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| maga says, "I'm not entirely sure how a text-only Everybody Dies will work" | ||||
| Jota says, "I'm going to guess 'decently, but not as well as the proper version'." | ||||
| Jota asks, "I forget, does it rely on fonts/markup as well?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "The author seems to think it'll go okay, though--what Jota said." | ||||
| maga says, "yeah, except that there'll be a few turns where you're just getting whitespace" | ||||
| maga says (to Jota), "I don't think so" | ||||
| DavidW says, "fwiw. I played an Adrift game that did font/markup tricks. 'A Witch Tale'." | ||||
| Fang asks, "When does the game start?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Fang), "Top of the hour." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So, half an hour away." | ||||
| maga arrives, ready to play with the toys. | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| inky says, "I get a lot of errors playing everybody dies on cheapglulxe" | ||||
| inky says, "but I'm not sure if they'll show up on floyd or not" | ||||
| Jacqueline hollers, "Ten minutes until we play Everybody Dies! by Jim Munroe. Top of the hour in the Toyshop & Floyditorium!" | ||||
| DavidW arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| Nitku arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| inky arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Nitku says, "I haven't played this one." | |||
| DavidW says, "oh good. It won't be just me." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Me neither." | ||||
| Jacqueline has coffee and orange juice and breakfast as is ready to go. | ||||
| Whizzard arrives, full of fun and funk. | Jacqueline says, "Hi, Whizz." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Two minutes..." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Say, is this one on a timer or anything? Or can it be a free-for-all this week?" | ||||
| Lucea arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Jacqueline asks (of maga), "You're watching, and you've played... what do you think?" | |||
| maga says, "there's a timed section right at the end" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "mmkay" | ||||
| maga says, "quite tight timing, too" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So, we'll save often, then." | ||||
| Lucea says, "It isn't *too* bad" | ||||
| maga says, "but I *think* you can try it over again, so that may not be necessary" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah, you can" | ||||
| Jacqueline clears the save counter. | Jacqueline says, "Also, it's time. Let's begin!" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load everybodydies" | Bert says, "Yeah, a free-for-all should be fine." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "list e" | Jacqueline says, "Huh. Floyd not responding." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "He was ealier." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "er, earlier." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load everybodydies" | ||||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit? Please answer yes or no.> Please answer Floyd | yes or no.> Please answer yes or no.> Welcome to the Cheap Glk Floyd | Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Beats the fuck out of cleaning toilets. Floyd | Floyd | Shopping cart duty gets me outta the store for a while, which is cool Floyd | even on a shit day like today. It's that gross, grey slush that gets me Floyd | talking about just moving down to California this time every year -- Floyd | hey, they need groceries bagged down there too, don't they? Floyd | Floyd | Mom usually agrees with me, but this morning she said that the Mexicans Floyd | got all those jobs down there. Way to piss on my dreams, Mom. But she's Floyd | been bitchy ever since the fire in the basement. Whatev. These things Floyd | happen. | Bert says, "(You told him to quit before, but never confirmed it.)" | |||
| Jacqueline asks (of Bern), "Had I just not told him yes?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing." | ||||
| Bert asks, "Who hasn't played?" | ||||
| * ghira has left the channel. | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Me" | ||||
| Nitku says, "me" | ||||
| DavidW says, "me" | ||||
| Bert says, "Cool." | ||||
| Nitku pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Everybody Dies Floyd | An Interactive Fantasy by Jim Munroe, with illustrations by Michael Floyd | Cho. Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 081116 / Inform 7 build 5T18 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Type CREDITS for the full credits, HELP if you need it, and QUIT to Floyd | exit the game. Floyd | Floyd | Bridge Floyd | At least outside I can smoke. With all the cars puking exhaust behind Floyd | me it's not like anyone can complain. Floyd | Floyd | The Rouge River's kind of awesome from the bridge, its strong and heavy Floyd | current making it look like a sea snake. Brutal. I like how then when Floyd | I'm looking at it I can't see Cost Cutters, even though it's directly Floyd | west. Means I can forget about work for a while. Floyd | Floyd | East of here is the neighbourhood where most of our customers come Floyd | from. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | What was that? Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | What was that? Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | I'm Graham, your standard variety skid, rocker, or metalhead depending Floyd | on which suburb you grew up in. Floyd | Floyd | The river's really raging today. The water level's so high I can barely Floyd | see the shopping cart. Actually, is it even there? Did the Indian kid Floyd | get that one too? Floyd | Floyd | Oh, wait, there it is. Thank fuck. Lisa'll have me cleaning toilets all Floyd | month if I come back empty handed. Floyd | Floyd | I finish my smoke and flick the butt over the edge. I imagine it Floyd | hitting the river below with a gnarly pssssshhhht. Floyd | | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | I am carrying: Floyd | a pair of jeans (being worn) Floyd | a sweatshirt (being worn) Floyd | a pack of Gauloise cigarettes Floyd | a matchbook Floyd | a lumberjack jacket (being worn) Floyd | a pair of Kodiaks (being worn) Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "haha 'barely see the shopping cart'" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I do like the strong character voice... and such a different character than our last game." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "I guess Kodiaks are shoes?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I just thought it was a type of chewing tobacco." | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x kodiaks" | ||||
Floyd | Got 'em the summer I was working planting trees. Worst job ever, but Floyd | the boots are awesome. Floyd | | Lucea says, "To say the least" | |||
| DavidW says, "oh. boots" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x sweatshirt" | ||||
Floyd | It's the one I got at the Hatesphere show. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x jeans" | ||||
Floyd | These guys have been getting looser every year, but I've been gettin' Floyd | bigger so they're still as tight as they were when I got 'em at Floyd | nineteen. Floyd | | DavidW asks, "hm. So we need to get the cart? Perhaps a tree branch or something?" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x matches" | ||||
Floyd | I can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x matchbox" | ||||
Floyd | I can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x matchbook" | ||||
Floyd | Purple, with OOOH LA LA printed on the side. It's out of matches. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bridge" | ||||
Floyd | I can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x river" | ||||
Floyd | It winds through the ravine, kind of a charcoal grey with all the Floyd | runoff. The cart's wheels are just visible as a far-away glint. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x cart" | ||||
Floyd | It's waaaaay down there. Floyd | | DavidW asks, "well, east, maybe?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry. Done eating now... will be able to type more." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Like, unless we stretch like Mr Fantastic, we probably can't grab the cart from here." | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get cart" | ||||
Floyd | I can barely see it, it's that far off. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Also, I was experiencing quite the lag there for a second." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I got the impression the river was immediate." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But sure." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Naw, the new Indian kid cleaned out the 'hood yesterday. Heard he came Floyd | back with something like eighteen carts. I am gonna have to have a talk Floyd | with him -- he's making the rest of us look bad. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | The visible exits are east and west. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | West Side of Bridge Floyd | The bridge rail stops here and the brush takes over. It's pretty thick, Floyd | but I know there's a path north that goes down to the river. I could Floyd | find my way there shitfaced... who am I kidding, I always found my way Floyd | there 'faced. Floyd | Floyd | Further west is Cost Cutters. Floyd | Floyd | Across the road the guy from the city is in his little go-cart clearing Floyd | the snow off the sidewalk. He gives me a chin nod and I do the same. Floyd | Don't know him but it's the Mustache Brotherhood. Floyd | Floyd | They motor on those things. Next time I look up he's gone. Floyd | | inky says, "well, you're on a bridge" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x brush" | ||||
Floyd | A brambly overgrown mess. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search brush" | ||||
Floyd | I find nothing of interest. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Shit's so overgrown that for a second I'm like, maybe I have to be Floyd | wasted to find the Pit, maybe it's got some kind of magical... But then Floyd | I find it. Floyd | Floyd | Clearing in the Woods Floyd | Everything's got a wet blanket of snow on it but I can make out the log Floyd | we usually sat on, the little hole where we'd burn shit, and feel the Floyd | crinkle of an empty under my Kodiak. Floyd | Floyd | It's been a couple years since I came out here -- fuck, must have been Floyd | two years ago, 'cause Ricky left for school that fall. We were Floyd | celebrating my first Cutters pay cheque with our friend Jack Daniels Floyd | and we ran into the cart in the dark and we decided to push it over the Floyd | bridge into the river. Floyd | Floyd | I was like, it'll be awesome, it'll be my get-out-of-jail free card. Floyd | Like if it's a great day I can always say I saw one of our carts in the Floyd | river. My ace in the hole. Floyd | Floyd | Ricky was like, your ass has a hole? Why you telling me that? Faaaaag. Floyd | Floyd | The river's louder than the cars down here, just to the east. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take empty" | ||||
Floyd | I came out here to AVOID cleaning, dude. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x empty" | ||||
Floyd | It's an Export. Dunno if I can go back to Ex after drinking Fin du Floyd | Monde... but I probably can. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x log" | ||||
Floyd | It beat sitting on the ground, but not by much. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take log" | ||||
Floyd | Naw. It's basically log-shaped mud now. Floyd | | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x cart" | ||||
Floyd | I can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Edge of River Floyd | Yeah. Wow. That is one serious fucking river. I'm getting wet just Floyd | standing near it. The wheels of the cart are just visible a good piece Floyd | to the east. The water would be nearly up to my waist if I was dumb Floyd | enough to enter it. Floyd | Floyd | The bottom of the bridge is high above, festooned with graffiti. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x graffiti" | ||||
Floyd | The graffiti is nothing special, though the taggers must have had to Floyd | hang over the edge to do their thing. Floyd | Floyd | They're lucky they weren't doing it the night we threw the cart over Floyd | the rail. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Hooray for a Fin du Monde reference!" | |||
| DavidW asks, "End of the World?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bridge" | ||||
Floyd | The graffiti is nothing special, though the taggers must have had to Floyd | hang over the edge to do their thing. Floyd | Floyd | They're lucky they weren't doing it the night we threw the cart over Floyd | the rail. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Yeah, it's a Belgian-esque Ale made in Qu?bec." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "And one of my favorite beers." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Comes in a big ol' bottle with a champagne-type cork." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway." | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x wheels" | ||||
Floyd | I can't see any such thing. Floyd | | DavidW says, "I assume swimming is a stupid idea, but I'm not seeing many options." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x cart" | ||||
Floyd | It's well out of reach, in the river to the east. Floyd | | inky says, "it is weird there is no inside joke in the graffiti" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read graffiti" | ||||
Floyd | The graffiti is nothing special, though the taggers must have had to Floyd | hang over the edge to do their thing. Floyd | Floyd | They're lucky they weren't doing it the night we threw the cart over Floyd | the rail. Floyd | | inky says, "like, I thought that was practically an IF obligation" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb bridge" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shore" | ||||
Floyd | I can't see any such thing. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Let's swim for it. I've saved." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "swim" | ||||
Floyd | I'm no expert, but... don't you need to be in a bunch of water for Floyd | that? Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter water" | ||||
Floyd | Seriously? I'm no pussy, but... seems dangerous. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | Alright, voice-in-my-head. If anything happens, it's your fault. Floyd | Floyd | I wade into the river. Floyd | Floyd | The Water Floyd | Holy fuck is it cold. Goes from bad to worse. Boots: soaked. Jeans: Floyd | soaked. Floyd | Floyd | The shopping cart is submerged in the river here, a lot rustier and Floyd | grottier than when I saw it last. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Well, so much for that." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh hey" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Edge of River Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove jeans" | ||||
Floyd | Hey, I put together this ensemble for a reason, dude. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove boots" | ||||
Floyd | Hey, I put together this ensemble for a reason, dude. Floyd | | DavidW says, "huh. We can't be stupid in a reasonable way." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "swim" | ||||
Floyd | I'm no expert, but... don't you need to be in a bunch of water for Floyd | that? Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Well, let's be stupid in an unreasonable way, then." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter water" | Nitku says, "I don't mind getting wet." | |||
Floyd | Alright, voice-in-my-head. If anything happens, it's your fault. Floyd | Floyd | I wade into the river. Floyd | Floyd | The Water Floyd | Holy fuck is it cold. Goes from bad to worse. Boots: soaked. Jeans: Floyd | soaked. Floyd | Floyd | The shopping cart is submerged in the river here, a lot rustier and Floyd | grottier than when I saw it last. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cart" | ||||
Floyd | It's stuck there pretty good, but I manage to flip it over. A bunch of Floyd | other crap that was trapped comes up too, and floats to the surface: Floyd | six pack rings, something that looks like a clump of hair, and a fish. Floyd | Floyd | Pretty gross. Floyd | Floyd | I can't feel my nads any more, but I've got the stupid cart. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | But I am not in anything at the moment. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | I start to pull the cart out of the river, but it pushes all the crap Floyd | my way too. The fish kind of flips over and it's much worse on the Floyd | other side -- it's got a huge hole eaten in it, and I can see into its Floyd | stomach. And I'm pretty sure what's in the fish is another fish that Floyd | it's eaten. Floyd | Floyd | I can't take my eyes away. I tell myself that it would make an Floyd | amazingly brutal tat or even an album cover but I also feel like I'm Floyd | gonna hurl. And then I see the little fish, the one inside, open its Floyd | eye. Floyd | Floyd | I sort of stumble back away from the cart but at this point my legs are Floyd | so numb that the cart is the only thing that's holding me up. Floyd | Floyd | So I fall. Floyd | Floyd | It's a slow, fat-assed falling, and I'm kind of pissed at myself and Floyd | finding it kind of hilarious at the same time, thinking about how I'll Floyd | tell Mom about it when my head hits the rock. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | And yet, somehow, the game continues. Floyd | Floyd | Void Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | There is no action here. Only waiting. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "This game keeps making me laugh. heh" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x void" | ||||
Floyd | There is no action here. Only waiting. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | inky says, "this is the bit where you would see some nice symbolic fish pictures" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The void is definitely taking on a porcelain texture. Floyd | Floyd | I am looking down on a toilet. Floyd | Floyd | I don't feel like myself. In fact, I'm sure my forearms weren't as... Floyd | dark as that, last time I looked. Or as skinny. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Northwest Bathroom Stall Floyd | There's a toilet here. The exit's to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | I catch a glimpse of something moving in the toilet water. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toilet" | ||||
Floyd | For a second, I see what looks like a tiny fish tail and then it Floyd | disappears. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | Uh, my name's Ranni. Sikh family. Almost old enough to drive. Floyd | | Lucea says, "yeah, I was wondering what would go on with them" | |||
| DavidW asks, "so... wait, we're the "Indian kid", now?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "Yeah." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | I am carrying: Floyd | black work slacks (being worn) Floyd | an apron (being worn) Floyd | a kirpan (being worn) Floyd | a Cost Cutters golf shirt (being worn) Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x kirpan" | ||||
Floyd | It's my ceremonial dagger. I'm a Sikh, OK? It's my religion. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x apron" | ||||
Floyd | It was clean at the beginning of the shift. Not so much now. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cost Cutters Bathroom Floyd | Fortunately for the shoppers, and unfortunately for us who have to Floyd | clean up after them, Cost Cutters has a public washroom. Floyd | Floyd | I've managed to avoid cleaning duty up 'til now by going on cart duty Floyd | -- which had the added bonus of getting me away from that psycho Floyd | Patrick -- but today the slobby old guy (Graham, I think his name is) Floyd | pulled one over on our manager Lisa and now here I am. Floyd | Floyd | There is a pair of sinks, a long mirror above them and three battered Floyd | stalls to the northwest, north and northeast. The exit's south of here. Floyd | | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x shirt" | ||||
Floyd | One of those ones with the logo embroidered on it. Lisa has her name Floyd | embroidered on it too, but I don't know if she got that when she became Floyd | manager or if she did it herself because she's really into her job. Floyd | | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | But I am not in anything at the moment. Floyd | | DavidW asks, "hm. Are we supposed to be cleaning the bathroom, then? Where's our supplies?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sinks" | ||||
Floyd | They're clean so I leave them alone -- I don't want to give myself any Floyd | more work. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||||
Floyd | I check myself out in the chipped and scratched mirror. Even with the Floyd | cheesy work shirt, my new haircut looks sharp: I got some lines buzzed Floyd | on my sides. I thought the b-boys at my school might hassle me for Floyd | biting their style but nothing yet. Floyd | | inky says, "I think this is the sort of game where you type "CLEAN TOILET"" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "clean mirror" | ||||
Floyd | I achieve nothing by this. Floyd | | Nitku says, "I thought we have already finished this shift and they are clean." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "clean toilet" | ||||
Floyd | I can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x toilet" | ||||
Floyd | I can't see any such thing. Floyd | | DavidW says, "There's three stalls. NW, N, NE." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | North Bathroom Stall Floyd | This toilet is dingy. The exit's to the south. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toilet" | ||||
Floyd | It looks cleaner -- oh god, there's a floater. I avert my eyes and Floyd | flush. Floyd | Floyd | People are animals. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "clean toilet" | ||||
Floyd | I adjust my kirpan so that it doesn't poke me. Floyd | Floyd | Thinking about the car I'm gonna get the day I turn 16, I start Floyd | scrubbing. My dad would hate to know I was doing this -- he just Floyd | wouldn't say "untouchable" because we're all supposed to be equal, but Floyd | he'd be thinking it. Then he'd probably start in on the turban thing Floyd | again... he doesn't know how hard it is to get a job, any job. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toilet" | ||||
Floyd | Thank god, it went down in one flush. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cost Cutters Bathroom Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Northwest Bathroom Stall Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toilet" | ||||
Floyd | A clean and empty bowl. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cost Cutters Bathroom Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Northeast Bathroom Stall Floyd | This toilet has a crack in it. The exit's to the southwest. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toilet" | ||||
Floyd | Oh wait, that's not a crack. It's a... streak. Floyd | | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x streak" | ||||
Floyd | Oh wait, that's not a crack. It's a... streak. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "clean toilet" | ||||
Floyd | Picturing myself cleaning my car-to-be on a summer day -- specifically Floyd | the one I saw for super cheap on Craigslist today -- I manage to wipe Floyd | the streaks off. Floyd | Floyd | Done. Finally, I can get out of here. Floyd | Floyd | I get up, but before I can leave I hear someone come in. Floyd | Floyd | "So Lisa sent me to help you, brown noser..." Floyd | Floyd | That racist shithead Patrick must be right outside the stall from the Floyd | sound of it. Floyd | Floyd | "I tol' her that you dirty pakis like scrubbing up shit, but she didn't Floyd | care. Mmm-mmm. I think she's got a bit of sand nigger fever." Floyd | Floyd | I hear the adjoining stall door shut. "Better check out this toilet," I Floyd | can hear Patrick heading into one of the stalls. Floyd | | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | I hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | "Ohhhh man," Patrick crows from the stall, followed by a juicy Floyd | braaaaap. Floyd | | DavidW says, "well. That's ugly." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "He's uncleaning our toilets." | ||||
| Lucea says, "indeed" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The only visible exit is southwest (to cost cutters bathroom). Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cost Cutters Bathroom Floyd | Patrick kicks the stall door open, buckling up. The bastard doesn't Floyd | even flush. Floyd | Floyd | "Left ya a present, brown noser," he says. He imitates the intercom: Floyd | "Clean up in stall 3." Floyd | Floyd | I'm not inclined to get mad. I've lost my temper twice, maybe three Floyd | times in my life. But then the smell hits me like a slap. I look at his Floyd | horrible, scarred face and his idiotic grin as he waits for me to Floyd | react, and I'm amazed that I'm keeping it together. Floyd | Floyd | Something causes his eyes to flick down to my waist, and then his smile Floyd | vanishes. I look down and realize that after I finished cleaning I Floyd | hadn't returned my kirpan to its usual position, so it's making my Floyd | apron poke out a bit. Floyd | Floyd | "What's that," he says, not really asking. I've got to show him or hide Floyd | it. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Luckily, we have that big knife." | |||
| DavidW says, "I doubt this will be lucky, exactly." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. I suspect it's us that dies." | ||||
| Nitku asks, "Show or hide?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "show or hide?" | ||||
| Nitku says, "heh" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Let's try hide. I doubt it'll work,though." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hide kirpan" | ||||
Floyd | As I turn around to adjust it, I hear Patrick gagging in disgust. Floyd | Floyd | "Is that a boner?" Floyd | Floyd | I turn around to explain, but he's already at the doorway on his way Floyd | out. Floyd | Floyd | "The sound of me shitting gave you a boner? You're--" And then he's Floyd | gone. Floyd | Floyd | It's weird. It wasn't true, but just the fact that he thought that Floyd | makes me ashamed in the pit of my stomach. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | North Bathroom Stall Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "oh man" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "clean toilet" | ||||
Floyd | It's already clean. Floyd | | Jacqueline asks, "should we undo and save?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toilet" | ||||
Floyd | Thank god, it went down in one flush. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cost Cutters Bathroom Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Northeast Bathroom Stall Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toilet" | ||||
Floyd | The crack/streak is gone, and it's clean. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cost Cutters Bathroom Floyd | | Lucea says, "anyone mind if I put this in verbose" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Northwest Bathroom Stall Floyd | There's a toilet here. The exit's to the southeast. What a Floyd | shitsplosion. God, Patrick is a diseased animal. Floyd | | Jacqueline says (to Lucea), "Not at all." | |||
| inky says, "please do" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "verbose" | ||||
Floyd | Everybody Dies is now in its "verbose" mode, which always gives long Floyd | descriptions of locations (even if I've been there before). Floyd | | DavidW says (to Lucea), "go ahead" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toilet" | ||||
Floyd | I can't stare at it without bile ensuing. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "clean it" | ||||
Floyd | Patrick has been downright artistic. He's managed to get shit on every Floyd | part of the toilet except for the water. Floyd | Floyd | He's sharpied a swastika on the stall wall but he's gotten it Floyd | backwards. Which, ironically, makes it a Hindu symbol. Floyd | Floyd | I imagine running him over in my new car again and again until the job Floyd | is finished. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toilet" | ||||
Floyd | A clean and empty bowl. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | I step out of the stall to see Patrick standing there silently. Floyd | Floyd | He has a look on his face like I've never seen before. He's not going Floyd | to... apologize, is he? Floyd | Floyd | Behind him Lisa, the manager shows up. She looks reluctant to step into Floyd | the washroom -- probably because it's the Men's. Floyd | Floyd | "Ranni, is it true you made a lewd gesture towards Patrick?" Floyd | Floyd | Oh, crap. Floyd | Floyd | "I'll have to refer to the chapter on sexual harassment in the training Floyd | manual--" She looks downright hurt by the situation. Floyd | Floyd | I notice Patrick move suddenly. There is a gun in his hand. Floyd | Floyd | "Fucking sick fuck," he says, right before he shoots me. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "gah" | |||
| DavidW asks, "This isn't a rainbows and bunnies game, is it?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Poor Ranni. Poor Lisa." | ||||
| inky says, "in the third act you come back as a rainbow bunny" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DavidW), "Oh, I'm sure there are rabbits and bunnies. Just keep playing." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Lisa might be next to go, eh?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "well, the title _is_ Everybody Dies" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Lucea), "Yes. The rainbow bunny must die." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x patrick" | ||||
Floyd | I try, but a coughed-up blood bubble is the best I can do. Floyd | Floyd | I can't move. Floyd | Floyd | I think I'm on the floor. I must have fallen. I can feel water pooling Floyd | against my face from somewhere. Or is that water? Floyd | Floyd | Patrick leans over me, his face a wasteland of acne. "What, getting Floyd | shot doesn't give you a hard-on too?" Floyd | Floyd | Lisa is screaming, screaming. Patrick's head whips her way. I hear a Floyd | pop and the screaming stops. Floyd | Floyd | I close my eyes. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | And yet... Floyd | Floyd | Void Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Void Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | There is no action here. Only waiting. Floyd | Floyd | I open my eyes. Floyd | Floyd | I'm looking down on a river. I immediately think: Styx. I mean, I knew Floyd | I was gonna miss out on the virgins not being Islam but how'd I end up Floyd | in white-person hell? And where would I get money for the boatman? I Floyd | remembered something about coins from my English class... Floyd | Floyd | They put 'em on your eyes, I hear a familiar voice say. But that's not Floyd | the River Styx, as brutally awesome as that would be. Floyd | Floyd | But a few seconds later I hear the cars behind me, and I realize the Floyd | voice is right. It's just the... Floyd | Floyd | Bridge Floyd | I walk over this bridge every day to get to Cost Cutters, to the west, Floyd | but I just recently noticed that it crossed a river. To the east is my Floyd | neighbourhood. Floyd | Floyd | There's a neat little train of shopping carts on the sidewalk here. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | Uh, my name's Ranni. Sikh family. Almost old enough to drive. Floyd | Floyd | There's something weird here. Floyd | Floyd | Then it occurs to me: no snow. Floyd | Floyd | It snowed last night. Floyd | Floyd | No, it snowed tomorrow night, another voice in my head says. A woman's Floyd | voice, this time. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push carts west" | ||||
Floyd | Really, the only sensible thing to do to a cart train is to PUSH it. Floyd | Floyd | I'm collecting carts... but didn't I just do that yesterday? Floyd | Floyd | It is yesterday, the female voice says. This time, get them all. Floyd | Floyd | Lisa? I think, You didn't die? Floyd | Floyd | There is a silence inside my head. I start to think I'm beginning to Floyd | crack up. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push carts" | ||||
Floyd | You need seven, Lisa insists. Floyd | Floyd | There're seven carts, Lisa says. Get them all and Graham won't be able Floyd | to -- Floyd | Floyd | Graham, right. That rocker greaseball. Floyd | Floyd | Greaseball? Graham says. Lisa, do we have to help him? Floyd | Floyd | What part of fates intertwined do you not understand? Lisa says, in her Floyd | "tough manager" voice that always turns me on a bit. Floyd | Floyd | At my thought, Graham gives a dirty laugh and Lisa makes an embarrassed Floyd | sound. Floyd | Floyd | You're my kind of greaseball, Graham chortles. Need my help, just ask. Floyd | Like GRAHAM, EXAMINE CARS or whatever. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x carts" | ||||
Floyd | The shopping carts are pushed into the backs of each other to form a Floyd | train 3 carts long. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x river" | ||||
Floyd | It's funny I've passed over this a million times going to school and Floyd | work without stopping to look at it, but I guess I usually have my Floyd | music on. Floyd | Floyd | Graham makes an impatient noise but Lisa shushes him. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in river" | ||||
Floyd | I find nothing of interest. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x graham" | ||||
Floyd | He's got a mustache, and always seems to be going out for a smoke Floyd | instead of working. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x graham" | ||||
Floyd | He's got a mustache, and always seems to be going out for a smoke Floyd | instead of working. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Heh" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lisa" | ||||
Floyd | She's pretty, but she's way older than me. Seventeen at least. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask lisa about carts" | ||||
Floyd | We're prohibited from giving you advice, Lisa says as if she's reading Floyd | from a Cost Cutters manual. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask lisa about fates" | ||||
Floyd | We're prohibited from giving you advice, Lisa says as if she's reading Floyd | from a Cost Cutters manual. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | I wander around the neighbourhood laneways and find a cart wedged Floyd | between two houses. Floyd | Floyd | I return to the bridge with it. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | I run into a friend's mom and ask her if she's seen any carts, and she Floyd | sheepishly gives up one from her garage. "Otherwise I always get one Floyd | with a stuck wheel," she explains. Floyd | Floyd | I trundle it over to the other carts on the bridge. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Some kids are using one on its side as a street hockey net. They claim Floyd | it's theirs until I point to the Cost Cutters logo. Floyd | Floyd | I add it to the cart train on the bridge. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | I've cleared out the neighbourhood. Maybe that's all there is? Floyd | Floyd | One more, Lisa's voice echoes in my head. Just not in the Floyd | neighbourhood. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | West Side of Bridge Floyd | Once I saw a pretty bad accident here. It put me off cycling forever. Floyd | Floyd | Further west is the Cost Cutters building, the bridge is back east. The Floyd | way north is barred by pretty dense brush. Floyd | | Jacqueline asks, "The one in the river?" | |||
| DavidW says, "It might not be in the river yet." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Call me weird, but I'm not anxious to go back to the place I died. Floyd | Might as well get the job done first. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Well, I thought it was pushed in years ago," | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | I'd need to be really motivated to walk through prickleys like that. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bridge Floyd | I walk over this bridge every day to get to Cost Cutters, to the west, Floyd | but I just recently noticed that it crossed a river. To the east is my Floyd | neighbourhood. Floyd | Floyd | There's a neat little train of shopping carts on the sidewalk here. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x river" | ||||
Floyd | It's funny I've passed over this a million times going to school and Floyd | work without stopping to look at it, but I guess I usually have my Floyd | music on. Floyd | Floyd | Graham makes an impatient noise but Lisa shushes him. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "graham, x river" | ||||
Floyd | I feel my eyes focus on a section of river -- is that a glint of steel? Floyd | Floyd | There's a cart down there! How the heck did it...? Floyd | Floyd | Doesn't matter how, interrupts Graham. That's our ace in the hole. We Floyd | just have to play it earlier in the game. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "By Graham and Ricky." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lisa, x river" | ||||
Floyd | Lisa peers through my eyes... Floyd | Floyd | It's just a grey blur to me. I can't really see that far -- my eyes Floyd | aren't the best. Floyd | Floyd | ...my eyes are my own again. Floyd | | DavidW says, "weird" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cart" | ||||
Floyd | Which do I mean, the faroff shopping cart or the shopping cart train? Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "huh" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x faroff" | ||||
Floyd | It's waaaaay down there. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | West Side of Bridge Floyd | Once I saw a pretty bad accident here. It put me off cycling forever. Floyd | Floyd | Further west is the Cost Cutters building, the bridge is back east. The Floyd | way north is barred by pretty dense brush. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | I gotta get down to the river if I'm going to get that cart, so I push Floyd | through the brush. Pretty quickly I find a trail that leads to... Floyd | Floyd | Clearing in the Woods Floyd | The trail continues east to the river, and I can return back to Floyd | civilization to the south. Floyd | Floyd | There's a bunch of empty beer cans and a pit for a fire. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cans" | ||||
Floyd | Maybe some hoboes might have lived here. Floyd | Floyd | Nerd! Graham hisses for some reason. I ignore him. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "graham, x river" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x log" | ||||
Floyd | By the look of how they're arranged people may have actually sat on Floyd | them. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take log" | ||||
Floyd | Naw. It's basically log-shaped mud now. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pit" | ||||
Floyd | Looks like it was kicked in the ground by people with big boots and not Floyd | much to do. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "graham, x pit" | ||||
Floyd | Graham peers through my eyes... Floyd | Floyd | Ah, the firepit that gave the Pit its name. Some McDonald's bags, Floyd | newspapers, a lighter and a can of hairspray and, foomp! You had Floyd | yerself some instant ambiance. Floyd | Floyd | ...my eyes are my own again. Floyd | | DavidW asks, "so we can tap into Graham's viewpoint for extra info? Or Lisa's?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lisa, x pit" | ||||
Floyd | Lisa peers through my eyes... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ...my eyes are my own again. Floyd | | inky says, "whoops" | |||
| Bert says, "The markup I was thinking of before was the voices: I think they were originally in italics. But it seems reasonably clear enough without them." | ||||
| DavidW says, "[insert graphic here], I'm guessing" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah, maybe" | ||||
| inky says, "or maybe just a bug" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lisa, x log" | ||||
Floyd | Lisa peers through my eyes... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ...my eyes are my own again. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lisa, x empty" | ||||
Floyd | Lisa peers through my eyes... Floyd | Floyd | A bunch of trash. People have no respect for nature. Floyd | Floyd | ...my eyes are my own again. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take trash" | ||||
Floyd | I can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take empty" | ||||
Floyd | It smells rank, even from here. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "graham, x empty" | ||||
Floyd | Graham peers through my eyes... Floyd | Floyd | It's an Export. Dunno if I can go back to Ex after drinking Fin du Floyd | Monde... but I probably can. Floyd | Floyd | ...my eyes are my own again. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "graham, x log" | ||||
Floyd | Graham peers through my eyes... Floyd | Floyd | It beat sitting on the ground, but not by much. Floyd | Floyd | ...my eyes are my own again. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on log" | ||||
Floyd | Naw. It's basically log-shaped mud now. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Edge of River Floyd | It's more impressive up close, just to the east, but it ain't no Floyd | Ganges. Floyd | Floyd | Graham chimes in: Dude, it's reeeeally cold -- Floyd | Floyd | Colder than being dead forever, Graham? Lisa snaps. Floyd | Floyd | Just brace yourself. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "graham, x river" | ||||
Floyd | Graham peers through my eyes... Floyd | Floyd | It winds through the ravine, kind of a charcoal grey with all the Floyd | runoff. Floyd | Floyd | ...my eyes are my own again. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lisa, x river" | ||||
Floyd | Lisa peers through my eyes... Floyd | Floyd | It's just a grey blur to me. I can't really see that far -- my eyes Floyd | aren't the best. Floyd | Floyd | ...my eyes are my own again. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x river" | ||||
Floyd | It's funny I've passed over this a million times going to school and Floyd | work without stopping to look at it, but I guess I usually have my Floyd | music on. Floyd | Floyd | Graham makes an impatient noise but Lisa shushes him. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cart" | ||||
Floyd | It's well out of reach, in the river to the east. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bridge" | ||||
Floyd | The graffiti on the bridge is just tags, pretty boring compared to some Floyd | of the burners I've seen in Scarborough. Floyd | | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Water Floyd | Graham was not lying. It's painfully cold. Floyd | Floyd | Land awaits to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rusty shopping cart here. Floyd | | ||||
| crumple arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cart" | ||||
Floyd | I yank it up from the river bed and manage to flip it over. A dead fish Floyd | and some other debris floats up. Floyd | Floyd | OK, I almost forgot, the fish -- Floyd | Floyd | The fish flips over, and it's rotted through. There's a smaller fish Floyd | inside, partially digested. Floyd | Floyd | Graham makes a retching sound. Did he just vomit inside my head? Floyd | Floyd | He wouldn't last long in my mom's kitchen. Floyd | | ||||
| crumple asks, "i just woke up. how long have you been playing?" | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push fish" | ||||
Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | | Jacqueline says (to crumple), "Since the top of the hour." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x debris" | ||||
Floyd | I can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x fish" | ||||
Floyd | Just a dead fish, the only weird part being that I can see the other Floyd | fish inside it. Newsflash: fish eat fish. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | I drag the cart to the side of the river, taking care to leave the Floyd | debris behind. Floyd | Floyd | Edge of River Floyd | It's more impressive up close, just to the east, but it ain't no Floyd | Ganges. The path winds west from here. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | I trundle the cart up to... Floyd | Floyd | Clearing in the Woods Floyd | The trail continues east to the river, and I can return back to Floyd | civilization to the south. Floyd | Floyd | There's a bunch of empty beer cans and a pit for a fire. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | It takes about ten minutes to wrestle the cart to the road. Floyd | Floyd | West Side of Bridge Floyd | Once I saw a pretty bad accident here. It put me off cycling forever. Floyd | Floyd | Further west is the Cost Cutters building, the bridge is back east. The Floyd | way north is barred by pretty dense brush. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Ca-chunk! With some effort, I add the rusty cart for a total of 7. Floyd | Floyd | Whoohoo! Lisa says. That's the lot. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push carts" | ||||
Floyd | It's smooth sailing to Cost Cutters. Floyd | Floyd | I'm so desperate to change out of my wet clothes that I don't do it in Floyd | a stall. So of course Patrick comes into the staffroom when my kirpan Floyd | is exposed. His eyes widen and he slowly turns to his locker. Floyd | Floyd | Fuuuuuuuuck, says Graham. Floyd | Floyd | Patrick turns around with a gun in his hand and this time doesn't Floyd | attempt any smart-assed comments before he shoots me dead. Floyd | Floyd | It's like a very tiny and very fast hammer between my eyes. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Well... in a manner of speaking. Floyd | Floyd | Void Floyd | Floyd | | DavidW asks, "so we strip next time?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | There is no action here. Only waiting. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The void starts to glow with a familiar unrelenting light -- a Floyd | fluorescent light -- and I realize I'm in... Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cost Cutters Floyd | I'm at work. There are people shopping around me. Floyd | Floyd | Alive! I'm alive! In my own body It was all a -- Floyd | Floyd | Dream? interrupts Ranni from somewhere in the back part of my head. No. Floyd | Floyd | Oh, crumbs. Floyd | Floyd | My office is to the south, and the exit is to the east. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | Lisa. I'm the manager. I'm pretty normal-looking, but a boy at Floyd | leadership camp said I was cute without my glasses. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | I am carrying: Floyd | a pair of glasses (being worn) Floyd | dark green work slacks (being worn) Floyd | a Cost Cutters blouse (being worn) Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x people" | ||||
Floyd | The usual mix: every type of human being except the cute teenaged boy Floyd | type. Which is good. I need to focus on my job. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | I start out but immediately am accosted by a customer. Floyd | Floyd | "Excuse me miss," the old man asks. "Is this coupon good here?" Floyd | Floyd | He presses a coupon into my hand. Floyd | | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | That was a rhetorical question. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x coupon" | ||||
Floyd | The coupon died on Tuesday. "Sorry sir, but this coupon expired Floyd | yesterday." Floyd | Floyd | He grabs it back. "What?" He stares at it through his thick glasses. Floyd | "But it's Monday, isn't it?" Floyd | Floyd | I give him a little smile that lets him know: he's old. Floyd | Floyd | He wanders off, confused. Floyd | Floyd | Graham chuckles. Way to mess with the old coot's head, Lise. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | I get a few aisles closer this time before a mom and daughter stop me. Floyd | Floyd | "Do both of these have peanuts? My daughter has an allergy." Floyd | Floyd | She hands me a package of Savoury Snax and a package of Peanut Puffs. Floyd | Floyd | Seriously! This is so not my job. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | That was a rhetorical question. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "say yes" | ||||
Floyd | (to the mother) Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x snax" | ||||
Floyd | A hideously coloured package with, unfortunately, one word in English, Floyd | two if you count "Snax". I can't read the ingredients. It looks like Floyd | birdfood... gross. Floyd | Floyd | It's pretty tasty, actually, says Ranni. Floyd | | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x peanut" | ||||
Floyd | Ingredients: Whole peanuts, peanut paste, vaporized peanuts, peanut Floyd | dust... I skip to the end where it says. Warning, may contain -- Floyd | Floyd | Traces of peanuts? Ranni suggests. Floyd | Floyd | No. Traces of heavy metals. Floyd | Floyd | Bruuuuuuuutal! moans Graham. Floyd | Floyd | I put the Peanut Puffs back on the shelf, far out of the little girl's Floyd | reach. It quickly disappears into the blur of colourful products. Floyd | | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "give snax to mom" | ||||
Floyd | I can't. I can't help imagining the little girl choking to death. She Floyd | looks a bit bratty, but still. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "graham, x snax" | ||||
Floyd | Graham peers through my eyes... Floyd | Floyd | Seriously, what is wrong with this store? You can barely find ketchup Floyd | and dill pickle potato chips and now they're stocking these, these... Floyd | Floyd | Paki foods? says Ranni. Floyd | Floyd | I was gonna say "weird foods." Floyd | Floyd | ...my eyes are my own again. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ranni, x snax" | ||||
Floyd | That is so cool! The ingredients go from squiggly letters to real Floyd | letters. Floyd | Floyd | I read them through. Lots of weird stuff and tongue twisters, but no Floyd | peanuts. I hand it to the mom and she leaves without even thanking me. Floyd | Floyd | People are so rude. That's why I got into being a manager. I hate being Floyd | on the frontlines. Floyd | | Nitku says, "Clever" | |||
| DavidW says, "strange game" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Finally I make it unaccosted to... Floyd | Floyd | The Staffroom Floyd | Well, OK, it's not just my office. But I've got my nook, a desk in the Floyd | corner of the staffroom. Floyd | Floyd | The staffroom has lockers along one wall, a soda machine, and a bench. Floyd | Floyd | On the desk is a calendar. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x calendar" | ||||
Floyd | IMPENDING is the word for Monday. Monday? But... Floyd | Floyd | It's two days before the shooting, Ranni says impatiently. You gotta Floyd | get rid of that psycho, Lisa. Floyd | Floyd | Also on the calendar for today is a 4pm locker inspection from central Floyd | office. Floyd | Floyd | And it is, of course, 4pm. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lockers" | ||||
Floyd | They're the kind that have the combo locks built into the doors, so Floyd | central office can access them at any time. Floyd | Floyd | Most of them have clearly printed labels stuck on to indicate their Floyd | owners: JILL, PATRICK, PAUL, RANNY (this was before I knew it was spelt Floyd | RANNI, so sue me). GRAHAM, JASON, and my own were all written in the Floyd | sloppy handwriting of my predecessor. Floyd | Floyd | All of a sudden Tim from main office rushes in. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm soooo late," he says. He unlocks the soda machine and takes a can Floyd | out, then slams it shut. Floyd | Floyd | Jerkwad. Just 'cause he used to work here he acts like he owns the Floyd | place. "Um, why do you still have a key for--" I start. Floyd | Floyd | "Gotta check the meat room temp," he says, pulling out a thermometer Floyd | from his windbreaker. "Back in a jiff. Then I'll do the locker check." Floyd | Floyd | Awww, crapsicles! blurts Graham. Floyd | Floyd | "Won't have time for them all, just the new hires -- Patrick, Ranni and Floyd | Paul," Tim says on his way out the door. Floyd | Floyd | Thank you, Satan! Graham crows. Floyd | Floyd | What are you so happy about? says Ranni. He said he'd be back in a Floyd | jiff, and we've got to make sure Patrick gets canned today before he Floyd | gets back! Floyd | | inky says, ""thank you satan" is hilarious" | |||
| DavidW asks, "So how do we get Patrick canned?" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x labels" | ||||
Floyd | I can't see any such thing. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||||
Floyd | It's a big clunky beast left by my predecessor. Other than a nasty Floyd | paint stain, the only thing on it is the word-a-day calendar. Floyd | | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x stain" | ||||
Floyd | From Tim's time. He has no respect for Cost Cutters property. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open patrick's locker" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the combo, and they're not in today so I can't ask them. Floyd | Of course, main office has all the combinations. Floyd | | Bert says, "If this were a Looney Toons cartoon, it would probably involve a sardine factory." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ranni, open ranni's locker" | ||||
Floyd | My hands move of their own (well, I guess, of Ranni's) accord and flick Floyd | through the combination. Floyd | Floyd | Ranni's locker has his work slacks, a balled up apron and the WHMIS Floyd | safety regulations taped to his door. Floyd | Floyd | Graham snorts at this. Mr. Worky-work. Floyd | Floyd | It's my work locker! Ranni retorts. What, I'm supposed to have a, a, Floyd | six pack of beers in there or something? Floyd | Floyd | Graham is silent. (Shocker!) Floyd | Floyd | I shut the locker. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "graham, open graham's locker" | ||||
Floyd | Nope, Graham says. Floyd | Floyd | Just open it! Ranni says, as exasperated as I feel. Floyd | Floyd | Sorry, kids, ain't gonna happen. Floyd | Floyd | I shake the locked door, noticing as I do that there's some kind of Floyd | smell coming from the door vents. Floyd | | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "smell it" | ||||
Floyd | That's weird. It smells like my brother's room in the basement. He Floyd | always keeps it locked, too. Floyd | | Nitku says, "hee" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "graham, smell vents" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ranni, smell vents" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | | inky asks, "smells like .. porn?" | |||
| DavidW says, "pot, I'm guessing" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "graham, smell graham's locker" | ||||
Floyd | I can't be that hands-on, Graham says. But two pairs of eyes are better Floyd | than one. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "pot or sex" | |||
| crumple says, "teen spirit." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| DavidW says, "If Graham has pot, we might find a way to get it into Patrick's locker." | ||||
| Taleslinger arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open jason's locker" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the combo, and they're not in today so I can't ask them. Floyd | Of course, main office has all the combinations. Floyd | | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "open lisa's locker" | ||||
Floyd | I unlock it. Inside are my school bag and my normal clothes including Floyd | -- Floyd | Floyd | Mmm, black lacy bra, Graham says, I never would have figured you-- Floyd | Floyd | I slam the locker shut and ignore Graham's creepy laugh. Floyd | Floyd | Tim bustles in and counts the lockers and looks up the combos. Floyd | "Paul..." he starts twirling the combos. "It's not Paul Sorenson, is Floyd | it? Come back for another hitch?" Floyd | Floyd | "No, it's Chin. Paul Chin." Floyd | Floyd | "It wouldn't be, it wouldn't be. Be in his twenties now. But that guy Floyd | was hilarious -- he would just crack -- us -- up!" Floyd | Floyd | He yanks the door open. It's empty except for an apron with a nametag Floyd | and a book called World War Z. He flips through it, staring at it Floyd | intently, before throwing it back and shutting the locker. Floyd | | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "tim, open patrick's locker" | ||||
Floyd | Believe me, if I start talking to him he'll start talking about the Floyd | good ol' days when "managment was of a different quality." He actually Floyd | said that. Best to just wait the old windbag out. Floyd | Floyd | "OK, Ranni, let's see what you got hiding... yeah, the neighbourhood, Floyd | the neighbourhood's really changed," Tim laments, opening Ranni's Floyd | locker. Floyd | Floyd | Yeah. Everything was sooo much better when he worked here, for one. Floyd | Floyd | I don't think that's what he means, says Ranni. Floyd | Floyd | Tim checks the pockets of Ranni's work clothes and looks approvingly at Floyd | the WHMIS regs taped to the door. Floyd | Floyd | He finishes his inspection and shuts the locker. Floyd | | DavidW says, "I think we've missed our chance." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm. Possibly." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tim" | ||||
Floyd | He's a gawky guy with a bright orange Cost Cutters windbreaker. Floyd | Floyd | Tim opens Patrick's locker. I look over his shoulder to see if I can Floyd | spot the gun, but the only thing in it is a magazine. Floyd | Floyd | Tim picks it up -- it's an issue of Glocks and Grenades -- and flips Floyd | through it. For a second he seems to be disturbed, and I have a flicker Floyd | of hope that he's gonna fire Patrick. Floyd | Floyd | "Don't know... if I have this issue..." he says, looking at the front. Floyd | "Maybe my subscription's run out." Floyd | Floyd | He tosses it back in and shuts the locker. Floyd | Floyd | I guess he doesn't bring the gun in til tomorrow, says Ranni. Floyd | Floyd | Well, there goes the only chance to change what happened, says Graham. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** WE DIED FOR GOOD *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | This time there's no visit to the Void. Tim disappears, I feel a Floyd | nauseating flip in my stomach and I find myself moved a few feet away Floyd | but still in... Floyd | Floyd | The Staffroom Floyd | Well, OK, it's not just my office. But I've got my nook, a desk in the Floyd | corner of the staffroom. Floyd | Floyd | The staffroom has lockers along one wall, a soda machine, and a bench. Floyd | Floyd | On the desk is a calendar. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | Lisa. I'm the manager. I'm pretty normal-looking, but a boy at Floyd | leadership camp said I was cute without my glasses. Floyd | Floyd | All of a sudden Tim from main office rushes in. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm soooo late," he says. He unlocks the soda machine and takes a can Floyd | out, then slams it shut. Soooo predictable. Floyd | Floyd | "Gotta check the meat room temp," he says, pulling out a thermometer Floyd | from his windbreaker. "Back in a jiff. Then I'll do the locker check. Floyd | Just the new hires -- Patrick, Ranni and Paul," he says on his way out Floyd | the door. Floyd | Floyd | OK, don't fuck it up this time, Lisa. We don't know if we've got Floyd | unlimited lives, or what, says Graham. Floyd | Floyd | And we've got like, nine-tenths of a jiff left, says Ranni. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Hm so I guess we did miss it." | |||
| DavidW asks, "Can we do something with the soda machine?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "And we didn't save a ton." | ||||
| DavidW says, "We can replay from the start if we have to." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I suppose. Not that long, really." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "any ideas how to get Graham to open his locker?" | ||||
| Nitku asks, "Do we have to restart in order to solve this?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Nitku), "I doubt it." | ||||
| Bert says, "If you couldn't still win, it wouldn't have automatically rolled you back after that death." | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "I played it and I never had to restart." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open soda machine" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something I can open. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ranni, open graham's locker" | ||||
Floyd | Ranni has better things to do. Floyd | | Lucea says, "yeah, you don't need to restart" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "graham, open graham's locker" | ||||
Floyd | Nope, Graham says. Floyd | Floyd | Just open it! Ranni says, as exasperated as I feel. Floyd | Floyd | Sorry, kids, ain't gonna happen. Floyd | Floyd | I shake the locked door, noticing as I do that there's some kind of Floyd | smell coming from the door vents. Floyd | | Nitku says, "Then I don't see the point in restarting really." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask graham about pot" | ||||
Floyd | Sorry man, I can't just tell you what to do, Graham says. There're Floyd | these stupid rules. Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "Yeah, seems we don't have to." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ranni, read regs" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "hit graham's locker" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ranni, open ranni's locker" | ||||
Floyd | My hands move of their own (well, I guess, of Ranni's) accord and flick Floyd | through the combination. Floyd | Floyd | Ranni's locker has his work slacks, a balled up apron and the WHMIS Floyd | safety regulations taped to his door. Floyd | Floyd | Graham snorts at this. Mr. Worky-work. Floyd | Floyd | It's my work locker! Ranni retorts. What, I'm supposed to have a, a, Floyd | six pack of beers in there or something? Floyd | Floyd | Graham is silent. (Shocker!) Floyd | Floyd | I shut the locker. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open ranni's locker" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know his combo. Floyd | Floyd | I don't really know the numbers, either, says Ranni. My hands just do Floyd | it automatically now. | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x lockers" | ||||
Floyd | They're the kind that have the combo locks built into the doors, so Floyd | central office can access them at any time. Floyd | Floyd | Most of them have clearly printed labels stuck on to indicate their Floyd | owners: JILL, PATRICK, PAUL, RANNY (this was before I knew it was spelt Floyd | RANNI, so sue me). GRAHAM, JASON, and my own were all written in the Floyd | sloppy handwriting of my predecessor. Floyd | | DavidW asks, "Maybe one of the other lockers isn't locked?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "We don't have access as the manager?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I mean, I know we're not *presently* the manager." | ||||
| DavidW says, "We're not Tim. We're Lisa." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But one would think we'd know where a central master key is or something." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Right, Lisa becomes a manager later on." | ||||
| DavidW says, "OH! Switch labels!" | ||||
| Bert says, "Central office has access to all of them, but the manager (Lisa) doesn't." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "OOOH" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take Graham's label" | ||||
Floyd | The label's been there for a few years, so some of the glue's dried up. Floyd | I manage to get it off without ripping it. Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take patrick's label" | ||||
Floyd | It was applied so recently it peels off smoothly. Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Tim bustles in and counts the lockers and looks up the combos. Floyd | "Paul..." he starts twirling the combos. "It's not Paul Sorenson, is Floyd | it? Come back for another hitch?" Floyd | Floyd | "No, it's Chin. Paul Chin." Floyd | Floyd | "It wouldn't be, it wouldn't be. Be in his twenties now. But that guy Floyd | was hilarious -- he would just crack -- us -- up!" Floyd | Floyd | He yanks the door open. It's empty except for an apron with a nametag Floyd | and a book called World War Z. He flips through it, staring at it Floyd | intently, before throwing it back and shutting the locker. Floyd | | Jacqueline nods at Bert. | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put patrick's label on graham's locker" | ||||
Floyd | But Tim would totally see me! Floyd | Floyd | "OK, Ranni, let's see what you got hiding... yeah, the neighbourhood, Floyd | the neighbourhood's really changed," Tim laments, opening Ranni's Floyd | locker. Floyd | Floyd | Yeah. Everything was sooo much better when he worked here, for one. Floyd | Floyd | I don't think that's what he means, says Ranni. Floyd | Floyd | Tim checks the pockets of Ranni's work clothes and looks approvingly at Floyd | the WHMIS regs taped to the door. Floyd | Floyd | He finishes his inspection and shuts the locker. Floyd | | Nitku says, "Aww, I thought of that way back but it didn't recognize "labels" so I thought it wouldn't work." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put patrick's label on graham's locker" | ||||
Floyd | But Tim would totally see me! Floyd | Floyd | "Can't see a locker for this Patrick McGuire here," Tim says. "Oh well, Floyd | I'm sure it's fine." Floyd | Floyd | I am shocked speechless by his lack of professionalism as he sails out Floyd | the door. Floyd | Floyd | I guess he doesn't bring the gun in til tomorrow, says Ranni. Floyd | Floyd | Well, there goes the only chance to change what happened, says Graham. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** WE DIED FOR GOOD *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | This time there's no visit to the Void. Tim disappears, I feel a Floyd | nauseating flip in my stomach and I find myself moved a few feet away Floyd | but still in... Floyd | Floyd | The Staffroom Floyd | Well, OK, it's not just my office. But I've got my nook, a desk in the Floyd | corner of the staffroom. Floyd | Floyd | The staffroom has lockers along one wall, a soda machine, and a bench. Floyd | Floyd | On the desk is a calendar. Floyd | | DavidW says, "drat. Thought of it too late." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take patrick's label" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | All of a sudden Tim from main office rushes in. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm soooo late," he says. He unlocks the soda machine and takes a can Floyd | out, then slams it shut. Soooo predictable. Floyd | Floyd | "Gotta check the meat room temp," he says, pulling out a thermometer Floyd | from his windbreaker. "Back in a jiff. Then I'll do the locker check. Floyd | Just the new hires -- Patrick, Ranni and Paul," he says on his way out Floyd | the door. Floyd | Floyd | OK, don't fuck it up this time, Lisa. We don't know if we've got Floyd | unlimited lives, or what, says Graham. Floyd | Floyd | And we've got like, nine-tenths of a jiff left, says Ranni. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take graham's label" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put patrick's label on graham's locker" | ||||
Floyd | I put Patrick's label on Graham's locker. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put graham's label on patrick's locker" | ||||
Floyd | I put Graham's label on Patrick's locker. Floyd | | inky says, "ha ha unlimited lives" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Tim bustles in and counts the lockers and looks up the combos. Floyd | "Paul..." he starts twirling the combos. "It's not Paul Sorenson, is Floyd | it? Come back for another hitch?" Floyd | Floyd | "No, it's Chin. Paul Chin." Floyd | Floyd | "It wouldn't be, it wouldn't be. Be in his twenties now. But that guy Floyd | was hilarious -- he would just crack -- us -- up!" Floyd | Floyd | He yanks the door open. It's empty except for an apron with a nametag Floyd | and a book called World War Z. He flips through it, staring at it Floyd | intently, before throwing it back and shutting the locker. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "OK, Ranni, let's see what you got hiding... yeah, the neighbourhood, Floyd | the neighbourhood's really changed," Tim laments, opening Ranni's Floyd | locker. Floyd | Floyd | Yeah. Everything was sooo much better when you worked here, Tim. Floyd | Floyd | I don't think that's what he means, says Ranni. Floyd | Floyd | Tim checks the pockets of Ranni's work clothes and looks approvingly at Floyd | the WHMIS regs taped to the door. Floyd | Floyd | He finishes his inspection and shuts the locker. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Tim opens "Patrick's" locker and immediately grabs a big garbage bag. Floyd | "What the heck...?" Floyd | Floyd | He opens the bag and the smell fills the room. "I do believe we have Floyd | ourselves some Wacky Tobacccy, Lisa." Floyd | Floyd | The grin on his face is positively wolfish. Within seconds he's talking Floyd | to the police on the phone. Floyd | Floyd | Patrick is sooooo fired. Floyd | Floyd | Fired? Graham says. For a bale like that he's going to juvie. Floyd | Floyd | What the hell do you need that much weed for, anyway? Ranni says. Floyd | Floyd | The grow-op in my mom's basement caught fire, one of the lamps, Graham Floyd | says, I needed to store the stuff I salvaged somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | An unbelievable ending to an unbelievable day. The cops show up and Floyd | then Patrick shows up and then Patrick's scary uncle shows up -- a big Floyd | nightmare, needless to say. Floyd | Floyd | But you know what I thought when I was locking up for the night? Could Floyd | have been worse. Nobody died. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** WE DIDN'T DIE *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? | DavidW says, "whee!" | |||
| Nitku says, "hmm" | ||||
| Bert exclaims, "Congrats!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "thanks" | ||||
| Lucea says, "Yay" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Huh. Cool." | ||||
| Bert asks, "Was this a Release 2?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Short and sweet... or maybe it's just that we played Nightfall last week." | ||||
| DavidW says, "A bit unusual to get to the win so soon." | ||||
| Bert says, "Well, it was only an hour. And comp games are allowed to be up to two hours." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, you can totally tell this is the same author that did Punk Points. heh" | ||||
| maga says, "it's pretty linear" | ||||
| Bert says, "(Although apparently some voters don't penalize games for being longer than that. I'm looking at you, Nightfall.)" | ||||
| Bert says (to Jacq), "Hmm, I hadn't noticed." | ||||
| Nitku says, "It certainly has similarities." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Bert), "Heh. Well, I guess we played Nightfall in a really complete way that wasn't necessary, and according to Eve people did finish it in two hours." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Nitku), "Yeah, I'm talking in terms of character voice." | ||||
| Lucea says, "I didn't finish Nightfall in the 2 hours, but I'm notorious for sucking at game" | ||||
| Lucea says, "+s" | ||||
| maga says, "also, anyone who didn't play it before should totally do it again in a graphics-capable terp, because the art adds a great deal" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I wonder if all the labels are switchable. It'd be weird if "Patrick" had Lisa's stuff." | ||||
| inky says, "ok, if you want to see images: [LINK]" | ||||
| Lucea says, "yeah, I was about to say" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to maga), "Good to know." | ||||
| Lucea says, "the images are important" | ||||
| inky says, "though it's not really as good as seeing them in the browser" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yeah, I'll want to see the artwork." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Guess I'll just cue up the game." | ||||
| Bert says, "Mmm, now I'm curious about swapping Patrick and Lisa." | ||||
| Bert says, "Or Patrick and anyone else whose locker we couldn't look into." | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Staffroom Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "version" | ||||
Floyd | Everybody Dies Floyd | An Interactive Fantasy by Jim Munroe, with illustrations by Michael Floyd | Cho. Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 081116 / Inform 7 build 5T18 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Type CREDITS for the full credits, HELP if you need it, and QUIT to Floyd | exit the game. Floyd | Identification number: //EF7CFE1C-7529-11DD-B6E6-0016EC35A9FA// Floyd | Interpreter version 0.4.2 / VM 3.1.0 / Library serial number 080126 Floyd | Standard Rules version 2/080430 by Graham Nelson Floyd | Custom Library Messages version 25/080420 by David Fisher Floyd | Shipboard Directions version 2/080508 by Mikael Segercrantz Floyd | | Bert says, "Ah, this is Release 2." | |||
| Bert says, "The labels worked slightly differently in the comp release." | ||||
| Bert says, "And were more fiddly to interact with." | ||||
| inky says, "I remember having -- yeah" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "The verbs weren't 'take' and 'put'?" | ||||
| Bert says, "(The puzzle was the same; they were just cards that you had to slide in and out of metal brackets explicitly instead of stickers.)" | ||||
| Bert says, "So you had to >PUT PATRICK'S TAG INTO GRAHAM'S BRACKET or something like that" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||||
| inky says, "and >PUT PATRICK'S LABEL ON GRAHAM'S LOCKER didn't work" | ||||
| Lucea says, "Aha, I *thought* something had changed" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||||
| DavidW says, "er, ilac" | ||||
| Taleslinger asks (of lucea), "Did you die in the meantime?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "Yes." | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "kiss tim" | ||||
Floyd | I should keep my mind on the game. Floyd | Floyd | Tim opens "Patrick's" locker and immediately grabs a big garbage bag. Floyd | "What the heck...?" Floyd | Floyd | He opens the bag and the smell fills the room. "I do believe we have Floyd | ourselves some Wacky Tobacccy, Lisa." Floyd | Floyd | The grin on his face is positively wolfish. Within seconds he's talking Floyd | to the police on the phone. Floyd | Floyd | Patrick is sooooo fired. Floyd | Floyd | Fired? Graham says. For a bale like that he's going to juvie. Floyd | Floyd | What the hell do you need that much weed for, anyway? Ranni says. Floyd | Floyd | The grow-op in my mom's basement caught fire, one of the lamps, Graham Floyd | says, I needed to store the stuff I salvaged somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | An unbelievable ending to an unbelievable day. The cops show up and Floyd | then Patrick shows up and then Patrick's scary uncle shows up -- a big Floyd | nightmare, needless to say. Floyd | Floyd | But you know what I thought when I was locking up for the night? Could Floyd | have been worse. Nobody died. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** WE DIDN'T DIE *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Staffroom Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Staffroom Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Staffroom Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Staffroom Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Staffroom Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | | DavidW says, "From the images, it looks like the fish are symbolic of the symbiosis." | |||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | I am carrying: Floyd | Graham's label Floyd | a pair of glasses (being worn) Floyd | dark green work slacks (being worn) Floyd | a Cost Cutters blouse (being worn) Floyd | | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Staffroom Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The Staffroom Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get lisa's label. get patrick's label." | ||||
Floyd | No, I stuck it on good. Can't get it off without ripping it. Floyd | Floyd | I already have that. Floyd | | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "lockers" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x lockers" | ||||
Floyd | They're the kind that have the combo locks built into the doors, so Floyd | central office can access them at any time. Floyd | Floyd | Most of them have clearly printed labels stuck on to indicate their Floyd | owners: JILL, PATRICK, PAUL, RANNY (this was before I knew it was spelt Floyd | RANNI, so sue me). GRAHAM, JASON, and my own were all written in the Floyd | sloppy handwriting of my predecessor. Floyd | | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get jill's label" | ||||
Floyd | It's like part of the metal now. Can't get it off without ripping it. Floyd | | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get jason's label" | ||||
Floyd | It's like part of the metal now. Can't get it off without ripping it. Floyd | | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "get paul's label" | ||||
Floyd | It's like part of the metal now. Can't get it off without ripping it. Floyd | | ||||
| maga disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | DavidW says, "oh well. If was worth a try." | |||
| Bert says, "Yeah." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Try removing Lisa's blouse. Maybe she can distract Tim." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I was going to download the game, but I'm lost without the wiki or Baf's!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So I am looking at the images inky posted." | ||||
| Nitku says, "Try IFDB" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah, true." | ||||
| DavidW says, "This art with the fish is really clever." | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "remove blouse" | ||||
Floyd | You know, if you want to see scantily clad girls you shouldn't be Floyd | playing a text game. Floyd | | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "play I-0" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | | DavidW says, "heh" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| DavidW says, "well, I shoulda guessed. The game wouldn't let me undress the guys either." | ||||
| Taleslinger has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Jacqueline says, "Well, sounds like folks are done... transcript posting time!" | |||
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