  
 
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 Ad Verbum, written by Nick Montfort. Ad Verbum was originally released as part of the 2000 IF Competition, where it took fourth place. It went on to garner Xyzzy nominations for Best Individual Puzzle, Best Use of Medium, and Best Puzzles, ultimately taking the Xyzzy for Best Puzzles. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki. After we were finished playing Ad Verbum, we did a quick playthrough of another wordplay game, Things, a speed IF written by Jacqueline A. Lott and Sam Kabo Ashwell. Things was part of Speed-IF >= 20, and was mostly notable for using as few nouns as possible. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki. To jump straight to the part of the transcipt for Things, click 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. |
 | ||||
| | |||
| Jacqueline hollers, "ClubFloyd will be playing Ad Verbum by our very own Nick Montfort in about five minutes. Type 'toyshop' to join us." | ||||
| vimes arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| Jacqueline arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| olethros arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | olethros says, "ah a classic" | |||
| D asks, "I've never played this, what type of game is it?" | ||||
| olethros says, "a classic" | ||||
| Otto says, "neither have I" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to olethros), "heehee" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, it's a game that plays with words." | ||||
| olethros says, "it is a game with a very nice gimmick, you'll see" | ||||
| Otto says, "probably a game where foreigners like me won't understand anything..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Otto), "Possibly. I know I'd have a very difficult time with a game like this in French." | ||||
| Qfwfq exclaims, "Hello!" | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "I think I solved two rooms, at max." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But some locations I think you'll do fine in." | ||||
| D asks, "It must be harder to write and play IF games in French, though, right?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "And probably learn some things about the language, so in that respect it'll be good... especially playing along side native speakers who can explain things. I'm sort of envious of Otto and Taleslinger today in that regard." | ||||
| Otto says (to D), "hmm, possible, but it's rather ok generally" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to D), "Well, there are lots of French games, actually. It's been a little tricky porting the parsers to French, but it's been done." | ||||
| Otto asks, ".. Taleslinger Where are your from?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, and I missed it earlier, Qfwfq... hello!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Otto), "He's in Germany." | ||||
| Qfwfq :-) | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, so we'll begin here in a second. All game discussion should be on the #ClubFloyd channel, and only game commands said aloud in the room." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load adverbum" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | With the cantankerous Wizard of Wordplay evicted from his mansion, the Floyd | worthless plot can now be redeveloped. The city regulations declare, Floyd | however, that the rip-down job can't proceed until all the items Floyd | within have been removed. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [ ... ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | That's what the demolition contractor explains to you, anyway, as you Floyd | stand eagerly on the adventurer's day labor corner. Once he learns of Floyd | your penchant for puzzle-solving and your kleptomaniacal tendencies, Floyd | he hires you for the job. You hop into the bed of his truck, type a Floyd | few Zs, and arrive at the site, eager ... Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [ ... ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | AD VERBUM Floyd | By & (C) 2000 Nick Montfort <nickm@nickm.com> Floyd | Please type the words and read the PREFACE, WARNING, and LICENSE. Floyd | Release 11 / Serial number 060905 / Inform v6.30 Library 6/10 Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | This is the mansion's spacious ground-floor antechamber. The wallpaper Floyd | is peeling and bits of plaster have fallen from the ceiling here and Floyd | there. There is a stairway, stable enough to ascend. The big area to Floyd | the west must have once been a separate room, but the demolition crew Floyd | seems to have already taken out a wall. A living room is east. On the Floyd | south side is the front door. A Dumpster has been dumped here. Floyd | Floyd | The contractor clears his throat and points at the big Dumpster. Floyd | "Forget the fixtures, but pick up everything that's not bolted down, Floyd | including the stuff out back. Then, drop off all the debris - er, I Floyd | mean, um, treasures - right here ..." He scrawls something on the Floyd | Dumpster with a marker. "Good luck!" The contractor hurries out the Floyd | front door, which slams closed, leaving you alone. Floyd | Floyd | You spot a door to the north, leading out back. It is shut quite Floyd | tight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the difficult difficult difficult door or the Floyd | southern door? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x dumpster" | Taleslinger says (to otto), "Sorry, I was afw." | |||
Floyd | It's made of steel, and almost entirely open on one end for easy Floyd | deposition of debris. Scrawled across it is the phrase "ATROPHY CASE." Floyd | Perhaps the contractor left out a space when labelling it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Man, I haven't played this in years. I think I'll be fine to play along, as I don't think I'll recall anything." | |||
| maga arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You're the adventurer, in this scenario. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "Hey, I get atrophy case. hehe." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "South?" | ||||
| Alex says (to Jacqueline), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that the South is the greatest region in the whole world." | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The southern door leads out of the house. It is immediately Floyd | recognizable as one of those doors through which one can pass only Floyd | upon completing the game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "open south door" | ||||
Floyd | I only caught that first part. Try truncating that command or using a Floyd | different object. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heehee. Okay, not south." | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the difficult difficult difficult door or the Floyd | southern door? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "difficult difficult difficult" | ||||
Floyd | Your difficult labor pays off. You open the difficult difficult Floyd | difficult door. Floyd | Floyd | [+2.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x difficult difficult difficult door" | ||||
Floyd | This difficult difficult difficult door looks like the kind that is Floyd | always getting stuck stuck stuck. It now stands open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Wordplayground Floyd | Here's a sort of small, enclosed backyard, closed in with a high Floyd | wooden fence and completely covered with asphalt. Floyd | Floyd | A door to the s, leading inside, is open. Floyd | Floyd | A little boy stands here smugly. 'Georgie' is embroidered on his knit Floyd | shirt. Floyd | Floyd | There's one of those robotic puppies - the latest fad - here. Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes also notice: ... toy dinosaur. Floyd | Floyd | The puppy lets out a derisive little puppy laugh. Floyd | | olethros says, "I dont think I played through this" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "take dinosaur" | ||||
Floyd | [ ... ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x dinosaur" | ||||
Floyd | The toy dinosaur looks like a triceratops. It is made of Floyd | injection-molded plastic, and colored the same pale, milky green all Floyd | over. Floyd | Floyd | The puppy quips: "Your momma was playing Zork on my computer, and Floyd | she's so ugly, she broke the Mirror Room!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "jump shark" | ||||
Floyd | I only caught that first part. Try truncating that command or using a Floyd | different object. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x boy" | ||||
Floyd | The boy looks about the size for second grade, but his serious, Floyd | bespectacled gaze suggests that he may be slightly older. Floyd | Floyd | The puppy quips: "Your momma's face looks like an 'at' sign." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "boy, hello" | ||||
Floyd | Georgie waves at you tentatively. Floyd | Floyd | The puppy lets out a derisive little puppy laugh. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "take boy" | ||||
Floyd | You move in to hoist Georgie away from the prize, but he eludes your Floyd | grasp. He manages to stay near the toy dinosaur, too. Floyd | Floyd | The puppy quips: "You got an elvish momma of great antiquity." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "take puppy" | ||||
Floyd | The robotic puppy is endowed with locomotive abilities that are as Floyd | quick and random as its prepackaged wit. It scuttles away from you Floyd | quickly. Floyd | Floyd | The puppy quips: "Your momma's so stupid, she tried to give hypertext Floyd | Ritalin." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "quip at puppy" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | D says, "I don't understand any of this bizarre stuff" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Wow. How many 'your momma' jokes will there be?" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "ask georgie about dinosaur" | ||||
Floyd | "Miiiiiiiiine!" Georgie screeches, whisking the toy dinosaur away and Floyd | setting it down elsewhere on the asphalt. "You can't have that. Not Floyd | unless you know more dinosaur names than me, and nobody knows more Floyd | dinosaur names than me. So there!" Floyd | Floyd | The puppy quips: "Your momma's so stupid, when you were born she Floyd | thought the umbilical cord meant that you were a peripheral." Floyd | Floyd | > | D asks, "Is this backyard part of what we need to remove from the premises?" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "triceratops" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | D asks, "Like do we take the kid?" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "say triceratops" | ||||
Floyd | Whom do you want to say that to? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "say triceratops to georgie" | ||||
Floyd | Georgie reddens. He clenches his fists, twists back and forth while Floyd | straining forward on his toes, and emits a trumpeting whine. "I was Floyd | gonna say that one next!" he says. His concentration seems unbroken, Floyd | despite this outburst. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh yeah? Tyrannosaurus!" Georgie says, with pride. Floyd | Floyd | The puppy quips: "Your momma's so ugly, the computer took one look at Floyd | her and said 'Illegal operation.'" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I think any location we encounter we have to take everything (though I'm not sure about the kid; he may just be part of the puzzle)." | |||
| inky says, "I think you have to get rid of the kid, yeah" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "say stegasaurus to georgie" | ||||
Floyd | Georgie looks puzzled, as if he hasn't heard that dinosaur name Floyd | before. He sputters for a moment, perhaps confused by the novel name, Floyd | apparently finding it difficult to think. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh yeah? Psittacosaurus!" Georgie says, with pride. Floyd | Floyd | The puppy lets out a derisive little puppy laugh. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "say raptor to georgie" | ||||
Floyd | Georgie reddens. He clenches his fists, twists back and forth while Floyd | straining forward on his toes, and emits a trumpeting whine. "I was Floyd | gonna say that one next!" he says. His concentration seems unbroken, Floyd | despite this outburst. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh yeah? Stegosaurus!" Georgie says, with pride. Floyd | Floyd | The puppy lets out a derisive little puppy laugh. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "say onatops to georgie" | inky says, "cheater!" | |||
Floyd | "Is that supposed to be a dinosaur name?" Georgie says. "Nuh-uh!" Floyd | Floyd | The puppy quips: "Your momma's extra-wide, and SCSI." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "say pteradon to georgie" | ||||
Floyd | "Is that supposed to be a dinosaur name?" Georgie says. "Nuh-uh!" Floyd | Floyd | The puppy quips: "Your momma's so stupid, she thinks she can make a Floyd | floppy disk into a hard disk by pulling on it." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "say brontosaurus to georgie" | ||||
Floyd | Georgie reddens. He clenches his fists, twists back and forth while Floyd | straining forward on his toes, and emits a trumpeting whine. "I was Floyd | gonna say that one next!" he says. His concentration seems unbroken, Floyd | despite this outburst. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh yeah? Theropod!" Georgie says, with pride. Floyd | Floyd | The puppy lets out a derisive little puppy laugh. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "say apatasaurus to georgie" | ||||
Floyd | Georgie looks puzzled, as if he hasn't heard that dinosaur name Floyd | before. He sputters for a moment, perhaps confused by the novel name, Floyd | apparently finding it difficult to think. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh yeah? Hadrosaur!" Georgie says, with pride. Floyd | Floyd | The puppy lets out a derisive little puppy laugh. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "say hydropsaur to georgie" | ||||
Floyd | Georgie looks puzzled, as if he hasn't heard that dinosaur name Floyd | before. He sputters for a moment, perhaps confused by the novel name, Floyd | apparently finding it difficult to think. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh yeah? Supersaurus!" Georgie says, with pride. Floyd | Floyd | The puppy quips: "Your momma's so fat she'd barely fit on five Floyd | CD-ROMs." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of inky), "Are you pulling from a list or do you just know this many dinosaur names?" | |||
| inky asks (of Jacqueline), "what, don't you?" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "say godzilla to georgie" | ||||
Floyd | "Is that supposed to be a dinosaur name?" Georgie says. "Nuh-uh!" Floyd | Floyd | The puppy quips: "Your momma's so poor, she's got a C-64." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to floyd), "say azerty to georgie" | ||||
Floyd | "Is that supposed to be a dinosaur name?" Georgie says. "Nuh-uh!" Floyd | Floyd | The puppy quips: "Your momma goes down more often than Windows 98." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "heehee" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "say puppy to georgie" | ||||
Floyd | "Is that supposed to be a dinosaur name?" Georgie says. "Nuh-uh!" Floyd | Floyd | The puppy quips: "Your momma's so stupid, when she got hungry she Floyd | asked people to forward spam to her." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I think the "puzzled" response means it looks like a dinosaur name but he doesn't actually know it" | |||
| D says (to Floyd), "kick georgie" | inky says, "since Taleslinger made a typo and it still got accepted" | |||
Floyd | Georgie is deft at eluding playground bullies, and dodges your attack. Floyd | "You don't know-ow dinosaur names," Georgie sings. "You're just a Floyd | stupid me-e-nie!" He manages to remain quite near the toy dinosaur, Floyd | though. | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "say dino to georgie" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The puppy quips: "Your momma's so stupid, she thought USENET was Floyd | previously owned." Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | "Miiiiiiiiine!" Georgie screeches, whisking the toy dinosaur away and Floyd | setting it down elsewhere on the asphalt. "You can't have that. Not Floyd | unless you know more dinosaur names than me, and nobody knows more Floyd | dinosaur names than me. So there!" Floyd | Floyd | The puppy lets out a derisive little puppy laugh. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, the spam joke was pretty funny." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "say abcsaur to georgie" | ||||
Floyd | "Is that supposed to be a dinosaur name?" Georgie says. "Nuh-uh!" Floyd | Floyd | The puppy quips: "Your momma's so stupid, when tech support told her Floyd | to reboot she started putting her shoes back on." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "say abcsaurus to georgie" | ||||
Floyd | Georgie looks puzzled, as if he hasn't heard that dinosaur name Floyd | before. He sputters for a moment, perhaps confused by the novel name, Floyd | apparently finding it difficult to think. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh yeah? Prosauropod!" Georgie says, with pride. Floyd | Floyd | The puppy quips: "Your momma's so fat, they're trying to break her up Floyd | like Microsoft." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "say xyzsaurus to georgie" | ||||
Floyd | Georgie looks puzzled, as if he hasn't heard that dinosaur name Floyd | before. He sputters for a moment, perhaps confused by the novel name, Floyd | apparently finding it difficult to think. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh yeah? Apatoosaur!" Georgie says, with pride. Floyd | Floyd | The puppy lets out a derisive little puppy laugh. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "say yomommasaurus to georgie" | ||||
Floyd | Georgie looks puzzled, as if he hasn't heard that dinosaur name Floyd | before. He sputters for a moment, perhaps confused by the novel name, Floyd | apparently finding it difficult to think. Floyd | | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "say stegosaurus to georgie" | ||||
Floyd | "Oh yeah? Pterosaurus!" Georgie says, with pride. Floyd | Floyd | The puppy lets out a derisive little puppy laugh. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | Georgie lets out a high-pitched laugh. "That one's already been Floyd | sa-aid!" he sings, taunting you. "You don't know any mo-ore dinosaur Floyd | names!" Floyd | Floyd | The puppy quips: "Your momma's so butch, she shops at Amazon." Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | A distracted figure with a huge bushy beard blunders in just as you Floyd | speak the word of ancient magic. The man wears loose clothing, and an Floyd | expression of intense concentration. He is clutching his frizzy hair Floyd | with one hand; his other hand grips an intricate grid - the object of Floyd | his attention. Floyd | Floyd | His eyes brighten as the word you've spoken reaches his ears. "Yes! Floyd | Yes! That's it!" he exclaims as he draws out a pen and fills in a row Floyd | of squares. "Now my hyperconstrained, double-acrostic, cryptic Floyd | crossword is complete, and ready to puzzle others. That was all I Floyd | needed - just a simple five-letter word, composed only of the letters Floyd | 'X' 'Y' and 'Z,' that would fit here!" Floyd | Floyd | He grips your hand and shakes it fervently. "Thank you! Now that I've Floyd | finished with that, I can get on to those other things I've been Floyd | meaning to do, such as monkey-wrenching the demolition and saving Floyd | recreational linguistics for future generations." He turns away and Floyd | mutters, just before he departs, "I hope none of that will involve Floyd | lying in front of a bulldozer..." Floyd | Floyd | The puppy lets out a derisive little puppy laugh. Floyd | Floyd | [+1.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inky), "Evidently, yeah." | |||
| inky says, "whoah" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "say thing1saurus to georgie" | ||||
Floyd | Georgie looks puzzled, as if he hasn't heard that dinosaur name Floyd | before. He sputters for a moment, perhaps confused by the novel name, Floyd | apparently finding it difficult to think. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh yeah? Mosasaurus!" Georgie says, with pride. Floyd | Floyd | The puppy quips: "Your momma's faster than 1GHz." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Huh. Easter egg." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "say thing2saurus to georgie" | ||||
Floyd | Georgie looks puzzled - for a moment. "Hey, you just said something Floyd | like that," he says. "That doesn't count." Floyd | Floyd | The puppy quips: "I checked out www.uglydog.com the other day - and Floyd | guess who I saw?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "say applesaurus to georgie" | ||||
Floyd | Georgie looks puzzled, as if he hasn't heard that dinosaur name Floyd | before. He sputters for a moment, perhaps confused by the novel name, Floyd | apparently finding it difficult to think. Floyd | Floyd | Georgie sniffs. His eyes become large, resembling the eyes of an Floyd | affrighted waif-child in a Margaret Keene painting. A big shiny tear Floyd | gleams beneath his glasses, dripping from his right eye. Then the Floyd | boy's face reddens as a bead of snot begins to droop from his left Floyd | nostril. "That's ... I don't ... that's all the dinosaur names I know. Floyd | Uh, well ... Waaaaaaaaah!" Floyd | Floyd | He gives the toy dinosaur a little kick, tipping it over. "Well, it's Floyd | just a stupid toy. You can have it, anyway. So what!" Georgie runs Floyd | through the difficult difficult difficult door, then runs across the Floyd | foyer and out the front door of the house, disappearing. Floyd | Floyd | The puppy quips: "Your momma's so ugly, she broke the QuickCam." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Otto), "Well done." | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "take dinosaur" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The puppy quips: "I saw your momma selling herself on eBay yesterday." Floyd | Floyd | [+10.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "snrk" | |||
| olethros says, "awesome awesome" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "kick puppy" | ||||
Floyd | The robotic puppy is endowed with locomotive abilities that are as Floyd | quick and random as its prepackaged wit. It scuttles away from you Floyd | quickly. Floyd | Floyd | The puppy lets out a derisive little puppy laugh. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Let's just hang here and hear all the yo momma jokes. (Kidding.)" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take puppy" | ||||
Floyd | The robotic puppy is endowed with locomotive abilities that are as Floyd | quick and random as its prepackaged wit. It scuttles away from you Floyd | quickly. Floyd | Floyd | The puppy quips: "Your momma provides service on every port." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "say your momma to puppy" | ||||
Floyd | The puppy doesn't seem to notice you speaking to it. Perhaps this Floyd | cut-rate model doesn't accept voice commands or queries. Floyd | Floyd | The puppy quips: "Your momma's so ugly I need a screen saver to look Floyd | at her." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "throw dinosaur at puppy" | ||||
Floyd | You lack the nerve when it comes to the crucial moment. Floyd | Floyd | The puppy quips: "Your momma's so stupid, when I told her I was Floyd | backing up my computer she said I should eat more fiber." Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "these are not just yomomma jokes, they are computer geek yomomma jokes" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Heehee, yeah." | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | ... toy dinosaur Floyd | Floyd | The puppy quips: "Your momma's plug-and-play." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh dear." | |||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "turn puppy off" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can switch. Floyd | Floyd | The puppy quips: "The Wizard of Frobozz took one look at your momma Floyd | and said, 'Fugly!'" | Taleslinger says, "some of these are quite funny" | |||
Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says, "ok, that was pretty good" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "ask boy about puppy" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "cry" | ||||
Floyd | Waaaah! Floyd | Floyd | The puppy lets out a derisive little puppy laugh. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Wordplayground Floyd | Here's a sort of small, enclosed backyard, closed in with a high Floyd | wooden fence and completely covered with asphalt. Floyd | Floyd | A door to the s, leading inside, is open. Floyd | Floyd | There's one of those robotic puppies - the latest fad - here. Floyd | Floyd | The puppy lets out a derisive little puppy laugh. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "tell joke" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "The boy left through the difficult difficult difficult door." | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "x backyard" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Wordplayground Floyd | Here's a sort of small, enclosed backyard, closed in with a high Floyd | wooden fence and completely covered with asphalt. Floyd | Floyd | A door to the s, leading inside, is open. Floyd | Floyd | There's one of those robotic puppies - the latest fad - here. Floyd | Floyd | The puppy quips: "I hear everybody's got random access to your momma." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | This is the mansion's spacious ground-floor antechamber. The wallpaper Floyd | is peeling and bits of plaster have fallen from the ceiling here and Floyd | there. There is a stairway, stable enough to ascend. The big area to Floyd | the w must have once been a separate room, but the demolition crew Floyd | seems to have already taken out a wall. A living room is e. On the s Floyd | side is the front door. A Dumpster has been dumped here. Floyd | Floyd | A door to the n, leading out back, is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x dumpster" | ||||
Floyd | It's made of steel, and almost entirely open on one end for easy Floyd | deposition of debris. Scrawled across it is the phrase "ATROPHY CASE." Floyd | Perhaps the contractor left out a space when labelling it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x asphalt" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, we moved. Oops." | |||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "search dumpster" | ||||
Floyd | The Dumpster is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Put the dino in the dumpster?" | |||
| inky says, "sorry, if you want to go back, feel free" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put dinosaur in dumpster" | ||||
Floyd | You put the toy dinosaur into the Dumpster. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | That area used to a be a separate room, but it's all part of the foyer Floyd | now. There's no part of the house further to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Otto asks, "maybe we can drop the dino on the floor to attract the dog?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | This huge, bare living room occupies about half the mansion's ground Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... verbosifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Nah, it's cool, I was actually thinking of exploring a bit and coming back later." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x verbosifier" | ||||
Floyd | This device is about the size of a Walkman, with a long antenna Floyd | extending from it and a rectangular button labeled "VERBOSIFY." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push button" | Jacqueline asks (of Otto), "Hm, wasn't the dino already on the floor?" | |||
Floyd | You press the button, but nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | Otto says (to jacqueline), "hmm, yes probably. Maybe show dino to dog but we'll try this later.." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | This huge, bare living room occupies about half the mansion's ground Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | A bearded figure wanders in, oblivious to you and, it seems, somewhat Floyd | uncertain of where he is going. His loose clothing billows as he steps Floyd | about. Floyd | Floyd | "Walk east..." he mutters. He stops short after a few steps. "Walk not Floyd | east!" he exclaims, and starts going in the opposite direction. He Floyd | stops again, wanders around a bit, and finally leaves. By the time Floyd | you've recovered from the shock, you realize that he has completely Floyd | disappeared. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "I think the solution to the puppy will be wordplay-y." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | This is the mansion's spacious ground-floor antechamber. The wallpaper Floyd | is peeling and bits of plaster have fallen from the ceiling here and Floyd | there. There is a stairway, stable enough to ascend. The big area to Floyd | the w must have once been a separate room, but the demolition crew Floyd | seems to have already taken out a wall. A living room is e. On the s Floyd | side is the front door. A Dumpster has been dumped here. Floyd | Floyd | A door to the n, leading out back, is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The southern door leads out of the house. It is immediately Floyd | recognizable as one of those doors through which one can pass only Floyd | upon completing the game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Initial Lobby Floyd | The lobby of the mansion's initial floor - the one above the ground Floyd | floor - is an ordinary and fairly well-maintained room. There are some Floyd | things scrawled on the ground here, in the contractor's handwriting: Floyd | '1 object' is written to the north, while toward the other three exits Floyd | on this floor '2' is scrawled. The stairway that runs down to the Floyd | foyer turns and continues up, to the next floor. The constrained Floyd | passages to the north, east, west, and south look as if they might Floyd | spell trouble. Or perhaps they simply spell 'NEWS.' Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "We should save." | |||
| inky clears the save counter. | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You'll never get through that constrained passage carrying that Floyd | verbosifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | Otto says, "maybe we can insult the puppy in return..." | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "drop verbosifier" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | D says, "I find it hard to believe the parser will accept a joke" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | A pillow-like force keeps you from moving that way. A sonorous voice Floyd | booms out, in attempted hollowness, "You may be very, very frustrated Floyd | if you walk in there without reading the WARNING. Sure, maybe you read Floyd | the WARNING three years ago in some other game session and you Floyd | remember it perfectly, but how do I know that? I'm not supposed to let Floyd | you in unless I know you've read it. It's like airline flight Floyd | attendants have to keep showing you how to use the seatbelt even if Floyd | you've been on a plane for a third of your life." Floyd | Floyd | There is a hollow sigh. Floyd | Floyd | "So just go on and read the WARNING, by typing WARNING. And then I'll Floyd | let you in." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Or perhaps they simply spell NEWS. I knew I would be groaning a lot today." | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "warning" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | While interacting with Ad Verbum, it is possible to enter areas that Floyd | seem impossible to leave by normal means. These areas are not actually Floyd | impossible to leave, but departure can be very difficult. The Floyd | challenge of Ad Verbum lies, in part, in figuring out how to exit from Floyd | these areas. Because of the nature of interaction in these areas they Floyd | do not, in general, allow one to employ the HINT, SAVE, RESTART, Floyd | RESTORE or QUIT commands. A somewhat hollow voice will reveal a magic Floyd | word when you enter each of these rooms, allowing you to escape them. Floyd | If you ignore this text, you might get stuck in these rooms and have Floyd | to quit your interpreter. Read carefully. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | "LISTEN WELL!" a sonorous voice booms out, in attempted hollowness. Floyd | "Know ye that passage back through here is difficult for some, Floyd | impossible for others! Should you wish to transport yourself - without Floyd | your cherished possessions - out of these constrained confines, have Floyd | your controlling consciouness type the magic command: NEW!" Floyd | Floyd | Neat Nursery Floyd | Nice, nondescript nursery, noticeably neat. Normally, nurslings nestle Floyd | noisily. Now, none. No needful, naive newborns. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby: ... nifty nappy. Floyd | | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "nap" | ||||
Floyd | [ ... ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "nick nappy" | ||||
Floyd | Nabbed. Floyd | Floyd | [+3.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "notice nappy" | ||||
Floyd | Nifty, new, niveous nappy. Notably, nylon. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "n" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Northward? No, necessarily not. Not north. No noticeable notch, no Floyd | navigable nook. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| UndefinedEntity says, "nose north" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "not north" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Initial Lobby Floyd | The lobby of the mansion's initial floor - the one above the ground Floyd | floor - is an ordinary and fairly well-maintained room. There are some Floyd | things scrawled on the ground here, in the contractor's handwriting: Floyd | '1 object' is written to the n, while toward the other three exits on Floyd | this floor '2' is scrawled. The stairway that runs d to the foyer Floyd | turns and continues u, to the next floor. The constrained passages to Floyd | the s, e, w, and n look as if they might spell trouble. Or perhaps Floyd | they simply spell 'SEWN.' Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... verbosifier. Floyd | Floyd | [+5.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "yay" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Wow, that was... quick." | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "Wow." | ||||
| Taleslinger asks, "East next?" | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "Oh, save first." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I can see I'm going to have to think quickly with you lot if I want to get a command in edgewise." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to T), "Sure." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You'll never get through that constrained passage carrying that nifty Floyd | nappy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, gotta dump the nappy." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Just drop it here, or in the dumpster?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | This is the mansion's spacious ground-floor antechamber. The wallpaper Floyd | is peeling and bits of plaster have fallen from the ceiling here and Floyd | there. There is a stairway, stable enough to ascend. The big area to Floyd | the w must have once been a separate room, but the demolition crew Floyd | seems to have already taken out a wall. A living room is e. On the s Floyd | side is the front door. A Dumpster has been dumped here. Floyd | Floyd | A door to the n, leading out back, is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put nappy in dumpter" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put nappy in dumpster" | ||||
Floyd | You put the nifty nappy into the Dumpster. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Initial Lobby Floyd | The lobby of the mansion's initial floor - the one above the ground Floyd | floor - is an ordinary and fairly well-maintained room. There are some Floyd | things scrawled on the ground here, in the contractor's handwriting: Floyd | '1 object' is written to the n, while toward the other three exits on Floyd | this floor '2' is scrawled. The stairway that runs d to the foyer Floyd | turns and continues u, to the next floor. The constrained passages to Floyd | the s, e, w, and n look as if they might spell trouble. Or perhaps Floyd | they simply spell 'SEWN.' Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... verbosifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | "LISTEN WELL!" a sonorous voice booms out, in attempted hollowness. Floyd | "Know ye that passage back through here is difficult for some, Floyd | impossible for others! Should you wish to transport yourself - without Floyd | your cherished possessions - out of these constrained confines, have Floyd | your controlling consciouness type the magic command: EMBARK!" Floyd | Floyd | Ebony Eatery Floyd | Eating enclave. Entire environment ebon. Each edge embossed elegantly, Floyd | every entity essentially effaced. Effect: eerie. Floyd | Floyd | Empty, except: ... evil effigy... earthen ewer. Floyd | | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "engulf ewer" | ||||
Floyd | [ ... ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "examine effigy" | ||||
Floyd | Enemy effigy. Extreme enormity evident. Execrable evildoer! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| UndefinedEntity says, "evolve east" | Taleslinger asks, "what's an effigy?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "This is sort of reminding me of Things." | ||||
| D asks, "A statue?" | ||||
| inky says, "in this case it's an idol" | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "aha" | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "excise effigy" | ||||
Floyd | Eh? Edict enciphered, evidently ... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "excorcise effigy" | ||||
Floyd | Eh? Edict enciphered, evidently ... Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "hmm, did engulf really not work?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "engulf effigy" | ||||
Floyd | Eh? Edict enciphered, evidently ... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "extract effigy" | ||||
Floyd | Expropriated. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "engulf effigy" | ||||
Floyd | Eh? Edict enciphered, evidently ... Floyd | Floyd | > | D says, "Got it" | |||
| inky says, "ah, nice" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "extract ewer" | ||||
Floyd | Expropriated. Floyd | Floyd | [+4.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "woo" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "examine ewer" | ||||
Floyd | Estimable ewer, even, edgeless. Ewer's empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | D says, "I think excise should have worked though" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "exit" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Initial Lobby Floyd | The lobby of the mansion's initial floor - the one above the ground Floyd | floor - is an ordinary and fairly well-maintained room. There are some Floyd | things scrawled on the ground here, in the contractor's handwriting: Floyd | '1 object' is written to the n, while toward the other three exits on Floyd | this floor '2' is scrawled. The stairway that runs d to the foyer Floyd | turns and continues u, to the next floor. The constrained passages to Floyd | the s, e, w, and n look as if they might spell trouble. Or perhaps Floyd | they simply spell 'SEWN.' Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... verbosifier. Floyd | Floyd | [+1.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | This is the mansion's spacious ground-floor antechamber. The wallpaper Floyd | is peeling and bits of plaster have fallen from the ceiling here and Floyd | there. There is a stairway, stable enough to ascend. The big area to Floyd | the w must have once been a separate room, but the demolition crew Floyd | seems to have already taken out a wall. A living room is e. On the s Floyd | side is the front door. A Dumpster has been dumped here. Floyd | Floyd | A door to the n, leading out back, is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "dump all" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "put everything in dumpster" | ||||
Floyd | earthen ewer: Done. Floyd | evil effigy: Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Initial Lobby Floyd | The lobby of the mansion's initial floor - the one above the ground Floyd | floor - is an ordinary and fairly well-maintained room. There are some Floyd | things scrawled on the ground here, in the contractor's handwriting: Floyd | '1 object' is written to the n, while toward the other three exits on Floyd | this floor '2' is scrawled. The stairway that runs d to the foyer Floyd | turns and continues u, to the next floor. The constrained passages to Floyd | the n, e, w, and s look as if they might spell trouble. Or perhaps Floyd | they simply spell 'NEWS.' Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... verbosifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Choose a direction..." | |||
| Taleslinger says, "Save first!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "Oh right. Anyone can save. Just type >PRESS SAVE" | |||
| Taleslinger says, "I wonder why some rooms have 2 objects, when the challenge still basically is finding one word that works." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | "LISTEN WELL!" a sonorous voice booms out, in attempted hollowness. Floyd | "Know ye that passage back through here is difficult for some, Floyd | impossible for others! Should you wish to transport yourself - without Floyd | your cherished possessions - out of these constrained confines, have Floyd | your controlling consciouness type the magic command: WIND!" Floyd | Floyd | White Wardrobe Floyd | Wee warehouse warily warded wearable wares - when wares were within. Floyd | Wan, whitewashed walls wait without woolens. Wooden, weathered Floyd | wainscoting wobbles weakly. Floyd | Floyd | Within: ... wooden weapon. Floyd | | inky says, "maybe it makes the scoring total work out better" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "wield weapon" | ||||
Floyd | [ ... ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "whisk weapon" | ||||
Floyd | What? Wild, whirling words ... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "withraw weapon" | ||||
Floyd | What? Wild, whirling words ... Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inky), "heh" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wield weapon" | ||||
Floyd | Won. Floyd | Floyd | [+5.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "woo" | |||
| inky says, "I think it's expecting you to hit space when you enter the room or something" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, yeah." | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "Hey, I tried t- timing" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess it is." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "walk" | ||||
Floyd | Which way? Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "dang" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "waltz" | ||||
Floyd | What? Wild, whirling words ... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "withdraw" | ||||
Floyd | While withdrawing, wainscot wiggles weirdly, wavering. Floyd | Floyd | Initial Lobby Floyd | The lobby of the mansion's initial floor - the one above the ground Floyd | floor - is an ordinary and fairly well-maintained room. There are some Floyd | things scrawled on the ground here, in the contractor's handwriting: Floyd | '1 object' is written to the n, while toward the other three exits on Floyd | this floor '2' is scrawled. The stairway that runs d to the foyer Floyd | turns and continues u, to the next floor. The constrained passages to Floyd | the s, e, w, and n look as if they might spell trouble. Or perhaps Floyd | they simply spell 'SEWN.' Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... verbosifier. Floyd | Floyd | [+3.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "wander without" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oho" | |||
| inky asks, "there are two items in there, actually, right?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | This is the mansion's spacious ground-floor antechamber. The wallpaper Floyd | is peeling and bits of plaster have fallen from the ceiling here and Floyd | there. There is a stairway, stable enough to ascend. The big area to Floyd | the w must have once been a separate room, but the demolition crew Floyd | seems to have already taken out a wall. A living room is e. On the s Floyd | side is the front door. A Dumpster has been dumped here. Floyd | Floyd | A door to the n, leading out back, is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Were there?" | |||
| Taleslinger says, "The sign said two." | ||||
| inky says, "well, it said there were" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put weapon in dumpster" | ||||
Floyd | You put the wooden weapon into the Dumpster. Floyd | Floyd | > | D says, "I only saw the weapon" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | Jacqueline says, "Okay, we'll go back." | |||
Floyd | Floyd | Initial Lobby Floyd | The lobby of the mansion's initial floor - the one above the ground Floyd | floor - is an ordinary and fairly well-maintained room. There are some Floyd | things scrawled on the ground here, in the contractor's handwriting: Floyd | '1 object' is written to the n, while toward the other three exits on Floyd | this floor '2' is scrawled. The stairway that runs d to the foyer Floyd | turns and continues u, to the next floor. The constrained passages to Floyd | the n, e, w, and s look as if they might spell trouble. Or perhaps Floyd | they simply spell 'NEWS.' Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... verbosifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | White Wardrobe Floyd | Wee warehouse warily warded wearable wares - when wares were within. Floyd | Wan, whitewashed walls wait without woolens. Wooden, weathered Floyd | wainscoting wobbles weakly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "watch wainscoting" | ||||
Floyd | Wobbly wooden wainscoting, weathered with weary weeks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Wha? Wha? Withhold wrong words. Write wholesomely. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Wha? Wha? Wasted, worthless writ. Write well. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "wallop wainscotting" | ||||
Floyd | Whack! Wall wiggles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "waste walls" | ||||
Floyd | Words won't weld with world. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "win wainscoting" | ||||
Floyd | While wobbly, wainscot's wed with wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says (to maga), "ha ha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wiggle wainscoting" | ||||
Floyd | What? Wild, whirling words ... Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heehee" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "wretched words!" | ||||
Floyd | What? Wild, whirling words ... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "wallop wainscotting with weapon" | ||||
Floyd | Words won't weld with world. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "whack wainscoting" | ||||
Floyd | Whack! Wall wiggles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "wiggle wall" | ||||
Floyd | What? Wild, whirling words ... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "wall wainscoting" | ||||
Floyd | What? Wanton words were worked with welcome words. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "we don't actually have the weapon any more; I'm not sure if we need it or not" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "wham wall" | ||||
Floyd | (wainscot) Floyd | Whack! Wall wiggles. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh wait, we (well, I) got rid of the weapon." | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "wrench wainscotting" | ||||
Floyd | What? Wild, whirling words ... Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Why don't we go back to a save and see?" | |||
| Taleslinger says, "Yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
Floyd | Wha? Wha? Withhold wrong words. Write wholesomely. Floyd | Floyd | > | Otto says, "we can go out and get the weapon back" | |||
| D asks, "What's a wainscoting?" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "walk" | ||||
Floyd | Which way? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "withdraw" | ||||
Floyd | While withdrawing, wainscot wiggles weirdly, wavering. Floyd | Floyd | Initial Lobby Floyd | The lobby of the mansion's initial floor - the one above the ground Floyd | floor - is an ordinary and fairly well-maintained room. There are some Floyd | things scrawled on the ground here, in the contractor's handwriting: Floyd | '1 object' is written to the n, while toward the other three exits on Floyd | this floor '2' is scrawled. The stairway that runs d to the foyer Floyd | turns and continues u, to the next floor. The constrained passages to Floyd | the s, e, w, and n look as if they might spell trouble. Or perhaps Floyd | they simply spell 'SEWN.' Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... verbosifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Otto says (to D), "furnitures for the wall" | |||
| Nitku asks, "Does the dumpster destroy the objects?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It's a type of wall covering." | ||||
| inky says, "it's paneling on the wall" | ||||
| D asks, "Like a wall-mounted bureau?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | "LISTEN WELL!" a sonorous voice booms out, in attempted hollowness. Floyd | "Know ye that passage back through here is difficult for some, Floyd | impossible for others! Should you wish to transport yourself - without Floyd | your cherished possessions - out of these constrained confines, have Floyd | your controlling consciouness type the magic command: WIND!" Floyd | Floyd | White Wardrobe Floyd | Wee warehouse warily warded wearable wares - when wares were within. Floyd | Wan, whitewashed walls wait without woolens. Wooden, weathered Floyd | wainscoting wobbles weakly. Floyd | Floyd | Within: ... wooden weapon. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [ ... ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wield weapon" | ||||
Floyd | Won. Floyd | Floyd | [+5.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wallop wainscotting with weapon" | ||||
Floyd | Whack! Wall wavers. Wall wobbles wildly. Wall warps. Wall was Floyd | withholding ... weird widget! Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "aha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wield widget" | ||||
Floyd | Won. Floyd | Floyd | [+9.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Bing!" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Now down?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "withdraw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Initial Lobby Floyd | The lobby of the mansion's initial floor - the one above the ground Floyd | floor - is an ordinary and fairly well-maintained room. There are some Floyd | things scrawled on the ground here, in the contractor's handwriting: Floyd | '1 object' is written to the n, while toward the other three exits on Floyd | this floor '2' is scrawled. The stairway that runs d to the foyer Floyd | turns and continues u, to the next floor. The constrained passages to Floyd | the s, e, w, and n look as if they might spell trouble. Or perhaps Floyd | they simply spell 'SEWN.' Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... verbosifier. Floyd | Floyd | [+3.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | This is the mansion's spacious ground-floor antechamber. The wallpaper Floyd | is peeling and bits of plaster have fallen from the ceiling here and Floyd | there. There is a stairway, stable enough to ascend. The big area to Floyd | the w must have once been a separate room, but the demolition crew Floyd | seems to have already taken out a wall. A living room is e. On the s Floyd | side is the front door. A Dumpster has been dumped here. Floyd | Floyd | A door to the n, leading out back, is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "look in dumpster" | ||||
Floyd | In the Dumpster are ... evil effigy, ... earthen ewer, ... nifty nappy Floyd | and ... toy dinosaur. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put all in dumpster" | ||||
Floyd | weird widget: Done. Floyd | wooden weapon: Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Initial Lobby Floyd | The lobby of the mansion's initial floor - the one above the ground Floyd | floor - is an ordinary and fairly well-maintained room. There are some Floyd | things scrawled on the ground here, in the contractor's handwriting: Floyd | '1 object' is written to the n, while toward the other three exits on Floyd | this floor '2' is scrawled. The stairway that runs d to the foyer Floyd | turns and continues u, to the next floor. The constrained passages to Floyd | the s, e, w, and n look as if they might spell trouble. Or perhaps Floyd | they simply spell 'SEWN.' Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... verbosifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | "LISTEN WELL!" a sonorous voice booms out, in attempted hollowness. Floyd | "Know ye that passage back through here is difficult for some, Floyd | impossible for others! Should you wish to transport yourself - without Floyd | your cherished possessions - out of these constrained confines, have Floyd | your controlling consciouness type the magic command: START!" Floyd | Floyd | Sloppy Salon Floyd | Simple social space, sadly spoiled. Some skewed situation's sequel, Floyd | surely. Seemingly, slovenly students sojourned -- scraping, Floyd | scratching, scuffing surfaces. Floyd | Floyd | Stuff: ... stainless steel stapler... sizable sofa. Floyd | | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [ ... ] Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "Worked well!" | |||
| D says (to Floyd), "steal stapler" | ||||
Floyd | Seized. Floyd | Floyd | [+2.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "snatch stapler" | ||||
Floyd | Seizing superfluous. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "screen stapler" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "seize sofa" | ||||
Floyd | Sorry? Semantics shrouded ... Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Sizable sofa sits solidly, stubborn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "search sofa" | ||||
Floyd | Searching sofa seams ... some sou stuck? Sadly, sofa surface's slick. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "spy sou" | ||||
Floyd | Sorry? Semantics shrouded ... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "staple sofa" | ||||
Floyd | Stapler's sans staples. Stapling's senseless. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "see sofa" | ||||
Floyd | Sizable sofa's stuffed - softly satiated. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "see sou" | ||||
Floyd | Some sight seems suppressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "slice sofa" | ||||
Floyd | Snicker-snack! Slicing, slashing ... something sharp should serve Floyd | superiorly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "sit sofa" | ||||
Floyd | Sorry? Some superfluous sayings succeeded solid start. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "see stapler" | ||||
Floyd | Strong stainless steel surface seems smoothly solid. "Swingline," Floyd | stapler says. Serviceable, slick, sure. Sadly, stapler seems sans Floyd | staples. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "sit" | ||||
Floyd | Sit? Sure. Sofa seems suitable. Sitting ... seated. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger asks, "Is there a synonym for push?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "slide sofa" | ||||
Floyd | Shoving sofa, seated, seems some severe struggle. Shoving stymied. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "shove" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||
Floyd | ... sweet, simple sofa sojourn. So ... standing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "slide sofa" | ||||
Floyd | Shoving ... shoving ... sofa slides ... sofa shifts ... sofa Floyd | successfully shoved! Salon seems sans sofa. Floyd | Floyd | [+3.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shove sofa" | ||||
Floyd | Some sight seems suppressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||||
Floyd | Sun shines still! Sweet sunlit sphere, sincere situational striving, Floyd | solemn story session. Shirk sleep! Stir! Straighten salon! Sort seedy Floyd | structure! Succeed! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "see" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Sloppy Salon Floyd | Simple social space, sadly spoiled. Some skewed situation's sequel, Floyd | surely. Seemingly, slovenly students sojourned -- scraping, Floyd | scratching, scuffing surfaces. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Ah - slide" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing" | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "Wow, we're quick." | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "sigh" | ||||
Floyd | Sorry? Semantics shrouded ... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "save" | Taleslinger says, "i remember back when I played this I didn't understand half of these parser responses." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ddd" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Save seemed successful. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "savior" | ||||
Floyd | Sorry? Semantics shrouded ... Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Otto), "Can't save or restore in these rooms." | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "slide" | ||||
Floyd | (subject selection subsumed) Floyd | Shifting ... slid. So? Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "well, you can save in this room" | |||
| inky asks, "ok, how do we exit?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh, can you?" | ||||
| Otto says, "I tried the verb because it began with S" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I guess. heh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "saunter" | ||||
Floyd | Sure. Simply say such, specifically. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "slip" | ||||
Floyd | Sorry? Semantics shrouded ... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "salivate" | ||||
Floyd | Sorry? Semantics shrouded ... Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I know we can't go this way, but..." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "saunter south" | ||||
Floyd | Sorry. Structural surroundings stop southern striding. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heehee" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Southwest, salon's stone shell sits solidly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "sans south" | ||||
Floyd | Sorry? Semantics shrouded ... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "stop sheningans" | ||||
Floyd | Sorry? Semantics shrouded ... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sally" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Initial Lobby Floyd | The lobby of the mansion's initial floor - the one above the ground Floyd | floor - is an ordinary and fairly well-maintained room. There are some Floyd | things scrawled on the ground here, in the contractor's handwriting: Floyd | '1 object' is written to the n, while toward the other three exits on Floyd | this floor '2' is scrawled. The stairway that runs d to the foyer Floyd | turns and continues u, to the next floor. The constrained passages to Floyd | the n, e, w, and s look as if they might spell trouble. Or perhaps Floyd | they simply spell 'NEWS.' Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... sizable sofa... verbosifier. Floyd | Floyd | [+3.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Wow." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "That was a guess that I didn't expect it to recognize." | ||||
| inky says, "excellent" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "hooray" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | This is the mansion's spacious ground-floor antechamber. The wallpaper Floyd | is peeling and bits of plaster have fallen from the ceiling here and Floyd | there. There is a stairway, stable enough to ascend. The big area to Floyd | the w must have once been a separate room, but the demolition crew Floyd | seems to have already taken out a wall. A living room is e. On the s Floyd | side is the front door. A Dumpster has been dumped here. Floyd | Floyd | A door to the n, leading out back, is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put all in dumpster" | ||||
Floyd | stainless steel stapler: Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get weapon" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x weapon" | ||||
Floyd | Weighty. Whittled walnut. Warrior's worthy weapon. Floyd | Floyd | > | Otto says, "I don't understand half of the puns..." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Initial Lobby Floyd | The lobby of the mansion's initial floor - the one above the ground Floyd | floor - is an ordinary and fairly well-maintained room. There are some Floyd | things scrawled on the ground here, in the contractor's handwriting: Floyd | '1 object' is written to the north, while toward the other three exits Floyd | on this floor '2' is scrawled. The stairway that runs down to the Floyd | foyer turns and continues up, to the next floor. The constrained Floyd | passages to the north, east, west, and south look as if they might Floyd | spell trouble. Or perhaps they simply spell 'NEWS.' Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... sizable sofa... verbosifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cut sofa with weapon" | ||||
Floyd | I only caught that first part. Try truncating that command or using a Floyd | different object. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "slice sofa" | ||||
Floyd | Cutting that up would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh well" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "push sofa d" | ||||
Floyd | Is that the best you can think of? Floyd | Floyd | > | Firion says, "Wait a minute, did that say 'a door to the n?'" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sofa" | ||||
Floyd | Sizable sofa's stuffed - softly satiated. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Otto), "Actually, sally is just a really obscure word, not a pun." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search sofa" | ||||
Floyd | Searching sofa seams ... some sou stuck? Sadly, sofa surface's slick. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "push sofa" | ||||
Floyd | The sofa isn't going through any of those constrained passages, except Floyd | perhaps the one to the south. Since you worked so hard to get it out Floyd | of there, you're hardly inclined to shove it back. Floyd | Floyd | It can't be shoved down the stairs, either. Perhaps there's some way Floyd | of working it down the stairs, in its current condition. Alas, even if Floyd | there is, there's no way you can get it down there by yourself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "slide sofa" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "sit on sofa" | ||||
Floyd | I only caught that first part. Try truncating that command or using a Floyd | different object. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "sleep in sofa" | ||||
Floyd | I only caught that first part. Try truncating that command or using a Floyd | different object. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "disassemble sofa" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "Seems solvabe." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "sit" | ||||
Floyd | You sit down on the sofa. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "remove cushions" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "snore" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Initial Lobby (on the sizable sofa) Floyd | The lobby of the mansion's initial floor - the one above the ground Floyd | floor - is an ordinary and fairly well-maintained room. There are some Floyd | things scrawled on the ground here, in the contractor's handwriting: Floyd | '1 object' is written to the north, while toward the other three exits Floyd | on this floor '2' is scrawled. The stairway that runs down to the Floyd | foyer turns and continues up, to the next floor. The constrained Floyd | passages to the south, east, west, and north look as if they might Floyd | spell trouble. Or perhaps they simply spell 'SEWN.' Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... verbosifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger asks, "Obviously, we need help in getting it down. Maybe this only works later?" | |||
| inky says, "yeah, or we have to transform it or something" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Georgie?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get verbosifier" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to get off the sizable sofa first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||
Floyd | You are now standing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Antepenultimate Lobby Floyd | This lobby, allowing access to the rooms of the next-to-next-to-top Floyd | floor, is in good shape. It is very similar to the lobby below, Floyd | although the ceiling may be a bit lower. Here there are only three Floyd | passages. Two of them (to the north and east) are normal passages, but Floyd | one, to the south, is oddly constrained. It has an ominous sign above Floyd | it. The main stairway leads down, while another staircase, straight Floyd | and narrow, allows passage up to the next floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "probably that bearded guy" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sign" | ||||
Floyd | This ominous sign is tortured into the shape of an 'S.' It further Floyd | warns: "Abandon all fifth orthographic glyphs, you who walk within!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | That word has worked its magic. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of inky), "maga?" | |||
| Alex says (to Jacqueline), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that maga is maga_dogg, which is "Mr Prime Minister! What is happenin in de country is not right! People are suffering!"." | ||||
| inky says, "hee hee" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "read ominous" | ||||
Floyd | This ominous sign is tortured into the shape of an 'S.' It further Floyd | warns: "Abandon all fifth orthographic glyphs, you who walk within!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | Even the light fixture has been removed from this squarish bedroom, Floyd | which is in much better repair than most of the rest of the house. It Floyd | seems to have been freshly painted, in puce. The exit is south. Floyd | Floyd | A pig sits here calmly. He is quiet and oddly attired. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x pig" | ||||
Floyd | The pig seems extremely well-behaved, even a bit stately. He is Floyd | wearing a distinctive toga. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Okay, so... four letter words or less?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Or maybe also six letters, just not five?" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "take pig" | ||||
Floyd | The pig saunters to the side to avoid your indelicate approach. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "no, probably it's no e" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah." | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "drat" | ||||
Floyd | Quite. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get pig" | ||||
Floyd | The pig saunters to the side to avoid your indelicate approach. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oh, um." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask pig about toga" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | A distracted, bearded figure, garbed in loose clothing, blunders in. Floyd | He is looking at a newspaper article about President Clinton, Floyd | muttering, "Man of Hope, sole hope of man." Floyd | Floyd | He blunders out, using motions that seem to be exactly the reverse of Floyd | the ones he made when entering. By the time you've recovered from the Floyd | shock, you realize that he has completely disappeared. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah, get has an e, too. Man, can't believe I typed that." | |||
| Taleslinger says, "Looks like we need to word that mmo politely." | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "get pg" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "Err, more." | |||
| Nitku says, "This is not the no-e room I think." | ||||
| inky says, "we're -- right" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "gt pig" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "force floyd :)" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "tak pig" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x toga" | ||||
Floyd | Nice toga. At first glance, you might guess the pig was headed to a Floyd | fraternity party. But this is a senatorial toga, with a purple stripe. Floyd | Was it Nero or Caligula who appointed a pig to a high Roman office? At Floyd | any rate, the idea of a pig senator certainly gives a new meaning to Floyd | the phrase "pork-barreling." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "show weapon to pig" | ||||
Floyd | The pig is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "take toga" | ||||
Floyd | Human decency, and porcine decency, dictates that the pig's garment is Floyd | not suitable for anything but examination. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, it's either no e or a limit on the number of letters in a word." | |||
| D asks, "Doesn't the room usually follow its own rule? Like, if this were no-e, it wouldn't be using e's , would it?" | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "What D said." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to D), "Yeah, true." | ||||
| Nitku says, "Yes but the sign didn't point to this room. This is some other rule." | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "acquire pig" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "punish pig" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm, and there are five-letter words, too." | |||
| Jacqueline asks (of Nitku), "Oh, was it pointing to another room?" | ||||
| Jacqueline goes back to look. | ||||
| Taleslinger asks, "As you are so fixated on that, maybe we should try the s room first?" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "outz" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I dunno, maybe we need to find some kind of latin thing for the pig" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Antepenultimate Lobby Floyd | This lobby, allowing access to the rooms of the next-to-next-to-top Floyd | floor, is in good shape. It is very similar to the lobby below, Floyd | although the ceiling may be a bit lower. Here there are only three Floyd | passages. Two of them (to the n and e) are normal passages, but one, Floyd | to the s, is oddly constrained. It has an ominous sign above it. The Floyd | main stairway leads d, while another staircase, straight and narrow, Floyd | allows passage u to the next floor. Floyd | Floyd | A distracted figure blunders in, scratching at his huge beard. The man Floyd | wears loose clothing. He's reading intently from a Jean Genet novel. Floyd | He mutters, "Punk pretty soon becomes criminal. Jailed, criminal Floyd | becomes, soon, pretty punk." Floyd | Floyd | He blunders out, using motions that seem to be exactly the reverse of Floyd | the ones he made when entering. By the time you've recovered from the Floyd | shock, you realize that he has completely disappeared. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You'll never get through that constrained passage carrying that Floyd | verbosifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "drop all" | ||||
Floyd | verbosifier: Dropped. Floyd | wooden weapon: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | "LISTEN WELL!" a sonorous voice booms out, in attempted hollowness. Floyd | "Know ye that passage back through here is difficult for some, Floyd | impossible for others! Should you wish to transport yourself - without Floyd | your cherished possessions - out of these constrained confines, have Floyd | your controlling consciouness type the magic command: START!" Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | Small, shadowy, stifling study. Softwood slats (stain: sandy) Floyd | surround. Floyd | Floyd | Stuff: ... stylus. Floyd | | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "snatch stylus" | ||||
Floyd | [ ... ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "snatch stylus" | ||||
Floyd | Snagging satisfaction! Floyd | Floyd | [+3.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "sally" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Antepenultimate Lobby Floyd | This lobby, allowing access to the rooms of the next-to-next-to-top Floyd | floor, is in good shape. It is very similar to the lobby below, Floyd | although the ceiling may be a bit lower. Here there are only three Floyd | passages. Two of them (to the n and e) are normal passages, but one, Floyd | to the s, is oddly constrained. It has an ominous sign above it. The Floyd | main stairway leads d, while another staircase, straight and narrow, Floyd | allows passage u to the next floor. Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... wooden weapon... verbosifier. Floyd | Floyd | [+2.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "pshaw" | |||
| Taleslinger says, "Hmmm." | ||||
| Taleslinger asks, "What was the purpose of that room?" | ||||
| Nitku says, "No e's." | ||||
| Lucea arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Antepenultimate Lobby Floyd | This lobby, allowing access to the rooms of the next-to-next-to-top Floyd | floor, is in good shape. It is very similar to the lobby below, Floyd | although the ceiling may be a bit lower. Here there are only three Floyd | passages. Two of them (to the n and e) are normal passages, but one, Floyd | to the s, is oddly constrained. It has an ominous sign above it. The Floyd | main stairway leads d, while another staircase, straight and narrow, Floyd | allows passage u to the next floor. Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... wooden weapon... verbosifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | Even the light fixture has been removed from this squarish bedroom, Floyd | which is in much better repair than most of the rest of the house. It Floyd | seems to have been freshly painted, in puce. The exit is south. Floyd | Floyd | A pig sits here calmly. He is quiet and oddly attired. Floyd | Floyd | > | D says, "The nature of the puzzle doesn't seem obvious here" | |||
| Taleslinger says, "Perfectly puzzling." | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x pig" | ||||
Floyd | The pig seems extremely well-behaved, even a bit stately. He is Floyd | wearing a distinctive toga. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "take toga" | ||||
Floyd | Human decency, and porcine decency, dictates that the pig's garment is Floyd | not suitable for anything but examination. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "ask pig about toga" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "oink" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "pig, lend me your ears" | ||||
Floyd | The pig glances to you as you speak, but quickly looks away, as if not Floyd | understanding your language. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "ha" | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "x paint" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "pray pig" | ||||
Floyd | I only caught that first part. Try truncating that command or using a Floyd | different object. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "grunt at pig" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing practical results from your prayer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
| UndefinedEntity says, "oink" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | ... stylus Floyd | Floyd | > | D says, "Grunk pig too smart for Grunk" | |||
| olethros asks, "there is nothing in the room apart from the pig and his toga?" | ||||
| Nitku says, "Maybe the pig understands only Latin." | ||||
| olethros says, "hehe pig latin" | ||||
| olethros says, "ok let's do it" | ||||
| inky says (to olethros), "oh, right" | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), " agot ekat" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "agot ekat" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm, telephone." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pig, outhsay" | ||||
Floyd | The pig glances to you as you speak, but quickly looks away, as if not Floyd | understanding your language. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "etak igpay" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "igpay, outhsay" | ||||
Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | Although the pig lends an ear to you, he doesn't seem able, or Floyd | inclined, to carry out your request. Floyd | Floyd | [+8.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "take ig-pay" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "oh I thought pig latin was everything backwards" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "igpay, ogay outhsay" | ||||
Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | The pig glances in the direction indicated. Floyd | Floyd | The pig proceeds at a moderate gait, moving along as you asked. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "just the first letter" | |||
| olethros asks, "and a +ay at the end?" | ||||
| vimes says, "onay, ustjay ehtay irstfay illablesay" | ||||
| D asks, "So he's out of the room?" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Antepenultimate Lobby Floyd | This lobby, allowing access to the rooms of the next-to-next-to-top Floyd | floor, is in good shape. It is very similar to the lobby below, Floyd | although the ceiling may be a bit lower. Here there are only three Floyd | passages. Two of them (to the n and e) are normal passages, but one, Floyd | to the s, is oddly constrained. It has an ominous sign above it. The Floyd | main stairway leads d, while another staircase, straight and narrow, Floyd | allows passage u to the next floor. Floyd | Floyd | A pig sits here calmly. He is quiet and oddly attired. Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes also notice: ... wooden weapon... Floyd | verbosifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "pig, d" | ||||
Floyd | The pig shrugs. Perhaps you need to address him in a language he Floyd | understands. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "igpay, ogay ownday" | ||||
Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | The pig glances in the direction indicated. Floyd | Floyd | The pig proceeds at a moderate gait, moving along as you asked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Initial Lobby Floyd | The lobby of the mansion's initial floor - the one above the ground Floyd | floor - is an ordinary and fairly well-maintained room. There are some Floyd | things scrawled on the ground here, in the contractor's handwriting: Floyd | '1 object' is written to the n, while toward the other three exits on Floyd | this floor '2' is scrawled. The stairway that runs d to the foyer Floyd | turns and continues u, to the next floor. The constrained passages to Floyd | the s, e, w, and n look as if they might spell trouble. Or perhaps Floyd | they simply spell 'SEWN.' Floyd | Floyd | A pig sits here calmly. He is quiet and oddly attired. Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes also notice: ... sizable sofa. Floyd | Floyd | A distracted figure with frizzy hair blunders in. The man is clad in Floyd | loose clothing and peers at a fashion magazine he is holding open Floyd | before him. On one page are some nicely-dressed women; the facing page Floyd | has an image of some textile machine. The man mutters, partly to Floyd | himself and partly as if he were addressing the magazine, "Girls, Floyd | attractive dresses that loom here this second certainly second this Floyd | here loom that dresses attractive girls." Floyd | Floyd | He blunders out, using motions that seem to be exactly the reverse of Floyd | the ones he made when entering. By the time you've recovered from the Floyd | shock, you realize he has completely disappeared. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "lemme try" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "p" | ||||
Floyd | [p -> open] Floyd | What do you want to open? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "pig, retneay retsumpay" | ||||
Floyd | [p -> open] Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "igpay, ntereay umpsterday" | ||||
Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | The pig didn't seem to understand your request, however. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "the dumpster's on the next floor down" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "igpig, retnay retsumay" | ||||
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | This is the mansion's spacious ground-floor antechamber. The wallpaper Floyd | is peeling and bits of plaster have fallen from the ceiling here and Floyd | there. There is a stairway, stable enough to ascend. The big area to Floyd | the w must have once been a separate room, but the demolition crew Floyd | seems to have already taken out a wall. A living room is e. On the s Floyd | side is the front door. A Dumpster has been dumped here. Floyd | Floyd | A door to the n, leading out back, is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Otto says, "ah, sorry" | |||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "igpay, ntereay umpsterday" | ||||
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Initial Lobby Floyd | The lobby of the mansion's initial floor - the one above the ground Floyd | floor - is an ordinary and fairly well-maintained room. There are some Floyd | things scrawled on the ground here, in the contractor's handwriting: Floyd | '1 object' is written to the north, while toward the other three exits Floyd | on this floor '2' is scrawled. The stairway that runs down to the Floyd | foyer turns and continues up, to the next floor. The constrained Floyd | passages to the north, east, west, and south look as if they might Floyd | spell trouble. Or perhaps they simply spell 'NEWS.' Floyd | Floyd | A pig sits here calmly. He is quiet and oddly attired. Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes also notice: ... sizable sofa. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "igpay, ogay ownday" | ||||
Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | The pig glances in the direction indicated. Floyd | Floyd | The pig proceeds at a moderate gait, moving along as you asked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "igpay, ogay ownday" | ||||
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | This is the mansion's spacious ground-floor antechamber. The wallpaper Floyd | is peeling and bits of plaster have fallen from the ceiling here and Floyd | there. There is a stairway, stable enough to ascend. The big area to Floyd | the w must have once been a separate room, but the demolition crew Floyd | seems to have already taken out a wall. A living room is e. On the s Floyd | side is the front door. A Dumpster has been dumped here. Floyd | A pig sits here calmly. He is quiet and oddly attired. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A door to the n, leading out back, is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "igpay, ntereay umpsterday" | ||||
Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | The pig didn't seem to understand your request, however. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| inky says, "I guess the pig could also help with the sofa, maybe" | ||||
| Otto says, "maybe I ispelledmay it" | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "terrific thinking" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "igpay, ogay upway" | ||||
Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | The pig glances in the direction indicated. Floyd | Floyd | The pig proceeds at a moderate gait, moving along as you asked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Initial Lobby Floyd | The lobby of the mansion's initial floor - the one above the ground Floyd | floor - is an ordinary and fairly well-maintained room. There are some Floyd | things scrawled on the ground here, in the contractor's handwriting: Floyd | '1 object' is written to the north, while toward the other three exits Floyd | on this floor '2' is scrawled. The stairway that runs down to the Floyd | foyer turns and continues up, to the next floor. The constrained Floyd | passages to the north, east, west, and south look as if they might Floyd | spell trouble. Or perhaps they simply spell 'NEWS.' Floyd | Floyd | A pig sits here calmly. He is quiet and oddly attired. Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes also notice: ... sizable sofa. Floyd | Floyd | > | D says, "Pig latin for words that start with a vowel are tricky" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "igpay, aketay ofasay" | ||||
Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | Although the pig lends an ear to you, he doesn't seem able, or Floyd | inclined, to carry out your request. Floyd | Floyd | > | D says, "I don't know what enter would be" | |||
| inky says, "try 'enterway'" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sofa" | ||||
Floyd | Sizable sofa's stuffed - softly satiated. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "take sofa" | ||||
Floyd | Sizable sofa sits solidly, stubborn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nate arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push sofa down" | ||||
Floyd | Is that the best you can think of? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push sofa" | ||||
Floyd | The sofa isn't going through any of those constrained passages, except Floyd | perhaps the one to the south. Since you worked so hard to get it out Floyd | of there, you're hardly inclined to shove it back. Floyd | Floyd | It can't be shoved down the stairs, either. Perhaps there's some way Floyd | of working it down the stairs, in its current condition. Alas, even if Floyd | there is, there's no way you can get it down there by yourself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "igpay, hsupay" | ||||
Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | The pig didn't seem to understand your request, however. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "igpay, ushpay ofasay ownday" | ||||
Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | The pig didn't seem to understand your request, however. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "igpay, ateay ofasay" | ||||
Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | The pig didn't seem to understand your request, however. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x stairs" | ||||
Floyd | The stairway stands undemolished, ready to convey you in a vertical Floyd | direction. You can just type that direction, as is traditional. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "push sofa" | ||||
Floyd | The sofa isn't going through any of those constrained passages, except Floyd | perhaps the one to the south. Since you worked so hard to get it out Floyd | of there, you're hardly inclined to shove it back. Floyd | Floyd | It can't be shoved down the stairs, either. Perhaps there's some way Floyd | of working it down the stairs, in its current condition. Alas, even if Floyd | there is, there's no way you can get it down there by yourself. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, off phone." | |||
| Jacqueline tries to figure out where we are. | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put sofa on stairs" | ||||
Floyd | You need to be holding the sizable sofa before you can put it on top Floyd | of something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "take sofa" | ||||
Floyd | Sizable sofa sits solidly, stubborn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lift sofa" | ||||
Floyd | Sizable sofa sits solidly, stubborn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "gipay, shupay" | ||||
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "igpay, shupay" | ||||
Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | The pig didn't seem to understand your request, however. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "Hmm." | |||
| UndefinedEntity says (to Floyd), "shoulder sofa" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "igpay, ushpay ofasay" | ||||
Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | The pig didn't seem to understand your request, however. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "igpay, attackay ofasay" | ||||
Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | The pig didn't seem to understand your request, however. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "igpay, itsay" | ||||
Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | The pig didn't seem to understand your request, however. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "igpay, attackway ofasay" | ||||
Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | The pig didn't seem to understand your request, however. Floyd | Floyd | > | Otto asks, "what now ?" | |||
| D says, "I don't think the pig can help maneuver the sofa down the stairs" | ||||
| inky asks, "I dunno, explore some more rooms?" | ||||
| Otto asks, "are you sure this igpay could help with the sofa?" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "igpay, inthay" | ||||
Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | The pig didn't seem to understand your request, however. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "we could probably just walk the pig out of the building" | |||
| Otto says, "besides, I think I mispelled the order for him to enter the dumpster" | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "igpay, ownday" | ||||
Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | Although the pig lends an ear to you, he doesn't seem able, or Floyd | inclined, to carry out your request. Floyd | Floyd | > | D says, "yeah, let's try the dumpster again" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "igpay, ogay ownday" | ||||
Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | The pig glances in the direction indicated. Floyd | Floyd | The pig proceeds at a moderate gait, moving along as you asked. Floyd | Floyd | > | D says, "If it refuses to work we'll save him for more puzzle attempts" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | This is the mansion's spacious ground-floor antechamber. The wallpaper Floyd | is peeling and bits of plaster have fallen from the ceiling here and Floyd | there. There is a stairway, stable enough to ascend. The big area to Floyd | the w must have once been a separate room, but the demolition crew Floyd | seems to have already taken out a wall. A living room is e. On the s Floyd | side is the front door. A Dumpster has been dumped here. Floyd | A pig sits here calmly. He is quiet and oddly attired. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A door to the n, leading out back, is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "igpay, enterway umpsterday" | ||||
Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | The pig didn't seem to understand your request, however. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "igpay, limbcay umpsterday" | ||||
Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | The pig didn't seem to understand your request, however. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "igpay, etgay inway umpsterday" | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "igpay, umpjay intoway umpsterday" | ||||
Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | The pig didn't seem to understand your request, however. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | Although the pig lends an ear to you, he doesn't seem able, or Floyd | inclined, to carry out your request. Floyd | Floyd | A distracted figure with wide, glistening eyes blunders in. The Floyd | bearded man wears loose clothing and is looking at a tiny, hand-held Floyd | television set. He tunes it, then shakes his head in disgust. "Again? Floyd | 'Never Say Never Again'?" Floyd | Floyd | He blunders out, using motions that seem to be exactly the reverse of Floyd | the ones he made when entering. By the time you've recovered from the Floyd | shock, you realize he has completely disappeared. Floyd | Floyd | > | Otto asks, "maybe it's enough the pig is out isn't it?" | |||
| Nitku says, "Yeah, let's try that." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, ";We did get points." | ||||
| D says, "I guess, we'll exhaust the possibilities once we have everything else" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "igpay, ieday" | ||||
Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | The pig didn't seem to understand your request, however. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Initial Lobby Floyd | The lobby of the mansion's initial floor - the one above the ground Floyd | floor - is an ordinary and fairly well-maintained room. There are some Floyd | things scrawled on the ground here, in the contractor's handwriting: Floyd | '1 object' is written to the n, while toward the other three exits on Floyd | this floor '2' is scrawled. The stairway that runs d to the foyer Floyd | turns and continues u, to the next floor. The constrained passages to Floyd | the n, e, w, and s look as if they might spell trouble. Or perhaps Floyd | they simply spell 'NEWS.' Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... sizable sofa. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Antepenultimate Lobby Floyd | This lobby, allowing access to the rooms of the next-to-next-to-top Floyd | floor, is in good shape. It is very similar to the lobby below, Floyd | although the ceiling may be a bit lower. Here there are only three Floyd | passages. Two of them (to the n and e) are normal passages, but one, Floyd | to the s, is oddly constrained. It has an ominous sign above it. The Floyd | main stairway leads d, while another staircase, straight and narrow, Floyd | allows passage u to the next floor. Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... wooden weapon... verbosifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | Built-in shelves, now bare, line this room. All are of pitted wood, Floyd | fixed in place, with subtle grain running horizontally. The bare Floyd | shelves still sag a bit, a reminder that they long bore a heavy load Floyd | of books. There seem to be a few things left on the shelves. Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... copybook... abecedarian book... Floyd | dust casing... wee writ. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "Aw. Do not kill the piggie." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x copybook" | ||||
Floyd | This little notebook has something originally published by Town Glow Floyd | Books copied out in it. The title is "Footwords to Howl, for Solomon." Floyd | The author is Onon Gonsborg. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "I asked him to kill himselfd" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get copybook" | ||||
Floyd | A mysterious force holds the book to the built-in shelves. "Rules must Floyd | be observed in the library," says a full, sonorous voice, clearly Floyd | attempting to sound hollow. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "Allen Ginsberg, eh" | |||
| Taleslinger says, "occupy copybook" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "occupy copybook" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "rob book" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "burn books" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "f toko book" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | D asks, "Wait, what's the catch in this room?" | |||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "burn book" | ||||
Floyd | This dangerous act would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I'm not sure" | |||
| Taleslinger says, "All o." | ||||
| D asks, "Letters replaced by other letters?" | ||||
| inky says, "oh ah" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "toko book" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "With this book, it's all o's." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "toko copybook" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "got copybook" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "rob copybook" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "jolt book" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "x copybook" | ||||
Floyd | This little notebook has something originally published by Town Glow Floyd | Books copied out in it. The title is "Footwords to Howl, for Solomon." Floyd | The author is Onon Gonsborg. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "f x abecedarian book" | |||
| Taleslinger says, "Darn" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x abecedarian book" | ||||
Floyd | This book is tiny, with a total of 32 pages. It is entitled "ABC." The Floyd | author is Robert Pinsky. It seems to have been published by a Floyd | different three letters of the alphabet, FSG. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "get abc" | ||||
Floyd | A mysterious force holds the book to the built-in shelves. "Rules must Floyd | be observed in the library," says a full, sonorous voice, clearly Floyd | attempting to sound hollow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "read page 1" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to read in? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "abc" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in the abecedarian book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "consult abc about abc" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in the abecedarian book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get abc" | ||||
Floyd | A mysterious force holds the book to the built-in shelves. "Rules must Floyd | be observed in the library," says a full, sonorous voice, clearly Floyd | attempting to sound hollow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "consult abc about library" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in the abecedarian book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "consult abc about rules" | ||||
Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in the abecedarian book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "abscond with abc" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | Built-in shelves, now bare, line this room. All are of pitted wood, Floyd | fixed in place, with subtle grain running horizontally. The bare Floyd | shelves still sag a bit, a reminder that they long bore a heavy load Floyd | of books. Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... copybook... abecedarian book... Floyd | dust casing... wee writ. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x dust casing" | ||||
Floyd | This dust jacket's most obvious feature is a large lowercase "e" with Floyd | a red "no" slash-in-a-circle around it. It came off of the novel "A Floyd | Void," which is Gilbert Adair's Translation of "La Disparition." The Floyd | original French novel is apparently by George Perec, and was written Floyd | entirely without recourse to a certain frequently-used letter. The Floyd | English translation is similarly constrained. From the way the dust Floyd | jacket is folded, it seems like "A Void" - wherever that absent book Floyd | may be - is a sizable volume. Floyd | Floyd | From the looks of the dust casing, these used to be a large bug Floyd | sitting upon it, which has been completely smashed. Completely. Don't Floyd | even bother referring to the bug at this point. It's not there. It's Floyd | gone. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "heh: [LINK]" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pick up dust casing" | ||||
Floyd | Success! Taken. Floyd | Floyd | A distracted figure with a huge bushy beard blunders in. The man wears Floyd | loose clothing and has a cell phone up against his head. He takes the Floyd | cell phone from his ear and stares at it, muttering, "Hold on? Me old Floyd | silly put silly old me on hold!" Floyd | Floyd | He blunders out, using motions that seem to be exactly the reverse of Floyd | the ones he made when entering. By the time you've recovered from the Floyd | shock, you realize he has completely disappeared. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x writ" | ||||
Floyd | This is a wee piece of paper, with the title "Top Row Retort." The Floyd | author's name doesn't seem to be completely printed beneath that Floyd | title, but something that looks like "-i-- -o-t-ort" does appear Floyd | there. A busted U.S. keyboard appears on the cover. Most of the Floyd | letters have been removed from this, leaving only 'QWERTYUIOP.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tip writ" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "try writ" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pry writ" | ||||
Floyd | Success! Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | D says, "Nice" | |||
| D asks, "So that's 2 of 4 books?" | ||||
| inky says, "I don't get what the deal is for the other two books, though" | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | Built-in shelves, now bare, line this room. All are of pitted wood, Floyd | fixed in place, with subtle grain running horizontally. The bare Floyd | shelves still sag a bit, a reminder that they long bore a heavy load Floyd | of books. Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... copybook... abecedarian book. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "I thought it was 3 letter books for the abc thing." | |||
| D says (to Floyd), "examine copybook" | ||||
Floyd | This little notebook has something originally published by Town Glow Floyd | Books copied out in it. The title is "Footwords to Howl, for Solomon." Floyd | The author is Onon Gonsborg. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "cop copybook" | ||||
Floyd | Success! Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oho" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x abc" | ||||
Floyd | This book is tiny, with a total of 32 pages. It is entitled "ABC." The Floyd | author is Robert Pinsky. It seems to have been published by a Floyd | different three letters of the alphabet, FSG. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get abc" | ||||
Floyd | A mysterious force holds the book to the built-in shelves. "Look," Floyd | says a somewhat frustrated sonorous voice that has given up trying to Floyd | sound hollow, "I should make you read the hints to find out about Floyd | this, but I'm getting fed up. You have to use a command that obeys the Floyd | constraint of the text you're trying to take. Understand? Look, check Floyd | the hint file if you still don't get it. I don't really care about Floyd | that stuff myself. But I'm just the warning voice, you know. I'm not Floyd | able to let you have the damn thing, you see. If it were my choice..." Floyd | The voice trails off. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Lucea says, "heh" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "bag abc" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "I dunno, so what's the constraint?" | |||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x abc" | ||||
Floyd | This book is tiny, with a total of 32 pages. It is entitled "ABC." The Floyd | author is Robert Pinsky. It seems to have been published by a Floyd | different three letters of the alphabet, FSG. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "does it have to be alphabetical somehow?" | |||
| Otto asks, "32 pages?" | ||||
| inky asks, "or not repeat any letters, maybe?" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||||
Floyd | A mysterious force holds the book to the built-in shelves. You hear a Floyd | somewhat hollow-sounding sigh. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "yeah, I'm not sure why it's 32 and not 26" | |||
| D says, "Pinksy is some sort of poet" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pry abc" | Jacqueline asks, "I dunno, are there 32 viable 3-letter words?" | |||
Floyd | A mysterious force holds the book to the built-in shelves. You hear a Floyd | somewhat hollow-sounding sigh. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "I thought maybe 3 .3" | |||
| Jota asks, "What game is being played?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "Ad Verbum" | ||||
| Jota says, "Ah, cool." | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "Err 3 letter word, then two" | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "pry abc" | ||||
Floyd | A mysterious force holds the book to the built-in shelves. You hear a Floyd | somewhat hollow-sounding sigh. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Otto), "Ooh, good try." | |||
| Bert arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "read abc" | ||||
Floyd | The text is very short. In fact, there are only 26 words, each printed Floyd | on a page of its own. One page is occupied by a lone typographical Floyd | symbol, and a simply-presented half-title page and title page round Floyd | out the slim volume. The copyright page indicates the poem is Floyd | copyright 2000 by Robert Pinsky and appears in this virtual Floyd | environment with his permission. Floyd | Floyd | ABC Floyd | By Robert Pinsky Floyd | Floyd | Any body can die, evidently. Few Floyd | go happily, irradiating joy, Floyd | Floyd | knowledge, love. Many Floyd | need oblivion, painkillers, Floyd | quickest respite. Floyd | Floyd | Sweet time unafflicted, Floyd | various world: Floyd | Floyd | X = your zenith. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "get ab" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hum" | |||
| Otto says, "hehe, in alphabetical order" | ||||
| inky says, "I can't tell what we should do though" | ||||
| D says, "I think we form a command that contains words that a sequential alphabetically" | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "I have an idea." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Should we also type words in alphabetical order?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "abscond book" | Jacqueline says, "Gah, lag." | |||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "abc abc" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "But get it should've word." | |||
| inky says (to Jacqueline), "ok, that was a good try" | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "worked" | ||||
| Taleslinger asks, "Is the word length important?" | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "acquire book" | ||||
Floyd | Success! Taken. Floyd | Floyd | [+10.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, not if the poem is a clue." | |||
| D says, "there we go" | ||||
| inky says, "woo" | ||||
| Bert asks, "What is the actual puzzle you are trying to solve?" | ||||
| Otto says, ";)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Otto), "Hooray!" | ||||
| D says, "Good job otto" | ||||
| Bert says, "Aha. How to pick it up." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Antepenultimate Lobby Floyd | This lobby, allowing access to the rooms of the next-to-next-to-top Floyd | floor, is in good shape. It is very similar to the lobby below, Floyd | although the ceiling may be a bit lower. Here there are only three Floyd | passages. Two of them (to the n and e) are normal passages, but one, Floyd | to the s, is oddly constrained. It has an ominous sign above it. The Floyd | main stairway leads d, while another staircase, straight and narrow, Floyd | allows passage u to the next floor. Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... wooden weapon... verbosifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says (to d), "Heh" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "scores" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 74 out of a possible 100, in 229 turns. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | That word has worked its magic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get weapon" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get verbosifier" | D says, "Now let's throw this crap in the dumpster and hope we don't need rules to throw them away" | |||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | Taleslinger says, "I still think "get it" should've worked." | |||
Floyd | Floyd | Initial Lobby Floyd | The lobby of the mansion's initial floor - the one above the ground Floyd | floor - is an ordinary and fairly well-maintained room. There are some Floyd | things scrawled on the ground here, in the contractor's handwriting: Floyd | '1 object' is written to the n, while toward the other three exits on Floyd | this floor '2' is scrawled. The stairway that runs d to the foyer Floyd | turns and continues u, to the next floor. The constrained passages to Floyd | the n, e, w, and s look as if they might spell trouble. Or perhaps Floyd | they simply spell 'NEWS.' Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... sizable sofa. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | This is the mansion's spacious ground-floor antechamber. The wallpaper Floyd | is peeling and bits of plaster have fallen from the ceiling here and Floyd | there. There is a stairway, stable enough to ascend. The big area to Floyd | the w must have once been a separate room, but the demolition crew Floyd | seems to have already taken out a wall. A living room is e. On the s Floyd | side is the front door. A Dumpster has been dumped here. Floyd | Floyd | A door to the n, leading out back, is open. Floyd | Floyd | A pig sits here calmly. He is quiet and oddly attired. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | ... verbosifier Floyd | ... wooden weapon Floyd | ... abecedarian book Floyd | ... copybook Floyd | ... wee writ Floyd | ... dust casing Floyd | ... stylus Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put book in dumpster" | ||||
Floyd | You put the abecedarian book into the Dumpster. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put copybook in dumpster" | ||||
Floyd | You put the copybook into the Dumpster. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put writ in dumpster" | ||||
Floyd | You put the wee writ into the Dumpster. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put casing in dumpster" | ||||
Floyd | You put the dust casing into the Dumpster. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "But 'get it' would have been G-I, not G-H-I." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put stylus in dumpster" | ||||
Floyd | You put the stylus into the Dumpster. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | ... verbosifier Floyd | ... wooden weapon Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Maybe 'heist it' would have also worked." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put weapon in dumpster" | ||||
Floyd | You put the wooden weapon into the Dumpster. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Initial Lobby Floyd | The lobby of the mansion's initial floor - the one above the ground Floyd | floor - is an ordinary and fairly well-maintained room. There are some Floyd | things scrawled on the ground here, in the contractor's handwriting: Floyd | '1 object' is written to the north, while toward the other three exits Floyd | on this floor '2' is scrawled. The stairway that runs down to the Floyd | foyer turns and continues up, to the next floor. The constrained Floyd | passages to the north, east, west, and south look as if they might Floyd | spell trouble. Or perhaps they simply spell 'NEWS.' Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... sizable sofa. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | As you press the button, the sofa is transformed into a couch. Floyd | Floyd | Well, it might have been a divan, but the transformation is still Floyd | pretty impressive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nate disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x divan" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x couch" | ||||
Floyd | The couch is about the size that the sofa was. It looks about as Floyd | comfy, too. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | As you press the button, the couch grows slightly in size - to your Floyd | consternation - and is transformed into a daybed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x daybed" | ||||
Floyd | The daybed is actually larger than the sofa and couch were, although Floyd | it looks a bit more comfortable. That's slight consolation, since it's Floyd | going to be even harder to get it down the stairs now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | As you press the button, the daybed shifts slightly, becoming a Floyd | sofabed. Floyd | Floyd | Damn. You were hoping for an ottoman. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||
Floyd | As you press the button, the sofabed shrinks into a loveseat, which Floyd | you welcome with a smile. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x loveseat" | ||||
Floyd | Wonderfully, this loveseat is fairly small, although it looks pretty Floyd | tacky - it's a sort of pale green with white flowers. But so what? You Floyd | might manage to pick it up and get it down the stairs and into the Floyd | Dumpster. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get loveseat" | ||||
Floyd | It's not going to be easy to lift this, even though it's much smaller Floyd | now. Here's what we can try: lifting the loveseat, quickly proceeding Floyd | down the stairs with it, and setting it down directly into the Floyd | Dumpster. Sound good? | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | All right, here we go... Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | This is the mansion's spacious ground-floor antechamber. The wallpaper Floyd | is peeling and bits of plaster have fallen from the ceiling here and Floyd | there. There is a stairway, stable enough to ascend. The big area to Floyd | the west must have once been a separate room, but the demolition crew Floyd | seems to have already taken out a wall. A living room is east. On the Floyd | south side is the front door. A Dumpster has been dumped here. Floyd | Floyd | A door to the north, leading out back, is open. Floyd | Floyd | A pig sits here calmly. He is quiet and oddly attired. Floyd | You put the lovely loveseat into the Dumpster. Floyd | Floyd | Whew! Floyd | Floyd | [+5.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | ... verbosifier Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "search dumpster" | ||||
Floyd | In the Dumpster are ... lovely loveseat, ... wooden weapon, ... Floyd | stylus, ... dust casing, ... wee writ, ... copybook, ... abecedarian Floyd | book, ... stainless steel stapler, ... weird widget, ... evil effigy, Floyd | ... earthen ewer, ... nifty nappy and ... toy dinosaur. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "sweet" | |||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x verbosifier" | ||||
Floyd | This device is about the size of a Walkman, with a long antenna Floyd | extending from it and a rectangular button labeled "VERBOSIFY." Floyd | Floyd | > | D asks, "What just happened with that sofa?" | |||
| inky says, "the verbosifier apparently turns things into similar objects" | ||||
| Bert says, "They pushed some buttons and it grew and shrank until it became a loveseat." | ||||
| Bert says, "WHich was small enough to carry downstairs." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We changed it into a loveseat and got it down the stairs to the dumpster." | ||||
| D asks, "How'd that get figured out? There was a button on the sofa?" | ||||
| Bert asks, "What was the stated goal of the game?" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||
Floyd | You press the button, but nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "on the verbosifier" | |||
| D says, "Oh, using that gadget, I get it now." | ||||
| D asks, "Has anyone considered the significance of the old guy who ACTS in a palindrome when he shows up?" | ||||
| inky says, "get rid of everything in the house not nailed down" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Bert), "Take everything not nailed down and put it all in the dumpster." | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "No transforming the pig." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to D), "Well, Nick loves palindromes. But yeah, there is probably something more." | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Initial Lobby Floyd | The lobby of the mansion's initial floor - the one above the ground Floyd | floor - is an ordinary and fairly well-maintained room. There are some Floyd | things scrawled on the ground here, in the contractor's handwriting: Floyd | '1 object' is written to the n, while toward the other three exits on Floyd | this floor '2' is scrawled. The stairway that runs d to the foyer Floyd | turns and continues u, to the next floor. The constrained passages to Floyd | the s, e, w, and n look as if they might spell trouble. Or perhaps Floyd | they simply spell 'SEWN.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Antepenultimate Lobby Floyd | This lobby, allowing access to the rooms of the next-to-next-to-top Floyd | floor, is in good shape. It is very similar to the lobby below, Floyd | although the ceiling may be a bit lower. Here there are only three Floyd | passages. Two of them (to the n and e) are normal passages, but one, Floyd | to the s, is oddly constrained. It has an ominous sign above it. The Floyd | main stairway leads d, while another staircase, straight and narrow, Floyd | allows passage u to the next floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Penultimate Lobby Floyd | At this level the house is neither as broad or as long as it is on the Floyd | ground floor. There seems to only be one other room on this floor, Floyd | through a constrained double doorway to the w. One thin, unpainted Floyd | stairway leads u into darkness from here. Another one, almost as Floyd | narrow, leads d. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "cf8" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You'll never get through those constrained double doors carrying that Floyd | verbosifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "drop all" | ||||
Floyd | (verbosifier) Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | "LISTEN WELL!" a sonorous voice booms out, in attempted hollowness. Floyd | "Know ye that passage back through here is difficult for some, Floyd | impossible for others! Should you wish to transport yourself - without Floyd | your cherished possessions - out of these constrained confines, have Floyd | your controlling consciouness type the magic command: APPROACH THE Floyd | APPROACH!" Floyd | Floyd | Twin Bedroom Floyd | This is a reasonably-sized bedroom, laid out symmetrically. On the Floyd | room's centerline is a scan of two photographs, framed and affixed to Floyd | the wall. A double doorway, now bereft of doors but clearly marked Floyd | "EXIT," leads out, to the e. Floyd | Floyd | Fortunately, someone's already cleared out the twin beds. Floyd | Floyd | (The mansion, incidentally, like many adventure game houses, seems Floyd | rather inadequately supplied with bathrooms. Perhaps there are certain Floyd | adventurer functions that are better elided, though.) Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... pile of feed. Floyd | | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x pile" | ||||
Floyd | [ ... ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "x pile" | ||||
Floyd | Type the type of thing that is permitted here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "WHat's the [ ... ] mean? Presumably not that it's lavatorial." | |||
| inky says, "the feed is presumbly oats or grass or something" | ||||
| inky says, "the [ ... ] seems to happen after the first thing you type in one of these rooms, regardless of what it is" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "pile feed pile" | ||||
Floyd | Type the type of thing that is permitted here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x pile x" | ||||
Floyd | Yadda yadda. Floyd | Floyd | > | Otto says (to bert), "probably because we have to push space" | |||
| inky says, "I'm not sure if it represents hitting space or what" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pile pile" | ||||
Floyd | Further heaping cannot be done. The pile is as piled as it's going to Floyd | get. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Oh! Right, yeah." | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "examine pile" | ||||
Floyd | Type the type of thing that is permitted here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "feed feed" | ||||
Floyd | (to yourself) Floyd | You're not going to eat that feed yourself! You're not getting paid Floyd | enough to do to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | D says, "I think the trick is using a word as a noun and a verb in this room" | |||
| Bert says, "Floyd probably queues up [ ... ], and then doesn't display it until he gets a newline." | ||||
| Bert says, "And he doesn't get a newline until after you hit a key." | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Type the type of thing that is permitted here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "(But you don't know you need to hit a key because you haven't seen the [ ... ] because it's still sitting in his buffer.)" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "photo photo" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "look look" | ||||
Floyd | You assume the most debonair adventurer stance possible, glancing Floyd | around at the room as you do so, much as an assiduous adventurer Floyd | would. | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "elip pile" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Twin Bedroom Floyd | This is a reasonably-sized bedroom, laid out symmetrically. On the Floyd | room's centerline is a scan of two photographs, framed and affixed to Floyd | the wall. A double doorway, now bereft of doors but clearly marked Floyd | "EXIT," leads out, to the e. Floyd | Floyd | Fortunately, someone's already cleared out the twin beds. Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... pile of feed. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Yadda yadda. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "pile pile" | ||||
Floyd | Further heaping cannot be done. The pile is as piled as it's going to Floyd | get. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "bed bed" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "bed on bed" | ||||
Floyd | Yadda yadda. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "you're not attracted to the bed in that way" | |||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "pile pil" | ||||
Floyd | Type the type of thing that is permitted here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "heh" | |||
| Otto says, "oops sorry" | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "pile the pile" | ||||
Floyd | Further heaping cannot be done. The pile is as piled as it's going to Floyd | get. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "type the type" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "walk the walk" | ||||
Floyd | You strut around the room, walking the walk. But you haven't said Floyd | where you wish to go. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| UndefinedEntity says, "scan scan" | Bert has a guess at what needs to be done, but he's played before, so he won't say. | |||
| D says (to Floyd), "talk the talk" | ||||
Floyd | "SE. NE. OPEN WINDOW. W." you say enthusiastically, talking the talk Floyd | of an adventurer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "sit the sit" | ||||
Floyd | I only caught that first part. Try truncating that command or using a Floyd | different object. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||||
Floyd | Type the type of thing that is permitted here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "dance dance" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| UndefinedEntity says (to Floyd), ""scan scan" | ||||
Floyd | Type the type of thing that is permitted here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "feed the pile" | ||||
Floyd | Yadda yadda. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "photograph photograph" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "photograph photograpg" | ||||
Floyd | Yadda yadda. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "pile the feed" | ||||
Floyd | Type the type of thing that is permitted here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "picture the picture" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "pile the pile onto me" | ||||
Floyd | I only caught that first part. Try truncating that command or using a Floyd | different object. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I wonder if we need to get the photos somehow" | |||
| D says (to Floyd), "pile the pile into my pockets" | ||||
Floyd | I only caught that first part. Try truncating that command or using a Floyd | different object. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "scan scan" | ||||
Floyd | The scan of the two photographs is set in a frame that is actually Floyd | nailed to the wall. This is too bad, because of course you would like Floyd | to take this object. But since it is fixed to the structure, it means Floyd | the job of getting it downstairs falls to someone else. Floyd | Floyd | The photo on the left side of the scan is of a famous cello player: Yo Floyd | Yo Ma. The photo on the right depicts a man standing behind a United Floyd | Nations podium. It's Boutros Boutros Ghali. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "nice" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "take the take" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tote oat" | ||||
Floyd | Yadda yadda. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "grain" | ||||
Floyd | Yadda yadda. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "double double" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | D says, "Maybe we need the pig to eat the feed" | |||
| inky says (to D), "oho" | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "feed on feed" | ||||
Floyd | Type the type of thing that is permitted here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hm, maybe, yeah" | |||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "frame frame" | ||||
Floyd | You try to make it look as if the frame has actually committed the Floyd | murder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "frame frame" | ||||
Floyd | You make a little square out of your hands and look through it at the Floyd | frame and enclosed scan, imagining how it would look as a photograph. Floyd | It would be pretty boring. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "how do we get out of the room again?" | |||
| Bert says, "Huh, weird." | ||||
| Bert asks (of inky), "The cheat-y way or the right way?" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "exit through exit" | ||||
Floyd | Type the type of thing that is permitted here. Floyd | Floyd | > | D says, "inky, the right way hasn't bee uncovered" | |||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "door door" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "exit exit" | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "walk the walk west" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Penultimate Lobby Floyd | At this level the house is neither as broad or as long as it is on the Floyd | ground floor. There seems to only be one other room on this floor, Floyd | through a constrained double doorway to the w. One thin, unpainted Floyd | stairway leads u into darkness from here. Another one, almost as Floyd | narrow, leads d. Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... verbosifier. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "(The guy said that it might be tricky to get out, but that you could cheat and escape without your inventory with 'approach the approach'.)" | |||
| inky says, "aha" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Antepenultimate Lobby Floyd | This lobby, allowing access to the rooms of the next-to-next-to-top Floyd | floor, is in good shape. It is very similar to the lobby below, Floyd | although the ceiling may be a bit lower. Here there are only three Floyd | passages. Two of them (to the n and e) are normal passages, but one, Floyd | to the s, is oddly constrained. It has an ominous sign above it. The Floyd | main stairway leads d, while another staircase, straight and narrow, Floyd | allows passage u to the next floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Initial Lobby Floyd | The lobby of the mansion's initial floor - the one above the ground Floyd | floor - is an ordinary and fairly well-maintained room. There are some Floyd | things scrawled on the ground here, in the contractor's handwriting: Floyd | '1 object' is written to the n, while toward the other three exits on Floyd | this floor '2' is scrawled. The stairway that runs d to the foyer Floyd | turns and continues u, to the next floor. The constrained passages to Floyd | the n, e, w, and s look as if they might spell trouble. Or perhaps Floyd | they simply spell 'NEWS.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | This is the mansion's spacious ground-floor antechamber. The wallpaper Floyd | is peeling and bits of plaster have fallen from the ceiling here and Floyd | there. There is a stairway, stable enough to ascend. The big area to Floyd | the w must have once been a separate room, but the demolition crew Floyd | seems to have already taken out a wall. A living room is e. On the s Floyd | side is the front door. A Dumpster has been dumped here. Floyd | Floyd | A door to the n, leading out back, is open. Floyd | Floyd | A pig sits here calmly. He is quiet and oddly attired. Floyd | Floyd | > | D says, "Walk the walk worked before but it told me to pick a direction" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ipgay, ogay upway" | ||||
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "igpay, ogay upway" | ||||
Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | The pig glances in the direction indicated. Floyd | Floyd | The pig proceeds at a moderate gait, moving along as you asked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Initial Lobby Floyd | The lobby of the mansion's initial floor - the one above the ground Floyd | floor - is an ordinary and fairly well-maintained room. There are some Floyd | things scrawled on the ground here, in the contractor's handwriting: Floyd | '1 object' is written to the north, while toward the other three exits Floyd | on this floor '2' is scrawled. The stairway that runs down to the Floyd | foyer turns and continues up, to the next floor. The constrained Floyd | passages to the south, east, west, and north look as if they might Floyd | spell trouble. Or perhaps they simply spell 'SEWN.' Floyd | Floyd | A pig sits here calmly. He is quiet and oddly attired. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "igpay, ogay upway" | ||||
Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | The pig glances in the direction indicated. Floyd | Floyd | The pig proceeds at a moderate gait, moving along as you asked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Antepenultimate Lobby Floyd | This lobby, allowing access to the rooms of the next-to-next-to-top Floyd | floor, is in good shape. It is very similar to the lobby below, Floyd | although the ceiling may be a bit lower. Here there are only three Floyd | passages. Two of them (to the n and e) are normal passages, but one, Floyd | to the s, is oddly constrained. It has an ominous sign above it. The Floyd | main stairway leads d, while another staircase, straight and narrow, Floyd | allows passage u to the next floor. Floyd | Floyd | A pig sits here calmly. He is quiet and oddly attired. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "igpay, ogay upway" | ||||
Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | The pig glances in the direction indicated. Floyd | Floyd | The pig proceeds at a moderate gait, moving along as you asked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Penultimate Lobby Floyd | At this level the house is neither as broad or as long as it is on the Floyd | ground floor. There seems to only be one other room on this floor, Floyd | through a constrained double doorway to the west. One thin, unpainted Floyd | stairway leads up into darkness from here. Another one, almost as Floyd | narrow, leads down. Floyd | Floyd | A pig sits here calmly. He is quiet and oddly attired. Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes also notice: ... verbosifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "igpway, ogay estway" | ||||
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x pig" | ||||
Floyd | The pig seems extremely well-behaved, even a bit stately. He is Floyd | wearing a distinctive toga. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "igpay, ogay estway" | Bert says, "Yay." | |||
Floyd | The pig looks up at you with a smile, understanding the language Floyd | you're speaking. Floyd | Floyd | The pig glances in the direction indicated. Floyd | Floyd | The pig does not seem troubled by the constrained double doors west. Floyd | The pig proceeds at a moderate gait, moving along as you asked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Twin Bedroom Floyd | This is a reasonably-sized bedroom, laid out symmetrically. On the Floyd | room's centerline is a scan of two photographs, framed and affixed to Floyd | the wall. A double doorway, now bereft of doors but clearly marked Floyd | "EXIT," leads out, to the e. Floyd | Floyd | Fortunately, someone's already cleared out the twin beds. Floyd | Floyd | A pig sits here calmly. He is quiet and oddly attired. Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes also notice: ... pile of feed. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| Otto says (to D), "I don't know if it was exit exit or walk the walk which worked..." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "feed feed" | ||||
Floyd | (to pig) Floyd | The pig smiles at your polite offer of the feed and delicately (but Floyd | quickly) nibbles away at the pile, consuming all of it. Sated, the pig Floyd | departs. You hear the stately animal clopping down flight after flight Floyd | of stairs. Then the front door swings open and shut, and the sounds Floyd | are no more. Floyd | Floyd | [+6.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "yay" | |||
| Bert exclaims, "But it's not in the dumpster!" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to inky), "ITYM Yay yay" | ||||
| Otto says, "well done" | ||||
| inky says, "I'm not sure what the exact instructions were" | ||||
| D says, "Woo, there we go" | ||||
| Otto asks, "nothing more to do here ?" | ||||
| D says, "That's how we do business, two birds with one stone" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Yadda yadda. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I guess not" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "exit exit" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Penultimate Lobby Floyd | At this level the house is neither as broad or as long as it is on the Floyd | ground floor. There seems to only be one other room on this floor, Floyd | through a constrained double doorway to the w. One thin, unpainted Floyd | stairway leads u into darkness from here. Another one, almost as Floyd | narrow, leads d. Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... verbosifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "feel" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to feel? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x feel wall" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||
Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "I am surprised no one is trying the command that would have worked in the previous room." | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "light light" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh, heh" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | Otto asks, "it's a long time we haven't save isn't it?" | |||
| D says (to Floyd), "see a thing" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger asks, "Was something we picked up a lightsource?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf9" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "see thing" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I guess we could go look at the stuff in the dumpster" | |||
| Bert asks, "The combination loveseat-and-nightlight unit?" | ||||
| D says, "The robotic dog could be a lightsource" | ||||
| inky says, "oh yeah, I haven't really seen anything to get rid of the dog" | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Penultimate Lobby Floyd | At this level the house is neither as broad or as long as it is on the Floyd | ground floor. There seems to only be one other room on this floor, Floyd | through a constrained double doorway to the w. One thin, unpainted Floyd | stairway leads u into darkness from here. Another one, almost as Floyd | narrow, leads d. Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... verbosifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Antepenultimate Lobby Floyd | This lobby, allowing access to the rooms of the next-to-next-to-top Floyd | floor, is in good shape. It is very similar to the lobby below, Floyd | although the ceiling may be a bit lower. Here there are only three Floyd | passages. Two of them (to the n and e) are normal passages, but one, Floyd | to the s, is oddly constrained. It has an ominous sign above it. The Floyd | main stairway leads d, while another staircase, straight and narrow, Floyd | allows passage u to the next floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Initial Lobby Floyd | The lobby of the mansion's initial floor - the one above the ground Floyd | floor - is an ordinary and fairly well-maintained room. There are some Floyd | things scrawled on the ground here, in the contractor's handwriting: Floyd | '1 object' is written to the n, while toward the other three exits on Floyd | this floor '2' is scrawled. The stairway that runs d to the foyer Floyd | turns and continues u, to the next floor. The constrained passages to Floyd | the s, e, w, and n look as if they might spell trouble. Or perhaps Floyd | they simply spell 'SEWN.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | This is the mansion's spacious ground-floor antechamber. The wallpaper Floyd | is peeling and bits of plaster have fallen from the ceiling here and Floyd | there. There is a stairway, stable enough to ascend. The big area to Floyd | the w must have once been a separate room, but the demolition crew Floyd | seems to have already taken out a wall. A living room is e. On the s Floyd | side is the front door. A Dumpster has been dumped here. Floyd | Floyd | A door to the n, leading out back, is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "look in dumpster" | ||||
Floyd | In the Dumpster are ... lovely loveseat, ... wooden weapon, ... Floyd | stylus, ... dust casing, ... wee writ, ... copybook, ... abecedarian Floyd | book, ... stainless steel stapler, ... weird widget, ... evil effigy, Floyd | ... earthen ewer, ... nifty nappy and ... toy dinosaur. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x widget" | ||||
Floyd | Wow! Wacky, wireless widget, worked whimsically with whorls. Widget's Floyd | workings? Well ... widget wants worth. Warrantless widget! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x weapon" | ||||
Floyd | Weighty. Whittled walnut. Warrior's worthy weapon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x effigy" | ||||
Floyd | Enemy effigy. Extreme enormity evident. Execrable evildoer! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x dinosaur" | ||||
Floyd | The toy dinosaur looks like a triceratops. It is made of Floyd | injection-molded plastic, and colored the same pale, milky green all Floyd | over. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "x stylus" | ||||
Floyd | Small stylus, straight, short. Stylus shan't suit staff, studiously Floyd | scribbling symbols. Styptic stylus! Shaving scratch? Smooth stylus, Floyd | soothing sorrowful slit - salvation. Floyd | Floyd | > | D asks, "Anything we can do about the dog?" | |||
| D says, "Maybe the stylus pokes the toy dog..." | ||||
| D says, "Like a DS" | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Bert asks, "A Dog Stylus?" | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "frotz me" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Otto asks, "WHAT NOW?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "hrm" | ||||
| UndefinedEntity shrugs | ||||
| Otto says, "f help" | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "help" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ad Verbum Hints Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > Help on the Ad Verbum concept Floyd | General cluefulness Floyd | Ground floor Floyd | Initial floor Floyd | Antepenultimate floor Floyd | Penultimate floor and above Floyd | | ||||
| ReikoYukawa arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | D says, "Assuming we do have every available room solved right now, we need a light source and a way to solve the dog" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Hm, do we actually want a hint yet?" | ||||
| inky says, "one of the items in the dumpster does provide light" | ||||
| D says, "Which one" | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | This is the mansion's spacious ground-floor antechamber. The wallpaper Floyd | is peeling and bits of plaster have fallen from the ceiling here and Floyd | there. There is a stairway, stable enough to ascend. The big area to Floyd | the w must have once been a separate room, but the demolition crew Floyd | seems to have already taken out a wall. A living room is e. On the s Floyd | side is the front door. A Dumpster has been dumped here. Floyd | Floyd | A door to the n, leading out back, is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "it isn't the dog" | |||
| D says (to Floyd), "look in dumpster" | ||||
Floyd | In the Dumpster are ... lovely loveseat, ... wooden weapon, ... Floyd | stylus, ... dust casing, ... wee writ, ... copybook, ... abecedarian Floyd | book, ... stainless steel stapler, ... weird widget, ... evil effigy, Floyd | ... earthen ewer, ... nifty nappy and ... toy dinosaur. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D is a newbie. | ||||
| UndefinedEntity says (to Floyd), "light weapon" | ||||
Floyd | This dangerous act would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x widget" | ||||
Floyd | Wow! Wacky, wireless widget, worked whimsically with whorls. Widget's Floyd | workings? Well ... widget wants worth. Warrantless widget! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x widget" | ||||
Floyd | Wow! Wacky, wireless widget, worked whimsically with whorls. Widget's Floyd | workings? Well ... widget wants worth. Warrantless widget! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "take all from dumpster" | ||||
Floyd | lovely loveseat: This furniture isn't going anywhere like that. Floyd | wooden weapon: Removed. Floyd | stylus: Removed. Floyd | dust casing: Removed. Floyd | wee writ: Removed. Floyd | copybook: Removed. Floyd | abecedarian book: Removed. Floyd | stainless steel stapler: Removed. Floyd | weird widget: Removed. Floyd | evil effigy: Removed. Floyd | earthen ewer: Removed. Floyd | nifty nappy: Removed. Floyd | toy dinosaur: Removed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Initial Lobby Floyd | The lobby of the mansion's initial floor - the one above the ground Floyd | floor - is an ordinary and fairly well-maintained room. There are some Floyd | things scrawled on the ground here, in the contractor's handwriting: Floyd | '1 object' is written to the n, while toward the other three exits on Floyd | this floor '2' is scrawled. The stairway that runs d to the foyer Floyd | turns and continues u, to the next floor. The constrained passages to Floyd | the n, e, w, and s look as if they might spell trouble. Or perhaps Floyd | they simply spell 'NEWS.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Antepenultimate Lobby Floyd | This lobby, allowing access to the rooms of the next-to-next-to-top Floyd | floor, is in good shape. It is very similar to the lobby below, Floyd | although the ceiling may be a bit lower. Here there are only three Floyd | passages. Two of them (to the n and e) are normal passages, but one, Floyd | to the s, is oddly constrained. It has an ominous sign above it. The Floyd | main stairway leads d, while another staircase, straight and narrow, Floyd | allows passage u to the next floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Penultimate Lobby Floyd | At this level the house is neither as broad or as long as it is on the Floyd | ground floor. There seems to only be one other room on this floor, Floyd | through a constrained double doorway to the w. One thin, unpainted Floyd | stairway leads u into darkness from here. Another one, almost as Floyd | narrow, leads d. Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... verbosifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Ultimate Level Floyd | This is the mansion's top floor. The whole level, barely illuminated Floyd | in the pale, milky glow of the toy dinosaur, is one large room. It Floyd | seems partially finished, like an attic. Fiberglass insulation bulges Floyd | between bare boards. There are no windows. A stairway leads d. Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... manual. Floyd | Floyd | [+5.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says, "sure I guess why not" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "aha" | ||||
| UndefinedEntity asks, "?" | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "Oh, the dinosaur." | ||||
| inky says, "(it's glow-in-the-dark, right)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to UE), "The dinosaur glows in the dark." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x insulation" | ||||
Floyd | The insulation is pink, sort of fuzzy, and with a strange sort of Floyd | medical or metallic glitter. An outfit made of this material might Floyd | serve as fetishwear for a Sesame Street character. Floyd | Floyd | > | UndefinedEntity giggles | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get insulation" | ||||
Floyd | You lose your grip on the insulation as you attempt to pull out a bit. Floyd | It doesn't look like it can be taken, in this case. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get manual" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x manual" | ||||
Floyd | This slim pamphlet is a manual for the "Model 220 Verbosifier." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read manual" | ||||
Floyd | Alongside some diagrams of the very simple verbosifier device, which Floyd | seem rather unnecessary, there is this text: "The Model 220 Floyd | Verbosifier is calibrated to work on a wide variety of furniture. Floyd | Standing in the same room with the furniture that requires Floyd | verbosification should suffice, as the fixed antenna provides a range Floyd | of about twenty feet to either side. To verbosify nearby furniture, Floyd | simply press the button. Floyd | Floyd | Only the usual sort of maintenance for consumer electronic devices Floyd | should be required, if the device does not have a large enough store Floyd | of energy to continue functioning. Instructions for such maintenance Floyd | are completely transcribed below, albeit with different punctuation." Floyd | Floyd | There is indeed a short line of text below, but it looks rather odd: Floyd | "Not tub'll up. A: All economy, U. B: ..." Floyd | Floyd | > | Otto asks, "maybe we could use the verbosifier on the dog?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh gosh, yeah." | ||||
| Taleslinger asks, "Tub as in bathtub?" | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "oh, wait, it" | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "'s backwards." | ||||
| inky says, "buymonocellaapullbutton" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Hm, but there's no bathroom, right?" | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "Buy mono cell. A a pull button" | ||||
| Taleslinger asks, "A apull button?" | ||||
| Otto says, "ah, no it's only for furniture" | ||||
| * ReikoYukawa has joined the channel. | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Is it in code?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 90 out of a possible 100, in 333 turns. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says (to Reiko), "Hello!" | |||
| D asks, "I guess we insult the dog?" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Penultimate Lobby Floyd | At this level the house is neither as broad or as long as it is on the Floyd | ground floor. There seems to only be one other room on this floor, Floyd | through a constrained double doorway to the w. One thin, unpainted Floyd | stairway leads u into darkness from here. Another one, almost as Floyd | narrow, leads d. Floyd | Floyd | Your object-sensitive eyes notice: ... verbosifier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "get verbosifier" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "pull botton" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "pull button" | D says, "We had to one-up disosaur kid, so why not the dog" | |||
Floyd | The button slides out with some effort on your part - a spring seems Floyd | to be holding it in. The cylinder revealed by this operation is the Floyd | verbosifier's battery compartment. The single AA cell inside falls out Floyd | onto the floor. You release the button, letting the compartment close Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ReikoYukawa asks, "hi?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get aa" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x aa" | ||||
Floyd | It's a shiny PowerTreat-brand AA cell. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "maybe the dog will eat it" | |||
| Taleslinger says, "Give that to the dog, and it explodes!" | ||||
| D asks, "Oh, we feed the dog the battery then?" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Antepenultimate Lobby Floyd | This lobby, allowing access to the rooms of the next-to-next-to-top Floyd | floor, is in good shape. It is very similar to the lobby below, Floyd | although the ceiling may be a bit lower. Here there are only three Floyd | passages. Two of them (to the n and e) are normal passages, but one, Floyd | to the s, is oddly constrained. It has an ominous sign above it. The Floyd | main stairway leads d, while another staircase, straight and narrow, Floyd | allows passage u to the next floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Initial Lobby Floyd | The lobby of the mansion's initial floor - the one above the ground Floyd | floor - is an ordinary and fairly well-maintained room. There are some Floyd | things scrawled on the ground here, in the contractor's handwriting: Floyd | '1 object' is written to the n, while toward the other three exits on Floyd | this floor '2' is scrawled. The stairway that runs d to the foyer Floyd | turns and continues u, to the next floor. The constrained passages to Floyd | the s, e, w, and n look as if they might spell trouble. Or perhaps Floyd | they simply spell 'SEWN.' Floyd | Floyd | > | Otto says, "good idea" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | This is the mansion's spacious ground-floor antechamber. The wallpaper Floyd | is peeling and bits of plaster have fallen from the ceiling here and Floyd | there. There is a stairway, stable enough to ascend. The big area to Floyd | the w must have once been a separate room, but the demolition crew Floyd | seems to have already taken out a wall. A living room is e. On the s Floyd | side is the front door. A Dumpster has been dumped here. Floyd | Floyd | A door to the n, leading out back, is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Wordplayground Floyd | Here's a sort of small, enclosed backyard, closed in with a high Floyd | wooden fence and completely covered with asphalt. Floyd | Floyd | A door to the s, leading inside, is open. Floyd | Floyd | There's one of those robotic puppies - the latest fad - here. Floyd | Floyd | The puppy quips: "Your momma got interested in Infocom games 'cause Floyd | she thought there was one called 'Witless.'" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "give battery to dog" | ||||
Floyd | Yips of pleasure sound as the robot puppy take the AA cell and chews Floyd | on it playfully. Floyd | Floyd | The robot puppy rolls about happily, chewing on the AA cell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "take puppy" | ||||
Floyd | The robotic puppy is endowed with locomotive abilities that are as Floyd | quick and random as its prepackaged wit. It scuttles away from you Floyd | quickly. Floyd | Floyd | The robot puppy rolls about happily, chewing on the AA cell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "puppy, s" | ||||
Floyd | The puppy doesn't seem to notice you speaking to it. Perhaps this Floyd | cut-rate model doesn't accept voice commands or queries. Floyd | Floyd | The robot puppy rolls about happily, chewing on the AA cell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "kick puppy" | ||||
Floyd | The robotic puppy is endowed with locomotive abilities that are as Floyd | quick and random as its prepackaged wit. It scuttles away from you Floyd | quickly. Floyd | Floyd | The robot puppy rolls about happily, chewing on the AA cell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | ... verbosifier Floyd | ... manual Floyd | ... toy dinosaur Floyd | ... nifty nappy Floyd | ... earthen ewer Floyd | ... evil effigy Floyd | ... weird widget Floyd | ... stainless steel stapler Floyd | ... abecedarian book Floyd | ... copybook Floyd | ... wee writ Floyd | ... dust casing Floyd | ... stylus Floyd | ... wooden weapon Floyd | Floyd | The robot puppy rolls about happily, chewing on the AA cell. Floyd | Floyd | > | UndefinedEntity asks, "something like a remote control?" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "take cell" | ||||
Floyd | After a bit of effort, you wrest the AA cell from the puppy's robotic Floyd | mouth. The puppy yips at you playfully. Floyd | Floyd | The robot puppy yips and bounds about near you without taunting you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "show cell to puppy" | ||||
Floyd | The robot puppy yips gleefully and bounds in your direction at the Floyd | sight of the shiny AA cell you are holding out. Floyd | Floyd | The robot puppy yips and bounds about near you without taunting you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "throe cell s" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "throw cell s" | ||||
Floyd | I only caught that first part. Try truncating that command or using a Floyd | different object. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "aha, nice" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | This is the mansion's spacious ground-floor antechamber. The wallpaper Floyd | is peeling and bits of plaster have fallen from the ceiling here and Floyd | there. There is a stairway, stable enough to ascend. The big area to Floyd | the w must have once been a separate room, but the demolition crew Floyd | seems to have already taken out a wall. A living room is e. On the s Floyd | side is the front door. A Dumpster has been dumped here. Floyd | Floyd | A door to the n, leading out back, is open. Floyd | Floyd | There's one of those robotic puppies - the latest fad - here. Floyd | Floyd | The robot puppy yips and bounds about near you without taunting you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put aa cell in dumpster" | ||||
Floyd | The puppy hops into the Dumpster, chasing the AA cell. Robot jaws Floyd | clamp upon the shiny treat happily. The puppy settles down in the Floyd | Dumpster to play with the AA cell. Floyd | Floyd | The puppy is now busy chewing on the AA cell in the Dumpster. Floyd | Floyd | [+10.] Floyd | Floyd | > | UndefinedEntity says, "ha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 100 out of a possible 100, in 351 turns. Floyd | Floyd | > | D says, "The end" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put all in dumpster" | ||||
Floyd | verbosifier: Done. Floyd | manual: Done. Floyd | toy dinosaur: Done. Floyd | nifty nappy: Done. Floyd | earthen ewer: Done. Floyd | evil effigy: Done. Floyd | weird widget: Done. Floyd | stainless steel stapler: Done. Floyd | abecedarian book: Done. Floyd | copybook: Done. Floyd | wee writ: Done. Floyd | dust casing: Done. Floyd | stylus: Done. Floyd | wooden weapon: Floyd | You place the last loose object into the Dumpster and feel a rush of Floyd | triumph. In a while, no doubt, the contractor will show up and pay you Floyd | for your labor. Meanwhile, since you've helped to demolish the Floyd | Wizard's domicile, you think that at the very least you can craft some Floyd | constrained compositions and help propagate the playfulness of Floyd | language. You scratch your chin and start putting some words together Floyd | in your mind ... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have won *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 100 out of a possible 100, in 351 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Lucea says, "yay" | |||
| D says, "Awesome" | ||||
| inky says, "nice" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "full" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 100 out of a possible 100, in 351 turns. Floyd | Floyd | The score was made up as follows: Floyd | Floyd | 2 Opening up up up a door. Floyd | 10 Winning a toy dinosaur. Floyd | 10 Getting the robot puppy into the Dumpster. Floyd | 1 Eatery exit. Floyd | 4 Ewer & effigy expropriation. Floyd | 3 Salon skedaddling. Floyd | 2 Stapler seizing. Floyd | 3 Sofa shoving. Floyd | 5 Disposing of the verbosified sofa. Floyd | 3 Wardrobe withdrawing. Floyd | 5 Weapon winning. Floyd | 9 Wainscoting whacking & widget winning. Floyd | 5 Nursery navigation. Floyd | 3 Nappy nabbing. Floyd | 10 Taking the books, according to the rules. Floyd | 3 Studiously snagging stylus. Floyd | 2 Study splitting. Floyd | 8 Correctly addressing a pig. Floyd | 6 Managing to feed feed to the pig. Floyd | 5 Illuminating the attic with a glowing dinosaur. Floyd | 1 Helping the Wizard with a well-chosen magic word. Floyd | Floyd | 100 total (out of 100) Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hooray" | |||
| ReikoYukawa says, "guess I missed most of it then" | Otto says, "it was a funny game :)" | |||
| D says, "A nice puzzlefest" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Are we up for a quick silly game along these same lines?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "This is reminding me of a speed IF game maga and I wrote." | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "Extremely entertaining. Playfully puzzling. Awesome Art. etc." | ||||
| Firion asks, "What game?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But inky or Bert would have to upload it, as I don't think Floyd has it." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Firion), "Things." | ||||
| inky asks, "sure, what is it?" | ||||
| inky says, "or where is it, I guess" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of inky), "Things... need a link?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "One sec." | ||||
| Jacqueline | [LINK ] | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "i never would've been able to solve the pig latin thing on me own." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "list t" | Jacqueline says, "The premise for this speed was to limit the number of nouns used." | |||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | > | D says, "That pig latin thing was a good idea, whoever noticed that" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "list t" | ||||
| Floyd says (to inky), "tangle tapestry tatctae tdragon tempest temple tenuous the_one theatre thedayishothitler thief timeout tk1 toonesia tortoise tow11 towerofbeef transfer trip triune troll tryst205 ttl tube" | Jacqueline says, "Speed Premise: Someone (or an animal) has swallowed something important! Bonus points for limiting the number of nouns used! Super-bonus points for using five nouns or less!" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "load thing" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | tadsr - A text-only TADS 2.5.10 Interpreter. Floyd | Copyright (c) 1993, 2006 by Michael J. Roberts. Floyd | Floyd | THINGS Floyd | a SpeedIF >= 20 entry (as few nouns as possible) Floyd | by Sam Kabo Ashwell and Jacqueline Lott Floyd | Floyd | Mountainous Pretty Encompassing Thing Floyd | All around you, mountainous unimplemented things rise up into the Floyd | lofty heavenly unimplemented thing. Beneath your pedal things, the Floyd | well-worn linear pedestrian unimplemented thing descends into the Floyd | lower geographically interstitial unimplemented thing. Nestled among Floyd | the rocky unimplemented things, a notably implemented rustic wooden Floyd | structural sheltering thing awaits. It looks promisingly warm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "implement things" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "implement". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sky" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "sky". Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger has a swimming head. | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x unimplemented thing" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "unimplemented". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | But the damn thing's locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pedal" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "pedal". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "open thing" | ||||
Floyd | Which thing do you mean, the locking / unlocking thing, the manual Floyd | insulating things, the short vegetable thing, or yourself? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "locking" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know how to open the locking / unlocking thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x structural thing" | ||||
Floyd | Within this wooden structural sheltering thing you know there to be Floyd | essential things, including soft horizontal things to sleep upon, Floyd | warming things and (most importantly) potable alcoholic things. Yet Floyd | it is locked against you. Floyd | Floyd | Around its lower structural thing, interesting short vegetable things Floyd | grow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "turn verbose off ! ;)" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand the punctuation ")". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a locking / unlocking thing and manual insulating things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "unlock thing with locking thing" | ||||
Floyd | Which thing do you mean, the locking / unlocking thing, the manual Floyd | insulating things, the rustic wooden structural sheltering thing, the Floyd | short vegetable thing, or yourself? | ||||
| UndefinedEntity says (to Floyd), "vegetable" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | I don't know how to unlock the short vegetable thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| ReikoYukawa says, "this reminds me a bit of Legion" | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "wear manual insulating things" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "things". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a locking / unlocking thing and manual insulating things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Otto says (to Floyd), "wear manual insulating thing" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now wearing the manual insulating things. Floyd | Floyd | > | D says, "Gloves I assume" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes." | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Mountainous Pretty Encompassing Thing Floyd | All around you, mountainous unimplemented things rise up into the Floyd | lofty heavenly unimplemented thing. Beneath your pedal things, the Floyd | well-worn linear pedestrian unimplemented thing descends into the Floyd | lower geographically interstitial unimplemented thing. Nestled among Floyd | the rocky unimplemented things, a notably implemented rustic wooden Floyd | structural sheltering thing awaits. It looks promisingly warm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "unlock sheltering thing with unlocking thing" | ||||
Floyd | Your manual things are so cold from the mountainous atmospheric thing Floyd | that on attempting to unlock the wooden structural thing, you fumble Floyd | the locking / unlocking thing and it falls to the flat underfoot Floyd | things. Floyd | Floyd | A triumphant trilling auditory thing breaks the pristine absence of Floyd | other auditory things, and a hoary sciuromorphic thing appears! With Floyd | shiny optical things of evil, it pounces upon your locking / unlocking Floyd | thing and ingests it forthwith! Floyd | Floyd | Oh no! Socially inappropriate verbal thing! How ever will you, the Floyd | bold adventurous protagonistic thing, retrieve your locking / Floyd | unlocking thing? Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "man, sciuromorphic" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Heh. Yeah. A marmot." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I love marmots." | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "hahahahaha, socially inappropriate verbal thing!" | ||||
| D says, "Unfair, I was wearing the gloves" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit sciuromorphic thing with vegetable thing" | ||||
Floyd | Attacking the hoary sciuromorphic thing doesn't appear productive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw vegetable thing at sciuromorphic thing" | ||||
Floyd | You can't throw the short vegetable thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "take vegetable thing" | ||||
Floyd | You pluck a relatively small thing of the vegetable things. You now Floyd | have a plucked herbal thing! Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "That's a good way to curse" | |||
| D says (to Floyd), "examine hoary" | ||||
Floyd | A furry, cute yet dastardly sciuromorphic thing, which has lately Floyd | swallowed your prized thing by which locked things are rendered Floyd | unlocked (and vice versa). It is notably hoary. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "give vegatable thing to hoary thing" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "vegatable". Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger asks, "What was the error message, or did it just print it in the room?" | |||
| D says (to Floyd), "give vegetable thing to hoary thing" | ||||
Floyd | You're not carrying the short vegetable thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "OOps, Ilaw" | |||
| D says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have manual insulating things (being worn) and a plucked herbal Floyd | thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "give herbal thing to hoary thing" | ||||
Floyd | You seize the hoary sciuromorphic thing and force the herbal things Floyd | into its oral thing! You hold its struggling furry corporeal thing Floyd | against your corporeal thing and stroke its tubular peristaltic thing Floyd | until it swallows. As you release it, it viciously bites your manual Floyd | thing! Ow! Floyd | Floyd | The hoary sciuromorphic thing trills nauseously. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | I don't see what you're referring to. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "x hoary thing" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x hoary thing" | ||||
Floyd | A furry, cute yet dastardly sciuromorphic thing, which has lately Floyd | swallowed your prized thing by which locked things are rendered Floyd | unlocked (and vice versa). It is notably hoary. Floyd | Floyd | The hoary sciuromorphic thing looks a little queasy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | Eww! The hoary sciuromorphic thing violently defecates! Your locking Floyd | / unlocking thing is returned, albeit somewhat icky! Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "ha ha ha" | |||
| Taleslinger says, "ewww" | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "take unlocking thing" | ||||
Floyd | You carefully retrieve the locking / unlocking thing, and thoughtfully Floyd | wipe your manual insulating things on the hoary sciumorphic thing Floyd | afterwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "How did you guys produce 500 lines of scrollback during a fifteen minute phone call? (skim skim skim...)" | |||
| D says (to Floyd), "unlock shelter thing with unlocking thing" | ||||
Floyd | Once again you insert the locking / unlocking thing into the thing Floyd | which was made to accept it, and carefully unlock it. The flat wooden Floyd | thing sealing the thing by which you may enter swings aside, its Floyd | articulated metal things creaking! Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger looks up hoary. | |||
| inky says, "we went up and down a lot of stairs" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | An emotionally satisfying thing swells in your metaphysical personal Floyd | thing as you stride through the thing for entering or exiting the Floyd | rustic structural thing. You light and stoke the heating thing, crack Floyd | open a glass thing containing alcholic things, kick off your pedal Floyd | insulating things, collapse onto the horizontal soft thing and rest. Floyd | Floyd | After a relaxing slumbrous thing, you awake refreshed and warm, and Floyd | continue merrily on your ambulatory thing through the mountainous Floyd | things. Hooray, you win the interactive thing! Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, quit, or undo the current Floyd | command. Floyd | Floyd | enter RESTORE, RESTART, QUIT, or UNDO: > | inky says (to Taleslinger), "it's like loose" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "There were two endings, fwiw." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But you guys got the good ending." | ||||
| inky says, "man" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "man?" | ||||
| Alex says (to Jacqueline), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that The Man is opressive." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Alex), "heh" | ||||
| Alex exclaims (at Jacqueline), "Awwwk! You're a great crowd! I'll be here all night -- try the tarte au chocolat aux cork nuts!" | ||||
| inky says, "oh, just, like, man, multi-ending speedif" | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "Okay, find the bad ending thing!" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||
Floyd | THINGS Floyd | a SpeedIF >= 20 entry (as few nouns as possible) Floyd | by Sam Kabo Ashwell and Jacqueline Lott Floyd | Floyd | Mountainous Pretty Encompassing Thing Floyd | All around you, mountainous unimplemented things rise up into the Floyd | lofty heavenly unimplemented thing. Beneath your pedal things, the Floyd | well-worn linear pedestrian unimplemented thing descends into the Floyd | lower geographically interstitial unimplemented thing. Nestled among Floyd | the rocky unimplemented things, a notably implemented rustic wooden Floyd | structural sheltering thing awaits. It looks promisingly warm. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Want to find it, or want me to show it?" | |||
| Taleslinger asks, "How hard is it?" | ||||
| D says, "It should have said "The ending thing" instead of The End XD" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Not hard, really." | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "You may restore a saved thing" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a locking / unlocking thing and manual insulating things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| D says (to Floyd), "put unlocking thing in manual thing" | ||||
Floyd | You can't put anything into the manual insulating things. Floyd | Floyd | > | D says, "Lies" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "unlock sheltering thing with unlocking thing" | ||||
Floyd | Your manual things are so cold from the mountainous atmospheric thing Floyd | that on attempting to unlock the wooden structural thing, you fumble Floyd | the locking / unlocking thing and it falls to the flat underfoot Floyd | things. Floyd | Floyd | A triumphant trilling auditory thing breaks the pristine absence of Floyd | other auditory things, and a hoary sciuromorphic thing appears! With Floyd | shiny optical things of evil, it pounces upon your locking / unlocking Floyd | thing and ingests it forthwith! Floyd | Floyd | Oh no! Socially inappropriate verbal thing! How ever will you, the Floyd | bold adventurous protagonistic thing, retrieve your locking / Floyd | unlocking thing? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There is no way to prevent the marmot from stealing the key, by the way, that was a required constraint of the Speed IF." | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "take herbal thing" | ||||
Floyd | You pluck a relatively small thing of the vegetable things. You now Floyd | have a plucked herbal thing! Floyd | Floyd | > | D asks, "We can't swallow and defecate the key ourselves?" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "give herbal thing to hoary thing" | ||||
Floyd | You seize the hoary sciuromorphic thing and force the herbal things Floyd | into its oral thing! You hold its struggling furry corporeal thing Floyd | against your corporeal thing and stroke its tubular peristaltic thing Floyd | until it swallows. As you release it, it viciously bites your manual Floyd | thing! Ow! Floyd | Floyd | The hoary sciuromorphic thing trills nauseously. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to D), "Um, no. Heh. I don't think we thought of that." | |||
| Bert says, "(Ah, by winning, that's how...)" | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "eat hoary thing" | ||||
Floyd | The hoary sciuromorphic thing doesn't appear appetizing. Floyd | Floyd | The hoary sciuromorphic thing looks a little queasy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | Eww! The hoary sciuromorphic thing violently defecates! Your locking Floyd | / unlocking thing is returned, albeit somewhat icky! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "take unlocking thing" | ||||
Floyd | Blech! You got hoary sciuromorphic thing exretatory thing all over Floyd | your manual things! But at least you got your locking / unlocking Floyd | thing back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "unlock sheltering thing" | ||||
Floyd | Once again you insert the locking / unlocking thing into the thing Floyd | which was made to accept it, and carefully unlock it. The flat wooden Floyd | thing sealing the thing by which you may enter swings aside, its Floyd | articulated metal things creaking! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | An emotionally satisfying thing swells in your metaphysical personal Floyd | thing as you stride through the thing for entering or exiting the Floyd | rustic structural thing. You light and stoke the heating thing, crack Floyd | open a glass thing containing alcholic things, kick off your pedal Floyd | insulating things, collapse onto the horizontal soft thing and rest. Floyd | Floyd | Your osseous, somewhat stinky organic things are discovered many Floyd | chronological things later. Infected sciuromorphic dentally piercing Floyd | things work fast. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, quit, or undo the current Floyd | command. Floyd | Floyd | enter RESTORE, RESTART, QUIT, or UNDO: > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x exretatory thing" | ||||
Floyd | enter RESTORE, RESTART, QUIT, or UNDO: > | Jacqueline says, "There you go." | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Wearing the gloves in the first playthrough prevented the infected marmot bite." | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "I knew that my extensive knowledge of marmot shit would come in handy one day." | ||||
| inky says, "we died because it bit our finger? or because we didn't -- aha" | ||||
| DavidW arrives, full of fun and funk. | Taleslinger says, ""Happy Birthday, DW." | |||
| DavidW says, "thanks" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway, fun diurnal thing of wordy IF things." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Happy birthday to both DavidW and maga." | ||||
| DavidW says, "thank you" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, didn't mean to say that just to DW. heh" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Did you guys win Ad Verbum?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "We did, yeah." | ||||
| DavidW says, "yay" | ||||
| Otto says, "yes we did. And we won Things as well :)" | ||||
| Jacqueline gets to work on the transcript... | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to maga), "Yes, Happy birthday to you too." | ||||
| DavidW says, "ooh" | ||||
| D says, "The Absolute Conclusive Definitive Thing" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, next week we're doing Glowgrass, right?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "That was what we decided last week?" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to jacq), "Accurate assumption." | ||||
| inky says, "sure, that'd be good" | ||||
[ TOP OF THIS PAGE | MORE CLUBFLOYD TRANSCRIPTS | HOME ]
