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| DavidW hollers, "ClubFloyd in 5 minutes!" | |||||
| DavidW arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | |||||
| OliverU arrives, full of fun and funk. | |||||
| DavidW says, "howdy" | |||||
| OliverU asks, "Hi there. May I watch?" | |||||
| DavidW says, "Sure. You'll want to @join #clubfloyd if you haven't already to see the chat." | |||||
| Lucea arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | |||||
| DavidW says, "Floyd himself talks out loud here, but the rest of us keep our discussion on the #clubfloyd channel. Jacqueline likes her transcripts to be orderly." | * OliverU has joined the channel. | ||||
| OliverU says, "Okay, I joined." | |||||
| OliverU says, "Test, Test, eins, zwei, drei." | |||||
| DavidW says, "hi. Jacqueline can't be here today, so I'm hosting today's session. I understand Taleslinger won't be here either." | |||||
| Lucea disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | |||||
| DavidW asks, "hm. Not exactly a crowd today, are we?" | |||||
| OliverU says, "Not really, I guess. How many people join in usually?"" | Fang says (to OliverU), "something seems wrong, your words are coming out as german" | ||||
| OliverU says, "Oh no! Let me check ..." | |||||
| DavidW says, "At least 3. Sometimes up to 6." | OliverU says, "Test, test, one two three ..." | ||||
| Fang exclaims, "now your german is coming out as english!" | |||||
| DavidW says, "We seem to be missing participants for ClubFloyd today." | |||||
| Lucea says, "I'd join but I have no idea what's going on this afternoon" | |||||
| Fang asks, "Well, Jacq is missing, right?" | |||||
| Lucea says, "(in real life, not club floyd)" | |||||
| crumple says, "i am on my birthday productivity kick, so can't participate." | |||||
| DavidW says (to Fang), "Jacqueline can'" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Fang), "Jacqueline can't be here today, so I offered to fill in for today's session." | |||||
| Ben arrives, ready to play with the toys. | DavidW says, "But if everyone's busy today, we can postpone until next Sunday." | ||||
| OliverU says, "Like xyzzy? A new trend? Cool." | |||||
| DavidW says (to OliverU), "Different reasons, same result." | |||||
| Fang asks, "it's cool to be late?" | |||||
| DavidW says, "I dunno." | |||||
| OliverU asks, "It actually is. I just arrived here for last week's session, you know?" | |||||
| DavidW says, "ah." | |||||
| DavidW says, "well, I don't see this working with this few people." | |||||
| Ben asks, "DavidW, did you manage to actually get in contact with Jacq?" | |||||
| Ben says, "I was wondering what happened to her." | |||||
| OliverU asks, "What game did you choose for this session?" | |||||
| Ben erases whatever was written on the cube. | DavidW says (to Ben), "I don't think anything 'happened' to her, did it? I just read the bb posting saying she'd be awake until a later date." | ||||
| DavidW says, "er , away" | |||||
| Ben writes 'the 'the cube' cube' on the cube. | DavidW says, "I'd chosen The Mind Electric." | ||||
| OliverU exclaims, "A that one! A real classic!" | |||||
| OliverU says, "(Never heard about it, sorry.)" | |||||
| DavidW asks, "well, should we postpone or just go with the three of us?" | |||||
| DavidW asks (of OliverU), "You said you just wanted to watch, right?" | |||||
| Ben says, "I think we might as well go ahead -- it's not like we're going to run out of games." | |||||
| OliverU says, "I won't mind to come back next week." | |||||
| DavidW says (to Ben), "I just want to make sure I'm not playing solo." | |||||
| DavidW says, "I'm half asleep here." | |||||
| OliverU says, "I wouldn't be of much help, anyway." | |||||
| DavidW says, "I'd really prefer starting at 3pm not 2pm." | |||||
| Ben says, "I dunno, I guess." | |||||
| DavidW says, "I suppose we can start it and see if we explode or something." | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load mindelec" | |||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [pausing to show unread error message] | |||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | |||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | [Press any key to begin] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Kaden finally realized you were spying and locked your mind essence Floyd | in a digital cell. Normally the Kaden would already be at work Floyd | analyzing your mind to run the loyalty transfer program, but you Floyd | haven't felt anything at all in the last five hours. The delay is Floyd | unnerving, since the mind can survive in virtual space for a limited Floyd | amount of time before it destroys itself. Your companions, the Souden, Floyd | should be close to beginning the assault now, although since they know Floyd | nothing of your predicament survival is still doubtful. Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | An Interactive Vision Floyd | Copyright 1995 by Jason Dyer Floyd | Type INFO for game information Floyd | Release 3 / Serial number 941008 / Inform v1502 Library 5/11 Floyd | Floyd | Containment Grid Floyd | The design of virtual space can be almost anything, but in this case Floyd | the room is merely a small cube surrounded by an electric fence, with Floyd | lines of blue against black crossing the floor and ceiling. A large Floyd | square door is inset into the floor, slightly off the center, sending Floyd | the design of the entire room into asymmetrical confusion. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "x door" | |||||
Floyd | Rendered light green, and very tightly shut. It resembles the type that Floyd | opens with some sort of password, although going through the entire Floyd | dictionary to open it would take an inordinate amount of time. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | Out of the corner of your eye you see a piece of paper suddenly appear Floyd | on the ground. Very odd. Any anomalous material in a containment grid Floyd | should immediately set off an alarm, but there is no sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take paper" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read it" | |||||
Floyd | It feels more like a piece of plastic than a piece of paper because of Floyd | its virtual nature. It has the word "ivory" imprinted on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "say ivory" | |||||
Floyd | The door begins sliding open, but stops halfway. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "x door" | |||||
Floyd | Rendered light green, and halfway open. It resembles the type that Floyd | opens with some sort of password, although going through the entire Floyd | dictionary to open it would take an inordinate amount of time. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "look under door" | |||||
Floyd | You are contained. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | |||||
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "crawl under door" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go under door" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lift door" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull door" | |||||
Floyd | You are contained. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "info" | |||||
Floyd | The Mind Electric is copyright 1995 Jason Dyer. It is free, no warranty Floyd | provided. Please distribute. No money may be charged for this work, Floyd | unless it is part of a larger compilation. At the time of this writing Floyd | (August 1995) the author can be contacted at jdyer@indirect.com. Floyd | Floyd | A full hint system is available with 'help' or 'hint'. To turn it off Floyd | to avoid temptation, type 'unhint', but be warned, it cannot be turned Floyd | back on again afterwards. Also, if your computer cannot handle the Floyd | various quotes and the hint menu, type 'plain' to enter plain text Floyd | mode, and 'pretty' to turn regular mode back on. Floyd | Floyd | Special thanks go to Richard Barnett, Jim Newland, and Gareth Rees for Floyd | programming help, as well as Michael Kinyon, Bernd Schmidt, and Aileen Floyd | Dyer for playtesting. Also, thanks to Catherine Mori and Earl Dille for Floyd | help with the Latin text. Floyd | Floyd | Release 2 fixes a small bug with the door and a mistake in the credits. Floyd | Floyd | Release 3 relaxes some of the time pressures, and adds some more Floyd | description to some of the objects to make the puzzles easier. Floyd | Floyd | For the curious, works of literature and culture Floyd | indirectly/symbolically used in the game are: Mourning Becomes Electra, Floyd | Billy Budd, Snow Crash, The Neverending Story, Anti-Ice, The Legend Floyd | Lives!, Burning Chrome, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Earth 2, and the old Floyd | arcade game Tempest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "search paper" | |||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fence" | |||||
Floyd | Simulated of both metal and electricity, it somewhat resembles a row of Floyd | Jacob's Ladders placed side by side intertwined with strips of bronzed Floyd | metal, but the virtual image flickers so rapidly it is hard to tell. Floyd | Beyond it is nothing but black. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "I suspect the second half of the password might be on the reverse side of the paper" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn over paper" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "but I don't know how to express that." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "flip paper" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "look behind paper" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn paper over" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to turn the piece of paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn paper" | |||||
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read paper" | |||||
Floyd | It feels more like a piece of plastic than a piece of paper because of Floyd | its virtual nature. It has the word "flood" imprinted on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "ooh." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "say flood" | |||||
Floyd | The door slides open the rest of the way. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "read paper" | |||||
Floyd | It feels more like a piece of plastic than a piece of paper because of Floyd | its virtual nature. It is blank. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "which way is out?" | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "out" | |||||
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Containment Grid Floyd | The design of virtual space can be almost anything, but in this case Floyd | the room is merely a small cube surrounded by an electric fence, with Floyd | lines of blue against black crossing the floor and ceiling. A large Floyd | square door is inset into the floor, slightly off the center, sending Floyd | the design of the entire room into asymmetrical confusion. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "down" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a granite rock here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "old school games didn't implement 'out' as often as they might" | ||||
| Ben says, "I think that's partly a design decision." | |||||
| DavidW says, "oh, I dunno." | |||||
| Ben says, "It sacrifices some literary mimesis, but" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rock" | |||||
Floyd | A rock far too much in the shape of a cube to be natural, if it was Floyd | real at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | |||||
Floyd | The rock emits a loud warbling noise and vanishes. In its place appears Floyd | a red cube, rotating slowly clockwise, with a humanlike face on each Floyd | side so no matter where you are standing a face can be seen. Floyd | Floyd | The expressions of the faces change together, like they are connected Floyd | by a giant string; the mouths are moving rapidly, as if speaking, but Floyd | they make no sound. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cube" | |||||
Floyd | A floating red cube, slowly rotating clockwise. Molded into each side, Floyd | like a child's lump of clay, is a humanlike face, complete with facial Floyd | expressions and moving lips. It looks like it is trying to say Floyd | something, but the words don't come out. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cube, hi" | |||||
Floyd | The cube moves its lips slightly but it seems unable to talk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x paper" | |||||
Floyd | It feels more like a piece of plastic than a piece of paper because of Floyd | its virtual nature. It is blank. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch cube" | |||||
Floyd | Keep your hands to yourself! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cube about cube" | |||||
Floyd | The cube moves its lips slightly but it seems unable to talk. Floyd | Floyd | Your body seems to be getting less stable. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "uh oh" | ||||
| Ben says, "the world-model is more logical and consistent, easier for the player to model mentally" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss cube" | |||||
Floyd | The cube looks very confused. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "timed puzzle I guess" | ||||
| Ben says, "said something about disintegrating in the intro" | |||||
| DavidW asks, "Maybe we have to go north or south or wherever?" | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "talk to cube" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "x loop" | |||||
Floyd | "Loop" is a somewhat innacurate term, but it is the only word that Floyd | comes to mind when looking at this topological nightmare. Bands of dull Floyd | and bright metal twist and bend around each other to form something Floyd | like a large circular cage. An almost magnetic force compels you Floyd | towards it. Floyd | Floyd | A voice without direction or origin announces "Scanning program Floyd | initiated for sector 482." Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben asks, "uh, is that looking for us?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "no idea" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x spider" | |||||
Floyd | A spider constructed of chrome and glass, with long legs that are Floyd | multi-jointed. It is carrying a doll. Floyd | Floyd | "Scan in process for sector 482." Floyd | Floyd | A loud warbling noise briefly echoes into the room. Floyd | Floyd | The spider turns to face a different direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x doll" | |||||
Floyd | A ragged yet cheerful looking doll, with a dark face. Floyd | Floyd | "Scan in process for sector 482." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "x doll" | |||||
Floyd | A ragged yet cheerful looking doll, with a dark face. Floyd | Floyd | "Scan in process for sector 482." Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "heh" | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "get spider" | |||||
Floyd | The spider backs away from you. Floyd | Floyd | "WARNING: INTRUDER ALERT, ACTIVATING SENTAC PULSE." Floyd | Floyd | The world becomes liquid and void, without form... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 4 out of a possible 40, in 34 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take doll" | |||||
Floyd | The spider won't let you near it. Floyd | Floyd | "WARNING: INTRUDER ALERT, ACTIVATING SENTAC PULSE." Floyd | Floyd | The world becomes liquid and void, without form... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 4 out of a possible 40, in 34 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | "WARNING: INTRUDER ALERT, ACTIVATING SENTAC PULSE." Floyd | Floyd | The world becomes liquid and void, without form... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 4 out of a possible 40, in 34 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Ben says, "I think it's just our presence here-- the scanner's found us" | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "undo;w" | |||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | The only exits are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | "WARNING: INTRUDER ALERT, ACTIVATING SENTAC PULSE." Floyd | Floyd | The world becomes liquid and void, without form... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 4 out of a possible 40, in 34 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. Is our containment grid safe? We could retreat there, maybe." | ||||
| Ben says, "oh bother." | |||||
| Ben says, "I think we have to restart" | |||||
| DavidW says, "We didn't save and we're not too far in. Restart." | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "restart" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | |||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | [Press any key to begin] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Kaden finally realized you were spying and locked your mind essence Floyd | in a digital cell. Normally the Kaden would already be at work Floyd | analyzing your mind to run the loyalty transfer program, but you Floyd | haven't felt anything at all in the last five hours. The delay is Floyd | unnerving, since the mind can survive in virtual space for a limited Floyd | amount of time before it destroys itself. Your companions, the Souden, Floyd | should be close to beginning the assault now, although since they know Floyd | nothing of your predicament survival is still doubtful. Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | An Interactive Vision Floyd | Copyright 1995 by Jason Dyer Floyd | Type INFO for game information Floyd | Release 3 / Serial number 941008 / Inform v1502 Library 5/11 Floyd | Floyd | Containment Grid Floyd | The design of virtual space can be almost anything, but in this case Floyd | the room is merely a small cube surrounded by an electric fence, with Floyd | lines of blue against black crossing the floor and ceiling. A large Floyd | square door is inset into the floor, slightly off the center, sending Floyd | the design of the entire room into asymmetrical confusion. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lines" | |||||
Floyd | They glow with electrical intensity. You surmise the only purpose of Floyd | them is to add shape to the mostly black room, keeping those contained Floyd | within the grid from going insane. It still happens occasionally, Floyd | though. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "say ivory" | |||||
Floyd | The door begins sliding open, but stops halfway. Floyd | Floyd | Out of the corner of your eye you see a piece of paper suddenly appear Floyd | on the ground. Very odd. Any anomalous material in a containment grid Floyd | should immediately set off an alarm, but there is no sound. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "say flood" | |||||
Floyd | The door slides open the rest of the way. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take paper" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a granite rock here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take rock" | |||||
Floyd | The rock emits a loud warbling noise and vanishes. In its place appears Floyd | a red cube, rotating slowly clockwise, with a humanlike face on each Floyd | side so no matter where you are standing a face can be seen. Floyd | Floyd | The expressions of the faces change together, like they are connected Floyd | by a giant string; the mouths are moving rapidly, as if speaking, but Floyd | they make no sound. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "get loop" | |||||
Floyd | As you reach out to take the loop, you feel your body solidify and Floyd | become much more stable. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben exclaims, "Oh-ho!" | ||||
| DavidW clears the save counter. | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf1" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a piece of paper Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "get spider" | |||||
Floyd | The spider backs away from you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||||
Floyd | Your "body" is a crude model, textured with some type of rock, almost Floyd | as if you were a golem. Your virtual body's integrity appears to be Floyd | normal. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | A loud warbling noise briefly echoes into the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. Can we hear the cube now?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||||
Floyd | You hear a constant electric hum in the distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cube about hum" | |||||
Floyd | The cube moves its lips slightly but it seems unable to talk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sparks" | |||||
Floyd | They occasionally light up the crystals in brief bursts. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crystals" | |||||
Floyd | Very nice looking. It is hard to believe that they aren't real. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take crystal" | |||||
Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||||
Floyd | Your "body" is a crude model, textured with some type of rock, almost Floyd | as if you were a golem. Your virtual body's integrity appears to be Floyd | normal. Floyd | Floyd | A voice without direction or origin announces "Scanning program Floyd | initiated for sector 482." Floyd | Floyd | A sound like creaking floorboards can be heard from far above. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "go up?" | ||||
| inky arrives, full of fun and funk. | Ben says, "Yeah" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Containment Grid Floyd | The design of virtual space can be almost anything, but in this case Floyd | the room is merely a small cube surrounded by an electric fence, with Floyd | lines of blue against black crossing the floor and ceiling. A large Floyd | square door is inset into the floor, slightly off the center, sending Floyd | the design of the entire room into asymmetrical confusion. Floyd | Floyd | "Scan in process for sector 482." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x paper" | |||||
Floyd | It feels more like a piece of plastic than a piece of paper because of Floyd | its virtual nature. It is blank. Floyd | Floyd | "Scan in process for sector 482." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. wait?" | ||||
| Ben says, "I guess." | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Scan in process for sector 482." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Scan of sector 482 complete." Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Containment Grid Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fullscore" | |||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 9 out of a possible 40, in 23 turns. Floyd | Floyd | The score is made up as follows: Floyd | Floyd | 1 getting the door halfway open Floyd | 2 getting the door open the rest of the way Floyd | 1 activating the cube Floyd | 3 evading the scan Floyd | 2 restoring your body integrity Floyd | Floyd | 9 total (out of 40) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ok. Go explore more." | ||||
| Ben says, "Yeah." | |||||
| DavidW says, "you lead, please" | |||||
| Ben asks, "Does the crystal cave have diagonal exits?" | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "ne" | DavidW says, "I think not" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "n/s/e/w/u" | ||||
| Ben says, "ok, just cardinal." | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "huh." | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | Many plain boxes with numbers printed on them fill this room. The Floyd | ceiling, floor, and walls are a simple dull gray. A low pitched whine Floyd | can be heard from somewhere high in the room. Black rectangles allow Floyd | exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "So north or south from the Star Plateau goes to the Crystal Cave?" | ||||
| Ben says, "Yeah." | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "x boxes" | |||||
Floyd | Simple cardboard boxes, numbered and in order, from 0001-9999. They are Floyd | visual representations of storage locations of data. Even though they Floyd | look small, each box has the memory capacity of a large library. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb boxes" | |||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x box 480" | |||||
Floyd | The box is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | |||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x paper" | |||||
Floyd | It feels more like a piece of plastic than a piece of paper because of Floyd | its virtual nature. It is blank. Floyd | Floyd | An intense burst of white noise disappears as quickly as it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||||
Floyd | You hear a constant electric hum in the distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x walls" | |||||
Floyd | Dull gray, with no texture at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "push boxes" | |||||
Floyd | You are unable to. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "stack boxes" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we need info from elsewhere." | ||||
| Ben says, "Yeah." | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | The spider turns to face a different direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "WTF" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x spider" | |||||
Floyd | A spider constructed of chrome and glass, with long legs that are Floyd | multi-jointed. It is carrying a doll. Floyd | Floyd | The spider turns to face a different direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sky" | |||||
Floyd | A dazzling array of color and shape. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x obelisks" | |||||
Floyd | Imprinted in black, and reaching for the sky. Floyd | Floyd | The spider turns to face a different direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to spider" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "I suspect that might be important:" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask spider about doll" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, query not in programming." Floyd | Floyd | The spider turns to face a different direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, ""The spider turns to face a different direction."" | ||||
| Ben asks, "like, maybe the map rotates with the spider?" | |||||
| DavidW says, "well, it's unclear. It doesn't say the spider is in any particular direction to start with." | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask spider about loop" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, query not in programming." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | For half a second you hear a crackling noise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask spider about spider" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, query not in programming." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x portals" | |||||
Floyd | They are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | The spider shifts to a slightly different position. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | Many plain boxes with numbers printed on them fill this room. The Floyd | ceiling, floor, and walls are a simple dull gray. A low pitched whine Floyd | can be heard from somewhere high in the room. Black rectangles allow Floyd | exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||||
Floyd | Your "body" is a crude model, textured with some type of rock, almost Floyd | as if you were a golem. Your virtual body's integrity appears to be Floyd | normal. Floyd | Floyd | In the distance you can hear the sound of metal shifting. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Try to do more with the faced cube." | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "give paper to cube" | |||||
Floyd | The cube refuses your offer. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "put paper on cube" | |||||
Floyd | You can't do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "feed cube" | |||||
Floyd | (the piece of paper) Floyd | The cube refuses your offer. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search cube" | |||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push cube" | |||||
Floyd | That would be less than courteous. Floyd | Floyd | A sound like creaking floorboards can be heard from far above. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cube" | |||||
Floyd | I don't suppose the rotating humanfaced cube would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "tell cube about spider" | |||||
Floyd | This provokes no reaction. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on cube" | |||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen to cube" | |||||
Floyd | You hear a constant electric hum in the distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit cube" | Ben says, "did you try asking the spider about the cube? probably" | ||||
Floyd | The cube looks offended, but unhurt. Floyd | Floyd | In the distance you can hear the sound of metal shifting. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||||
Floyd | You hear a constant electric hum in the distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I couldn't find a topic that the spider would accept." | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "help" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | > Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | DavidW asks, "hints this early?" | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "q" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "I didn't expect hints." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "What sector are we in?" | |||||
| Ben says, "General things about the game." | |||||
| Ben says, "center" | |||||
| Ben says, "the crystal cave" | |||||
| DavidW asks, "No, what number?" | |||||
| Ben says, "oh." | |||||
| DavidW | sector 482 | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | Many plain boxes with numbers printed on them fill this room. The Floyd | ceiling, floor, and walls are a simple dull gray. A low pitched whine Floyd | can be heard from somewhere high in the room. Black rectangles allow Floyd | exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Check out box 482" | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "x box 482" | |||||
Floyd | The box is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "oh come on." | ||||
| DavidW says, "damn" | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cube" | |||||
Floyd | A floating red cube, slowly rotating clockwise. Molded into each side, Floyd | like a child's lump of clay, is a humanlike face, complete with facial Floyd | expressions and moving lips. It looks like it is trying to say Floyd | something, but the words don't come out. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a popping noise from far above. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "x portals" | |||||
Floyd | They are rectangular, breaking the realistic illusion the room creates. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "get cube" | |||||
Floyd | I don't suppose the rotating humanfaced cube would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "touch cube" | |||||
Floyd | Keep your hands to yourself! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "listen to cube" | |||||
Floyd | You hear a constant electric hum in the distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cube, follow me" | |||||
Floyd | The cube moves its lips slightly but it seems unable to talk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "read lips" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open cube" | |||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search cube" | |||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | Something just made a sound like a mouse dying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in cube" | |||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a piece of paper Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x paper" | |||||
Floyd | It feels more like a piece of plastic than a piece of paper because of Floyd | its virtual nature. It is blank. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give paper to cube" | |||||
Floyd | The cube refuses your offer. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "cube, listen" | |||||
Floyd | The cube moves its lips slightly but it seems unable to talk. Floyd | Floyd | An intense burst of white noise disappears as quickly as it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "show paper to cube" | |||||
Floyd | The cube has no reaction. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben asks, "Did we try giving the paper to the spider?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get cube" | |||||
Floyd | I don't suppose the rotating humanfaced cube would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "no, don't think so" | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "give paper to spider" | |||||
Floyd | The spider doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "bah." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think we need to get the cube talking." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get loop" | |||||
Floyd | Much too large to take. Floyd | Floyd | Something just made a sound like a mouse dying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get spider" | |||||
Floyd | The spider backs away from you. Floyd | Floyd | The spider turns to face a different direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x spider" | |||||
Floyd | A spider constructed of chrome and glass, with long legs that are Floyd | multi-jointed. It is carrying a doll. Floyd | Floyd | The spider idly plays with the doll it is carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x loop" | |||||
Floyd | "Loop" is a somewhat innacurate term, but it is the only word that Floyd | comes to mind when looking at this topological nightmare. Bands of dull Floyd | and bright metal twist and bend around each other to form something Floyd | like a large circular cage. An almost magnetic force compels you Floyd | towards it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x doll" | |||||
Floyd | A ragged yet cheerful looking doll, with a dark face. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get doll" | |||||
Floyd | The spider won't let you near it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter loop" | |||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "in" | |||||
Floyd | The only exits are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a popping noise from far above. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "sing" | |||||
Floyd | Your singing is abominable. Floyd | Floyd | The spider shifts to a slightly different position. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "stand on loop" | |||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | The spider shifts to a slightly different position. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "so, um." | ||||
| DavidW says, "yeah. um." | |||||
| inky asks, "and both exits lead to the same place?" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I kinda wonder if we missed seeing a vital clue." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | Many plain boxes with numbers printed on them fill this room. The Floyd | ceiling, floor, and walls are a simple dull gray. A low pitched whine Floyd | can be heard from somewhere high in the room. Black rectangles allow Floyd | exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x boxes" | |||||
Floyd | Simple cardboard boxes, numbered and in order, from 0001-9999. They are Floyd | visual representations of storage locations of data. Even though they Floyd | look small, each box has the memory capacity of a large library. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a popping noise from far above. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | The only exits are to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask cube about boxes" | |||||
Floyd | The cube moves its lips slightly but it seems unable to talk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x crystals" | |||||
Floyd | Very nice looking. It is hard to believe that they aren't real. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | Many plain boxes with numbers printed on them fill this room. The Floyd | ceiling, floor, and walls are a simple dull gray. A low pitched whine Floyd | can be heard from somewhere high in the room. Black rectangles allow Floyd | exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch sparks" | |||||
Floyd | That's just scenery. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Containment Grid Floyd | The design of virtual space can be almost anything, but in this case Floyd | the room is merely a small cube surrounded by an electric fence, with Floyd | lines of blue against black crossing the floor and ceiling. A large Floyd | square door is inset into the floor, slightly off the center, sending Floyd | the design of the entire room into asymmetrical confusion. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cube" | |||||
Floyd | That is just the shape of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "At this point I think we have four options:" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a popping noise from far above. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "thrash randomly;" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask cube about box" | |||||
Floyd | The cube looks confused. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "wait and come back to it later with a fresh perspective;" | ||||
| Ben says, "recruit more players;" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cube about speech" | |||||
Floyd | The cube moves its lips slightly but it seems unable to talk. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "go to hints." | ||||
| Doe arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | The spider idly plays with the doll it is carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x obelisk" | |||||
Floyd | Imprinted in black, and reaching for the sky. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask spider about me" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, query not in programming." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sky" | |||||
Floyd | A dazzling array of color and shape. Floyd | Floyd | The spider turns to face a different direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sand" | |||||
Floyd | Tightly packed and slightly reflective. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "thought it didn't start for another 15 minutes" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "watch spider" | |||||
Floyd | A spider constructed of chrome and glass, with long legs that are Floyd | multi-jointed. It is carrying a doll. Floyd | Floyd | A sound like creaking floorboards can be heard from far above. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dig" | |||||
Floyd | What do you want to dig? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask spider about programming" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, query not in programming." Floyd | Floyd | The spider idly plays with the doll it is carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dig sand" | |||||
Floyd | That's just scenery. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x doll" | |||||
Floyd | A ragged yet cheerful looking doll, with a dark face. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x face" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask spider about doll" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, query not in programming." Floyd | Floyd | The spider idly plays with the doll it is carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "ask doll about spider" | |||||
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask spider about boxes" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, query not in programming." Floyd | Floyd | For half a second you hear a crackling noise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask spider about cube" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, query not in programming." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask spider about box" | |||||
Floyd | You get no response. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask spider about spider" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, query not in programming." Floyd | Floyd | The spider shifts to a slightly different position. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask spider about cube" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, query not in programming." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||||
Floyd | The only exits are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | Something just made a sound like a mouse dying. Floyd | Floyd | The spider idly plays with the doll it is carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||||
Floyd | You hear a constant electric hum in the distance. Floyd | Floyd | The spider shifts to a slightly different position. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "x ears" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x loop" | |||||
Floyd | "Loop" is a somewhat innacurate term, but it is the only word that Floyd | comes to mind when looking at this topological nightmare. Bands of dull Floyd | and bright metal twist and bend around each other to form something Floyd | like a large circular cage. An almost magnetic force compels you Floyd | towards it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open loop" | |||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "touch loop" | |||||
Floyd | You feel your body solidify and become much more stable. Floyd | Floyd | The spider turns to face a different direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "touch loop" | |||||
Floyd | You feel your body solidify and become much more stable. Floyd | Floyd | The spider shifts to a slightly different position. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | Ben says, "hmm." | ||||
Floyd | Your "body" is a crude model, textured with some type of rock, almost Floyd | as if you were a golem. Your virtual body's integrity appears to be Floyd | normal. Floyd | Floyd | Something just made a sound like a mouse dying. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, ""An almost magnetic force compels you towards it."" | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "touch loop" | |||||
Floyd | You feel your body solidify and become much more stable. Floyd | Floyd | The spider turns to face a different direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||||
Floyd | Your "body" is a crude model, textured with some type of rock, almost Floyd | as if you were a golem. Your virtual body's integrity appears to be Floyd | normal. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "touch loop" | |||||
Floyd | You feel your body solidify and become much more stable. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||||
Floyd | Your "body" is a crude model, textured with some type of rock, almost Floyd | as if you were a golem. Your virtual body's integrity appears to be Floyd | normal. Floyd | Floyd | The spider turns to face a different direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "oh." | ||||
| Ben says, "never mind." | |||||
| inky says, "time to get hints, I guess" | |||||
| Ben says, "I vote we recruit more players" | |||||
| Doe asks, "2pm EDT isn't 2pm PDT?" | |||||
| Doe says, "er 12" | |||||
| inky says, "no, it's 11" | |||||
| Fang asks, "How long have you been playing?" | |||||
| Fang arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | DavidW says, "An hour. less, really" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | The spider shifts to a slightly different position. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "hmm, to join in this, I'd have to stay in the office and order a pizza" | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "x fractal images" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I hate going for the hints this early, but I think we must've missed a vital clue." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a piece of paper Floyd | Floyd | You hear a popping noise from far above. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "x dots" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "look up" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "Let's just read the hints list then, and see if it jogs anything" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | Many plain boxes with numbers printed on them fill this room. The Floyd | ceiling, floor, and walls are a simple dull gray. A low pitched whine Floyd | can be heard from somewhere high in the room. Black rectangles allow Floyd | exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "read piece of paper" | |||||
Floyd | It feels more like a piece of plastic than a piece of paper because of Floyd | its virtual nature. It is blank. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "what are we trying to do?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x box 0482" | |||||
Floyd | The box is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open cubes" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "escape, I guess" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open box" | |||||
Floyd | You need to specify a box number from 0001 to 9999! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search box" | |||||
Floyd | The box is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open all boxes" | |||||
Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "move boxes" | |||||
Floyd | You are unable to. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "touch paper" | |||||
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | An intense burst of white noise disappears as quickly as it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x boxes" | |||||
Floyd | Simple cardboard boxes, numbered and in order, from 0001-9999. They are Floyd | visual representations of storage locations of data. Even though they Floyd | look small, each box has the memory capacity of a large library. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x paper" | |||||
Floyd | It feels more like a piece of plastic than a piece of paper because of Floyd | its virtual nature. It is blank. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||||
Floyd | You hear a constant electric hum in the distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "open box 0" | |||||
Floyd | You need to specify a box number from 0001 to 9999! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "open box 1" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen to hum" | |||||
Floyd | The box is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "open box 9999" | |||||
Floyd | The box is empty. Floyd | Floyd | In the distance you can hear the sound of metal shifting. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | Many plain boxes with numbers printed on them fill this room. The Floyd | ceiling, floor, and walls are a simple dull gray. A low pitched whine Floyd | can be heard from somewhere high in the room. Black rectangles allow Floyd | exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "open box 42" | |||||
Floyd | The box is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open box 911" | |||||
Floyd | The box is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | |||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "these boxes are obviously for later" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | The only exits are to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the | Ben says, "yeah." | ||||
Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "(don't think we can guess the number)" | ||||
| Doe says, "well, the whine probably means someting" | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "x paper" | |||||
Floyd | It feels more like a piece of plastic than a piece of paper because of Floyd | its virtual nature. It is blank. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put paper on cube" | |||||
Floyd | You can't do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask cube about boxes" | |||||
Floyd | The cube moves its lips slightly but it seems unable to talk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "stand on cube" | |||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | In the distance you can hear the sound of metal shifting. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Did I get the wrong sector somehow?" | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "put paper on box 482" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x box 483" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x cube" | |||||
Floyd | A floating red cube, slowly rotating clockwise. Molded into each side, Floyd | like a child's lump of clay, is a humanlike face, complete with facial Floyd | expressions and moving lips. It looks like it is trying to say Floyd | something, but the words don't come out. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, we moved" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x lips" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "read lips" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put paper in mouth" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "x face" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "think" | |||||
Floyd | A floating red cube, slowly rotating clockwise. Molded into each side, Floyd | like a child's lump of clay, is a humanlike face, complete with facial Floyd | expressions and moving lips. It looks like it is trying to say Floyd | something, but the words don't come out. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | What a good idea. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "kiss cube" | |||||
Floyd | The cube looks very confused. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wake up" | |||||
Floyd | The dreadful truth is, this is not a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "touch cube" | |||||
Floyd | Keep your hands to yourself! Floyd | Floyd | A sound like creaking floorboards can be heard from far above. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "listen to cube" | |||||
Floyd | You hear a constant electric hum in the distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "kick cube" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||||
Floyd | You hear a constant electric hum in the distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "listen to ceiling" | |||||
Floyd | You hear a constant electric hum in the distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open cube" | |||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "hum" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | Many plain boxes with numbers printed on them fill this room. The Floyd | ceiling, floor, and walls are a simple dull gray. A low pitched whine Floyd | can be heard from somewhere high in the room. Black rectangles allow Floyd | exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | For half a second you hear a crackling noise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | The spider idly plays with the doll it is carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x doll" | |||||
Floyd | A ragged yet cheerful looking doll, with a dark face. Floyd | Floyd | The spider idly plays with the doll it is carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sky" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x doll" | |||||
Floyd | A dazzling array of color and shape. Floyd | Floyd | The spider idly plays with the doll it is carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | A ragged yet cheerful looking doll, with a dark face. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x images" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "full score" | |||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 9 out of a possible 40, in 180 turns. Floyd | Floyd | The score is made up as follows: Floyd | Floyd | 1 getting the door halfway open Floyd | 2 getting the door open the rest of the way Floyd | 1 activating the cube Floyd | 3 evading the scan Floyd | 2 restoring your body integrity Floyd | Floyd | 9 total (out of 40) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, hello" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spider, north" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, access denied." Floyd | Floyd | A loud warbling noise briefly echoes into the room. Floyd | Floyd | The spider idly plays with the doll it is carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "oh, this sounds promising." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show paper to spider" | |||||
Floyd | The spider is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spider, south" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, access denied." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "x paper" | |||||
Floyd | It feels more like a piece of plastic than a piece of paper because of Floyd | its virtual nature. It is blank. Floyd | Floyd | The spider shifts to a slightly different position. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "touch spider" | |||||
Floyd | The spider backs away from you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, drop doll" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, access denied." Floyd | Floyd | The spider turns to face a different direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, turn" | |||||
Floyd | What do you want the spider to turn? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spider, jump" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | The spider turns to face a different direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, syntax" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | The spider shifts to a slightly different position. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spider, stop" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spider, list" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | You hear a popping noise from far above. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, help" | |||||
Floyd | "Commands for your security level: none." Floyd | Floyd | After a short pause, the spider emits a few beeps and says, "Processing Floyd | new special command." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says, "ooh" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, command" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, special" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, help" | |||||
Floyd | "Commands for your security level: ERASE, STATUS." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, status" | |||||
Floyd | "Status normal, all systems check clean." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, erase" | |||||
Floyd | What do you want the spider to erase? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, help erase" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, erase me" | |||||
Floyd | "Erase procedure begun...complete, successful." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 9 out of a possible 40, in 195 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | [Can't "undo" twice in succession. Sorry!] Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "heh" | ||||
| Ben says, "ok, we're onto something." | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x loop" | |||||
Floyd | "Loop" is a somewhat innacurate term, but it is the only word that Floyd | comes to mind when looking at this topological nightmare. Bands of dull Floyd | and bright metal twist and bend around each other to form something Floyd | like a large circular cage. An almost magnetic force compels you Floyd | towards it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, erase loop" | |||||
Floyd | "Access denied." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, help" | |||||
Floyd | "Commands for your security level: ERASE, STATUS." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, erase doll" | |||||
Floyd | "Access denied." Floyd | Floyd | A loud warbling noise briefly echoes into the room. Floyd | Floyd | The spider idly plays with the doll it is carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, erase doll" | |||||
Floyd | "Access denied." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, erase spider" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spider, status spider" | |||||
Floyd | "Access denied." Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | The spider shifts to a slightly different position. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "enter cage" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, erase paper" | |||||
Floyd | "Erase procedure begun...error, illegal object, warning system active, Floyd | sentac pulse active..." Floyd | Floyd | The world becomes liquid and void, without form... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 9 out of a possible 40, in 202 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "enter loop" | |||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben asks, "ok, what happened?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Erasing the paper is bad." | ||||
| Ben asks, "apparently the paper is of cosmic importance?" | |||||
| Fang says, "I'm guessing the paper is special somehow" | |||||
| DavidW says, "It's an 'illegal object'." | |||||
| Doe says, "spider choked on plastic" | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, erase cube" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | The spider idly plays with the doll it is carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "or maybe it's just necessary for a puzzle" | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, help" | |||||
Floyd | "Commands for your security level: ERASE, STATUS." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, erase security" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, status" | |||||
Floyd | "Status normal, all systems check clean." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Can we try 'help' or 'status' with the cube?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, erase status" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | The spider idly plays with the doll it is carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider help cube" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "oops" | ||||
| Doe says, "good idea" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I had to mute-unmute-set log" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cube, help" | |||||
Floyd | The cube moves its lips slightly but it seems unable to talk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put paper in cube" | |||||
Floyd | You can't do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cube, status" | |||||
Floyd | The cube moves its lips slightly but it seems unable to talk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch cube" | |||||
Floyd | Keep your hands to yourself! Floyd | Floyd | For half a second you hear a crackling noise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | Many plain boxes with numbers printed on them fill this room. The Floyd | ceiling, floor, and walls are a simple dull gray. A low pitched whine Floyd | can be heard from somewhere high in the room. Black rectangles allow Floyd | exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | |||||
Floyd | You cannot smell, this is virtual reality. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hmph. There could be virtual smells" | ||||
| Fang asks, "have we explored this place fully?" | |||||
| Fang asks, "there's just the cube, the spider, and the storage boxes, right?" | |||||
| Otto says, ""did the game start one hour ago?"" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | The spider turns to face a different direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Otto), "yes" | ||||
| DavidW says, "But we're spinning our wheels in frustration." | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, erase cube" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, erase wall" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Which do you mean, the north wall, the south wall, the east wall, the Floyd | west wall, the northeast wall, the southeast wall, the northwest wall Floyd | or the southwest wall? Floyd | Floyd | > | Otto says, "sorry, I misunderstood the hour then" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, erase east wall" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, help" | |||||
Floyd | "Commands for your security level: ERASE, STATUS." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, erase portal" | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, erase east wall" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | "Not understood." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, erase box 482" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | In the distance you can hear the sound of metal shifting. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, erase spider" | |||||
Floyd | "Access denied." Floyd | Floyd | The spider shifts to a slightly different position. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, erase obelisk" | |||||
Floyd | "Not understood." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, erase stars" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spider, erase mental block" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | The spider idly plays with the doll it is carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "I don't get why these give different responses" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, show me doll" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, access denied." Floyd | Floyd | You hear a popping noise from far above. Floyd | Floyd | The spider idly plays with the doll it is carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | Otto says, "so it's not 7pm GMT but 6pm GMT" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, erase error" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | The spider turns to face a different direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "Implementation problem I guess" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, erase access" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | The spider shifts to a slightly different position. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, erase erase" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | The spider idly plays with the doll it is carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, erase help" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "hint time?" | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, help erase" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a piece of paper Floyd | Floyd | The spider idly plays with the doll it is carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, go to hints" | ||||
| Ben says, "I guess so." | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hints" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hint" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | > Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | > Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | > Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | DavidW says, "that one" | ||||
| Fang presses the yellow enter button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | (Press ENTER to return to the main menu, or H for another hint.) Floyd | Floyd | (1/12) Look around. There may be an item somewhere that can help the Floyd | cube. Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "h" | |||||
Floyd | (2/12) The boxes in the storage room look promising. Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "h" | |||||
Floyd | (3/12) Perhaps the cube knows which box contains what you need. Floyd | | Fang asks, "enough?" | ||||
| Ben says, "yeah." | |||||
| DavidW asks, "oh?" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "q" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Please press SPACE.] | |||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
| Ben pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | > Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | > Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "q" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | The only exits are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "ask cube about boxes" | |||||
Floyd | The cube moves its lips slightly but it seems unable to talk. Floyd | Floyd | A loud warbling noise briefly echoes into the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "read cube" | |||||
Floyd | A floating red cube, slowly rotating clockwise. Molded into each side, Floyd | like a child's lump of clay, is a humanlike face, complete with facial Floyd | expressions and moving lips. It looks like it is trying to say Floyd | something, but the words don't come out. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "look in mouth" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show paper to cube" | |||||
Floyd | The cube has no reaction. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "look in cube" | |||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "read lips" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn cube" | |||||
Floyd | That would be less than courteous. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "look in lips" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "up" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Containment Grid Floyd | The design of virtual space can be almost anything, but in this case Floyd | the room is merely a small cube surrounded by an electric fence, with Floyd | lines of blue against black crossing the floor and ceiling. A large Floyd | square door is inset into the floor, slightly off the center, sending Floyd | the design of the entire room into asymmetrical confusion. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "open mouth" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "oh, hmm, there's up and down" | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a popping noise from far above. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "How is the cube supposed to tell us any thing? That's the trouble." | ||||
| Fang asks, "have you done the 'granite' thing?" | |||||
| Ben asks, "can we get the boxes out here somehow?" | |||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "look up" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The granite became the cube." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take boxes" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "oh." | ||||
| Ben says, "push boxes" | |||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "up" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Containment Grid Floyd | The design of virtual space can be almost anything, but in this case Floyd | the room is merely a small cube surrounded by an electric fence, with Floyd | lines of blue against black crossing the floor and ceiling. A large Floyd | square door is inset into the floor, slightly off the center, sending Floyd | the design of the entire room into asymmetrical confusion. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Boxes are in another room." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | Many plain boxes with numbers printed on them fill this room. The Floyd | ceiling, floor, and walls are a simple dull gray. A low pitched whine Floyd | can be heard from somewhere high in the room. Black rectangles allow Floyd | exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Doe), "The Containment Grid about the Crystal Cave is where we started." | ||||
| Doe says, "aha" | |||||
| Fang says, "I hate how this thing is a stupid maze" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "push boxes e" | |||||
Floyd | Is that the best you can think of? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's not a maze." | ||||
| Ben says, "It's not that complicated actually" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "push boxes" | |||||
Floyd | You are unable to. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Are there two spiders or one?" | ||||
| Ben says, "one" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take all" | |||||
Floyd | box: All the boxes are bolted to the floor. Floyd | boxes: That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "How do you know?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "oh." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | Many plain boxes with numbers printed on them fill this room. The Floyd | ceiling, floor, and walls are a simple dull gray. A low pitched whine Floyd | can be heard from somewhere high in the room. Black rectangles allow Floyd | exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | A sound like creaking floorboards can be heard from far above. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "hmm." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | Many plain boxes with numbers printed on them fill this room. The Floyd | ceiling, floor, and walls are a simple dull gray. A low pitched whine Floyd | can be heard from somewhere high in the room. Black rectangles allow Floyd | exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "I know how to find out though." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Drop the paper in the 'east' room. Is it in the 'west' room?" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | The spider idly plays with the doll it is carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "drop paper" | |||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "yup." | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a piece of paper and a metal loop (on which is a spider) Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | For half a second you hear a crackling noise. Floyd | Floyd | The spider shifts to a slightly different position. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "One." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take all" | |||||
Floyd | metal loop: Much too large to take. Floyd | portals: That's hardly portable. Floyd | obelisks: That's hardly portable. Floyd | doll: The spider won't let you near it. Floyd | piece of paper: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "push loop e" | |||||
Floyd | Is that the best you can think of? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "break loop" | |||||
Floyd | Violence is impossible in that way while in virtualspace. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "yes that is thank you very much" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to yes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben asks, "Should we try the same thing for the storage room?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "u" | |||||
Floyd | The only exits are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "in case there's more than one storage room?" | ||||
| Ben says, "yeah." | |||||
| Fang says, "maybe we should map this place in case there's a secret room" | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | An intense burst of white noise disappears as quickly as it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | Many plain boxes with numbers printed on them fill this room. The Floyd | ceiling, floor, and walls are a simple dull gray. A low pitched whine Floyd | can be heard from somewhere high in the room. Black rectangles allow Floyd | exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "drop paper" | |||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | Many plain boxes with numbers printed on them fill this room. The Floyd | ceiling, floor, and walls are a simple dull gray. A low pitched whine Floyd | can be heard from somewhere high in the room. Black rectangles allow Floyd | exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a piece of paper here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "get paper" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | In the distance you can hear the sound of metal shifting. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "or maybe we should just get another hint" | ||||
| Ben says, "I don't think there's a secret room." | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "get cube" | |||||
Floyd | I don't suppose the rotating humanfaced cube would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'll be annoyed if the sector number is the box number at this stage." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cube, speak" | |||||
Floyd | The cube moves its lips slightly but it seems unable to talk. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "get another hint?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "please" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hint" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | > Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | > Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | > Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang presses the yellow enter button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | (Press ENTER to return to the main menu, or H for another hint.) Floyd | Floyd | (1/12) Look around. There may be an item somewhere that can help the Floyd | cube. Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "h" | |||||
Floyd | (2/12) The boxes in the storage room look promising. Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "h" | |||||
Floyd | (3/12) Perhaps the cube knows which box contains what you need. Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "h" | |||||
Floyd | (4/12) Try to ASK CUBE ABOUT BOX xxx [xxx being a number]. Floyd | | Fang asks, "are we expected to ask about all of them?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "what, a colder-hotter puzzle?" | |||||
| Fang says, "oh, maybe" | |||||
| Fang says, "okay, this puzzle officially sucks" | |||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Please press SPACE.] | DavidW says, "Maybe he'll frown or smile" | ||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | > Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "q" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask cube about box 1" | |||||
Floyd | The cube nods its head twice. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "ask cube about box 500" | |||||
Floyd | The cube blinks its eyes once. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Otto goes home. | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask cube about box 250" | |||||
Floyd | The cube blinks its eyes once. Floyd | Floyd | Something just made a sound like a mouse dying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask cube about box 100" | |||||
Floyd | The cube blinks its eyes twice. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask cube about box 100" | |||||
Floyd | The cube blinks its eyes twice. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask cube about box 101" | |||||
Floyd | The cube nods its head once, and blinks its eyes once. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Hold on." | ||||
| DavidW says, "This is Mastermind." | |||||
| Ben says, "oh good lord." | |||||
| Doe asks, "blink two yes, blink one no?" | |||||
| Ben says, "no" | |||||
| Ben says, "nod = right digit in right place" | |||||
| Ben says, "blink = right digit in wrong place" | |||||
| Fang asks, "how many digits were there?" | |||||
| Ben says, "4" | |||||
| DavidW says, "Four" | |||||
| Fang asks, "and how big were they allowed to get?" | |||||
| DavidW says, "ask cube about box 1234" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cube about box 1234" | |||||
Floyd | The cube blinks its eyes twice. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "okay two nods for 1" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cube about box 5678" | |||||
Floyd | The cube nods its head once. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cube about box 9000" | |||||
Floyd | The cube nods its head once. Floyd | Floyd | For half a second you hear a crackling noise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "ask cube about box 9990" | |||||
Floyd | The cube blinks its eyes once. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask cube about 0101" | |||||
Floyd | The cube moves its lips slightly but it seems unable to talk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cube about box 9999" | |||||
Floyd | The cube frowns. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask cube about box 0101" | |||||
Floyd | The cube nods its head once, and blinks its eyes once. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "No nines" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask cube about box 1001" | |||||
Floyd | The cube nods its head twice. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask box about box 8888" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cube about box 8888" | |||||
Floyd | The cube frowns. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "second digit 0, final digit 1?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cube about box 7777" | |||||
Floyd | The cube nods its head once. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "I suspect we might have the meanings of nod and blink wrong" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to inventory. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cube about box 4444" | |||||
Floyd | The cube nods its head once. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask cube about box 7001" | |||||
Floyd | The cube nods its head twice, and blinks its eyes once. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a popping noise from far above. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask cube about box 7071" | |||||
Floyd | The cube nods its head three times. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cube about box 1074" | |||||
Floyd | The cube nods its head twice, and blinks its eyes twice. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "ok, we just need the first digit" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask cube about box 3071" | |||||
Floyd | The cube nods its head three times. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask cube about box 2071" | |||||
Floyd | The cube nods its head three times. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "1074 are the right digits, and 2 of them are correct" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask cube about box 4071" | |||||
Floyd | The cube smiles. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "done" | ||||
| DavidW says, "go get 'em, tiger" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | Doe says, "that's complicated" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | Many plain boxes with numbers printed on them fill this room. The Floyd | ceiling, floor, and walls are a simple dull gray. A low pitched whine Floyd | can be heard from somewhere high in the room. Black rectangles allow Floyd | exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | In the distance you can hear the sound of metal shifting. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open box 4071" | |||||
Floyd | You find a circuit board inside, and take it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x it" | |||||
Floyd | The box is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x circuit" | |||||
Floyd | A flat piece of metal, with one side covered with a pattern of wires. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Give it to the cube?" | ||||
| Fang says (to DavidW), "no, nods were right digits in the right place" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | The only exits are to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | A loud warbling noise briefly echoes into the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "give circuit to cube" | |||||
Floyd | The circuit board vanishes as it gets near the cube. Floyd | Floyd | The cube begins talking in a wavering tone. "System has been activated, Floyd | now calibrating voice control." Floyd | Floyd | After a short pause, the cube begins speaking some words, with each Floyd | word the inflection changing slightly: "In nova fert animus mutatas Floyd | dicere formas corpora di coeptis nam vos mutastis et illas adsirate Floyd | meis primaque ab origine mundi ad mea perpetuum deducite tempora Floyd | carmen." Floyd | Floyd | The humanfaced cube pauses, and begins speaking again, this time in a Floyd | voice that is both masculine and feminine. Floyd | Floyd | "Ah, that's much better now. My voice calibration that I had stored got Floyd | erased somewhere along the line, but I'm back to normal now. How may I Floyd | service you?" Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I didn't say which nods or blinks meant." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf2" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cube, help" | |||||
Floyd | "I don't understand." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cube, status" | |||||
Floyd | "I don't understand." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask cube about paper" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm not sure about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cube about spider" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm not sure exactly which model you mean but they are used mainly for Floyd | maintenance." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask cube about cube" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm not sure about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cube about me" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm not sure about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask cube about security" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm not sure about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cube about loop" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm not sure about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cube about doll" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm not sure about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "a fat lot of use he is" | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "ask cube about maintenance" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm not sure about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cube about storage room" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cube, help me" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to ask the rotating humanfaced Floyd | cube about that. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | "I'm not sure about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "ask cuble about crystal" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cube, who are you" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm not sure about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cube about sector" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm not sure about that." Floyd | Floyd | Something just made a sound like a mouse dying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask cube about cube" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm not sure about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "show paper to cube" | |||||
Floyd | The cube has no reaction. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cube" | |||||
Floyd | A floating red cube, slowly rotating clockwise. Molded into each side, Floyd | like a child's lump of clay, is a humanlike face, complete with facial Floyd | expressions and moving lips. It smiles as it sees you watching it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cube go w" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cube, go w" | |||||
Floyd | "I don't understand." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "bang head against wall" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cube about voice" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm not sure about that." Floyd | Floyd | A loud warbling noise briefly echoes into the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cube about voice calibration" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to ask the rotating humanfaced Floyd | cube about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask cube about board" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm not sure about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "ask cube about me" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm not sure about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show paper to cube" | |||||
Floyd | The cube has no reaction. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "give paper to cube" | |||||
Floyd | The cube refuses your offer. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cube about box 4071" | |||||
Floyd | "None of the rest of the boxes have anything useful in them, as far as Floyd | I know." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cube, service me" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm not sure about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cube, give me access" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm not sure about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cube about function" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm not sure about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "ask cube about hum" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm not sure about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "someone's not going to win 'best NPC'" | ||||
| DavidW says, "heh" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read paper" | |||||
Floyd | It feels more like a piece of plastic than a piece of paper because of Floyd | its virtual nature. It has the word "lxprog" imprinted on it. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a popping noise from far above. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "ask cube about loop" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm not sure about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "say lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | The cube gives a blank stare momentarily, and then says, "Some type of Floyd | program has been activated, it will take an unknown amount of time to Floyd | complete." Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yay magic paper of mystery" | ||||
| Fang asks, "er, wha?" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cube about lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | "The program is already running." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read paper" | |||||
Floyd | It feels more like a piece of plastic than a piece of paper because of Floyd | its virtual nature. It is blank. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "check out spider" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yeah, sounds like a plan. sorta." | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "sigh, this game's lack of logic seems to annoy me" | ||||
| Doe says, "better than nuttin" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x spider" | |||||
Floyd | A spider constructed of chrome and glass, with long legs that are Floyd | multi-jointed. It is carrying a doll. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "s/seems to/" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spider, status" | |||||
Floyd | "Status normal, all systems check clean." Floyd | Floyd | The spider turns to face a different direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x paper" | |||||
Floyd | It feels more like a piece of plastic than a piece of paper because of Floyd | its virtual nature. It is blank. Floyd | Floyd | The paper gives off a brief flash of light. Floyd | Floyd | The spider idly plays with the doll it is carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read paper" | |||||
Floyd | It feels more like a piece of plastic than a piece of paper because of Floyd | its virtual nature. It is blank. Floyd | Floyd | The spider shifts to a slightly different position. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, status" | |||||
Floyd | "Status normal, all systems check clean." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, help" | |||||
Floyd | "Commands for your security level: ERASE, STATUS." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take doll" | |||||
Floyd | The spider won't let you near it. Floyd | Floyd | The spider shifts to a slightly different position. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spider, drop doll" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, access denied." Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "let's check back on the cube" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a piece of paper Floyd | Floyd | The spider turns to face a different direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "maybe it just takes time" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | The only exits are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | The cube looks concerned. "The execution of lxprog has been halted. Floyd | Something is stopping the program from running." Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | The paper gives off a flash of light that lasts about five seconds. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "hmmmm" | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "x paper" | |||||
Floyd | It feels more like a piece of plastic than a piece of paper because of Floyd | its virtual nature. It is blank. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "maybe the paper is helping us navigate?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Paper is going screwy. Maybe we need to go to the Grid again?" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "u" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Containment Grid Floyd | The design of virtual space can be almost anything, but in this case Floyd | the room is merely a small cube surrounded by an electric fence, with Floyd | lines of blue against black crossing the floor and ceiling. A large Floyd | square door is inset into the floor, slightly off the center, sending Floyd | the design of the entire room into asymmetrical confusion. Floyd | Floyd | A disembodied voice announces, "Location program complete, intruder has Floyd | been located, sentac pulse now active." Floyd | Floyd | The world becomes liquid and void, without form... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 17 out of a possible 40, in 346 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | A disembodied voice announces, "Location program complete, intruder has Floyd | been located, sentac pulse now active." Floyd | Floyd | The world becomes liquid and void, without form... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 17 out of a possible 40, in 346 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "crap" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh. Now we need to erase the paper." | |||||
| DavidW says, "I think." | |||||
| Fang asks, "oh, really?" | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | A disembodied voice announces, "Location program complete, intruder has Floyd | been located, sentac pulse now active." Floyd | Floyd | The world becomes liquid and void, without form... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 17 out of a possible 40, in 346 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, erase paper" | |||||
Floyd | "Erase procedure begun...error, illegal object, warning system active, Floyd | sentac pulse active..." Floyd | Floyd | The world becomes liquid and void, without form... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 17 out of a possible 40, in 343 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Did you go back too far?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x paper" | |||||
Floyd | It feels more like a piece of plastic than a piece of paper because of Floyd | its virtual nature. It is blank. Floyd | Floyd | The paper gives off a flash of light that lasts about five seconds. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "Try waiting in the star chamber for the flash of light, then erase it." | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, erase paper" | |||||
Floyd | "Erase procedure begun...error, illegal object, warning system active, Floyd | sentac pulse active..." Floyd | Floyd | The world becomes liquid and void, without form... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 17 out of a possible 40, in 344 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Ben says, "bugger." | ||||
| Fang says, "the paper is just telling us the progress of the death timer, it seems" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spider, erase sentac" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "hint?" | ||||
| Fang asks, "we saved before lxprog, right?" | |||||
| Ben asks, "have we been in the storage room since running nxwhatever?" | |||||
| Fang says (to Ben), "no" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "er...?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm lost now." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | The only exits are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | The paper gives off a brief flash of light. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | The cube looks concerned. "The execution of lxprog has been halted. Floyd | Something is stopping the program from running." Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | Many plain boxes with numbers printed on them fill this room. The Floyd | ceiling, floor, and walls are a simple dull gray. A low pitched whine Floyd | can be heard from somewhere high in the room. Black rectangles allow Floyd | exit to the east and west. Floyd | You can faintly hear a beeping sound from somewhere in the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||||
Floyd | The only exits are to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says (to DavidW), "just going back to the storeroom, since we haven't gone there yet" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||||
Floyd | You can faintly hear a beeping sound from one of the boxes. Floyd | Floyd | A loud warbling noise briefly echoes into the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "ooh" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Something halted the lxprog?" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "listen to box 500" | |||||
Floyd | You can faintly hear a beeping sound from one of the boxes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen to boxes" | Fang says (to DavidW), "no, it's still going" | ||||
Floyd | You can faintly hear a beeping sound from one of the boxes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search boxes" | |||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | The paper gives off a flash of light that lasts about five seconds. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "listen to beeping" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "er: The cube looks concerned. "The execution of lxprog has been halted. Something is stopping the program from running."" | ||||
| Fang asks (of DavidW), "wha? When?" | |||||
| DavidW says, "That's when the paper started flashing, I think." | |||||
| Fang says (to DavidW), "oh, lxprog failing is probably what kills u" | |||||
| Fang says, "*us" | |||||
| Fang says, "we need to get rid of what stops it, I guess, before it does" | |||||
| Fang says, "suggest we restore, lxprog, and find the object" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "read paper" | |||||
Floyd | It feels more like a piece of plastic than a piece of paper because of Floyd | its virtual nature. It is blank. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, find the beeper, then erase it." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf2" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "The cube helped us with the boxes before." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cube, lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | The cube gives a blank stare momentarily, and then says, "Some type of Floyd | program has been activated, it will take an unknown amount of time to Floyd | complete." Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The cube looks concerned. "The execution of lxprog has been halted. Floyd | Something is stopping the program from running." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask cube about lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | "I already told you, the program has been halted, you need to locate Floyd | whatever is halting it and get rid of it." Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "alternatively, perhaps >SPIDER, ERASE LXPROG" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask cube about boxes" | DavidW says, "no, the paper wants us to lxprog" | ||||
Floyd | "Except for the one that had the circuit board, I think they are all Floyd | empty, although I may be wrong." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Go to the boxes. Find the beeper. Erase it." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | Many plain boxes with numbers printed on them fill this room. The Floyd | ceiling, floor, and walls are a simple dull gray. A low pitched whine Floyd | can be heard from somewhere high in the room. Black rectangles allow Floyd | exit to the east and west. Floyd | You can faintly hear a beeping sound from somewhere in the room. Floyd | Floyd | The paper gives off a brief flash of light. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "locate beep" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||||
Floyd | You can faintly hear a beeping sound from one of the boxes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open box" | |||||
Floyd | You need to specify a box number from 0001 to 9999! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open beeping box" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take beeping" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search boxes" | |||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen to boxes" | |||||
Floyd | You can faintly hear a beeping sound from one of the boxes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x box 482" | |||||
Floyd | The box is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x box 4071" | |||||
Floyd | The box is empty. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a popping noise from far above. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "I get the distinct impression we are playing 'find the verb'" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "read paper" | |||||
Floyd | It feels more like a piece of plastic than a piece of paper because of Floyd | its virtual nature. It is blank. Floyd | Floyd | The paper gives off a flash of light that lasts about five seconds. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "ASK CUBE ABOUT BEEPING" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | The only exits are to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask cube about beeping" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm not sure about that." Floyd | Floyd | The paper gives off a flash of light that lasts about five seconds. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a popping noise from far above. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "Fang, I don't think multiple /undo actually works." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "maybe the spider can erase all the boxes?" | |||||
| Fang asks (of Ben), "hmm, it should, surely?" | |||||
| Fang says (to DavidW), "I don't think the spider can do anything outside its room" | |||||
| Fang says, "without a higher security clearance, anyways" | |||||
| DavidW says, "We don't know how it works. We can't assume anything." | |||||
| Fang says (to DavidW), "well, it works by giving us an error on everything except status and erase" | |||||
| DavidW says, "er, erase is one of those two" | |||||
| Fang says, "oh" | |||||
| Fang says, "er, okay, I see what you mean" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf2" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cube, lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | The cube gives a blank stare momentarily, and then says, "Some type of Floyd | program has been activated, it will take an unknown amount of time to Floyd | complete." Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we probably do need to find the object itself, but we should at least try to erase all the boxes anyway." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | Many plain boxes with numbers printed on them fill this room. The Floyd | ceiling, floor, and walls are a simple dull gray. A low pitched whine Floyd | can be heard from somewhere high in the room. Black rectangles allow Floyd | exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Something just made a sound like a mouse dying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "was the mouse dying sound always there?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The paper gives off a brief flash of light. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||||
Floyd | You can faintly hear a beeping sound from one of the boxes. Floyd | Floyd | For half a second you hear a crackling noise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Mouse dying sound is anywhere." | ||||
| Fang says, "ah, crap." | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | The cube looks concerned. "The execution of lxprog has been halted. Floyd | Something is stopping the program from running." Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, erase boxes" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | The spider idly plays with the doll it is carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, erase beeper" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spider, help" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | "Commands for your security level: ERASE, STATUS." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, erase box 1" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | The paper gives off a flash of light that lasts about five seconds. Floyd | Floyd | A sound like creaking floorboards can be heard from far above. Floyd | Floyd | The spider turns to face a different direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, erase storage room" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spider, erase beeping" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | A disembodied voice announces, "Location program complete, intruder has Floyd | been located, sentac pulse now active." Floyd | Floyd | The world becomes liquid and void, without form... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 17 out of a possible 40, in 319 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf2" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "sigh" | ||||
| Fang asks, "hint time?" | |||||
| Ben asks, "We tried >spider, erase lxprog right?" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Ben), "no" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Fang), "yes" | |||||
| Fang says (to Ben), "I don't think that will do anything" | |||||
| Fang says, "since lxprog is what we are trying to do" | |||||
| DavidW says, "And it was stopped" | |||||
| Ben says, "ah, good point." | |||||
| Fang says, "I suspect there's a verb that lets us track things down by sound" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hint" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | > Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | DavidW asks, "oh. As spider for status when there's beeping?" | ||||
| Ben asks, "we tried LISTEN. do we go for TRIANGULATE or ECHOLOCATE?" | |||||
| DavidW says, "er, ask" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "Q" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says (to DavidW), "oh yeah" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cube, lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | The cube gives a blank stare momentarily, and then says, "Some type of Floyd | program has been activated, it will take an unknown amount of time to Floyd | complete." Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The cube looks concerned. "The execution of lxprog has been halted. Floyd | Something is stopping the program from running." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Maybe the spider's status can detect beeping boxes" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | For half a second you hear a crackling noise. Floyd | Floyd | The spider shifts to a slightly different position. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, status" | |||||
Floyd | "Status normal, all systems check clean." Floyd | Floyd | The spider idly plays with the doll it is carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "drat" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, help" | |||||
Floyd | "Commands for your security level: ERASE, STATUS." Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "hint time?" | ||||
| Ben says, "yup." | |||||
| DavidW says, "sure" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hint" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | > Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | > Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | > Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | | DavidW says, "Wish we didn't have to, though" | ||||
Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | > Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | > Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | > Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | > Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | > Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | Fang asks, "this one?" | ||||
| Ben says, "yes" | |||||
| Fang presses the yellow enter button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | (Press ENTER to return to the main menu, or H for another hint.) Floyd | Floyd | (1/8) The halting program is somewhere in your sector. Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "h" | |||||
Floyd | (2/8) Wander around and try to find where it might be hidden. Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "h" | |||||
Floyd | (3/8) The sound in the storage room sounds suspicious. Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "h" | |||||
Floyd | (4/8) Try to LISTEN in the storage room. Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "h" | |||||
Floyd | (5/8) It isn't loud enough. Can you think of a way to make it louder? Floyd | | DavidW says, "WHAT" | ||||
| Fang says, "...." | |||||
| Fang asks, "listen, harder?" | |||||
| Ben asks, "What if we run lxprog again?" | |||||
| DavidW asks, "Did any of you guys see an ear trumpet lying around?" | |||||
| Ben says, "it might compound the beeping" | |||||
| Fang says (to ben), "hmm" | |||||
| Fang says (to Ben), "try that" | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "q" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Please press SPACE.] | |||||
| Ben pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | > Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "q" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben asks, "now, where were we?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | The paper gives off a brief flash of light. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | "I already told you, the program has been halted, you need to locate Floyd | whatever is halting it and get rid of it." Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "oh come on." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "listen harder" | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | Many plain boxes with numbers printed on them fill this room. The Floyd | ceiling, floor, and walls are a simple dull gray. A low pitched whine Floyd | can be heard from somewhere high in the room. Black rectangles allow Floyd | exit to the east and west. Floyd | You can faintly hear a beeping sound from somewhere in the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | Nothing seems to happen. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "listen carefully" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put paper in ear" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "amplify beeping" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "turn up the volme" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to turn the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "turn up the volume" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to turn the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "roll over and die" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "listen to boxes" | |||||
Floyd | You can faintly hear a beeping sound from one of the boxes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "fall silent" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "roll paper" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "shhh" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "clean ear" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "silence ceiling" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put ear on boxes" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yell" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cup hand to ear" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "spider, erase ceiling" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "fabricate an ear trumpet" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "(since the background noises come from above)" | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | A sound like creaking floorboards can be heard from far above. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, erase ceiling" | |||||
Floyd | "Not understood." Floyd | Floyd | The paper gives off a flash of light that lasts about five seconds. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "more hints?" | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, erase lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "yes." | ||||
| Ben says, "sadly." | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hint" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | > Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | DavidW says, "Unless you have a loudener handy" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | > Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | > Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | Ben asks, "When was this game published again?" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | > Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | > Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | > Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | > Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | > Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang presses the yellow enter button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | (Press ENTER to return to the main menu, or H for another hint.) Floyd | Floyd | (1/8) The halting program is somewhere in your sector. Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "h" | |||||
Floyd | (2/8) Wander around and try to find where it might be hidden. Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "h" | |||||
Floyd | (3/8) The sound in the storage room sounds suspicious. Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "h" | |||||
Floyd | (4/8) Try to LISTEN in the storage room. Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "h" | |||||
Floyd | (5/8) It isn't loud enough. Can you think of a way to make it louder? Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "h" | |||||
Floyd | (6/8) Ask the cube to try to restart lxprog. Floyd | | Ben says, "we did that." | ||||
| DavidW says, "er, maybe the wrong syntax." | |||||
| Fang says, "er, maybe we used the wrong verb" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "press space" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Please press SPACE.] | DavidW says, "You did 'lxprog'. I did 'say lxprog'." | ||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | > Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "Q" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "restore" | Ben says, "maybe 'restart' is different from running it in the first place" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf2" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Restore failed. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "like ^Q after ^Z" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf2" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cube, lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | The cube gives a blank stare momentarily, and then says, "Some type of Floyd | program has been activated, it will take an unknown amount of time to Floyd | complete." Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cube, restart lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm not sure about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The cube looks concerned. "The execution of lxprog has been halted. Floyd | Something is stopping the program from running." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cube, restart lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm not sure about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cube, lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | "I already told you, the program has been halted, you need to locate Floyd | whatever is halting it and get rid of it." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "cube, restart" | |||||
Floyd | "I don't understand." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cube, lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | "I'll try to restart, since you insist...still unable, and now the halt Floyd | program has raised in intensity." Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "ugh." | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | Many plain boxes with numbers printed on them fill this room. The Floyd | ceiling, floor, and walls are a simple dull gray. A low pitched whine Floyd | can be heard from somewhere high in the room. Black rectangles allow Floyd | exit to the east and west. Floyd | You can distinctly hear a beeping sound from somewhere among the boxes. Floyd | Floyd | The paper gives off a brief flash of light. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "geez louise" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||||
Floyd | You can distinctly hear a beeping sound from box 4807. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "open 4807" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open open 4807" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open box 4807" | |||||
Floyd | You find a sphere inside, and take it. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by four points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | The spider shifts to a slightly different position. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, erase sphre" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, erase sphere" | |||||
Floyd | "Erase procedure begun...complete, successful." Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "sigh" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | The only exits are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | The paper gives off a flash of light that lasts about five seconds. Floyd | Floyd | The spider shifts to a slightly different position. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "run to the grid!" | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "u" | |||||
Floyd | The only exits are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cube, lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | "Reactivating lxprog...it worked, the program is now running again." Floyd | Floyd | A disembodied voice announces, "Location program complete, intruder has Floyd | been located, sentac pulse now active." Floyd | Floyd | The world becomes liquid and void, without form... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 23 out of a possible 40, in 319 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Containment Grid Floyd | The design of virtual space can be almost anything, but in this case Floyd | the room is merely a small cube surrounded by an electric fence, with Floyd | lines of blue against black crossing the floor and ceiling. A large Floyd | square door is inset into the floor, slightly off the center, sending Floyd | the design of the entire room into asymmetrical confusion. Floyd | Floyd | A disembodied voice announces, "Location program complete, intruder has Floyd | been located, sentac pulse now active." Floyd | Floyd | The world becomes liquid and void, without form... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 21 out of a possible 40, in 319 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "damn" | ||||
| Ben says, "Let's ditch the paper somewhere." | |||||
| Fang says, "I guess deleting the sphere doesn't stop the timer" | |||||
| Ben says, "I think that's how they're tracking us." | |||||
| Fang asks (of Ben), "is it really the paper that does that?" | |||||
| DavidW says, "oh. maybe" | |||||
| Ben says, "maybe" | |||||
| Fang says (to Ben), "hmm" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf2" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | The cube gives a blank stare momentarily, and then says, "Some type of Floyd | program has been activated, it will take an unknown amount of time to Floyd | complete." Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cube, lxprog" | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "u" | |||||
Floyd | "The program is already running." Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | Containment Grid Floyd | The design of virtual space can be almost anything, but in this case Floyd | the room is merely a small cube surrounded by an electric fence, with Floyd | lines of blue against black crossing the floor and ceiling. A large Floyd | square door is inset into the floor, slightly off the center, sending Floyd | the design of the entire room into asymmetrical confusion. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "drop paper" | |||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | The cube looks concerned. "The execution of lxprog has been halted. Floyd | Something is stopping the program from running." Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cube, lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | "I already told you, the program has been halted, you need to locate Floyd | whatever is halting it and get rid of it." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cube, lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | "I'll try to restart, since you insist...still unable, and now the halt Floyd | program has raised in intensity." Floyd | Floyd | A loud warbling noise briefly echoes into the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The sphere and the scanner are two different threats." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | Many plain boxes with numbers printed on them fill this room. The Floyd | ceiling, floor, and walls are a simple dull gray. A low pitched whine Floyd | can be heard from somewhere high in the room. Black rectangles allow Floyd | exit to the east and west. Floyd | You can distinctly hear a beeping sound from somewhere among the boxes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||||
Floyd | You can distinctly hear a beeping sound from box 4807. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "open box 4807" | |||||
Floyd | You find a sphere inside, and take it. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by four points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open box 4807" | |||||
Floyd | The box is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | For half a second you hear a crackling noise. Floyd | Floyd | The spider turns to face a different direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, erase sphere" | |||||
Floyd | "Erase procedure begun...complete, successful." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | The only exits are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "drop paper?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "already" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cube, lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | "Reactivating lxprog...it worked, the program is now running again." Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "I put the paper upstairs" | ||||
| Fang asks, "now what, wait?" | |||||
| DavidW says, "oh" | |||||
| DavidW says, "maybe" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | A disembodied voice announces, "Location program complete, intruder has Floyd | been located, sentac pulse now active." Floyd | Floyd | The world becomes liquid and void, without form... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 23 out of a possible 40, in 319 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I thought we had to hide in the grid." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "u" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Containment Grid Floyd | The design of virtual space can be almost anything, but in this case Floyd | the room is merely a small cube surrounded by an electric fence, with Floyd | lines of blue against black crossing the floor and ceiling. A large Floyd | square door is inset into the floor, slightly off the center, sending Floyd | the design of the entire room into asymmetrical confusion. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a piece of paper here. Floyd | Floyd | A disembodied voice announces, "Location program complete, intruder has Floyd | been located, sentac pulse now active." Floyd | Floyd | The world becomes liquid and void, without form... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 23 out of a possible 40, in 319 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Fang says, "doesn't seem to help" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "So the paper has to be found outside the grid, no?" | |||||
| Fang asks (of DavidW), "alright, try that?" | |||||
| Firion arrives, full of fun and funk. | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf2" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "say lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | The cube gives a blank stare momentarily, and then says, "Some type of Floyd | program has been activated, it will take an unknown amount of time to Floyd | complete." Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x paper" | |||||
Floyd | It feels more like a piece of plastic than a piece of paper because of Floyd | its virtual nature. It is blank. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop paper" | |||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The cube looks concerned. "The execution of lxprog has been halted. Floyd | Something is stopping the program from running." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "say lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | "I already told you, the program has been halted, you need to locate Floyd | whatever is halting it and get rid of it." Floyd | Floyd | A loud warbling noise briefly echoes into the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "cube, lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | "I'll try to restart, since you insist...still unable, and now the halt Floyd | program has raised in intensity." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "say lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | "There's no point in trying to activate again, you have to get rid of Floyd | whatever is halting lxprog." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | Many plain boxes with numbers printed on them fill this room. The Floyd | ceiling, floor, and walls are a simple dull gray. A low pitched whine Floyd | can be heard from somewhere high in the room. Black rectangles allow Floyd | exit to the east and west. Floyd | You can distinctly hear a beeping sound from somewhere among the boxes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen to boxes" | |||||
Floyd | You can distinctly hear a beeping sound from box 4807. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open box 4807" | |||||
Floyd | You find a sphere inside, and take it. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by four points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a piece of paper and a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | In the distance you can hear the sound of metal shifting. Floyd | Floyd | The spider shifts to a slightly different position. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spider, erase sphere" | |||||
Floyd | "Erase procedure begun...complete, successful." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a piece of paper and a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Containment Grid Floyd | The design of virtual space can be almost anything, but in this case Floyd | the room is merely a small cube surrounded by an electric fence, with Floyd | lines of blue against black crossing the floor and ceiling. A large Floyd | square door is inset into the floor, slightly off the center, sending Floyd | the design of the entire room into asymmetrical confusion. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "no" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | A disembodied voice announces, "Location program complete, intruder has Floyd | been located, sentac pulse now active." Floyd | Floyd | The world becomes liquid and void, without form... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 21 out of a possible 40, in 319 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Ben says, "Maybe we should shut the paper in one of the boxes" | ||||
| Fang says, "well, I was going to say you need to resume lxprog" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Containment Grid Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "\undo" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "but it doesn't seem to help" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | Containment Grid Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | Containment Grid Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||||
Floyd | You are contained. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | |||||
Floyd | Rendered light green, and open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | A disembodied voice announces, "Location program complete, intruder has Floyd | been located, sentac pulse now active." Floyd | Floyd | The world becomes liquid and void, without form... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 21 out of a possible 40, in 319 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Ben says, "Yeah, multiple /undo definitely doesn't work." | ||||
| Fang asks, "more hints?" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf2" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "I want to try putting the paper in the box." | ||||
| Fang says (to Ben), "okay, go" | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | The cube gives a blank stare momentarily, and then says, "Some type of Floyd | program has been activated, it will take an unknown amount of time to Floyd | complete." Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | Many plain boxes with numbers printed on them fill this room. The Floyd | ceiling, floor, and walls are a simple dull gray. A low pitched whine Floyd | can be heard from somewhere high in the room. Black rectangles allow Floyd | exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We're guessing the paper is giving us away." | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "put paper in box 0" | |||||
Floyd | You can't do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "open box 0" | |||||
Floyd | You need to specify a box number from 0001 to 9999! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open box 4807" | |||||
Floyd | You find a sphere inside, and take it. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by four points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "put paper in box 4807" | |||||
Floyd | You can't do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "maybe this just needs out of context knowledge" | ||||
| Ben says, "ok, I'm ready for a hint." | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat paper" | |||||
Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | The paper gives off a brief flash of light. Floyd | Floyd | A loud warbling noise briefly echoes into the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "so that there's time for lxprog to run" | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "tear paper" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "destroy paper" | |||||
Floyd | Your best efforts yield nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf2" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | Many plain boxes with numbers printed on them fill this room. The Floyd | ceiling, floor, and walls are a simple dull gray. A low pitched whine Floyd | can be heard from somewhere high in the room. Black rectangles allow Floyd | exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open box 4807" | |||||
Floyd | The box is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | The only exits are to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | The cube gives a blank stare momentarily, and then says, "Some type of Floyd | program has been activated, it will take an unknown amount of time to Floyd | complete." Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Storage Room Floyd | Many plain boxes with numbers printed on them fill this room. The Floyd | ceiling, floor, and walls are a simple dull gray. A low pitched whine Floyd | can be heard from somewhere high in the room. Black rectangles allow Floyd | exit to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open box 4807" | |||||
Floyd | The box is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open box 4807" | |||||
Floyd | The box is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open box 4807" | |||||
Floyd | You find a sphere inside, and take it. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by four points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | The paper gives off a brief flash of light. Floyd | Floyd | Something just made a sound like a mouse dying. Floyd | Floyd | The spider turns to face a different direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, erase sphere" | |||||
Floyd | "Erase procedure begun...complete, successful." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | The only exits are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | "Reactivating lxprog...it worked, the program is now running again." Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf3" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It occurs to me that we never looked at the sphere." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "x sphere" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The paper gives off a flash of light that lasts about five seconds. Floyd | Floyd | A voice of unknown location announces: "Maintenance level manual Floyd | checking now active." Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben exclaims, "aha!" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "up" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Containment Grid Floyd | The design of virtual space can be almost anything, but in this case Floyd | the room is merely a small cube surrounded by an electric fence, with Floyd | lines of blue against black crossing the floor and ceiling. A large Floyd | square door is inset into the floor, slightly off the center, sending Floyd | the design of the entire room into asymmetrical confusion. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "I bet we have now spider authorization now" | ||||
| Ben says, "*new" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | A disembodied voice announces, "Location program complete, intruder has Floyd | been located, sentac pulse now active." Floyd | Floyd | The world becomes liquid and void, without form... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 23 out of a possible 40, in 323 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "restore" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "wwew" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Restore failed. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf3" | DavidW asks, "so, instead of going up, go east and ask 'help' from the spider?" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "yah" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | The spider shifts to a slightly different position. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, help" | |||||
Floyd | "Commands for your security level: ERASE, STATUS." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, help" | |||||
Floyd | "Commands for your security level: ERASE, STATUS." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "wait." | ||||
| DavidW says, "You didn't see the maint thing start." | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf3" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The paper gives off a flash of light that lasts about five seconds. Floyd | Floyd | A voice of unknown location announces: "Maintenance level manual Floyd | checking now active." Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "A disembodied voice gives you a deus ex machina." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cube about maintenance" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm not sure about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "except we die the next turn, when there's a five second flash" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spider, help" | |||||
Floyd | "Commands for your security level: ERASE, STATUS." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spider, status" | |||||
Floyd | "Status normal, all systems check clean, 52% of resources are being Floyd | used." Floyd | Floyd | A disembodied voice announces, "Location program complete, intruder has Floyd | been located, sentac pulse now active." Floyd | Floyd | The world becomes liquid and void, without form... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 23 out of a possible 40, in 323 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "52% of resources? That's new." | ||||
| Firion exclaims, "It's a sad thing that your adventures have ended here!!" | |||||
| Fang asks, "hint time?" | |||||
| Ben asks, "Do you think lxprog is the location program?" | |||||
| Fang says (to Ben), "no" | |||||
| DavidW says, "no" | |||||
| Ben says, "Can we get the cube to stop lxprog after the maint message" | |||||
| Fang says, "it kills us even when its halted" | |||||
| Ben says, "oh right" | |||||
| DavidW says, "It's sentac that kills us, I think." | |||||
| Ben says, "And we tried erasing sentac." | |||||
| Fang says, "maybe we need to crash things somehow by using up all the resources" | |||||
| DavidW says, "well, the scanner finds us and then sentac kills us." | |||||
| Ben exclaims, "Ooh!" | |||||
| Fang says, "but it doesn't look like we have nearly enough time to do that" | |||||
| Ben says, "Maybe." | |||||
| Fang says, "I mean, to do what I did there, I skipped a step" | |||||
| Ben says, "Let's try running lxprog immediately after the maint message" | |||||
| Fang says, "by not asking lxprog" | |||||
| DavidW asks, "Does the paper have another word on it when the maint program starts?" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf3" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x paper" | |||||
Floyd | It feels more like a piece of plastic than a piece of paper because of Floyd | its virtual nature. It is blank. Floyd | Floyd | An intense burst of white noise disappears as quickly as it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x paper" | |||||
Floyd | It feels more like a piece of plastic than a piece of paper because of Floyd | its virtual nature. It is blank. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x paper" | |||||
Floyd | It feels more like a piece of plastic than a piece of paper because of Floyd | its virtual nature. It is blank. Floyd | Floyd | The paper gives off a flash of light that lasts about five seconds. Floyd | Floyd | A voice of unknown location announces: "Maintenance level manual Floyd | checking now active." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x paper" | |||||
Floyd | It feels more like a piece of plastic than a piece of paper because of Floyd | its virtual nature. It is blank. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | "The program is already running." Floyd | Floyd | A disembodied voice announces, "Location program complete, intruder has Floyd | been located, sentac pulse now active." Floyd | Floyd | The world becomes liquid and void, without form... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 23 out of a possible 40, in 323 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "hint time?" | ||||
| Ben says, "I think so." | |||||
| Fang says, "sorry for being so defeatist, but this is kinda annoying me" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hint" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | > Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | > Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | DavidW says, "well, we don't want to use up our entire day either" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | > Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | > Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | > Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | > Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | > Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | > Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | > Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | Fang asks, "this, I guess?" | ||||
| Ben says, "yah" | |||||
| DavidW says, "I remember you, we never looked at the sphere" | |||||
| Ben asks, "do you want to do that first?" | |||||
| Fang says (to DavidW), "I doubt it really matters" | |||||
| DavidW says, "no. get the hint" | |||||
| Fang says, "since we scored points for erasing it" | |||||
| Fang presses the yellow enter button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | (Press ENTER to return to the main menu, or H for another hint.) Floyd | Floyd | (1/6) The paper is being located, which means that you are close to Floyd | being located. Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "h" | |||||
Floyd | (2/6) You need to destroy the paper. Floyd | | Fang asks, "more?" | ||||
| Ben says, "Yes. We tries erasing and attacking it." | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "h" | |||||
Floyd | (3/6) Using the spider will allow you to be detected. You need to use Floyd | something else. Floyd | | Ben asks, "The cube?" | ||||
| Alex says (to Ben), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that Cube is a genius." | |||||
| Ben asks, "feed paper to cube?" | |||||
| DavidW says, "Can't do that." | |||||
| Fang asks, "anything in the containment room?" | |||||
| Ben says, "the door, I guess" | |||||
| Ben says, "There's not a lot of nouns in this game" | |||||
| Fang asks, "more, or that's enough?" | |||||
| DavidW says, "I don't know what to do." | |||||
| Ben says, "We still don't have a good lead" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "h" | |||||
Floyd | (4/6) Is there anything in the containment grid that might be helpful? Floyd | | Ben says, "No, there isn't." | ||||
| DavidW says, "If the sphere opens, you could put the paper in there." | |||||
| Fang asks, "well, I guess we need to look in the containment grid?" | |||||
| Ben says, "I guess." | |||||
| DavidW says, "I remember nothing helpful in the grid. There's a door, lines, fence." | |||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | [Please press SPACE.] | |||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | > Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "q" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf3" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "u" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Containment Grid Floyd | The design of virtual space can be almost anything, but in this case Floyd | the room is merely a small cube surrounded by an electric fence, with Floyd | lines of blue against black crossing the floor and ceiling. A large Floyd | square door is inset into the floor, slightly off the center, sending Floyd | the design of the entire room into asymmetrical confusion. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put paper on fence" | |||||
Floyd | The paper is sucked into the fence structure and disappears. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "There we go." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "what the-!?" | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "x fence" | |||||
Floyd | Simulated of both metal and electricity, it somewhat resembles a row of Floyd | Jacob's Ladders placed side by side intertwined with strips of bronzed Floyd | metal, but the virtual image flickers so rapidly it is hard to tell. Floyd | Beyond it is nothing but black. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang exclaims, "obvious!" | ||||
| Ben says, "There's no reasonable way we could have known to do that." | |||||
| DavidW asks, "So wait here until we get an all clear?" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | A voice of unknown location announces: "Maintenance level manual Floyd | checking now active." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, status" | |||||
Floyd | "Status normal, all systems check clean, 52% of resources are being Floyd | used." Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "I think we should do whatever we need to now that lxprog is running right" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Which would be--?" | |||||
| Fang exclaims, "dunno!" | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "full score" | |||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 26 out of a possible 40, in 323 turns. Floyd | Floyd | The score is made up as follows: Floyd | Floyd | 1 getting the door halfway open Floyd | 2 getting the door open the rest of the way Floyd | 1 activating the cube Floyd | 5 restoring the cube's voice Floyd | 3 evading the scan Floyd | 3 activating lxprog Floyd | 2 restoring your body integrity Floyd | 3 destroying the paper Floyd | 4 finding the halting program Floyd | 2 reactivating lxprog Floyd | Floyd | 26 total (out of 40) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| OliverU goes home. | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, help" | |||||
Floyd | "Commands for your security level: ERASE, STATUS." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, check" | |||||
Floyd | What do you want the spider to check? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, check me" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, access denied." Floyd | Floyd | "Error, access denied." Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "maybe check with the cube again?" | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "yeah." | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | |||||
Floyd | The only exits are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | The spider idly plays with the doll it is carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "I suspect we have to wait for lxprog tofinish." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | The cube says, "I have received a message of unknown origin. It reads: Floyd | spidlower." Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | "The program is already running." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask cube about lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | "The program is already running." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "say spidlower" | |||||
Floyd | Nothing seems to happen. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask cube about maintenance" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm not sure about that." Floyd | A voice announces: "Maintenance level 2 active." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cube about spidlower" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm as confused on this one as you." Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "maintenance level 2?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "spider lower?" | |||||
| Ben says, "More maint messages." | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "say spidlower" | |||||
Floyd | Nothing seems to happen. Floyd | Floyd | Something just made a sound like a mouse dying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, help" | |||||
Floyd | "Commands for your security level: ERASE, STATUS." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spider, lower" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spider, spidlower" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | The spider turns to face a different direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben asks, "Where did you get 'spidlower'?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, maintenance" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, status" | |||||
Floyd | "Status normal, all systems check clean, 52% of resources are being Floyd | used." Floyd | A voice announces: "Maintenance level 3 active." You are feeling Floyd | somewhat sleepy, even though sleep here is impossible. Floyd | Floyd | The spider shifts to a slightly different position. Floyd | Floyd | > DavidW | Floyd | The cube says, "I have received a message of unknown origin. It reads: spidlower. | Fang says (to Floyd), "spidlower" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "lower spider" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "we're in trouble, people." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, spidlower" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | The spider shifts to a slightly different position. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We're being erased." | ||||
| Fang says, "sigh" | |||||
| Fang asks, "AGAIN?" | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, erase spidlower" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x cage" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "get in" | |||||
Floyd | What do you want to get in? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "cage" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "get in loop" | |||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | A wave on unconsciousness overcomes you... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 26 out of a possible 40, in 342 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The loop can't be entered. We've tried that several times." | ||||
| Fang asks, "sigh. More hints?" | |||||
| Ben says, "I think so." | |||||
| Fang says (to DavidW), "I was wondering if the message changes things" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | The only exits are to the north and south. Floyd | A wave on unconsciousness overcomes you... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 26 out of a possible 40, in 342 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Ben says, "There have been enough illogical puzzles so far that I'm less inclined to keep banging my head on further ones." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Well, I wonder if 'spidlower' means to lower the spider somehow?" | |||||
| Fang says, "we don't have access, though" | |||||
| Ben says, "I'm sure it does, but the reasonable attempts we made didn't provide any feedback" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf3" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "hint?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "go ahead" | |||||
| Ben says, "y" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hint" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | > Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | > Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | > Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | > Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | > Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | > Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | > Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | > Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | > Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | > Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | > Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Fang presses the yellow enter button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | (Press ENTER to return to the main menu, or H for another hint.) Floyd | Floyd | (1/4) It separates into spid lower. Floyd | | Fang asks, "more?" | ||||
| Ben says, "we guessed that" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "h" | |||||
Floyd | (2/4) Or, spider lowered. Floyd | | DavidW says, "still guessed that" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "h" | |||||
Floyd | (3/4) Spider access level lowered. Floyd | | Ben says, "oh interesting." | ||||
| Ben says, "yet, our access seems not to have changed." | |||||
| Ben says, "we played with the spider fairly extensively" | |||||
| Fang asks, "one more?" | |||||
| Ben says, "yeah." | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "h" | |||||
Floyd | (4/4) You can now do something with the spider you couldn't do before. Floyd | Floyd | [Please press SPACE.] | DavidW says, "But maybe the spider will now accept orders like drop doll." | ||||
| Ben says, "OH HELPFUL" | |||||
| Ben says, "fine, let's try that." | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "q" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | > Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "q" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "u" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Containment Grid Floyd | The design of virtual space can be almost anything, but in this case Floyd | the room is merely a small cube surrounded by an electric fence, with Floyd | lines of blue against black crossing the floor and ceiling. A large Floyd | square door is inset into the floor, slightly off the center, sending Floyd | the design of the entire room into asymmetrical confusion. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put paper in fence" | |||||
Floyd | The paper is sucked into the fence structure and disappears. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed in all the Floyd | main directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "when did we get spidlower?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "from here" | |||||
| DavidW says, "I don't know the trigger" | |||||
| Fang asks, "are we spidlowered now?" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | A voice of unknown location announces: "Maintenance level manual Floyd | checking now active." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't see the message, so I don't think so." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The cube says, "I have received a message of unknown origin. It says: Floyd | spidlower." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Two portals, black voids Floyd | in the landscape, are to the north and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a metal loop (on which is a spider) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, drop doll" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, access denied." Floyd | Floyd | The spider idly plays with the doll it is carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take doll" | |||||
Floyd | The spider won't let you near it. Floyd | Floyd | In the distance you can hear the sound of metal shifting. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, check doll" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, access denied." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take spider" | |||||
Floyd | The spider backs away from you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, n" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, access denied." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spider, follow me" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, down" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, access denied." Floyd | Floyd | In the distance you can hear the sound of metal shifting. Floyd | Floyd | The spider idly plays with the doll it is carrying. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "sigh." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, erase sentax" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, erase sentac" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, not understood, command not in syntax list." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, give doll to me" | |||||
Floyd | "Error, access denied." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, erase doll" | |||||
Floyd | "Access denied." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, erase loop" | |||||
Floyd | "Access denied." Floyd | A voice announces: "Maintenance level 2 active." Floyd | Floyd | In the distance you can hear the sound of metal shifting. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spider, erase spider" | |||||
Floyd | "Erase procedure begun..." Floyd | Floyd | The spider begins moving quickly in patterns, like a ballet dancer Floyd | hanging over an electric web. Floyd | Floyd | The metal loop and spider suddenly cease to exist. A large void forms Floyd | in its place. The portals disappear as well. Black inky space begins to Floyd | fill all corners of the room. Floyd | Floyd | The spaces where the spider, loop, and portals were expand slightly. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by four points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "spider, erase spider" | |||||
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "whoa" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf4" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Large groups of black Floyd | are slowly eating the room apart. Floyd | Floyd | Black spots begin to dot the walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "we should get out of here" | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | The portal has ceased to exist. Floyd | Floyd | Patches of nothing begin to form in mid-air. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "I think we want to be doing something, but there are no exits" | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "s" | |||||
Floyd | The portal has ceased to exist. Floyd | Floyd | Stars of black now mingle with stars of white in equal number. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | The black walls of nonexistence close in on every side. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | The black walls of nonexistence close in on every side. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a popping noise from far above. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "up" | |||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | The view has become almost completely dark. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "or just wait?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Nothingness is close to absorbing you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "who knows" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | The Nothing consumes you. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 30 out of a possible 40, in 340 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Fang says, "guess not" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf4" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm" | ||||
| Ben says, "so, um" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Star Plateau Floyd | A flat plain of black sand sprouts dark obelisks reaching to the sky. Floyd | The sky itself is a mixture of stars, real and unreal--fractal images Floyd | along with glowing dots shine softly together. Large groups of black Floyd | are slowly eating the room apart. Floyd | Floyd | Black spots begin to dot the walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "n" | |||||
Floyd | The portal has ceased to exist. Floyd | Floyd | Patches of nothing begin to form in mid-air. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "This ride sucks." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "pray" | |||||
Floyd | Nothing practical results from your prayer. Floyd | Floyd | Stars of black now mingle with stars of white in equal number. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "dance" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "jump" | |||||
Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly. Floyd | Floyd | The black walls of nonexistence close in on every side. Floyd | Floyd | An intense burst of white noise disappears as quickly as it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||||
Floyd | You hear a constant electric hum in the distance. Floyd | Floyd | The view has become almost completely dark. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "up" | |||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | Nothingness is close to absorbing you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "wake up" | |||||
Floyd | The dreadful truth is, this is not a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take hole" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take nothingness" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "enter darkness" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "out" | |||||
Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | The Nothing consumes you. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 30 out of a possible 40, in 340 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf4" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "hint?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "let's think a little" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "lxprog" | |||||
Floyd | Nothing seems to happen. Floyd | Floyd | Black spots begin to dot the walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "sentac" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "erase holes" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x obelisk" | |||||
Floyd | Imprinted in black, and reaching for the sky. Floyd | Floyd | Patches of nothing begin to form in mid-air. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | Stars of black now mingle with stars of white in equal number. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "climb obelisk" | |||||
Floyd | The surface is sticky, allowing you to reach the apex. Floyd | Floyd | Apex of Obelisk Floyd | A flat plain of black sand lies below you, and starry fractal sky Floyd | above. The sky looks so realistic and close you feel you could almost Floyd | reach out and touch it. Patches of black threaten you from every Floyd | direction. Floyd | Floyd | A loud warbling noise briefly echoes into the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh" | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "touch sky" | |||||
Floyd | You raise your hand, and, as in a childhood fantasy, touch the sky. As Floyd | you do so, you are sucked into it... Floyd | Floyd | Factory Floyd | High above you on various platforms, machines clatter and clang, Floyd | shifting connected parts in constant motion, like the inner workings of Floyd | a giant mechanical beast. The walls and floor are textured with ridged Floyd | metal; the ceiling is a dull gray. There is no exit. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a duplicator, a green pad, a blue pad and a storage bin (in Floyd | which is a widget) here. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by four points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "wtf?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x pad" | |||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the green pad or the blue pad? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "green" | |||||
Floyd | A flat green pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x blue pad" | |||||
Floyd | A flat blue pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Makes the drum becoming a banana seem tame, doesn't it?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "widget" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "about" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open bin" | |||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | Going through the sky seems to have put a strain on your body. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||||
Floyd | Your "body" is a crude model, textured with some type of rock, almost Floyd | as if you were a golem. Your virtual body has degenerated slightly. Floyd | Floyd | A gauge attached to a spinning crank briefly makes a loud warbling Floyd | noise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "ah, fuck" | ||||
| Fang says, "we are in another timed puzzle" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x widget" | |||||
Floyd | A generic program without modelling is called a "widget". This one is Floyd | incomplete, which is why it looks like a plain rectangular box. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x duplicator" | |||||
Floyd | It is used to make it easy to duplicate objects in the virtual Floyd | environment. An object is placed on the green pad, the duplicator is Floyd | touched, and a duplicate of the object on the green pad appears on the Floyd | blue pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "enter green" | |||||
Floyd | You get onto the green pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "press duplicator" | |||||
Floyd | It is attached to the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "touch duplicator" | |||||
Floyd | You can't reach the duplicator from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "touch duplicator" | |||||
Floyd | You can't reach the duplicator from here. Floyd | Floyd | A giant chain shifts to a new position, making a sound like creaking Floyd | floorboards. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Factory Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "out" | |||||
Floyd | You are on your own two feet again. Floyd | Floyd | Factory Floyd | High above you on various platforms, machines clatter and clang, Floyd | shifting connected parts in constant motion, like the inner workings of Floyd | a giant mechanical beast. The walls and floor are textured with ridged Floyd | metal; the ceiling is a dull gray. There is no exit. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a duplicator, a green pad, a blue pad and a storage bin (in Floyd | which is a widget) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take all from bin" | |||||
Floyd | Removed. Floyd | Floyd | You hear explosions coming from a disconnected universe. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on green pad" | |||||
Floyd | An invisible force repels you. The pad seems to have a pre-set limit of Floyd | one thing at a time. Floyd | Floyd | Spots and pieces of void are appearing on your virtual skin. Floyd | Floyd | Static and white noise are briefly emitted from a television display. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Factory Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put widget on green pad" | |||||
Floyd | You put the widget on the green pad. Floyd | Floyd | Spots and pieces of void are appearing on your virtual skin. Floyd | Floyd | A gadget attached to the ceiling glows briefly and makes a popping Floyd | noise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "touch duplicator" | |||||
Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Duplication of this object is restricted." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "How is duplicating this widget helpful? Shouldn't we duplicate ourselves?" | ||||
| Ben says, "get widget; stand on green; throw widget at duplicator" | |||||
| Fang says (to Ben), "we can't enter the pad while carrying the widget" | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "really?" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "really" | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "oh i see" | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Factory Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "drop widget" | |||||
Floyd | You haven't got that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Factory Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | [Can't "undo" twice in succession. Sorry!] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take widget" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "drop it" | |||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | You can faintly hear planes overhead. Apparently, the assault is Floyd | underway. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "argh" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "enter green panel" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to enter the green pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "enter green pad" | |||||
Floyd | You get onto the green pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "get widget" | |||||
Floyd | You can't reach the widget from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Factory Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | [Can't "undo" twice in succession. Sorry!] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "out" | |||||
Floyd | You are on your own two feet again. Floyd | Floyd | Factory Floyd | High above you on various platforms, machines clatter and clang, Floyd | shifting connected parts in constant motion, like the inner workings of Floyd | a giant mechanical beast. The walls and floor are textured with ridged Floyd | metal; the ceiling is a dull gray. There is no exit. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a widget, a duplicator, a green pad, a blue pad and a Floyd | storage bin (which is empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | Exposed wires in the wall spark, making a crackling noise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "get widget" | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "get wires" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The sound of gunfire resonates from afar. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | That's just scenery. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put widget on duplicator" | |||||
Floyd | Putting things on the duplicator would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Factory Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "touch duplicator" | |||||
Floyd | The duplicator pauses for a moment, then announces, "Error, no item in Floyd | duplicator." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "What are you trying to do?" | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "put duplicator on green pad" | |||||
Floyd | You need to be holding the duplicator before you can put it on top of Floyd | something else. Floyd | Floyd | Your body has almost completely faded away. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a widget Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x widge" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | The room shakes, and the view is briefly distorted. The main power to Floyd | the computer system is failing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x widget" | |||||
Floyd | A generic program without modelling is called a "widget". This one is Floyd | incomplete, which is why it looks like a plain rectangular box. Floyd | Floyd | Fragments of nothing crowd your vision, and the world fades away... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 34 out of a possible 40, in 360 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf4" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "climb obelisk" | |||||
Floyd | The surface is sticky, allowing you to reach the apex. Floyd | Floyd | Apex of Obelisk Floyd | A flat plain of black sand lies below you, and starry fractal sky Floyd | above. The sky looks so realistic and close you feel you could almost Floyd | reach out and touch it. Patches of black threaten you from every Floyd | direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "u" | |||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "touch sky" | |||||
Floyd | You raise your hand, and, as in a childhood fantasy, touch the sky. As Floyd | you do so, you are sucked into it... Floyd | Floyd | Factory Floyd | High above you on various platforms, machines clatter and clang, Floyd | shifting connected parts in constant motion, like the inner workings of Floyd | a giant mechanical beast. The walls and floor are textured with ridged Floyd | metal; the ceiling is a dull gray. There is no exit. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a duplicator, a green pad, a blue pad and a storage bin (in Floyd | which is a widget) here. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by four points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "touch sky" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "get duplicator" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take all from bin" | |||||
Floyd | It is attached to the floor. Floyd | Floyd | A gadget attached to the ceiling glows briefly and makes a popping Floyd | noise. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Removed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put widget on blue pad" | |||||
Floyd | You put the widget on the blue pad. Floyd | Floyd | Going through the sky seems to have put a strain on your body. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "get on green pad" | |||||
Floyd | You get onto the green pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "touch duplicator" | |||||
Floyd | You can't reach the duplicator from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "get widget" | |||||
Floyd | You can't reach the widget from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "out" | |||||
Floyd | You are on your own two feet again. Floyd | Floyd | Factory Floyd | High above you on various platforms, machines clatter and clang, Floyd | shifting connected parts in constant motion, like the inner workings of Floyd | a giant mechanical beast. The walls and floor are textured with ridged Floyd | metal; the ceiling is a dull gray. There is no exit. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a duplicator, a green pad, a blue pad (on which is a Floyd | widget) and a storage bin (which is empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "get bin" | |||||
Floyd | It is far too large to do that. Floyd | Floyd | A compressor raises and lowers its pump, making a sound like a mouse Floyd | dying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "get blue pad" | |||||
Floyd | That would be an interesting trick. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "touch duplicator" | |||||
Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Error in duplication, standby...". The Floyd | widget has disappeared off the blue pad and reappeared in the storage Floyd | bin. Floyd | Floyd | You hear explosions coming from a disconnected universe. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "enter blue" | |||||
Floyd | You get onto the blue pad. Floyd | Floyd | Spots and pieces of void are appearing on your virtual skin. Floyd | Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Standby, reset of logic initiating." Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "hmmmm" | ||||
| Ben says, "now, get on green pad with widget" | |||||
| Ben says, "while logic is rebooting" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Factory Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "get all from bin" | |||||
Floyd | Removed. Floyd | Floyd | Spots and pieces of void are appearing on your virtual skin. Floyd | Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Standby, reset of logic initiating." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "enter green panel" | |||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to enter the green pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "enter green pad" | |||||
Floyd | An invisible force repels you. The pad seems to have a pre-set limit of Floyd | one thing at a time. Floyd | Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Logic reset." Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "aww." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Factory Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "drop widget" | |||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Logic reset." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "enter blue" | |||||
Floyd | You get onto the blue pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "touch duplicator" | |||||
Floyd | You can't reach the duplicator from here. Floyd | Floyd | You can faintly hear planes overhead. Apparently, the assault is Floyd | underway. Floyd | Floyd | A compressor raises and lowers its pump, making a sound like a mouse Floyd | dying. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "hmm." | ||||
| Ben asks, "Can we get on the blue pad with the widget?" | |||||
| Fang says, "hmm" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf4" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "climb obelisk" | |||||
Floyd | The surface is sticky, allowing you to reach the apex. Floyd | Floyd | Apex of Obelisk Floyd | A flat plain of black sand lies below you, and starry fractal sky Floyd | above. The sky looks so realistic and close you feel you could almost Floyd | reach out and touch it. Patches of black threaten you from every Floyd | direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "touch sky" | |||||
Floyd | You raise your hand, and, as in a childhood fantasy, touch the sky. As Floyd | you do so, you are sucked into it... Floyd | Floyd | Factory Floyd | High above you on various platforms, machines clatter and clang, Floyd | shifting connected parts in constant motion, like the inner workings of Floyd | a giant mechanical beast. The walls and floor are textured with ridged Floyd | metal; the ceiling is a dull gray. There is no exit. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a duplicator, a green pad, a blue pad and a storage bin (in Floyd | which is a widget) here. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by four points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf5" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "get widget" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "enter blue" | |||||
Floyd | An invisible force repels you. The pad seems to have a pre-set limit of Floyd | one thing at a time. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Factory Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put widget on blue" | |||||
Floyd | You put the widget on the blue pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Limit of 1 item per pad" | ||||
| Fang says (to DavidW), "doesn't help, because we can't reach the duplicator from either pad" | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "or either pad from the other." | |||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Factory Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "touch duplicator" | |||||
Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Error in duplication, standby...". The Floyd | widget has disappeared off the blue pad and reappeared in the storage Floyd | bin. Floyd | Floyd | Going through the sky seems to have put a strain on your body. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take widget" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Standby, reset of logic initiating." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Maybe the restriction on duplicating just the widget is lifted during the logic reinit?" | ||||
| Ben asks, "can we reach the bin from either pad?" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put widget on green pad" | |||||
Floyd | You put the widget on the green pad. Floyd | Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Logic reset." Floyd | Floyd | A gauge attached to a spinning crank briefly makes a loud warbling Floyd | noise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says (to DavidW), "We can't do it fast enough" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "touch duplicator" | |||||
Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Duplication of this object is restricted." Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben asks, "What happens if we duplicate nothing during the reset?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "enter bin" | |||||
Floyd | You get into the storage bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "this seems to be one hard game" | ||||
| Fang says, "hmm, the bin is enterable" | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "touch duplicator" | |||||
Floyd | You can't reach the duplicator from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says (to Doe), "it's not hard, it's annoying and obsessed with timed puzzles" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "so the widget could materialize inside us?" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "out" | |||||
Floyd | You are on your own two feet again. Floyd | Floyd | Factory Floyd | High above you on various platforms, machines clatter and clang, Floyd | shifting connected parts in constant motion, like the inner workings of Floyd | a giant mechanical beast. The walls and floor are textured with ridged Floyd | metal; the ceiling is a dull gray. There is no exit. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a duplicator, a green pad (on which is a widget), a blue Floyd | pad and a storage bin (which is empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "push bin" | |||||
Floyd | It is far too large to do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Firion asks, "What game is this anyhow?" | ||||
| Ben says, "get widget. enter bin. throw bin at duplicator" | |||||
| DavidW says, "except, I bet we can't reach the duplicator from the bin." | |||||
| Ben says, "i mean, throw widget" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Firion), "The Mind Electric by Jason Dyer." | |||||
| Ben says, "the idea is that we can throw at range" | |||||
| Doe says, "well, still a game, alone, I'd never bother to finish" | |||||
| Fang asks, "can we even throw stuff?" | |||||
| Ben says, "dunno" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take widget" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | You hear explosions coming from a disconnected universe. Floyd | Floyd | You hear the sound of metal shifting from a machine in the platforms Floyd | above. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "throw widget at duplicator" | |||||
Floyd | Futile. Floyd | Floyd | Spots and pieces of void are appearing on your virtual skin. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "i think it's a standard verb" | ||||
| Ben says, "oh bother." | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open widget" | |||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x bin" | |||||
Floyd | A large bin made of chrome and glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "break bin" | |||||
Floyd | Violence is impossible in that way while in virtualspace. Floyd | Floyd | You can faintly hear planes overhead. Apparently, the assault is Floyd | underway. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "eat widget" | |||||
Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Planes?" | ||||
| Fang asks, "hint?" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x machines" | |||||
Floyd | All different varieties, and of unknown purpose. Floyd | Floyd | Static and white noise are briefly emitted from a television display. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x floor" | |||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the floor. Floyd | Floyd | The sound of gunfire resonates from afar. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "climb machines" | |||||
Floyd | That's just scenery. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x platforms" | |||||
Floyd | They are hanging in midair without support. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb platforms" | |||||
Floyd | That's just scenery. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on platforms" | |||||
Floyd | That's just scenery. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "put widget on blue" | |||||
Floyd | You put the widget on the blue pad. Floyd | Floyd | Your body has almost completely faded away. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "touch duplicator" | |||||
Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Error in duplication, standby...". The Floyd | widget has disappeared off the blue pad and reappeared in the storage Floyd | bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "g" | |||||
Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Command placed in queue." Floyd | Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Standby, reset of logic initiating." Floyd | Floyd | The room shakes, and the view is briefly distorted. The main power to Floyd | the computer system is failing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "holy crap" | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "stand on green" | |||||
Floyd | You get onto the green pad. Floyd | Floyd | Fragments of nothing crowd your vision, and the world fades away... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 34 out of a possible 40, in 357 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Fang asks, "we can queue commands?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oooh" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf5" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "get widget" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "god, this game doesn't like to hint at things" | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "put widget on blue" | |||||
Floyd | You put the widget on the blue pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "touch duplicator" | |||||
Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Error in duplication, standby...". The Floyd | widget has disappeared off the blue pad and reappeared in the storage Floyd | bin. Floyd | Floyd | Going through the sky seems to have put a strain on your body. Floyd | Floyd | A gauge attached to a spinning crank briefly makes a loud warbling Floyd | noise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "g" | |||||
Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Command placed in queue." Floyd | Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Standby, reset of logic initiating." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "stand on green" | |||||
Floyd | You get onto the green pad. Floyd | Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Logic reset." Floyd | Floyd | The duplicator activates, and you see a duplicate of yourself formed on Floyd | the blue pad. As the integrity of your duplicate surpasses the one in Floyd | your current virtual body, your consciousness is transferred. Your old Floyd | body, still on the green pad, quivers, and then explodes; not an Floyd | explosion of fire, but of ice. The effect causes a shimmering curtain Floyd | of ice to rise where your body once was, and slowly disappear. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf6" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "full" | |||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 39 out of a possible 40, in 339 turns. Floyd | Floyd | The score is made up as follows: Floyd | Floyd | 1 getting the door halfway open Floyd | 2 getting the door open the rest of the way Floyd | 1 activating the cube Floyd | 5 restoring the cube's voice Floyd | 3 evading the scan Floyd | 3 activating lxprog Floyd | 2 restoring your body integrity Floyd | 3 destroying the paper Floyd | 4 finding the halting program Floyd | 2 reactivating lxprog Floyd | 4 destroying the maintenance system Floyd | 4 escaping the void Floyd | 5 making a duplicate of yourself Floyd | Floyd | 39 total (out of 40) Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "almost there?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "out" | |||||
Floyd | You are on your own two feet again. Floyd | Floyd | Factory Floyd | High above you on various platforms, machines clatter and clang, Floyd | shifting connected parts in constant motion, like the inner workings of Floyd | a giant mechanical beast. The walls and floor are textured with ridged Floyd | metal; the ceiling is a dull gray. There is no exit. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a duplicator, a green pad, a blue pad and a storage bin (in Floyd | which is a widget) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||||
Floyd | Your "body" is a crude model, textured with some type of rock, almost Floyd | as if you were a golem. Your virtual body's integrity appears to be Floyd | normal. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben asks, "should we duplicate ourself again?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "no" | |||||
| Ben says, "have two working copies" | |||||
| Fang says, "I have no idea what we are trying to do now" | |||||
| DavidW says, "well, I'm not sure either" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "touch duplicator" | |||||
Floyd | The duplicator pauses for a moment, then announces, "Error, no item in Floyd | duplicator." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "g" | |||||
Floyd | The duplicator pauses for a moment, then announces, "Error, no item in Floyd | duplicator." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess we can try to redupe." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take widget" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | You hear explosions coming from a disconnected universe. Floyd | Floyd | A gauge attached to a spinning crank briefly makes a loud warbling Floyd | noise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put widget on blue" | |||||
Floyd | You put the widget on the blue pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "touch duplicator" | |||||
Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Error in duplication, standby...". The Floyd | widget has disappeared off the blue pad and reappeared in the storage Floyd | bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "g" | |||||
Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Queue already full." Floyd | Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Standby, reset of logic initiating." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "enter blue" | |||||
Floyd | You get onto the blue pad. Floyd | Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Logic reset." Floyd | Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Error in duplication, standby...". You are Floyd | suddenly moved to the storage bin. Floyd | Floyd | You can faintly hear planes overhead. Apparently, the assault is Floyd | underway. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "you should have stood on green" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf6" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take widget" | |||||
Floyd | You can't reach the widget from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Factory Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "out" | |||||
Floyd | You are on your own two feet again. Floyd | Floyd | Factory Floyd | High above you on various platforms, machines clatter and clang, Floyd | shifting connected parts in constant motion, like the inner workings of Floyd | a giant mechanical beast. The walls and floor are textured with ridged Floyd | metal; the ceiling is a dull gray. There is no exit. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a duplicator, a green pad, a blue pad and a storage bin (in Floyd | which is a widget) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take widget" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put it on blue" | |||||
Floyd | You put the widget on the blue pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "touch duplicator" | |||||
Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Error in duplication, standby...". The Floyd | widget has disappeared off the blue pad and reappeared in the storage Floyd | bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "g" | |||||
Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Queue already full." Floyd | Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Standby, reset of logic initiating." Floyd | Floyd | Static and white noise are briefly emitted from a television display. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "enter green" | |||||
Floyd | You get onto the green pad. Floyd | Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Logic reset." Floyd | Floyd | Another duplicate of yourself forms on the other pad. Since you are Floyd | both in the same condition, you attain a condition of split Floyd | consciousness. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 39 out of a possible 40, in 345 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Factory Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "ok, so not that." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Logic reset." Floyd | Floyd | The duplicator pauses for a moment, then announces, "Error, no item in Floyd | duplicator." Floyd | Floyd | You hear explosions coming from a disconnected universe. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Factory Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "can we just look at the hints again?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "The bit about the planes concerns me." | |||||
| Fang says, "I assume that's yet another death timer" | |||||
| DavidW says, "oh. Maybe." | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wake up" | |||||
Floyd | The dreadful truth is, this is not a dream. Floyd | Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Logic reset." Floyd | Floyd | The duplicator pauses for a moment, then announces, "Error, no item in Floyd | duplicator." Floyd | Floyd | You hear explosions coming from a disconnected universe. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Factory Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x widget" | |||||
Floyd | A generic program without modelling is called a "widget". This one is Floyd | incomplete, which is why it looks like a plain rectangular box. Floyd | Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Logic reset." Floyd | Floyd | The duplicator pauses for a moment, then announces, "Error, no item in Floyd | duplicator." Floyd | Floyd | You hear explosions coming from a disconnected universe. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | Factory Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "hmm..." | ||||
| Ben says, "It said 'queue full'." | |||||
| DavidW says, "I can't think what happens next." | |||||
| Ben says, "Maybe we don't have to touch it to re-dupe" | |||||
| DavidW says, "Re-dupe is bad. We tried that." | |||||
| Ben asks, "giving us an extra turn to get the widget on the pad?" | |||||
| Ben says, "or hmm." | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf6" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "get widget" | |||||
Floyd | You can't reach the widget from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "out" | |||||
Floyd | You are on your own two feet again. Floyd | Floyd | Factory Floyd | High above you on various platforms, machines clatter and clang, Floyd | shifting connected parts in constant motion, like the inner workings of Floyd | a giant mechanical beast. The walls and floor are textured with ridged Floyd | metal; the ceiling is a dull gray. There is no exit. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a duplicator, a green pad, a blue pad and a storage bin (in Floyd | which is a widget) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "get widget" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "put widget on blue" | |||||
Floyd | You put the widget on the blue pad. Floyd | Floyd | You hear the sound of metal shifting from a machine in the platforms Floyd | above. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "touch duplicator" | |||||
Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Error in duplication, standby...". The Floyd | widget has disappeared off the blue pad and reappeared in the storage Floyd | bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "get widget" | |||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Standby, reset of logic initiating." Floyd | Floyd | You hear explosions coming from a disconnected universe. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "put widget on green" | |||||
Floyd | You put the widget on the green pad. Floyd | Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Logic reset." Floyd | Floyd | The duplicator announces, "Duplication of this object is restricted." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close bin" | |||||
Floyd | That's not something you can close. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "I don't even know what we are trying to do" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Factory Floyd | High above you on various platforms, machines clatter and clang, Floyd | shifting connected parts in constant motion, like the inner workings of Floyd | a giant mechanical beast. The walls and floor are textured with ridged Floyd | metal; the ceiling is a dull gray. There is no exit. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a duplicator, a green pad (on which is a widget), a blue Floyd | pad and a storage bin (which is empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "up" | |||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | You can faintly hear planes overhead. Apparently, the assault is Floyd | underway. Floyd | Floyd | Exposed wires in the wall spark, making a crackling noise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "yeah, I'm not sure either. Explode the machine to make an exit?" | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "attack machine" | |||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "or just wait?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ben says, "hint" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The sound of gunfire resonates from afar. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Exposed wires in the wall spark, making a crackling noise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The room shakes, and the view is briefly distorted. The main power to Floyd | the computer system is failing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | A portal forms itself in the middle of the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Static and white noise are briefly emitted from a television display. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), " in" | |||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "d" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed to the north Floyd | and south as well as the ceiling and floor. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "what the christ" | ||||
| Ben says, ""A portal form itself in the middle of the floor."" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cube about universe" | |||||
Floyd | "I'm not sure about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "yeah. I mean, what the christ, implementor" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf7" | |||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "e" | |||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | An streak of void splits across the room, breaking the cube into parts. Floyd | It cries out, and in a fading voice says, "goodbye.....". Floyd | Floyd | You hear a distorted voice announce "lxprog complete." The view becomes Floyd | thin, and the last thing you see before you black out is snow. Floyd | Floyd | You can vaguely feel and hear the sensations and sounds of being Floyd | grabbed and carried, of voices in confusion, and of a gigantic Floyd | explosion, but the first time you truly awake is at... Floyd | Floyd | Grassy Field Floyd | Green surrounds your vision from this vantage point, on the top of a Floyd | plateau. High above you, the stars shine brightly, and the two moons Floyd | cast their glow all over the surface of the field. Floyd | Floyd | You see a tall man sitting next to a tree. Floyd | Floyd | The man notices you awaking and motions for you to stay seated. "The Floyd | transfer to your real body has put you through much strain, especially Floyd | since I had to speed up the program a little." Floyd | Floyd | You have the extreme urge to say something, but your mouth is unable to Floyd | move. Your entire body is exhausted. Floyd | Floyd | "I know what you want to ask. You want to know why I saved you. I Floyd | thought perhaps I could get someone to understand the true nature of Floyd | the war, and after such a situation you may understand without me even Floyd | telling you." Floyd | Floyd | The man studies you in silence for a few moments, and then says, "You Floyd | see, the war between the Kaden and Souden is not a real war, for a just Floyd | cause, or even a lost cause, but a cycle. The impact of the loyalty Floyd | transfer programs has been that the war is merely a transfer of people Floyd | from one loyalty to the other, repeatedly, so much that their identity Floyd | is lost. The war is a collection of toy soldiers marching back and Floyd | forth across a line, and slowly dying out. You are all fighting Floyd | yourselves, each other, all on the same side." Floyd | Floyd | "But you may still not understand until you know who created the cube, Floyd | which died in saving you at the base." Floyd | Floyd | The tall man pauses for a moment to catch his breath, then speaks very Floyd | slowly: Floyd | Floyd | "You did." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have won *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 40 out of a possible 40, in 365 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Liberated. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Fang says, "oh. yay." | ||||
| Ben says, "uh" | |||||
| DavidW says, "buh-wah-drool" | |||||
| Fang asks, "I guess we now know the true nature of the war?" | |||||
| Fang asks, "it consists of a lot of illogic and death timers?" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "full" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 40 out of a possible 40, in 365 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Liberated. Floyd | Floyd | The score was made up as follows: Floyd | Floyd | 1 getting the door halfway open Floyd | 2 getting the door open the rest of the way Floyd | 1 activating the cube Floyd | 5 restoring the cube's voice Floyd | 3 evading the scan Floyd | 3 activating lxprog Floyd | 2 restoring your body integrity Floyd | 3 destroying the paper Floyd | 4 finding the halting program Floyd | 2 reactivating lxprog Floyd | 4 destroying the maintenance system Floyd | 4 escaping the void Floyd | 5 making a duplicate of yourself Floyd | 1 lxprog finishing Floyd | Floyd | 40 total (out of 40) Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Fang says, "I think I get it! War is awful" | ||||
| DavidW says, "well. We won. Yay. I think." | |||||
| Fang says, "just like this game." | |||||
| Ben says, "I believe the message is "I'm on acid"." | |||||
| DavidW says, "We never did get that doll from the spider." | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "hint" | |||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||||
Floyd | | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "/undo" | |||||
Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | [Previous turn undone] Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "well, I guess the doll is symbollic" | ||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "hint" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | > Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "p" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | > Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Ben presses the yellow enter button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | (Press ENTER to return to the main menu, or H for another hint.) Floyd | Floyd | (1/2) Wait around and see what happens. Floyd | | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "h" | |||||
Floyd | (2/2) Go down the portal when it opens and wait for the conclusion. Floyd | Floyd | [Please press SPACE.] | |||||
| Ben pushes the green 'space' button. | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Mind Electric Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is help on the following: Floyd | Floyd | Escaping the containment grid Floyd | Granite rock Floyd | Voiceless cube Floyd | Circuit board Floyd | Degenerating body Floyd | Scan of sector Floyd | Cube with voice Floyd | Halted program Floyd | Flashing paper Floyd | Sphere Floyd | Cube's message Floyd | Unconsciousness Floyd | Fragments of void Floyd | Degenerating body, 2nd time Floyd | > Finishing the game Floyd | | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "q" | |||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crystal Cave Floyd | Light bounces off glassy walls in every direction for a dazzling Floyd | effect. Crystals protrude from the wall at odd angles. Sparks of Floyd | electricity are passed back and forth. The entire room vibrates and Floyd | hums like a large electric generator. Portals are placed to the north Floyd | and south as well as the ceiling and floor. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rotating humanfaced cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||||
| Ben says (to Floyd), "z" | |||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | An streak of void splits across the room, breaking the cube into parts. Floyd | It cries out, and in a fading voice says, "goodbye.....". Floyd | Floyd | You hear a distorted voice announce "lxprog complete." The view becomes Floyd | thin, and the last thing you see before you black out is snow. Floyd | Floyd | You can vaguely feel and hear the sensations and sounds of being Floyd | grabbed and carried, of voices in confusion, and of a gigantic Floyd | explosion, but the first time you truly awake is at... Floyd | Floyd | Grassy Field Floyd | Green surrounds your vision from this vantage point, on the top of a Floyd | plateau. High above you, the stars shine brightly, and the two moons Floyd | cast their glow all over the surface of the field. Floyd | Floyd | You see a tall man sitting next to a tree. Floyd | Floyd | The man notices you awaking and motions for you to stay seated. "The Floyd | transfer to your real body has put you through much strain, especially Floyd | since I had to speed up the program a little." Floyd | Floyd | You have the extreme urge to say something, but your mouth is unable to Floyd | move. Your entire body is exhausted. Floyd | Floyd | "I know what you want to ask. You want to know why I saved you. I Floyd | thought perhaps I could get someone to understand the true nature of Floyd | the war, and after such a situation you may understand without me even Floyd | telling you." Floyd | Floyd | The man studies you in silence for a few moments, and then says, "You Floyd | see, the war between the Kaden and Souden is not a real war, for a just Floyd | cause, or even a lost cause, but a cycle. The impact of the loyalty Floyd | transfer programs has been that the war is merely a transfer of people Floyd | from one loyalty to the other, repeatedly, so much that their identity Floyd | is lost. The war is a collection of toy soldiers marching back and Floyd | forth across a line, and slowly dying out. You are all fighting Floyd | yourselves, each other, all on the same side." Floyd | Floyd | "But you may still not understand until you know who created the cube, Floyd | which died in saving you at the base." Floyd | Floyd | The tall man pauses for a moment to catch his breath, then speaks very Floyd | slowly: Floyd | Floyd | "You did." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have won *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 40 out of a possible 40, in 365 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Liberated. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Liberated from this *game*." | ||||
| Fang asks, "Oh, this game came second in the first ifcomp?" | |||||
| Fang says, "well, I guess no one can argue that games have gotten worse over time any more." | |||||
| DavidW says, "oh, maybe. The first IF Comp had two divisions, so there was an Inform winner and a TADS winner." | |||||
| DavidW says, "Thanks for playing, guys. We'll need to pick (carefully) what the next week's game should be." | |||||
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