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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load onehalf" | ||||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | tadsr - A text-only TADS 2.5.10 Interpreter. Floyd | Copyright (c) 1993, 2006 by Michael J. Roberts. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | It's been a horrible day - no, a horrible week. And you were so Floyd | looking forward to starting work as an Acme salesman! All through your Floyd | childhood, growing up in the great cities of the north, you'd admired Floyd | the salesmen with their spiffy mauve suits and bright orange ties. Floyd | You'd waited eagerly for the day when you'd be handed your first sample Floyd | Dam Tastee Cheez Kee, and your first customer would fork over his Floyd | hard-earned cash for Acme products. Floyd | Floyd | But you didn't think your bosses would send you down here, to this Floyd | backwater near the Valley King's Underworld, right on the border with Floyd | dread Unnkulia. And you certainly didn't expect those demons to waylay Floyd | you en route - and you certainly didn't foresee the horrors they'd Floyd | subject you to in their caverns before releasing you. (Shudder - you Floyd | don't even like remembering. Perhaps that's the subject of another Floyd | game...) And you really didn't expect to have to work out of the Floyd | Golden Dragon Inn. And to top it all off, a bad-tempered warrior just Floyd | returned a can of Acme Snayk Rhepellant and asked for his money back. Floyd | You'll get heck from your supervisor when you get back, but what could Floyd | you have done? None of these damn - oops, dam - Acme products work. Floyd | You've grown quite disillusioned with the whole affair. Floyd | Floyd | To make matters even worse, you haven't seen the bartender for over Floyd | an hour. He wandered off into the back room and never returned. Floyd | Alcohol's the only thing that makes living in the Forest of Radeekal Floyd | bearable - perhaps you ought to go and find the man - Floyd | Floyd | Unnkulia One-Half: The Salesman Triumphant Floyd | Version 1.0G for Great Underground Adventures CD Floyd | Copyright (C) 1993, 1996 D. A. Leary Floyd | All rights reserved. Floyd | Developed with TADS, the Text Adventure Development System. Floyd | Floyd | Difficulty Rating: Trivial (2 out of 10) Floyd | Floyd | *** Floyd | Floyd | This game is free. We encourage you to distribute it, but you may Floyd | not charge any money for it beyond the cost of the media it is stored Floyd | on. Floyd | Floyd | ADVENTIONS no longer supports this product. Please do not contact Floyd | us for hints or to buy games. The best place to get our games is from Floyd | the Interactive Fiction Archive on the Internet, site ftp.gmd.de. The Floyd | best place to ask for help with our games is the Usenet newsgroup Floyd | rec.games.int-fiction. Floyd | Floyd | *** Floyd | Floyd | Read footnotes [1] with the note command; e.g., type "note 1." Floyd | Floyd | *** Floyd | Floyd | In the Inn Floyd | Floyd | You're seated at the only table in the Golden Dragon Inn, a real Floyd | dump in the middle of the Radeekal Forest. It's decorated in earth Floyd | tones - not a mauve or orange speck in sight! (If you were in charge, Floyd | you'd make this place a lot more snazzy.) Floyd | Floyd | The inn has been your base of operations for the past few days - Floyd | your boss wouldn't even spring for an office. Well, by golly, you'll Floyd | show him! Even though most of your samples have been stolen, you've Floyd | still got a few choice items to hock to the gullible locals. These Floyd | Valley folk are real hicks - they'll buy anything! Floyd | Floyd | There's not much of interest here. A mahogany bar lines one wall, Floyd | but besides that, and the lone table and chair, this hellhole doesn't Floyd | have much to offer. The exit to the inn is to the west, and there's an Floyd | open doorway leading to the back room to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | An egg is sitting on the mahogany bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "yow" | |||||
| inky says, "thassa lotta text" | ||||||
| Emily arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | inky says, "see, copyright 1993, re-released 1996" | |||||
| inky says, "probably to say "we don't support this any more"" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 1" | ||||||
Floyd | [1]: Footnote markers are numbers enclosed in square brackets. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "it's weird footnotes didn't catch on more in IF" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get egg" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| olethros arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "bar" | ||||||
Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x bar" | ||||||
Floyd | Which bar do you mean, the mahogany bar, or the candy bar? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "mahogany" | ||||||
Floyd | The bar is made from mahogany, and is clean and polished - what a waste Floyd | of resources! If you ran this place, you'd let the dirt accumulate - Floyd | the peons don't mind a little filth. There's nothing on the mahogany Floyd | bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look behind it" | ||||||
Floyd | There's nothing behind the bar. If only that warrior hadn't taken the Floyd | last bottle of wine! A few slugs of Chateau Unnkulia would slide down Floyd | the old gullet pretty well about now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look under it" | ||||||
Floyd | There's nothing under the mahogany bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||||||
Floyd | There's nothing on the wooden table. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x chair" | ||||||
Floyd | There's nothing on the wooden chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||||
Floyd | Seated on an Uncomfortable Chair in the Golden Dragon Inn Floyd | Floyd | You're seated at the only table in the Golden Dragon Inn, a real Floyd | dump in the middle of the Radeekal Forest. It's decorated in earth Floyd | tones - not a mauve or orange speck in sight! (If you were in charge, Floyd | you'd make this place a lot more snazzy.) Floyd | Floyd | There's not much of interest here. A mahogany bar lines one wall, Floyd | but besides that, and the lone table and chair, this hellhole doesn't Floyd | have much to offer. The exit to the inn is to the west, and there's an Floyd | open doorway leading to the back room to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||||
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer in the wooden chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||||
Floyd | In the Inn Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in the Golden Dragon Inn, a real dump in the middle Floyd | of the Radeekal Forest. It's decorated in earth tones - not a mauve or Floyd | orange speck in sight! (If you were in charge, you'd make this place a Floyd | lot more snazzy.) Floyd | Floyd | There's not much of interest here. A mahogany bar lines one wall, Floyd | but besides that, and the lone table and chair, this hellhole doesn't Floyd | have much to offer. The exit to the inn is to the west, and there's an Floyd | open doorway leading to the back room to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Outside Inn Floyd | Floyd | You're just outside the Golden Dragon Inn, somewhere in the middle Floyd | of the Forest of Radeekal. It's a dazzling fall day, but you can't Floyd | enjoy it; you've got work to do. A path runs southwest through the Floyd | trees, and a wide road runs due north. The inn's open doorway stands Floyd | to the east. Above the door, a hand-painted sign swings back and Floyd | forth, creaking in the cool autumn breeze. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, a familiar-looking Valley Warrior walks up the path to the Floyd | southwest. The warrior gazes at you through sorrowful eyes. "You poor Floyd | fellow," he murmurs. "I've just completed 'Unnkulia Zero,' and the Floyd | things I found out about you - hoo boy!" He smiles a sympathetic Floyd | smile. "Here. I've completed my quest. Maybe this stuff can help." Floyd | He tosses you a pickaxe and a yellow ball, which you clumsily catch. Floyd | "Take care of yourself." With that, the warrior strides northward, Floyd | toward the great cities. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sign" | ||||||
Floyd | There's a picture of a coiled yellow serpent and the words "Golden Floyd | Dragon Inn." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | You take a few steps along the northern road, but then think the better Floyd | of it. Your boss told you not to come back until you'd sold every bit Floyd | of cheez he gave you. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So, was this commercial at one point?" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a bungee cord, a cheezdom, a cookie cutter, an acmid, a cheez Floyd | key, a plastic card, a pillow, a candy bar, an egg, a pickaxe, and a Floyd | yellow ball (providing light). Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "But is now public domain?" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Or?" | ||||||
| inky says, "I think it was a promo for their commercial stuff" | ||||||
| Alex says (to Jacqueline), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that or is it is yes." | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cord" | ||||||
Floyd | The bungee cord is mauve and green. It's got little hooks on either Floyd | end. Tiny lettering along the cord reads "Acme Kwik-Snahpin Bhungi Floyd | Khord - Dam Sayfe!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cheezdom" | ||||||
Floyd | It looks like a deflated yellow balloon with several small holes in it. Floyd | Tiny letters down one side read "Acme Loobrikayted Cheezdom: Praktiss Floyd | Sayfe Seks! (Mayd from 100% Suhwiss Cheez)." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inky), "Ah." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cutter" | ||||||
Floyd | Tiny letters on the cookie cutter read "Acme Slysor-Dysor Kookee Floyd | Khutoor." This particular one's shaped like a key, but other fun Floyd | shapes are available - hearts, clovers, horseshoes, and diamonds. In Floyd | fact, you've heard they make "Acme Kookee Charmz" with these things - Floyd | "A Dam Tastee Pahrt oph thiss Compleet Brekphast!" [2] It's made from Floyd | mauve plastic, and it's not very sharp. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 2" | ||||||
Floyd | [2]: Floyd | Floyd | Kookee Charmz Nootrishunal Kontent: Floyd | Iron - 0% Floyd | Calcium - 0% Floyd | Protein - * Floyd | Vitamin A through Z - 0% Floyd | Calories - ** Floyd | Sugar - *** Floyd | ------------------------ Floyd | * - One-tenth of one percent, from the rat giblets. Floyd | ** - We're not tellin'. Floyd | *** - Enough in one bowl to cause cancer in laboratory elephants. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| zarf says, "man, I don't miss this spelling gimmick *at all*" | inky says, "ha ha" | |||||
| Otto says, "I think I read too slow. I'll play this game alone. Bye" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "flip acmid" | ||||||
Floyd | It comes up tails. I think it's weighted a little funny. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Otto goes home. | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cheez key" | ||||||
Floyd | The key is yellow and spongy, and quite small. Tiny letters along the Floyd | side read "Acme Dam Tastee Cheez Kee." [3] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 3" | ||||||
Floyd | [3]: This was the very first Acme product ever coded, way back in Floyd | "Unnkulian I" (just a bite (sic) of history for you). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "eat cheez key" | ||||||
Floyd | Are you nuts? The first rule in the Acme Saylesman Mhanyooahl couldn't Floyd | be any plainer - NEVER EAT THE MERCHANDISE! (Especially if it's made Floyd | out of cheez(tm).) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x card" | ||||||
Floyd | The plastic card's your Acme Salesman Identification. You're quite Floyd | proud of it. It's orange, and has mauve writing on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read card" | ||||||
Floyd | "Jay-Bob Tuckbucker - Acme Sayles." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "anyway, blah blah inventory" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Forest Path Floyd | Floyd | You're strolling along a winding forest path. The path forks here - Floyd | trails lead northeast, south, and west. You're deep in the heart of Floyd | the Valley King's turf now - he told you not to stray too far from the Floyd | inn unless you want to (gulp) suffer the fate of the other Acme Floyd | salesmen. I wouldn't wander around too much if I were you. Tall oak Floyd | trees overhang the trail, and dappled sunlight shines through the Floyd | leaves. A radberry bush stands by the side of the road, but it's been Floyd | picked clean. Floyd | Floyd | The six thugs that make up the Valley Patrol are here, leaning on Floyd | their pikes. They appear to be loafing on the job; some of them are Floyd | lying down on the ground, trying to get comfortable. "Hey!" one of Floyd | them shouts, pointing at you. "It's that stoopid Acme salesman!" They Floyd | all start laughing. "Lookit them clothes! What a doofus!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x thugs" | ||||||
Floyd | The Valley Patrol is made up of thugs who couldn't cut it as Valley Floyd | Warriors. The King lets them patrol the forest, and hopes they won't Floyd | do too much harm. They're quite stupid-looking and you're almost Floyd | certain that their foreheads slope a bit more than normal. They're Floyd | dressed in the green-and-white livery of the Valley King, and wield Floyd | nasty-looking pikes. The leader, a particularly stupid-looking brute, Floyd | grins at you. "Whazzup?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Aw, Otto left. I was wondering how in the heck he could keep up. I'm probably the slowest reader of the native English speakers here, and I certainly play games in French a lot slower than I do in English." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "punch thugs" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "punch". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "kill thugs" | ||||||
Floyd | (with the pickaxe) Floyd | Attacking the Valley Patrol doesn't appear productive. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "pshaw" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | I really don't think you want to wander the woods without the Valley Floyd | King's permission, especially not with the Valley Patrol standing right Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x radberry" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "radberry". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x bush" | ||||||
Floyd | The bush has been picked clean - there's not even a single berry left! Floyd | Someone was a real hog. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "anyway, this game does touch on the other unnkulia games in that it has a bunch of refs" | |||||
| inky says, "like I think this bush being clean of berries is because in some other game you take the berries off it" | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "But actual knowledge of them doesn't help you advance, necessarily?" | ||||||
| inky says, "and the starting inn turns out to be significant in some other game" | ||||||
| inky says, "yeah, it's just color" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb tree" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You shinny up the nearest tree, and find yourself - Floyd | Floyd | Up a Tree Floyd | Floyd | You're seated on a limb about halfway up an aged oak tree. Below Floyd | you, you can hear the Valley Patrol muttering amongst themselves. Floyd | Above you, the limbs are too thin to climb further. You can climb back Floyd | down or stay where you are. Perched on the same limb with you, a few Floyd | feet out, is a recently-completed bird's nest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x nest" | ||||||
Floyd | There's nothing in the bird's nest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search nest" | ||||||
Floyd | There's nothing in the bird's nest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x patrol" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't see any patrol here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sit on nest" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know how to sit on the bird's nest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Forest Path Floyd | Floyd | The six thugs that make up the Valley Patrol are here, leaning on Floyd | their pikes. They appear to be loafing on the job; some of them are Floyd | lying down on the ground, trying to get comfortable. "Hey!" one of Floyd | them shouts, pointing at you. "It's that stoopid Acme salesman!" They Floyd | all start laughing. "Lookit them clothes! What a doofus!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Was that just a zork reference?" | |||||
| inky says, "yeah, probably" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Outside Inn Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | In the Inn Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in the Golden Dragon Inn, a real dump in the middle Floyd | of the Radeekal Forest. It's decorated in earth tones - not a mauve or Floyd | orange speck in sight! (If you were in charge, you'd make this place a Floyd | lot more snazzy.) Floyd | Floyd | There's not much of interest here. A mahogany bar lines one wall, Floyd | but besides that, and the lone table and chair, this hellhole doesn't Floyd | have much to offer. The exit to the inn is to the west, and there's an Floyd | open doorway leading to the back room to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||||||
Floyd | Okay, now in WORDY mode. Floyd | In the Inn Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in the Golden Dragon Inn, a real dump in the middle Floyd | of the Radeekal Forest. It's decorated in earth tones - not a mauve or Floyd | orange speck in sight! (If you were in charge, you'd make this place a Floyd | lot more snazzy.) Floyd | Floyd | There's not much of interest here. A mahogany bar lines one wall, Floyd | but besides that, and the lone table and chair, this hellhole doesn't Floyd | have much to offer. The exit to the inn is to the west, and there's an Floyd | open doorway leading to the back room to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Okay, now in WORDY mode. Floyd | In the Inn Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in the Golden Dragon Inn, a real dump in the middle Floyd | of the Radeekal Forest. It's decorated in earth tones - not a mauve or Floyd | orange speck in sight! (If you were in charge, you'd make this place a Floyd | lot more snazzy.) Floyd | Floyd | There's not much of interest here. A mahogany bar lines one wall, Floyd | but besides that, and the lone table and chair, this hellhole doesn't Floyd | have much to offer. The exit to the inn is to the west, and there's an Floyd | open doorway leading to the back room to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "snrk" | |||||
| inky says, "(another old-school thing)" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Inn, Back Room Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in the disgustingly clean back room of the Golden Floyd | Dragon Inn. The walls have recently been whitewashed, and the floor is Floyd | freshly scrubbed. You thought you saw the innkeeper come back here, Floyd | but maybe you were wrong - he's nowhere to be seen. The floorboards Floyd | creak underfoot, groaning with age. Floyd | Floyd | There's not much back here, not even an empty bucket. The only exit Floyd | is back to the main room of the inn, to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | You see a broom here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get broom" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| markm has disconnected. | ||||||
| markm does a spit-take, stumbles backward, trips on a banana peel, and disappears into the luminiferous aether. | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x floorboards" | ||||||
Floyd | A few of the creaky floorboards are quite loose. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lift floorboards" | ||||||
Floyd | You pull up the loosest floorboards. Interestingly enough, they're not Floyd | even nailed in - it's almost like a hidden trap-door. Moving the Floyd | boards reveals a wooden stairway, plunging into darkness. From below, Floyd | you can faintly hear what sounds like weepy muttering. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||||
Floyd | In a total of 41 turns, you have achieved a score of 5 points out of a Floyd | possible 100. Floyd | Floyd | This means when you arrive upstairs, you'll be a trainee salesman. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Wine Cellar Floyd | Floyd | You're in what appears to be the inn's wine cellar. A huge cask Floyd | stands against the north wall, and the air is damp and musty. An empty Floyd | wine-rack lines the south wall. The eastern wall is brick, but the Floyd | western wall is solid stone; the inn must have been built over a gash Floyd | in the earth, and brick used to shore up the foundation on the open Floyd | sides. A stairway climbs up to the inn. Floyd | Floyd | The innkeeper is here, leaning against the cask. He burps and looks Floyd | up at you through bleary eyes. "Oh," he mutters. "It's you, Floyd | Tuckbucker. I thought (URP!) you'd left already." He sighs and taps Floyd | the cask. "Empty. Bummer. Want to buy this place?" He points at the Floyd | ceiling. "(URP!) The Golden Dragon's not turning a profit anymore. Floyd | I'll sell it to you for twenty - no, eighteen valmids." Floyd | Floyd | The Golden Dragon Inn! It could be your very own - or, at least, Floyd | Acme's very own! What an acquisition an inn would be - especially this Floyd | one, right in the heart of the Valley. The purchase of this place Floyd | would give your life meaning. Now all you have to do is accumulate Floyd | enough valuable - or, at least, valuable-looking - items to pawn off on Floyd | this drunken old fool. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x innkeeper" | ||||||
Floyd | He's obviously been drinking, and quite heavily from the looks of it. Floyd | Wine stains cover his shirt, and his head is lolling back and forth. A Floyd | thin line of drool runs from the corner of his mouth. He glances up at Floyd | you, trying to focus. "Urk. Hate this place." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give acmid to innkeeper" | ||||||
Floyd | The innkeeper peers at the item through bleary eyes. "Tuckbucker, I'm Floyd | not that drunk," he mutters. "That's of absolutely no use to me." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a bungee cord, a cheezdom, a cookie cutter, an acmid, a cheez Floyd | key, a plastic card, a pillow, a candy bar, an egg, a pickaxe, a yellow Floyd | ball (providing light), and a broom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give cheezdom to innkeeper" | ||||||
Floyd | The innkeeper peers at the item through bleary eyes. "Tuckbucker, I'm Floyd | not that drunk," he mutters. "That's of absolutely no use to me." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "dude is a hard sell" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||||||
Floyd | Which wall do you mean, the brick wall, or the other walls? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "brick" | ||||||
Floyd | The brick wall looks like a recent addition. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "Wow, that's one inventory listing" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit it with pickaxe" | ||||||
Floyd | You brace yourself and smash the brick wall with the pickaxe, hitting Floyd | smack in the center of one of the bricks. Your shoulders are nearly Floyd | jarred out of their sockets, and the wall's barely dented; this job Floyd | could take a while. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit it with pickaxe" | ||||||
Floyd | This time, the pickaxe bites between two bricks, and imbeds itself deep Floyd | in the crumbling mortar. You yank it out, and bring several bricks Floyd | with it. In a few moments, you've smashed a large hole through the Floyd | wall, revealing a dark space beyond. A cold breeze blows through the Floyd | hole; whatever you've broken into, it sure is big. The innkeeper Floyd | rouses himself long enough to stare at the wall. "Urk," he mutters. Floyd | "Hope you're going to buy this place. I don't wanna have to fix that." Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a natural cave that probably hasn't been entered Floyd | in years. Twisted rock formations in the high ceiling drip water on Floyd | your head, and the pale green light of your whiffleball casts dark Floyd | shadows into the corners of the cave. A narrow passage climbs up to Floyd | the northeast, while an identical one climbs down to the southeast. Floyd | There's also a low tunnel leading northwest. A wider but equally low Floyd | passage runs due south, and to the west is the opening in the brick Floyd | wall that leads back to the cellar of the Golden Dragon Inn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok, this is the start of the actual puzzles and stuff" | |||||
| Taleslinger says, "What are we playing? The RSS feed ist outdated" | ||||||
| inky says, "Unnkulia One-Half" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Cave of the Skeleton Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is dark and low, with no apparent exits other than the Floyd | passage back to the north. The roof slopes sharply down to the south, Floyd | and at the far end, there's only a few inches between ceiling and Floyd | floor. Lying face down in the center of the cave is a grisly sight - a Floyd | human skeleton, half-covered in mineral deposits, probably centuries Floyd | old. Good thing he didn't have Acme Dam Eckspensif Lyfe Ihnshorants - Floyd | you might have to pay up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x skeleton" | ||||||
Floyd | The skeleton has become part of the rocky floor - drips of mineral-rich Floyd | water have fused the dead man's torso with the ageless stones. Not Floyd | that you care; you're a salesman, not an archaeologist. Interestingly, Floyd | there's a leather belt around the skeleton's waist, untouched by the Floyd | ravages of time. (There's absolutely no sign of a dagger, however.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get belt" | ||||||
Floyd | You carefully remove the belt from the skeleton. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||||||
Floyd | The belt's marvelous workmanship, hand-tooled fine leather. It's Floyd | probably worth something. Clearly, it wasn't made by Acme. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear it" | ||||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now wearing the leather belt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a natural cave that probably hasn't been entered Floyd | in years. Twisted rock formations in the high ceiling drip water on Floyd | your head, and the pale green light of your whiffleball casts dark Floyd | shadows into the corners of the cave. A narrow passage climbs up to Floyd | the northeast, while an identical one climbs down to the southeast. Floyd | There's also a low tunnel leading northwest. A wider but equally low Floyd | passage runs due south, and to the west is the opening in the brick Floyd | wall that leads back to the cellar of the Golden Dragon Inn. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "Hey! I updated it!" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Stalagmite Cavern Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a medium-sized natural cavern. The floor is Floyd | difficult to negotiate; stalagmites of all shapes and sizes impede your Floyd | progress. Water drips from the walls, pooling on the remaining bits of Floyd | open floor. There are no stalactites, perhaps because there's no Floyd | ceiling; instead, a huge, dark natural chimney stretches up above you, Floyd | bending slightly to the north, vanishing into shadows overhead. A Floyd | narrow passage climbs to the northwest, and level tunnels run southwest Floyd | and south. The southwest passage seems somewhat warmer than the Floyd | others. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "It doesn't say we're playing this?" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Geyser Cavern Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a small, hot cave filled with thick steam. The Floyd | source of the steam is evident; hot clouds billow from a narrow mineral Floyd | spout shaped like an overturned funnel. There must be a hot spring Floyd | somewhere beneath you. The only exit is back to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "I didn't this morning." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x funnel" | ||||||
Floyd | The steam's all coming out of a nozzle-shaped bit at the top of the Floyd | funnel-shaped spout. The nozzle part is only about an inch across; the Floyd | steam's being forced through a tiny hole. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Weird." | |||||
| Jacqueline | http://www.allthingsjacq.com/cf-feed.xml | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "It shows for me." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "there it is. I didn't update properly." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh... I know why." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oopsie." | ||||||
| Jacqueline whistles. Carry on. | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "No, it was me. I think I forgot to change the publication date." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put cheezdom on funnel" | ||||||
Floyd | You stick the cheezdom over the nozzle. It rapidly fills with hot air, Floyd | and starts to look like a big yellow balloon - albeit one with a bunch Floyd | of holes in it. When it's as full as it's going to get, you take it Floyd | off the spout, being careful to hold the opening shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||||
Floyd | Wheeee! Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, your feet begin to leave the ground! When the cheezdom hits Floyd | the rock of the ceiling above you, it pops with a wet splattering Floyd | sound, spraying cheez (ugh) across the dark granite. You fall the Floyd | short distance to the ground, shaken but unhurt. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||||
Floyd | In a total of 63 turns, you have achieved a score of 3 points out of a Floyd | possible 100. Floyd | Floyd | This means when you arrive upstairs, you'll be a trainee salesman. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "see, back in the olden days you actually lost points for doing dumb stuff" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
Floyd | File to restore game from > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hfhf" | ||||||
Floyd | Restore failed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||||
Floyd | File to restore game from > Floyd | Restored. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "or at least stuff that makes the game unwinnable" | |||||
| Jacqueline fixes the feed... | ||||||
| inky says, "which is sometimes only slightly different than smart stuff" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Stalagmite Cavern Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a medium-sized natural cavern. The floor is Floyd | difficult to negotiate; stalagmites of all shapes and sizes impede your Floyd | progress. Water drips from the walls, pooling on the remaining bits of Floyd | open floor. There are no stalactites, perhaps because there's no Floyd | ceiling; instead, a huge, dark natural chimney stretches up above you, Floyd | bending slightly to the north, vanishing into shadows overhead. A Floyd | narrow passage climbs to the northwest, and level tunnels run southwest Floyd | and south. The southwest passage seems somewhat warmer than the Floyd | others. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "they took their cheese seriously back then" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Chamber of the Padlock Floyd | Floyd | This cavern is wide and high, and the walls appear to have been Floyd | worked and shaped. The only exit is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The southern wall is partly taken up by what appears to be an Floyd | enormous padlock, made from solid gold and embedded in the wall. Floyd | Goodness! If only you could remove the padlock from the wall, you'd be Floyd | able to purchase the Golden Dragon Inn right now! Though the lock Floyd | itself is quite large, the keyhole in the center is quite small. Floyd | There's not much else of interest here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x padlock" | ||||||
Floyd | The padlock's embedded in the wall; you're definitely not going to be Floyd | able to get it out, if that's what you're thinking. The tiny keyhole Floyd | in the center looks just like any other keyhole. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "Today, dumb stuff is the whole point." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unlock padlock with cheez key" | ||||||
Floyd | The key fits perfectly. You wiggle it around, and for just a moment, Floyd | you think you hear a tumbler click inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "(but at this point, nothing further happens ..)" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Stalagmite Cavern Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a medium-sized natural cavern. The floor is Floyd | difficult to negotiate; stalagmites of all shapes and sizes impede your Floyd | progress. Water drips from the walls, pooling on the remaining bits of Floyd | open floor. There are no stalactites, perhaps because there's no Floyd | ceiling; instead, a huge, dark natural chimney stretches up above you, Floyd | bending slightly to the north, vanishing into shadows overhead. A Floyd | narrow passage climbs to the northwest, and level tunnels run southwest Floyd | and south. The southwest passage seems somewhat warmer than the Floyd | others. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So, the point is to solve puzzles to relieve our boredom 'cause we're not selling all that successfully? Or did my skimming miss something critical, plot wise?" | |||||
| Taleslinger says, "Whoa, this is a lot of text." | ||||||
| inky says, "yeah, the point is accumulate enough stuff to give to the innkeeper and buy the inn" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah. Right." | ||||||
| inky says, "right now, we have a natty belt" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a natural cave that probably hasn't been entered Floyd | in years. Twisted rock formations in the high ceiling drip water on Floyd | your head, and the pale green light of your whiffleball casts dark Floyd | shadows into the corners of the cave. A narrow passage climbs up to Floyd | the northeast, while an identical one climbs down to the southeast. Floyd | There's also a low tunnel leading northwest. A wider but equally low Floyd | passage runs due south, and to the west is the opening in the brick Floyd | wall that leads back to the cellar of the Golden Dragon Inn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Top of Chimney Floyd | Floyd | You're in a small chamber at the top of a natural chimney. The Floyd | chimney slopes slightly toward the south, but mostly, it just goes Floyd | straight down, plummeting deep through the dark stone. You certainly Floyd | can't see the bottom. An iron hook is embedded in the wall here, but Floyd | otherwise there's not much of interest. A passage slopes down slightly Floyd | to the southwest, and a more level tunnel runs east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x hook" | ||||||
Floyd | The iron hook is old and rusty, but quite sturdy; you can't move it at Floyd | all. Its purpose here is unclear, but it does suggest these caves were Floyd | once inhabited. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "pull hook" | ||||||
Floyd | Pulling the iron hook doesn't have any effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "this is the top of the shaft that we saw the bottom of north of the geyser room" | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "get hooked up" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "hooked". Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "(so basically the map slopes up as it goes north)" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||||
Floyd | Wheeee! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter shaft" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "shaft". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Climbing down the smooth walls of the natural chimney would be certain Floyd | suicide. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "Reload your feed now in the place where you normally fetch the data. Is it fixed? (Sorry, I'm out of practice)." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Gambler's Lair Floyd | Floyd | You're in a small, square chamber that's obviously been carved from Floyd | the rock. The place is apparently home to somebody; a scorched circle Floyd | on the rock floor was probably a makeshift fireplace, and a pile of Floyd | straw against one wall might have served as a bed. The room is Floyd | otherwise featureless. The only exit is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | There's a thin little man here, leaning against the wall and chewing Floyd | a piece of straw. "Ah, a visitor," he says, beaming. "Greetings. Floyd | It's been ages since I've seen anyone. My name's Les Vayghas. Are you Floyd | - " The man's eyes narrow. "Oh, I know you. You're that Acme Floyd | salesman. Well, we've got something in common." He walks over and Floyd | shakes your hand vigorously. "The King threw me out of the Valley too. Floyd | Since then, I've lived in these caves. It's not too bad, but I've been Floyd | trying to get away." Floyd | Floyd | The man's eyes narrow speculatively. "You look like a person in Floyd | need of something - perhaps this glittering bauble might come in handy, Floyd | hmm?" He holds up a silver key. You reach for it, but he pulls it Floyd | away, waggling his finger. "Ah - not so fast. How about a game? I'm Floyd | a gambling man, and I see you've got a coin there. How about a little Floyd | bet? Flip your coin, and I'll call it in the air. If I win, I take Floyd | the coin. If you win, you can have the key. Deal?" Without waiting Floyd | for a response, the man pockets the key, then nods at you. "Go on. Floyd | Flip." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "flip coin" | ||||||
Floyd | "Tails!" the gambler shouts as the coin flies up through the air. It Floyd | comes up tails. I think it's weighted a little funny. "Hah!" the Floyd | gambler chuckles, picking up the coin. "Nice try, sucker." His eyes Floyd | narrow. "Like another go? If you've got more coins we can try again." Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "Yep." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Gambler's Lair Floyd | Floyd | You're in a small, square chamber that's obviously been carved from Floyd | the rock. The place is apparently home to somebody; a scorched circle Floyd | on the rock floor was probably a makeshift fireplace, and a pile of Floyd | straw against one wall might have served as a bed. The room is Floyd | otherwise featureless. The only exit is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | There's a thin little man here, leaning against the wall and chewing Floyd | a piece of straw. Floyd | Floyd | The man's eyes narrow speculatively. "You look like a person in Floyd | need of something - perhaps this glittering bauble might come in handy, Floyd | hmm?" He holds up a silver key. You reach for it, but he pulls it Floyd | away, waggling his finger. "Ah - not so fast. How about a game? I'm Floyd | a gambling man, and I see you've got a coin there. How about a little Floyd | bet? Flip your coin, and I'll call it in the air. If I win, I take Floyd | the coin. If you win, you can have the key. Deal?" Without waiting Floyd | for a response, the man pockets the key, then nods at you. "Go on. Floyd | Flip." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "this is, of course, the sort of game where losing any items might make the game unwinnable, so I'm undoing" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Top of Chimney Floyd | Floyd | You're in a small chamber at the top of a natural chimney. The Floyd | chimney slopes slightly toward the south, but mostly, it just goes Floyd | straight down, plummeting deep through the dark stone. You certainly Floyd | can't see the bottom. An iron hook is embedded in the wall here, but Floyd | otherwise there's not much of interest. A passage slopes down slightly Floyd | to the southwest, and a more level tunnel runs east. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "but if we find a better-flipping coin we can come back" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a natural cave that probably hasn't been entered Floyd | in years. Twisted rock formations in the high ceiling drip water on Floyd | your head, and the pale green light of your whiffleball casts dark Floyd | shadows into the corners of the cave. A narrow passage climbs up to Floyd | the northeast, while an identical one climbs down to the southeast. Floyd | There's also a low tunnel leading northwest. A wider but equally low Floyd | passage runs due south, and to the west is the opening in the brick Floyd | wall that leads back to the cellar of the Golden Dragon Inn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Twisting Passage Floyd | Floyd | You're at a bend in a low tunnel. The rocks seem to bear down over Floyd | you, as if trying to crush you into the floor, and the floor is Floyd | irregular, damp, and slippery. Somebody's been defacing the wall here Floyd | with red graffiti - how rude! The least they could do is use a more Floyd | pleasing color, like orange or mauve. [4] You could continue to the Floyd | southeast or the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 4" | ||||||
Floyd | [4]: The origins of the Acme tri-colors (orange, green, and mauve) are Floyd | lost in the mists of time. One thing, however, is clear: the colors Floyd | make for some "dam spiphee" salesman suits. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x graffiti" | ||||||
Floyd | Examining the graffiti more closely, you realize it's not quite red - Floyd | rather, it's the color of a ripe tomato. [5] You could probably read Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 5" | ||||||
Floyd | [5]: Care for a refreshing beverage? Set your Matter-mover coordinates Floyd | for Tomato: R10,000; B3881; G2785. See "The Legend Lives" for more Floyd | details. Floyd | Floyd | "There's not a man, woman, or child alive who doesn't enjoy a Floyd | refreshing beverage." - David Letterman Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "like it says, this is a ref to The Legend Lives" | |||||
| inky says, "I am not sure if this is an easter egg in that game or not" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "One sort of suspects that playing games of chance against a man with that name will not end in our favor." | ||||||
| inky says, "(like, I don't know if this is the only way to find out about those coordinates)" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read graffiti" | ||||||
Floyd | 'It's said the gambler loves a good tale (sic).' Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "clearly this is a job for taleslinger" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "ha" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Gate Chamber Floyd | Floyd | This room is dominated by an enormous iron gate which blocks a wide Floyd | hallway to the north. The gate is made from thick iron bars, and looks Floyd | quite sturdy; I doubt you could squeeze through it. Other passages run Floyd | northeast, northwest, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "also, I guess it means he always calls tails when you flip the coin" | |||||
| inky says, "since that is what he did before" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x gate" | ||||||
Floyd | It looks like an ordinary iron gate to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Tiny Room Floyd | Floyd | This natural chamber is quite small, and the ceiling is extremely Floyd | low; it's more an alcove than a room. A familiar sight greets you - an Floyd | Acme vending machine sits (or rather, squats) against the wall! [6] Floyd | How in the world did that get here? You'd long thought that you were Floyd | the first Acme salesman in the Valley. The only exit from the room is Floyd | the passage back to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 6" | ||||||
Floyd | [6]: Before you were promoted to salesman, you had to polish and Floyd | restock these machines. And before THAT, you had to clean the Floyd | executive washroom. Boy, you're really shooting up through the ranks! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "We need one weighted heads, I guess." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x machine" | ||||||
Floyd | This particular mauve and green machine appears to be a cheezdom Floyd | dispenser. You don't really need it - you've already got one, so Floyd | you're covered, so to speak. The machine is squat and lumpy. Letters Floyd | across the top read "Praktiss Sayfe Seks!" There's a coin slot and a Floyd | small chute on the front side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x slot" | ||||||
Floyd | It looks like an ordinary coin slot to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x chute" | ||||||
Floyd | It's probably where the cheezdoms come out. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says (to inky), "Wait, what? IDGI" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put cheezdom in chute" | ||||||
Floyd | The chute goes up into the machine; I don't think you can really stuff Floyd | anything up it. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says (to Taleslinger), "well, it said "It's said the gambler loves a good tale"" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put coin in slot" | ||||||
Floyd | You drop the acmid in the coin slot. It hits bottom with an extremely Floyd | non-metallic thunk. The machine gurgles for a minute, but nothing Floyd | happens. What a piece of junk! Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "ah, heh" | |||||
| inky says, "(this is a puzzle, which someone else should be able to solve)" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hit machine" | ||||||
Floyd | (with the pickaxe) Floyd | Attacking the vending machine doesn't appear productive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search chute" | ||||||
Floyd | It's probably where the cheezdoms come out. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oops, well, that's the right idea, anyway" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "kick machine" | ||||||
Floyd | You kick the stupid machine, irritated at losing your acmid. The Floyd | machine gurgles once, then spits a coin out at rocket-like speed. It Floyd | barely misses your cheek, then clatters against the wall and falls to Floyd | the ground. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Meh" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get coin" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x coin" | ||||||
Floyd | The notched coin is a one-valmid piece, minted from bronze. On one Floyd | side is the current monarch [7] and on the other side is a picture of Floyd | the Hall of the Valley King. There's a little notch cut out of the Floyd | coin, but it's still worth one valmid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 7" | ||||||
Floyd | [7]: The current monarch is the Second Valley King, Phul son of Kuul. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, guess the correct verb even when your first verb works, just not quite the way you'd intended. Got it." | |||||
| inky says, "yeah, fraid so" | ||||||
| inky says, "also, this coin is worth a valmid, so we can give it to the innkeeper later" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Gate Chamber Floyd | Floyd | This room is dominated by an enormous iron gate which blocks a wide Floyd | hallway to the north. The gate is made from thick iron bars, and looks Floyd | quite sturdy; I doubt you could squeeze through it. Other passages run Floyd | northeast, northwest, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | The Golden Pool Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a hot, low chamber. The only exit is to the Floyd | southeast. Before you is a shining pool of melted gold, perhaps twenty Floyd | feet in diameter. It nearly fills the room, and bathes your face with Floyd | intense heat; somewhere below the surface, hot lava or steam must keep Floyd | the soft metal in liquid form. Floyd | Floyd | If only you had a container that would hold this gold! How valuable Floyd | it would be if it cooled - and how quickly you could meet the Floyd | innkeeper's price. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Right. We need... seventeen more?" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x gold" | ||||||
Floyd | The pool of golden liquid bubbles and churns, slowly swirling, eddies Floyd | of molten metal twisting lazily. There must be thousands of acmids Floyd | worth of gold here! Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "yeah" | |||||
| inky says, "though like I said, the belt said it was worth something" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Shiny pond." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "also, uh, I'm afraid I'm going to have to split in a few minutes -- I hope this doesn't torpedo things" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "touch gold" | ||||||
Floyd | You touch the molten gold. Your fingers are instantly burned down to Floyd | little blackened nubs. Surprised, you lose your balance and plunge Floyd | headlong into the pool with a yelp. Soon, most of the other parts of Floyd | your body are burned down to little blackened nubs. Floyd | Floyd | *** You've Toddled Off To Salesman Heaven *** Floyd | Floyd | In a total of 98 turns, you have achieved a score of 11 points out of a Floyd | possible 100. Floyd | Floyd | This means when you arrive upstairs, you'll be a trainee salesman. Floyd | Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, or quit. Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, or QUIT: > | Jacqueline says, "heh. Toddled." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
Floyd | File to restore > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | The Golden Pool Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a hot, low chamber. The only exit is to the Floyd | southeast. Before you is a shining pool of melted gold, perhaps twenty Floyd | feet in diameter. It nearly fills the room, and bathes your face with Floyd | intense heat; somewhere below the surface, hot lava or steam must keep Floyd | the soft metal in liquid form. Floyd | Floyd | If only you had a container that would hold this gold! How valuable Floyd | it would be if it cooled - and how quickly you could meet the Floyd | innkeeper's price. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Enh. If you have to go, you have to go. But there was a big crowd here earlier, and now it seems to be just us." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, I, um, haven't been mapping. Guess I should." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "Too much text!" | ||||||
| zarf says, "sorry, I'm mostly idle" | ||||||
| zarf says, "slide editing" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "That's what Otto said. I swear. You non-native speakers!" | ||||||
| inky says, "yeah, I think this game may be too much work when DW isn't around to save us" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "ha" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, if Taleslinger is willing to hang with me, I'll chip away at it." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm a slow reader, after all." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "Sure, I'll be your moral support!" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "I won't go racing through the text too quickly." | ||||||
| inky says, "cool -- the puzzles really aren't that hard but you probably will want to draw a map to find your way around" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "HEY" | ||||||
| inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "WAKE UP" | |||||
| Jacqueline gets out a piece of paper. | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe I should scroll back a sec and map a bit. Give me a moment." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "Okay" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | The Golden Pool Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a hot, low chamber. The only exit is to the Floyd | southeast. Before you is a shining pool of melted gold, perhaps twenty Floyd | feet in diameter. It nearly fills the room, and bathes your face with Floyd | intense heat; somewhere below the surface, hot lava or steam must keep Floyd | the soft metal in liquid form. Floyd | Floyd | If only you had a container that would hold this gold! How valuable Floyd | it would be if it cooled - and how quickly you could meet the Floyd | innkeeper's price. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "Feel free to poke around while I'm scrolled back, yeah." | |||||
| Taleslinger asks, "Did we save?" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "bath" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "bath". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "bathe" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "bathe". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "enter pool" | ||||||
Floyd | You slide one foot into the molten metal, and pull back a charred Floyd | stump. You scream in agony and pass out, falling forward into the Floyd | pool. Maybe that wasn't the best idea - Floyd | Floyd | *** You've Toddled Off To Salesman Heaven *** Floyd | Floyd | In a total of 100 turns, you have achieved a score of 11 points out of Floyd | a possible 100. Floyd | Floyd | This means when you arrive upstairs, you'll be a trainee salesman. Floyd | Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, or quit. Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, or QUIT: > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "undp" | ||||||
Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, or QUIT: > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, or QUIT: > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "restore cf6" | ||||||
Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, or QUIT: > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
Floyd | File to restore > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
Floyd | Restore failed. Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, or QUIT: > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
Floyd | File to restore > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | The Golden Pool Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a hot, low chamber. The only exit is to the Floyd | southeast. Before you is a shining pool of melted gold, perhaps twenty Floyd | feet in diameter. It nearly fills the room, and bathes your face with Floyd | intense heat; somewhere below the surface, hot lava or steam must keep Floyd | the soft metal in liquid form. Floyd | Floyd | If only you had a container that would hold this gold! How valuable Floyd | it would be if it cooled - and how quickly you could meet the Floyd | innkeeper's price. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Gate Chamber Floyd | Floyd | This room is dominated by an enormous iron gate which blocks a wide Floyd | hallway to the north. The gate is made from thick iron bars, and looks Floyd | quite sturdy; I doubt you could squeeze through it. Other passages run Floyd | northeast, northwest, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | The massive iron gate blocks your way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x gate" | ||||||
Floyd | It looks like an ordinary iron gate to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a bungee cord, a cheezdom, a cookie cutter, a cheez key, a Floyd | plastic card, a pillow, a candy bar, an egg, a pickaxe, a yellow ball Floyd | (providing light), a broom, a leather belt (being worn), and a notched Floyd | coin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Twisting Passage Floyd | Floyd | You're at a bend in a low tunnel. The rocks seem to bear down over Floyd | you, as if trying to crush you into the floor, and the floor is Floyd | irregular, damp, and slippery. Somebody's been defacing the wall here Floyd | with red graffiti - how rude! The least they could do is use a more Floyd | pleasing color, like orange or mauve. [4] You could continue to the Floyd | southeast or the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a natural cave that probably hasn't been entered Floyd | in years. Twisted rock formations in the high ceiling drip water on Floyd | your head, and the pale green light of your whiffleball casts dark Floyd | shadows into the corners of the cave. A narrow passage climbs up to Floyd | the northeast, while an identical one climbs down to the southeast. Floyd | There's also a low tunnel leading northwest. A wider but equally low Floyd | passage runs due south, and to the west is the opening in the brick Floyd | wall that leads back to the cellar of the Golden Dragon Inn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Cave of the Skeleton Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is dark and low, with no apparent exits other than the Floyd | passage back to the north. The roof slopes sharply down to the south, Floyd | and at the far end, there's only a few inches between ceiling and Floyd | floor. Lying face down in the center of the cave is a grisly sight - a Floyd | human skeleton, half-covered in mineral deposits, probably centuries Floyd | old. Good thing he didn't have Acme Dam Eckspensif Lyfe Ihnshorants - Floyd | you might have to pay up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x skeleton" | ||||||
Floyd | The skeleton has become part of the rocky floor - drips of mineral-rich Floyd | water have fused the dead man's torso with the ageless stones. Not Floyd | that you care; you're a salesman, not an archaeologist. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "take skeleton" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't have the skeleton. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a natural cave that probably hasn't been entered Floyd | in years. Twisted rock formations in the high ceiling drip water on Floyd | your head, and the pale green light of your whiffleball casts dark Floyd | shadows into the corners of the cave. A narrow passage climbs up to Floyd | the northeast, while an identical one climbs down to the southeast. Floyd | There's also a low tunnel leading northwest. A wider but equally low Floyd | passage runs due south, and to the west is the opening in the brick Floyd | wall that leads back to the cellar of the Golden Dragon Inn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Stalagmite Cavern Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a medium-sized natural cavern. The floor is Floyd | difficult to negotiate; stalagmites of all shapes and sizes impede your Floyd | progress. Water drips from the walls, pooling on the remaining bits of Floyd | open floor. There are no stalactites, perhaps because there's no Floyd | ceiling; instead, a huge, dark natural chimney stretches up above you, Floyd | bending slightly to the north, vanishing into shadows overhead. A Floyd | narrow passage climbs to the northwest, and level tunnels run southwest Floyd | and south. The southwest passage seems somewhat warmer than the Floyd | others. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't climb up the natural chimney. (If you're trying to go up the Floyd | passage to the northwest, just go northwest.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Geyser Cavern Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a small, hot cave filled with thick steam. The Floyd | source of the steam is evident; hot clouds billow from a narrow mineral Floyd | spout shaped like an overturned funnel. There must be a hot spring Floyd | somewhere beneath you. The only exit is back to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x geyser" | ||||||
Floyd | The steam's all coming out of a nozzle-shaped bit at the top of the Floyd | funnel-shaped spout. The nozzle part is only about an inch across; the Floyd | steam's being forced through a tiny hole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a bungee cord, a cheezdom, a cookie cutter, a cheez key, a Floyd | plastic card, a pillow, a candy bar, an egg, a pickaxe, a yellow ball Floyd | (providing light), a broom, a leather belt (being worn), and a notched Floyd | coin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "put pillow on nozzle" | ||||||
Floyd | There's no good surface for that on the steam spout. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x egg" | ||||||
Floyd | The egg is quite tiny, and covered in blue spots. It's hard boiled, Floyd | and smells terrific; these little taste treats are Golden Dragon Floyd | specialties. It's not quite up there with Acme's Eeestur-Tyme Cheez Floyd | Ehgs, but still pretty tasty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Stalagmite Cavern Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a medium-sized natural cavern. The floor is Floyd | difficult to negotiate; stalagmites of all shapes and sizes impede your Floyd | progress. Water drips from the walls, pooling on the remaining bits of Floyd | open floor. There are no stalactites, perhaps because there's no Floyd | ceiling; instead, a huge, dark natural chimney stretches up above you, Floyd | bending slightly to the north, vanishing into shadows overhead. A Floyd | narrow passage climbs to the northwest, and level tunnels run southwest Floyd | and south. The southwest passage seems somewhat warmer than the Floyd | others. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Chamber of the Padlock Floyd | Floyd | This cavern is wide and high, and the walls appear to have been Floyd | worked and shaped. The only exit is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The southern wall is partly taken up by what appears to be an Floyd | enormous padlock, made from solid gold and embedded in the wall. Floyd | Though the lock itself is quite large, the keyhole in the center is Floyd | quite small. There's not much else of interest here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x keyhole" | ||||||
Floyd | The padlock's embedded in the wall; you're definitely not going to be Floyd | able to get it out, if that's what you're thinking. The tiny keyhole Floyd | in the center looks just like any other keyhole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x key" | ||||||
Floyd | The key is yellow and spongy, and quite small. Tiny letters along the Floyd | side read "Acme Dam Tastee Cheez Kee." [3] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "note 3" | ||||||
Floyd | [3]: This was the very first Acme product ever coded, way back in Floyd | "Unnkulian I" (just a bite (sic) of history for you). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "unlock padlock with key" | ||||||
Floyd | The key fits perfectly. You wiggle it around, and for just a moment, Floyd | you think you hear a tumbler click inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "open pADLOCK" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know how to open the padlock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Stalagmite Cavern Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a medium-sized natural cavern. The floor is Floyd | difficult to negotiate; stalagmites of all shapes and sizes impede your Floyd | progress. Water drips from the walls, pooling on the remaining bits of Floyd | open floor. There are no stalactites, perhaps because there's no Floyd | ceiling; instead, a huge, dark natural chimney stretches up above you, Floyd | bending slightly to the north, vanishing into shadows overhead. A Floyd | narrow passage climbs to the northwest, and level tunnels run southwest Floyd | and south. The southwest passage seems somewhat warmer than the Floyd | others. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a natural cave that probably hasn't been entered Floyd | in years. Twisted rock formations in the high ceiling drip water on Floyd | your head, and the pale green light of your whiffleball casts dark Floyd | shadows into the corners of the cave. A narrow passage climbs up to Floyd | the northeast, while an identical one climbs down to the southeast. Floyd | There's also a low tunnel leading northwest. A wider but equally low Floyd | passage runs due south, and to the west is the opening in the brick Floyd | wall that leads back to the cellar of the Golden Dragon Inn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Top of Chimney Floyd | Floyd | You're in a small chamber at the top of a natural chimney. The Floyd | chimney slopes slightly toward the south, but mostly, it just goes Floyd | straight down, plummeting deep through the dark stone. You certainly Floyd | can't see the bottom. An iron hook is embedded in the wall here, but Floyd | otherwise there's not much of interest. A passage slopes down slightly Floyd | to the southwest, and a more level tunnel runs east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "tie cord too hook" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "tie". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x cord" | ||||||
Floyd | The bungee cord is mauve and green. It's got little hooks on either Floyd | end. Tiny lettering along the cord reads "Acme Kwik-Snahpin Bhungi Floyd | Khord - Dam Sayfe!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "put cord on hook" | ||||||
Floyd | There's no good surface on the iron hook. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "attach cord troo hook" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "troo". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "attach cord too hook" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "too". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "attach cord to hook" | ||||||
Floyd | Okay, one end of the bungee cord is now attached to the hook. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "attach cord to me" | ||||||
Floyd | Be more specific - what on your person are you trying to attach the Floyd | cord to? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "wear belt" | ||||||
Floyd | You're already wearing the leather belt! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "attach cord to belt" | ||||||
Floyd | You slip one hook of the bungee cord through one of the belt loops. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "Here goes nothing" | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Climbing down the smooth walls of the natural chimney would be certain Floyd | suicide. If you're dead set on going down there, why don't you just Floyd | jump? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||||
Floyd | You suicidally leap down the chimney, and find yourself - Floyd | Floyd | Falling through a Natural Chimney Floyd | Floyd | You're plummeting down through a natural chimney, and don't have Floyd | much time to examine the scenery. But you can see a narrow ledge Floyd | lining the chimney around you. Unfortunately, the ledge is nowhere Floyd | near big enough to stand on. Floyd | Floyd | A crown is sitting on the narrow ledge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "take crown" | ||||||
Floyd | You have just enough time to snag the crown with your foot as you sail Floyd | past the ledge. Moving the crown, however, reveals a copper key which, Floyd | sadly, you must leave behind. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | You fall further, and soon - Floyd | Floyd | You've stretched the bungee cord to its limits, and are scant Floyd | milliseconds from flying back up through the chimney and scant inches Floyd | off the floor. You've got almost no time to react! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "z+" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't understand the punctuation "+". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| RootShell arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, you shoot back up the chimney, propelled by the bungee Floyd | cord attached to your waist. About halfway up the inevitable happens - Floyd | the cord snaps! As you plummet to the hard rock below, you wish you'd Floyd | bought an Unnkulian Death-Cord instead - they never break! Floyd | Floyd | *** You've Toddled Off To Salesman Heaven *** Floyd | Floyd | In a total of 139 turns, you have achieved a score of 16 points out of Floyd | a possible 100. Floyd | Floyd | This means when you arrive upstairs, you'll be a trainee salesman. Floyd | Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, or quit. Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, or QUIT: > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, or QUIT: > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
Floyd | File to restore > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "l" | maga says, "okay, someone's run their car off the road outside our house and Jacq needs to go and be a rescue ranger" | |||||
Floyd | The Golden Pool Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a hot, low chamber. The only exit is to the Floyd | southeast. Before you is a shining pool of melted gold, perhaps twenty Floyd | feet in diameter. It nearly fills the room, and bathes your face with Floyd | intense heat; somewhere below the surface, hot lava or steam must keep Floyd | the soft metal in liquid form. Floyd | Floyd | If only you had a container that would hold this gold! How valuable Floyd | it would be if it cooled - and how quickly you could meet the Floyd | innkeeper's price. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "f put key in pool" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "f". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "put key in pool" | ||||||
Floyd | You put the cheez key into the pool of gold. It slips beneath the Floyd | surface of the metal, burning as it goes down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | The Golden Pool Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a hot, low chamber. The only exit is to the Floyd | southeast. Before you is a shining pool of melted gold, perhaps twenty Floyd | feet in diameter. It nearly fills the room, and bathes your face with Floyd | intense heat; somewhere below the surface, hot lava or steam must keep Floyd | the soft metal in liquid form. Floyd | Floyd | If only you had a container that would hold this gold! How valuable Floyd | it would be if it cooled - and how quickly you could meet the Floyd | innkeeper's price. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "so she will be gone for a few" | |||||
| Taleslinger says, "Okay, I see." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | The Golden Pool Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a hot, low chamber. The only exit is to the Floyd | southeast. Before you is a shining pool of melted gold, perhaps twenty Floyd | feet in diameter. It nearly fills the room, and bathes your face with Floyd | intense heat; somewhere below the surface, hot lava or steam must keep Floyd | the soft metal in liquid form. Floyd | Floyd | If only you had a container that would hold this gold! How valuable Floyd | it would be if it cooled - and how quickly you could meet the Floyd | innkeeper's price. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Gate Chamber Floyd | Floyd | This room is dominated by an enormous iron gate which blocks a wide Floyd | hallway to the north. The gate is made from thick iron bars, and looks Floyd | quite sturdy; I doubt you could squeeze through it. Other passages run Floyd | northeast, northwest, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Tiny Room Floyd | Floyd | This natural chamber is quite small, and the ceiling is extremely Floyd | low; it's more an alcove than a room. A familiar sight greets you - an Floyd | Acme vending machine sits (or rather, squats) against the wall! [6] Floyd | The only exit from the room is the passage back to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Gate Chamber Floyd | Floyd | This room is dominated by an enormous iron gate which blocks a wide Floyd | hallway to the north. The gate is made from thick iron bars, and looks Floyd | quite sturdy; I doubt you could squeeze through it. Other passages run Floyd | northeast, northwest, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Twisting Passage Floyd | Floyd | You're at a bend in a low tunnel. The rocks seem to bear down over Floyd | you, as if trying to crush you into the floor, and the floor is Floyd | irregular, damp, and slippery. Somebody's been defacing the wall here Floyd | with red graffiti - how rude! The least they could do is use a more Floyd | pleasing color, like orange or mauve. [4] You could continue to the Floyd | southeast or the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a natural cave that probably hasn't been entered Floyd | in years. Twisted rock formations in the high ceiling drip water on Floyd | your head, and the pale green light of your whiffleball casts dark Floyd | shadows into the corners of the cave. A narrow passage climbs up to Floyd | the northeast, while an identical one climbs down to the southeast. Floyd | There's also a low tunnel leading northwest. A wider but equally low Floyd | passage runs due south, and to the west is the opening in the brick Floyd | wall that leads back to the cellar of the Golden Dragon Inn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Top of Chimney Floyd | Floyd | You're in a small chamber at the top of a natural chimney. The Floyd | chimney slopes slightly toward the south, but mostly, it just goes Floyd | straight down, plummeting deep through the dark stone. You certainly Floyd | can't see the bottom. An iron hook is embedded in the wall here, but Floyd | otherwise there's not much of interest. A passage slopes down slightly Floyd | to the southwest, and a more level tunnel runs east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "push save" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "Is always thought you lived somewhat in the wilderness...Any reason anyone would go by your house who isn't there to see you?`" | |||||
| RootShell asks, "What are we playing?" | Ellison says (to RootShell), "Unkuulia One Half" | |||||
| Taleslinger says, "We? I'm alone here!" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "Ellison, Thanks" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "tie cord to hook" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "tie". Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "where did the others go?" | |||||
| RootShell says, "Taleslinger, Im here" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "attach cord to hook" | ||||||
Floyd | Okay, one end of the bungee cord is now attached to the hook. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| RootShell says, "jacqueline, had to go outside according to Maga because of a car reck" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "acident" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "@joinc clubfloyd" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "attach cord to belt" | ||||||
Floyd | You slip one hook of the bungee cord through one of the belt loops. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||||
Floyd | You suicidally leap down the chimney, and find yourself - Floyd | Floyd | Falling through a Natural Chimney Floyd | Floyd | You're plummeting down through a natural chimney, and don't have Floyd | much time to examine the scenery. But you can see a narrow ledge Floyd | lining the chimney around you. Unfortunately, the ledge is nowhere Floyd | near big enough to stand on. Floyd | Floyd | A crown is sitting on the narrow ledge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| RootShell says, "It says im already there" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "take crown and key" | ||||||
Floyd | crown: You have just enough time to snag the crown with your foot as Floyd | you sail past the ledge. Moving the crown, however, reveals a copper Floyd | key which, sadly, you must leave behind. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | cheez key: You already have the cheez key! Floyd | Floyd | You fall further, and soon - Floyd | Floyd | You've stretched the bungee cord to its limits, and are scant Floyd | milliseconds from flying back up through the chimney and scant inches Floyd | off the floor. You've got almost no time to react! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "unattach cord from belt" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "unattach". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "remove cord from belt" | ||||||
Floyd | (Unhooking the cord) Floyd | You unhook the cord from your belt at the very bottom of the fall, and Floyd | nimbly step to the ground. Floyd | Floyd | The cord goes sailing back up the chimney. After a brief second, Floyd | you hear an ominous snap. Bits of broken cord flutter to the floor Floyd | moments later, and you breathe a sigh of relief - good thing you Floyd | weren't attached to it! Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| RootShell says, "same thing" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "You are already on #if/clubfloyd." | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "what do I have to put before the text i type a " or a ; ??" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "It goes to DustWorld" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "[DustWorld] RootShell says, "Hello"" | RootShell says, "test" | |||||
| Taleslinger says, "Yay, welcome aboard!" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "it worked" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "thanks taleslinger" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x crown" | ||||||
Floyd | It's a flimsy crown made out of construction paper, painted to look Floyd | like the fabled Crown of the Valley King. Letters around the inside Floyd | read "Try it Our Way at Burger Monarch." Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "I wonder if there is another way to solve this last bit" | |||||
| RootShell asks, "what do we have?" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "Uff, hard to explain. Does Floyd have recap`" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "I meant inventory" | ||||||
| maga says, "well, belated, there are a half-dozen houses on the road beyond us" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to rs), "You can give commands to floyd yourself, just beging the line with an f" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "Like "f i" gives you the inventory." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "f i" | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a cheezdom, a cookie cutter, a cheez key, a plastic card, a Floyd | pillow, a candy bar, an egg, a pickaxe, a yellow ball (providing Floyd | light), a broom, a leather belt (being worn), a notched coin, and a Floyd | crown. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "I haven't been here for most of the game, so I have no idea what's up." | |||||
| RootShell says, "Taleslinger me neither" | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "Taleslinger who was where playing before?" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "Inky and Jacq" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Back." | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "Maybe we could wait for them to get back?" | ||||||
| Taleslinger asks, "People saved?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Inky's probably not coming back, but I'm here." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "hooo she's back already hehehehe" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "Hello Super Heroe of the crashed cars Jacqueline" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "Yeah, she's fine. I've arranged for someone to come help, since my patrol car is getting new tires and I can't pull her out of the ditch myself." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to RootShell), "heh. Hi." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, let me skim real quick... looks like you all didn't do too much while I was away. Let me see if you found any new locations and stuff for the map..." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "So the game this week has nothing to do with last week possible game list" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "As you can see in scrollback, I tried to bungee down the hole (can bungee be a verb?), but the cord broke." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "If this game is old-school, this probably wasn't good." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | Stalagmite Cavern Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a medium-sized natural cavern. The floor is Floyd | difficult to negotiate; stalagmites of all shapes and sizes impede your Floyd | progress. Water drips from the walls, pooling on the remaining bits of Floyd | open floor. There are no stalactites, perhaps because there's no Floyd | ceiling; instead, a huge, dark natural chimney stretches up above you, Floyd | bending slightly to the north, vanishing into shadows overhead. A Floyd | narrow passage climbs to the northwest, and level tunnels run southwest Floyd | and south. The southwest passage seems somewhat warmer than the Floyd | others. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Okay. Should we circle back around, jump again, and try for the key?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "I can get us back to the top of the chimney with my map." | ||||||
| psybuzz arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | * Jacqueline has added psybuzz to the channel. | |||||
| RootShell asks, "Are we very far into the game? Or is this just the beginning?" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to jacq), "The cord breaks." | ||||||
| zarf says (to floyd), "score" | ||||||
Floyd | In a total of 118 turns, you have achieved a score of 18 points out of Floyd | a possible 100. Floyd | Floyd | This means when you arrive upstairs, you'll be a trainee salesman. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "ok..." | |||||
| RootShell asks, "Is there anyway we can make the rope 'stronger'?" | ||||||
| zarf says, "that's what SCORE was for before we got all meta-narrative on its ass. :)" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to zarf), "heh" | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "or make ourselves lighter?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "Ah, right. Missed that." | ||||||
| Ellison says (to zarf), "haha" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "of course, it's possible the key is just a red herring" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to psybuzz), "Welcome to ClubFloyd. We chat about the game we're playing here on this channel, and play the game in the room. You can type commands into the game by entering >F LOOK or whatever. Prefacing your command with F let's Floyd (the bot who's running the game) know that it's a command." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "Quite true." | ||||||
| psybuzz asks, "Thank you for inviting me. So what kind of game is this?" | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "why not give it another try... and if fails... go around?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "This is sort of an old-school treasure hunt, it would seem." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, if you want to save the game before trying something that will maybe get us killed, just type >PRESS SAVE (don't direct it to Floyd like you do other commands)." | ||||||
| psybuzz says (to Floyd), "F look" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "f". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to RootShell), "Sure." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a natural cave that probably hasn't been entered Floyd | in years. Twisted rock formations in the high ceiling drip water on Floyd | your head, and the pale green light of your whiffleball casts dark Floyd | shadows into the corners of the cave. A narrow passage climbs up to Floyd | the northeast, while an identical one climbs down to the southeast. Floyd | There's also a low tunnel leading northwest. A wider but equally low Floyd | passage runs due south, and to the west is the opening in the brick Floyd | wall that leads back to the cellar of the Golden Dragon Inn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Top of Chimney Floyd | Floyd | You're in a small chamber at the top of a natural chimney. The Floyd | chimney slopes slightly toward the south, but mostly, it just goes Floyd | straight down, plummeting deep through the dark stone. You certainly Floyd | can't see the bottom. An iron hook is embedded in the wall here, but Floyd | otherwise there's not much of interest. A passage slopes down slightly Floyd | to the southwest, and a more level tunnel runs east. Floyd | Floyd | > | psybuzz asks, "what about restarting?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hrm. We're quite a ways in, I'm afraid." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "We play a game every week, usually at this time (though next week's will be slightly later in the day)." | ||||||
| psybuzz exclaims, "that's okay. On with the game!" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||||
Floyd | Wheeee! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Climbing down the smooth walls of the natural chimney would be certain Floyd | suicide. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a cheezdom, a cookie cutter, a cheez key, a plastic card, a Floyd | pillow, a candy bar, an egg, a pickaxe, a yellow ball (providing Floyd | light), a broom, a leather belt (being worn), a notched coin, and a Floyd | crown. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x hook" | ||||||
Floyd | The iron hook is old and rusty, but quite sturdy; you can't move it at Floyd | all. Its purpose here is unclear, but it does suggest these caves were Floyd | once inhabited. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell asks, "what about the hook and the belt?" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Hm. Maybe. The belt is allegedly of some value. But maybe this is what the game means by 'value'... useful = value?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks (of RootShell), "You want to try, or shall I?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf8" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "you try ;) hehehehe" | |||||
| RootShell says, "I don't want to kill us" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay. Having saved, let's try." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "tie belt to hook" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "tie". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Hrm. How did we attach the cord, or was it just there?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "I was distracted with the whole car-in-the-ditch-in-front-of-my-house thing" | ||||||
| psybuzz says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||||
Floyd | Top of Chimney Floyd | Floyd | You're in a small chamber at the top of a natural chimney. The Floyd | chimney slopes slightly toward the south, but mostly, it just goes Floyd | straight down, plummeting deep through the dark stone. You certainly Floyd | can't see the bottom. An iron hook is embedded in the wall here, but Floyd | otherwise there's not much of interest. A passage slopes down slightly Floyd | to the southwest, and a more level tunnel runs east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline | Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "attach cord to belt" | |||||
Jacqueline | Floyd | You slip one hook of the bungee cord through one of the belt loops. | Jacqueline says, "So, attach." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Might not be enough..." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "attach belt to hook" | ||||||
Floyd | There's no way to attach the belt to anything; try the other way around Floyd | (i.e., attach 'x' to belt.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "attach hook to belt" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know how to attach the iron hook. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x cord" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't see any cord here. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell asks, "Taleslinger, how we got the cord?" | |||||
| psybuzz asks, "maybe 'connect' hook to belt?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, reading back, the cord was obliterated in the fall." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "I think we may have made the one pass through here that we get to make." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "anyway if the hole goes down deep... the belt wont do anything" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "'Attach' was definitely the right verb." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "Sorry, old friend called. No idea how we got the cord, yes it broke." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to RootShell), "Right. We needed the bungee cord to do what we did without dying." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Unless we end up finding a rope later or something, I suspect." | ||||||
| psybuzz says, "oh, snap" | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "is this a dead end? or are there any other ways out to move on ?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well." | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "We used our cheez key (or however it's spelled) on the giant padlock south of the stalgmite cavern, and it wiggled in the lock and made a noise, but then inky left the room without looking more. Let's check that out, perhaps?" | ||||||
| psybuzz says, "that sounds like a good idea" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a natural cave that probably hasn't been entered Floyd | in years. Twisted rock formations in the high ceiling drip water on Floyd | your head, and the pale green light of your whiffleball casts dark Floyd | shadows into the corners of the cave. A narrow passage climbs up to Floyd | the northeast, while an identical one climbs down to the southeast. Floyd | There's also a low tunnel leading northwest. A wider but equally low Floyd | passage runs due south, and to the west is the opening in the brick Floyd | wall that leads back to the cellar of the Golden Dragon Inn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Stalagmite Cavern Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a medium-sized natural cavern. The floor is Floyd | difficult to negotiate; stalagmites of all shapes and sizes impede your Floyd | progress. Water drips from the walls, pooling on the remaining bits of Floyd | open floor. There are no stalactites, perhaps because there's no Floyd | ceiling; instead, a huge, dark natural chimney stretches up above you, Floyd | bending slightly to the north, vanishing into shadows overhead. A Floyd | narrow passage climbs to the northwest, and level tunnels run southwest Floyd | and south. The southwest passage seems somewhat warmer than the Floyd | others. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Chamber of the Padlock Floyd | Floyd | This cavern is wide and high, and the walls appear to have been Floyd | worked and shaped. The only exit is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The southern wall is partly taken up by what appears to be an Floyd | enormous padlock, made from solid gold and embedded in the wall. Floyd | Though the lock itself is quite large, the keyhole in the center is Floyd | quite small. There's not much else of interest here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open padlock" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know how to open the padlock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x padlock" | ||||||
Floyd | The padlock's embedded in the wall; you're definitely not going to be Floyd | able to get it out, if that's what you're thinking. The tiny keyhole Floyd | in the center looks just like any other keyhole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "unlock padlock" | ||||||
Floyd | (with the cheez key) Floyd | The key fits perfectly. You wiggle it around, and for just a moment, Floyd | you think you hear a tumbler click inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Weird." | |||||
| Taleslinger says, "I was thinking off getting the copper key, then drowning it in teh gold" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm. Yeah." | ||||||
| psybuzz says (to Floyd), "look through keyhole" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't see anything through the padlock. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Maybe we need to look around more first?" | |||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "x keyhole" | ||||||
Floyd | The padlock's embedded in the wall; you're definitely not going to be Floyd | able to get it out, if that's what you're thinking. The tiny keyhole Floyd | in the center looks just like any other keyhole. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "There is a try to the bungee scenario, but yeah, more esploring" | |||||
| RootShell asks, "jacqueline, it seems you are mapping... where can we go from here?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "There's the geyser room. Maybe we can harness the geyser to go upward to another location? (Not right now, necessarily, but something to keep in the back of our minds.)" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I'm mapping." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm trying to see if there are rooms we haven't explored that we know about. I wrote down the rooms we've been to, but forgot to note exits to those rooms we've not yet explored, so I'm going back and looking for those now." | ||||||
| psybuzz says (to Floyd), "purloin belt" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "purloin". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "x belt" | ||||||
Floyd | The belt's marvelous workmanship, hand-tooled fine leather. It's Floyd | probably worth something. Clearly, it wasn't made by Acme. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Why don't we go to the geyser room, and you guys look around in there while I look at the map again?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | Chamber of the Padlock Floyd | Floyd | This cavern is wide and high, and the walls appear to have been Floyd | worked and shaped. The only exit is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The southern wall is partly taken up by what appears to be an Floyd | enormous padlock, made from solid gold and embedded in the wall. Floyd | Though the lock itself is quite large, the keyhole in the center is Floyd | quite small. There's not much else of interest here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n. sw." | ||||||
Floyd | Stalagmite Cavern Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a medium-sized natural cavern. The floor is Floyd | difficult to negotiate; stalagmites of all shapes and sizes impede your Floyd | progress. Water drips from the walls, pooling on the remaining bits of Floyd | open floor. There are no stalactites, perhaps because there's no Floyd | ceiling; instead, a huge, dark natural chimney stretches up above you, Floyd | bending slightly to the north, vanishing into shadows overhead. A Floyd | narrow passage climbs to the northwest, and level tunnels run southwest Floyd | and south. The southwest passage seems somewhat warmer than the Floyd | others. Floyd | Floyd | Geyser Cavern Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a small, hot cave filled with thick steam. The Floyd | source of the steam is evident; hot clouds billow from a narrow mineral Floyd | spout shaped like an overturned funnel. There must be a hot spring Floyd | somewhere beneath you. The only exit is back to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "touch steam" | ||||||
Floyd | Touching the steam doesn't seem to have any effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a cheezdom, a cookie cutter, a cheez key, a plastic card, a Floyd | pillow, a candy bar, an egg, a pickaxe, a yellow ball (providing Floyd | light), a broom, a leather belt (being worn), a notched coin, and a Floyd | crown. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "smell steam" | ||||||
Floyd | The steam smells faintly of sulpher. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a cheezdom, a cookie cutter, a cheez key, a plastic card, a Floyd | pillow, a candy bar, an egg, a pickaxe, a yellow ball (providing Floyd | light), a broom, a leather belt (being worn), a notched coin, and a Floyd | crown. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "hit geyer with pickaxe" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "geyer". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x pillow" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "hit geyser with pickaxe" | ||||||
Floyd | The pillow is about as hard as a brick. Tiny lettering along the edge Floyd | reads "Acme Soopur-Sopht Downee Pillough." Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Attacking the spout doesn't appear productive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x spout" | ||||||
Floyd | The steam's all coming out of a nozzle-shaped bit at the top of the Floyd | funnel-shaped spout. The nozzle part is only about an inch across; the Floyd | steam's being forced through a tiny hole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x cheezdom" | ||||||
Floyd | It looks like a deflated yellow balloon with several small holes in it. Floyd | Tiny letters down one side read "Acme Loobrikayted Cheezdom: Praktiss Floyd | Sayfe Seks! (Mayd from 100% Suhwiss Cheez)." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| psybuzz says (to Floyd), "think" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "think". Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "why dont we stick the broom stick in the hole? maybe it will blow" | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "cf9" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says (to rs), "Sure, try it." | |||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "put broom in hole" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "hole". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "put broom in geyser" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know how to put anything into the spout. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "nozzle?" | |||||
| Ellison says, "oh, it recognized it as spout. nevermind" | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "put broom in nozzle" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know how to put anything into the spout. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "maybe the word is not put" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "put cheezdom on nozzle" | ||||||
Floyd | You stick the cheezdom over the nozzle. It rapidly fills with hot air, Floyd | and starts to look like a big yellow balloon - albeit one with a bunch Floyd | of holes in it. When it's as full as it's going to get, you take it Floyd | off the spout, being careful to hold the opening shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, we have the room with the golden pool, a chamber with an iron gate blocking our way to a new room, a room with a vending machine puzzle that we've alread solved, the gambler's lair where we need to (I think) find a coin that's weighted on the head side so that we can win a coin toss, the big gold padlock, and the chimney with the copper key that we need to find a new way to access." | |||||
| RootShell says, "Ellisson it worked" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "And then there are room descriptions which say things like 'the only APPARENT exit is X' which sort of implies that there might be exits we haven't found." | ||||||
| Taleslinger asks, "Can we use the cheezdom to fly?" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "maybe we do the bungee jump while holding on to the balloon" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "taleslinger it says yes" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "Hm, yeah." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "big yellow ballon" | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, go to the Chimney room?" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "first get it when full" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, I think it's full." | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a cheezdom, a cookie cutter, a cheez key, a plastic card, a Floyd | pillow, a candy bar, an egg, a pickaxe, a yellow ball (providing Floyd | light), a broom, a leather belt (being worn), a notched coin, and a Floyd | crown. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, your feet begin to leave the ground! When the cheezdom hits Floyd | the rock of the ceiling above you, it pops with a wet splattering Floyd | sound, spraying cheez (ugh) across the dark granite. You fall the Floyd | short distance to the ground, shaken but unhurt. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "oops" | |||||
| RootShell says, "ups..." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "We have one move." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "sorry... i wont type again.. i got us killed" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "So maybe that one move is to move out of the room." | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Geyser Cavern Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a small, hot cave filled with thick steam. The Floyd | source of the steam is evident; hot clouds billow from a narrow mineral Floyd | spout shaped like an overturned funnel. There must be a hot spring Floyd | somewhere beneath you. The only exit is back to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "sort of" | |||||
| psybuzz says, "good thing we have another cheezdom" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to RootShell), "Heh. No worries. That's why we have save." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Stalagmite Cavern Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a medium-sized natural cavern. The floor is Floyd | difficult to negotiate; stalagmites of all shapes and sizes impede your Floyd | progress. Water drips from the walls, pooling on the remaining bits of Floyd | open floor. There are no stalactites, perhaps because there's no Floyd | ceiling; instead, a huge, dark natural chimney stretches up above you, Floyd | bending slightly to the north, vanishing into shadows overhead. A Floyd | narrow passage climbs to the northwest, and level tunnels run southwest Floyd | and south. The southwest passage seems somewhat warmer than the Floyd | others. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, your feet leave the ground as the cheezdom sails up the Floyd | chimney! Some lift this thing's got - jeepers! You look around and Floyd | find yourself - Floyd | Floyd | Rising through a Natural Chimney Floyd | Floyd | You're swiftly rising up a natural chimney, hanging from a rapidly Floyd | deflating yellow balloon. Below you are some rather dangerous-looking Floyd | sharp rocks, and above you is only darkness. A narrow ledge, nowhere Floyd | near big enough to stand on, lines the wall of the chimney here, but Floyd | there's nothing else of interest. Floyd | Floyd | A copper key is sitting on the narrow ledge. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "SEE?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take key" | ||||||
Floyd | You've already got your hands full. The cheezdom's still deflating, Floyd | but you continue to rise. Pretty soon, you find yourself - Floyd | Floyd | Top of Chimney Floyd | Floyd | You're at the top of the natural chimney, but you're rising so Floyd | quickly, you don't really have time to enjoy the scenery; I'd suggest Floyd | letting go of the cheezdom pretty soon. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell ) | |||||
| Ellison says, "neat" | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "HANDS FULL?" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "haha" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "ellisong... good going :)" | Jacqueline asks, "HANDS... FULL?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Bah." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
Floyd | File to restore game from > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf9" | ||||||
Floyd | Restored. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drop all" | ||||||
Floyd | cheezdom: Dropped. Floyd | cookie cutter: Dropped. Floyd | cheez key: Dropped. Floyd | plastic card: Dropped. Floyd | pillow: Dropped. Floyd | candy bar: Dropped. Floyd | egg: Dropped. Floyd | pickaxe: Dropped. Floyd | yellow ball: Dropped. Floyd | broom: Dropped. Floyd | leather belt: (Taking off the leather belt first) Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | notched coin: Dropped. Floyd | crown: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger asks, "Maybe we can let go midrise and grab the gorram thing?" | |||||
| RootShell says, "lol" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take cheezdom. Put cheezdom on nozzle." | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | You stick the cheezdom over the nozzle. It rapidly fills with hot air, Floyd | and starts to look like a big yellow balloon - albeit one with a bunch Floyd | of holes in it. When it's as full as it's going to get, you take it Floyd | off the spout, being careful to hold the opening shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "lets try having nothing" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | It's pitch black. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, your feet leave the ground as the cheezdom sails up the Floyd | chimney! Some lift this thing's got - jeepers! You look around and Floyd | find yourself - Floyd | Floyd | You wander around in the dark, and don't get anywhere. If only you had Floyd | an Acme Soopur-Bryte Cheez Lyte! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "HA" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, should have thought of that, too." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Geyser Cavern Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a small, hot cave filled with thick steam. The Floyd | source of the steam is evident; hot clouds billow from a narrow mineral Floyd | spout shaped like an overturned funnel. There must be a hot spring Floyd | somewhere beneath you. The only exit is back to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | You see a cookie cutter, a cheez key, a plastic card, a pillow, a Floyd | candy bar, an egg, a pickaxe, a yellow ball (providing light), a broom, Floyd | a leather belt, a notched coin, and a crown here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
Floyd | File to restore game from > | Taleslinger says, "man, old school" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf9" | ||||||
Floyd | Restored. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "taleslinger hehehehe" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drop all" | ||||||
Floyd | cheezdom: Dropped. Floyd | cookie cutter: Dropped. Floyd | cheez key: Dropped. Floyd | plastic card: Dropped. Floyd | pillow: Dropped. Floyd | candy bar: Dropped. Floyd | egg: Dropped. Floyd | pickaxe: Dropped. Floyd | yellow ball: Dropped. Floyd | broom: Dropped. Floyd | leather belt: (Taking off the leather belt first) Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | notched coin: Dropped. Floyd | crown: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take cheezdom and ball." | ||||||
Floyd | cheezdom: Taken. Floyd | yellow ball: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x ball" | ||||||
Floyd | The ball is yellow and full of holes. It's rather heavy. Tiny raised Floyd | letters read "Acme Dam-Lite Whiphulbawl: 100% S'whiss Cheez!" [8] Floyd | You've seen these before; they're top-notch toys for tots. Most of Floyd | them don't glow, however; this one is giving off a pale green light. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| zarf walks off through the wall; vivid gold light flares briefly around him. | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "Put cheezdom on nozzle." | ||||||
Floyd | You stick the cheezdom over the nozzle. It rapidly fills with hot air, Floyd | and starts to look like a big yellow balloon - albeit one with a bunch Floyd | of holes in it. When it's as full as it's going to get, you take it Floyd | off the spout, being careful to hold the opening shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Stalagmite Cavern Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a medium-sized natural cavern. The floor is Floyd | difficult to negotiate; stalagmites of all shapes and sizes impede your Floyd | progress. Water drips from the walls, pooling on the remaining bits of Floyd | open floor. There are no stalactites, perhaps because there's no Floyd | ceiling; instead, a huge, dark natural chimney stretches up above you, Floyd | bending slightly to the north, vanishing into shadows overhead. A Floyd | narrow passage climbs to the northwest, and level tunnels run southwest Floyd | and south. The southwest passage seems somewhat warmer than the Floyd | others. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, your feet leave the ground as the cheezdom sails up the Floyd | chimney! Some lift this thing's got - jeepers! You look around and Floyd | find yourself - Floyd | Floyd | Rising through a Natural Chimney Floyd | Floyd | You're swiftly rising up a natural chimney, hanging from a rapidly Floyd | deflating yellow balloon. Below you are some rather dangerous-looking Floyd | sharp rocks, and above you is only darkness. A narrow ledge, nowhere Floyd | near big enough to stand on, lines the wall of the chimney here, but Floyd | there's nothing else of interest. Floyd | Floyd | A copper key is sitting on the narrow ledge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take key" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. The cheezdom's still deflating, but you continue to rise. Floyd | Pretty soon, you find yourself - Floyd | Floyd | Top of Chimney Floyd | Floyd | You're at the top of the natural chimney, but you're rising so Floyd | quickly, you don't really have time to enjoy the scenery; I'd suggest Floyd | letting go of the cheezdom pretty soon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf10" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "let go" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "let go" | ||||||
Floyd | What do you want to drop? Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | What do you want to drop? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "drop chezzdom" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "chezzdom". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cheezdom" | ||||||
Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence! Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "lol" | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "drop cheezdom" | ||||||
Floyd | You let go of the cheezdom and nimbly step to the ground. The cheezdom Floyd | flies crazily around the cavern, finally splatting against a wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well done." | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to jacq), "Sorry." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "After... well... yeah, well done." | ||||||
| Jacqueline smiles at Taleslinger. | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf10" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x key" | ||||||
Floyd | The key is small and made from beaten copper. It's not very exciting. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "Booh." | |||||
| Ellison asks, "so we can get back to where we dropped all of our stuff from here?" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "wow now we have another key" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "GIVE THE PLAYER A SENSE OF ACHIEVEMENT FAIL" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, let's try it in the two locks we have." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "Yeah. I'll go get our stuff." | ||||||
| psybuzz says, "at least we're not covered in cheese" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a natural cave that probably hasn't been entered Floyd | in years. Twisted rock formations in the high ceiling drip water on Floyd | your head, and the pale green light of your whiffleball casts dark Floyd | shadows into the corners of the cave. A narrow passage climbs up to Floyd | the northeast, while an identical one climbs down to the southeast. Floyd | There's also a low tunnel leading northwest. A wider but equally low Floyd | passage runs due south, and to the west is the opening in the brick Floyd | wall that leads back to the cellar of the Golden Dragon Inn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Stalagmite Cavern Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a medium-sized natural cavern. The floor is Floyd | difficult to negotiate; stalagmites of all shapes and sizes impede your Floyd | progress. Water drips from the walls, pooling on the remaining bits of Floyd | open floor. There are no stalactites, perhaps because there's no Floyd | ceiling; instead, a huge, dark natural chimney stretches up above you, Floyd | bending slightly to the north, vanishing into shadows overhead. A Floyd | narrow passage climbs to the northwest, and level tunnels run southwest Floyd | and south. The southwest passage seems somewhat warmer than the Floyd | others. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Geyser Cavern Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a small, hot cave filled with thick steam. The Floyd | source of the steam is evident; hot clouds billow from a narrow mineral Floyd | spout shaped like an overturned funnel. There must be a hot spring Floyd | somewhere beneath you. The only exit is back to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | You see a cookie cutter, a cheez key, a plastic card, a pillow, a Floyd | candy bar, an egg, a pickaxe, a broom, a leather belt, a notched coin, Floyd | and a crown here. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell asks, "shouldnt we try to get the cheese again?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||||
Floyd | cookie cutter: Taken. Floyd | cheez key: Taken. Floyd | plastic card: Taken. Floyd | pillow: Taken. Floyd | candy bar: Taken. Floyd | egg: Taken. Floyd | pickaxe: Taken. Floyd | broom: Taken. Floyd | leather belt: Taken. Floyd | notched coin: Taken. Floyd | crown: You've already got your hands full. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hrm. Inventory issue." | |||||
| RootShell says, "ok" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drop ax" | ||||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take crown" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wear crown" | ||||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now wearing the crown. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take ax" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "I think we don't really need the crown." | |||||
| RootShell says, "Taleslinger.... Old school again ;)" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "There. Now we look even more silly." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "Oh, clever thinking." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Though I think the crown is just a red herring." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "lol lol" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "taleslinger in our head it's not a problem ;)" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "i guess" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "the customer is not king in Acme sales!" | ||||||
| psybuzz exclaims, "ooh, I like herrings!" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "So. We have an iron gate and a gold padlock." | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "which is closet?" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "Try the iron gate first, then the padlock, then dip the key in the golden pool." | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "I think Taleslinger might be right about the dipping the key in gold thing, but let's maybe go check the locks first?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Rootshell), "Um, the padlock." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Stalagmite Cavern Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a medium-sized natural cavern. The floor is Floyd | difficult to negotiate; stalagmites of all shapes and sizes impede your Floyd | progress. Water drips from the walls, pooling on the remaining bits of Floyd | open floor. There are no stalactites, perhaps because there's no Floyd | ceiling; instead, a huge, dark natural chimney stretches up above you, Floyd | bending slightly to the north, vanishing into shadows overhead. A Floyd | narrow passage climbs to the northwest, and level tunnels run southwest Floyd | and south. The southwest passage seems somewhat warmer than the Floyd | others. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Chamber of the Padlock Floyd | Floyd | This cavern is wide and high, and the walls appear to have been Floyd | worked and shaped. The only exit is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The southern wall is partly taken up by what appears to be an Floyd | enormous padlock, made from solid gold and embedded in the wall. Floyd | Though the lock itself is quite large, the keyhole in the center is Floyd | quite small. There's not much else of interest here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "unlock padlock with copper key" | ||||||
Floyd | The key fits perfectly. You wiggle it around, and for just a moment, Floyd | you think you hear a tumbler click inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "buuuuhhhhh" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Same response, so that's not it." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "That padlock is such a tease." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay. Iron gate." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "let's go" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ack" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Stalagmite Cavern Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a medium-sized natural cavern. The floor is Floyd | difficult to negotiate; stalagmites of all shapes and sizes impede your Floyd | progress. Water drips from the walls, pooling on the remaining bits of Floyd | open floor. There are no stalactites, perhaps because there's no Floyd | ceiling; instead, a huge, dark natural chimney stretches up above you, Floyd | bending slightly to the north, vanishing into shadows overhead. A Floyd | narrow passage climbs to the northwest, and level tunnels run southwest Floyd | and south. The southwest passage seems somewhat warmer than the Floyd | others. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a natural cave that probably hasn't been entered Floyd | in years. Twisted rock formations in the high ceiling drip water on Floyd | your head, and the pale green light of your whiffleball casts dark Floyd | shadows into the corners of the cave. A narrow passage climbs up to Floyd | the northeast, while an identical one climbs down to the southeast. Floyd | There's also a low tunnel leading northwest. A wider but equally low Floyd | passage runs due south, and to the west is the opening in the brick Floyd | wall that leads back to the cellar of the Golden Dragon Inn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Twisting Passage Floyd | Floyd | You're at a bend in a low tunnel. The rocks seem to bear down over Floyd | you, as if trying to crush you into the floor, and the floor is Floyd | irregular, damp, and slippery. Somebody's been defacing the wall here Floyd | with red graffiti - how rude! The least they could do is use a more Floyd | pleasing color, like orange or mauve. [4] You could continue to the Floyd | southeast or the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Gate Chamber Floyd | Floyd | This room is dominated by an enormous iron gate which blocks a wide Floyd | hallway to the north. The gate is made from thick iron bars, and looks Floyd | quite sturdy; I doubt you could squeeze through it. Other passages run Floyd | northeast, northwest, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | psybuzz asks, "Whatt??" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Whatt?? What?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "What's the Whatt about, p?" | ||||||
| DavidW arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Jacqueline asks, "Ooh. Hi, David. How was your thing at the library?" | |||||
| psybuzz says, "nevermind, I thought the nw wasn't working...and it..nevermind" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I was in the wrong spot on the map. We're cool now." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "Hi David" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "unlock gate with copper key" | ||||||
Floyd | There's no visible keyhole. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "DW is here. Finally someone to beat all the puzzles." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Huh. No keyhole." | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "It was much as I expected, except more crowded, and an older age group." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x gate" | ||||||
Floyd | It looks like an ordinary iron gate to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "lol" | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to jacq), "Dip it already!" | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "have you tried open gate?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Aw, sorry to hear that. But glad you are here." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open gate" | ||||||
Floyd | There's no apparent way to open the gate. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "oh, it was nice enough." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, that is annoying." | ||||||
| psybuzz asks, "hey DW, how's your weekend?" | Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "We are going to die a few times trying to dip it, I suspect." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "But okay." | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "push/pull?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push gate" | ||||||
Floyd | Pushing the iron gate doesn't do anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pull gate" | ||||||
Floyd | Pulling the iron gate doesn't have any effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hit gate with ax" | ||||||
Floyd | Attacking the iron gate doesn't appear productive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "x gate" | ||||||
Floyd | It looks like an ordinary iron gate to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Emily has disconnected. | ||||||
| Emily goes home. | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | The Golden Pool Floyd | | DavidW says, "There were quartered sandwiches, punch, wine, tea, cake. And little gifts of tea bags to take home." | |||||
Floyd | You're standing in a hot, low chamber. The only exit is to the Floyd | southeast. Before you is a shining pool of melted gold, perhaps twenty Floyd | feet in diameter. It nearly fills the room, and bathes your face with Floyd | intense heat; somewhere below the surface, hot lava or steam must keep Floyd | the soft metal in liquid form. Floyd | Floyd | If only you had a container that would hold this gold! How valuable Floyd | it would be if it cooled - and how quickly you could meet the Floyd | innkeeper's price. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf11" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "dip copper key in pool" | ||||||
Floyd | You put the copper key into the pool of gold. It slips beneath the Floyd | surface of the metal, burning as it goes down. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oopsie" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "I think we are now without a key." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "But hey, we're not dead!" | ||||||
| DavidW asks, "Does this game have 'undo'?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x copper key" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't see any copper key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "get key" | ||||||
Floyd | You already have the cheez key! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | File to restore game from > Floyd | Restore failed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf11" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "cf11". Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "checks just to make sure :)" | |||||
| Ellison says, "tea bags? I had no idea the GOP would be staking out Canadian libraries" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
Floyd | File to restore game from > | Taleslinger says, "Sorry again. I seem to have a habit of interrupting you tiday," | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | Restore failed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "grr" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
Floyd | File to restore game from > | ||||||
| Tablesaw arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf11" | ||||||
Floyd | Restored. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "Taleslinger I understand you" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "There." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Restored." | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Ellison), "The gift boxes say 'Volunteers are just our cup of tea!'" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "That's cute." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "nice" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a yellow ball (providing light), a copper key, a cookie Floyd | cutter, a cheez key, a plastic card, a pillow, a candy bar, an egg, a Floyd | broom, a leather belt, a notched coin, a crown (being worn), and a Floyd | pickaxe. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "I don't think it undos very well due to its age. We've been saving obsessively at inky's suggestion." | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x egg" | ||||||
Floyd | The egg is quite tiny, and covered in blue spots. It's hard boiled, Floyd | and smells terrific; these little taste treats are Golden Dragon Floyd | specialties. It's not quite up there with Acme's Eeestur-Tyme Cheez Floyd | Ehgs, but still pretty tasty. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "lol space this days is cheap" | |||||
| psybuzz says, "hehe, that's funny" | ||||||
| Taleslinger asks, "Did we try the copper key in the padlock?" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "so now we have a gate and a padlock and a hole to figure out" | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "A hole?" | ||||||
| Alex says (to Jacqueline), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that a hole is to dig." | ||||||
| DavidW asks, "It's been a long time since I played any of the Unnkulians, but shouldn't the egg be fried, not boiled?" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "yes... it did exactlu the same thing as the previous key" | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "jacqueline, didn't we try to get down a hole? before?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "Yeah, both the copper key and the cheez key trip the tumbler in some way, but nothing much happens." | ||||||
| psybuzz says, "I do enjoy fried eggs better than boiled ones" | ||||||
| psybuzz asks, "Perhaps we need to make a keyhole?" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "I'm pretty sure we need a golden key" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "The pool of gold must be useful in some way." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "AVG Free Install (LATEST version please, previous ones deleted important windows files)" | ||||||
| * Tablesaw has joined the channel. | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a yellow ball (providing light), a copper key, a cookie Floyd | cutter, a cheez key, a plastic card, a pillow, a candy bar, an egg, a Floyd | broom, a leather belt, a notched coin, a crown (being worn), and a Floyd | pickaxe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a yellow ball (providing light), a copper key, a cookie Floyd | cutter, a cheez key, a plastic card, a pillow, a candy bar, an egg, a Floyd | broom, a leather belt, a notched coin, a crown (being worn), and a Floyd | pickaxe. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to RootShell), "you like a channel" | |||||
| Taleslinger says, "Wow, tablesaw." | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "DavidW... sorry... i lost you there... I like a channel?" | ||||||
| DavidW asks, "Someone want to recap what's happening?" | ||||||
| psybuzz exclaims, "hello Tablesaw!" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||||
Floyd | The Golden Pool Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a hot, low chamber. The only exit is to the Floyd | southeast. Before you is a shining pool of melted gold, perhaps twenty Floyd | feet in diameter. It nearly fills the room, and bathes your face with Floyd | intense heat; somewhere below the surface, hot lava or steam must keep Floyd | the soft metal in liquid form. Floyd | Floyd | If only you had a container that would hold this gold! How valuable Floyd | it would be if it cooled - and how quickly you could meet the Floyd | innkeeper's price. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "dip" | ||||||
Floyd | What do you want to put? Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "Hello Tablesaw" | |||||
| DavidW says (to RootShell), "You meant to talk about AVG on #jacq-chat, not this channel" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to RootShell), "He means that your - right." | ||||||
| Taleslinger asks, "Are there any unexplored locations?" | ||||||
| Tablesaw says, "I heard about Club Floyd, and it pulled me back in." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "Not to which we presently have access, no." | ||||||
| Tablesaw says, "A little late, though." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "Im sorry (im not fully into this thing) :(" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "At a guess, you guys might need to use this gold to forge a key. Maybe make a wax molding." | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "But there is at least one room description that says 'the apparent exits are' or something to that effect, implying that maybe there's another exit we haven't seen?" | ||||||
| psybuzz asks, "can we scoop some gold with the cookie cutter, or is it the kind that doesn't scoop?" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "hey Tablesaw" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Jacqueline), "I'm cool with checking that out" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to RootShell), "You're fine. We all mischannel from time to time. :)" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Tablesaw), "Yeah, your's is one of the names that comes up from time to time. hence the wow" | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Ellison), "The 'apparent exit' room?" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "Go for it" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "Maybe the misleading "Not working key" in the padlock does in fact something" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to RootShell), "Yeah, might be. Except two keys give the same response." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "old game... ;)" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, we'll hit the 'apparent exit' room, then the pad lock." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Gate Chamber Floyd | Floyd | This room is dominated by an enormous iron gate which blocks a wide Floyd | hallway to the north. The gate is made from thick iron bars, and looks Floyd | quite sturdy; I doubt you could squeeze through it. Other passages run Floyd | northeast, northwest, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Twisting Passage Floyd | Floyd | You're at a bend in a low tunnel. The rocks seem to bear down over Floyd | you, as if trying to crush you into the floor, and the floor is Floyd | irregular, damp, and slippery. Somebody's been defacing the wall here Floyd | with red graffiti - how rude! The least they could do is use a more Floyd | pleasing color, like orange or mauve. [4] You could continue to the Floyd | southeast or the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a natural cave that probably hasn't been entered Floyd | in years. Twisted rock formations in the high ceiling drip water on Floyd | your head, and the pale green light of your whiffleball casts dark Floyd | shadows into the corners of the cave. A narrow passage climbs up to Floyd | the northeast, while an identical one climbs down to the southeast. Floyd | There's also a low tunnel leading northwest. A wider but equally low Floyd | passage runs due south, and to the west is the opening in the brick Floyd | wall that leads back to the cellar of the Golden Dragon Inn. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Cave of the Skeleton Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is dark and low, with no apparent exits other than the Floyd | passage back to the north. The roof slopes sharply down to the south, Floyd | and at the far end, there's only a few inches between ceiling and Floyd | floor. Lying face down in the center of the cave is a grisly sight - a Floyd | human skeleton, half-covered in mineral deposits, probably centuries Floyd | old. Good thing he didn't have Acme Dam Eckspensif Lyfe Ihnshorants - Floyd | you might have to pay up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "I'd've said maybe we need different keys. Y'know, cheeze for color, copper for material." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "By apparent exits, they may just mean there are no exits." | ||||||
| Taleslinger asks, "or maybe there is something in the inn we can use?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "But we've already bored through two walls in this game, so." | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "search deposits" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "deposits". Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "Maybe we need a cookie to cut." | |||||
| RootShell asks, "did you searched the skeleton?" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cookie cutter" | ||||||
Floyd | Tiny letters on the cookie cutter read "Acme Slysor-Dysor Kookee Floyd | Khutoor." This particular one's shaped like a key, but other fun Floyd | shapes are available - hearts, clovers, horseshoes, and diamonds. In Floyd | fact, you've heard they make "Acme Kookee Charmz" with these things - Floyd | "A Dam Tastee Pahrt oph thiss Compleet Brekphast!" [2] It's made from Floyd | mauve plastic, and it's not very sharp. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah, that's where the belt came from, I think, the skeleton." | |||||
| Taleslinger asks, "SHAPED LIKE A KEY?" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "YUP" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "So it is." | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Gosh. Do you think that's important?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline smiles. | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "HINT HINT" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "haha" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "So find something soft, like wax or jello or clay." | ||||||
| psybuzz asks, "skeleton key?" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "it might... the gate had no locker or key hole" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "HELP BROKEN CAPS LOCK" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, the gate is weird. No lock." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "Okay, that's enough shouting." | ||||||
| Jacqueline presses Taleslinger's caplocks key. | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh no, too late. Now you'll be screaming again." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "I WON'T" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "You might be able to open a keyhole-less gate in other ways. Like smashing it open with a truck or rolling boulder." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. I tried my axe." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "But not much else." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to dw), "Has the truck idea be used somewhere? Otherwise, I call dips." | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "what about the shaped like a key?" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a yellow ball (providing light), a copper key, a cookie Floyd | cutter, a cheez key, a plastic card, a pillow, a candy bar, an egg, a Floyd | broom, a leather belt, a notched coin, a crown (being worn), and a Floyd | pickaxe. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "Yeah, try that in the padlock." | |||||
| RootShell says, "a cookie cutter is to MAKE a key" | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "cant you see?" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x coin" | ||||||
Floyd | The notched coin is a one-valmid piece, minted from bronze. On one Floyd | side is the current monarch [7] and on the other side is a picture of Floyd | the Hall of the Valley King. There's a little notch cut out of the Floyd | coin, but it's still worth one valmid. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "melt coin" | |||||
| RootShell says, "in cookie cutter" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "no, there's melted gold for the key." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "and make a new key" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "But you need something else like wax or jello or clay first." | ||||||
| psybuzz asks, "so we're keymakers?" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Not yet." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "So, where do we want to go? Let me recap what we have. We have the room with the golden pool, a chamber with an iron gate blocking our way to a new room, a room with a vending machine puzzle that we've alread solved, the gambler's lair where we need to (I think) find a coin that's weighted on the head side so that we can win a coin toss, and the big gold padlock." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "And the cookie key thing.'" | ||||||
| Taleslinger asks, "Where did we get the coin?" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pillow" | ||||||
Floyd | The pillow is about as hard as a brick. Tiny lettering along the edge Floyd | reads "Acme Soopur-Sopht Downee Pillough." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "From the vending machine, I think." | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open pillow" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know how to open the pillow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search pillow" | ||||||
Floyd | The pillow is about as hard as a brick. Tiny lettering along the edge Floyd | reads "Acme Soopur-Sopht Downee Pillough." Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger asks, "Maybe it'll give us another one?" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit pillow" | ||||||
Floyd | (with the pickaxe) Floyd | Attacking the pillow doesn't appear productive. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell asks, "throw pillow?" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x broom" | ||||||
Floyd | It's a long-handled broom, good for sweeping floors. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "bricks brake" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ride broom" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know how to ride the broom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sweep floor" | ||||||
Floyd | (with the broom) Floyd | You idly swing the broom back and forth a few times, but your dislike Floyd | of manual labor was what made you become a salesman in the first place, Floyd | and you soon grow tired. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| You do not have a default channel set. | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bar" | ||||||
Floyd | It's an "Acme Dam Hellthee Grah-know-lah Bhar," the chocolate and Floyd | fiberboard flavor. It's probably the heaviest item you're carrying, Floyd | but it's also the only food you're likely to find in the area. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, we had to put something in the machine to get the coin, Taleslinger." | |||||
| psybuzz says (to Floyd), "ponder the possibilities" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "ponder". Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'd be more helpful if I hadn't come in in the middle of this." | |||||
| psybuzz asks, "is that how we go the candy bar?" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ball" | ||||||
Floyd | The ball is yellow and full of holes. It's rather heavy. Tiny raised Floyd | letters read "Acme Dam-Lite Whiphulbawl: 100% S'whiss Cheez!" [8] Floyd | You've seen these before; they're top-notch toys for tots. Most of Floyd | them don't glow, however; this one is giving off a pale green light. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger asks, "Have you kicked it?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to DavidW), "Maybe, maybe not. New ideas in midstream and all that." | ||||||
| psybuzz says, "You're very helpful though. As they say, five fingers are better than 1." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "David, I think we are searching for a key to open a lockless gate or a padlock" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "squeeze ball" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "squeeze". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to TS), "The machine? Yeah, we put an acmid in the slot, nothing happened, we kicked the machine, and out popped the coin we now have. >" | |||||
| RootShell asks, "did we already use the cookir keymaker?" | ||||||
| DavidW asks (of RootShell), "I've mentioned my guesses. Have we seen any wax, jello, clay, anything soft and cookie-dough like like that?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't think so, no." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't think we've used the cookie cutter, that is." | ||||||
| Tablesaw says, "Have we applied the cookie cutter to anything yet? The granola and the cheeze ball look likely." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "DavidW I also arrived late and got this thing already at full steam... im trying to catch also" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "The granola is ultra-fibre and not likely." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Eating the granola is likely to purge us from the nether end." | ||||||
Floyd | Attacking the candy bar doesn't appear productive. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell asks, "Jacqueline, What other materials did you see that could be used for a key?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Please don't whisper to floyd. :)" | ||||||
| Taleslinger asks (of jacq), "Have you kicked it again?" | ||||||
| psybuzz says, "cheese is sortof like wax when you melt it..." | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crown" | ||||||
Floyd | It's a flimsy crown made out of construction paper, painted to look Floyd | like the fabled Crown of the Valley King. Letters around the inside Floyd | read "Try it Our Way at Burger Monarch." Floyd | Floyd | > | Tablesaw says, "That was me. Accidentally whispered 'cut granola with cutter'. It's been a while." | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Hrm. Well, regarding the gold... maybe we get some gold somehow, pour it on the ground, and then, as it's cooling we stamp out a gold key?" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "or pour it directly to the cookie cutter" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "It's pretty obvious that any idea with the molten gold is gonna require a container of some sort." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "first we need to find something that can be melted" | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "anyone remembers ?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a yellow ball (providing light), a copper key, a cookie Floyd | cutter, a cheez key, a plastic card, a pillow, a candy bar, an egg, a Floyd | broom, a leather belt, a notched coin, a crown (being worn), and a Floyd | pickaxe. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger asks, "maybe we should check the inn?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "You know, it might not be a bad idea to look ar - yeah." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Just to be sure. Inky was driving then, and he probably got everything, but I wasn't paying attention at all up there." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "lets backtrace and check the map again to see if we are missing something" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "ah. I've found my notes" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "Please, just for me, kick the vending machien again+" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | Cave of the Skeleton Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is dark and low, with no apparent exits other than the Floyd | passage back to the north. The roof slopes sharply down to the south, Floyd | and at the far end, there's only a few inches between ceiling and Floyd | floor. Lying face down in the center of the cave is a grisly sight - a Floyd | human skeleton, half-covered in mineral deposits, probably centuries Floyd | old. Good thing he didn't have Acme Dam Eckspensif Lyfe Ihnshorants - Floyd | you might have to pay up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "we can also see if anything we have is valuable to the innkeeper" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to T), "Okay." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a natural cave that probably hasn't been entered Floyd | in years. Twisted rock formations in the high ceiling drip water on Floyd | your head, and the pale green light of your whiffleball casts dark Floyd | shadows into the corners of the cave. A narrow passage climbs up to Floyd | the northeast, while an identical one climbs down to the southeast. Floyd | There's also a low tunnel leading northwest. A wider but equally low Floyd | passage runs due south, and to the west is the opening in the brick Floyd | wall that leads back to the cellar of the Golden Dragon Inn. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "Taleslinger, is right, let's try it once" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x belt" | ||||||
Floyd | The belt's marvelous workmanship, hand-tooled fine leather. It's Floyd | probably worth something. Clearly, it wasn't made by Acme. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nw. e. ne." | ||||||
Floyd | Twisting Passage Floyd | Floyd | You're at a bend in a low tunnel. The rocks seem to bear down over Floyd | you, as if trying to crush you into the floor, and the floor is Floyd | irregular, damp, and slippery. Somebody's been defacing the wall here Floyd | with red graffiti - how rude! The least they could do is use a more Floyd | pleasing color, like orange or mauve. [4] You could continue to the Floyd | southeast or the east. Floyd | Floyd | Gate Chamber Floyd | Floyd | This room is dominated by an enormous iron gate which blocks a wide Floyd | hallway to the north. The gate is made from thick iron bars, and looks Floyd | quite sturdy; I doubt you could squeeze through it. Other passages run Floyd | northeast, northwest, and west. Floyd | Floyd | Tiny Room Floyd | Floyd | This natural chamber is quite small, and the ceiling is extremely Floyd | low; it's more an alcove than a room. A familiar sight greets you - an Floyd | Acme vending machine sits (or rather, squats) against the wall! [6] Floyd | The only exit from the room is the passage back to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There's the machine." | |||||
| RootShell says, "taleslinger do the honour ;)" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "kick machine" | ||||||
Floyd | You kick the vending machine. It burbles, but nothing else especially Floyd | interesting happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "kick machine" | ||||||
Floyd | You kick the vending machine. It burbles, but nothing else especially Floyd | interesting happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "no luck" | |||||
| DavidW says, "I've checked my notes. I know what to do with the cookie cutter now." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x machine" | ||||||
Floyd | This particular mauve and green machine appears to be a cheezdom Floyd | dispenser. The machine is squat and lumpy. Letters across the top Floyd | read "Praktiss Sayfe Seks!" There's a coin slot and a small chute on Floyd | the front side. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to D), "Hrm. Shhh" | |||||
| Jacqueline smiles. | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "cut machine" | ||||||
Floyd | (with the pickaxe) Floyd | Attacking the vending machine doesn't appear productive. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I kinda think the machine has served its purpose, myself." | |||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "push machine" | ||||||
Floyd | Pushing the vending machine doesn't do anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "hit machine" | ||||||
Floyd | (with the pickaxe) Floyd | Attacking the vending machine doesn't appear productive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "open machine" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know how to open the vending machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "Taleslinger... i think its a dead end" | |||||
| Taleslinger says, "WAIT!" | ||||||
| Taleslinger asks, "the coin we have is weighted wrong, right?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Right." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "cf12" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x coin" | ||||||
Floyd | The notched coin is a one-valmid piece, minted from bronze. On one Floyd | side is the current monarch [7] and on the other side is a picture of Floyd | the Hall of the Valley King. There's a little notch cut out of the Floyd | coin, but it's still worth one valmid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "put coin in machine" | ||||||
Floyd | The notched coin fits in the slot, but it sounds like it got caught Floyd | about half-way down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "kick machine" | ||||||
Floyd | You kick the vending machine. It burbles, but nothing else especially Floyd | interesting happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ack. You need that coin." | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "kick machine" | ||||||
Floyd | You kick the vending machine. It burbles, but nothing else especially Floyd | interesting happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x chute" | ||||||
Floyd | It's probably where the cheezdoms come out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "slot" | ||||||
Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x slot" | ||||||
Floyd | It looks like an ordinary coin slot to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "He saved." | |||||
| Taleslinger says, "That's why I saved. Thought the machine might mash it up some more, make it useful.-" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
Floyd | File to restore game from > | RootShell says, "restore ;)" | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "cf12" | ||||||
Floyd | Restored. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "right" | |||||
| RootShell says, "now ... we have to figure out how to get a material for the key" | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "where did you get more materials from?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "More... materials?" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "gold, anything to make the key" | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "didn't you make a key before?" | DavidW says, "Not yet." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't think we did, no." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Jacq said shh to me." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "haaa ok ok" | ||||||
| Tablesaw says, "DW has notes *from the future*!" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "davidW keep shhh until we are tearing hairs out of our heads... pretty close now, btw" | ||||||
| Tablesaw asks, "We were going to recheck the inn, I believe?" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "it was planned, before trying Taleslinger plan ;)" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "hit coin with ax" | ||||||
Floyd | Attacking the notched coin doesn't appear productive. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "to the Inn ..." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "To the inn." | ||||||
| Taleslinger asks, "mnaybe there is a gold key in the pool we have to get out?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw. w. se. w." | ||||||
Floyd | Gate Chamber Floyd | Floyd | This room is dominated by an enormous iron gate which blocks a wide Floyd | hallway to the north. The gate is made from thick iron bars, and looks Floyd | quite sturdy; I doubt you could squeeze through it. Other passages run Floyd | northeast, northwest, and west. Floyd | Floyd | Twisting Passage Floyd | Floyd | You're at a bend in a low tunnel. The rocks seem to bear down over Floyd | you, as if trying to crush you into the floor, and the floor is Floyd | irregular, damp, and slippery. Somebody's been defacing the wall here Floyd | with red graffiti - how rude! The least they could do is use a more Floyd | pleasing color, like orange or mauve. [4] You could continue to the Floyd | southeast or the east. Floyd | Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a natural cave that probably hasn't been entered Floyd | in years. Twisted rock formations in the high ceiling drip water on Floyd | your head, and the pale green light of your whiffleball casts dark Floyd | shadows into the corners of the cave. A narrow passage climbs up to Floyd | the northeast, while an identical one climbs down to the southeast. Floyd | There's also a low tunnel leading northwest. A wider but equally low Floyd | passage runs due south, and to the west is the opening in the brick Floyd | wall that leads back to the cellar of the Golden Dragon Inn. Floyd | Floyd | Wine Cellar Floyd | Floyd | You're in what appears to be the inn's wine cellar. A huge cask Floyd | stands against the north wall, and the air is damp and musty. An empty Floyd | wine-rack lines the south wall. The eastern wall is brick, but the Floyd | western wall is solid stone; the inn must have been built over a gash Floyd | in the earth, and brick used to shore up the foundation on the open Floyd | sides. A stairway climbs up to the inn. A sizable hole has been Floyd | bashed through the brick wall, revealing a dark space to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The innkeeper is here, leaning against the cask. He burps and looks Floyd | up at you through bleary eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "Everything I've put in the pool melts or burns or disappears, yeah." | |||||
| RootShell says, "how does one make an action in this ifmud? like 'RootShell is thinking'" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "since people missed it, there's also this gambler guy who will give us something if we flip a coin and he fails to correctly call the side which at this point, he always wins because the coin is weighted funny" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "(or did we solve that?)" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to RS), "You preface your action with a colon. If you want to do it on channel, then you type ';:does something.'" | ||||||
| RootShell is thinking | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "Not yet, but it's on our radar." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "good" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "thanks" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf13" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Anyway, here's the inn keeper, if we want to try giving him stuff or whatnot." | |||||
| Taleslinger says, "I had a brilliant idea completely unrelated to #cfspoilers." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "i think that should be a possibility" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Otherwise, exploring up I don't have a map." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Not yet, anyway." | ||||||
| Tablesaw says (to floyd), "show belt to innkeeper" | ||||||
Floyd | The innkeeper rouses from his drunken stupor just long enough to peer Floyd | at the item. "Eh. I'd say that's worth 2 valmids. Yes, I'll take Floyd | that as part of the purchase price." Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "show crown to innkeeper" | |||||
| Ellison says, "oops" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "show crown to innkeeper" | ||||||
Floyd | The innkeeper rouses from his drunken stupor just long enough to peer Floyd | at the item. "Eh. I'd say that's worth 1 valmid. Yes, I'll take that Floyd | as part of the purchase price." Floyd | Floyd | You're starting feel a fuzz hungry. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| RootShell goes home. | ||||||
| Tablesaw says (to floyd), "ask innkeeper about price" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "price". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask innkeeper about inn" | ||||||
Floyd | The innkeeper ignores you. "More!" he bellows, pounding the cask. Floyd | Floyd | > | psybuzz asks, "how is a belt worth more than a crown?" | |||||
| RootShell says, "back" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to psy), "Paper crown." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to psybuzz), "It's a Burger King crown." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "Also, he's a democrat." | ||||||
| psybuzz says (to TS), "oh" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "psybuzz is a fake crown" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "psybuzz isn't a fake crown!" | ||||||
| Jacqueline laughs. | ||||||
| psybuzz says (to TS), "That makes sense..." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "psybuzz, It's a fake crown ;)" | ||||||
| psybuzz wears himself | ||||||
| psybuzz says, "hehe" | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "so where are we now? i lost my connection? Inn?" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | Wine Cellar Floyd | Floyd | You're in what appears to be the inn's wine cellar. A huge cask Floyd | stands against the north wall, and the air is damp and musty. An empty Floyd | wine-rack lines the south wall. The eastern wall is brick, but the Floyd | western wall is solid stone; the inn must have been built over a gash Floyd | in the earth, and brick used to shore up the foundation on the open Floyd | sides. A stairway climbs up to the inn. A sizable hole has been Floyd | bashed through the brick wall, revealing a dark space to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The innkeeper is here, leaning against the cask. He burps and looks Floyd | up at you through bleary eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "We're in the wine cellar below the in, I think." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Inn, Back Room Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in the disgustingly clean back room of the Golden Floyd | Dragon Inn. The walls have recently been whitewashed, and the floor is Floyd | freshly scrubbed. A few of the floorboards have been pulled up, Floyd | revealing a wooden stairway descending into darkness. Floyd | Floyd | There's not much back here, not even an empty bucket. The only exit Floyd | is back to the main room of the inn, to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "f" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "er," | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | In the Inn Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in the Golden Dragon Inn, a real dump in the middle Floyd | of the Radeekal Forest. It's decorated in earth tones - not a mauve or Floyd | orange speck in sight! (If you were in charge, you'd make this place a Floyd | lot more snazzy.) Floyd | Floyd | There's not much of interest here. A mahogany bar lines one wall, Floyd | but besides that, and the lone table and chair, this hellhole doesn't Floyd | have much to offer. The exit to the inn is to the west, and there's an Floyd | open doorway leading to the back room to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | You're starting feel a fuzz hungry. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "Floyd stoped" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Taleslinger), "Thought we wanted to check for stuff in the inn?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh crap. A hunger daemon?" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "i can't speak to him... I tryed 'f l'" | ||||||
| psybuzz asks, "should we eat the candy bar?" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "And there's only one thing in the game you can safely eat." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "list of names" | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks (of RS), "list of names?" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "(according to my notes, anyway)" | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Well, we only have the one bar, right? Maybe we should wait until we're REALLY hungry?" | ||||||
| Taleslinger asks, "Have we seen any use for the egg?" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "jacqueline im trying to list inventory, so i type F L but i get a list of names :(" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | In the Inn Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in the Golden Dragon Inn, a real dump in the middle Floyd | of the Radeekal Forest. It's decorated in earth tones - not a mauve or Floyd | orange speck in sight! (If you were in charge, you'd make this place a Floyd | lot more snazzy.) Floyd | Floyd | There's not much of interest here. A mahogany bar lines one wall, Floyd | but besides that, and the lone table and chair, this hellhole doesn't Floyd | have much to offer. The exit to the inn is to the west, and there's an Floyd | open doorway leading to the back room to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "make that F I" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Taleslinger), "You'll need it later. Trust me." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a yellow ball (providing light), a copper key, a cookie Floyd | cutter, a cheez key, a plastic card, a pillow, a candy bar, an egg, a Floyd | broom, a leather belt, a notched coin, a crown (being worn), and a Floyd | pickaxe. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There you go, RS. The inventory. (>f i, not >f l)" | |||||
| Taleslinger asks, "explore outside? nothing in here?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hrm." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I'm not sure there's anything up here but prologue material." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "jacqueline anything i type starting with F gives a list of users and their real names... welll no problem, i dont pretend to talk to Floyd, so no problem" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "ew" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "ew". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Outside Inn Floyd | Floyd | You're just outside the Golden Dragon Inn, somewhere in the middle Floyd | of the Forest of Radeekal. It's a dazzling fall day, but you can't Floyd | enjoy it; you've got work to do. A path runs southwest through the Floyd | trees, and a wide road runs due north. The inn's open doorway stands Floyd | to the east. Above the door, a hand-painted sign swings back and Floyd | forth, creaking in the cool autumn breeze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | You take a few steps along the northern road, but then think the better Floyd | of it. Your boss told you not to come back until you'd sold every bit Floyd | of cheez he gave you. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Forest Path Floyd | Floyd | You're strolling along a winding forest path. The path forks here - Floyd | trails lead northeast, south, and west. You're deep in the heart of Floyd | the Valley King's turf now - he told you not to stray too far from the Floyd | inn unless you want to (gulp) suffer the fate of the other Acme Floyd | salesmen. I wouldn't wander around too much if I were you. Tall oak Floyd | trees overhang the trail, and dappled sunlight shines through the Floyd | leaves. A radberry bush stands by the side of the road, but it's been Floyd | picked clean. Floyd | Floyd | The six thugs that make up the Valley Patrol are here, leaning on Floyd | their pikes. They appear to be loafing on the job; some of them are Floyd | lying down on the ground, trying to get comfortable. "Hey!" one of Floyd | them shouts, pointing at you. "It's that stoopid Acme salesman!" They Floyd | all start laughing. "Lookit them clothes! What a doofus!" Floyd | Floyd | You're starting feel a fuzz hungry. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to RootShell), "It's because you aren't in the room with us anymore." | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Outside Inn Floyd | Floyd | You're just outside the Golden Dragon Inn, somewhere in the middle Floyd | of the Forest of Radeekal. It's a dazzling fall day, but you can't Floyd | enjoy it; you've got work to do. A path runs southwest through the Floyd | trees, and a wide road runs due north. The inn's open doorway stands Floyd | to the east. Above the door, a hand-painted sign swings back and Floyd | forth, creaking in the cool autumn breeze. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Type '>toyshop'" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "You somehow went back to the Dorm." | ||||||
| Ellison asks, "we got the egg from the bird's nest, I take it?" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Forest Path Floyd | Floyd | You're strolling along a winding forest path. The path forks here - Floyd | trails lead northeast, south, and west. You're deep in the heart of Floyd | the Valley King's turf now - he told you not to stray too far from the Floyd | inn unless you want to (gulp) suffer the fate of the other Acme Floyd | salesmen. I wouldn't wander around too much if I were you. Tall oak Floyd | trees overhang the trail, and dappled sunlight shines through the Floyd | leaves. A radberry bush stands by the side of the road, but it's been Floyd | picked clean. Floyd | Floyd | The six thugs that make up the Valley Patrol are here, leaning on Floyd | their pikes. They appear to be loafing on the job; some of them are Floyd | lying down on the ground, trying to get comfortable. "Hey!" one of Floyd | them shouts, pointing at you. "It's that stoopid Acme salesman!" They Floyd | all start laughing. "Lookit them clothes! What a doofus!" Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "but i typed @joinc #clubfloyd" | |||||
| RootShell arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | I really don't think you want to wander the woods without the Valley Floyd | King's permission, especially not with the Valley Patrol standing right Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a yellow ball (providing light), a copper key, a cookie Floyd | cutter, a cheez key, a plastic card, a pillow, a candy bar, an egg, a Floyd | broom, a leather belt, a notched coin, a crown (being worn), and a Floyd | pickaxe. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There you are." | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | I really don't think you want to wander the woods without the Valley Floyd | King's permission, especially not with the Valley Patrol standing right Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling really hungry. You should find some food soon, or Floyd | you'll probably pass out. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "I don't think anything was in the bird's nest." | |||||
| RootShell says, "Haaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (THIS is very weird...)" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "It seemed like just an homage to the bird's nest in the tree." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "(from Zork)" | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "hungry? food?" | ||||||
| Alex says (to RootShell), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that food is the past participle of foo." | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||||
Floyd | Being a feet-on-the-ground salesman, you don't believe in silly magical Floyd | words. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "Old old old old school" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, we're about to pass out." | ||||||
| psybuzz says, "I don't get this joke" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf14" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yes, you'll have to eat food very soon." | |||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a yellow ball (providing light), a copper key, a cookie Floyd | cutter, a cheez key, a plastic card, a pillow, a candy bar, an egg, a Floyd | broom, a leather belt, a notched coin, a crown (being worn), and a Floyd | pickaxe. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "eat egg :)" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Candy bar, I suspect?" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "eat crown" | ||||||
Floyd | The crown doesn't appear appetizing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Do you want me to say?" | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "cf15" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "no no no no please" | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to dw), "Yes." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "at least we try :(" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "No." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's try." | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "there's not so many thing to eat here or are there?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "We can die, restore... explore the death texts." | ||||||
| Tablesaw asks, "Is the demon enough of a problem that we should just reload something before we spent turns and turns mindlessly wandering?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Tablesaw), "I was thinking that." | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | Forest Path Floyd | Floyd | You're strolling along a winding forest path. The path forks here - Floyd | trails lead northeast, south, and west. You're deep in the heart of Floyd | the Valley King's turf now - he told you not to stray too far from the Floyd | inn unless you want to (gulp) suffer the fate of the other Acme Floyd | salesmen. I wouldn't wander around too much if I were you. Tall oak Floyd | trees overhang the trail, and dappled sunlight shines through the Floyd | leaves. A radberry bush stands by the side of the road, but it's been Floyd | picked clean. Floyd | Floyd | The six thugs that make up the Valley Patrol are here, leaning on Floyd | their pikes. They appear to be loafing on the job; some of them are Floyd | lying down on the ground, trying to get comfortable. "Hey!" one of Floyd | them shouts, pointing at you. "It's that stoopid Acme salesman!" They Floyd | all start laughing. "Lookit them clothes! What a doofus!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "Just eat the bar." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "eat bar" | ||||||
Floyd | Ugh! It fills you up like a gas pump, and sits in your stomach like a Floyd | boulder. I don't think you'll have to eat again real soon. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "there ... done" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's head back downstairs." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "To the pool." | ||||||
| psybuzz says, "I don't feel like dinner now" | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "jacqueline, your remapping right?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to psybuzz), "You're really getting into the game." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to RootShell), "Well, I haven't bothered up here as there aren't many locations and I think they're just setting." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "ok ok" | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "so ... where to?" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "Gold room." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "wow..." | ||||||
| RootShell wants one of those for himself | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, will head to the golden pool." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to rootshell), "It would be really heavy" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Outside Inn Floyd | Floyd | You're just outside the Golden Dragon Inn, somewhere in the middle Floyd | of the Forest of Radeekal. It's a dazzling fall day, but you can't Floyd | enjoy it; you've got work to do. A path runs southwest through the Floyd | trees, and a wide road runs due north. The inn's open doorway stands Floyd | to the east. Above the door, a hand-painted sign swings back and Floyd | forth, creaking in the cool autumn breeze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | In the Inn Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in the Golden Dragon Inn, a real dump in the middle Floyd | of the Radeekal Forest. It's decorated in earth tones - not a mauve or Floyd | orange speck in sight! (If you were in charge, you'd make this place a Floyd | lot more snazzy.) Floyd | Floyd | There's not much of interest here. A mahogany bar lines one wall, Floyd | but besides that, and the lone table and chair, this hellhole doesn't Floyd | have much to offer. The exit to the inn is to the west, and there's an Floyd | open doorway leading to the back room to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "w" | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Inn, Back Room Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in the disgustingly clean back room of the Golden Floyd | Dragon Inn. The walls have recently been whitewashed, and the floor is Floyd | freshly scrubbed. A few of the floorboards have been pulled up, Floyd | revealing a wooden stairway descending into darkness. Floyd | Floyd | There's not much back here, not even an empty bucket. The only exit Floyd | is back to the main room of the inn, to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Wine Cellar Floyd | Floyd | You're in what appears to be the inn's wine cellar. A huge cask Floyd | stands against the north wall, and the air is damp and musty. An empty Floyd | wine-rack lines the south wall. The eastern wall is brick, but the Floyd | western wall is solid stone; the inn must have been built over a gash Floyd | in the earth, and brick used to shore up the foundation on the open Floyd | sides. A stairway climbs up to the inn. A sizable hole has been Floyd | bashed through the brick wall, revealing a dark space to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The innkeeper is here, leaning against the cask. He burps and looks Floyd | up at you through bleary eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a natural cave that probably hasn't been entered Floyd | in years. Twisted rock formations in the high ceiling drip water on Floyd | your head, and the pale green light of your whiffleball casts dark Floyd | shadows into the corners of the cave. A narrow passage climbs up to Floyd | the northeast, while an identical one climbs down to the southeast. Floyd | There's also a low tunnel leading northwest. A wider but equally low Floyd | passage runs due south, and to the west is the opening in the brick Floyd | wall that leads back to the cellar of the Golden Dragon Inn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Twisting Passage Floyd | Floyd | You're at a bend in a low tunnel. The rocks seem to bear down over Floyd | you, as if trying to crush you into the floor, and the floor is Floyd | irregular, damp, and slippery. Somebody's been defacing the wall here Floyd | with red graffiti - how rude! The least they could do is use a more Floyd | pleasing color, like orange or mauve. [4] You could continue to the Floyd | southeast or the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Gate Chamber Floyd | Floyd | This room is dominated by an enormous iron gate which blocks a wide Floyd | hallway to the north. The gate is made from thick iron bars, and looks Floyd | quite sturdy; I doubt you could squeeze through it. Other passages run Floyd | northeast, northwest, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | The Golden Pool Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a hot, low chamber. The only exit is to the Floyd | southeast. Before you is a shining pool of melted gold, perhaps twenty Floyd | feet in diameter. It nearly fills the room, and bathes your face with Floyd | intense heat; somewhere below the surface, hot lava or steam must keep Floyd | the soft metal in liquid form. Floyd | Floyd | If only you had a container that would hold this gold! How valuable Floyd | it would be if it cooled - and how quickly you could meet the Floyd | innkeeper's price. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a yellow ball (providing light), a copper key, a cookie Floyd | cutter, a cheez key, a plastic card, a pillow, an egg, a broom, a Floyd | leather belt, a notched coin, a crown (being worn), and a pickaxe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf16" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "dip cookie cutter in pool" | ||||||
Floyd | You slide the plastic cookie cutter into the molten liquid. Instantly, Floyd | it starts to melt - no big surprise, but you had to see for yourself, Floyd | didn't you? Horrified, you yank the cutter back. It emerges from the Floyd | metal, dripping plastic and gold. You blow on the gloppy mass Floyd | frantically, trying to cool it. A noxious odor wafts to your nose as Floyd | the last bits of plastic burn off - and then, a perfect gold key drops Floyd | on the floor with a tinkling sound. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "snrk" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, simpler than I thought." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "And weirder." | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Padlock?" | ||||||
| psybuzz says, "yay" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "lol yeahhhh a gold key... :)" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "I shall head to the padlock." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "I think the key might have to cool first. It's not in your inventory yet." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x key" | ||||||
Floyd | Which key do you mean, the cheez key, the copper key, or the gold key? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "gold" | ||||||
Floyd | The gold key is heavy but otherwise uninteresting. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "it's in the floor" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take gold key" | ||||||
Floyd | You touch the key and singe your fingers for the effort. Perhaps you Floyd | should wait a bit until it cools down. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "This Parser sure is hard to impress." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh puhleeze." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Tablesaw says (to floyd), "blow on key" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Tablesaw), "heh" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take gold key" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay. To the padlock." | |||||
| RootShell says, "go go go go ;)" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "se. w. se. se. s" | ||||||
Floyd | Gate Chamber Floyd | Floyd | This room is dominated by an enormous iron gate which blocks a wide Floyd | hallway to the north. The gate is made from thick iron bars, and looks Floyd | quite sturdy; I doubt you could squeeze through it. Other passages run Floyd | northeast, northwest, and west. Floyd | Floyd | Twisting Passage Floyd | Floyd | You're at a bend in a low tunnel. The rocks seem to bear down over Floyd | you, as if trying to crush you into the floor, and the floor is Floyd | irregular, damp, and slippery. Somebody's been defacing the wall here Floyd | with red graffiti - how rude! The least they could do is use a more Floyd | pleasing color, like orange or mauve. [4] You could continue to the Floyd | southeast or the east. Floyd | Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a natural cave that probably hasn't been entered Floyd | in years. Twisted rock formations in the high ceiling drip water on Floyd | your head, and the pale green light of your whiffleball casts dark Floyd | shadows into the corners of the cave. A narrow passage climbs up to Floyd | the northeast, while an identical one climbs down to the southeast. Floyd | There's also a low tunnel leading northwest. A wider but equally low Floyd | passage runs due south, and to the west is the opening in the brick Floyd | wall that leads back to the cellar of the Golden Dragon Inn. Floyd | Floyd | Stalagmite Cavern Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a medium-sized natural cavern. The floor is Floyd | difficult to negotiate; stalagmites of all shapes and sizes impede your Floyd | progress. Water drips from the walls, pooling on the remaining bits of Floyd | open floor. There are no stalactites, perhaps because there's no Floyd | ceiling; instead, a huge, dark natural chimney stretches up above you, Floyd | bending slightly to the north, vanishing into shadows overhead. A Floyd | narrow passage climbs to the northwest, and level tunnels run southwest Floyd | and south. The southwest passage seems somewhat warmer than the Floyd | others. Floyd | Floyd | Chamber of the Padlock Floyd | Floyd | This cavern is wide and high, and the walls appear to have been Floyd | worked and shaped. The only exit is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The southern wall is partly taken up by what appears to be an Floyd | enormous padlock, made from solid gold and embedded in the wall. Floyd | Though the lock itself is quite large, the keyhole in the center is Floyd | quite small. There's not much else of interest here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "unlock padlock with gold key" | ||||||
Floyd | The key fits the keyhole perfectly, but there seems to be something Floyd | blocking it from turning. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "This is when we all scream." | |||||
| RootShell says, "bahhhh" | ||||||
| Taleslinger asks, "We need the other keys first?" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "argh!" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "no no no" | ||||||
| psybuzz says, "aww" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Well, I could say..." | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Well, it's embedded in rock, so how's it supposed to pop open?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Hush, you." | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "how many keys have he used here?" | ||||||
| Tablesaw says (to floyd), "x keyhole" | ||||||
Floyd | The padlock's embedded in the wall; you're definitely not going to be Floyd | able to get it out, if that's what you're thinking. The tiny keyhole Floyd | in the center looks just like any other keyhole. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "You enjoy taunting us, David, I realize. :)" | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "put cheez key in lock" | ||||||
Floyd | If you're trying to unlock it, just say so. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "x lock" | ||||||
Floyd | The padlock's embedded in the wall; you're definitely not going to be Floyd | able to get it out, if that's what you're thinking. The tiny keyhole Floyd | in the center looks just like any other keyhole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "unlock padlock with cheez key" | ||||||
Floyd | The key fits perfectly. You wiggle it around, and for just a moment, Floyd | you think you hear a tumbler click inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "unlock padlock with copper key" | ||||||
Floyd | The key fits perfectly. You wiggle it around, and for just a moment, Floyd | you think you hear a tumbler click inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "I don't know if I'm picturing this right. Like, it's embedded flat into the rock? What's the point of opening it?" | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "unlock padlock with gold key" | ||||||
Floyd | The key fits the keyhole perfectly, but there seems to be something Floyd | blocking it from turning. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "i think this lock opens the gate" | |||||
| RootShell says, "and we arent noticing it" | ||||||
| psybuzz says, "perhaps its like a hatch to something underground" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "maybe the other keys turn one tumbler at a time, so we should try the gold key after doing only one of the keys" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hrm. Maybe." | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "try using key several time?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Ellison), "Want to try?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf17" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "unlock padlock with copper" | ||||||
Floyd | The key fits perfectly. You wiggle it around, and for just a moment, Floyd | you think you hear a tumbler click inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "unlock padlock with gold" | ||||||
Floyd | The key fits the keyhole perfectly, but there seems to be something Floyd | blocking it from turning. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "unlock padlock with cheese" | ||||||
Floyd | Which cheese do you mean, the cheez key, or the yellow ball? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "key" | ||||||
Floyd | The key fits perfectly. You wiggle it around, and for just a moment, Floyd | you think you hear a tumbler click inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "unlock padlock with gold" | ||||||
Floyd | The key fits the keyhole perfectly, but there seems to be something Floyd | blocking it from turning. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "unlock padlock with copper" | ||||||
Floyd | The key fits perfectly. You wiggle it around, and for just a moment, Floyd | you think you hear a tumbler click inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Tablesaw says (to floyd), "listen to padlock" | ||||||
Floyd | You hear the usual sounds that a padlock normally makes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "unlock padlock with gold" | ||||||
Floyd | The key fits the keyhole perfectly, but there seems to be something Floyd | blocking it from turning. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "sorry, I guess that's not it" | |||||
| RootShell says, "we need to form the gold key" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "mold the key" | ||||||
| psybuzz says, "perhaps its cheese copper gold, or copper cheese gold" | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "no?" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Ellison), "Your guess is close." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "Ellison, try again please" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x gold key" | ||||||
Floyd | The gold key is heavy but otherwise uninteresting. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger asks, "Maybe ignore the copper key?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Ooh. See, Ellison? I told you you were smart. And not only when it involves cheese condoms." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "something is blocking it to turn" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "do we have something that could be used as a fourth key? (maybe there's a third tumbler)" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "haha" | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "what might be blocking it?" | ||||||
| Tablesaw says, "I interrupted one of Ell's attempts by accident. That might be what DW is indicating." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Ellison's newest idea is also closer. Get another key." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "Quoted." | ||||||
| Jacqueline steps away for a second for a potty break... | ||||||
| RootShell says, "alright, Ellison, makes a list and order the keys" | ||||||
| psybuzz says, "perhaps we should try again" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "no, you need yet another key you don't have yet." | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "we have the plastic card... is a key no?" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "oh, hey, gambler guy has a key to trade" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x card" | ||||||
Floyd | The plastic card's your Acme Salesman Identification. You're quite Floyd | proud of it. It's orange, and has mauve writing on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "no" | |||||
| Ellison says, "so we need to figure out how to rig the gamble" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "sorry, was under the impression that it was" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "ellison, easy, we have a special key" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "ellison, easy, we have a special coin" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "put card in notch" | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "notch". Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You have a yellow ball (providing light), a copper key, a cheez key, a Floyd | plastic card, a pillow, an egg, a broom, a leather belt, a notched Floyd | coin, a crown (being worn), a pickaxe, and a gold key. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "flip coin" | ||||||
Floyd | It comes up heads. I think it's weighted a little funny. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "x notched coin" | ||||||
Floyd | The notched coin is a one-valmid piece, minted from bronze. On one Floyd | side is the current monarch [7] and on the other side is a picture of Floyd | the Hall of the Valley King. There's a little notch cut out of the Floyd | coin, but it's still worth one valmid. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "The coin is notched. I think that's throwing off the weight." | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Maybe we notch it again?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline shrugs. | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get coin" | ||||||
Floyd | You already have the notched coin! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "flip coin" | ||||||
Floyd | It comes up heads. I think it's weighted a little funny. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Here is the inkster again." | |||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "get coin" | ||||||
Floyd | You already have the notched coin! Floyd | Floyd | > | psybuzz asks, "mouse clicks?" | |||||
| RootShell says, "it seems to get always heads up" | ||||||
| inky arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | inky asks, "how's it going?" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Wait, it comes up heads? I thought he was guessing tails... so we should be good, shouldn't we?" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "we need to figure out how to beat the gambling man" | ||||||
| RootShell exclaims, "Hello Inky!" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "Pretty well, I guess." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "yeah, maybe" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "I tried twice ... maybe we could try again more times" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "just to be sure" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "someone take us to gambling man" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'd be down with heading that way, saving, and playing a bit with him." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, let's visit Les." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "jacquile ok with me" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n. nw. ne. e" | ||||||
Floyd | Stalagmite Cavern Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a medium-sized natural cavern. The floor is Floyd | difficult to negotiate; stalagmites of all shapes and sizes impede your Floyd | progress. Water drips from the walls, pooling on the remaining bits of Floyd | open floor. There are no stalactites, perhaps because there's no Floyd | ceiling; instead, a huge, dark natural chimney stretches up above you, Floyd | bending slightly to the north, vanishing into shadows overhead. A Floyd | narrow passage climbs to the northwest, and level tunnels run southwest Floyd | and south. The southwest passage seems somewhat warmer than the Floyd | others. Floyd | Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a natural cave that probably hasn't been entered Floyd | in years. Twisted rock formations in the high ceiling drip water on Floyd | your head, and the pale green light of your whiffleball casts dark Floyd | shadows into the corners of the cave. A narrow passage climbs up to Floyd | the northeast, while an identical one climbs down to the southeast. Floyd | There's also a low tunnel leading northwest. A wider but equally low Floyd | passage runs due south, and to the west is the opening in the brick Floyd | wall that leads back to the cellar of the Golden Dragon Inn. Floyd | Floyd | Top of Chimney Floyd | Floyd | You're in a small chamber at the top of a natural chimney. The Floyd | chimney slopes slightly toward the south, but mostly, it just goes Floyd | straight down, plummeting deep through the dark stone. You certainly Floyd | can't see the bottom. An iron hook is embedded in the wall here, but Floyd | otherwise there's not much of interest. A passage slopes down slightly Floyd | to the southwest, and a more level tunnel runs east. Floyd | Floyd | Gambler's Lair Floyd | Floyd | You're in a small, square chamber that's obviously been carved from Floyd | the rock. The place is apparently home to somebody; a scorched circle Floyd | on the rock floor was probably a makeshift fireplace, and a pile of Floyd | straw against one wall might have served as a bed. The room is Floyd | otherwise featureless. The only exit is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | There's a thin little man here, leaning against the wall and chewing Floyd | a piece of straw. Floyd | Floyd | The man's eyes narrow speculatively. "You look like a person in Floyd | need of something - perhaps this glittering bauble might come in handy, Floyd | hmm?" He holds up a silver key. You reach for it, but he pulls it Floyd | away, waggling his finger. "Ah - not so fast. How about a game? I'm Floyd | a gambling man, and I see you've got a coin there. How about a little Floyd | bet? Flip your coin, and I'll call it in the air. If I win, I take Floyd | the coin. If you win, you can have the key. Deal?" Without waiting Floyd | for a response, the man pockets the key, then nods at you. "Go on. Floyd | Flip." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf18" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Go fer it, boyz." | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "flip coin" | ||||||
Floyd | "Tails!" the gambler shouts as the coin flies up through the air. It Floyd | comes up heads. I think it's weighted a little funny. "Phooey!" the Floyd | gambler mutters. "I almost never lose. If I didn't know better, I'd Floyd | think you cheated me." He sighs. "A deal's a deal. Here's your key." Floyd | He tosses a silver key, which you catch. "Now get out of my sight." Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW | It's said the gambler loves a good tale (sic) | |||||
| RootShell says, "yeahhhhhhhh" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, we saw that." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "another one bites the dust :)" | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Okay, so, back to the padlock, then?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x key" | RootShell says, "i guess so" | |||||
Floyd | Which key do you mean, the cheez key, the copper key, the silver key, Floyd | or the gold key? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "sure" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x silver key" | ||||||
Floyd | The silver key is small and unadorned. It's not particularly Floyd | interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w. sw. se. s." | ||||||
Floyd | Top of Chimney Floyd | Floyd | You're in a small chamber at the top of a natural chimney. The Floyd | chimney slopes slightly toward the south, but mostly, it just goes Floyd | straight down, plummeting deep through the dark stone. You certainly Floyd | can't see the bottom. An iron hook is embedded in the wall here, but Floyd | otherwise there's not much of interest. A passage slopes down slightly Floyd | to the southwest, and a more level tunnel runs east. Floyd | Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a natural cave that probably hasn't been entered Floyd | in years. Twisted rock formations in the high ceiling drip water on Floyd | your head, and the pale green light of your whiffleball casts dark Floyd | shadows into the corners of the cave. A narrow passage climbs up to Floyd | the northeast, while an identical one climbs down to the southeast. Floyd | There's also a low tunnel leading northwest. A wider but equally low Floyd | passage runs due south, and to the west is the opening in the brick Floyd | wall that leads back to the cellar of the Golden Dragon Inn. Floyd | Floyd | Stalagmite Cavern Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a medium-sized natural cavern. The floor is Floyd | difficult to negotiate; stalagmites of all shapes and sizes impede your Floyd | progress. Water drips from the walls, pooling on the remaining bits of Floyd | open floor. There are no stalactites, perhaps because there's no Floyd | ceiling; instead, a huge, dark natural chimney stretches up above you, Floyd | bending slightly to the north, vanishing into shadows overhead. A Floyd | narrow passage climbs to the northwest, and level tunnels run southwest Floyd | and south. The southwest passage seems somewhat warmer than the Floyd | others. Floyd | Floyd | Chamber of the Padlock Floyd | Floyd | This cavern is wide and high, and the walls appear to have been Floyd | worked and shaped. The only exit is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The southern wall is partly taken up by what appears to be an Floyd | enormous padlock, made from solid gold and embedded in the wall. Floyd | Though the lock itself is quite large, the keyhole in the center is Floyd | quite small. There's not much else of interest here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "excellent, you have all the keys" | |||||
| Tablesaw says, "cheez, copper, silver, gold, I guess." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "Ellison, has a lot of keys to turn ;)" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "Do your magic." | ||||||
| DavidW says (to inky), "they do. finally." | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "unlock padlock with silver" | ||||||
Floyd | The key fits perfectly. You wiggle it around, and for just a moment, Floyd | you think you hear a tumbler click inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "unlock padlock with fold" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "fold". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "unlock padlock with gold" | ||||||
Floyd | The key fits the keyhole perfectly, and turns easily. There's a loud Floyd | clacking noise from deep within the lock as tumblers fall into place. Floyd | Suddenly, you hear a faint rumbling sound coming from somewhere north Floyd | of here. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "yeahhhhh" | |||||
| Taleslinger says, "YAY!" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf19" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "w00t" | |||||
| RootShell says, "Ellison of the keys ;)" | ||||||
| Tablesaw says (to floyd), "score" | psybuzz exclaims, "Huzzah!!!" | |||||
Floyd | In a total of 302 turns, you have achieved a score of 35 points out of Floyd | a possible 100. Floyd | Floyd | This means when you arrive upstairs, you'll be a floor showman. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a yellow ball (providing light), a copper key, a cheez key, a Floyd | plastic card, a pillow, an egg, a broom, a leather belt, a notched Floyd | coin, a crown (being worn), a pickaxe, a gold key, and a silver key. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "The gate, I take it?" | |||||
| Taleslinger says, "he might be wrong about Doom III, be he surely ain't all bad" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "my next guess" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "I think we should stroll to the iron gate." | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "Taleslinger DoomIII?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n. nw. nw. e." | ||||||
Floyd | Stalagmite Cavern Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a medium-sized natural cavern. The floor is Floyd | difficult to negotiate; stalagmites of all shapes and sizes impede your Floyd | progress. Water drips from the walls, pooling on the remaining bits of Floyd | open floor. There are no stalactites, perhaps because there's no Floyd | ceiling; instead, a huge, dark natural chimney stretches up above you, Floyd | bending slightly to the north, vanishing into shadows overhead. A Floyd | narrow passage climbs to the northwest, and level tunnels run southwest Floyd | and south. The southwest passage seems somewhat warmer than the Floyd | others. Floyd | Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a natural cave that probably hasn't been entered Floyd | in years. Twisted rock formations in the high ceiling drip water on Floyd | your head, and the pale green light of your whiffleball casts dark Floyd | shadows into the corners of the cave. A narrow passage climbs up to Floyd | the northeast, while an identical one climbs down to the southeast. Floyd | There's also a low tunnel leading northwest. A wider but equally low Floyd | passage runs due south, and to the west is the opening in the brick Floyd | wall that leads back to the cellar of the Golden Dragon Inn. Floyd | Floyd | Twisting Passage Floyd | Floyd | You're at a bend in a low tunnel. The rocks seem to bear down over Floyd | you, as if trying to crush you into the floor, and the floor is Floyd | irregular, damp, and slippery. Somebody's been defacing the wall here Floyd | with red graffiti - how rude! The least they could do is use a more Floyd | pleasing color, like orange or mauve. [4] You could continue to the Floyd | southeast or the east. Floyd | Floyd | No Gate Chamber Floyd | Floyd | This room is dominated by the conspicuous lack of a huge iron gate Floyd | blocking the hallway to the north; the gate appears to have risen into Floyd | the ceiling. Other passages run northeast, northwest, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "And this wasn't even half of the game" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "ha. Conspicuous lack of a gate." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Jumbled Hall Floyd | Floyd | You're walking through a wide north-south hall. The walls are Floyd | covered in intricate carvings, and strange shadows seem to reach out Floyd | for you. All right! It looks like you've stumbled into some sort of Floyd | long-forgotten underground civilization, a real anthropological Floyd | treasure! You'll surely find lotsa loot to plunder here. Rocks and Floyd | debris litter the floor, impeding your progress; it looks like bits of Floyd | the ceiling have fallen down from above. You can go either north or Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "wwwwweeeeee" | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to rs), "It's a running joke. Ellison is misdirected in his mis-apprecitation of Doom III." | ||||||
| Jacqueline starts mapping again. | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x carvings" | ||||||
Floyd | The wall carvings portray evil-looking monks with sharp teeth, biting Floyd | into particularly helpless-looking eggs. The fact that the eggs look Floyd | as if they're begging for mercy is testimony to the unmatched skill of Floyd | the stonecutters. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "Doom3 (as any Doom rocks)" | |||||
| inky says, "this monks and eggs thing is another unnkulia in-joke" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "lol" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to RootShell), "it's more like a running tragedy, in which we all feel bad for Taleslinger for liking Doom 3" | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "Well, what if i said to you that i LOVE any Doom Game?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "snrk" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "lol" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Ellison), "That's not true. Others like Doom III." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Hall of Judgment Floyd | Floyd | You're at the north end of a long north-south hall. To the south, Floyd | the hall stretches behind you, cluttered with debris but still Floyd | passable. Before you, on the north wall, is a huge bas-relief Floyd | sculpture of a gigantic bird, its wings spread wide, talons curved Floyd | ominously over two narrow hallways running northeast and northwest. Floyd | Floyd | As you enter the room, the bird sculpture's head moves! It turns to Floyd | you and opens one eye. "Do you seek the judgment of the Court of Floyd | Birds?" the stone beast squawks. "Truly, you are a man of evil deeds. Floyd | The existence of the cheez key is evidence enough of that. But Floyd | redemption can come to the worst of beings." The beast's red eyes glow Floyd | with a firelike intensity. "Show new life to me, and I shall truly Floyd | reward you." Without warning, the statue becomes silent and unmoving. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison asks (of RootShell), "I dunno... we'd start a charity collection?" | |||||
| RootShell says, "the game guys... let's get back to the game ;)" | ||||||
| (from Taleslinger) Taleslinger says, "And Gunther doesn't count, he hates everything." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "Ellison, I have every game ever released by IdSoftware :) Doom's included" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf20" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Tablesaw says (to floyd), "show egg to statue" | ||||||
Floyd | The statue remains silent and unmoving. Now don't you feel silly, Floyd | showing things to a big hunk of rock? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "hit statue with ax" | ||||||
Floyd | Attacking the bird statue doesn't appear productive. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "A cooked egg isn't 'new life'." | |||||
| RootShell says, "back to the game... back to the game..." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "flip statue the bird" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "I wonder if we should enter the room without the cheez key?" | |||||
| RootShell says, "I heard something about frying the egg lol" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Or maybe it'd just pick another inventory item for which to mock us." | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||||
Floyd | Hall of Judgment Floyd | Floyd | You're at the north end of a long north-south hall. To the south, Floyd | the hall stretches behind you, cluttered with debris but still Floyd | passable. Before you, on the north wall, is a huge bas-relief Floyd | sculpture of a gigantic bird, its wings spread wide, talons curved Floyd | ominously over two narrow hallways running northeast and northwest. Floyd | The bird sculpture is quiet now, but you've got the feeling it's Floyd | watching you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says (to jacq), "Good thinking." | |||||
| Ellison says, "it's worth a shot" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to clubf), "..RootShell In other games in this series, there's fried egg puzzles." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Judgment Floyd | Floyd | You're at the north end of a long north-south hall. To the south, Floyd | the hall stretches behind you, cluttered with debris but still Floyd | passable. Before you, on the north wall, is a huge bas-relief Floyd | sculpture of a gigantic bird, its wings spread wide, talons curved Floyd | ominously over two narrow hallways running northeast and northwest. Floyd | The bird sculpture is quiet now, but you've got the feeling it's Floyd | watching you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't understand the punctuation "/". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "bah" | |||||
| inky says, "you can undo repeatedly" | ||||||
| Ellison asks, "so we have more rooms to explore?" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | Jacqueline asks, "So, I have to restore to... where?" | |||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Judgment Floyd | Floyd | You're at the north end of a long north-south hall. To the south, Floyd | the hall stretches behind you, cluttered with debris but still Floyd | passable. Before you, on the north wall, is a huge bas-relief Floyd | sculpture of a gigantic bird, its wings spread wide, talons curved Floyd | ominously over two narrow hallways running northeast and northwest. Floyd | The bird sculpture is quiet now, but you've got the feeling it's Floyd | watching you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, not far." | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Judgment Floyd | Floyd | You're at the north end of a long north-south hall. To the south, Floyd | the hall stretches behind you, cluttered with debris but still Floyd | passable. Before you, on the north wall, is a huge bas-relief Floyd | sculpture of a gigantic bird, its wings spread wide, talons curved Floyd | ominously over two narrow hallways running northeast and northwest. Floyd | The bird sculpture is quiet now, but you've got the feeling it's Floyd | watching you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Judgment Floyd | Floyd | You're at the north end of a long north-south hall. To the south, Floyd | the hall stretches behind you, cluttered with debris but still Floyd | passable. Before you, on the north wall, is a huge bas-relief Floyd | sculpture of a gigantic bird, its wings spread wide, talons curved Floyd | ominously over two narrow hallways running northeast and northwest. Floyd | The bird sculpture is quiet now, but you've got the feeling it's Floyd | watching you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Judgment Floyd | Floyd | You're at the north end of a long north-south hall. To the south, Floyd | the hall stretches behind you, cluttered with debris but still Floyd | passable. Before you, on the north wall, is a huge bas-relief Floyd | sculpture of a gigantic bird, its wings spread wide, talons curved Floyd | ominously over two narrow hallways running northeast and northwest. Floyd | The bird sculpture is quiet now, but you've got the feeling it's Floyd | watching you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Jumbled Hall Floyd | Floyd | You're walking through a wide north-south hall. The walls are Floyd | covered in intricate carvings, and strange shadows seem to reach out Floyd | for you. Rocks and debris litter the floor, impeding your progress; it Floyd | looks like bits of the ceiling have fallen down from above. You can go Floyd | either north or south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh. I thought we couldn't... nevermind." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drop cheez key" | ||||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "less work :)" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Hall of Judgment Floyd | Floyd | You're at the north end of a long north-south hall. To the south, Floyd | the hall stretches behind you, cluttered with debris but still Floyd | passable. Before you, on the north wall, is a huge bas-relief Floyd | sculpture of a gigantic bird, its wings spread wide, talons curved Floyd | ominously over two narrow hallways running northeast and northwest. Floyd | Floyd | As you enter the room, the bird sculpture's head moves! It turns to Floyd | you and opens one eye. "Do you seek the judgment of the Court of Floyd | Birds?" the stone beast squawks. "Truly, you are a man of evil deeds. Floyd | The existence of the cheez key is evidence enough of that. But Floyd | redemption can come to the worst of beings." The beast's red eyes glow Floyd | with a firelike intensity. "Show new life to me, and I shall truly Floyd | reward you." Without warning, the statue becomes silent and unmoving. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a yellow ball (providing light), a copper key, a plastic card, Floyd | a pillow, an egg, a broom, a leather belt, a notched coin, a crown Floyd | (being worn), a pickaxe, a gold key, and a silver key. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Um." | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "It's omniscient?" | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "show the egg?" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "The cheez key exists whether you carry it or not." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Right." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | East Wing Floyd | Floyd | You're in a low, wide chamber. Passages run to the west and Floyd | southwest, and the wall opposite the passages tapers to a narrow point, Floyd | lending the room a wing-like shape. In fact, the stone walls appear to Floyd | have been carved to resemble feathers - it's quite delicate and Floyd | artistic work. Unfortunately, you can't really take the walls with you Floyd | to give to the innkeeper. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, there's a small explosion of light and sound, and a Floyd | wobbly-looking stationary bicycle appears from nowhere, popping into Floyd | the center of the chamber! A frizzy-haired man in a white jacket hops Floyd | off, coughing and waving his hand through a cloud of smoke. Floyd | "Greetings, Tuckbucker!" he says. "Sorry to interrupt your quest for Floyd | loot. That is what you're doing, isn't it? I did hit the right era? Floyd | This is the age of the second Valley King, correct?" He glances Floyd | around, frowning. "Whoops. Off a bit spatially. I thought I'd catch Floyd | up to you in the jumbled hall. Oh well. Here." He tosses you a small Floyd | mauve box, which you just miss catching. It lands on the ground with a Floyd | disturbing crack. "This should set you on the right track." The Floyd | strange old man hops back on the bicycle and starts pedalling. Floyd | "Cheerio, Tuckbucker! I'll see you in Unnkulia Thirty-Eight: The Floyd | Salesman's Gruesome Death!" With a loud bang and a puff of green Floyd | smoke, the bicycle and old man both vanish! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "It's a clever birdie." | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Okay, we probably don't need that cheez key anymore, right?" | ||||||
| inky says, "hrm, I don't think so" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "Don't be so sure." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||||||
Floyd | The mauve box is open on one side, and could probably hold small Floyd | objects. There's a large green button on one side. Letters along the Floyd | opposite side read "Akmi Galaktikorp Tyme Disstortur - Bhackwerdz Throo Floyd | Tyme Ownlee (Yooz Whith Kaer!)" There's nothing in the mauve box. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "I dont think we need any more keys" | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "put egg in box" | ||||||
Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||||
Floyd | Inside the box, the boiled egg glows with a pale green light. Then the Floyd | light fades. You reach in and touch the egg - it's no longer boiled, Floyd | but raw! Somehow, this strange little machine has uncooked the egg! Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "you're going to need to drop stuff somewhere soon becuase your inventory will be full, I believe" | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Hall of Judgment Floyd | Floyd | You're at the north end of a long north-south hall. To the south, Floyd | the hall stretches behind you, cluttered with debris but still Floyd | passable. Before you, on the north wall, is a huge bas-relief Floyd | sculpture of a gigantic bird, its wings spread wide, talons curved Floyd | ominously over two narrow hallways running northeast and northwest. Floyd | The bird sculpture is quiet now, but you've got the feeling it's Floyd | watching you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "My notes say the cheez key is still needed." | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "give egg to bird" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't see any egg here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "take egg" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't see any egg here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "get egg from box" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't see any box here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||||
| Taleslinger arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "sho egg" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "sho". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "show egg" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | What do you want to show it to? Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | East Wing Floyd | Floyd | You're in a low, wide chamber. Passages run to the west and Floyd | southwest, and the wall opposite the passages tapers to a narrow point, Floyd | lending the room a wing-like shape. In fact, the stone walls appear to Floyd | have been carved to resemble feathers - it's quite delicate and Floyd | artistic work. Unfortunately, you can't really take the walls with you Floyd | to give to the innkeeper. Floyd | Floyd | You see a mauve box here. Floyd | Floyd | The mauve box seems to contain an egg. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "take box" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Hall of Judgment Floyd | Floyd | You're at the north end of a long north-south hall. To the south, Floyd | the hall stretches behind you, cluttered with debris but still Floyd | passable. Before you, on the north wall, is a huge bas-relief Floyd | sculpture of a gigantic bird, its wings spread wide, talons curved Floyd | ominously over two narrow hallways running northeast and northwest. Floyd | The bird sculpture is quiet now, but you've got the feeling it's Floyd | watching you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "vshow egg to bird" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "vshow". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "show egg to bird" | ||||||
Floyd | The statue remains silent and unmoving. Now don't you feel silly, Floyd | showing things to a big hunk of rock? Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "move and then show" | |||||
| Tablesaw says (to floyd), "show egg to statue" | ||||||
Floyd | The statue remains silent and unmoving. Now don't you feel silly, Floyd | showing things to a big hunk of rock? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "x statue" | ||||||
Floyd | The talons of the giant bird statue curve ominously over the northeast Floyd | and northwest passages. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "wait, I guess I missed the part where everyone said "holy crap, it's Tablesaw"" | |||||
| inky says, "so I will say it now" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | East Wing Floyd | Floyd | You're in a low, wide chamber. Passages run to the west and Floyd | southwest, and the wall opposite the passages tapers to a narrow point, Floyd | lending the room a wing-like shape. In fact, the stone walls appear to Floyd | have been carved to resemble feathers - it's quite delicate and Floyd | artistic work. Unfortunately, you can't really take the walls with you Floyd | to give to the innkeeper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | The Gizzard Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is shaped like a bird's gizzard. [9] A short stone Floyd | pedestal sits in the very center of the chamber. Above, the ceiling is Floyd | high and almost out of the range of your dim light. A wide, round Floyd | passage - looking suspiciously like a throat - runs north, and you Floyd | think you can see a faint light at the end of the tunnel. Other Floyd | passages run east and west, both sloping slightly upward. Floyd | Floyd | A ceremonial mask and a crystal feather are sitting on the stone Floyd | pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tablesaw says, "Hey, inky." | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "note 9" | ||||||
Floyd | [9]: You know because bird gizzards are the most popular snack food Floyd | used to stock Acme Vending Machines. Ladle a couple of quarts of Floyd | Liquid Cheez on them, and they're damn tasty! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inky), "haha" | |||||
| Taleslinger asks, "gizzards...aren't those the nether regions?" | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "so why the big bird doesnt speak again?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks (of TableSaw), "What drew you back in, the ClubFloyd feed?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "The RSS?" | ||||||
| Alex says (to Jacqueline), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that RSS is Rich Site Summary." | ||||||
| inky says (to Tablesaw), "though I guess reading your LJ makes it feel like I am not totally out of touch" | ||||||
| Tablesaw says (to Jacq), "Yup." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "take mask and feather" | ||||||
Floyd | ceremonial mask: You've already got your hands full. Floyd | crystal feather: You pluck the feather from the pedestal. As you do, Floyd | there's an almost inaudible click followed by a disturbing rumbling Floyd | noise echoing down both the east and west corridors. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Very cool. Glad I got that thing resurrected. :)" | |||||
| inky says (to Taleslinger), "they're a sort of stomach that birds use to grind seeds" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | The Gizzard Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is shaped like a bird's gizzard. [9] A short stone Floyd | pedestal sits in the very center of the chamber. Above, the ceiling is Floyd | high and almost out of the range of your dim light. A wide, round Floyd | passage - looking suspiciously like a throat - runs north, and you Floyd | think you can see a faint light at the end of the tunnel. Other Floyd | passages run east and west, both sloping slightly upward. Floyd | Floyd | A ceremonial mask and a crystal feather are sitting on the stone Floyd | pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | West Wing Floyd | Floyd | You're in a low, wide chamber. Passages run to the east and Floyd | southeast, and the wall opposite the passages tapers to a narrow point, Floyd | lending the room a wing-like shape. In fact, the stone walls appear to Floyd | have been carved to resemble feathers - it's quite delicate and Floyd | artistic work. Unfortunately, you can't really take the walls with you Floyd | to give to the innkeeper. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "A literal wing. A bird" | |||||
| Taleslinger asks, "Maybe put the egg in the geyser, make it hatch?" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "A bird's west wing" | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "drop egg?" | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "here?" | ||||||
| Tablesaw says, "Maybe try eating the egg? There was something about eggs in the mouths of monks earlier." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to tablesaw), "We need new life!" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "You're a salesman, not a monk." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "put egg on floor" | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "drop egg" | ||||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "get egg" | ||||||
Floyd | You've already got your hands full. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "we're basically saved, right?" | |||||
| RootShell says, "not here, at the place where the bird is" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Ack, just realized I have a section in a place I'd forgotten (where the RSS link takes you) where it tells the game of the week, and I haven't been updating that. Oops. Will fix next update for the RSS folks." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf21" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "Sure." | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "break egg" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't need to break the egg, however satisfying it might prove to Floyd | be. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell asks, "where is the bird, is not here right?" | |||||
| Ellison says, "well, there's still the bird nest" | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | West Wing Floyd | Floyd | You're in a low, wide chamber. Passages run to the east and Floyd | southeast, and the wall opposite the passages tapers to a narrow point, Floyd | lending the room a wing-like shape. In fact, the stone walls appear to Floyd | have been carved to resemble feathers - it's quite delicate and Floyd | artistic work. Unfortunately, you can't really take the walls with you Floyd | to give to the innkeeper. Floyd | Floyd | You see an egg here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh RIGHT" | |||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "get egg" | ||||||
Floyd | You've already got your hands full. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "That bird nest!" | |||||
| RootShell says, "ups" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "hrm" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "i dropped the egg and now i cant pick it up again" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a yellow ball (providing light), a copper key, a plastic card, Floyd | a pillow, a broom, a leather belt, a notched coin, a crown (being Floyd | worn), a pickaxe, a gold key, a silver key, and a mauve box. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "we probably can drop our keys" | |||||
| DavidW asks, "Has anyone looked at the mask yet?" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "no, just getting it" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x mask" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't see any mask here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says (to dw), "nope. i tried to pick it up." | |||||
| DavidW says, "It's in the gizzard." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "the mask is on the block" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Might want to look at it." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "make maginc" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "make magic" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "if it's a bird mask, we should sit on the egg" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "lol somehow, i don't want to sit on the egg :P" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | The Gizzard Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is shaped like a bird's gizzard. [9] A short stone Floyd | pedestal sits in the very center of the chamber. Above, the ceiling is Floyd | high and almost out of the range of your dim light. A wide, round Floyd | passage - looking suspiciously like a throat - runs north, and you Floyd | think you can see a faint light at the end of the tunnel. Other Floyd | passages run east and west, both sloping slightly upward. Floyd | Floyd | A ceremonial mask and a crystal feather are sitting on the stone Floyd | pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x mask" | ||||||
Floyd | The ceremonial mask is (not surprisingly) shaped like a bird's head. Floyd | Luckily, it's your size. Gee, no one would ever recognize you in this! Floyd | (Hah, hah. Actually the mask is pretty cheezy, made out of leaves and Floyd | bark. If you didn't know any better, you might suspect it was produced Floyd | by Acme.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get mask" | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "wear mask" | ||||||
Floyd | You've already got your hands full. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You don't have the ceremonial mask. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "drop silver key" | ||||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "drop copper key" | ||||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get mask" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "wear mask" | ||||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now wearing the ceremonial mask. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get feather" | ||||||
Floyd | You pluck the feather from the pedestal. As you do, there's an almost Floyd | inaudible click followed by a disturbing rumbling noise echoing down Floyd | both the east and west corridors. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "piu piu" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | The Gizzard Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is shaped like a bird's gizzard. [9] A short stone Floyd | pedestal sits in the very center of the chamber. Above, the ceiling is Floyd | high and almost out of the range of your dim light. A wide, round Floyd | passage - looking suspiciously like a throat - runs north, and you Floyd | think you can see a faint light at the end of the tunnel. Other Floyd | passages run east and west, both sloping slightly upward. Floyd | Floyd | You see a silver key and a copper key here. Floyd | Floyd | A crystal feather is sitting on the stone pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "uhoh" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | West Wing Floyd | Floyd | You're in a low, wide chamber. Passages run to the east and Floyd | southeast, and the wall opposite the passages tapers to a narrow point, Floyd | lending the room a wing-like shape. In fact, the stone walls appear to Floyd | have been carved to resemble feathers - it's quite delicate and Floyd | artistic work. Unfortunately, you can't really take the walls with you Floyd | to give to the innkeeper. Floyd | Floyd | You see an egg here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "sit on egg" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know how to sit on the egg. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "drat, ha" | |||||
| Taleslinger says, "I say try the nest." | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "get egg" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "hatch egg" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "hatch". Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "nest it is..." | |||||
| DavidW says, "I don't think the mask transformed you into a bird. It just makes you look like one." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "that's why we can pass the big bird" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "or should try" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "well, we could grab the feather and see what that sets off" | ||||||
| Jota asks, "What was today's game?" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "Ellison, go for it" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "Unkuulia One Half" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "Hello Jota :)" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | The Gizzard Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is shaped like a bird's gizzard. [9] A short stone Floyd | pedestal sits in the very center of the chamber. Above, the ceiling is Floyd | high and almost out of the range of your dim light. A wide, round Floyd | passage - looking suspiciously like a throat - runs north, and you Floyd | think you can see a faint light at the end of the tunnel. Other Floyd | passages run east and west, both sloping slightly upward. Floyd | Floyd | You see a silver key and a copper key here. Floyd | Floyd | A crystal feather is sitting on the stone pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jota says, "Ooh, Unkuulia." | |||||
| RootShell says, "Jota, it still is" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Unnkulia One-Half: The Salesman Triumphant" | ||||||
| Bert arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "cf22" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "x feather" | ||||||
Floyd | The feather is a delicate work of art, a piece of rock crystal expertly Floyd | carved and carefully polished. It's quite beautiful. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get feather" | ||||||
Floyd | You pluck the feather from the pedestal. As you do, there's an almost Floyd | inaudible click followed by a disturbing rumbling noise echoing down Floyd | both the east and west corridors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Bert says, "Almost old-skool." | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | You walk up the east passage, straight into the path of an oncoming Floyd | boulder. <SQUISH!> Floyd | Floyd | *** You've Toddled Off To Salesman Heaven *** Floyd | Floyd | In a total of 348 turns, you have achieved a score of 41 points out of Floyd | a possible 100. Floyd | Floyd | This means when you arrive upstairs, you'll be a floor showman. Floyd | Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, or quit. Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, or QUIT: > Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, or QUIT: > | Bert says, "Almost old-skool." | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, or QUIT: > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
Floyd | File to restore > | Bert says, "(Real old-skool would be playing UU 1 and 2.)" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry, I was away a sec." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Back now." | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "cf22" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf22" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | I don't know the word "cf22". Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oops, sorry" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Did we want to navigate to the nest, or not yet?" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to jacq), "And we died! Great way to take care of us." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "jacqueline, Ellison has been taking us everywhere :)" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "Floss regularly, save often." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "ha ha" | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks (of RootShell), "So I see, but just the east and west wings and the gizzard, right?" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | The Gizzard Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is shaped like a bird's gizzard. [9] A short stone Floyd | pedestal sits in the very center of the chamber. Above, the ceiling is Floyd | high and almost out of the range of your dim light. A wide, round Floyd | passage - looking suspiciously like a throat - runs north, and you Floyd | think you can see a faint light at the end of the tunnel. Other Floyd | passages run east and west, both sloping slightly upward. Floyd | Floyd | You see a silver key and a copper key here. Floyd | Floyd | A crystal feather is sitting on the stone pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "take feather" | ||||||
Floyd | You pluck the feather from the pedestal. As you do, there's an almost Floyd | inaudible click followed by a disturbing rumbling noise echoing down Floyd | both the east and west corridors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "n" | Ellison says, "we could try the nest but I doubt the game is nice like that (although it might be worth it just to see what the thugs say when we wear the mask)" | |||||
Floyd | The Beak Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is shaped like a gigantic beak, the top half sloping Floyd | overhead, the floor carved to look like a huge bird's tongue. The Floyd | overall effect is quite creepy; it's a darn good thing this monstrous Floyd | beak isn't part of a real bird. A low, round passage that bears a Floyd | disturbing resemblance to a throat runs back to the south, while to the Floyd | north, the beak is open slightly to reveal daylight beyond. You could Floyd | probably squeeze out there as well. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, from the south, there's a horrible crashing noise. The very Floyd | earth shakes underfoot. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "yes... we are moving along" | |||||
| inky says, "woo" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "uhoh" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | The Gizzard Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is shaped like a bird's gizzard. [9] The center of Floyd | the room is a massive pile of crushed rock and debris, right where Floyd | you'd stood when plucking the feather from the pedestal. A wide, round Floyd | passage runs north, and you think you can see a faint light at the end Floyd | of the tunnel. Other passages run east and west, both sloping slightly Floyd | upward. Floyd | Floyd | You see a silver key and a copper key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | West Wing Floyd | Floyd | You're in a low, wide chamber. Passages run to the east and Floyd | southeast, and the wall opposite the passages tapers to a narrow point, Floyd | lending the room a wing-like shape. In fact, the stone walls appear to Floyd | have been carved to resemble feathers - it's quite delicate and Floyd | artistic work. Unfortunately, you can't really take the walls with you Floyd | to give to the innkeeper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Hall of Judgment Floyd | Floyd | You're at the north end of a long north-south hall. To the south, Floyd | the hall stretches behind you, cluttered with debris but still Floyd | passable. Before you, on the north wall, is a huge bas-relief Floyd | sculpture of a gigantic bird, its wings spread wide, talons curved Floyd | ominously over two narrow hallways running northeast and northwest. Floyd | The bird sculpture is quiet now, but you've got the feeling it's Floyd | watching you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "Hm, the path is not blocked." | |||||
| RootShell says, "lets go" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | East Wing Floyd | Floyd | You're in a low, wide chamber. Passages run to the west and Floyd | southwest, and the wall opposite the passages tapers to a narrow point, Floyd | lending the room a wing-like shape. In fact, the stone walls appear to Floyd | have been carved to resemble feathers - it's quite delicate and Floyd | artistic work. Unfortunately, you can't really take the walls with you Floyd | to give to the innkeeper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | The Gizzard Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is shaped like a bird's gizzard. [9] The center of Floyd | the room is a massive pile of crushed rock and debris, right where Floyd | you'd stood when plucking the feather from the pedestal. A wide, round Floyd | passage runs north, and you think you can see a faint light at the end Floyd | of the tunnel. Other passages run east and west, both sloping slightly Floyd | upward. Floyd | Floyd | You see a silver key and a copper key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'd missed the beak." | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | The Beak Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is shaped like a gigantic beak, the top half sloping Floyd | overhead, the floor carved to look like a huge bird's tongue. The Floyd | overall effect is quite creepy; it's a darn good thing this monstrous Floyd | beak isn't part of a real bird. A low, round passage that bears a Floyd | disturbing resemblance to a throat runs back to the south, while to the Floyd | north, the beak is open slightly to reveal daylight beyond. You could Floyd | probably squeeze out there as well. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of Taleslinger), "Do you want the nest, or... where are you going?" | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Lost Vale Floyd | Floyd | You're standing on a soft carpet of moss and waving grasses, in the Floyd | very center of a peaceful vale. This place, though it's close to the Floyd | Valley King's lands, certainly doesn't appear on any of the local maps; Floyd | the dense brambles and trees that surround this place make it almost Floyd | impossible to imagine that anyone's been here in years. To the south, Floyd | jutting out from the brambles, is an enormous bird's head made from Floyd | dark gray stone. The bird's beak is open, revealing a dark tunnel Floyd | runnning into the rock creature's throat, directly south. Narrow, Floyd | winding trails run northwest and east through the brambles. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "I'm a dashing explorer." | |||||
| RootShell Is lost | ||||||
| Taleslinger asks, "Or back to the nest first?" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "flip a coin" | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Do we think we need the nest, or should we explore this area?" | ||||||
| psybuzz says, "a 'weighted' coin" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Both are important." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "we have the mask for something" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Then I say we go get the nest before we move farther away." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "lets go to the nest behind, and then move forward" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Or, not get the nest but... attract a mate and lay an egg or whatever it is we have to do." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "Okay." | ||||||
| inky says (to Jacqueline), "ha ha" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "lay egg" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "lay". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Okay, we have the mask?" | |||||
| inky says, ">PERFORM MATING DANCE" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a yellow ball (providing light), a plastic card, a pillow, a Floyd | broom, a leather belt, a notched coin, a crown (being worn), a pickaxe, Floyd | a gold key, a mauve box, a ceremonial mask (being worn), an egg, and a Floyd | crystal feather. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You have a yellow ball (providing light), a plastic card, a pillow, a Floyd | broom, a leather belt, a notched coin, a crown (being worn), a pickaxe, Floyd | a gold key, a mauve box, a ceremonial mask (being worn), an egg, and a Floyd | crystal feather. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| psybuzz goes home. | Jacqueline says, "Okay. I will take us to the Forest." | |||||
| two-star arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | RootShell says, "we have the mask" | |||||
| RootShell says, "wearing it" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Please keep all arms and legs inside the channel at all times until we have come to a complete stop." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | The Beak Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is shaped like a gigantic beak, the top half sloping Floyd | overhead, the floor carved to look like a huge bird's tongue. The Floyd | overall effect is quite creepy; it's a darn good thing this monstrous Floyd | beak isn't part of a real bird. A low, round passage that bears a Floyd | disturbing resemblance to a throat runs back to the south, while to the Floyd | north, the beak is open slightly to reveal daylight beyond. You could Floyd | probably squeeze out there as well. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | The Gizzard Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is shaped like a bird's gizzard. [9] The center of Floyd | the room is a massive pile of crushed rock and debris, right where Floyd | you'd stood when plucking the feather from the pedestal. A wide, round Floyd | passage runs north, and you think you can see a faint light at the end Floyd | of the tunnel. Other passages run east and west, both sloping slightly Floyd | upward. Floyd | Floyd | You see a silver key and a copper key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | West Wing Floyd | Floyd | You're in a low, wide chamber. Passages run to the east and Floyd | southeast, and the wall opposite the passages tapers to a narrow point, Floyd | lending the room a wing-like shape. In fact, the stone walls appear to Floyd | have been carved to resemble feathers - it's quite delicate and Floyd | artistic work. Unfortunately, you can't really take the walls with you Floyd | to give to the innkeeper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Hall of Judgment Floyd | Floyd | You're at the north end of a long north-south hall. To the south, Floyd | the hall stretches behind you, cluttered with debris but still Floyd | passable. Before you, on the north wall, is a huge bas-relief Floyd | sculpture of a gigantic bird, its wings spread wide, talons curved Floyd | ominously over two narrow hallways running northeast and northwest. Floyd | The bird sculpture is quiet now, but you've got the feeling it's Floyd | watching you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Jumbled Hall Floyd | Floyd | You're walking through a wide north-south hall. The walls are Floyd | covered in intricate carvings, and strange shadows seem to reach out Floyd | for you. Rocks and debris litter the floor, impeding your progress; it Floyd | looks like bits of the ceiling have fallen down from above. You can go Floyd | either north or south. Floyd | Floyd | You see a cheez key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | No Gate Chamber Floyd | Floyd | This room is dominated by the conspicuous lack of a huge iron gate Floyd | blocking the hallway to the north; the gate appears to have risen into Floyd | the ceiling. Other passages run northeast, northwest, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Twisting Passage Floyd | Floyd | You're at a bend in a low tunnel. The rocks seem to bear down over Floyd | you, as if trying to crush you into the floor, and the floor is Floyd | irregular, damp, and slippery. Somebody's been defacing the wall here Floyd | with red graffiti - how rude! The least they could do is use a more Floyd | pleasing color, like orange or mauve. [4] You could continue to the Floyd | southeast or the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a natural cave that probably hasn't been entered Floyd | in years. Twisted rock formations in the high ceiling drip water on Floyd | your head, and the pale green light of your whiffleball casts dark Floyd | shadows into the corners of the cave. A narrow passage climbs up to Floyd | the northeast, while an identical one climbs down to the southeast. Floyd | There's also a low tunnel leading northwest. A wider but equally low Floyd | passage runs due south, and to the west is the opening in the brick Floyd | wall that leads back to the cellar of the Golden Dragon Inn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Wine Cellar Floyd | Floyd | You're in what appears to be the inn's wine cellar. A huge cask Floyd | stands against the north wall, and the air is damp and musty. An empty Floyd | wine-rack lines the south wall. The eastern wall is brick, but the Floyd | western wall is solid stone; the inn must have been built over a gash Floyd | in the earth, and brick used to shore up the foundation on the open Floyd | sides. A stairway climbs up to the inn. A sizable hole has been Floyd | bashed through the brick wall, revealing a dark space to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The innkeeper is here, leaning against the cask. He burps and looks Floyd | up at you through bleary eyes. "Oooh!" he mutters. "Pretty birdy!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Inn, Back Room Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in the disgustingly clean back room of the Golden Floyd | Dragon Inn. The walls have recently been whitewashed, and the floor is Floyd | freshly scrubbed. A few of the floorboards have been pulled up, Floyd | revealing a wooden stairway descending into darkness. Floyd | Floyd | There's not much back here, not even an empty bucket. The only exit Floyd | is back to the main room of the inn, to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | In the Inn Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in the Golden Dragon Inn, a real dump in the middle Floyd | of the Radeekal Forest. It's decorated in earth tones - not a mauve or Floyd | orange speck in sight! (If you were in charge, you'd make this place a Floyd | lot more snazzy.) Floyd | Floyd | There's not much of interest here. A mahogany bar lines one wall, Floyd | but besides that, and the lone table and chair, this hellhole doesn't Floyd | have much to offer. The exit to the inn is to the west, and there's an Floyd | open doorway leading to the back room to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Outside Inn Floyd | Floyd | You're just outside the Golden Dragon Inn, somewhere in the middle Floyd | of the Forest of Radeekal. It's a dazzling fall day, but you can't Floyd | enjoy it; you've got work to do. A path runs southwest through the Floyd | trees, and a wide road runs due north. The inn's open doorway stands Floyd | to the east. Above the door, a hand-painted sign swings back and Floyd | forth, creaking in the cool autumn breeze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Forest Path Floyd | Floyd | You're strolling along a winding forest path. The path forks here - Floyd | trails lead northeast, south, and west. You're deep in the heart of Floyd | the Valley King's turf now - he told you not to stray too far from the Floyd | inn unless you want to (gulp) suffer the fate of the other Acme Floyd | salesmen. I wouldn't wander around too much if I were you. Tall oak Floyd | trees overhang the trail, and dappled sunlight shines through the Floyd | leaves. A radberry bush stands by the side of the road, but it's been Floyd | picked clean. Floyd | Floyd | The six thugs that make up the Valley Patrol are here, leaning on Floyd | their pikes. "Hey, lookit that big bird!" one of them shouts. The Floyd | Patrol laughs at you. "What a scraggly-lookin' critter! Must be one Floyd | of Wowsa Willy's creations!" The thugs turn away, ignoring you. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "lol" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | What are you trying to do, climb the trees? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "yes". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "climb tree" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You shinny up the nearest tree, and find yourself - Floyd | Floyd | Up a Tree Floyd | Floyd | You're seated on a limb about halfway up an aged oak tree. Below Floyd | you, you can hear the Valley Patrol muttering amongst themselves. Floyd | Above you, the limbs are too thin to climb further. You can climb back Floyd | down or stay where you are. Perched on the same limb with you, a few Floyd | feet out, is a recently-completed bird's nest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "do mating ritual" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "do". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "x nest" | ||||||
Floyd | There's nothing in the bird's nest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sit in nest" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know how to sit on the bird's nest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "put egg on nest" | ||||||
Floyd | There's no good surface on the bird's nest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in nest" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know how to get on the bird's nest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter nest" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know how to enter the bird's nest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "fix nest" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "fix". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "sing". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put egg in nest" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "How about ... yes, THAT" | |||||
| inky says, "(in, not on)" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sit on egg" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know how to sit on the egg. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sit on nest" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know how to sit on the bird's nest.Suddenly, a scruffy-looking Floyd | bird settles on the nest. It fixes you with a watery stare and squawks Floyd | loudly. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x bird" | RootShell says, "sorry... My english is not the best" | |||||
Floyd | The bird is hideous, with watery eyes, drooping feathers, and scrawny Floyd | legs. It's squatting on the nest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pet bird" | ||||||
Floyd | Touching the scruffy bird doesn't seem to have any effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I don't want to mate with it." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "It's... watery and hideous." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "I've changed my mind about this puzzle." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "And it eats worms in bed." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to jacq), "get a grip on yourself, ranger" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "maybe we can wait for another one ? ;)" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Well, to each their own." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Suddenly, there's a crackling sound from underneath the bird. The bird Floyd | shifts with an irritated squawk, then takes off. Underneath, in the Floyd | nest, a miracle - a baby chick, cute and fluffy! It looks up at you Floyd | with big, blue eyes and chirps something that sounds suspiciously like Floyd | "Mama." Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "woo" | |||||
| RootShell says, "see :)" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "yay imprinting" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "I'm thinking of Nethack now." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "wow" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take chick" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pick up chick" | ||||||
Floyd | You already have the adorable chick! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Back to ... the statue?" | |||||
| RootShell says, "we are all papas and mammas :)" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "pet chick" | ||||||
Floyd | The chick tweets happily as you stroke it. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "HEY BABY" | |||||
| Taleslinger says, "Awww" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "kill chick" | Ellison says, "haha" | |||||
| RootShell says, "name chick... IF" | ||||||
Floyd | (with the pickaxe) Floyd | A dead bird's pretty useless; I'd advise against killing it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "How many games let you turn a boiled egg into a baby chick? Not many, eh?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Not many, no." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "there might be a market for these egg outthere ;)" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "It's a pity your never allowed to keep the cute animals in IF games." | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, if we're quite done gawking over the cute ickle chick... statue?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline smiles. | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "kiss chick" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "kiss". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "sing". Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell asks, "statue... the biological mother?" | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "put chick in box" | ||||||
Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||||
Floyd | For a moment, the chick shimmers, surrounded with a pale green light. Floyd | Then, more quickly than you would have imagined, the chick shrinks. Floyd | Soon it's surrounded by a pale, translucent eggshell - and then, Floyd | suddenly, it poofs out of sight! Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "feed chick" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "The statue wanted to see new life." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Up a Tree Floyd | Floyd | You're seated on a limb about halfway up an aged oak tree. Below Floyd | you, you can hear the Valley Patrol muttering amongst themselves. Floyd | Above you, the limbs are too thin to climb further. You can climb back Floyd | down or stay where you are. Perched on the same limb with you, a few Floyd | feet out, is a recently-completed bird's nest. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "wow, awesome" | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a yellow ball (providing light), a plastic card, a pillow, a Floyd | broom, a leather belt, a notched coin, a crown (being worn), a pickaxe, Floyd | a gold key, a mauve box, a ceremonial mask (being worn), and a crystal Floyd | feather. Floyd | Floyd | The mauve box seems to contain an adorable chick. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inky), "ha" | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "take chick" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "let's go to the statue" | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "put coin in box" | ||||||
Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "we are ready" | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||||||
Floyd | Nothing very exciting happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "Sorry, go." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Once Taleslinger's done." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "The bit with the chick in the box was funny, I'm glad you did it." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "lol" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, back to the statue. Please hold." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Forest Path Floyd | Floyd | You're strolling along a winding forest path. The path forks here - Floyd | trails lead northeast, south, and west. You're deep in the heart of Floyd | the Valley King's turf now - he told you not to stray too far from the Floyd | inn unless you want to (gulp) suffer the fate of the other Acme Floyd | salesmen. I wouldn't wander around too much if I were you. Tall oak Floyd | trees overhang the trail, and dappled sunlight shines through the Floyd | leaves. A radberry bush stands by the side of the road, but it's been Floyd | picked clean. Floyd | Floyd | The six thugs that make up the Valley Patrol are here, leaning on Floyd | their pikes. "Hey, lookit that big bird!" one of them shouts. The Floyd | Patrol laughs at you. "What a scraggly-lookin' critter! Must be one Floyd | of Wowsa Willy's creations!" The thugs turn away, ignoring you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Outside Inn Floyd | Floyd | You're just outside the Golden Dragon Inn, somewhere in the middle Floyd | of the Forest of Radeekal. It's a dazzling fall day, but you can't Floyd | enjoy it; you've got work to do. A path runs southwest through the Floyd | trees, and a wide road runs due north. The inn's open doorway stands Floyd | to the east. Above the door, a hand-painted sign swings back and Floyd | forth, creaking in the cool autumn breeze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | In the Inn Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in the Golden Dragon Inn, a real dump in the middle Floyd | of the Radeekal Forest. It's decorated in earth tones - not a mauve or Floyd | orange speck in sight! (If you were in charge, you'd make this place a Floyd | lot more snazzy.) Floyd | Floyd | There's not much of interest here. A mahogany bar lines one wall, Floyd | but besides that, and the lone table and chair, this hellhole doesn't Floyd | have much to offer. The exit to the inn is to the west, and there's an Floyd | open doorway leading to the back room to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Inn, Back Room Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in the disgustingly clean back room of the Golden Floyd | Dragon Inn. The walls have recently been whitewashed, and the floor is Floyd | freshly scrubbed. A few of the floorboards have been pulled up, Floyd | revealing a wooden stairway descending into darkness. Floyd | Floyd | There's not much back here, not even an empty bucket. The only exit Floyd | is back to the main room of the inn, to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | In the Inn Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in the Golden Dragon Inn, a real dump in the middle Floyd | of the Radeekal Forest. It's decorated in earth tones - not a mauve or Floyd | orange speck in sight! (If you were in charge, you'd make this place a Floyd | lot more snazzy.) Floyd | Floyd | There's not much of interest here. A mahogany bar lines one wall, Floyd | but besides that, and the lone table and chair, this hellhole doesn't Floyd | have much to offer. The exit to the inn is to the west, and there's an Floyd | open doorway leading to the back room to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Inn, Back Room Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in the disgustingly clean back room of the Golden Floyd | Dragon Inn. The walls have recently been whitewashed, and the floor is Floyd | freshly scrubbed. A few of the floorboards have been pulled up, Floyd | revealing a wooden stairway descending into darkness. Floyd | Floyd | There's not much back here, not even an empty bucket. The only exit Floyd | is back to the main room of the inn, to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Sorry" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Wine Cellar Floyd | Floyd | You're in what appears to be the inn's wine cellar. A huge cask Floyd | stands against the north wall, and the air is damp and musty. An empty Floyd | wine-rack lines the south wall. The eastern wall is brick, but the Floyd | western wall is solid stone; the inn must have been built over a gash Floyd | in the earth, and brick used to shore up the foundation on the open Floyd | sides. A stairway climbs up to the inn. A sizable hole has been Floyd | bashed through the brick wall, revealing a dark space to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The innkeeper is here, leaning against the cask. He burps and looks Floyd | up at you through bleary eyes. "Oooh!" he mutters. "Pretty birdy!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "THERE" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a natural cave that probably hasn't been entered Floyd | in years. Twisted rock formations in the high ceiling drip water on Floyd | your head, and the pale green light of your whiffleball casts dark Floyd | shadows into the corners of the cave. A narrow passage climbs up to Floyd | the northeast, while an identical one climbs down to the southeast. Floyd | There's also a low tunnel leading northwest. A wider but equally low Floyd | passage runs due south, and to the west is the opening in the brick Floyd | wall that leads back to the cellar of the Golden Dragon Inn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Twisting Passage Floyd | Floyd | You're at a bend in a low tunnel. The rocks seem to bear down over Floyd | you, as if trying to crush you into the floor, and the floor is Floyd | irregular, damp, and slippery. Somebody's been defacing the wall here Floyd | with red graffiti - how rude! The least they could do is use a more Floyd | pleasing color, like orange or mauve. [4] You could continue to the Floyd | southeast or the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | No Gate Chamber Floyd | Floyd | This room is dominated by the conspicuous lack of a huge iron gate Floyd | blocking the hallway to the north; the gate appears to have risen into Floyd | the ceiling. Other passages run northeast, northwest, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Jumbled Hall Floyd | Floyd | You're walking through a wide north-south hall. The walls are Floyd | covered in intricate carvings, and strange shadows seem to reach out Floyd | for you. Rocks and debris litter the floor, impeding your progress; it Floyd | looks like bits of the ceiling have fallen down from above. You can go Floyd | either north or south. Floyd | Floyd | You see a cheez key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "I wonder if the box does any more tricks" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Hall of Judgment Floyd | Floyd | You're at the north end of a long north-south hall. To the south, Floyd | the hall stretches behind you, cluttered with debris but still Floyd | passable. Before you, on the north wall, is a huge bas-relief Floyd | sculpture of a gigantic bird, its wings spread wide, talons curved Floyd | ominously over two narrow hallways running northeast and northwest. Floyd | The bird sculpture is quiet now, but you've got the feeling it's Floyd | watching you. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "the moment of truth" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show chick to statue" | ||||||
Floyd | The bird statue once again comes to life. "Indeed, you do have a Floyd | heart," the stone judge rumbles. "Though you've done evil before, and Floyd | shall do evil again, this act demonstrates you are not wholly without Floyd | compassion. Train the chick with care; one day it shall serve you Floyd | well. And take this as your reward." Floyd | Floyd | A panel slides open in the statue, revealing a jeweled egg. Floyd | Wonderingly, you pick it up. "We have judged, and found you wanting," Floyd | the bird statue says. "But you will be a great source of trouble to the Floyd | Duhdist Monks, our arch-enemies. Thus are you a friend to the birds." Floyd | With that, the statue falls silent. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||||
Floyd | In a total of 414 turns, you have achieved a score of 65 points out of Floyd | a possible 100. Floyd | Floyd | This means when you arrive upstairs, you'll be a floor showman. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Tablesaw says (to floyd), "x jeweled egg" | ||||||
Floyd | The jeweled egg is covered with specks of garnet and emerald, and is Floyd | surely worth a great deal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a yellow ball (providing light), a plastic card, a pillow, a Floyd | broom, a leather belt, a crown (being worn), a pickaxe, a gold key, a Floyd | mauve box, a ceremonial mask (being worn), a crystal feather, an Floyd | adorable chick, and a jeweled egg. Floyd | Floyd | The mauve box seems to contain a notched coin. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So. Out into the Lost Vale?" | |||||
| inky says, "I *think* when you get to 80 or 85 points you're "done"" | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "maybe we can put several thing inside the box?" | ||||||
| inky says, "(and just need to hand stuff over ot the guy)" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "Ah, good point." | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So... lost vale?" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "i guess so" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne. w. n. n. n." | Taleslinger taps hit foot impatiently. | |||||
| inky says, "it's not lost *now*" | ||||||
Floyd | East Wing Floyd | Floyd | You're in a low, wide chamber. Passages run to the west and Floyd | southwest, and the wall opposite the passages tapers to a narrow point, Floyd | lending the room a wing-like shape. In fact, the stone walls appear to Floyd | have been carved to resemble feathers - it's quite delicate and Floyd | artistic work. Unfortunately, you can't really take the walls with you Floyd | to give to the innkeeper. Floyd | Floyd | The Gizzard Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is shaped like a bird's gizzard. [9] The center of Floyd | the room is a massive pile of crushed rock and debris, right where Floyd | you'd stood when plucking the feather from the pedestal. A wide, round Floyd | passage runs north, and you think you can see a faint light at the end Floyd | of the tunnel. Other passages run east and west, both sloping slightly Floyd | upward. Floyd | Floyd | You see a silver key and a copper key here. Floyd | Floyd | The Beak Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is shaped like a gigantic beak, the top half sloping Floyd | overhead, the floor carved to look like a huge bird's tongue. The Floyd | overall effect is quite creepy; it's a darn good thing this monstrous Floyd | beak isn't part of a real bird. A low, round passage that bears a Floyd | disturbing resemblance to a throat runs back to the south, while to the Floyd | north, the beak is open slightly to reveal daylight beyond. You could Floyd | probably squeeze out there as well. Floyd | Floyd | Lost Vale Floyd | Floyd | You're standing on a soft carpet of moss and waving grasses, in the Floyd | very center of a peaceful vale. This place, though it's close to the Floyd | Valley King's lands, certainly doesn't appear on any of the local maps; Floyd | the dense brambles and trees that surround this place make it almost Floyd | impossible to imagine that anyone's been here in years. To the south, Floyd | jutting out from the brambles, is an enormous bird's head made from Floyd | dark gray stone. The bird's beak is open, revealing a dark tunnel Floyd | runnning into the rock creature's throat, directly south. Narrow, Floyd | winding trails run northwest and east through the brambles. Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Streamside West Floyd | Floyd | You're standing on the south edge of a burbling stream in the middle Floyd | of a peaceful wood. A path follows the stream to the northwest and Floyd | east, and another path cuts back through the trees to the southeast. Floyd | You could probably cross the stream, but the forest is dense and Floyd | impenetrable on the other side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Lost Vale Floyd | Floyd | You're standing on a soft carpet of moss and waving grasses, in the Floyd | very center of a peaceful vale. This place, though it's close to the Floyd | Valley King's lands, certainly doesn't appear on any of the local maps; Floyd | the dense brambles and trees that surround this place make it almost Floyd | impossible to imagine that anyone's been here in years. To the south, Floyd | jutting out from the brambles, is an enormous bird's head made from Floyd | dark gray stone. The bird's beak is open, revealing a dark tunnel Floyd | runnning into the rock creature's throat, directly south. Narrow, Floyd | winding trails run northwest and east through the brambles. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oops, sorry" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf23" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I need to refill my drink. You guys play and explore, and I'll recap and map when I return. I shouldn't be long." | |||||
| RootShell is eating and watching :) closely | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "I only have half an hour left. Go. go go." | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Bicorn's Clearing Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a quiet, peaceful clearing surrounded by trees. Floyd | There's a fresh odor in the air - if you didn't know better, you might Floyd | suspect someone had been throwing a few shovelfulls of Acme Dam-Phowl Floyd | Phirtelyzur around the forest. There's something definitely magical in Floyd | the winds, something so tangible you're afraid you might be scraping it Floyd | off your shoes later. The only clear trail runs back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | There's a strange creature standing here, idly munching on a blade Floyd | of grass. You recognize it from storybooks - it's the fabled Bicorn of Floyd | Radeekal! [10] It looks pretty much like a goat, with a patchy coat, Floyd | a foul smell, disgusting table manners and two horns - but you know Floyd | better! This forest is magical, and surely the creature is no simple Floyd | goat - it must be the mystical beast of yore! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 10" | ||||||
Floyd | [10]: Rumor has it that a bicorn will eat almost anything, even cheez. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x bicorn" | ||||||
Floyd | The magical bicorn looks just like a goat, but it's not fooling you. Floyd | Gee, if only you could capture it - it'd surely be worth enough to the Floyd | innkeeper to pay for the Golden Dragon Inn! Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell asks, "damn, do we still have the cheez key?" | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a yellow ball (providing light), a plastic card, a pillow, a Floyd | broom, a leather belt, a crown (being worn), a pickaxe, a gold key, a Floyd | mauve box, a ceremonial mask (being worn), a crystal feather, an Floyd | adorable chick, and a jeweled egg. Floyd | Floyd | The mauve box seems to contain a notched coin. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You have a yellow ball (providing light), a plastic card, a pillow, a Floyd | broom, a leather belt, a crown (being worn), a pickaxe, a gold key, a Floyd | mauve box, a ceremonial mask (being worn), a crystal feather, an Floyd | adorable chick, and a jeweled egg. Floyd | Floyd | The mauve box seems to contain a notched coin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Lost Vale Floyd | Floyd | You're standing on a soft carpet of moss and waving grasses, in the Floyd | very center of a peaceful vale. This place, though it's close to the Floyd | Valley King's lands, certainly doesn't appear on any of the local maps; Floyd | the dense brambles and trees that surround this place make it almost Floyd | impossible to imagine that anyone's been here in years. To the south, Floyd | jutting out from the brambles, is an enormous bird's head made from Floyd | dark gray stone. The bird's beak is open, revealing a dark tunnel Floyd | runnning into the rock creature's throat, directly south. Narrow, Floyd | winding trails run northwest and east through the brambles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | DavidW says, "It's back at West Wing, I think." | |||||
Floyd | The Beak Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is shaped like a gigantic beak, the top half sloping Floyd | overhead, the floor carved to look like a huge bird's tongue. The Floyd | overall effect is quite creepy; it's a darn good thing this monstrous Floyd | beak isn't part of a real bird. A low, round passage that bears a Floyd | disturbing resemblance to a throat runs back to the south, while to the Floyd | north, the beak is open slightly to reveal daylight beyond. You could Floyd | probably squeeze out there as well. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | The Gizzard Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is shaped like a bird's gizzard. [9] The center of Floyd | the room is a massive pile of crushed rock and debris, right where Floyd | you'd stood when plucking the feather from the pedestal. A wide, round Floyd | passage runs north, and you think you can see a faint light at the end Floyd | of the tunnel. Other passages run east and west, both sloping slightly Floyd | upward. Floyd | Floyd | You see a silver key and a copper key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | West Wing Floyd | Floyd | You're in a low, wide chamber. Passages run to the east and Floyd | southeast, and the wall opposite the passages tapers to a narrow point, Floyd | lending the room a wing-like shape. In fact, the stone walls appear to Floyd | have been carved to resemble feathers - it's quite delicate and Floyd | artistic work. Unfortunately, you can't really take the walls with you Floyd | to give to the innkeeper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Hall of Judgment Floyd | Floyd | You're at the north end of a long north-south hall. To the south, Floyd | the hall stretches behind you, cluttered with debris but still Floyd | passable. Before you, on the north wall, is a huge bas-relief Floyd | sculpture of a gigantic bird, its wings spread wide, talons curved Floyd | ominously over two narrow hallways running northeast and northwest. Floyd | The bird sculpture is quiet now, but you've got the feeling it's Floyd | watching you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Jumbled Hall Floyd | Floyd | You're walking through a wide north-south hall. The walls are Floyd | covered in intricate carvings, and strange shadows seem to reach out Floyd | for you. Rocks and debris litter the floor, impeding your progress; it Floyd | looks like bits of the ceiling have fallen down from above. You can go Floyd | either north or south. Floyd | Floyd | You see a cheez key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get cheez" | ||||||
Floyd | Your load is too heavy. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "bah" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a yellow ball (providing light), a plastic card, a pillow, a Floyd | broom, a leather belt, a crown (being worn), a pickaxe, a gold key, a Floyd | mauve box, a ceremonial mask (being worn), a crystal feather, an Floyd | adorable chick, and a jeweled egg. Floyd | Floyd | The mauve box seems to contain a notched coin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop box" | ||||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "put stuff in the box ;)" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop pickaxe" | ||||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get cheez" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Hall of Judgment Floyd | Floyd | You're at the north end of a long north-south hall. To the south, Floyd | the hall stretches behind you, cluttered with debris but still Floyd | passable. Before you, on the north wall, is a huge bas-relief Floyd | sculpture of a gigantic bird, its wings spread wide, talons curved Floyd | ominously over two narrow hallways running northeast and northwest. Floyd | The bird sculpture is quiet now, but you've got the feeling it's Floyd | watching you. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "theres a coin inside the box" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | West Wing Floyd | Floyd | You're in a low, wide chamber. Passages run to the east and Floyd | southeast, and the wall opposite the passages tapers to a narrow point, Floyd | lending the room a wing-like shape. In fact, the stone walls appear to Floyd | have been carved to resemble feathers - it's quite delicate and Floyd | artistic work. Unfortunately, you can't really take the walls with you Floyd | to give to the innkeeper. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "theres a coin inside the box" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | The Gizzard Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is shaped like a bird's gizzard. [9] The center of Floyd | the room is a massive pile of crushed rock and debris, right where Floyd | you'd stood when plucking the feather from the pedestal. A wide, round Floyd | passage runs north, and you think you can see a faint light at the end Floyd | of the tunnel. Other passages run east and west, both sloping slightly Floyd | upward. Floyd | Floyd | You see a silver key and a copper key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "yeah, we'll have to retrieve stuff later" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | The Beak Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is shaped like a gigantic beak, the top half sloping Floyd | overhead, the floor carved to look like a huge bird's tongue. The Floyd | overall effect is quite creepy; it's a darn good thing this monstrous Floyd | beak isn't part of a real bird. A low, round passage that bears a Floyd | disturbing resemblance to a throat runs back to the south, while to the Floyd | north, the beak is open slightly to reveal daylight beyond. You could Floyd | probably squeeze out there as well. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Lost Vale Floyd | Floyd | You're standing on a soft carpet of moss and waving grasses, in the Floyd | very center of a peaceful vale. This place, though it's close to the Floyd | Valley King's lands, certainly doesn't appear on any of the local maps; Floyd | the dense brambles and trees that surround this place make it almost Floyd | impossible to imagine that anyone's been here in years. To the south, Floyd | jutting out from the brambles, is an enormous bird's head made from Floyd | dark gray stone. The bird's beak is open, revealing a dark tunnel Floyd | runnning into the rock creature's throat, directly south. Narrow, Floyd | winding trails run northwest and east through the brambles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Bicorn's Clearing Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a quiet, peaceful clearing surrounded by trees. Floyd | There's a fresh odor in the air - if you didn't know better, you might Floyd | suspect someone had been throwing a few shovelfulls of Acme Dam-Phowl Floyd | Phirtelyzur around the forest. There's something definitely magical in Floyd | the winds, something so tangible you're afraid you might be scraping it Floyd | off your shoes later. The only clear trail runs back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | There's a strange creature standing here, idly munching on a blade Floyd | of grass. You recognize it from storybooks - it's the fabled Bicorn of Floyd | Radeekal! [10] The creature is sniffing the air, eyes closed as if in Floyd | a trance. I think it's picked up the scent of something it likes. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "since, eg, the coin is obviously worth money" | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "show cheez to goat" | ||||||
Floyd | Which cheez do you mean, the cheez key, or the yellow ball? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "key" | ||||||
Floyd | For the last time, it's NOT a goat! It's a bicorn! Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hee hee" | |||||
| Ellison says, "hehe" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "Lololol" | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "show cheez key to bicorn" | DavidW says, "heh" | |||||
Floyd | The bicorn's filmy eyes widen, and the beast starts salivating and Floyd | rubbing against your leg. He seems reluctant to take the key unless Floyd | you drop it, but he might follow you now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "bicorn, follow me" | ||||||
Floyd | You have lost your mind. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Lost Vale Floyd | Floyd | You're standing on a soft carpet of moss and waving grasses, in the Floyd | very center of a peaceful vale. This place, though it's close to the Floyd | Valley King's lands, certainly doesn't appear on any of the local maps; Floyd | the dense brambles and trees that surround this place make it almost Floyd | impossible to imagine that anyone's been here in years. To the south, Floyd | jutting out from the brambles, is an enormous bird's head made from Floyd | dark gray stone. The bird's beak is open, revealing a dark tunnel Floyd | runnning into the rock creature's throat, directly south. Narrow, Floyd | winding trails run northwest and east through the brambles. Floyd | Floyd | The bicorn trots after you, still drooling. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Streamside West Floyd | Floyd | You're standing on the south edge of a burbling stream in the middle Floyd | of a peaceful wood. A path follows the stream to the northwest and Floyd | east, and another path cuts back through the trees to the southeast. Floyd | You could probably cross the stream, but the forest is dense and Floyd | impenetrable on the other side. Floyd | Floyd | The bicorn trots after you, still drooling. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Streamside East Floyd | Floyd | The trail ends here, though the stream continues on to the east. Floyd | The trees grow in close and hang overhead, bathing the bubbling water Floyd | in dark shade. The forest floor is littered, and the trail vanishes Floyd | under pine needles and leaves. The only visible path leads back to the Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | The bicorn trots after you, still drooling. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x leaves" | ||||||
Floyd | The fall colors have really kicked in - red, gold, and orange swaths Floyd | ripple in the gentle breezes. Frankly, though, you think the leaves Floyd | would look better if there were a few mauve ones thrown in. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline returns, scrolls back, maps. | |||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x stream" | ||||||
Floyd | The stream is cool and clear, and runs west to east. It looks like Floyd | there's something glistering under the water, but you can't quite tell Floyd | what it is. Clearly, you couldn't reach it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tree" | ||||||
Floyd | The fall colors have really kicked in - red, gold, and orange swaths Floyd | ripple in the gentle breezes. Frankly, though, you think the leaves Floyd | would look better if there were a few mauve ones thrown in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "count leaves" | ||||||
Floyd | There are six hundred thousand eight hundred and twenty-two (600,822) Floyd | trees in the Forest of Radeekal. Each has between one and six thousand Floyd | (1,000 - 6,000) leaves. You do the math. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | (with the broom) Floyd | I don't know how to sweep the forest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Tablesaw says, "Me again. '.floyd sweep leaves'" | |||||
| inky says, "it's easier to do 'f' instead of '.floyd'" | ||||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "search leaves" | ||||||
Floyd | The fall colors have really kicked in - red, gold, and orange swaths Floyd | ripple in the gentle breezes. Frankly, though, you think the leaves Floyd | would look better if there were a few mauve ones thrown in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "sweep leaves" | ||||||
Floyd | (with the broom) Floyd | I don't know how to sweep the forest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Streamside West Floyd | Floyd | You're standing on the south edge of a burbling stream in the middle Floyd | of a peaceful wood. A path follows the stream to the northwest and Floyd | east, and another path cuts back through the trees to the southeast. Floyd | You could probably cross the stream, but the forest is dense and Floyd | impenetrable on the other side. Floyd | Floyd | The bicorn trots after you, still drooling. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | Forest Waterfall Floyd | Floyd | You're standing on a narrow strip of sand beside a burbling mountain Floyd | pool. Upriver, to the west, a small cascading waterfall feeds the Floyd | pool, and to the east, a babbling brook stretches back into the forest. Floyd | A path runs beside the stream to the southeast; there's no other Floyd | passable ways to travel. Floyd | Floyd | There's what appears to be a little girl playing by the water. But Floyd | you know better - that's no little girl! In this magical land, she Floyd | must be a water nymph! Though you can't see for sure, there must be Floyd | gills under her dress! And it's said the fabled bicorn is a great Floyd | friend of water nymphs! Goodness, if you could lead the magical beast Floyd | to the nymph, perhaps she would reward you! Floyd | Floyd | The bicorn trots down the path, following you. Suddenly the water Floyd | nymph sees the creature, and her eyes widen. "Ooh!" she says. Floyd | "Pretty goat!" Floyd | Floyd | You're about to tell her that it's not a goat, it's a bicorn, when Floyd | the beast charges, head lowered. Curled horns meet the seat of the Floyd | nymph's dress, and with a cry, the water nymph flies through the air, Floyd | landing in the center of the pool. Her plastic sieve flies up as well, Floyd | bonking the bicorn on the rear end and landing on the grass. The Floyd | bicorn snorts, startled, and trots briskly off into the woods. You Floyd | wait for a few moments, wondering if the nymph will come up again, but Floyd | all that greets you are a few lonely air bubbles. Apparently, the Floyd | skittish magical beast scared the poor nymph, and she's gone for good. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sieve" | ||||||
Floyd | It's the typical sort of sieve used by little children to sift sand at Floyd | the beach. You have no idea why the water nymph had it. It's made of Floyd | green plastic, and tiny letters along the edge read "Acme Sohrt-em-owt Floyd | Shand Siv." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "this sequence is funny but it strikes me as kind of un-unnkulia humor" | |||||
| Tablesaw says, "And that's what happened to Jon-Benet Ramsey." | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok, now I must split again" | |||||
| Ellison says, "later inky" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "there was something glistening in the water somewherre..." | ||||||
| Tablesaw says, "Seeya, inky." | ||||||
| inky says, "if you find yourself two valmids short, I would suggest looking outside the inn" | ||||||
| inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW says, "se, then e" | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "se.e." | ||||||
Floyd | Streamside West Floyd | Floyd | You're standing on the south edge of a burbling stream in the middle Floyd | of a peaceful wood. A path follows the stream to the northwest and Floyd | east, and another path cuts back through the trees to the southeast. Floyd | You could probably cross the stream, but the forest is dense and Floyd | impenetrable on the other side. Floyd | Floyd | Streamside East Floyd | Floyd | The trail ends here, though the stream continues on to the east. Floyd | The trees grow in close and hang overhead, bathing the bubbling water Floyd | in dark shade. The forest floor is littered, and the trail vanishes Floyd | under pine needles and leaves. The only visible path leads back to the Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x river" | ||||||
Floyd | The stream is cool and clear, and runs west to east. It looks like Floyd | there's something glistering under the water, but you can't quite tell Floyd | what it is. Clearly, you couldn't reach it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "sieve water" | ||||||
Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "put sieve in stream" | ||||||
Floyd | You dip the sieve into the cold water and swish it around, trying to Floyd | pan for gold or whatever else might be found at the bottom of the Floyd | stream. Amazingly, you actually come up with something! You pull the Floyd | golden lump from the water and hold it up to examine it, then frown, Floyd | disappointed - it's only pyrite, the stuff Acme uses in their "100% Floyd | 24-kahrot Gowld Chanes (as seen on the Hoam Shop-eng Klub!)" Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "put sieve in sand" | Jacqueline asks, "We, um, pan for gold?" | |||||
Floyd | I don't see any sand here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Right." | |||||
| Tablesaw says (to Floyd), "x pyrite" | ||||||
Floyd | Pyrite, more commonly known as Fool's Gold, is probably the cheesiest Floyd | imitation gold found in nature. It looks almost nothing like gold. Floyd | However, it might fool a drunken innkeeper - at least, you can hope. Floyd | This particular lump's not very big, but at least it's sort of gold in Floyd | color. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Maybe elsewhere?" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Or maybe the bartender is a fool?" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "We've panned for treasure before in another game. Then it was a tin nugget." | ||||||
| Tablesaw says, "Or maybe we can dip it in real gold." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "We should try giving the stuff to the innkeeper" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||||
Floyd | In a total of 467 turns, you have achieved a score of 85 points out of Floyd | a possible 100. Floyd | Floyd | This means when you arrive upstairs, you'll be an Acme Vice President! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The bartender is a bit drunk, I think." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "right" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Our mask fooled him, after all." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "His judgment perhaps is clouded." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, wait. I forgot to check out his reaction as I was rushing by." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "he called us a 'pretty birdy'" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "true" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Heh. Yeah, just scrolled back." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "the game detected us wearing the mask and said he tought we were a big pretty birdy" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "I say we go talk to the man." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "But maybe without the mask." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "maybe first with the mask, and then withou it" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Anyway, I believe we're trying to buy the inn with the equivalent of change found in the sofa and returnable pop bottles from the gutter." | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "What... just for kicks, RootShell?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "DW Yeah, so? :)" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "lol i guess" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Also, inky is right." | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "About the 85 point thing, you mean?" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "80 / 85" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, taking us back to the drunkard." | ||||||
| DavidW | inky says, "if you find yourself two valmids short, I would suggest looking outside the inn" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, hrm." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "But we... hrm." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "maybe we can sell the scenery" | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Well, do we want to visit the man first?" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "let visit and know what we are missing" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "I like that idea." | ||||||
| RootShell asks, "Taleslinger ?" | ||||||
| Alex says (to RootShell), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that Taleslinger is lazy himself." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf24" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "se. se. s.." | ||||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | You're starting feel a fuzz hungry. Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "crap" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||||
Floyd | Streamside East Floyd | Floyd | The trail ends here, though the stream continues on to the east. Floyd | The trees grow in close and hang overhead, bathing the bubbling water Floyd | in dark shade. The forest floor is littered, and the trail vanishes Floyd | under pine needles and leaves. The only visible path leads back to the Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w. se. s" | ||||||
Floyd | Streamside West Floyd | Floyd | You're standing on the south edge of a burbling stream in the middle Floyd | of a peaceful wood. A path follows the stream to the northwest and Floyd | east, and another path cuts back through the trees to the southeast. Floyd | You could probably cross the stream, but the forest is dense and Floyd | impenetrable on the other side. Floyd | Floyd | Lost Vale Floyd | Floyd | You're standing on a soft carpet of moss and waving grasses, in the Floyd | very center of a peaceful vale. This place, though it's close to the Floyd | Valley King's lands, certainly doesn't appear on any of the local maps; Floyd | the dense brambles and trees that surround this place make it almost Floyd | impossible to imagine that anyone's been here in years. To the south, Floyd | jutting out from the brambles, is an enormous bird's head made from Floyd | dark gray stone. The bird's beak is open, revealing a dark tunnel Floyd | runnning into the rock creature's throat, directly south. Narrow, Floyd | winding trails run northwest and east through the brambles. Floyd | Floyd | The Beak Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is shaped like a gigantic beak, the top half sloping Floyd | overhead, the floor carved to look like a huge bird's tongue. The Floyd | overall effect is quite creepy; it's a darn good thing this monstrous Floyd | beak isn't part of a real bird. A low, round passage that bears a Floyd | disturbing resemblance to a throat runs back to the south, while to the Floyd | north, the beak is open slightly to reveal daylight beyond. You could Floyd | probably squeeze out there as well. Floyd | Floyd | You're starting feel a fuzz hungry. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "HUNGRY? NOOOO" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hopefully we are close enough." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s. w. se." | ||||||
Floyd | The Gizzard Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is shaped like a bird's gizzard. [9] The center of Floyd | the room is a massive pile of crushed rock and debris, right where Floyd | you'd stood when plucking the feather from the pedestal. A wide, round Floyd | passage runs north, and you think you can see a faint light at the end Floyd | of the tunnel. Other passages run east and west, both sloping slightly Floyd | upward. Floyd | Floyd | You see a silver key and a copper key here. Floyd | Floyd | West Wing Floyd | Floyd | You're in a low, wide chamber. Passages run to the east and Floyd | southeast, and the wall opposite the passages tapers to a narrow point, Floyd | lending the room a wing-like shape. In fact, the stone walls appear to Floyd | have been carved to resemble feathers - it's quite delicate and Floyd | artistic work. Unfortunately, you can't really take the walls with you Floyd | to give to the innkeeper. Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Judgment Floyd | Floyd | You're at the north end of a long north-south hall. To the south, Floyd | the hall stretches behind you, cluttered with debris but still Floyd | passable. Before you, on the north wall, is a huge bas-relief Floyd | sculpture of a gigantic bird, its wings spread wide, talons curved Floyd | ominously over two narrow hallways running northeast and northwest. Floyd | The bird sculpture is quiet now, but you've got the feeling it's Floyd | watching you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s. s. w. se. w." | ||||||
Floyd | Jumbled Hall Floyd | Floyd | You're walking through a wide north-south hall. The walls are Floyd | covered in intricate carvings, and strange shadows seem to reach out Floyd | for you. Rocks and debris litter the floor, impeding your progress; it Floyd | looks like bits of the ceiling have fallen down from above. You can go Floyd | either north or south. Floyd | Floyd | You see a mauve box and a pickaxe here. Floyd | Floyd | The mauve box seems to contain a notched coin. Floyd | Floyd | No Gate Chamber Floyd | Floyd | This room is dominated by the conspicuous lack of a huge iron gate Floyd | blocking the hallway to the north; the gate appears to have risen into Floyd | the ceiling. Other passages run northeast, northwest, and west. Floyd | Floyd | You're starting feel a fuzz hungry. Floyd | Floyd | Twisting Passage Floyd | Floyd | You're at a bend in a low tunnel. The rocks seem to bear down over Floyd | you, as if trying to crush you into the floor, and the floor is Floyd | irregular, damp, and slippery. Somebody's been defacing the wall here Floyd | with red graffiti - how rude! The least they could do is use a more Floyd | pleasing color, like orange or mauve. [4] You could continue to the Floyd | southeast or the east. Floyd | Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a natural cave that probably hasn't been entered Floyd | in years. Twisted rock formations in the high ceiling drip water on Floyd | your head, and the pale green light of your whiffleball casts dark Floyd | shadows into the corners of the cave. A narrow passage climbs up to Floyd | the northeast, while an identical one climbs down to the southeast. Floyd | There's also a low tunnel leading northwest. A wider but equally low Floyd | passage runs due south, and to the west is the opening in the brick Floyd | wall that leads back to the cellar of the Golden Dragon Inn. Floyd | Floyd | Wine Cellar Floyd | Floyd | You're in what appears to be the inn's wine cellar. A huge cask Floyd | stands against the north wall, and the air is damp and musty. An empty Floyd | wine-rack lines the south wall. The eastern wall is brick, but the Floyd | western wall is solid stone; the inn must have been built over a gash Floyd | in the earth, and brick used to shore up the foundation on the open Floyd | sides. A stairway climbs up to the inn. A sizable hole has been Floyd | bashed through the brick wall, revealing a dark space to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The innkeeper is here, leaning against the cask. He burps and looks Floyd | up at you through bleary eyes. "Oooh!" he mutters. "Pretty birdy!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf25" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger asks, "maybe we can eat the chezz key?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Someone pay the nice man." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "Maybe, yeah." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "eat cheez key" | ||||||
Floyd | Are you nuts? The first rule in the Acme Saylesman Mhanyooahl couldn't Floyd | be any plainer - NEVER EAT THE MERCHANDISE! (Especially if it's made Floyd | out of cheez(tm).) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Wine Cellar Floyd | Floyd | You're in what appears to be the inn's wine cellar. A huge cask Floyd | stands against the north wall, and the air is damp and musty. An empty Floyd | wine-rack lines the south wall. The eastern wall is brick, but the Floyd | western wall is solid stone; the inn must have been built over a gash Floyd | in the earth, and brick used to shore up the foundation on the open Floyd | sides. A stairway climbs up to the inn. A sizable hole has been Floyd | bashed through the brick wall, revealing a dark space to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The innkeeper is here, leaning against the cask. He burps and looks Floyd | up at you through bleary eyes. "Oooh!" he mutters. "Pretty birdy!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give all to man" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't see what you're referring to. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a yellow ball (providing light), a plastic card, a pillow, a Floyd | broom, a leather belt, a crown (being worn), a gold key, a ceremonial Floyd | mask (being worn), a crystal feather, an adorable chick, a jeweled egg, Floyd | a cheez key, a plastic sieve, and a lump of pyrite. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give belt to man" | ||||||
Floyd | The innkeeper stares at you, eyes wide. "If I just wait long enough, Floyd | the giant birdy will go away," he murmurs, his hands shaking. Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling really hungry. You should find some food soon, or Floyd | you'll probably pass out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "remove mask" | ||||||
Floyd | You already have the ceremonial mask! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take off mask" | ||||||
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer wearing the ceremonial mask. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give belt to man" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "eat ball" | ||||||
Floyd | The innkeeper accepts the item. He frowns, then shrugs. "Yeah, Floyd | whatever. I'll apply this toward the cost of the inn." The innkeeper Floyd | pockets the leather belt. "Get me 16 more valmids worth of stuff, and Floyd | the place is yours." Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | As an Acme salesman, you should know better, but you nevertheless Floyd | decide to choke down the whiffleball. Not only is it cheez, but for Floyd | some reason it's extremely radioactive. Your intestines are quickly Floyd | burned out and it's not long after that - Floyd | Floyd | *** You've Toddled Off To Salesman Heaven *** Floyd | Floyd | In a total of 487 turns, you have achieved a score of 85 points out of Floyd | a possible 100. Floyd | Floyd | This means when you arrive upstairs, you'll be an Acme Vice President! Floyd | Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, or quit. Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, or QUIT: > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, or QUIT: > | Tablesaw says, "Gah!" | |||||
| Taleslinger says, "ack, sorry" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
Floyd | File to restore > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf25" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "No worries, I'd saved." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take off mask" | ||||||
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer wearing the ceremonial mask. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give belt to man" | ||||||
Floyd | The innkeeper accepts the item. He frowns, then shrugs. "Yeah, Floyd | whatever. I'll apply this toward the cost of the inn." The innkeeper Floyd | pockets the leather belt. "Get me 16 more valmids worth of stuff, and Floyd | the place is yours." Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling really hungry. You should find some food soon, or Floyd | you'll probably pass out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give golden key to man" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't see any golden key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give gold key to man" | ||||||
Floyd | The innkeeper accepts the item. He frowns, then shrugs. "Yeah, Floyd | whatever. I'll apply this toward the cost of the inn." The innkeeper Floyd | pockets the gold key. "Get me 13 more valmids worth of stuff, and the Floyd | place is yours." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give egg to man" | ||||||
Floyd | The innkeeper accepts the item. He frowns, then shrugs. "Yeah, Floyd | whatever. I'll apply this toward the cost of the inn." The innkeeper Floyd | pockets the jeweled egg. "Get me 11 more valmids worth of stuff, and Floyd | the place is yours." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "My notes claim the candy bar is the only safe thing to eat. If you can prove me wrong, feel free." | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, we're about to run out of time?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "That is going to suck ever so majorly." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "well, yeah" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give pyrite to man" | ||||||
Floyd | The innkeeper accepts the item. He frowns, then shrugs. "Yeah, Floyd | whatever. I'll apply this toward the cost of the inn." The innkeeper Floyd | pockets the lump of pyrite. "Get me 9 more valmids worth of stuff, and Floyd | the place is yours." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give feather to man" | ||||||
Floyd | The innkeeper accepts the item. He frowns, then shrugs. "Yeah, Floyd | whatever. I'll apply this toward the cost of the inn." The innkeeper Floyd | pockets the crystal feather. "Get me 7 more valmids worth of stuff, Floyd | and the place is yours." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give mask to man" | ||||||
Floyd | The innkeeper peers at the item through bleary eyes. "Tuckbucker, I'm Floyd | not that drunk," he mutters. "That's of absolutely no use to me." Floyd | Floyd | You're feeling really hungry. You should find some food soon, or Floyd | you'll probably pass out. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I"m running out of ideas here." | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Wine Cellar Floyd | Floyd | You're in what appears to be the inn's wine cellar. A huge cask Floyd | stands against the north wall, and the air is damp and musty. An empty Floyd | wine-rack lines the south wall. The eastern wall is brick, but the Floyd | western wall is solid stone; the inn must have been built over a gash Floyd | in the earth, and brick used to shore up the foundation on the open Floyd | sides. A stairway climbs up to the inn. A sizable hole has been Floyd | bashed through the brick wall, revealing a dark space to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The innkeeper is here, leaning against the cask. He burps and looks Floyd | up at you through bleary eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "give feather to innkeeper" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't see any feather here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Wine Cellar Floyd | Floyd | You're in what appears to be the inn's wine cellar. A huge cask Floyd | stands against the north wall, and the air is damp and musty. An empty Floyd | wine-rack lines the south wall. The eastern wall is brick, but the Floyd | western wall is solid stone; the inn must have been built over a gash Floyd | in the earth, and brick used to shore up the foundation on the open Floyd | sides. A stairway climbs up to the inn. A sizable hole has been Floyd | bashed through the brick wall, revealing a dark space to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The innkeeper is here, leaning against the cask. He burps and looks Floyd | up at you through bleary eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "There was a notched coin. I think someone put it in the mauve box and dropped it somewhere." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh crapola" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "You are right." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "i said it several times..." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "the coin was inside the box" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to RootShell), "heh" | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Sigh. So, um, we're about to die. How far back do you guys think we need to restore?" | ||||||
| Taleslinger asks, "which idiot did that?" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "I don't know if the other keys (which aren't here) are worth anything. we can get 1 thing for the crown, too" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "There's also an item you guys haven't found yet." | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Or will it be quicker to have someone restore and just play us through to this point?" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "taleslinger lol i wonder who ;)" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "In the Inn, right." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "probably better for someone to restore and get us back here, if anyone is up to the task" | ||||||
| Tablesaw says, "Well, I need to sleep. Best of luck not dying of hunger, guys!" | ||||||
| Tablesaw was sunk by mysterious Spanish saboteurs, quickly dubbed "War-hombres de Mucho Destrucci?n." | Jacqueline says (to Tablesaw), "Night. Thanks for coming!" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing." | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Well, I have the map. So I can navigate, but want someone else to do the puzzle order. I say we just do it from scratch. It should go quick. David, you have notes, right?" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "You know what we've done and not done." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Don't do anything we haven't done for ourselves." | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Up for that?" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "sure" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "Inky said DW we save our asses, and right he were." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Heehee" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "DW always saves our asses, yes." | ||||||
| DavidW asks, "Shall I restart?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure." | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||||||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to start over? (YES or NO) > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | It's been a horrible day - no, a horrible week. And you were so Floyd | looking forward to starting work as an Acme salesman! All through your Floyd | childhood, growing up in the great cities of the north, you'd admired Floyd | the salesmen with their spiffy mauve suits and bright orange ties. Floyd | You'd waited eagerly for the day when you'd be handed your first sample Floyd | Dam Tastee Cheez Kee, and your first customer would fork over his Floyd | hard-earned cash for Acme products. Floyd | Floyd | But you didn't think your bosses would send you down here, to this Floyd | backwater near the Valley King's Underworld, right on the border with Floyd | dread Unnkulia. And you certainly didn't expect those demons to waylay Floyd | you en route - and you certainly didn't foresee the horrors they'd Floyd | subject you to in their caverns before releasing you. (Shudder - you Floyd | don't even like remembering. Perhaps that's the subject of another Floyd | game...) And you really didn't expect to have to work out of the Floyd | Golden Dragon Inn. And to top it all off, a bad-tempered warrior just Floyd | returned a can of Acme Snayk Rhepellant and asked for his money back. Floyd | You'll get heck from your supervisor when you get back, but what could Floyd | you have done? None of these damn - oops, dam - Acme products work. Floyd | You've grown quite disillusioned with the whole affair. Floyd | Floyd | To make matters even worse, you haven't seen the bartender for over Floyd | an hour. He wandered off into the back room and never returned. Floyd | Alcohol's the only thing that makes living in the Forest of Radeekal Floyd | bearable - perhaps you ought to go and find the man - Floyd | Floyd | Unnkulia One-Half: The Salesman Triumphant Floyd | Version 1.0G for Great Underground Adventures CD Floyd | Copyright (C) 1993, 1996 D. A. Leary Floyd | All rights reserved. Floyd | Developed with TADS, the Text Adventure Development System. Floyd | Floyd | Difficulty Rating: Trivial (2 out of 10) Floyd | Floyd | *** Floyd | Floyd | This game is free. We encourage you to distribute it, but you may Floyd | not charge any money for it beyond the cost of the media it is stored Floyd | on. Floyd | Floyd | ADVENTIONS no longer supports this product. Please do not contact Floyd | us for hints or to buy games. The best place to get our games is from Floyd | the Interactive Fiction Archive on the Internet, site ftp.gmd.de. The Floyd | best place to ask for help with our games is the Usenet newsgroup Floyd | rec.games.int-fiction. Floyd | Floyd | *** Floyd | Floyd | Read footnotes [1] with the note command; e.g., type "note 1." Floyd | Floyd | *** Floyd | Floyd | In the Inn Floyd | Floyd | You're seated at the only table in the Golden Dragon Inn, a real Floyd | dump in the middle of the Radeekal Forest. It's decorated in earth Floyd | tones - not a mauve or orange speck in sight! (If you were in charge, Floyd | you'd make this place a lot more snazzy.) Floyd | Floyd | The inn has been your base of operations for the past few days - Floyd | your boss wouldn't even spring for an office. Well, by golly, you'll Floyd | show him! Even though most of your samples have been stolen, you've Floyd | still got a few choice items to hock to the gullible locals. These Floyd | Valley folk are real hicks - they'll buy anything! Floyd | Floyd | There's not much of interest here. A mahogany bar lines one wall, Floyd | but besides that, and the lone table and chair, this hellhole doesn't Floyd | have much to offer. The exit to the inn is to the west, and there's an Floyd | open doorway leading to the back room to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | An egg is sitting on the mahogany bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||||
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer in the wooden chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), " take egg" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Hrm. Do you even need me to navigate, or is that in your notes?" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Outside Inn Floyd | Floyd | You're just outside the Golden Dragon Inn, somewhere in the middle Floyd | of the Forest of Radeekal. It's a dazzling fall day, but you can't Floyd | enjoy it; you've got work to do. A path runs southwest through the Floyd | trees, and a wide road runs due north. The inn's open doorway stands Floyd | to the east. Above the door, a hand-painted sign swings back and Floyd | forth, creaking in the cool autumn breeze. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, a familiar-looking Valley Warrior walks up the path to the Floyd | southwest. The warrior gazes at you through sorrowful eyes. "You poor Floyd | fellow," he murmurs. "I've just completed 'Unnkulia Zero,' and the Floyd | things I found out about you - hoo boy!" He smiles a sympathetic Floyd | smile. "Here. I've completed my quest. Maybe this stuff can help." Floyd | He tosses you a pickaxe and a yellow ball, which you clumsily catch. Floyd | "Take care of yourself." With that, the warrior strides northward, Floyd | toward the great cities. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "where's Back Room?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "I think you just answered my question." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay. It's ne of Inside the Inn" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | In the Inn Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in the Golden Dragon Inn, a real dump in the middle Floyd | of the Radeekal Forest. It's decorated in earth tones - not a mauve or Floyd | orange speck in sight! (If you were in charge, you'd make this place a Floyd | lot more snazzy.) Floyd | Floyd | There's not much of interest here. A mahogany bar lines one wall, Floyd | but besides that, and the lone table and chair, this hellhole doesn't Floyd | have much to offer. The exit to the inn is to the west, and there's an Floyd | open doorway leading to the back room to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Inn, Back Room Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in the disgustingly clean back room of the Golden Floyd | Dragon Inn. The walls have recently been whitewashed, and the floor is Floyd | freshly scrubbed. You thought you saw the innkeeper come back here, Floyd | but maybe you were wrong - he's nowhere to be seen. The floorboards Floyd | creak underfoot, groaning with age. Floyd | Floyd | There's not much back here, not even an empty bucket. The only exit Floyd | is back to the main room of the inn, to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | You see a broom here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull floorboard" | ||||||
Floyd | You pull up the loosest floorboards. Interestingly enough, they're not Floyd | even nailed in - it's almost like a hidden trap-door. Moving the Floyd | boards reveals a wooden stairway, plunging into darkness. From below, Floyd | you can faintly hear what sounds like weepy muttering. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Wine Cellar Floyd | Floyd | You're in what appears to be the inn's wine cellar. A huge cask Floyd | stands against the north wall, and the air is damp and musty. An empty Floyd | wine-rack lines the south wall. The eastern wall is brick, but the Floyd | western wall is solid stone; the inn must have been built over a gash Floyd | in the earth, and brick used to shore up the foundation on the open Floyd | sides. A stairway climbs up to the inn. Floyd | Floyd | The innkeeper is here, leaning against the cask. He burps and looks Floyd | up at you through bleary eyes. "Oh," he mutters. "It's you, Floyd | Tuckbucker. I thought (URP!) you'd left already." He sighs and taps Floyd | the cask. "Empty. Bummer. Want to buy this place?" He points at the Floyd | ceiling. "(URP!) The Golden Dragon's not turning a profit anymore. Floyd | I'll sell it to you for twenty - no, eighteen valmids." Floyd | Floyd | The Golden Dragon Inn! It could be your very own - or, at least, Floyd | Acme's very own! What an acquisition an inn would be - especially this Floyd | one, right in the heart of the Valley. The purchase of this place Floyd | would give your life meaning. Now all you have to do is accumulate Floyd | enough valuable - or, at least, valuable-looking - items to pawn off on Floyd | this drunken old fool. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "My notes say 'do stuff until inn is offered for 18 valmids'" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "He already offered." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "heh" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit brick wall with pickaxe. g." | ||||||
Floyd | You brace yourself and smash the brick wall with the pickaxe, hitting Floyd | smack in the center of one of the bricks. Your shoulders are nearly Floyd | jarred out of their sockets, and the wall's barely dented; this job Floyd | could take a while. Floyd | Floyd | This time, the pickaxe bites between two bricks, and imbeds itself deep Floyd | in the crumbling mortar. You yank it out, and bring several bricks Floyd | with it. In a few moments, you've smashed a large hole through the Floyd | wall, revealing a dark space beyond. A cold breeze blows through the Floyd | hole; whatever you've broken into, it sure is big. The innkeeper Floyd | rouses himself long enough to stare at the wall. "Urk," he mutters. Floyd | "Hope you're going to buy this place. I don't wanna have to fix that." Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So we're good to go." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a bungee cord, a cheezdom, a cookie cutter, an acmid, a cheez Floyd | key, a plastic card, a pillow, a candy bar, an egg, a pickaxe, and a Floyd | yellow ball (providing light). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a natural cave that probably hasn't been entered Floyd | in years. Twisted rock formations in the high ceiling drip water on Floyd | your head, and the pale green light of your whiffleball casts dark Floyd | shadows into the corners of the cave. A narrow passage climbs up to Floyd | the northeast, while an identical one climbs down to the southeast. Floyd | There's also a low tunnel leading northwest. A wider but equally low Floyd | passage runs due south, and to the west is the opening in the brick Floyd | wall that leads back to the cellar of the Golden Dragon Inn. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "Don't we need the broom?`" | |||||
| DavidW says, "We do not." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Don't... think... we do." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "We tried using it in the geyser, but that wasn't the solution." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "There's some jokes involving the broom, but we don't need it." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "Man, now I want to play all the other games just to get the in-jokes." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||||
Floyd | Cave of the Skeleton Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is dark and low, with no apparent exits other than the Floyd | passage back to the north. The roof slopes sharply down to the south, Floyd | and at the far end, there's only a few inches between ceiling and Floyd | floor. Lying face down in the center of the cave is a grisly sight - a Floyd | human skeleton, half-covered in mineral deposits, probably centuries Floyd | old. Good thing he didn't have Acme Dam Eckspensif Lyfe Ihnshorants - Floyd | you might have to pay up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x skeleton" | ||||||
Floyd | The skeleton has become part of the rocky floor - drips of mineral-rich Floyd | water have fused the dead man's torso with the ageless stones. Not Floyd | that you care; you're a salesman, not an archaeologist. Interestingly, Floyd | there's a leather belt around the skeleton's waist, untouched by the Floyd | ravages of time. (There's absolutely no sign of a dagger, however.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take belt" | ||||||
Floyd | You carefully remove the belt from the skeleton. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear belt" | ||||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now wearing the leather belt. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "mmm... bungee jumping." | |||||
| DavidW says, "go to Top of Chimney" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Top of Chimney Floyd | Floyd | You're in a small chamber at the top of a natural chimney. The Floyd | chimney slopes slightly toward the south, but mostly, it just goes Floyd | straight down, plummeting deep through the dark stone. You certainly Floyd | can't see the bottom. An iron hook is embedded in the wall here, but Floyd | otherwise there's not much of interest. A passage slopes down slightly Floyd | to the southwest, and a more level tunnel runs east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "attach bungee cord to hook" | ||||||
Floyd | Okay, one end of the bungee cord is now attached to the hook. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "attach cord to belt" | ||||||
Floyd | You slip one hook of the bungee cord through one of the belt loops. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||||
Floyd | You suicidally leap down the chimney, and find yourself - Floyd | Floyd | Falling through a Natural Chimney Floyd | Floyd | You're plummeting down through a natural chimney, and don't have Floyd | much time to examine the scenery. But you can see a narrow ledge Floyd | lining the chimney around you. Unfortunately, the ledge is nowhere Floyd | near big enough to stand on. Floyd | Floyd | A crown is sitting on the narrow ledge. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "here we gooo finally" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take crown" | ||||||
Floyd | You have just enough time to snag the crown with your foot as you sail Floyd | past the ledge. Moving the crown, however, reveals a copper key which, Floyd | sadly, you must leave behind. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | You fall further, and soon - Floyd | Floyd | Stalagmite Cavern Floyd | Floyd | You've stretched the bungee cord to its limits, and are scant Floyd | milliseconds from flying back up through the chimney and scant inches Floyd | off the floor. You've got almost no time to react! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf26" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove cord" | ||||||
Floyd | (Unhooking the cord) Floyd | You unhook the cord from your belt at the very bottom of the fall, and Floyd | nimbly step to the ground. Floyd | Floyd | The cord goes sailing back up the chimney. After a brief second, Floyd | you hear an ominous snap. Bits of broken cord flutter to the floor Floyd | moments later, and you breathe a sigh of relief - good thing you Floyd | weren't attached to it! Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "go to Geyzer Cavern" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Geyser Cavern Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a small, hot cave filled with thick steam. The Floyd | source of the steam is evident; hot clouds billow from a narrow mineral Floyd | spout shaped like an overturned funnel. There must be a hot spring Floyd | somewhere beneath you. The only exit is back to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "er Geyser" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put cheezdom on spout" | ||||||
Floyd | You stick the cheezdom over the nozzle. It rapidly fills with hot air, Floyd | and starts to look like a big yellow balloon - albeit one with a bunch Floyd | of holes in it. When it's as full as it's going to get, you take it Floyd | off the spout, being careful to hold the opening shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Stalagmite Cavern Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, your feet leave the ground as the cheezdom sails up the Floyd | chimney! Some lift this thing's got - jeepers! You look around and Floyd | find yourself - Floyd | Floyd | Rising through a Natural Chimney Floyd | Floyd | You're swiftly rising up a natural chimney, hanging from a rapidly Floyd | deflating yellow balloon. Below you are some rather dangerous-looking Floyd | sharp rocks, and above you is only darkness. A narrow ledge, nowhere Floyd | near big enough to stand on, lines the wall of the chimney here, but Floyd | there's nothing else of interest. Floyd | Floyd | A copper key is sitting on the narrow ledge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take copper key" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. The cheezdom's still deflating, but you continue to rise. Floyd | Pretty soon, you find yourself - Floyd | Floyd | Top of Chimney Floyd | Floyd | You're at the top of the natural chimney, but you're rising so Floyd | quickly, you don't really have time to enjoy the scenery; I'd suggest Floyd | letting go of the cheezdom pretty soon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop cheezdom" | ||||||
Floyd | You let go of the cheezdom and nimbly step to the ground. The cheezdom Floyd | flies crazily around the cavern, finally splatting against a wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Gold pool?" | |||||
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw. nw. e. nw." | ||||||
Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | Twisting Passage Floyd | Floyd | You're at a bend in a low tunnel. The rocks seem to bear down over Floyd | you, as if trying to crush you into the floor, and the floor is Floyd | irregular, damp, and slippery. Somebody's been defacing the wall here Floyd | with red graffiti - how rude! The least they could do is use a more Floyd | pleasing color, like orange or mauve. [2] You could continue to the Floyd | southeast or the east. Floyd | Floyd | Gate Chamber Floyd | Floyd | This room is dominated by an enormous iron gate which blocks a wide Floyd | hallway to the north. The gate is made from thick iron bars, and looks Floyd | quite sturdy; I doubt you could squeeze through it. Other passages run Floyd | northeast, northwest, and west. Floyd | Floyd | The Golden Pool Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a hot, low chamber. The only exit is to the Floyd | southeast. Before you is a shining pool of melted gold, perhaps twenty Floyd | feet in diameter. It nearly fills the room, and bathes your face with Floyd | intense heat; somewhere below the surface, hot lava or steam must keep Floyd | the soft metal in liquid form. Floyd | Floyd | If only you had a container that would hold this gold! How valuable Floyd | it would be if it cooled - and how quickly you could meet the Floyd | innkeeper's price. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put cutter in gold" | ||||||
Floyd | You slide the plastic cookie cutter into the molten liquid. Instantly, Floyd | it starts to melt - no big surprise, but you had to see for yourself, Floyd | didn't you? Horrified, you yank the cutter back. It emerges from the Floyd | metal, dripping plastic and gold. You blow on the gloppy mass Floyd | frantically, trying to cool it. A noxious odor wafts to your nose as Floyd | the last bits of plastic burn off - and then, a perfect gold key drops Floyd | on the floor with a tinkling sound. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take gold key" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "go to Tiny Room" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "se. ne." | ||||||
Floyd | Gate Chamber Floyd | Floyd | Tiny Room Floyd | Floyd | This natural chamber is quite small, and the ceiling is extremely Floyd | low; it's more an alcove than a room. A familiar sight greets you - an Floyd | Acme vending machine sits (or rather, squats) against the wall! [3] Floyd | How in the world did that get here? You'd long thought that you were Floyd | the first Acme salesman in the Valley. The only exit from the room is Floyd | the passage back to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put acmid in machine" | ||||||
Floyd | You drop the acmid in the coin slot. It hits bottom with an extremely Floyd | non-metallic thunk. The machine gurgles for a minute, but nothing Floyd | happens. What a piece of junk! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kick machine" | ||||||
Floyd | You kick the stupid machine, irritated at losing your acmid. The Floyd | machine gurgles once, then spits a coin out at rocket-like speed. It Floyd | barely misses your cheek, then clatters against the wall and falls to Floyd | the ground. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| olethros has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take notched coin" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "go to Gambler's Lair" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Gambler?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Ok" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "(Timing)" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw. w. se. ne. e." | ||||||
Floyd | Gate Chamber Floyd | Floyd | Twisting Passage Floyd | Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | Top of Chimney Floyd | Floyd | Gambler's Lair Floyd | Floyd | You're in a small, square chamber that's obviously been carved from Floyd | the rock. The place is apparently home to somebody; a scorched circle Floyd | on the rock floor was probably a makeshift fireplace, and a pile of Floyd | straw against one wall might have served as a bed. The room is Floyd | otherwise featureless. The only exit is back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | There's a thin little man here, leaning against the wall and chewing Floyd | a piece of straw. "Ah, a visitor," he says, beaming. "Greetings. Floyd | It's been ages since I've seen anyone. My name's Les Vayghas. Are you Floyd | - " The man's eyes narrow. "Oh, I know you. You're that Acme Floyd | salesman. Well, we've got something in common." He walks over and Floyd | shakes your hand vigorously. "The King threw me out of the Valley too. Floyd | Since then, I've lived in these caves. It's not too bad, but I've been Floyd | trying to get away." Floyd | Floyd | The man's eyes narrow speculatively. "You look like a person in Floyd | need of something - perhaps this glittering bauble might come in handy, Floyd | hmm?" He holds up a silver key. You reach for it, but he pulls it Floyd | away, waggling his finger. "Ah - not so fast. How about a game? I'm Floyd | a gambling man, and I see you've got a coin there. How about a little Floyd | bet? Flip your coin, and I'll call it in the air. If I win, I take Floyd | the coin. If you win, you can have the key. Deal?" Without waiting Floyd | for a response, the man pockets the key, then nods at you. "Go on. Floyd | Flip." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "flip notched coin" | ||||||
Floyd | "Tails!" the gambler shouts as the coin flies up through the air. It Floyd | comes up heads. I think it's weighted a little funny. "Phooey!" the Floyd | gambler mutters. "I almost never lose. If I didn't know better, I'd Floyd | think you cheated me." He sighs. "A deal's a deal. Here's your key." Floyd | He tosses a silver key, which you catch. "Now get out of my sight." Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "...padlock?" | |||||
| DavidW says, "hm. The next step in my notes we'll skip" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "go to the Chamber of the Padlock" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Wait. Think we're missing one." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, okay." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w. sw. se. s" | ||||||
Floyd | Top of Chimney Floyd | Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | Stalagmite Cavern Floyd | Floyd | Chamber of the Padlock Floyd | Floyd | This cavern is wide and high, and the walls appear to have been Floyd | worked and shaped. The only exit is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The southern wall is partly taken up by what appears to be an Floyd | enormous padlock, made from solid gold and embedded in the wall. Floyd | Goodness! If only you could remove the padlock from the wall, you'd be Floyd | able to purchase the Golden Dragon Inn right now! Though the lock Floyd | itself is quite large, the keyhole in the center is quite small. Floyd | There's not much else of interest here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock padlock with copper key" | ||||||
Floyd | The key fits perfectly. You wiggle it around, and for just a moment, Floyd | you think you hear a tumbler click inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock padlock with silver key" | ||||||
Floyd | The key fits perfectly. You wiggle it around, and for just a moment, Floyd | you think you hear a tumbler click inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock padlock with gold key" | ||||||
Floyd | The key fits the keyhole perfectly, but there seems to be something Floyd | blocking it from turning. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Did you forget the cheez?" | |||||
| (from Jacqueline) Emily cries! | ||||||
| Ellison says, "hehe" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "ha" | ||||||
| DavidW asks, "My notes don't mention the cheez key for this. My notes might be wrong?" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock padlock with cheez key" | Jacqueline says, "I think the cheez key is also needed, yes." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | The key fits perfectly. You wiggle it around, and for just a moment, Floyd | you think you hear a tumbler click inside. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You have a cheez key, a plastic card, a pillow, a candy bar, an egg, a Floyd | pickaxe, a yellow ball (providing light), a leather belt (being worn), Floyd | a crown, a copper key, a gold key, a notched coin, and a silver key. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock padlock with copper key" | ||||||
Floyd | The key fits perfectly. You wiggle it around, and for just a moment, Floyd | you think you hear a tumbler click inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock padlock with silver key" | ||||||
Floyd | The key fits perfectly. You wiggle it around, and for just a moment, Floyd | you think you hear a tumbler click inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock padlock with gold key" | ||||||
Floyd | The key fits the keyhole perfectly, and turns easily. There's a loud Floyd | clacking noise from deep within the lock as tumblers fall into place. Floyd | Suddenly, you hear a faint rumbling sound coming from somewhere north Floyd | of here. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf27" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ah. Cheez key is needed. huh." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, iron gate." | ||||||
| Jacqueline watches David update his walkthrough site. | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Go to Hall of Judgment" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n. nw. nw. e." | ||||||
Floyd | Stalagmite Cavern Floyd | Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | Twisting Passage Floyd | Floyd | No Gate Chamber Floyd | Floyd | This room is dominated by the conspicuous lack of a huge iron gate Floyd | blocking the hallway to the north; the gate appears to have risen into Floyd | the ceiling. Other passages run northeast, northwest, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Jumbled Hall Floyd | Floyd | You're walking through a wide north-south hall. The walls are Floyd | covered in intricate carvings, and strange shadows seem to reach out Floyd | for you. All right! It looks like you've stumbled into some sort of Floyd | long-forgotten underground civilization, a real anthropological Floyd | treasure! You'll surely find lotsa loot to plunder here. Rocks and Floyd | debris litter the floor, impeding your progress; it looks like bits of Floyd | the ceiling have fallen down from above. You can go either north or Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | Hall of Judgment Floyd | Floyd | You're at the north end of a long north-south hall. To the south, Floyd | the hall stretches behind you, cluttered with debris but still Floyd | passable. Before you, on the north wall, is a huge bas-relief Floyd | sculpture of a gigantic bird, its wings spread wide, talons curved Floyd | ominously over two narrow hallways running northeast and northwest. Floyd | Floyd | As you enter the room, the bird sculpture's head moves! It turns to Floyd | you and opens one eye. "Do you seek the judgment of the Court of Floyd | Birds?" the stone beast squawks. "Truly, you are a man of evil deeds. Floyd | The existence of the cheez key is evidence enough of that. But Floyd | redemption can come to the worst of beings." The beast's red eyes glow Floyd | with a firelike intensity. "Show new life to me, and I shall truly Floyd | reward you." Without warning, the statue becomes silent and unmoving. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Last time he appeared in one of the wings." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "But maybe that doesn't matter." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "to the ne" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "hm. My notes just say wait. Could be another error." | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Judgment Floyd | Floyd | You're at the north end of a long north-south hall. To the south, Floyd | the hall stretches behind you, cluttered with debris but still Floyd | passable. Before you, on the north wall, is a huge bas-relief Floyd | sculpture of a gigantic bird, its wings spread wide, talons curved Floyd | ominously over two narrow hallways running northeast and northwest. Floyd | The bird sculpture is quiet now, but you've got the feeling it's Floyd | watching you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | East Wing Floyd | Floyd | You're in a low, wide chamber. Passages run to the west and Floyd | southwest, and the wall opposite the passages tapers to a narrow point, Floyd | lending the room a wing-like shape. In fact, the stone walls appear to Floyd | have been carved to resemble feathers - it's quite delicate and Floyd | artistic work. Unfortunately, you can't really take the walls with you Floyd | to give to the innkeeper. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, there's a small explosion of light and sound, and a Floyd | wobbly-looking stationary bicycle appears from nowhere, popping into Floyd | the center of the chamber! A frizzy-haired man in a white jacket hops Floyd | off, coughing and waving his hand through a cloud of smoke. Floyd | "Greetings, Tuckbucker!" he says. "Sorry to interrupt your quest for Floyd | loot. That is what you're doing, isn't it? I did hit the right era? Floyd | This is the age of the second Valley King, correct?" He glances Floyd | around, frowning. "Whoops. Off a bit spatially. I thought I'd catch Floyd | up to you in the jumbled hall. Oh well. Here." He tosses you a small Floyd | mauve box, which you just miss catching. It lands on the ground with a Floyd | disturbing crack. "This should set you on the right track." The Floyd | strange old man hops back on the bicycle and starts pedalling. Floyd | "Cheerio, Tuckbucker! I'll see you in Unnkulia Thirty-Eight: The Floyd | Salesman's Gruesome Death!" With a loud bang and a puff of green Floyd | smoke, the bicycle and old man both vanish! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "thanks" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "There he be." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure." | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take box" | ||||||
Floyd | You've already got your hands full. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put egg in box" | ||||||
Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||||||
Floyd | Inside the box, the boiled egg glows with a pale green light. Then the Floyd | light fades. You reach in and touch the egg - it's no longer boiled, Floyd | but raw! Somehow, this strange little machine has uncooked the egg! Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Nest?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Wait, no. Mask." | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take egg" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Mask next, yes" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Mask is... in the west wing?" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "and feather" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "no. Not the feather yet" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "David's not that kind of boy." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "You have to ease him into these things." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "ha ha" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry, I'll stop." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Mask is in gizzard, but I worry about inventory limits" | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks (of David), "Where's the mask, again?" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to jacq), "You missed the "Is Taleslinger gay?" debate" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, we wear the mask." | ||||||
| DavidW says, "Gizzard" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "okay" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | The Gizzard Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is shaped like a bird's gizzard. [4] A short stone Floyd | pedestal sits in the very center of the chamber. Above, the ceiling is Floyd | high and almost out of the range of your dim light. A wide, round Floyd | passage - looking suspiciously like a throat - runs north, and you Floyd | think you can see a faint light at the end of the tunnel. Other Floyd | passages run east and west, both sloping slightly upward. Floyd | Floyd | A ceremonial mask and a crystal feather are sitting on the stone Floyd | pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear mask" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wear mask" | ||||||
Floyd | You don't have the ceremonial mask. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You don't have the ceremonial mask. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take mask" | ||||||
Floyd | You've already got your hands full. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Sorry" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "You go" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "We can also wear the crown" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear crown" | ||||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now wearing the crown. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take mask" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear mask" | ||||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now wearing the ceremonial mask. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Nest?" | |||||
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf28" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e. sw. s. s. w. se. w. u" | ||||||
Floyd | East Wing Floyd | Floyd | You see a mauve box here. Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Judgment Floyd | Floyd | Jumbled Hall Floyd | Floyd | No Gate Chamber Floyd | Floyd | Twisting Passage Floyd | Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | Wine Cellar Floyd | Floyd | The innkeeper is here, leaning against the cask. He burps and looks Floyd | up at you through bleary eyes. "Oooh!" he mutters. "Pretty birdy!" Floyd | Floyd | Inn, Back Room Floyd | Floyd | You see a broom here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "when we pass the innkeeper, we can drop all items we don't need for the next part" | |||||
| DavidW says, "true" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "Hm, true." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Wine Cellar Floyd | Floyd | You're in what appears to be the inn's wine cellar. A huge cask Floyd | stands against the north wall, and the air is damp and musty. An empty Floyd | wine-rack lines the south wall. The eastern wall is brick, but the Floyd | western wall is solid stone; the inn must have been built over a gash Floyd | in the earth, and brick used to shore up the foundation on the open Floyd | sides. A stairway climbs up to the inn. A sizable hole has been Floyd | bashed through the brick wall, revealing a dark space to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The innkeeper is here, leaning against the cask. He burps and looks Floyd | up at you through bleary eyes. "Oooh!" he mutters. "Pretty birdy!" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "or just give" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Drop/give what you don't want, David." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm afraid I'll give him something we'll need later." | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove belt" | ||||||
Floyd | You already have the leather belt! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take off belt" | ||||||
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer wearing the leather belt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give belt to man" | ||||||
Floyd | The innkeeper stares at you, eyes wide. "If I just wait long enough, Floyd | the giant birdy will go away," he murmurs, his hands shaking. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger asks, "maybe save first, then?" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, forgot about that bit." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "cf29" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take off mask" | ||||||
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer wearing the ceremonial mask. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give belt to man" | ||||||
Floyd | The innkeeper accepts the item. He frowns, then shrugs. "Yeah, Floyd | whatever. I'll apply this toward the cost of the inn." The innkeeper Floyd | pockets the leather belt. "Get me 16 more valmids worth of stuff, and Floyd | the place is yours." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "I just saved, but sure." | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give notched coin to man" | ||||||
Floyd | The innkeeper accepts the item. He frowns, then shrugs. "Yeah, Floyd | whatever. I'll apply this toward the cost of the inn." The innkeeper Floyd | pockets the notched coin. "Get me 15 more valmids worth of stuff, and Floyd | the place is yours." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give gold key to man" | ||||||
Floyd | The innkeeper accepts the item. He frowns, then shrugs. "Yeah, Floyd | whatever. I'll apply this toward the cost of the inn." The innkeeper Floyd | pockets the gold key. "Get me 12 more valmids worth of stuff, and the Floyd | place is yours." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Man, I think this many saves is kind of a record for CF." | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give silver key to man" | ||||||
Floyd | The innkeeper accepts the item. He frowns, then shrugs. "Yeah, Floyd | whatever. I'll apply this toward the cost of the inn." The innkeeper Floyd | pockets the silver key. "Get me 10 more valmids worth of stuff, and Floyd | the place is yours." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give copper key to man" | ||||||
Floyd | The innkeeper accepts the item. He frowns, then shrugs. "Yeah, Floyd | whatever. I'll apply this toward the cost of the inn." The innkeeper Floyd | pockets the copper key. "Get me 9 more valmids worth of stuff, and the Floyd | place is yours." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give crown to man" | ||||||
Floyd | The innkeeper accepts the item. He frowns, then shrugs. "Yeah, Floyd | whatever. I'll apply this toward the cost of the inn." He grins. "I Floyd | always did want one of these crowns. I don't get up to the city much, Floyd | not since I was a kid, and I miss those carefree days spent munching on Floyd | Burger Monarch fries." The innkeeper pockets the crown. "Get me 8 Floyd | more valmids worth of stuff, and the place is yours." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear mask" | ||||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now wearing the ceremonial mask. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Nest." | |||||
| DavidW says, "continue to nest" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Inn, Back Room Floyd | Floyd | You see a broom here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | In the Inn Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Outside Inn Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Forest Path Floyd | Floyd | You're strolling along a winding forest path. The path forks here - Floyd | trails lead northeast, south, and west. You're deep in the heart of Floyd | the Valley King's turf now - he told you not to stray too far from the Floyd | inn unless you want to (gulp) suffer the fate of the other Acme Floyd | salesmen. I wouldn't wander around too much if I were you. Tall oak Floyd | trees overhang the trail, and dappled sunlight shines through the Floyd | leaves. A radberry bush stands by the side of the road, but it's been Floyd | picked clean. Floyd | Floyd | The six thugs that make up the Valley Patrol are here, leaning on Floyd | their pikes. "Hey, lookit that big bird!" one of them shouts. The Floyd | Patrol laughs at you. "What a scraggly-lookin' critter! Must be one Floyd | of Wowsa Willy's creations!" The thugs turn away, ignoring you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "climb tree" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | You shinny up the nearest tree, and find yourself - Floyd | Floyd | Up a Tree Floyd | Floyd | You're seated on a limb about halfway up an aged oak tree. Below Floyd | you, you can hear the Valley Patrol muttering amongst themselves. Floyd | Above you, the limbs are too thin to climb further. You can climb back Floyd | down or stay where you are. Perched on the same limb with you, a few Floyd | feet out, is a recently-completed bird's nest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put egg in nest" | ||||||
Floyd | Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Suddenly, a scruffy-looking bird settles on the nest. It fixes you Floyd | with a watery stare and squawks loudly. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Suddenly, there's a crackling sound from underneath the bird. The bird Floyd | shifts with an irritated squawk, then takes off. Underneath, in the Floyd | nest, a miracle - a baby chick, cute and fluffy! It looks up at you Floyd | with big, blue eyes and chirps something that sounds suspiciously like Floyd | "Mama." Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take chick" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Statue." | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to Hall of Judgment" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "hall". Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yes" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "10-4." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf30" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Forest Path Floyd | Floyd | The six thugs that make up the Valley Patrol are here, leaning on Floyd | their pikes. "Hey, lookit that big bird!" one of them shouts. The Floyd | Patrol laughs at you. "What a scraggly-lookin' critter! Must be one Floyd | of Wowsa Willy's creations!" The thugs turn away, ignoring you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne. e. ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Outside Inn Floyd | Floyd | In the Inn Floyd | Floyd | Inn, Back Room Floyd | Floyd | You see a broom here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d. e. nw. e." | ||||||
Floyd | Wine Cellar Floyd | Floyd | The innkeeper is here, leaning against the cask. He burps and looks Floyd | up at you through bleary eyes. "Oooh!" he mutters. "Pretty birdy!" Floyd | Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | Twisting Passage Floyd | Floyd | No Gate Chamber Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "This chick is kinda reverse ugly duckling, come to think of it." | |||||
| DavidW says, "btw, showing the chick to the innkeeper is bad. He squooshes it." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n. n." | ||||||
Floyd | Jumbled Hall Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Judgment Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "eep" | |||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take off mask" | ||||||
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer wearing the ceremonial mask. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Also, I'd kinda like to see that. May I?" | |||||
| DavidW says, "oh, okay" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "I can come back later, of course." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "But yeah, while we're here." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
Floyd | File to restore game from > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf30" | ||||||
Floyd | Restored. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d. ne. e. ne. d." | ||||||
Floyd | Forest Path Floyd | Floyd | The six thugs that make up the Valley Patrol are here, leaning on Floyd | their pikes. "Hey, lookit that big bird!" one of them shouts. The Floyd | Patrol laughs at you. "What a scraggly-lookin' critter! Must be one Floyd | of Wowsa Willy's creations!" The thugs turn away, ignoring you. Floyd | Floyd | Outside Inn Floyd | Floyd | In the Inn Floyd | Floyd | Inn, Back Room Floyd | Floyd | You see a broom here. Floyd | Floyd | Wine Cellar Floyd | Floyd | The innkeeper is here, leaning against the cask. He burps and looks Floyd | up at you through bleary eyes. "Oooh!" he mutters. "Pretty birdy!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf31" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show chick to man" | ||||||
Floyd | The innkeeper stares at you, eyes wide. "AAAIIGH!" he shrieks. "The Floyd | DT's! The DT's!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hahaha" | |||||
| Ellison says, "haha" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take off mask" | ||||||
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer wearing the ceremonial mask. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show chick to man" | ||||||
Floyd | "Oooh!" the innkeeper says, eyes wide. "Cute birdy!" With a wavering Floyd | hand, he reaches out to pat the chick. His meaty paw drops a bit too Floyd | quickly, squishing the helpless creature. "Oops," the innkeeper says. Floyd | A thin line of drool falls from the corner of his mouth as he scrapes Floyd | the bits of dead bird from his hand. "Sorry." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oh no" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "that's... yeah." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
Floyd | File to restore game from > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf30" | ||||||
Floyd | Restored. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||||
Floyd | File to restore game from > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf31" | ||||||
Floyd | Restored. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay... Judgment." | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e. nw. e. n. n." | ||||||
Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | Twisting Passage Floyd | Floyd | No Gate Chamber Floyd | Floyd | Jumbled Hall Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Judgment Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take off mask" | ||||||
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer wearing the ceremonial mask. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show chick to statue" | ||||||
Floyd | The bird statue once again comes to life. "Indeed, you do have a Floyd | heart," the stone judge rumbles. "Though you've done evil before, and Floyd | shall do evil again, this act demonstrates you are not wholly without Floyd | compassion. Train the chick with care; one day it shall serve you Floyd | well. And take this as your reward." Floyd | Floyd | A panel slides open in the statue, revealing a jeweled egg. Floyd | Wonderingly, you pick it up. "We have judged, and found you wanting," Floyd | the bird statue says. "But you will be a great source of trouble to the Floyd | Duhdist Monks, our arch-enemies. Thus are you a friend to the birds." Floyd | With that, the statue falls silent. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take egg" | ||||||
Floyd | You already have the jeweled egg! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "go to Bicorn" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okeydokey." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne. w. n. n." | ||||||
Floyd | East Wing Floyd | Floyd | You see a mauve box here. Floyd | Floyd | The Gizzard Floyd | Floyd | A crystal feather is sitting on the stone pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | The Beak Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is shaped like a gigantic beak, the top half sloping Floyd | overhead, the floor carved to look like a huge bird's tongue. The Floyd | overall effect is quite creepy; it's a darn good thing this monstrous Floyd | beak isn't part of a real bird. A low, round passage that bears a Floyd | disturbing resemblance to a throat runs back to the south, while to the Floyd | north, the beak is open slightly to reveal daylight beyond. You could Floyd | probably squeeze out there as well. Floyd | Floyd | Lost Vale Floyd | Floyd | You're standing on a soft carpet of moss and waving grasses, in the Floyd | very center of a peaceful vale. This place, though it's close to the Floyd | Valley King's lands, certainly doesn't appear on any of the local maps; Floyd | the dense brambles and trees that surround this place make it almost Floyd | impossible to imagine that anyone's been here in years. To the south, Floyd | jutting out from the brambles, is an enormous bird's head made from Floyd | dark gray stone. The bird's beak is open, revealing a dark tunnel Floyd | runnning into the rock creature's throat, directly south. Narrow, Floyd | winding trails run northwest and east through the brambles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Bicorn's Clearing Floyd | Floyd | You're standing in a quiet, peaceful clearing surrounded by trees. Floyd | There's a fresh odor in the air - if you didn't know better, you might Floyd | suspect someone had been throwing a few shovelfulls of Acme Dam-Phowl Floyd | Phirtelyzur around the forest. There's something definitely magical in Floyd | the winds, something so tangible you're afraid you might be scraping it Floyd | off your shoes later. The only clear trail runs back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | There's a strange creature standing here, idly munching on a blade Floyd | of grass. You recognize it from storybooks - it's the fabled Bicorn of Floyd | Radeekal! [5] It looks pretty much like a goat, with a patchy coat, a Floyd | foul smell, disgusting table manners and two horns - but you know Floyd | better! This forest is magical, and surely the creature is no simple Floyd | goat - it must be the mystical beast of yore! The creature is sniffing Floyd | the air, eyes closed as if in a trance. I think it's picked up the Floyd | scent of something it likes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show cheez to bicorn" | ||||||
Floyd | Which cheez do you mean, the cheez key, or the yellow ball? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "key" | ||||||
Floyd | The bicorn's filmy eyes widen, and the beast starts salivating and Floyd | rubbing against your leg. He seems reluctant to take the key unless Floyd | you drop it, but he might follow you now. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "go to waterfall" | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Waterfall?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Right." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w. nw. nw." | ||||||
Floyd | Lost Vale Floyd | Floyd | The bicorn trots after you, still drooling. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Streamside West Floyd | Floyd | You're standing on the south edge of a burbling stream in the middle Floyd | of a peaceful wood. A path follows the stream to the northwest and Floyd | east, and another path cuts back through the trees to the southeast. Floyd | You could probably cross the stream, but the forest is dense and Floyd | impenetrable on the other side. Floyd | Floyd | The bicorn trots after you, still drooling. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Forest Waterfall Floyd | Floyd | You're standing on a narrow strip of sand beside a burbling mountain Floyd | pool. Upriver, to the west, a small cascading waterfall feeds the Floyd | pool, and to the east, a babbling brook stretches back into the forest. Floyd | A path runs beside the stream to the southeast; there's no other Floyd | passable ways to travel. Floyd | Floyd | There's what appears to be a little girl playing by the water. But Floyd | you know better - that's no little girl! In this magical land, she Floyd | must be a water nymph! Though you can't see for sure, there must be Floyd | gills under her dress! And it's said the fabled bicorn is a great Floyd | friend of water nymphs! Goodness, if you could lead the magical beast Floyd | to the nymph, perhaps she would reward you! Floyd | Floyd | The bicorn trots down the path, following you. Suddenly the water Floyd | nymph sees the creature, and her eyes widen. "Ooh!" she says. Floyd | "Pretty goat!" Floyd | Floyd | You're about to tell her that it's not a goat, it's a bicorn, when Floyd | the beast charges, head lowered. Curled horns meet the seat of the Floyd | nymph's dress, and with a cry, the water nymph flies through the air, Floyd | landing in the center of the pool. Her plastic sieve flies up as well, Floyd | bonking the bicorn on the rear end and landing on the grass. The Floyd | bicorn snorts, startled, and trots briskly off into the woods. You Floyd | wait for a few moments, wondering if the nymph will come up again, but Floyd | all that greets you are a few lonely air bubbles. Apparently, the Floyd | skittish magical beast scared the poor nymph, and she's gone for good. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take sieve" | ||||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||||
Floyd | Streamside West Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | Streamside East Floyd | Floyd | The trail ends here, though the stream continues on to the east. Floyd | The trees grow in close and hang overhead, bathing the bubbling water Floyd | in dark shade. The forest floor is littered, and the trail vanishes Floyd | under pine needles and leaves. The only visible path leads back to the Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put sieve in stream" | ||||||
Floyd | You dip the sieve into the cold water and swish it around, trying to Floyd | pan for gold or whatever else might be found at the bottom of the Floyd | stream. Amazingly, you actually come up with something! You pull the Floyd | golden lump from the water and hold it up to examine it, then frown, Floyd | disappointed - it's only pyrite, the stuff Acme uses in their "100% Floyd | 24-kahrot Gowld Chanes (as seen on the Hoam Shop-eng Klub!)" Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a cheez key, a plastic card, a pillow, a candy bar, a pickaxe, Floyd | a yellow ball (providing light), a ceremonial mask, an adorable chick, Floyd | a jeweled egg, a plastic sieve, and a lump of pyrite. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "go back to gizzard" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Haven't even gotten hungry the first time yet. Hooray." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Okay." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf32" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w. se. s. s." | ||||||
Floyd | Streamside West Floyd | Floyd | Lost Vale Floyd | Floyd | The Beak Floyd | Floyd | The Gizzard Floyd | Floyd | A crystal feather is sitting on the stone pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take feather" | ||||||
Floyd | You pluck the feather from the pedestal. As you do, there's an almost Floyd | inaudible click followed by a disturbing rumbling noise echoing down Floyd | both the east and west corridors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||||
Floyd | The Beak Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, from the south, there's a horrible crashing noise. The very Floyd | earth shakes underfoot. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf33" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "and innkeeper" | |||||
| Taleslinger says, "We should make an DW signal object here, that notifies him whenever ClubFloyd is in trouble." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "snrk" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, innkeeper." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s. w. se." | ||||||
Floyd | The Gizzard Floyd | Floyd | This chamber is shaped like a bird's gizzard. [4] The center of Floyd | the room is a massive pile of crushed rock and debris, right where Floyd | you'd stood when plucking the feather from the pedestal. A wide, round Floyd | passage runs north, and you think you can see a faint light at the end Floyd | of the tunnel. Other passages run east and west, both sloping slightly Floyd | upward. Floyd | Floyd | West Wing Floyd | Floyd | You're in a low, wide chamber. Passages run to the east and Floyd | southeast, and the wall opposite the passages tapers to a narrow point, Floyd | lending the room a wing-like shape. In fact, the stone walls appear to Floyd | have been carved to resemble feathers - it's quite delicate and Floyd | artistic work. Unfortunately, you can't really take the walls with you Floyd | to give to the innkeeper. Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Judgment Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s. s. w. se. w." | ||||||
Floyd | Jumbled Hall Floyd | Floyd | No Gate Chamber Floyd | Floyd | Twisting Passage Floyd | Floyd | Natural Cave Floyd | Floyd | Wine Cellar Floyd | Floyd | The innkeeper is here, leaning against the cask. He burps and looks Floyd | up at you through bleary eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give egg to man" | ||||||
Floyd | The innkeeper accepts the item. He frowns, then shrugs. "Yeah, Floyd | whatever. I'll apply this toward the cost of the inn." The innkeeper Floyd | pockets the jeweled egg. "Get me 6 more valmids worth of stuff, and Floyd | the place is yours." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give pyrite to man" | ||||||
Floyd | The innkeeper accepts the item. He frowns, then shrugs. "Yeah, Floyd | whatever. I'll apply this toward the cost of the inn." The innkeeper Floyd | pockets the lump of pyrite. "Get me 4 more valmids worth of stuff, and Floyd | the place is yours." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give feather to man" | ||||||
Floyd | The innkeeper accepts the item. He frowns, then shrugs. "Yeah, Floyd | whatever. I'll apply this toward the cost of the inn." The innkeeper Floyd | pockets the crystal feather. "Get me 2 more valmids worth of stuff, Floyd | and the place is yours." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf34" | ||||||
Floyd | File to save game in > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | You have a cheez key, a plastic card, a pillow, a candy bar, a pickaxe, Floyd | a yellow ball (providing light), a ceremonial mask, an adorable chick, Floyd | and a plastic sieve. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "And so now we're where we were, but not hungry." | |||||
| DavidW says, "okay. Get those last 2 valmids." | ||||||
| Jacqueline asks, "?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Right." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "give key to man" | ||||||
Floyd | The innkeeper peers at the item through bleary eyes. "Tuckbucker, I'm Floyd | not that drunk," he mutters. "That's of absolutely no use to me." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So, inky suggested the inn." | |||||
| DavidW says, "Hint: You're a salesman." | ||||||
| Jacqueline nods. | ||||||
| Ellison says, "let's go sell something to the thugs" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "give bar to innkeeper" | ||||||
Floyd | The innkeeper peers at the item through bleary eyes. "Tuckbucker, I'm Floyd | not that drunk," he mutters. "That's of absolutely no use to me." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "Yeah." | |||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Want me to take us to the thugs?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||||
Floyd | Inn, Back Room Floyd | Floyd | You see a broom here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "er" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | In the Inn Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | Outside Inn Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||||
Floyd | Forest Path Floyd | Floyd | The six thugs that make up the Valley Patrol are here, leaning on Floyd | their pikes. They appear to be loafing on the job; some of them are Floyd | lying down on the ground, trying to get comfortable. "Hey!" one of Floyd | them shouts, pointing at you. "It's that stoopid Acme salesman!" They Floyd | all start laughing. "Lookit them clothes! What a doofus!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x guards" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "guards". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "sell pillow" | ||||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "sell". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Light?" | |||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "show pillow to thugs" | ||||||
Floyd | "Oooh!" the members of the patrol sigh, eyes fixed on the pillow. Floyd | "Yeah! Good fer sleepin'!" The leader gestures frantically to his Floyd | men. "Quick! Whadda we got to give him?" Floyd | Floyd | The scruffy thugs turn their pockets inside-out and finally come up Floyd | with a bent coin, which they toss to you. You shrug and hand them the Floyd | pillow. It's one of Acme's worst sellers, and you're probably not Floyd | going to sell it to anyone else. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Or that." | |||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x coin" | ||||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||||
Floyd | The bent coin is a two-Valmid piece, minted from bronze. It's got a Floyd | picture of the Valley Lighthouse on one side, and the King's beloved Floyd | Lady Amanda on the other. It's not your currency of choice, but you Floyd | can exchange it for Acmids when you get back to the big city. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You have a cheez key, a plastic card, a candy bar, a pickaxe, a yellow Floyd | ball (providing light), a ceremonial mask, an adorable chick, a plastic Floyd | sieve, and a bent coin. Floyd | Floyd | The patrol leader puts his new purchase on the ground and lies down Floyd | to take a snooze. There's a disturbing crack as his head hits the Floyd | pillow. "Ouch!" The thug leaps to his feet. "Hey! Whatchoo tryin' Floyd | to do? This thing's as hard as a brick!" He picks up the pillow and Floyd | tears it to shreds. "We want our money back!" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "okay, run back to innkeeper right away before they complain" | |||||
| Ellison says, "haha" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "oh no" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Outside Inn Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||||
Floyd | In the Inn Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||||
Floyd | Inn, Back Room Floyd | Floyd | You see a broom here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||||
Floyd | Wine Cellar Floyd | Floyd | The innkeeper is here, leaning against the cask. He burps and looks Floyd | up at you through bleary eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says (to jacq), "RUN!" | |||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give coin to man" | ||||||
Floyd | The innkeeper accepts the item. He frowns, then shrugs. "Yeah, Floyd | whatever. I'll apply this toward the cost of the inn." Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score has just changed. *** Floyd | Floyd | The innkeeper counts on his fingers. "Lemee see. Yep, that's it." Floyd | He staggers to his feet. "I'm starting to sober up; I'd better get Floyd | outta here." He tosses you a ring of keys. "The place is yours, Floyd | Tuckbucker. Take good care of it." With that, he staggers up the Floyd | stairs. Floyd | Floyd | At last! You have the inn, and a new purpose in life! In fact, Floyd | maybe this is the start of a whole Acme chain of products and shops in Floyd | the heart of the Valley King's realm! Cheez keys by the hundreds, Floyd | Soopur Slysur Whepuns, the whole Acme line - and the little chick you Floyd | created with the Time Machine delivering orders to all of Unnkulia! Floyd | Yes, it's the dawning of a new era, and your bosses will be proud. And Floyd | the first thing to do is rename this dump. The "Cheez Pig Inn" has a Floyd | nice ring to it - Floyd | Floyd | The Salesman is Triumphant! Floyd | Floyd | In a total of 170 turns, you have achieved a score of 100 points out of Floyd | a possible 100. Floyd | Floyd | This means when you arrive upstairs, you'll be the President of ACME! Floyd | Congrats, yu whin! Floyd | Floyd | Now try Unnkulia Zero! Floyd | | ||||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | DavidW says, "woot" | |||||
| Jacqueline says, "Huzzah!" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "Yay" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "Yeahhhhhh" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Thank you so much David. Silly old skool hunger daemon tried to ruin it for us." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "huh, Unnkulia Zero is next? I would not have guessed it" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "This game was a bit cheezy" | ||||||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "These old skool games are lousy with 'em." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Man. Four and a half hours, nearly." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "at least with a bit of cheeze" | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "Yay, 20 min. over my time" | ||||||
| Jacqueline kills Taleslinger. ** HE HAS DIED ** | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "That was for the cheesy joke you made." | ||||||
| Ellison says, "heh" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay. So!" | ||||||
| Ellison says, "okay, later all!" | ||||||
| Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. | Jacqueline says, "Next week we are meeting at a different time." | |||||
| Taleslinger asks, "One hour later?" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "We will play The Edifice by Lucian Smith." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to Taleslinger), "Two, unfortunately for you." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "This is at Lucian's request so that he can be present." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "I know that's late for the Europeans in the audience, but it's just next week, so." | ||||||
| Taleslinger says, "Well, I've played it and discussed it with Lucian, so I'd mostly watch anyway." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "So, see you guys next week." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "This was fun. Other than the hunger daemon BS I really like old skool stuff like this." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "see you next week" | ||||||
| DavidW says, "yeah, I like old skool when it works." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "I shall try to work on transcripts now. Sigh. So... much... backlog..." | ||||||
| Jacqueline says (to DavidW), "Heh. Good point." | ||||||
| RootShell says, "sorry for not being very active, but I had work to do in the meantime" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "next week i'll have more time and arrive earlier to get the start of the game" | ||||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, don't arrive earlier, because we're starting two hours later. heh" | ||||||
| RootShell says, "haaa ok ok" | ||||||
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