floyd | "There's only one entrance, with-commander. We're standing in front of Floyd | it," the voice continues, a little nervously now. "The walls are armor Floyd | plate underneath. The ventilation system is secure. We haven't been Floyd | briefed on any explosive or cutting equipment in the lab inventory. Floyd | There's simply nowhere to go." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Nowhere..." the familiar voice begins, and there is a terrible Floyd | silence. Floyd | Floyd | Then, "Blast it down," he says, very quietly. And screams, "BLAST IT!" Floyd | Floyd | But a light is pouring out around you, a sourceless glow that seems to Floyd | shine straight through solidity, as if metal and plastic were starlit Floyd | ice. The light builds and builds... Floyd | Floyd | Beyond the light you see the door burst open, with a distant, Floyd | dreamlike roar. The lucent faces that crowd through seem to move in Floyd | slow motion. Their guns are firing, but the pulses are frozen in Floyd | space. You can see their eyes slide across you, the cage around you, Floyd | the light. Floyd | Floyd | Then the world vanishes. Blackness slaps into you with a silent snap. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have made a difference *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move, Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | inky says, "hunh!" | ||||
| inky says, "ok, I dunno what the hell" | |||||
| Bert says, "Weird." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | The Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying a lockpick, your gun, a radio module, a pen, a Floyd | toolcase (which is open but empty), a toggle switch, a scan scrambler Floyd | (connected to a timer), a minilamp, a key transmitter and a voice Floyd | transmitter. Floyd | Floyd | "Nowhere..." the familiar voice begins, and there is a terrible Floyd | silence. Floyd | Floyd | Then, "Blast it down," he says, very quietly. And screams, "BLAST IT!" Floyd | Floyd | But a light is pouring out around you, a sourceless glow that seems to Floyd | shine straight through solidity, as if metal and plastic were starlit Floyd | ice. The light builds and builds... Floyd | Floyd | Beyond the light you see the door burst open, with a distant, Floyd | dreamlike roar. The lucent faces that crowd through seem to move in Floyd | slow motion. Their guns are firing, but the pulses are frozen in Floyd | space. You can see their eyes slide across you, the cage around you, Floyd | the light. Floyd | Floyd | Then the world vanishes. Blackness slaps into you with a silent snap. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have made a difference *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move, Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tangle3" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put papers on platform" | |||||
Floyd | (the stack of important papers on the platform) Floyd | You put the stack of important papers into the cage. Floyd | Floyd | The console readout blinks; it now says, "Accumulators charging: pulse Floyd | in 4. Note: scan-web coverage not yet complete." Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, he cursed has." The tone is dry and amused, but the familiar Floyd | voice chills you. "What's the situation?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "close flap" | |||||
Floyd | You push the flap back against its seals. Floyd | Floyd | The console readout blinks; it now says, "Accumulators charging: pulse Floyd | in 3." Floyd | Floyd | "It's under control, with'," someone says calmly. "The target is Floyd | trapped in the lab. We're bringing up a cutter." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The console readout blinks; it now says, "Accumulators charging: pulse Floyd | in 2." Floyd | Floyd | There is a choking sound. "Trapped in the-- in--" In all the hours you Floyd | spent in his chair, you never heard that voice lost for words. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The console readout blinks; it now says, "Accumulators charging: pulse Floyd | in 1." Floyd | Floyd | "There's only one entrance, with-commander. We're standing in front of Floyd | it," the voice continues, a little nervously now. "The walls are armor Floyd | plate underneath. The ventilation system is secure. We haven't been Floyd | briefed on any explosive or cutting equipment in the lab inventory. Floyd | There's simply nowhere to go." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Nowhere..." the familiar voice begins, and there is a terrible Floyd | silence. Floyd | Floyd | Then, "Blast it down," he says, very quietly. And screams, "BLAST IT!" Floyd | Floyd | But a light is pouring out of the scan-web cage, a sourceless glow Floyd | that seems to shine straight through solidity, as if metal and plastic Floyd | were starlit ice. The light builds and builds... Floyd | Floyd | ...and vanishes with a silent snap. The stack of important papers Floyd | vanishes as well, leaving the cage empty. Floyd | Floyd | You shake your head in slow wonder. Unfortunately, a moment later, the Floyd | guards outside recall you to yourself. There is a deafening roar; the Floyd | door tears into flying shards of metal. A hail of pulse-gun fire Floyd | follows the blast in. You don't stand a moment's chance. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move, Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tangle3" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop all" | |||||
Floyd | stack of important papers: Dropped. Floyd | lockpick: Dropped. Floyd | gun: Dropped. Floyd | radio module: Dropped. Floyd | pen: Dropped. Floyd | toolcase: Dropped. Floyd | toggle switch: Dropped. Floyd | scan scrambler: You drop the scan scrambler (and the timer connected Floyd | to it.) Floyd | minilamp: Dropped. Floyd | key transmitter: Dropped. Floyd | voice transmitter: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | The console readout blinks; it now says, "Accumulators charging: pulse Floyd | in 4. Note: scan-web coverage not yet complete." Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, he cursed has." The tone is dry and amused, but the familiar Floyd | voice chills you. "What's the situation?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter platform" | |||||
Floyd | You step through the open flap and onto the platform. Floyd | Floyd | The console readout blinks; it now says, "Accumulators charging: pulse Floyd | in 3. Note: scan-web coverage not yet complete." Floyd | Floyd | "It's under control, with'," someone says calmly. "The target is Floyd | trapped in the lab. We're bringing up a cutter." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "close flap" | |||||
Floyd | You pull the flap back against its seals, closing yourself in the Floyd | cage. Floyd | Floyd | The console readout blinks; it now says, "Accumulators charging: pulse Floyd | in 2." Floyd | Floyd | There is a choking sound. "Trapped in the-- in--" In all the hours you Floyd | spent in his chair, you never heard that voice lost for words. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The console readout blinks; it now says, "Accumulators charging: pulse Floyd | in 1." Floyd | Floyd | "There's only one entrance, with-commander. We're standing in front of Floyd | it," the voice continues, a little nervously now. "The walls are armor Floyd | plate underneath. The ventilation system is secure. We haven't been Floyd | briefed on any explosive or cutting equipment in the lab inventory. Floyd | There's simply nowhere to go." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Nowhere..." the familiar voice begins, and there is a terrible Floyd | silence. Floyd | Floyd | Then, "Blast it down," he says, very quietly. And screams, "BLAST IT!" Floyd | Floyd | But a light is pouring out around you, a sourceless glow that seems to Floyd | shine straight through solidity, as if metal and plastic were starlit Floyd | ice. The light builds and builds... Floyd | Floyd | Beyond the light you see the door burst open, with a distant, Floyd | dreamlike roar. The lucent faces that crowd through seem to move in Floyd | slow motion. Their guns are firing, but the pulses are frozen in Floyd | space. You can see their eyes slide across you, the cage around you, Floyd | the light. Floyd | Floyd | Then the world vanishes. Blackness slaps into you with a silent snap. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have made a difference *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move, Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | Bert says, "If Zarf were here, we could ask him. And he'd say he couldn't remember now." | ||||
| jwalrus says, "so I am watching this vaguely while playing a game" | |||||
| inky says, "ok, I give up" | |||||
| inky says, "I have no idea how to not make a difference" | |||||
| inky says, "I guess this means that all forms of life are connected and a butterfly that flaps its wings in china produces a fancy t-shirt design in new york" | |||||
| jwalrus says, "and for like twenty minutes I have been thinking "man, glowgrass sounds pretty derivative of spider & web"" | |||||
| inky asks, "ok, anyway, anyone else have something to try here?" | |||||
| inky says (to jwalrus), "ha ha ha" | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to jwalrus), "he he" | |||||
| (jingle, jingle) | Jacqueline says (to jwalrus), "heehee" | ||||
| inky says, "ok, thanks for playing, everyone! see you next week for a normally-scheduled clubfloyd" | |||||
| inky says, "also, for people who are wondering what 'really' happened in the game, since it's kind of confusing, I suggest looking at [LINK], which has a nice summary at the end" | |||||
| inky says, "also, I didn't actually say this line or the one before it, I'm just sticking it in the transcript because I forgot to mention it during the session." | |||||
| inky says, "and really, for this game transcript-editing seems totally appropriate" | |||||
| inky says, "(sunglasses)" | |||||
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